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

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Five hundred respectable persons Of Afri
can descent have, within the last month, mad,
application to the American Colonization So
cety for aid to 90 to Liberia. The demand
for passage is greater now than ever before.
The proposition before Congress, thai
one Of our national vessels be despatched t
France, with the contributions of our citizen,
for the aid Of the suffering people Of tha
country, will meet the hearty approval Of al
generous men.
--Vico.Prcsideut Collax goes in for al
early resumption Of cash payments and woult
have the Secretary of the Treasury pay Of
j-20s to the amount of sI0,OO0,OO0 in gol,
on the lst Of March. lie talks ike a states
man.
Mr.. Hill has been admitted to the United
States Senate, from Georgia. Every State il
now represented in that body, for the first tim,
for more than ten years Reconstruction il
complete as to forms but it would seem to b,
almost To-. far of as ever, ia some sections, al
relates to spirit
Senator Salisbury says the democrat,
mean to nominate Gen. Hancock for the Prcsi
dency, next year. They might make 0 worst
nomination. Such a nomination would com
pei the Republicans to put up a military man
TO wit, President Grant,--f indeed that
matter be not already settled.
"A resolution offered in the grand lodge
of Good Tempars at St. Adams, last week,
to blast with inlamy the members Of the Leg
stature who wouldn't vote for the constabu.
larry bill, was promptly tabled by the lodge
who weren't quite prepared to take the judg.
meut Of the whole state into their hands.
The movement for fair in Boston, in
aid Of the suffering people Of France, is
now taking shape. The Boston Theatre has
been engaged, and many Of the public spir.
tied citizens are taking hold Of the affair in
a manner that gives the assurance of a great
success.
There are about $4,000 Roman Catbo.
lies in Vermont, large portion of them
French Canadians On Thursday evening a
large meeting was held at Burlington at
which protest against the occupation Of
Rome by the Italians was adopted.
The independent says Mr.. Andrew
Jackson Davis who has loug been the chief
among Spiritualists, and who has
received communications enough from the
spirit world to fill several large volumes,
now asserts that he is not a medium at all,
and never was ; and that these revelations
of his have been made through the aid Of
claryoyonce.
Frank Blair, since his election to the Z.
5. Senate has stated that he adheres to the
doctrine laid down in his letter to Broad
head, 1868, which disguised many of the Dem
ocrats at that time, though now they warmly
approve Of it, thus showing that they have
fallen away much in two years and a-half 1t
will be recolected that Gen Blair then took
ground, virtually, in favor of rebellion.
"A French National Assembly will meet
at Bordeaux on the 18th of February, the
members of which will be chosen on the sth,
next Thursday. That body will have to
say-sabiect to the approval of the Emperor
of Germany-what kind of government
France is to have, and also who shall be a
the head Of the Kingdom. Republic, or Elm
pre. As to the terms Of peace they will be
dstated by he Germans and the Assembly
will have title to do with them, beyond nomi
ually ratifying ,hem.
There has been another fearful disaster
on the Mississippi river The boiler of tn,
steamer w r. Arthur, from New Orleau
for Louisville, exploded at O'Clock SATURDAY
morning, about fourteen miles above Mem
phis, and aiterward the boat burned to tn,
waters edge The night was very cold, SC
that many persons escaped the fire only tc
perish in the water 1t is thought that
eighty-seyen persons in all were lost, and tn,
loss by the destruction of the boat and carg,
must be over 100000
Gen. Scheuck did not sail for Europ
on Wednesday, as he had expected, and NJ
new date for his departure has as yet been an
nounccd. Meanwhile his continued presenc
at Washington gives rise to all sorts of ru
mors about the re-opening of the Alabam
negotiations, to which considerable probabili
ty attaches, from the fact the reason he him
self assigns, his desire to ascertain more full
" what sort Of a treaty the Senate will rati
fy,-appears hardly sufficient, as It would seen
that before this time he could have fully &C
certaned the prospect in that direction.
Prominent bankers in London have re
Gently written to bankers, and others promi
nent in financial circles in Washington an
elsewhere in this country, on the subject Q
the Alabama claims They say the appoint
nent of General Schenck as Minister t
England has been received with much favoi
and that the British government is more di:
posed than heretofore to adjust the pendin
question, and they further assert, in effec
that the settlement will open the market fc
large amount of the new United States bond
in the country The prospect of an early SCI
Element is generally regarded by them .
favorable.
"A letter from an intelligent American
residing in one of the large manufacture
towns of Lancashire, Eng, to gentleman
Boston, under date of an 18th. saws
-" In regard to the Alabama Claims, Il
English people are far more DESTROYS of payr
them, and settling the controversy, than they ey,
we're before. know of wealthy and enterpri
ng Englshmen here, who, year ago, were N
} favor of paying cent, that now advocate Il
adjustment Of them to get the matter settled, al
ave peace and harmony between the two nation
,nglnnd is in dread of and fears complications {
.he continent Of Europe, and is fast learning Il
value of neutrality therefore she does not roll.