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The Itaclielor Old Cliair. BT W. M. THICK XEAT. In tattued old ilippart that toast at th&ban. And a raj-ed old jacket perfumed with clgarr. Away- lrom the world and iti toils and Us caret, I've a mo little kingdom up four pair of atatr. To mount to tail realm la a toil, to be lure Bat the Are there ii brixat and the air li ratbsr pare ; And the view I behold on a mnBhlny day. Is grand tbroash the cuimner-potj over tha way. This snuj little chamber la crammed In all nooks, Wiih worthless knicanaeka and silly old bvoks, And foolish old odds and toolisb old idt. Cracked berpain a from brokers, cheap keepsakes from friends. No better dlvm need the sultan requlre.1 Than the creakin old sofa that banks by the fire ; And 'tis wonderful, aurelv, whatmailc you Ret From the rieaetj , ramshackle, wheeay spinet. That praInz rug rime lrom a Turcoman's camp; By Tiber once tn inkled tba t brazen old lamp ; A Mameluke fierce j onder dagger baa drawn t 'TIS a muraerons knife to toast muffins upon. Cut of all the cheap treasures that carnirti my neat, There'a one that I love and 1 cherish the heat ; For the finest or couches that's padded with hair I never would change thee, my cane-UttomI chair. Tis a bandy-lesjed, hljh-ihouldered, worm eaten fat. ..... With aereakinroldbacL, and twisted old feet. Put store the fair moroint when Fanny sat there. I bless thee, and love thee, old cane bottomed chair. If chairs have bnt feelings In boldfnjr, such charms. A thrill must have rassea thronch jour withered oIderm) I looked, and I loned, and I wished In despair; I wiibed mytelf turned to a'ean-bottcmed chair. It was bnt a moment aha sit In th'a place, SheM a tcaif on her nerk, and a smile on her face. A smile on her lace, and a rose tn her hair,? And she sat there and bloomed In my cane-bottomed ehilr. When the candle burn low, and the ou&vpanj's scne. In the silence of night as I ait here alc-ue I ait here alone, tut we yet are a pair My Fanny I see m my cane bottomed chair. Fhe comes rcm the past and revisits my rwni ; She looks as she then did, all beauty ind bloom ; So smllinz and tender, so fresh and so fair. And s onder she sits la my cane-bottomed chair. IV obotl y. I f Dobod) 'a noticed jou, j on must ts small t If nobody's alighted 3 ou,)oa must retail. If nobody 'i bowed toaoa. 3umuft be low ; If nobodj s kissed you, 3ou're.ugly, we know. If nobodj a envied you, you're a poor elf ; ir nobodj' flattered j on flatter ytantlt ; It nobody' cheated ou. you are a knate , jf nobody bitca 3 cu, you are a slave. If nobodj 'a called you a fool to jfn.r face, Somebod) ' wished lor your back tn Its place t If nobod t e called j ou a "tyrant" or "scold," Somebody thinks 3 ou of spiritless mold. If nobody knows of 3 our faults bnt a friend, Nobody will miss them at the world's end ; tl nobody clinss to your purse like a fawn, Nobody'U run like a bound when Its cone If nobody's eaten bis bread lrom your stcre, Nobody '11 call you a miserly bare ; If nobody 'a slandered you here Is our pen, Sisn yourself 'tobodj quick as you can. 4TerjV This try small word is very o ften used in the English language when a sent ence would bo very much stronger and the meaning very mucu more iorciuie wiiuuui iu If a man has not much hair on the top of his head, it is not enough for people to sim ply Fay that he is balo, bnt he is very bald. A man is not stingy, but he is very stingy, when the one goad trong word sting)' would put the whole point forcibly. A doc tor of divinity is not learned, but very learn ed ; a doctor ofjncdieine is not crotchety, he is very crotchity, w bile a lawyer is not cun ning, but very conning. In the same way, a young lady is not handaome, but ery band tome. Ihe qualifier has become no common that it is weakening to the word it is joined to. In nine cases out of ten where the word tery is used to intensify hunvin speech, a tin gle, bold word without the rerv would hit the meaning like a hammer, and drive it home with a directness unknown to clogged and hampered eipression. ery seems to be a word designed by providence for young ladies to express their feelings with. This txrtion of thb commu nity probably could not get on without their adverb, but the English of the rest of the race would be strengthened if the little quali fier were relf gated almost wholly to the fair class to whom it belongs. It creeps into our literature as insidoously as the mease Is into a family of fifteen, and onco there, it stays like an office-set kr. It brtaks ont every where, even in the most high-toned and "cnltivate-d writing. A newspaper, which is authority on tho art of Iiternry composi tion, prints, for instance, a thrilling descrip tion of a brilliant party. Every lady present was very much this or that. Mrs. Blank, who was a very intimate friend of Sirs. Dash, wore a very handsome green satin dress, and had - very handsome silver comb in her back hair. Mrs. General Hash wore an exceed ingly becoming dress, which was very elabor ately made. Two young hitlies, whoso dress es were exceedingly becoming and very graceful, were accompanied by a young man who had a very light moustache. Everybody was either Ttry," or 'exceedingly," or 'ex tremely," or "most highly" something. The air bristled with superlatives. It combines instruction with amusement to count the 4'verits" in a column of news paper advertiecme nts. A "general house work" applicant is not content with being a respectable woman and a good cook. She is a very resectable woman and a very good cook. It is enough, in all conscience, to be said of a woman that she is a superior wait ress. Superior itself means better than good, but this uncommon waitress tacks on the word "very," too, and thus becomes very better than good. The climax cf veriuess is reached, how ever, by a gtrL She is "a very competent cook, understands waiting at table in a very efficient manner, and is in all respects very first-class.' "In all respects very first-class qualifications" is good. It is only equaled by the young man who was a very perfect horse man, and rode a very black horse. A fine example, too, of the redundant 'very" is the reply of the old tar who was blown over board at Trafalgar, and rescued with much difficulty, and who, long afterwards, being asked by a sympathetic lady how he felt on that occasion, answered "Wet, ma'am, very wet " The English Spahhow. Mr. J J. II. Gre gory, the Marblehead seedsman, writes to the Massachusetts Ploughman, as follows "In answer to your inquiries relative to the sentiment in England concerning the Eng lish sparrows, I would say that while there a few years since I was asked by an intelligent lady if it was true that the Americans had introduced tbcm into their country ;and, on my replying in the affirmative, she expressed great aurpnse, saying that tbey were the greatest nuisance they had in their grain fields ; that her husband estimated that his annual loss woul d av erage a hundred pounds sterling yearly, and that unless with change of climates they utterly change their habits, we Americans would bitterly repent our ex periment. l'roni what I have gathered from conversation and observation I should class them a robber bird, a pest and annoyance to several of our native species, and probably a future sonree of vast injury to the grain fields of the West. Unless some prompt means is taken to check their increase, I am prepared to bear before many years that they rank with the army worm and weavil, causing a los of millions yearly in the grain crops of the county," Frof. Gocssmann writes us "In response to your inquiry I will ray that tho sparrow you reft-r to is universally regarded as a pest and nuisance in Europe. Its depredations ou the grain crops are ery eitinsive and vexatious, so much so indeed that for years, in many parts of Germany, a bounty has been offered for its destruction," Frrach Satiate ttomrn. HOW UOUEN' HAVE THEItt EIOHTS IN Hit IS Paris Correspondence of the Baltimore American. In examining the French department a great many ot the depositors apjiear before the jury accompanied by their wives, who tak an active part in describing the mo Jo of manufacture of the goods, and expatiate most volubly or their superiority and tho uses for which they are intended. In many cases it is evident that the n if is the master mind of the ertablit-bnieut, and knows more about the business than the husband. It is a will known fact that there are f-w really proliferous business men in l'aria who do not owe a great tie al of theis aucccas to their wives. Indeed, theroaro very few establish ments in Paris, wholesale or retail, in which women do not occupy most of the im portant tuitions of trust and responsibility. In many of tho large t and most successful establiEbments the wife is the principal business manager American merchants who come here annually to buy goods state that they transact most of their business with tha wives of the merchants, who aro eenerallv on duty in the wholesale houses during business hours. When purchasing goods nearly aa important emesiions are answered by the ft mala clerks or saleswo men, the male clerks being mostly engaged in the handling of goods, baling all the brain work for the women. In many casus the wife is called upon to make agreements or answer questions when the husband is pre sent, indicating that she was the brains of the establishment Jennie June would be delighted with this fiature of l'arisian life, though she would likn to see the signs changed and nin dam's name substituted for that of the husband However, there are many willows wh'j continue to conduct the bnaineas of their late hasbands.and some of them in their own name.1 here can be no dontt that the average French woman is BUfierior to the average Frenchman in business tact and enterprise, as she is also superior to him in physical tletelopment ana auuress When passing the small atoren at night tho wife is een at the desk, pen in band, keep ing books, and thousands of tho smaller stores in Fans are kept by women. They undoubtedly have great business capacity, energy and enterprise, an. take more than their