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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-02-10
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1870.
The Funding Bill.


People who hold bonds and certificates
OF the government are looking with some
anxiety to the provisions of funding
bill rs it has been evident that such dis
position would be made of the public
debt. Several causes concur in making
this a subject of more than ordinary in.
terest. There are contradictory reports
about the nature of the bill that will
finally be agreed upon in committee as
well as to the feeling of the Senate COM
mittee on finance to funding bill of any
kind. The more recent advices from
Washington give US reason to believe that
Secretary Boutwell, and the committee
have agreed upon measure substantially
as follows: The total amount to be funded
will be fixed at twelve or fifteen hundred
millions. The first series of the new bonds
will bear five per cent interest, to run for
twenty years, redeemable after ten years.
The second series to follow hereafter,
when the first is taken up, after due no.
tice, to bear four and half per cent, to
run thirty years and the third series, to
follow at a still later period, to run forty
years, and bear four per cent, the princi-
pal and interest pledged to be paid in
coin. The amount of the first loan bear
ing five per cent. will probably be limited
to $4OO,OO0,O0O, or possibly $500,000,000
and the time allowed for taking it up will
also be limited, and announced together
with the positive notice that no further
sum will thereafter be offered bearing SO
high rate as five per cent. A part of
the funding measure, the national bank
ing law, will probably be SO amended as
to adapt the basis of circulation to the
rates of interest borne by the new four
and half per cent. bonds, after properand
liberal notice to the existing banks, but
without interfering in any way with their
control over their own fve-twenties, or
other six per cent. United States bonds,
now in pledge to the department.. They
will be left free to take up their present
securities, and to surrender their circula-
tion, if unwilling to continue to bank
upon the amended basis of eighty per
cent. circulation to the par value of the
new bonds, in place of ninety per cent. of
the old.
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There are also many who go beyond these
and insist that the interest right of self
government was given alike to man and
woman, and that right. should be restored
to woman, even If she does not ask for it.
They do not wish the intelligent women
of the State to ask for the ballot any more
than they wished the liberated slave to
ask for it. They believe the ballot will
be as safe in the hands of the educated
women of Vermont as it was in the hands
of the uneducated freedman. 1t had
worked no harm with the latter, and he
believed it would work to the good Of
humanity if put into the hands of the
former. Relying upon the intelligence of
the people, and their deep and abiding
sense of justice, he said he did not think
when the vote is taken that majority
will be found to say that the women OF
the State shall longer be deprived OF the
rights of citizenship.
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THE TARIFF BILL.-The tariff bill was
reported on Tuesday. It is said there is
very little desire to push it in the House,
Mr.. Kelley Of Pennsylvania will take care
of the items Of coal and iron in the debate,
while Mr.. Hooper has general charge of
the bill. Mr.. Schenck cannot be relied
on altogether to support those items and
is reported to have said in committee
that he did not like many items in the
bill. There is no doubt that it will be
mutilated in committee of the whole I'M
der the five minutes debate. There was
great interest in the House debate Tues
day afternoon on the motion to print. Mr.
Brooks desired to get in a tabular state
ment from the minority of ways and
means, but failed. The paper showed that
one hundred and ffty-four millions of
dollars revenue can be raised from thirty
articles, whereas at present one hundred
and eighty-fve millions of dollars are
raised from five thousand articles. The
minority believe that there can be re-
duction of $3O,000,000 without detriment
to the government and with relief to the
people.
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OBITUARY.-The Barton Standard says
We regret to hear of the death of Almon
Roberts of Derby Center. He had been
engaged in mercantile pursuits at that
place for twenty years or more. He was
model man Of business. Upright and
honest, with complete control over his
own spirit, amid the disputes arising from
the multitude of petty transactions in a
country store, he won and kept the re-
spect and esteem of his customers. Re-
markedly unostentatious in his bearing.
his persistent energy, methodical turn of
mind and simple habits, were felt in all
branches of his business and secured his
success. With constitution usually
frail and peculiar from his birth, he ac.
complished in his short life of thirty-five
years an amount of labor that would do
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release of the Fenians. Mr.. Willard of
Vermont made speech on the other side.
he took the ground that it was all wrong
for the Government of the United States
to express sympathy in this way with an
organization which was plotting the dis
memberment of British territory in a
manner directly at variance with the we'll
defined neutrality policy of the United
States. Senators Edmunds and Morrill,
voted against the passage of the Cur
rency bill.
