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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-01

Two persons received the ordinance of hap.
tism at the Methodist church in Bellows Falls
last Sunday,-Rev. Mr.. Nichols has closed
his labor at the Methodist church in Middle.
bury. Quite number have found pardon
and peacc.-Within ten months the Mctho.
dists Of the State of New York have raised
half a million Of dollars to found University
at Syracuse. The erection of buildings will
be commenced Immediately. -The Methodist
Recorder proposes that ministers shall do
away with +" ID. d." not only, but with 4" Rev.
erend Amen
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-01
Catholic.

Among the "strange revengos" which tn,
whirligg of time is bringing upon the Pope
it is reported in the Jeioish Messenger that a
rich jew, Mr.. Alatri, is the most prominent
candidate for mayor Of Rome under the Ital.
ian regime. Consider that the Jews have fol
hundreds of years been subject to the mos
unreasonable and cruel oppression in Rome
and that the severity of their condition ha
never been relaxed there, while all the rest O.
Europe has been growing more tolerant an,
then think Of a Jew mayor of Rome
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-01

Mr.. Quicken, of Hamburg, reports that one
hundred missionaries and colporteurs, with
upward Of two hundred brethren from the va.
rious Baptist churches in Germany, have from
the commencement of the war done their part
in supplying first the German soldiers, on en-
tering the field, with tracts, single Gospels, Oh
the New Testament T. B. Eastman
has accepted call from the Baptist churcl
at Woodstock.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-01

There are three colleges in the West which
the Unitarians are specially called upon to
patronize-Antioch, in Ohio; Washington
in Missouri; and Humboldt, in Iowa. The
last-named has lands valued at 100000, and
is now seeking in New England money en-.
dowment.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-03-01

"A Washington special says that the OPP.
ponents of San Domingo annexation there say
the last news from the commission look. as if
the annexation scheme had met with unex.
pected Developments in short that the later
Investigations are not SO promising as those
which were at first made Private letters re.
ceived from one or two Of the most trustwor
thy correspondents accompanying the ex.
petition, Intimate that the facts do not all
favor annexation.
When Thackeray was at the Revere
House, in Boston, one Sunday morning, says
The Commonwealth, he asked the landlord
Paran Stevens, where Theodore Parker
preached. The landlord said he did not know
" Don't know !" exclaimed Thackeray in his
most astonished tones Why, Sir, we've
heard his voice away across the Atlantic
lie is the greatest preacher in America. &"
Stevens tells this story himself, and how
cheap he felt in running about his house to
find where the great preacher held forth.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
THE President AND SOUTH Oak
OLIEA.


Nearly all the newspapers fall into The
error Of referring to the Presidents recent
proclamation, says the New York Tribune,
As declaration OF martial Law in South Car
DINA. The president has not declared mar
lial law, and has no power to do so, under
the act of Congress commonly known as the
Ku-Klux law. Martial law is the abroga-
ton Of all law, except the will of the mill
tary commander; and if courts and civil Of
ficers continue to perform their functions ii
is only by Its permission. What the Presi-
dent has done is to suspend the writ Of habeaf
c,rpus in the nine counties of South Caro-
lima specified in his proclamation, and this
il all he has authority to do. The differ
sace between this and declaration of mar
tial law is very wide. The civil law Is still
in force in those counties, and the authority
of the State courts is not lessened except in
one particular-their process will not release
q man arrested by United States officers for
an ofiense against United States statute. 1t
should be borne in mind, further. that to
prevent the possibility Of unjust imprison-
ment, the Ku-Klux law provides that the
case Of each person arrested shall at once be
brought before the Grand Jury Of the Fed
erai Court, and if the jury do not find bill
of Indictment the prisoner shall be forthwith
released
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02


The editors, with one voice 1t the Conven-
tion, expressed themselves pleased with Law
renee. In the afternoon, carriages for a
hundred people were furnished free, and
those who desired saw the most beautiful
town in Kansas. In the evening the elite OF
he city met at Liberty Hall, a splendid
band furnished music, and the editon and
their wives with the brave and fair ones Of
Lawrence INDUCED in the dance to their
hearts content.
Gen. c. w. Babcock, Hon. Sidney Clarke
Mr.. 0immell, Mr.. Kallock and Others did
everything needed TO make even an editor
happy. All were duly sober, consequently
happy, and resolved to vote for Babcock a
the next Senator from Kansas.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
AGASsiZ o. fMG MaSSACHUSE; ~
SCHOOL SYSTEM.