lull share in supplying tho means for the maintenance or the household. A Frenchman leniaiked in our bearing the other day that he believed there are as many womeu in Paris who support their husbands as there are husbands who support theis wives The prudent wife generally manager to live Iree ot rent by rentiug a flat of rooms and sub-letting enough of them to pay the rent for the whole. The American ladies who visit I'aris and e ind so much money that they had no part in earning generally return belter Fatisfied with their lot in life, and convinced that their destiny has been more fortunate than that of most of the sisterhood in the old world. However, a business woman is seldom an unhappy woman, as the business man who makes money is more happy and contented than the man who does nothing but squander money that he did not make. VOL. LI. NEWSER1KS, VOL. XXlV. su.hhay iikatsixis. "raiiLY Qivr." n;. -1 ttiA mnnlnir vliloh flows out of beaten : G Ive ! as the waves whoa their channel lis riven ; im e ! as the rree air ana sunsnine ere ritcu . Lavishly, utterly, ceaselessly jive t Vi.t thA witM Htati rtT thv Pun nverflowlntT. Mor the faint sparks of thy hearth ever clow In;, blot a pale bud from the .1 une roses blowing. uive, as tie gave wee, wno gave inro 10 ronr out thy ire like the rush of a river, Wastln Its waters f jret er and ever. E'en throuzb burnt sands Uatrewardnotthe fcirer; Hilnt fir nnffiil. thnii nwarn.t the eft 1 Scatter thy life, like the summer showers' pouring. wnai 11 no rtird tnrcuzotnepeari rain po roariut; What If no bloom lout upward aiorinR I iiooa 10 ine ii e mat was javivneu iur iu Uive' though thy heart should be wasted and wear. Laid on an altar all ashen and dreary ; Tbouzh lrom t:s pulses a llnt miserere reaia 10 iny dp in a saa presasu vi mo ; Rind It witD oords of unshnokin'T devotion Smile at the nnn; ot its ceaseless emotion ' us me siern n)mn 01 eternity ucuan -Hear 1 and In Bilence thy future await Almost the day of thy givlnzisover; Frn from the rnM dies the bee haunted clover. Thou wilt have vanished from friend and from lover ; v, hat ihtll thy lons;lnt avail In the srave I Give ! as the heart give, whose ft lUrs are break In Life, love, and hope, all thy dreams, all thy wak Sonn Heaven's river thy soul fever sUklne, Tkou Hiltinow Go4 and the gift that tie jait. The truest end of life is to know tho life that never ends. William Fenn. Everyman is Imrn for heaven ; and ho is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in tho world, and he is eclnd ed who does not. Swede nl-org. Entire candor and honesty regarding our selves, instead of being the first, is one of the last and highest attainments of a perfect ly fashioned character. Shairp. Whoever would be sustained by tho hand of God, let him constantly lean upon it. Whoerer w ould be defended by it, let him patiently repose himself under it. Calvin. Ily two wing3 a man is lifted up from things earthly, namely, by simplicity and purity. Simplicity ought to be in our in tention ; pnrity in our affections. Simpli city doth tend towards God ; purity doth ap prehend and test him. Thomas A'Kempis. Jesus is the rmrest amonc the mighty, tne mightiest among the pure, who, with his pierced hands, has raised empires from their toundations, turned the stream of history from its old channel, and still continues to rule and guide the ages. Hichter. Ihe clrnds, which rise with thunder, slake Our thirsty soola with rain ; The blow most dreaded falls to break rom cfl oar limbs a chain ; And wrongs of man to man but make The love cf tiod more plain. As through the thadowy lens of nn 1 he e)e looks lartbext Into heaven Ud eleBtoi tl star and depths of blue 1 be elarinz sunshine never knew ! Whtttter. Nothing is beneath you if it is in the di rection nt vonr bfe : nothiuc is ercat or de sirable if it is ofl'and away from that. Em erson. Tho worst slander often has in it some truth, from which we mav learn a lesson that may make us wiser, and if we wilL better. wuen me ursi sniari ti ii it utt-r. ii. Robertson. It is a most important lesson, and too little thought of, that we learn bow to enjoy ordi nary life, and to be able to relish our being, without the transport of some passion, or the gratification ot some appetite Steele. The best books for cs aro not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet our peculiar wants, and the natural thirst of our minds, and which there fore awaken interest aua rivet thought. C banning. Every man takes care that his ntighlor shall not cheat him. Hut a day comes when be begins to rare that he do not cheat bit neighbor or himself. Thn all goes welL He has changed his market-cart into a char iot of the sun. Emerson. BtJ there m heart within that breast of thine I Ihen compass reverently Its sacred shrine; ror me uue spiritual uaioa n me neari,' jtca noprt-aa pneoi p-risnaoie aru U hen tiLd ordained me Dllerim rite, that alan VI aa meant to lead thv moacht to minus divine. A thousand times Af treads that round la vain Who e'en one human heart would laly pain. Leae wea.th behind; brinxUod thy heart-bent light To guide thy warning strps through life's dark nlRht. tiod spurns the riches cf a thousand ceffer. And says, m chosen la he bis heart who cSers. Hot fold, nor silver seek I, but above Alt ctlts the heart, and buy ltwitb my love Yea, one sad, contrite heart, which men despise, Mnntlhin mv thrnn anrt Bind deerrp I nniB. Then think not lowly of thy henrt. though lowly, yor holy Is It, ana there dwells tbelloly. Uod' presence -chamber Is the human breast ; Ah ' happy be white heart holds such a cueeL To pray with all your heart and atrength, 1 with the reason and the will, to believe viv idly that Godwin listen to younoicc through , Christ, and verily do the thing that pleases j Ilim as best, this is the last, the greatest i achietcment of the Christian's warfare on earth. - Coleridge. All that goes to constitute a gentleman the carriage, gait, address, voice ; tho eae, the self-possession, the courtesy, the success in not offending, the lofty principle, thede- ; licacy of thought, the taste and propriety, the cenerositv ana loroearance. the canuor and consideration- these qualities some of them come by nature, some ol them may bo found in any rank, some of them are a di rect precept of Christianity John Henry New man. Is It true, O Christ In beaven. That me wisest sutler rooit T That the stronjrst wander larthest, And most bopelersly are hst t That the mark of rank in natore Iscapacity for pain, Abd tie angnUn or the singer, Makes the swettness ol the ktruln Nothing is beneath on if it if in the di rection ot your life ; nothing is great or de sirable if it is off and away lrom that.- Em erson. God made the soul to correspond with truth. Trnth is its own evidence, as the lightning flash is, as the blcsbed sunsbiue is. It. V, Koucribon. Tho Providence whieh watches per tho affairs of men works out of their mistaken, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest fore- thongLt. rrouae. As sonu as salvation was taken out of the bauds ol God, it fell into the hands of the priests. The latter set themselres in the place or the lord, ana sonu athirst tor par don might no longer look toward heaven, but the Church. D'Aubigue. The turning point in every man's religious exirience is, not when he says; 1 be lieve," but when hosaya : I will," A man is not a Christian in proiortion to the amount of truth he puts into his creed ; but iu pro portion to the amount oi trniu he puis into his life. Ir. J. Walker. We smile at the ignorance of the savago who cuts down tho tree in ordtr to reach its fruits ; but the fact is that a blander of this description is made by eery person who is over-eager and iuiimtient in the pursuit of pirn re. Channing. If the skits were bluer, And foes were fewer. And fewer the storms on land and en ; Were eh my summers I'erpeiual oomers Whit an L tpl a this would 1-e If Life Mere kmrer. And tallb were monger. If I'leasure would bule-lf l're nuuld Use , If eaeh were brelher Toatlthther, What auAroAdla this would ba Were Greed abutiebed, And (Jain deuiollahml. Were Slavery chained, and Freedom free . If all earth's troubles Collapsed like bubbles What an hi ium this would he Duty is a power which rises with us in tho morning, and goes to rest with us at night. It is co-extensive with the action uf our in telligence. It is the shadow which leave a tous, go where wo will, ami which only leaves us when wo leave the bht of life Gladstone Conscience is your magnetic ntedla. Kt-a-son is our chatt. Itut I would rattier have a crew willing to follow tho indieations of the nedle, nnd giving themselves no great troublo as to the chtrt, than a crew that had ever so good a chart and no needle at all. Joseph Ceok. raw ! Tin itT I eaunot see with my small buoi-in sight. Why (J'xl cheuld lmd this way or that lor me , lonly know he salth, "Ci.lld, follow me" j Uut I can tru't. 1 know not why my path should 1-e at li'ot-a Ho ftralghtl and so strangely barred before, 1 only know 14 w.uld ktrp wide the dtor But I cm truit. I cannot knew why suddenly the sh.rm bhould rage so heroely round me In Its wrath , but this I know Hud watches all my path , And 1 can trust. I may not draw aside the mystic veil That hltes ihe unknown lulnre from my sizht . Nor know If for me waits the dark or liyht; But I can trut. I have no power to look across the tide, lo kuow, whilehere, the laud txiynnd the river. Hut thli I know. I aball be tiod's forever i Ho 1 can trust. !tta?4. Ihe wealth of a man if thei number eif things which be loves ami Messes, wiacli ho is loved ami blessedby. -Cailyle. Give a man such a heart as the son ed Go.! dPsrvibpH intho beatitudes, and a whole uni verse of sorrow cannot rob him of bis bless edness. Kpurgeon. Sustain and comfort vonrrfelf in the Ior.i and bo strong in his power if you are nuder the Ixird's crofts, for you arc in the listen ana enmmou wsy to beaten ' -LuuuiLiioru Think not that a pleaure which God hnth lureaienpii. nor iuhi a blesmnG wuicu ijchv- en hath corned. True ppintual joy and pleasure come only by following that which is gooa. nonaries. The Barlow Rubble. From the Newport rxrress, Au;.