During the tendency Of the currency
bill in the Senate on Tuesday, among the
various amendments was one by Senator
Morrill, of Vermont, which occasioned
general merriment, to provide further that
if after the census of 1870 any State
should be found to have an excess OF
property above the average of all the
States it shall be distributed, at the dis
erection of the Comptroller of the Currency
among such States as may have less than
the average, and this distribution shall
take. place after every succeeding census.
Senator Drake of Missouri remarked
that the amendment might operate very
benefcially for the State represented by
the Senator from Vermont.
Mr. Morrill's amendment was of course
rejected, but was a timely hit at the efforts
that have been made to take away
from New England some of its national
banking capital because it had more than
the average amount.
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THE ENGLISH TELEGRAPH SYSTEM
"A dispatch from London states that the
English Treasury Department has paid
e736,0O0 sterling for the telegraph cable
connecting England with Germany.
England has already under government
control all the land lines in the United
Kingdom, and finding the system a sue
cess has wisely concluded to extend it to
the exterior lines communicating with
the continent. While she is thus spread
ing the benefits of the postal telegraph
system we stand halting undecided on
the threshold.
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killed few days since while drawing
timber from the woods to his fathers
house, when coming down declivity his
load suddenly upset and be fell backwards
upon the ice, the whole load coming upon
him. This happened about 8 o'clock a. M,
and he was not found until 2 o'clock p.
M. five hours afterwards. lie was 20
years Of age.
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VERMONT AT WAsHINGToN.-John HI
Flagg, Esq, of Bennington, now princi-
pal legislative clerk of the United States
Senate at Washington, was on Wednes.
day, admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States.
On the motion of Senator Edmunds,
William Henry Rawle, Esq, of Pennsyl-
vania, was admitted to practice in the
Supreme Court.
AT the pnblic reception at the White
House on Tuesday, Mrs. Grant was assist
ed in her reception of visitors and GU SITS
by Mrs. Judge Poland and daughter. This
reception was pronounced the most fash
ionable and most numerously attended
reception ever held at the executive man
sion. sr
1t is reported that Mr.. Poland has
prepared resolution for the expulsion of
Mr.. Booker, one of the Virginia members
recently admitted. The allegation is that
Mr.. Booker committed perjury in taking
the test oath, and Judge Poland processes
to have ample proof to substantiate his
allegations.
Mr.. Swami, from the committee on
foreign affairs, on Wednesday reported q
resolution on the subject of Fenianism,
the wrongs Of Great Britain, &c. Messrs.
Swami, Cox and Wilson of Minnesota,
all made speeches in favor of the adop-
ton of resolution which would create q
strong public sentiment in favor of the
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BRIsToL.-After five months of wait
ing, during which time they have strug-
gled necessarily to have it otherwise, the
Whitney Company at Bristol has at last
completed its aqueduct, and on Monday
of last week started their factory up again.
-Manley S. Wild, boot and shoe dealer
at Bristol, recently had one leg dislocated
at the knee joint, besides being otherwise
injured, by sled tipping over on him.
The sled was set upon its side in the barn,
and while he was working around, it
came over on him.
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SUICIDE EXPLAINED.-Lieu Edward
P. Colby, who committed suicide at JEFF
ferson, Texas, few days ago, was son
of the late Stoddard B. Colby of Mont
pelier, whose autograph may be found on
certain issues of greenbacks as Register
of the treasury" His suicide is attri-
buted to the fact that for some time past
he had been addicted to gambling and
drunkenness, and had lost heavily. On
the mantle-piece in his room was found a
small Sunday School book on the subject
of the ruinous results of gaming. Writ
ten on this was, Follow the teachings of
this and you will be saved"
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CoRRECTIoN.-In the letter published
in the HERALD on Wednesday from New
York, on ,,"Woman's Position" the word
which was printed "naaste,'," in the fol-
lowing sentence, should have read
smother :"
"Inherent in woman's nature lies the
means of redemption for the race, and it
is only through her ignorance of the right
way of fulfilling the holy duty devolving
upon her as the mother of man, that all
the evil results of man as son and hus-
band, is what lies to-day-until the regu-
lated, unhappy victim, sprawling out in
all directions after what he ought to find
at home"
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APPROACHING WAR IN WINNIPEG

APPROACHING WAR IN WINNIPEG.-It
is now stated that the Canadian authori-
ties are preparing to throw force of men
into Winnipeg early in the spring. The
arrest of Riel and the assumption of the
government by the Hudson Bay Company
has probably encouraged the New Domin-
ion government to make show Of war !;
but if they really mean it they have made
q mistake which they are liable to rue
before they succeed in forcing the revolu-
tionists to terms. The New Dominion is
too young in business to afford war debt
or any larger disaffected population.
