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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

The Boston Post says: Maximan has laid
hold Of powerful lever, in his efforts to place
himself at the head of the popular party in
Mexico, which ruler of adroitness and will
might employ to permanent advantage. That
lever is the cause of popular education. Since
he entered the country and found that the par
ty which nominally called him to it composed
but meagre part of the great body of the peo.
pie, he has been actively engaged in fndinghis
way to the hearts of the larger party, termed
the Liberals, whose rapid increase was the first
cause of his invitation to Mexico. In q recent
letter to one of his Ministers, the Emperortakes
ground for free education, insisting that all
shall have a share in its benefits, and even
going so far as to make elementary education a.
compulsory matter. He has therefore directed
that free schools shall be established, and pa
rents be made to send their children. This
movement, too, does not seek TO combine re-
ligious and general education, but to keep them
separates for the Emperor further orders the<
the parish priest shall give such instruction, in
the religious education of children, as is duly
prescribed in the books adopted by the Gov
erment. This is complete separation Of the
offices of the Church and State in mattess of
education, and may be accepted as a long
stride in the direction OF genuine liberalism.
Whether the Juarez adherents think that the
same result might have been reached without
Maximlian's help, in their own way, time will
duly disclose. But this action OF the Emperor
shows that he recognizes the advancing spirit
of the time, and is forced to respect it.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

gazing upon a single grand and correctly
grouped picture.
This method of beginning the survey may
have exaggerated my impression of what is the
distinctive characteristic of marlborough. but
| think not. The impreseiin remains strong
even after taking more comprehensive views
and gettiug more extende prospects. The
unity is in the diversity. here is conspira-
cy among the contrasted feaures of the seem
cry to melt themselves together into the vari-
gated perfect whole. withoutany sharpness OF
collision or any enforced conpanionship. They
are not compressed; they cone or rather flow
and blend together and p mountain and
vale, rivers and plains, forestand pasture and
grain-growing acres, the blooming gardens and
ornamented grounds, with tie public edifices
and private mansions, combine to give you
within easily compassed limits, something of
subdued grandeur, presiding over and adding
strength to domain crowded with changeful
loveliness.
wish could have the privilege Of abiding
here for awhile, to test the truth of this par
tiality at first sight, hazarded after only glances
and glimpses OF it. Not that doubt what the
result of longer study would be only should
like the satisfaction of following out the veri-
flying proofs at leisure. Since | cannot do this
myself, may advise anybody searching for q
place full of pure air and atfordng constant
delight TO the eye OF lover of nature, to make
himself "at home" with Mr.. Francis of the
Water-Cbre, or at some other "house," and
"do" marlborough. z.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28
A Terrible DueI.

A few years since New England gentleman,
whose name we shall call Brown, was passing a
few days in one of our Western cities, he had
the misfortune to unintehtionally offend the
susceptible honor of q tall militia Colonel, who
was one of his fellow -boarders. His apologies
not being satisfactory, challenge was sent to
him, which, however, he declined from consci-
entous scruples. The Colonel, who by the way
had won in two or three encounters quite rep
utation as duelist, at once conceived that his
opponent was a coward, and resolved to dis
grace him in the face of all the assembled wis
dom of the house. Accordingly, the next day
at dinner time, in marched the duellist, armed
with cowhde, and advancing to dust his jack
ct for him in the most approved style. Brown
was astonished. Luckily he had been Lieu
tenant of militia in his native State, and he
knew the importance of incommodng his ene-
my by diversion. So seizing gravy tureen,
he tossed the contents into the face of the bel
ligerent Colonel, and before he could recover
from the drowning sensation thus occasioned,
he sprang upon the table and began to shower
upon him with liberal hand the contents OF
the dishes around.
"You are an infernal-"
Coward" the Colonel was about to say, but
at that moment plate of greens struck full
upon his mouth, and the word was blockaded
lost forever.
"Ha !" cried the New Englander, whose blood
was now up, "fond of green's, are youP Take a
potato, tooP" and he hurled telling volley OF
hard potatoes at him.
Excellent eggs here, capital, with calves
head" and crash came plate of soft boiled
eggs against the side OF the Colonel's crani-
um.
The blows of the towhide, which had hitherto
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ders, now began to fall more weakly and wildly,
and it became evident that the assailant, hall
stunned, choked and partially blinded, was get
ting the worst of it. His courage was oozing
out.
"1ake turkeyP' shouted Brown, as no.
BILE old gobbler descended fairly upon the Col
onel's head, and bursting, filed his hair and
eyes with delicious looking stufing.
"IIeres the fringes," he continued, as the
squash and jelly followed.
BY this time the Colonel was irretrievaby
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

