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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

The question of the guilt or innocence of
Gen. Fitz John Porter will never he decided
any more than the Beecher question. As
long US Porter is remembered at ALL there
will be people who believe. with Logan and
the great mass of the Union soldiers, that
Porter deliberately disobeyed orders. because
he did not intend TO help Gen. Pope win any
victories while others will concur with
Senator Bayard in his declared opinion that
General Porter was the blameless flower of
all loyalty, bravery, military genius. and SOL
dierly virtues-though perhaps not many
will agree with Mr. Bayard that all the treas
ure in the United States Treasury would not
compensate him for nls prosecutions by
of the Boston Trareller says:
Your correspondent was here at the time
of General Porters trial, and had two con-
versations with President Lincoln upon the
subject, and remembers well how consider
ate and careful he was in rejecting upon and
investigating the case before approving the
sentence of the court-martial Mr.. Lincoln
told the writer that he did not think General
Porter meant TO be a traitor, or that he had
any sympathy with the rebels, but he be
lieved his feeling of disappointment and dis
gust at the removal of Mcclellan, and his
bitter personal enmity towards General
Pope caused him to sacrifice the Union
cause, so far rs his action was con-
cerned, to gratify bitter feeling and
personal malignity, and the practical
effect Of such indulgence of his feelings
was Just as disastrous 10 the Union arms as
intentional treason would have been, anu
hardly less deserving Of severe punishment
He was determined that Pope should gain no
laurels by his aid such were the views OF
Abraham Lincoln, who had all the facts and
testimony then before him. which he care
fully investigated Having come to the above
conclusions, he approved the sentence: 1t Is
hard for those who knew Mr.. Lincoln per
sonally. his extreme caretulness in the eA-
animation of testimony where personal Char
acter and personal rights especially, were
involved. To believe that he would consent to
the intlicrion of such severe penalties except
Tor the most clearly proved crime.
Mr.. Lincolns view of the case, We have no
doubt. was the Correc, one. But the Demo
cratic party does not choose TO believe, land
never will believe, that Porter was not un
Justly condemned Whether, however,
worthwhile to make Congress a court OF ap
peals from military tribunals, is question
which we should suppose the strongest parti-
san would hesitate 10 answer in the aiiirma-
tive. As has been well said Let it be un-
derstood that Congress has the right OF re-
view in court martial cases and the end Of
military discipline has come. But in time OF
war there will be no more Porters permitted
to survive court martial to appeal to Con-
gresS
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26
nearly all the cases of drunkenness for a

populous county.
I. The charge is frequently made that,
80 far rs the cities are concerned, the
traffic has been simply driven out of
sight. Even if nothing more had been
gained. it is something to Danish the
temptations of the dram-shop where only
those seeking them will find them. 1t is
also occasionally alleged that club-rooms,
more dangerous than dram shops, have
taken the place of the latter. After care
full inquiry, l cannot learn that club
rooms exist outside of two cities in Maine,
and even there not SO extensively as III
many cities of similar size in license
States. Setting aside the large foreign
population in our cities, l am satisfied
that the improvement i'll the drinking
habits of the remainder is marked. This
is especially so with the bone and muscle
of the native population.
s. 1t is difficult to obtain reliable sta
tistics of the extent to which the surrep-
titious sale of liquors is still carried on in
Maine. Some of the enemies Of prohibi-
ton claim that million and quarter
dollars worth of liquors are sold here an
nually. But allowing even this, and We
have 80 per inhabitant now, against S25
per lllliuDithul AoAey yS d. NAAU VIZ
per inhabitant as the average for the
Union to-day. This shows that not more
than one-tenth as much iqaor, proper
tionally, is consumed in Mime as there
was forty years ago, and not more than
one-eighth as much as in tie country at
large to-day.
On this point the revenue collected by
the United States from the manufacture
and sale of Intoxicating liquors in Maine,
in comparison with that collected in Ii
cense States, sheds some light. Prohibi-
tory Maine has about the same pOpula-
ton as license New Jersey. yet the liquor
tax in the former state is only cents per
inhabitant, while in the latter State it is
81 40, and in the country at large 81. 80.
In reply to the assertion that tobacco and
opium eating are taking the place of Ii
quor-drinking in Maine, may mention
that the tobacco tax paid by Maine is
only II cents per inhabitant, while the
average for the country is 81 per inhabis:
tant and that opium eating is far less
prevalent here than in other Eastern
States
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26
u Hancock Is Nominated,

