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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
The Maine Investigations.

The committee ofthe Maine Legislature for
investigating the doings of Garcelon and his
council have reported. The report speaks
of the apparent readiness of the ex-governor
to testify, but notes that his memory did
not cover the proceedings that it would be
convenient for him to forget He passion
ately asserted his own innocence when con-
fronted with indisputable evidence Of fraud
and said there must have been Judas in
the council In conclusion, the committee
say That the returns were kept from the
candidates contrary to usage; that during
such time, alterations, erasures and forgeries
counting out Republicans that during this
time defects in the fusion returns were sur
reptitiously corrected and afiidavits secured
to throw out Republican towns that in all
such cases the results invariably counted
out Republican candidates that the result
was reached by refusing to allow Republi-
can errors to be corrected; that the rules
laid down were strictly applied to reject
Republican returns that many of these
rules were evidently invoked to secure
fusion legislature +; that these illegal and
fraudulent acts were a part of a premedi.
tated plan to secure fusion governor, and
the council must have been parties to it /;
and that different appropriations by the
legislature have been diverted from their
legitimate purposes, and in many cases have
been exhausted the public funds have been
withdrawn from the treasury by Governor
Garcelon and his council without warrant
of law, and have been applied to unau-
thorized purposes and for unlawful ends (;
that large sum of money belonging to the
state yet remains in the hands of Governor
Garcelon and other officials of last year,
which should be recovered back into the
treasury. Even the minority--or Demo-
cratic-fusion members-of the Hale commit
tee cannot give any comfort to the fusion
cause. In their minority report they say,
"The evidence being uncontradicted, we
cannot make denial of the facts proved by
it, and can only withhold our assent to the
conclusions arrived at by majority of the
committee"
The reports in the legislative bribery
cases have also been presented. The COM
mittee are unanimous in the opinion that
the case of Bartholomew Wentworth against
Charles f. Kicker is not sustained by the
evidence, and the majority report to the
same effect in the respective cases of Swan
and Hartman against Wallace r. White.
In the latter cases the minority present
report that they cannot concur in the con-
illusions of the majority.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

A REvELATIoN.-A Democratic military
organization intended to seat Tilden by
force of arms was generally believed to exist
in the winter of 1877, and the New York
Sun quotes interviews with Peter Bowe, the
present sheriff of New York city, and Ma
jor John Z. Tracy, who say that the organi-
cation numbered 100000 men, and had j.
NJ. Corse, " hold the fort " Corse, as its COM
mander. 1t originated in an organization
OF Union soldiers begun in the spring OF
1876, and intended to Offset the "boys in
blue " on the republican side. After the
election its leaders began corresponding as
to the possible need for using force to nau-
gurate Mr.. Tilden, and perfected their Or
ganization, obtaining countenance and sym
pathy from officers high in the army and
navy. "Baldy" Smith, Franz Sigel, ii. w.
Slocum, nearly all the democratic brigaders
in New York state, NJ. T. Donohue of Mas.
sachusetts, Steadman of Ohio and some 9TH
ers are claimed in the organization. In
commenting on this the Springfield RepuJh-
can says at does not appear that arms or
ammunition were ever collected or military
organization effected. The entire associa-
tion was probably nothing more than one of
those provisional preparations for possible
strife which occupied the attention of poll
ticians on both sides up to the time when
Senator Edmunds' electoral bill offered a
peaceful solution. This organization itself,
it is worth noticing, divided after that bill
became law"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Ten Golden Rulcs.

A very interesting book has recently beeh
issued under the title of The Art of Book.
binding" and the following rules for the
care and preservation of bound books may
be useful to our readers. The author thinks
that each volume in library should be
thoroughly busted two or three times a
year, not only to keep them in all their fresh.
ness, but to prevent any development of in
sects and to detect any signs of dampness.
His ten golden rules for the preservation of
books are as follows:
First.-Avoid dry heat "a much as yon would
damp atmosphere; the one destroys as much rs
the other. The former will affect the binding.
the latter the paper. When reading, keep ali
books from the fire. Never keep any books near
the ceiling, where the room is illuminated with gas
Second. Never wet your fingers In turning
over the leaves, but turn them over from the
head Catch each succeeding leaf up by the fore
finger, on the top corner, the fore edge az
possible.
Third Never put cards or folded documents
into y book, as 1t will break the back. Keep such
things In a portfolio.
Fourth Never read during meals Crumbs
and cheese are ruinous to books.
FLYNN turn corner down TO keep a
place. but put piece of paper projecting at the
head as a mark.
!SirM-Never push or pull book along the
table, To avoid scratches, put a book down fiat
and firmly and take it up the same way.
lSerenh.-Never pull books out OF the shelves
by the headband, or suffer them to stand long on
the fore-edge In doing the former, the back is
apt to be pulled or forced by the latter the back
gets out Of shape.
Eighth. Always open book in a gentle man
ner, and with a reverent sprit-especially such
as are newly bound--and never confine the leaves
with the points OF the thumbs; in doing so, il
breaks the backs. Lay it upon fiat surface and
open it lightly, pressing upon the open leaves,
and taking few sheets at time; go through
the book until the requisite freedom is obtained.
Ninth-Always use proper knife or folder To
cut up the leaves Of uncut books, so that the
edges may be smooth and even.
TenM.-Treat books gently, for they are friends
that never change We benefit by their advice,
and they exact no confessions.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

