Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-06-26
Notes and Comments.

George W. Julian, Of Indiana, is SO
hungry for office, that he has Informed his
friends that he would be glad if the Demo.
cracy would take him up as one of their
standard.bearers."
-" Prince John" Van Buren, visited Eng
land during his fathers Presidential term
aud had the honor of dancing with the same
Queen who now, after lapse of 32 years,
politely cntertains the child Of another Presi.
dent.
The news comes across the cable that Mr..
Adams is willing to accept the Baltimore
nomination on the same conditions on which
he proposed to accept the Cincinnati nomina.
ton. But he is 10 no danger of being drawn
into that crowd"
-Thiers is in fresh trouble. A crisis 10
France has long been expected aud the won
der has been that it was so long delayed and
that such period Of political tranquility has
continued. At last the Right of the Chamber
has broken with him, and a crisis sapproach.
Ing which his skill may avert, but which
threatens trouble The Provisional Govern
ment has already lasted longer than most an
ticipated.
The postage on circulars, newspapers
and other transient printed matter. which
under the old law was two cents for every four
ounces or less, is now one cent for every two
ounces or less. Small circulars, which former.
ly cost two cents, to mail, can now be sent
for one cent an important reduction to BUSH
ness men who use the mails largely to adver.
tise their business. The change il now in
force, the law being immediate in its effects
1t is fact to the undying honor Of
Henry Wilson, that though he has been nearly
quarter of a century in public life, and
more than two terms 10 the United States
Senate, he is to-day poor man. There lie
not statesman of more unblemished repute
in the whole country. No man ever ventured
to say aught against his spotless integrity
Though Chairman of the Military Committee
throughout the war, with limitless opportuui-
ties, his services were as pure aud unselfsh
as they were patriotic and unwearying.
Henry Ward Beecher startled his audi
ence Sunday by politely informing them that
they we're individually and collectively given
to ialsehood. Said he If you don't lie IN
word you tell falsehoods in deed AMI action
in all the walks Of life. Do women tell the
truth when they try to make themselves ap-
pear more beautiful than they really are by
resorting to the arts and tricks of fashion
| Does the merchant tell the truth when he
puts sand in his sugar. or adjusts his scales to
give short weight ? The lawyer, the doctor,
and even the preachers lie; but the most mis-
chievous falsfers are the editors of newspa.
pers"
The election of United States Sena.
tor in New Hampshire deserves particular
notice, not merely because the suggestion Of
n coalition between Liberal Republicans and
Democrats failed, but because there was not
a single Republican in either branch of the
Legislature but that voted for the Republican
candidate If there is any disaifection 10
New Hampshire, this was the occasion to show
it. The Greeley movement hasn't so much
strength that it IAN afford to throw away any
opportunity Of making capital. But there
wasn't sign Of it in New Hampshire The
representatives, in that State are very close to
the people, and not one falered.
The lengthy official correspondence re.
garding the Treaty Of Washington, published
in the city papers of Monday last, shows
among other things how very slight has been
the real difference between the two Govern
ments in regard to the treatment Of the quest
ion Of indirect damages. Lord Granville
started with the assertion that sit is not within
the province of the Tribunal Of Arbitration to
decide upon the claims for indirect losses -
yet, according to the latest advices, the Trib.
unal itself has decided that il had the power
TO pronounce upon the question of its own
jurisdiction. Had this been conceded by the
British Government at the outset of the
controversy, the volumnous correspondence
and all that has accompanied it, need never
have had any existence.
The unkindest cut of all comes from
Texas. With inexpressibe gratitude and
melancholy want of appreciation, the Demo
Gratis of that State refuse to send delegates to
Baltimore in the interest of the Philosopher
This is equally sad and unaccountable. Was
it not to Texas that Mr., Greeley went upon
his memorable politicoa agricultural mission
Was it not to the inhabitants thereof that he
elucidated in public what he knew about lay
Jog pipe for farm drainage, and in private
what he knew about laying pipe for the Presi-
dency2 Was it not to the Texas fair that he
gave his bucoic eloquence, and to the fair
of Texas that he showed that bewitching
countenance which has so oft been the ire
sistible persuasion that led subscribers to the
Tribmae2 And now ungrateful, unappreci-
alive, agricultural Texas "goes back " on
him Can it be possible that it saw through
the artifce and condemned the triok2
The Kanzas Magazine for June discusses
the subject of our Red citizens whom it
styles the largest " land monopolists on this
continent and advocat,s the territorial policy
as the remedy for the existing state of affairs
1t gives table showing the population and
territory occupied by various tribes within
the Indian Territory, which shows an area of
about 500 acres to each man, woman and
child. In other words a territory capable of
supporting ten millions of people has a pop
ulation Of less than seventy-fv thousand H.
dians; and misguided philanthropy and
blind craftsmanship would perpetually, if it
were possible, lock up this domain against the
approach of white settlements. The Terri