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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
FROM CALIFORNIA.

The Northern Light which arrived at New
York on the 10Th, brought word of the almost
entire prostration of business, owing to the
suspension Of five bankng-houses. The news
of the suspension of Page & Bacon at St.
Louis, reached San Froncisco on the 18th,
causing great run on Messrs. Page, Bacon
& Co., of San Francisco They met the run,
and paid out half million of dollars. A
meeting of merchants and bankers was held,
and declared the house sound, restoring conf
dence, and matters wore better aspect. On
the 22d, however, Messrs. Page. Bacon &
Co.. suspended payment, followed on the 23d
by Me srs. Adams & Co., Wells, Fargo 4 Co.,
Robinson & Co., and Wrights Miners De-
post.
The excitement was intense. Adams 4
Co., closed all their branches without paying
a dollar, except at San Francisco, where on
the 23d, they stood run of 100000.
Wells, Fargo & Co., announced that they
would resume payment in SanFrancsco on the
10Th. 1t is feared Adams & Co., could not
resume payment under sixty days, if at all.
Page, Bacon 4 Co., would probably resume
payment in few days, depositors having
granted time on 100000. Their assets were
large.
The San Francisco Price Current, of the
evening of the Oath, denies that there have
been any failures of purely merchantie houses
Owing to the scarcity Of water, but little
gold had been taken from the mines, but heavy
rains commenced falling on the 18th, aud still
continued when the steamer left ..-.4-. e.
There has been no election OF U. 5. Sen.
ator, the joint Convention having adjourned
sine die on the Goth, by vote of SO to A.
On the morning of the 18th, the st. Charles
Hotel, and Williams Hotel, in San Francis
co were destroyed by fire. Iu Nevada, l6
houses were burned on the 10th, and in Stock
ton, % houses were destroyed by fire on the
2lst. Loss, $4,000.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
PROSPECTS FOR KANSAS.

The movement for emigration to Kansas seems
still to be kept up, in the eastern portion of the
Free States, at least, with unabated activity.
Large numbers have gone from the State of N.
York, the past winter, under the auspices of the
Company organized in that State in aid of the
movements and still more have gone from New
England. 1t is but few weeks since, a compa-
ny of nearly two hundred started from Boston
and last, on Tuesday, they were followed by an
additional or second company of one hundred
and fifty, including few women and children
We hope the people of Vermont will everywhere
aid and encourage this grand rally of the North
for the freedom of thisEden of the West. that her
brave and free Green Mountain Boys shall here.
after be enabled to claim their full share of the
glory of expelling the black fiend, before that
Garden shall fall TN Ter the blight of his balefu
influence, be lost to Freedom and Right, and
made desolate forever Let no man 20 without
his revolver or rife, and resolution enough tt
| use it in case Of necessity. These are the only
arguments that are always respected by the
slavcholding DULLES of the South; and indeed
nearly the only ones that they are capable OF
fully compromising.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

Reedcr for delaying the election so long, as
every day lessons the chances OF the slave
holders. The editor says that until the Leg
islature pass some law to protect slavery the
shareholders will uot dare take large numbers
into the territory as it is feared they may be
discharged upon writ Of Hebeos corpus.
The Herald saya that large hotel, the best
in the whole territory, isnow nearly complete.
As many New England men are now propos-
ing to 90 Kansas, the following from an ex-
change may give some valuable information
as TO the best and cheapest way OF doing 1t,
as well as in relation in some other matters
Gland can be taken up 100 acres, unoccu'
pied, and when it comes into market the claim
will be good at governmental price, 81 20 pei
acre. There is no distinction between native
and foreign citizens.
The commercial advantages of that country
will forever demand its entire productions at
liberal prices. 1t is on the grand central
track to the Pacific, where railroad will soon
be made. A vast Indian Santa Fe trade al
ready. enters there, and water communlca-
ton IS open through the Missouri and Mis-
issippi with all the world.
The way to get there is through the Mass.
Emigrant Aid Company. They take you
from Boston for about $25 fare, and in seven
days, you pay your incidental expenses, and
carry 100 pounds baggage if you please. You
are taken care of on the way as if in the care
of an Express Company, and at their hotels
the, are boarded for one-third less than else.
where, and afforded all the knowledge in thell
possessions, to aid you in fixing your location
and business New England institutions and
society are scarcely to be waited for there, for
you take them with you.
Tie cityot Lawrence is already we'll cstab
lishea and its growth will far outstrip Chi
cago or Milwaukee. Other large towns are
located, and will forthwith be begun"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

