Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-02-09

The United States Senate is now full
all the benches are occupied, and when the
Senators from the yet unrepresented States
present themselves new seats will have to be
arranged outside the outer row Of benches.
The State Senate of California, on FRI
day, by vote of 23 to 3, rejected the Fif-
teenth Amendment. This result was expect
ed, and it is fortunate circumstance that the
requisite number for ratification is already
well assured, without counting California, or
any of the Maynard sisters"
The Legislature of Georgia has compet-
ed the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend.
ment, which now awaits only the official pro-
mitigation to become a part of the law of the
land. Twenty-eight States are recorded in
its favor. Others are waiting for the oppor.
tunity, and will pass upon it as a matter Of
form. But their support is not required
In the election Tuesday by the Legis-
ature for Associate Justice Of the Supreme
Court of South Carolina, the entire Demo.
cratic vote was cast for j. J. Wright, colored
State Senator from Beaufort, who was elected
by the assistance of their votes. The vote
was received with great enthusiasm, and &C.
cepted as free democratic recognition Of the
Republican platform and doctrines.
The intelligence respecting the Popes
health is alarming. He is down with an
epileptic fit, and rumors of his death were
again circulated in Paris Saturday The
dispatches assert, however, that the attack is
not necessarily fatal. But at his age
seventy-eight of this kind to the ner-
vous system are not easily overcome. The
Pope has been sorely tried lately by the per-
versity of part of the Council, and probably
the vehemence of his indignation has brought
him to this pass.
To Georgia belongs the honor of having
placed the key stone in the arch of national
freedom by ratifying the fifteenth constitution
al amendment, which she did on Wednesday,
thus making it part of the constitution of
the United States Twenty-seven States had
previously ratified, and Georgia is the 2sth,
just the number necessary to secure its adop-
ton. There are two more States which will
undoubtedly be added, but they are not neces-
sary to make it part of the organic law.
For the third time during his present cr
petition, an authoritative report is made as to
the death of the great African explorer, DR..
Livingstone. The present story is the most
horrible Of the three, inasmuch as it announ.
ces that he was burned as wizard. There
is, perhaps, no living man whose movements
are at this moment regarded with so much So
icitude by every nation in the civilized world
as the illustrious Scottish traveller, and ii
would be inexpressibly sad, if after surmount-
ing perils and hardships almost without ex-
ample in modern travel, the intrepid pioneer
we're found to have succumbed to fate so
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be no better founded than the rumors which
have preceded it.
"A dispatch from Washington says, The
advocates of woman suffrage are to have an
enemy they little anticipated. Some of the
most prominent ladies in Washington, among
Thorn Mrs. General Sherman and Mrs. Admi.
raj Dahlgreen, are about to take active meas
ures in opposition to the movement to secure
the ballot to women. One lady recently ap.
pcared before the Senate committee and made
a strong argument against suffrage. This fire
in the rear is likely to have demoralizing
effect upon the new recruits in Miss An thongs
army"
Six thousand sir hundred and seventy
seven visitors passed through the Institute at
Peabody, Massachusetts, on Saturday last,
between ten o'clock A. NJ. and four o'clock
P. NJ, and gazcd at the casket containing the
honored remains Of the late George Peabody.