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Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-02-25
For the Standard.
Appeal to the Friends ofLaW and
Order in Orleans County.


The time is at hand when the freemen
Of the several Counties will be called up /
on to deposit their votes for the man they |
would choose for County Commissioner.
twill be recolIected that the Temper
anco Commissioner, in Orleans County
was hardly elected last year; the votes
in one town turning the scale in favor Of
Mr.. Hastiugs. Had that town cast arum
vote the anti-law candidate would have
been elected.
Now why was it that il Orleans Coun-
ty such a thing should have occurred p
Why was it that anti-law principle, if it
can be called principle, came so near de-
feating, in a measure, the good and whole
some provisions Of one of the laws Of our
State? Tie Indifference and apathy of
the friends Of the law, it is believed tells
the whole story. Must we admit that in
our moral and intelligent county nearly
one-half Of the voters are at heart op-
posed TO temperance laws, that they
would desire a County Commissioner who
would do all in his power to pervert the
law to the purpose Of opening a rum
shop in each town in the county? Ii
would seem that the more rational con
f. clusion would be, that not one-half Of the
friends of the law voted at al, last March
and that the ant-law party almost to 6
man voted Now does it not become the
law men Of the county, this year, to see
that their votes are faithfully deposited
for W. j. Hastings, of Crafsbury, tina
there may be a majority for the law Com
missioner, that will do honor to Orlean
i County.
! am not aware that there is any olhc
candidate, but there doubtless will be be
fore the time Of election, but let no vote
d, be led to vote for some other man whom
+, the enemies Of the temperance law ma,
e present, by the plea that may be urged
j. that he is just as good a temperance ma
as Mr.. II and will, il elected, carry GU
D.. the provisions of the law. It is all 70
IL rum; more rum is what they want
There is no doubt but more liquor ba
m been Obtained from the agents in the sey
p eraI towns in the county the last yea
m than the law contemplated. ! mean tbs
10 it has been obtained for other purpose
than what the law would sanction, an
that this has been extensively t h
II. fact in some towns, think no one can de
at ny, but the rum men are not content wit
or this, but would the present year hav
n the circulation greatly increased.
g. They would, 70 doubt, wish, if the
tn could do no better, to have an agent !
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manufacturing a spurious article, and
that said advertisement is a libel. We
also learn from lhe Messenger whose editor
claims to understand the facts, that Mr. T.
puts up a genuine medicine, and that he has
been libeled by those papers who repre-
sent him as making en- inferior one
Under these circumstances we have taken
the name Of Mr. Curtis from the adver-
tisement. as we have no desire to entel
the lists in the patent medicine war.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-02-25

STATISTICS OF SPIRITUALIsM.-The
Spiritual Register for 1859, gives some
figures in regard to the spread of Spirit
ualism, from which we arrive at the fol-
lowing facts: The total number of spir-
itualists IN the United States is given as
1,284,000, and the number in the whole
world is estimated at 100000. Maine
is credited with 10000; New Hampshire
20, 600; Vermont, $4,000; Massachu-
sets, 100000; Rhode Island, 5000
Connecticut, 10000; and New York.
100000. The Register gives the
names Of $40 public speakers and 23s
mediums. Their literature comprises
| 500 books and pamphlets, six weeklies
three semi-wee klies, and four monthlies
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-02-25

& The Eagle Of tie South, publish
ed at jackson, Mass, thus speaks of the
reopening of the slave trade:
Why, it is a most exorbitant profit.
The Congo fellows who sold them to
the Wanderer did rot ask more than
thirty dollars per head. But the profits,
we suppose, are necessarily large on the
first reopening of the trade, inasmuch as
there was sort Of quasi terror of being
hanged as pirates That is all over.
No jury at the South aDiU convict, or
dares conv5ct, an honest merchant of be-
ing felon; and we have the pleasure to
announce that the trade is reopened al
ready"
We commend the concluding sentence
to the attention of the Post, which was
Mortified when we intimated that the
slavers who were caught by the United
States brig Dolphin might not have JUS
tice done them in Charleston.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-02-25