-Mh. The Convention at Pt Albans was not nearly as large, taking tho largest estimate, as wo supposed it would be. lrom Newport about 200 took the train, a large majority of whom were minors and CJrout men ; not ovrrSOor 75 ol tho number wore Harlow men. Thev came lrom all the adjoining towns and from Canada. From the labor put forth in this vicinity the number of voters die-ati-ned with Grout's nomination wh wcut to St. Albacs was insignificant ; the movement w as In great measuro a fizzle except in noiso. Yet Orleans played an im portant part in tho Convention. Wo aro told that tho meeting was very quiet and apparently but very littlo enthu-iastn was displayed except by a little rquad from this section who did the yelling at tho beck ol their leader. Tho citizens of St. Albans alone, it they aro H ficb. worshipers of Harlow as we are told they are, could havo made up a larger crowd than all who as sembled there on Saturday. There were oume from Orleans and Lamoille counties, but largely from Franklin, placing the movement.as we havo beloro said, in Frank lin county and especially in St Albans. Albert Clarke ol the Messenger, Ilirlow'd chief man, who nominated nim at llydo park and afterward- in a very neat speech moved lo make Grout's nomination unani mous, hand-omelv accepted the Mtuation and pledged his support to CJrout; who im mediately alter the Convention wrote plea-ant words about Grout and placed bis name at the head of bis paper ft his candi date for Coheres this samo Col. Clarke was called upon and mads this noat little speech a model speech for a model man : 'I hare hesitated aboot appearing oa ac count of having at Ilydepark acquinced in Grout'n nomination. My reasons for now appearing are the conduct of the Grout men. I think I missed it when I moved to make (JroutV nomination unanimous." He then asked to be excused while bo could go to his office and haul down Grout's name and hoist Barlow's. This is the man who at Hydepark warmed with so much enthusi asm in speaking of the Republican party, of Mr. Harlow and himseir as being "as true i do thn nen.lfrt tn thft nnlrt. I One little incident is worthy of note. I n hen the member of the committee intro duced the nominee to tho convention, be was so elated, or his tongue was so tired, that he addrecd him as liarlq UraJIow. If general report cin be depended upon there was a good deal ot liquid ''barlsy" and lager. beer on draught that day, and some became badly demoralized before reaching homo. Not a few who went from I this section unsettled in their minds came back diiUtcd with the proceedings, and are firm Oiout men. From several who wero prc-cnt, as well as from tho reports published in tbo St. Albans papers, we are led to believe that tbo convention did not meet tho expectations of the bolters. We believe it maaa a goodly numoer ol votes for Grout. O. S. Dormao. in his speech at St. Al bans, aid : "Ihe Grout men brought a man from Charleston to make a fatso affida vit aeaint Harlow, and carried on a campaign or falsehood again-t Harlow.' Such tils as that might go fjr truth at Sc. Albans, where neither Mr. Dorman nor the facts in the ca-o are known, but hero the statement made by Mr. Dorman is known to he an unmitigated and wilful lie! lie known that tbo statement of Mr. Carpenter, as published, was correct ; ho Knows, too. that Mr. Ktnirsley. of Si lcm. received money from Wm. II. llinmao, as ho says in tho statement, $'20, with the promise ot $vJ0 more at llydepark. llo knows that a man lrom Newport under tno assumed name of Hlaisdell, a horse buyer j from Kichlord. visited another delegate and tried to buy him lit knows too, that donoc tho progress oi too Dauots at two or tbrce different times ond fatso ballot was cat and once certainly counted lor Harlow, mating him with Grout. Perhaps he does not know that at tho next billot when everything was at stako with Harlow and if po-Mble be must lend Grout, a delegato from E-ex county was offered $300 to voto for Hirlow and wasattcrwards told by tho individual who offered it, that be was authorized lrom headquarters to have made tho ofTer $500, $1,000, or any sum in his discretion in order to securo bis vets. It will require much more than Dormari s utterance. "1 aeciaro ino cnarge absurd," to gainsay theso facts. herc has been tau laiseuood. tne ai honesty, tbo corruption, in this campaign? Who havo packed caucuses or attempted to do so? Ask the people in Jay, Newport and lra-burgh. Who have held primary meetings em unduly abort notices ? Go mto the town of Georgia, where tho caucus was held beforo tho call for tho convention even was issued. And then becausa these prac tices were called di-honft and the victory over tbem mildly tyled a victory for tho i : . i j t l. .1. r .: . rigm, excue is luunn ur it turn, vku-isi ency, thou art a jewel. Bill andlUrad. A LITTLB ST0RT WIT11 A MORAL. fWa are indebted tu a ladv crre?Dundent in La- mwllle tuu nty. Ux the Mlonin; little tale f.-r the times. Kb. F.P.I Onco on a time there were two boys named Hill and Urad. They lived, with many other boy, with a fine old gentleman iduiiliariy known as uncio Siin . now, in one of his gardens among the mountains was a tree which in September of every ntbrr year bore a beautiful golden plum, which, of course, many a boy would like for bim'-clf. Who t-hould have it was de cided by vote, and sometimes the lucky boy who had the most votes was so generous as to let thovo who bad helped him most suck a little of the juice. Ono year tho contest lay between Hill and Brad, and when tbe vote was taken, lo ' Hill was cbo"en, Hrad was sadly cut up at this, but at first be behaved like a man about it. They all saw how pale bo looked, and knew he was sadly disappointed : but, for all that, he walked up ana shook bands with Hill. "I congratu late vou. Kill." he said : "you've made a square flight and woo, and you're entitled to the plum. 1 guarantee that my friends will make you no more trouble. All right,"replied Hill. "I am glad to take your hand; hut you've made mo a great deal of trouble." "Never mind, old fellow, 1 shan't make you any mure." "1 move that we make tho voto unani mous,' haid ono of Hrad's best friend". Tbo move was carried, three cheers were given for Hill, and tbo crowd dispersed to await tbe day when ho should gather the golden plum, with never a thought of any further contest Kverybody said that Hrad badl acted lito a little man. Hut protty soon Urad began to feci differently, when he came to think it over, and realized that it was a great dis appointment to give up all cbanco of get ting tbat hcaotilul plum. And thero were a!l tbe boys who had worked for bis inter est, expecting a tada of the juico,just as disappointed as he ' Let's get up a bolt," Miggostcd some of the thirtiet. "Hut won't that ha moan? What excuse can wo niako for it, after wo all agreed to abide by the vote, and all went in and made it unanimous?" asked ono cau tions boy. 'LctV say that Hill gained tho vote un fairly." "That our ido has been abused and mis represented." "That Hill's organ has played terribly insulting tunes to us." (This boy didn't pause to consider that Hrad many organs had made tbo most ahusivo music tboy woro capable of ) "That they would havo bolted if Hrad had been chosen." 'That'ii easy enough to say, who knows but they would." 'My heart is full," Haid Hrad, wiping away a toar with bis coat-sleevo , "I'm in tbe hands of my frionds." 'Hut," asked tho cautious hoy, "what good will bolting do ? Voting over again won't change matter1', unices wo can get Homo of those ftlkws on tho other side to vote for us." "Wo can't buy many of Vm, I know," said Hrad, "for I'vo tried all tho doubtful ones." "Let'i trap Vm," suggested a sbrowd one,l hayo it' Wo '11 make a big trap, and bait it with sumething good, and when a lot ol 'em get fairly to rating, we'll have em counted lor us. Turtlo soup '" cried one, '"that's tho ticket! (Sretn turtle has jut come into tho marker, and some ol those fellows aro dreadful loud of it.' ' I hai'.s the plan 1 'Ihe bolt for our fellows and the Greenback snup to trap enough of the others to make us win." Su tho bolt was declared and Hrad's boys were instructed to jump up and down, and holler that Hrad bad ( been abused, and he was not going to stiok to his promise to male Hill no more trouble, unless bo chose to- Meanwhile a bi trap was quietly built, a nice soup of Green hack turtle made ready, and on the day ol the bolting vote the trap was thrown ooon. Over came mme ol Hill's friend, temp tod by the smell of the soup. "Walk ritfht in and help yourselves," said the bolter, politely ''it's all a free treat. only ho eood enough to tarn your coatt the other suln out, juit as a token that vou appreciate our kindness, you know.' " That's eay enough dune," said tho boys. Their coats were quickly turned, and intj tbe trap tbey fljeked. Tho boys enjoyed the soup, and ate on placidly. Over on their side of the yard Hdl's count was, of course, diminished by their absence, whila Hrad's friends quietly winked to tbo tellers, and ssid, "Count in thoe fellows for us that are eating Green back soup ; they're on our side of tho yard, and you can sou that their coats aro turned. This plot might havo succeeded; but tbat a lot of Brad'a boys said to each other : 'This U mran business. It was mean in Brad,af'.cr this thing was fairly settled once and be and Hill shook hand", tj try to stir it all up again. And it is a mean trick this soup dodgo. We shall want to play with thoso boys hereafter, and sometime when we succeed in electing a boy on our side to have the plum, wo shall want them to agree tbat he shall have it. Hut if we help this mean busines-s they never will trust us. or play with us any more, or havo anvtbing to do with u. Hrad ain't tho boy wo thought be wa, so let's go in and help Bill." And so most of tbo boys who had been on Hrad'.s side declared that Hill should havo tho plum. So ho took it, and thought about as mucn of tbe honorahle boys on Hrad's side, as he did of his own original friends. As for tho boys in tbe soup trap, the soud made tbem sick and they were gUd to go