Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-07-29


conveniently extended those in attendance all per
sons designing to present requested send their
names scasonaby to the Chairman Of the Executive
Committee.
J. II WORCESTER, } r-.,;
GBo y. BoARnNAN, ( To,,at,t,
ALpNIo WEBSTER, )
harrington, Jn'y %, 1859.
EXAMINATION AT FAIRFAX. VT.
To the Trustees Of New Hampton Institution
Misunderstanding to your appointment.
we have attended the annual examination of
the school in all its departments. We take
pleasure in saying, that while different classes
have shown different degrees Of excellence,
we have found, generally, abundant evidence
Of earnest, careful and conscientious efforts on
the part Of teachers to impart instruction to
their pupils in the various branches Of science,
and To- form in them habits of independent
thinking: and we have found evidence on the
part of the pupils. that these efforts have been
in good degree successful. We have been
pleased to observe, in the course Of the ex-
animation. that in most Of the classes pupils
were allowed to exhibit their proficiency by
d. ussion of topics without being drawn out
by leading questions on the part of teachers.
This is so obviously the correct mode of as
about subject. that we cannot avoid urging
its adoption. hereafter in all branches, well
in the lower mathematics as in the highest in
tellectual studies.
An examination is designed to show the pu-
pill and not the teacher, except so far as the
latter is reflected in the former.
In conclusion, we unite in cordially recon-
meuding the Institution to the attention and
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ters whom they wish to place in school,
where both their intellect and hearts shall be
carefully and conscieutiously cultivated.
All which is most respectfully submitted.
IRA d. BUKWELL.
JOSEPH FREEMAN, Com. Of
l. y. HOBART. Examination.
DANIEL PUTNAM,
Fairfar, w.. July %, 1853.
IV For notice Of this School see our ad-
ver,ising columns.
LAooNio.-Au admirer of the late Edgar
A. Poe recently addressed the following note
TO Horace Greeley:
Dear Sir In your extensive correspon-
dence you have undoubtedly secured several
autographs Of the late distinguished Ameri-
can poet, Edgar A. Poe. If so, you will
please favor me with one, and oblige,
Yours Respectfully. Alb.
REPLY.
Dear Sir 81 happen to have in my poses
sion but one autograph of the late dlstin
guished American poet, Edgar A. Poe. 1t
consists of an |. o. L., with my name on the
back Of it, It cost me just fifty dollars and
you can have it for half price,
Yours, II. C.
[VA "wee bit Of boy astonished
his mother a few days since She had occa-
sion to chastise him slightly for some offence
he had committed Charley sat very quietly
in his chair for some time afterwards, no
doubt thinking very profoundly. At last he
spoke out thus: "Muzzer, | wish pad get
anuzzer housekeeper, I've got tired seem you
round
CHoArE IN CoNGREss Webster had not
long before, astonished the country by his
mastery reply to Hayne, and the remem-
brance of his powerful eloquence was yet fresh
in the Halls of Congress. Yet we recolect
to have heard that the most eminent Of
Southern statesmen, after listening with un-
disguised amazement to the brilliant flashes
and peculiar rhetoric of Choate, was so inn
pressed with his genius as to exclaim with
significant emphasis "What will not Massa-
chusetts send US next .'-SGiep' Register
DEscRIPrGoN OF VERONA correspon-
dent of the Freeman writes:
I'm looking over some old books in my
uncle's library, few days since, found a
geography, published in London in 1903, from
which | copied the following account of Yer
mont. One would be puzzled, think if ht
were to try to find the State from this descrp
ton
The State of Vermont is vast country
situated cast of New Hampshire, south o
Massachusetts, and west of New York.
is ono hundred and filty-fve miles in length
and sixty in breadth. The capital of tn
State is Bennington.
The Aliens are the chiefs, or head men
of the country. 1t is governed by its owl
laws, independent Of Congress and the States
Hitherto it has been an object of contention
between the States of New York and Ney
Hampshire. The people had for long tim
no other name than Green Mountain Boys
which they Gallcized into Nerdmont, an,
afterwards corrupted into the easier pronuncia
ton Of Vermont
70 One Of the most curious celebration
of the Fourth of July, says the philadelphia
journal, was that of the convcts at tn
Washington d. o. Penitentiary. Thes
Jail birds, having a fervant desire to flute
their wings in the sunshine of liberty, and t
establish more intimate relationship wit
the Bird of Birds, The Eagle, long may h
wave! pettioned their lawful faneier, tn
Warden, in respectful manner, for th'
privilege, and gracious permission was give
them to celebrate. The exercises, of whc
there was prottily printed programme, il
cluded the reading Of the Declaration by
murderer, an address by forger, and SONG
by various other evil doors. "Do they mil
me at Homes' was given with peculiar fee
ing
GEy' A mob a, Hennasselo, Cal, have con
PEELED Herbert, who murdered the waiter
Wizards in Washington, to leave the plac