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M. PARADoL's VIEW OF THE WAR;
The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press says that the late
French Minister, after presenting his Gre
dentials, called upon Senator Sumner ana
spent two hours in conversation, OF Whlch
the following is given:
"In reply to a question from Mr. Sum
ner as to the duration of the war, Nj. Pa
radol said There may be two battles'
but certainly not three. | should not be
surprised if there would be but one In
the present condition of Europe, one or
two battles must decide every question
To be sure, they will be great battles,
greater than the first Napoleon ever
fought. There will be more men killed
on both sides, but the contest will be de-
cisive. AS to the result, it is impossible
to prophesy. The contestants are nearly
equally matched. Of course have faith
in the valor and patriotism of the French
troops, but it may be that they will be
baaten.'"
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| SAYINGS OF AMERICANs.-Heh has paid
dear, very dear for his whistle-Frank
lin.
To be prepared for war is the most eff
fectual means of preserving peace.-Wash.
ington. -.
By uniting, we stand; by dividing, we
fall.-John Dickinson.
Give me liberty or give me death.-Ii
this be treason, make the most of it.-Pat.
rick Henry.
Rose like rocket, fell like a stick
Times that try mems souls. One step
from the sublime to the Ridiculous,
Thomas Paine.
Few die, none resign.-Jeferson.
First in war, hrst in peace, and first in
the hearts of his countrymen.-Henry
Lee
Peaceably.if we can, forcibly if we
must.-Josiah Quincy.
Live or die, survive or perish. I am for
the constitution.-Daniel Webster.
Be sure you're right, and then go ahead
-Davy Crockett.
The Union-it must be preserved. An
drew Jackson.
A little more grape, Capt. Bragg Gen.
Change of base.-M'Clellan.
Fight it out on this line. Uncondition-
al surrender. propose to move immedi-
ately upon your works.-Grant.
With charity for all and malice toward
none.-Lincoln.
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THE RUTLAND HERALD.
FRIDAY, JULY 80, 1870.
American Securities Abroad.

