Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-07-13
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The GADSDEN TREATY was adopted by the
willing Senate last week, mono but the Free
Democrats, 1T is said, voting against it. So
there goes another ten million of the peoples
money for II stripof barren waste, not worth six
pence, for the sole benefit of the South in the
right of way for railroad to the Pacific, to be
exclusively appropriated to the traffic in human
beings Is this the progress of the nineteenth
century We begin to think that Dr. Lord, of
Hanover, who believes the world is retrograding,
is not much ont of the way after all.
LIGHT WANTFD.-lt has been reported here,
as coming from leading Wings, that Senator
Foote has written home to check his political
brethren in Vermont for meddling with the COM
promises of 1850, asserting, in substance, that
the plan was now at head quarters not to dis
turb the Baltimore platform, but make the re-
peal of the Nebraska bill the sole issue, which
was believed to be sufficient alone to carry the
next presidential election
| Hot WEATHER. heat on the Sd and 4th
of July all over the country, was unusually in
tense. In New Orleans it is said to have been
the hottest ever known there. In philadelphia,
New York and Boston the thermometer reached
% degrees and 100, in Concord, New HAMPSHIRE,
100 degrees, and in Brattleboro', lOl ll2 deg,
the highest point, we think, ever known in Yer
mont. In Montpelier, on the 18th, it was not
over 9G degrees. The highest point which the
mercury reached in the northern States, of which
We have any record was in Salem, Mass, about
t.lrty years ago when the mercury in Fahrcin-
hct stood at l0l degrees. In some of the val
leys of California, it sometimes reaches ITO IL.
In Africa, the hottest part of the world, trav-
ellers have seen it rise to l25 degrees.
The FOREIGN News, of this week will be found
of unusual interest The Russians at Silstria
have been terribly repulscd, having left, proba-
bly,, nearly 10000 of their dead around the
walls Of that desperately belcagured fortress.
Through letters and various confirming sources,
we learn that the Turks, by springing a counter
mine on the Russians. who were drawn in great
numbers over it by tcigncd attack and retreat,
blew 1900 of their foes into the air by one ter
rife explosion, agreater number, probably, than
ever before persisted at one time by such fear
full instrumentality since the invention of gun
powder.
RODENT SCHUYLER, who has been committing
gigantic fraud by issuing unauthorized stock
in the New Haven Railroad Company to the
amount of million and appropriating the
avails, has fled to Canada. He is a grandson of
old Gen. Schuyler, of Revolutionary memory,
AMI from proud, aristocratic family, who are
greatly hunhed and chagrined it is said, at the
disgrace brought on them by this piece of whole
sale villainy
RAILROAD CASUALTIES. j. Sears, engineer
of the Rutland Road, was crushed to death be-
tween q car and post last Saturday. A brake
man on the Vermont and Massachusetts, Road
was knocked from train on the same day and
killed. But all the smaller casualties of the week
were swallowed up in the appalling catastrophe
oecasioned by the collision on the 4th, between
two long trains on the Susquehannah and Balti-