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GREEN MOUNTAIN tfREEM
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i Ije Bmh) Jsmmm.
EVE XING EDITION.
Willi his himrf upon Ms charter,
And hi. fool upon the 3ii,
He willstaml ordie ft martyr
.'or his Freeilnm and hi!) dd
C. W. WILLA2.D, Editor.
J. W. WHRF.LOCK, Printer.
AIDSTPKLIER, VT,
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1862
Having chosen our cause without uuii.e
ND WITH rURE MOTIVES, LET IS UKNliAV OUR
trust in god and co forward without fear
axj with manly hearts.
Arbaham Lincoln.
For County Commissioner.
NELSON A. CHASE.
A DAILY FREEST AST
Will be published at this officii until further
aotico. Two editions will bo issued, one to be
ready for die mail West, and the stages that
leave Montpelier in the afternoon, the oilier in
the morning in season lor the morning mails.
Each edition will contain the latest telegraphic
Sfws to the time of going to press.
The Terms will uc,
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mail subscribers and those taking the paper from
the office.
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vilh
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Advertisements inserted on rfiatwutblo terms.
Orders are solicited. C. W. V.'ii.
..i!lD.
Council of Censcrsi.
A call for a CONVK.STION.
The Freemen of Vermont, irrrspecuvo ol party
names or party associations, are requested to
meet in Mass Convention, at the Town Hail
in Burlington, on the 12th day of March, 1SGL
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, to nominate a
licket lor Council of Censors, to b(! supported
at the ensuing election on the fourth Wcuhesday
f March next.
Progress.
For the last week, the work of putting down
rebellion has made excellent progress, although
no batt!e9 have been fought, unless one may
have been fought in the vicinity of Savanna!).
The victory at Fort Donelson was followed by
the occupation of Clarksville, and then of Nash
ville the Capital of Tennessee. Columbus has
boen, or is being evacuated, and Kentucky will
thus be made free of armed rebels. The Union
troops are advancing toward Alabama, and the
rebels will coon be compelled to abandon every
stronghold on the Mississippi North of New
Orleans. From East Tennessee, we have no ad
vices, hut it cannot bo possible for any serious
apposition to bo presented in that quarter to the
advance of the forces that defeated Marshall and
i&oliieatrer.
From the Potomac, wo learn that Gen. Banks'
division on the North and Gen. Hooker's on the
South have crossed into Virginia, and it i3 now
generally supposed that the suppression of news
by the military censorship of the telegraph,
ulonc keeps hack from U3 intelligence of the long
expected udvaucj toward tin roow positions
about Manassas. From Burasido g-i little
except from rob.'! sources, but i;-at if tie allows
that lie is at work, though we get nothing of its
jesults, except that Fort Pulaski is cut oil' from
supplies. From our forces in the Gu'.f we have
no reports.
But the news all shows worksite, something
decisive accomplished in the labor ol putting
down rebellion. If we are at loss in under
standing the strategy of the reb.ds we are ai
no loss in comprehending that of the Govern
ment. Quick and decisive blows are lollowiug
each other in rapid succession. The telegraph
has ceased to talk of what is to be done. It
now briefly announces the accomplished work,
and brings us the bulletins of victory. And
while tint history of each day, and week re
hearse such grand results, theie is need to in
dulge in prophecy.
From Virginia. In th absence of any au
thentic information re. :uiing the position of
the troops in front of Washington, every item
of intelligence from whatever source, becomes
interesting. The following from ihe Lynch
burgh Virginian, shows that the rebels are ex
pecting warm work there :
A privato letter received from Ceutreville last
night, stated that the Confederate forces had
received orders to send their sick to tho rear,
and put themselves in marching order.
By passengers who arrived on last night's
train, tho above report is confirmed, as they
also state that tho women and children were or
dored t) leave yesterday morning.
We understand from the same source that
the Yankees have succeeded in cutting another
road through the woods to Fairfax.
A Frenchman was recontly seen bargaining
for a dozen sheep. "What are you about?'
said a friend. "I have heard say," replied
monsieur, "that if you-want 4 aksony yeu
must buy sheep and sell deer. I snail buy de
sheep and soil de venison."