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HEIGHTS. - Another reduction of
through freight rates between Boston and
the West went into effect on Tuesday.
The new rates are $1.10 to Chicago, $1.25
to st. Louis, $105 to Cincinnati, 81 to
Toledo, 70 cents to Cleveland, $127 to
$1.25 to Detroit.
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the average amount.

NEW BooKs.-The latest announce
ment by Fields, Osgood & Co., of Boston,
is that they will publish during February
new books by Emerson, Lowell and Bry-
ant,-that of the latter being the first
half of his translation of the Had. The
fifth and final volume of Thackeray's
"Miscellanies" will also appear in Febru-
airy, while T. B. Harte's California Stories
and J. K. Medbury's book about Wall
street, will be published in February or
March, and Miss Phelps new novel, Mr.
Mountford's Miracles" and Adirondac
Murray's Music Hall Sermons are prom
ised for March. The rest of Bryant's
Homer is due in May.
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OFF THE TRACK.-The freight and ac-
commodatiou train on the Rutland and
Washington railroad. which left Rutland
at 4:40 on Wednesday afternoon, got off
the irons about four miles north of Poult-
ney. The second freight car was thrown
off first, and the passenger car next.
They run about half a mile on ties, which
gave the passengers some shaking and
alarm, but no one was injured. The ac-
cident is supposed to have been caused by a
broken rail.
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TEMPERANCE AGENT.-Col. n. G.. Ak
tell has been appointed agent for the Yer
mont State Temperance Society, and as
such is recommended to the favor of all
friends of our common cause. Col. Axtell
served with honor in the Union army,
during the entire period of the late war
for supressing the rebellion of the slave
power against cur government, and is
now engaged in the irrepressible war
against the rum power, the present great
enemy of our country. He is expected
to give lectures, organize societies where
the cause requires, and collect funds for
the use of the State Society, with which
to sustain an agent in the field, and
otherwise to aid in carrying on our great
work.
By order of the Executive Com,
G. M. WILLARD, Chairman.
W. W. ATWATER, Secretary.
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RARE CoINs.-C. Townsend of New
port, N. H, has recently contributed a
number of rare coins to the already con-
siderable collection of Brown University.
Among them is an old coin of the Greek
empire with the date 425, a Persian coin
of the era of the invasion of Egypt by
Cambysses, besides pieces ofSpanish, Turk
ish and Moorish origin.
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to $4,000 a We.
le had of such
lved on was fro
EPIsCOPL.
. 7. K. Beechel
or in Elmira HAY
EPISC0PL.

EIlCNOIL.
The Rev. T. K. Beecher, Congrega-
tional minister in Elmira, having preached
before his own people on Sunday, the 9th
inst, very striking sermon concerning
the Protestant Episcopal church, we
venture to quote as a matter of news,
beginning with his own quaint preface, as
the first extract:
when a General gives credit to his
brother Generals, and ascribes victory to
their wisdom and valor of the army, such
words profit him that speaks, and them
of whom they are spoken" "Of all
Protestant churches the Episcopal best
deserves the name Reformed" 'All other
Protestant churches seem revolutionary
rather than reformed" "The prayer
book may be called substantially complete
as we now have it in 1861" "In this
country the first parish of this church
1606-8" "The Episcopal church in these
United States stands to-day as truly and
regularly in the line of Apostolic success
sion as the Church of England herself"
Brethren of every name, 1 certify you
that you rarely hear in any church a
prayer spoken in English, that is not in.