One Of the last, as we'll as one of the
most important acts of the recent Con-
gress was the passage of the bill provld-
ing for the payment of the bonds of the
United States and the redemption of the
treasury notes, commonly called green
backs, or rather for funding all of the in
debtedness OF the United States by the
issue of bonds bearing lesser rate of in
terest and having longer time to run.
Ever since the close OF the war for the
suppression of the Rebellion this had been
one of the prominent questions, if not the
most prominent which had occupied the
attention of Congress as well as of the
whole American people.
No sooner had this measure been passed
by Congress and been approved by the
President, and the people were expecting
that the practical working of the act
would be the funding of our whole ma
tional debt in one class of securities at a
comparatively small rate of interest,
which would gradually reduce taxation
and bring about return to specie payment
when the breaking out of war between
France and Prussia appears to disturb
these calculations, and as was feared to
put off the resumption of specie payment
and the funding of the debt indefinitely.
A dispatch has lately been received
from Berlin, which, in its effect upon the
United States, or more particularly upon
its finances, may be characterized as one
of the utmost Importance, says that the
Bank of Berlin has agreed to make a loan
to very large amount and take United
States bonds as collateral security. We
think for this reason and for others,
among which is that this indicates that
our securities are considered among the
best, and also for the want of facilities for
direct communication between Germany
and this country, that there will not be
many bonds returned to US from Germa-
ny for redemption or sale, and it is well
known that the people of Germany are by
far the largest holders of our bonds of any
foreign country. Eranoe 10 ~oiy small
holder of our bonds, in fact does not hold
enough to be taken into consideration.
1t is said by those best informed in our
finances, that government bonds have
been oversold in New York to an extent
that will more than cover all that will
come back from Europe, In the next few
months all the indications, both i'll the
gold and stock market, tend to prove this
to be the true situation of affairs.
The operations of the last ten days,
both in the stock and gold market, have
been founded almost, if not entirely, on
speculative impulses and bogus sensation
al dispatches, which have entirely ignored
the true logic of the situation, aud the
relations of this country in the CONNER
cial and industrial bearings and conse-
quenoes flowing from the war.
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DEATH OF CHARLES J. LANMAN.-
Charles ]. Lanman, who died at New
London ON Monday, was born in Norwich
in 1894, and was a son of Senator Lam
man. He was lawyer, and resided for
many years in Detroit, but afterward re-
turned to Norwich. where he was elected
mayor in 1888, and remained until about
IS years ago, when he removed to New
London. He was the father of Charles
Lanman, author of the "Dietionary of
Congress-" and other works.
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EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. -
The Oldest paper in the United States is
the New Hampshire Gazette, published
at Portsmouth. 1t began existence in
August, 1866, and was established by
Daniel Fowle from Boston. The next is
the Newport Mercury, in Rhode Island,
which was started in September, 1853, by
James Franklin, son of James Franklin,
and nephew of Benjamin Franklin. The
Mercury, also, is a weekly. The third in
age is the Connecticut Courant, which
first appeared in December, 1864. The
Courant is now printed both as a weekly
and daily, and was never better than at
present. 1t is was established by Thomas
Green. The fourth is the Worcester Spy z;
and which four are the only papers in the
country which existed previous to the
Revolution.
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gives the total number of books as loo,-
563. an increase of 7775 since the last re-
port. During the year s2,654 persons
have drawn 2O9,228 books. an average
daily circulation of 917, which is by far
the largest average ever reached. Of this
large number of books but 26, or one out
Of every so47, have been lost; The read
ing room has also been well patronized.
117,202 persons having visited 1t, nearly
&c, 600 more than the previous year.
A patriotic German woman of Pitts
field declares her intention TO go straight
to Germany and fight with tho Prussians,
as soon as she can find pair OF pants that
will fit her
Heat and fast driving killed yaiua-
BILE horse for J. Barker s. Brother OF fitts-
field, few days ago.
-Thirty-five cars of ice are shipped
daily to New York from the immense
stock piled up on the borders of Rich
mond pond last spring
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AM EDWARDS REUNION. The de-
soendants of Jonathan Edwards are arrang-
Ing for meeting, to be held in Stock
bridge, Mass, on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, the 9th and 7th Of September next,
ard which viii doubtless be an occasion
OF great interest. Rev. DIR. Woolsey,
President of Yale College e, is expected to
deliver the chief historic al discourse, and
many others will partici pate in the exer-
cises, which are to be continued during
the two days. Stockbridge is chosen, as
being the place where Edwards lived as a
humble Indian mission ary after leaving
Northampton, and whe re he wrot. those
great works which have especially made
his uane illustricus. It is hoped also
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THE BEST SOLDIER IN FRANCE.-As
Won Moltke was hardly known to readers
out of Prussia anterior to the splendid
campaign which ended at Sadowa, the
man to whose brain will be due whatever
of successful strategy that shall character
ize French arms in the coming war is as
yet unnamed. Gen. Louis Jules Trochu
is to-day undeniably the best soldier in
France. He is now ffty-fve years of
age. A graduate Of the staff school of
st. Cyr, he was made lieutenant in 1910
ana promoted to = captaincy in 1843. His
nist stan service was with that fine SOL
oier' bugeaud, in Algeria. Chef d'escad-
ron and major in 1916, and lieutenant
cotonei IN 1893, his frst European SER
vice was IN the Italian campaign. At the
commencement of the .Crimean war he
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that the occasion will be made one for the
dedication of monument to the memory
of Edwards.