ITEMS FOR DEMocRATs.-The New York
Neacs, which has been coppery so nearly up to-
the treason point that its conductors could
hardly keep out of Jail, now holds that every
emancipa,ed slave is by right entitled equally
with white folks to the privileges of citizen-
ship. The Boston Post says:
"We repeat what we have often said before,
namely that, had we the power to confer, ev-
cry citizen who had sufficient knowledge to ex-
ercise the right of suffrage with full under.
standing of his action-for instance, who pos
sessed the qualifications required by the laws
of Massachusetts--should be voter, whatever
his color might be-"
Contrast this with the declaration of the Ver-
mont copperhead convention that whites alone
have political rights which is the very essence
Of slavery, as the same sort OF unreason else
where is the essence Of aristocratic and anti
democratic forms Of government, where white
folks who are not OF certain sort Of blood
cannot be kings, and all other white folks who
do not have certain amount of money cannot
be voters.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

CONVERSATIONAL know not how men with
out religion get along in the world. 1t must
not only be hard, but hopeless. Continually
there are sorrows for which the earth has no
recompense. Here man is sacrificed. The
world gains, does it ? 1t is the mans loss. Ar
mold Won Wnkereid takes sheaf OF Austrian
spears in his bosom, breaks thereby the Aus
tran ranks, the swift tide of freedom flows
through, and Switzerland is free. Winklereid
is dead, his 6reside chair is empty, all night the
dog howls for his master, the wife is widow,
his babes fatherless. What recompense is
there on earth ? For Hebrew Jesus, for Ro-
man Regulus, for Athenian Socrates, the world
has no compensation. Here is one born so
that education is impossible want makes him
a clown. This girl is the victim of circumstan-
ces the worlds hardness makes her short life
one long blush OF infamy. The powers Of hu.
man nature were born in her, she was made for
heaven but the vices of society nipped them
in the bud, and made her harlot. Earth has
no recompense. What compensation is there
TO the slave for his bondage? to the patriot
who dies, and sees Turkey, Italy, Hungary,
France die with him? Earth answers not.
What compensation is there for the blind.
Earth has none to show. What for the deaf
The world gives no answer. What for the fool?
Wisdom knows it not. The compensation, the
joy for their discipline, must come in the eter-
nal world. l know not how; the fact l am
sure Of That one and one make two is not
clearer to me. l am not more certain of my
own existence. 1t follows from Gods infnity.
God left us free little, one hand winged
with freedom, the other bound by fate. But
his infinite providence. infinite love, must so
oyerrue the world that no man shall suffer alb
solute i'll. What is not compensated now,
hereafter God himself will pay. Our next con.
dition must depend, not on our own circum-
stances here, not on the accidental virtue or
vice which these circumstances make, but on
the use ourselves have made of our gift and
our opportunity and though the little that we
gain may be so little that men despise it and
count il vile, God treasures it up, and will
bless US for that. Few men know how much
may be done in the midst of circumstances that
seem evil. We may make minimum Of sor-
row out of maximum of adverse conditions I;
yea we may get maximum OF human fidelity
out of a minimum of opportunity and gift. It
is an immense advantage TO know the souls i'm
mortality, and be sure of eternal life TO know
the infinite perfection God, and be certain that
the Great Mother folds us in her arms and will
bless US forever. The greatest practical thing
is to get the discipline out Of the world, its Joy
and its sorrow. 1t is hard world, is itp One
day we shall thank God for its hardness, and
bless him for its sorrow.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28