borne and say nothing about it. As for Hrad, even his own friends who put him up to break his word and trick his playfellows, depi-od him after it was all over ; and ho was glad to go off to another part ol bU Uncle Samuel farm, wlicro nobody would see him. MOBAL. Firstly Tbo foolish fly walkcth into tbo trap and the canning spider gobbloth him up. Secondly There is said to be "honor among thieves." Lst some of our public men go out among tbo thieves and try to get some. From' oar Kezular Correspondent. "Prospect Park," Montpcller. The August meeting or tbo I'ropcct Driv ing Park Association, which was held on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, is without disputo the most successful meet iog ever held since the organization of tbe Association. The track was in splendid condition, and the "clerk of the wcatbor" seemed to have arranged his department for tbe especial accommodation of tho rark any slight showers passing this way, wero carried around over tbo neighboring hill, and gave no trouble to thoso assembled to witnes tbo races. The entries and summary of the races, have already been given in your columns ; but some incidents connect cd with tho meeting deserve more than a passing notice. Prospect Driving Park Association was organised In Montpelier, in 167, for tho purpose or giving to this town, and to tbo county as well, a first-class driving park, with a track tbat would oomparo favorably with other tracks in the State. Tho Association is composed of gentlemen of ample financial ability, with J. Warren Ha i Icy as president, J. W. Brock as treasurer, and L. Hart Cro-s as secretary, tho names of the tbreo principal officers being a sufficient guarantee to tbo public thtt whatever programme the Association may offer for lb entertainment of tbe public will bo scrupulously and faithfully carried out. Tbe Ptrk is com posed of about thirty-fire acres of land, Mtuated on a tablo land some two miles southeasterly of the village of Montpelier, commanding a fine view of tbo surrounding country, and has been fitted up at an cx- : pitiful over $ti.etXi. and tho track is pro nounced ty trackmen to bo one of tho host In tbe State. Tbo Association is a moniber , of tbo National lrotting Association, and all races on the park are governed by the rules of tbo National Association. Tbo free uc of the grounds have been granted for five years to the Washington County Agricultural Society, and the annual ex hibitions of that society will hereafter bo held on this Park. As a financial investment, the Prospect Driving Park has not thus far proved a paying institution, partly from tbo fact that tho excellent facilities it affords for trotting sports have been too little known by horsemen ; and partly from the fact that tbe people in the immediate vicinity ot tbe Park havo too little appreciated the efforts of those who have had it in charge to furnish fmt class entertainments, and almost at their immo diato doors. Some of these most anxious to witness the race, and the bost ablo to pat ronize tbem, aro best pleased to steal their plcasuro from a distant bill-ido, rather than como in at the front gate and pay man fully for what costs others money to offer for their amusement. Perhaps too, tbo management of the park has not been en tirely freo from criticism ; but time and ex perience will right a'l such matters, it only those really interested in trotting sports will aid tbo Association by their patronage and councils. Tho objectionable features of such races can bo removed only ic re-ponso to popular demands, for we are sure that tbe managers ot Prospect Park deire first of all to pleaso and satisfy their patrons ; and if, in doing tbat, it roults in a profit to themselves financially, they, too, will be pleased. Tuesday's races embraced tbe $150 purse, open to horses that had never beaten 2:50; and the $200 purse, open to horses that had never beaten 2.35. Tho trotting in both theso races was very fine ; but especially notice abla was that ol "Gray Friar" (entered by If. a. Town, of Morrisville), in tbe find, and "Drover Hoy" (entered by John Utton,of Morrisville), in the second, both horses tak ing tbeir tbreo straight heats, with scarcely a skip or a break from the commencement "Lady Morrill" from Stowe, "Bellevue Hoy" from St. Albans and "Volunteer Girl" from Concord, N. II., in tho first race; and "Anna Low" from Concord, N. 11., and "Village Hoy" from St. Albans, in tbe second race, each showed themselves to bo gcod, square trotters, and failed of winning the first money in their respectiro races only because there woro better burses in their company. Tbe Wednesday' races comprised a purso of open to horses that bad never beaten three minutes; a purso of $200,open to horses tbat had never bcatnn 2.113 ; and a purse of $250, freo for all. The horses en tered for the tbreo-minute race wero prompt ly called at 2 o'clock, and with very little delay in scoring were sent to tho word "Go," "Gray Friar" having the pole. In this raco mno horses started ; and beforo they had reached tho first quarter a man named Joseph Pearsons, from Calais, who was too badly intoxicated to know what ho was about, attempted to cross tho track im mediately in front of "Gray Friar" as he was leading tbo race at a 2:50 gait, and was struck by 'Uray Friar " squarely in tho breast. Pearsons was kuueked to the ground nearly insensible, Gray Friar " was thrown upon his sido and his sutkoy, with its driver, Mr. II. S. Town, making a summersault over his bead. " Volunteer Girl, " from Concord, N. II., being next to "Gray Jriar, "her sutkoy struck that of " Gray Friar" and threw tbedrivcr, Mr. II. G. Smith, leaving tbo "Girl" to run wild, which she did, leaving tbe track and running in among the crowd of peopla and teams, leaping completely over one wagon beforo sho wasstopped, strangely enough hurting no ono, and causing but little in jury to herself. The driver of " Geld Dun " lrom Ht. Jobnsbury, Mr. Horace Peck, was aNo thrown from hU sulkey, and the sulkey turned completely over sideways both shafts being on tbo near sido of tbo horse, with ono tug broken, and in that condition " GJd Dust " in ado nearly two complete circuits ol the track, before ho as stopped. The other six horses escaped tho accident all right. Tbo strangest part of tho accident was tbat, with the ezcrption of Pearsons who was tbe cauio ol it, no person on the ground was material ly injured, and even Pearsons was ablo to bo carried home before nubt. Mr. Smith, tho driver of " Volunteer Girl," was pretty badly lamed, but not sufficiently to prevent his driving his favorite mare '' Anna Low," and winning first money in tbe J.34 race. Every hore, in tho accident, catno to tbo stand for a send off in tbe second host, ex cept Volunteer Uirl," and she was alter wards found not to Im in u oil injured. It was a most miraculous escape from what at first looked to bo an inevitable calamity ; and all the ro-ult of the drunken recklessness of tho man Pearsons. Fortunately it was tho only thing that occurred to mar tbo complete success ol tho meeting ;" and il Mr. Pear sons will learn from it that a clear bead and steady nerve aro to be preferred to tho bnof fuddle of whiskey and lager beer, it may do oven him some good. Alter the acci dent, ' Gray Friar" easily won tbe second, third and fourth heats in the three niinuto race, with " Tim, driven by Tierney, of St. Albans a good second In tbe 2.38 race "Abbio P." from Morris ville, took tho first two heats, but, laming herself in a bad break, was compelled to give way to "Anna Low" from Conuurd, wno won her laurels in boo style. I in mo tree tor u race ' iuecnes Ala id wai the. favorite at th itart, but It wit one BURLINGrTON, VT., If HID AY of her "ofTdays" and her driver could not hold her to tho work, and she was easily dis tanced in tbe first beat, which was won, together with the second and third heats, by Tom Pink" entered byT. W.Utton oi Morrisville. who bad it pretty much all his own way. There wero some fine bursts of speed between "Mattie" from Morris ville, and Village Boy "from St. Albans in their content for tbe second money, but the skillul handling of Mattio" finally won for bcr tbat position. ltogetbcr the August meeting of Pros pect Park Association seems to inaugurate a now era in tbe history of the Park; and when next they have so fine and successful an exhibition, may wo bo there to see all except tbe accident and tbe cause of it. X. Crrrnbatk State Convention. Tho Greenback State Convention which was adjourned from Burlington on tbs 1st to St. Albans, met in tbat village, on Wed nesday, tbo Greenback Club room. Nelson Nyc, of lligbgato presided. Mr. Kidder of Winooski and C. A. Steels of St. Albans were elected assistant-secretaries. A com mittee of ono from each county represented was appointed to present a State ticket. Tbe committee was as follows : Addison county, Mr. C. C. Martin ; Chit tenden, O. K. Coon; Franklin, J. G. Jenne; Grand Isle, H. R. Hathaway; Lamoille, Henj. Scott : Orange, J. J. Pratt: Orleans, M. T. Hatch ; Washington, Geo. W. Ran dall. The Convention then adjourned for din ner. AFTERNOON, Gen. Stannard, for tbo committee on nominations read tho following report : Governor C. C. Martin, Ferrisburgh. Lieut -Governor J. W. Currier, Troy. Treasurer Fletcher Tarble, Swan ton. Stata Committee W. 0. Heath, Johnson, C F. Clough Watcrbury. C. A.Sktel-s St. Albans. As a state committee had been before ap pointed, the tbreo additional names pre sented were added to the committee. Tbe report of tbe nominating committee was then accepted and adopted. Mr. Martin, tho nominee for governor, was introduced and said ho was a plain farmer, owning his farm and $7,000 in bank-stock, and in favor of honest money and equal taxa tion. Ho did not expect to be elected but some une must bear tbe standard. Tbe chief speech of tbs occasion was by Gen Horace B. Sargent. Remarks were made by T. S. McGinnis, Gen. Stannard, Messrs. Tarble, Forest, B afford, Burgees and others. On motion of Mr. Wheelock, of Milton, tbo convention thanked Gen. Stannard for his efficient services as secretary, and ad journed. Tbe Efaaons Why. 1 o the t'ditur of the Free Pran and Timei : When couiioi from St, Albans, just before tbe call for the Bolters Convention, I met tho Hon. K. D. Ms,son, of Richmond, and entered into conversation with him, for tho purpose of ascertaining how he felt in re gard to the threatened bolt. He said in substance, as follows: "I bave been a strong supporter oT Mr. Harlow lrom tbe first until after the Convention, and believe him to be a good man ; but bo went into tho Convention at llydepark and was fairly beaten. 