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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15
Vol. 65.-3206. No. z
NOVEMBER.

Tho winds are chill, and over all The ground
Autumn leaves are lying crisp and scar,
While IN the air a stiffness all profound
ProclaImi The closing Of another year
The husbaudmau from On the fertile earth
Has gathered In rich store offrut and grain
And Spring has dofcd The msntis Of her birth,
H. russet color spread o'er hin and plain.
The song-biri's noto no longer do We hear,
10 carols sweotly In another cline
While grove and meadow wear an aspect drear,
sadly n contrast with the summer time.
Gone AN Ne freshness Mature, in disrobo,
On the bleak earth her foliage nov has cast,
Whilc mong the pines, In mournful cadence heard,
Comes with it, chilling, angry Winters blast.
Though chill the wind, and hushed the bird Of song
Though bleak the hcld the forest and the glade
Glad Spring viii come again and then prolong
Tho iie ;ha, now scoms dead In sombre shade
Tho brook that trckled on its ocean way
With wit'hnE tone in pleasant summer hour
win bring ncN music when the gadsome May
Shall wake ta life each leaf and bud, and flower.
And thus with mani there comca winter time
When all his summer g. laid bare and waste
Death sots its seal alike on manh0od's prme,-
And youth, and age, and ganered 10 their rest
The loved and gone That 10 yon churchynrd lie,
Beneath The mound that kindly hands have made,
Shall 1.-Two a.aiin In realm beyond the sky
Where frost md chill and deaths cold hand Is stayed
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

NEw ENGLAND AND CALIFORNIA IN Con-
rRAsr.-Here the elder is bush there |
have seen it tree whose trunk is foot in
diameter Here the lemon verbena is fow-
er-pot plant there ii is a bush nine feet high.
Here the mustard seed yields small plant
there il is a tree, often seventeen feet high.
Here we have few grapa-vines in a grapery
there you will find 5000 acres in single
vineyard. Here you will see a single olean-
der identifying a single parlor; there you
will find hundred cumps in full blossom in
a single yard, amid what looks like shower
of roses Here we have the thick green turf
on our soil there they have no turf, and not
dandelion, daughter of the turf grows in
California. Here the sun paints the grass
green there he turns it brown. Here you
see the farmer carefully housing his hay and
little patch of wheat there he cuts no hay,
except to supply the cities, and reaps and
threshes his wheat in the feds, and throws
the bags down to lie all summer, sure that
neither rain nor dew will hurt it.-Rer. DR..
Todd.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

TRUE GREATNEss.-0ne element of human
greatness consists in the conquest of self
Solomon says that he who achieves this con-
quest is greater than he who takes city. To
conquer the disposition which leads man to
live only for his own qualification to be en-
abled, against the habit of years of selfish
ness, to flow out to all within his reach, in
efforts of we'll doing; successfully to resolve
to make common cause with the great wants
of society, and to feel in himself an ever SEN
sitiye sympathy with the pains of all human
suiTering-above all, to acquire the willing
ness to sacrifice, to spend time, money, labor,
thought, for his fellow beings and to do all
this lovingly, ungrudgingly, unweariedly, un-
I'll there blooms on every side OF him pleas
ing scene of rewarded enevolence-this is
an achievement of the principle of greatness
mightier than any which is won upon the
bloody fields Of war.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

IN SORROW.
when thou art sorrowiul, and caros around
Crowd fast upon The steps of happier days
When thou hclicv'st cen hrightcst things can lend
The saddcft scho 10 The gayest Lays
As men uf old were I'D with angels food,
Go, sock Thy remedy In doing good.
When those 10 thee the dearest shall have died,
And each fresh day grows weary DO thine oycsi
Whom every hope that others build upon
Comes 20 Thy sonaos with "a md mrurso-
Take mp the burden Of anothor's grief.
Learn ifom anothors pain thy woes relief
Mourner, bolicyo that 1orow may he hrihcd
With tribute from the heart, nor aighs nor tears
But noblor sncrihcn-oi helping hands,
OF cheering smiles, 0f sympathetic ears,
on have the saddest words the swccicr strain
In angels music lot thy soul complain.
Then Grief shall stand with hnlfavertod foot
Upon the threshold Of a brighter day
And Hope shall take her swectiy hy the hand,
And both kuocl down with Faith tu moekly pray.
Lifted from earth, Peace snail mmurtalife
The heart that its own anguish purl1es.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