Massachusetts, PEOPLE, though they have
in some respects schools as good as any in the
world, are obliged to hear them sometimes
sharply criticised. Prof. Agsssiz told the
Teachers' Convention in Boston last week
thar he thought in public education that too
much vas made of the memory and too
little of the mind" ''There WERE" in his
opinion, 100 few teachers and too large
classes or schools. Thee large schools re-
min ed him of barracks for soldiers rather
than friendly places where children should
be taught" Other evils are, that one man
is required TO teach too many Branches, in all
of which he canno, be proficient; that text
books are too much the work of men who
write not from their knowledge, but 20 a
trade; and that there is too little instruction
in Nature, which can be comprehended BY
the smallest child. Physical geography,
geology, botany, zoology, physiology should
be taught a. well As grammar. Agassiz pro-
ceeded in this style for some time, and his
remarks were received with profound atten-
tim
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
1nE sTM OF NONEMBER.

One week from next Tuesday, the 9TH Of
November, is the great day of the fall cleo
tions. Nine States vote on that day for
general and local tickets, either or both. H.
linois elects one Congressman at large in
place of John A. Logan, elected to the Uni
ted States Senate, and one Congressman in
the sixth district TO take the place OF Burton
c. Cook, resigned. Maryland elects Gov
ernor, State officers and legislature; Massa-
chuse,ts .he same; Minnesota the same; Mis-
sisippi elects legislature only; Kansas a
legislature and county officers; New Jersey a
Governor and legislature; New York State
officers and legislature, and Virginia leeis-
lature. The elections are of the highest in.
portance, and the drift of popular opinion in
favor of the Republicans, warrants the expeo-
tation that large Republican gains viii be sc
cured. Illinois, Massachusetts,, Kansas,
Minnesota and Wisconsin are safely and
largely Republican. New York and New
jersey are debatable ground, with the pros
poets good for Republican gains in these
States; while Maryland, and Virginia
will doubtless 90 Democratic.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
WIND. rlxE AND RAlN.

Ths unparalleled rapidly of movement
and overwhelming destructivenes of these
WaAaa 1rss says the Herald, are charge
ahae % Tie kerce winds which feed them and
ssssp them onward. But why. these fierce
uisls anounting to hurricanes? They are
d. b eeographical causes From Lake
AieAieaa TO the Rocky Mountains, and from
he Brifiah possessions down to New Mexico
- have = region of great plains. Over these
paains, - over the deserts of Africa and Asia
Al TIE pampas Of South America, the winds
havs ffse play. In their free play they in
dig il freaaent tornadoes during the spring
- nan9, and in long and heavy blows
daring the autumn and winter. In regard
- ths hurricanes accompanying these West
ca fsa shey result, 6rst from the vacuup1f
light, or rari6ed iii created BY the 6r~. and
osEt in The outside current Of denser air
. On into the vacuum. Then, a
u eAecs upon the outside atmosphere
Iron . great ere in an extensive
p1aia must extend over an indefinite spacs,
- i,eooiag curEent TO The ere from the out
- Pssare saPidly assumes the character
Il = h.ssinne. In q mountainous or billy
susuazy ths wave Of TIE incoming air =
A1kn up Or cua %; but On IN extensive
-, ~ vhd gpGhen strength in pcopor-
- - IL sssa aAscsed, a ths outpoarinG
49,. -srl l>~n ~>eh~. 1911 ::
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
AR CIEICsAL RAIN.

Interesting Experiments IN England.
In England, where ancestral pride in land
is aided 10y fixed and prin ely incomes, ex-
perimen,al agriculture is carried on as an en-
ightened and congenial employment of cap
itsl and occupation of leisure. Draining has
been pushed to such perfection there as to
demonstrate that it may be Overdone; and
now surface irrigation is receiving the atten-
ton of landholders At Stoke Park the sys-
TEN of irrigation with pure water has been
tried with marked success. The surface to
be experimental on is a tract OF twenty acres
in grass, and the water has been applied in
artificial showers, in the night, every night
during the season of 1871, except when nat
ural rains made artificial rains unnecessary.
the apparatus consists of pipes laid in the
ground, supplied from an elevated reservoir
or reservoirs, into which the water is pumped
by machinery. In other words the country
is waiered as the city of Philadelphia is sup
piled. Nothing except a number Of proper
" constructed pipes would be necessary to
shower the whole area OF Philsdelphia, so far
az the hydrapts are extended.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
GREAT BRITAIN.

