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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-12
H0Iy. TEEE FEORID.s AEI'S
WE'RE FOH.uED.

The wife of Prof. Agassiz has an article in
our Young Folks for February telling
how the islands off the coast of Florida were
formed, from which we make the following
extract:
"Just outside the lower extremity 1f
Florida are number Of islands,-the cas-
ternmost almost touching the main land,
while the western lie a little farther off.
In consequence Of this popularity in their
disposition, the space left between these isl
ands and the Florida coast, marked on the
map as mud flats, is broad and open at the
western outlet, but almost closed towards
the east. 1t is important to remember the
form of this broad intervening space,
stretching between the keys and the main
land, because the narrower and more shall
low end may easily be filed up with sand,
mud, &c. If you will look at the map, you
will see, by the flats at the eastern end OF
this once open channel, that such process
is actually going on. In fact, current sets
towards the channel, drifting into il sand
mud and debris of all sorts.
hope to show you that these flats, being
gradually consolidated into dry land, VIII
at last make bridge between the islands
and the lower extremity OF Florida, uniting
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homely, unrefned wife, and il now asham-
ed of her. Poor man, he Is really In love
with me.' -
"And will all the money you mako fny
you for the degradation you suffer irfe-
turn9 You are a woman of fine inteW =
nm intellect that approachee gonius~ yoit
can command admiration, respect--even
wealth. nv deyofino your gifts TO an homer
able pursuit.,
Her face flushed for a second and then
starting to her feet, and pacing the door iu
some excitement, she exclaimed:
"I learned INV power when IL was tod
late. But Won arc the. last man to upbraiv
me. Do Won know when I discoyored.my
novors as an actress9 Iwiu toll Won. IJn-
dor vour tuition while in baltimore. c1ne
to Won starving. and Won sent me into pri-
vaie families 10 worm out their secrets and
boirav their intentions"
mrhore Won 60 aoain. That WINS in the
servico of vour conntrv and tbe peoplo
nossossed Of tbose sacrois 1yero onr one
mies.n ~
uVhot wos tbe di0arence far sS NV char
octer went9 But I do not rearel--I have
nothing to rearet I bave no friends. ~,
relatives. no country. never knew a man
who did not either insult me or cheat nls.
I never knew woman who had not a story
heart and claws like a cat. hate them all.
despise them all. They would hunt me
down, and so I hunt them down when |
can"
"But you have made money enough, why
not leave this horrible business, and from
out this try and possess your soul in peace
You are young yet-you can have many
years of happiness before you"
"You want me to desist," she said, inter-
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-12
Poetry.
Written for the Vermont Pheni1.
.s.v' APPEAL FR or THE CUH.a.v
RRs.OLUTEO.vISTS TO T.vCLR
SIM.

Say, will you not help us, when Libertys tree
Is planted at last in Isle Of the Sea-
And banners that float on the wings OF the blast
Point bright 10 the future and cover the pAst7
We ash you for aid In the cause Of the right,
We ask you to help us in Libertys night;
From out your abundance ask Of you gold,
And ask of you arms for the troops we've enrolled.
From the cities sbe mountains the shores Of the sea-
They have gathered TO that the land may be free
And we've entered in the battles fierce breath,
That wen never surrender-but war to the death.
And will you not help us9 when fair Italie
Burst asunder her bonds, and declared herself free
The nation rejoiced; and when sinking in gore
The wrath Of the Russian made Poland no more;
When Hungary sank meath the Austrian wars, Isars
There was gloom in the land Of the stripes and the
When green ireland crushed by the mercess foe,
And Crate sank at las. meath the Musselmans blow,
You sympathy gave, and for us have you none,
When the Is the ana their cause is our own
We ask you for aid, great land Of the free
Land Of Washington, Jackson, Franklin and Lee;
Give aid and this hour shall be Lberty's birth,
And Island shall live with the nations Of Garth
Feb. 2s, 1869. ILDEFoNsE DE LEONE
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-12
n PLE.E FOR THE J'ERr HIM.
BILE.
ny PROF. Az. D. CUNNING.