The Republican party will find fight on its
hands that it never knew before; it will find
the spiritual forces Of sentiment and patriotic
memories not all on one side as hitherto,
when some rehabilitated copperhead has
been the candidate. Let no one laugh at
Gen. Hancock as candidate; lie is not
type Of keen, cold and selfish intellectually
like 1ilden he is altogether more power
ful figure in this. that he would stand with
thousands of men for the sentiment and sacri-
fees of the war his gallantry, his faithful
service, his wounds, would speak for him
with many men who would spit in fury and
contempt at Tilden, or Thurman, or Hen
bricks, or Pendleton, or Bayard, or even
Seymour. As against civilian, thous-
ands of soldiers would vote for him,
who otherwise would vote the Re-
publican ticket. Hancock is not An
drew jackson, but he is quite as poten-
tial in mind. and far more imposing in ply
sque. than Harrison or Taylor. If he was
nominated by the Democracy the old line
fire and drum of the Union army would be
heard in the Democratic lines for the first
time, and the old Union guns and drums and
flags of the Republican camp would be eff
fectually nullified, with all these emotional
strongly all this sort of picturesque appeal
With Hancock candidate, the South could
speciously say that ''the blue and the gray
talk was no longer gush; it had passed out
of poetry into sincere performance the deep,
patriotic memories of the war would be
equally invoked by the Democracy; the
loyal soldiership of Hancock would be suf1-
cient for that vast mass of voters who have q
deal of surface sentiment and but little logic,
and against Hancock, surrounded by Union
flags and guns, we should find our best bat
terry etfectually spiked with a vast mass of
voters that ordinarily seek our camps.-Rut-
land Herald
There is force and truth in these sugges-
tions. Gen. Hancock's blood, split by 3
rebel bullet once stained our fingers; but it
is the only way in which we should wish to
have his blood on our hands. We should
hate tremendously TO vote or fight against
him. His loyalty, gallantry and honesty
were never questioned and candidate
more dangerous to Republican success could
moi be set I'D by the Democrats
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26
National Monuments.

MIR. JAMES JACKSON JARyEs on THE SUBJECT
HE CoMMENDs MI. Z. }. PIELPs's IDEAS.
Correspondence New York Tmesl
FIoRrNoE, Feb. %
In recent letter spoke fayorably OF the
Plymouth monument rs particularly Nation
al in the idea, well composed, and impress
sive. but added IA saving clause as 10 its exc
cution, my Judgment being based on the
original design by the late llammatt Billings,
and a small photograph of its present ap-
pearancc. A much esteemed correspondent,
who is laborng intelligeutly and effectively
in the endeavor to save the country from the
erection of any more crude National monu-
ments, writes me in regard to the one TO the
Forcfathcrs at Plymouth IL have observed
some favorng comments OF yours. ION
cannot have seen it. 1t is hldeous; that Is
the word precisely. a 40-toot woman laid
up in pieces could be nothing else" pre-
sumo my correspondent is perfectly right III
his Judgment Of the execution OF BillInGs's
harmonious, allcgorical composition. The
design is appropriate, simple, vet grand; full
of meaning of its special purpose, indicative
Of the great ethical principles and civil poll
ty which underlc New England character IN
lis best aspect But the execution IS made
pnrtlcularly National in the mole oi carry
ing il out Before me lies II photograph oi
Faith" 'j6-f foot" woman, as 1t was be
iny cut in cheese like sections in the yards
of the lIullowcll Granite Company, from
white granite bv a common stone-cuttcr,
who had taken il ON contract, most probably
because his was the cheapest hid. design
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26
Temperance Selections.

