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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02
Watnhman 6 Journal.
The General Assembly.

This body conycnes at the State House to-.
day, and the two houses will be called to or.
der for organization at II o'clock, a. M but
as we arc compelled to anticipate that hour
somewhat in going to press, we can only give
such glimpses as may be gathered from the
shadow Of coming events.
Tuesday, trains brought eoodly number
Of the members, and nearly all the candidates
for positions 10 the two houses while this
morning witnessed such an influx Of the re-
maiuder as will leave hardly an empty seat
in either house at the hour Of organization
Gov. CoNvEusE is already here, and has
taken most elegant and commodous rooms at
the new residence Of Col. II. d. Iopkins
We can but congratulate him upon having
not only secured a pleasant home while here,
but also convenient aud attractive accommo-
dations for his numerous callers.
We understand the Governor has selected,
as his private Secretary, J. D. DENSIsoN,
Esq, Of Royalton--son of Hon. D. G. Den.
nison-and a young gentleman known tc
be well qualified for the position.
Lieut. Gov DALE, it is understood viii
not be in attendance; hence Secretary ClarI
will preside in the Senate until a presiden
pro tempore is chosen.
In the House we anticipate no time wi
be lost in the choice Of Speaker Notwith
standing there are several candidates eac
seemingly confident of success, yet the cat
vass is conducted with the best of feeling
and an early and satisfactory result will III
questionably be reached.
OF the several candidates for positions cor
nected with the two Houses, We forbear I
speak at this late hour-as they are all upo
the ground and can speak for themselves
and doubtless will.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

"A California correspondent Of the Am
erican Rural Home estimates the average
yield Of wheat in that state to be twenty-five
bushels per acre. The surplus for export
from the state is put at $50 900 tons, having
a value Of s23000,000. But the correspon.
dent is dissatisfied and discouraged, on &C.
count Of the impoverishment Of the soil by
each succeeding crop, and he predicts that ia
a decade California will not raise even il.
own wheat He also complains that specula.
tors and corporations own vast tracts of land
and extort exorbtant rents from tenants, who
in turn skin the land He however, &C.
knowlcdges the climate to be very favorable
to the wheat harvest, as there are always two
and half months Of good weather 10 which
to secure the crop, and that the wheat can be
left piled up in the field for months without
injury.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02
From the Caledonan.
Our Representative in Congress.

To the Editor We have often been ask ed
whether We favor the reelection of Judge
Poland, and We are informed that it has been
very generally reported throughout the Dis.
trict that we do not favor, or are Indifferent
to his reelection.
To correct these misstatements and answer
all inquiries in regard to the subject, we wish
to say through your paper that from the
very outset we have been earnest and decided
in support Of Judge Poland We entertain
the highest regard for him personally, and the
utmost confidence in his integrity and ability
as one Of the foremost men in the House OF
Representatives.
Vermont has acquired prestige and in1u.
ence second to no other State in the Union, IN
the stability Of her representation 10 Con-
gross. We may well be proud of the name
and record Of Collamer, Foote, Slade
and Morrill-men Who could not have at
tanned to The high position they gained, ex.
cept by long continuance 10 Congress.
We should regard it as public calamity
if by any means Judge Poland should at this
time fail Of a reelection, aud we cannot be-
lieye that the people of the Second District
will willingly relinquish the influence which
Judge Poaud's position gives them at Wash
iDgton--an influence which we know that he
not only holds as Member Of the House OF
Representatives, but also with the Executive,
the Cabinet, and all the Departments Of State
We express our views aud sentiments upon
this subject without solicitation, actuated
alone by what we believe to be the public
good.
L. & T. FAIRBASKs & Co.
st. Johnsbury, Sept. %, 1872.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02
Vermont Central.

A communication from " Another Sufferer,
in the Boston Traceller of Friday evening,
upon Vermont Central affairs, contains the
following suggestive sentence
"The only hope is 10 clean out this Augcai
stable, at new men may be placed in power
like Gov. Stearns 81 that hy care and economy
If possible, the securities may be placed wher,
they were lew years aga.
The above suggestion indicates the natur,
Of the combination which is now attempting
to break down the management Of the Yer.
mont Central. Governor Stearns is one Of
the active parties in this movement. 1t i,
rumored that he, and Stark, of the Lowell &
Nashua road, kept back from the G mira
two hundred thousand dollars due to it from
the Northern road in order to help the oppo,
sition drive the Central papet to protest
We have very little doubt that this niamou,
combination will be defeated, after havip,
worked vast mischief to the security holder
in Boston, on Wednesday, will demonstrat.
the sound condition aud the growing resour
ces of the Central aud the fidelity and hon
esty Of its management. OF this we hav,
the best reason to be confident, and if this
combination fails, as fail it will, Gov. Stearn,
will be put into a very awkward position
The Northern road derives its main business
from the Central and the Central mannp D. &
will learn how to regard one who has never
lost an opportunity to try to injure them, and
yet has never known how to use an opportu.
nifty successfully
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02
State Finances.

