Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-01-10

any candidate who had about him the sus
picion Of a Presidential preference. Th'
President seemed rather to resent the de
feat of Holden 10 North Carolina. and di
rected him to hold his office, but after.
ward thought better of it, as, on Dec
29. Holden was relieved, The close Of
the year finds the Southern states pretty
generally reconstructed" Congress does
not, however, find the Presidential policy
acceptable. for none of the reconstructed
Congressman have as yet been admitted
to the floor. These states now occupy
the strangely anomalous position of being
Commonwealth in the eyes of Mr.. John
son and MIR. Seward, and territories, or
penitential commemorative, in the eyes of
Congress. The formal announcement that
slavery was constitutionally abolished
was made Dec. Is. 1t created little atten-
tion.
Thus we close the review Of events in
the United States during the past year, 1t
would be scarcely fair to record the bril-
liant successes Of the war without MOTTO
ing success less prctentious but quite as
valuable as any in the field. When Gen.
Grant was arranging his lines around Pc
tersburg, Mr.. Jay Cooke began the sale
of the last 5000 0OO,0 900 of the z 80 loan.
Upon the successful negotiation of this
loan depended the result Of the war;; The
success was sublime. The first week in
May saw a subscription of $40, 397 900.
May 8, over 1000, 900 were subscribed,
the next day the list reached $l7, 900, 900.
On May IS, (memorable as the day when
the last gun was fired in the Rebellion,)
over 100000, 1000 we're subscribed, making
nearly $lO0,000,000 in four days Sue
ceases like these, crcditable to the genius
that Planned them and the national en-
thusiasm that carried them through, JUS
tilted the remark of Mr. Orr of South
Carolina, that the South was defeated in
the treasury before it was defeated in the
field.
In foreign lands peace has reigned.
Poor Schleswig Holstein has been rescued
from the clutch of Denmark only to be
devoured by Prussia. The heir of the
forlorn Prince of Augustenbcrg. warned
out Of his kingdom by the police, goes to
London to marry one Of Queen Victoria's
numerous daughters and receive a prince
ly pension. The rebellion in Poland was
suppressed, but we hear occasionally of
the breaking out of instructions. The
Italian question promises soon to become
one of interest. Napoleon having given
the Pope notice of his intention to quit
the willy father of the faithful has been
looking for comfort to the communicated
Victor Emmanuel, and it would not sur
prise us to sec the Pope wearing his tri-
pie crown as the king of all the faithful,
and Victor as King of the Italians, sitting
together on the Quirinal. The supposi.
ton that Spain will make common cause
with the Pope in the event of Napoleon's
retirement docs not brighten US. Spanish
courage is sublime when it has SanDo.
miugo and Peru for foes, but in an Ital
ian adventure it can scarcely be trusted
Italy has no worse enemy than herself. If
her people arc true to themselves, and re-
press their petty jealousies that so long
have alienated Tuscan from Florentine
and Lombard from Neapolitan-wheu ma.
tional dissensions are no longer caused by
the rival attractions of the tavern keepers
of Turin and Florence-we can expect ma
tional advancement Russia has been
steadily progressing, and now reaches
over her electric hand to grasp America.
The project of German empire has fail
ed. If the Germans want a fatherland
free from a murrain of beggarly princes
"a crop of husbands for royal daughters
Of the Houses of Brunswick and Bourbon),
they must fight for it. France has been
at peace. The enlargement ofthc Empe.
'ror and his radical cousin made q great
deal of gossip, but has strengthened the
Empire instead of weakening it. 1t is
good thing to have member of the fam
lily Oh both sides. Whoever wins, the
property is always in the family. Eng
land has kept the peace, and traded large
ly on her neighbours msfortunes. The
dissolution ofParliament has strengthened
the Liberal party by giving many of the
boldest and most gifted of the radicals
seats in that body. The death of Palm
erston clears the decks, in a SENSE, for a
fair fight, and We may expect great excite
ment in favor Of reform and the ballot
In Golden, the world has lost one of the
purest and ablest of the sons of men. The
death of Leopold weakens the royal ALI
ance of Europe. His good sense and con-
servatism were o match for the cunning
of Bonaparte, Now, if ever, let the lion
come down from the field Of Waterloo |!
AS Belgium, like Denmark, Turkey and
Greece, belong to the nationalities that ex-
ist only by suferancc-like mice in search
of cats paw-it would be absurd to
speculate upon the future of that common
wealth. Whenever the cats can agree the
mice will be speedily managed. The
young king George has had sorry time
with his Greek subjects. and. We believe