Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-12-21
Notes and Comments.

/ that most Of them pitch on Mr.. william ID.
Allison Of the lower house as the man. They
might 60 further and fare a good deal worse
Gen. O'Noill, the Fenian leader, is about
to commence a lecturing tour, 10 raise a
public sentiment and funds for providing
homes for his couutrymeu in the West lie
proposes to organize an Irish Emigrant Aid
Society, and to afford facilities to the thous-
auds Of lrishmon now penued up in the lotsc
Eastern cities for settlement at the West.
Senator Drake is pushed out Of politics
Schurz and the St. Louis Democrat were too
much for him. He retires ANONYMOUSLY to
a judgeship Of the court Of claims in Wash
ington, leaving the remaining two years Of
his senatorial term to be filled by democrat
Possibly Frank Blair will be sent to air his
free speech, whiskey, aud profanity in the
Senate chamber
The japanese carpenters are ingenious
workmen, and their work is done with mar
vicious neatness. A curious feature Of their
houses is that they do not contain a nail. all
their joints and timbers being doyeiailed toe
gether by many ingenious devices; and the
whole work, even to the raNers, is as smooth
as if it had been polished down with sand
paper.
"A statement prepared by Treasurer Spin.
ner contains the following interesting cacts :
From July | to November 3d. the public
debt has been reduced $4,000, lO5.00, being
at the rate of sl0,41O, O21.02 per month, or
s3lOl0G.7G per day, during the one hundred
and Gfty-thrce days. From March I 1869.
to December /, 1870, the debt was reduced
l9l,154.75636, being at the rate of s20s.
G79.52 per day.
Some idea Of the literary treasures i'm
pcriled by the siege Of Paris may be formed
from the number of volumes of the chief
libraries The great Library contains l0O,-
600 volumes aud $4,000 manuscripts; the St.
Genevivc 10000 volumes and 1000 manu-.
scripts; the Malaria, 10000 volumes and
1000 manuscripts; the Sorbonne, 10000
volumes and 800 manuscripts; Hotel de
Vile, $1,000 volumes.
The German women make use Of the
post to send all sorts of presents to their bus
bands, sons, and sweethearls. As letters are
permitted up to sixteen ounces in weight. they
enclose cigars chocolate, tea and slippers. A
pair Of these last are sent in two letters. 1t
is said that one woman sent her husband o.
flannel shirt in six pieces, and by six posts.
The last lettcr contained the left sleeve. with
needles and thread for sewing the shirt to-.
gether.
-Garibaldi has left France, throwing up
his command, because some French influences
are adverse to him. 1t lessons ones sympa.
thy with the French when one secs how SER
vile they are to superstition They ought
to be glad of any aid they can get against
the Germans, and yet they have discarded
the best man who went to their assistance.
because certain fanatics do not ike him. Is
it for them to say what their friends shall be.
lieve?
Michigan elects United States Senator
Jan. ., and the Gght for the place is so far
considerably mixed The present Senator.
j. NJ. Howard, ia native Of Vermont by the
way is candidate for reelection, T. W.
Ferry and Austin Blair, now members of the
House, would like to go up higher, and W.
A. Howard, from the western part of the
State, is making bold push for election.
No one Of the candidates now has majority
Of the Legislature, and it is impossible to tell
what combination will be made before the
decisive day.
The resolution for the impeachment Of
Gov. Holden, which was introduced in the
North Carolina legislature on Friday, pass
ed the House, yesterday, by vote Of 60 to
l3, and the matter will be pushed forward as
fast as the legal processes will allow A
committee will, to-day inform the Senate Of
the action of the House and another com.
mittee of seven will be appointed to draft
articles of impeachment. According to a
State law, the Governor will be suspended
from Office as soon as he is arraigned before
the Senste. Chief Justice Pearson of the
supreme court will preside at the trial.
AT the Congressional Convention in the
first New Hampshire district, Wednesday,
there were four ballots for a republican can.
didate, and on the final one the friends of Mr..
Ella, the present member, and Mr.. Gordon,
united upon William b. Small of New Mar
ket, LAWYER who has not been much in DO.
litical life, and nominated him by 100 votes
to ll2 for Samuel NJ Wheeler of Dover.
The nomination will probably unite the repub.
licans of the district, John p. Hale nd.
dressed the convention, and was warmly re.
ceiyed by his old constituents, who have not
forgotten, in the events of his later life, his
fidelity to them quarter of century ago.
Now that Mr.. Cattell of New Jersey
declines to return to the Senate, plan has
been preached to settle the existing political
difficulties in the State as follows The New
Jersey Republicans, with the approval of
both Mr.. Cattell and Mr. Frcinghuysen, will
support Mr. Robson for the Senate. MIR.
Robson is not voluntary candidate but
may be induced to accept the place in the
interests of the Republican party. The va
caucy thus made in the Cabinet will, there is
good reason to believe, be filled by Mr.. SEQ
field, present chairman of the House naval
committee
Now let us have vigorous work in that
Judicial body known by the high.sounding
title of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia MIR. Roderck h. Butler, mem.