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National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

An awkard, bashful man, who
was getting into a stage at Norwich
a few days ago, pushed his foot
through the hoopskirt of a lady pas
senger. In the course Of several in
gcnious expcdieuts to cxtricate him
SELF, he only succeeded in putting
his other foot through the hoops OF
another lady. Sinking back in seem
ing despair, he shouted I" Hullo
driver, hold on! ] thought ! was
getting into n stage, but ] hnd my
self In q cooper's shop"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

. i. .STEERelEsoeIEyPING 4 TEERelEseIEyP NEWSPAPERS
that our principal morning JOURNALS
are not printed directly from the
type, but from stereOtypes taken
from the regular forms. The whole
time consumed in making the plates
of the four pages of the Sun is about
twenty minutes. 1t is accomplished
thus: Each page is made up in a
separate form on a table in size and
height expressly adapted to the pur-
pose; the legs of this table are fur
nished with castors, and soon as the
form is locked, the table is rolled
into the stereotype room. The form
is then removed to the moulding ta-
BILE; the latter has a hollow iron
bed, the cavity of which is filled
with steam, as heat is one of the re-
quirements in facilitating the opera
ton. After the right temperature
is attained the form is removed
to the imposing table, and two or
three sheets OF peculiar kind OF
paper is laid over the surface of tho
type and they are then beaten dowr
with a brush in the same manner
hat printers proceed in taking
brush proof.
The form is then again slid upol
the moulding table, another and
heavier sheet of paper placed owe
the first; this is covered with a we
blanket, the whole slipped under tn
press attached to the moulding ia
BILE, and the power applied. This i
done almost instantly, when tn
form is again run out, and the pa
per peeled off is complete matri'
of the whole form. A preparation
of French chalk is now applied t
the surface of this paper, when it i
placed into the mould, the hot me
al poured against it, and the plat
almost instantly formed. 1t is no.
moved to the palmer, is cut, route
and justified, and in q few moment
on its way to the press.rOOm. The'
plates are cast in the exact form |,
quired for cylinder press, and al
about half an inch in thickness
N. y. San.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17
Anecdote Of Judge Poland.

Flve-and-twen:y years ago Luke
+. Poland, ID. A. SmalIey, and Josh.
ua Sawyer led the bar of LamOille
County, Vermont. Sawyer had
brought an action for assault and
battery, and had drawn somewhat
prOiix declaration, so that the case
appeared fully as badly OIL paper as
the witnesses for the plaintiff de-
tailed it upon the stand. In his ar.
gupent Poland told the jury that
his brother Sawyer's declaration re-
minded him of an incident in his
own practice:
Some years since," said Mr.. PO-
land, 1" commenced a SUIT of this
.Asr" "Baffaif,' 'vag af. JeS, ,tlh sffEie,At
Major Russell ID. Hyde, who had in
tficted some unjust corporal punish
ment upon Barnard for the trivial
otfense of telling him he was a great
liar. Barnard asserted, and pretty
conclusively proved, that the Major
had struck him blow on the head
with his heavy cane. Barnard,
finding my astute brother Sawyer
retained for the Major, was obliged
to come to me to obtain redress for
this great rrong and injury. was
was young, and entered into my eli.
ent's case with great enthusiasm. l
framed declaration in ten counts,
setting forth the beating, in all the
various forms, and with all verbiage
and Pathological nonsense l could
command; and in the last count
did not forget to recite that Bar
nard's life ,oas greatly despaired Of
| read the declaration to my client
in a voice full of sympathy-almost
as atfectingly as my brother Sawyer
read this to you, gentlemen and
upon looking at my old friend no
ticed the tears were cOursing dOwI
his turrOwed cheeks in rivers.
asked him the cause of his great
: grief. He replied, with choking and
sobbing utterance, that he did not
! know it was half so bad before !"
AS the general impression 7 re
vailed, in the case on trial, that the
} evidence did not quite sustain Saw
yer's declaration, the jury, the Court
and all present were convulsed will
laughter, and many thought tina
Sawyer, though reputed to be :
) great wit, could not get the laugl
: off for this time. Sawyer had near
e W concluded his reply, which wa
lengthy and quite forcible, withOu
l any allusion to Poland's witticism
s and those who had listened wit
e great interest for his heretofore ne'
}. er-failing repartee were in despai
e Suddenly, as if Poland's jem despr
= had just occurred to him, he said
Gentlemen, you all appeared t
be very much delighted when tn
;. learned counsel on the other side n
J.. lated an incident of his own prat
tice. l confess l was not amused
i My old friend Barnard has told IN
G the story so many times, and in tone
If which had no affected emotion, a.
sure you, that could not laug
:, with you, gentlemen. The story !
10 Barnard tells it, has only this di
i ference. He says he wept wht
"a i, Poland read him a very lengthy p
in per; but that paper was not h
in declaration, gentlemen, but Ii
v blu"
n ~ This sally upset everything
Il court, including the supposed il
II perturbable gravity of Judge Royc
n and no doubt largely enhanced t
f. plaintiffs damages--none appearil
.r to enjoy the joke better than Polar
90 90 himself -Harper's Monthly.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17
An old gentleman in Arkansa

