Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-06-29

:, II Is pleasant to read that IN South
Carolina the State has recovered seven
'tv.fiye thousand dollars in the courts
from public official who robbed the
Treasury of that amount. Ibis Is bet
ter than has been done in New OK,
where suits of an older date against the
Tanamany plunderers. have not yet
brought cent into the treasury t's' 2:
Journal. ...s ~ 3 ..,
The. Gen: Preston who made that,
crazy speech, to the Virginia alumni.
used to be one of the richest men. In
South Carolina. He had some hundreds
off slaves. and the finest hosse and
grounds in Columbia. The war stripped
him of his property and bis kindred.
Old. poor and lonely, his case calls for
pity rather than anger. .--s.1.e sl,s.-. ~
The New York Tribune thinks there
is "serious danger of a Democratic
(soft-imoney) victory in Ohio, this fall.
The Cincinnati Commercial, on the other
hand demonstrates to its own satisfac-
ton that there is not the slightest chance
of such a calamity. >.'g.-- III. -
The Washington Chronicle is satisfied
that @ Professor Marsh is being used by
a set of INSCRIPTIONS demagogues, who,
while seeking to make capital against
the Republican party. are at the same
time in the interest of the very Indian
ring which they pretend to denounce.
Rev. Henry NJ. Field, now in Paris,
tells the EUdngelist 81 have not met a
Frenchman of any position, or any po-
lfsical views, Republican or monarchial,
Bonapartist or legitimist. Catholic or
Protestant, whose blood did not boil at
the mention of Alsace and Lorraine, and
who did not look forward to fresh con-
flict with Germany as inevitable.
The New York Post thinks that the
members of the Cotton State Congress
would have won some respect for them
selves if they had resolved that it is the
duty of every citizen of the communl-
ties which they represent to take his
own coat off and go to work. In no
other way can the capital which was de-
stroyed in the Southern States during
the civil war be regained.
General Buffers recent communica-
ton to the New York Arcqdjan reVives
the dropping hopes of honest Republi-
cans that he may soon find it convenient
to reiOin the Democratic party. The
| General writes: :" How long the bust
ness portion of the country will submit
to this (the present system) for the ben
| eft of those who hold bonds, notes and
mortgages is a question which must be
solved apparently by the Democratic
party, and upon this question Ohio has
| given no uncertain sound"
| The Nation in commenting on the
Pomeroy case says: "There are great
many criminals in the world whom
there is no particular object in saving,
and the philanthropists who are trying
to do away with capital punishment
ought not to forget that the general
sense of danger in the community, aris-
| ing from the feeling that crimes go I'M
| punished, leads in long run to deter
mination on the part of the better class
es of society to have blood for blood !;
and this in turn leads to greater inhu-
manity and injustice than the well reg
ulated gallows.
OF course the whole Irish population
of Lawrence must bear the blame ant
shame cast upon their nationality by the
| young rowdies and ruRans who caused
the disturbance. Nevertheless it is the
duty of every Irishman who respects
himself to denounce their acts and to
deny their fellowship. There are no citi-
zeDs In Lawrence so deeply sorry fol-
jh is. shameful occurrence 1.s than the Irish:
men and shouted at the mayor are sim
ply blackguards, and nothing more
and the most regretable thing about the
riot is that dozen of them are not il
state prison for their crime. Pilot.
Reviewing the chances of the OhiC
contest, the Cincinnati Commercial lin
dependency asserts that the Republican;
are sure to win. 1t POUNDS its conclu
sion on "the improvement of the Gran
administration the preference of most
of the Liberal Republicans for Hayes
the reduced vote of the prohibitory
party, and the aversion of the German
voters to Initiation in any form 1t de
clares that "the majority tor Hayes
will be handsome aud emphatic, largel
than he received on former occasions
and sufficient to pronounce the doom IL
the nation forever of.the sort of Democ
racy that is now asserting itself in this
| State.
Major Leland, the South CArolina
"kuklux prisoner" who received the
honorary degree of Doctor of PhiIoso-
ply at the recent Williams commence
ment, sends TO the Charlestown Neaos
an enthusiastic letter giving his expe-
riences during his visit to his alma ma
ter. After praising Massachusetts, hos.
pitality, and the liberal spirit manifest
ed by the Williams alumni toward the
South, Major Leland says; ''In this
body of the alumni, embracing some OF
the most distinguished names in the
| Union, sentiments of cordial sympathy
for the South, and words of good cheer
and encouragement for the future came
warm from the lips of some of their
best men, which only wish could pen
citrate every corner of my distant State.
| Ii seems strange even to myself, to be
writing in this strain about this people,
but | believe that even if Barnwell
Rhett were with me, he, too, would
have TO cave.