Tue TRAGEDY OF LIFE.-Life is a mon
strous disappointment, and death the only
portal to peace. There is not a day that
passes in which virtue does not sell itself for
bread; in which some poor, harrassed or
frenzied creature does not rush madly upon
death in which the good are not prosecuted
and the weak trampled upon. Behind win
dows you look heedlessly at, tragedies red as
any history or fiction ever painted, are being
played, and faces you admire mask with
smiles an inward torture worse than the agony
of the rack. Who, even in this audience, has
realized the fulhllment of his early hope ?
Whose life has not its notifications, its Bit
ter concealments its studied evosions, its
poignant humiliations, its wild uneasiness, its
wrestlings and defeat2 But we do not rep
resent life. We represent the fairest por-
tions and the highest level Of it. Beneath us
is the great mass Of humanity. and they writhe
and moan and weep they toll and starye and
curse and fight and die. The world goes roar
ing on as needless of those who fall as the gale
in autumn is needless Of the leaves it strips
from the tree, or the branches it wrenches
away.--Rep. w, II. Murray
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WHAT EVERY PERSON NEEDS

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ncss Piles Bluoures ilcadache or any form Of
Indigestion, TO use DIR. lARIusON's PERsTALTlC
LOzENGEs ELISHA HUNTINGTON, NJ D., tx.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15
BY j. 6G j. M. POLAND.
For the 1fnnn4.
TRUTH AND FALsEHooD.

nY o. w. HOLMES.
Como, my children, listen to me,
While I toll TO you story,
Which contains lifelong lesson,
Folded in an alogop.
Years ago, when was younger
Than the youngest of you all,
Nothing but little toddlcr,
Scarcely yet ashamed to crawl,
Came 20 mo two lovely beings
On glorIou. summers day
As wondered mid The flowers
Ina idle, chlldliko way.
One was dressed in snowy garments,
And her fco was lily-mir,
Whilst her eyes like blue. wood violets
Bcamcd hcnoath her golden hair.
with smilo serene and gentle,
In nay outstrotohcd hand sho placed
Ivory blocks of snowy whitenas
Golden letters on thom traced.
Dressed iu rainbow hue. tho other,
And her haif wac black aH night
Glowed hcf checks lho mil-blown roses
Meath her dark eyes flashing light
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In ms hand she placed. whlc speaking
Balls ofmany varied hue,
purplc-crImson-.re and golden
Nothing into pink and blue
All were different hut ON onoh,
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Both their rin. with childish longing
In my eager hands ] 1npod
Noyor pauanz 90 consider
What 10 was that 3 thus chspci.
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For gnung ladies.
rmn RAINY NV

nY L0y0rrLLow.
Tho day s cold, and dark and droarys
10 rains, and the wind e mover weary
The vino sim clng- 20 the mouldcring WALL
But iu every gust the dead leaves fall
And the day is dark and drcary
My lIfc Ia cold, and dark and droary
It rains. and tho wind is mover weary
Ny thoughts aill cling TO the mouidering Past
But The hopes of youth fall thick In the blast.
And tho days are dark and drcary
Be still, sad heart, and cease ropin'ng
Behind the clouds is the sun stiIl sbining
Thy fate is tho common late Of all,
Into each liic some rain mast mil.
Some days must Dc dark and dfeary
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15
WHAT SHALL WE DRINK

