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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

NIGHT WATCHING. - The following
from Ii2rper'S BdzGr will be read with
interest;
Few of us who have ever watched all
night would give up the experience it has
brought US i'll soothing pain and fighting
back death, or in knowledge and observa-
ton of outside nature, as we see with won
der that all pain increases as the sun with
draws toward his greatest distance, that
the vital powers burn low, and night
seems TO wrap the sick, us pail wraps
the dead, in horror of thick darkness,
and that at certain hour, when the sun
has been long gone, the lamp of life flick
ers ut its feeblest, and II rude motion could
exLinguish it.
10 many of us, too, our hours of watch
ing have given US almost all we know of
night, of the deep later night, that time of
mystery in which the world is left to take
care OF itself; for in the intervals when the
patient has not needed us we have re-
treshed ourselves with long draughts of
the outdoor sights. We look out and see
the great constellation hanging in the
southeast like sentinel; we busy our
selves with our work, and as the hours
move on we look out again, and it hangs
In the southwest, and we are conscious,
in the change, of u great procession of
vast powers moving by us as if they were
mighty spirits marching through the
heavens, and it was like sight revealed
to us alone OF all the world And we al
ways feel, us we did on our first night, rs
if no one else in the world were awake ut
this dead hour, and we had the hollow of
the night to ourselves with the weird and
waning moon, and at length the strong
morning star, the presence of the sick
making it dread and awesome too, wilhal.
Perhaps it SHOWS; and seen from the sick
room, the snow borrows strange CLEANS of
cold and death. Or perhaps it storms, and
all the elements in confusion without give
strangee mphasis to this little point of pain
within, and it seems to dilate at last, and
increase to the proportions of the night,
and pain Itself become IN element. The
sailors on the coast then are up with us,
we know, and although we may be miles
away from the sea, their driving vessels
seem close upon us, and when the wind
brings the mutfled stroke Of some church
towers bell, it seems like u ships bell toll.
ing its own knell.
And by and by it is gray, and the light
swels like seed, till it blossoms out and
fills the whole heavens, and our wrought
and excited senses seem to see the very
glory of heaven in the burning rose and
gold of the east, and we feel as if the
splendor of the sun came to atone, us fai
as outer splendor can, for the gloom anC
grief of sickness and pain.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11
NIGHT.
BY JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Night is the time for rest;
How sweet when laOors close,
To gather round an aching breast
Thecur of repOse,
Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head
Down on our delightful bed
Night is the time for dreams;
The gay romance of life,
When truth that is, and truth that seems,
Mix in fantastic strife;
All visions, less beguiling far
Than waking dreams by daylight arel
Night is the time for toll;
To plough the classic field,
Intent to lind The buried spoil
Its wealthy burrows yield;
TIL all is ours that sages taught,
That poets sung and heroes wrought,
Night is the time to weep;
10 wet with unseen tears
Those graves of Memory, where sleep
The joys of other years;
Hopes, that were angels at their birth,
But died when young, like things Of earth
Night is the time to watch;
Der oceans dark expanse,
To hail the Pleiades, or catch
The full moons earliest glance,
That brings into the homesck mind
AL we have loved and left behind.
Night is the time for care;
Brooding on the hours mis.spent,
To see the spectre of despair
Come to our lonely tent;
Like Brutus, midst his slumberlng host,
Summoned to die by Casal's ghost.
Night is the time to think;
When, from the eye, the soul
Takes flight; aud on the utmost brink
OF yonder starry pole
Discerns beyond the abyss of night
The dawn of uncreated light.
Night is the time to pray;
Our Savior oft Withdrew
To desert mountains far away;
So will His follower do,
Steal from the throng to haunts untrod,
And commune there alone with God.
Night is the time for death;
When all around is peace,
Calmly to yield the weary breath,
From sin and suffering cease,
Think of heavens bliss, and give the sign
To parting friends such death be mine.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11
them, which he believed TO have been in
troduced by the demon splitting.

