Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1875-02-10
Editorial Notes.

OF the session remain.
Tnrnr is no prospect whatever that an
Of the sewing machines will, during tn
present session, succeed in obtaining an e,
tension of their patents, notwithstanding III
efforts which continue to be made for tina
purpose.
TnR worst has been done. and three in
mense cotton mills at Fall River are idl
because the operatives have struck Tn
union is going 10 send one thousand of tn
strikers back to England, but that is SINAI
relief. The voluntary idlcncss of so man
hands at this time is highly unfortunate
and if pinchng want confronts them the
must take the blame themselves.
ON the whole we begin to think we don
know, and are not likely to know, who ar
the villains, either in the Beccher trial or tn
Louisiana quarrel II anybody should asl
us whether Kellogg and his friends or Nc
Emery and his friends, are the reprehensibl
individuals, with all the illumination of al
the Congressional investigations beaming oil
us. we should mhesitatingly answer yes
sir-cel"
ANY article, merchandise or other malter
not liquid nor explosive and dangerous, tina
does not weigh over four pounds, can now b,
sent by mail. For two cents ono may scnt
a package weighing a quarter Of pound
from Maine 10 California and eight cent
will carry a pound across the continent
NOf course, some queer things get iato tn,
bags, and postmasters have some ctuiou.
experiences
SOMEBODY has figured ont the interesting
fact that the total amount Of state county
city, and town taxes collected in the United
States in 1870 was s2s0,50i 900. which wa.
about 81 head for the entire population
1t cost, therefore, more than twice as much
TO take care of q man in his state, county
and municipal relations in 1870 as it did ten
years before. This does not include the
Federal taxation.
THE Massachusetts Senate has finally
fought through the bill abolshing the state
constables and establishing new force to b,
known as state detectives" The differ
ence between the two will be difference OF
functions, and especially a divorce Of the
new force from the special duty Of enforcing
the liquor law The other question Of de
Gliding on the provisions of licease law can
not be settled so easily.
TnE King Of Siam is touched by the spirit
Of the times. lie is young and active. and
having read something Of American history.
has signalizcd his reign 10y striking a good
solid blow at slavery in his realms. The
system has been deeply rooted in Siam. and
he commences the work Of abolishing it in a
mild but elfectual manner. lie DEGREES that
children born Of slave parents since April.
1860, shall be free on attaining hpirtwenty-
first year This good beginning means the
total extinction of slavery there in due time
IT is mentioned that Judge Baker made
an argument, the other day, before the Con
gressiona Senate committee ON territories
in favor Of bill to organize the territory
Of Oklahama out Of the Indian Territory
In effect the bill provides territorial form
of government for the present Indian Ter
ritory and extinguishcs the titles Of the In
dians to the lands which they have acquired
by treaty or otherwise. 1t is not probable
that Congress will find time at this session
to devote much attention to 50 grave a
matter.
CALIFORNIA is justly proud of is Won
derful development within the last few years.
Its summing up is highly gratifying. The
past year is memorable in its marvellous his
tory. Its yield II gold and silver was one
hundred millions. Its manufactured prod
ucts reach fifty millions, its wheat forty
wool seven millions, wine and mis-
cellaneous articles twenty millions. San
Francisco shows rapid progress in 1874 bv
the erection Of more than two thousand new
many Of them costly and imposing
structures.
THE disposal Of the $1,000 which senator
York says that Senator Pomeroy gave him
as bride for his vote, is troubling the Kan.
sas legislature even worse than Senator
Morll's back pay bothered our legislature
The lower House has ordered it to be re-
turned to York and Pomeroy, to be disposed
OF as they please. But York cannot take it
without admitting that he lied when he said
that Pomeroy gave it to him, while the latter
cannot take it without admitting that he did
give 1t as a bride Accordingly neither will
touch it, and the cash still waits an owner.
By an almost unanimous vote the addi-
iional China subsidy, granted to the Pacific
Mail Company by the now sufficiently noto-
rious legislation Of lS72, has been repealed
By the House Of Representatives. That il to
'ay, the company retains the half million
subsidy obtained for monthly China trips
rom Congress in 1865 but is likely to for
eit the extra half million granted in 1872,
or the purpose of securing an extra line of
ron-bult American vessels, which were also |
o make monthly trips, and, together with
he old line, to establish semi-weekly mail
ervice to China.
THE first month of the new year does not
PRESENT ilattering exhibit of business. |
compared with the same time last year there |
las been large falling off in exports with |
heavy increase of imports. The exports
i wheat last week were only thirty-seven
thousand bushels against six hundred thou
and for the corresponding week last year.
For the entire month the wheat shipments
gere less than one million bushels. while
ast January they were nearly three million.
Jar specie shipments for January reach
pwards of nine millions against two and a
uarter millions for the same time in 1874.
his is making heavy drain upon our supply
I gold, which we hope may be diminished
very early day by increased exports.
Political Professor Sum
er, of Yale college, in a speech at a meeting
the Yale Alumni Association in New
'ork, the other night, dwelt ON the necessity
training men in our universities in the
,ience of polities-that is in political econ.
my, political history, and the underlying
rnciples of our government, with direct re-
renee TO the duties of citizens and of pub-
c officers. lie claimed that what is most
eeded in this country is clear understand.
" of these very things, and when This naed