COLD WATER.
Cold water swallowed during the progress
Of digestion, instantly arrests it, and the pro-
cess is not resumed until the water has been
there long enough to be warmed from the
temperature at which it was drank, to that of
the stomach; or from some forty degrees to
one hundred; to accomplish this the heat
must be abstracted from the general system,
chilling it. Strong, robust persons may not
feel this but if a man in feeble health drinks
cold water at meal, at all largely, he rises
from the table chilly and soon has fever, while
the stomach being kept at work that much
longer in digesting the food, loses its natural
vigor, the digestion is imperfect, and the food
becomes impure, thus lying at the foundation
of disease The inevitable inference from
these facts is, that cold water is injurious to
health, if taken at meals Injurious to the
most robust if taken largely, and to persons
in feeble health if taken at all, beyond few
swallows at a meal.
therefore set it down as a clearly estab-
lished fact, that glass or more Of cold water,
drank habitually at meals, or soon after, is a
pernicious practice, even TO the most healthy.
Injury is done in another manner water,
or any other fluid, dilutes the gastric juice,
and thus weakens its power to dissolve the
food. The amount Of gastric juice is not
lessened, but its power is diminished by its
dilution. The finger will be scalded by dip
ping it into vessel of boiling water; but il
an equal amount of cold water is added, il
may be thrust in with impunity, although
there is as much heat in the mass as before
but it is more diffused.
Any kind of fluid taken largely at meal
or soon after is positively injurious to health
A standing item Of advice to my patients is
take but glass Of water at single meal
or a single cup of weak coffee or tea, never
increasing the strength or quantity, and drink
nothing within an hour after eating.
If cold drinks are injurious at meals cold
food is for the same reason also injurious
thus it is that some of the most terrible forms
of disease are brought on by persistence il
eating cold food exclusively, especially in the
winter time.
WARN DRINKS.
If cold fluids are injurious at meals, W.
naturally conclude that warm fluids, in mod
Grafton, are beneficial, and rightly 20.
1t then follows that if we drink anything
al meals it should be first warmed
We may safely admit that the universe
custom Of country is founded on common
sense, being the teaching of experience
Common sense and the experience Of the civ
iized world is, that cup of good hot coffe'
for breakfast, or cup Of good hot tea fo
supper, is wholesome. Halls Journal o
Health.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Commonwealth writes A" An officer
of the regular army now in this city, told a
friend of mine yesterday that Gen Wool was
excessively addicted to gambling, and in this
way had done more perhaps than any other
high officer to demoralize the service. He
said that he had uncommon luck in gaming,
having won in single season over 100000"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-12-15

4 COUGH, COLD, OR SORE THROAT
n Requires immediate attention, as neglect often re-
suits Ia an incurablo Lung Disease.
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TR OCHES
viii most Invariably give instant relief
For Bronchitis, Asthama, Caauh Consumptiye and
Throat Diseases, they have soothing effect.
SINGERS and PUBLIC SPEAKERS use them to clear
and strengthen the voice.
Owing to the good reputation and popularity Of the
Troohes, many porfes and cheap imiiafoHs arc offered
uhio as good r nothing. BE sure To OBTAIN the t1e
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCHES.
SOLD EVERYWHERE,
qOtl
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The Fairbanks have used, within the
past twenty-five days, for their works and for
building purposes, little over 100000 feet
of lumber. In addition to this 10000 feet
of timber and $4,000 feet of lath have been
drawn to the site Of Mr.. Thaddeus Fair
banks new building, making more than 4OO,-
900 feet in all, The lumber is drawn from
Essex county.
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-27

AS the interest in the ques
ton whether Gen. Banks was or.
dered to relieve Gen. Grant while
the latter was engaged IN the siege
of Vicksburg has abated but very
little since the commencement OF
the controversy, it may be well to
state that there is evidently an un-
derstanding between the five indi-
viduals who have possession of the
facts TO withhold them from the
public. Grant says that all the in
formation he has in connection
with his supersedure by Gen. Banks
are the orders from the War De
partment directing union of the
armies under the command Of him
self and Gen. Banks, and if
Gen. Banks has copies of
orders instructing him to re-
lieve Gen. Grant he has no
objection to their publication. Gen.
Banks says he has such orders, but
refuses to give them publicity, with
or without the consent of Gen.
Grant. He thinks Gen. Grant is
the proper person to give them out.
Secretary SchOfeld says that there
is nothing whatever about Banks
superseding Grant to be found in
the War Department; that if such
orders are in Gen. Halleck's order
book that book must be at army
headquarters, as Halleck was Gen
eral-in- Chief of the army and not
Secretary of War. Gen. Halleck
and Mr.. Stanton will say nothing
at all on the subject, so the whole
matter seems to rest betwee Gems
Grant and Banks.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-27
THE LEGISLATURE AND TsE MILI

