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

Singular as il may appear, there has never
been any law by which the Government could
take testimony in opposition to claims pend
ing before the departments, or require the
professional services of the attorney general
or his officers to investigate them All claims
have been heard er parte, on such evidence as
the claimant should furnish. Is it any won.
der, therefore, that fraudulent clams-mauy
of them Of immense magnitude-haye been
lobbied through the departments or Congress2
To remedy this glazing defect, Judge Poland
has prepared aud introduced bll-which
passed the House on Tuesday of last week --
authorizing the heads of Departments or Bu-
reaus in which claim before the United
States is pending, to send out and take tes-
timony concerning ii exactly as testimony can
be taken in a court Of law. Judges and
clerks Of all United States Courts are invest.
ed with power to issue subpenas to witnesses
to appear before officers authorized to take
dispositions, and witnesses guilty of intention.
al false swearing are to be tried for perjury.
The last section Of the bill enables the attor.
ney general to furnish proper counsel at the
examinations. The enactment of this bill
will be a great safeguard against fraudulent
claims.
Ia the Senate, on Friday last, Senator Ed.
munds succeeded in procuring an amendment
to the House bill granting pensions to the Of
hcers and soldiers Of the war Of 1912, where.
by the period Of service require was reduced
from three months to two. This amendment
was specially design to reach and cover the
service Of the Vermont volunteers at the bat.
tie of Plattsburgh.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

-Pondicherry, according to European
despatch, is that foreign possession of France
which she is required to surrender to Ger.
many, If the despatch is correct, the Ger
mans look to the East Indies, and not to the
West Indies, for part of the war indemnity.
This would be likely to bring them into col.
lision with the English, who are sensitive re-.
specting the attentions of other peoples to-.
ward llindostan. Pondicherry colony is on
the coast of Ooromandel, and though not very
layoraby placed for purposes of war, the
Germans could turn il to more account thar.
the French have turned it for the last half
century. 1t was one of the places taken from
France in the war that began in 1898, but it
was restored to that country with the restora.
ton of the Bourbons, but on the condition
that il should be merely civil place, having
no soldiers, and be nothing that could make
il useful In war.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

The soldiers and sailors homestead bill
which was passed by the House, is a very i'm
portant measure, giving, as it does, to all
soldiers and sailors who served during the
war right to 100 acres OF the reserved al.
ternatc sections along the lines of railroads.
The right of assignment was reserved in the
bill, though the democrats generally voted
to strike it out The time which the appli-
cant served in the war is to be subtracted
from the time required by law to perfect the
title by actual residence, and he may assign
to an actual settler all the advantages accru-
ing to him, should he settle himself on the
land. The sentiment of the House was very
strongly in favor of voting lands freely tc
soldiers aud sailors, instead of to railway cor.
poratons. 1t is believed that the Senate
will agree to the bill
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

"A letter to the Philadelphia Press gives
o very interesting speech that camorous
crowd 10 that city got out of Henry Clay one
evening, thirty.two years ago. Persistent cries
for Clay" fetched to a window the eloquent
Kentuckian, with these words yellow citi.
zens-You that have wives had better 60
home to them; you that have sweethearts
had better be enjoying their society, and you
that have neither had better 90 home to your
mothers. As for me, intend to spend the
evening in the society Of these ladies point
ing to the parlor of the hotel. The emotions
in that crowd were decidedly mixed.
Tho theological status of the Tribune
has been revealed to the Cincinnati ErqHirer,
thusly; Horace Greeley is a thorough Uni.
yersalist, Whitelaw Reid il Scotch Presby,
terian, John X. g. Hazard is devout Roman
Catholic, John Hay, the new and brilliant
member Of the staff, author Of Little Breeches
and Jim Bludso, is an Episcopalian, George
Ripley is Unitarian, William +. q. Shank
is Hobbist, Charles r. Congdon is Deist
OF the spinoza pattern, George W. Smaley is
a lattudnarian positivist, Oliver johnson il
a Quaker, with others of equal variety toe
numerous 10 MENTION.
"A Halifax gentleman was sadly deluded
at a fair the other day. He offered young
lady $40 for a curl from her head. His
surprise may be imagined when the young
lady promptly cut it of and gave it to him
with a smile. His further indignation may
be imagined, when he learned that the entire
covering cost only So. Thus is trusting man
ever deceived by appearances.
They have a steam buggy running about
Nos York streets, with the boiler beneath the
scat and the engine between the axelrees.
One bod Of coal will run II 3S miles, with 20
pounds OF pressure, at cost Of two cents o
miie. The whole thing can be built for $4,000.
Il The inventors keep On, horses will surely
become superfuous.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08