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.-The papers
of St. Jerome, Canada, give the details
of most outrageous assault said TO have
been committed upon woman in that
parish. On dark night of the last
week, four men in disguise entered the
peaceful dwelling of man, his wife, and
two small children, and laying hold Of
the woman, took her out of bed, tore her
clothes, and, half naked, forced her to
leave the house, put her in vehicle,
and drove off with her.
After proceeding several miles they
took the woman to stable, tied her hands
behind her back, put clumsy collar
around her neck, and fixing cord to it,
tied her up and left her. Shortly after
one of them returned with the intention
of cutting out her tongue, for the purpose
Of preventing her cries being heard, and
had commenced to put her to this new
torture, when he was recalled by his com
panions, who, seeing SO me one Oh the
road, took to flight.
The next morning the owner of the
stable found the woman in a most horri-
bic state and nearly dead, her face cover.
ed with blood, with wounds on her hand,
and feet In her efforts to prevent the
villain from executing his purpose of cut
ting out her tongue, she had so much in
jured It that she was scarcely able #
speak. She was taken home and prop
er attention paid to her. The cause c
this infamous proceeding is believed t
t. be the fact that the woman was a witnes
against one Of its perpetrators, in mul
, der trial, last summer.
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HeI,oves his Enemies.


The following from the Washington
correspondence of the New York Tunes
gives additional instances Illustrative OF
very curious trait in the character OF
our President:
"President Buchanan has not been
invited TO attend the complimentary ball
to be given tomorrow night TO Lord
Napier. 1t appears that some time since
he ill-na!uredly declared that he would
have nothing to do with it, because Gov
ernor Seward was so prominent in the
affair! With irresistible determination
to make himself especially ridiculous, he
declared that he would have nothing to
do with anything in which the estimable
Senator from New York was conspicuous.
How clearly the Buchanan character
sticks out here. The only way to get
into his good graces is by abusing him.
Mr.. Seward, in all his speeches. has treat
ed the President like a gentleman, using
the most courteous language, and utter
ing his severest truths in the phrase least
calculated to offend. The result is just
such exhibitions of petty spite as that
above noted.
: Look at the other side of the picture.
Y Do you remember the characteristic let
# ter of the Hon. L. M. Keitt of South
i Carolina, written from White Sulphur
Il Springs, in which he referred to the
o President as weak, paralytic old man,
1t or words to that effect Keitt evidently
IT struck lead, and, when he came IL
i Washington, Old Buck was after hin
II straight, of course merely to show hin
e that he was not halfso paralytic, nor nea
l. so old as Mr.. K. supposed him; and
n from that time there was no courtesy o
at mark of kind appreciation that the Pres
ident failed to lavish upon the man VIII
OF had so justly dashed him. 30, too, tn
rs first man that openly and defciousl
ne scored President Buchanan, in til
IT. United States Senate, was the amiabl
es and able Senator Hale, of New HamE
e. shire. Prior to that time Mr.. Buchana
81 never thought of extending any courtes
er, or civility to the so prominent Blac
lie Republican, but faying his moral cut
dy Gle had its usual remarkably softenir
lor influence upon the Presidents heart, al
m, this winter this Senator's legs have a
IN tually been invited under the President
Do mahogany, upon an occasion when NJ
18th Buchanan treated him with most maTk'
hat consideration and attention. At least
YER I am informed"
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CRoPPs AND CoRRIE, THE BABTf-
MORE MURDERERs.-On Saturday the
Sheriff read to Marion Crops, one of
the murderers of police officer Rigdon,-
the warrant for his execution. Crops
listened to it without visible emotion,
and declared that he should die an inno-
cent man; that it was not himself who
fred the shot. Corrie was subsequently
brought to the Jail, ard expressing a de-
sire to see Crops, his wish was gratified.
Corrie approached Crops, who rose to
meet him, and after cordial but impress
sive shaking of hands, Corrie addressed
Crops in substance as follows:
" Well, Nal, we have both got to die,
and there is no use of concealing our
feelings. There is no escape for US, and
YOU should at once commence in earnest
to prepare to die right, and to meet your
fate like a man. | shall endeavor so to
do. and believe that God will have mer-
cy on my soul. 1t is the will of God
that we should both die, and let me en-
treat you to seek pardon and forgiveness.
We can have no hope for pardon or re-
prieve on earth, and must look to Heav-
en- for comfort and aid in our unhappy
! condition. Let US both meet our fate
with firmness and resignation"
The tears stood in the eyes of Crops
during this interview, and he seemed too
much affected to speak, merely indicating
his assent to the earnest appeal of his as
sociate in crime.
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Irasburgh Lyceum.