.,.,,, ,,,ro,,,,,, ~, old ,,.,,,o-
-l I ,aoi. narof,iI,, -, tho hnmhlo
49,, .,,., ~, tI,o to,nI,-s,onoso ~
-, ,,.o I'll ,l,or, dr,, hard Ioorless
,1.'.ar,oas Tho,, oro tho brmblest of al
-,..,,, ,,,i,,o,, Tho,,oro ,lc,o, li,,iro in
n,o nv TIL, arc cousips to the Confer
VOC headed Stems oreon or purple which
r,o,,,o tho stagront nool and to the richly
nointod forms which fringe tie rock under
a shallow sea. Less Gorgeous than their
oooo, Cousins tbov are NOT less instructive
,rha,, FIJI n LARGO nloce in tho aconomv of
rotnro Tvervwbere Won will see them
neudert like natriarchal heard from the
iive-oaks of the south and the dwarf-oaks
or Nartba's VINEYARD carpetinn like grass
tho s,rdy folds Of Nontuclxet. ON tbo oras
handler Inv tbe ,vov side. far nm in Anime
s,litudes wherever ledge is stripped of
SNOW. and far mn in nolar solitudes where
mo- other life can 20.
.,,..,,,.,. ,,v.r, ro,,,,, IN. ,,o,o
whcre'er her wanderers range"
Ard that gray Lichen clinging to the
granite serves high uses. Long ago the
uufruitful rock came. hard and naked from
the great furnace below. Then the spore
of IA Iichen, blown perchance by the wind,
found Judgment, and the mystery OF life
hev,n. The spore. itself little cell. threw
of another cell, and Lichen rose, cell
built upon cell, and packed away in fiat
toned disc. Storms have pelted the rock
g.. .n,iilanioas hut those litno coils ,,ero
mipbtier than the storms. The divine
mystery of life was there. and the conserv.
a,i,o Granite welded to the vital cell. At
on, crnmhIo1 away and n liuIe soil was
,,,,a, ~ cor bighar forms of Iia
t,,' ,,o,Id TO- norod And ,ha oar,i
e.t r,licnls in the great conflict with tba
,..,,,,,.,,atr,, of ~, o,oio mos, ,,.oro ,hoso
t.,,.,llo Tiobons no,, h, dov ,ho o,naio,
-, a,', ,,a t,ata,, n..a,,,,,,,. -,
49, I'-D Wv. '',' '''o"lHs ',1
''l '','.'''' Wv 'i,'',' "ee s'"itl,e
~, Wv "s'' " nv Ill,
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-12

Lees report of the Gettysburg battle is
now published for the first time. 1t shows
that Lees purpose in his march into Penn
sylyania was to cross the Susquehanna and
move upon Harrisburg and probably Phil
adelphia.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1869-03-12
General Literature.
- L.fDF LOBRI.EST.

AN INTERRsrISo SKETCH OF THE IAw-MAKERs
OF THE REPUBLIC.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27

WINES AND LIQUORS.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27

grain growing Minnesota especially so; and
grain is now selling very low We are buying
heavily of hardware, steel, railroad iron, tex
tile fabrics wines, etc. ETC., of the Old World;
we want to pay for these partly in grain; but
Europe has had good harvests this year, and
wants little grain from us, and that little at
low prices. Were we making at home the
goods we thus buy from Europe, we should
have an ample market for our grain at good
prices; but they who make SO much of our
cloth don't want our bread hence the West is
embarrassed and distressed. General Jack
son, under similar circumstances, forty
five years ago, said that the
common-sense remedy for such
a state of things as Mr.. Donnelly complains
of was to divert six hundred thousand of our
people from agriculture to manufactures, and
thus create market for our agricultural sta
Piles greater than is afforded by all Europe
We believe that is the common-sense view of
the matter-that the West will yet realize it,
We only ask an open field and fair play, and
with these we shall carry the West, as we
carried it in "a under the lead of Jackson
and in '2S under that of Clay. For every
Donnelly that we lose, inquiry and discussion
will bring TO us hundreds who will by honest
useful, productive labor, and have no sores
to heal on their political heads. We rest con-
fdently on the sound instincts and true
hearts of the people
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27

care is necessary to prevent the legislation
now in progress touching Atlantic cables from
resulting in that way. Mr.. Summers bill,
though satisfactory in its general spirit, is
open to the charge of being aimed especially
at the case of the French cable, and when II
becomes law it may be found some day that
while it binds very closely the French COM
pany, yet that it is carefully worded with rela-
tion to correlative legislation to except from
its position the other cables. If Congress
sional action thus discriminates against the
French cable, it is because the French COM
pany has not yet surrendered TO the Western
Union Company. The only legislation in re-
gard to the telegraph that is safe is such as
apparently Mr.. Wsshburn is ready to PROPOSE
involving the proposition that the General
Government shall assume the control of the
telegraph under the postal power, and con-
struct newlines
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27
MIsMANAGEMENT OF THE NAVY.


