Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1868-09-09
Personal and Political.

IN elections.
-Curious-how joining Democratic Club
will take the curve out Of the shinbone and
he kiuk out of the curly hair Of a negro
Governor Page can point to a recollection
By the biggest majority ever given to Gov.
,rnor Of Vermont, since she became State.
The Democratic State Convention met
in Boston on Wednesday and nominated John
Quincy Adams for Governor.
Senator Morgan of New York. is stated
to have said that no September session Of Con.
gross would be held.
Bets are being freely offered with no
takers, at Washington, on 10000 Republican
majority in Pennsylvania.
Since the Vermont election the New
York Heral& is again opposing the Democrat.
ic ticket
-Gcn. Fremont is soon TO publish letter
ON tho political issues Of the day. lie is an
ardent advocate Of Grant
- Some Of the democrats in Mr.. Vallan.
dnpham's district can't stand that gentIemans
nomination for Congress-and they have
bolted.
The Hartford Post says that the only
luck the Democrats ever had in Vermont was
when they carried st. Albons during the war.
That time they came in from Canada
-Gcrrit Smith lutc'y addressed the Grant
and Coliax Club 10 O-wegc and intends TO
speak often during the campaign ia favor Of
the Republican candidates, in whose success.
be- feels a deep interest.
The "pendlctou escort drank $500
worth of whiskey in one Of the New York ho.
tcls and did not pay for IT, The hotel keeper
has charged pendleton with the amount Of
his bill boston 7rareiier.
The Republican nominees for the Legis.
aturc of Wisconsin are very generally m-
.trncled to vote for Hon. Mat II Carpenter
for e. S. Senator, in place of the renegade
DolIile.
-. Brick pomcroy, in his New Yo pa.
per .ay, the whites Of the South must take
ihc oath. for thc sake Of getting the power.
u for they are no more binding than one Of
Liucoln's old jokes
The Ercuing Jolynai says " chat poiit.
cal thunder storm ia Vermont operated upon
the Democratic delegate to the New York
State Convention IS an atmosphcrical tempest
uuc' upon HiliN' A' '"i" "
Aulrlw johnson and Secretary McCul-
loch have at last pronounced m favor Of Soy
mour and BLAIR wh'ie Ten 'iI ana senator
Fowler OF tennessee arc "'o"V"y TOT "l'"l
and No.nN.
AT the con,IuFon Of the great political
reception of Senator Freinghuysen m somef'
Iviuc y. 3D., Che large audience joined in sing.
.vr ..untr.. 't.. Of ss.pGc.
Tho Now York Democratic State Con.
,...,;.,,,,,,, ,t Albany on "Wednesday and
/ Nchtlou h'' "' +N'"N"l =" 10y '
nominated The Hon. John T. Holman Tor
Governor and j. &. b'aeh Tor Lieut. "o'eTD'
or.
VIM ii shriyer, Of Virginia, who sui-
i,rel Tor months 100 Southern prisons, has ad-
dressed the voters of bis township calling 90
hem TO support Grant aud not give the re-
I bells another chance To torture unon soldier.
The Mobile AdrT'iSer take. up the re'
haiu Of Wade ilamptous speech, and says
that Texas, Virginia and Mississippi must
vote, and that the Democracy will see that
/ " che vote i- counted
Here Is a gentle paragraph from the Mo-
bile Tribune Chickens going home 10 roost
Thad Stevens and Brlnorof the New Orleans
Republican are dead. The devil will som
get Brownlow, and then hell viii see sights.
The Louisville .IoiuHal says the party which
laid upon us this monstrous national debt j.
not the one which knows best how TO take II
p off, We agree with the Journal, therefore
we oppose tho Domocrais
49, This Is what George +. Pugh Of OhiC
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uor iil amendment j. !. ~ pan ol tie CoastiiG
r,5s 2 HIRE . i ,, ,I ll n i
7 oyer'lira"n.'
Tho Cincinnati Chronicle predicts q
Republican majority Of four thousand in the
, county Of Hamilton and over forty thousand
r in the State. There are more than twelve
nun i,, ''i"n' ana tanner cluDs ID operation
, M ONO
l. judge Jerry Black lately said that il
President Buchanan had known before bis
death that Frank Blair was to be the Demo
b. cratic candidate for Vice President, the old
mans heart would have broken with iudigna'
ton.
p In the procession az the immense Repub'
lican mass meeting m Bangor, last Thursday
there was battalion OF returned soldiers and
j. sailors who bore their tattered old battle
!, flags and tins significant legend We gotor
=. Seymonr as 're trent Jor L,e.'
!. On the train which conveyed large
portion oftho delegates from the western par
s. OIL ihe state to the Massachusetts, Democratic
Convention delegate proposed a canvass o
'he passengers on political matters, and u
.r was ioena TO pc as follows Grant ST. sey
iionr %
The editor Of the Newport Express say
( a recent personal canvass of voters in distric
/. number sevcn comprising Newport Centre
, slo"s eis I niue VINO promise to vote 10
/, ram anu Oo,i'A anu one lor seymour, -,
3, Suy u's''''' VI d" 'qu'' nu'''oer oi voters Ut
n Oe''ei
"A gulritoI contest taok ulaqn for Rome.