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Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07

attention MN O,Cners a.!
Having disposed of my interest in the Eureka Mills
at Springfield, W. shall travel the State the coming
season. and devote my time to Dressing Hanging Back
ing, and Balancing Mill Stones, both running and
standing balance.
Mil proprietOrs desiring work Of this description
invited to correspond with mo- Ten years experience
In the business enables me to give satisfaction.
Terms reasonable Address
AS. Glow, Springfield Vt.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07
Marriages.

Jan. "A, MIR. o. P. Newell, and Miss Abbie Atwood,
Of Londonderry.
Jan. l6, Mr.. II. P. Warner, Of Landgrove and Miss
Ellen Newell, Of Londonderry.
Jan. 81, Mr.. Henry ]. Harris Of Stowe, and Miss
Nancy W. Goodrich, of Morrstown.
Jan q, Mr.. Henry W. Leach, and Miss Electa Do
ton, Of Pomfret.
Jan %, Mr.. Eugene P. Tewksbury, and Miss Emma
Montague Of Woodstock.
jan 30, MFR. Fred p Marsh and Miss Abbie E. Wash
burn, Of Woodstock.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07
PREMIUMS FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS.

We have made arrangements by which we are en-
abled 10 offer the following Choice Articles ms Prem
ums 10 subscribers and others who obtain New SUBJ
scribers for the FARMER.
We should prefer to have all the names sent at
time. with the funds but If IL desirable the
names may he sent as ast as received notice being
given with the first lot that they towards Premi-
um. When enough names have been obtained 10 get
the Premium DESIRED send all the names again with
the funds.
Remittances should be made by check postal money
order, or registered letter.
Bear in mind that these Premiums are only for New
Subscribers, not for renewals Of old subscriptions.
Every subscription, In order n count towards Pre-
mum, must be a bona-lde one, not present in whole
or in part from the agent any other person. If any
discovered which are not bonalde, they will not
be counted in.
AGRICULTURAL BOOKS.
To any present subscriber other person sending
the names Of two new subscribers with four dol
lars, will send copy Of Prof Johnsons How crops
Feed or his book entitled How crops Groy. Price of
each $500.
Or, for four new subscribers and eight dollars,
will send both of the above books.
wEBsTER's DICTIONARIES.
To any farmer, farmers son, or other person who
sends the names Of six new subscribers with
twelve dollars, will send a copy Of Websfers Ma
tiOHGt Pictorial Dictionary, containing 1910 pages
tavo, with GOO engravings Price $500
And for the names of twelve new subscribers
with twentyfOur dollars, will send copy Of Web
ster's Illustrated Unabrigded Dictionary, containing
1910 pages quarto, with 1000 engravngs Price $780,
BLANCHARD CHURNs.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07

GIN In another column, advertisement about
DEII Iowa and Nebraska Lands.
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07

The executive committee of the Caledonia
90 Az. Society met Feb, 4, to arrange for
the next fur Phe farming element an the
committee was ont In force, aud there Is ev-
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1873-02-07
Horse Powers.
MILLIONS OF ACRES
Iowa X Nebraska Lands
FOR SALE BY THE
Burlington & Mo. River r. r. Co.

burlington q NO. nlVer n. n. 20.
On Ten Years Credit at per cont Interest.
Products will pay for the land and improvements
much within the limit of this generous credit Better
terms are not offered and probably never will be.
Circulars giving null particulars, gratis call for
all that are wanted 10 circulate.
Come West and thrive, Friends will follow.
A Sectional Map, showing the exact location of
Iowa lands is sold at 30 cents and Of Nebraska lands at
same price, For circulars and Maps apply TO
GEO. S. HARRIS,
Land Commissioner, Burlington Iowa.
~ And please say in what paper this advertise
ment was seen.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
MORE Frauds or THE RING.

