Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1869-07-28
Editorial Notes and Comments.

will he found i'm another column by wv
wav. we notice the Free Press 4. Times says
&c II is understood the existing Council Will
submit to the people the question OF ABOLISH
inc the Council" By whom, and Jrom whom
i his &. understood ?" While this is one oil
the subjects to be considered and acted on by
the existing Council, we do not believe Tor a
moment that any conclusion has been lore
sbo1owed We think, with the Middlcbury
Register, that the Free Press had better
c,pdne itsefto the discussion of the merits
of the question, and reserve its prophecies
until after the event.
The Bennington Banner of last week
contained a lengthy and somewhat spicy eF-
no,e of the affairs Oft Soldiers Aid Assocla-
ton. originated in that town year or two
since under the charge Of j. llalsey Cushman
and others, from which it plainly appeared
tbot large amounts Of money had been re-
ceiyed for tickets sold, with no apparent
DESIGN ever to carry out the scheme, refund
the money. or even answer letters Of inquiry
from yictimzed parties. TO this Mr. Cush-
man replies, in the last Banner, that the pro-
iect was conceived in good faith, and carried
on successfully until interlered with by the
long and dangerous sickness Of himself as
well as by the bursting-up Of the celebrated
Gettysburgh Gift Enterprise that not more
than 5000 or $500 in the whole had been re-
ceived for tickets and that more than tins
sum had actually been expended in adycrtis-
ing, printing, travelling expenses, &c. Gc.' as
his books will show He expresses great sor-
row at the result, and deep regret at his ina
bity to refund the tickct-money from his own
pocket: all Of which sounds very we'll but
will be rather poor return to the sufferers
But this result is just about whatmight have
been expected from au undertakings direct
Nv in violation Of the laws Of the State.
The California Republican State Con
vention passed a resolution hyoring universe
suffrage and universal amnesty at the South
and another opposing Chinese suffrage in an,
form 1t recognized the power Of the gen
eral government to prevent Chinese emigra
ton but believed it impolitic to do so a
present. The eight hour law was endorsed
and equal taxation demanded
The Water street Mission in New Yor
city, says the Times, has outlvod the rea,
ton which set in upon it last year. \ hur
j. dred poor women have been taken away froI
i the wretchcd cellars Of that neghborhoo'
: and along with these, fifty druukards hshc
e out, twenty Of whom are earning decor
livelihood The Sunday school has eight
e pupils.
e Brigham Young urges polygamy upc
f the women and girls of his dominion as
, means Of maintaining social morality; b.
cause he argues, if the superhuity Of the f
: male population is allowed to take its chance
4 in the world, as among the d" Gentilcs,' crow,
d Of poor girls will inevitably be led astray.-
= But to follow his advice would only
initiating the behaviour of the reptiles, Ion
ago, when st. Patrick event for them, al
q when
e The frogs committed suicide
To save themselves irum slaughter"
f Mr.. Peabody, in late speech at Sout
Danyers, among other excellent remarks, Civ,
good advice to those who endow or hay
charge of getting up charitanle institutions
any sort He says they are too apt to al
f ply their funds in making splendid show {
architecture instead of providing the esser
tials, like books, and the merely Hecessar
buildings, at the outset-leaving the o.
namentaI and grand to the coming men, wit
their suggestions and improvements
T The friends Of lay delegation in Il
Methodist church are exulting over their I
cent success. Though full returns have n
/ been received, enough is known to give d
: suraucc that two-thirds of the one hundr
= and Fifty thousand votes probably cast, ha
= been in favor of the measure. Much presti
J. is lost however from the fact that not mo
y than 30 per cent. Of the membership Ia
ie yotcd-showing an unacoountablo iudifieren
y, to the whole subject. The work is by
10 means accomplished yet, however, for WI
u has been done amounts only to the expressi
ID Of desire on the part of the churches
as remains for the ministers to vote finally up
i, the whole question but their action G
# hardly be doubtful, when we remember Il
~ they have, as a rule, been the champions
n the measure.
Nv Our railroads add every year more tn
IS. their whole cost to the wealth of the peop
C. 1t is fact proved by the experience of
C. nations using railroads, that there isno inye
~ ment in which the surplus labor of PEG
%. can be more proftably employed than il
at well-placed and well-buit railroad.
ed The Richmond Why seems to hint
~ something more alarming even than me-
Of suffrage when it says" We beg the n
is York World, and all the oyer-zealous De
Is ocratic journals, to let us alone. What
n have done has been done without their aid
'S9' in spite of their opposition. We are m
" indebted to President Grant than to all
by Northern Democrats put together for
RS, deliyerance"
u John Neal once said 4" used to drr
~ but one day | took a glass of brandy o
+ found | liked the taste of it. said to j
ng self, John Neal, when you have grown
&C. like the taste of liquor it is time to stop,
ne and stop did" Not another drop Of liq
~, passed his lips, aud it is believed moth
he could have induced him to drink after ii
ut even to the slipping of a glass of wine.
n The Springfield Republican, after Ike
Sc ing close watch upon the crop prospects
w the various parts the country, concludes t
mr. the yield of this year is sure to be en-
of nous; corn is improving and may still vi
fair return; while the hay crop is eve
nc whore vary haavv and notntoae Tobacco .