LIFE INSURANCE UNDER MAssAcHU-
sETTs LAw.-There is in Massachusetts
what is we'll known among life compa-
nies as the "Non-F forfeiture" law, OF April
10, 1861, which provides that when poll
cy of insurance upon life, issued by any
company in the State, has a cash value
for surrender, and terminates by non-pay-
ment of premium when due, there being
no other cause of forfeiture, the policy
holder shall be entitled to additional in
surance for the term of time for which the
cash value will suffice. Thomas r. Alb
bott, of Lowell, who was killed by the late
accident on the Rutland and Burlington
railroad, was insured in the New Eng
land Mutual Life Insurance Company, on
two policies for $4,000 each, on which no
payment of premium had been made since
February, 1868. But these policies had
acquired cash value to a considerable
extent, and were therefore " non-forfeita'
ble," and the company is liable to the rep
resentatiyes of Mr.. Abbott for the amount
of the policies less the unpaid premiums
Our object is not to call attention to any
particular company, but to show the practi'
cal working of the law among all eompa
nies chartered in this Commonwealth
Had Mr.. Abbott been insured in a compa
- not chartered in the State with per
haps few o---~rtionsl, his policies would
have been absolutely forfeited, and co~aa
quently void. In the present instance
his family is benefited to the extent o
$4,000, under the wise provisions of thu
statutes. -B0St0n transcript.
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tory over heathenism,-"I In Hoe Signc
Vinces Under this sign thou shalt CON
ouer. And the II s are supposed to be
a contraction of the Greekgwork Ihous-
Jesus; or the initials of Ignatius Loyola's
motto, under cross N, SIN Hoe Saius
In this is safety.
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E1PLANATIoN.-The cabalistic le,,s,.
L IL " and l II s, often seen in ancient
churches and upon crosses, ETC. ara ax
Piained In Appseton's Journal. The first
four letters are supposed to be the initial
letters OF the words which the Emperor
Constantine thought he saw in the heay.
ems the night previous to his great vic.
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IHE YACHT RAcE.-The long agony
is over, and she flag of the Cambria floats
victorious on the New York City Hall.
we are sorry. We had hoped the Daunt-
less with her gallant young captain,
would win the race, and in this hope we
were Joined by every American. She has
lost, however, and ths Cambria should
receive all the praise she deserves, and
her owner all the attention he merits.
Large sums of money must change hands,
Tor 1t Is hard to convince betting men that
'he tavorlte can be beaten. The superb
part OF the race is the oloseness with
winch 1t was contested. 1t will long live
IN the annals of yachtdom, but to-morrow
1t Will be an old story elsewhere
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RE-ARREsTED. - A fugitive from
Woodstock Jail, named Sidney Bemis
was caught few days since near his for
mer residence in Baltimore, Vt, after en-
joying two weeks vacation.
It appears that Bemis was committed
last spring in default of payment of $50
fine, imposed on him for quarreling
After a few weeks imprisonment and
good behavior, he begged to be put il
charge of neighboaing farmer to work
out his hne He broke his pledges and
took informal leave of absence, which end
ed in smart chase by Constable johnson
of Springfield, and free ride back to Jail
clad in irons.
The officer and his assistants, to whom
much credit is due for skill and perseyer'
ance, had an exciting search one rainy
night, routing four families and finding
Bemis at last, hid in hay NOW.
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su1PPED.-Eight tons of cheese were
shipped from the Hinesburgh factory,
Saturday, July 23d. Sales of that sent
the week before 13 1-2 IA cts.
Three hundred and three tubs of but
ter, weighing 1862 pounds, were ship
ped from East Georgia, on Tuesday.
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CHESTER. THE hay crop is fully
one third less than last year in this
vicinity. The want of rain in April and
May is the cause. The drought is now of
great injury to the crops and green fruit.
The apples are falling off in great quanti-
ties from the effect of drought and hot
weather..
--Messrs. Blood & Hulett have taken
the job of mason work upon the new
Episcopal Church for $4,000, and Martin
Mcintyre the job of finishing the house
inside, the work is to be of chestnut, for
the sum of $4,000. 1t will be a fine
structure when completed which will be
abont, the first of December next.
The following inscription appears
upon a tomb stcne in the central yard,
which as appears was done over one hun
dred'years ago:
"Here lies the body of Mrs. Susanna
Davis, who was drowned on the 23d day
Of April, A. D., ITO"
~ cruel Mars though End OF fate
Has Robd me of my Loving mate
Her age was Fifty and days two
When from this world her spirit flew
On April 23d mournful day
BY sudden death was swept away
You that behold may plainly see
How Death has Robd and Singled me-"
Mrs. Davis came to her death while at
tempting to ford Williams River on
horseback at place now called Guilds
Bridge near the town line of Rockingham.
The grave of Aaron Leland is also in
this yard and near Chester Academy, and
upon his tomb stone is the following in
sTiptiou:
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An advocate having lately gained a
suit for poor young lady who was ugly,
she remarked, Il have nothing to pay you
with, sir, but my heart" "Hand it over
to my clerk, if you please; I wish no fee
for myself he replied.
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"CoULDN'T LEAyE."-The Benningtor
Banner is responsible for the following;
Two or three weeks since, the service OF
farmer parson in Pittstown, n. 1, were
engaged to attend funeral; but one a
his oxen was taken sick, and so be sent
word that this being the case he couldn't
leave, and they must get somebody else.
There's logic for you
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TERMS $3.50 PER ANNUM

