Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-08-04
Notes and Notions.

The hungry Democracy shouts: "Givt
us changed" And a prosperous country
responds "Oh, give us rest ~
The indianapolis Journal says that the
Democracy of that state never before had
such load TO carry as they will find English
to be.
ALBANY Journal; "General Hancock has
the support of the solid south, but General
Garfield is backed by general prosperity
This is backing which business men ap.
preciate.'
PHILADELPHIA Ledger: aft Secretary
Schurz's address TO the people of Indianap-
oils should be taken as the keynote of the
political debates this year we will have a
canvass worth reporting"
New York Tribune. "The Democrats
seem to be for soft money in Maine and In
diana, for hard money in New York, and
for all the money there is in the treasury
in the south. 'Oh, give us a changer"
ALBANY Journal: Hancock hasn't any
civil record. English has considerable of a
civil record, but it's very bad one. We
leave it to the debating societies to decide
which Of the Democratic candidates is the
worse off in this particular"
at is worthy of note,' says the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, THAT no attack has yet
been made upon the personal character Of
General Garfield by any man who served
with him in congress and had an opportunity
to know him in daily intercourse"
A NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. individual has
sent an unsigned letter to the president, en-.
closing $35. which he stated rightfully be-
longed to the government on account of in.
come rax. S. j. Tilden is not suspected Of
being the writer of the letter.
GENERAL GRANT has accepted an invita-.
ton and is going to Boston the last of Sep.
TENDER guest of the Middesex club. A
banquet and reception will be given in his
honor, at which all the New England gov.
errors and many distinguished men will be
present.
DETROIT Post: general Hancock has
himself never been laboring man, so as To
be practically identified with their interests
aud feelings, and desires. General Garfield
began his life as laboring man who worked
for wages, and he has all his life ben in
close sympathy with the working classes"
Two young men in New Haven, Connect
lieut., have made silly wager on the presi
dental election. The loser is to stay for
two hours at one of the street corners of the
city, black the boots of all the passers.by
who wants the job done, and the proceed.
are to go to the New Haven orphan asylum
THE south has one hundred and thirty.
eight electoral votes. To elect Hancock he
must have forty-seven in addition to this
one hundred and thirty.eight. If these
shall be secured (and no more) would not
the solid south have right to dictate the
policy of the administration This is what
it proposes to do.
Mrs. GARFIELD is reported to have had
the peasantest sort of compliment paid to
her by her husband he is quoted as saying
that in all the ups and downs of a kaleido-
scopic political life she has never once dropped
careless word which could be in any way
used to his disadvantage. He takes her
judgment upon many things.
The New York Economist says that at no
period of the history of the nation has there
been a greater demand for labor than at
present. In every department of industry
there is demand for labor because all are
in active operation. In some instances
wages are not high, but there is no doubt
that the day wages will buy as much of the
necessaries of life as it would at any time in
the history of the country.
Mr.. THORPE, prominent Northern Ohio
Republican, aud who represents General
Garfield's county in the Ohio legislature,
says that Ohio will give not less than 10000
Republican majority in October. There
are from 10000 to $4,000 Democrats in
Northern Ohio who will vote for General
Garfield in November in preference to Gen
eral Hancock, aud the Democrats at large,
Mr.. Thorpe says, will be astonished at Gen
eral Garfelds majority in Ohio.
New YORK Graphic: go Hancock and
English evidently do not awaken that
whirl of feeling in promiscuous crowd that
they did among the delegates to Cincinnati.
Samuel j. Tilden, poor, broken-down man
that he is, fires the Democratic heart i'm
measurably more, as last nights experience
conclusively shows. Evidently Hancock and
English are not going to be carried into
Washington on the crest of the cheers of
the faithful. They will need hard work."
THERE is serious perplexity at the treas
ury department in regard to the glut of sill
yer dollars, which return in the shape of du-
ties or for exchange for certificates as rap
idly as they are paid out. Only $4,000, 900
of the 1858 900 900 coined are in circulation,
and the mints, pursuant to law, are turning
out about g., 800, 900 monthly. 1t is prob
lem how storage capacity can be provided
for the ten to twelve millions of standard
dollars that will be coined before congress
again convenes.
GEORGE s. boutwell,: President Lin
coin excelled all his contemporaries, as he
also excelled most of the eminent rulers OF
every time, in the humanity of his nature,
in the constant assertion of reason over pas
sion and feeling, in the art of dealing with
men, IN fortitude, never disturbed by ad-
versity, in capacity for delay when action
was fraught with peril, in the power OF i'm
mediate and resolute decision when delays
were dangerous, in comprehensive judgment
which forecasts the final and best opinion of
nations and of posterity, and in the union
of enlarged patriotism, wise philanthropy
and the highest political justice, by which
he was enabled to save nation and to
emancipate race"
THOSE LETTERs.-In referring 10 the let
ters OF acceptance of Hancock and English,
the Springfield Republican says What is
there in this letter to prove General Han
cocks comprehension of the pressing polit-