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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

which, either expressly or by implication,
authorizes one Congress TO prescribe by law
the manner in which another Congress shall
exercise power directly derived from that
Constitution. We can readily understand how
any Congress may, within the limits of the
Constitution, makes laws to govern the peo-
pie, and to govern the action of the Presi-
dent and of the United States courts; but,
plainly, no Congress can in advance make
laws TO govern the action of another Con-
gress in the exercise of any power granted
to it by the Constitution. The two houses
of each Congress are self-regulating bodies
in the exercise of their constitutional powers,
and in this respect they are not and cannot
be subject to legislation at all, except such
as may be imposed by the fundamental law.
The prcscn: Congress is the Forty-ffth,
and the next Congress, and not the present
one, Is the one that will be in existence at
the next counting of the electoral votes,
and upon it will devolye the duty of doing
the cJuutirg What authority has the
Forty fifth Congress to regulate by law the
procedure If the Forty-sixth on this sub
jeet? None whatever. Such a law, con-
siIerei as an authoritative rule binding the
Forty sixth Congress, or any subsequent
Congress having similar duty to perform,
would not he worth the paper on which it
might be written 1t would be merely the
expression Of an opinion as to what is ex-
pedicnt, but whether the F1rty-sizth or
any other Congress should follow it or not
wonld be entirely a matter for its own dis
c.ction At the last counting the two
Houses agreed between themselves as to
when and how the work should be done !,
and every Congress called to do the same
work has precisely the same power, and no
previous Congress can legislatiyely dispos-
Scss it OF this power or authoritatively direct
the manner OF its exercise.
We heartily sympathze with any Jadi-
clous effort to provide against such perils as
grew out of the last Presidential election {;
but we do not think that the bill passed by
the Senate, or any other which Congress has
the power to pass, meets the real difficulties
of the problem to be solved. These
difficulties lie 10 the Constitution itself,
and they must always lie there until it
is so amended as to remove them. Legisla-
ton for their removal is merely make
shift and much i- it to be regretted that
Congress has not ere this given its earnest
attention to the proper remedy, by proposing
to amend the Fundamental law.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03
RESUMPTION WORKS WELL


WASHINGTON, Dec. 3l.-A telegram re
eeiyed BY the commissioner OF Indian affairs
to-day from the agent at Yakima, Washing
ton Territory. says Moses is now at the
agency, together with some OF his people
and nearly all of Smohslla's band. The
agent also reports that no attempt has been
made and none will be made to force the ln-
dams upon the reservation, but efforts will
be continued to induce them to remose ihers
with tho view to remaining. The volunteers
and indian police have all returned without
hrlng a gun,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

GEN. NELSON A. MILES, the famous In
dian fighter, who has earned the right to
speak on at least one subject, says that there
is no use talking Of exterminating the In
dams the only remedy lies in ciyilizing
them. The present policy of keeping large
numbers of them about the agencies he
considers destructive of order. Gen. Miles's
plan is to educate the young Indian so that
he shall not consider himself an exception to
all the rest of the human family by being
treated differently and by being refused
those rights which men coyet and denied the
blessings which coma Of civilization. lie
would break down the barrier which our
laws and constitutions have set up,excluding
the Indian from citizenship-an exclusion
which has practically led him to believe that
he is an outlaw. lie would treat him upon
the assumption that he is like other men;
that, in nature. there is no barrier to keep
him from the pursuits and aspirations Of
other human beings. He would have the
Indian taught ss other races; he would
have him to understand that he is to acquire
property as other men, and that his rights
as man are precisely the same as
those Of other men and. finally,
he would confer upon him that
citizenship which is held to be the birthright
OF all who are born upon our soil. These
views coincide to a considerable extent with
those urged By Rev. Mr.. Huntington, in his
discourse on the Indian question, recently
published in our columns. The clergyman
urges more strongly than the soldier the
necessity Of Outstanding the Indians, as
the best and in fact the only effective means
Of ciyilizing them. but both agree that the
existing policy is failure; that extermina-
ton IL impracticable as well as inhuman
that the Indian must be schooled and civil
lied while young, and that when fitted up
Miles agrees with all the army men in think
ing that the Indians should be turned over
to the War Department, considering that
the frauds practced upon the Indians which
lead to most of the outbreaks would be much
fewer under the close accountability of the
War Department. On this point, Mr. Hunt
ington, Agent Wilbur. and others of the
most successful managers of the Indians do /
not agree with the officers But if all the |
army men shared Gen Miles's sentiments, |
there would be much less objection to allow
ing them m tr- the erneriment
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

