Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-11-11
9EHhman s. Journal.
WEDNESDAY, NOV ENiBER H. 1868.
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From our New York Correspondent.
Nrw YoRK. Nov. 3, 1868
This Is election day Before the shades Of
evening fall the American people will have spoken
at the ballot box and the leader Of one or the
other great party chosen tn represent the dignity
Of the nation for the next four years EycrvthinQ
is in quiyer Of excitement May the gods grant
that no unsecmy conduct disgrace our citizens
to-day, and that they show no want Of respect
Tor the solemn duties dey0lving upon them OF
course the partisan papers teem with charges Of
corruption, and are answered with counter
charges The 1riilme slaps the World ON the
one check, and the World turns the Tribune
around and slaps it on the other The Times
and the Hrad, the Post and the Democrat, the
COHusrodi and the Mars, all have their filings at
each other and are eagerly cunned hy their ro-
spectiye admirers Crowds thrOnqall the polling
places, and The newspaper corners are alive with
people. On the City Hall steps enough political
truth i- dispersed To make ten generations wise
beyond She present measure Of human wisdom,
and enough VI hlsehood 20 bury the race athoms
deep in ruin. Al the puppets are inmotion, and
dance uimbly at the Jerk and twtch Of the skill
iul wlro-pucrs, who 70 us the greater wheels
with soft and sober tumings while those they
move are hurried with whirling giddincss, like
the lesser ones lt Is s,d to think that IN the
nineteenth century 50 many people should he
''' WIZ IN '''f' wv 'tN at'i'f- ii'Ni'f ah'i va
poet once said
"Avoid the polite, the iactiou- fool,
The busy, huning, talking, hardened maye,
The quaint, smooth rogue, tlnt sins against
his reason,
Call, -aucy, loud selition public zeal
And mutiny, the dictates OF his SPIRIT
But the iaotious iool''-a thousand time. the
rogue he was when Otway wrote, still has his
loll0wers--and still the world wags.
]
| issued AN order 10 the police force, requiring
every man detected la violation Of the mtlmli-
! mtion law 20 le taken before a L $. Commissions
| cr. instead Of police magistrate, as heretofore.
| His order hns raised great cummoiion, but is q
/ sound and good one, nevertheless. The law oi
/ 1915, which, singular as il may seem, has never
| he0n enforced, and never repealed Is the oHly law
/ by which we can be- legally governed ia cases OF
this kind nnd this Is Che Law which krnuody has
promulgated. IL wis dug up a few weeks ago
by the counsel for the board ol police commission
cts, or discovered by Marshal Murray. and kept
q secret, for political reasons The fact VAS made
/ known ~ p member OF the Tribune staff three
weeks ago. bat be was not allowed % publish it.
On the other hand, the Mayor, ON saturday, is
cans very Indignant. as they hold that rs effect
/ will be- % produce disturbances at the polls To
/ guard agninst any serious outbreak, the military
have been ordered % be In readiness at the yari-
Gus armorits the police have received special in
structi0ns, and sheriff o Brien has sworn in l0,-
900 deputies 10 enforce the terms Of Mayor lloi-
| man s proclamation Ihnt there irW be trouble
before night. there can bo no doubt, since the
| sheriff deputies are under the orders ola Demo
critic official. while the police, under Gov. Fen
ton, (who is here in person,) are expected 10 ac
promptly on the side OF Che law. To add u th'
| complication, two members Of the police boart
attempted 90 c0untermand Kennedy 0rder, anl
l.ff flli
gal voting again in the hands Of city magistrate
| who are nearly IL not quite all, opposed 10 th
| Governor. the military, Superintendent Kennedy
the bnni OF commissioners AID thc police. Hap
pily this attempt failed Verify, the -implicit
ot on form Of government is worthy the admiri
tIn Of the civilized world.
That there will BE- a tremendous vote there cal
bo no doubt as there are 1862 ,07O voters names oi
the Registry books in New York city alone AM
go, ,307 In Brooklyn
Well you may say. Is there nothing but poll
ties % write about 10 be sure there Is. W
had the Ex-President of l.iberia with Us GA Sun
day night. and he told US a great deal about tn
little republic ON the west c0ast of Africa. The
Mr.. Edward Kelly, the distinguished foreigner
who escaped from Blackwell's Island in tul
and WIS Of course, washed ashore, has been al
rested, and again locked up in cell, from whic
be cannot emit his fight for long weary days {
ONE. Then, Mr.. kaufman. who keeps oyster
! in every -tNlf ~ilhcNltft IN tht DlNtfNf iaH lft
severely punished for an exhibition OF ingenuity
whereas he should have been hreveted. findin
his gas bills growing heavier and heavier ever
month. he devised plan by which they might b
lightened This consisted in attaching a quit
percha tutc 10 the pipe few feet from the metre
20 chat the supply OF Illuminating fluid cam
directly to the burners without being measured
and without leaving "A record on the metre diaI
. Besides these interesting and important facts,
could tell you how the New York effort To evan
geze Spain is growing stouter every day, an
that the College of Physicians and Surgeons hay
& recently been -windled cut OF $500 by their col
lector, u nice young man from the State Of Maine
and that Anna Dickinson j.. soon 20 lecture q
the benefit Df the working womuns association
q and that Mrs Dr. Major Mary Walker, VII
, wears most ind-puable unmentionahles, is j
town, and that DR. Elizabeth Blackwell deliyere
q Che opening lecture 0i the course at the Nomen'
Medical College last night and TINT this eyenin
our old friend Sparrowgrass, otherwise bred.
T. tuzzens, now in the wine trade, viii read pap'
! ON international Copyright before the Unite
Z States Historical Society but ] iOrhear. | migl
4 tcll YOU that Josh Billings is about leaving us
e begin what he calls his " milk route in Il
r. West and that Kennedy has stopped the begg
e. women from swapping baskets and borowir
q hahies and That the second advenists are still q
? the qH riue for the blowing of GabreIs k,
q buge but the thought that You might doul
& the truth Of these statements deters me, and
= leave the task for others 10 perform by the tin
p this reaches your readers, the die will have be,
4 cast. a new President elected, the country save
Is and everything put in fair trim for another to'
c. years cruise Of the good ship; and they will n
care whether my stories about the =" milk route
and Sparrowgrass, and the beggar babies, a
true or iulse. As to the key-yiyidness Of 4
Adyentists. it would be well for your readers
d ponder the prophecies, for if what Elder SnC
~ tells j. true, there will he much trouble for 81
nors b,l,rr inntr NFRNONTER.