From the NJ Y. Sun.
Congress should at once appoint select
committee to examine into the reckless and
foolish expenditure of money which has char
acteriZed the administration of the Navy De-
partment since the accession of General
Grant, and that theinquiries may be thorough,
it is essential that an able lawyer should be
chairman of the committee.
Under the present administration the navy
has been comparatively the most costly de-
partment of the Government, the result, as
we shall show, of placing unlimited power in
the hands of Vice-Admiral Porter, when
nominal Secretary had been provided, first in
Mr.. Borie, and--after he had been driven out
of Office by the force of public ridicule-then
in MIR. Robson, who is, If possible, more
completely under Porters influence than ever
Borie was Borie did occasionally raise his
voice in feeble way, though only to be put
down. Robeson, though he is said to have
been little resolute about the annual report,
does not even whisper remonstrance on more
serious jects.
AS evidence of the reckless extravaganza
of the de fdct0 head of the navy, we may
mention first the removal of the four-bladed
screws from several steamers, and the substl-
tuition of the French Mangin screw, which
has proved an utter failure. The Mosholu,
renamed the Severn, was detained about four
months in the Brooklyn Navy Yard to await
her new screw and after she had been docked
three times it was discovered that the Mangin
screw could not be made to work. The cost
of this single job was undoubtedly over
800, 900, and not less than half a million
has thus been squandered on different ships,
to their serious injury. The Mangin screws
having been removed, plain two-bladed
screws are now put on in place of the original
four-bladed screws. AS the two-bladed screws
| have the same diameters, lengths, and pitches
as the four-baded ones, their motive power,
as every engineer knows, will be less. But as
| it was considered necessary to change some
| thing, the screws were changed first from
| four bladed ones that were the best in use to
Mangin screws that were comparatively worth
| less, and then back again to two-bladed ones
| that are not half as good as the four-bladed if
the vessel is intended for steam propulsion
alone; though better perhaps if sails are to be
used ordinarily, and steam as only an acces-
sorry power.
1t will scarcely be believed that this whole
subject had already been exhausted by the
British Government, which made an exten-
sive and elaborate series of trials of the vari-
GUS screws in use, including the Mangin
screw, with the gunboat Stork and the large
steam frigate Shannon, the results in the
British experiments being invariably in favor
of the four blades.
After trying his prentice hand on screws,
Admiral Porter's next exploit was to order the
conversion of the paddle-wheel steamers Sus-
quehanna and Powhatan into screw steamers.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27
GEORGIA RECONSTRUCTION.
From the N. Y. Nation

rT0UJ HS w II . NuttoIl
Astonishing as the Georgia Reconstruction
bill is by itself, it becomes more SO when one
reads the arguments by which it is defended.
Georgia has been already admitted to the
Union, under solemn act of Congress, or,
in other words, under pledge of the nation,
after having formally fulfilled all the condi-
tions exacted of her by the original recon-
struction acts. What the supporters of the
present bill say in support of the theory that
she is not in the Union, is, that her Senators
had not been admitted to their places in the
Senate, the majority of the Senate pronounc-
ingthem disqualiied-so something which might
happen to New York to-morrow--and this
is gravely given now as a reason why the
General Government may overturn the State
Government, and put the people under mar
tial law, and impose fresh conditions of re-
construction. The expulsion of the negro
members of the Legislature was great out
rage, but the constitutionality of it was very
sensibly, on President Grants recommenda-
ton, submitted to the court of the State.
The Supreme Court has accordingly decided
that it was unconstitutional, and it now re-
mains for the Legislature to abide by the
judicial decision, which it is generally be-
lieved it will do when it meets in January.
But the promoters of the present measure,
apparently having horror of the slow and
regular processes of American jurisprudence,
and being enamored of imperial ways of
settling things, refuse to wait, and have ac-
cordingly passed an act repudiating the legis-
lation of last winter, over which the country
toiled and sweated SO much, breaking the pub
licfaith, and setting shocking example of con-
tempt for law The worst of it is that one of
the excuses put forward in defense of this
high-handed violence is, that it is done for
the protection of negroes and loyal men
against the violence of their neighbors, as if
the way to provide for their protection was
to keep them before tho eyes of their fellow
citizens as the cause of the subversion of the
State government; and as if the respect of
juries and magistrates for the law of the land
could be promoted by exhibitions of Con-
gressional disregard of it; and as if, in case
the public opinion of Georgia cannot or
ought not, be trusted to for the protection of
Georgia citizens, we ought not at once to pro-
vide permanent gendarmerie and Federal
magistrates, armed with summary processes,
instead of cheating the negro and the loyal
whites with airy nothings called ''provi-
sional government" or martial law, things
which have just enough substance to irritate,
and not enough to afford the smallest protec
ton either for life, or limb, or property. Mr.
Bingham made a strong and able protest
| against the farce, but in vain.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27