LONDON, Oct. 26.-The contributions 70
Chicago, received at the Mansion Houss up
to last evening, amounted to "a, go.
The Times urges prompt and liberal aid
to the sufferers by the forest fires.
LONDON, Oct. 26.-Another frightful col
liery explosion took place this afternoon in
Bahan mine, near Newcastle. Thirty-thres
men were in the pit at the time, none Of
whom have yet been reached. There = 10
hope of saving them. The victims families
and a large crowd of people congres.aed q
the pit.
LONDON, Oct. 27.-Queen Vicsoria has
contributed $500 for the reliefOf the ChicaCo
sufferers.
Thirty men in the mine at Leaham, where
the explosion took place, are dead. The pit
is on fire, and another explosion il feared.
US. Minister Schenck ID :ndisposcd, and
has gone into the country to recupesaie.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
MORE RAIL AND Less WATER.


The recent opening of the European and
North American Railway completes the con-
nection between New York and Halifax, and
seems likely to modify, in an important
degree, the course Of European travel. The
road will be continued 10 White Haven Bay,
The extreme point of Nova Scots, and
hescsforth we may expect that many
European tourists will accept the opportunity
thus offered to go by rail to that point ard
there embark, thereby avoiding seven hum
drsd miles of sea travel, and that, too, the
aost dangerous and uncomfortable part Of
- voyage. 1t is by no means improbable
that White Haven Bay may in the future
become the absolute western terminus Of at
leost one line OF trans Atlantic steamers.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
A SMALL DODGE.

The 81. Louis Republican, which has de
nounced the Presidents recent proclamation
in regard to the kn-Klux of South Carolina,
says that martial Law is becoming the law Of
the land, and proceeds to sustain it, fiction
BY saying that Sheridan proclaimed martial
law nj Chicago. following the excitement Of
the FIRE. It also intimates that the Illinois
Stale Authorities have taken serious umbrage
at the matter, and by small dodge endeav'
ors to muddy the Northern political stream
for the protection of Southern murderers and
outlaws.
Now the iuth ofthe m..ter is, that by the
LAST Chicago papers We have received copies
Of the correspondence between Gen. Sheridan
and Mayor Mason in relation to the discon-
tinuance of the military patrol, wherein May
or Mason thanks and reiteraies thanks to
Gen. Sheridan and the military for their
support.
The martial Law declared in Chicago was
in aid Of the civil power, and not opposed to
it, and it did a good work; and, as We have
written in another paragraph Of to-day's pa
DIR, the same law, as declared in South Car
olina, is also in aid of the civil law, and
there it is likewise doing a good work in
bringing murderers and banditti to justice or
driving them from the country, as it did
from Chicago.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
TEE gECoNS srEs' IS 1ME NJ
DFRARrURE.

