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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

TIE entry of Postmaster Jewell upon
the discharge Of his duties, has called out
some interesting facts relating to the bust
ness Of the postal department. During the
last ten years, the number of letters trans
mitted through the United States mails has
increased from three hundred and fifty.fve
million in 1864, To nine hundred million in
1874. Thisiss larger increase than has ever
taken place in any country before, during
the same period. For the first five years
of this decade, ending in 1869, the increase
was fifty per cent. and for the last half il
has been eighty per cent. The cost OF
handling the mails in 1864, was 1923 sos.
900, The cost in the present year, with an
increased business Of eighty per cent, is
only s34,O0O,O0O, or but forty per cent.
additional to the expenditures of ten years
ago. So that while the volume Of mail
business has increased eighty per cent, the
increased cost Of transacting that business
has been but half that amount, or forty per
cent. The amount of annual deficit in the
post office department drops off from
sG,437, 900 in 1868, to s6,lsO,OOO in
1873. With this constant increase in bust.
ness, and corresponding reductions in the
percentage of handling the mails, it can be
but short time before this department will
be selfsustaining, while the rates of postage
are likely to be reduced from time to time,
and new and improved facilities afforded
the people in conducting their correspond.
encs.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

INV YORK; August 81, 1874.
Editors Watchm0H and journal In bust.
ness, matters are beginning to show little
elasticity after so many months Of innotion.
The prospect is brighter, by far, than it was 10
year ago, in mercantile matters Politics hero
have not revived from their summer sleep yet,
though they too aro beginning to exhibit signs
Of considerable vitality. The rush homoward
from the watering places has commenced in
earnest, and there is much moro than the usual
number Of visitors, on pleasure and business,
in the city
The theatres have nearly all re opened for
the fall season, and the churches will again be
in order to receive their congregations BIZ next
Sunday. 1t is astonishing what an amount Of
cleaning and repairs our city houses Of worship
must have in the month Of August Minor
churches are no better than the marble temples
in this respect.
Tho Plymouth congregation in Brooklyn,
however has not bad any vacation to speak Of
this year The reasons for this departure from
the usual summer habit can be found in every
newspaper in the land. Concerning this
Beecher matter, and its threatened legal ter.
mination in the courts, The pulling question
u.s. where IN the United States On unptciudicod
jury can be drawn % Ind the facts? Public
opinion concerning the merits OF this coniro-
yersy appears, o. yet, 10 be mere personal
fancy, there being nothing very definite either
way To base an opinion upon That any def
mite conclusion VIII ever be reached Us doubted
by all sensible men The Scotch verdict Of
- not proven would probably DO the only
verdict that could be rendered by twelve men,
good and true.
i"' "o'A ID" WV h'"'A9n h'lNse Naa re-
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

TnE FRUrr OF REPuBucANIsM.-In no
other enlightened country than ours
under the whole heaven could there be
such a thing attempted, much less sue.
cessfully, as that which has taken, the
present summer, twenty-five young students
from Bates College, and more or less from
other similar institutions to spend their
usual vacation as walters at the White
Mountain hotels. A late report shows that
these young men have done their work in
thorough, courteous, aud self-respectiu
fashion, which has demanded and received
respect in return Besides these twenty
two there are eight at the same hotels from
Exeter Academy, n. II two from Amherst,
and one from Bowdoin. Among these in
telligent boys who are going into law,
medicine, journalism and theology, are sew
eral who have specially distinguished them.
selves in scholarship and have taken various
prizes. They certainly think none the
worse of themselves that they thus Darn
the money they need, and no one else ap-
pears to consider it degradation. Divers
enthusiastic guests of the house have vol
UNFAIRLY and generously contributed funds
to assist them through their college life
They are said to serve neatly, quietly,
promptly, and understandingly, and their
modesty and manly good breeding are speci-
ally noted. A significant comment upon
their conduct is the fact that while 6,000
guests have been served by them this sea-
500, not one word of fault-fuding as to at
tention has been heard by the proprietors
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The Britons are long suffering where
their loyalty comes in, but the national gift
Of $4,000 year to Prince Leopold, the
Queens youngest sop, a sickly young man,
is too much for the London Examiner,
which is cross and sarcastic over the APP
preparation of the money, and no doubt
speaks the sentiments Of thousands when it
says The nation is too poor to send out a
respectable or complete expedition to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus. 1t can not
afford to literally aid the scientific societies
of London in building suitable and COM
modiOus dwelling.place. 1t refuses, on the
score Of poverty, to assist in providing the
capital of Scotland with a national library.
To the subordinate members of the royal
family it awards annuiiies amounting to
more than half of what is voted for the
entire department Of Science and Art.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The postal telegraph scheme will prob.
ably be settled one way or the other at the
next session of Congress. The congress.
sional printer has completed the printing of
the views of the government, the Western
Union Telegraph Company and of other
parties on the question, and a copy of the
document will be forwarded at once to each
member Of the appropriation committee,
and the subcommittee on the subject, OF
which Mr.. Wheeler, of New York, is chair
man, will prepare these reports, in order
that it may be acted on early in the next
session. The committee has had this sub
ject under consideration so long, and so
much has been said pro and con, that it has
been pretty well exhausted Mr.. Garfield
stated at the close of the last session that
be would ask tho House to dispose of il
finally next winter.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

