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that had been urged against 1t. lie thought we
should determine first whether il is best to have an
insolvency law and II it is we better keep the one
we nave sOt and II 1t is found detective, amend it
IN two years. The great objection to the law is
tnat u IS too cumbersome, there was too much
inachinery In rs enforcement. There was not 20
much need Of bankrupt law in an agricultural
state Ike vermont. He thought the national
bankrupt law was more needed in the Southern
states, and in some portions Of the North; but it
WAS not so much needed by the people of Vermont.
Mr. Fuller Of FairhaYen said he had found tha,
the State courts had held that these insolvency
Jaws were constitutional; but the United States
courts had universally decided that such laws were
unconstitutional.
Mr. Howe of Castleton said ho had understood
thai tne insolvency law was drawn up under the
approval OF Senator Edmunds and Judge Wheeler
and he mad no doubts OF its constitution Atty. He
ud not like all the provisions Of this law but Il IL
better than no Law and he hoped it would be re-
talhed until II could be improved or something
better could be given US; he moved that tine bill be
ordered to lie.
Mr. Eaton of DanvilIe said his Information wa,
that neither Senator kdmunds nor Judge Wheeler
had any thing to do with preparin. this. lie had
nearly perfected simple, short act, to take the
place OF TINS law and hoped to have it ready to-
Mr. Martin of Londonderry favored the motion to
lie. that we may see il we have not legal acumen
enough upon the hoor ofthis House to draw upa
law that would not be considered imperfect
and imperative. He could spend two hours in
pointing out the imperfections of this law and
cited the doubt that would exist as to the effect Of
-
been 4 dead letter and imperative. There is no
doubt as to Its effect upon the debts contracted
since the first OF September last and no others He
wanted to say that the Hon. HOyt H. Wheeler had
nothing to do with the bill under consideration
and so good lawyer as Judge Wheeler could have
nad no hand in drawing up SO imperfect a bill as
this. He hoped the House would order the bill TO
lie. ~
Mr. Sprague OF Brandon, favored the motion to lie
as he had nearly perfected the bill he proposed to
ofsr as its substitute and would be ready to pres
ent 1t to-m morrow
MI Howe of Ludlow, demanded the previous
Nays75.
The bill was then ordered to lie
heports-From committee on highways. bridges
ana ferries, In favor OF A. granting ferry to c
babbitt; read the third time and passage
kesolution-By Mr. Nash of New haven, that
when the House adjourns, this afternoon, it be
until 30 O'Clock next Monday afternoon. On tho
question of adoption Of this resolution, Mr. Hinman
OF charleston, demanded the yeas and nays, which
were taken yeas :, nays l73 So the resolution
was not adopted.
:, On motion of Mr. Hammond Of Middlebury, the
House adjourned.
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John =. Phair asks of the Legislature,
through his.counseI, either bill applicable
TO his particular case. which shall give him
a new trial if the evidence warrants it, or
a Communication Of his sentence to imprison-
ment for lie il it does not or. second a
general law, which shall permit new trial
to be granted, in any capital case at any
time, upon discovery of new evidence throw
ing doubt on the justice Of the verdict
previously rendered We can see no pro-
priety in any event in Il commu .ation Of
Phsir's sentence. His crime, if he COM
mitted any, was murder in the first degree.
lie is innocent or guilty. and he should be
freed or hung.
The Legislature, it is to he hoped, will
also ''go slow in the direction of any
general relaxation of the certainty ofjustice.
1t is largely the uncertainty that the penalty
of the law will follow crime that is
filling our State Prison with murderers. .
To the chances that murderer may be
cleared by skiiiul counsel in a trial, are now
added, 10 our State, the chances that in the
long interval between sentence and exeeu-
tlon something may turn up-s0me escape
from prison. some act Of executive clemency,
some retrial of the case by newspaper,
followed By new trial at law-wbich shall
give the criminal his LIE and liberty. These
chances arc so numerous that desperadoes
are willing to take them, and murders and
desperate crimes multiply beyond all preyi-
Gus precedent in our State. We believe
that the period of over two years which may
now elapse between conviction and execu-
tion in murder cases, is too long for the ends
of justice. Independent of the opportuni-
ties thus offered for escape, the long interval
permits the public sense Of the enormity of
the particular crime and the public demand
for justice, to become relaxed. The penalty, if
ever executed. becomes almOs. discovered
from the crime, in the popular mind; and
the feeling that speedy penalty ,riA surely
follow crime, which is such a safeguard for
the public where it exists, Is largely done
away.
