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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Old and New Traitors.

Mr.. Burdette, of the Burlington (Iowa)
Ha~keye, has been visiting at Fredericton,
New Brunswick, the house built by Bene-
dict Arnold after he fled from this country,
and he describes it as a "story and half
house, with dormer window looking out of
the roof. The sides are weather boarded
but shingled. The front door opens directly
on the street, and there is single window
ON either side of it," OF Arnold he SAYS
lie lived century too early, this man of
hateful and accursed memory. Had he lived
a hundred years later he might have com.
mitted treason most hateful, he might have
foresworn himself in national councils and
drawn his sword against the country that
taught him to use it, he might have plum
dered the national treasury, robbed the gov
eminent of arsenals and stolen its navy
yards, fought for years against the flag that
waved over his birth, and then. A tainted
name? A traitors DOOM An accursed
memory A haunted, desolate life }? Oh
no, Lord love you, simple minded young
patriot, nothing of the sort He would CONT
back and be elected to congress, he woult
be senator, he would run the government
he would talk more loudly about the consti
tuition he attempted to destroy than the mel
who saved it; he would write books an,
defy public opinion, and the only tbing
about him to show that God hated hin
would be his blighted eye. If Benedic
Arnold ever looks around this planet an,
sees how Jefferson Davis is getting along, i
must make him feel that he was a marty
aud deeply injured man"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

SOUTHERN REsoURCEs.-The comparative
value of free and slave labor receives illus.
tration from recent letter of Mr.. Edward
Atkinson upon the cotton crop of the South
for this and other years. This years crop
is the largest ever raised in this country, and
the labor which produced such result
came squarely upon the backs Of the negroes.
This race in the ten most successful years
under their masters raised six and half
million bales less than in the ten years Just
passed, including this. The value of the
cotton crop for these ten years is placed by
Mr.. Atkinson at nearly three billions-an
average of three hundred millions year.
1t would seem that the Southern whites,
the old masters, ought to understand that
the negro race is force for enriching their
section that they cannot afford to abuse.
Even under its present treatment, crops have
increased from those raised under slave la
Dor /; and could there be harmonious feeling
and action between the races, the figures
which represent the rewards of their indus
try would be astonishingly increased.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

A CURIosIrY.-A certain French philoso-
pher has found that the number seventeen
brings bad luck to the imperial dynasty.
The prince imperial had seventeen assegai
wounds. There are seventeen letters in the
name Napoleon Bonaparte. The addition
of the figures 1908, the date of tine birth of
Napoleon III. numbers seventeen; so does
the addition of the figures 1926, the date of
the Empress Eugenie's birth, as also 1853
tie date of their marriage; from 1858, the
date of their marriage, to 1870, the date Of
their fall, was seventeen years. The prince
imperial was seventeen years of age when
his father died there are seventeen letters
in the name of Lieutenant Carey, aud the
addition of thu figures 1862, the date OF
Prince Victor's birth, again produces sew
enteen,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

THE GREAT Ca.LAPsE.-Thee elections in
Maine, Ohio and Iowa show that the Green
back party has seen its best days and left
them behind it in the past. 1t was born of
unreason; it was based on false principles
but it grew fast, for time, especially in the
West, and made such show of votes that
its leaders, and those who begun intriguing
to become its leaders, believed it could be
made to play an important part in the next
presidential election. Meanwhile, sagacious
and far-seeing men knew that it could not
last long 1t has weakened and faded away
more suddenly and rapidly than was ex-
pected. The resumption of specie pay
ments and the better times in business and
among farmers have destroyed even its pre-
lenses for existence, and its hope of making
figure in politics has disappeared.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Worthy Of a Statesman.

Since Ex-Governor Woodford's return from
sissippi, he has taken the stump in New
York, and recently gave utterance to the fol-
lowing noble sentiments "Now what is
your duty aud mine toward our fellow-cit-
liens in the South Z Is it to abuse the
South ? Nay; may my right arm be palsied
and my tongue cleave to the roof of my
mouth if ever forget that the South is
part of our one Union, and that their grand
fathers and our grandfathers fought together
in the struggle of the revolution. But our
duty is to help upbuild the South by doing
what we can TO assist popular education,
and to compel, by all legitimate means, the
practical liberation by all men of all parties
and of all political opinions throughout the
South. | believe that the solid South is as
hollow to-day as was the confederacy when
Sherman swept through from Atlanta to the
sea. The solid South is as hollow as was
then the exhausted rebellion. There are in
the county of Kemper many independent
men. Some of them took me by the hand
and frankly said 'This condition of mat
tiers must be checked, or the future of our
beloved South is blighted.' Even during
the progress of the murder trial which was
attending, with men gathered from every
part OF the county, an advertisement was
published in their county paper to have a
mass Democratic county convention and
nominate ticket. But when they got to-
gether the people refused to have the con-
vention. Thus independence has begun even
in Kemper county. 1t will yet spread to
every county in Mississippi And so for the
sake of the poor black man, who is denied
by force the ballot which the constitution
gives him; for the sake of the poor white
man, who is held by the will of the ruling
classes for the sake of the young men who
are coming into the ranks of citizenship
for the sake of the South itself, plead with
the Republicans of the North and nation to
stand to-day in unbroken ranks and hold
this government solid for education solc
for progress; solid for the equal personal Sc
curity and equal political rights Of all mel
under the law solid for the absolute suprem
acy of the nation in all national affairs"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