1 hops he will not allow bis name to bo used further, as it will pot his lriends in a bad position, as many of tbem would like to support him, but in honor cannot. I shall vote for Gen. Grout, as "bolts" como home to roost and 1 consider tbe wel fare of tbo Republican party of more conse quence than t'jo advancement of any one man, however good be may bo." I relate this to show tbo reasons given for abiding by tbo result of tho Convention. Are tbey not good ones, and do tbey not commend themselves to the consciences of all good Republicans? W. The Barlow Bait. opinions or ins pbkss. I From the 61 alone (N. Y.) Palladium. Whatever the event, his Barlow's course since tbe llydepark Convention more than ever justifies the cboico of Gin. Grout. The Republican party can nowhere afford to name an inflationist as its candidate, nor can it afford tho success of a man unwilling to abide tho result of a convention in which his name was presented and fairly beaten. Defeated it may bo at the polN, but better tbat than iibmii-Mon to threats, concession to bribery, or surrender to a Greenbacker ot Democratic antecedents aud backed by Democratic clamor for Republican prefer ment. Tbo Republican who votes for Mr. Harlow will do an unworthy act. and by so doing, if be secures bis election, will bring dicrcJit upon bis party. I: would noem that Vermont Republicanism could be trust ed to defeat such a man so nominated, from the Bellowiralla Timet.) Bradley Hatlow and some of his support ers in Franklin county and a fow scattering in other portions ot the District, havo bolt ed tho nomination of Gon. Grout, and things will bo lively up tbero till tbe day of election. Thoso who bad previously agroed to abido the nomination of Gen. Grout, and were foromost in making bU nomination "unanimous," aro now foremost in the bolt. Tbe object is to defeat a cboico in September, when it is said the Democrats arc ready to turn in for Harlow, but a full voto will bo likely to settle it tbe first time, and clear tbs atmosphere ot a good doal of political loosoness which soems to be lying round in that District. From the Troy llmaa.J The Grcenbackers are unfortunate in tbeir nominees Bradley Bailow, tbeir candidate for Cong res- in the Third onuont District, is a wealthy banker at St. Albans and a tamous mail contractor, llo testified beforo a committee of Congress tbat bo paid $40, 000 to -ccure a lavorablo report on tbo straw-bidding system of letting tbe con tracts for carrying tho mails. Harlow was a candidate be for o tbe Republican Conven tion of tho District for the nomination, but upon hi" defeat bolted and organized the Greenback movement in his locality. Har low is now running to secure revenge for bis defeat, but as tbe District Is good for 5.000 Republican majority he will not ba abla to prevent the election of (Ian, Grout, tho regular Republican nominee. The Second lmirlct. NOTE FROM JCDOE 1'OLAND To the Editor tJ thr Sirinficld Republican . In an editorial notice of tbe convention in this district, held Ian week, in your pap er of tbe 17ih inst., it is stated that 11 Judge Luke Poland turned up as a candidate in tho convention, it appearing tbat he bad written letters begging the support of his old friends. 1 do not know upon what cvidenco you make this statement. Ihe truth is tbat 1 wrote no letters whatever, except ia reply to lotters urgiog ma to be a candidate, and in every letter I answered that I was not and could not be a candidate. Your further remarks upon the consc eiuenccs following and likely to follow su oh conduct on my part are not material to bo replied to. Likb P. Polanp. St, Jtbn.bury, August ID, 1S7C The St. Albans Messenger notices that tho Burlington and Rutland newspapers object to tbe bands of music and free rides by which Bradley Barlow made his third district " bolters' convention " an attractive show, and reminds the brethren tbat this sort of thing is not now in Vermont politic. It was only 10 years ago that the republican managers got up a Ireo ride from all parts of tbo stato to a Plattsburgb, (N. Y.,) poli tical demonstration, and tho newspapers thought it was a lino thing. SprmrfuIJ lirpuMiran If tho Rei-ulhttm had "noticed" tbo Burlington and Rutland newspapers for it-elf, instead of taking tbe statements of the Mfsstngrr it would have seen tbat thoso papers did not "object to " the bands and freo rides. Tboy probably had a right to allude- to tbem, however, as part of tbe history of tbe bolting convention. Tho " freo ride from all parts of the State," ten years ago, was a steamboat excursion from this city, to which wo believo a train ran from St. Albans, the steamer being chartered by the Republican City Committee. But what that has to do with tho Barlow bolt wo fail to sod. That Itrrkshlre Delreate. Berkshire, Vt., Aug. Si). To the l-Mitor of the Free Tress aol 1 lme Wc havo in this town a man who, by bis unreliable character and unfair dealings, has earned and carries tbe name ol Black Prince," and when tbo Mfssenytr savs tbat an Orleans Counly man made an unsuo- reftdul elTurt to purcuao the voteol V. r V. Lewi tbe name be goes by in St. Al bany but.hero it is" uuck rrioce, l do not believe there are ten men in Berkshire that htlieve tbe statement. ' tie either did not receive any offers, or else he took any that were made," has been tbe talk all over town. Sins. MORNING. AUGUST 'JO. ISpecIal Deipatch to tba New York World.l Rradltr Barlow, of" Vermont. ANOTHER FMERI'RISINC tJPlTALlsT A NATION ALIST NOMINEE FOR eONGRF'S. WisniNOTON, Aug. 20. Bradley Bitlosr, who was nominated by the National party to be a candidate for Congress in the Third Vermont District, a few days ago, is a bank er in St. Albans, and tbe bead of the firm of Barlow, Sanderson & Co., tho great mail contractors, who at one time managed sever al hundred mail routes In the Wc-tcrn States and Territories. The hcadtpiarters of tho firm were at St. Louis. Mr. Barlow passed most of his time in Washington. In March, 187C, tbe Democratic Committee on Postoffices and Post-roads investigated the system of mail contract lettings by tho Post office Department. Under tho system of straw-bidding, and by tho liberal payment of money to Pmtofficc officials, certain firms obtained a monopoly of carrying the mails in tho West and robbed tbo Government of thousands of dollars. Bradley Barlow was a witness beforo tho committee. He testified tbat hi'i son-in-law, his cashier, and other member of bis family were in tho habit of bidding for mail contracts. Generally the highest bidder on tho part of the firm ob tained tbo contract, tbe lower bidders draw ing out. Mr. Barlow also testified tbat at the time Farnsworth's Republican committee was investigating the straw bidding system, he paid $40,000 to secure a favorable re port. Ho said that he did not givo this money to members of Congress but it was paid to witnesses and employes in tbe de partments. Mr. Barlow co'ild not remember the names of any of the persons to whom the money was paid. This despatch tells nothing new, and is interesting chiefly as showing the kind of reputation which Mr. Barlow has in Wash ingtonwhich is nothing new, either. Tho closing sentence in the despatch w erro neous. The reports of the testimony before the Congressional Committee in Feb ruary, 187G, published in the Xcw York papers at tho time (and copied without con tradiction by the St. Albans Messenger) say that Mr. Barlow "admitted in reply to ques tions that he had loaned considerable sums, not exceeding $20,000 in the aggregate, to Gen. Morgan L. Smith, brother of Giles A. Smith, tbe Second Assistant Postmaster General"; also that be employed as coun sel one Erl, formerly law partner of Postmaster-General Creswcll, paying him some $5,000 ; also that he employed Col. McKib ben, a lobby agent, at a salary of 430,000 a year. Col. McKibbcn was on the stand and testified, among other things, that Col. Farrar, who alter ward lecame counsel for Barlow, Sanderson A Co , received from them $40,000 to stifle the investigation of 1872." Tbe Xcw York Tribune's special Wu-h-ington despatch of February 21 J, 1376, said that the testimony showed that "about $140,000 was expended by Mr. Barlow, the great mail contractor, to protect his interests from competition and from the investiga tions." It added : That money wasdNposcJ of about as follows, for of its disbursement no denial is made : To the Farrar and Mc Kibbcn combination, $40,000; McKibbcn personally, $30,000; N. Wilson, legitimate attorney fees, $10,000; Hood, useful about Departments, $5,000; Morgan L. Smith, a loan, $20,000 ; buying bid, $30,000 ; Jere miah Black, McKibbcn and Paschal, addi tional counsel fees, $3,000 ; total $138,000. Of tbo nbove, sum $40,000 was confesjd ly paid to suppress an investigation in 1872." The reprinting of these facts from the public record formed a prominent part ol the "campaign of vilification" which the Bar low organs havo averted was urged against Mr. Barlow in the canvass preceding the Con vention, and any further reference to them will doubtless awaken a fresh howl about misrepresentation" and "personal abuse." It seems to be tho worst powible "abuse of Mr. Barlow to call attention to the facts in his record which ho would prcler to keep covered. But they aro facts to which tho people of this District are entitled. What say the honest voters Republicans, Democrats, Grcenbackers, or what not ; do we want for a Representative in Congros an associate ad employer ol lobby agents, "men useful about tbe departments," and "relatives and partners of Government of ficials with influence to sell" ? Do we want a mail contractor, whose