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Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-03-14

An EsTING LETTER Last summer
President johnson transmitted to his Pro-
visional Governor. Sharkey, of Mississip.
pi. the following letter:
EXECUTIVE MANSION, !
Washington. ID. g. Aug 10, 1865 !
Coz. Vim. L.. Shrksy. Jackson. Mss :
am gratiteL to see that you have organ.
lied your Convention without difficulty.
| hope without delay your Convention
will amend your State Constitution. abol.
ishing slavery, and denying to all future
Legislature the power to legislate that
there is property in man; also that they
will adopt the amendment to the Consti.
tuition Of the United States abolishinp
slavery. If you could extend The elective
franchise to all persons OF color who eau
read the Constitution Of the United States
in English. and write their names. aud Ia
all persons of color vino own real estate
valued ut not less than $3.50, aud pay
take, thereon. you would completely dis
arm the adversary, and set an example
the other States will follow THIS you,
can do with perfect safety, aud thus place
the Southern States. with reference to free
PERSONS of color, npon the same basis with
'he Free States. hope and trust youl
Con, en,ion will do this. and as conse.
queuee the radicals. who are wild rpol
negro franchise. will he completely foiIcd
in their attempts to keep the Southern
States frCm renewing their relations to the
Union. by not accepting their Senator,
and Representatives.
ANDREW JOHNSON,
IreSideHt of the United States.
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ANNUAL MARCH MEETING.

ANNUAL MARCH MEETING.
,f.a..- CAMBRIDGE.
Moderator J. L. Whitcomb.
CLERK, w. H. GriswOld.
r Selectmen. J. L. whitcornb. r. NJ.
Blaisdell. J. G French.
F Treasurer. Farewell Wetherhy.
Overseer Of tho Poor Chas. Buker.
Constable aud Collector. y. d. Stafford.
Trustee N Atwood.
Town Agent !. l.. Whitcomb.
Listers. F. H. Montague, Salmon Brush
r. u. Powell.
Town Grand Jurors, Harrison Warner,
II. J. Stowell
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VOTE FOR COMMISSIONER.

Stowe is the only town in the Count
that gave Mr.. Bentley majority.
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woLcorr.
Moisrator.p. A. Stevens
Town Clerk. Porter Crane.
Selectmen. Thaddeus Hubbell. Sloan
Gates. B F. Porter
Constable. Edison Pinney.
.',. Oversecr Of the Poor. Sloan Gates
Listers. C. G. Moulton, Carlton Udell,
Abel Carter.
Agent. Alger Jones.
Town Grand Juror. Alger Jones.
Supt. Of Schools. Rev. H HerIick
Treasurer. Wm B Hutchins.
wATERvILLE.
..,,- Moderator--I. ". Holmes.
selectmen-N. B. Page, Silas Wiley,
L. D. Sanborn.
:, Clerk aud treasurer H. Shattuck
Overseer Of Poor. ". Holmes
81 Constable-B. F. Wiley.
Li:ters-Simeou Giddings. L. II. Hui
burt, l.. w. Holmes.
Auditors--D. q. Hulburd. NJ. McFar.
land. s. H. Brown.
Trustee-E. H. Shattuck. .......
Fence Viewers--T. Stevens, HWilbur,
S. r. Miller
Grand Jurors-D. G. Hulburd, Moody
tShattuck. Solomon Manchester.
Inspector Of Lsathcr--C. N. Harvey.
Town Agent--H. Wilbur.
Superintendent OF Common Schools--S
r. Miller.
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GUeot Excitement in The oil Re-
ttfolS.

\ new excitement has sprung up in
the region of Pithoe. Pa, from the
fresh appearance ef ell in large qHanti
ties near the sur. ace Of tbs earth. The
pithoie Rseofd, Of February 10th, says
THE whole ground seems saturated
with ell. One man dug a hole in the
ground about a foot deep, and in a few
minutes get a pailfui Of Oil for his trout
bile. The ground is now being riddled
with shallow holes, in which large
quantities of oil ooZc up, and the scene
ioreihiy reminds us of gold digging
Mr.. l.. l.. Hill's we'll pumped out .