pure source, but grow muddy as they
grow large.
I'm giving aims, let us rather look al
the need of the poor than his claim on our
charity.
DO not trust those who brag much Of
their honor none remains when it is re-
ally needed.
One succeeds better in the world in
concealing his vices than in parading his
yirtuas
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The SECRET TREAry-Aocora;nc .
'eiegraphio reports, France denies the
authorship OF the "seeres Treaty. and
Prussia also disowns it The Frsno. .n
sert That 1t sprang from the fertile b,a;,
of Bismarck, and the Prussiaps ,ns;.t ~, ~
the original was in Count Benedettfs ,w ;,
hand writing. In the present condition OF
ahalrs both nations are not inclined to
rouse the British lion by admitting its
parehtage' England will not rest con.
tented with these evasions, and it is evi.
dent that the British Ministry will be
forced by public sentiment to maks an ex
pheit demand upon both Governments
for full and explicit details.
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COUNTY CONFERENCE.-The Demo
crats hold their conventions for the nomi-
nation of county officers at Bennington, for
Bennington county, August 13, at Guild
hall, for Essex county, August 3, and at
Newport, for Orleans county August Is.
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Reverend Aaron Leland.
Died 25 August,

After being Pastor of the Baptist
Church in Chester 46 years"
Mr.. Leland was many year Town
Clerk and selectman, and was ten years a
member of the House of Representatives
snd then was chosen speaker, he was
eighteen years one OF the Assistant
Judges Of the County Court, and was
fur year a Councillor and five years
Lieutenant Governor.
The good man, the late Leland Howard
Of Rutland, took his name from Mr..
Leland.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-04

BRANDoN.-About forty cords of dry
cedar fence poles were burned, near Bran
don, on Wednesday. 1t is supposed that
spark from an engine caused the fire.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-04

The health of Admiral Farrsgnt has
been improving during his stay at Ports
mouth, until q few days ago, when be
suffered q severe attack Of sickness, and
be is now in dangerous condition.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-04

DIvIDEND.-The Connecticut and Pas
sumpsic Railroad Company have declared
a semi-annual dividend of three per cent
payable August I'd.
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MONTPELIER AND WELLS RIVER
RAILRoAD.-The Freeman says that dur
ing the past week a competent engineer
has been making preliminary surveys,
preparatory to locating and working
survey of this road from the depot in
Montpelier, south-easterly for some few
miles. These surveys indicate that the
road will be finally located on the Mont
pelier side of the river, crossing Main
street near j. W. Clark's carriage manu-
factory and running through nearly the
center of the Hubbard meadow, and strik-
ing across the Barre road just beyond W.
B. Hubbard's farm barn. .--.E ~
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p77T7= AND VI. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1870.

-Messrs. Crane 81 Smith are now
finishing the Congregationalist Parsonage
which will be occupied by Rev. Mr..
Hale. ROLAND.
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FAMILY GATHERING.--A meeting of
the descendants of the late Holland
Weeks will be held in Middlebury on
Tuesday, August 10th, 1870. This fam
lily trace their ancestry direct to John
Alden, who came over in the May Flower.
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Correspondence of the Rutland Herald.l
Letter from Newport, R. Il

Nrpr11sra AND THE GIRLs-EXCLAAiA-
TION POINTS AND PARENTHEsEs-
FASHION WITHOUT THE FoLLIEs-
Hol FOR THE GREEN MOUNTAINS OF
VERMONT - CHARMING WEATHER,
rrrC
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Careless Drug Clerks and Physi-
clans.

