Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-11-22
RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1866.
Asysassrss Directory and Walton's
Register.

Loveland n Co. One edition, TUCK has
good memoranda pages on writing pa
per, and will be convenient for those
who make much use of such pages but
the memoranda pages in the common
edition are not by any means so good.
Now for the matter; the grand list for
1866 is not yet completed the last cor
rections for county officers have not yet
been made; bills are pending in the
legislature affecting the sessions OF
several courts-so that in all these i'm
portant things Atwater is imperfect.
Again: in town returns, number OF
towns are missing; and generally the
listers and town treasurers, embrac'
ing nearly thousand names, are not
given by Atwater. Still again: we no.
tice an imperfect list Of stamp duties,
and no table of population, governors
and elections in the several States. Now
we advise all who want the most COM
plete and accurate Register, embracing
sreyy town, and the most complete Bust
ness Directory ever given, with the official
grand list and county officers, and full
schedule Of stamp duties, to wait for
Walton's Register for 1867, which will
be published in few days, on new type,
good paper, and with enlarged memo
randa. WaltOn's Journal.
The above unjust criticism evinces a
spirit of low jealousy on the part of the
publisher of Walton's Register, which
surprises us. If the waning fortunes of
his pet Register are at so low an ebb as
to render it necessary for him to dispar-
age its rival in order to keep his own
alive, the sooner he throws the old fogy
concern overheard the better for all
concerned.
1t never has been claimed that Atwa-
ter's Register is perfect, but we are quite
sure that it will suffer nothing in COM
parison with that of any number of
Walton's yet published and the flatter-
ing increase IN the demand for it is the
best evidence that the efforts of its pub
fishers to give the public lire Register
are appreciated.
There is no foundation for most of the
defects in Atwater's Register of which
he speaks.
The grand list was obtained but few
days since from the clerks appointed by
the Legislature to make up the same,
and we have no doubt is substantially
correct. The list Of county officers as
published, are those elected at the Sep
TENDER election and may be relied upon.
We have heard of no others being ap-
pointed in their places. The blank
spaces in the paper edition to which he
refers, are the size of those of former
years, and at least one-third larger than
those Of Walton,s. So much of this.
But now comes faults to which we
shall be obliged to plead guilty. He says
sit gives no enumeration of population,
list of governors, or times Of holding the
elections in different States" He might
also have added tables of Irish emigra-
ton to America, list Of officers of the
Freedmen's Bureau, and the contemplate
ed time of the next Fenian raid up
on Canada,-all interesting matters, but
having as little to do with Vermont
directory as the matter he mentions.
But he advises of all who want re-
liable Register to wait and purchase
Walton's, which is to be printed upon
good paper and new type. We have no
objection to this advice to wait if the
public choose, and, for the credit of the
craft in Vermont, in common with the
readers of his Register we most
heartily rejoice at the promised improve
ment which mas for so long time been
needed in the mechanical appearance of
that publication. Under ordinary cir
cumstances we would not say one word
in disparagement of the bantling of our
contemporary, but cannot here refrain
from repeating a remark we overheard
made by printer while examining the
last number of that Register. After
considerable scrutiny, he said it looked
"as if it was printed on font Of three
penny nails and was made up in a
shingle machine" Harsh as was the
criticism, 1t was not without its force.
To say the least, the last few numbers of
Walton's Register, are anything but
creditable to the publisher or the press
of Vermont.
We have been spending an hour
enquiring among the places of business
in our town for a copy of Walton's
Register for 1866, for the purpose of
pointing out some important errors we
recollect to have seen in it, but have
sought in vain, and have finally come to
the conclusion that whether there are
errors in it or not is a matter Of little
consequence as the Register is not in
general use.