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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14

TREASURER,
LEVI h. STRAW, OF BosToE.
DIRECTORS,

JOHN S. BARRY, Boston, " j. MgssTHaHR Canton
SAAL JOHNSON, Charlest'n SETH E. BRowN Bo ton
]. s. SMALLER RoxbuIy, A. W. ADAMs, Ro1bury.
r. s. TiLsoN. Of Titusvle.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14

: II O X N ID N 0s
"ss DOOR SOMA OF mosTPELKR HOTEL
- . sT'ei vT NONTpFEIpk unppnflq
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14
FRANCES ROWLAND

IHANNEb
john W. SMITH
For references respectfully refer 10 Dorr F. Russei
Bank Cooperstown, John + Scott, CoopeTstown Geo Il
Worthington, Worthngton Bank, Charles W. Smith,
Otsego Bank.
hereby certify to the yeraoity Of the above.
BEISkY SMITH, Milford.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14

NJ Office Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
Il il the intention Of the franklin County Bank to
inmate Its existence the hrst day Of June 1855 in
pursuance Of OF the Legislature Of the State OF
Vermont approved Nov 90 1854 providing that an act
ineofporatng the Franklin County rank approved Nov
~ 1919 be amended a. 10 limit the time during which
said Bank shall continue and have succession TO the
ht day o. June 1865 instead Of the hrs, dHp OF Jan
uari, 1857 and AL bills OF notes Of said Bank not pre-
scented 70 said Bank for payment before fret day Of
June 1870 Will no, be redeemed paid oy said Bank.
BY order Of the directors
Nj. W. BRARDsLRY. Cashier
st Albans, Nov. "a, 1884 dc2S;tisi.d.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14

CHARLES MASON,

81 regard Mr. Eddy Of the most capable and
itcee'StSi practitioners with whom have had official
intercourse"
CHARLES MASON,
Commissioner ~ Patents.
al have no hesitation in assuring inventors they
cannot employ person competent and trustworthy.
and more capable Of putting their applications in form
TO secure for them early and favorable consideration
at the Patent Office
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14
AGENTS.

BOSTON-George G, Goodwin A Co.
NEW YORk-DemAs. Barnes a Co
BALTlMORE-S. :. Hsnee.
PITTsBURGH-Dr George II Keyser.
CINClNNArl-f E Sure & Co., and ]. ID. Park
CHlCAGO-lord 4 Smith, and II Soovil.
ST LOUIs-Collns bros.
SAN FhANClsCo-hostetter, Smith A. Dean.
A'se sold nv al druggists sud deslsrs +0ly
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1865-04-14

And authorizes all retailers to five NEW PAIRS in
every instance where any radical defect sppes In the
sock OF work, II the Boot or Shoe II AS NOT BEEN
WORN TO THAT TX TENT ihst II would BE UN-
REASONABLE TO EXPECT A NEW P MR.. " BUT
LITTLE WoRN, Nhw Pairs WILL BIZ GIVEN WITH
PLEASURE.
Nov make SURE THING or 1T by buying none
but hose with the C--O--D MANS WARRANT ON
them. and STARVE OUT THE RETAILERS OF
sHODDY This is the fret instance In the history Of
The trade that you have had chance, ON A LARGR
hCALk 70 show you want a good article and are willing
TO STAND BY who will WARRANT HIS
GOODS and LIVE UP TO 1T.
win YOU Stand by and snstain iha
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

4 Washington dispatch says /:

A Washington dispatch says:--
The mouopolists are making strenuous ef-
forts to defeat the repeal duty on paper.
Certain New England members interested
10 paper mills are actively working in op-
position. Several of the leading New
York papers which we're strong for repeal
q month ago. having since then secured
contracts al twenty cents per pound, are
now meanly and selfsbly opposing the re
mova Of the import on them, and are open
advocates of high priced paper 10 order to
break down the country press II is be.
lieved that the Western members of both
parties will vote almos, solid for the abro.
cation Of a duty which brings no revenue
to the treasury, but is tax on the Gov
ernmeut itself on the paper in Congress Of
million year. and Is an odious obstruc-
tion to the diffusion Of education by max
ing dear school books as well as dear news.
papers, to the injury Of the many for the
benefit Of the few. Let the press OF the
great West speak at once against this uu.
just and enormous tax on knowledge
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