MADE Tor their bodies but they could not b
iouna' brown saw sitting Bnll wearing McDa
alu slft ana watch no more was ever seen
the poor fellows. DO you think riding on The c. (
per Missouri - sale
WINTER rEnts or InE PLAINS
This tale by Brown would not have been Con.
posing for nights sleep, il we had boon in ID.
hostile Indian country, but we had got ou
that. When we were ready for bel, sugqe...
that we should picket our animals for IN
learned not to be conGding In respect to amin,
on the pmirics, after oats and corn are gone.
am sure they have good momorie. Of stable, Az
H''nReIs OF gram ma they sron o. have Do
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

The Supreme Court of the District Of
Columbia on Saturday affirmed the judgment
OF the lower court allowing Caroline Brown
eolored) the verdict of $500 for forcible
election from a car on the Washington, Alex.
andria X Georgetown Railroad.
-Four vessels, of which three are steamers
now loading at New York with provisions for
rance, will take out nearly 10000 barrel.
each Of pork and -four. One of the steamer,
the Ontario of Boston, which lately took
cut arms from New York for the French gov.
ornment.
Wine is out of favor at Washington re.
ceptions. Boulllon lin the yernacular beef
teal, is the fashionable substitute,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

The Northern transportation company,
which has just sold out to Gov. Smith aud
the other Vermont Central managers, has a
nominal capital of ssj0.0OO and owns fixed
property and real estate to the value of more
than million. The company controls twenty
first class lake steamers and does a large
business in both freight and passengers be.
tween Ogdensburgh and Chicago and other
Luke Michigan Sorts A weekly line is to be
established to Duluth, and those facilities
will of course be enlarged when the opening
of the Northern Pacific railroad renders
Duluth one of the mos, important ports on
Lake Superior.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

Victoria Woodruff, the New York bro
ker, who is ut present seeking notorety by
championing the cause Of woman suffrage, has
been decidedly suubbed by Congress. The
report Of the House Judiciary Committee, on
her petition to declare that woman suffrage
exists by reason Of the fourteenth amend
men, says emphatically that the fourteenth
amendment does not confer suffrage upon wo-
man. The word citizen as therein used
means just what it did in the original consti.
tuition, and no more. 1t takes the ground
that Congress has not the right to prescribe
the qualifications Of electors, that being the
peculiar province of the States When the
latter choose to take this step they are at per-
feet liberty to do so. The report concludes
by stating that if women have, as is claimed,
the existing right under the constitution to
vote, the courts of the country are the proper
places to insist upon that right, and further
legislation on the part of Congress would be
useless aud unnecessary.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-02-08

TnE lNDErENDENT-Ther are numerous
evidences that Titon and johnson have
dropped out Of the management Of this jour
nal. The new editors have evidently struck
the woman suffrage flag--at least they do
not advocate the movement as conducted by
the reckless performers" of the hour. In n
recent issue they speak as follows
Z" We cannot but think that the attempt to secure
the passage Oft joint resolution declaring that
the Constitution cOniers the right To vote on wo
men Is impOtic. Woman will have the suffrage
when there is popular sentiment in favor o
their having it, and this sentiment will not Be
made by attempts to take short cuts. If tn,
Constitution is TO be construed why not have il
done by The courtsl Every reform is obstructec
with two classes Of people One is the specie
represented By George Francis Train, Mrs Wood
hull, and Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker The mis-
fortune is, that such people keep upa perpetua
ilutter, and are always seen first They are Oftei
thought to he leaders because they persist il
walking in front The other class is composed o
those who persist in wanting to use n new move
ment as "a lever to unsettle the foundations
Reform will never satisfy such people They
want cboas, II the suffrage is to be obtained foi
women, it is OF the utmost Importance that the
real leaders OF the movement let it be understood
that Woman Suffrage is not on deposit in Mrs
/ NOodhulls office, and that it has no Relationship
near or remote to anybody doctrines of divorce
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
TENNESSEE NEWS.