The Auditor Of accounts and the Inspector
Of Finance having examined and approved
the State Treasurer accounts for the two years
ending July 81, 1872, the report has been print.
ed for the use of the General Assembly. The
following abstract will be interesting to our
readers and the interest will be Of pleasing
kind, as the report foreshadows reduction
Of taxes.
account of lS70-Il.-Bllance in the
Treasury, Sept, consisting Of bonds sink
ing fund, aud cash s2ss, 532 80. Received
from taxes, $685., 6I2.s2; from sales Of mill.
tary stores by Gen. p. p. Pitkin, sl37, 729.-
II ; from registered loans issued $4,000 /;
borrowed from sinking fund 3s,746,6l /;
and from all other sources sufficient to make
the total receipts for the year, sl,242 OFF,
9S. The principal items Of expenditure
were, for debentures Of legislature of 1870,
$40 ,40l 20; auditors orders, 1927 81 81 );
court orders, s62, S72 60 loan of act of 1864,
S25 900; interest paid on bonds, &c, $780,
594 So; registered loan Cancelled, sl3S,000;
for Coupon bonds, SAL $50; for sinking
fund SIT, s49.73 aud other items, making
the total sl,242, O270S. The current re.
sources at the close Of that financial year
were the sinking fund just named and 81 050.-
80 due for taxes--in all SlS4,900 05 and
the outstanding liabilities were SOS ,90470-
leaving the sum of sS5, 1885 as the excess
Of resources
account for ls7l-2.-The balance of the
sinking fund, less amount transferred for cur.
rent expense, was sl39,lO3 II; received
from United States on war claims, s56, 500.
IS; from temporary loan, s63,OO0 lrou
;axes, 1907 1852 aud other sources, max,
ing the total receipts 1897 ,20l.29. The ex
pendtures were, for auditors orders, S236,
452 90 court orders, s5s,76i52; interest
s34, 344 26 for bonds, SIS 600 for tenn
porary loans, 5000; balance sinking funC
on hand slSi, 35l 02, and balance cash it
the treasury, sl7S,l70.l4, with other smal
items balancing the total receipt. The cur
rent resources at the close Of the fiscal yea
were 1865 $40 Ga, aud the current liabilities
s33, $40 .30-leaving the sum of 1882 $50 g.
as the balance of resources.
Estimates for ls73-i.--The estimates io
1873 are for extra State pay to soldiers anC
allotment accounts, s3 900 interest on bonds
etc, s3l 700; ordinary State expenses S3l6,
0OO-making s950,7OO. This indicates tha
the State tax for the next year may be mate
rally reduced, aud still leave the large pres
ent balance of sinking fund and cash to be ap
piled to the redemption of bonds as they be-
come due. The estimates for 1874 inolud,
items for the above payments, and 100000
for redemption of bonds due in lS74-io al
1892 800.
Funded DeJt.-The total amount outstand
log, after deducting the loan Of $780, which it
held by the State, is only s3S0,000 being
DOT greatly above the present balance of re-
sources over current liabilities. The funded
debt natures as follows December |, 1874
100000; December /, 1876, sls6,500
December /, 1878. 1880. THE loan due
June /, 1890, sl35,5OO, is held by the
State.)
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02
Southern Disabilities.

