Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-02-08

Thirty-fve days carry the country into the
new Administration time enough for mat
tiers TO became worse time enough for them
TO become better, if-a nation could be man
aged as easily as a corporation but on an
area so large as that now infected with Seces-
sion, and at time when mems minds are in
famed, nothing short of infinite power seems
adequate TO improve public affairs.
With such an Inheritance upon his hands.
the new President will deserve and receive
the sympathy and support Of every patriot
Opposition 20 him will be- nearly equivalent
to crime against Liberty The Nation is in
peril. and be who refuses TO sustain the new
incumbent in all laudabe measures by which
to avert disaster cannot be reckonnd as a
friend of the government under which be
lives N H. Statesman.
" Mr. Hopkins in the Pennsylvania leg
islature satirizes the Cutenden compromise
by the following proposed amendments:
" That free negroc, Who Ore scamen and arrested in
the South o. raid $40 rcr day ar their detention That
pc sons who are tautd and 'hrred u The South shall
receive SO That perons Who have their heads shaved
and are otherwise malreated. shall receive So That
the families Of men WIN arc hung BY lynch law IN the
South shall receive SO co.
r1"The Apalachicola Times Of the 9th has
the following Presidential tket at the bead
Of its columns
SOUTHERN CoNFFuERACY
tor President,
WILLIAM l. NANCEY,
OF Alabama.
For Vice pro-dcnt,
j Il HAMMOND,
OF South Carolina.
~ Frank Blair in a recent letter to the
ST. Louis Democrat. says:
d" am for the Union all over not only won go out
myself II I tu hpp N. won't let body else
90 out Of H. GO f'r The Union strongly that will
vote for any political opponent have on earth for the
convention. II he for the Union Internationally, and
Will vote for who Is uot for the Unioa without
conditions or mental restrictions
WHAT THEY THINK OF 1T ABRoAD.-A
gentleman in Springfield. H., furnishes for
publication the following extract Of letter
from the "oldest financial friend Of the State
in Europe" on the subject Of secession
cannot conceal from yo ic fact that the credit Of
the United States Goyernmtut - now OF Trial in Europe
by the last steamer we hear of plans oi concession
and Of compromi-e' with those who openly deyng
the laws Now u is not my Yuto 70 discuss the merit
the motive Of auv II those projects but tell
you that il your Government entertain any plan OF
cessuu az the prescott .cnt-if II have 90 purchase
the permission 10 peacefully inaueuratc the awiully
elected Presideutits credit will receive fearful blow ga
Europe You must expect to have Federal stocks sent
back IN large quantities from England and the Ountin
emit People viii NOT trust Government which. when
is foundations are attacked, instead Of firmly unfolding
law and order compromises wIfl traitors We have had
enough of Peruvian and Mexican bonds. and shall be
careful not 70 retain hose OF Government whose policy
is eonces'ion 10 aH1rchy"
A PRAYER FOR MAJOR ANDERSON. A
gentleman Of indianapolis informs US that on
last Sunday, in that city at the closing exer-
cises Of meeting at one Of the Methodist
Episcopal churches, Bishop Ames astonished
and thrilled the congregation by the follow
ing prayer
We thank thee o God thar while treason stalks A.
broad in high places there is who loves his
country i--une mau who will defend bis countrys flag !
H0bie hand 90
The ameus' which came up from the
brethren around, were loud and enthusiastic,
and when the congregation arose from their
knees, smiles and tears we're seen struggling
in many countenance.
DIVERSION OF TRADE FROM THE SouTH
The Western railroads are reapng profit
from the blockade Of the Mississippi river
Upward of three thousand bales of cotton
were received at Cincinnati on Friday last,
and several boats with full loads are now on
their way to that port. The course pursued
by the Governor Of Mississippi in overhaul
ing the river steamers at Vicksburg is pro-
dueing complete revolution in trade, making
the Central Illinois, Southern Michigan, and
Central Pennsylvania railway, aud the Balti-
more and Ohio railway, the grea. carriers of
all the freight which hitherto found market
by ship through the Gulf, around the Florida
Capes, and up the coast 10 New York, Phil
adelphia and Boston. Nearly all the inn
mense trade hitherto carried on through New
Orleans and by the way Of Memphis, Chat
tanooga and Charleston, or Savannah, is nov
rapidly turning northward, and finding its
way to seaboard via Cincinnati, Pittsburg and
Baltimore.
KENTUcKY's PEACE MEAsURE.-In one
of the Washington hotels. few days since,
a crowd of excited southerners were discus
sing the merits Of the various modes of com
promise, and among Others that of Virginia's
method of sending commissioners to Wash
ington, and to the seeding states, when
gentleman, who had till then quietly listened
to the discussion, stepped forward, and urged
that there was one state which had supe-
rior claim to settle all disputes among sister
states. That state was Kentucky. ("Three
cheers for Kentucky" given with a will. y
The speaker continued E" She has also the
material that will ultimately and forever set
tie this matter, never again, to occur" He
was again applauded, and continued, THE
material | allude to, gentlemen is Kentucky
hemp" There was an ominous silence those
present felt the full force and probably the
justice of the remark, and instead Of threats
quietly dispersed.