Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-06-22
Notes and Notions.

MIR. PETER COOPER has presented the
greenback national committee with a check
for $4,000.
CHICAGO Times jeff Davis book is an
unconscious argument against the clemency
which prevented his being hung at the close
of the war Of the rebellion"
DELEGATE PETTIGREw of Dakota ex-
poets that southern Dakota will be the next
state He claims population of 10000,
with thousands swarming in.
MASSACHUSETTS Spy: "The senatorial
contest at Albany has from the beginning
been an unworthy and discredtabe wrangle,
promising no result in which disinterested
observers in other states could take much
satisfaction"
The New Hampshire Legislature elected
state officers on last week Wednesday as
follows Secretary OF state, A. b. Thomp-
son OF Concord treasurer, Scion A. Carter
Of Keene state printer, Persons b. Cogswell
of Concord commissary-general, George E.
Lane of Exeter.
THE name of the Rev. Henry Highland
Garnet, the well known and widely esteemed
pastor of the colored Presbyterian Shiloh
church, and formerly well known in Yer
mont as an eloquent anti-slavery lecturer, is
being urged upon President Garfield as that
of a man well qualified to fill the office of
minister to Liberia.
GOVERNOR HENRY S. LANE of Indiana
died on the 18th, aged seventy-one. He was
foremost among the eminent men of the
west and filed several important offices,
among them governor of his state and sena-
tor OF the United States. He entered the
senate in 1861, and was the confidential and
trusted friend of President Lincoln from his
Inauguration to his death. He has occupied
no official position, and has taken but little
part in public affairs since 1868.
CHANCELLOR CROSBY must feel not a
little fiattered at the pains that western
brewers are taking to circulate copies of his
recent "Calm View of the temperance
question: lecture delivered in Faneuil
Hall last winter. The Chicago Brewer has
published it in full, and the Brewers Asso-
citation have made arrangements TO circulate
one million copies of it. They deem it an
excellent means of increasing their patron
age; yet DIR. Crosby is temperance worker
in his own estimation, and is trying to close
up saloons.
WASHINGTON Star: "No president ever
stepped more promptly into positive control
than Mr.. Garfield, nor did any administra-
ton, within the memory of this generation,
ever get into complete running order with 80
little delay and friction as this one. 1t will
be well for all parties interested to know
and TO realize that President Garfield is en-
lowed with the rare genius Of rulership.
lie evades no responsibility and is con-
trolled by no subordinate. His relations
with every member of his cabinet are most
cordial but the head of the table is where
McGregor sits"
New ORLEANS Times: ave do not like
to miss the silent, sturdy, masterful figure
out of our national life and national history.
We beg Mr.. Grant, for his own sake and
the nations, to call halt. lie was too big
man to have written letters for Garfield
He is yet too much the property Of the ma
tion to squabble with Albany bummers for
the glory of Conkling. There is yet time,
il Mr.. Grant will be wise and cease, under
the influence OF mere politicians, to cheaper
his great name, and lower dignity, that of
doubly chosen president of the United
States, which the people, we assure him,
feel ought to lift its owner out of politics
and into nationality for all his life."