MONTGOMERY (Ala) Adoertiser: "The
real Southern problem is how to develop the
resources of the country and create prosper
ity. 1t wants men, money, enterprise and
morals. 1t wants the fostering care of a
prosecutions of an unfriendly one. 1t wants
friendship instead of Northern hatred and
suspicion. And the North needs the South
as market for its productions and manu-
features, as field for its mechanical and
mercantile enterprise, even more than the
South needs the North. The two parts of
the Union belong together, aud ought to be
profitable industries can make them one."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

The TRUE MISUNDERSTANDING Sherman
puts the Southern question on its true ground
when he says; "At present ii is hard to deal
with the Southern question. We have no
physical means to protect the ballot-box or
the jury-box in the South. There is no
present hope for the freedmen, because they
are poor and defenseless, and their arming
would only bring upon them superior phys.
ical power. Their great remedy is that
which, under the providence of Almighty
God, guided the lsraelites from Egypt, and
led our fathers to flee from kingly oppres
sion. There is another way, and the only
relief that is now open, and that is, that the
people Of the North, who hate oppression
will stand together in a powerful politica
organization, pledged 20 support and main
tain the equal rights of the humblest either
OF the United States in every part OF oul
country and wherever our flag floats"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

WHO'S AFRAID In view of the recent
treaty between Austria and Germany, the
imperial organ at ST. Petersburgh boast
fully says "Russiau statesmen will not
allow their equanimity to be disturbed by
the noisy and tumultuous demonstrations
exchanged between Vienna and Berlin.
Russia has seen all this so often before.
Without going back further than the pres
ent reign she has seen empires crumble to
the ground, alliances made and unmade, and
the enemies of the eve become the friends
of the morrow. Meanwhile, while all these
changes and vicissitudes are occurring, Rus
STA is still to the front, having no doubt had
ordeals of her own to go through, but with
her strength and vitality unimpaired,
and steadily pursuing her onward career,
while so many things beyond her frontier
are passing away forever. Russia can af-
ford to hear with philosophic indifference
the hostile chorus that proclaims her isola-
ton. What they call isolation we call in-
dependence"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

The REBoUND.-The New York Herald
in business survey, observes that there
turks danger even in this brilliant bust
ness success. 1t is the tendency of re
dundance of money to foster spirit of spec
ulation. As the circulating medium ex
pands prices inevitably rise, and in what is
called rising market all who are in haste
to be rich are tempted to buy not only te
the extent of their means, but to the utmost
stretch of their credit, in the hope of great
profits from the expected rise of prices. Al
expansion of real money has this effect a;
well as expansion of paper currency. We
are, therefore, in imminent danger of new
era of wild and crazy speculation
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

The INDIAN CAMPAIGN.-Militaryo opera
tious against the Utes have come suddenly
to a stand-still, and attempts at negotiation
instituted instead-greatly to the disgust of
the officers in command of the besieging
force. The reasons assigned for these steps
by General Sherman, however, are amply
sufficient, consisting of the distance of the
troops from any base of supplies and the
danger of being suddenly showed up in the
mountains the only route which the troops
at White River Agency could follow being
across the main range of the Rocky Noun.
tains very bad at best. Meanwhile public
sentiment in Colorado, expressed by the
governor and other prominent citizens, is
that the Indians must be exterminated, by
the state unless the nation looks after them.
Perhaps the state can do, through her hardy
borderers, some work which would be more
difficult to an organized military force, but
there is little likelihood of any important
aggressive movement taking place until
spring
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Light Wanted.

