Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-08-03
Notes and Comments.

last week. there were many uuath' iiV'" s""
stroke. More than 1850 such deaths have oc-
CURED in New York city alone in the last
month
/ Gold quotations have been well up this
week The gamblers see in the European
troubles a special intcrpositon in their be-
half. Had resumption been wrought, as it
should have been, this sort of gambling would
have been at an end.
The Scythc Manufacturers of the country
held Convention at Springfield, Mass, on
Monday The principal object seems to have
been to do away with the tcarrantiag Of
scythos. Movers must now buy their blades
on their own responsibility.
wednesday was day of fasting and
prayer in Prussia Both parties rely on
heaven for aid, and appeal to heaven. Thus
they invoke, after the old medieval fashion,
the " judgment Of God" One Of them must
be disappointed,-aud perhaps both will be-
The monetary disturbances in the London
markets occasioned by the war have not aba
ted. There have been tbirty-six failures on
the Stock Exchange since the beginning Of the
war panic The depression in the Liverpool
market is still very great
internal revenue receipts for July
amount to s2OOO0,O0O and as the customs
revenue must have yielded as much more, es-
timatng their amount in currency, the total
income is s40,OO0O00, in very dull month.
This is at the rate Of $3.50, 600 year,
"a decidedly great income for time of
peace.
We think the government can very well
afford to " let up on the excessive taxation
with which it has so long burdened the peo-
pie. The actual receipts of the Government
for the year ending june 80, 1870, were
s40S,OO00O0; the expenses were 100000,
GOO, showing an actual saving in round num-
bcrs of sll6,0OO00O.
Jefferson Davis is reported to be sum
meriug on Lookout Mountain, in Tennessee
"A sorry lookout for him-wherc the IA
nous battle was fought above the clouds 1t
is announced that he will soon come east via.
Washington his first visit since Gland
sail for Europe. Like all other disappointed
men, JEFF. is supposed not to be very happy.
The investigation Of the facts Of the re-
cent accident on the Northern New llamp-
shire railroad, under the form Of trial at
Lebanon Of George W. Barnes for man
slaughter, resulted in the discharge Of the
accused by the court, on motion of the At
torney General Immediately after the evil
deucc for the defence had been heard, aud
before the ease was given to the jury
In the Territory Of Wyoming the gem
tier sex are permitted to vote at the popular
election, and to sit on juries 1t is now
talked Of electing delegate to Congress in
the person of "A woman. BY all means let
her be sent to Congress The advocates of
female suffrage have always claimed that wo-
men would purify the body polite Let
them experiment on Congress 1t is fit
subject If successful, the claim will be full
ly acknowledged
The Emperor's motive in recalling the
French troops from Rome would seem to be
double one. In the first place, it gives him
an excellent opportunity to make good his viii
lon threat to the Pope that if iniallibility
were determined upon, he would be left to
shift for himself aud in the next place, it
enables him, at the same time, to keep the
King of Italy on his side 1t will also give
him larger force with which to operate in
Germany.
Baron Gerolt the Prussian Minister, for.
mally acknowledges Secretary Fish's note de.
fning the position of the United States rela.
tive to the rights Of ncutrals and the exemp.
ton Of property from seizure on the high seas
il time of war, aud expresses the hope that
this nation will use their high position and
influence to obtain as principle of interua-
tional law the universal acknowledgment of
the liberal policy of the United States in re-
gard to private property on the high seas
The commissioner of pensions at Wash.
ington is doing good work in investigating
into the frauds upon pensioners. The arrest
OF sixteen attorneys was reported the other
day and now five more have been detected in
swindling and arrested Quite q number
had good standing in their neighborhoods,
and one is prominent member Of a state
Legislature. Among the gross Irregularities
lately brought to light in these matters, one
member of Congress from Tennessee and one
member elect from Georgia are also badly
compromised
The international yacht match between
the English yacht Cambria, owned by Mr..
Ashbury, and the American yacht Dauatless
owned by Mr. james Gordon Bennett, Jr.,
was won by the Cambria by seventy minutes
The time made by the Cambria was twenty.
three days, six hours and forty-fye minutes.
Both vessels experienced very rough pas.
sages, and the Daaatless, when three days
out, lost two men overheard during heavy
sea, and was delayed two hours and half in
Intellectual efforts to recover them.
Considerable excitement has been occa.
stoned in Washington recently by the discoy.
cry Of extensive frauds which have been per-
petrated in the Pension Bureau. DR.. Van
Aernam, the present Commissioner of Pen.
sions, has devoted considerable attention to
this detection and to exposing the disonorable
lawyers and claim agents by whom the frauds
have been perpetrated. lie has already con.
victed twenty-five PENSIONERS and e;obtooD