An old gentleman In Arkansas
recently presented himself for reg.
istratiOn with his two sons, and the
eldest Of the latter was asked by
the clerk II he could write. mo,
sir" chimed In the old man, " l am
happy to say my sons cannot write.
When ! was o boy my parents sent
me to school, and after ] had got q
little start In the world I endorsed
uots Tor . man, and II cost me all
my property. l then made up my
mind that no child Of mine should
learn to write"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

The reason some persons are left
handed is because the lett lung or
side is stronger than the right but
the reverse is the case with rev ex'
ceptions, and hence most people are
rieht.handed; SO also the reason
why one travels in circle wheh
LOST in the forest, is because the su,
ncrior strength of the muscles OF
the right side draw the body , round 10
unless the attention Is directed 10
some particular point
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

A man on being told by q gener-
ous farmer that he would give him
a barrel of cider, asked him IL he
would bring IL to his house. Ger.
tainly, replied the farmer, with pleas
ure. Well, said the grateful rccipi.
ent, what will you pay me for tue
berrcl when the cider 10 gone
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

on how many crows they can bring
down at single shot. If startled
out of their sleep, the crows fly from
tree to tree and seem quite helpless,
lOOsing in the night time all that
cunning which characterizes them
in daylight. When the firing con-
tinues for any time, they will fly in.
to the open fields and there sleep
until daylight. AS soon as the day
begins to break they quit their rOOst
and fy-nO one knows where. 1t
has been estimated that q crow will
fly hundred miles for his breakfast,
and return after supper, and we
have not the least doubt that many
of the crows who sleep in Kentucky
are citizens of Ohio and Illinois,
We think that about one million
OtVwo oiocp 81 inc iVOsa, anu a'V"'
the last of March they will leave
and scatter themselves over the
Northern States, returning again in
the fall to spend the winter with MS.
A gentleman who has closely OBJ
served them for many years, says
that every year they decrease i'll
numbers, that they are slowly pass
ing away, and, in time, like the poor
Indian, will become n defunct race
on this cOntinent.-Cincinnati. Com.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

Canada has adopted q judicious
severity with regard to applicants
for divorce. They must give not,ce
In the newspapers for six months be'
fore their application can DO rece'V'
I'd,
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

EANcY GOODS and Trimming OF ell kinda.
y zepley's Worstcds, German Corsets,
SSosts spool Cotton In all Nos;, yelycts, En-
hsat1assst q HALLtTtN
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17
WyI. q. HARDY,

Assisted by J. A. Hardy)
WATCH. NJ MAKER AND JEWEL n
BRADFORD, VERMONT,
Dealer In Watches, Clocks and Jewelry Gold,
Wlver, Plated and britannia Wares, Fine Pocket
and Table Cutlery, Spcctacles Rcvolvers and
Yankee Notions. Clocks, Watches and jew.
airy correctly repaired aud warranted Prompt
attention to orders by Express or Mail No. !,
Hardys building.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