We publish to-day another startling array OF
figures and facts touching the later frauds com
mitted IN "finshing" the new County Court
house. Long ago it was tersely declared that
every brick in that wretched building repre-
sented a stolen dollar and false oath
The statement made in the special report OF
the Controller shows that the rule has held
good to the last. Heretofore it has been I'M
possible to account for considerable part OF
the funds which were known to have been
here squandered. 1t is shown in the dOcu-
ment which we print herewith that of the
S494332 40, alleged to have been expended by
the Ring Commissioners, $4S2,916 "a can be
traced directly 10 the private bank
account of one of the Commissioners
J. H. Ingersoll. This was the work
of forty-six days, commencing with the
date of the appointment of the Commission
ers. Bills were paid on fraudulent indorse-
ments, and, in some cases, accounts were
forged outright. In the case of the Heath g.
Smith bills, for instance, it is found that no
such firm existed at the time the accounts
we're rendered Their demand was for 800
water-coolers at $50 each: there are
thirty of these articles, worth 80 so each, now
to be found On seven warrants there are
what is believed to be forged Endorsements,
and the amount of these warrants is
$259, 9,434 43, and, as in the Heath g. Smith ex-
ample, one or two of the persons to whom
the warrants are issued are fictitious.
In fine, the Commissioners expended $1,OG6,-
4S2 90, of which $615,959 O5 is now found to
represent value received for the remainder
of these enormous expenditures no evidence
can be found to show that the county ever
received a dollar as equivalent. The
stolen money went directly to the credit of
Commissioner Ingersoll. What distribution of
the spoils was subsequently made we cannot
now say. 1t is quite possible that some
further investigation, like that made in the
accounts of the Tenth National Bank by the
Hon. S. J. Tilden, may yet unearth the whole
conspiracy. We have enough to show now
the minute details of this enormous fraud on
the taxpayers Of the county. Is the whole
some and expensive lesson to be lost upon
our citizensf We have escaped from the thrall-
dom of this Ring; shall we. straightway ac-
cept a charter which opens the way for
onofhnrq
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
TILE MORMONS-ONCE MORE.

1t is said that in a certain California city,
where the newspaper prOpretors are tied up
with the various rings which aflict the coun-
try, editorial writers have this standing order
"When in want of topic, pitch into the
"Mormons." Just now. this is a good part of
our National Administrative policy. The Ex-
ecutive and Congress, when in want OF sub
ject, instinctively turn toward the MormOns.
One more attempt to solve the much-vexed
question of judicial jurisdiction is to be
made in Congress; and Senator Frelinghuysen's
expedient is, with other plans, to be consid-
cred to-day by the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee. Whatever else happens to the MormOns,
they will not perish for lack of attention.
If it were not for the conflict of MOrnOnism,
per &C. with the general spirit of the laws and
institutions of the country, we should never
hear of the difficulties which are felt in re-
conciling United States and Territorial laws.
Just now the chief trouble is over the juris-
dction of the Territorial Courts. The main
question was raised in the well-known Engel-
brecht case in this form; Have the Probate
Courts in Utah jurisdiction in criminal cases
1t was answered in the affirmative by the
United States Supreme Court, Chief-Justice
Chase giving the unanimous judgment of the
bench. Such an issue would not be raised in
any Territory but Utah; but the Admin
istratiOn, with happy faculty for taking hold of
questions by the wrong end, would not at first
discuss the legal view of the case at all,
but instructed its officers to elude it altogether
and proceed as though no such question could
be mooted. Justice Mexican decided that the
United States Court had original Jurisdiction
in common law criminal cases, and that the
Territorial enactments touching such matters
were substantially null. Met by the decision
Of Chief-Ju Chase this curiOusly arbitrary
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
H1SHLNGT TON RTCOLICS.