The Irasburgh Lyceum will hold It's
next meeting at the old school house on
Friday evening the 2jth inst. Question
for debate -
Resolcsd, That the ability to read and
write the English language ought to be
'made a test in receiving candidates tc
the benefits and privileges ofthe elective
franchise.
Observation-Disclosures c. w
Scott Henry Flint. Negative: A. W
Howard, S. Stanford.
Z. T.. jameson will read an Essay.
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Female Physicians.


Public attention has, Of late years,
been directed to the obvious advantages
arising from the entrance Of agoman into |
the profession of medicine, and every
day increases the number among US OF
those who wish to devote themselves to
that department of science. The tide
which they have SO long been obliged to
stem, now sets in their favor. We re-
joice in the increasing popularity of this
work, as q token of the worlds progress
but while we do so, we should not forget
the pioneers in the field, who have strug-
gIed in The past untiringiy, through the
obstacles which prejudice has thrown in
their way, and whose heroic exertions
have effected the change in public opin-
ion. Conspicuous among the number
stands Mrs. Winslow who for more than
thirty years, as nurse and physician,
has followed her profession with unhag-
ging application and industry. During
this time she compounded a Soothing
Syrup, for children teething, which ought
to immortalize her name. 1t is the most
perfect thing of the kind, in our opinion,
ever compounded, and one of the greatest
discoveries in medicine of the age; it is
of more importance to the human family
than any other discovery made by the
profession in the last hundred years.
Common observation cannot fail TO salts.
fly all who will take the trouble to look
into the bills of mortality for any one
year, that Il very large percentage Q
children annually die during the process
Of teething, and very much larger mum
Der Of those who survive are greatly de
bilitated Or diseased, so they grow vi
weak, both physically and mentally, anC
incapacitated both for study and labor
Now, we appeal with perfect confdenc,
to thousands of mothers who will rea,
this article, to corroborate our statement
when we say that no such fatal conse
qnences as those we have alluded to- eve
occur from teething, when Mrs. Winslow'
i Soothing Syrup is used in time. Tha
= it is just the article needed, is the test
: mony which reaches US daily from thos
e who have tried it, and until some men
Der of the faculty can produce an articl
which shall equal in excellence this r,
a, suit Of the long experience of a Fema
d Physician, We hope we shall hear L
/ more of the woman's overstepping ht
/ sphere in entering the medical profe
al sion.-Dra,0ing-rOom Companion ".
! j. NJ. Henry & Sons, Waterbury, a
ST the General Agents for New England
= For sale by A. c. Randall, Irasburgh.
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G. We invite particular attention to
the advertisement Of the Coventry High
School, in another column. The unpre-
cedented success Of Mr.. Dewey, for the
past three terms warrants US in saying
that his schools are not surpassed BY any
in the County, and his reputation here
will, we doubt not, be sure guaranty @
another prosperous term.
Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-02-25