LEARN A TRADE.-Stephen Cir
ard had favorite clerk, and he al.
ways said he "intended to do well
by Ben. Lippencott." So when Ben.
got to be twenty one he expected to
hear the "gOvernor" say something
of his future prospects, and perhaps
lend helping hand in starting in
the world. But the old fox careful.
ly avoided the subject. Ben. mus
tered courage: ~ suppOs
l am now free, sir" said he,
"and l thought ! would say some
thing to you as to my course. What
do YOU think | had better do 7"
"Yes, yes, know you are,r said
the millionaire ''and my advice is
that You 60 and learn the cooper's
trade.'
This piece of advice nearly frozt
Ben. out but recovering his equili
brium, he said, if Mr.. Girard was il
earnest he would do so.
81 am in earnest" and Ben. forth
with sought the best cooper il
Spring Garden, became an appren
tice, and in due time could make a
good barrel as the best.
He announced to old Stephen tha
he had graduated and was ready t.
set up business. The old man seem
ed gratified and forthwith ordere'
three of the best barrels he coul
turn out. Ben. did his prettiest
and wheeled them up to his cOun,
. ing room. Mr.. Girard pronounce
them first-rate, and demanded th
;. price.
"One dollar,r said Ben, 'is 8
cheap as l can live BY"
3 "Cheap enough! Make out you
5 bil.n
The bill was made out, and ol
t Stephen settled it with check fO
I $4,000, which he accompanied wit
e this little moral to the story:
"There, take that, and invest
n in the best possible manner; and
+ YOU are unfortunate and loose i
S you have a good trade to fall baC
S upon, which will afford you a goc
= living"
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17

kD GLOVES In Black and Colors, all siscs
n ~ I'D Nitteus for sale 2. .u
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17
.InI.lYlNlsSTON. Il ~

ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Soheiior in Chaneery, LiJe 4 Fire Insurance
Agent,
WEST ToPsHAM, VERMONT.
National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1868-04-17
~ A CARD.

Al work warranted.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03

security and $3.50 cash, which he was empower
ed to perform de ordinance of ceremony And
yit while he could do this, he couldn't vote. 1t
was like sendin Nancy down to de spring to git
oucklt o water, and eff she drank out'n de
abucklt, dey would make her go back to de spring
and git some more. Dey let her git de water,
which she did, but dey wouldn't let her drink
out n de buckit And den when she made bread
Wild her big black hands, and yit eff she took a
little piece n 1t dey'd gin her ghoss. She could
make de bread, but she couldn't eat little
piece'n it.
lie was down in Hanover larst fall which he
was security for a young man. Dere was two
young men which had taken advantage of a
young, lady, and one on EN- got on de yuther
one IS horse and run off which de yuther one
didn't pursue him. When de case was called
before de Cote. de lawyer made speech and
called de young lady monkey right dar before
her lace. AFTER de case was over he went to de
lawyer, and said Look here, man, what
kind o lawyer is you anyways and he said !:
"D-n it man, don't you know | pleads for
money! ?"
AT the conclusion of his remarks Joe Cox
spoke piece. He said that he noticed that
whenever colored man got up to speak in the
Convention, that white members from both
sides, his own particularly, would get up and
leave. He would say to them if they were not
there to vote negro suffrage, and did not grant
it. woe be unto them He intended to make
Virginia drink negro suffrage, broad as the
earth, as high as Heaven, and as deep as He'll.
The Convention then adjourned.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03
National Democratic Convention.

In accordance with the decision reached by
the National Democratic Committee, which as
sembled at Washington, on the 22d instant, a
call has been issued inviting the delegates, ap-
pointed from all the States of the Union, to
meet in the city of New York, on the 4th Of
July next, for the purpose of nominating can.
didates for President and Vice-President of the
United States.
The basis of representation, as fixed by the
last National Democratic Convention, is double
the number of Senators and Representatives il
Congress of each State under the last apportion
ment.
Each State is invited to send delegates &C.
cordinglv.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03
Mr.. Jas. G. Southall's Speech.