In this particular case, it seems to US that
all the demands OF Justice or mercy will be
satisfied by the passage Of an act permitting
the Supreme Court to grant a new trial to
Phair, if in their opinion the new evidence,
or what is claimed to be such, warrants it.
The courts were made to settle such ques-
tions. 1t is objected that certain rules of
law-as that new evidence produced in such
a case must be something more than eumuia-
tive in order to warrant a rev trial-will
tend to defeat the application for a new
trial before the court but these rules were
framed after long experience, for the protec-
tion of the community and the furtherance
of the ends Of justice and there would seem
to be no good reason why they should not te
applied in this case, as well as in any other.
We believe the public will be satisfied if the
Legislature refers to the courts the entire
disposition of this case. With any other ac-
ton there is likely to be well grounded dis
satisfaction.
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There set two glasses filed TO the brim
on rich mans table, rim 10 rim;
One was ruddy and red as blood,
And one was clear rs the crystal flood.
said the glass of wine TO the paler brother,
"Let us tell the tales of the past to each other
| can tell of banquet and revel and mirth.
And the proudest and grandest souls on earth
Fell lnder my touch as though struck by blight
Where | was king, for ruled in might.
From the head of kings | have torn the crown
From the height OF fame | have hurled men
down;
| have blasted many an honored name;
| have taken virtue and gwen shame.
| have tempted the youth with sip. taste,
That has made his future barren waste,
Far greater than king am |,
Or than anv army beneath the sky.
| have made the arm of the driver fall.
And sent the train from the iron rails
[ have made good ships go down at sea,
And the shrieks of the lost were sweet 10 me,
For they said, Behold, how great you be!
Fame, strength, wealth, genius before you fail,
And your might and power are over all
"Ho! ho pale brother" laughed the wine.
Can YOU boast of deeds as great as mine:"
said the water glass, Il can not boast
OF king dethroned or a murdered host;
But can tell Of heart once sad,
BY INV crystal drops made light and glad;
Ofthirsts I've quenched, and brows I've layed;
OF hands I've cooled, and souls I've saved.
ha' ieaHed through the valley, dashed down
the mouui::-;
| lowed in the river and PLAYED in the fountain:
Slept IN the sunshine and dropt from the sly,
And everywhere gladdened the landscape and
eye.
| have eased the hot forehead ofiever and pain:
have made the parched meadows grow fertile
grain.
| can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill.
That ground out the -four and turned al my
will;
can tell of manhood debased by YOU,
That have lifted and crowned anew
| cheer. | help, l strengthen and aid;
! gladden. tie heart of man and maid;
set the chained wiue captive free,
And all are better for knowing me-
These are the tales they told each other
The glass of wine and the paler brother,
As they sat together filled TO the brim,
ON the rich mans table, rim TO rim.
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OUIpAs TEACHISGs.-Pardon must be re
membered TO be known.

OUIDAs TEACHISGs.-Pardon must be re-
membered TO be known.
A very trustful woman believes in her
lovers fidelity with her heart a very vain
woman belives in it with her head.
Passion will pardon rage will survive alb
sence, will forgive infidelIty, will even thrive
on outrage. and will often condone q crime /;
but when it dies of familiarity it is dead for
ever and aye.
womans violence is mighty power /;
before it reason recoils unneryed, justice
quails appalled,, and peace perishes like u
burnt up scroll it is a sand-storm, before
which courage can do but little the bravest
man can but fall on his face and let it rage
above him.
The truthfulness of women communicates
itself to the man whose chief society they
form and the perpetual necessities of in
trigue end in corrupting the temper whose
chief pursuit is passion. Women who en-
viron a mans fidelity By ceaseless suspicion
and exaction create the evil that they dread.
man cannot perhaps know all that a
woman suffers from his infidelity. Hers to
him may wrong his pride and his passions
with great agony, but IT cannot seem all at
once to bring intense humiliation, intense
desecration, personal and spiritual, with it
as does his to her. 1t cannot make him
l,pshamed to exist II makes her.
The art of pleasing is more based on the
art of seeming pleased than people think of
and a woman disarms the prejudIces OF her
enemies by the unaffected delight she ap-
pears to take in themselves You may think
very Ill of a woman but. after all. you can
not speak very i'll of her if she has assured
you hundred times that you are among her
dearest friends.