The PREsIDENoY.-The Republican cen
trail committee at New York last week passed
resolutions indorsing the action of the state
convention at Utica in instructing delegates
TO the national convention to cast their votes
for General Grant, stating that, in their
judgment, the grave Importance of the next
national election was yet but family appre-
ciated by the people; that the check to our
business prosperity, destruction of CONNER.
cial confidence, breach of our national faith,
reversal of the results of the war, nullifca-
ton of the constitutional amendments passed
to secure those results, and the reinstate-
ment OF slavery under another name, were
threatened by the rule of confederate con.
gress the possible ascendancy of solid
south in our next election, and declaring
that the surest guaranty of continued pros
perity, perpetuity and government for our
country, would be in recalling General Grant
10 the helm of state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

Too TRUE.-In a column of mild oppos-
ton to the Edmunds movement the New
York Tribune well expresses one of the en-
barrassments which have attended the sena-
tors candidacy from the first, and which
troubles his true friends more and more
as the canvass progresses. 1t says " If the
senator had been conspicuously candidate,
with a fair prospect of success, we have not
the slightest doubt that among the most
vehement of his opponents would be some
OF the very men aud newspapers now giving
him such an ELUSIVE advocacy. The con-
duct of these men-and we do not mean to
judge them by anything but their own acts
and avowals, and not then uncharitably-i
not governed so much by considerations of
the candidates fitness, the partys needs, or
the country's welfare, as by certain other
and lower motives, partly selfish and partly
malicious That is to say, in their support
of Mr.. Edmunds they are actuated more by
desire to break down some one else than
either to build him up or promote the sue
cess of the party or welfare of the country.
There is in addition the selfish motive
founded on vanity, of making themselves
prominent by activity in small movement
Instead OF being lost sight of in large one"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

A CoMPRoMIsE,-Th national house of
representatives has at last passed the def
cheney bill containing an item for paying
the special deputy marshals, a class Of Off
GERS that do duty under the national laws
passed for securing purity at elections. 1t
was the matter of the payment of these Of
ficers that inspired large part of the heated
controversy OF the extra session. The Re
publicans, however, allowed a +" rider y pro-
viding that hereafter this class of officers
shall be appointed by the judges Of the cir
cult court, or in their absence by judges Of
the district courts, and that they shall be
equally divided between the parties. This
compromise was stoutly resisted by many
prominent Republicans, although it was in
troduced by General Garfield and by him de-
Tended with much ability. 1t will doubtless
incur fierce opposition in the senate.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

IMPORTANT TAX CAsE.-The defects, inequa-
tiles and positive injustice Of our taxation laws
are likely to he shown up Mt the next term OF
Chittenden county court when the suit brought
by ex-Lieutepant Governor Russell S. Taft and
wife against the city OF Burlington is tried. As 1t
is more than suspected that the same state OF
facts exists in other towns and cities, we give the
following full statement of them: The bill al
leges the ownership by the orators seyerally, of
sundry pieces of real estate in the city, none OF
which they own jointly, and presents a copy OF
the assessment, which sets all said property, and
also Governor Tafts poll-tax, To Il. S. Taft and
wife. The orators refused to pay the taxes on
this assessment, and the city treasury has adver-
tised the premises and issued warrant to L. J.
smith, constable, under which he has advertised
a sale for April I'd. The bill alleges that large
amount OF real and personal property and the
polls OF scores of citizens lawfully subject TO tax
alton were wllfully and negigenty omitted from
the list by the assessors; that, In fact, they did
not make the list as required by law, but used a
copy OF an old one, full Of errors and omissions
that they wllfully refused to assess the property
at its true value but assessed 1t far below the
same, and that they wiliully omitted so large an
amount Of property, To wit, S5OO,OOO. and per-
formed their duties negligently and shiftlessly
that no equal and ratable taxes can be levied
upon it, as required and contemplated by law,
and the whole list, and all proceedings and assess
ments based upon it are utterly null and void.
An injunction has been granted by the court OF
chancery restraining the constable from proceed
ing with the sale This will he regarded as
test case, and, II the orators win 1t will largely
reyoutionize the tax-lst.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

