Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-17

with any such expectation as that.
For the Freeman,
Challenge to Dairymen.
There is COW IN Dorset, OF the common ma.
tive breed, owned by D.. 5 Mason, from which
was made he last season 81 pounds OF prime
butter per week, for five consecutive weeks
tn" Doctor wishes to challenge the darymen OF
Vermont to produce her eqnll.
Beat this If you eau, farmers of Washington
County. EJB.
In the Senate Of Rhode Island the new lquor
law has been referred A committee was ap-
pointed, with power to send for persons and
papers, to inquire into the amount of hquOr
which has been DESTROYED by operation of Jaw,
the cost to the State, &c A substitute for the
liquor bill, sent up from the House. was also
offered 1t provides tor the punishment Of drunk
ards aud of those who sell liquor on the Sabbath.
Some of the j1nrneymen shoenakers in
HaverIII are making So per day easily THIS
branch OF business was never 81 good IN New
Eng and asdurlng the present year, and the pres
ent time.
lNHUMAN PROPosITIoN.-ltha has recently been
proposed III Virginia, to adopt measures to drive
ont the free blacks from the State The plan
proposed is, to seize all the free negroes, sell
them into bondage tor FIVE years, and from the
avails OF their labor establish IA fund 10 carry
them out Of the country, and to reduce to slavery
all who shall remain in the State after the ex-
pendlture of the fund.
THB GAINES CAsE.-.The New York Herald
states that Mrs. Gen. Gaines will renew the suit
tor the recovery of the Immense property of her
father, in the Cour's of Louisiana. The same
paper publishes the opinion OF Justice Wayne
VIII, with Justice Daniel dlssented from the
opinion Of the Supreme Court adverse to the
claims of Mrs. Games. 1t l. well known that
the decision of this celebrated case turnd on the
points whether Daniel Clark, the father of Mrs.
Gaines, was lawfully married to Zullme Carriere,
ner mother, and whether he made a will ac-
knowedgng the offspring of their connection
as his Legitimate daughter, and bequeathlng to
her his large property. The following extrac,
from the opinion OF Judge Daniels Is pertinent
to these points.
Both ptrlies repeatedly declared that they
we're secretly married. Clark, from the birth of
The complainant until he died, in all OF his con-
duct to her, acted consistently with such decla-
ration. He frequently dec Jared her to be his
lawful chld. No one doubts that he made a ,Dill,
in phich he proclaimed her to be so. making her
his univelsd legaiee luhateuer nay hue become of
that WW after his death. Against all OF this
evidence there Is nothing but the deposition in
the ecclesiastical record, which has been forced
in evidence In tins cause, contrary to law.
TEACHERS AT THE WEsr.-Gov. Slade is
raising the l3h class of teachers of the Board
of Nalipnal Popular Education. with the views
of sending them West in April. the Board
have sent out three hundred and tOo teachers,
including eleven to the Pacific coast
The Coinage Bill, as reported to the House Of
Representatives, provides for a new gold CON of
the value of three dollars, cantempates tn re-
duction Of the silver halt dollar from 206 l-2
grains to 1872 grains, and like reduction beng
+ 9l-l00; the limitation OF Inc half and quarter,
dime and half dune to legal tender 10 the Gov
eminent onr to S. only, and the prnhlbltn! of
silver deposits Mt the mint for coinage, except by
the United Sa;es,-Rep.
The Lagis ature OF Lnnjsunt have, by =
majority of two thirds rcln>ei to 20 into an
eltCil' III WI OUhtu Slt'tS pSuiIN|, W p'hNN "
Mr. Benjamin, who was chosen previous to thief
adoption of he nav Constitution, which requires
that all offices filed previously should be vaca-
ted.
A Female HIGHwAY RoBBER.-A young
English woman assaulted man in West Broad
way, New York City. on Monday night knocked
hun down and robbed him OF his wallet, contain
ing twenty-eight dollars. For a weapon. this
fenale iend carried large clan she'll with which
Sh inflicted severe blow upon the head of her
victim.
STATISTICS OF OpD FELLOWSHIP. From the
annual report of the Grand and Subordinate
Lodges TO the r. w. Grand Lodge of the United
States for The wear ending 30lh of June last, we
learn that the whole number eff Lodges in this
connie is 1929; contributing members, I93398
Past Grands, 25 SIS suspensions during the
year. IL 0lS: amount of relief granted. SIS
73l revenue of SUD ordinate lodges, 81. l64 1871
Mr.. KING's HEALrH.-A private letter from
Key West, dated Jan. &c, states that Mr.. King s
health Is fat better than when he left Norfolk.
His cough is easier, and he Is better and strong
er every way. His physician expresses strong
hopes that he will recover.
SEWING MACRINEs.-Over one hundred sew.
ing machines are employed constantly in Lyon
in binding shoes for that place alone.