The old proverb that, between two, one is
always booted and spurred, the other always
saddled and bridled, is trde. 1t is not supe-
riority OF mind, or OF character, or of per
son, that determines which shall ride and
which shall be ridden ; it is generally rather
the result of certain hardness OF temper
which determines the question early in the
day and never loses the supremacy. Taken
roughly, it may be safely predicted that will
always be the highest nature that will sub
NIT. Often it is the jade that rules tho hero,
the fool that has his feet kissed by the
genius. From he, latest noud, "Erindshp."
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The present insolvent lit seems TO US,
is in danger o. being discarded without trial.
1t is the work, in all its essential parts, of
two OF the very best lawyers in Vermont
Hon. Geo. F. Edmunds, our United States
Senator, ard Hon. liOyt III. Wheeler, our
United States Judge for this district. When
Senator Edmunds was in the Vermont Sen
ate, he took a very deep interest in the pre-
paration of an insolvency bill, believing. as
he did, that our present grab law was
great injury to the State in the gross injus-
tice it practically wrought the foreign credit
or, and because Of its essential inequity,
which enabled any hard, austere man to
pounce upon debtor and force him into
failure which left the other creditors with
nothing, because they were humane enough
to let an honest nan work of his obligations
rather than run a scrub race to see who
should first eat him up. Senator Ell
mund- bottomed his insolvency bill
on the law of MA>slchusettS, 50 the a-snmp-
tion that it is impraeticable is probably i'll
founded. since 1t has proved practical sue
cess in Massachusetts,.
Senator Edmunds is not only an able
lawyer but he has the reputation of skill,
accuracy, and pract,cality in the drafting Of
any measure, 50 that it shall hc well adapted
to its purpose. Senator EdmundS, we be
lieve, gut his bill through the Senate, but it
was killed in the House.
Judge Whe,ler when in the Senate, next
took this matter up and making Senator
Eimunds' bill the Sub'tratum he added >uch
amendments as he thought the times demand
ed, and the present insolvency law Is essen
italy the Massachusetts law. As adapted to
our business wants and character by Senator
Edmunds and Judge Wheeler, and we are
inclined to believe on fair trial this law,
that it is the fashion to r.dicule and de-
ncunce, would prove very seryieeable
measure, equitable in principle and eco
nomical in administration.
There is no practical reason why under
this law eight cases out of ten could not be
settled before probate court without the IL
tervention of a lawyer by any man competent
to be an administrator there would be no
more likelihood of frequent appeals to the
county courts and of long and yexatious de-
lays than there is in the settlement Of dead
men S estates. where large estate Is closed
up in short time at comparatively small
expense. The rights OF creditors are no
more complex than the rights of heirs. The
opposition to the present InsOlvent law comes
to certain extent from 4 lot of small
lawyers, whose Offices are now full of claims
to be enforced under the " grab law the
the Legislature finally repeals the
present insolvency aet.-RHfiaTd Herald.
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The banking house of Clarbough, Nelson
Il Co. Baltimore, has failed with liabilities
of 100000, of which $4,000 are unse-
cured.
Mary Dolan has been awarded damages by
a court in Brooklyn against two rumsellers
for making a drunkard OF her husband.
The late St. John Smith, of Portland. Me,
leaves over Sl,250 zoo, nearly all divided
among his family and near relatives.
The resignation of Rev. Mr.. Vosburgh,
pastor of the Jersey City Baptist church,
who was recently accused of wife poisoning,
has been accepted and a resolution of con-
fience in him lost by vote of ~ to Is.
The voting population of New York city
is 232 l52 The naturalized citizens out
number the natives entitled to vote by over
10000. Only four wards can claim ma
lority Of native voters.
Biyard Taylor has Just submitted to
dangerous surgical operation, but is improv-
ing.
Cleopatrs's Needle, brought from Egypt
and set up in London with much trouble
and expense, is showing a disposition to
crumble after its exposure to salt water and
the climate of England.
Asecond distribution of nine per cent of the
assets OF Jay Cooke is to be made this week.
The remainder, about ten per cent, will 5e
divided in the form of scrip, the entire
amount reaching about fifty-one per cent.
At Ballston. N. Y, Saturday. Billings,
the alleged wife murderer. was admitted to
bail in the SUN of $50, 600, which was at
once furnished. Billings. with tears in his
eyes, the first seen since the trial began. ex-
pressed desire to visit his home A motion
for change OF venue will he heard in about
two weeks.