Tur sO-called supplemental law is now
in force in Connecticut. 1t provides pen.
alties for selling liquors without license /;
authorizes the county commissioners to APP.
point prosecutors, whose power shall be the
same as those Of grand jurors, and any
prosecutor may act 10 any town in the
county where he resides. The Hartford
Times says that the Commissioners intend
to appoint about three prosecutors for each
county, that it will not be safe for any one
to sell without license, and that no one
can get license without the recommends
ton Of the Seloctmen Of the town where
the business is located.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The United Statee Centennial Conn
mission announces its readiness to receive
for space in the international
Exhibition Of 1876, at Philadelphia 1t
is important that it should be known with
the least possible delay what space will be
required in each of the departments of the
exhibition by American exhibitors, in order
that it may be determined what room can
be assigned to foreign nations. Mauufac.
turers and others who purpose exhibiting
on this occasion should therefore make
known their intention promptly, aud thus
avoid the disappointment of finding the
room they desire pre-occupied 1t is es-
pecially desirable that early provision
should be made for the organization of those
collective exhibitions of the natural re.
sources and raw materials of different sec
tons Of the country which cannot be made
by individual exhibitors The importance
Of this, as an incentive to immigration and
the Investment Of foreign capital, cannot
be over estimated and liberal provision
for the prompt and thorough performance
of the work will amply repay those State;
which undertake it.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

If anything were needed to establish
the utter falsity of the so.caled sense Of
honor of the heightened duellist, it would
be found in the dying words of one of the
Louisiana mutual murderers. When Rich
ards was drawn into a duel in which he
originally had no part, he posted" DR..
Charles Gray as villain, coward and liar.
Finally be fought Gray and received a
mortal wound. His last words are reported
to have been IL live, will kill the
man who says that DR.. Gray is coward.
With these words on his lips he died, con.
WINGED in death at last that the man who
killed him was not what he had, over hi.
own signature, declared him to be.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

AT the Michigan Republican State
Convention the following ticket was nomi-
mated Governor, }. j. Bagley; Lieuien-
ant.Governor, II. II. Holt Secretary Of
State, Il. G. D. Holden; State Treasurer,
W. b. McCrcery, A resolution was passed
approving the Presidents veto of the fnan-
cial bill, and affirming that part Of the thir-
teen resolutions adopted at the National
Republican Convention, held at Philadol.
phia in 1872, relating to the resumption Of
specie payment.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

A suREwD fellow at Des Moinos, Iowa,
played drunk, staggered against plate glass
show window aud smashed it, then he hurried
off, The shopmau and bis clerks followed and
seized him, took 500 bill from bis pocket
and after deducting the price Of the glass, stui'
fed the change in bis wallet and set him adrilt'
The 500 proved to be counterfeit, and the
shopman, Mortified, set the police on the fell
lows track, and he was arrested, but no crime
could be proved, and tho adroit rogue got OIL
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

"A benevolent institution was recently
opened at No. 90 Bowery, N, Y, under the
name Of Spartan DoTmitory, where lodgings
are provided, for a triAug sum, for those
whose productive powers are not equal to
their necessities, and who are forced to exc
out precariOus livelihood on very spare
means. Meals at a cost of from six to ten
cents are furnished at this institution, which
is said to already pay as an investment.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

