Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-04-02

wood and Vance.
CHICAGO Times (dem) "Both branches
OF the congress of the confederate states
have now been removed from Richmond to
Washington. Nearly all the officers Of the
confederate states government are members
of one house or the other"
HAY sEEDY Alabamian looked into one
of the United States Senate committee rooms
one day last week, and asked, Whose room
is this ?" " It used TO be Uncle SANS" re-
piled the clerk in charge, but believe it
belongs to jeff. Davis now"
Zach CHANDLER's DETROIT Tribune: awe
are confident of victory in 1880, because
there is great awakening, a general revival
among the stalwart Republicans, which is
felt everywhere, from the White House to
the farthest log-cabin on the frontier
HERE is an interesting extract from the
democratic national platform in 1856: awe
are decidedly opposed to taking from the
President the qualified veto power, by which
he is enabled to suspend the passage of a
bill whose merits cannot secure two-thirds
the Senate and House."
WE trust that none of our readers will be
attacked by the "Leadville (Col.) fever.
We have seen letters from parties there
which draw gloomy picture of the outlook.
All kinds of business are overdone, and the
tninau hntrat,ar ,,rn1nntiva oaalaI
book to the masses. "Don't come here
write those who are there and can't get away.
GALVESTON (Texas) News: The demo-
cratic majority in Congress can do best for
democratic success in the Presidential cam
paign Of 1880 by not manifestly looking to
that as paramount consideration. Let the
tenor Of their action manfestly look, first of
all, to the service of the country, and it can
not fail to be of great and decided service to
the democratic party"
New ORLEANS Times "But men in
Northern cities do not attend to their bust
ness affairs with pistol in their hip pocket.
Public sentiment is against it, and it is very
seldom that there is shooting ARRAY be-
tween men of recognized standing and char
acter. What the South needs in order TO
put stop to these homicides is not stricter
laws or better courts, but a change of public
sentiment"
IT was curious, in all the propositions af-
fecting the army, to notice that on all MS
ing votes, while his Bourbon colleagues of
the confederacy were trying to cripple the
Federal army, General Joe Johnston, the
greatest commander in that service, voted
steadily and unobtrusively with the Repub-
Leans in favor of every amendment or prop
ositon designed to benefit or dignity the
Federal army.
So it turns out that Prince Napoleon had
a little love affair on hand, which prompted
him to leave his quiet home at Chiselhurst
and HE away to South Africa to fight the
Zulus. He is said to be desperately in love
with Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter
of Queen Victoria, and the Princess is sus.
pected of reciprocating the affection. Queen
Victoria has liking for soldiers and Prince
Napoleon may fix it all right with her by a
little service at the Cape.
LONDON Telegraph: "The theory of OBJ
liberation and forgiveness is pushed to an
absurd extreme when twenty-five democratic
Senators propose that the man through
whose instigation the American people lost
many hundred thousand men should be pre-
sented as fitting recipient of state pen
sion for services rendered more than thirty
years ago. At all events, its payment might
be postponed till the huge national debt, due
to him and his colleagues, is completely
cleared off,"
Miss NELLIE, the youngest daughter of
Ex-Governor Richard ID. Hubbard, of Hart
ford, Conn, was secretly married on the
18th of March, to Frederick Shepard, her
fathers coachman, and few days later the
two disappeared. The event creates much
gossip in Hartford, and the lady's father de-
clares that all efforts at reconciliation will be
futile. Mrs. Shepard is but nineteen years
old, is beautiful and has been highly edu.
Gated. Her husband is several years her
senior, an American, and is said to be a
man of fair character.
New HAMPSHIRE political circles are agi
tated over the selection of a United States
Senator. They ought not to be. They can
do no better than to return cambridge Wad
leigh, who has served one term. 1t should
be remembered that he was one of the young
est men of the Senate, yet he won position
of influence among his associates that many
veteran Senator would be proud to occupy
When maturer years and thought come tc
him he is likely to be the peer of any Sena
tor New Hampshire has furnished. To cut
him off now is foolishness.
WASHINGTON correspondence Cleveland
Herald A resolution was long ago passed
by Congress prohibiting the sale of liquor
in the capitol building. For some time the
resolution was obeyed, but finally it wa
evaded by the keepers of the two restau
rants, who put out liquor in cups. Thos'
desiring drink of whiskey had but to ash
for cup of tea" aud the liquor was pro
duced Finally the sale became holder, anC
on the last night of the Forty-fifth Congress
in the House restaurant two thousand mint
hundred and seventy-six drinks of lager bee
were disposed of at five cents drink, be
sides the whskey, brandy, wine and bottle
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