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The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-09-14
Webster's most Important Thought

A correspondent Of the Rochester
1 american, adds the following to the
host OF anecdotes of the great states
man, which his descease called forth
When Mr.. Webster was Secretary
OF State some years ago, under another
administration than that of Mr.. Fill
more, he wrote to one of the proprie-
tors of the Astor House, in New York,
saying that he would reach that house
on such day, and begged that some
of his friends should be invited to
dine with him the same evening,
There were about twenty at the ia
BILE, and Mr.. Webster seemed wearied
by his travel, and speaking but little,
if at all, plunged into darksome
sort of revery, not well calculated to
enliven his friends. This at length
became so apparent, and the situation
OF all so unpleasant. that one of the
company urged upon very distin-
guished man present, a warm friend
of Mr.. Webster, to get into converse
ton. He only needed to be logged,
to become as lively as they wished
The friend consented, and spoke
aloud to Mr. Webster asking him
some questions that in ordinary men
would have led into conversation, but
it failed in the present instance. The
dark Secretary of State merely raised
his head and answered, and crept back
into his cave again. Again, the gen
tleman frightened at his failure. was
urged to renew the attempt and draw
him ont. He summoned courage and
said, "Mr. Webster - Mr. Webster
looked out of his cave Mr. Webster,
| want you to tell me what was the
most important thought that ever oc-
cupied your mind"
Here was Il thumper for him, and so
every body thought at the table. Mr..
Webster slowly passed his hand over
his forehead, and in low tone said to
a friend near him, rs there any one
here who does not know me?"
mo, sir, they all know you-are all
your friends"
Then he looked over the table, and
you may imagine how the tones of his
voice would be on such an occasion,
giving answer to such question.
The most important thought that
ever occupied my mind" said he,
was that of my individual response
bility to God ]" upon which for twenty
minutes he spoke to them, and when
he had finished, he got up from the
table and retired to his room; and
they without word, entered into an
adjacent parlor, and when they had
gathered there, some of them ex-
claimed; "Who ever heard any thing
like that before p
What Mr.. Webster said in advocacy
of this most important thought, | do
not know--no one has ever repeated
1t, and presume no one can.
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A STRING OF PEARLS .-Sheridan's
dispatches from New Orleans have
stirred up the Union Springs Ala
Times to the utterance of the follow
ing morcedu:
Butler turned thief at the start ;
Turchin was natural born imp OF
perdition; Thomas has displayed a
remarkable aptitude for giving white
peoples churches to his black betters;
Sherman found the torch a more con-
genial weapon to his unknightly ma
ture than the sword; Grant tried to
be politician, but failed as signally
as when he attempted to beat Lee
fairly; and nov one of tho small-fry.
short tailed, Shiny tadpole of the
latter spawn, the blathcring disgrace
of an honest father, an everlasting IL
bel on his Irish blood, the scorn OF
brave men and the synonym of lnfamy,
Mai. Gen. Phil. II. Sheridan, has ad-
ded his name to this list of outrages
on humanity.
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Harvesting Corn.