There is class of men IN our county VINO are
called respectable, and who, perhaps, mean TO
be so men of talent, men of inhuencc-who
give all their influence to the .propins up OF
this accursed trafie-who, because they have
some slight objections to the law, lend all their
influence to sustain one of the most destructive
practices that ever cursed the earth. These are
the men who are responsible for all this mis-
chief-but for these we could Danish rumselling
in single year.
But it is to be hoped there is a better day
coming. 1t is to he hoped those men (the more
candid and thoughtful of them, at lc'sst,) have
become satisfied their course IS not a judicious
one that they have become convinced they are
sustaining the drunkard more than that, that
they are sustaining the rumseller,-that they
are helping to make drunkards, criminals, viii
ows, and orphans that they are, by the course
| they pursue, enemies Of their race
The election of sack a man as Judge Gilmore,
and by sacA q majority, is surely an evidence of
this.
Let US then, as lovers Of humanity, whatever
may have been our kious views, on that ques-
tion, unite in one common, mighty phalanx
against this common foe, and do all in our pow
CT to Danish rumsolling from the County-from
the State-from the World SINS.
HitiamstoDn, March Is, 1855.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

The GREAT OvERrURN IN New HAMPSHIRE
ACCOUNTED FoR.-Thc papers, we perceive, are
everywhere specializing on the causes which
produced the recent great overturn in New
Hampshire, without appearing to come to sat
isfactory decision on the subject. We have hit,
we think, on the true solution of the question
We think there can be no doubt, but that the
cause Of that defeat was the absence Of l." Gov.
Bakers Aid," Col. EASTMAN, the brilliant ASS
istant Editor of the Patriot, who removed from
that State, to take charge of the political desti-
MES of Vermont, at the beginning of the New
Hampshire campaign, and who thus, in himself,
distracted so great a proportion of the moral
aud mental force of his party there, that it was
found impossible to supply the loss. This seems
to be virtually confirmed in the fact that, just
before that election, he proclaimed that the
prospects of the Democracy were never brighter
in New Hampshire never thinking, in his mod
esty, that those prospects were all blighted in
his own absence from the scene of action.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

TEMPERANCE VICTORY.

The Freemen of Orange County have, at
last, succeeded in electing true and tried
friend Of temperance for Commissioner. In
this result every true temperance man and wo-
man, will rejoice. May we not hope, ti'at in
the election of the Hon. A. H Gilmore, we have
IA man for the times. One who will prud' entity,
yet firmly carry out the provisions of the Law.
1t is to be hoped, at least that we are not to be
50 miseraby duped as VIC have hecn the past
year.
Last year we elected man who had not stami-
ma enough to discharge the duties of the Office ;
so we had no Commissioner the first half cf the
year. The last-baEs .ws- 4rada Commiss Toner
appointed by our rum Governor, who lis ,nced
many if not all of those who had been selling
on their own hook. N some instances, at least,
men were lisenecd, who had not only opposed,
but continually and perseveringly violated the
laws from the first, consequently, temperance
men either had to 60 to a place where rum was
unlawlully sold, or to one of the most filthy,
iuu uUioS Jtltb 0Noi Ouioou ohO h1ni VII
to obtain the article for medicine. Perhaps
this was not altogether the fault Of he Com,
missioner, though he ought to know who ho was
licensing.
1t must be apparent to every observer, that
the Law, Notwithstanding the lax manner in
which it has been executed, has done m UGH,
very much towards checking the alarming tide
OF intemperance.
But why has it not done more! Why has it
not driven this monster back to the dark shades
OF Pandemonium from whence he came. Why
is it that those miserable, flthy-breathing holes
of the Pit are suffered to continue to send forth
their deadly miasma through this, otherwise
happy land Why is it that our children must
be continually exposed to its deadly iuanences'
Why must our young men be made drunkards!
Why is it, that at every social gathering Of the
young, this accursed monster must run at large,
grasping its victims in its Internal clutches T.
Is it because the few unfortunate beings who
haunt these soul-sickening places are stronger
than the lawe Is it because the rumseller's love
OF gain isso strong that it can not be controlled
No Sir. What then is it , Simply this
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

