Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-01

Marshfeld aud West Danyillc
We have no question that a company might
be formed to receive the subsidy and spend it,
and give the government in exchange for it
the privilege Of sending troops and supplies
and mails over the road, when it is completed,
at five or ten per cent discount from the usual
rates If the government is in hurry to
have the road finished, we have no doubt also
that the company would push the thing
through more rapidly provided an additional
subsidy Of ten or fifteen thousand dollars per
mile should be granted. We ask our Sena-
tors and Representatives to hold their hats
and catch few drops of this furious storm Of
government subsidies
--"Ciyil Service Reform" is good thing,
and should be effected, but there is something
disgusting in the spectacle Of political hacks
preaching puritanism in politics. Some Of
the men who are now active in this particular
movement have been Of the most odious Of
those politicians who have done "a sweeping
business in oihcetrading, having in fact lived
by it, They may have repented and reformed,
but their repentance and reformation come
confoundedy late in their long lives
There were two yoves taken in the Sem
ate of Virginia, on Tuesday, that show that
the old secession serpent is neither dead nor
sleeping BY strict party vote the Senate
appropriated $500 to be expended in procuring
portrait of Gen. Lee, and, by exactly the
same vote, the Senate refused to appropriate
money for portrait of Gen. Thomas. The
House Of Representatives, by vote of two
to one, substantially endorsed the Senate's
action
"A Washington correspondent states that
Vice-P President Colfax received on Thursday
from a leading capitalist the tempting offer
of s25, 900 year salary if he would resign
his present position and take the charge Of an
important branch of business. Mr.. Colfax
replied that while the offer was u very at
tractive one, and that while he intended to
withdraw from public life at the end Of his
term, he considered that his services belonged
to the country for the term for which he was
elected.
"A Memphis, Tenn, despatch Of Thurs
day evening says it is now thought that only
dfy.eight lives were lost by the burning of
the steamboat T. i. McGill on Sunday night,
on "Shoo Fly bar, in the Mississippi river
The officers Of the Yerger state that the RATS
men belonging to the American Timber Com
pany whose RATS were aground at the time
Of the disaster might have saved many lives
with their skifIs, but they paid no attention
to the cries Of distress, they busying them
selves taking cotton and pilaging.
The Pacific railroad is making excellent
time this winter An Omaha dispatch says
that, though there have been eleven snow
storms on the mountain this season. some of
them very severe, the snow sheds and fences
have protected the track efectually and a
connection has not been missed either at
Omaha or Ogden, 10 run this long line of
road, through new country, and in the win
ter season, with such regularity is indeed a
triumph OF energy and skill on the part of its
managers.
The movement for the repeal of the
Income Tax was checked, Friday, in an I'M
expected manner The Senate bill, passed
the previous day had reached the House,
VIXEN, on motion of Mr.. Hooper, it was re.
turned to the Senate with the suggestion that
the House alone had the power to originate
bills of this character. This will cause delay
fatal to the hopes of those who wished to see
the Income Tax abolished at this session.
-Tammany has a new mine to work in the
construction Of the new State House at Al
bany. Two million dollars have already been
spent on it, work has stopped for want of
more money; the building is hardly out of
the ground aud the cost of completing it af-
ter the grand plans made for it is estimated
at twenty million dollars The job is likely
to be on hand for long while, aud properly
"tolled may be made very profitable
through number of years. to the political
rings of New York.
A Paris correspondent of the N Y.
Tribune gives the following
" In the midst of the firing nine people sat
down to breakfast in a small house upon the pla-
eau of Akron. There were the commander Of
the Sixth Battalion of Mobiles of the Seine, IN.
lleinster,) his wife, adjutant of the battalion a
captain, two lieutenants, an ensign, chaplain,
and DOCTOR nearly all of the same battalion A
Prussian shell came smashing upon the table and
killed six Of the party. The commandment and
his wife were wounded. The only one who es
capped uahurt was the doctor OF the eight per.
sons who were killed yesterday six belonged to thi,
little breakfast party. What an incident for tn,
future novelist Nine persons, including a lady
are jesting over their frugal breakfast, which
they are determined to enjoy in spite of the can
non There wants but shell to give us but.
ter, says one Of the party, Instantly comes I
shell and blows six Of them out of existence
while wounding two more, the commandant anl
his wife"
Andrew Brenthinger, sentenced to b
hung in Allen county, Ohio, on Friday next
whose sentence has been committed for clever
weeks, telsgraphed to Gov. Hayes, through