debted to the prayer book for some of its
choicest periods" GAS consequence of
the prayer book / note: The Episcopal
church preserves very high grade of
dignity, decency, propriety, and per-
manence in all her public offices. In
nearly every newspaper you may read
some funny story based upon the
ignorance or eccentricity or blasphemous
familiarity of some extemporizing prayer
maker. Nothing of this sort ever occurs
in the Episcopal church" "The Episco-
pal church furnishes to all who need such
comfort the assurance of an organic and
unbroken unity aud succession from
Jesus Christ through the Apostles, by a
line of authentic Bishops down to Bishop
Huntington of this Diocese" "What I
say is this: The Apostolic succession in
the Episcopal church can be traced back
80 many hundred years into the dim past
that it is no shame to any man to say, Il
6elieUe 1t to esterad back to Peter Paul and
John" "And since many are profoundly
prejudiced against the church of Rome, I
am happy to point all such to sure
welcome in the Episcopal church, with
sacraments, SUGGESTIONS and authority as
good as the best" .He who for years has
been a churchman, (EpiscopaD aud yet
remains ill-rounded in Scripture, shows
himself an unworthy son of very faith
full mother" ga good school is a dull
place to any visitor who rushes in to find
and excitement. he will call
it dry, peky, stupid. But, in the long
run, the church that steadily trains and
teaches will outlive the church that only
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HARPER's MAGAzINE.-The February
Hafper'S is an unusually good lumber.
Lord Lytton's new comedy in rhyme,
"Walpole; or, Every Man has his Price"
will of course attract attention. Besides
this, Harper'S is almost embarrassing in
its riches, and shows to advantage beside
its contemporaries
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SwINDLE.-Oficial Investigation shows
that towns were swindled out of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars during the
war by paying $500 a piece for recruits
who existed only on paper.
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credit to older and more robust persons
As man of business, his example Is IN
excellent one for our youth to study ana
emulate.
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NORTHERN NEW YORK ITEMs.-Ben-
jamin @. Starbuck, well-known citizen
of Glens Falls, was way laid and robbed
of his wallet containing forty-four dollars
in money, notes and valuable papers, near
his residence on Park street, night or
two since.
Samuel E. Barber of Johnsburgh.
the farmer who set a spring gun near his
corn house, which exploded on the night
of the 4th of April last and killed one
Charles R. Pasco, died at his brothers
house, in Greenfield, recently. A CORES.
pendent informs the Glen's Falls Repu6zi-
can that Mr.. B. has not seen well day
since that occurrence.
Lorenzo Doolittle of Hague was
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HOTEL CoMPANY.-The friends and
members of the Cancels Hump Hotel
Company, met at Morses' Hotel, Jones'
vile, Monday afternoon, the 31st nit, and
made permanent organization of the
Company by electing the following officers
for the ensuing year:
President, Henry Gillett, Jonesville !;
Secretary, N. A. Taylor, Huntington !;
Treasurer, Hon. Stafford Colby, Jonesville;
Directors, Henry Gillett, Jonesyille; J.J.
Ridley, Duxbury; FL. Shattuck, Hunt
ington; Geo. L. Williams, Huntington !;
d. r. Morse, Jonesville.
Nearly $4,000 of stock was taken at the
meeting. The company contemplates
purchasing the Mountain House of the
Messrs. Ridley and, as early as practical
BILE the coming spring, to construct car
riage road to the Mountain House, erect
an observatory upon the summit of the
mountain and place a telescope therein.
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GIFT. Jay Gould last week gave
Princeton College ten thousand dollars for
a fellowship in mathematics.
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e PATENT-John Billiard of Hyde Park
was granted patent, Feb. 1st., for an i'm
proved mitre box.
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FAIRHAvEN.-The festival ..
haven was held on Friday evehin AZ!
large number were in attendance 4
everything every passed off pleasantly aa ,a,s,
order. The hall was apProp.iA,eis ;ag b.
stea with Masonic emblems, includig9sI r.,
celebrated goat and "gridiron. Whit
was a goodly number present .o
hall and other neighboripg Looge
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CHEESE FACTORY IN FERRIsBURGH-
Monday evening, Jan. 31st, an organiza-
ton was effected for the purpose of erect
ing cheese factory in North Ferrisburgh.