Extensive fires are prevailing in the woods in
South Carolina and Georgia.
dispatch from Georgia says Tremendous
fires are raging all around US. In and about Lex
ingion, houses, Mills fences, and vast amount
of property have been destroyed and at last ac-
counts the town itself was threatened with de
sruc ion. Many saw mills and dwellings, have
been burned and the railroad has caught fire in
several places, causing an interruption to travel.
In Camden, the railroad. a number of houses,
and the telegraph poles have have been consum.
cd, thereby preventing any communication with
the north On the South Carolina railroad the
woods on both sides OF the track were burning,
and car loaded with cotton was consumed near
Gadsden. The woods are also burning on the
Greenyle road. There was tremendous gale
yesterday, rendering all efforts 10 stay the flames
frui,less The Savannah papers also say that
fires are raging extensively in the pine W DDS
between that city and Macon. The railroad was
in great danger, and cotton trains had ceased
running The telegraph line had been consum-
ed for considerable distance near Cheraw, and
some days must elapse befor Geographic commu
nication with the south can be resumed.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

GENERAL SCoTT AND THE CATHOLICS The N
II. Patriot, on the eve of the late election
there, published a letter parporting to be from
Gen. Sc tt, denying the part attributed to him
in an article which we copied some time ago,
charging him and the friends of General Pierce
with bidding for the Catholic vote in 1852. The
General, however, does not deny that he found
about those days some peculiar charms in THAI
rich Irish brogue.' Why don't the Patriot
which is the home mouth-piece if Gen. Pierce
deny the successful bid that was alleged to ha We
been made in his behalf! Those two rival c'ln-
didales sold themselves and their parties to Slav
cry in that campaign' we know and though
that is all that particularly concerns the great
warfare in which We are only engaged, yet in
view Of villa. has since TRANSFERRED we yotremuin
to h- Convinced, t.at the charges made IN the
article quoted are not substantially true, how
ever ii migAt lave erred as to the Instruments
used, and the modus operandi,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
TO THE FARMERS OF ORANGE COUNTY.
WHERE SHALL WE INsUREl


Having of late been led to make some inquiry
and investigation as to the cheapest medium Of
reliable insurance for Farm Property, am decid-
ed in my preference for the FARMERS INSURANCE
COMPANY, doing business at Montpelier The
ground of this preference will plainly appear in a
brief comparison of its merits with those of the
Olange County Company. | learn from reli-
able source, that this Company, which has been
in existence little over five years, has issued
between thirteen and fourteen thousand Policies,
insuring property TO the amount of over ELEVEN
MILLIONS of dollars. So far all must ADM, tina,
its success has been unparalleled by any institu-
ton in the State. But what comnends this in.
stitution to my favor particularly, as farmer, is
its system of classifying property in t,co classes
one being purely farmers class, in which
nothing but Dwelling houses, barns, sheds, and
out-buildings, and personal property in like build
ings, are insured. In the Merchants and Me-
chanics' Glass, most kinds of haz trdous ploperty
are insured. But it is of the Farmers Class
that desire more particularly to speak and now
for my proposed comparison For the past five
years the writer of this article has been insured
in this class, and the actual cost of insurng one
hundred dollars has been less than elerea cents
per year that is, SIS so for insuring $1,000 five
years, while in the Orange County Company the
actual average cost of insuring the same amount
and same kind of property for the past five years
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