When rebels burn for distinction, it is gener
ally railroad bridges and churches that suffer.
Si. Louts Democrat.
The Supper to Major Kimball.
Monday evening, the citizens of our village
j did theni'stdves.the pleasure of extemporising a
! supper ho toe Pavilion in honor of Major Kim
! h.ili, who so distinguished himself at Roanoke
island iu leading the assaulting party that
I stormed the rebel entrenchments. The Major
was in town on his way back to join his com
mand, but was prevailed upon to stop over
night, to give the people an opportunity of sec
iug him, and taking his hand. More than a bun
died sat down at the table, Mrs. Kimball, with
a few other ladies gracing tho banquet with
their presence. Alter the substantial viands
weie disposed of, Charles Reed, Esq., made a
graceful speech, complimenting Vermont and
Verinonters, and Major Kimball, especially, as
the type of the brave and gallant Green Moun
tain Boys. He was followed by S. B. Colby,
Esq., who made one of his pleasantest and hap
piest speeches, eloquently alluding to Col. Ran
som, in connection with Major Kimball's cam
paign in Mexico. Mr. Colby gave as a senti
ment, The Freedom of tho Press, which called
up (". W. Willard, who spoke briefly, and
gave as a sentiment, Major Kimball and the
Bayonet Charge. This called out the modost
and gallant Major, amid a storm ol cheers. Maj.
Kimball, then, after thanking thoso present
m a felicitous manner for the honor done him,
proceeded to give a graphic account of the
landing and attack upon the rebel entrench
in ns on Roanoke Island. The account was
txoeedingiy interesting, but tho Major's ex
treme modesty kept quite in thu back-ground
his own prominent part in thebri.Uiaut aoiiieve-Ui-jnt.
tie closed with an eloquent, declaration
of his determination to follow the flag of his
country that he itad seen stream so gloriously
over so many battle-fields.
Other happy speeches were nude by W. G.
Fcriin, il. Vv. iieaton, C. J. Ukusou, Alport
Clark, audi! F. Filield, Esqrs., and the compa
ny ouu not at
fparnto till midnight.
Major Kimball left this (Tuesday) morning
to rejoin iiS command. He expects there will
be laoio lighting under Burnside, and he is quite
unwilling to be absent when it comes.
Beaih of Gen. Lander.
The brave arid ehivalric Gen. Lander is no
more. Last evening the melaucholy tidings
reached us that he died during the alternoou at
Paw Paw, in Western Virginia. This intelli
gence will tail mournfully upon the country in
Us hum general rejoicing. The nation could
illy spare so good a man and so danng a soldier
at this juncture.
Frederick W. Landers was bom iu Ma:?sachu
setts, and was by profession an engineer. In
1848-U he surveyed the great wagon-road to
California, and soon after hut return was brought
prominently before the public as the second of
the Hon. John F. Potter, when he was challen
ged by that pink of Virginian chivalry, Roger
A. Pryor. By his judicious management of that
case lie enabled Mr. Potter to vindicate the
representatives of the North against the brag
garts of the South. When Pryor decided to
light Potter with Bowiu-knivts, Lauder politely
ottered to espouse the cause of uis principal, and
give the Virginian the choice ol any weapon he
pleased, but Pryor discreetly declined. That
affair put a stop to the insolence ol the chivalry
in the United States House of Representatives
for somo time, and taught them to mend their
plantation manners.
When tho Southern rebellion broke out, Gen
eral, then Col. Lauuer, threw himself into tho
struggle in behalf of the Union, and was detail
ed to Western Virginia, under Gen. McClellan.
There he participated with Col. Kelly in the at
tack upon Phtllippi on the lid of Juue, tuid dis
tinguished himself throughout that brilliant
campaign, which culminated iu tho victories of
Rich Mountain, Laurel Hill, and Carriole's Ford.
For his part in that camoaign t;io President
made him u Brigadier in July last.
Gc:i. Lander received bis Ueath-'vonnd at Ed
ward's Ferry, where sj many of his comrades
from Massachusetts aUomct their late. Tho day
after the butchery of Col. Baker, Lander was
ordered to the scene of action, and while con
ducting a reeunnoisance, received a painful
wound iu his leg. From the debiliatmg elfeois
of that wound, aggravated, no doubt, by his
herculean cll'ji ts to lrce his department of the
rebels, he at last died.