The factory building is to be 30x100 feet,
two stories high, and will accommodate
six hundred cows. The building will
cost about $4,000, and is to be in running
order the Goth of May next. The follow
ing officers were elected:
President, P. V. Higbee; Secretary, L.
B. Fuller; Treasurer, H. w. Prindle;
Directors, N. J. Allen, James Squire,
Stephen Ball; Auditors, P. " Higbee, L.
B. Martin, o. E. Stone.
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BRANDoN.-Again we hear the merry
sound of sleigh bells, and again the hills
are covered with snow. It seems as though
winter had just commenced and not its
last month. The young are making good
the sleighing. Three parties were out
last night aud another goes tomorrow
night to Pittsford, where a supper and
good time is expected.
business here is rather quiet now and
money, people seem to think, is tight,
and SO hold on to it like "grim death"
The eighth lecture of theIcourse is to
be delivered on Friday night by DR.. A.
T. Woodward. Subject: Something
that concerns everybody" We are ex-
pecting rare treat and hope the Doctor
will be favored with good house.
On Tuesday a party consisting of
Mr.. Evans, engineer, and assistant, ac-
companied by John Howe, Jr., G. d.
Pitts, z. Nearing and E. FL. Griswold,
took trip from Orwell for the purpose of
looking the country over and surveying
for the Addison County Railroad.
Mr. w. J. Goodnough has sold out
his boot and shoe business to Mr.. Will
liams, and we understand Mr.. Goodnough
is going west.
Mr.. Fairs new dwelling on Depot
street is advancing rapidly, it being but
few weeks since he "broke ground"
Mr.. II. S. Butler has opened a new
eating saloon and restaurant and it looks
quite inviting to the passer by. C.
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SUIcIDE.-Our new York dispas~
contain the information of the suieia'
ON. Bostwick, a well known mercD'
Of New York. He was formerly SCI
partner in the house of Bostwick so
CLARK. He has spent several summer
the Ripley Female College at Poutihs''
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WHITEHALL.-The hardware store of
G. A. Hall was broken into Sunday night
and cutlery, reyolvers and other goods
were taken to the amount of $500 or $500.
"A railroad meeting was held on
Tuesday at Halls hotel to examine the
two surveys for the proposed Troy and
Whitehall Railroad. The meeting was
largely attended by friends of the new
road from "all along the line" There
seemed to be great strife whether the
road should go by the way of Schuyler
vile or via Union Village. A committee
was appointed to decide the route, but no
report had been made at the time of ad-
journment. The meeting adjourned to
meet again at Argyle on Feb. 10Th.
Hiram Green, Esq, lait Gusts of
the Peece," is again on his pins. He has
thrown the balance of his physic to the
dogs and cast the remainder of his Cruel
and "yarb" tea to the swine. Hiram
POLITICALLY says:
Give the physic to the dogs,
Perhaps itIl do 'em good,
Feed the Cruel to the hogs,
And fat 'em we for food
With system clear, head sound and free
From the bile or acking pain,
Ignoring physic and 'yarb" tea,
Hirams himself again.
FIRE.-There was quite narrow
escape from serious fire in Huntington
village, Sunday evening last. 1t origin
ated in clothes press, attached to a bed
chamber in 4. T. Collins hotel Two
young daughters of Mr. Collins discovered
it about nine o'clock, by the room filling
with smoke. They Immediately gave the
alarm and commenced trying to ex-
tinguish it as best they could. One of the
girls had her hands badly burned
DEsTITUTE.-The Abba IN. Y wooden
mills ceased running in October, and the
operatives have been reduced to extreme
misery for want of employment and food.
Eight or ten families have become so des-
titute as to be obliged to keep their beds
for warmth, having no fuel. Troy is
moving in their behalf.
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PERsoNAL.-Mr. Lyman B. Goss, for
merry of Poultney, has recently been APP
pointed the Superintendent of the Eagle
Slate Co. at Hydeville. Mr.. Goss is a
quarryman of ability and experience, and
will, we think, prove desirable man for
the position.