Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-11-04
Personal and Political.

l ing more lhhn ANV NuttIoi WIN" on'"iN
the largest Republican majority. Col. &. H..
Joyce made the presentation speech.
Accounts from Iowa state that there is
no doubt that the amendment to the constitu-
ton striking out the word white" will be
carried by a handsome majority. Forty
thousand majority for Grant is the figure at
which the republicans Of that State are aim
ing.
West Virginia has given four thousand
Rep,5licaa majority, elected all three Ropub-
/ lican Congressman, and majority in the
Legislature Of between thirty and forty
a case is soon to be tried in Indiana to
settle the question how much negro blood
man can have and yet be white. One who
| had only one-sixteenth colorcd blood was re-
iected BY democratic Judges and inspectors as
voter, and he has begun suit against them,
laying his damages at $4,000,
- The official vote of Indiana gives Re-
publican majority of 1859. In Ohio their
majority is 1868 In Pennsylvania 967l
In New Haven Conn, Democratic
/ indorser Of new votes, has his applicants for
naturalization lie down in a cradle and rise
up, that he may swear before the court that
he has known them FROM the cradle up
Six seat. in the Forty-Grst Congress will
certainly be contested those Of Moflat,
/ Reading, and Fostor, in Pennsylvania, Stra-
/ Ter and lioag of Ohio, and Voorhees, in lndi-
ana, all Democrats
The disabled soldiers in the National
] Asylum az Dayton, Ohio Gen. I. lngrahgmi
7 Govornor, voted $50 against Valandingham,
% , in favor.
The lower house Of the Oregon legisla-
ture Is without quorum, by reason of numcr-
Gus designations of lis members.
His admirers will have it that Seymour
/ r. q man and statesman of great foresight
and agacity.' 1t may be So But we
would Ike to know how it was that during
] all the war, and up to its very triumphant
close, he persisted in it that it would be
"a failure"
- George Bliss, member of Congress. from
the fourteenth Ohio district for two terms,
died on Tuesday lie was born at Jericho,
| Vermont
- The Louisville Democrat aunts its
ncghbor, the Courier, edited by General
Buckuer, with having lost the democratic
party five thousand votes in Indiana, by its
extreme course.
Secretaries Browning and McCulloch
refuse to let the clerks in their departments
20 home to vote.
- Persons engaged in naturalization frauds
in Ohio and Now York. are being actively
prosecuted.
-Cynthiana, Kentucky, contains nine
republican voters. They had cosy little
celebration Of the recent victories the other
night, with fireworks and other accompani.
ments. After they had finished, the rebels
of the town bad "a meeting and burned old
Grant in eiligy
Tho White House circles say that Gen.
/ Reynolds is to be removed from ais command
IN Texas, the President having found him too
vigorous in executing the reconstruction laws
Gen. Buchanan is said to be the coming man.
Mr. Stanton after four or Ave years SER
: vice in the War Department, retires from of
fee with his health seriously impaired, his
pecunary resources exhausted, and his pro-
iessional business broken up, even if his
8 health would permit him to attend to it, Few
men ever connected with our Government in
any way have worked harder or rendered the
country more eminent aud distinguished SER
vice than Mr.. Stanton; and it is BY no means
satisfactory to reflect that this has been done
at the sacrifice Of everything that can make
the remainder Of his life comfortable
2 The total vote cast by the three States
) of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana at the
late elections reached the enormous figure Of
: l,5l2094. The same States at the presidon.
,ial election in 1864, cast only l,324,0S4
votes, so that in four years the number has
increased lSS,0l0.
E --Seymenr, in his Columbus speech, ad
{ dressed to producers says he " is sorry to SCI
the fall in the price of pork and corn" We
shall expect to hear quite a different tune
from him when he addresses an audience oil
consumers.
WRONG CrsroNER.--As Mr.. Matthews, Of tn,
firm of eros, & Matthews, Of st. Johnsbury, wa,
driving through Nlarshdeld woods about II
o'clocl, yesterday forenoon on his way to thi,
place, a man armed with large club stepped ont
from his place OF concealment by the rlad, and
demanded Of him his money warning him not tC
move, on pain OF death. Upon the impulse Of
the moment, Mr.. Matthews leapcd from his wagon
. upon the would-be highwayuan, and admins
tered to him 50 severe threshing that he left him
iusensibe in the road and proceeded to Marslield
To send back an officer TO arrest him. BY the time
the officer had arrived, however, the robber had
50 far recovered as to be able to get away, Not
withstanding the ludicrous termination of this
attempt, it does seem as though some effort
should be made to clear that part Of the country
Of a gang Of desperadoes, who are constant fear
and terror to every one. This is, we believe, the
third attempt at highway robbery committed in
that yiciniy-one at least Of which has been sue
cessiul.