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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

A special to the Denver Tribune from
Santa Fe, N. NJ, on the 23d, stated that the
Indians attacked party of six men near Santa
Barbara, killing all. The Indians also attacked
the village of San Jose, but we're driven off
and no depredatlons committed Of any conse-
quence.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

The Citizens Protective Union of San
Francisco, published a card on the 96th stating
that no negotiations were being had between
their Executive Committee and the representa-
tives of the Sand Lot, all rumors and state
ments to the contrary notwithstanding.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01
VARIETIEs.

-Georgians are planting corn.
Spring bonnets are in bloom.
"A hard road to hoe-A turnpike.
TO solve the puzzle, find the square
route.
The incest parlor cara sofa that
just holds two.
Acorn on the tree is worth two on
the toe.
The spring whitewashing business is
brushing up little.
The number Of families living in New
York City is 218,467.
"A little learning is dangerous
thing This applies to violin playing.
An eleven-year-old highwayman was
arrested in New York the other day.
The possession of money, like medi-
cine, eases payin' .-Ste@be@UiHe (O.)
Herald.
No wonder the March hair is mad
it gets blown about so,- Cincinnati Com
nlerciaJ.
The apple tree is very tenacious of
AAAOi AiollJ o4C hAOWl W DGdI lIulU db Ull6
age OF two hundred years.
"A ladies leap year club has resolved
that "breeches of promise are cut by
us. "-N017TSto1OB Herald.
The Boston Gazette recommends a
canary hung in the bedroom window
as an excellent eye-opener in the morn
ing.
"A negro, after gazing at some Chi
nese, shook his head and solemnly said:
" If de white folks be so dark as dat out
dar / wonder what's de color Of de black
folksP'
The young man who wants to get
up with the sun must not sit up too late
with the daughter. lliddletolOw Tran
script.
Brigham Young's widow is gradual
ly forgetting the old man. -Four of them
have remarked since he died. Free
Press.
The man with a shabby overcoat is
the first to complain of the heat of the
Notwithstanding sun.-BOSton Irao-
script.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

The State Convention Of the National
Greenbaek party of Tennessee has been called
10 meet in Nashville May ED to appoint dele
gates TO the National Convention at Chicago
June 9th.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

A Bombay dispatch, on the 26th, stated
that proclamation had been issued declaring
that the British had assumed the whole poHtl-
cal administration Of North and East Afghan
istan
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

The Pennsylvania Board Of Pardons
have refused to grant pardons to Kemble and
Petroh, recently convicted Of brblng legisla-
tors and sentenced to the penitentiary.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

A Montreal dispatch on the 25th,
stated that French Canadians were leaving
that city at the rate Of sixty or seventy day,
their destination being Michigan or Colorado.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1880-04-01

The business portion of SANTANA, Santo
Domingo, was burned on the 9th, Nearly all
the merchants are ruined, as there was no I'M
surance' The most disgraceful scenes Of
pillage followed the fire. The pillagers quar-
relied over the distribution of the booty, and
several of them were killed in a fight that fol-
lowed.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
The Rebel Spirit Unquenched.

Although on their good behavior, through
fear of injuring the Democratic party at the
north, the old rebels cannot entirely smother
their real sentiments when they get to talking
about old times and the " lost cause" We
have seen this very often Of late--notably
when Wade Hampton "spoke his piece "
at Staunton, Virginia. General Bradley
johnson was also more frank than prudent
at a public meeting in Baltimore on the
9th of June, held to raise money to build a
monument to the confederate dead. The
general was scarcely less prominent during
the war than Wade Hampton, aud quite as
much Of representative southron. Here is
an extract or two from his speech: "Tem-
porary expediency may tie the hands of
men, and may not dlscdys be safest 10 say all
things al all times, but have never seen the
time when it was not expedient to speak the
truth of the men who fought for the stars
and hars. and the time will mover vune
when shall be unwilling TO do my duty to
the cause you have assembled to sympathize
WIN to-uay. WhW DdS rue IN 1871
is as true to-ddy as them and the cause these
men served is to-day as just honest and holy
cause as it was when they laid down their
lives for it on the soil of Virginia. Times
change and some men change with them,
but true men do not change nth time, .
and these men are more worthy your aifec
ton as time passes"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
Mr.. Phelps Speech in 1864.