barrels OF oil in - hours, and he is now
erecting q tank for it, reception. Oil
WAS found in a great many cellars yes
terday. Mr. Bernard Morahan filled Il
large washtub with oil from his water
pipe; & number of others have done the
same. A Well belonging to the Confer
Hotel late Hubhs House, has been
found TO have oil on it; another oil
spring has been found in the rear Of
Fifth street, SO that we may fairly pre-
sumo that every man viii be able to dig
his own oil before long. Scientific men
are much puzzled as to the cause Of this
outpouring of natures greasy treasures,
and their perpleXity is added TO by the
flow al salt water and gas with the Oil,
which, according to their experience, is
one of the most favorable signs. Iester-
day morning, men, women and boys
could be seen with tin pals, wooden
pals, tea-kettles, &C., in their hands,
Vainlv searching for pure water. Oil
might buy coffee and tea, but could not
make it, so that urchins who had to be
water-carriers appeared to think there
might be too much of good thing, even
if it is oil People from all parts of the
oil regions are beginning to arrive for
the purpose Of seeing these flowing oil
springs, which are considered by all to
be one of the greatest curiosities yet
seen, even here, where our wells flow
forth freely from 100 to 300 barrels per
day. TO see common wooden pump
bringing forth its full volume Of Oil
worth $3.50 per barrel, convinces us that
there is more money to be made in Pit
hole than anywhere in the Oil regions"
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Il Simple. Immediate, and Certain
Settlement.


THERE'S cogency as we'll as drollery in
the following original suggestion of the
New York Herald, contained in the
leading editorial of last Friday:
But in spite of all this there is amode
by which the South may secure repre-
sehtatlon III our national councils, not
only with the consent of the Jaeobins,
but with their enthusiastic appreciation
ana assistance. One distinction the Jaco-
bins are ready and anxious to make land
1t is the only one which has not vet been
presented to them by the Southern
people. If the comments of the Jacobin
orators and organs upon the recent inter
view between President Johnson and
the negroes be attentively considered,
and if the speech of Chief Justice Chase,
when introducing Fred Douglass to
Washington audience, be carefully
weighed, we shall find clue which will
enable us to close up this imbroglio. 1t
is the color of the Southern delegates
which is SO obnoxious to the Jaeobns
in Congress. They do not care for
a Southern representatives record or
his character; but if he be white
man they at once decide against
him. They hold that the only truly
loyal men at the South are negroes, who
raised provisions tokeep the rebel armies
in the field, and did all the hard work
upon those rebel forts and batteries, to
capture which so many of our gallant
soldiers sacrificed their lives. This being
the Jacobin theory, the South has only
to conform to it and there will be no
further trouble. Let a fine likely lot Of
big, strapping negroes-each with a face
as black as ink, eyes and teeth as white
as SNOW, hair as Woolly as a poodle's,
and a mouth as large as a Mammoth
cave-be selected and sent to Washing
ton in the place Of the white delegation
who have no chance of entering the
Congressional halls. Let these negroes
be magnificent two thousand dollar
fellows, with shinbones that follow Ho-
garth's line Of grace and beauty, and
heels that project SO far that they have
to put their shoes on hind side before.
Dress them in the gaudy colors they so
much affect, and let their coats be adorn-
ed with splendid brass butt ons, and their
ears with specimens of dollar eWelry.
To such delegation the doors of Con-
gress will be Immediately opened. Sum-
ner will welcome them on behalf of the
Senate, and Stevens on behalf Of the
House. All the Jacobins will be delight
ed. These delegates can take the oath
without any conscientious or other scru-
pies. The Union will be restored. The
South will be represented by her loyal
and intelligent men. And if the ex-
penditure for cologne or assat9tida to
perfume Congress daily in order to sub
due the odor from the Southern dele
CATION shall happen to increase the
national debt beyond all human calcu-
lation, 10 real friend Of progress, hu-
manits, and universal freedom will
utter a single useless word of protest.
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II seems that Il lawyer is something
OF a carpenter; he can file a bill, split
hair, makean entry, get up a case, frame
an idietinent, empanel a jury and put
them i'll box, nail a witness, hammer
a judge, bore court, and other like
things.
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AS little silvery circular ripple set
in molten by the falling pebble, ex-
pands from its inch of radius, further
and fnrther on the pool; so there IS not
q child, youth, feeble, humble Chris
tian who may not cause gentle wave
on the pool of life, and exercise some IN
fluence, hover small, upon the world.
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Or His MUSCLE.

THOMAS Iopham, the "strong man,"
was born III London in 1710, and was
bred carpenter, but afterwards Gravel
ed on his muscle" He was quiet.
peaceable man, of middle size and
weight, made like other men exeent
that the usual cavities under the arms
and hands were, in his case, filled full
of muscles. The wonderful stories of
his feats of strength are we'll authenti-
Gated.