Not much difference, one would say, be-
tween "Squibb's Liquor Opii Comp" and
"Squibb's Tinct. Opii Comp" and so a
Brooklyn drug clerk evidently thought
the other day, for he sent the former to a
lady who had been ordered to take the
latter; and as the first is five times the
strongest, and she took the quantity pre-
scribed as dose of the last, why it killed
her-that is all. At Newark, n. j., too,
one day this week, boy went into a
drug store for quinine; the clerk under
stood him to call for morphine, and only
prompt discovery and the quick use of an
tidotes prevented the death of the boy y's
mother, who had taken the morphine,
supposing it to be quinine.
The Brooklyn case has set the papers to
calling again for legislation that shall
compel physicians to write their prescrip-
tions in English instead of Latin, and in
abbreviations at that. Had the doctor
who sent for "Squibbs Tinct. Opii Comp"
written "Suibb's cholera MIXTURE" there
would have been no possibility of mis-
take, and there would be one more woman
living in Brooklyn than there is now.
| The other case seems to have been an
aggravated instance of carelessnees, a
bunder that was as bad as crime, and a
blunder of kind that only too frequent
ly occurs at drug stores. If such mistakes
were oftener treated as crimes and fol-
lowed by the punishment they SO richly
deserve, we should have fewer of them in
the future.
Physicians prescriptions have long been
an object of 1idioule, and to show how un-
certain they are and chow much druggists
trust to guess work in making them up,
it is told that Macready, the great actor,
wrote almost illegibly, and a box-order
which he had given to friend was sent,
for the fun of the thing, to a druggist in
Paris, as physicians prescription. The
assistant, after mixing up some of the in
gradients, was posed by the chirogaphy,
and took the paper to his master, who
readily completed the mixture, and hand
ed it to the customer, with the remark
that it was an admirable thing for cough
price two francs. Of course the story
is mere joke; but it is fact that AN
English ply sician in Paris, on Christ
mas day, wrote prescription for plum
pudding, with directions to the druggist
to send the cataplasm while hot. He no
doubt considered it a very good joke, too.
But this matter of prescription is alto
gether too serious to be the subject of jest.
No man would care to be the victim of
carelessly or falsely prepared prescription
himself, and one of the clearest and best
assurances he could have that he was not
to be made victim, if he had occasion to
patronize the doctor and apothecary,
would be to see his prescription written in
language that he conld understand him.
self.-ipri7aatield Republican.
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A Feast of GhouIs.

THIRTY DRUNKARDs OVER A BLoATED
CoRPsE-How THE "HoUsE OF BLA-
zEs7 DID HONOR TO DEAD INNATE
"A FRIGHTFUL SCENE IN THEFoURTH
WARD.
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PUULTNEY.-The Concert given in
Ponltney, on Wednesday evening, July
81, by the Rutland Choral Society, under
the direction of r. J. Humphry was a
complete success as far as the society was
concerned. The audience was a small
but appreciative one, and they seemed to
thoroughly enjoy the occasion if we may
Judge from the attention paid and ap-
plause given. The following, which was
SUCCESSFULLY carried out was the
PROGRAMME.
PART
/; Bgggi.s Bggggi.s=GhoEus, (; .!2 Mozart's 18th Mass
gathered, uIover.
Misses Olm3tead and Eison.
8. Song.
Geo. @. Day.
4. Gloria Chorus, Mozart's l2sh Mass
5. Duet-In the Strrlight, Glover.
Mrs. Cheney and Mrs. Hathaway.
6. Song Midnight Stars.
Mrs. Stuart.
Miss Burnett and Mrs. Stuart.
PART II.
5. QuOniam-Chorus, Mozarts 18th Mass.
9. Song-Ye Merry Birds, Fred Gumbert.
Miss Olmstead.
10. Quartette-Loved ones at Home,
Mrs, Stuart, Miss Burnett, Messrs. Day and Cobb.
IL. Piano Forte Solo,
Miss Ryan,
II. Et Incarnatus-Chorus Mozart's 18th Mass.
l8. Song-Loves Requeit, Reichardt.
Mrs. Cheney.
ID. Dona Nobis-Chorus, Mozart's 18th Mass.
L, J. HUMPHREY, Conductor.
J. WAssEMER, Pianist.
There was q concert at Salem the same
evening, which in measure accounts for
the small audience at Poultney, as it was
expected that a large delegation would
attend from the former place.
Ii the society should ever favor Poult-
ney with another visit we feel assured
that they will meet with warm recep-
tion and be greeted by large audience.
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LABOR UNION ORGANIzED.-A Labor
Union was organized in Montpelier on
Tuesday evening last, its officers being as
follows:
President, z. N. Page; Vioe-President,
J. r. Seaver; Secretary, D. d. Lum ;
Treasurer, Jeremiah Davis.
The next meeting will be held at Free
man Hall, on Monday evening next.
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POsTMAsTER-C Charles c. Gould has
been appointed postmaster at Elmore, La
moille county, VT, vice Jefferson Smith,
resigned.