Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-03-01
Domcstit Gompcn0,

ILLINOlS,--The aggregate debt Oft this
State is set down in the Governors Mess
oge at 8l6,66l 1875 81 fthi,, $500
622 is canal debt, and is amply provided
for. For the remainder the present leg
islatnre has to make provision
MICHIGAN-Thc State journal (Frcc
SGD has been made the official paper, in
place of the Detroit Free Press, Cass pro-
slavery journal Pretty well for Cass own
Stlte.
A negro boy belonging to Josiah Benton,
Of EIst Fellciana, La, murdered fellow
Slave hy cutting him in the back with an
axe, scyering the spine Alter the com
mission of the crime he fed taking with
him one of his masters finest horses. The
cause was Jealousy.
KENTCUKY.-TR Ire BroIca AaH
Siar@y Mcctiag. The first public meet
ing OF the friends Of Emancipation in Kenr.
mcy, was held in Louisville, on the l4h
nit. The Court House where the meeting
was held, was crowded. and among those
present (says the JourugD we're mpuy off
the most respectable, intelligent and ia0u-I
cntia citizens The meeting wa, prcinl-
nary in its character, and Committee was
appointed to report on an adjourned eve
ning, an address to the people on the sab
lect of negro emancipation
Nr Cay u FIRE. ,Soji~-The Demo-
cratic members Of the Kentucky LcgisIa-
ture, at recent caucus passed a resolution
declaring that they would not vote for Mr.
Clay, as United States Senator, on account
Of his Frrc Sol principles and his Emaa
cipafi0a trndcncies
NEW YORK.-Ex Governor Scwlrds's
election to the U. S. Senate from New
York, is doubtless il result OF the Free
Soil power in that State Though a wing
he belongs to the progressive, more liberal
class, and was most strenuousIy opposed by
the hunkcrs, Mr. S. has dcclnred the abo-
Iiton of Slavery to be ''the highest political
interest OF the county" See if lie will
carry that out
MlSSISSlPPI.-Gcttjag G'rk Of it, An
immediate and extra session of the Iegi,a.
of Mississippi is dcmlnded by many of the
citizens of Hancock county, in that Site,
for the purpose Of enactlng laws prohl5t-
ing the further lngreS5 of .aycs from the
borUcr States of the South. In their petit
ton to the Governor, they represent ,that
the States of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky
aud Missouri, whe'c slavery has ceased to
be profitable, are now Observation-Disclosures
coIored population on the extreme SOUTH
crn Suites, which is destined to insEease
with great rapidly.
judge II ,denlelt, promine1E and leads
ing Democrat Of AIfI3aiu@ 49, pddsessed
through the newspapers, 4 1efIsAto Govern
or Ch1pmau, urging5tbe proprfety and ne
cessity of -illaw-io pEcxeNt tfI,i GgEtl.aniha-
migration of slat es into that State, either
for trade or settlement
We envy not John C. Calhoun's sensa.
tons when he first hears, of the above NOV,
ements.
PRESIDENTIAL VorEs.-On "Wednesday
in Convention of both houses of Congress
the electoral votes of President and Vice
, Pre- |lGeut of the United States were CONT
ed, and declared to be for TayIor and Fill
more respectively, 1853; for Clss aud But
Ter, l21 The two former, were therefore
, declared elected, in due form.
FREE Soil IN LoUIsIANA.-Ml.I H. B. l'rash
aer, of Louisiana whose declaration in favor q
Free Soil we have already mentioned, maintain
] the constitutional power OF Congress to prohibi
, slavery in the territories and abolish it in tn
q District of Observation-Disclosures that the ncrcas
t Of SIve States is dGnrciou. to the Union dc
clare5 the institution of slavery in Louisan,
Florida and Texas, "A flgrant violation pf Nogtl
:. ern con cience-beImves shvery moral an
). political evll--and pronounces Mr.. Calhoun an
p his conlederatea either fanatics or traitors.
t GoLD IN VIRGNIA.--Wc unler5qnl TINT III
B.. gold digging at Stockton g. IIciss's location
l. still very successful. The amount raised
p January, with fifteen or twecnty hlnds, was
9 bout $26,000 and the amount thus far in tn
y month is proportonaIly as much. A deposit
u 800 ounces has just been madc at III, Mat, I'll
success Of this company is quite equal to ii
d average gain in the famous valley of the Sacr,
e mento.
% SECRETARY OF THE TREAsURY.--T Pink
! dolphin Pennsylvania of Monday says -
> rumor prevailed at Harrisburg, apparently we
If founded, on Saturday evening, that the Office
st Secretary The Treasury had been rendered
Horace Binney, Esq, of this city, by Gen. Ia
i lor."
m A SEVENTH CABINET OFFIcEn.-The Was
80 ington correspondent of the journal of Coz
n mercc, SAYS -" The bill establishing the D
rs partmont of the Interior will, | understand, pa
the Senate without difficulty. 1t has aIrea.
'e passed the House. Gen. Taylor will have
ID seventh Cabinet officer to appoint"
ii EXTRA SrssIoN,,-Tho Washington CORE
,f pond2nt of the Journal of Commerce saws it h;
Of been suggested that in consequence Of the ad,
t. cas just received from California, showing til
p anarchy prevails there, Gen, Taylor will cal.
\ extra session of Congress, for the purpose
j. recommended action on this subject
=, THE Spoms.-The New York Mirror pu
" fishes two extracts from private letter a
r. dressed by General Taylor TO gentleman
n that city. The General says:
&c There will not be an Office for one appca
in twenty, ana all who are disappomtel will,
a mltcr Of course, become my most impacab
G. enemies for life, utributng their failure to a
L cause but the correct one viz: want of quail
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