TIE &kCO0 SBEC ~ s141 ~s.~
DxPARrUEE.
The St. Louis Republican al length gravely
uroposes that the Democratic party officially
di-b.nd and resolve itself into a liberal, re-
form organization in opposition 10 the Re-
pubIicans and in imitation OF the couise
pursued in Missouri al the last election IN
that State for Governor and legislators.
We had scarcely expected the movement
would come 60 coon, bat we appreciate nov
the prediction Of Senator Morton. upon his
reading Of the Vsllandingham resolutions,
that the new departure was but the beginning
of the end of the Democratic party,-that 1t
could not pause after taking such step, but
would either dissolve Immediately or break
into a Northern and Southern faction.
The latter il its condition at the present.
And we now see that the Northern wing,
having been hopclessiy discouraged by recent
elections, ia preparing to disband, and enter
the new party of Mr.. Schurz or any other
organization formed in opposition to the
great Republican party. thus too they
hope to seduce Liberal Republicans from
their allegiance, to entice the soreheaded mo
heir whi;ewashed hospitals for spawned
veterans, "who lag superhuous on the stage, ="
and TO 20 amalgama,e and regenerate the
Southern element, as 10 make something
like decent hope of a show in the nexi
Presidential contest.
Blu. whether they follow the advice of the
Republican or not, our party can only count
upon increased and persistent resistance. We
admit the obstinscy OF the black jack Demo
Graf, wherever you find him, in Kansas, oil
in New York. He is an angular, unavaiia
bic fragment, and will remain, so long a. the
order OF things in this world continues 10 b'
imperfect, disagreeable feature Of the body
polite. seemingly endowed with the patienc'
| of Josh Billings mnle, which behaved itsel
for six months in order to get chance 4
kick Republican.
Yet there can he no alteration in the fina
| result, while the Democratic party live al
II
such. or furnishes the corpse for Its osr
funeral. We expect and desire opposition
and any char &c in the ranks of our opponents
will be for our good, if not eventually fol
their own also. PhiIosophically speaking
We say, that We are glad that the movement
has been begun, but politically considering
the matter, We don't care a cent, for w
know that i, is 10 be hereafter as heretofore
When we encounter the enemy: the same ole
wolf in the akin OF an innocent sheep; or Il
use a more familiar illustration, the origna
coppsi head with his new hide, reprinted ant
calico-howered for the occasion.
For these reasons we merely intimate Il
our friends that should they now doubl
their licks that they may obtain the iul
benefi. OF the evident beginning of the end
and reap rich reward in increased MAORI
ties all over The State. Hit them HARD, earl.
and often, and above all things, Keep ,h'
thrashing mill in good running order, 10
We have plentiful supply of material t
run through the machine on the 7ih day 0
November next.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
FAIL. IN GOLD.

The influence of the Chicago dieaster has
been curiously reflected in the gold market
BY a decline OF the price 10 ll2. The
reason of this reaction lies in the fact that
gold, having been demonetized by the sub
stiru;ion of greenbacks as "a legal tender, has
had to suffer like all the other Wall street
commodities, which have shrunk in value at
the approach of stringent money and 6nan-
sia! excitement. the more FULLY greenhacks
Gil up the channels Of busines. the more
likely is gold to take its pla,e as a currency a,
its mar in paper
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
THE MORMON AFfAIR.

The conviction of Hawkins and the prose-
cution OF the other polygamists, it seems,
from the dispatches published to-day,
threaten to result in another pilgrimage by
the Latter Day Saints to an unsettled portion
of the globe, if such a spot c,n be found,
where they may rest in peace and practice
their abominations But Hawkins is by TO
means so great a sinner as many others, for
he contented himself with two wives, while
others have had treble and quadruple
share of the blessings OF m ltrimony; and the
Others know it, 80 that they threaten, unless
Hawkins is pardoned, or acquitted on new
trial, and other prosecutions are discontinued,
to burn their houses and 60 forth again to
find the promised land OF Mormondom.
With no less a penalty than q fine Of
81 900, and three years imprisonment apiece,
staring them in the face, they have good rea-
son to fear; and if they decide to move they
will naturally determine to destroy their
farms and dwellings before they will let
them fall into the hands of the Genfiles,
making desolate wilderness Of the valley Of
Salt Lake City.
This last act Of desperation will no; be
permitted by the government, If it can he
prevented by lawful authority.
However, the Mormon affair becomes in
tere-,ing as it proceeds, and We may look for
of ,b> I.S,rucfion of Sail Tale
City should the Mormons determine to flee
the whip of justice. for they Seem As fanaii'
cal and determined in defense of their polv.
gamic institutions n were the Russians, VINO
applied the torch to the cabins and palaces o.
Moscow.
History frequently repeats itself, and We
may find modified illustration of this ruth
in the course of events, in dealing too &C.
verely with the Mormon church at this late
hour of tie dav.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
RUSSIA ARAlSG.