Gov. ANDREW, In bis annual message.
calls attention TO the excess Of women In
Massachusetts,, and to the surplus Of men
10 Oregon, California and other Western
communities. In Oregon, having 50, leo
Inhabitants, according 10 the census Of
1860, there were 10, 96l males over fifteen
years old, and ouly 9,s7S females above
that age. It's population is now estimated
at over 00,00O-,his dsproportion yet re.
naming. In Massachusetts there we're
257, 1888 males between the ages Of fifteen
and forty. and 2S7 900 females, or q sur
plus of 29,l66. The excess, the Governor
says, Of women OF all ages above fifteen
years was 1886. The absorption of men
by the military and naval service during
the intervening four years has aggregated
this disproportion. And it is a disast:ous
one; it disorders the market for labor, |,
reduces women and men 10 an unnatural
competition for employment fitted for men
alone, tends to iucrease the number both
of men unable TO maintain families, and oil
women who must maintain themselves IN
aided. 10 civilized and refined society, it
is the Office and duty Of man to protect
women, to furnish her sphere. a support,
home. In return she comforts, reiues
and adorns domestic life, the family, and
tho range Of social influences. lie recon-.
mendS the adoption of some practical way,
by which young women may be enabled to
emgrate to useful fields Of employment 10
the Western States.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

TIE EFFECT tF MARRIAGE - Doubtless
you have remarked with satisfaction how
the little cd lties of men who marry rather
late 10 life are pruued away speedily after
marriage. You have found a man who
used TO be shabbily and carlessly dressed,
with huge shirt collar frayed at the edg-
es, aud q glaring yellow silk pocket-hanker-
chief, broken of these and become pat.
tern of neatness. You have seen a man
with hair and whiskers ridculously cut,
speedily becoming like other human beings.
You have seen a clergyman who hal a
long beard, in little while appear with
out one. You have seen a man who used
to sing ridiculous sentimental songs, leave
them off, You have seen q man who took
snuff copiously. aud who generally had bis
breast covered with snuff, abosdon the vile
habit. ss5esaI s4|f
A wife is the grand yielder of the mora
pruning knife. IL Johnson's had lived
there would have been no boarding up oi
bits Of orange peel; no touching all the
posts in walking along the street; no eat
ing aud drinking with disgusting Voraci
J. II Oliver Goldsmith had been mar
ried, he would never have worn that mem
orable apd ridiculous coat. Whenever you
End man whom you know little aoont'
oddly dressed, or talking ridiculously, OF
exhibiting any eccentricily Of manner, you
may be tolerably sure that he is not
married man. - Fra GERS Magazine
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

There is a curious custom at HAVANA
OF laying out bodies 10 state during the
night before burial. They are placed close
TO an open window fronting the street, on
o couch raised four or Ave feet from the
ground. The corpse is surrounded by high
wax tapers, and the whole room is ilumi-
mated. Frequently. when returning from
a fertulia, or ball, have been startled to
see the fixed and rigid features of some
old lady or gentleman dressed 10 their
best attire, and apparently reclining before
the window. 1t used to appear nnnscessa-
ry mockery of death. dressing out corpse
in new suit of clothes with tight patent
leather boots snd white neckcloth. | re
member one night in particular. / was
returning home through one Of the streets,
when seeing the lower window of house
Illuminated, and concluding that there was
q body lying in state, | went towards it.
There close to the window SO close that l
cou have touched it through the bars.
lay the body of o young girl about fifteen
years OF nge. She was dressed as for a
ball, with l1wers in her hair, and whi;e
satin shoes on her feet her hands crossed
on her breast, her eyes closed, and her
mouth slightly opened; aud altogether her
face and expression was enc of the most
beautiful
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28
An Original Character.