One Thomas Butler of South Carolina, a
near relative of the senator from that state
has lately arrived in New York with pack
Of twelve bloodhounds trained for the pur-
pose Of tracking fugitives. He says they
are those formerly used for tracking run
away slaves, aud he brings them for exhibit
ton as sort of historical curiosity, aud
also to prove that this method Of arresting
fugitives was not so brutal and savage as
northern people have supposed. for, as he
claims, the dogs will not seize and tear their
prey il the huutsman gets up in time and
commands them to desist. Colonel Butler
with colored man whom he brought with
him, who is willing to be chased and freed.
The hounds are then TO assal the tree with
the fury of demons until they hear the
horn of the master in the rear The fugi-
tive can come down, and the hounds will
fawn upon him. OF this exhibition an ex-
change well says: This would be pretty
experiment provided the hunted negro finds
practicable tree. If he should fail in that
he might have bad time before the dogs
heard the masters horn. But there must be
some mistake about these dogs being those
formerly used in tracking runaway slaves.
Slavery was abolished fourteen years ago
and more; dog at fourteen years of age is
superannuated These must have been
trained long since there were slaves in South
Carolina. What were they trained for ?
Surely not for exhibition in New York.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

A SoUTHERNER' OPINIoN.-An ex Union
soldier, who has been settled in South Caro-
lima as a successful tobacco planter ever
since the war. has decided to sell out and re-
turn with his family to the North. In let
ter TO friend in Connecticut he says
" State rights is the rallying cry South as
mach now as in 1850; aud when you at the
North learn the true issue it may be too
late to save the Union. So wake up, and
save it before it is too late Hayes coIcili-
atory course has been our ruin--nearly
Talk about conciliating traitors aud rebels
bah They use shot guns while you use
moral suasion, and they keep ahead all the
time. 1t is about time TO meet them with
their own weapons"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

SAD FAREwELL.--There is something
peculiarly touching in the voluntary dsso-
luton of the Boston Association of Veterans
of 1912, on the ground that they are too old
to try to meet again. Ordinarily such So
cieties find their annual gatherings growing
more Intense in interest with age; and as
one veteran after another drops out of the
ranks into the grave, those who are left close
up, and feel that they are brought nearer
each other. But at last, it seems, there
comes a point where physical infrmities
weigh down the delights of comradeship.
The sixteen survivors who gathered on
Thursday were all over eighty years most
OF them couldn't speak, at any length, loud
enough for the rest to hear and accordingly
the farewell address prepared by their presi-
dent was read by an outsider. A few years
more will sweep off these veterans mean
while, they frankly confess that the yearly
meeting which was once a pride and a
pleasure has become, with extreme old age,
a burden, and that it is relief to be freed
from it. Surely there is time when the
Scripture is fulfilled, and the grasshopper
becomes burden"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

ANTI.REST AGIrATIoN.--Th anti-rent
agitation in Ireland is gathering force daily
Five hundred tenants recently met near
Westport, in the county of Mayo, Cou'
naught, and solemnly pledged themselves to
pay no rent until reduction shoald be
granted proportionate to the great fall Of
prices Of all kinds of agricultural produce
A notice was posted at Warrenpoint, county
Down, Ulster, that any man coming into
the county to pay more than an acre fol
land may bring his cofiiu with him.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

HARpwIcK The first flight OF wild geese this
season was seen here the 18th. This is usually
regarded az an indication of the prevalence Of
cold weather at the north. This town voted on
Tuesday OF last week to refund the debt incurred
to aid the Lamoille Valley railroad 1850 000) at
lower rate Of interest, and instructed the select
men to do all that may be necessary for that pur-
pose. The granite company are putting on the
outside finish to their polishing mill, preparing
for winter The company has recently increased
its working force and reports plenty of orders for
work, Lieutenant " H. Brdgman of the heavy
artillery, U. s A., is now here on brief visit TO
his parents, John Bridgman, Esq, residing at this
place. His command is at present stationed at
Fort Clark on the Texas Mexican border. Visit
ing Washington on business connected with his
command or department, he obtained months
delay, aud improved the opportunity In visiting
his Vermont home Victor" looks hale and
hearty, indicating clearly that the service agrees
with him. "A lecture on temperance is an
nouneed for the evenings Of the oath and 18th, at
the church in this place. by Mr., J. NJ. Butium OF
Hartford, Connecticut. Subject: Footprints Of
Satan" Bishop has recently bought carload
OF apples in the vicinity Of St Adams, where
fruit is excellent and abundant. They are ex-
pected here Wednesday Of the present week.
Apples promise to be very plenty soon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Judged BY Their Fruits.


Cavilers often ask, regarding the money
spent on foreign missions ITO what pur-
pose is this waste p Among the multitude
OF satisfactory replies which the proceed
ipgs of the late meeting at Syracuse would
afford to honest inquirers, none perhaps was
more conclusive than the following from
DIR. Clark's paper on Japan I" Less than
ten converts ten years ago; no church or
gained; no native agency no schools for
The training of such an agency no mission
airy devoted to preaching; only the scautiest
Christian literature, and that derived from
China; placards everywhere denouncing the
very name of Christian, till the utterance of
the word banched the face and sent thrill
OF horror through the Theoretically more
than two thousand five hundred protested
believers in Christ a recognized evangelical
community three times larger; a fine body
of earnest and faithful native preachers ;
Christian schools for the preparation of ma
tive ministry Christian literature, includ-
ing more than one hundred thousand copies
of portions of the New Testament editions
of the Life of Christ and other works, reck-
oned by thousands and finding a ready sale {;
a Christian newspaper that circulates in all
parts of the empire; and illustrating in their
lives the faith that breathes through all,
more than a hundred and sixty devoted men
and women FROM Christian lands--these are
facts to quicken the faith and to encourage
the most vigorous exertion till the field be
won. And yet our Oldest missionary, with
abundant opportunity of careful observa
ton, remarks that the change in the moral
aspect of the country is in no wise measured
by the number of Christians who have been
gathered into the churches, but the influ-
ence of Christian thought and sentiment is
manifest in every direction"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22
Ohio and Its Election.