DANIEL WEBsTER's EXPERIENCE OF
FAME.-After President Tyler's second
veto of the bill to charter u Bank of the
United States, every member of his Cabi-
met save Mr.. Webster Indignantly resign
ed, and finding that he intended to remain
they denounced him in all manner of ways
and made it extremely warm for him.
About this time an enthusiastic admirer
called to see him. Finding him in q
gloomy mood he exclaimed: "Mr. Web
ster, you ought not to be gloomy about
anything your fame is made.n Fame!"
replied Webster, :" and much for fame"
Whereupon he told the following story:
He said he was travelling in Il railroad car
on certain occasion, and it so happened
that he was seated by the side of u very
old gentleman: lie soon found out that
this old gentleman was a citizen of New
Hampshire, and lived in Mr.. Webster's na-
tive town. He asked the old man if he
knew the Webster family up there. 40,
yes" responded the octogeraran; old
Mr.. Webster and | were bosom friends in
his lifetime" Well, what has become
of his childrenP' inquired Mr.. Webster.
The old man answered.; Why, there's
Ezekiel he's the greatest lawyer in New
Hampshire. and one of the greatest in the
country" lie then took up the daughters
and told whom they had married, and how
we'll they had married, and finished his
account of the family without mentioning
the name of Daniel. We're those all the
childrenP" asked Mr.. Webster. The old
man answered in the affirmative. u" Are
you sure that there was not u boy named
Daniel?" inquired Mr. Webster. Daniel,
Daniel, Daniel" soliloquized the old man
for few minutes, and then broke out with
the reply; 80, now l do remember. There
was one boy by the name of Daniel, but he
went down to Boston and | have not heard
of him since"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

A COUNTRY BRIDE.-A few days ago a
young man and his wife came to Chicago
ON their wedding journey and located at
the Sherman House. 1t WAS apparent at
first sight that they were unused to the
city ways, but the bride was so radiant
with the bloom that country life and air
alone can give that the young man was
enved by all the young men who make
that hotel their abiding place. The morn
ing after their arrival the chambermaid
visited the young couples room at the un-
consciously early hour of eight o'clock.
A come in answered her knock, and on
entering the room she found the bed made
up and the room in the neatest kind of
order The chambermaid was astonished
to find all her work anticipated, and pro-
posed to sweep the room while the young
couple were in the dining room. Why,
was her answer, we had breakfast two
hours ago. During the stay of the couple
the chambermaid had no work 10 do in
their room. The revelation to the servant
that woman in Il hotel could do some
thing for herself was II strange one and
was duly reported. The young men took
deeper interest in the little lady who
knew how and was not afraid to do up her
own room and the example, becoming
contagious, infected the other ladies in the
hotel, much to the satisfaction Of the
chambermad.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

The martyrdom Of these officials, con
sists only in requiring that if they recev C
salaries, they shall earn them, and that
they shall not use there official positions
for political purposes, Their trans forma.
ton from dlctators into martyrs is one OF
the most comical incidents Of recent pol.
itics. But the disguise is too transparent
and the device only fixes attention on the
need of the Presidents order to correct a
dangerous and audacious abuse.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

woman of the name of Asma, who exposed
the prophet and his claims 10 ridicule in
some satirical verses, was soon afterward
assassinated by an agent of Mahomet, who
crept into her apartment at midnight and
plunged his dagger into her breast as she
lay asleep between her little ones.-
Mac Colts Eastern Question.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

Tile Tribune's special says the son of
John Bigelow, secretary of state. Just
graduated at West Point, has been assign.
ed to the same negro regiment as the col
ored cadet Flipper Bigelow refused tc
associate with Flipper at West Point
They are now on equal footing.
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We reprint the following letter from a
former lady resident of Montpelier to the
Messenger:
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11
ing letter:


by large number OF the inhabitants Of the town also
many members of the legislature to inform you that
by leaving town without any further attempt to hold
forth the absurd doctrine of anti-slavery you vii
cOufcr favor and save them the trouble of using any
other means to that effect.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11
Here the note was recited as we have

