Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-03-28

les, 22S,149

Total square miles, 22S142
MAss.-There are few states where the temper
ance cause has been so warmly advocated as in
the " Old Bay State and there is no State where
it has advanced so much. In that State there are
100 towns where there are no grog shops Er.
paper.
The masonic societies of this State are to have
Il grand celebration in Boston on the 18th Of June,
and the Odd Fellows jubilee and procession on
the 18Th, both of which will he magnificent affairs
The Legislature of Massachusetts have laid a
tax for the present year. of SIS, 000 Ofthls sum,
$4,000 will have to he paid for the interest Of the
States one million Of stock in the Western rail-
road
Senator Bates, who has been sick at Washing
ton, is dead, and John Davis has been selected TO
! fill his place.
N. HAMpsmRE.-Thc N. II. Patriot gives re-
turns from 907 towns, leaving to be heard from
Steel's majority is 700, and may be swelled TO
1000 johnson, Mouon and n orris are elected
to Congress; and Woodbury. is defeated, Good !!
The councillors and senate are all democrats, and
they have about so majority in the House. The
Patriot gives Liberty members of the Lcgsla-
ture, and there are at least probably ten.
The Granite Freeman says:
The Liberty vote is probably about what it was
last year. But our real gain is considerable FOR
last spring a large number of conservatives voted
our ticket who have now followed their frightened
leaders back into tho party traces. Our last
spring vote was not test of our real strength,
is the present We are now sure of at least SiT
thousand voters in New Hampshire, whose fleli-
ty to free principles will never faller, and whose
moral and political energies are sufficient for The
redemption of the State. The dominant party Is
totterng to its fall, and the Liberty party alone
the true democracy-will rise upon its ruins.
OHIo.-In this State there are upwards of 1OO.-
900 children, between the ages of four and TWEEN
ty, unable to read Samuel Johnson, convict in
the pentenary committed suicide by cutting his
threat, after shaving, on the morning of the 9th
ult
The Senate BILL to allow blacks and muutoes
to testify in courts Of justice, was lost in the
House on the third reading, by vote of 81 to %.
ILLNoIs.-A gentleman from Nauvoo informs
US, says the Warsaw Signal, that the great mass
OF the population of the city is in State bordering
ON starvation. There is no business going on,
and no means of obtaining subsistence but by char
liable donations from the richer classes.
gentleman at St Louis from Gulenn, report
ed that the miners had been unusually successful
in raising mineral during the winter, and that
there was very large amount of lead on the land
ing at Galenu ready for shipment.
D N. YoRK.-Capt. John Jackson, an Incorporate
man of LIE Roy N. Y, drew some money from
= the bank, got shaved, and then Deliberately made
5 scNfolding and hung himself Rum was the
: primary cause.
A gentleman from Albany lost from his hat,
which was blown off by the wind, scrip of $1,000
of the Exchange bank.
i Dudly SelIen has been nominated for mayor OF
It N. Y. city by the wings, and Arthur Tappan by
! the Liberty party
r Mlss.-At Vcksburgh, OIL the 2lst ut, the tree.
# were budding forth, gardens and yards smiling
with flowers, and the tables supplied with straw
berries, lettuce, green peas, and other good things
KY.-A man named John Mckee was shot by
u his brother in Lancaster, on Saturday week anu
: died on Sunday 1t was family difficulty, and
: grew out Of alledged i'll treatment of Mckee to hi.
wife.
! The neghborhood of Maysye, Bentor
IS Co. is drcadfully infested with mad dogs-not les
e than thirty having been killed there recently.
"a LATHE proposed article in the new Constitu
e ton Of Louisiana, declaring that none but natv
of the United States shall be qualified to be Cover
" nor, was rejected in the convention by a vote o
V Al to 81. Notice has been given Of new claus
IL to the constitution now being formed, by which al
" duel and their seconds, shall he incapable of hold
~ ing any office of honor or profit in the State
}" Good.
sr N. JERsEY.--In Woolwich township, Gloucese
County, the people in town meeting took for can
didates two very respectable maiden ladies', Sail
~ Brown and Betsey French, and elected them Jus
u, tces ofthe peace by triumphant majority.
p So. CARoLINIA.-The grand jury of Charlesto
be have presented as grievance the practice of due
be ing and earnestly recommended to the legislator
n the passage Of an act to suppress custom so pei
nicous to the happiness and good order of society
of They also recommend the passage of law for tn
p punishment of persons carrying concealed wear
lat ons.
R. sLAND.-The Dorr party have held the
conventon and resolved to go into the approach
ed ing election upon the sole consideration Of tt
"unconditiona liberation" of their incarcerafe
lgs leader They nominated for Governor Char,
las Jackson, said to be wing, but strong friend
'qe the release of Dorr.
or PExN,--Gen. Simon Cameron, democrat, b
les strongly in favor of the tariff has been elect
to the u. S. Senate in place of Mr.. Buchanan, r
oil moved to the Cabinet,
ne, Negroes Of .Mississippi- preceding Il
icb first of January last, there was a great rush
movers to Mississippi, many of whom drove d
and night to reach there before that time, lest
'ni they failed to dc so, they would be deprived
az az their slaves the constitution of Mississippi decl'
" ing that the Introduction of slaves should be pr
W hibed on and after the LIST of January l545
ew, INDrANs-'The Choctaws are being removed
Arkansas-Cne thousand have crossed. The grt
has number of Indians indigenous to the country ~
on of the Mississippi River, is l69,34S Pres,
western population of the tribes wholly or parti
80 ly removed, s5,473.
tho The cost of the American Light House est
and lishment for the present year is estimated by
The Treasury Report to be $S97OO7. There are q
!, of lamps, 2S7 keepers and 16 assistant keepers,
anne sides so keepers Of floating lamps. These float
has lights cost for seamen, repairs &C., $72,990.
ora superinendens have n commission Of 2 l-2
cent.