To the Editors OF tie Boston Weekly Advertiser
Your Corn harvest, Messrs Editors,
is of kind that needs no farmers pen
to describe, but there is corn harvest
soon to come off, in which you are in
terested, with all others who believe
in economy and good bread and butter
The latter, to you, and all the rest Of
mankind, is of vast Importance. Corn
bread Why, it is the corner stone,
or the chief corner loaf Of the great edi
flee of breaddom. Talk of platforms,
and planks composing those platforms,
talk of back bones, head, heart, aud
lungs! Why, corn bread is them all
consequently the corn harvest is i'm.
portant, inasmuch as IL affects all
classes. / remember when the corn
harvest had another feature of inter
est. 1t was the husking that was sure
to come, on some lovely light
night, which brought the lads and
lasses of the neighborhood together
for good time. 1t was the boys that
used to see to ii, that kernels of RED
corn were freely planted in the Spring
that q thick sprinkling might be found
of husking time Yes, we all re-
member those days with reflections OF
pleasure when we remember what we
enjoyed, and with reflections OF sorrow
when we think of the many dear ones
of those days who have been gathered
by the great harvester, and garnered
beyond the ken of mortal vision.
But we, of the plough and the spade
are thinking of another harvest, and o
which we wish to treat at this time. =
The question comes up every season
shall corn be harvested in the good ole
way of cutting stalks, and allowing thu
corn to stand and dry in the field, OF
shall we grub it up at the roots anC
shock it? Many good farmers thinl
the latter very shocking way of do
ing business. They rather see thu
naked yellow ears glistening in tn,
sun all over the field, than to see tn
awkward and uncouth shocks standing
like SO many dumb sentinels all owe
! the land. But as there are those VIII
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LIFE AND ITS EsD.-Remembe for
what purpose yon were born, and
through the whole of life, look at its
end Consider, when that comes, in
what you put your trust. Not in the
bubble of worldly vanity-it will be
broken nor in worldly pleasures
they will be gone not in great eonnec-
tions.-they cannot carry it with you !;
not in rankin the grave there is no
distinction not in the recollections
of life spent in giddy conformity to
the silly fashions OF a thoughtless and
wicked world but trust in a life spent
soberly, righteously and wisely, in the
present world. III shug
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Lesson to Mr.. johnson.

The New York Evening Post, which
has all along upheld the Presidents
policy, - although it has seemed to us
not very warmly advocating any plan
of reconstruction, has at last become
nauseated with Mr.. Johnson's speech
es, and in its last issue takes occasion
to read him lesson, of tenor not to
be mistaken. The Post says -
"Does Mr.. johnson know that by
his indecorous language and inju-
dicious conduct he is seriously in
creasing the difficulties under which
the country already staggers? If he
does not, it would be well if some ju-
dicious friend-if he has any such
would tell him this.
1t would be well for him to know
that he is very fast making himself
personally odious. The loyal people OF
the Northern States, those who stood
by the Union when it was attacked by
rebels, see with n dissatisfaction and
alarm which is no longer concealed,
that the President, whom their votes
elevated to his position, surrounds
himself, by his own choice apparently,
with men like Tom Florence, Garrett
Davis, Salisbury, and others, who, like
these, during the war, never concealed
their sympathies with treason. They
see Mr.. johnson. further, removing
Office men of ability and of undoubted
fidelity to the Union, and putting in
their places, not war democrats. not
republicans who agree with his views
on the question of representation, but
copperheads, sympathizers with treas
on, persons whose course during the
war made them forever hateful to the
loyal people.
They have seen him but lately, in
Louisiana, violate his own often de-
clared policy in regard to the South
ern States, and violate it in favor OF
boastful rebels, and to the injury OF
men who were known as Union men;
and they ask why, if the law is to be
stretched, if what the President asserts
TO be the true policy is to be violated,
why is it only in the interest OF men
who are notorious as haters OF liberty
and Union? They have seen him
pardon many of the most fragrant
traitors-such men as Mayor Monroe,
men of temper which makes them
bad citizens, and whom it would GER
tainly be more iudicious to leave un.
pardoned Finally, they are alarmed
and hurt at the INDIGENOUS language
which Mr.. johnson uses towards Con
gross; they are disguised to hear him
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No. 100.