After an extensive practice Of upwards Of twenty years.
continues Patents in the United States also in
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the Copies Of the claims Of Patent furnished by
remting One Dollar Assignments recorded at Washing
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Of asceainng the patentaby OF Inventions
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ate vast collection OF specifications and ohca decisions
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These besides his extensive library legal and mechan
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tion offer superior facilities for obtaining Patents
All necessity Of journey Washington to procure pa
tent and the usual great delay there are here saved in
ventors,
cessi with whom have had official inter-
course" CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner of Patents.
81 have hesitation In assuring inventors that they
not employ person competent and trustworthy and
capable OF putting their applications In form
for them early and favorable consideration at the Patent
Once. EDMUND BURKE,
Late Commissioner Of Patents.
"Mr. r. IL. Eddy has made for me THIRTEEN applca
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During eight months the subscriber in course Of his large
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Boston, Jan. !, 1S06-ly63
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

HE LAST DODGE OF THE ADIANs.-Mr.
Cameron, who represents Quebec in the Com
mercial Convention at Detroit, is reported 10
have said in a speech before that body on
Wednesday, that "they (Canadians) had no
pitiful story, bot wished to say that they we're
cousins and brothers, living on the side of the
same lakes and rivers, and that it was our mu-
tual duty TO live together as amicable as we
could" This eleventh hour repentance does
not come with very good grace. 1t would have
sounded much better If they had taken that
view during the existence Of the late rebellion.
The doube-faced dealing of the British govern
ment at home did not do us one-tenth the dam
age as did the aiding and abetting Of our enc
mics by the Canadian authorities. Canada was
almost as much the headquarters Of the rebels
as Richmond itself All sorts of depredations,
raids upon our borders, and plots were organ
lied there and carried out under the conniyance
of the Canadians themselves. They had no
thought about our being "cousins and broth
ers" then, or even diving together in amcable
relations" All they desired was to do us all
the injury that they could They were reaping
the benefit of the reciprocity treaty, and what
did they care for our interests? This treaty
was finally abolished which ought to have been
done years ago, and then, forsooth, they became
wonderfully affectionale and set up the olain,
OF blood relationship. If the delegates to the
Detroit Convention are fattered into any con-
cessons 10 the Canadians by these soft soap
utterances they will be repudinted by the peo-
pie. and regret the day that they ever attended
the Convention. We want no reciprocity trea-
ty like that which has been abrogated.-
York Herald.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28
THE PLANTING OF THE APPLE-rRBp
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