To Our PATRONS. patrons must not for
get us on their this years subscription. Weind
that although the first quarter IF the current
year is out, we have not yet received but about
$500 on the present volume, not one-tenth of the
when we have received $1,000 by this time of
the year. AS for those in arrears on previous
years, we again entreat them to pay up to JAN
uary, at least. or our 100 six year delinquents,
more than 100 yet remain, and they will be apt
to hear From US, unless they settle soon, in
way which may be too agreeable to them. AS
some Of these may have excuses which should
take them out Of the black list we think of pub
fishing, we request every one to write us on the
subject.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
TO THE MEMBERS OF THE KNOW NO.
THING PARTY,

Friends,-for so may call you, though am
not one OF you as respects party names, but
am one OF you as respects the great interests
our country, and the benefits Or burdens attached,
to the same,-I will venture to presume that we
are well agreed in our desire to promote the
best interests of our country, even if we do not
think exactly alike about what measures will
best promote those interests If the people were
all well informed, and thought alike about the
great interests of our country, there would seem
to be only the three, the agricultural, the com
mercial and ufaeturing interest and the
united aim would be to 80 balance these, bear
ing in mind the various wants of the people,
that they would harmonic together, and mutu-
ally support each other.
But other considerations may, and do, creep
in and acquire an intensity of thought and union
of action to remove all the obstacles that OBJ
struct the motion of the machine We cannot
be conyersant with the publications of the day,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

has been ttcenty-threc cents per year on each one
hundred dollars insured or SIl IS for insuring
$1,000 FIVE years This information is from the
best authority, and the result may be regarded
as implicitly correct.
The only remaining question now is, whether
the farmers of Orange County will longer remain
in their county company just to crafty local
pride, and in which only 3S7 policies have been
issued the past year, join their brother farmers
throughout the Sta'e in the Farmers COMPANY,
and thereby safe more than one half their mon
y
In my estimate, no account was made of Poll
cy or agents fees, as they are supposed to be the
same in both companies. A FARMER.
March Is. 1855
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

The VERMONT PATRIOT came out last week In
an entire new dress of type, and is now, if we
may trust the declaration Of its editors, "ser-
ond to no paper in tue country" We. think
the change in the narrowing of the columns to
the dimensions of the VI. Waterman quite a
polite move, and one that will prove very con-
venient arrangement between those two papers,
as now, in their strong intermingling sympathies
they can consistently exchange political matter
in type, without its being suspected by their
respective readers
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

The BLACK WARRIOR DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
The ~ Y. Erening Post announces from au-
theutc and reliable intelligence, that every
demand made by the President upon the Span
ish Government, growing out OF the Black
Warrior difficulty, has been acceeded to. The
Spanish Government admits that the intor-
mality in the Black Warriors manifest was
the fault of the Custom House officers and
also that the consignee of the vessel was euti-
tied to twelve hours after the vessel arrived,
in which to amend his manifest The Gov
ernment agrees to make compensation for the
loss consequent upon the Seizure, and also to
rem0ue all persons nor in Attire who were i'm
plicated in the sezurc, and have ordered the
revenue officers who participated improperly
therein, and who are not no,o Office, to be
tried for their misconduct.
Thus (says the Eocning PosD it appears,
thatwithout any minister at all in Madrid, and
with simple secretary of legation to com.
municate and transmit the dispatches of theil
respective governments to each other, this
whole war-brecding spectre has been layed
ana Opalh mas promptly ana cheeriuIiy oHeree
every naturalization that was asked of her il
the letter of the Secretary of State to Mr.
Soule, dated 22d June, 1854.
The Post proceeds to show from the official
documents relating to the Ostend Conference
that the onlysreason why this matter was not
settled at once, was because SouIe obstinately
refused to acquaint the government with the
grounds of complaint which our government
had, and did his utmost to create new diff
Guilty, instead Of settling the old one. Upon
the face of the correspondence, it would APP
pear that his whole motive in accepting the
commission to Spain was to get the United
states into war with that power and his whole
employment, after entering upon his duties,
was to counteract the efforts of the President
to preserve peace"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