A fifteenth Amendment velocipeded
the public square In Lebanon, Tuesday,
Sept. II. greEreF
W. R. Rogers, of Wilson county, re-
Gently killed bat which measured I4E
inches from the extremity of its wings.
Several religious revivals are going on
in Wilson county.
Maj, Alex w. Wick, of Lebanon, has
presented MIR. Genio G. Scott, the New
York ichthyologist, with the head of a
jack fish, from Csney Fork.
The Gilbert Sisters give dramatic en-
tertainment in Lebanon next Monday for
the benefit of the Masonic Hall.
A transparent blind fish was recently
caught out of Mr.. Bryan's well near
Lebanon.
The streets of Lebanon are bsing i'm
proved.
The Office of Dr.. w. w. Alexander,
of Athens, was entered and robbed of
$50 Sunday night, Sept. 10.
The store house of Brown s. Crowell,
Morristown, was broken open and robbed
of $45 one night last week.
Nancy Grim, colored, of Dyer county,
is claimed to be one hundred and eight
years old.
New corn has found its way to the
Knoxville market, and sells at fifty cents
per bushel.
The Circuit Court of Bradley county
remained in session but three days. No
body was sent to the Penitentiary, for the
reason, as claimed by the Cleveland Ban
ner, that the people of that county know
how 10 behave themselves. ~.
The Lebanon Free Press says Wilson
county will surpsss herself in the way of
Fair this year. Every preparation is
being made. The people all over the
county seem to be awake to their interest,
and will doubtless turn out by thousands.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
A STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

The Ballston Journal relates the fol
loving terrible struggle of boy named
Richard Brown, son of o. w. Brown, of
West Milton, Saratoga county, New York,
with bull, one Gay last week: He went
into field back of the house where there
was number of cows and young bull,
when the bull started for him furiously,
goring him in the right leg, tearing the
flesh out, and throwing him in the air.
On regaining his feet the lad succeeded
in catching the animal by the horns, and
struggled heroically for his life. Now
under the bulls feet-now dragged in the
dirt-now up again-clutching at the
beasts eyes, and almost in despair of
help-when nearly exhausted, unexpect-
ed succOr came. The COWS, attracted by
the believing of the bull, rushed around,
and the boy succeeded in getting enc of
them between q and the mad animal,
80 keeping the POSITION until able to leap
over the fence, after doing which he fell
exhausted On the ground. The struggle
was terrible indeed. The ground was
dug for rods. Every bit Of clothing was
torn off the lad. HIS right leg and shoul-
der were badly gored, and his body
mass of bruises. Finally, reaching the
house, he was not recognized by his
father. 1t is thought the lad will recover
from his wounds.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

The express Office at Ellis, Kansas, was
robbed Tuesday night of $22, 900.
Reports from Russia show that the
Asistic cholera still scourges dreadfully
the central and southern portions of the
Empire.
A fire at Saratoga yesterday destroyed
property to the amount of nearly $780,
600. The fire is believed 10 be the work
of an incendiary.
A London dispatch says case of chol-
era has occurred at New Castle.
An explosion occurred at the Union
Torpedo Works, in New York, yesterday,
by which six persons were killed and
eight wounded.
No clue whatever has yet been had
touching the theft of the vouchers from
the Comptroller's Office in New York.
Comptroller Connolly while disclaiming
all knowledge of the abstraction, has his
suspicious, which he says he dare not
breathe at present, but of which the pub
lie would hear very sooR, which would
entirely exonerate him.
The New York Stock Exchange move
into their new building next Monday.
DR.. ]. d. Miller, brother of Joaquin
Miller, died in eastern Pennsylvania on
Saturday.
Paris wants to borrow some 20, 900, 900
dollars to repair the ravages of the Com
mune.
An oil train was burnt on the Erie
Railway yesterday. All trains were de-
tanned two hours.
A United States registered bond of
$4,000, No. 1,4Ss, csveated by the
Treasury Department, was offered for
sale in Wilmington, N. g., yesterday.
The person offering it was arrested.
Gov. Hoffman delivered an address at
the fair of the Westchester County Agris
cultural and Horticultural Society yester-
dsy.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
-W~-0-
FRANCE.

