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SPENCER's PRIVATE DESK.
Interesting Private Papers Belonging 20 .
Fugitive savings Bank President.


Spencer's private desk has been standing
untouched in his Office in the bank ever since
the institution failed. No one seemed to have
thought OF IL. 1t was locked securely, and was
left till Yesterday severely alone But the in
vestigation had to go on. and the desk had To
give up ts hidden treasures. And rare reve-
laton II WIS. Spencer evidently left in hnste.
The private papers OF the absconding banker
were strewed about in every drawer. There
were over score Of letters from anxious de.
pnsitors dating back for nearly two wears. all
asking about the safety of the institution.
and inqurng into the truth OF the street stories
OF the banks insecurity. Some OF these were
daintly perfumed notes. written in the palest
of violet ink others were written in n scrawl-
ing. blotted way. hut all were anxiously inqus.
many letters Of an entirely different character.
almost all marked personal or " confiden-
tial, or " private" In another drawer were u
number of tickets. indicating variously mem
hership in the Board Of Trade. or, as the fol low
ing. IA right and title 10 all the privileges which
come from being member Of our exccllen in
stituton. the Young Mems Christian Asso ia
ton of this city. The ticket shows membersh y
in the association Tor the present year.
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
Letter from Rev. J. Copeland.

ROCHESTER,, n Y, January 3, 1917.
Messrs Editors 1t seems odd to write that
last seven, after putting the six in lbs place so
long, but like all other new things we shall get
used to it In little time. My pen has been idle
OF late not because was dsinclined to use it, but
because there have been so few items of interest
in this locality. The old year has gone out, and
the new has been ushered in, amid one of the
most fearful storms that has occurred here within
the recollection of the Oldest inhabitants. Not
one of them has ever seen before such an amount
Of snow in this vicinity or that has lain the
ground so long The city has been nearly block
AIDED ON Friday night last we had binding
storm that stopped the streetcars and every other
kind OF public conveyance. Footmen in many
cases could not get from their places OF business
to their homes, and were obliged to stay in their
Offices or stop by the way and seek lodging. 1t
has stormed every day since, and snow lies in
such quantities in the streets that of teams
are now at work drawing it away and dumping it
in the canal. This inconvenience TO the city
however on the one hand, is great benefit to
many laborers on the other, for the poor who need
employment and have been suffering for the want
of it, now have work and fair compensation for
It, There is very little work for laborers to do,
and many families are pinchng and suffering in
consequence. At the same. time trade during the
holiday season was unusually brisk. Some of
the large mercantile houses say they never before
took so much money during the same season.
1t was general remark that New Years calls
were not so numerous rs common, and it was
specially noticeable that many families that had
formerly kept open doors had them closed, aud
n hal hun 10, tho sarla - t,a
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

Church PROPERTY SoLD.-The sales of
ecclesiastical property in Rome by the gov
ment have brought enormous sums to the
Italian treasury. The sales were begun in
1867, and on the first of October, 1876, one
hundred and eighteen thousand five hundred
and eighty.nine lots had been sold at auc-
ton, producing one hundred and two mil
lion eight hundred and twenty-three thou
sand dollars. The estimate made by the
government when the sales began put the
gross sum at seventy-nine million nine hum
dred and twenty-eight thousand and five hun
bred dollars. This amount has already been
exceeded by twenty-three million, and there
is yet considerable property to be disposed of.
The official journal, in giving these Stats
tics says: "There is the added advantage
in the Improvements that are Immediately
made, as the property passes into private
hands, with an increase of the general
wealth. The government has reserved
many buildings for its own uses and every
commune and considerable city has shared
in the division of such structures as could
be turned to account. There are many con-
vents still occupied by the monks, as TEN.
porary privilege, or until it can be seen to
what use they can be put. Thirty-two OF
more of such monastic buildings in and
about Naples have been handed over to the
public within a short time
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
A Statement about Louisiana,

