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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
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WEDNESDAY,, MARCH Is, 1870.
TERNs-t20o per ear, strictly in advance o. NO
ifnot paid within three months.
Is RESUMPTION at Hand Z

The whole country has been watching the
recent decline in gold with the intensest in
terest, to sec If the day Of deliyerance from
the untold evils Of deprecated currency
was really about to dawn But little re-
verse came on Friday, as the spectators IN
Wall street succeeded in again giving gold an
upward bound. These fluctuations will con-
tinue with oil their disastrous consequences
until specie payment is resumed. Greenback'
arc so near par, that it is possible, by wise
legislation, to bring about the day 30 longed
for and talked about and yet which so per-
sstently cludes us The daily changes in the
rates are not the results of necessity, but fol-
low from the operations of spectators to
profit by the condition Of the market. And
while gold remains commodity, this will
continue.
A Bank in st. Louis has announced re-
sumption of specie payments. Various BUSH
ness firms throughout the country have I'M
dertaken the experiment. If the country
would but allow banks everywhere to do the
same thing, without needlessly demanding the
specie resumption could be established to-
day But curious people will not do that
They will be 70 anxious again to handle the
shining metal, that they will rush eagerly to
the banks and demand the instantaneous ro-
dcmption of the notes in their possession
We have had a season of gradual preparation
for resumption. IT, now, there could be q
system Of gradual process Of redemption, spe'
Gle payments might soon be resumed. Gov
ernment has sold its gold to advantage, to 8
limited amount each month. If it were feas
ible to redeem aud retire u certain amount o
legal tender each week, the result would b,
that greenbacks and gold would be At par
while the process Of contraction would gradu
ally lower nominal values, by increasing thu
,, purchasing power Of the remaining currency
This system Of gradual redemption might
perhaps, be made effective by allowing tn,
sub-Treasuror in New York to redeem green
backs not exceeding certain amount eact
day. The difficulty would be, to direct tn
gold into legitimate channels, so as to efec
the desired object of beneGting the true com
mercial interests of the country. The go
p receipts of the Treasury can be closely est
mated, and the maximum amount Of redemp
ton authorized be adjusted 30 that the Gov
eminent shall be able to meet the demand
b upon it, If this scheme is capable Of success
y ful execution, we submit that it is time tn
Government stopped specializing in gold
q This has hitherto been justfablo upon tn
e ground that it was the only way to break tn
y power of the spectators without swampn
the treasury. The profit arising from tn
! premium to the Government, at the presen
I rates of gold is not so desirable as the oil
+ hancement of its credit and the improvement
d of its currency by the redemption of green
u backs
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

BosroN, March :, 1870
Editor Rutland Herald About year ago, a
series Of Sunday afternoon lectures in the Iorti-
cultural Hall was instituted by those who are
known as leaders in the Liberal Christian party
in this city and vicinity. In these lectures, each
Of which was by different lecturer, was treated
various topics Of a moral and aesthetic character
and the various aspects Of the reform which they
are engaged in carrying on at the present time
II IL almost needless to say, what is quite well
known, that the spirit and animus Of these lee
lures, one and all, were in opposition to religion.
views held in this city, known as evangelical
These lectures have been continued this winter
with nearly the same lecturers, and, perhaps
with nearly the Identical audience, both in mum
bers and persons.
The lecturers this season, being twelve in mum.
Der, furnished an opportunity for the New York
Independent to give brief article of the life oil
each tho whole list being headed, probably il
irony, 1.-The Twelve Apostles of Heresy.n Among
these lecturers are Mr. Weiss. the lineal success.
sor Of Theodore Parker Mr.. Longieow, the
brother Of the poet, a Unitarian by nature Mr.
Garrison, Mrs. Howe, Wendell Phillips and Mr.
Abbott of Toledo, Ohio, who represented the ex
elusive christianity of Christ and who beliey,
that Socrates was the greater man the two. and
who sees that Liberal Christianity dates back t
Socrates
These lecturers men and women. probably
choose their own subjects, which are quite varied
in character; the character Of the DAY not neces.
sarily calling for religious treatses But how.
ever much they may differ in many things amone
themselves, they are harmonized in common an
tipathy 10 Puritan Protestanism-tO the - SUI
perstitious " believers in the divinity Of Chris
and inspiration of the Scriptures. It is fact
there seems to be no bugbear so great TO them a.
the Author of Christianity and no pe0pearc $,
blind to them as his followers
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
To be Tried for Murder.