The remarkable speech by Hon. f. j.
Phelps, exhibiting in undisguised language
the political animus Of that gentleman du-
ring the dark days of the war, is published
in our supplement Its damaging character
has led to denial of its authenti city, Just
as Wade Hamptons Virginia speech was
discredited when its mischievous effect in
the north was discovered. Concerning the
authenticity of Mr.. Phelps speech, the Rut-
land Herald, which first published it, says :
GAS for the authenticity of the speech,
there need be no doubt on that point. 1t
was delivered at one of the regular meet
lngs-neld weekly or perhaps oftener-ot
the Democratic Association of Burlington,
at their rooms in Payn's block. As it was
not public meeting, strictly speaking, held
in the city hall, but Democratic club meet
ing held at their rooms, it is not remarkable
that the papers did not take more than
passing notice of it. The full report of
this speech was made at the instance of
citizen of high character and standing in
Burlington, who employed Mr.. John II.
Converse to make it. Mr. Converse is now
one of the junior partners of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, gen.
tleman of the highest character for integ-
rity and sobriety. His report undoubtedly
contains some triaing verbal or grammatical
errors, but it is impossible that he should
have perverted or unsupported Mr.. Phelps
thought or expression, and in selecting our
excerpts we have done him no injustice, but
have included the only passage that at all
breaks the awful copperhead bitterness of
this harangue."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
National Gathering Of Republican Clubs.

There is to be a convention of delegates
from the Republican clubs of the several
states at Indianapolis, Indiana, on the 10th
of September. Each club in the Union is
requested to send one delegate. 1t will
probably be the most thoroughly represent
alive convention of Republican workers
ever brought together in the country. If
one-half the clubs are represented, the del
egates will number many thousands for at
no time in the history of the party have
there been 80 many separate organizations,
all working for the same patriotic end, as
there is to-day. While distant clubs cannot
be expected to do much more than respond
by the single representative called for, the
local clubs will probably not be satisfied
with single delegate except to act for the
body during the business session of the con-
vention. Thousands and tens of thousands
will be present to supplement the delegated
body by a grand mass assembly such as
only the west can get up when great issues
are at stake, and when the political cauldron
is boiling as it is at present in Indiana. 1t
will be worth while for those who have
never seen the Republicans of the west
fully aroused to be present at this gather
ing. The tread of the great host will shake
the prairies, and cause a fearful quaking
among the dry bones of apprehension in
what is now recognized as the pivotal state
of the presidential contest
We trust good proportion of the clubs
in Vermont may be represented, and that
the message which they bear from our Sep
TENDER election may inspire our brethren in
Indiana with inviucible courage as they
charge upon the common enemy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
State Expenses Again.

The last attempt to cast reproach on our
state financial management Is comparison
of the state expenses of Vermont with
those of New Hampshire TO the disadvan.
tage Of the former The last Argus repro
duces an article from its issue of December
%, 1873, tending to show that the expenses
in that state are less than in Vermont. The
methods of conducting state governments
vary so widely that it is difficult to make
direct and formal comparison between any
two states. In New Hampshire all the
court expenses, excepting the salaries of
the supreme court judges and the registers
of probate are borne by the counties. In
Vermont all these expenses are borne by
the state, and when this allowance is made
the result will be found as it should be- in ia
vor of Vermont. BY the official report of
the treasurer of New Hampshire for the
year ending May 81, 1880, IL appears that
the state debt is over 80 100000, and that
the total expenses of the state for the year
were $iS6000 This sum is exclusive of all
court expenses excepting the salaries of the
supreme court judges and the registers of
probate Vermont, as appears by our state
treasurer's report for the year ending July
81, 1880, is practically out of debt. The
state auditors reports covering the last bien-
NAL term show that the average annual ex-
pense for the last two years was 1924, 900.
The total state expenses for New IIamp.
shire in 1879 are put down at $685., 900, maxi
ing an average annual expense for the last two
years of 1927 800. Our readers can make
their own comparisons. By suppressing
part of the state expenses of our sister
state and leaving out of the calculation the
different methods of paying court expenses,
it is easy, if not honest, to make a COMPARE
son unfavorable to Vermont. In New
Hampshire the expenses of the executive
department for the last fiscal year were
S3,9S5.3l; for secretary's department, si,-
455 O3 for treasury's department, 81 ,4Ss 05.
The expense Of the same departments
in Vermont were, executive, $l,209.0S ;
secretary of state, Sl,85i45 treasurer, 3 :
9l5.67. We have no doubt the state gov
eminent is as skillfully and as economically
managed as is that of Vermont. Each sys.
tenn of state management has its advau'
tages and disadvantages, and doubtless each
is, on the whole, best adapted to the wants
and requirements of the community fol
which it is framed. New Hampshire j:
chiefly manufacturing state; Vermont is
more an agricultural state. Different mate
rial interests, different systems of state man
agement, prevail. The people of each see m
to be SO well satisfied with the existing state
of things that they have no disposition to
heed the siren song of the Blurbons to in
augurate change for the sake of change"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
The Skies Bright.

Every intelligent observer not only sees,
but feels, that Republican prospects improve
steadily with the progress of the campaign,
while the Hancock boom is immeasurably
weaker than it was Immediately after the
Cincinnati convention. The more the his
tories and tendencies of the two parties are
studied, the better it is for Garfield and the
worse for Hancock. The people realize that
Republican success means the continuation
of the policy which has so largely produced
the prosperity which the country is now en-
joying. They realize that to place the reins
of government in the hands of the party
which but recently tried to wreck the Union
is to greatly endanger this prosperity.
Therefore, following the dictates of common
prudence and discretion, they have made up
their minds against a change. The argu.
ment is with the Republicans-the logic of
events is with them-the sober, second
thought is with them, and they are bound
TO win.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
A Judicial Utterance.

The Rutland Herald, abiding to Mr..
Phelps disloyal speech of 1864, contained
in our supplement of this week, well says
that there is nothing in that speech which
his professional and other associates in Yer
mont did not often, much to their annoy.
ance, hear from his lips. The Herald con-
tinues "On some occasions he became
intolerable, as once in the presence of Chief
Justice Pierpoint, his kinsman, and Hon.
+. f. Woodbridge, when, after having
rasped the gentle and kindly, but intensely
loyal, spirit of the good chief justice by his
accustomed sneers, he sighed out when will
this cruel war be ended p The chief JUS
tice stopped in his meditative walk across
the floor, and, confronting Phelps, answered
with gesture as emphatic as his words :
When every such id Copperhead and
traitor as you is hung, as you ought 10 be-
Judge Pierpoint is not wont to be profane,
and, the circumstances considered, the
strictest of good people will be apt to regard
this strong expression much as Tristram
Shandy regarded the outburst of his gentle
Uncle Toby when he swore with a mighty
oath that his friend thus nigh unto death
should not die. The accusing spirit which
flew up to heavens chancery with the oath
blushed as he gave it in, and the recording
angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear
on the word and blotted it out forever
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

malignant passions, reckless Of all ends u IL but
sibuert The existing government and immediate
American citizens
It has struck down tho freedom Of speech and
OF the press
1t has stripped from the American citizen his
panoply, and consigned him to the Bastile with
out process, without charge and without opportu-
nifty OF trial.
It has by military violence suppressed the bal
lot and dictated elections at the point Of the bay
onet.
II has annulled every constitutional guaranty
for the protection Of the citizen, and subjected
him to the irresponsible tyranny Of military uio-
lence
The men who gave utterance to and sup
ported these sentiments were then, and are
still, the leaders in the Democratic party
in this state one of them is their candidate
for governor.
Soldiers Of Vermont, Democratic or
Republican, where were you when these
men were passing resolutions in 1864.
Were you fighting Hood in Tennessee,
or with Banks up the Red river, or march
ing 10 the sea with Sherman? Were you
driving Early back from Washington, or
were you in front of Petersburg, or at Wei
don railroad2 Perhaps Spottsylvania or
Cold Harbor had sent you to the hospital
manned for life
Wherever you were, or whatever you
were doing, these men who to-day claim
that they were "loyal;' that they were
Unionists;" that they saved the nation
declared in their convention in Vermont
that you were helping to "trample down
the organic law of the nation !" that you
were "waging bloody war for the avowed
purpose of blotting out one-half the states Of
the union;" that you "were suppressing the
ballot" and "were annulling every constitu.
tional guaranty for the protection of the
citizenr
Are these the men to claim the leader.
ship of northerners and unionists ? The Of.
rontery of the claim would be ludicrous, were
not its consequences dangerous. Will you
not vote as you fought-for principles, not
men; for Union, not secession; for the
north, and against solid south
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01
On the Eve OF Battle.

