Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-18
Notes and Comments.

GovERNoR Blue Jeans" Williams at
tended a reception the other evening clad in
a black dress-suit with white vest, and Indian
apolis is speechess with amazement
A WASHINGTON special says that Vice
President Wheeler does not approve the last
civil service order, and believes it cannot be
without breaking up the party.
The negroes of South Carolina are so APP
prehensive of trouble there that they are
talking of going to Liberia in body. Sew
eral public meetings have been held and
largely attended.
SENATOR BARNuM, of Connecticut, has sued
the receiver of the Indianapolis (nd.) iSenh-
mel Company for three thousand dollars, |
which were advanced to it during the Tilden |
reform campaign.
THERE are various ways of looking at |
Civil Service Reform, but the country at
large is not likely to adopt that view taken
of it by office-holders whom it has elected
from snug berths
The President is said to be hopeful that
several Southern states will return to the
Republican column. But the Philadelphia
North american gravely says Count upon
no favor to the Republican party from the
South"
IT is stated that an intimate friend of
General Grant abroad writes that he sus-
tains the action of President Hayes in the
South. Be that as it may, it is certain that
all his own action last winter pointed in the
same direction.
IT will not need many more acts like the
Chisholm massacre and the indictment of
the Louisiana returning board to convince
the country that, whatever the Presidents
generous spirit, the old element of the South
deserves no confidence or trust.
An old-fashioned ant-slavery debate in
the next Congress is not improbable. The
London Anti-Slavery Society, the Cuban
League and the colored men of the United
States have begun the agitation and will lead
off with monster petition on the subject
in the fall
The harvest throughout the West has
fairly commenced, and large yield and fue
quality of winter wheat are promised The
reports as to growing spring wheat, corn and
other crops are also very encouraging except
in the low lands where considerable damage
has been by too much rain.
REVIEWING the Woodstock affair, we see
nothing in it worthy to disturb or change our
views. Mr. Hayes is firmly iu the saddle,
and the political clouds are drifting about
without much appearance OF storm. There
may be summer shower when Congress
meets, with little vivid sheet lightning, but
hardly anything more. The democrats will
shelter him.-Mobae Register.
GENERAL Howard reports a severe fight
with Chief Joseph, in which he claims de.
cided advantage. His loss however, is quite
severe for the number OF men engaged, the
attacking party being always at great dis.
advantage. The hostile chief has still to be
followed and captured or killed. 1t is a costly
work in every way requiring at lowest esti
mate life for life. Somehow our north
ern neighbors manage these things better.
In his recent response to a serenade al
Des Moines, Iowa, Governor Packard, Of
Louisiana, after declaring his unaterable
attachment to the Republican party said
" Three years from this time if the Repub
can party is defeated you understand that
it is the democratic party that succeeds
and if the democratic party succeeds it i.
the confederacy that is in charge of the
government, and you all know what that
means"
WE have it upon reliable authority that
even old Ben Wade has become reconciled
to the Presidents policy since he has OBJ
served that the Southern people are disposed
to treat colored citizens fairly and give then
educational advantages We hail will
delight every word and expression in any
quarter which tends to show that the peopl,
of the north and south are beginning t.
understand each other better WdShingto,
Republican.
GIGANTIC silk frauds by parties in New
York engaged in smuggling have been dis
covered. Written confessions of those ar
rested show that the frauds have been con
tiuued for years. and will foot up among thu
millions. The smuggling has taken place
in barrels, and several parties admit of hav
ing received large number, one party hav
ing received one hundred and twenty barrel,
during the last three years. The trial OF the
offenders will soon take place.
The New Orleans Times (democratic) says
that ring of no ordinary dimensions ha.
opposed Governor Nichols from the hour o.
his induction into office. Its ramifcation,
extend through both branches of the assem-
bly, and subordinate branches of the govern
ment, and even contemplates an attempt t.
drive him from power, This faction is con
fined to the Bourbons of the city. Th'
country members of the assembly, of boil
parties, will stand by him to man.
The new four per cent loan is very pop
ular and the demand for it among the PEG
pie far exceeds the expectations of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. The First Nationa
Bank, of Indianapolis, has just taken si'
hundred thousand dollars, and the Nationa
Trust Company, of New York, one hundred
thousand dollars. The time for direct sub
scriptions to the Treasury expired on tn
10th instant Hereafter the syndicate ha
charge of the loan and premium will b.
required.
IT is stated, on supposed good authority
that there are ffty-two thousand Indian
within radius of two hundred miles from
the scene of the recent outbreak in Oregon
and that there are thirty thousand in tn
immediate neighborhood of that point. The,
seem to suppose themselves to be invulnera
BILE to any force of the government The,
have not heretofore been regarded as trouble
some Indians. Many efforts, with ditferen
liberal offers of reservations, have been mad
to confne them within fixed limits, but the
persist in their rowing practices