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The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1866-07-26
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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
A Peace Movement.

A league in the interests of peace has
been formed at Antwerp, designed TO have
branches throughout Europe. and to take in
all who believe in the feasibility of main
tanning national independence and substan-
tial justice between two countries without
keeping up monstrous standing armies.
Sush state of things has always been de-
srable, and it now begins to be evident that
it is Il necessity-that European countries
cannot continue to sustain the burdens they
have assumed for the purpose of securing
national existence. From a carefully pre-
pared table published in the Journal of the
Statistical Society in Paris it appears that
in times of peace the various countries of
Europe maintained armies amounting to 8,
Sl5,S47 men, at an annual cost of S644 $50,
100. This was an average of one soldier to
every seventy-siX inhabitants of Europe,
and the annual cost of their maintenance
averages $3.50 per soldier. OF this vast
military array, Russia maintained 100000
soldiers, or one to every siXty-four inhabit-
ants, at an average expense of 500 per SOL
der France maintained 513,340; Austria,
407, 5i1. Turkey, $4,000; Italy, 314235
Great Britain, 300,S23: Prussia. 2l4,4S2.
In France there was one soldier to every
seyenty-three inhabitants in Austria, one
to seventy-five Turkey, one to ninety-one;
Italy one to seventy; Great Britain, one to
ninety-seven. and in Prussia one to eighty
six. In Russia the cost of the military es-
tablshment was 45 Per cent. of the entire
expenses of the country; in France it was
33 per cent: in Austria, 81 per cent; in Ital-
y, p per cent. in Great Britain, 80 per
cent. and in Prussia 30 per cent. 1t also
appears that 30 per cent. Of the total annu-
al disbursements of Europe are made for
the support of standing armies and the e.
normous annual cost of these armies-near-
ly six hundred and fifty millions of dollars
is borne in time of peace merely that they
may watch each other.
From the above statistics it is apparent
that the armies of Europe are eating up its
substance, for il must be remembered that
besides the expense of maintaining over
three millions of men as soldiers the value
Of their labor, taken out of the producing
power Of the countries maintaining them,
amounts to nearly rs much more. 1t may
be doubted whether governments Of force
can be maintained in any other way-which.
Of course, suggests an argument of economy
in favor Of government resting on the con-
sent of the govcrned-hut it is worthy of
trial, and it is possible that some sort of an
international tribunal might be formed
with authority tc settle the usually trivial
questions whicA lead 10 war; That's one of
the measures contemplated by the new peace
league. and it will be discussed at Con-
gress announced TO be held sometime durinr
the present year at Brussels. Boston Her
aid.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05

SUDDEN DEATH.--We take the follow
ing from the Black River Transcript of
Oct. I'd, published at Ludlow in Windsor
County
1t is our painful duty to announce the
death of Daniel Edwin johnson, the Edi-
tor and Proprietor of this paper. He died
in this village on Wednesday night the
Goth inst, at II o'clock, 2. M, after dis
tressing illness of forty-eght hours. His
death was occasioned by disease of the kid
ueys which bafiled the most eminent medi-
cal skill.
Mr.. johnson was born in Plymouth,
Windsor County Vermont, June B, 1888,
and was the son Of the Rev. Noah johnson,
now of this town. When quite young, he
with his father and family moved TO Green
Garden, Win County, Illinois, and lived
there until last winter when he returned to
this place and established this paper. His
advantages for education were limited to
the common school opportunities of a new
country, but he made such improvements
in this line as to make him ready and
spirited writer, His health was always
feeble, and his short life was embittered by
great deal of physical suffering. He leaves
wife and one child in Illinois, (who were
soon expected here,) and venerable father
and mother, together with brother and
sisters and other relations with large cir
c1e " trSaids who dveply dopsUe his lVss.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05

$97,S3 1926 against 500, 720, 1856 for the
same time In 1865.
1t is estimated that it will take 100000
600 feet of lumber to rebuild the burnt dis
trict at Portland, or the entire production
of the State for the next two years. About
seven hundred buildings are now going up
in the city. j. b. Brown laid the corner
stone of a new sugar refinery at Portland
on Friday, to take the place of the one de-
stroyed by the fire of July 4, in which Mr.
Brown lost a million of dollars. The build
ing will have its walls completed and roof
on by December |.
Gov. Patton of Alabama has requested,
and obtained, the reissue Of rations by the
Freedmen's Bureau, representing that sew
enty TO eighty thousand persons in that
State, chiefly widows and orphans, are stuff
ering for the want of food. Gov. Patton
was one of those who recommended the
stoppage Of rations. His present request
was sustained by Gen. Howard, who notes
the important fact that in the latest report
there were more than two whites credited
with rations to one colored person. We
suppose this important fact will make no
change in the abuse lavished upon the
Freedmen's Bureau, as an almshouse for
negroes
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
Amendment to the Constitution.