As result Of the Chicago Citizens
League for enforcement of the law for
bidding the sale Of liquors to minors,
the number sent to the jail is reduced by
six hundred, instead of increasing at the
rate Of two hundred year, as arrests of
minors had done before this work began.
The decrease III arrests of minors is three
hundred year during the two years Of
the Leagues work.
Another gain has been the enforcement
of the law forbidding saloons to be open
after midnight The two-fold purpose
upon the lever Of such laws as we have,
inadequate though they are, has reduced
the commitments to jail one-haLt
Such facts as these, reported by the
officers of prisons in the wickedest city
on earth ought to make Christian men
who are indifferent to the securing and
enforcement Of laws against the liquor
traffic, doubt their discipleship of Him
Who went about doing good
BRAIN WORK, ALCOHOL AND TOBACCO.
James Parton concludes recent very
suggestive article upon the habits and
death of Bayard Taylor whom he had, ms
danger of wine and beer, drinking and
smoking, as follows Mental labor is
not hostile to health and life but / am
more than ever convinced that man who
lives by his brain is, of all men, bound to
avoid stimulating his brain. In this
climate, to stimulate the brain by alcohol
and tobacco is only a slow kind of sui
eide. Even the most moderate use of
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26
EPITAPH ON DYONISIA.

Here doth Dyonisia lie,
She, whose little wanton foot,
Tripping lah, too carelessly y,
Toucht this tomb, and fell lntot.
Trip no more shall she, nor fall,
And her trippings were SO few
Summers only eight in all
Had the sweet child wandered through.
But, already, life's few suns
Loves strong seed had ripened warm,
All her ways were winning ones.
All her cunning was TO charm
And the fancy, in the flower,
While the fiesh was in the bud
Childhood's dawnlng sex did dover
With warm gusts Of womanhood.
O what joys by hope begun,
o what kisses kist by thought,
What love-deeds ty fancy done,
Death 10 endless dust hath wrought
Had the fates been kind as thou,
Who, till now, was never cold,
Once Loves aptest scholar, now
Thou hads't been his teacher bold;
But. If buried seeds upthrow
Fruits and flowers If flower and lruit
By their nature fifty show
What the seeds are, whence they shoot,
nyonisia, DER this tomb,
Where thy buried beauties be,
From their dust shall spring and bloom
Loves and graces like 10 thee
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University Of Vermont and State Agriculture
College.


FIELD EXPERIMENTS WITH FERTILIZERS.
In this article and others to follow, Prof Atwatei
aims to draw from the field experiments supern
tended by the University, lessons the value
and of commercial fertilizers in Vermont 1t i.
| hoped that many farmers will find herein answers
to questions which they are asking. Questions on
which further Information is desired may be ad
dressed to me, and answer will he made either in
future articles or by private communication.
| VI. ii. BUCKHAM, President.
NO. II.
The table herewith gives results OF
some of the experiments referred to in
the previous article As there explain
ed, the object of the experiments has
been to get more definite information as
to what commercial fertilizers Vermont
farmers can profitably use
The principle upon which they are based
is briefly this: The chief office of fer
tilizers is to supply the plant-food that
our crops need and soils fail to furnish.
1t Is not good economy to pay high
prices for materials which the soil may
yield in abundance but it is good econ
omy to supply the lacking ones in the
cheapest way. The most important in
gradients of our common commercial fer
tilizers are Phosphorie Acid, Nitrogen,
and Potash, because of both their scare
ity in the soil and their high cost.
VALUABLE INGREDIENTS OF COMMERCIAL
FERTILIZERS.
Certain kinds of fertilizers sold in the
markets furnish Nitrogen and little or
nothing else of much value for plant food
Such are Dried blood, Meat-scraps, Sui
phate Of Ammonia and Nitrate of Soda.
Others. as Phosphates and Superphos-
pilates, owe their effectiveness mainly to
their phosphoric acid. Still others con-
tain both Nitrogen and Phosphoric acid.
Such are Peruvian Guano, Fish guano,
Bone, and "Ammoniated' Superphos-
pilates. Peruvian Guano AMI fish sup
ply considerable Of both Nitrogen and
Phosphoric acid, while bone and cannon
lated" snperphosphates contain large
proportion of Phosphoric acid and but
little Nitrogen. Potash is supplied in
the German Potash salts, the 'Muriate"
of Potash" ''Sulphate of Potash and
kainit. The complete fertilizers" or
Especial fertilizers" prepared according
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