It will bo remembered that this faithful officer,
conscious that he needed repose, after his late
brilliant victory, asked to bo relieved from duty,
but the exigencies id the service were such that
he did not press his request. True to his trust,
he remained at his post to the last, and died
like a soldier, with his harness on his back. It
is probable thut he was not himself aware of his
extreme danger, for we learn that it was not till
5 o'clock yesterday afternoon that tns wife was
summoned to his side. Ere a special train could
be prepaped for her, the news of his decease was
leceived.
Gen. Lander was a frank, bold, opon-hearted
man, of noble and generous nature, and com
manding presence, lie looked the soldier, eve
ry inch of him, and scorned to ask hi nen to
go where he himself would not chm-i ily lead
the way. ihey knew this, and loved him as a
brother. Gen. Shields succeed" to his command.
The best tribute to his memory is contained in
tho recent ringing bulletin ol the War Depart
ment ;
WAR BULLETIN.
Official.
War Dkp't, Washington, Feb. 17. 18C2.
To Brig-Gen. F. W. Lander :
The President directs me to say that he has
observed with pleasure the activity and enter
prise manifested by yourself and the soldiers of
your command. Vou have shown how much
may be done in the worst weather and worst
rjads by a spirited officer at tho head of a small
force of brave men unwilling to waste life in
camp when the enemies of their country are
within reach. Your brilliant success is a hap
py presage of what may be expected when the
Army of the Potomac shall be led to the field
by thoir gallant Qoneral.
Edwin M. Stanton. Secretary of Wur.
Tribune.
Sketches of Western Scenery, &c Ko. IL
ill' HON. li. 1'. THoMl'SllN.
Prairie uv Sac.
After following for a mile or two the d. mse.lv
wooded road leading southerly from tl.e Bvvils
Lake, over the hij-h ridgy country, which pas-es
under the name of the Barahoo Bluffs, you un
expectedly come out on to the brow of an ab
rupt and commanding declivity; when a seem
of aluioct utiiivallcd magnificence suddenly
bursts on your view. Directly before you, with
its broad and far-spreading expanse, said its bold
and picturesque surroundings, lies the noted
Prairie du Sue, the old and favorite home of the
ence populous and powerful Indian nation, from
whom tiie name of the dace was derived.
1 his splendid praino is nearly ton miles in
lensth and about live in average breadth, jn
shape it is nearly a perfect oval, and around its
whole border stretches long lines of encircling
mountain elevations, sometimes rising to the
height of about five hundred feet above the level
of the prairie, and everywhere so closely con
nected us to appear, in tho distance, like one
continuous ridge, running around tne wtioie
valley, and with the broad intermediate ex
panse, constituting a vast uv il basin, almost as
perfect in shape a3 if moulded by nature with
the purpose of trying her skill on a form of
beauty. Just whit in" the rim of this natural
basin, and along its whole eastern circumference,
gently course the bright waters of the majestic
Wisconsin ; while its copious tributaries, the
Otter and Hon-'y Creeks, so come in, stud How
along under no less bold and circling bluffs of
the western circumference, as to mane an almost
perfect counterpart to the eastern, and thus
complete the circle around nearly tho whole
prairie of sparkling streams as well as of im
posing mountains. Out of the summit levels of
these enclosing ridges, abruptly rise two round,
rocky, tower-like eminences, one on the oast
side of the valley and one on the west, ovei top
ping ati others and seemingly standing t.p like
giant sentinels to hail each other from the oppo
site ramparts, or to bandy from side to side, or
arrest and receive on their own heads the thun
derbolts descending for their victhus to tho plains
below.