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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

BosToN Herald: "With all Grants popu-
larity, which is undoubtedly great, the
memories of his administration are not
savory. Its corruptions drove out of the
party hundreds OF thousands of voters.
They will not take kindly to repetition of
abhorred practices. Besides, had his former
administration been above reproach, the PEG
pie do not like the idea of third term, or
the insinuation that the fate OF the great re-
public hangs on any one citizen. We be-
burne, William M. Evarts, or President
Hayes himself, would poll much larger
vote than General Grant"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

CLEVELAND Herald 4" The gratifying part
of the whole matter is that the solid, sub
stantial Republican gains which have done
so much toward building up this magnif-
cent victory have been made in the mining
and manufacturing districts. The votes
which have redeemed Ohio have come from
the workjngmen, the iron-workers, the mi
ners, the railroad employees, and the other
hard-handed, clearheaded fellows who are
working at full time and counting their
wages in gold, or in currency worth its face
in gold"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

CALAIs-There will be select readings at the
school-house at No. 10, in Calais, on Friday even
ing, October 3ist The best readers of several
districts in town will take part in the exercises,
and pleasant time is anticipated. The enter
tanment is 10 be free, and all are invited to at
tend, There will be a teachers meeting at
Maple Corner, Calais, on Wednesday evening OF
this week, Subject, Arithmetic" Miss Alma
Leonard will explain her manner of teaching
fractions, Mrs. W, W. Ainsworth, "square and
cube root" Mr.. French, Longitude" W. W.
Ainsworth, THE metric system" and NJ 5.
Hathaway on Interest" The foregoing seems
to be move in the right direction for securing
uniformity in teaching our district schools in
town, and 1t is to be hoped that every person who
intends teaching will attend, Should a proper
degree OF interest be manifested, these meetings
will be continued at intervals through the fall
and winter =. That political trickster in town
known as the long whiskered gentleman, form
erly Democratic leader, but who led u class in
Gieeenbackism, says that it IL a Republican lie
that the Republicans have carried Ohio.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

The FALL Maine, Califor-
mia, Colorado, Ohio aud Iowa, have all gone
Republican. The remaining fall elections
are as follows; Maryland, Massachusetts,,
Minnesota, New York and Wisconsin, No
vember A, for state officers and members of
the Legislature; Mississippi and New Jer-
sey, November A, for members Of the legis.
lature; Pennsylvania, November 4, for state
treasurer and members of the legislature
and Louisiana, December 2, upon the adop-
sion OF the new constitution.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

NJ. KARoLy, who has recently been exhibiting
before the people of Madrid his powers over the
brute creation, had frequently performed with a
boa-constrictor, the huge snake enveoping him
in its folds, but never doing him any injury. On
the last occasion he ever appeared the boa had,
as usual, wound itself ronnd the performers body,
when suddenly it frightened Its folds The spec
tators applauded, thinking 1t some new trick, but
Karoly simply uttered a groan, and in one or two
seconds was dead man.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

CoNNEcTIcuT had narrow escape from
Pocasset tragedy the other day. One
Hiram Reynolds, living in q suburb of
Bridgeport, got the notion into his crazy
head that he must sacrifice one of his chill
dren, and started for the school-house, knife
in hand. to obey what he supposed to be the
divine will. Luckily the neighbors stopped
him on the way, and he is now safely lodged
in the state asylum for the insane.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

The bishop OF Manchester, England, In a recent
sermon said 1t almost seemed to be a mockery To
have harvest thanksgiving this year Many far
not be able TO pay their rents. The discipline Of
the present depression was severe, though timely.
The people OF England had become luxurious and
wildly extravagant, but they were now being
taught that II the sun OF England's prosperity
was not TO set they would have to live simply,
dress plainly, and be self-denying and proydent
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-10-22

Mr.. ISAAC @. JENKINS, merchant of Syracuse
New York, while sitting in his library last satur-
day evening, WAS handed letter and on opening
it careessly was surprised to find 50 800 with the
simple explanation, " robbed you of this years
ago" MIR. Jenkins has no idea who the CON
science stricken person may be,