The Nation sets forth, in the annoxod
concluding paragraph of an article. what is
not distinctly before the minds O, all tbe
people. Let it be carefully noted
Our business now is not TO punish. not to
take vengeance, not to excite or perpetuote
hatred or malevolence towards the late ro-
bells, but to take such fair and humane pre-
cautions for the future peace and TRANQUIL
lty OF this nation as we may deem fit. This
and no other is the power which our victory
IN war gives us, and we are called upon TO
exercise ii not because the lives and pro-
perty of six millions of our enemies are at
our mercy, but because we are moral beings
and patriots who love our country and our
kind, and are bound to see Justice reign and
weakness protected. The terms proposed
by Congress are therefore, not terms of con-
quest and not signs of humiliation. There
is nothing in them to degrade or humiliate
any human being, or to indicate any desire
Tor vengeance. They simply regulate re-
presentation to suit the altered circumstan-
ces OF the Southern population they ask
that men who made themselves prominent
IN the attempt to overthrow the government
shall, in common decency, from common re-
gard tor the feelings of the rest of the popu-
i"'iNif "botRtii ilC Oh LIcl1
career from participation in the administra-
ton of affairs that persons who took no
part in the rebellion shall not be taxed to
repay the money lent to carry il on lastly.
that all persons born in the Union and ow-
ing it allegiance shall be treated by South
ern law as citizens of the Union. In short.
the whole amendment is simply provision
Tor what Placing the Southern whites
under the feet of the North ? making them
its vassals tributaries, scrfs, dependents Z?
Nothing of the kind. 1t is really difficult to
keep from laughing when saying that the
terms which the vanquished foe cannot ac-
cept without degradation" which it would
show want of magnanimitv on the part Of
the North to insist on, and which the New
York Times tells us they cannot and will
not agree to, simply place them on the same
level in all respects with their conquerors,
and make them freer and more independent
than any other community in the world
are perhaps the midest terms which victory
so dearly bought ever imposed on the van
quished-furnish perhaps the only instance
on record in which the victors, in fixing the
terms of peace, forbore to ask for single
advantage for themselves, foot of ground,
Il cent of money, or even a formal ac-
acknowledgement Of defeat, or submission, or
repentance.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
Impartial Suffrage.
From the N. Y. Indepcndent

1t is said that now is not the time to urge
Impartial Suffrage. We reply. impartial
suffrage is to pc urged at all times. till il is
achieved. But why is il bugbear during
the present canvass What makes doubt
full Republican district in Connecticut pre-
carlous 1t is because the Democrats of
that district say to the Republicans. Your
party seeks to force upon an unwilling
South system of suffrage which they vote
against at home.n But. thanks to the last
Philadelphia Convention. that argument is
ended The loyal South is no longer un-
willing it is only loyal Connecticut that is
still mean. The Southern loyalists impera-
lively demand impartial suffrage as the only
possible safe basis Of reconstruction. Shall
few Connecticut or Indiana politicians
stand rs obstacles Our hearts are with
the Southern loyalists the Northern trem-
blers may go their shivering way without
our company. Mr.. John r. Hoffman, the
Democratic candidate for Governor of New
York, critcizes the Republican platform of
this State because it omts to declare for i'm
partial suffrage. The criticism is lust.
Mr.. Hoffman and every Democrat knows
that the Republican party is at heart for
impartial suffrage. Ont of the abundance
of the heart, why should not the mouth
speak The dwellcrs in Doubling Castle
who now advise the Republican party to
wait a few years before striking for impair
tial suffrage will be just as unprepared then
as now. Minds like theirs never lead, but
only hinder, the party Of freedom. They
know too little of human nature too little
how to touch the chords Of mems hearts.
ever to lead the masses. The hearts of
great party are never grandly given to any
leaders except bold men. Courage cuts all
knots. The Republican party, Just now,
needs its most courageous men at the front.
But the true leaders Of parties are the lead
ers ofthe leaders and these are not chosen
by ballot; they take their place by self
appointment and divine ordination Now
is the opportunity, therefore, for men Of
genius in craftsmanship to mould the nation
to equal rights. Such men are generally
not in political Office, but above it. The
country has no lack of such men let them
now take the helm Political training I'M
fits most men for moral emergencies of
craftsmanship. Such an emergency is now
at hand-shove the half way men aside
All hail to a reconstructed Union on the
grants of Impartial suffrage Peace be
within thy walls, and prosperity within thy
palaces -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
The Crops.