Some time since the House Of Rep
resentatives adopted a resolution di-
recting the Governor to disband the
militia, except four companies. Yes
terday the Senate rejected this reso-
luton by majority Of two. There
is less necessity now, if possible,
thag when the House of Representa-
tiFeSadopted the resolution, but the
Senate ishnwilling that the people
shall be freed from the annoyance
and trouble which must inevitably
grow out of lhe presence of militia.
The Senate is willing that the civil
law shall be suspended in por-
tions of the State, and the right
Of trial by jury denied the citizens
Of those counties over which mar
tial law has been proclaimed. The
Senate Is willing that any citizen
of the counties who may commit q
breach of the peace, shall "be tried
by military court and summarily
dealt with" as Gen. Cooper threat
ems. The Senate is willing that
the horrors which have made Ar
kansas a by-word and reproach
among civilized nations, shall be
re-enacted in Tennessee, simply
because the quiet, law abiding citi-
zens ofthe counties upon which the
militia have been quartered are not
Radicals. The Senate has placed
itself fairly and squarely on the
record in favor of the worst posi-
bic policy that could be inaugurated
IN q republican government. If
Gov. Senter annuls the procla
nation declaring martial law and
disbands the troops already in the
field, he must take that responsible
ity himself. What Gov, Senter may
feel it his duty to do in the premises,
we of course do not know, but his
innate sense of justice should nerve
him to protect the people against
injustice and outrage.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-27

THE Supreme Court of Illinois has
recently rendered decision Of cons
siderable importance to insurance
interests, concerning the power of
insurance companies to vitiate pol
icies. The case involved was that
Of a butcher Cor rather the keeper
of 4 meat shop who kept a keg of
saltpetre in his shop, notwithstand-
ing that the terms written in his
policy of insurance declared that
the keeping of saltpetre should
vitiate it. 1t also appeared that on
one occasion, he sold quantity of
saltpetre to a customer. The proof
showed that it was customary for
dealers in meat to use saltpetre in
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-27

1t is stated that some of the
prominent friends of Gen. Grant
proposes to erect an equestrian
statue of him on the Southern por-
tico of the Treasury Department.
A model of the statue was received
at Washington the other day, and
is in possession of Gen. Spinner. 1t
is executed by Boston artist. A
life-size would cost $4,000, heroic
$4,000 and colossal $4,000. The
material TO be composed of cannon
captured by Grant, and the pedes,
tai of granite.
This is another Yankee job to be
done at the expense of the tax-pay-
ers. The Congressman who votes
for it will be public robber. Let
the debt be put in process of liqui-
dalton, and the taxes reduced, be-
fore we are called on. to indulge in
such statuary luxuries. Under any
circumstances it would be better
that Gen. Grant should finish his
pnblic service, and shuttle off the
mortal coil, before this statue is
made.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-27
THE BARRY.LAUCK CASE.

The Supreme Court determined
this case yesterday, declaring the
election of Lauck void. This de-
cision was based on the ground that
no polls were opened in thirty-ive
civil districts in the Chaneery divis-
ion in many Of the civil districts
the elections were held by the Sher-
ifs who were not authorized to hold
them ; that no notice was given of
the election in Macon county, and
this being a special election, notice
was indispensable, consequently in
that county the election was void,
and there were votes enough cast in
that county to have changed the
result this, in connection with
the failure to hold the election in
thirty-fve civil districts, rendered
the election void. The court held
that the issuance of the commission
to Lauck by the Governor was a
ministerial act, and it follows, the
election being void, the commission
is of no validity. Lauck is re-
strained from the further exercise
of the duties of the Office Of Chan
cellor. No opinion was expressed
by the court as to Judge Barry's
right to exercise the functions of
the office. Judge Barry was COM
missioned until his successor was
legally elected and qualified
and it must follow that as Lauck
was not legally elected, Judge
Barry is still the Chancellor and
will exercise the functions of the
office until the legal election of a
successor. We are not advised as
to whether Gov. Senter will order
a special election in that chancery
division, or permit the matter to go
over to the regular election, which
comes off in May. 1t is not inn
probable that he will await the &C.
currence of the regular election,
as a special election could be held
only about month earlier.
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small quantities in their business.
The court held that such customary
use of the article implied a knowl-
edge of the fact on the part of the
underwater; and that the mere
fact of use, in a reasonable quanti~
ty, would not vitiata the policy.
But keg of saltpetre was, under
the proofs, more than reasonable
quantity, and the fact of selling to
customer made the butcher q
dealer in the article to such an ex,
tent as clearly to render the policy
void under its terms.