What is wanted on this great question is
practical knowledge Of the subject, enlight-
ened experience, sound. nnselfsh common
sense. These qualifications are not possess
si by all. we might almost -ay by most, whp
discuss the sGbjec: We are glad to get hold
OF a man who can take up the subject from
the -tand-pjn Of enlightened personal oh
servatiOn, long acquainttnce with the Indian
character. and deliberate convictions, based
on principl and confirmed by actual ex-
perience In, views % sucr man we give
to our readers to-day, ia the lecture of Rev.
c. A Huntington. Mr. Huntington il a
man ii eiacation-a graduate of our State
University man Of intelligence, Of Christ
ian principle, and Of practical acquaintance
with the subject lie has had some fifteen
years experience in connection with the
management of the Indian tribes in Wash
iugton Territory. has been one of the as
sistsntz in the office Of the Superintendent Of
Indian Affairs in that region, and for several
years Indian agent for one Of the tribes, lis
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

An USrUBLIsnED VERSE; OF GE,Ys ELLnY.
la his reading at boston Tuesday noon,
Mr. James T. Fields spoke OF the lives OF the
poets. Gray and Goldsmith lie SAID that IN
1850 Gray showed his friends. in manuscript.
the "Elcgy Written in Country Church
ward. lie had much shrinking timidity
with regard to Its publication, hut its sudden
popularity when 1t appeared from the press
filled him with delight AS well rs with sur
prise. The poem wns instantly translated
INTO Greek, Latin Italian Portuguese
French, German aud Hebrew 80 that the
whole world read It contemporaueou-ly.
When he first handed about the poem IA
manuscript, 1t contained lovely verse which
he discarded III the printing. 1t seems to
me. snid Mr.. Fields, one OF the most perfect
in the poem. and why he chose Ia omit 1t l.
still II mystery,
There scattered Oft the earliest o. tho year
By hands unseen are showers uf Wallets found.
The redbreast loves to build and bile there.
And little footsteps Lightly print the ground.
VERMONT people understand tho power
OF the press. A wife murderer OF that
State on being asked by the Judge if he had
anythIng to say before sentence of death
was promo unced replied that he would re
duce his remarks to writing and give the
statement to = Boston paper. lie wants
people to know what he has to say.-Loa-
don (Eng.) Echo.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

eleven notes dated in l-7i think were all sigred
y DdLiel and Pelltiah Cove. At this time think
me early part Of my business. there two or
three notes that didn't bear pelatah's signature :;
Whether IN this pacsage or not wouldn't be posi-
i've some OF them bear marks Of Pelatiah this
Dec > note ior 5000 shows the letter p and por
ton OF the letter E. it is payable four months az
Ter date mat was signed by both the GOves and
me letter l.. u on the note. Some Of these were
signed IN blank, won't be positive what ones, can't
90 back as lar as that These notes bearing date In
1875 and all payable at the Brandon bank, were
signed by Daniel and Pelatiah Cove unless there
might have been one or two which wasn't; there
were two or three notes which had discounted at
that bank, which were not signed by Pelatiah Cove
here IS the April 10th note, and the August 18th.
that bears the signatures OF Daniel and Pelatiah
nearly in full it is fer So co., payable two months
alter date. Pelatiah Cove wrote his mime on that
note There Is one note among them dated March
~, mat doesn chow II was discounted the others
all bear the mark.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03
THE YEARS.