The Supreme Court, according to the re-
assignment of its calendar, will next month
hear Arguments involving the constitution
ality of a., laws heretofore made bearing n
the question of P ygamy in tab. The
decision will involve the legality of all laws
national, State or territorial-to crush
out the Mormon mode of life.
The slaughter huse and pork packing
establishment of Christian kIinck ut East
Buffalo. the most extensive in Western New
York, is burned. Only about 10 head out
of some 100 live hogs were 1vei, and an I'M
mense quantity of pork, lard and dressed
hogs were destroyed Estimate loss Sl6O.-
600, insurance SS5,000.
SHOCKING accident happened to William
Smith, Jr., at Corning's Mills, in Troy, n.
Y, last week. lie was passing red-hot
iron rod through the grinding machine, when
it caught and he stumbled forward, one end
of the rod striking him in the stomach and
burning deeply into his flesh. The end then
coiled, and Smith stumbling second time,
the hot point entered his mouth, and ran
through his cheek, then winding about his
head. His agony was intense while being
from the burning coil
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LEGISLATURE OF VERMONT.
$ Z n A 7 L .
THURSDAY, Oct. "a,

| THURSDAY, Oct. "a, 1878.
:iepOrts OF Committees-FrOmC Committee
on Education in favor OF Ii 62, an act in ad-
dltlon to an act relating to the fees OF school
district clerks, approved Nov. 10, 1868 !;
passed in concurrence.
JOINT Resolution-By Senator Stearns, in
relation to the will of Ii b Howard. of Fair
lax, as follows:
Resolved That with due recognition
OF the liberality and practical philanthropy
exhibited by the late Harmon b Howard, of
Fairfax, Vt, in devsing in his last will and
testament certain moneys and property to
and the State Of Vermont in founding in Fair
TAX an orphan asy lum for poor and destitute
minor children, yet in view of the fact that
such an asylum in Fairfax. Cannot be
founded by the State without large ad-
dltional appropriation from the State
treasury, and of the fact that the will of the
donor contains provision which will sub
stantlally carry out his philanthropic pur-
pose without expense to the State in casa
the State does not accept the bequest, it is
inexoedient for the State to accept the
same: and the State does hereby decline to
accept tho provision Of the first item of
the will o! Mr. Howard; adopted.
Afternoon.
Reports of committees-From Committee
on Highways and Bridges. in favor of Ii
i35. an act granting a ferry to John
U Neil; passed.
Senator Peck called up 70. an act pro-
hibiting the judges OF the Supreme Court
from holding Office in any railroad corpora-
tion in this State.
Senator Belden said, in brief. that he
should favor the passage of the bill, without,
however, meaning to imply that he
thought that any member of the Supreme
Court had been guilty Of any misconduct
owing to his connection with any railroad
S;hatOr Parker said that he had no yery
strong objection to this particular bill, but
he did not like this kind OF legislation and
should oppose its passage and should de
mand the yeas and nays upon it.
Senator Deane stated that upon mature
elaboration he had conclud I'd that mas
much as there might be some suspicious
prevalent that connection with railroad ,
corporation might iLhuence the purity of
the court, he should favor the passage of
the bill, though he did not countensnce
such suspicious.
Senator King favored the bill for the same
reasons as the last Senator.
Senator Ormsbee opposed the bill because
1t would certainly be construed as a fling at
the Supreme Court. who ought not to be |
to any such thing.
Senator Parker demanded the yeas and |
nays which were as follows:
feas-Senators Arnold, Ballard, Battel, |
Belden. Dsnforth. Deane, Dill |
lingham. Duushee, Dwinell, Dyer. Frank
lin, Gay, King. Leach, Mead, Munson,
Paine, Peck, Powell, Ram, kice, Sowles,
Stearns. Webster.
Nays-Senators Ormsbee Parker, Thomp-
son and Writers.
And the bill wGs passed
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The DHETTANTI OF The LAST CENTURY. -
The dilettanti of the last century were
more thorough musicians than arc most of
ours, besides having had the advantage of
learning, not from teachers who are mere
performers, who have failed, but very often
from hrst rate cOmposers-L Porsor, JONI
nell, Galuppi. who did not disdan by any
means to give private lessons. The pupils
were usually worthy of their masters and D.