Prussia Asking More Concessions.
VERSAILLES, Sept. IA "A conference,
composed of Count DeRsmousat and
Ponyer Quertier representing France, and
Herr Won Arnim and Count Herzog rep
resenting Germany, is now being held in
this city for the settlement of the Alsacian
customs question. 1t is hoped they
will be able to arrange for the evacuation
of all the departments. except six, by
means of customs concessions.
VERSAILLES, Sept. 14.-1n the Assem-
bly, to-day Remusat submitted as the re-
suit of the recent negotiations, bill
authorizing Theirs TO conclude with En-
peror William of Germany the customs
treaty, which embraces in its provisions
Alsace and Lorraine. q
Too Many Criminals 80 Convict.
In the Assembly to-day Gen. De Cissey
stated that two additional courts martial
for the trial of Communists will shortly
be appointed. He said there are now
but 112 judges to examine the cases of
30, 900 prisoners, including 750 convicts.
Even with the additional courts the Gov
ernment will probably be obliged to re-
lease IL, 600 prisoners without trial, as it
is impossible to sentence 1000 per
month.
PARIS, Sept. IA proposition was
introduced in the Assembly yesterday
proposing amnesty to all Communist
prisoners, but was defeated by large
msjority.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
HIDDEN GOLD.

At intervals as regular as the recur-
renee of Christmas or the visit of the
tax collector, the good people who dwell
along the Hudson river, in the State of
New York, go mad ever superstitious
discoveries of the exact spot where
are the lost treasures of the re-
doubtable Captain Kidd. These apocry-
phsl yarns invariably obtain ready
believers, and credulous people turn out
In numbers, with pick and spade, and
turn unoffending mother earth inside out
ia their eager quest, with little considers
ton for the labor involved, animated
by the feverish hopo of striking the
traditional short cut to easy opulence.
50 far nothing but disastrous failure has
attended these efforts, and the hidden
pots of gold have successfully baffled
the sharpest search. At present the
dwellers aforesaid are engaged IN hunt
for this gold, the regular annual mania
being strong upon them again. lis where-
abouis, however, remains a mystery as
impenetrable to these simple seekers as
the whereabouts of the Cocos Island
treasure is to those whose researches have
been applied in that direction.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
MEMPHIS ITEMS.

Mayor johnson has gone to Chicago to
represent the Grand Loo ge of Tennessee
in the meeting of the Grand Lodge of l..
o. o. F.. Alderman Moffat fills his po.
sition pro tenn.
A professional negro bondsman of
Memphis laments his philsnthropic fate
in the Memphis Jail.
The Recorder recently got two Ter
dollar bills from unknown parties.
An unknown man has been calling on
the suburban residents and compelling
them to purchase numbers for their
houses. Many have been swindled.
For the month of August Memphis paid
81, 367 to the fire department.
The first installment of blacklegs ar
rived in Memphis from Chicago and st.
Louis, Tuesday, Sept. II.
The appeal fsYors the early construc-
ton of a railroad from Paducah, KY,
through Lauderdale county to Memphis.
The Appeal, noticing the insult of the
Courier Journal to the Commerce and
Press Association of Tennessee, says it
sis noticeable only for its bitterness, and
that it indicates the mixture of B lhemian
arrogance and cockney contempt of good
sense for which the CourieTJ0uTnoL is
now celebrated"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
STRENGTH OF INsECTs.