The particulars Of the terrible Oneida dis
aster will be found in another column. The
latest intelligence from the scene of the disas-
ter says il is the intention Of United States
Minister belong to have Captain Eyre, Of
the English steamer Bombay arrested and
tried for murder, after the present preliminary
Investigation is concluded. We hope the re.
port is true, for if a man who kills another in
cold blood is a murderer, the man who causes
the loss of a hundred lives is certainly worthy
of the same title, and ought to receive a muir.
derer's doom.
The last accounts of this dreadful affair
leave no room to doubt that Captain Eyre is
guilty Of all the indifference and brutality
that was at first charged against him. In.
deed, he is condemned out of his own mouth.
He says he saw the lights Of the Oneida when
more than a mile away, but he made no effort
to avoid collision. and when his vessel had
run down the other he coolly kept on his way
without waiting to see whether his assistance
was wanted or not, and plainly no; caring il
II was. For conduct SO foul as this there is
no excuse, and there can be no punishment too
severe. Words, even, cannot be found to
adequately express the horror and indigna.
tior Of people everywhere when they read the
story.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
IN GENERA

The question of to-day-What's for din.
ner
The poor of London suffer, and never.
theless have divided among them $1,000.
600 aid.
Wheat raising is becoming unpopular in
Wisconsin, and cheese and beet-sugar facto.
ries are multiplying rapidly.
st. Louis has three weeks old Shetland
colt which is only twenty inches high and
weighs but sixteen and half pounds.
Francis p. Blair, ST., and his wife, who
have been married over sixty years, took a
thirty mile ride on horseback, the other day,
without dismountiug.
An observer of human nature reports that
he has seen some people possessing the pecu-
liarity Of three hands-a right hand, left
hand, and a little behind hand
The people of Weston, Mo-, recently
hung an innocent man for horse stealing. They
are now making reparation for the inju-
ry by subscribing for his gravestone.
The Fat Contributor says that he has
made $4,000 by lecturing this winter and
would have made more if he could only lee
ture and tend door at the same time.
An exchange says that the only people
in Washington who mind their own business
are such young married pairs as happen to be
spending the honeymoon at the hotels
"A blooming widow of thirty-six called at
the probate office in an Ohio town and asked
for marriage license Her husband that
was to be was "only Is and so bashfrl."
AN Austrian lady of rank recently ap.
peared at court ball in dress so shocking ~
low in the neck that the Empress caused her
to be banished to a country seat in Hungary
A Cincinnati reporter woke up a bride.
groom at hotel in that city to get the par.
ticulars Of his wedding He owes a neigh.
boring apothecary fifty cents for court plaster
j, j Knox of Sumter, Sumter county
S. g., lives in a region where intelligent New
England communities would find good places
for settlement, and is ready to furnish infor
nation about it gratis.
Accounts were published last spring o.
the drowning of a child of Uriah Holler o.
Baker, Ind, while "playing baptize." Tn,
step-mother Of the child recently confessed
on her death bed that she took the child
life.
There was terrible accident Saturday
on the Mississippi Central Railroad near OK
ford A passenger train broke through high
trestle and was completely wrecked. Seven
teen persons were killed and many more woup
dsd,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
From the poughkoepsie Eagle
Remarkable Religious Revival.