HE TURKISH CREsCENT.-The Cres-
cent was the ancient symbol Of Byzanti-
um' now Constantinople. Philip, the
father of Alexander the Great, in be-
sieging that city, set his workmen to un-
dermine the walls by night, that his troops
might take II by surprise; but the moon
suddenly appearing, discovered the de-
sign TO the besieged, who succeeded in
frustrating it. Grateful for their deliv-
erance, the Byzantines erected a statue
to Diana-the moon-and took the cres-
cent for their symbol
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LADIES FAIR AT BARToN.-The
ladies sewing society of Barton held a
Fair and Leyee at tie Academy in Bar
ton on Wednesday evening last. The
fair was held in the hall and a supper
was served up in the lower room. We
learn from one who was present that an
excellent table was spread, and that the
whole affair was enlivened by excellent
vocal and instrumental music, and inter-
sperscd by occasional remarks from
Squire Sartle, as Moses Cheney would
say. On the whole it was the most brill
/ liant affair that has occurred at Barton
since the old folks concert of one yea
since. The proceeds are to be appropri
ated to fit up their church, Caledonian
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q The late Thomas Riley, of the
Fifth Ward Museum Hotel, in New York
has left requests to the amount of S34.-
GOO to various charitable and religious as
sociations, to be paid after the death of
his widow. The American Bible Socie-
ty will receive $4,000, the Tract Society
$4,000, and the Domestic Missions and
Foreign Missions of the Reformed Dutch
Church $1,000 each.
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"a A lady at St. Paul, Minnesota,
who had become unsettled in her mind
from anxiety in matters Of religion, at
tempted self-destruction by drinking boil
ing water from a tea-kettle. Medical
aid was Immediately summoned, and, al.
though severely injured, she was at lasl
accounts recovering, and her mental de
lusions had vanished.
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The Proposed Territories.
ROCK BOTTOM.

The conduct of the Administration
party towards the newly proposed Ter
ritories should be narrowly watched, for
it shows the same Inconsistency and pro- /
slavery recklessness which have been
revealed in the treatment of Kansas and
Oregon. Thus, DIr. Stevens, from the
House Committee on Territories, report
ed few days since bills for the Organi-
cation of Arizona, Dacotah and Jetfer-
son. But il was at once apparent that
fair play was not to be allowed to the
citizens of these localities even at the
expense Of denying TO them the safe
guards government. While the Arizona
bill was under consideration, Mr.. Haskin
of New York offered a resolution to the
effect that when the population was suf-
ficient to entitle the Territory TO mem
Der of Congress, the Legislature should
provide for the election of delegates 10
form a Constitution, which should be
submitted to TIE people for ratification,
and that this provision should constitute
a rule of action for all the other Terrific
ries. This is in precise accordance with
the oft-repeated professions of the Pres
ident and other prominent Democrats
But Mr.. Stephens absolutely refused to
adopt it as a part Of the bill, and so the
House immediately tabled the three bills
by heavy votes.
Why should the administration rejec
such proposition as this of Mr.. Has
kin's? Its perfectly fair to all partie:
and interests, and has been expressly
commended in more than one of Mr.. Blu
chanan's messages. Population is pour
ing mic Arizona, where there is now 1t
. law, the Governor Of New Mexico hav
ing refused to commission there any ter
, ritorial officers. The truth is, that it ha
. been determined to make a Slave Stat
e of Arizona, and the propagandists d
4 not mean to bind themselves by any leg
t islative action. All their talk about pc
+ pular sovereignty, or prescribing a pan
$ ticular population, or anything else i
relation to the Territories, is for the SAX
r Of carrying elections at the North, an
= nothing else. They mean to treat on
II Territory is one way and another in al
n other, just as the interests Of SLAYER
y shall seem to demand. Thus we ma
], have over again Lecompton constitI
a ton and all the other enormilies Of Ii
1t Kansas policy. One Territory will /
u hurried into the Union with an insutfic
- population, and another indefinitely ke
Is out. That is, we shall have these thin,
v if the Democratic party continues in Il
+, ascendancy but all the signs of Il
at times, including this prompt action
es the House Of Representatives, show til
ID such = 2 contingency is fast fading out
e view. Sill, no risks should be unnece
e. sarily hazarded.-Boston Journal
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IRELAND HALF PRoTEsTANT.--k
Dublin correspondent of the New York
Evangelist asserts that fully one-half the.
people of Ireland are Protestants. This
he infers from the number of marriages
of Protestants of all sects; which, as
suming that they bear the same proper
ton TO the population as those of England
and Wales, indicate that there are up
wards of three millions of Protestants
and the whole population does not ex-
coed six millions. The increase of the
Professionals and decrese of the Roman
Catholics which has brought them to an
equality, is thus accounted for. The
great mass of those who persisted in the
famine, and of those who have since
emigrated, and are still emigrating, were
and are Roman Catholic. Those who.
occupy the land thus vacated are mainly
Protestants; and while, especially in the
West, whole congregations of converted
Romanists are scattered over the coun-
try, there are no conversions from Pro-
testantism. The controversial lectures
and discussions and tract circulation have
prevented this. In consequence of this
increase of the Professionalism, the char
acter and habits of the Catholic popula-
: ton are charging rapidly for the better,
) from The powerful influence of example.
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E Seven States, Ohio, Indiana, ILL.,
nois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota, poll 100000 votes, or I00,-
900 votes more than the Is Southern
States; three times more than New Eng
land, and nearly third of the whole
vote of the Union.
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G. See advertisement in another col
umn, Of Boots and Shoes in Glover, II.
S. Chaplin, agent. The worldwide rep
ulation Of boots and shoes manufactured
by Herrick & Page, is a sufficient guar
antee of their good quality, and will com
pete with any thing that can be produced
in quality or price.
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LBEL.-We are informed by Mr..
Geo. Y. Houghton, Of St. Adams, that
MIR. Jasper Curtis, the Joint Proprietor
and Co-Inyenter with Downs in the man
ufacture Of Downs Elixir is falsely charg-
ed in IN advertisement in our paper, with
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CORN!