GREEDY SPoILsMEN.--The New York
Tribune says The Maine brigsnds emp
tied the state treasury before the supreme
court routed them. Every dollar which
they could reach was taken, and when the
Republicans came into power they found a
bankrupt treasury. In a recent speech in
the assembly, advocating the payment of
the $4,000 which the Garcelon raid cost,
the Hon. Eugene Hale specified some of the
grabbing which took place. Every appro-
pration, he said, remaining over with dol
lar was seized by the governor aud council.
lie had occasion the other day to look at an
appropriation for the female visitors TO the
insane hospital, and only about third of it
was drawn for its legitimate purpose, but
every dollar of the other twothirds had
been taken by the governor and council for
other purposes. One man had drawn $4,000
from the high school fund for advance work
which he had never done. Every appropri-
alton which had any mohey had been un-
lawfully pillaged in this way, and no vouch-
ers were left. II was clean sweep, and the
more the voters of the state contemplate i
the more thankful they are that the state
house itself was left"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

THE STARVING lRIsH.-In view of the
narrowing revelations made by its special
correspondent, who is on the ground, the
New York Tribune says; "These tales of
suffering are most moving. Where men,
women and children are reduced to the last
stages of nakedness and restitution; where
families are huddled together without fire,
food, clothing or bedding, either in miser-
able huts or the former abodes of animals
where thousands and thousands are begging
to use the words of one of these parish
priests not bread, but the humblest and
cheapest food that can be supplied for hui
man use, Indian meal when all this ex.
lists and there is little prospect of improve
ment in the future, there is surely much
still to be done in active relief. The means
of preventing future famines eau best be
determined when the hunger of these suf
fering ones is allayed. 1t should be noticed
that in some of the districts covered in this
letter the distress is declared to be even
greater than 1t was in the famine OF 1917"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
The faint of Treason.

Mr.. Nathaniel Paige, a correspondent OF
the New York Tribune during the war, pub
fishes a statement showing that Judge Key,
acknowledgement on McClellan's staff, told
him after Mcclellan was restored to the
command of the army and marched through
Maryland to intercept Lee, that a plot was
formed by members of McClellan's staff to
countermarch to Washington, expel Stanton
from the war office and change the policy of
the war, by forcing Old Abe" to abandon
interference with slavery. On account of
the opposition of one or two dissenters, the
scheme fell through. Mr.. Paige goes on to
say that he was with Pope's army at the
second battle of Bull Run, and that Porter
on that occasion did not intend to assist
General Pope.
So far as the foregoing statement impli
Gates General Mcclellan or his staff, he is
competent to speak for himself; but al
though congress has just made desperate
partisan effort to restore General Porter to
rank and opulence, it is no injustice to say
tudt Iue IdluJ VI tredSOu Sbill CllnpS W Jut
man who indifferently smoked his cigar in
front of his tent and refused to forward his
men to assist brother officer at the second
battle of Bull Run. Although Senator Bay
ard eloquently pleaded his cause, claiming
that his case presented a "theme of public JUS
tice," aud an occasion when Bipartisan pref
udice should be STILL" it is impossible to
avoid the CONCLUSION, in view of all the evil
dence, that General Porter's conduct on this
occasion was essentially traitorous, and that
the strict rules of war would have doomed
him to be hanged by the neck. The first
commission that tried him, it will be re-
membered, was equally balanced on the ver-
dict, one.half favoring that punishment, and
the other half that which he finally received
the final verdict passing by the aid of one
vote. And the recent discussion seems to
have left his case worse than before.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

The Indian Question.--NO. 3.


Mr.. Editor The fact that in the longitudinal
center OF British America the Indians are kept in
order without the and oil WARS does not justify the
conceits oil the civil peace poncy' favored by our
government and by numerous phllanthropists'
In that great lone land extending from tue
United States border to the Great Slave Lake
and the Arctic ocean, are found the legitimate
hunting-gronnds oil the worlL No better use can
be made OF them no dense population can be
supported by them Is the nome ana the her-
tage otithe Indians STILL there is White mans
government there that extends to the remotest
border oil that Wild inhospltao'e' uncutured land
The great Northwestern FUR company Is the
real ruler OF that land II Is SO formed and or
ganized that its directors In London can strike the
wires that vibrate along the Assinaboine, sas-
katchewan and The shores oil the Arctic seas This
great company has an Intelligent management,
adapted to It's mercenafy OBJECTS Oh pr'ht and
gain lhis vast power Is disseminated and made
eheetnal through lew insignificant factories
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