Mr.. II. V. Redfeld of the Cincinnati
Commercial has been endorsed by the NEST
partisan of the independent press as one
OF the few perfectly trustworthy observers
of Southern affairs. lie makes the follow.
ing statement, which we have no doubt is
my investigation was that Louisiana is
Republican state by from ten thousand to
eighteen thousand when the election is per
fectly free, full and fair that is, on national
issues. But on state issues, although Re-
publican, the majority is small, and might
be overcome by perfectly fair means. For
instance, there are a great many colored
men Of intelligence and property in Louis
lana, and it is no uncommon thing for them
to vote with the whites on local state issues
But when it comes to the Presidency, Hayes
and Tilden for instance, am as well sat
isfed that free, fair election would give
the state to Hayes as am that Pennsylvania
is for Hayes. Yes, in proportion to voting
population, Louisiana is more of Republi-
can state than Pennsylvania. | am con-
vinced that Hayes is the man who is elected.
| believe he would have carried Louisiana
as certainly as he carried Vermont if the
election-and the conduct of the voters pre-
vious to the election-had been as fair in
the former state as in the latter. The FIVE
bull-dozed parishes were carried by muir
der, whippings, intimidation, and reign of
terror. There were during the campaign in
those parishes fully forty Republicans muir
dered. They were killed to intmidate the
rest and carry the election. These parishes
are mainly near the Mississippi line, and the
Mississippi plan was carried into effect
Mark this, in every parish where there were
no murder and intimidation of blacks the
Republic ans made gains-gains that would
have carried the state in triumph for Hayes
had the same per cent held good in the five
bull.dozed parishes. But, behold, in these
five parishes where there was reign of
terror the democrats made net gain of
about nine thousand. That is, they turned
the usual four thousand five hundred Repub-
lican majority into democrat majority of
about the same amount. This is what gave
the state TO Tilden on the face of the re-
turns. Please keep that in mind when re-
ilecting about the Louisiana case and it
will help you to see through the middle at
glance
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
The Electoral Problem.

The questions connected with the count
ing of the electoral votes in the presence OF
the two houses on the nth of February,
are still in dispute, and no mortal can tell
how they will he settled. The democrats in
sist that no vote can be counted to which
the House may object, while the Republi-
cans hold this doctrine to be against both
law and precedent. Both the Senate and
House branches of the joint committee, hav-
ing the subject in charge, are holding sep
arate and secret sessions, endeavoring to
familiarize themselves with the law and
practice in relation to the subject Mr..
Ferry, the President pro tenn Of the Senate,
is behaving with a discretion which com
mands the approval of both parties. The dem
ocrats are not threatening so much as they
were awhile ago, but they unquestionably
look to the sth of January popular demon
STATIONS throughout the country to make
great moral impression in behalf of Tilden,
and thus force the Republicans to consent
to his election.
A contemporary suggests that the two
houses of Congress might compromise their
differences in regard, to counting the cleo
toral votes by agreeing that the President
of the Senate shall open all the returns;
that the votes shall be counted, unless OBJ
jected to; that, if any votes are objected to,
the President of Senate shall decide in the
first instance upon the validity of the re-
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from by the party making the objection;
and that the decision shall stand, unless
overruled by the concurrent votes of the two
houses of Congress- acting separately. If
two returns are made from the same state,
the genuine return shall be determined in
the same way. Many Republicans at Wash
ington are understood to favor programme
of this character, rather than have the Pres
ident of the Senate take the entire respon-
sibility of deciding all questions that may
arise. The theory assumes that the returns,
as opened are to be counted unless objected
to, and then provides that the decision OF
the President of the Senate is to be final,
unless overruled by the two houses of Con
gress. The proposition is fair one, and
under ordinary circumstances it would prob
ably be accepted by both houses. The diff
ficulty with its practical working is that the
two houses of Congress are politically OPP
posed to each other, and that the President
of the Senate would undoubtedly make such
decisions as the Senate would sustain, and,
hence, such as the House of Representa-
tves could not reverse. If the President of
the Senate were democrat, the House of
Representatives would readily agree to the
plan, and the Senate would be just as likely
to reject it. The real difficulty consists in
the fact that no plan, however fair in it.
self, can be adopted which will not defeat
the purpose of one or the other house of
Congress.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
The Situation.

1t is the opinion of the New York
Heralfs intelligent Washington special, that
both parties are improving in temper and
that the conviction gains ground that our
difficulties will be settled by constitutional
and satisfactory methods. Senator Bayard
and Mr.. Lamar have both been asked their
opinion upon the suggestion that the House
should stop supplies in anticipation of the
Inauguration of Governor Hayes, and both
condemn such course as unconstitutional
and revolutionary, and almost certain to re-
suit in war. Senator Bayard said that the
scheme proposed would be war, and that I'M
lawful steps on one side must not be followed
by unlawful acts on the other, and he CON
tinued eve suffer to-day as we have in
the past, not so much from intended wrong
as from mutual Misunderstanding of motive
and intent. We must not permit the public
mind to be blinded by strife and confusion.
We need, of all things, serenity in order to
see things as they are. If Mr.. Hayes is in
augurated under the sanction of law, there
should be no suggestion of violent resistance.
I do not believe that he will be inaugurated
in violation of the forms of law. think |
see already a better spirit prevailing. be-
lieve there are moderate and patriotic men
enough in the two Houses of Congress, on
both sides, to get together and settle this
question honorably and Justly. / believe
some one has been elected, and, if there is
doubt who has been chosen, the constitution
contains clear and ample means for solving
it, If on the nth of February it does not
appear that an election by the several col.
leges of electors has been accomplished, the
provisions for an immediate election are
supplied in clear terms by the same charter
of power. When this result is made known
the people will demand, and the honorable
men of both sides in Congress will see to il
that the person lawfully entitled is inaugur.
ated, and no violence will be needed and
none will be tolerated"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
A Western Heroine.