Matthew and Daniel Dow, Scotchmen, set
tied in Bell county, Texas, commenced
teaching the doctrine OF sanctifcation, and
it is said disturbed the domestic tranquility of
numher OF families by arraying wives
against husbands. A party of men, on Feb.
TO- ilogged the Dows and ordered them to
leave the country. The British consul ut
Galveston demanded that the State Depart
mcnl punish this outrage on British subjects.
The acting secretary OF state replied that the
local authorities were ready to act upon
proper ailidavits. A writ of lunacy was
sworn out against the Dows; but the super
intendent Of the asylum at Austin denied
them admission. and the case is not yet
ended.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

to formulas for special crops, as corn,
potatoes, turnips, etc. contain all
the above ingredients. Farm mnnures.
stable manure, hen manure, etc, supply
all the soil-ingredients Of plant food.
Wood ashes contain all but Nitrogen.
There are many casesin which crops fail
because the soil does not supply enough
Phosphoric acid and where an application
of Superphosphate or bone dust brings
q bountiful harvest. There are likewise
many in which Potashis is especially defici-
ent and Potash salt or unleached ashes
will supply the need. In some cases
Nitrogen in Nitrate of Soda or other
form has the desired effect. In others
Nitrogen and Phosphoric acid are needed
and Peruvian Guano or fish may he use d
with great profit. In still others miE-
of Superphosphate or bone dust and Pot
ash salt, supplying Phosphoric acid and
Potash, is the most economical material
Again on some soils and for some crops
nothing short of a complete" fertilizer
will suffice. And finally, while most
soils respond to the application OF manures
there are many on which all fertilizers
fail.
PLAN OF THE EXPERIMENTS.
Nitrogen, Phosphoric acid and Potash
arc the materials which our soils most
frequently fail to supply in abundance to
our crops But they are expensive. We
cannot afford to use them where they are
not wanted, nor can We afford to let our
crops fail when an application OF one or
more would bring good harvest. We
must then try to find the needs OF our
soils and crops and the materials that will
most profitably supply them.
The experiments were arranged to fur
nish nitrogen, phosphoric acid and pot
ash, one by one, two by two. and all
three together. Nitrogen was supplied
in nitrate of soda |; phosphoric acid with
sulphuric acid and lime) in high grade
superphosphate, dissolved bone black;
and potash in muriate of potash. Plas-
ter Containing sulphuric acid and lime
as sulphate of ime) and farm manures
were also employed. The materials were
used on parallel plots of one tenth
or one twentieth acre. in proportions
which gave amounts per acre as in the
table.
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DIRGE.
AFTER HERRIcK-3Y r. r. A.

AFTER HERRIcK-sY r. r. A.
She Is dead but do not weep,
Nor thick not SO for her
This fair sunlight with thy signs
Sne is gently gone asleep.
p ace now, lest thy fretful siif
F!lght the soft dew from her eyes.
Look upon her gentle face,
Love aud quiet thoughts are there;
see how vet some latest smile
Makes of her lips lurking place,
Family courts thee, would beguile
Thy so sick despair.
Law her sweet l. the earth
No flower which breath Of the next spring
Calls from the bare turf above her,
l. half SO fresh. so pure thing.
Her life was all an innocent mlrth,
Then sweetest, beng over.
Death hath taken but 10 save
Sweet her maid-mafesi hither and strew
over her virgin grave
Flowers, not yew.
Here no painful heart be throbbing
No voice go out in wildered sobbing
No IDLE eye drop here
Tie PROCLAMATION of tear?
Olly-Ift must be so-a sigh,
YET more for love than misery.
-FrazeT's Mdgdsias.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

A cattle plague has broken out in Louisi,
ann in the parishes of Ouachita, Richland
and Caldwell, where horses, mules and cat
Tie are attacked by an insect similar to the
buffalo snat, with fatal effect Horses and
mules die in about six hours from ae time
they are attacked They walk about appar-
emily in great agony till they drop dead.
CatiIr frequently rush into the streams and
drown themselves The loss of stock Is very
great, four-fifths of the animals attacked
dyirs, and all farming operations are sus.
pended In the above parishes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

NJ. Bertrand, the director of the Paris
Varieties theatre, was once considerably
bothered by young author, who insisted
on reading play to him. Pushed at last
into a corner. Bertrand appoints day,
and the young man presents himself.
Read away, my friend" he says in his
kindest manner. This young man be-
gins in trembling voice. stop" says
Bertrand, 'you sliver are you cold?''
Glad of any excuse to cover his timidity.
the trembling author confesses that he is
cold. Bertrand rings the bell made
line" he says to the servant, put a few
plays INTO the fire" Madeline goes to a
big chest and brings out an armful Of
manuscripts which she tumbles into the
crate. Bertrands kindness was warm
but scarcely encouraging.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