In this last issue Of our paper before the
close of the stirring campaign in this state,
we feel that no words of exhortation that
we could frame would carry with them half
the weight of the impassioned appeal to the
citizens of Chicago made by Senator Zach.
Chandler in his last aud greatest speech in
that city on the night before his sudden
death. The circumstances under which the
speech was delivered were similar to those
which now exist in this state. In the ensu-
ing election Cook county changed its vote
from five thousand Democratic to ten thou
sand Republican majority, and the magical
result thrilled the country with the presage
of victory in the coming national contest.
A similar stake hangs on the result of the
election in Vermont. The bluff old sena-
tors closing sentences seem to be prophet
ically addressed to us as well as TO the peo-
pie of Chicago, and we reproduce them be-
low; "You are going to hold an election
next Tuesday, the influence of which will
reach far beyond the borders of Chicago.
The eyes of the whole nation are upon you.
BY your verdict of next Tuesday, you are
to send forth greeting to the people of the
United States, saying, either, that you are
in favor of honest men, honest money, pat
riotism, and national government, or that
you are in favor of soft money, reputation
and rebel rule. And now / want every
single man in this vast audience to consider
himself committee of one, to work from
now until the polls close on Tuesday next.
Go to the polls early, and stay late; and let
every mothers son Of you decide that you
will take one man besides yourself to the
polls who would not otherwise go. Find a
man who might stay away, and see to it
that he and yourself vote the Republican
ticket; and, if you cannot find just such a
man, try to convert some sinner from the
error of his way. You have got too much
at stake to risk it at this election. The
times are too good; iron brings too much =;
lumber is too high; your business in every
branch is too prosperous; your manufacto-
ries are making too much money for you to
afford to turn this great government over to
the hands of repudiating rebels-you cannot
do it. Shut up your stores shut up your
manufactures, and 60 to work for your
country; and spend two days; and then on
the night of the night of the election, Mr..
Chairman, send me dispatch, if you
please, that Chicago has gone overwhelm-
ingly Republican" And we might say to
the farmers of Vermont, leave your farms to
the charge of your wives and children on
election day and devote yourselves to the
service of your state and your country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

IMPORTANT ACCEssIoN.--General Bates
of Illinois, the leader of the Greenback party
in that state, has read the extraordinary pro-
nunciamento Of Wade Hampton, and takes
warning therefrom. The Chicago papers
print letter from him announcing his in.
tention to support Garfield. In referring to
the Republican candidate General Bates
says He is to the people of the country in
1880, what Abraham Lincoln was in 1860,
an example of the nation. Springing from
poverty and obscurity by his own labor, dill.
igence, integrity and ability, he has raised
himself to his own present high position,
and has demonstrated his fitness for the still
higher trust Of the Office of chief magistrate
to which he has been nominated. believe
a continuation of the present unparalleled
business prosperity of the country, protec.
ton of the rights of all people, and stability
of the national Union, can only be secured
by the success of the Republican party in
this campaign. therefore tender TO that
party, through you, whatever service, by
pen, or voice, or vote, may be able to rem
der, from this hour to the close of the pres
idential campaign"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

DEsPoSDENT.-The New York Herald,
which has developed decided Hancock lean
ings in this campaign, grows yet more
sharply critical Of Democratic management
of the canvass. The tardy yielding of the
Tilden faction to Tammany was not easily
effected in the state committee, and the
Herald concludes that sunless favorable
change comes over the face OF the Hancock
canvass, the transfer of this quarrel to a
state convention will utterly disrupt the
party and give the electoral votes of New
York TO the Republicans" 1t also sees
"but slender prospect that the rich men
of the Tilden faction will contribute to the
election funds of the party"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-01

The SOUTHERN CENSUS FRAuD.-The
disproportionate gains reported by the cen.
sus enumerators in South Carolina have at
last excited the suspicion of General Walk
er. 1t is said that he will put the matter
to the test by ordering new count in those
counties where the increase seems most re-
markable. The latest reports from the state
make the gain in population forty-three per
cent This is not cause for suspicion, but
proof of fraud. 1t is absolutely incredible
that the population should have increased
in any such ratio without attracting public
attention, and giving other evidence of
growth than the census figures. A prom
inent South Carolina clergyman writes the
department at Washington as follows ~
hope something will be done to correct the
travelling in this state for the past fifteen
years. More people are moving out of our
state than in. All the increase must be
from natural causes within ourselves. There
is not the least doubt about this stufiing. |
hope II may by some means be tested. II
was mistake that the Democrats were al
lowed to do the work here. They cannot
be trusted where their own political inter
ests are concerned. Their work in this sec
ton for the last twenty years testify of
them"