A correspondent of the New York Post,
10 Shermans army, wiring from some little
village on the route, says: .as5'i
At this station we came across an old
man named Wells, who wus the mos; origi-
nal character eyer met. lie was dpe0t.
master in the days when there was rail
road here. He is shrewd old man, and
seemed to understand the merits Of the war
question perfectly. He said : .
They say you are retreating. but IL is the
straDgest sort of a Tetreat l ever saw
Why, dog bite them, the newspspers have
been lying in this way all along: They
alters are whipping the FEDERAL armies,
and they alters fell back after ihe battle is
over. 1t was that ar ides that first open
ed my eyes. Our army was alters. whipp
ing the Feds, and we alters fell back. /
alters told 'em it Was q id humbug, end
now, by, l know it, for here you are.
right on Old John Wells place hogs,
potatoes, corn aud feucss all gone /
don't find any fault. expected it all
jeff Davis and the rest, he continued
talk about splitting the Union Why, il
South Carolina had gone out by herself
she would have been split in four pieces by
this time. Splitting the Union Why,
d-n it, the State OF Georgia is being spill
fright through from end to end ll is thest
rich fellows who are making this war, ant
keeping their precious bodies cut of harm
way. Theirs John Franklin went through
here the other day, running away from
your army. / could hive played dominoe;
on his coattaiIs. There's my poor brother,
sick with smallpox at Macon, working fol
| $Il month, and hasn't had cent of the
d-n stuff for year. Leven dollars {
month and ii 900 bulles minute
don't believe in it, Sir.
| My wife came from Canada, and kin(
O. thought would sometime GO there Il
live, but was alters afraid of the ice ant
cold but | csn tell you this country i
getting too cussed hot for me. Look a
my fence rails a burning tbere. l think
can stand the cold better.
heard as how they cut down the tree
across your road up-country and burn ia
bridges why (dog bite their hidet), one
you Yankees can take up tree and carr
it off, tops aud all and there's that brids
. you put across tue river 'in less tnan w
hours--tbey nigh as well try to stop Il
Ogeechee as you Yankees. hlga
The blasted rascals who burned tb
yele bridge thought they done big thing
a natural born fool cut in two had mol
sense in either end than any OF them.
To bring back the good old times,
said, itl take the help of Divine Prov
dence. q heap of rain, and q deal of ebo
grease, to fix things up again. sau
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28
civil war and society.

Whether political differences should af.
feet social intercourse is an old question
which is asked and pondered much 10 these
days. Bot that they always have done so
is not question. The history of the old
Federslists and Democrats suffices to an
swer IT in this country.
Bot however foolish and unnecessary It
may seem for free trader to refuse to
dine with protec,ionist. or the friend of
bank 10 decline to dance at the ball of it's
enemy, we cannot forget OF the present
time civil war RACES, and the proper amen.
tiles of peace are not to be expected -
President Washington was a Federalist,
and Jefferson a Democrat; and It would
have been very foolish for bis Excelency
upon that ground to decline to invite JEFF
ferson to his house. Bat would General
Washington have invited Benedict Arnold
to his table, or any man whom be knew to
sympathizs with Arnold, or indirectly to
help himY
The case is not different now. Here, for
instance, is a man who gives bis fortune
aud bis wisdom to the country, and whose
sons are killed by traitors iL battle. And
next door TO him lives man who virtually
excuses the treason, and thwsrts the efforts
of the Government to subdue the traitors.
Can the first man see in the second any.
thing else than an accessory to the murder
of his chIdren3 Can the second man Just.
ly complain of political intolerance and
fanaticism On the part II the first? Il not
the avoidance of the second by the first o
simple in'tinct2 He need not assault him,
he need not insult him; but oan he posi-
bly, hobnob with him upon the ground that
they honestly dissent aud must agree TO DIFF
fer?
Mr.. Webster and Mr.. Hayne might have
retired from the Capitol to diue together
after the one had utterly demolished the
other in a political debate. But 10 civil
war q political debate? If Mr.. Hayne had
left the Senate Chamber, raised the hig of
revolt, and shot Mr.. Webs.er's son to the
heart, is it great pity that Mr.. Webster
should have carried political differences so
far as 10 be unwilling 10 request the honor
Of Mr.. Haynes company TO supper? La q
civil war must be judged and treated &C
cording to the colors they show. If they
choose the enemY's color, they must expect
and ought TO receive, the treatment of au
enemy If you would shake hands with
Judah Benjamin, you will not recoil from
Judah Benjamn's abettors Bat If you
thi, that fferson D Wis is justly respon
,itle for the blood that desolates the land,
how can you affect Indifference toward
those who virtually defend him?
Clearly, when political differences have
ended in civil war, no earnest, devoted m All
upon Que side or the other, will wish to as
sociate familiarly either with those who are
so shallow as TO feel the terrible reality Of
the condition, or those whose sympathie'
belong to the party which he opposes witt
arms Staten Island Union.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