He could hold under perfect restraint,
and with ease to himself, the strongest
horse. He lifted table six feet long,
with fifty pounds on the end of it, with
his teeth, and held it in d horizontal
position considerable time. He rolled
up a pewter dish, weighing seven lbs.,
with as much apparent ease as the read
er would roll up a sheet of paper. He
held pewter quart pot at arms length
and squeezed the sides together like an
egg shell.
He lifted 209 pounds with his little
finger and waved it gently around his
head. He lifted Mr.. Chambers, a clergy
man, who must have lived on the fat of
the land for he weighed 374 lbs. with
one hand, Mr.. Chambers head being
placed on one chair and his feet on an
other. At blow he struck round bar
Of iron one inch in diameter, against his
arm and bent it like bow.
One night, observing Waterman
asleep in his Matchbox, he picked up
box and Waterman, carrying the load
with the greatest ease, and dropped
them over the wall into Tindale burying
ground.
A butcher once passed large window
at which Topham was sitting. He
stopped down and took half an OK from
the fellows shoulders with SO much ease
and dexterity that the man swore the
devil had flown away with his beef.
AT a race man insisted upon driving
upon the track; so Topham took hold of
the tail of his cart and drew it gently
back, the driver whipping the horse like
mailman all the time.
When he kept a public house two men
We're determined to fight him; SO, to
satisfy them, he seized them by the
napes of their necks, and knocked their
heads together till he knocked all the
fight out of them.
He astonished sailor, who presented
him with a cocoa-nut, by cracking it
close to his ear as you would a peanut ;
and upon one occasion he lifted three
hogsheads Of water. Once he threw his
horse over a turnpike gate, and at any
time could go through the manual of
arms with the beam of a house.
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PERsoNAL.-A letter passed through
the post office yesterday, addressed to
8 John w. Forney, ID. D. 1t is supposed
that SD. d." stands for Dead Duck. p
star.
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THE Legislature of West Virginia
adjourned on the LIST instant, without
day. This announcement will afford
relief to the great majority Of the citi-
zens OF the State. While continuing in
session, it was impossible to tell to what
lengths of folly and wrong this Body
would go in the exercise of its legis-
lative functions. The majority of its
members had already shown such an
utter want Of fitness for their position
such ignorance of their duties and DOW
ers, united with such a fierce spirit Of
vindietiveness and malice towards a
large portion of the people of the State,
that no useful legislation could be ex-
peeted from them, and as by their acts,
already passed, they had inflicted injury
upon the State, from which it cannot re-
cover in ten years, it is not surprising
that the people breathe more freely,
now that this Body has dispersed.
Among the most Objectionable acts
passed by this Legislature are the Coon
stitutional Amendment" which dis
franchises one-half or more of the citi-
zens of the State-the Registration
Law which vests in the Governor of
the State, the absolute power through
creatures Of his will, to decide who
shall be registered as legal voters of the
State-the "Gag Law" which, like the
"Alien and Sedition Law" of sixty
eight years ago, and which rendered
perpetually odious the party that passed
it, seeks to destroy freedom of speech
and of the Press and force the people to
submit in humiliating silence to the
tyranny established over them-and the
act requiring Attorneys at Law to take
the Test Oath, the purpose of Which is,
to protect, as far as possible professional
ignorance and imbecilitS, from eempe-
tition with professional learning, and
skill at the Bar With the exception
of the first OF these, the Constitutional
Amendment which is yet to be sub
mitted to the people, these Acts now
stand as Laws Oh the pages Of cur
Statute Booli=and under their operation
the Radical Party expect to perpetuate
indefinitely their power in the State
Inouropinion they viii be disappointed
The rapid changes Of opinion and senti-
ment in relation To the polieN Of the
radical party, Which are taking place
among the people in all parts of the
country, convince us that the life of
Radiealism is Shorthand that in West
Virginia, as elsewhere. a united, bold
and energetic movement on the part Of
the true friends Of the Union, and OF
the policy of ANDREW JOHNSON, for Its
peaceful and harmonious restoration,
will terminate the reign Of rs unworthy
4 party as ever abused power or dis
graeed civilized government.
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WINTER PLOWING.-In this climate,
where blowing can be done in the
warm spells that visit us at this season,
the land receives greater benefit from
being plowed now than it receives from
either fall or spring blowing. The
ground plowed in thefall becomes settled
and packed by the heavy rains, so that
the frost cannot penetrate it as well and
amcliorate its condition. When ploWed
in the spring, the frost does not act at
all upon the clay, and it ismore or less
sticky all summer, particularly if wet.
BY blowing now the soil is left loose and
porous, the frost penetrates it and causes
it to crumble. The insects are dormant
and cannot seek warm quarters when
turned out, as they can in fail or spring
and are destroyed by freezing. The soil
can be easily prepared by narrowing in
thespring foranY crop, while that plowed
in early fall will have become so packed
that it will be almost impossible to pre-
pareit forseed without another blowing.