"AND WHEREAS, the purpose avow ed in the foregn-
ing note carried into effect by pre- We ting the de-
livery of said lecture. by rlOtOus aud disOrdery pro-
ceedings and by disturbing and dis persing the as
senbly, peacaby collected for the purpose of hearing
said ecure therefore, in order to vludcate this body
or any portion of it, from the imputaOn OF sanction
ing or abetting such dsyracetu Transactions and in
order to express our dsapprObaton of any attempt
abridge the liberty of speech
Resolved, That this House look upon the conduct
of those who signed the foregoing note and those who
participated i'll the riotous proceedings, mentioned
above. with the utmost abhorrenCe.n
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03
POLITICAL,

The Republican Convention Of Ohio which
met at Cleveland, yesterday, passed resolu'
lions of confidence in the Administration Of
President Hayes, approving his Southern
policy and civil service reform, and demand
ing the reconciliation of silver. William
Ii. West, of Bellefontaine, was nominated fol
Governor.
The New York Sun having lectured Gen.
eral Dix because he was so Ignorant as to
address the President as Ills E1cellency,' y
some one fishes up the letter in which Broth
er Dana requested the New York Custom
House to be handed over. and it begins, "IO
HIS Eroelincy The President"
Gov. blue Jeans" Williams, Of Indiana,
who had always denounced the use Of United
States troops to maintain order in the States,
applied for Government troops to suppress
the riots in Indiana, but in such an irregular
and unconstitutional manner that his request
could not be considered by the President.
The indianapolis Journal says Governor
Williams seems do be doing his best
tc bring the State into disrepute. No con-
tent with exciting foreign censure by his
dalliance with law-breakers, he has made
himself subject Of ridicule at Washington
by the sneaking and back-handed manner Of
his application for Government troops.
Probably one result of this crisis will be to
convince the people of Indiana of the pro-
priety of having man of character and
nerve for Governor
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03

Pres. Vanderbilt says he has on his vari-
Gus. railroads 10000 employees, and was
prouder than ever Of his men as body.
The Delaware and Hudson company Is
now paying from 20 to so per cent. more
wages to its men than it paid in 1850.
The feature Of the fights in Chicago was the
participation of women who fred shots from
inside and outside their houses, and hurled
inyectiyes, stones and mud Unfortunately
at all who wore white shirts or blue coats.
Citizen Schwab," of New York, one of
the persons most active in getting up the
working mems meetings, keeps rum shop.
He is a fine specimen of laboring man s
champion, who takes his money, steals his
brains, and robs his family of bread.
The assessed valuation Of Pittsburg is
Sl72,OOO,OOO, and its population is 10000.
The city will have to submit to levy Of 81
on each 800 of taxable property, to pay for
the five millions of property destroyed by the
rioters. This is equivalent to fine Of S35.l5
laid upon every man, woman and child in the
city. Pittsburg now wishes she had dealt with
the mob as it deserved when the destruction
of property first began.
A leader in the Chicago riots was Tom
Clinch, proprietor sof gin mill. lie is
under arrest.
Edward Everett Hale proposes a q" Society
of the Rights of Man, which shall stand by
it members and protect any man in his right
to work at any trade he NAV choose and at
any wages he may choose.
The Chicago Tribune shows that O,0OO,-
600 of innocent people were directly and in
stantly injured by the strike; the entire
East suffering by the advance in the price
of some of the necessaries Of life as well as
in other ways, and the West also suffering
by the interruption of traffic. 1t figures the
net loss to Chicago at fully million and
quarter an average of $3.50 per head of
the entire population Of the city.
Pulling cigars out of their mouths to cry
for bread" the Pittsburg rioters burned
forty thousand bushels OF wheat. That is
the way to distribute not wealth, but poy-
erty.-CincinnGil Commercial.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03

The present disturbances recall similar
events in the earlier history Of the
country, and, among others, Shays' famous
rebellion in Massachusetts. Daniel Shays
was was born in Iopkinton, Mass, in lI47
served at Bunker Hill, and became captain
during the revolution. Although not proni-
nent in the first movements Of the rebellion,
Shays was chosen commander. The insur-
gents complained that the governors salary
was too high, the Senate aristOcratic, the
lawyers extOrtiOnate, and taxes too burden
some to bear and they demanded an issue
Of paper money and the removal OF the
legislature general courD from Boston.
An effort was made to allay the discomfort
by the passage Of an act to diminish costs in
the collection of debts and allow certain back
taxes and debts to be paid in produce, but
the mob was not satisfied. Bodies OF armed
men interrupted the sessions OF the courts in
several counties, and in December, 1856,
Shays appeared with large force at Wor-
ccster and Springfield, and prevented
the holding of the court at those places.
In January following. at the head vi nearly
1000 men, he marched to capture the ar
senal at Springfield, but was opposed by the
militia under Gen Shepherd, and the insur-
gents were fired upon and fled, leaving three
killed and one wounded on the Geld. Next
day. they were pursued by large force
under Gen Lincoln, and at Petersham, $50
were taken prisoners, the remainder disFers-
II. l. l.. - ~.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03

THE EASTERN WAR.
A PIIm RUSSIAN NOTE TO ENGLAND.

PITHY RUSSIAN NOTE TO ENGLAND.
LONDON, Aug. IA note received by the
Russian secretary of state from headquar-
te.s of Grand Duke Nicholas, where the
Gar is sojourning, as to sinking of vessels
in the Danube and employment OF Egyptian
troops in the service of Turkey says: AS
soon as the war is ended the Russians will
remove the impcdiments and clear the bed
Of the river; with regard to the other
point, the note states that to calm the
anxiety of the British cabinet his
imperial majesty has instructed the Russian
ambassador in London to declare to Earl
Derby that We harbored no project Of ag-
erosion against Egypt; might we not have
expected, therefore. that in strict fairness
the British government would use its III
fiuence with the Khedive to prevent
him from engaging in direct hostilities
against US. In our last fights in the
Balkans our soldiers found themselves OPP
posed to Egyptian troops, and it will per-
haps suffice to point out this fact to justify
the hope that if the British government de-
sires its interests not to be compromised by
aggression on our part against Egypt, it
will also use its influence there to prevent
US from being forced by open hostilities of
the vice regal government to take steps to
prevent renewal Of them.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03
Women Rioters.

Women figured as participants in several
of the late riots. In Chicago they were put
to the front Of the mob with the expectation
that the police and military would be de
tered from making an attack by the means
bat this was a miscalculation In Buffalo,
also, women carried clubs and uttered threats
as loudly as men. The Chicago Inter Ocean
thus describes the part taken by the yiragoes
of that city;
Women first came to the front as rampant
rioters yesterday, The taste of blood which
the men had had in the early part Of the day
seemed to have inflamed the women. The
night before last there were few, half
crazed with liquor and smarting under their
real or iancied wrongs, who were bold
enough to yell for pillage. Yesterday, there
was ripening of this sentiment, and the re-
suit was an AmazOnian outbreak in the
afternoon. The crowd rapidly increased
Women with babies in arms Joined the en-
ragged female rioters. The streets were
Huttering with calico of all shades and
shapes. Hundreds were arc-headed, their
disheyeled locks streaming in the wind.
Many were shoeless. Some were young,
scarcely women in age, and not at all in
appearance. Dresses were tucked up round
the waists. Open busts were as common
as BARRIERS chair Brawnv, sun-burnt
arms brandished clubs Knotty hands held
rocks and sticks and wooden blocks. Female
yells, shrill as cuIlew's cry, filled the air
The swarthy features Of the Bohemian
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03

