Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-04-25

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-Colored citizens voted few days
since at the Colorado election without
any interruption.
The Ohio House of Representatives,
before adjournment, refused to take up
and pass the Senate amendments to the
eight hour bill, and it therefore failed to
become law.
1t is said that, in accordance with
the recommendation Of Wade Hampton,
one.third of the delegates to be chosen
to the South Carolina Constitutional
Convention will be colored men.
Governor Perry of South Caro-
lima has written letter on the military
governments in the South, in which he
says, "a despotism wisely administered
is the most perfect government on earth,
being the government established by
God for the control of the universe"
In Indianapolis, Ind, the candidates
on the workingmen's ticket also re-
ceived nomination from the Demo-
Gratis, but have declined the latter, pre-
lerring TO run on their own merits and
the eight hour question.
The conservative Unionists Of Ten
nessee held their State convention on
Tuesday, and nominated Emerson Ethe.
ridge for Governor. A number Of col
ored delegates were present, and con-
servative platform was adopted.
Major Tracey of the Freedmen's
Bureau in Mobile has issued an order in
regard to col0red people riding in the
street cars. He tells them to be quiet
and proceed in an orderly and legal
manner, and says that every effort will
be made to have their rights recured and
established as soon as practicable.
The delegates elect to the Michi-
gan constitutional convention are rs
Republicans and % Democrats. They
were elected by assembly districts. The
assembly this year stood IS Republicans
and Is Democrats, showing q Demo-
cratic gain Of 10 in the constitutional
convention,
The Frankfort, KY, Commonwealth
states that ''if any candid Democrat, of
an average quantum Of brains, will ex-
anime page 276 Of the Auditors report
for 1867, he will have the appalling
abolition fact driven in upon his under
standing that Kentucky is S32,638,79l
richer without the negro than with
him"
Robert Toombs, now at his home in
Wilkes county, Ga, says he shall not
leave the country again, but "let US re-
main here, and endeavor by the favor of
God to build up our waste places, made
so by our own indiscretion, and con-
tinued so by heartless and unchristian
majority at the North"
Mr.. George Dawson, for thirty-six
years connected with the Albany Even
ing Journal, has sold q part Of his inter-
est to Mr.. George w. Demers, who for
two years has been the principal edi-
torial writer on the paper, and the edi-
torial control now passes into his hands,
Mr.. Dawson, however, continuing his
connection with the paper as one Of the
publishers.
CoIERIDGB.-The opinion has been ex-
pressed by De Quincy that the intellect
Of Coleridge was "the subtilest and the
most spacious that has yet existed
among men" Yet his heart was not
inferior to his mind. Yet now profound.
| " lonely he was The rich fire of his
fancy and the fatal faintness of his will
made the world dream peopled with
| phantoms. He once characterized him
| self as through life chasing chance
started friendships" Among the lines
he wrote after spending night in thC
house once occupied by the Man of Ross
we read with strong emotion the follow
ing:
| But if like mine, through lfe's distressfu
| scene,
| Lonely and sad thypilgrimage hath been,
And If, thy breast with heart-sick aRguisl
fraught,
Thou iourneyest onward tempest-tosssed il
thought.
Here cheat thy cares in generous vision
melt,
And dream of goodness thou has never felt
His dear friend, Charles Lamb, whC
almost idolized him, said "he had a hun
ger for eternity" No doubt, in the i'm
mensity Of his spiritual isolation from
ordinary minds, when he turned bacl
from baffied efforts after competen
communion, he often felt,
$50 lonely twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be-"
| Aubrey De We're, In the fine poem b
wrote after the death of the Seer O
Highgste, says:
"And mighty voices from afar came to him;
Converse of trumpets held by cloudy forms,
ana speech of choral storms.
Spirits of night and Roontide bent to WOO him
HE stood the while, lonely and desoate
AS Adam when he ruled a world yet found n
| mate
Though It is true that Coleridge ha
! few dear friends, he appeared to live /