Two worn-out, old wooden vessels, built
nearly quarter of q century ago, and now
obsolete in model, are to be revamped, the
still excellent paddle-wheel machinery taken
out and broken up, and new screw machinery
put in The cost of these alterations when
completed will not be less than three-quarters
of million of dollars each The new ma
chinery alone will cost about half of that
money. Meanwhile, several new vessels are
lying idle at the navy yards, for which the
machinery about to be placed in the old
paddle-wheel steamers was originally con-
structed. These new vessels are among the
finest of their class ever built, and are dupli-
Gates of the Guerrero, Contoocook, and Pts
cataqua, which have been thoroughly tested
and found to possess every desirable quality
of screw steamers of war.
The Admiral next orders the old sharp
screw steamer Niagara, built by Steers, to be
raced and iron-clad with four and a half
inches of plating the original machinery
to be taken out and broken up, and the ma
chinery now in the Chattanooga to be taken
from that vessel and placed in the Niagara.
The Niagara is of exceedingly sharp model
and small capacity, and so rotten that several
years ago a survey decided she was not worth
repairs She had not the strength, when new,
for an iron-clad vessel, and, of course, will
be greatly weakened by razeeing. The old
machinery, drew twenty-three feet of water,
and the result of the alterations will be to
give to us an old rotten wooden hulk, with
such an enormous draught of water that she
cannot leave or enter any port in the
country, and so weak as to be in danger of
falling asunder in a moderate seaway. And
this wretched botch will be laughing stock
for the world at cost of not less than
$1,OOO,OO0.
The catalogue of blunders could be greatly
extended, but the above examples will suffice
to open the eyes of civilians to the manner in
which the funds of the Navy Department are
squandered. When the Board of Survey bill
is passed, and Admiral Porter is thereby made
q sort of First Lord of the Admiralty, he will
undoubtedly use his power to alter, improve,
and economize on still greater scale, and
the country will find to its sorrow that change
does not always mean improvement. Expert
ence, science, technical knowledge, are as no.
thing in comparison with the vanity of a man
who lmagines he knows everything eg OfciO
and who gives orders to ruin public property
as he would to set sail on ship. Can the tax
payers stand this? Will Congress permit it?
Shall we have First Lord of the Admiralty
at such price?
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-27
FINANCIAL.
An KIN USE OF
JAY COOKE g. CO.,
inst Mortgage z Per Cent. Bonds

one OF the few securities we feel safe in recon-
mendng as good.
The importance OF the route connecting the head
OF the Mississippi River navigation with the head OF
Lake Superior, and receiving the trade OF the fve
railroads centring at St Paul, will insure to this
road large and profitable trade. The Land Grant
Loss, 900 acres-is in itself amply sufficient basis
for the mortgage O00), and all proceeds OF
land sales are applied directly to cancellation OF the
bonds.
The parties in interest embrace some OF the first
railroad and financial men of the country, and Mr.
Moorhead of our irm is one or the Trustees OF the
mortgage.
The construction of the road is progressing rapidly
and the whole line will be completed in time for the
moving OF the crops of 1870.
We recommend these bonds as paying much
larger interest than Government Securities without
the risk OF high premium. We have for sale
SSOOOO0 at the original subscription price, % and
accrued interest in currency denominations $500
and $1,000 coupon). Purchasers this month have the
advantage OF the gold coupon, payable at our Office
on January 1.-The premium upon which is equal to
nearly q per cent, making the price lower than
many bonds OF much less merit now offered to the
public.
We receive in payment Governments and other
securities at their market value, and January cou-
pons at the current gold price OF the day.
12A6t JAY COOKE & co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-08-23
NAVY DEPARTMENT.
BUREAU OF MEDICINE AN
WARRINGTON. ID q A


