Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1848-09-14

Party Estimates. The respective friends of
Taylor, Cass, and Van Buren,, estimate their
chances after this wise:
Wing calculation, Taylor 2O6, Cass "a!
Democratic calculation, Cass $780, Taylor 1907
Free Soil calculation, Van Buren, 1853, Tay-
Tor l08, Cass %!
E=T|It has been suggested that the reason why
Gen Taylor has kicked Willard Fillmore off the
wing ticket, is because Fillmore is an ultra
wing?
The Spaniards are said to have destroyed in
forty,two years. twelve millions of American In
dams. Retribution is now their portion.
TvO Hard Things. First, to talk of yourself
without being van second, to talk of others
without uttering SANDER.
EgIti is popular delusion to believe that be-
cause dandys straps are drawn tight upon his
trousers, they are going to lift him into respect
able society,
A Philadelphia paper states that two agents of
the French governmenthave arrived in this coun-
try with view of buying tract of land for the
purpose of sending thither a part Of the insur-
gents of June last.
E-V London is growing at the IA te of twelve
miles Of streets per annum. Since 1880, more
than two hundred miles of streets have been ad-
ded
Errors of the Press. A recent Prussian pa
per announced that Sin Copenick, lady's maid
shot herself, yesterday, from disappointed love"
A subsequent number of the paper, had the fol-
lowing curious correction-"The notice of SUI
icide is to be corrected so far as to say that the
event took place not in Copenick, but in Potsdam
that it was not ladys maid but page not
from disappointed love- but on account Of debt,
and also that the party did not shoot, but hung
himself"
A correspondent of the N. Y. Evening Post
writes that Mr.. Benton, who is still at Washing
ton, declines the challenge of Senator Butler to
fight duel, in a letter ofeight pages fools-cap.
March of the ChoIera.-The average progress
of this epidemic has been ascertained to be about
seventeen miles day
A wag, the other day, asked his friend How
many knaves do you suppose live in this street be.
side yourself? "Beside myselfW replied the
other, in heat, edo you men to insult me ~
: "We then, said the first, how many including
yourself"
e Editorial Chances and Changes. -Thos B.
Green a son.in-law of Mr.. Richie, it is said, will
be the purchaser of Mr.. Hesss half of the Union
:. The profits of Richie & Hess are presumed tc
~ have been $l75, 900 from the public printing.
a Schools IN India-The Legislature of India, says
the kentucky Examiner at its recent session, passed
an act submitting the question of free schools to the
l. people at the election in August There i'll Indie
" upward of 100000 persons between the ages of five
and twenty one, and of the entire adult population o
r the state it is estimated that least $4,000 unable
r. to read and write. The State Education Society hal
70 appointed Judge Kinney, of Tcrro Haute, specia
y agent to travel throughout the state, and deliver ad
dresses and endeavor awaken an interest in behal
1t of common schools.
10 Schools in Kenttcky-The vote at the recent cleo
g ton in Kentucky in favor of Common School tax
was overwhelming and shows quite conclusively tina
f. the sentiment of the people Of the State upon this sub
Jet is far in advance of that of their representatives
the Legislature. The tax is to be raised by levy
u two cents on the one hundred dollars of property.
n. observation-disclosures Johnson of Louisiana has is
70 sued proclamation, dated 2lst ult calling an extr
~ session of the Legislature for t1e purpose Of devsin
and adopting measures to put in successful operatio
v the free public schools of the state The necessity
in this has arisen from the failure by the General Assem-
bly,, at the ate session. to appropriate specifically tn
fund allowed by law for the support of these nvauabl
r institutions The two Houses are convened for tn
VI first Monday in December next