Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-09-22
Notes and Notions.

In one county in Florida the number of
colored people who can read and write is
in excess of the number of whites who are
equally educated.
AIN 1876 they were going from us, now
they are coming toward u.s." was the sound
way in which Republican chairman in In.
diana put the attitude of the doubtful vote
this year.
SPRINGFIELD Republican "The battle Of
the campaign lies henceforth in New York.
With it the Republicans can let the small
states go, without it they must carry them
all, Maine included"
CONGRESSMAN DE La MATYR: al con-
slider Maine straightout financial victory.
We carried the state on that issue and none
other. The idea that the result came from
a coalition with the Democracy is an absurd
and malicious fallacy."
MOBILE Register It would be well il
the southern states that hate Massachusetts,
would initiate her honesty. Not the least
of Massachusetts, mans admirable traits is
his capacity to govern. Massachusetts has a
government which it would be well for other
states to initiate"
HARPER's Weekly: "Indeed, tested by
his known principles and character, and his
public ability aud experience, there is prob
ably no Republican who could have been
nominated who would be more acceptable
to the independent voters of the country
than General Garfield"
JACOB HARPER, the Greenback orator
late state election, and who has been in In
diana for some time gives it as his opinion,
based upon careful observation, that the
Republicans will carry Indiana by from ten
to fifteen thousand majority.
BIsHop SIMPSON, who has not been in
good health for some time, was suddenly
seized with congestive chill while preach
ing at the First Methodist church at San
Francisco on Sunday last, and was obliged
TO leave the pulpit. The president and Mrs.
Hayes we're in attendance at the church.
fair count Hancock promises. General
Grant has just defined that to mean that
every man can cast his vote just as he
pleases and can have it counted just as he
cast it, The southern Democratic reading
is that every man can vote as he pleases,
and we will count it if it pleases u.s."
nj ha1 hn
age to say that he would veto any bill con-
gress might pass recognizing rebel claims.
Hancock hasn't equal courage, and is dumb.
If he should now say what Tilden said four
years ago he would be cut as squarely at
the polls as Tilden was at Cincinnati, and
the cutting would come from the same men,"
THE Poles of New York have decided
whom to support for president, in novel
way. They met one evening last week, and
after several speeches on either side, they
took a vote to see which candidate all should
support. Garfield received forty and Han
cock twenty votes, and all united in forming
Polish Republican Club of New York"
New YORK Times: 1t is one of the
curiosities of the present campaign, and one
of the indications that we may be on the
eve Of great changes in the arrangement Of
party forces, that at the moment when the
Republican supremacy of Maine is disputed,
the Democrats are putting out extraordin-
airy efforts to carry South Carolina, which
has been regarded as one of the safest ele.
ments in the solid south"
CONGRESSMAN AIKEN of South Carolina
has been making trouble in his party by
saying in a public speech that the northern
Democrats are unfair and prejudced il
their treatment of the south that the bet
ter class of people at the north are Repub
licans, who have the brains the money and
the culture of their states. The Charleston
Neps thereupon says that Mr.. Aiken ought
not to be allowed TO make any more such
speeches.
A RESIDENT of South Carolina who knows
Wade Hampton personally, and has been {
close observer of his political career, de
scribes him as the greatest political fraut
and the most successful hypocrite of tn,
age. He alleges that Hampton has hood
winked the patriotic north with fai
speeches, aud the Republicans in Soutl
Carolina with false promises, while he ha
been the very head and front of all the pc
litical outrages and wrong-doing that hav
been committed in the state.
Mr.. FREDERICK DOUGLASS gave an ad
dress before large audience at Pendletou
Indiana, on Monday. On the platform
were seated several Indianians who ha'
seen Douglass mobbed and left for dead OF
that very spot thirty-seven years ago. Tn
woman who dressed his wounds after tn
mob had left him was among them. A
, Mr.. Douglass referred eloquently to thos
events OF far-off days his audience presse'
} forward, unwilling to lose word, and ther
was scarcely dry eye in the crowd.
PORTLAND Press " There is one goo
1t will be honestly returned. The Republi
can council is the canvassing board and will
tabulate the vote. Every ballot cast 70
Plaisted will be counted for him and n
omission to dot an 81 or to give CONNER
cial college twist to the tail of an s. will b
made the pretext for throwing out fusion
majority. The will of the plain people
however rudely expressed, is regarded by us
The fortress We fail to storm we disdain +
a steal"
PORTLAND Press The great CORFU
ton fund sent into Maine by the nations
Democratic committee has been lavish
used, and the large purchasable vote of on
cities is cast for Paisted and the Fusio
u nominee. In the first district the head Q
: the Tilden barrel was stove in, and tn
crowd scrambled for the dollars. Mr.. Tide
,. thought to crafty his spite against NJ
u Reed, and to revenge himself for the bri
II liant and searching cross-examination
. which he was subjected before the Pott'
u committee. That he did not succeed WI
owing to the honesty Of the country towns
l. Senator Edmunds on Rebel Claims.
To v j. Tegl, Mason, Michigan Dear 81
r Yours OF the 18th came just rs was going out
n town | fear the editor of the Grand RAM,