a person who reads all the doorous &C.
counts of damage to the crops published
nowadays in the newspapers will naturally
come to the conclusion that the season is
one of the most disastrous that has ever
been known in this country. Dispatches
from all parts of the country detailing iniuri-
es by frosts, floods, worms &C., swarm in
our telegraphic columns, until we are in
clined to soberly ask if we are really on the
verge of famine. Does anybody believe we
are ? Those who do, if any. may safely
calm their troubled spirits, and take new
courage. We have no doubt that the crops
Of the present year will be larger than can
be disposed Of and that the avenues of com
inunication will be choked with the ship
ments o. breadstuffs and provisions from
the teeming west, after the spectators have
held back all they can control to keep up
the prices of the necessarics of life. The
fact is, our country is so large, and its pro-
ductions are so varied, that the years aver
age about the same, one with another as to
the amount af all kinds of food raised.
One year, perhaps, there will be less of this
or that crop, but there is always enough
and to spare. The amount of seed put into
the ground last spring was larger than ev-
er before. The labor of the country had
just been enormously increased by the dis
bandment of the volunteer army, to say
nothing about the great tide of immigration
that followed the advent of peace, and the
high prices that all kinds of products COM
manded encouraged the largest production.
The Southern land owners made arrange
ments to raise enough to live on and as
much cotton rs possible besides. Every
Northern farmer, with high taxes on one
side of him and high prices for his products
on the other, had every incentive to cultivate
the largest possible breadth of land. That
the crops have been seriously damaged in
many places cannot be denied but that this
damage has been widespread enough to Sc
riously affect the conditions of the markets.
except through the Vaccinations of specu-
lators, we have no reason yet to believe.
We cannot, indeed, form a satisfactory opin-
ion of the general condition of the crops for
two or three weeks to come, but we may
safely anticipate fair average, as usual.
Boston Herald
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
Foreign News.
Photographed by the Atlantic Cable ]

London, Sept. 25. The presence of three
United States ships-of-war at the island of
Gambia attracts much attention.
Manchester, Sept 20. A great meeting
of the friends of reform is to be held here
to-day. Mr. Bright will be one of the
speakers
Florence, Sept 25. The band of rebels
who have been carrying things with high
hand near Palermo for the past few days.
has been routed by the military.
London, Sept. 26, More troops are to go
to Canada. The steamer Hernia has been
engaged to take out 1000.
Paris, Sept. 2G. 1t is said that Spain has
accepted the good offices of England and
France as mediators between herself and
Chill and Peru.
London, Sept 81 The Bank of England
has reduced its rat5 of discount to ~ per
cent.
London, Sept 2S. A meeting of the stock
holders of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable
Company has been held. 1t was resolved to
raise the capital Of the Company. and it was
promised that the tolls for messages would
be shortly reduced.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
Summary Of News.