Mr.. Greeley aud his supporters have a
great deal to say these days about the poiti.
cal disabilities under which our Southern
brethren labor, and are very free in express.
ing their opinion that many Of these DIFF
Gcuties - difficulties for the most mart
Of their own copjuring, - arise from the
proscriptiye course pursued by the victorious
North toward tho defeated and persesuted
South Next to their retailing Of base aud
baseloss calumnics upon the President this
constitutes the chief staple Of their arru.
ments. They seek to create the impression
that the South suffers under harsh and pro.
scriptive policy, and that a large body of the
people are dislranchised Mr.. Greeley him
self deyotes the burden Of his speeches to
this subject, as though the South were ground
under the heels of the Government.
Now, lest somebody might possibly be de-
ccived by this twadile, let US see what are
the facts Of the case. There is mot. at The
present moment, single person in the Uni.
ted Stats disfranclised for any reason ,clat-
erer arising from The reJeHioR, or his con.
ncctioa icih0 jeff Davis aud all the guilt
lest leaders Of the rebellion have precisely
the same right to vote that the stauucbest
loyalist 10 the entire land has The entire
sum and substance Of the proscriptive policy
pursued by the Ncrth towards the South con-
sists in the fact that jeff Davis and about
two hundred Of the guiltest leaders Of the
rebellion are prevented from holding office
This is the truth, aud the whole truhg~ es,i
the matter All tho disability Of wKdtsf
much is said consists simply in the fact tha
Davis Toombs, Breckenridge and about two
hundred Of the prominent chiefs Of the re
, bcllion are disqualified from holding ciiice
e Suppose the Greeley papers and orators
a while declaiming against the liabilities rest
=. ing upon the South, were to state these facts
as candor requires them to do, how weak an
ptiful would their argument seem tt
G whole force Of the point would be lost
n The people do not believe that the disquali
. fcatou Of the few rebel chiefs from hodin
;, Office is any wrong or hardship, They hay
$ no special desire that the way should be open
y ed for the return Of JEFF Davis to the Unite
C States Senate. If the Greeleyites would OIL
/. state the truth on this point and think the
y could make any capital out Of it, they ar
d welcome to it. Every rebel no matter no,
,. prominent, who has asked to have his dis
e abilities removed has had his request grant
3. ed The men now excepted have refused t
It ask. They insist that the government sba
}. apologize to them rather than they Shout
II apologize to the government. What say To
it people?
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

The liberal movement has its uses, an,
one of them is the lberalzng effect it has OF
the bourbolism Of the old-fashioned democ
racy 1t must be as good as d" liberal edu
cation for Seymour democrat to vote io
Horace Greeley, or Lunt democrat to vot,
for Charles Sumner. 1t is good thing (,
get the democratic party to admit-eyen will
a reseryation-that the constitutional amend
ments are fundamental law. 1t is encourag
ing to see the southern task masters fawninl
on the negroes And last but not least, it i
really refreshing to see the New York Worlc
invoking that odious enforcement act to pro
tect the democratic party in Philadelphia
These Acknowledgements that the republican
party has been all right in its principles ar,
gratifying still for fear the democrats nigh
go back on our admirable policy we guess W.
had better keep the reins awhile longer.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

A NOVEL MARRIAGE Fee We have heard about
ministers and justices accepting pumpkins and
'ther vegetables as marriage fees, but u case oc
'urred in this town In early days, which has moi
'een published, and has never been inflated thai
We know of. One Switzer. Of Ryegate, having
ampletod his courtsnip determined upon getting
The knot tied. IL was many years ago, and there
was no competent person in town to bind the two
together. Switzer proposed to his int,nded L
20 10 Judge Harvey Of Barnet, and Obtained u
willing consent. Rigging in their best home,
pun, they started of together IN foot, and tray.
He'd SIX or eight miles to the Judge, who per,
formed the ceremony promptly switzer had n.
money, and feeling that the judge had earned 8.
good fee, proposed that he aud his wife woul,
-tay and work out whatever he might choose
charge Harvey was generous man, and SCI
himself to thinking up a job, IL finally oecurreo
u him that a lew weeks before he had horruweo
q boar Of Capt. Gray in Ryegate, and he CAV,
them the job Of driving the buar home lie wa,
turned into the road, the welded pair took thei
sticks, drove him Ia the owner, and in that wa,
settled the bill Lyndon Union.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

Mr. Greeley has already begun to explain
his Pittsburgh speech, and will presently be
explaining the explanation. What he has
not yet explained is his declaration that the
recent company Of veterans gathered at Pitts.
burg was assembled with " the single purpose
If reminding the bitterness, the hatred, the
,nimosities, the fears and exultation Of
iiyil war 1t was precisely in this spirit
hat Mr. Sumner said in his farewell letter
hat to put a soldier into Office was like put
ing up in the capitol q mark Of the subsection
# the people who fought against our soldiers
This excess of tenderness for the men who
ollowed Lee coupled with brutal disrespect
oward Grant and the men who followed him.
sill excite anger instead of sympathy in this
generation and laughter in the next.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02
St. JOhnsbury, Sept. %, 1872.