Come, let us plant the apple-tree
Cleave the tough greensward with the spade;
Wide let its hollow bed be made;
lnere gently lay the roots, and there
Silt the dark mould with kindly care,
And press 1t DER them tenderly,
AI:s, round the sleeping infants feet,
we softly fold the cradle sheet;
So plant we the apple-tree.
What plant we in the apple-tree2
Buds, which the breath of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays,
Boughs, where the thrush with crimson breast
shall haunt, and sing, and hide her nest.
We plant upon the sunny lea
shadow for the noontide hour,
A shelter from the summer shower,
When we plant the apple-tree.
What plant We in the apple-tree2
Sweets for a hundred 6Owery springs,
10 loud the May winds restless wings,
When, from the orchard row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
world Of blossoms for the bee;
Flowers for the sick girls silent room;
For Tho glad infant sprigs of bloom,
We plant with the apple tree.
What plant we in the apple-tree2
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
And redden in the August noon,
And drop, as gently airs come by
That Gin the blue September sky;
While children, wild with noisy glee,
Shall scent their fragrance as they pass,
And search for them the tufted grass
AT the foot of the apple-tree.
And when above this apple-tree
The winter stars are quiverng bright,
And winds go bowling through the night,
Girls, whose eyes o'erilow with mirth,
Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth,
And guests in prouder homes shall see,
Heaped with the orange and the grape,
AS fair ms thew in tint and shape
The fruit of the apple-tree.
The fruitage of this appIe-tree,
Winds and our flag of stripe and star
Shall bear to coasts that lie alar,
Where men shall wonder at the view,
And ask in what fair groves they grew;
And they who roam beyond the sea
Shall look, and think of childhood's day,
And long hours passed in happy play
In the shade Of the apple-tree.
Each year shall give this appe-tree
A broader flush of roseate bloom,
A deeper maze Of verdurous gloom,
And loosen, when the frost-clouds lower,
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower;
The years shall come and pass, but we
Shall hear no longer where we lie,
The summers songs, the nutumn's sigh,
In the boughs of the apple-tree.
And time shall waste this appe-tree,
o, when its aged branches throw
Thin shadows on the sward below,
Shall fraud and force and iron will
Cypress the weak and helpless still2
What shall the tasks of mercy be,
Amid the tolls, the striies, the tears,
OF those who live when length of years
Is wasting apple-tree?
"Who planted this old apple-tree?"
The children of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall say;
And, gazing on its mossy stem,
The gray-haired man shall answer them:
"a poet of the land was he,
Born in the rude, but good old times;
'Tis said he made some quaint old rhymes
On planting the apple-tree."
Atlantic Monthly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28
Resemblance of the A--as.in. to Animals,

Resemblance OF the A nssins to Animals.
Mrs. Swisshelm thus writes from Washing
ton TO the Pittsburgh Chronicle respecting the
three assassins who have paid the penalty of
their crime -
"You know, Of course, the speculative phi
losophy which claims to trace resemblance
between every human being and some species
of animal. never saw three people together
who so strongly illustrate this philosophy as
the three male assassins who were executed
last week. l think | could not have passed
Harold on the street without mentally exclaim-
ing, "ape." I have been often in the drug
store he attended and once, as he was putting
up small package for me, became so inter-
ested in noticing his apish ways that caught
myself on the eve of saying aloud, you mon
key and found it necessary to make some re-
mark to hide the thought l had so nearly ex-
pressed. When on trial, before had recog-
nized him as one had seen elsewhere, that
same thought came, what an apeP And
strange, his character, as given on trial, had
the fidelity and cunning Of the ape
Payne, on the other hand, was all bovine.
Once party of hunters described to me a buff
alo hunt, in which they had been engaged three
days before in Dakotah. They were eloquent
in their account of fierce old bull, who stood
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dismay. They told of his charge first at one
and then another of his woud.be captors and
of the disdain with which he shook their bull
cts out of his matted frontlet. had not tho't
of the scene for years, until saw Payne sit
ting erect and fearless, among his captors, and
the whole picture then came up like HASH
The swell of the powerful muscles of the neck,
spreading out to the shoulder, tapering in the
jaw-the form of the spinal column from the
waist to the top OF the head, straight as an ar
row, without that swell behind the ear which is
said to indicate the social affection in the hu-
man head-the large, projecting jaws-the jut'
ting down, sloping forehead and prominence
above and a little back of the ear, but especial
ly the large, pale, gray eyes with their spot o.
white light was the monarch of the prairie
His peculiar motion in tossing aside his hail
added greatly to this resemblance, and l could
well believe his assertion OF no malice against
Mr. Seward. He simply had fierce deligh,
in conflict had been trained TO believe that Mr.
Seward was trespassng on his grazing lands
his divine right Of owning and flogging his own
slave, and charged at his pursuer like the wild
buffalo on the plain.
Atzerott was panther; the form and car
riage of the head, the small green eyes, the
motion of his hands, the very atmosphere
around him spoke craftness, deep and low
cruelty, cowardice. Whatever he did, or pro.
posed TO do, was for some immediate personal
benefit. He could only spring for prey, when
| he felt assured of success"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