SILENT silent like COTS blessing. on sin bew l.
dered earth
Coming. coming, with glory and premise at the 7
birth
Wondrous, wondrous white winged heralGs with a
wordless mystery.
Bearing with them CLEAN and thinner of the far
oil Jasper sea-
Swiftly, swiftly, down our earta-way brin lin. trea-
sure all unknosn;
Reaching out siill hands to touch US with the ra
dillce OF a throne.
S.lent-silcnt soins-going- beyond our nj.
most reach
Bearing with them so much sweetness scarce We
knew they came to teach.
We strug ;ls for little less
more,
Down their tide lear footsteps vanish leaving ours
upon the shore
Calmiy-calnly -whilc cur pulses beat to every
siren tune,
on their waves our sunni ;ht tronbles. an our day
grows dim at noon
onward onward-endins ever at Gods iootstool
All, Will lie
Merge these weary fragn,nt into His serene eter-
nifty.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

TEE acting Attorney General at Wash.
ington, having given an opinion that the
Blaine investigating committee could have
the benefit of the $40. 200 appropriation,
in spite Of the unfortunate verbal blunder
in the act, and the controller of the Treas
ury having announced his willingness to
yield to the construction Of the Attorney
General. the committee will have some
funds to work With after all and the in
vestigstion will proceed. A subcommittee
will probably soon leave for New Orleans,
to take testimony there.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

CANApnS BASK- NOTES. The bills OF notes
of the Canada banks have for some time
(since national bank and United States notes
have become worth as much per dollar us
gold) been freely circulated here. In Utica.
Oswego, and other places this money lis re-
ceived by the banks only at a discount The
banks OF Watertown have entered into AN
agreement under which the banks here, after
the LIST of January next, will receive Canada
bills at only ~ cents on the dollar. The pur-
pose is to exclude the notes OF Canada banks
rom our currency circulation. except Mt II
discount large enough to cover the expense
of sending them to Canada for redemption Ill
gold This Is IL return to the value placed
upon Canada bank notes in this State prior
to 1860 The notes ISSUED by n bank in Can
ada arc secured by the assets of the banks
issuing them, which property Is held III the
hands OF its officers and, in case the bank
fails its notes may be entirely worthless to
the holder IIdterioirp Times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

\ BrattlehorO horse which had Just been
returned to the stable and was alone
waiting for the hostler. turned about and
left the premises. A long search WAS made
and finally the animal. with comparative
ly uniniured sleigh, was iound about
mile below the village cast IN an open rail
road bridge Ii had taken to the track and
Jumped three cattle guards and the early
ireig BIT was detained four hours before tho
horse was e1tricated; comparatively unhurt.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

TuE WRosd APPLE A story is sent to me
about the late Mr.. McNab, Curator of the
Edinburgh botanical Gardens. When Du-
bufes celebrated paintings of Adam and Eve
were on exhibition. Mr.. McNab was taken to
them, aud was asked his opinion. Il think
no great things of the painter. said the
great gardener Why. man. Ewes temptln'
Adam wi pippin of "A variety that WAS ma
known until aboot twinty years ago " As
genuine hit of criticism that OF the far
mer who told George Morland that he had
never seen eight little pigs feeding without
one OF them having his feet in the trough.
Morland altered his picture. London " ord.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03

Now the gray old yelr is dying,
Sadly winter winds arc signing
Round him sad anc low:
Fast his sands OF life are falling.
Voices from the shaoows calling,
"old year thou must 60,
Old Year, there was cause for -ricyin.,
Ia the life which thou art leaving,
Cause for bitter tears
Tears for many proi.isc broken,
Tears for words uukindly spoken
In beloved ears.
friends have .ailed US. hopes have perishoi,
Precious hopes most fondly cherished
AL with thee have gone.
Though the pas; has thus bereft Us.
May the future that is LETT US
For the past atone.
Oh, the years that have been wasted
All earth's pleasures have been tasted
Pleasures that besuile-
But with wild. unspok n longing
For the purer visions thronsiBs
Round US all the While.
Friends, when time hath ceased forever,
Aud from soul the bod, sever,
In that awful day
Can We meet the dead yesrs' faces.
Bearing OF our live the traces
Ne TO pass away
Carved as i; in stone. revealing
Every hidden thou ght. conceIlbg
Nanght of gOot or III
Hear the Old Year gently pleadins.
oh my solemn teaching needing.
Ike is lett yc still!
Fortne gray Old Year is dyin,
Sadly winter winds are signing
Round his sged he ld
Fast the sands Of life are falling.
Voices from the shadows calling.
AMI the Year sdeai
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03
FORTUNATE DARTMOUTH.
FROM WASHINGTON
HURRAH FOR TIE OLD DOMINION