"MENroR. We publish this week timely
article from our old anti-slavery friend Mentor,
addressed to the Know Nothings, which we hope
they will heed; for there are, unquestionably
dangers which the anti slavery portion of them
should watchfully guard against, lest their ac-
ton against slavery should be paralyzed by the
influence of the Southern portion of their Or
der, and they themselves become as impotent III
their first duty to Freedom as many an honest
man Of the old parties became through the sarn'
instrumentalties Of the Slave Power, in the dis
graceful wing and democratic campaigns o
1870
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

The SENATE JOURNALS of the last session are
out, and by this time, we presume, pretty gen.
orally distributed. They were printed at the
Register Office in Middlebury, and the execution
reflects credit upon the Establishment.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
KANSAS.

The Kansas Herald Of Freedom, of Feb
uary 18th, says that speculation is rife as to
the time of the territorial election for men,
bers of the Legislature, and that the people
of Missouri are the most anxious parties. The
Missouri papers are already denouucing Gov.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

DEATH OF THE Hon. SAMUEL PHELps.-We
learn through the Burlington Free Press, that
Senator Phelps died suddenly at his residence
in Middlebury. last Sunday. He was left alone
by his family, and on their return from church
was found dead.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

Gy-TuE New POSTAGE ACT requires that all
letters, to reach their destination, must be pre-
paid after the LIST of April, and prepaid in stamps
after the LIST day of January next. This must
be needed by all letter writers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

The Barnstable Patriot says that for forty
wears there has Lot been snch large piles of
drifted snow on Cape Cod as at this time. Large
numbers of men, at an expenditure of $500 were
required ia the town of BarastabIe alone to rem
der the roads passable In numerous instances
che doors and windows of the dwellings, are
Blocked uD with snswdrlfts.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

The Pttsburg Gazette says that there is an Or
eanized association of blacks in that city, bound
aoeether by oaths, and meeting in secret, whose
object is the abduction of colored servants travel
ing with their masters who are suspected to be
slaves
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

THE Governors of Massachusetts and New
Hampshire have appointed Thursday the 9Th day
of April next, as day of fasting, humiliation
and prayer" in those States. The Governor Of
Maine has appointed April 18th as day of pub
lie fast
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
Che FREEMAN.
DANIEL p. THOMPSON, Editor
MONTPELIER:
Thursday Morning. MSssk a9s 1896.

" Accommodations to the Freeman whether on busi-
Of the paper Or for publications. should be addressed
post aid, to the Edtor,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29
0hc Nous Dleauer,
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THE SEAsoN.-Here we are, as we write, on
this 9th day of March, in the midst of winter,
with the snow in this section two feet deep, the
ice in the sealed rivers thicker than in January,
and the weather so cold that not pound of ma
pie sugar, probably, has yet been made in Yer
mont.
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-06

Leave Alexandra every Monday and Friday a
Arrive a, Homer every "Wednesday and Sunday by
SPIN, -
Lsaye Homer every Monday and Thursday 1t "a m;
Arrive al Alexandra every Wednesday and Sasur-
day by $ pm.
BIDS 10 run by different schedule will be considered.
For eoaHeeiiag stage route see 1896 AtsssssPPs-)
The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-06

(from July !, 1856, 10 June 80, 1881
9092 From Athens to Fsirview, miles and back once
sweek.
Bidders will distance give schedule of de-
partures and arrivals 1890 ~ sgttti
9033 From Bloomington, BY Rce's Ferry and Milan,
81 John, Is miles and hack, sncs week.
Leave Bloomington Tuesday At p m,
Arrive a d. John next Thursday by ~ m;
cave 81 John Thursday II D m,
Arrive AT Bloomington next Saturday by m.
sO34 From Boonvillc, by Bcsns Lick to Glasgow. 2O
miles and back, once week.
Leave Boonvilh Saturday Al S am;
Arrive At Glasgow same day by II m,
Leave Glasgow Saturday at m;
Arrive nj Bsonvis same day by 6Pm