Burney heard excellent performers, vocal
and instrumental, at the private concerts he
attended at Milan, Venice and Rome, in the
dull bare parlors OF the upper middle classes.
and IN the gOrgeously succeed and glided
saloons of the aristocracy for in that day
music belonged equally to all classes, being
fruit not Of special culture, but of general
civilization. Round these dilettanti per-
formers, whether dressed in broadcloth or in
embroidered satin, was congregated the far
larger class OF merely appreciative amateurs,
who neither sang norplayed, nor composed,
but for whose benefit singers, yioinists and
composers were produced. Some Of these
were of the oracular, some others of the dis
putative, others of the ecstatic The oracu-
lar ones were old gentlemen, Senators, mon
signori, lawyers and doctors who gave ad-
vice to young musicians and as the singer,
Mancini tells us, taught well endowed but
slightly rigid sopranos and tenors how to
move their arms and legs gracefully and eX-
pressiyely. and how las the malicious Mar
cello adds) to take snuff and below their
nose without impeding the dramatic action !;
the dlsputative young men, men OF fashion
and wit, who discussed musical merit under
the hands of their hairdresser, like Parini's
young gentleman, wrote indecOrous
sonnets against admirers of rival
musicians, and occasionally waylaid
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SATURDAY, October 26, 1873.
Bills introduced and referred-By Sena-
tor Ballard, an act relating to the manage
meDt OF the State prison, workhouse and
reform school; to Committee on Judiciary.
by Senator King. by request, an act to
amend an &C. relating to the duties of town
superintendents of schools. approved Nov
D. 1870; to Committee on Education.
BY Senator Paine, an act providing for
the mortgage of personal property; to Com
mittee on Judiciary.
Reports - From Special Committee to
whom was referred II I24, an act laying a
tax on the county of Chittenden, favorably
thereto; passed in concurrence.
From committee, in favor of AZ, an act
for the punishment of attempts to commit
offences; third reading ordered for Mon
day.
From Committee on Land Taxes, upon S
22. an act relating to the collection of
taxes, with proposal of amendment In re-
gard TO the posting Of notices, and as to
the time after notice when the tax shall be-
come claim upon the delinquent property;
amendments agreed to. Ordered to lie
From Committee on Judiciary, by bill
substituted for -. an act in addition to
ch l2l, OF =, entitled of county jails and
the confinement and discharge Of prisoners;
tulru reaulng ordered Monday.
From Senate, against S 81, an act fixing
the salary of the judges of the supreme
court. This bill had been recommitred to
the committee
Senator Peck urged the passage of the
bill, because prices and salaries were now
upon the same basis as before the war Be-
fore the war, the judges were paid 81 500
per anrum. Ii that was a fair salary then,
g. 500 is too large a salary now
Senator Parker said that from comparison
OF the judicial salaries in other states the
salary OF our Judges was small enough.
Ordered to lie and be made the special
order OF Tuesday afternoon.
From Committee on Judiciary. in favor
of Ii SO, an act in amendment of an act to
incorporate the city of Burlington passed
IN concurrence.
5 80, an act to provide ior the hearing Of
applications for pardon and to enable the
Governor to ad7ise with certain Of the
judges in relation thereto, was taken up and
passed.
Petltion-lntroduced BY Senator Dwinell,
asking for change in the law relating to
divorce; referred to Committee on Judi
ciary.
Bills introducing and referred-From the
House. Ii l72 an act relating to the altera-
ton OF school districts to Committee on
Education.
Ii l44 an act in amendment of an act to
suppress nuisaBces to Committee on Judi
ciary.
"a an act relating to tramps was called
up by Senator Dillingham;. Senator Peck
moved that the bill be committed for amend
ment so a. to prevent the building of tires
IN the highway by trsmps. Senator Bel
den thought the amendment ought not to
be urged at this time. Senator Deane
moved that ths bill be ordered to lie.
Senator King suggested some other amend
ments. Senator Dillingham; suggested
that the las: Senator misapprehauded
some of the provisions of the bill, and ex-
OF the planned at length the wors ing bill /;
ordered to lie and be made the specia order
Of Tuesday at 2.20 o'clock.
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The town Of Albany has over 30 cattle
brokers, and the present season they Will
handle about $500 head Of cattle.
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WHY VERMONT SHOULD CONTENT
VERMONTERS.
Address of Hon. Justin $. Morrill,,
L. s. Senator.
BEFORE THE DsIRYMEN'S Asso-
CITATION.

At Montpelier, Oct. 23rd, 1873.