Our Western exchanges contain the par
ticclars of an exploit by Black Hills
woman which is worthy of an enduring
record. 1t seems that in October last
farmer, with his wife and three children,
left the Scotch Presbyterian settlement in
Western Pennsylvania, to which he belonged,
and set out to the Black Hills in the hope of
mending his fortunes. Ill-luck steadily fol-
lowed him. On reaching the Hills he was
struck down with fever, and lay helpless for
weeks nursed by the miners. In November
his wife gave birth to baby and died the
next day. The camp had now the father,
who was sinking day by day, and four help
less children on its hands. A widow, Mrs.
X. A. Kilbury, heard of the trouble and
came to see what was to be done. The baby
was weak and sickly, and after few days
she declared it TO be impossible to keep it
alive through the terrors of a winter in
camp, with the thermometer thirty degrees
below zero. The only safety for any of the
children was to so back to their home in
"a hhSoi NuS W pass
the camp in few days on its way to Fort
Laramie. The miners prepared wagon,
furnished it with feather bed and con-
tributed money for the journey, and the
brave little woman gathered together spirit
lamp, provisions and such poor comforts as
could be had for the children. The train
arrived every miner was busy making them
ready; one brought his bedding, another
clothes; there was not dry eye in the camp
when the poor babies were taken in to say
goodbye to their dying father. After he
had kissed them for the last time he turned
his face to the wall, and they were hastily
carried out and started on their long and
perious journey. Their kind friend was
the only woman in train of thirteen
wagons one of her helpless charges, be it
remembered, was baby two weeks old.
The cold was extreme; several times the
wagons were blocked by snow twice at
tackled by scouting parties of Indians; but
this woman and her children were made
sacred charge. At night her wagon was
placed in the center of the corral, the Others
forming line of defense about it. They
reached railroad station at last, and she
was put safely aboard the cars. The Pitts
burg Dispatch states that she arrived with
the children at their cid home, delivered
them to their grandparents and Immediately
started on her return to the Black Hills.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

A GROWING SENTIMENT.-Dr McCosh, Of
Princeton, says of the civil service "What
this country needs is to have the patronage
taken entirely out Of the hands of politicians.
The President sitting in Washington, as
General Grant confessed in his message, can
not tell who are the fttest men for office all
over the country and is obliged to depend
on politicians, and these the politicians of
his party. At present men seek places in
Congress because of the patronage and per-
sonal profit which it brings. So long as this
is so the corruption will continue under
either party-the cause will produce its
effect. Abolish patronage and only patriotic
men will seek the position. l have seen in
my day the immediate and great good which
followed in Europe from taking patronage
out of the hands of politicians, and was
honored by being asked to take part in or
ganizing the new system in its application
to India. | expect little from the old poll
ticians, but / should like to see the young
men of the country and especially Of our
colleges carrying on awar against the patron
age of politicians till it is abolished forever"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

INTIMIDATIoN.-A Tennessee Union man
writes to friend in the North" You ought
to be thankful that your lot is cast in a land
where freedom of speech is allowed. l tell
you Union man sees hard time in this
country. | live within two miles of the
Alabama line, and can say, without fear of
successful contradiction, that if the people
of Alabama had voted their sentiments
the state would have gone for Hayes and
Wheeler. am afraid there will never be
another fair election in the Southern states.
If squad of blue coats could be at every
precinct, such thing might be, but it seems
like hard matter to convince the people of
the North that such thing as intimidation
exists down South, and Northern man can
never know what Union man has had to
endure, and still endures, down here. Dur
ing the war had to lie in the bushes and
dens and caves of the earth, and finally flee
from my home and all | held dear, to keep
from being killed. And the very men who
then hunted me down are loudest now in
their huzzahs for Tilden and reform. God
save us from such reformers."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

REIGN OF TERRoR.-The Windham county
Comm Transcript says: "A citizen of
Windham county, who has recently visited
Georgia, tells us that careful and intel
igent men, who dare not publicly talk of
the matter, privately told him that the
treatment of negroes, who were known to be
Republicans, in the late campaign in Geor-
gia, was shockingly inhuman, and the North
ern people would not believe the facts if
they were informed Of them. In some cases
the barbarity practiced upon the defenceess
negro, on account of his political affiliations,
was simply devilish. A most cautious man
told him that had there been no intimida-
ton he was quite sure that even Georgia
would have given her electoral vote for
Hayes. If the Northern democrats knew
what savage ferocity had been practiced to
carry the state for Tilden, they would hang
their heads in shame. If it had not been
for the reign of the shotgun in the state,
Tilden's boosted plurality would have never
been heard of.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10
Political lettings.