The strength of an insect can be finely
illustrated by feat that was once per-
formed by beetle-OryOtes n1Glnlon-
a variety that is quite common in the
United States. The beetle, for want of
any box at hand, was put beneath quart
bottle full of milk upon table, the hollow
at the bottom allowing him room to staSd
upright. Presently, to the surprise of all
in the room, the bottle began slowly to
move and glide along the smooth table,
propelled by the muscular power of the
imprisoned insect, and continued for some
time to perambulaie the surface. The
weight of the bottle and its contents could
not have been less than three p 'unds al d
a half, while that of the beetle was about
half an ounce, so that it readily moved
weight of one hundred and twelve times
exceeding its own. A better notion than
figures can convey will be Obtained by
lad of fifteen to be imprisoned
under the great bell of St Paui's, which
weighs IL, 900 pounds, and to move it to
and fro upon asmOoth pavement by push
ing within against the side.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
FOREIGN.
Tne New Germanic Alliance.
Threatened Inroads on italy.
GERMANY.


LONDON, Sept. 14-Herr Krupp, the
great Prussian gun founder and inventor,
is residing at Torquay. This fact is re-
garded by the newspapers as significant.
Shall Italy be Gobbled
BERLIN, Sept. 14.-It is asserted in
diplomatic circles that the secret alliance
entered toto by Bismarck and Won
Beust on the part of the governments of
Germany and Austria Ia in oppoei-
ii to the alleged coalition between
France and Russia m fA
II is also stated that Italy was invited
by Bismarck to become party to the
Austro- German alliance, but the invits-
ton was declined by King Victor En-
manuel who preferred observing the
policy of neutrality rather than join IN
the alliance with G rmany. It is further
stated that in consequence of this refusal
on the part of Italy the German Premier,
threatens the absorption of the
Italian provinces of Venetia and Lom-
hardy into the Austro German territory.
These statements cause great unessi-
ness in diplomatic circles, and further
Developments regarding the alliance and
looming difficulties with Italy, are await
ed with great anxiety.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15
) WENDELL PHILLIPS.
Ben Butler the Statesman OF
the Century,


BosroN, Sept. 14-The annual gather
Ing at Salisbury Beach to-day was at
tended by fifteen thousand people. Gen.
Butler, Wendell Phillips, Mayor Kelley,
of Newburyport, Daw Perkins, Mayor
Milton, and Capt. F. d. Burthsm, de-
livered speeches.
Buffers speech was presentation of
the arguments he had heretofore ad-
vanced.
Wendell Phillips, who followed him,
said that of all the men Massachusetts,
had honored within the past fifty years,
none could compare in craftsmanship
with Butler, that no name will stand
higher in the history of the State. He
represents great question namely, capi-
tai against legislation.
Phillips, like Butler, did not answer
newspapers, but obeyed the injunction
not TO answer fool according TO his
folly. He wound up with saying that
New York was private property, and that
its laws were made in Vanderbilt's Office.
Boston was following in the same path.
Meeting adjourned to Sept. Is, 1872.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-09-15

The pFoprietors of the China line of
steamers, already subsidized by Radical
Congress to the tune of $500, 900 per an
mum TO transport to our shores The con-
yicis, vagrauts, paupers and prostitutes
of the Flowery Kingdom, are seek
ing an additional S50O,0 1t is
not generally known that while q
Radical Congress adds to the already al
most unbearable burthen upon the work
ingmen, the imposition of taxes to pay
the subsidy to the China line of steam
ers, that not solitary sOhite seaman is
employed by that line. The officers of
the vessels are white men, but every
seaman, servant, or subordinate of any
class is Chinamsn. And yet, with un-
blushing effrontery, the party sanctioning
the original wrong of facilitating the
arrival of Chinese in the United States,
and as one of its consequences, just
alluded TO, driving the American mariner
from the decks of the few vessels which
still sail under our flag, appeal 10 the
people at the polls to approve their
wicked conduct.