The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-10-25
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ldlIl DcHWHytOH CO.-'NUuDletOn Of
Sunderland, Woodward of Landgrove,
Batcheder of Peru. CdieRonma Co.
Cotfi'in of Groton, Wnodman of Vince
lock, ianborn of Peacham. Cnteaden
Co-Stone of Wcetford, Weston Of Is
sex, Isham of St. George. E>ser Co.,
Ford of CRANKY, Jtevens of Maidstone,
Fits of Brunswick. Eiuak6a Co.
Draper Of Sheldon, Smith of Richmond,
Robe of Franklin. Grant Isle County -
MCGOWAN of Grand Isle, Corbin of
South Hero, Mott of Alburgh Lamoize
CO-Parker Of Wolcott, Beldng of
johnson, Brown of Eden Orangc o.
Spear of Braintrce, Kimbal Of West
Fairlee, Sherwin of Topsham orleans
Co.-Moorc of Albany, Boynton of Gov
entry, Cheney of Westmore. Rmtland
Co.-lIamiIton of Fair Haven, Winslow
of Chittenden, Mason of Ira. WASH
mgton Co-Shepherd OF East Monlpe-
Her, Cardell Of Warren, Phelps Of W ats
field. IVmdhdm Co-Hunt of Gull
ford, Whitney of Marlboro, Davis of
Londonderry. Windsor Co.-Luce of
Barnard, Wood of Bridgewater Fletcher
of Reading.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO AVERAGE AND
EQUAIIzE TIE APPRAISAL.
hudson Co.-1homas of ORWELL
Pennington Co.-llopkins of Rubert.-
Caledonia Co.-Cowles of Ryegate. Chit
teaden Co.-Baldwin of Hinesburp. Es-
ser Co-Houston of Victory. FraAln
Co.-Sabin of Georgia Grant Isle Co.
Mott Of Alburgh. LomoiW Co.-Brip-
ham OF Morristown. Orange Co.-IIun-
tington of Strafford. Orleans Co.-NIc.
Clary of Newport. Rutland Co.-Cro-
foot of Benson. Washington Co.-Put-
nam of Middlesex. IVmdham Co.
Jones of Dover. IVmosor couaty.-Pratt
of Woodstock.
In JOINT Assembly on the 18th, Geo.
Nichols OF Mortified, was UNANIMOUSLY
elected Secretary of State; Zebina G..
Camp, was elected Sergeant at Arms :;
Dugald Stewart, OF Middlcbury. unanim-
ously reelected Auditor of Accounts :;
James \ Poland, of Windsor, unanimous
ly re ele ted Sup ,rintendant Of State
PRISM; Erasmus ID. Warner, of New
Haven, was unanimously reelected Com
missioner of Insane Asa Is. Camp. of
Stowe, was unanimously reelected Bank
commissioner; David +. Nicholson. OF
Wallingiord, was elected Railroad Com
missioner on the second ballot. Gen. Pc.
tel I. Washburne of Woodstock, was
unanimously reelected Adiu,ant and In
spector General Gen. Perey =. Pitkin.
OF Montpelier, was unanimously elected
luartcrmastcr General John =. Marcy
ot Royalton was unanimously reelected
Judge Advocate General; Chas. A.
ForbuSh, of Springfield. Samuel Merriam.
OF johnson and Henry Lane, Of Cornwall,
were elected Directors OF the State Pris
on.
LIE PRoulErroRY LAw.-Onr neigh.
Dor Of the Times still hammers away nj
the Prollbltory Law with a perseverance,
worthy of better cause. The special
occasion OF his last blast is the intro,mr.
ton in the House by Mr.. Skinner q
Derby, of "a hill increasing the power, ot
Grand .IuricS in the investigation of liquor
eases, restoring the old plan of paying the
States Attorney hv f.c.. and nikina
Grand Jurors and State, Atom ", liable
to fine for nrg'cct t. eXamin', inhct and
prosecute offenders a.rn,t The Iluuu!
Law. On This the Time, rummrt.i- IA
length in style OF which the lIowin-
paragraphs are far samples:
The friends of the law begin t., -tayiu-
it up with Il crowd Of special watcher.
and iniormcrS. and now they propose to
maze the community the special watcher,
and iutormcrs upon the Officers % tn,
law. The result OF the matter will b,
that the people will be- Disguised with {;
law which requires such constant nursing
in older to keep the breath of If. in it,
and the law will be cast aside ns a Forth
les, Troublesome and expensive cXperi
mcni.
The real friends of temperance, before
they persist in this foolish scheme of pro-
hibitory legislation, would do well to re.
fleet that its practical working must be
excessively bad TO make 50 ardent. adj,
and lifelong an agitatur of temperance
IA Rev. DR.. Bacon. o. Connecticut. t,
declare in public lately that 'the Temper.
ance cause was wrecked on the rock OF
the Maine law-that the quackery OF
such legislation has been the ruin of the
cause, from which it cannot be rescued
until we cut ourselves clear of the whole
scheme of legislating alcohol out of the
creation Of God"
We copy so much to show the spirit
which animates these assaults on the law,
and not in order to defend Mr.. SINNERS
bill, to which these may be grave oblec-
lions, or indeed to defend our Vermont
prohibitory law. That law '.goes right
on" after ten years trial, and it must be
a very different legislature from any that
has recently assembled in Vermont that
will even seriously consider the question
of its repeal. The temperate and tenn
perance loving citizens of Vermont, as a
body, are not likely to disturb the law,
for whose repeal every grog-shop keeper,
liquor dealer an drunkard, are clamor-
ing and DR.. Bacon and their other res
pectable co-adjuiors in the work of break
ing down the law, will do well to look
around them and see what sort of COM
panY they are in -BmhnatoR Ere Press.