Mr.. JAS c. Southall who represents in the
State Convention the District composed of the
counties of Augusta Albemarle and Louisa, on
Monday, the Oath ult., delivered an able speech
In the Convention upon the suffrage question
The Richmond Wing says that it was one of
the best, most carefully prepared and effective
arguments against negro suffrage delivered in
that body and that it was manly, outspoken
protest of Virginian of the highest type, who
has always been moderate in his views, against
the abomination of negro suffrage which Con
gress has concluded to impose upon us, with a
view to the Authorization of our State His
argument against negro suffrage, while conclu-
slve and to the point, was not couched in often
sive language, nor was his condemnation of the
white Radicals, while as cutting as if he had
used Toledo blade, either coarse or unparlia-
mentary. They wited under it, but could not
complain, because the truth, though unpala-
table, was told them in courteous language.
The illustrations of the speaker were scholar
ly and striking, and the same may be said of the
entire speech. He denounced the whites who
are misleading the negroes to secure office as
worse than Arnold or any others mentioned in
history who took up arms against their native
country. In this connection he showed that
there is no Republican party proper in Virgin
la as claimed, but only a negro party, as in the
counties of Albemarle Augusta and Louisa on
ly nineteen whites voted the radical ticket,
while in the city of Richmond, after thorough
canvass at the late election, even with a secret
ballot, they could only muster fifty white voters.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03
Read It.

On our first page we insert at length one of
the most remarkable publications of the day
1t is the strongly impressive address recently
adopted by the Democratic State Convention of
West Virginia to the people. Call it rather an
appeal to mankind, clothed in the solemn and
cogent eloquence of mournful TRUTH calling all
nations to witness the unspeakable sorrow, the
unaccountable folly and the Unreasonable guilt
of this, our own. The man who can read this
without emotion must be lost to human sympa-
thy; and if he could lay it down without res
olution to right these terrible wrongs, to correct
these fearful errors, and to cease these multi
plying denominations, his conscience must be
torpid, his reason perverted, and his perception
of truth so blinded that the spear of lthurlei
could not open his eyes. We commend the ad
dress especially to adherents of the usurping
party Of Congress.
The above, from the National Intelgencer,
contains no ordinary commentator. We earn
estly beg our readers, says the Fredericksburg
Necs, not to neglect to read this long article,
because it is long. We are on the imminent
verge of the dreadfully solemn and desperately
earnest work of delivering ourselves and our
children from the domination of barbarism, by
accomplishing our deliverance from the detest-
able designs Of demagogues and devils in the
shape of Radicals. We verify believed the ark
of civil and religious liberty for this whole coun
try was in the cause of the Confederacy. We
opposed the war, because we thought that the
time had come for US to make new Constitu-
ton and compact, as our fathers did when the
old Articles Of Confederation failed in 'S7; and
we vainly hoped it could be done without war.
With the war and since the war, it has not been
done, although the Constitution of our fathers
is dead. A new one must be made, even if we
have to wade through another French Revolu-
ton to its accomplishment. Ifdastardly fear or
cowardly apathy or criminal indifference shall
prevent US from defeating the coming Constitu-
tion made by these vile wretches in Richmond,
then we shall deserve our fate, and the wrath of
Heaven will adjudge our punishment the appro-
pirate penalty of our vile apostacy from plain
principle and base treason to manifest duty
We say, then, stop sucking in moral poison from
Yankee publications, but seek the truth and do
it, and come up to the help of God and human
ity in this great struggle.
Men of Virginia, awake Arise to the height
Of this great argument, and the terrible obliga-
ton which rests on every man to do his whole
duty,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03
The Negro PARTY,

The Richmond Dispatch says that the fact is
too palpable in the South to admit of debate
that the southern Radical party is merely ne
gro party. The white overseers of plantations
in the South were more numerous than the
white Radicals in the same South are at this
time And the white Radicals are performing
somewhat the same duties that were discharged
formerly by the white overseers. They are
overseeing the misunderstanding them about
their duties-t telling them how they are to
vote-and how to discharge their obligations to
their new masters. who claim their allegiance
and their services by reason of having set them
free, as their former masters did on the ground
of having bought them. The new overseers
are required to be as vigilant and as assiduous
in their supervision of negroes as were their
predecessors They are afraid to leave them
for day without admonition and that ad-
monition always relates to their proper way of
voting. The white Radical breads more than
anything else the probability that the negro
will relapse into some natural weakness of at
tachment for the southern whites, with whom
liey were TdISou, anu VINO treated tnem Klnuly,
and in whose service they were always so much
better off than they are now.
Every Radical, in any position to which he
has been elected since the reconstruction laws,
was elected exclusively by negroes. The
whites, almost to a man, have voted against
Radicals, and must continue to do So It is
impossible that the whites that now live can
forswear their alliances and natural affinities
and transfer their relations and communion to
the black race. Those who enter the arena as
Radicals must become associates and conf
dantes of the negroes if they expect to get any
votes at ALL This every man who has been re-
turned as Radical has done, and this all who
hereafter triumph must do.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03
Latest Phase of Impeachment.