The vi;jw of this prairie and its environs from
the stand-point we have assumed, is singularly
striking and picturesque ut any season of the
jear, but in early summer, when tile groves and
mountain forests are clothed in theii greenest
glories; when the broad pv;iuie, from tiie grtat
contrast of olora. is more distinuish-ibly
marked into separate farms, with their dotting
cottages peering out from clustering shade trees ;
when tho fields are everywhere deeply covered
with alternating belts of the dark green inai.e,
the lighter tinted cereals, and thu exubei-jnl
grasses all combining to form one wide sea of
waving verdure, bordered around by the silver
cord of tho glittering rivers ; it ia then, then,
that tho scene becomes encliantingly beautiful ;
and over it tho raptured and never wearying eye
wanders on and on, till all tho lessening objects
of tho perspective, one alter another, fade away
in the distance, and tho vision at length rests
on the low, dim outlines of tho mountains lying
along the southern extremity of the valley, but
not there to remain, but to return, still unsat
isfied, and go over the same ground again, and
he again delighted by the same unrivalled beau
tics. As already intimated, this attractive valley
long was, as well it might have been, the favor
ite home of the Sac Indians ; and it was directly
on its borders, that their last chief, Black liawk,
made his fiual, but vain stand, to preserve thu
possessions of his people and the graves of their
fathers from the encroachments of the white
man. As early as 17CG, Captain Jonathan Car
vcv, who explored the whole valley of the Mis
sissippi, then without a single white settlement,
found this prairie in tho undisputed possession
of the flourishing nation of the Sac Indians,
or Sauks, as he probably more properly denom
inates them. Their chief village, which occu
pied tc si: me site with their present Sauk City,
was, ha avers, composed of a:;JS one hundred
comfortable houses, built id hewn plank, and
so securely walled and roofed in us to make
them perfectly stoiUi-proof, in the v. orst seasous
of the year. To some of thoso houses were at
tached porticos ; to others, store houses, and
other appendages ; while everything combined
to mako it the best built Indian town then ex
isting i.'inong all the various tribes of the west.
And ho also says, that such viu tho industry
and agricultural enterprise of this people, that
they yearly raised immense quantitiesol melons,
boans and corn ; and of tho latter valuable pro
duct, suc.i an abundance as to inaku the place
everywhere known as the best corn market within
eight hundred miles of the spot. Plenty of evi
dence, indeed, is Hill to bo found in the vieiv.ty
ol tho plaeo to substantiate tho fact ':. the
Sauks were, in their best cays, an mdu.-arioun,
enterprising and intelligent people, and far iu
advance of the other tribes of the west in agri
culture and tho arts of civilized life. Among
these evidences are tho traces of furnaces used
by the natives for melting lead, and perhaps lor
baking pottery. But the most palpable ones,
at the present day, are the well marked traces
of native cornfields, which stretched out from
the town in every direction, into the prairie, and
in which, wherever the ground has not been
broken by tho plow of tho white man, the old
com hills, as neatly fashioned in shape, and as
regularly and compactly laid out iro rows, as
thoso of a modern fanner are, though now deeply
ijrassed over, stiil found there, so protniuent in
height and outline as to leavo notu singb doubt
of their character in the mind of the dullest
beholder.
(to be continteu.)
The White House in Olden Times. When
John Adams was chosen President of this Re
public, bis wife wrote to him thus :
" My feelings are not those of pride or osten
tation upon the occasion. They are solemnized
by a sense ot the obligations, tho important
trusts and numerous duties connected with it.
That you may be enab'ed tu discharge them with
honor to yourself, with justice and impartiality
to your country, and with satisfaction to this
great people, shall be my daily prayer."
And when about to retire from publio life, she
wrote to her son thus :
" Neither my habits nor my education or in
clinations have led me to an expensive style of
living, so that on that score I havo little to
mourn over. If I did not rise with dignity, 1
ran at least fall with ease, which Is tho more
difficult task."
From ivx
A friend Lis kiudly pem.itt-.-d t i-'ke tho
following oxctuoCH from a recent .-.-tier iroiu a
member of the 0th Vt. Kegiment :
!.- (Min!u!l,-v. Sen.. :S here
Dr. C. jr. if
impioviiig. We cirnid btm
to our hospital
, ,.i itrvtri! tins .1.1 turnout! , an
md 1 haVij
i..t i-murncd. lie will probably go to the city
m a dav or two, and if ho can get long enough
leave ol absence, may go home.