There are 800 insane people in Asylums
in New Hampshire.
Anna Dickinson, Clara Barton and Gen.
Butler are among the lecturers engaged at
New Haven.
1t is little curious, and yet very encour-
aging, to find that after all of the Governors
have spoken, there is not one of them in all
the northern States, from Maine to Oregon,
who is not dccisively committed against the
policy of Andrew johnson.
Hon. \. G. Cattell was elected L. S. Sen
ator by the New Jersey legislature. con-
yened in extra session, on the 18th inst.
He is a merchant by profession. and in poll
tics thorough Republican.
Gen. ID. n. Couch has been appointed
Collector at the port of Boston, and Geo n.
kingsbury Postmaster.
The President has appointed Gen. John
A. Dix to be Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to France and
Hugh Ewing of Kansas, to be Minister
Resident at the Hague.
Mexican dispatches report the death of
Of Gen. Diaz, one of the prominent Liberal
leaders, and offset the Republican victories
with few battles won by the Imperialists
But the steady progress Of the Liberal cause
is no longer to be doubted. The extent of
thS hNid vi hNI, anu lllC SlllulllltSS Vi the
armies, prevent decisive victories on either
side and Macmillan will finally be defeat
ed more by the poverty and weakness of
his Empire than by actual force of arms.
The Vermont members of the National
Executive Committee, of the Soldiers and
Sailors Union, appointed at the Pittsburg
Convention, are Col. w. G.. Veazey, 1t. Col.
S. E. Pingree, and Major Jno. l.. Barstow.
A keG Of yeast exploded in an express
Office in Freeport, ILL.,, ON Monday of last
week, hurting n forty pound bar of iron
lying upon it through the ceiling above into
a crate of crockery, to the great detrimeht
of earthenware The express agent, who
was standing near, was violently thrown
over n pile OF peach boxes and considerably
Hon. Q. G. Clay died at Huntsville. Ala.
on the nth inst. He was Territorial Gov
erhor OF Alabama in 1917, and subsequent
~ Was Ihiei Justice Of the State, Speaker
OF me Legislature, Governor, Representa-
I'VE re- III congress, and U. S. Senator
The receipts of internal revenue IN Sot-
urday were Sl,2l0,12S,4O. For the month
of September they were S33,7I47lss6
against S37930,4l5,9l for September, 1865
For the first quarter Of the present fiscal
Star eusaing Septcmbvr 30 tho rts,apts wtne
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05

gress, and of course they cannot be the par
ty that is to carry with them the masses of
liberty-loving and progressive Americans
The party is as good as dead, and we pre-
dict its utter extinction and burial to be near.
very near.
AT The Convention of loyal Southern men
at Philadelphia, aid of the true soldiers of
the country at Pittsburg, we find spirit to-
tally different prevailing. There was earn
estness, there was faith, enthusiasm, deep
love of country, an abiding sense of justice,
an undying love of freedom, determination
that the war of the rebellion, and the great
victory gained by arms over rebels and trail
tors, should not be in vain, but result finally
in the establishment of justice and equal
rights for all. AT these Conventions were
earnest men; men who spoke from deep
convictions; men who had fought for their
country, and who are determined that their
country shall be saved. These men being
inspired with great principles, noble pur-
poses, patriotic aims, find Il response from
all loyal men throughout the land The
people, the great mass of them, say amen to
their speeches, their resolutions, their acts
and these gatherings are having an inspir-
ing effect everywhere. The friends of the
Union, of liberty, of justice, of equal rights.
are firmer, stronger and more hopeful than
before, and they will come up with stout
hearts and strong hands to support Con-
gress in its measures, and to choose at the
coming elections men who will help forward
the great work of reconstruction on lust
principles, so that loyal men and not rebels,
honest men and not perjured men, men who
love their country and not those who have
taken up arms against her, men who will
support and not attempt to overthrow the
best government the sun ever shone upon.
shall be our legislators and rulers. Well
may we take courage at the signs of the
times for they are propitious. The right
will triumph, the loyal will rule.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1866-10-05
Ternomt ftems.

The Spirualists of Vermont held their annual
Convention Mt Montpelier recently. The attendance
good Dr. button, of Rutland, was President
Thomas Middleton, Of Woodstock, Mrs. l., l.. Tanner
Of Montpelier and Mrs. A. 2. Brown, of ST. Johns
bury, Vice Presidents and james NJ. Allen, Sccre-
tnry The business Committee chosen for the ensu-
ing year. upon which devoves the calling Of the next
Convention consists Of Charles Walker Of bridge.
water, William I. Parish, of Stowe, and William
Mitchell, Of Berlin
The Newport Express SAYS M j. Black, of this
village, has commenced building paper mill Just
above the old starch factory Mt West Derby and in
tends TO have il in successful operation by winter.
AT present he will manufacture only coarse wrapping
pnrer aud heavy pNseboard. lie however has ma
chlnery Tor the purpose, aud another viii
mencc m king news pup r and perhaps other grades.
lie will employ some twenty hands. We are ga I
to see these and other indications in our vicinity of
increasing and developing the manufacturing interests
OF the state. II is want that has long been felt.
There is no reason why very many staples may
not be produced in our very midst, ut very much
less cost thun is required to import them, and thus
multilndes OF our young men who now seek employ
ment in other 'ections Of our country be well paid to
stay at home, aud Tho enterprise and wealth OF the
cUuntry w gloatly noreasah