Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-08-02
Notes and Comments.

HeraH does, we'd be stort Of byWm "
"Your friends were little disappointed
when you refused to have your name used
Prcsdentially,' the scribe remarked. No,
nat my friends They want me to stay where
am. General Of the army for life is better
than President for four years. Grant regrets
that he ever left the army now, and so do |,
except that he has done a good work as Pres
ident" lie enthusiastically endorses Grant
for reelection, and says no one else has any
show.
The Boston Traveller says the unex.
pectcd developments Of Ku Klux outrages in
South Carolina has startled Southern Demo-
cratic leaders, especially in view Of the clear.
ncss with which the pending investigation i.
bringing out the fact that the central thought
Of the southern Democracy to-day is direct.
ed toward overthrowing both reconstruction
constitutions and the reconstruction laws
Democrats upon the committee are fully alive
to the conviction that the moment Northern
men understand that this i, the fact which
uuderles the present disturbances at the South
they will rise again without regard to party
and put down this new form of treason.
The missionary brig Morning Star has
safely arrived at her destination in the Pa
cidc Ocean, where she will at once engage in
the duty Of communicating between the sew.
eral mission stations among the islands Capt
Mathews has written home an account Of the
voyage, which occupied one hundred aud
{ twenty.nine days Sometimes the vessel was
/ lying idly becalmed in the tropics aud at
others she wa. tossed by severe gales, but the
staunch little craft brayed it all nobly. She
excited much admiration in the port Of Hon
oluu for the rare beauty Of her model and
the completeness Of her equipments. The
HorAiRg Star was built and fitted out by the
Sunday school children of the New England
Congregational churches, and is the third
vessel thus sent to the Pacific Ocean
Senator Wilson is pursuing his social
studies in the United Kingdom, and though
he thinks the rags aud poverty Of ireland
would make him a revolutonist, he is evil
deutly pleased with the morality he finds,
for he says in writing from London |
have not heard protane oath since landed
on the 10Th of June at Queenstown eighteen
days ago. | have seen hundreds of thousands
of the people. from the queen down to the
ragged beggar Of the slums Of this wilderness
Of houses, and have yet to hear the first
profanc word This has surprised and graft
fed me much | trust the time is not dis.
tant when a stranger can travel hundreds Of
miles in our country and mingle with hun
dreds Of thousands of our people without
hearing an oath"
The accounts which are now arriving by
mail show that the entry of Victor Emanuel
into Rome was a much grander affair than
the cable dispatches made it out The city
went fairly wild with loyalty and gave his
majesty such greeting as it is not often Civ
en- to kings to receive. There was no bound
to the rejoicing, the hanging out Of red car
pets, the strewing Of flowers, the cheering,
aud the scampering to and fro In reply to
deputauons, his majesty said that Italy had
got home again to stay; that il troubles
arose, she was strong enough to meet them.
He spoke also Of the need of improvements
of all sorts in Rome and especially of re-
constructing the streets and getting the Cam
pagna under cultivation. Great labor aud
industry will be required were his words,
" in order that Rome may be, few years
hence, the true city Of the world"
The returns to the department Of agri-
culture indicate that the hay crop throughout
the country will be small, In Maine, where
hay is the leading staple, the yield will not
exceed two-thirds Of the usual crop. In all
of the New England and middle states the
condition Of clover, timothy and the pastures
is below the average In most of the south
ern and western states and in Oregon the
pastures are above the average and the con-
dition of clover and timothy is equally good.
In those sections where the pastures and
meadows have partially failed, it is not yet
too late to supplement them with corn as a
soiling crop. The frosts in April aud May,
following the remarkable early opening OF
spring, greatly lessened the prospect of a
good crop Of apples, and short crop is
indicated in all the states where they most
largely grow. There will probably be three.
fourths of an average crop, The potato crop
will be fully up to the average and that Of
peaches will be unusually large
Henry Ward Beecher gives bad advice
to the Orangemen of New York City, He
advises them to parade next 18th of July, in
the most offensive manner possible, saying
that if they should fail to do so they would
neglect sacred duty, This it seems to US,
is very singular advice to proceed from a
preacher of the gospel of peace 1t helps
stimulate the worst passions of mankind, and
may lead to the spilling Of blood and of in
nOcent blood, too. Were any principle in,
volved in this miserable business, Mr. Beech.
er's advice might be worth following but nc
principle is involved in it, and SO it should
not be followed. The right of Orangemen to
parade was sigualy INDICATED on the last an,
niversary Of the battle of the Boyne, and the
killing of five thousand men on the next an,
nyersary of that battle could not add any
. thing to the force of that vindication. Should
the Orangemen resolve to parade on that day
the authorities would have to protect them
as there eau be no limitation to the RICH
they claim; but it would be wise in them t.
celebrate the day in very quiet manner, jus
as the Orangemeu of Boston celebrated i
this year.
john Slidel, the notorious Confederate
commissioner to England, who, in compan,
with John NJ. Mason, another commissioner