Dav belnre yesterday we had a furious gaiu
that blew our tents down, tipped over wagons,
and made filings quite nveiy. n emeu uj.,
.i . i : i .. i f .iHinri it ii nifk
mud a good deal, so did the pltva-ant weather
yesterday and to-day ; but it is raining to night,
:. lon.r r.n.nrobab'.v.
1 see Messrs. Shepard and Reed from Mont -
pelier, here to-day,
We celebrated the zza oy listening to i asu-
ington's Farewell Address, in the day-time, and
havin bonfires, speeches, &C, im tho evening,
Col. Lord camo back a day or two before, and
was warmly greeted by the whole Regiment.
His hand is nearly well. While tho Vermont
brigade were drawn out in full force on a hill,
witn four batteaies in their rear, to listen to
Washington's Address, the Cameron dragoons
came in at full charge with a squad of mounted
prisoners. They passed near enough to let the
prisoners have a good view of tt,o brigade, and
iiear a few of Washington's words especially
applicable to them, and then took them to
Headquarters, where a news-boy met them shout
ing : Here 's the Philadelphia Press another
great Union victory in Tennessee 50,000 rebels
captured." At the same tune a contraband,
that has been about here for a few days, shout
ed : Dar "s my olo massa, eartin. I runned
away from him 'bout two weeks ;.;.-, an' now
he "s done follereil me, sure 'cough. Mignty
irl-iji t.i win Kityi lirifho Mi. 'i r' I : J ; t ;TM n :'e,-.. IliK
name :s John fnjr. lie got cutout o:s time,
&!. We
o not know how ,vjeri wo nnv nave
to meet the eucniy, but we are ordered to he
pre!
trod to advance.
Ssneatioss Banng Battle.
On.: woo has recently been in battl
and who
desires to cati&fv ti:;: curiosity of thobe v,ito de
sire to know h;w :ac:i unaeeusi.niieJ to s.arnl
lire, felt when first tinder it, says :
do not suppose 1 have luueh physical or
moral courage. br. the sensations under lire,
judging from my experience aro different- from
what is expected.
' reasoning man at first feels nlarmcd, and
Ilia impulse i-; to run away ; and if ho has no
reason to stand, he probably uo.'s run ; but at
each oxp-isuiH he grows less timid, and after
hearing canister and ;;r.tpe ab. ut his ears a
dozen times, begins to think he is not destined
to be hurt.
fie still feels uneasy, perhaps ; but the dan
ger becomes fascinating, and though he don't
wish to bo hit, he likes to have a narrow e-capo
and so voluntarily places himself in a position
where he can incur more risk.
After a little while, he begins to reason the
matter ; reflects upon the Doctrine of Proba
bilities, and how much powder and lead is nec
essarily wasted before any man is killed or woun
ded. Why should ho be, he thinks, so much more
unlucky than many other people? and he soon
can hear the whizzing of bullets with a tolera
ble degne of equanimity, though lie involunta
rily dodg s or tries to dodge tho cannon balls
or shells that go howling around his immediate
neighborhood.
In tho alternoon he ia quite a different creator-
from what ho was in the morning, nml in
voluntary smiles to see a man betray tb.-, same
trepidation which ho himself exhibited a few
hours before.
Tho more he is exposed to tire the bettor he
can l-ar ir. ; :uid the timid being of to day is
ti; l.vr.i e. : ) iw ; and be who runs lrom
danger :."r ; ' ,mm battle field will run into it on
the next, and court the hti.ard he once so
divided.
Tuns covirage, us it is sU led, is little more
with most lucn than cu-tcuii"; and th.-v learn to
despite wbvt h.is olt.-rt t.iireutcne.i" without
ctuMtig licia harm, if wounded, they learn
wounds tiro iw, pi.iiful to bear than they had
tupposed, una then the d.ictiinool probabilities
teaches them once morti they are less liable to
be wounded ir-;at!i. S the mental process goes
on until the nerv.'s become by decrees the sub
jects of v.'.i I ; and he only fears Who has not
tho will to lie bravj.
r . .
Later fiom Europe.
H.VUli-'A, Ajiircl) 1. Tho IiuYul Mail &tw -a-
t :!,p tr'm ''"'"''verpo.d on SaturJ,y, lot;,,
via. 4noeh!town llitli.