There is attached to the Government at
Washington a department called and known
as the Department of Agriculture. Its Osten-
sible object is to teach the American farmer
how to cultivate the earth to advantage and
proftably, and its real object seems to be to
support one Commissioner of Agriculture
$4,000 per annum, house rent and other per-
ouisites) one chief clerk, son of the Commits
sioner (s2,5OO); and second son and clerk
(si .sOOj. In addition, the fortunate Commits
sioner is allowed apartments, the annual rental
of which is estimated at $1,000; family man
servant also called "a messenger" who gets
1900: horses and a carriage worth $500 year.
So this interesting and ornamental little col
ony. got together for the express pur-
nose of improving the agriculture of
the United States, costs us something
over $4,000 per annum for official services
alone. The Great National Head Farmer like
wise gets his coal and gas for nothing from
the Government aud he also takes advant-
age of his place to sell to farmers for seed
,rhat he calls "The Ne Plus Ultra Wheat"
which he grows upon his private farm in
pennsylvania. Notwithstanding his salary
and his sons salaries, and his house rent, and
his horses and carriages, and his gas and his
coal, Mr. Commissioner of Agriculture Watts
went 70 Congress for an addition to his regu-
lar stipend, and in consequence of some oppo-
s,tion, and very funny speech from Mr.. Cox
the truly unlucky Commissioner did not get
what he went for. Mr.. Cox (because, perhaps
he is urban and not SYLVAN does not see the
beauty of Mr.. Watts's Bureau. The fact is
Mr.. Cox treated the Agricultural Commits
sioner's last report with the most lamentable
dsrespect. The poor man had happened to
say IN this document that the segregated
" character of the rural population has been
"such as to forbid that concentration of ideas
"and consultation of views which are COM
"mon to all other professions and occupa-
"tions." There does MT seem TO be much
harm in this sentence; the words are among
the very finest and longest in our language !;
and a person lending to the public service
such a gigantic vocabulary might naturally
enough expect an increase Of salary. Then,
too. the learning in the report about
bugs was of the most costly character.
The American Farmer was furnished
with tho clearest information concern
ing tho following beautiful creatures
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08

Mr. COburn. who appears TO carry his Fourth
of-July with him all the year round, said that
"the Boy was now born who would mount
"his horse and ride from the Rio Grande TO
81 the Isthmus with the American flag behind
chin" OF course he alluded to Sergeant
Bates, and the idiotic enterprise is highly
characteristic, but why need it be advertised
in COngressf
Gen. Butler, who is recently displaying an
alarming frequency of lucid intervals, seemed
to have a monopoly of all the common sense
in the debate. He urged the retention OF
Spanish in the course for the evident reason
that our Southern frontier is entirely peOped
by communities using that language, and we
are much more liable TO come into collision
with them than with any others. 1t is fact
very little considered that the Spanish Is
spoken at the capitals of fully half the
nations with which we have dplo-
matte relations. There is no language
so important to the American soldier
and diplomatist, and every year for some
time to come will increase this importance. If
the present Professor of Spanish is not COM
petent, his place should be Immediately sup
Piled But even the plaintive appeal for a
Professor of Rhetoric, which intimates that
our sucking Caesars are learning no English
at West Point, should not suffice TO accom-
psh the abolition of this practically valuable
study The House at last appreciated this,
and rejected the proposition.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08

There will he some astonishment at learn
ing that the Senate Committee on Claims have
caustically reviewed Presidential veto. The
bill for the relief of DR.. J. Milton Best, a
loyal citizen of Kentucky met with the Pres
idcnt's disapproval. He thought the principle
recognized by this bill would involve the
Treasury in large Disbursements The Com
mittee profess amazement at such state
ment, and proceed to show that Congress,
from the foundation of the Government,
has never refused TO pay such a demand; and
several which rested on precisely similar
grounds have been paid, lately, without OBJ
lection. The argument of the Committee on
the relative limitations of the veto power and
that of the legislative body is not specially
strong; but the logic of the case, so far as the
claimant is concerned, is certainly with the
! Senate Committee
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
2Een.2lork Daily grib11l1e.
FOUNDED BY HORACE GREELEY.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1878.