HuhRAH FOR TIE OLD DOMINION.
WASHINGTON. Jan. ? - Representative
Jorgensen, of the Petersburg (Ys) district
says there is marked change Of sentiment
in tho Old Dominion for the better. The
democrats have become dissatisfied at tbs
systematical election fraud, which have
been praotieed there fOr some years, and
now will undertake themselves to prosecute
the ylolators Of the law. lie thinks that a
number Of democratic mspinulstars t-o-n
his district will be sent to the penitentisry.
owing to the revolution in public opinion
in opposition to fraud.
WILL MAKE POOR WITNESS.
Z. q. Memminger writes to the Charles
ton News that Mr. Blaine's confidence must
have been sadly abused. when he put bis
name among the witnessesitO prove frauds
in the late elections He was at his SKINNER
residence in the mountains whe1 the else
ton took place, and knows no more Of the
election than Mr.. Blaine does.
RESUMPTION WORKS WELL.
Secretary Sherman is very much elsted
this morning at the result of the operations
OF resumption. At the sub-treasury in this
city where Usually large redemptons are
made, there is not this morning single
person demanding gold few clerks are
there obtaining their monthly pay and call
ing for greenbscks. The few persons who
have presented called bonds for redemption
Of evea interest coupons have insisted upon
payment in legal tenders. Dispatches from
the New York sub-tressury show that there is
no demand for gold there. Extra tellers
were ordered there in anticipation OF tenn
pOrary rush. but there is no use for them
his morning. Secretary Sherman says that
he will force gold upon no one. but he
Will always give the creditor the choice as
! double standard can be maintained in no
,ther wav
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03
PR ESS. FRID A Y
OLD AND NEW 8


THE wATCH-woRD OF THE NEW YEAR.
LOOK NOT NOIRNFULLY INTO THE PAST IT COMES
NOT BACK AGAIN. WISELY IMPROVE TIE PRESENT;
1T IS THINE. Go FORTH MEET THE SHADOW ~
TuRE, WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH MANLY HEART
I1nnf. LLnL-,s HuusrLnL-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03
RIyo our TIE OLD. RIse IN I'M YEa

ENG our THE OLD, RING IN THt sEs'
Ring, bells, ring with Jour mellow din,
Ring the old year out and the new year IT
Like the voices Of birds from the old gray spfe'
Let your slvery music rise higher and higher
Floating abroad DER the hillside hare
In hillows of sound on the tremulous air,
Let it rise and fall with the titiul gale
Tell over city and wool the tlie;
Say tnat TO night the old year DIES
Bid the watchers look 10 the eastern skies.
For the beautiful halo that tolls aiar
OF the welcome rise OF the New Years star
TIIE FAREWELL OF THE OLD YEAR.
When the moments o! friendship are numbered,
How oft II appears
That tho love which in laughter has slumbered
Awakens now in tears
We are friends that nave lOurneyed together
Long time, you and ],
Through sunshine and storm est weather.
but the Old Year NUT die.
And awhile in your hearts will awaken
bitter regret,
And the paths that your feet have fjrsaken
You cannot forget.
Yet pray You to m5urn not my Goin-
Though We have been friends
What sm but one billow whose flowing
Has touched shore, and ends
And the tale Of my ,,y and my sorrow
Lives but as the taco
OF the waves. that tue tide Of the morrow
In turn shall efiace
Yet leave you, rs waves leave their treasures
OF coral and she'll,
\ gilt, passing sOrr)ws and plea iuTes,
Our friendship TO tell.
leave you the friendships. whose growing
Has been from my birth
There is naught that the tide brings in flowing
Can equal their worth.
For as shells from the m1rinurs OF Ocssn
Steal echoes that last.
So in friendship is stored the emotion
O. years that are past.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-01-03
MORNING JANUARY 1879


Ion. JOHN PIERP0INr, Chief Justice.
ios /, T. C cn MlFlIhss A.,nt JJs.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, fI.yt.
N. 4. nUSsHEE, Shuig.
GEO. W. 6EASDSY, Count .fnd,far.
JoHs u WELLINGTON, treasure.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-23
How a Man Feels with his Head off.