It is reported ihat the Tuscarora is at
ler. Tim Sumter was still there wMiou
In the llouho o! L.jms on tli0 14:1;
Stanhopo called intention to tb- vcpm i.
ditioiiui stone blockades at Charh:iri
iked what siet s ifovernment would fa'-,.
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,:;.
and
Karl
lluseell said ho had no official information, and
anew not whether the reports were correct. The
government bad protested against the perma
nent destruction ot any harbor us unjustifiable,
and the American Governni"ut responded that
they had no intention to permanently destiny
thu harbors. The views ot the Frencn govern
ment were identical with thoso of England.
Ihe Government was busilv ll'ee,;.i ine nil liu
information relative to tin blockade to lay be
fore Parliament.
Mr. U Donnoghuo gave notice in the House
of commons, of a motion lor returns as to ell
British vessels which have run the blockade i.r
havo been captured in the effort ; uUo, of all
the British vessels which have put into Nashua
uud other ports with contraband ot war and
been permitted to refit, &o.
A bupplimentary naval estimate asks for an
extra vote of 301.000, which is regarded as
..presenting the expense of tho Mason and Sli
doll affair.
Paris, Feb. 10. The French papers think
the question of Mexico may lead to the fall of
the Cabinet ot Palmerst on. It is believed Enit
land will withdraw from r -expedition should
ns ami be abandoned by Spain and France, and
should they interfere with the iniornal policy of
Mexico. r '
,'Tlie Independence Beige asserts the nositivo
!'2UDM i throne of Mexico by Maxim-
Economy is no disgrace ; it is bolter Urine
on a little than outliving a great deal.
Panic at I'j'ashvii.'o.
correspondent of t. Mtfii.i,!, i
Tlx:
furnishes us the ioliowin
citement :
eeon:
i ti,.;
1
The news
readied Nahv
or
ill.-,
the MilTe
I'll !'.('. ,ee
rJ.T uf
; Sunday mortiine ..u.U cliuri-h t;m,;
Villi;:
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the citizens w
'"V" Ul,:lr UV " tl...,ril(;
of Worslliti. fr,..;r.,,'
; customed
pieces
course, every other con
t .o thought of persona
. . i -"".Hun
consideration mv,. , i ' ' 1
u..i:.... IT l':a't:
.ttieiv. r.Vjl'u
o. transportation
or transportation u .-.mm v;t; en:pVl,.j tl
move furniture and valuables ; the dej.uts wer.
, ..vu6... uu tuuuren, i
i r if.'iniro nil ti iiimii w on 'in, -i). . t ,
ions to leavo tho city ; train afte
till.
train Vnhat
j in motion ; government stores were tliry
I to all who chose to carry theru awav.
"OWilijr.dv
iri't tie-
; groes. Irish laborers, and even genteel-lookin
j persons, could be seen ' toting ' off their t i;e 1
, nog, cmuiuig, m omci piopeny oeiongm tu
I the army, though, by order of the military" u.
thonties, much of this was recovered on rh
ensuing uay. in a siugm word, the city vv
crazy with a panic. Governor Harris is said To
have rode through tiie streets, at the tup of 1,
speed, on horseback, crying out that thu p:lr,en
in tho Capitol must be removed, and subsequent
ly, with the legislature which had at one.' as
sembled, left the city in a special train fur M'-iii-phis.
Still there were some iu Urn eitv wi,
manifested a determination to mako a atatidand
apply the torch to evary house bef.nv it shu!.j
bo surrendered. This state of affairs hist.i.
without much modification, until Monday even
ing, whet: the excitement began tu subside. A.i
the rolling stock of the railroads cmiverginer ;i;
Nashville' was brought into requisition, ati,,.
machinery iu the armory, iiuns, and much val
uable provisions, oce., were removed. S-mu
twins, leaded with women arid children iti-:.!.'
aud crowded with frightened men ot. 'h:; ., ;,
.1 T . . 1 . ... l ".
left the city iu
one dav.
lnH city is aki tu
ind MeCicman:! hiii,.
have boen very u
llHO'ltld,
sr. If confessed that
i,.
was
Hi dally JVc'iv;
( information eonecrinif tho movements .d
ttoops. Phosphorus and othci iiitkuituuit;
compounds have tiintv bw-n found c..M.w;i;ed u
ready '. ii-;, and it is also stared tin,; a tutc
of I': !. .". !l.i;; were dise ivered ; bet nla-i!..