A CLOSE calculator makes suhjoined an.
nouncement in the Massachusetts Raaway
Times A man who shaves seven times q
week. spending ten minutes ip each opera.
tior, uses up 81 hours in year. and IL the
person lives to the age Of fourscore years
be will have spent all the working hours of
a lrap year with rezor in bis hand. The
number of males in the United States is
about ten millions, each of whom must
shave, on an average, at least fifteen years.
II they shave every day-and no person
can keep lis face free from beard. and
carry out the idea of shaving fully, unless
be sbaves each dsy--the coming genera
ton will spend nine hundred aud fifteen
millions of days work in shaving, equal tc
nine hundred and fifteen million dollars
Allowing each to expend Eve dollars foT
razors, strops. brushes apd soap, the aggre.
gate cost Of the articles will be fifteen mill
ioa dollars mailing the whole cost Of
sha wing 10 the United States for one genera
tion, nine Lundred and sixty'fre million
dollars. aN
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

NAH MMEDAN AND AMERIckE SLAVERY
COMPARED. You have never heard from
me any fierce Indignation against Mahom-
medan OF Brazilian slavery. If American :
slavery now stood as Washington, left it-- :
declining, sdeplored, and family apologized
for-with the light OF freedom, free speech,
and the opinion of leading men undermining 4
it, should see nothing in it to threaten the
morality Of Europe aud the welfare Of the
world. II were an American. with such
a slavery surrounding me as Washington
left, | should prefer TO see 1t die under,
moral influences, rather than destroyed BY
bloodsbed and convuIsion. But the excep-'
tional characteristic of the Confederate
Slave Power is (as distinctly stated by its
Vice Presidentl, that it exists solely toi
glorify aud immortalzs slavery. 1t Is no
longer spologetic, bot faaaticslIy self-right-
eous and propaganda. 1t violently sup
presses free speech on the part, ofi,s owds
citizens against the sacred institution Of
slavery, aud makes any amelioratiou,, .in-,
possible. If you, human man, were d
planter in Georgia or South Csrolins, aud
dared to propose to modify the wickedest
of its wicked laws, your life would. MOI b.
safe for day. Do you know that QUE
friend -, was warned ont Of Washing.
| ton, and forced to escape for his life, for q,
two-fold offence I. That he had besu-
present at an Abolition meeting 10 the
North. 2, In Washington be waited ten.
derly on the sick bed Of slave:-Newmas.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28
Get a Home and Keep 1t.

A leading object with every young man
should be TO secure himself q permanent
home. And for its greater stability, it
should consist partly in land, and up TO
certain limit, the more of IL the better, if
paid for. The house should be com
Portable and attractive as one has
the means of making it. 1t should be one
that The heart can grow 10, and will cling
around more and more firmly with every
passing year. Its owner should desire and
purpose 10 keep possession OF it as long as
be lives and his children grow up, feeling
that there is one place fixed and stable for
them through all changes. Americans are
altogether TOO rowing in their habits. We
build houses cheaply, aud pull them down
without regret. Or we sell out and move
away half a dozen times in lifetime. 10
the vain hopes Of bettering our condition.
How much better to choose q homestead
early iu life, aud then lay plans with refer
ence to abiding there. Even though our
gains be less than are promised elsewhere,
a certainty should seldom he given up for
an uncertainty "a bird in the hand is
worth two in the bush.'
Only those who have experienced il
know how such family becomes attached
to their lopg,loved homestead. No chill
dren love home as well as those who have
known but one. AS the young become ol
marriageabe age, they should go out, one
by one, from the old homestead. feeling II
to be established, and knowing that this
will remain unchanged as long as their pa
rents live. place to which they can return
and ever be welcome. A pleasing writer
confirms our doctrine thus "There is {
great gain by being settled. 1t is two
fold. Each year accumulated about th'
former material by which labor is lessened.
The rough channels of labor, becom'
worn and smooth. A change involves
great loss, and rarely is thore a correspon
ding gain. Time is lost. labor ID expende'
money paid; the wear and tear of remove
is no small item :and above ell. the break
ing up Of old associations is often disa'
trous in the extremes Parents and chi
dren become unsettled in their morals.
"Let the man who has homestead kee
it, let him that has none get one, and Ii
Dor to render it a treasured remembrance
the absent, and constant joy to tho,
who abide in it," To all Of which ever
Intelligent, thought ful person mast give
hearty approval. r l
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