When young lady trippedintoa music
store the other day and asked the bashful
clerk in attendance for "Two Kisses" he
jammed on his hat and rushed out of the
back door The clerk, never having
heard of the piece Of music, thought he
was the victim Of a leap-year proposal,
and his salary was not large enough to
support two.-Noyristou Her0td.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

The SrEwART LITIGATION - Our des-
patches have briefly announced the steps re-
Gently taken by Alexander Stewart of Proc
torsvillc, who claims to be cousin Of the
late A. L. Stewart, to obtain a share of the
dead miliomire's estate Stewart has brought
suit against Judge Hilton, laying his dam
ages at 5000 600, and has levied upon all the
Stewart property in Woodstock, including
the factory, the boarding house the tenement
houses and homestead lie sets up that he
was taken to New York and kept at the
Metropolitan Hotel for seven months. sur
rounded by the agents and emissaries Of the
defendant and being an old and intirm man
was persuaded by them to discharge his
attorney, who had commenced proceedings
to contest the will of his deceased cousin
and 10 engage in his stead an attorney pro
vided by the said Hilton, and who was in
his interest; that the inducemcnt held
out TO him for abandoning his purpose
to contest the will, was the promise of
farm in Cavcndish as good dresses for
his wife as Stewart's store contained, and one
hundred Thousand dollars in money: and
except the purchase for him of u small farm
for fifteen hundred dollars and little live
stock for the same, all these obligations,
voluntarily assumed by defendant. are un-
fulfilled. Plaintiffs attorneys urc Iucius T.
Chttenden X Hubbard of New York and
John +. Deane of Cavcndish. The
mill property is under mortgage to the
Windsor Savings bank Tor $50, ,0OO-all it
will he worth in II little while il il is not oc-
cupicd and kept up. This case is likely TO
prove a very interesting and perhaps impor-
tant one.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

The more we do, the more We can do; /;
the more busy we are the more leisure we
hsye.-Hoziih.
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THE GREAT WORK FROM JERSEY CITY TO
NEW YORK STILL UNDER wAY-How THE
woRkMEN ARE HEMETICALLY SEALED
UNDER THE EARTH EIGHT HOURS AT A
STRFTCH-THE INGENIOUS AIR-LoCK-
SHAFTS SIDE BY SIDE LIKE THE BARRELS
OT- A TovTJNG PIECE
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26
SUNDAY READING.

II could lind
No love in all the world for comforting,
Nor any path but hollowly did ring,
Where .'lust 10 dust" the love from life disj joned ;
And II, before these sepulchres unmOving,
] stood alone las some fOrsaken lamb
Goes bleating up the moors In weary dearth,.
CRYING, Where are ye, o my loved, and l0ving:"
know u voice would sound, Daughter. am.
Can suffice for heaven and not for esrth!"
-Mra RrolrniuI-
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tIncluling number of similar experiments in
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

There are beauties of character which,
like the night blooming cercus, are closed
against the glare and turbulence of every
day life, and bloom only in the shade and
solitude and beneath the quiet stars.-H
r. TuckerDIan
Habit, like the ivy ofour walls, cements
and consolidates that which it cannot de-
stroy.-Picciola
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Forgotten by thy fellows-liest thou here
Half buried IN the sand. The advancing tide
Shall never bear thee 10 the ocean wide.
Daily 1t creeps with awed Whispers near,
Asthough II mourned thy loneliness and pride.
Often its fercest biilows thou dened,
But sailing home without q thought OF fear
Some hidden rock betrayed TO ruin drear.
Earth hath its quicksands as the wafer hath;
How oft we weather tempest out At sea,
And sailing into port with canvas free
Some sunken danger wrecks our prosp'rous path,
Then like yon stranded vessel, down we lie
Upon the sands Of life alone TO die.-Eranyeiist.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1880-03-26

The Governor of Mississippi recently sent
to the Legislature of that State crayon-por-
trait of JEFF Davis, accompanied by the fol-
lowing note: