Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-05-11

opinion, precisely what it claims to be-a journal
Of choice reading selected from current literature.
The editor has the range of all the English aud
Continental Reviews. Magazines. and frst-class
Weeklcs, which press into their service the ablest,
wisest, and wittiest writers of Europe From this
almost immense storehouse, he selects that which
he judges best adapted to suit the TASTE and intel
\ igeuce of the American people. The selections
in the numbers already issued have embraced a
wide variety of topcs-all Of interest to cultivated
minds. and nearly all Of character to be highly
attractive to the majority Of American readers
There have been excellent short stories, thrilling
adventures, exquisite poems, graphic historical
sketches, popular scientific articles such as appear
originally only in English and French periodicals,
racy essays in biography criticism. and auecdote,
In fact, il contains the cream of foreign current
literature, and is offered at price that brings it
within the reach Of all. Each number being com
plete in itself it is just the thing for travellers
aud each number is Of such sterling merit that it
is Just the thing for those who stay at home
Whoever wishes the freshest aud choicest foreign
/ periodical literature, must get Every Saturday.
! It is published by Ticknor d Fields, Boston, and
sold by Ballou, LoyeIand & Co., Montpelier.
The NORTH BRrIsH REVIEW, for January, has
been received from L. Scott & Co, New York.
Among the articles are Palgrave's Central Arabia !;
A Jacobite Family Austria Ecce Homo and
Modern Scepticism; Reform aud Political Parties.
Lest the reader may be misled by the title, we re-
mark that the famous new book " Ecca Homo, q"
is regarded by the reviewer as eondemnatory to
scephcism.
BLcEwoop's MAGAZINE for April, (repriuted
/ by Leonard Scott & Co, n. Y.,) besides fresh
chapters Of Sir Brooke Fossbrooke and Miss
I Maorbanks, contains an interesting history Of
Shrewsbury School, a paper on Demonology, a
bitter attack on the Russell Ministry, and some
reflections by Mr.. O'Dowd.
THERE have been at least two deaths by cholera
reported in New York City so quarantine has
not excluded the disease
/ There are said to be some ten thousand places
in New York where intoxicating liquors are sold.
OF this number it is supposed that about one-haf.
or at least between three and four thousand, will
be suppressed under the operations OF the new
excise law, and these the lowest groggeries in the
city
/ A man in Washington Territory has named an
| infant son as follows John Elmer Sherman-Sher-
idan- -McPherson- HI patrick Thomas Butler-Farra-
| gut Lyon-Grant.
/ large FIRE occurred at Fort Edward, n. -.
May 2, destroying pottery, paper and grist-
mills and machine-shOp.
NICHOLAS GuNDoN, Of Ferrisburg, a man OF
/ high reputation for good things, died the 18th
ult., aged Y years.
Samuel r. and Carlos X. Mansfield aud Henry
/ Depew, OF Essex, have been arrested for stealing
sheep.
/ JEROME SEYMOUR, of Bennington, was forced
/ into the rebel ranks, and killed at the battle of
| Fair Oaks.
/ St Albans butter was down to 40 IS cents on
/ the lst of May.
/ No wonder the Memphis folks are afraid the
negroes will burn the city, since it turns out that
many negro houses have been burned. aud "no
effort was made to quench the fire y but to add
to the outrage, the dispatch saws: thirty houses
occupied by colored people, and all the school
houses in South Memphis were pulled down !" and
I 80 ten persons negroes we supposed we're killed" "
/ Nitro-glycerine is used in homeopathy as a cure
| for headache.
Two million packs of playing cards are annually
manufactured in Paris.
In Mobile they propose to open the markets on
Sunday.
Only iory-three days elapsed before the Presi-
dents message read in China.
The negroes in Memphis are building $4,000
hospital.
The Toledo (Ohio) Blade asserts that there are,
by actual count, one hundred and seventy-fye
different styles of hats worn by the ladies of that
city, and visible any fine day on the street.
/ A man has obtained patent for paper shirts,
to be sold for the of twenty-five cents, and to
be sweat proof
There are twenty-seven chaplains in the navy,
OF whom II are Episcopalians, Methodists, 5
Presbyterians, Baptsts, and Congregatonalist.
/ CoNNEoTIcur. Gen. Hawley was inaugurated
May 2. In his address, be alluded to national af-
fairs as follows
" The war having been a success must affirm
that it effected the destruction OF slavery in fact as
well as in name, the Abandonment, as a rule Of
action. of the perpetual disorgansing doctne Of
secession, security against any taxation to pay
debts contracted in aid of treason, aud full pro-
tection safety and honor everywhere for the rights
of all loyal citizens without distinction OF or
color. These things we're fairly won they look
10 security for the future, and not part Of
any idle claim to indemnity for the past they are
not selfishly sought for class or party, but de-
manded for all mankind and they are essential to
the success and glory of Christian democratic
government"
MANUFACTURERS IN THE EsT.-The
Chicago Republican saws
" More than forty new factories the majority OF