GENERAL GRANTS KINDNESS. Ion the
arrival Of the Presidential party at
Auburn, n. y, on Friday, boy, the
son of q Mr.. Richardson, rushed to-
wards the carriage to shake hands
with Gen. Grant, but in his effort to
do so, fell under the wheel, thereby
SCATTERING his leg. He was conveyed
to his home. At night he sent word
to Secretary Seward that he was anx-
ious to see Gen. Grant The latter.
affected by the circumstances as re.
lated by the Secretary, attended by
Surgeon-General Barnes, called at the
house of the sufferer, and on parting
told the youth when he recovered to
write him letter and he might be of
use to him.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-09-14

LITTLE THINGS. Men do not leap the
hill of Virtue in moment, nor do they
descend into the valley of death or the
pit of Vice in an instant. You took up
your newspaper this morning, dear
reader The cruelty you shudder at
the wife beating, the desertion, the
seduction, the murder 49, think you
those have sudden inspiration No;
they are the outcome of habit, OF
thought and action, Of long and steady
preparation. You see the volcano
flame; you do not see the smouldering
embers. You see the broken bridge;
you do not see the little madrepore
eating into the timber. Even in these
great crimes it has been ''here little
and there little"
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on every occasion denouncing Con-
gress, among whose members are many
men of spotiess honor and long-tried
loyalty, as traitors, rebels, usurpers,
hanging on the skirts of the govern
ment They hear him speak of a
subsidized press and they ask, who
subsidies it, when Mr. johnson has
all the patronage 2"
Such plain language as this, coming
from such q source, is worthy of no.
tice. 1t shows that Mr.. Johnson is
driving from him those who were dis
posed to become his friends, and that
instead OF the triumphant march which
he fondly believes he is making, is in
reality journeying rapidly to his own
political funeral
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GRN LOGAN ON GEN. GRANT. g
Logan spoke on Saturday to n very
large audience in Galena, H., the home
of General Grant, and in the course OF
his remarks said che knew Gen. Grant
we'll and intimately, and he knew that
all his hopes and sympathies were with
the great loyal masses of the nation
who had stood by the country during
four years of civil war, and who now
proposed to finish the work they had
begun by establishing the Constitution
on the true and lasting basis of justice
and liberty to all men, The relation
between the two Generals is OF such
an intimate character as to give the
statement the character of an author
lied assertion.
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sS- A contemporary, referring to ass
pirants for political Office being bro't
out before the public by means of'calls"
numerously signed, instead of coming
out fat-footed, in the old fashioned
way, says it reminds him of the story
of O'Mulligan and his wife. ''Biddy,P
said O'Mulligan to his wife, its o
bad cowld We have. A drap of the
crathur nd do no haarrum." 'iOeh,
honel" said Biddy, I've taken the
plidge, but We can mix drink, Jimmy,
and force me TO swally it." il r0rf
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Sayings OF Josh Billings.

"a spanking breeze" often springs
up in the nursery.
"Squatter sovereignty"--I recog
nized among the Turks and turkies.
''But me no butts, said the farmer
to the ram.
Clear grit''--as the school girl re-
marked about her mud pies.
"The unkindest cut of all'-Lays
Just back ov the bulls horns
"a sure cure for the piles '-Petro-
leum lie stock.
"Root of ali evil"--An old SOW in q
melon patch.
"Pro Bono Publico the pub
lie bone.
"Send in your bill"-Sed the boy
tew the woodpecker.
''Terms ash"-The highwayman' S
motto.
"Hatching mischief urchin
said tew the hawk on the nest.
1.-THE nave of the church"-Which
one IL he
"I'n indorse your paper"-Sed the
fly tew his landlady.
"AIinor items'-Seven small chill
dren and one at the bosom.
ut is meet for us to be here Sc
said the thieves when they broke into
the butchers shop.
"Thare il something rotten in Den
marx" Eggs probably.
"a workman is known by his chips
This IL judging man by his acts
(axe.)
keep stiff upper lip"--Sed the
shad to the sturgeon.
DOG cheap"-As the butcher re-
marked of his sassagis."
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SARAToGA--DTscovERY OF AN ORB
RELIc.-In digging for the foundation
of an addition to the store of Trim q
Waterbury. on Friday, about ten feet
below the surface, the men came to
small iron cannon, about three feet
long, with remains of the wooden car
riage, upon which it had been fastened
by a band. 1t has a bore of about
two inches, and seems in quite good
condition. 1t weighs 100 pounds
What "oldcst inhabitant " can tell
when it was buried and by whom p
EEchanqe.
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on something that will survive him.
And then comes the sweet conscious
ness that there is nothing in the sem
tence that he could wish unwritten--
that it is better part of nina shred
from the garment of Immortality he
shall leave behind him when he joins
the ''innumerable caravan and takes
his place in the silent hall of death.
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How TO DESTROY RATs.-A cores
pendent says, he has tried the follow
ing mixture for poisoning rats, with
complete success. He found the re-
ceipt in the Patent Office Report for
1868:
Mix one ounce of finely powdered
arsenic, and enc ounce of lard with
meal into stiff dough; put it about
the haunts of the rats. They will eat
it greedily, and it'makes them so thirs-
ty that they will die near the water OF
which they drink until they burst p
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-09-14

