National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1869-06-11

r. ons ible for the following: during i
a recent visit to Washington Hon. I
George Nichols, of NOrthfield, our \
very pleasant and excellent Secreta-
nv of State, in company vain the
editor of one of our leading State !
journals, made call upon Presi-
dent Grant. They had to wait some
minutes for admission, and when
ushered in, found the room so full
of men, waiting for an interview,
that the only evidence they for
sometime had of the presence CT the
: Great Captain, was an occasional
puff of smoke that coiled above the
heads of a thick knot of men at the
further end of the room. Finally
their turn came, and they were III
troduced. Seeing that the Presl-
dent assumed position of waiting,
they Immediately assured him mat
the sole object of their call was simp.
" to pay their respects, for they 'had
no axes to grind,-nOt even so much
as a hatchct.' well, then, gentle
man, said the President, you are
Just the men | want to see. Make
yourselves at home, stay as long as
you please, and be sue to come
again.
GoLD.-There have been, within
a very few days, some important
mineral discoveries made on the Be
del property in Lisbon, now owned
by Reynolds * Oliver. Many very
rich specimans OF ore were picked
up, aud from a pan of dirt, from ~
to So worth of gold was washed out.
A piece OF quartz picked up on the
same vein was pulverizcd, washed
and retOrtcd, and from which % BET
ter showing was obtained than is Of
ten in countries of a much greater
newspaper notoriety as gold bear
lug region, than Lisbon now has.
Both mills have been running for
several days on ore and dirt from
the property in question:.
Thousands Of people gathered at
SmartviIc, California, a short time
since to see mountain blown up
Z Preparations had long been i'll pro.
$ gress for this consumatiOn. A tun.
mel five hundred and seventy feet
long was driven under the noun
; tain. and in it twelve hundred kegs
= of powder were put. The charge
was ignited 10y means of an electro
- wire and the explosion shattered
Z down the mountain and accomplish
4 ell the object of the miners.
n Professor Gabb, government &c
It olOgist of Hayti, who lately went
0 thither from Philadelphia, write
n that the whole people, from the
II President to the native herdsma
t. in the mountains, are in favor OF Al
1t nextion to the United States.
The English parliament is invc'
t tigating the Sunday sale OF news
A. papers in the kingdom, and think
re of compelling the Sunday paper pr
m prietors to publish on Saturday
Six thousand elsOns are employe
in the traffic in London every SUI
90 day.
~ Maine, Iowa, Wisconsin and Mi
a ncsOta each have temperance pa
y ties who intend to run ticket {
their own for State officers at Il
th next election.-We only hope TIL,
nit may be defeated thousand vot
p, to one. The rattle headed individ
a.. ais who think that politics is Il
or pool of Sloan in which the cause
temperance can be made clean TN
perfection, have yet to learn that
he is the surest way to make asses
Ter themselves and ruin the cause. l
zen a pity such men can't be kept
the stocks until they have at lie;
. an inkling of common-Scncc !-E'
" Sho. How some donkeys {
NV ~" bray!
en-.
The Robert H. Randolph, who toua
, if in the navy under Decatur, pull
saw General Jackson'S nose because
dismissed him from the service, "A
superintendent the Washingt
Tor Army when Floyd was Secretary
-oo War, is dead.
res, The Anvil Chorus, with any
md and sledges Us large as life was
lol- hearscd by over 100 Boston tirom'
er! Tuesday evening, for the Peace ,
i'm bilec.
los Judge Bowling Of New York
nr discharged two men, captured W
,hor carpet bags full of burgll
,aht tools, on the ground TIL
Lar it was no offence, legally, 10 ca
.;nn such implements in the day til
'o' He's u lovely embodiment of Just
the New York style.
pri. .,
Y. II is said that n heavy dos'
vim mercury will surely cure hydrop
aud bia. Which will you havcg
TooMBs.-Toombs boasted that
IN would call the roll of his slaves Fl
Mrs Bunker Hill monument, bnt it IL
,nnt ont that he has to call for his lett
reJy mt the hands of the colored poStm
,uar. or OF Macon, Georgia.
The 'last rail- on the Pacific
rs OF aoad is rapidly disappearing III
were the blows of the relic hunters,
say. u new rail will soon be ncccss
Pa, The soldiers icgm TO hammer
day. the fianges befWe the last spike
etc driven.
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