Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1876-05-24

WArcnNAN, printed in 1905, bring one of
few years later, after il came into the hands
Of General Walton, but which is nearly sixty
years Old. While it had not improved in
size or appearance, the price had been in
creased twenty-five cents year or to QUE
dollar aud seventy-fye cents.
The FIRST article is notice Of the Wash
ington County Grammar School signed by
Timothy Merrill, wherein special induce
ments are offered TO INDECENT young men
Of talents and pety, who have in view the
ministry Of the gospcl"-the Northwestern
| Branch Of the American Education Society
having funds for their assistance. But
"cyery applicant must be fifteen years Of
| age, aud must exhibit testimonials from
three or more seniors and respectable persons
place Of residence, and need of assistance;
declaring their views Of his moral and re-
ligious character, talents and learning, and
certifying their belief that it is his desire TO
devote his life TO the gospel ministry"
Simeon Dewey, lister Of Berlin, in order
that there should be uniformity in the ap-
praisal Of property" invites the other listers
of the county TO meet him at the house of
Thomas Davis, in Montpelier; and post
script is added, suggesting that the listers
Of the state ought to do the same thing
| Sylvanus Baldwin continues to make window
sashes at his shop near the Westinghouse
| probably now the Fisher shop; the respec-
tive committees of Marshfeld and Roxbury
| give notice Of state tax to build and repair
roads and bridges Parsons & Goss advertise
Wool Machine Cards and Josiah Benjamin,
Of Berlin, publishes a remedy for smut in
wheat
Intelligence is given that Spain has de
cided to cede Florida TO the United States /.
also that at the april town meeting in
Springfield, it was voted to request the Sc
lectmen topost up, according IN lar, HE names
n dH common dr,mlaris." And further
that in the short space Of three days, one
thousand two hundred and seyenty-six AZ
rican slaves were landed at Havana.
Under the significant heading Of The
Knot" marriages are announced as follows
In Peacham, Curtis Norris aud Emily Blan-
chard; in Montpelier, Freeman Tabor and
Mary Brooks while beneath "The knell,"
several deaths are given In Montpelier, liar
riet Green, aged twcnty-four; in Cabot,
Joshua Osgood, aged forty. " lie was shay
ing a stick in a shave-horse The stick
slipped, and the shave entered his bow
els, and terminated his life in short
time" In Dublin, y. H., Roswell Green,
aged twenty-four.
\ model agricultural address is given, by
the Hon. Josiah Quincy, Of Massachusetts,,
wherein he talks like a modern granger.
Hear him
81 shall address myself chiefly to that great
body Of our countrymcn who are cmphaticaly
called farmers. by which mean the great body
Of Massachusetts, yeomanry; men who stand upon
the soil, and are identified with IT. for there rest
their own hopes and the hopes Of their children
men who have, for the most part great farms and
small pecnniary resources; men who are esteemed
more for their land than their money; more iol
their good sense than their land; more for theii
support and column Of our political society, and
who stand to the other orders of the state in tn,
same relation which the shaft bears to the pillar
in respect of whom all other arts trades and pro
fessions are but ornamental worl-the cumice
the freze and the Corintllan capitol What
ever tends to stimulate and direct the industry O
our farmers whatever spreads prosperity overou
fields whatever carries happiness to the home
and content to the bosoms of our yeomanry tends
more than anything else, to lay the foundations o
our republic deep and strong, aud to give the as
surance Of Immortality to our liberties
A column is devoted to a private letter
, from Vermont member of Congress prob
p ably afterwards Governor Crafts written t,
a citizen of Montpelier, ON the subject o
the famous Missouri compromise, then jus
adopted. II is remarkable for its stron,
anti-slavery sentiments, covering precisel,
the same ground taken by Garrison and hi
. compeers a quarter of a century later. liz
q says, " am by no means surprised that yol
, think the free states ought 10 90 into deel
T. mourning on account Of the late decision o
the Missouri question: decision which, il
b my opinion, has fixed deeper stain upol
8 our national character than anything which
i has ever occurred in which this government
@ has had an agency Nothing has ever pro
4. duced so much encouragement in my mind
as to the ultimate sweep of our institutions
Y and the permanent happiness and prosperit
of our country, as that decision, and the sen
Il timents and feeling disclosed in that debate
G and, in the language of Mr.. Jefferson, cal
l. say with the utmost sincerity that q trem
n bile for my country when ! remember tina
Il God is just, and that his justice cannot ,leel
4 forever"