work at Washing ton was done with such tools, and who paid $135,000 to "protect his interests from com petition" in other worda, to prevent the competition in bidding for mail routes, which is essential to the protection of the public interest and to"upprc.s investiga tion" of his contracts? Has it ever oc urrcd to the taxpayer that not only the $13,000 thus most improperly extend ed In pandering to and profiting by the cor ruption at Washington ; but tho other vat sums which went into Mr. Birlow's pm-kets from the public treasury, uad whieh enabled him to mako these munificent allowances to lobby agents and men useful about the de partments, and to conduct the most UvMi money-canvass ever known in the history of Vermont, really camo from their pockets ? Mr. Barlow's Claims. To the Editor ef the Free Freai and 1 iineo t Tbero wm a feeling with a large minority of the llydepark Convention that Mr. Har low had some claims to tbe nomination. The currency ijucstion was not made an issue. Many who voted for him if they had ever known his views on that emotion had probably forgotten them, and acted upon the hypothesis that ho was a sound Republican. But the views of such Republicans are now changed. If there was nothing elc to change them, his early commitment to the heresy of inflation, and his solicitation of the position of standard bearer for a rival party, is enough to repel from him the support of every honest Republican. His financial doc trines aro not the doctrines of tho Vermont Republicans. If elected he would misrep resent his own State on that very funda mental ejucstion. Not alone the Third Dis trict, but tho Stato of Vermont is interest ed ; tho Stato that beliovcs in honest money and in honest men ; tbo Stato that never trails her banner in tbe filth of low chicanery or bows tho kneo to men because smartness has madcthem millionaires. Smartness that runs in that direction id always a questionable qualification. A man that has got suddenly rich in any branch of the Govornmcnt ser vice will commonly find it good policy to keep his money as much as possible out of sight. Nor will tbo lavish tsjstowmcut of such money upon public charities even en titlo him to confidence as a national legisla tor. Kvcry voter will instinctively inquire How cimc he by tbe money on tbe lstow ment of which he a.sks tho suffrage of tbe people? This is slid because tho gift of money to public objects was socially em phasized by tho clergymen and deacons who traversed tbo District in his intercut Icfore the Convention. But the financial thoories of Sir- Barlow aro not tbo chief objection to him now. The political larce which ho is now trying to en act has revealed his utter want of manhood. He has disappointed his most active friends at tbe llydepark Convention, who with prido aw him givo his right hand and bis sacred honor to Ins muctchsIuI rival, ana ny tho mouth of his chief supporter "fve to make the voice of the majority tho toicc of all with one loud acclaim ; and who, alto, within 48 hours, saw him go back on all his plighted faith and put tho same right band into a proolamation that was intended to court the nomination of an opposing party and tad Is an of eu revolt, and war on tbe 1878. Republican party, to which ho so openly pro fessed allegiance. Tbe Republicans of the Third District havo now but one duty to do in relation to Mr. Barlow, and that U the duty of tbe revolutionary patriots towards their enemies : J'.nemies in irnr tn peace ft tends.1 He baa taken the attitude of an open enemy, with the evident design of breaking down tbo Republican party, of thereby disgracing his own District not only, but hi State aLso, and of sending weakness and demoralization into the National Republican party tho only conservative power in this gi eat nation. Let the Republicans of the Third District rally and on the third of September rebuke the dastardly attempt, by digging the political grave of the traitor so deep that from it there can be no resurrection. Vox Pun li. The ltnlello of Vermont ml Stake home ouiiil onl4 from tlie llo ton Journal. I From tie IlOitoa Journal, Au j. THE DOLT IS THE THIRD CONCRISS ION L DIS TRICT Or VERMONT. When the very exciting, not to say bitter, contest for the Republican nomination in the Third Vermont District was closed by a mo tion in tbe Convention by some of Mr. Barlow's friends to mako the nomination of Gen. Grout unanimous, the Republicans of that District wero warmly congratulated upon their escape from what threatened to be a serious danger. Imagine, then, tbe general surprise to learn tbat, after a num ber of days of quiet assent, there appeared almost simultaneous calls for bolting and Greenback conventions. At tbe same time there came reports of tho formation of Greenback cluln ; and in a section wbcro tbe que t ion has been discussed for years there suddenly sprang up a Greenback sen timent. The bolting and Greenback move ments appeared to be running an equal race, and Mr. Barlow, who was beaten in a Con vention which had adopted a hard money rial form before the balloting was begun, was suddenly announced to be a Greenbacker of many years standing ' It Mr. Barlow was a Greenbacker at heart at tbe time he was being voted for in the Republican Convention, the party whoso honor is pledged to carry out the Re sumption act e-caped the commission of a blunder when he was defeated. We can not believe that Mr. Barlow stood in that equivocal position. If, while holding views hostile to the Republicans, he a-ked the nomination f a Convention holding the Repuhlican Resumption theory, it is not too much to say that Mr. Barlow or any other man who pursues a similar course is un worthy ot the support oi straight-torwara people, whether Republicans, Democrats or bolters. It is not our nurnoso to enter into a con sideration of the claims or grievances of cither the successful or defeated aspirants Tor the nomination. Tbe charges made by both will doubtless, on rigid scrutiny, he found to be largely the work ot excited imag inations. But this wo know : the District is largely Republican in the best sense of tbo term; a large majority of tbe voters prefer to be represented iu Congrcs by a Republi can holding the Republican faith and sound on all issues, including the demand for a sound currencv. If, however, the precedent is established of lircaamg awuy iroui a iiumuiuiiuu unci it has, been made and accepted by tne party convention, then there can be no u-e in holding such meetings. In that event the Republicans of the several counties will fritter away tbeir votes upon local favorites and a Democratic minority will in tho end elect their ticket. Let this fatal policy pre vail to any extent and tho Kepubiican party, which, to-dav. as much as at any time dur ing the past twenty years, is the defender of national iiunur, uou wuv.u t-Aisw-ui-a auu iu- fluence is the pledge of good Ijovernment, will become an army of petty factions with out power or influence, ft is no time to run such risks, no time to engage in fighting one division of our own armv with another. Of Gen. Grout we hear nothing but good reports. If elected he will doubtless repre sent tho will ot the majority. If he is de feated by the M. Albans DOlting-tjrccnuacic combination, tho cry will go up that sturdy Vermont, always unfaltering in its devotion to Republican i-m when other States bare wavered, sends to Congress a Democrat who will vote under caucus dictation for Wood tariff bill-", currency schemes, and, io the fullness of time, for whatever monstrosity tl'O recklcs leaders of that party maydc- mand. Is thcie any number ot KepuDiicans in tbe Third Vermont District, who are justly proud ol tbe political records, charac ter and national reputation earned by Ver mont's Collamer, Poote, Morrill and Ed munds, who arc willing to be u-cd to elect a Democrat to the House who has always been hostile to the rinciples of her illustrious sons? Are there miny, who, under the im- puUc of pa.-ion, will be led to do that which will ca-t a stain upon the conspicu ous Republicanism of the Green Mountain State? Can it be to-siMe that there arc fivo hundred Republican-, who will io de posit their votes as to add a vote in Congress to the T-arty ruled by Western inflationist and the foes of .V Kneland interests? Thc-c and kindred questions are such a.s the Kepuhiicans wno arem-i-oco eosuppuri Jlr. liariow 'noma rcvoive iu mcir minus. If thev d.i L'ite them scrioui consideration. wc d.i nut believe that their influence and their votes on Tuesday. September 3, will contribute to a rcult which will give cour age to the cnemiesuf Kepubiican i-m through nut tho count rv. The fact that Mr. Barlow apjared in a Gn-cnbaek meeting in St. Allans, accepted the nommatiun ol that element ana pledged hi in -elf to serve 'hem "with fidelity" if elected, should convirfro any Republican that be cannot claim to stand by the Kepun- licanUm ot Morrill and Edmunds and vote for Mr- Hirlow Let Mr. Harlow run as a Greenbacker openly. II ho docs m be cannot claim the votes tn an inieiugcn Renublicun. siiuhlv bt-causo in carrying out its pledges to the country and in vindication its honor beforo the world, the Republican party, whatever the result, stands for specie resumption becau'-e it has promised to do so. Mr. Hirlow, as a Greehbackcr, is bound to voto again-t a. sound currency and for a syvttm of lire Jtcinable jaj-er money, which will involve huint"-s m.d ihdutry in gen eral di-a-tcr. As a Greenbacker. Mr. Bar low is as far removed from Republicanism as U the South fre.ui the North Pole. Ex cept ou the ground of icrsonal favoritism, he cannot a-k lor a Republ'can vote. Fortunately for Republicaui-m, the Dis trict is hravily Republican. At tbe elec tion in 170, the Republican candidate Congress received 11,'J74 votes to 5.307 for fur the Demooratij nominee. It seems im possible that tbe bolters and Greenbacker hhould be able to prevent a choice on tho first trial, Wo believe tbat they cannot, and that when the voto is counted Gen. Grout will bo elected by a large majority. HcwiII.il the Republicans enter into the work with vigor; and as we havo been taught by the