TRIBUTE TO EDWARD EVERETT --Nogreat
charity, says the Washington Chronicle,
has ever been treated by Edward Everett
with Indifference. He was the American
Peter the Hermit who rescued the home
=nd grave of Washington from the fiendish
grasp Of the rebel ilgrates. His eloqu.
ence filed the churches aed the salons Of
the North, and the Golfers of the committee
who had this national benevolepce in
charge. No nation struggled for freedom
for which be did not plead Ireland assail-
ed by nglabd--Eugland wanting food
France 10 the throw of rebellion---Greece
needing friend-Poland az advocate.
found oil 10 Edward Everett Of Massachp-
setts One of his last. public aud printed
appesls was 10 call upon the loyal people
OF America to support and succor tn,
starving people OF East Tennessee, and il
is ia exquisite harmony with bis incompar
able character and his wonderful career
that he took part in The latest meeting il
Boston. for the relief Of the iphsbi,ants 0
Savannah wao are hupgeripg to come, bacl
10 the Union.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28

THE FIR<T VERSE IN THE BIBLE This
simple sentence denies Atheism-for it as.
sumes the being of God it denies Poythe-
ism, and, among its various forms, the doe
,rine of two eternal principles, the Que
good and the other evil; for it confesses
the one eternal Creator. 1t denies Mater
ialsm; for it asserts the creation of mat
ter. 1t denies Pantheism; for it assumes
the existence of God before oil things, and
apart from them. 1t denies Fatalism; for
it involls the freedom of e ernal Being
1t assumes the existence of God; for it is
He who 10 the beginning creates. 1t as.
sures his eternity; for he is before all
things; and as nothing comes from moth.
ing, he himself must have always been. 1t
implies his omuip3tence; for he creates the
universe Of things. 1t implies his absolute
freedom; for he begins q new course Of &C
tion. 1t implies his Intimate wisdom; for o
kosmos, an order of matter and MUD, car
only come from being Of absolute intelli
gence. II implies his essential goodness
for the sole eternal, almighty. oil wise, and
all sufficient Being. has no reason. no mo
tive, and no capacity for evil; it presume
him to be beyond all limit of time ant
place Prof. Murphey.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-01-28
Curious In.tf1let or ths Hog.

1t is common for farmers who reside ID
the thinly settled tracts Of the u. g. TO suf-;
fer their hogs TO run at large. These ami.
mails feed upon acorns, which are very abun.
dant in our extensive forests, and In this
situation they often become wild and ferc-
cious. A gentleman, while travelling somo
years ago through the wilds Of Vermont, !.
pefceived at little distance before him q
heard of swine, and his attention was ars
rested tby the agitation they exhibited.
He quickly perceiged number Of young
pigs in the center OF the herd, and that the
hogs we're arranged about them in coai-
cal form, having their heads ali turned out,
wards. AT the apex Of this singular zone,
huge boar had placed himself. who. from,
his size, seemed 70 be the master Of the.
herd, The traveller now observed that ..
famisbed wolf was attempting, by variona
msuGavres, 10 seize on the pigs 10 the
middle; but whenever be made an attack,
the huge boar at the apex of the zone pre-
sesented himself--the hogs dex,erously ar.
ranged themselves on each side OF him 30
as 10 preserve the position Of defense jost
mentioned. The attentions Of the traveler
was fora moment Withdrawn. aud ppon
turning TO view the combatants, be Wss
surprised TO Gnd the wolf no longer to,bs
seem fsOn ridiug up to the spot. the we'll
was discovered dead o0 the ground . rens
being made 10 hia side, more than . foot Y.
length-the boar. no doubt, havlng eel4sd
J a fsvorable opportunity, and With . sudden
} plunge dispatched bis sdsersary With hl1
! iormidabls tusks. u y sIlitlis rsmsrtebl'
: that the sneieat Romans. snong The ~