Bay One exceedingly warm day in
July a neighbour met old Joe H., and
remarked that it was very hot "Yes,i'
says Joe If it wasn't for one thing,
/ should say we were going to have q
thaw." "What is that ?" inquired his
friend. There's nothing froze, SAYS
Joe. The man went his way much
enlightened. ll nl.ae.. .Ina
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saT- A woman whose minor son was

Boz A woman whose minor son was
heeced of $3.50 by gamblers on Miss
issippi steamboat, sued the captain OF
the boat and recovered the money,
Judge Busteed of the United States
district court in Southern Alabama. IN
rendering the decision, declared that
a common gambler WAS common nui-
sance, and that it was the duty OF cap
tain to protect his passengers and es-
pecially minors, from all such cormor-
ants,
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hideous hired mourners OF England
are ugly enough, but these out-do
them. They all wore hats and rib
bons, and / have just found out that
they are the death announcers, and
that it is their cheerful business in life
to continually call upon the friend of
any one deceased, and usher in the
mournful tidings, with an invitation
To the funeral.
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BRILLIANTS.


Conduofiag Youth md Age 10 he Tomb,
O youth, how soon it learns by heart,
Tie sound OF passing bells
While ages pulse has ceased TO start
Beneath their frequent knells
And still the house of mourning lies
Beside the house of mirth,
And sorrow reads her homilies
In all the homes of earth
Along the road that all must tread,
Are milestones made Of tombs:
And childhood's dreams too soon are led
To the dim city of the dead,
And colored by its glooms !!
q, youth and age need both guide,
To walk in pity by their side,
And manhood's heart and childhood's eye
Have tears. for charity to dry
IT. X. Hervey.
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Thon constant faith and holy hope shall die,
One lost in certainty, aud one in Joy;
Whilst thou, more happy power, fair Charity
Thy Office and thy nature still the same,
Lasting thy lamp and unconsumed thy flame,
Shalt still survive
Shalt stand before the host Of Heaven confessed
For ever blessing, and for ever best.
Matthew Prior.
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By No work tells like home work.
A cody household is burning and
shining light "a careless, worldly one
is reproach, and n weight round the
heart of its master God commends
Abraham for commanding his children
and his household after him /; and of
the excellent woman" ii is said, ''she
looketh well to the ways of her house,
hold" NJ. /. p
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FonBEARANcE.

Hast thou named all the birds without gun i?
Loved the wood rose, and left it on its stalk z
At rich mems tables eaten bread and pulse
Unarmed faced danger With heart Of trust Z
And loved 20 well high behavior,
In man or maid, that thou from speech RETAINED
Nobility more nobly TO repay2
o, be my friend, and teach me to be thine
Emerson.
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Sa- A special telegram to the Boston
Daily Advertiser says, There are now
on file in the War Department official
reports OF atrocious outrages upon
freedmen, iudorsed in the handwriting
and with the signature Of Mr.. Johnson,
that These reports must not be made
public
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Say- While Covert, the murderer of
the Rosa family, stood on'.the gall
lows at Lebanon, o., Friday, he ex-
claimed can innocent man, gentle
men, l am; oh dear oh dear! it is
horrible to die an limo" and the
trap fell before he had finished tho
sentence. t4L sH al
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pa,- Montana papers say that the
grasshoppers have destroyed every
green thing in Deer Lodge VALLEY ex
cept the grass and the willows. The.
damage done there in tTo weeks is
estimated at $4,000. 80 ~
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Koran immense brickyard, 500 feet
long and about 400 wide, is about to
be established at Chicago. III. 1t will
contain machines for the Manufacture
of 100000 bricks day.
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CLAIM AGENT