Ruaia il said to be arming herself, "a. q
tie Trmes, swiftly and powerfully at every
point. Immense amounts Of machinery,
steam boilers and wire rigging have been
cent to the southern ports, Cronstadt 10 being
strengthened and engineers are laying out
new liner Of defense in various quarters.
Meanwhile the regiments of the line are at
work in competitive rifle shooting, the caval-
~ are being remodeled on improved prin-
ciples, and all these things are being pushed
with the utmost dispatch. Can it be that
Rusaia doubts the good faith Of Prussia, Or
ID il that abe breads her power? That one
ar bosh these suppositions is true, there can
be little doubt. Ii il said that a profound
sirsad of q fresh uprising in Poland. a uni-
sessal insurTection, prompted by German
pahlidisis and backed BY German bayone,s,
\ he true secret of all these formidable
Preparations. The explanation is plausible
q regards the Western frontier, but scarcely
accounts for the vast operations on the Black
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02

SOME qraint and curious investigator
whose head, two-thirds of his time, was
doubtless in the clouds, has gathered a great
number Of facts relative to smokers. Ben
johnson loved the "durne weed" and de-
scribes its every accident with the gusto Of a
connossiur. Hobbs smoked after his daily
dinner pipes innumerable. Milton never
went to he'd without pipe and glass of wa
ter. Sir Isaac Newton was smoking in his
garden at Woolsthrope when the apple fell.
Addison had pipe in his mouth at all hours
at Buttons. Fielding both smoked and
chewed. Shelley never smoked, nor Word
worth, nor Keats. Coleridge, when cured
of opium, took to snuff, Campbell loved a
pipe. Sir Walter Scott smoked in his car
riage, and regularly after dinner, loving both
pipes and cigars. byron wrote about sub
lime tobacco, but was not an excessive smok-
er. Goethe did not smoke, nor did Shakes
peare. Carlyle, now past seventy, has been
a sturdy smoker for years. Alfred Tanny-
son is a persistent smoker of forty years.
Dickens, Jerrold and Thackeray all pulled.
Lord Lytton loves long pipe at night, and
cigars BY day. Lord HOughton smoked
moderately. The late J. NJ. Kemble, author
of the Seasons in England, was tremendous
smoker, Moore cared not for it; indeed,
Irish gentlemen smoke much less than Eng
lish. Wellington Stunned it; 20 did Peel.
Dsraelli loved the long pipe in his youth,
but in middle age pronounced 1t 'tomb oil
love-" probably because he buried himself
in it.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
SPAIN.

MADRID, Oct. 26.-The rumos that hays
gone abroad Of conspiracies against the CIV
eminent by the partizans Of Duke Mont Ps.
zier and the infant Alionzo, are withoue
truth. The whole kingdom is perfectly quiee
and no demonstration Of any kind againsi the
dynasty Of Savoy is spprehended.
MADRID, Oct. q Duke Montpensier
announces that he will take his seat in the
Spanish Congress as soon as the health Of
his daughter will permit.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
TINE POLAR SEA,

Germany surprises the world by claiming
the credit of disco vering the open Polar Sea.
Many wise observers have held to the firm
belief that the only way to reach the mystery
which surrounds the Moth Pole was by way
of the Pacific. II will he Confirmation OF this
theory If the German expedition has really
this wsy reached the open sea.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
LEAyESwoRrn TO TABLE ROCK.

We are informed by Maj Firth, Superln.
tendent, that trains on the Atchison and Ne
braska Railroad will run to Table Rock,
Nebraska. on and after November l, leaving
A,chison at 10 a. N and arriving ct Tahle
Rock at $3.50 p. m, returning Immediately
and reaching Atchison al 8 a. m.
Table Rock is "a miles from Atchison
six miles from Pawnee City, the county seat
of Pawnee County, and fifteen miles from
Tecumseh, the county seat Of johnson county,
with both of which points it is connected by
lines Of stage. Close connections made with
The express ON the Missouri Pacific.
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
ExPLOslOA OF TME CORPSE.

Last evening, about 9 O'Clock, a lamp
exploded in the Office of the C@pse, and by
this time the news has been kerosenel over
the wires throughout the land. A stroke Of
lightning could not animate him, but when
the devil bursts lamp al This head, we be, he
has walked up and sen, a telegraphic ad-,
telling all about it, to the renotes' corner o.
,h. c;vilised earth
The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-11-02
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ONE OF TlAE CHGLO1sS

1t 10 said that the Grand Cyclops OF the
Ku-Klux Khan OF Georgia, says the New
York Herald, is q no less personsse than the
son-in-,aw Of General Toonbs, That fAmou.
man who threatened once upon time ID
call the roll of his slaves IRON the apex o
Bunker Hill Monument amid the flashing
Iightnings Of Southern rights, and the raj,
Ting thunders Of the constitution. 1t mus
be this man and no, the other man, who Ii
the real Grand Cyclops Of the Georgia kn'
Kluxea