The British Parliament had the Treaty OF Washington
under discussion. The Committee OF Thirty of the
French Assembly has nearly finished its abors.
The Senate yesterday, considered the Geneva Award
bill =-- The House passed the Military Academy
Appropriation bin.
The senate Committee Claims severely arraigns
President Grant for his veto Of the Best claim. -
The Chairman OF the Wilson Credit Mobiier Committee
finished his examinations the books OF the Union Pacific
Railroad Company at Boston. == Franklin b. Evans
Coniesses the murder OF the Joyce children and other
crimes.
The Courthouse frauds estimated by the Con
troller at 100000 The Superintendent OF Markets
recommends the lease Of the buildings. @ husband
shot his wife and boy his playmate while ferry
master brutally assaulted in Hoboken. = The
Rev. JOnn weiss lectured on Laughter" 60 Mayor
Havemeyers has been approved by the Liberal
Republicans == Gold, ll9S, ia, 1l3i. Thermometer,
$40 $50 342
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
SPANISH AT VEST POINT.

A good man struggling with adversely is not
more edifying spectacle than Congress
struggling with a matter of Bellies Lettres
Our law-givers gave the world that pleasure
yesterday. A proposition was made TO strike
out of the West Point appropriation the pro-
vision for a Professorship of Spanish. This
has been repeatedly attempted on the ex-
tremely statesmanlike pretext that the present
Professor is Objectionable. Those who do not
like him propose to get rid Of him by abolish
ing his office, az the Chinaman in the story
burned down his house to roast his pig. But
this object was not avOwed in the debate of
yesterday. The SOlOns who spoke took much
higher ground. Mr. Sargent said there
was no Spanish literature worth mentioning,
by which he probably meant that Cervantes
and Calderon entirely neglected any discussion
of Yerba Buena or Central Pacific in their
writings. Mr.. Young rushed TO the defense of
the Castilian tongue with more zeal than dis
cretion for having said he would not take
thousands of dollars for his knowledge of it,
it straightway appeared he was ignorant of it,
which showed rare cOnscientiOusness on his
part, as many Congressman exhibit sad
alacrity in taking something for nothing.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
4 WORD ABOUT Mr.. DE LONG.

We are not in the habit of bringing The affairs
of The TRIBUNE before the public, but since
several Other newspapers have made editorial
refer ence TO the matter, we see no further
reason for withholding mention of the fact
that Mr.. De Long, Minister of the United
States in Japan, has been guilty of gross
breach of his diplomatic duties IN demanding
the removal of Mr. Edward H. House, the
valued correspondent of this paper from his
post as Professor in the University of Iedo.
Mr.. De Long imagines that he has a cause of
quarrel with Mr.. House on account
of some criticisms written by him
and printed in this journal on the
conduct of the Minister in the case of the ship
Maria Luz. The criticisms were entirely
proper and cOurteOusly expressed, but Mr.. De
Long felt his dignity touched by them, and
demanded, in the name of the United States,
that the japanese Government should dismiss
the writer from his chair. The demand was
not complied with, the Japanese Ministry hav-
ing much more accurate idea OF the extent
of Mr.. De Longs pTerogative than he himself
appears to possess. The matter has had, there
fore, no practical result, except TO place upon
the records of the American Legation in Japan
the story of a great impertinence of our Min
ister, properly rebuked by the Cabinet of the
TennO.
1t is probable that Mr.. De Long has not
sufficient sensibility to appreciate the position
in which he has placed himself. But he is
probably the only American to whom the
facts are known who does not feel Blight
emotion of shame at the thought of so petty
and indeliGate an exhibition of unavailing
malice, made by the representative of great
country before court which is striving
to bring its people into the line of modern
civilization through our example and encOur-
agement. There are many things they may
wisely copy from us, but it is not likely that
they will take our diplomacy as model, as
long as they are represented in Washington
by so clever and accomplished a gentleman as
Mr. ArinOri MOri, and we can find nothing
better than Mr.. De Long to uphold our name
and dignity in japan
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
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New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
Amusrrlcnts, etc, Chs Gpsniua.