An oxtroord;nar,, rol;,;,,,s ,,,,;,,al =; .
in nrooress in Rondout Y in tho R,n,;s,
Church Row William II Evans nastor /,
commenced abon, ,bo ,,iJ1lo 81 Nh =,
last and hos incre,sed in v;aor anj on,L,,gi
og,o aver s;noo w. r,,,arIssIJ, ana ,',,,,'',,'
o,,s .ro ,ho oonyors;ons tha, ,ho ;,,e,,a,,an q
tho raot;n,s IA e,l, f,r man, ,o;os In H.
and ont of lister county Five bundled Ind
6f,v have already hoor forwo,d Co.. ,,ro,,o.s
and over tour hundred have unitod Win N,
church on nrohat;on Uo,d leorors whoIo
sale and retail honor dealers and conern,od
ipebriates have ceased their traffic in Iono,
and ore now forcmost in the worts ~ God
One man who for wears had not drawn n so.
her breath and who has been converted was
met ON The street the Other ovorin =,
and asked. "Well. Uncle r. which wav 9S
said be al am -, ms, yyo,, 60 "a III.
house a sober man Cor Ibe at ,i,,o il ,,,o,,
tv.dve years This case il oniy one ~ sooro.
s9ved fyou, tho ;notr;a,;n,o n, TD-oL ~ \.
Influence 81 Tho roy;,aI ne Uou 81 ne -
nj Temnaranco bas hooon,o ,oo s,,,al ., III
the members Anon, ,ho oo,n.,,a,.,. =. IL
Ito Fowks. editor az The Ronaon, Froa,nar,
Whole families have been bronght ont ,o,a,L
err. and in some cases a. manv ms NINA .
family. As many as 6ity.6ye husbands md
wives are among the newly converted ono.
or one hundred and ten who stand rcla,cd 10
each other as husband and wife A larse
number of Roman Catholics arc amonc tLnse
who have been converted MotLcrs Ioarino
In their arms babes, that would not he bel5
by strangers, have sought and fonnd Goa ON
the altar One man Who was converted and
who wished to ioin on probation wished ~
give his wifes name as a probationer. Sbe
had never even been to the meeting 8 batS
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
Notes and Comments.

One Of the representatives of Kecne, n.
H., is the veritable Long jim Wilson -
Forty-fve years ago Tuesday, he was elected
to the same office by the voters of Kcene
One hundred aud eight Democrats in
Williams county, Ohio, have signed call in
viting all "who favor reputation of the
bonded debt of the United States to meet
on the 10Th inst. to select delegates for the
Democratic Convention of the Tenth Congress
sional District.
The fifth annual report of National
Freedmen's Saving Bank of Washington city
shows that on March lst, 1870, its deposits
amounted to sl,657,0O0, against 81 ,O73 600
the previous year The whole amount Of
money deposited in the bank during its exist
ence is sl2,605,OOO
The President is preparing message up.
on the decay of American Commerce, and the
remedies therefor, which he intends to place
before Congress prior to the 18th inst, that
being the day fixed for discussing the bills
upon the subject, reported from the Commit
tee on Navigation Interests.
A petition, signed by 1000 liquor deal
ers of Washington, against the passage of a
prohibitory law, was presented to the Senate
Wednesday. Senator Hamlin told the Com
mittee which brought it that if his vote would
secure law restricting the sale of liquor it
would be given quickly,
During the recent female suffrage con.
venton in Brattleboro, little boy was found
in the street in tears and great trouble.
" What is the matter o. asked a sympathiz-
ing passer-by. To which inquiry the little
fellow blubbered out {" My mothers gone to
the women's town meeting and she didn't
leave out nothing to eat"
"A writer in the New York Eceninq Post
says that five hundred thousand pounds Of
maple sugar are annually made in Vermont.
In 1860 according to the census, this prod
uct, for this State, was about ten million
pounds, and owing to the advance in price,
and consequent profit in carrying on the bust
ness, the product has probably doubled since
that time.
An honest old darkey, whose expecta-
tons of getting forty-acre plantation and a
domestic jackass, for voting the radical ticket,
were entirely sincere, now goes back on his
friends in this wise Dem carpet-baggetin'
scalawag fellers, da tell us dar waf provisions
in the constitution for we collad folks, but dat
was lio-dem provisions didn't come. Fore
God, massa, amt seen de fust mouful."
This was the message which President
Grant sent to the people of New Hampshire
pending the recent election
Tell the people of New Hampshire, that
during my administration there shall be no
ascending scale of public expenditures, but
wherever and whenever the closest scrutiny
shall disclose the possibility of cutting of a
dollar, it shall be done"
A petition has been presented to Con-
gress by forty-three corporations, companies
and individuals, mostly in Rhode Island, ask
ing reduction of the duties on fine wool ac-
companied by a schedule comprising over fifty
articles which enter into the cost of manufac.
turing wooden goods, which are heavily taxed,
and which add to the expense of manuhctur-
ing in this country,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
STATE MATTERS.