Some of the papers are trying to get
up an excitement over Spanish affairs.
But there is very little danger of any com.
plication with our government. The terms
of the Fish-Polo PROTOCOL as will be re-
membered, provide that before any serious
trouble occurs there is to be recourse to ar
bitration. To this course the policy Of d.
plomacy has fully committed us. OF course
such action would be subject to ratification
or rejection by the Senate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The total number Of visitors to Bar.
NUNS "great moral show during the three
weeks of its sojourn in Boston is put at
three hundred and seventeen thousand and
fty.eight. The receipts were 1912 1862.
The expenses (partly estimatcd) were
sl22,5O0, on which statement the profits
will be ss9,s62. AT any rate, these are
the grand results announced in the news.
papers, and all their statements about Bar.
mum and his shows are presumed to be
scrupulously correct.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

angry and outraged feeling. They do not
palter with, cover, deny, prevaricate' change,
take money for, play hide and seek with the
offcnso through many years, and then drlb-
bic it out in hslf.proved statements and
in promises Of more crushing" disclos-
ures. We dismiss, then, Tilton and Moul-
ton as utterly unveracious aud dishonored
witnesses. The report Of the committee Of
investigation will, doubtless, express the
mature judgment OF history in the case.
Nothing that they can say can alter tho
verdict which public sentiment records
against men who compound alleged ofenses
against their honor by attempts at black
mail, or who, under the guise Of helpful and
protecting friendship, prepare the most cruel
and deadly snares for those who con6de in
them. If Mr.. Beecher is guilty they share
his oiFeuse by condoning il; by denying it ;
by concealing it; by leaking it out in
whispered scandals, instead Of honest de-
nunciations by at last publishing it as a
matter of hatred against Beecher, rather
than as matter Of hatred of the foulcst
wrong that one man can do to another. II
Mr.. Beecher is innocent Of the grave Of
Tense, as is altogether likely, and us we dc
most heartily believe, they will serve as the
foil Of his higher repute and increasing
greatness He has paid the terrible pen
atty of his peculiar associations, of his con
fding generosity, of his morbid sensitive
ness, Of his want Of practical common
sense, but he is now emancipated from th'
tolls of Tilton and the Mutual Friend,
aud the balefu elements are eliminated from
his life, which have so fearfully darkeuet
his declining years.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The report on the results of the deep
sea soundings is of most interesting ma
ture, and the full results Of the expedition
will doubtless prove valuable addition to
our stock Of knowledge on the subject.
The actual realities of life under the sea
may prove of more interest than oven
Verne has dreamed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

Leaders Of the Internationals arc DO.
ing arrested in various parts of Italy.
Eight are now imprisoned in Rome, and
several in Florence and minor towns. Pa
pers which have been recently seized by
the Italian government, show that this or.
ganization is gaining many converts, and
has made manifest progress in Italy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

Much solicitude is felt for the safety Of
the Austrian Polar Expedition, which has
now been absent two years without having
been heard from. The government of Aus
tria have issued circular requesting all
travellers and seamen, who may have learned
any news regarding it, to communicate the
same to the Foreign Office at Vienna, or the
Admiralty at st. Petersburg,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The attention of the Brooklyn and
New York Boards Of Health has been
called to the subject of poisonous adultera.
tons Of candies and conlections, and chem
ical analysis has demonstrated that terra
alba, lamp-black, verdigris, prussic acid,
gamboge, and other poisonous. and delete.
rious substances, cutter more largely into
the composition Of candies than pure sugars,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The Buffalo Express, leading Re-
publican paper in western New York, is
not blind to the signs of the times, and
therefore warns the Republicans of that
State that the coming State Convention
must not Ouly nominate good candidates,
but every plank in the platform must be
formed of such solid material as will give
out the ring of pure Republican sentiment, -
" The prospects of decisive victory for
the Republican party" it says, are favor
able, but a hard fight is the price to be
paid for a certain triumph"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The New Orleans Picaytne is much
alarmed at the possibility Of a labor ex-
odus," which it fears as a consequence Of
the violence of the white leaguers in that
State. 1t disIikes to see the negro depart
for Texas, leaving waste the fields where he
might have labored well but it breads also
to have him remain. From the testimony
Of the Picay'ne and other Louisiana pa
pers it would seem that the colored labor
ers, with their wives aud families, are rap
idly leaving many sections Of the State, and
that they are urged to that course by the
hostile attitude Of their white fellow citizens.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The new liquor law in Iowa is strin-
gent. Amoug other things, it rOquires
common carriers, who transport liquor to
any dealer, to ascertain before delivery
whether the dealer is legally licensed to sell
them. The burden Of proof is put upon
the transporter, and there is a penalty i'm.
posed for violating the law Consequently,
the western railways, which are already 10
trouble enough, have this new difficulty to
meet. The various railways leading from
Chicago into Iowa have issued orders to
their agents, requiring them to receive no
liquors for transportation into Iowa, unless
the shipment is accompanied by certificate
Of the consignee'~ license to sell.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The grain product of California has
grown to such proportions that, if we may
credit the statement Of San Francisco
merchant, seven hundred ships of about
one thousand two hundred tons each will
be required to carry the surplus grain crop
to Europe this season.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