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Varieties
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08

other pretty solid constituents. Now. If comets
are meteOrs or meteors comea; or II one may
become the other, what we Want to know
and respectfully ask Of the wise .nen is. how
does it happen that when the iron; metoors
were Biela's comet they were transparent
gas, and why did they shine with the light of
carbon instead of iron 7 While they are abSut
it they may also favor the community with
calculation as to the date and probability Of
need of fre-proOf umbrellas next No
yember.
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08
WHY NOT HAVE A GOOD CHARTERi


We are desirous that the question of a new
charter for this city should be decided on other
than personal grounds. What we have said of
the organization of a new Ring to control the
appointments under il, and of its cunningly
devised provisions to play into the hands OF the
Ring, deserved indeed the gravest cOnsidera-
ton and the literal accuracy of our statements
is in no wise impugned by the frothy denials
of the Ring spOkesmen. When THE TRIBUNE
denounced the present charter, the same spokes-
men were just as ready with their denials.
When it pointed out, last Autumn, the plan of
putting Davis on the Bench to provide for
Bliss in the District Attorneys office, they were
Just as prompt. In each instance the denial
was known TO be deceptive, but it was
put forward as means of checking the too
rapid rise of the public Indignation. Denials
now mean Just the same thing and not an
iota more. THE TRIBUNE has disclosed the
exact programme of the Ring. There is, of
course, the possibility that they may have to
make recast of the offices, but if so the re-
suit will show, not an error in our disclosures,
but a result of them.
But the question at Albany deserves other
VI
Andrew II. Green does not seem a step in the
direction of Reform. The prospect of having
Mr.. Thomas Murphy in an important financial
position is one that does not need to be char
acterized. Yet above and beyond such
personal matters rises the graver ques
ton, Are we to have charter under
which good government is probable,-nO mat
ter who the persons in office are To this
we entreat the attention of well-meanng
citizens of all parties, and of no party. Is it
desirable that city elections should still be
complicated with State and National politics. 7
Is it desirable that appointments should be made
by Ring of Aldermen whom nobody, at the
election, thought of choosing for that purpose
Is il desirable that we should once more find
ourselves wholly unable to fix on any person
who is responsible for bad appointments, and
at the next election turn him QUIT Is 1t
desirable, in a word, that we should take our
old enemy to our heart because he comes to
us with a new mask
It is to considerations of this Sort rather
than TO any of purely personal. nature, that
we would entreat the attention of our citizens.
They meant to secure reform last Autumn.
lncy are naVlnB III SUZUKI away hoih Vhoni'
under their very eyes. The men who
told them the Tweed charter was a
noble instrument say the same of
this one. They denounced us when we OPP
posed the first and they denounce us when
we oppose this They had the power then to
carry their plans out; and, unless Mayor
Havemeyer, Gov. DIX, the Committee of
Seventy, and the great mass of wellmeaning
but easy-going citizens bestir themselves, they
will make just as clean a sweep at Albany
now
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08

Some interesting figures relating to the cost
of building the Union Pacific Railroad have
just been brought to light. Mr.. Wilson, Chair
man of the House Credit Mobilier Committee
No. 2, in his investigation in Boston, finds
that the books of the Union Pacific Company
show a total cost to the Company of S1l4,O33,72e
for building the road. The cost to the
builders was $71 ,2OS,399 leaving a profit OF
more than S42,OOOOOO on the entire line. 1t
should be said that these figures do not in
either case represent cash, but bonds and
other securities. The relative proportion OF
cost and profits cannot be materially changed,
however. The excuse for this extravagant
proceeding is that the risk was great, and the
profits should be propOrtiOnately large. How
does it happen, however, that the managers
of the road divided among themselves the
profits, whatever they wereR
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08

Three new murders, since one o'clock yes
terday aftemoon jealous husband wreak-
ing his vengeance on his wife, hOt-headed
boy killing his playmate after childish
quarrel, and laborer brutally assaulting
another in HobOken-such is the startling
array of crime for the last twelve hours.
Where is all this to endR
New-York tribune., 1873-02-08

If it were not for the infamous Durell de-
cision, some other view might DO possible ;
but that dictum ia binding. whether law or
not. If a new election is ordered, we take il
for granted that the Kellogg Government will
have the management of it, as it is not likely
that the WaImoth Government will be rein
stated