ions Ar 'unues, Widows and Inyalids' PEN
Or destyovanS OF Pay, and Claims for Horses lost
BY S' IN the military service, procured
c. II. NYE,
d. Albans ". oapt' of 10th Vt. Volunteers.
'"afch 1900 60-tf
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Ds5- The book isl duel with friend,
but the theatre is battle with n,
thousand spectators. .4l
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say Why is the emancipation of
slaves like the shakes? Because it's u
favor nagur operation.
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sS- A country girl speaking Of
q dance which she had attended said !,
The lancing was no;hin' but the hug
ging Was heavenly" 10 'al
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St. Adams Business Directory.

uEy & DAVIS, ATTORNEYS AND
X DoIrNsFII,ORS AT LAW and Solicitors in
- 49,, Office in the rooms formerly occu-
e ilJ Inv White 4 sowles, Gadcomb's Building,
pea ny VI 97-1y
~ A' PARK DAVIS.
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ECLECTIC PHYSTCT4N

,,n, HVAEUIIc PHYSICIAN,
A TIER an absence Of four montha nr N
House :, turned to his Rooms al the Fremont
ctChron'. adams, where he will make a specially
Practice Eases, adhereing strictly to am ofiiee
tom 10 olnse hours from TO IL A. M. and
St. Al6,nsS ana to +. NJ. Advice free.
----y@us' w., March 18th, 1866. ll4-tf
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THE TRANSCRIPT,
rrnLrsnEp nvnnr rnIpAY.
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prfetor.


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nrcK. ATTORNEY AND COUNSEL
NJ IOR AT LAW. Also, Agent for first
~ = Insurance Companies, and for obtaining
soldiers pay, &c. -,
Once over Weeks store. l-u
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| e n a ss ~ HAmLrN CABINET OR

ed and . .S' aiferent styles, adapted to ga.
fity.one GUAR ,r music, for $50 To 5000 each.
peaau@s 1 a,si or Silver Medals, or other first
esgaes free awarded them. Illustrated Cata-
Boston or MAs aoaNSr t,s MASON & HAMLIN,
''N BROTHERS, New York.
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LARRAR BROTHERS, IRON MER-
L CHANTS.
Dealers IN Nails Glass, Oils, Paints Agricul-
iuul Tools, which We offer at low cash figure.
Corner Lake aud Main streets.
st. Adams, March 10, 1854. LIT
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III o'Posr q CO., dealers in Dry Goods
- ana choice Family Groceries Corner of
D''il and Fairfield Streets, st Adams, Vt. III
d. C. POST, /. JAMES.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-07-26
NO foot of land do I possess,
- cottage in the wilderness,
A poor way faring man.
Gen. Grant aud j. ID.

There is a copperhead paper called the
Marion Democrat, of more than usual frank
ness. 1t expresses with candor the gener-
al opinion of the copperhead party upon
subjects which most of them speak of more
guardediy. 1t says Of Grant:
Gen. Grant is very successful beggaF.
He has received charity to the amount of
$170,0OO.'
And of Jefferson Davis:
1t needed only the accident Of success to
have made him second Westinghouse
have transmitted his name to posterity as
the deliverer of his country and the fonns
der of new Government
And, we may add, it needed only the ac-
cident of sufficient courage, to have made
the writer of the above paragraphs trai=
tor in arms during the late war, although
no amount of eXertion on his part would
have sufficed to transmit his name to pos
tcrity many shape.-.State journal.