eirience of twenty years to have faith in Vermont Republicanism, wo Iwlicve that bcr sturdy sons will see that the Republican standard in the Third District is carried to victory September 3. la InJuMltlablf Bolt. Theediturof the St. Albans Messenger fmd himself in a very embarrassing poi tion, and naturally rodents plain criticism of hisivuro io bolting tho regular nomioa t:onof bis party. Wo repeat the "bold a-scrtioti" made on Monday tbat "the rea sons publicly proclaimed for this bolt are trivial and unworthy." The Barlow men knew as well how lho canvass prior to the llydepark Convention bad been conducted when they voted ou tl.e motion of Col. CUrke to make Gen. Grout nomination unanimous, as thoy do now. 11 the supporters of Mr. Birlow hal. undtr thn impuNo of tho moment, m the beat of tho conflict, organized a bolt at llydepark. when suffering the fir-t stinit of disappointment and duleat, thoir conduct would havo bren tar more pardonable in tho ecs ot honorablo men than tbeir cool and deliberate eatinir about for a pretext forgoing hack ou their plighted word and promise ol support to Gtn. Grout. Wo do not forgot, however unpleasant it may be for Col. Clarke to remember, tbat the Ilvdepark Convention was duly held in accordance with tho usages of tho party; that Mr. Barlow was a candidata in that Convention, and had a larne support ; that ho wa defeated fairly, as Col. Clarke said at the time, h? Gen Grout; that Mr Bar low acquiesced in tho decision of tbe Con vention, eonratu!atin his rival and pledging his upport in tho canvass For Mr. Barlow now M accept a nomination with tbe avowed purpose of defeating Gen. Grout.is an act of bad faith which we do not believe the Tegular Republican of tbo Dis trict are ready to endorse. This bolt has no support from any Republican paper out sidi the District. Rutland Herald. NUMBER 9. Senator Blaise on the Finance. A SOUND CCRREVCT THE 0NLT SCrPORT OX NA TIONAL CRIDIT WILD FINANCIAL SCDSMS3 SXNOCNCKD. Senator J. G. Blaine, of Maine, spoke for an hour and a halt, at Biddcford, Me , on Wednesday. Ho said : By common consent tbe currency ques tion is the creat nuestion berore tbe peoplo. This I regret; because, it there is one thing the people cannot afford, it is to have a political currency questioo. Let ussettle it, and settle it right. Let us review tbe circumstances that brought us where we are now. In 1SGI an extra session of Con sress was called, and it authorized the Treasurer to borrow $400,000,000, as there was no money in the ireasury. my mil lions of demand notes wero also authorized, and when Congress assembled after tbe Christmas holidays they assembled with an empty Treasury. In this particular fctrait the Government provided lor tbo issuaoce of $150,000,000 of legal tender notes. That wasa measure of absolute necessity. It was useless to stand upon a very fine-drawn point at such a time. It was a question ; of life. We declared the notes legal tender. Before another year had expired we were called upon to issue- another $150,000,000, and when Congress assembled in December, 1863, tbe report of the Secretary of tho Treasury brought before us a very embar rassing condition. Tho Government was without currency agaia. Wa were at that time appealing to every civilized nation of the world, for money. Forty or fifty mil lion dollars were due tba army, and ready cash was demanded. Out ol this state of affairs camo tbe Loan act, which really up plied lands which wore necessary for the salvation of the nation. Tbe Loan act had not only the authority of law, but in a pe culiar and strong sense it is binding upon us. In this act was a proviso, as follows: "That tho total amount of thoe notes issued and to be issued shall never exceed $400, 000,000." It was the price which in ex treme urgency we pledged ourselves to, and if there is any honor in the American people they would as soon sign away tbeir birthright as violate this pledge. Tbe most fearful thing that could happen to this country would be the issuance of an unlim ited amount of currency. How are you go ing to contract the currency? Whatever else American people do with currency, let me say to you that there is no body ot men so little competent to determine tbe question of money as Congressmen. Greenback people say that we should not bave any banks. For seven hundred years we have had bank", and we could not con duct the business of tbe country for a min ute without banks. Wby are banks a ne cessity? A bank is a place where tbe bor rower of money meets the lender; where surplus money is deposited. Suppose a man wants to borrow $10,000 to go into business with. Greenbackers would send him all oyer the country borrowing $50 bera and $50 there. There are at Ihe present time three bills in Congress for resurrecting the State banks. New Eng land enjoyed,under the old system, tbe beet banks in the country, but tbey owed their reputation to the personal integrity ot the men who stood behind tbe counter. Tba speaker aptly illustrated the weakness of the system by referring to tbe Lumberman' Bank, which might bo said to have been owned by tha preent Greenback candidata for Governor. This bank had a otpital of $50,000 but at one time bad on band un signed bills to tbe amount of $165,000. which would be signed a,s la-t as anybody wanted them. In fact tbe old system of banking was based on tbe personal notea of stockholders. If you will have banks, then what kind will you have responsible or irresponsible? National banks are perfectly free for every man to engago in with just one little condition tbat tho Government insists upon, that you shall not issue any bills until you have put in tho United States Treasury an amount equal to 10 per cent, additional to pro toe t tbs bill holders. If you hold a national bank-bill 5011 clon't care whether tbe bank is burst or not. In regard to taxing bonds Greanbackars say, 'Here is an exempted class. The only man in the United states who pays abso lutely full tax on hU property is the holder of Goverhment bonds. For instance: A. invests 10,000 in Government 4 per cents: B invests an equal amount in Maine Stite 6i, and C. invents a like amount in Maine Central 7 per cents. In tho first case tba in vestor of Government bonds pays hi, taxej in advance, but in the caso ot the other bonds is it 'within your experience tbat holders thereof flock to tbe assessor's office asking to be taxed 7 Facts show that but a very small portion cf such bonds are taxed. It id the easiest thing in tbe werld for your brother who is in California to own tbem, or your undo in soma other part of tbe country. Then wby delude yourselves with the idea tbat if you taxed Government bonds tbey would be aty mora likely to turn up fur taxation than thoc State or railroad bonds? If you succeed in taxing bond you merely place opon your shoulders an additional burden of $40,000,000. Government bonds never could nor never should betixed. There are five kinds of money that tbe United States stands sponsor for sold and silver and gold is better than silver. Moses, in the second chapter ot Genesis, tells us that gold U good ; and it makes no difference whether it is stamped by tbe United States or Yeoizueh. Then there is tha tbe old-fash ionod, war-honored, patriotic greenback that did such great work, that says the United States will pav $10, or as it may be, reserving to tbe United States when they would pay. In 1375 it did say when they would pay. vir, January 1 . 187!. Tho advance school of Greenbackers repre sented by General Butler don't want this kind of greenbacks at all. They want an other kind. Tbey don't want anything stamped with "promise to pay." Tbey .want this greenback to say "This is $10 or any sum." Such talk is merely non sense. Why not say "This is a hora?" Why not make it $1,000? It takes no more paper or no more time to print it. but it is not so with gold. Tbe next government money is national bank bills and la-tly tbe silver certificate. If we desire more money than we have. let us icflito our gold and silver. We fancied during tbe greenback crazo tbat wa were all getting rien. In IS73 we found out that we bad been baying $900,000,001) moro than we were s'lting. ihereisnotbinif so mysterious about nation al finance". The same principles are in volved in private finances If a farmer is buying more than ba is setting from bia larm be is growing poorer, out it nc is seiz ing moro than bo is buying ho is getting richer. This idea holds good with tbe trade of tho country. Now tbioics aro changed. We are buying less abroad and have a balanco in our favor ol $f30.000,000. No peot Ia in tbe werld are so well able tj maintain a specie basis as tbe United States, if tbey say they will. We are jut in sight of tbo day of redemption. Wa cm look right into tbe promised land, but Green backs say, "Don't go in ; come naw and wander with us a few years more." You de preciate your currency, and you might as well by one shock of mighty power para lyza capital from one end of tbe country to the other. Vou reduce tbe country from tbat of a great commercial people to a beggarly small retail affair. The thing which this day friahtens men U wild schemes ol finance V bat tbe United States needs in this matter is a largo amount of Ie!-aIoneativencss. Vou cannot keep this currency as a political foot ball. Vou can not settle this question until you settle it right. Ttmrlj Tbonfbt. CKS. UROLT OX THE V1RTCE Of e'UiltlTT AND TUE DUTT OF CAflTAL. 