Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-11-04


of House bill to extend the Fairhaven
& Lake Shore Railroad with amendment,
which was agreed 10 third reading or
dered.
Annual Report
OF TEE LIBRARIAN OF THE VERMONT
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
10 tie Vermont Historical Society The
additions made to the Library of our So
Getty for the past year, will be found in
the list annexed.
OF some of the matters which seem en-
titled to particular mention, take the
liberty to make note as follows:
TEHUANTEPEC RAILWAY.
This company, chartered by Vermont
at the last session of its Legislat ure, has
issued its prospectus in volum which
contains also the geography and history
of the route of their road. That is the
very route over which Cortez Grams ported
the material to build the first vess els on
the Pacific coast--in fact, the first inter
oceanic road used-commer.ds the volume
to all inquirers in tracing the progress of
geographical discovery. This route has
all the power of romance in its favor, be-
sides its other advantages.
a chapter is contributed by our associ-
ate, Henry Stevens of Lon don, in which,
If he does not establi "a tho fact. he rem
ders it highly probable that DIR. Kohl, in
Vol. q, Maine Historical Collections, has
taken copy Of the map, made by Marco
Polo, of the Northeast Coast of Asia, and
attempted TO identify the early explora-
tions of the Northeast Cost of North
America, v it'll the coast line of that map,
supposins5 it map of the Coast of North
Americ'
Suc' a mistake would be quite easily
made. For the early yoyagers to the
No .theast Coast of America, themselves
sn opposed, they had reached the Northeast
= cast of Asia, and were very likely to
Use copies of the map of Marco Polo, on
, which to put down and add their own
discoveries
Mr.. Stevens, who takes quite as much
pride in his title of G. NJ. b., Green
| Mountain Roy9 as III his other honors,
may vanquish the voluminous German
in this business of the verifcation of the
early explorations of Maine.
For an elegant presentation copy of this
volume our Society is indebted to Simon
Stevens, Esq, of New York.
LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM JARVIS.
| This book commences with an animated
description of Boston before Feb. 4, 1710,
the day of the birth of Jarvis; traces his
career through his school days to his
establishment in Boston "a a merchant;
his failure by endorsing for a Mercantile
| House in New York, and his commitment
to Jail for debt, upon its paper he had
| signed, az surety; his five years of perilous
but successful voyages and hardships, to
retrieve his desperate fortunes; his pay
ment of his debts; his appointment by
Madison aud Jefferson az Charge d AT
fairs, at Libson, and Consul Cen
eral To Portugal; his various and import
ant services to his government and his
countrymen at Lisbon, performed to the
entire satisfaction of the authorities at
| Washington; his large and commercial
| transactions; his interviews and dealings
with the English and French officers, as
| they in turn possessed Lisbon; his intro
ductiou Of the fine wooded Merino into
the United State-; his return with wealth,
and his establishment at Weather-field;
and his connection with the politics of
! Vermont and the Nation.
! The life Of Consul Jarvis" the name
| by which he is best known, is written by
the loving hand Of a daughter, who saw
nothing amiss in the father she venerated.
Her narration is as interesting to Yer
monters, a. any biography we have read.
1t makes us regret that the powers of
her father. should have been wasted ,at
| Weathersfeld instead of being felt in the
I Il 1 4 IL l..
well expressed in the letters of Messrs.
Walton and Billings, which are found in
the appendix.
As the neighbors of Consul Jarvis could
not conceive how any regular business
could make him 40 rich in about eight
years they were bound to account for it
in some unusual way and they have told
the story, that during his consulate, many
i Spanish Mobiles deposited their plate and
Jewels with him when entering upon their
guerilla war against Napoleon; that many
of these mobiles were killed and their heirs
never claimed the deposits; and that thus
Mr.. Jarvis came into possession of great
amount OF property.
This tale is not noticed in the book,
and we may well suppose it to have no
other found tion, than the uneasy brains
of country gossips.
MEMORIALS OF 4 CENTURY"
This work, by the Rev. Isaac jennings,
bearing the date of 1869, is the early his
tory of Bennington, with its" Catamount
Tavern" "The Battle" and its famous
early Settlers" all 80 noted in Vermont
story
II But its brief statement of the origin,
formation, and written creed of the first
church established in Vermont, and in
1862, furnishes it's most interesting fea-
ture, and is new to most of us. When we
learn, as we do from this book, that most
of the early settlers of Bennington were
Separates that they came to Vermont
TO avoid their religious troubles in Con-
necticut and Massachusetts; that th1v
there had refused to pay taxes to the
standing Order" to support religious
worship their consciences did not APP
prove that this church included such
names as Fay, Fasset and Robinson-we
come to perceive why it was that the
third article of our Bill of Rights 10 en-
phatically declares, "That all men have
q natural and inherent right to worship
God according to the dictates of their
own condolences "-"and that no man
ought to, or of right can, be compelled to
attend any religious worship, or erect or
support any place of worship, or maintain
any minister contrary to the dictates Of
his conscisnce."
h This declaration in 1777, put Vermont
1 in the very advance Of denying the aid Of