DISPOSAL OF THE GENEVA AWARD. - A
member Of the joint high commission, and also
a member Of the cabinet, says that the fol-
lowing will probably be the process of adju-
dication before the close Of year from this
time. The British government is required
to pay the United States the amount of the
award made on Saturday, nearly $4,000.
OO0 this sum will 60 into the United States
treasury credited 10 the fund for which il is
paid. Congress at its next session will be
asked to legislate as TO the manner in which
the money shall be paid out a commission
will probably be authorized by Congress to
be appointed by the President to examine
and decide all claims presented for losses on &C.
count oflhe three ships named, and on the de.
cision Of the commission the claims will be
paid by the treasury. After all the claims
have been paid, it is expected that very
large sum will remain, which will 90 into the
treasury to reimburse the government for its
expenses in fitting out navy vessels for the
capture of the priyateers
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

D~The members of the civil serrice board
have thought it advisable to explain state.
nent in their report made last December,
which Senator Trumbull and others have made
the basis of a charge that about one hundred
millions are annually lost to the government
through the incompeteucy or dishonesty Of
eyenue officers. The statement il applied to
he existing condition of things is manilestly
uniounded the actual loss to the govern.
ment hardly amounting TO one bundredth part
Of that sum. In order to make the argument
ior better system Of civil service as strong
AS possible Il e commissioners made general
tatement Of estimated Deficiencies at a time
when the spois' system was at its worst,
the Deficiencies arising not SO much from
ietaeations as from smuggling, uudervaua-
lions and evasions of every kind Applied
10 the state of the revenue service which the
present administration found on coming into
power, it was probably an under statement I;
applied to the reorganzed service, it is an ex.
aggeration Of the grossest oharacter7s -,
Curtis and his associates, who were intention
enforcing the need of radically reforming the
system, did not make the discrimination which
the facts in their possession warranted Sen
ltor Trumbul and others who have taken
advantage Of their oversight, for partisan
iurpose, do not allow that any such discrimi.
lation is possible, but they give the impress
sion that it is not.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

When will the absurd law regulating the
choice of jurymeu be repealed, and it be deci.
ded that man who knows something can decide
according to evidence In the case Of Laura
Fair, Of San Francisco, who obtained second
trial, ou the charge Of shooting Judge Crit.
tenden on a Mississippi steamer, there were
six hundred aud fifty jurors called aud only
three hosen,-only three in that number who
didn't know anything This speaks well for
the intelligence Of the community, but bad
for such absurd regulations. 10 these times
Of newspapers, and general circulation Of
news Of all kinds, it is hard work to fnd men
who have not formed some opinion, and c1-
pressed it, too, On all noted occurrences and
transactions Of the day. The man who is so
ignorant or foolish as to be incapable Of an
opinion Of his own is not e.. to decide ques.
tons of justice, and yet the law requires,
or is, rather, SO interpreted, that such men
only can sit on juries to try the most impor-
tant cases
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

The Republican women of Massachu.
sets held largely attended and earnest meet
ing in fremont Temple, Boston, last week, iol
the purpose Of endorsing the recognition of tn,
rights of women IN the Republican platform
and ratifying the National and State nomiua-
tons. An address, signed by Lydia Maria
Child Harriet Beecher Stowe Grace Green.
wood, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louise NJ.
Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, Mary A. Liver
more, Lucy Stone, aud other eminent women,
aud ombodying toe spirit of the meeting, was
adopted, aud nuwber of sp rilel 'pccches
were made by prominent ladies present.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

No DANGER OF FAmNE-The failure Of
the potato crop in Ireland will not produce a
famine there, as some Of the newspapers say,
How can a famine happen in this age of tele.
graphs and steamships? The former Instant
y makes known the wants of nations from
one end of the world to the other, and steam
ers respond to the message in few weeks,
bringing the oyerplus Of the regions which
have been blessed with abundance to supply
what is lacking in the countries where there
has been failure. These great agencies also
serve to equalize the markets, aud prevent
those fluctuations which were common in for.
mer days.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-10-02

Doubtless President Grant believes that
the Republicans will carry Ohio, Indiana and
Pennsy lyania, aud doubtless he has far better
reason for believing so than Mr. Greeley has
to believe the opposite. But suppose he were
to travel around the country truculently brag.
giDg Of the fact, and declaring that If those
States didn't go that way, it would be because
the people were bought,-wouldu't it be re-
garded as a degradation Of his position Is
the spectacle Greeley has been presenting cal
culaied to Impress the people with his fitness
for the Pres dency2