~ BUREAU OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY,
WASHINGTON, d. c.. August 10, 1859
Proposals will be received at this ofioe for the
erection and construction, complete, Of Q Naval
Hospital az Annapolis, Md:
q hs Of 1ne a.
The Architect, JOIN ScHkTHUs. Ja', i H H%: -:
s1ntn phsSdsPn Where
the erection and construction Of the aior
Bidders desiring to make personal exsmiaatio
ri en- u ss E saf Sssa aesasn1
to be must b
the United States district Judge attorney or col
sUss or 0hsT s to Their
cent that q the ShHe Of the
guaranteed, (should the contract be awarded &c
him or them) shall within ten days of the accept.
the Navy Tor the erscon snd h
struction Of the hospital and its appurtenan oes
and carry through the same 70 completion acosrd
neatieRs abose mentioned.
>, Proposals must state the shortest time required
that. between two or more bids Of equal amount,
the Department will give the preference to that
Payments for the work win be made monthly, a.
It Progresses, upon certificate Of the Architect
Of the Contract have been complied with. the De
pertinent d rsseryine twenty I2ol per cent Of the
,ng. are delivered into its hands, complete, and
ready fer occupancy, according to the terms OF
contract for the erection and ,tructiou of the
Naval Hospital and its sppurtenances before men
ALI the proposals must be addressed to ..surgeou
William NJ. Wood, U. Navy, Chief OF Bureau
Washington, d c., marked Up ropossi Tor Naval
Hospital 1t Annapolis, Nd" and will be spenad
ps.tment at noon Of TUESDAY, August 81. 1853
reject any ell bids not deemed by it satisfactory
or to the intere st of the Government.
WILLIAM n. WOOD,
an IL I'd Chief OF Bureau
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pRoPOsALs FoR STATIONERY,

TREASURY DEPARTNENrl
Sealed Proposals FOR furnishing sTAfioSr Nv
sor tee use OF the United states Custom X ousss
ior ne year nding June 50, 1870 will be receiys1
AZ az snis apartment until the ID day Of septembsr
Blank forms for Bidding viii be furnished u,o,
application. Nsoo
.5 dse ed. y be considered and accepted or re-
0ostr.ct. must be executed by the .ucc.s.su,
90 DO. Wing ~-oe ub"h %
The articles contracted for must be turpi.h.d
rom time 70 time during the year Ga auaptities
pursuant 20 orders from the Department TSe
Each proposal must be signed By the ia diyiduL
or nrm making IL, fbd be accompanied by a bond
WITH sum Gent sureties In the cum OF ten thoussod
noer OF the district In which the sureties reside or
90 business, on form TO be furnished by the De-
par.ment; conoitioned upon the execution OF q
oontreet Ior furnishing such portion Of the articles
% ia s, oe s"sroeo under 10, and the perform snce
All deliveries viii be subject 20 inspection nv q.
eSpert oetaeo Tor the purpose BY the secretsry of
the Treasury; and the sslivery Of an inferior ar.
contract, st the option Of the Secretary
Deliveries must be free Of charge NJ the Treasurv
Department. Washington.
.. The f.ilure e comply With any one order under
entire penalty Of the bond, the Secretary OF the
Treasury may direct the purchase in open m arket
OF such Quantities OF any articles shall be neoes
eefy 70 supply the denctency caused by such failure
the price which IL shall be found necessary 20 psy
forSuch articles ~
Proposals unsccompsnied By o satisfactory bona
vii not De considered, and contracts win be
dealeIstn the articles. GEO. o BOUTWELL,,
az S-eolm Secretary Of the Treasury
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AUCTION SALES.
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to the subgcfibSf, bsaril9 date the twenty.
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h. NO 20, felios &c. %. leud records 81 Wask6ne.
ton county, District Of Collmbia, the following
S,|rds ne rsS sSti1d !. pa city
nun HS%esrss even % IN square nombered two hun
e OF . sae fcr the came
re sostaye:, corner q sid lst and Iunains IRON
isst two inehes 1 b thence north sisbty fsst (,
thence south TO tie place Of bssinsing, Wiz the
improvensnts, Consisting Of too handsome BricS
Terms One half cash; baaanos In nix nnd tNelv.
months, fo notes 1eafznG interest, end secured by
deed Of trust on the premises All oonveysncins
sno revenue stampQ at the cost Of the pufchaSef
SiU down on eeeh house on the day Of sale And
y me eerms OF sale are not complied With within
hvo days after the dap 81 sale, the Trustee -.
serves TIE n1ht % resell the property sk Ne risk
sna coss o. the defAultfng purchaser, By sdver-
eeteS tine In ssns Newspaper published In
OHiBLIS McNAMBE, Trustee
U1-eokds 0R1BN q WILLIAMe, Aucts