Shell your corn, and all you that owe
US anything, bring US some immed'd'eIy
or there will be Fuss.
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G. A man is 3 brute TO be jealous
Of a good woman-a fool TO be jealous of
a worthless one-but a double fool to cut
his own throat for either of them.
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A Touching Letter.

Among the writings OF a young wo-
nan recently burned to death with the
conAagration of house of i'll fame at
Cincinnati. was found the following re-
deeming expression of thoughts
o. home magical, all powerful word
Home Oft have I wished for home
one that | could return to after long
absence. when, as now, wearied and per-
picked with the many cares of this cold
world. I could find retirement there and
be welcomed by kind friends-be greet
ed BY those l have known in innocent
childhood. But alas these joys are
not for me. | have heard others talk OF
their pretty homes and aristocratlc pala-
ces, but wish not for those, nor could
wish for proud palace for my home,
ouly for an humble one yet have not
this.
7 have never known kind fathers or
mothers care, a sisters or brothers
love. These have all been lost TO me-
Ny faint steps were not guarded by a
mothers hand, or my infant lips taught
by a mothers gentle voice to lisp a pray
er to God. | am all alone, without q
friend in the world for have placed
an insurmountable barrier between me
and all that is good and pure. | can
never associate with those who are re-
spected and esteemed. My home is in
the vile haunts Of the abandoned-my
companions are the depraved ones whose
vices are mingled with oaths
Outlines | have heard others say this
is a gay life, with all its hellish excite
ment and all its would be righteousness,
but God hath said, The wages OF sin
is death" They do not think, that when
they come to die, poor, forsaken out
casts. without friend-that when theil
beauty has faded and their health is gone
even their wild companions will forsakt
them, and leave them to die in the hos
pital and be buried in the Potter's Field
It makes me wretched to think this MAJ
soon be my fate.
!; A few more short years, and | will b
forgotten by those who now call them
selves my friends, but | would Civ
: naught for their friendship. Too Of
have 1 seen the look Of pity mingle
with scorn cast upon me by those VIII
think me far beneath them. They, toC
have often laid their heads on my breat
- and swore, by the God that gave thel
life, that they loved me; but little q
they know how l regarded their oaths.
have met kind and generous me
5, whom 1 have liked very much y
es when think under what Circumstance,
10 I have met them, ! cannot think Of the
ry with a pleasant thought, but rememb
OF them with bitter feeling, which max
to me miserable. shall soon leave ii
de place, and hope to find home where
TO will be more happy, and I will try to fc
e get many, many things and to look u
MS ward, to put my trust in my Faith
IS; which is in Heaven" and He will n
get desert me, although earthly friends nj
lg- vanish like dew before the morning So
-ha
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Short calls are always most agreea-
Ole" as the fly said when he iii on the
hot stove.