The utter depravity of the Radical judges,
says the Enquirer, is one of the most serious
difficulties in the path of the President. Hence
we are not surprised that Judge Cartier should
have, on Wednesday, fanked the President,
and dexterously lodged the issue, which would
have been at once presented for the decision of
the Supreme Court, had General Thomas not
been discharged from custody The error, COM
mitted by Stanton in causing the arrest of
Thomas, has thus been corrected by his judicial
fellow conspirator, and the delay which the
Radicals so earnestly seek has been obtained.
So utterly reckless are the impeachcrs that
they are willing to eject the President from of
flee although the tenure of office bill may the
very next day be pronounced unconstitutional
The President is to be tried by judges who will
hasten their verdict of guilty, because they
know that the innocence of their intended vic
tim will very soon be established by the highest
judicial tribunal in the land. Their maxim is
to execute their victim and then give his case
an impartial hearing. It's the desperate policy
which not unfrequently makes the savage brain
his prisoner to prevent his rescue, or which in
duces the pirate to blow up or scuttle a captured
ship when an avenging man Of war heaves in
sight
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03

What is the executive department of the u.
5. Government to-day? Is it the Presidential
office OF Washington, or Jackson or Lincoln
No! 1t has been already cut down by Congress
almost to nothing. The President is snubbed
by has military subordinates, his orders are
openly defed and resisted by one of his Cabi-
net officers, forced upon him by the Senate;
and his military interiors, through his civil in
teriors, ignoring him as nonenity, communicate
directly their official proceedings to the two
houses OF Congress. The evident design is to
reduce the President of the United States to a
condition not contemplated by the Constitu-
ton; and, in so far as that is concerned, to re-
volutionize the government.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03

THE SOUTHERN BALTIMORE CONFERENCE
This religious body will meet in Baltimore on
tomorrow Wednesday, 4th. 1t is expected
that the Conference will continue in session "a
bout week. The lay delegates, for the first
time, will meet with their ministerial brethren
as members of the Conference. The body will
be unusually large numbering probably from
l75 to 200 members Several of the bishops
and the board of managers for foreign missions
will also be present.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03
LATEST NEWS.
Especial Telegram to SPECTATOR

At ten o clock last night we received the fol-
lowing special telegram from our regular " ASH
ington correspondent
80 WASHINGTON CRY, March End.
Editors Spectator: After sharp debate the
Impeachment articles passed the House of Rep
resentatives. They will go to the Senate to-
morrow. The McArdle case was before Court
to day. The N. Y. Herald of to-day strongly
onnoses impeachment 1t maintains that the
articles of impeachment will result in the de-
struction of the Radical party.
A severe snow storm is prevailing in the North
and West The snow is reported to be five feet
deep The Western n. Y. trains are showed
up. The statements published in the Wash
ington Chronicle of to-day, of serious misun
derstanding between the President and Secre-
tary McCulloch, are false. A meeting in Phil
adelphia, supporting the President was attend
ed by 10000 people. SIDNEY.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03

The excitement was so great in Washington
on Monday week that the military were forbid
den to attend the funeral of two United States
officers, whose remains were brought to the city
on Friday. The authorities were afraid that
the appearance of armed military on the streets
might lead to serious consequences
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-03-03

The bill changing the so-called re-construc-
ton laws so that simple majority of those vo-
ting in the Southern States shall ratify the
Constitutions presented by the Conventions, in
stead of requiring that majority of the regis
tered voters should vote, has passed Congress-
These Constitutions must now, if possible, be
Uoted doaon.