Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-29
Notes and Comments.

Since the Goth the subscriptions are reported
to exceed sl,5OO0OO daily National banks
subscribe quite freely.
According to contemporary, the new
national five per cent loan is as good as an or
binary seven per cent loan, because the former
is exempt from taxation. If he is right, two.
seventies Of mans income must be taken
from him in the shape Of taxes.
The Mail says that an extensive slir
and locomotive builder Of New York, Wa,
has just returned from tour through the
southern states, asserts that the kuklux or
CARNATIONS in those states arc composed OIL
leading citizens, and adds that operations are
open as day and Gendsh in the last degree
AT a recent New York dinner, the name,
Of the guests, designating their places at the
table. were painted on rubber balloons which
aoated over the table being fastened by long
strings one to the stem Of each mans goblet
The effect was very novel, and provocative Of
many jokes.
king Williams exhaustive demands for
men yi.bly enlarged womans sphere in Prus.
sia. BY recent order Of the minister oil
education, women who prove themselves quail.
iGoi are to be accepted as teachers Of modern
language in public schools,-a position hth.
crto monopolized by the masculine gender.
The German Parliament was opened on
Tuesday, March n, by the Emperor Of Ger.
many in person, who spoke from the throne
The imperial speech was moderate in tone and
words He completed his 18th year on We'd
nesday, the Odd and thus he finds himself the
foremost man Of all this world, long after the
close Of the allotted time Of human life
--Ex-Emperor Napoleon got to London on
the Goth. He was in good spirits, bccaus. he
saw in the troubles Of France grounds for be.
lieying in his restoration to the French throne
That restoration, he says, is only a question
Of time. At his age,-he will complete his
sixty-third year on the Goth Of April
man cant safely leave a great deal to time.
-Rumor says that Juarez, the Mexican
President, means to ask protection from our
government. The Mexicans-or some Of them
wish to get rid of him, aud he does MT wish to
be got rid Of, liking office, even if Office does MT
like him, which shows Christian-lke, forgiv.
ing spirit Let US indulge the fond hope that
our government will not touch Mexican affairs
till after the next Presidential election.
If revolutions never 60 backward - in.
surrections may, most assuredly, and we have
reports from Paris indicating the waning
power Of the insurgents The better class Of
the citizens Of Paris are organizing for the
preservation Of order, and the government at
Versailles is firm, and apparently not at all
scared by threats Of the Paris mob They
nave large military force at their service
and the Mobiles from the provinces volunteer
their aid.
"A portion of the Democrats seem to be
really in earnest in their efforts to make Sen.
ator Sumner their candidate for President at
the next election. They remember that Chief
Justice Chase came into their web only to be
ruined, but they will find Mr.. Sumner not
quite so easily moulded to their wishes, even
| if he is dissatisfied with his own party asso.
ciates. The life ambition Of Mr.. Chase was
to be President, aud he has failed Mr.. Sum
ner has aspircd to be a party leader, or die
tator as some would say, and the country
knows with what success.
The death of William IL. Burleigh was
announced recently by telegraph. lie wa'
born in Woodstock, Conn, in 1912. During
his youth his parents removed to Plain6eld
whore he was apprenticed to printer, Fol
several years be worked at that business
At the age Of twenty -four he lectured, for two
yesrs, in the auti-slayery and temperance
causes. Afterwards he had editorial charge
Of the Christian Witness, Pittsburgh, Penn
the Washington Banner, Allegheny the Scbo
noctady Literary Journal, and positions upor
othcrpapers, Asa poet he had very high repu
tation Charles G. Burleigh, the anti-slayery
orator, George 5, Burleigh the poet, anc
lucian Buregh, at present temperance
lecturer, are brothers of the deceased. His
wife is Mrs. Cecilia Burleigh, well known a.
a lecturer. He died at Brooklyn, N. Y.
Russia has had her own sweet will " on
the Black Sea question, as it was manifest
p from the first that she would The confer
ence on the subject in London, though long
drawn out, has been uuexcitng and uneyent-
ful in its history and is now over. The prin-
eipal delay was for the sake of having France
represented and join in the concessions, which
at the very outset, both Turkey and England
practically agreed to make. The Russian
representative took on bland manner, and
this, with the preliminary agreement that the
treaty could not be abrogated or modified ex
eept by the consent of all the contracting par
ties paved the way for the concessions
whose stern demand at first alarmed Turkey
and fired English pride The simple result
is, that the restrictions of the old treaty OF
the number of vessels of war which both Rus
STA and Turkey could have in the Black sea
are abrogated, and both are henceforth tc
have as many as they choose there. This i.
quite right, and there was no occasion fol
making much fuss over the change. Bu
these little games of diplomacy must be play
ed out after the old fashion still, ave suppose
In New York city grand raid has Just
been made upon the gambling establishments
which is direct result of their exposure by
the Tribune. An article in that paper gave
in plain terms the numbers Of several houses
with the numbers of several policemen who
were bribed by them, the names Of their own
ers, aud other information which should hay,
been in the possession Of the police authori
ties long ago. A thousand persons were haul
ed in one night from the keno aud panel houses