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Town Officers Montpeliar
(v. Vi. Collamor - Moderator,
J-.'cl Foster. Jr., )
Jacob Smith, Se'edmen.
Carlos Bancroft, )
Geo. W. Scott Treasurer
H. V. li:vw:. -')rt,rs':er of I he. Poor.
Robert Ha
first Const (tb!t.
-Second Constaldt.
(has.
LV-ra March Stakr of Weights and M'Cfuri.
Wm. W. Cadwell,
Erustiis Hubbard, Listers.
Silas Burbank,
Geo. W. Oollamer,
Carlos Bancroft, Auditors.
Luther Cross,
C. W. Storrs,
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Arthur Daggett, Fence Viewers.
D. L. Fuller,
Joseph Rowell,
Joseph Rowell, )
II. N. Taplin,
Medad Wright, Jr., )
Town Grand Jurors
iu. cess, i
Win. N. Peck, Inspectors of Ltatiur.
A. J. Keeler, )
David R. Gray Pound Keeper.
Z. C. Camp,
VV. N. Peck, Street Commissioners.
Quincy Cole, )
Chas. D. Swazey Town Superintendent.
It. R. Keith Town Agent.
Selectmen Trusletx Surplus Fund.
J. C. Emery Commissioner of the Cannery.
Berlin. Ckrki. v Wheelock; S'lrcwn
Andrew Cummins, Elijah Nye, Daniel Chiir.il
lor, Jr. ; Constable N. D. Sawyer ; Vnrsi'.r
of Poor William Cuniningx ; Trtasiircr
William Mitchell ; Liskrs Lorenzo Black. E
E. Andrews, Aneon Stebbins.
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Ifo Place for the Eoys.
Does it not seen; aa ii'in some hou-es theic
was actually no p'ace for the boys ? We 'J"
not mean the r.l!e boys theic is always
room fur them ; hey .ro petted and eartsse-J ;
there I,-; a dace ibr them on pupa'?: knee atn
at idtinia's footstool, if not in her arn.s ;
j hero are loving words, and mjtiy, ol'fea v:
I iiKUjy, indulgences. Jut the ciasi we spcau
now ate the schoolboys, great noisy, romp-
! ivir !',i!!i-,u-w wliA troml m Ifnu rtr.tl ill'-
Ewt. vour wo!k-basket. and stand in your liit
&nd whittle ami drum and shout an I
j (pactions and contradict.
i So what is to be done with them '. D
! they not want to bo loved and cherished nw
us dearly as they were in that weil-iemeti.-
bcred time when they were tho littic ones. end
wora indulged, petted, and caressed. lut
i Ley arc so noisy, and they wear out the car
pet with their thick boots, and it is so q'v!
when they are gone, ay the tired mother
and t'.io fastideous. sister and the nervout
nunt ; anything ibr peace' sake, ' arid
away go tho boys to ' loaf ' on street corners
and listen to tho coarse utidprolatic largc1
ol wicked men, or to the unsalc ice, cr to
railroad station, or tho wharves, or the other
common places of rendezvous of those who
have iiotLitig to do cr placu to stay.
But ,t is argued there are few boys u
cant to stay in the house after school, and it
ia better they should play in the open air
all of which ia true. Wo argue tor tliof
dull dtiys and stormy days and cveoingf alt
evenings, iu which they wish to May if' ol"
ought to bo kept in, und in which if kept in
they mako themselves and everybody else un
comfortable. We protest against the usage
of thego homes where the pother is busy i
her sewing or her baby, and tbe father is b'
Borbod with the newspaper in the evening
which he never leads aloud, and tbe boy
must ' bit still and not. make a ooisc ' or g
immediately to bed. They hear the mcrr
voices of other boyi jn jthd . htr,cqt8, and long
to join them ; home is a dull place ; they
will soon te a little older, and theu. say they,
, ' we will go out and see for oursolves wh