Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-06-01

a public speech TO President johnson Tor hanging,
as follows:
"If am traitor, let them make the most Of
il. II ] am traitor, why don't they try me and
hang me have lost my lands and property but
would clean boots on your streets sooner than
bow to usurpation. II had triumphed, | should
have favored stripping them naked Pardon!
They might have appealed for pardon. but !
would have seen them damned before / would
have granted IT, For myself, the boot being on
the other foot, take no oath ask no pardon.
Prolonged cheers. give you that brigade
the Old, the lasting, the enduring Wise Brigade. ~
[Cheers aud applause
Commonwealth speech Of President john
son to the National Union Club, at the serenade
on Wednesday evening, May %, was very brief
lie simply rendered his thanks for the approval Of
the club, and bis confidence that the members Of
it are right in supporting him. The speech OF
Secretary Welles was equally brief, and Secretary
Stanton showed the good points in which Congress
aud the President agree, and one in which Stanton
and Congress agreed when the President did not
the Freedmens Bureau bill There was no bad
temper: and that was a good feature.
NEW Musrc.-The pretty song, written by the
late c. G. Eastman, entitled Looking in the
River" has been set to music by Mr.. 5. B. Whit
uey, and published by Oliver Ditson & Co., Bos-
ton For sale at Wilder's
TpE GALAXY for June 1, is an excellent num-
Der, giving the orthodox dozen Of articles, and
appending the name Of each author. Ia addition
to the serial articles notice Our Houses The
Pagan Element in France The Red River Dam;
The Orleauist party; The Wonderful Grow. For
sale by Ballou, Loyeand & Co.
FoR LAwNs, apply a mixture Of one bushel of
gypsum. five bushels Of ashes. and one bushel Of
fine bone dust Scatter at the rate Of one peck
to the square rod. Bone dust may be hard to get.
In that case, omit it.
RE-APro1SrEp.-Th County Commissioner has
endorsed the fidelity Of n X. Brown by reap
pointing him agent Of the town Of Montpelier for
the sale Of liquors.
Huv FARE-The railroad will take people to
the dedication of the Reform School at Water
bury, June 10, aud to the semi-annual meeting Of
the Vermont Medical Society, at Brattleboro,
June l3 and IA, for half fare.
| MEprcAr.--Dr Butler says the coming meeting
Of the Medical Society promises to be one of alb
sorbing interest to the profession throughout the
State, and asks for full attendance Cholera
/ will be prominent subject.
The Augusta (Geo) Constitutonalist is per-
mitted to show the teeth Of treason thus;
at were well for the federal reputation were it
even as spotess as the soul Of JEFF. Davis. God
bless him aud bring his enemies to shame
REv. Mr.. WALTON has accepted A call to preach
in Portland, Ne, on condition that he preach only
one sermon on the Sabbath, and that condition
has been assented to. Right, if the one sermon
be a good one One good sermon is better than
three that have no particular merit.
/ SAMUEL KENwEDr the last survivor Of the
Wyoming massacre, died near York Springs, Pa,
last week lie was 9S years Of age, and was car
ried away by his mother from the horrid butehery
when five years old
TINS Alexandria (va) Gazette says that travel
ers on the Little River turnpike, day or two ago
witnessed an agricultural procedure which, before
the war had been heard OF, but never seen in that
locality Two negro women, hitchsd to a Plow,
and driven by a negro man, were breaking ground
at the point named
A quiet, happy couple residing in Western New
York we're disagreeably surprised few day ago
in finding that they had been divorced. The pro-
cess was done without their kno Wedge or consent
some wag having instituted the suit probably tc
prove the purity Of the law regarding such mat
ters.
The little tax Of one cent upon every box o
matches netted the government Sl,5OO'OOO last
year According to that estimate, l5O00O'OOy
bunches or boxes Of matches must have been used
in this country during the year; or five lunches
equal to five hundred matches-lor every man
woman and child.
DrsrRIcr No 8, Danville, produced 7495 lbs
Of sugar last season-iust about the quantity made
in one sugar place in East Montpelier by Cyrus
Morse BY the way, we hear that Mr. Morse'
sugar place was-not ruined by the tornado.
w. +. MouLroN, of Lowell, made 250O pound
Of maple sugar this spring One thousand pound
of it he sugared off ia one day, besides entertain
ing about eighty of his friends with all they coul'
eat. He has one Of the best sugar places in tina
County.
GEN CAss, whom everybody thought was dy
ing, is now announced to be rapidly improving
and is out of danger He is nearly s4 years @
age.
EIGurY hands are employed in Sturteyant
sash and blind shop at Lebanon, n II. Four ca
, loads Of furniture are sent off weekly, larg
portion OF which goes South,
THE LoNDoS TINES is so frightened at th
prospect Of war in Europe that it gets down on If
marrow bones and begs of Napoleon to put sto
to it. The lion is sick.
TnE Secretary of the Treasury reports that
, has more than five hundred clerks who served i
the Union, aud only one who served in the reb'
army That one is Vermonter, Tuller, and
Union man, who was forced into the rebel army
Texas and deserted
SHAD were never more numerous in Connectic
river than this season. At Haddam Island thrt
, thousand were caught in one day last week. oy'
eight hundred being caught at one haul of the ne
The price on the river is Sls per hundred.
A man named Ellis has made preparations
, "hateh sixteen thousand chickens" by stean
during the coming season, on his ranch on d
American river, Califor~sa.
ORgGoN by a new census has $4,000 inhab
, ants, of whom 1900 are voters, and 1900 I
males to 81, 800 males. Portland, the chief tow
has 5000 inhabitants The State has 400