Dogs have been tearing sheep in Middle
bury.
The liquor law is to be enforced in Ben.
nington.
Hay is selling in Irasburgh at SIS per
ton, in the barn.
S. Bigeow of Morgan, has shot sixteen
foxes this winter
In 1869, there was one death to every
100 inhabitants in Woodstock
Three car loads of horses were recently
shipped from st. Johnsbury station.
One hundred teachers were present at
the recent Institute in Fair Haven
Tho Good Tomplar Lodge in Franklin
numbers about 200 working members
Marshal r. Currior Of Albany, says that
in the year 1869 he MIXED 1854 cows.
The Mossrs. Hagar, North Chester, have
10000 salmon Matched in their fish pond
The town Of Jay refused to bond in aid
of the Mi,sisquoi and Clyde River railroad
The First National Bank of Orwell has
individual deposits to the amount of $4,000.
96.
-Twcuty.six divorces were granted at the
last session Of the Windsor County Supreme
Court
Two gentlemen in Bellows Falls, have
sent to Canada for silver to resume specie
payment
Mrs. Dowd, the oldest person in New
Haven, died last week, aged 80 years and 9
months
A young man, dead drunk and nearly
frozen, was fshed out Of snow bank IN
/ Bakersfield.
"A young man at recent fire in Rutland
threw away pail Of water because it was
too hot to do any good
In the last two weeks the Messrs. Fair.
banks of ST. Johnsbury, manufactured and
shipped fifteen hundred scales.
The dwelling house Of Luther T.. Lord
Shrewsbury, was recently burned up. Loss
$1,000 aud insured for $3.50.
"A defective stove pipe came near burn.
ing mp q valuable residence in Bridgewater.
recently Look out for such.
1t is said that large hotel is to he
erected on the summit Of Mount Anthony,
Bennington, near the observatory.
Tho increase Of receipts of the Passump.
SIC railroad for January over those Of one
year ago, amount to nearly 10000
A vote on woman suffrage was recently
taken in meeting Of ladies in Westminster
West every vote was in the negative.
The total loss by the recent FIRE in Bel.
lows Falls amounted TO about sl4,500,
with ana insurance of nearly one half that
sum-
"A movement is on foot in Swanton to
raise a stock company, with a capital Of slO.
GOO, to build new factory, the coming
spring.
Tho store of Chase Brothers, druggist.
Springfield, was recently broken open and 8
small amount Of money stolen The thief
was arrested
Bishop Bis-ell confirmed Sunday, Feb
goth, In Christ Church Fairfax, five Sun.
day March 9Th 10 St. Michaes, Brattle.
boro, nine
Mrs Ward Barney OF Swanton was burned
to death on Tuesday, it is supposed from her
clothes taking FIRE from her pipe while she
was in q svoon.
The Barton Standard says that the
= Kansas fever is raging in that vicinity
Large numbers of Orleans county people are
preparing to emigrate in the spring.
( Moran Burgess Of Hoosic, New York
: sold in Bennington, Friday three two year.
u old hogs that weighed respectively SOS, $50
u and 575 pounds They we're champion pork.
~ ers and fetched l3l cents a pound total
Of s2s2.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
Washington County Court.
March Term 1870. JuDor PECK, Presiding

March Term 1870 JUDGE PECK fresluhls
Woosters rs. Hooker. Verdict for defendant
Geo Wooster ys. o. v and A. Hooker. AS
sault and battery. Verdict for plaintiff s2ds43
and costs Heath, Shurtlef and hanson l0'
plaintiff b. N Davis and Randall Durant ioT
defendants.
Arson Davis rs. William d. Munson. Suit 70
recover reward offered for the apprehension u
criminals. Verdict for plaintiff for ss'so'
lleaton & Reed and Randall & Durant for pam
till field and Ballard for defendant.
Lorenzo Jack rs. William Martin, Jr. Action
Of Assumpsit to recover on certain promlssoi'
notes Verdict for plaintiff to recover SSoo'O''
Shurtlell for plaintiff Heath for defendant
Clark and Snow rs. Thomas W Mckee anu
Trustee, Assumpsit to recover for lot oi iIe'D
fish. Verdict for defendant Redheld & Gleason
for plaintiff Vail and Ferrin for defendant
Patrick Murry u.s. John lennox. IrespasS "
recover for horse killed. Verdict for deienunn,'
Dillingham;, and Redfeld and Durant, Tor piain,
III lleaton & Reed, and Carpenter, Tor ue''''
ant
Spalding u.s. Waitsiield. Bounty case W.
dict for plaintiff, $ill 80. Deayitt and heun'''
for plaintiff. Clough and Carleton and Dlii'ps
ham, for defendant.
NJ @, Stewart and IL. s. Campbell u.s. JONI
Ryan, appellant Assumpsit for services ana "a
penses in pursuing a thief and recovering prop
erty. Verdict for defendant. Clough and fa'
mer for plaintiff. Fisk for defendant
Hugh McNulty by guardian Us. Aaron Martin
Assault and battery. Verdict for plaintiff -
and costs. Wing for plaintiff. Redheld ule'
son, and Randall 4 Durant, for defendant.
Norwich University Us. Franklin Tucker ~
pellant, Assumpsit for collection ofsubscrip1ooaa
Now on trial. johnson and Fisk for plalntn
Carpenter for defendant.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16