1t is considered on all sides that the
body does not feel one instant after de-
capitation-for the brain being the seat
of sensation to the whole frame through
the medium of the spinal marrow, every
part of the body beneath the point at
which the latter may be divided must
be deprived of feeling. But it by no
means follows that the head is deprived
of sensation Immediately after decapita-
ton, nor that it may not retain its con-
sciousness, and, like the head of the
Irish knight who was killed by Saladin
in the Holy War, get up and declare
that it was never cut off by so sharp a
cimeter before--nor, like that of the as
sassin Legare, swear roundly at the
executioner for not keeping keener
ak; but it is quite impossible that it may
be troubled with very serious reflection
upon the irrevocability of its fate, and
the awfulness of its deprivation. In
support of this unpleasant theory many
facts are adduced, with grave vouchers
for their authenticity. Among others
is the unfortunate Queen of Scots,
whose lips continued to move in prayer
for at least quarter of an hour after
the executioner had performed his du-
ties. Wilt states that having put his
mouth to the ear of decapitated crimi-
NAILS head and called him by name, the
eyes turned to the side from whence the
voice came; and the fact is attested by
Fontanelle, Mogore, Guillotine, Nauche
and Aldint. On the word murder Z"
being called in the case of criminal
executed for that crime at Coblentz,
the half-closed eyes opened wide with
an expression of reproach on those who
TODD around.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-01-23
Bric.a-Brac.

Cushing was man of strong pas
sions, animal and Intellectual; there
was probably not a moment in his
whole waking life when he was not
thinking profoundly. He smoked like
steam. engine, and as though there
were utility in tobacco He used pro-
family to impart intense emphasis to
some angry expressions, but never idly
or meaninglessly. He drank socially,
but made the occasion invariably bear
fruit by starting an argumentor making
a business friend.-Boston Herald.
Col. Ruth Goshen, the giant of the
Liliputian troupe, has begun suit for
divorce from his wife, to whom he was
married in 1862, she then being widow
and boarding-house keeper in New
York. She travelled with him in this
country and abroad, penetrating, to Je-
rusalem. Last year she refused to &C
company him on Western professional
trip, and he left her at his farm at
Clyde, N. J. When he returned he
found that she had eloped with the di-
vorced husband of a circus rider, taking
with her $4,000 in money and bonds,
and an educated goat that can read and
write, and was worth $4,000.
1t is not by books alone nor by books
chiefly that man becomes in all parts
man. Study to do faithfully whatso-
ever thing in your actual situation,
there and now, you find either expressly
or 6acitly laid to your charge: That is
your post. Stand to it like true
soldier. A man perfects himself by
work much more than by reading. They
are a growing kind of men that can
combine the two things-wisely, val
iantly can do what is laid to their hand
in their present sphere, and prepare
themselves withal for doing wider
things. if such lie before them.
The adoption of the "tonsorial art"
by women has its precedence in Japan,
where the best japanese BARRIERS are
women. As in a japanese family the
shaving of the children's heads is reg
ular duty as imperatively customary as
the Saturday nights general ablutions
are among families where Sabbath and
Sunday schools are old institutions, SO
nearly all Japanese women acquire
Oe1Cn6SS anu ucllCdCy VI eaSp "Asn 49,
razor that rival professional touch
and skill. The girls and boys are not
considered dressed or perfectly clean
until their scalps in the chosen por-
tions are perfectly polished. The male
BARRIERS Of the period are stout conserva-
tives resisting worldly the foreign Gus
tom of the hairy foreigners who wear
boards, mustaches, and full heads of
hair.
Fortune telling is carried on to an ex-
tent in San Francisco unknown to East
ern cities. Some of the women engaged
in the business charge from 81 to $40
for an interview, and are visited by
credulous stock spectators who seek TO
obtain supernatural "points" as to the
market. One spiritualistic medium has
a reputation for foretelling the discovery
of valuable ore beds; another devotes
herself to love affairs exclusively; an
other predicts the durability of any
persons life. Several are notoriously
given to blackmailing, to accomplish
which they use information shrewdly
gained from dupes.