1 From lien. W. V. iirwiit'a 1 coritlon ly D11. cuure.I Let me then urge upon yon tha cxaroie of charity, not alone as an individual virtue, but as tbo true alchemy for transmuting into harmony the many differences which always will arise under a government of the people. And specially in the-o straigh tened times lot a broad charily ho exercised towards the pour. Let capital be chtritabla towards labor; indeod capital ought to know that therein lies its only sifeiy, for tho hitory ot tho rao plainly shows tbat capital W never safe when in tha presence of empty stomachs and idle bands. H capital, then, would look well to iu own, it should provide some plan by which tba hungry should bo led and tho naked cloth ed. Then in turn will labor no longer take counsel from those twin apostles of communism, hunger and cold, but will go merrily torth.ilearing up our lorests, culti vating our field-', developing our mines and quarries, building our railroads and canals, constructing our breakwaters, building our ships and clearing out our rivers ; in short, pushing forward those grct physical enter prises which constitute tbe national wealth of a people, and by means of which capital again in tur.) doubles its-ell Meantime under such a regime good order would pre vail, and the public mind thus engaged would naturally become les.s partNan in its methods, and tbat good time celebratod by tho ballad Mt might ba reached, When no one would he fur party, Vtlirn mllioulit ho for the BUtf, When the rich man wouM help tha poor. AqJ. the ijtr mau wouht love the gr at-' Lias sundry other Greenback candidates, Bradley Barlow, of St. Albans, owns a Na tional bank. It looks as it somebody was being cheated. Boston Herald. Charlotte. D t. Clark, of West Char lotte, killed a gray eaKla Mondy thai measured ix feet and six inches from tip to tip, Tie financial Question. To tha Editor of the t ree Presi and Tlmea : There are grave practical questions con stantly arising in the minds of some sincere and earnest Republicans, who feel the pres sure of these times, both upon themselves and others, the answer to which, it seems to me, need not be above tbe intelligent compre hension of many of your icader, who may yet not have a profound and intimate know ledge of the principles involved. Many of onr citizen seem ready to rUk the entire overthrow, not only of the Republican party but of the general order of society, in a fierce struggle against what tbey regard as class legislation. But is not the Greenback scheme, so far as developed as a system of finance, open much more than our present system of banks to tbe objections which proved fatal to tbe old United States backs, viz - pi icing the power and sword in the hand of the Gov ernment, and pre-eminently, as now urged by its advocates, calculated t eolist and en courage a mercenary horda of hngers-on and employes who are sure to become tools in the baud of any hoi J, bad ruler who may desire such aid to further his ambitiuu de signs? Cannot tbe low rate of interest at which our Government bonds are sold be considered a fair offset for their exemption from taxa tion, and are not the bondholders pretty much tbe only parties in tbe country (except those who are not wilful enough to shirk tbe tax on whiskey and tubacco) who are taxed at all by tho Government? Are our taxes any higher now than generally heretofore, except in those sections where town are bonded for purposes of internal im provement, entirely local, and in no way chargeable to the condition of th" National Treasury, and is not the cry of low pricts now heard all over the irori, as much as in this coon try? Can we fairly fasten the odium of our present embarrassment i upon any legislation, while the nation is burdened by the debt represented by our outstanding bonds, and the people fail to sec that both their duty and tbeir interest have been grossly violated by allowing tbeir personal expenditures to exceed the limits of tbeir in comes ? Can wc cafely look for relief through the agency of men governed by the idea suggested in a late manifesto in the in terest of the Grcenbackers, "that it was ab surd to expect as a condition of success and prosperity that the Almighty would change the character of our people so that they would be content to earn their own liv ing?" And now. last, but not least, since men who get rich do so fcecauae they know how to take advantage of tbe turns of the times and tba general necessities of society and civilization, and the thriftless and shift less will always be sure to reap as tbey sow, is it not fairly presumable when sharp and wealthy men urge on pop alar raids upon ex isting institutions thai they see how to make more money out of the proposed chaoge, and tbat if they are succes-lul tbe poor will still be obliged to work fur a livelihood, and the rich continue to enjoy the advantages of their sagacity ? Scescbibr. Most of Subscriber's questions suggest their own answers; but we will discuss some of them another day. Ed. F. V. The Barlow bolt. -, Lsmoille Co., Aug. 23, 73. To the Editor or the Free Pres3 and Times. Should square-dealing, honorable men go back on their pledged word aul actions in politics, any more than in any other business transactions? Certainly not. Almost any one can see that the bolt is a bid by Barlow for Democratic votes. It was reported in this (the Lamoille) valley tbat Barlow said he was going to Congress if it cost him one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Do the sober, thinking, voting Republicans of this DUtriet want to bo cheated out of their choice of a Represent it ive by money ? If von want to know bow the man in Grout's own eounty regard tho matter, look at bis nnaoimous endorsement by tho Orleans County Kepnblican Convention at Irasburg. Two earloads of the train that ran to the St. Albans Barlow convention were of men. Democrats and others, from outside of tbe Third District. One station out of tbe Dis trict furnished twelve men. ooe-halt cf whom wero Democrats. Reports from all parts of the District show that the whole move Is confined to Barlow and his wire-pullers who were defeated at the regular Convention. The Morrisville Citizen says the nomination of Gen. Grout was one not fit to have been made. But tho editor ot tbe Citizen re peatedly said, just before tbe Convection, that if It was not for their private trouble ba 3hould like to help Gen. Grout; and after the nomination was made on tho Sth ballot, he said he could not say he was sorry. Now he ay Barlow was defeated at llydepark by base means. Does he mean by that to say that the statement of Mr. Car penter was faLse? Or that of the Salem dele gate? He knows these men too well to call them liars. He was in the Convention all tbe time, and what did he ce there that was base ? Why did nut Mr. Barlow and his friends, who knew then as well a now all that was done there, bolt upon tha spot ? It was because they knew they had been fairly and squarely beaten. Now, by the help of tbe Birlow Demo crats, Greenbackers and a few dis-aifc fled Republicans, they hope to defeat the election of our regular nominee. Republicans! stand by your colors' do not let yourselves be carried away by this wholesale flooding of every postofuce in tbe District with daily Messenger and Sunday Reriews, which givo the true 'tandiogof Bir low financially , as entirely antagonistic to the principles of the Republican party. Ga u the polls on September 3d aod cast your vote tot the regular nominee, who always has been true and sound, personally, po litically and financially. Di not let any of these new theories mislead you. Men of the Third District, think this over candidly. See that every Republican voter is out and sco to it that ha votes for Gen. Grout. For no man denies him to bo a true Republican. Z S. U It Basest? South Hero, Aug. 21st Tothe Editor of tho Free Preu and Times. The reports ot the Bolting Convention at St. Albans say that a committee of one from each county was appointed on a plat form, and that the chair appointed II. W. Allen as the member of the committee for Grand Isle County. If by that came our popclar Judge of Probate was intended, the use of it was a gross imposition. Judge Allen had nothing whatever ta do with the Convention, and we should as readily believe that Gen. Grout would be among the Barlow bolters, as that Mr. Allen would be. I notice, too, that among the vice-presidents, the name of H. II. Hill occurs, when in fact Mr. Hill was at North Hero, and received a good vote in our Convention as a candidate for Senator. Ho could not have received such a vote, if it bad been known that he svmpathized with the bolters. lie was a Barlow man at Hvdepark, but it by no means follows that because his candidate was defeated there be proposes to bolt the nomination of Gen. Grout. He is altogether too sensible tnd honorable a young man to do it. I notice aLso that io the Greenback Con vention A. II. W. Jockson. of Grand I-Ie, was appointed vice-president for Grand Isle county. The good Doctor, however, was at home, instead of being at Essex Junction. Is this an hoosst way of doing things? Were not somo of tbo other gentlemen named in both conventions as far from St. Albans and Essex Junction as the is I havo noticed? Uow many of them were thustc their astonishment made to appear to be in sympathy with a movement they decw or deplore? Who knows? Is it honest' Can a faction resorting to such methods bo successful? If any ropcctable Republicans of Grand Isle county intend to vote against Gen. Grout, I know not who they aro. There weie tho who desired Mr. Barlow's nomination at llydepark, who couU not be persuaded to sustain bis nomination at St. Albans or Essex Junction. They believe Gen. Grout's nomination Is binding upon Republi cans, and that mere personal preferences should submit to the choice of the majority fairly expressed. If any are not entirely satisfied with the financial measures growing out of tho war, they propose to workout needed reforms, within rather than without and in antagonism to the party withwMch they have conscientiously acted. Neither personal resentments nor parti ilities can move them from this integrity. We do not know what thataogel of truth, the Mesienger, may yet di-close, but so far as we know, not a man of the two hundred and one Alburgh Republicans figured in the St. Albans Convention. The vote of tho County Convention, endorsing the nomina tion of Gen. Grout, was large and enthusi astic. Grand Isle eounty is small, but as Lewis Higbeo used b say of St. George.it is "as big up and down" as any of the counties, and may be relied upon to vote honestly and intelligently. Tho north part of the county has a good "deal to do with St Albans by way of business, but wa have not vet heard of Its bung annexed to Franklin coumy or 01 i eig aihant. v. w. mi