PRESIDENT FERRY has now received all
the electoral returns, with double sets from
Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida and Or
egon.
The Senate committee on elections is en-
deavoring to show that Crouin's three thou
sand dollars for travelling expenses came
from New York.
CONGRESSMAN Frye, Of Maine, points out
the singular coincidence that the Governors
of the three states of Oregon, Florida and
Louisiana, were all formerly residents of
his district.
IT cost three thousand dollars to start
Cronin, the bogus Oregon Presidential
elector, for Washington as messenger of his
self-constituted electoral college, II may
cost Governor Tilden his election yet.
The Hon. James G. Blaine was nominated
on Thursday of last week, for reelection to
the Senate by the Republicans of the Maine
legislature by reclamation, the greatest
compliment ever paid to a Maine statesman.
CONGRESSMAN WHEELER, of New York,
told an interviewer recently that it was
his honest belief that, if there had been no
intimidation or fraud in the late election,
Louisiana would have gone Republican by
at least fifteen thousand majority.
THE best evidence that the partisans of
Mr.. Tilden have no good case is the fact that
they can fix upon no definite and settled
policy. Now, some of them are talking of
a new election. But why that course, if Mr..
Tilden is already elected The proposition
is a confession.
GOVERNOR HAYES remarked in his mes
sage to the Ohio Legislature, Tuesday of last
week, that a difference of opinion on ma
tional questions should have no more inhu
ence in the administration of local affairs
than in a bank or railroad company. Thai
is true, but the people who make business
of politics don't think so.
NEW YORK Tribune; zone Of the mos
curious phases of the situation is the sue
cessful way in which the leading Republican
citizens manage to hold on to their emotions
The democrats assure us that all of thes
eminent gentlemen are in imminent DANCE
of Eruption at any moment, so indignant ar
they at the conduct of the Republican
leaders, yet no amount of tickling or pres
sure has produced an outbreak from singl
one of them yet"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

A ROYAL DIsPLAY.-The proclamation
of Victoria as Empress of India OF Monday
of last week, was the occasion of one of the
grandest of even Eastern pageants. At
Delhi Lord LJ ton sat under the gorgeous
canopy while there faced him eighty ruling
princes of llindoostan, gorgeously attired,
blazing with jewels. SilSen banners of va
rious hues emblazoned with rare and quaint
heradic devices, fluttered over all. Each
prince was surrounded by his retainers.
Outside the amphitheatre thirteen thou
sand mixed troops were in line, and the
British scarlet shone beside medieval chain
mail. On either hand, the dais was fanked
by guard of honor, and the background
was formed by majestic line of magnifi-
Gently caparisoned elephants and camels,
with quaint vehicles, tremendous dust,
and gaudily attired multitude in gala cos
tunes Trumpets were blown, and Lord
Lytton read "A speech and address from the
queen. Then an anthem was played cheers
given, and he announced that il was all
over.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

WELL DEFINED" Bulldozing" is a
hard and decidedly inelegant word, which
is very properly objected to by many, and a
softer word for the peculiar tactics employed
by the rifle clubs has been found by a
Louisiana negro. A Republican asked him
why he voted the democratic ticket. Said
he, a." done voted de democratic cause they
'suaded me. You know | allus vote de
publican ticket but dis time dey 'suaded
me- swell, how did they persuade you ?
What did they say to you ?" "Why, dey
didn't say much O. muffin. Two o. dem jes
come up an put big boss pistol each side
O. my head, and give me democratic ticket,
an told me to walk straight up to the polls
an vote it or dey would blow the roof O. my
head right off. An tell you, chile, dey
'suaded me--dey 'suaded me-"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-01-10

A SOUTHERN WITNESS. - Ex-Governor
Henry S. Foote, of Mississippi, better known
in history as =" Hangman Foote" Qrom an
expression he once made in Congress of
fervent desire to hang an abolitionist), has
written an open letter to Representative
Lamar of the same state, in which he argues
against the right of either branch of Con-
gress to go behind the returns of any state
in counting the electoral vote. His state
ment is that I" if either house of Congress,
by calling in question or decling to approve
the electoral vote of state, may deprive it
of validity, and this terrible process may be
repeated as often as either House may de-
sire, then an election of President by the
people of these states must indeed become
the merest political mockery that has ever
yet been enacted among sensible and civ
ilized people" Mr. Foote favors the cleo
ton of Hayes to the Presidency, and con-
cludes with an expression of his behalf that
his election will result in the eradication
of all unreasonable preiudices and the prac-
tce of all the duties of order-respeoting and
law-abiding citizens"