In THE SENATE.-A Washington cor
respondent says "a glance at the senate
galleries to day revealed the presence there
of certain persons whose hostility toward
other persons in the chamber below has re-
Gently excited much comment. In promi-
nent place in the ladies' gallery sat Jessie
Raymond who has sued Senator Hill of
Georgia for seduction, and in her arms she
held her boy, whom she has named Thomas
Hill. Below, in his chair, sat Senator Hill
with his little grandson on his knee. In
another section of the ladies' gallery could
be seen Miss Lucy Horton of Alabama, who
alleges that the sou of Senator Morgan, and
the clerk of his committee has betrayed
her, and who shot young Morgan in the
shoulder while he was walking on the street
in this city several weeks ago. On sofa
in the senate chamber below, in full view Of
Miss Horton, was the young man in whose
shoulder she put the bullet"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
The Salvation Army.

New York city has new sensation-tbis
time religious. Among recent arrivals at
that port is the advance guard of the 80
called salvation army" society of evan.
gelists, numbering, it is said, one hundred
thousand souls in Great Britain. The soci.
ETY. was organized fourteen years ago by
William Booth, dissenting minister, who,
on visiting London in 1865, was shocked by
the heathenism that he saw about him, and
resolved to devote himself TO the task of
making Christ known to the thousands who
were as untouched by any Christian influ-
euce as If they lived in the heart of Africa.
He began series Of open air meetings, as
sociating others with him in the work, and
organizing companies Of evangelists who
preached in various parts Of England in the
aters, music halls, warehouses, wherever
they could obtain permission aud an audi.
ence, but chiefly in the open air. In 1873
the name of Salvation Army was adopted,
and the organization has increased so that
last year there were in Great Britain one
hundred and twenty-five corps, under the
command Of one hundred and ninety-five
officers, using for services weekly one hun.
dred and forty-eight theaters, halls and other
buildings, holding forty-6ve thousand out
door services, preaching to seventy-four
thousand persons every Sunday evening in
these buildings, and to two million persons
weekly in the streets, squares and commons.
In this army two hundred and fifty-seven
persons are engaged wholly in religious
work, and more than three thousand are
ready at any time to preach or undertake any
service assigned to them. The funds of til
army are raised by collections, and about
twelve thousand pounds were collected last
year. The members of the army who ar
rived in New York on Wednesday are seven
in number, six of them being women, one
captain and FIVE leutenants the man is
called commissioner, and is to have charge
of the organization in this country. All
wore a uniform of dark blue, edged with
yellow, and wore on their hats broad bands
of scarlet ribbon, with the words Salvation
Army" in gilt letters. The captain carried
flag of blue and red, with large yellow
sun in the center. Arrangements had been
made for their arrival, and lodgings had
been prepared for them. They will depend
for their support and the expenses of their
work here, on what they can collect. They
will adopt the same methods of work here
as they have used in England, where their
preaching, though rude and often offensive
to fastidious taste, is earnest and practical,
leaving no doubt of the preachers profound
conviction of the truth and momentous i'm
portance of the doctrines he proclaims, and
of his skill in reaching the hearts of the
people to whom he speaks. Many clergy
men aud magistrates in England have
avowed their belief in the salutary influence
of the labors of the salvation army there.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24
Prohibition that Prohibits.

The legislature of Maine has just passed
an intensified liquor law which indicates a
determined purpose to rid the state, if pos.
sible, of the curse of intemperance. The
bill contains some new features. All places
of resort where intoxicating liquor are kept,
sold, given away, drank or dispensed in any
manner not provided by law are declared to
be common nuisances. The prohibition ex-
tends to malt liquors, cider and everything
else intoxicating, except unaduterated cider
in quantities of five gallons or upward,
when sold and taken away at one time. The
governor is authorized to appoint two con-
stables in each county to enforce the law,
on representation of thirty or more tax
payers therein that the local officers are not
faithful and efficient in discharging Their
duties. He is also authorized to remove
county attorneys elected by the people, and
appoint new ones for like neglect and
neiliciency. The authority to remit the
penalty prescribed for drunkenness is now
restrained, except on condition of the pris
oner's affidavit showing Of whom and where
he procured the means of his intoxication
The penalties for selling are also increased
about two-fold.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-24

A CLINcHER.-ln the Iowa house of rep
resentatives, recently, the committee on con-
stitutional amendments reported in favor of
adopting the senate substitute for the house
prohibition constitutional amendment, and
it was adopted, sixty-six to twentysix. 1t
will now go to the next legislature for
ratification, as follows Section 26. No
person shall manufacture for sale, or sell, OF
keep for sale as beverage, any Intoxicating
liquors whatever, including ale, wine and
beer. The general assembly shall by law
prescribe regulations for the enforcement
OF the prohibition therein contained, and
shall provide suitable penalties for violation
Of the provisions hereof"