The proclamation of the President an
nouncing the adoption of the Fifteenth Amend.
ment to the Constitution Of the United States,
was signed Friday morning, and is in readi-
ness to be issued as soon as the cases Of Geor-
ga and Texas are acted upon by Congress.
Washington had a snow storm on Sun
day, which lasted all day, and far into the
night, and made very fair sleighing for Mon
day,-but it did not last till Tuesday.
Every kindly word and feeling, every
good deed and thought every noble action and
impulse, is like the ark-sent dove, and returns
from the troubled waters of life bearing a
green olive branch to the soul.
Many four women in their eager search
after what they imagine to be their unattain.
ed " rights" seem to have forgotten that
political independence cannot co-exist with
personal dependence chat an attempt to
yoke the two is solecism in theory, as il
would prove futility in practice aud that
independence is an attribute not to be confer
red by mechanical contrivance like the bal.
lot but only to be arduously attained by dint
of character energy, selfsupport, and self.
respect.
Male citizens of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, have
Petitioned that women may be invested with
all the rights of citizenship, and also with all
Its duties : namely-that they be liable to
military, jury, and road duty liable for THEN
own and their husbands debts; and that if a
woman refuse or neglect to provide Tor the
support of her husband and family, divorce
shall be granted, awarding alimony to the
husband.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
Out OF their Own Mouths.

Some weeks ago, in commenting upon the
Woman Suffrage Convention about assembling
in this place. we stated several objections to
the movement, the last Of which was, substan-
TALLY, that many advocates Of this so-called
reform denied the authority Of the Divine
word. In addition to the abundant evidence
we have since felt compelled to publish Of the
truth Of the original charge, we hardly eH-
pectcd to be furnished with such pertinent
and conclusive testimony as the following,
copied from the Rutland Herald, one of the
principal organs Of the woman suffrage move
ment in Vermont
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16
Corrected.

WATsrELD, March llth, 1870.
Msgrs. Editors While reading your last
paper | noticed a correction from our yencu-
bic friend Johns, of the autograph 8 Rmarl 2. '
lie states that the great snow storm in June,
1916, was On the aTth and not the sIrmh, as
be says some younger historians hayci stated ]
think, NJ Editor, that our venerable friend g. IN
error himself. remember the day very we d. as
was at work on the highway that dag. which
was the eiyhh. | left home in the morning, with
thin cotton pants on, aud think / never suffered
more in any one day from cold than did that
day. The 9th and 9TH were quite warm days. -
The morning Of the 9th, the snow was eight OF
nine inches deep in Randolph and went to the
mill with oxen and sled and drew home a load Of
boards. WAS lG years old at that time
Yours, &c,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-03-16

Their APoIoGY-We trust that the num-
bers who were disguised with the bad temper
shown by the woman suffrage people, in the
convention, will not forget to make the al
lowances which are due in their case. They
expected not only to draw the salaries which
are paid to them for their efforts, from the
well-flled Golfer of the Womau-SufIrage As.
ISOLATION, but also to gain great eciat as sue
cesstul reformers, to be the objects of popu-
lar ovation, perhaps some of them were even
expecting to come to Vermont and be the first
lady members Of Congress from this State.
Instead Of all this they realize, and confess IT,,
that their mission is a failure Their cause
makes no Roadway with the men and women
of the Green Mountain State, whose intcli.
gence and good sense they have been praisng
so highly. They have discovered as Mrs.
Liyermore said, that Vermont may be the
last State to extend the suffrage to women !;
or, as Mrs. Howe expressed it, that the at.
mosphere of Vermont on this question is more
arctic than that Of Boston, which she had sup.
posed was as cold as possible. The disap-
pointment has doubtless been severe. and not
altogether conducive to amiabiity; and of
course the first unlucky object in the way
" catches it severey.-Free Press.