Eight lecturers on agriculture have
been engaged for the present year by the
University Of Calilornia-iour from that
State, who will discuss the local aspects of
the work, and four from prominent scien-
tifc schools Of other sections, to lecture on
general principles, William Ashburner has
been appointed to the professorship of
mining.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The President has received dispatch
from Governor Osborn, of Kansas, an.
nouncing that the Usage nation, in council
assembled, has formally declared war
against the State of Kansas. The Cover
nor asks that aid may be sent him to pro-
tect the citizens, and says that depredations
have already commenced on the southern
frontier. The State has very few arms, and
there arc now no United States troops
within its borders. The present state of
things indicate that a serious quarrel with
the Indians may follow.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

1t is getting to be almost as much the
fashion among eminent Englishmen to visit
this country as among Americans to visit
England. American readers Of books are
the most numerous aud American audiences
the most proftable-a state of things very
different from that which existed when the
English sneer was who reads an Ameri-
can book 2r
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The French and the Germans are en-
gagged in a strife for the production of the
most destructive weapons. The French
gun, known as the Gras, new invention,
is said to be so much superior to the Chas.
sepot that the latter are to be worked over
The German Beaumont gun is also most
murderous weapon. Should the repetition
of the trial of strength between the two
countries he postponed until the armies
can be supplied with these new weapons,
the surplus population can be disposed of
with little trouble.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

General Butler has announced himself
as candidate for reelection to Congress
from the sixth Massachusetts Congressional
district. Are We to infer from this that
he has abandoned the gubernatorial feld2
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

--Themeetiugo the members Of the New
Hampshire State Republican Committee at
Concord, Wednesday, shows wholesome
activity on the part Of the members Of that
organization in preparing for the approach
ing campaign. Every portion Of the State
was represented and BY its best men. The
Republicans arc said to be thoroughly
united, and confident Of their ability to
carry the State, next campaign. The work
laid out by the committee will be immedi-
ately taken 10 hand and carried out under
direction Of the local committees New
Hampshire is bound to redeem itself.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

- 1t has been iniimated 10 certain papers
that the moiety system would be restored
at the next session of Congress- coupled
with the statement that the interests of the
government demand its restoration. The
Washington correspondent Of the Boston
Advertiser, however, says that the Treas.
ury officials disclaim any authority emana-
ting from their department for any state.
ment that the interests Of the government
demand a restoration Of the system. Only
two months have passed since the system
was abolished, and, while there has not
been time to make an exact comparison Of
figures, cursory examination of the Gus
toms and internal revenue receipts leads to
the impression that the government has not
been in any sense a loser by the repeal Of
the law Since the repeal the proper Of.
iicers Of the department have been much
more yigilaut than under the old order Of
things, when they were under orders to as
sst Sanborn and Jayne
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

The Republicans Of New Jersey have
come sqlarely into line with the rest Of the
party that have thus far spoken on the eur.
reucy question. Il looks now as though
the party would come up to the position Of
honor aud honesty while Che Democrats
are hating and falling back in several
States. We have all along, given it as our
opinion that this vas the great issue Of the
next two years in national affairs, and that
the party would ensure its asoendancy
which boldly took up i's position in favor
of specie payments and full discharge Of
every national obligation. We are glad
that the Republicans are choosing that bet.
ter part.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

Franklin county, Kansas, reports
surplus of one hundred and fifty thousand
bushels of wheat The entire crop of the
State is set down at three million bushels.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-09-02

1t seems that the Western newspapers
have rather oyordone the grasshopper bust.
ness. Competent observers and travellers
TO various parts Of Minnesota and Dakota
say that the reports Of the devastation 10
nearly every locality have been greatly ex-
aggerlted. The Governor Of Minnesota
has been making tour through the suG
feriug e sections, and prououuees the inn
preston Of widespread devastation entirely
false Wheat is the staple product Of Da-
kota, and the acreage, this year, already
greatly exceeds that Of years past. The
corn and oat crop will fall short, but the
entire damage will not exceed twenty per
cent, taking all the crops into considera.
ton and may be less than ten ThooC
statements are embodied in a report just
sent to the Commissioner of Agriculture al
Washington.