So farmers, put your teams to work now,
whenever the weather and soil admit,
but don't pillow the ground wet. If you
do, your land Will not recover for years,
as we know from q long experience
More winter blowing should be done
It not only improves the soil, and kills
the insects, but it helps work along in the
spring amazingly to have the blowing
all off ones hands.-RttrM World.
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A FoP is like cinnamon tree-the
bark is worth more than the body.
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Most bachelors are smart, but it is on
Iy husbands who are shre,Cd.
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How would you measure your lovers
BY his sighs.
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WANTS. 10 BE "SGpPRFssfD'. In
view Of Grants recent order it would be
we'll for the Radical press TO put muz-
zle upon their mouths, il they wish to
continue in the flesh. The Springfield
Mass ReptAkicda shows how one Of
thcm-the Chicago Trt6aae-is bidding
high for Suppression It says:
cone Of the Copperhead wings of the
Chicago Tfi6Wae's editorial corps attri-
butes the Presidents recent declarations,
to the colored men and The Nirginans,
to da01helaaeSs, and says they are only
equaled in absurdity by the frantic wells
Of terror of n Toombs, or the maudlin
CALCULATIONS of Wigfall.' He also finds
in Mr. johnson himself Il terrible illus
tration Of the prejudices that disqualiiy
Southerners for any share in the Govern
ment 'n.free State civilization, Another
imputation is that the Presidedt is do
ing all in his power to unsheath once
more the Damocles sword Of the ire
pressible conflict, and to fasten upon an
other generation all the woes, perils and
agonies Of another civil war;
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For one year, $500
rS- No subscription will be dscontinusd
until all arreages are are paid, unless at the
option Of the publisher.
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A VERY learned and compassionate
Judge in Texas, on passing sentence on
John Jones, who had been convicted Of
murder, concluded his remarks as fol-
lows: "fhe fact is, Jones, that the Court
did not intend to order you to be eX-
ecuted before next spring; but the wealth
er is very cold; our jail, unfortunately is
in Il very bad condition; much of the
glass in the windows is broken, the
chimneys are in such dilapidated state
that no fire can be made to render your
apartments comfortable; besides, owing
to the great number of prisoners; not
more than one blanket can be allowed to
each; to sleep sound and comfortable,
therefore, is out the question. Incon-
sideration of these circumstances, and
wishing to lessen your sufferings as much
as possible, the Court, in exercise of its
humane compassion, hereby orders you
to be executed to morrow morning as
soon after breakfast as may be conve-
nient to the Sheriff and agreeable to you.
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CATTLE PLAGUE IN PENNSYLVANIA.
There are reports of the appearance of a
disease among cattle, resembling the
rinderpest, in Montgomery county, Pa.
The State Senate has appointed a Special
Committee to make an investigation
1t appears the disease first made its APP
pearance in the spring of 1868, and since
then not only have very large number
of cattle died, but many of the diseased
animals have been sold to farmers re-
siding elsewhere, thus spreading the
disease; and the meat of the dead cattle
has been sold to a considerable extent
in the markets Of Philadelphia, some of
it made up in the form of Bologna sau-
sage. 1t has every appearance OF the
rinderpest, and the County Medical So
ciety and Agricultural Society are both
investigating it.
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ONE of the most curious articles of an
exhibition, now being held in England,
is steam engine and boiler, in minia-
ture, and described as the "smallest
steam engine in the world" 1t stands
scarcely two inches in height, and is
covered with glass shade. The fly
wheel is made with gold, with steel
arms, and makes seven thousand revo-
lutions per minute. The engine and
boiler are fastened together with thirty
eight miniature screws and bolts, the
whole weighing thirteen gr;tins, or I'M
der one quarter of an ounce. The man
ufacturer says that the evaporation of
six drops of water will drive the engine
eight minutes. This dwarf piece of me-
chanism was designed and made by a
clock manufacturer in Horsford Eng
land.
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WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY,
AT
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FREDERICK HUDSON, Esq, the we'll
known managing editor Of the New
York Herald, has been compelled at
last by his gradually failing health to
relinquish the position he has held for
many years. He has received leave of
absense for two years, and will spend
the time in travelling as the state of his
health may warrant. 1t may be men,
toned to the credit of Mr.. Bennett, that
he did not part with the man who has
served him so faithfully without plac-
ing in his hand check for the full
amount of the salary which he would
have received had he continued at his
desk.