Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-03-29

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The way the Government gets its work
done is curious. As an illustration, you and
your family meet in convention of the whole,
and authorize the construction Of a hen-coop
in your back yard. You at once appoint me
superintendent Of the work, putting a thou
sand or two dollars in bank for me to check
on. get you to appoint my brother-in-law
chief engineer ! appoint two of my brothers
assistant superintendents, and my brothef-in-
law appoints two Of his brothers assistant
engineers-all at your expense. We buy
each of us a fast horse and buggy, and ride
around town, drink hot cocktails and play
billiards, until the bank deposit gives out
when we make out printed report of 10
pages. furnishing you a complete topograph-
ical survey Of your back yard and vast
amount of statistical information with regard
to the number Of hens you arc likely to have
for the next 40 years. We wind up the re-
port with the announcement that the site of
the hcn-coop has been selected and a call for
another appropriation to prosecute the work,
which we assure you will be done with "vig-
or You place another thousand or two in
/ bank, and we employ 200 hands at SO a day,
to transport IS cents worth of lumber (which
costs you under our management, about ten
I times that many dollars) to the place of opcr-
ations, which requires about months. In
the mean time we drive around and GO on WIG
orously with the liquor and the billiards We
then come up with another report and de-
mand for another appropriation. With this
we get the walls Of the structure up, and with
ono or two more appropriations, and great
many more cocktails and billiards. we get
the thing covered in. and at the end Of 2
months, which we very appropriately style
our fiscal year, we put you in possession
of -thousand-dollar hen-coop that any
negro carpenter would have been glad to
knock up some Saturday afternoon for suit
Of your old clothes.
! Ex-SEcRErARY FLoYD.-Tho dclaultng
Secretary Of War under Mr.. Buchanan, is to
escape the punishment he so richly deserves,
as appears from the following from the cor
respondent of the ~ Y Times.
"It seems that there were two indictments against
NUN me hrst IN regard % The bonds stolen from the
Indian trust fund by Bailey, which he was charged with
aiding and abetiing was dismissed ON She ground that
no suhccnt testimony had been adduccd To implicate
him, and accordingly the district attorney entered n0ie
pr0scqm. The other indictment charging corruption
ana maeasance in office against Floyd in the matter Of
the accepanccs submitted 20 the court ON state
men Of facts agreed to between the prosecution and the
counsel for the accused; and among ho facts agreed
mined before committee of Congress relative to tho
same matter and Carlisle, his shrowd and able counsel
entered thus fact as plea TO the further prosecution
Of the indictment.
The counsel affected to put in this plea on his own
motion, without consultation with the accused but Floyd
has rested his case ON This ca and the court yesterday
Jet him OF under TO- thus mnkngit papabc TO the world
that he Is guilty and dare not come To- trial This
cape through me impcriccton Of the law, or The
hhIlncss Of those whose duty 10 is 20 Put the Same i'm
force viii only serve TO deepen and rvct the verdict
public condemnation Of the criminal lie will hence
forth stand confessed 70 the world degraded guilty man.
avfing himself Of technical plea which has ever been
regarded as the Hfllli1lc sign of moral guilt"
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ANTAGoNIsM OF SECESSION LEADERs.-A
Montgomery correspondent of the Savannah
NcWs thus hints at the reason why the Hon.
r. Barnwell Rhett of South Carolina, the a.
bic and consistent leader Of secession, was
not offered a position in the Cabinet Of the
new Coniederacy
"Mr. Davis whilst in Congress. supporter Of
Pacific Post Road and internal improyc sup
porter Of the protective tariff policy with strong national
sympahies. Mr. Rhctts views have always been antat-
onistic to them Nor do these gentlemen agree in the
south Mr. Rhett is ia favor Of slayeholdng confrdc-
racy and n representation f,r an slaves Nh Dar In,
vors the admission Of Free States into the Confcdeay
and the three-hiths representation in slaves and has
unaes'snd, very aasrnt - Of me whole sq6ect "
uy be settled hy the permanent constitution, hui b. is
would not be harmony between them. Mr Toomhs a.
grces better with President Davis Whom the ujuuc-
ton Of secrcsy is removed from the proceedings Of Com
delegate say that the success OF tine Organization Of Noe
Conicdcmcy required that these proceedings should be
kept secret
The editor of the Raleigh On. c. STANDARD
having been howled at 10y mob of Secession
lists. thus retorts
ave feel compimented when hlackguards groan at ms
because we arc for the Union We shall not take HE
trouble 20 gruut them. Let them urUau. That
about all they do. II should COME these very
fellows would De found calling on the pine hiekes ana
hollow logs 20 save them from the wrath n the invading
army. The greatest towards those who groan most
ut enemies who are miles away. They wild grolu
over wounds received 30 defending their country. The
ogarchs who ia truct their minions vhen and At whom
10 gfoan hate Lincoln, NOT only because he is Bak
Republicans hut because he sr rails fur his daily bread
"hcn young man lney hate Douglas becnuse DE
worked at the cabinet makers trade for his daily bread
when young man they hate Andrew johnson because
he worked at thc t1lre trad Tor his daily bread when
young man and they hate Holden because. being
y printer, he dared % aspire u be Governor of North
Carolina Holden will not beitte himself by hating
these in return T3eV know that he j. as tfuc
to the South they are. but they seek ruin him by
assoeia'ing him with Black Repuoliean.'
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70 The refusal of the secession politicians
to submit the permanent constitution of the
new conlederacy to a vote of the people, is
exciting discomfort The New Orleans Bull
etr says that for the State Conventions TO
presume alone to act upon the acceptance or
rejection Of the constitution "would be Meth
er more nor less than,a unwarrantable as
sumption Of arbitrary power foreign to the
genius of our institutions and repugnant to
the will Of the people" The lississippiqn
published at Jackson, Miss, declares that
'Fhe Constitution for the permanent government,
before Mississippi becomes party 10 he com
pact, must be Submitted directly to a pote of the
people Of The State. They will not hold them.
selves bound by government which they will
have had no hand in creating"
To The Richmond Wing says that it is
melancholy fact that larger amount of mob
violence has been developed in Virginia since
the secession movement began than in the
whole previous lifetime Of the State. There
has been manifested an intolerance Of spirit
never before known; aud, what is more, such
intolerance is evidently on the increase, and
bodies no good to law and order and to the
peace and prosperity of the citizens of the
State; and if not checked and repressed, and
that without delay, it will lead to riot, revo-
luton and fraternal boodshed."
ATTEMPTING TO BREAK OUr.-The three
fellows, Wheeler, Johnson, Smith, who were