humidity of its atmosphere, and the horrible
sanitary condition OF its area. 1t is said. for
instance, that more than seven hundred car
casses of cattle are lying in the Nile Canal
alone, from which source the inhabitants are
supplied with water. No wonder disease in
some shape is abundantly generated. With re.
gard to its appearance in Mecca, also. sufficient
causes might be found in the Irregularities.
squalor and crowded condition Of the pilgrims
But whether it win adhere to its original local
tiles, or will travel westward, remains to be
seen. Tne French and Italian harbors have
been shut against vessels coming from Alex
andria. Marseilles keeps all the mail boats
from that quarter in quarantine and the Eng
lsh mails transmitted through Egypt are hence
forth to be enclosed in boxes, instead Of bags,
as a precaution against infection. Thus far,
there is no evidence of the westward passage Of
this terrible disease, bat its mere possibility
may well add another to the already sufficient
arguments in favor of complete sanitary pre-
cautions during the hot weather.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

defeated. and as his merciless opponent seized
a huge plum pudding, steamng hot, and hold
it above his head with both hands, seemed about
to bury him beneath it, he quailed in terror,
and throwing down his cowhide, turned about
and made rush for the door.
"Stop for the pudding, Colonel, stop for the
pudding"
He did not escape from the rdicule which
the affair occasoned He subsequently chsl-
lenged four persons, against whom his ire was
particularly excited, and they all consented to
fight, but availing themselves of the privilege ol
the challenged party. chose pudding bags for
their weapons. AT length the unhappy duel
list, finding no one willing to be shot at, was
obliged TO quit the State.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

JUSTICE COMING HoME.-Students at the
U. S. naval academies are not permitted to
marry but some time since, before the naval
school was removed from Annapolis, an amor
Gus cadet, unwilling to defer his happiness till
the receipt of his commission, ventured upon q
private marriage with young beauty of the
place. Nothing remained but to keep the se-
cret. The preacher knew nothing of this, how
ever, and cursorily let the mouse out Of the
trap, so that an old professor, who disiked ca
diets because they besieged in squads certain
pretty daughter he had, ascertained the fact
without ascertaining but one of the names, and
he court-martialed the cadet Immediately. De-
spite the personal entreaties of the youth, tie
case was brought up. He acknowledged the
fact, plead guilty and fell back upon the mercy
of the court. The old professor aforesaid stern
ly objected he stood upon law and good poll
cy, and called for the lads dismissal.
"You will take the bread out OF my wife's
mouth" said the cadet.
81 don't care" said the professor; "let JUS
tice be done, though the arder be empty"
"Do you know the lady's name?' urged the
cadet.
81 don't want 10 know it; she isn't the Grim
malt is you"
"My wife is your daughter!"
The old gentleman was overwhelmed with
rage and shame. The court, acting upon his
suggestion, and partly with a sly malice, struck
the cadets name from the rolls. So the old
gentleman had to pay, for time, the expenses
of both daughter and son,n-law The lad got
back in the navy during the rebellion and rem
dered q good account of himself
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1865-07-28

The Boston journal of July 10Th says, much
interest and no little apprehension are express
ed in England respecting the ravages Of what
is supposed to be a form of the Asiatic cholera
in some parts of the East During the great
Mussulman festivals at Mecca and Mount Ar
arat, in the first twenty days of May, when half
a million OF pilgrims are wont to assemble It Is
reported that the cholera this year carried of
twenty thousand people. This is the official
statement-the popular account puts the loss
at two or three times that number. But the
most attention has been directed to Alexand-
ria, where one hundred and eighty-four per-
sons died on one day, and two hundred and
fourteen cases were reported ON another. Sew
enty cases also were reported in the very
healthy city Of Cairo. The whole number Of
fatal cases in Alexandria up to the last advices
was between one thousand and fifteen hundred
Considerable doubt has been expressed as to
the cholera, particularly in Alexandria, being
OF the old Asiatc, migratory type, inasmuch as
there may be sufficient local causes 10 account
for it. The city of Alexandria is noted for the