Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1867-01-04

his stvo off arguing being unadOrned terse, logical
and always TO the point hence bis high reputation
was founded upon solid attanmcnts, which always
gave him the confidence aud respect Of the Court.
To the law too rather than party politics. he gave
hi. attention SO in politics Doe followed i'm the com
seryatiye line natural to lawyers, who give great
weight to established customs and old authorities.
Naturally inclined to follow his father as a Demo-
crat hc nevertheless opposed that party when Gen.
Jackson attempted the then radical change i'm the
currency, and argued that question in the Watch
man. subsequently as the opponent. of democra-
cy in Vermont began to De radical on the slavery
question Mr.. Pecks conservatism led him TO the
Democratic party, with which he has since affiliated,
though during the war we think be supported the
Administration of President Lincoln Mr.. Peck
served in the stlte Legislature as representative Of
Montpelier; in Congress from 1917 TO 1851. and
as O. $. District Attorney from ls53 TO lS55.
/ Cen Samuel r. Curtis Formerly NJ. C.. from
Iowa, is dead. lie wis on service as one of the
commissioners of the Pacific Railroad
/ Wilmington. vt, ha, six yoke of five year ola
oxen which averagc $500 pounds "each," says the
Banner. Each whnt, yoke or OK
The vermonter. who was Imprisoned in Ohio ON
% charge ofb.ackcaing common sheep and selling
them as merinoc., hls turned tho tables. His
sheep were genuine, and Che prosecutor IS now in
Jail for false imprisonment
Rich copper ore has been discovered in the west
part Of Whcclock.
Hundreds of freedmen have been murdered n
Georgia and South Carolina since Christina. in
1865, and the civil authorities have taken no u5-
uce OF these crimes
Last week "wednesday a young. beautiful and
wealtig Jevess in New York wa. 90 be married to
aweolthy Jow, hut the young lady gave him the
slip and married "a Gentle, poor in worldly goods
but rich in love, a. the young lady thought.
DIR. Livingston has found q tribe in Africa by
whom theft i, punished LIT us exchange for il
some one Of our rebel states where neither theft nor
murder are punished.
The Free Press of Christmas morning gave a
queer copcstenation-th
"Wh1t did Santa Claus brugyn
"Chr-tmas Cruel"
We suppose the Htta Burlingtoniaus were all
sick.
Gov. Fenton's Official majority in Now York is
io,1eo.
Gen. Aaron F. Steven. lRcpub) ha, been nomi-
mated for the 4oth Congress in the "a New Hamr-
shire District 20 succeed Hon. Z. II. Rollins who
declined
The spawn of salmon, placed in Pemigowassett
river, N. H.. are doing well.
1t is said that sand mixed in mold- with silie1,e
ofsoda makes the best of stone for building pur-
poses. and is cheaper thin luArrial stlnc.
Henry Phelps Esq, of lIigasate, was killed by
his horse on the 27th hof Dec.
Gen Curtis Iowa, whose sudden death has just
been announced was born in Ohio while his parents
were on theirway from Connecticut TO the West
Henry 4. Blrne. ofMontpeher was a cousin Its
said the General had been urged to make Kansas his
home, with view to the H. s. scnatorship, but tha
he preferred devote himself to the interests Of th,
Pacific Railroad.
Ia the lst Congressional District OF. n. H. Jaeol
II. Ella is tho Republican canddtte to succeed Gil
man Marston.
Our last little snow-storm was big one South an,
Eaat. Railways blocked and vessels wrecked
The massacre OFT. $. troops at Fort Laramie i
confirmed. They fell into an ambush, and ever.
man was slain, three officers and eighty four men
MIR. W. c scho6ed Of Coventry, VT has tw,
Leicester ewes which for the past three years hay
czech brought him two lambs each year. Tie sol,
the lambs for sixty dollars, aud the wool for TWEEN
ty. His four lambs this year weighed 50, so, 81
and 80 pounds.% lie has also eight cows from
which he has made, since the first of April l20l
pounds of butter, and reared four calves Thi
butter brought him sl90.22. So says the Yer
, mont Farmer.
\ young man in 81. Louis recently wrote to Mr.
Horace Greeley to use his influence in obtaining
A situation for him. Ne received the following
reply: "New York is just entering upon the in
terestng process of starving out 100000 peopl
whom war and irredeemable paper have drive
hither. It is impossible to receive and emplo
more till these are gone"
A gold specializing firm in New York has faile
for 100000. Some people would be glad to fai
for half that amount.
, II any body wants copper-faced, copper-bot
e toned and copper-boded intensely anti-republi
! can monthly magazine, they should send to Va
Erie, Horton q Co., New York. for 'The Oh
i Guard 1t is so "oldn as to be entirely behn
, the times in politics.
Ia Denmark one cannot cut down his own tree
without permit from the Government,
p The Hartford Times gives the following prevail
y ing signs as indications of very cold Winter
n "Wheat high, corn husks thick, squirrels plenty
i mammoth waterfalls and miniature bonnes, an
n all the pretty girls getting married.
A Pennsylvania clergyman who had dabbled
It petroleum, gave out his text one Sabbath morn
y ing saying it could be found in the last chaptC
S OF Acts the last half of the verse, and one-thir
Of the oil,
q The youth of London light their cigars with
!, new invention, called poudre de fite. 1t consist
" OF pyrophorus, which is preserved in small ii
n case, with a narrow oriGce. When a small quar-
tity of this dark powder is poured out on the EN-
of the cigar, and breathed on gently, it become
l. incandesent and lights the pipe or cigars.
Vienna is a city to be envied. The rats in ht
: sewers have been so eilectually destroyed by I'll
" use Of green vitiol that professor in one OF tl
d colleges, who required somu Of these animals fC
= experiments, was scarcely able to obtain them