Five boys were arrested in New York city
on Monday, for incendiarism.
The Pennsylvania regiments propose tt
fight the next battle by telephone.
Constantinoplc women are forbidden to
wear pullbacks. What 4 shame.
The New York prohbitionists will meet in
State convention at Utica, August 18th.
Troy, n. v, claims one hundred horses
that can trot mile inside of three minutes
Portland is suffering from the nuisance Of
bad sewerage, and is ngitating measures OF
relief.
The crop of grapes in California the pres
ont year will probably be the largest ever
known.
Father Gayazki, the celebrated Italian
orator, i on preaching and lccturing tour
in England.
A druggist died in BoontOn, y. J Satur-
day, from Il dose ul morphine taken in mis-
take for quinine.
A Pilatka (Florida) preacher was driven
out Of his pulpit recently, during Il sermon,
by mosquitoes.
lot of street urchins paradcd the streets
Of st. Louis with a huge paper banner bear
ing the inscription, I'VE don't want bread.
We want cake and pic or blood :"
The New York and Michigan apple crop
this year. it il said, will be less than half
what it was last year. and considerably
smaller than the usual "oh -ycar'' yield.
1t was Il Nassar girl who, when = sailor Of
forty years yoyagings had been pointed out
to her rs an "old salt, subsequently allud-
ed to HIM Us an IAN ancient chloride of
sodium"
The famine in Southern lrdia is incrcas-
ing in severity. Nearly all the draught an
finals have died, because of the druuth 1t
il now feared that cpidemcs will soon SGT
in, and complete what the famine has lett
undonc.
Trout were presented At the recent meet
ing OF the san Francisco Academy OF
Sciences which were thrown lup from an
artesian well II feet deep, near llucnem,,
Ventura county. The well WIS bor,d IN
1871 and ever since has thrown oui in men &C
quaint tios of little freshly spawneI fak in
April and May.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-08-03

are greatly oppressed class. But we be-
lieye the mass of them are intelligent enough
to see that on the whole they are still better
offin this country than in any other on
which the sun shines. The trouble to-day Is
not 50 much the low rate of wages--wages
are not generally lower than before the war
as the stagnation in business which throws
so many out of work at any price. Those
who work generally get enough to support
themselves and their families in much better
fashion than the poor of other countries are
supported, and have money besides to spend
for tobacco and beer and whiskey. But
there are hundreds of thousands who have
no work. The working man has the right
to get higher wages, if he can, by all lawful
and proper means. lie has no right to pre-
vent his poorer brother from working, when
he has chance, at any wages lie may choose
to accept. If they have not learned this
plaiuest maxim of common sense anu
common law, they must be taught it.
The depression in business; the lack OF
employment for numbers; the dissatisfied
state of mind of thousands who are at WORK
at lower wages that they have heretofore re-
ceiyed the swarms of thieves of home and
foreign production, in the cities; the heated
Summer term, making men irritable anu
ugly the reduction of the regular army
and of the organized forces for the protec-
ton of order, all made condition oil
things in which the strike on the Baltimore
and Ohio road, which probably few OF those
engaged in supposed would extend beyond
that road at that time, was like the hrst
break in dam which becomes the precur-
sor Of general food. The spirit Of violence
and disorder ran from road to road and from
city to city, like wildfire. The mob-splrlf
bore wide and wild sway for week and 1t
is nv no means certain that it is yet quelled.
In its magnitude it was possibility which
had occurred to no sane man, and to but one
crazy one-Geo. Francis Train. But it will
not be likely to occur again in this genera
ton. The railroad officials and the authori-
ties, civil and military, were this time taken
by sunrise. But all have now had sutii-
ciertly solemn warning; and the. country
has had solemn warning to organize more
efficient safeguards for the protection of prop
erty and of the peace Of communities
against such sudden outbreaks. And there
can be no doubt that the warning will be
needed.