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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18
Northfeld.

THAT PRoBLM.-We have received any num-
Der of answers to the problem in the Freeman
of March 4th, and with almost the samenumber
of different results. The supposed answer is as
follows: For the first ten rods the three are
equally interested, and each one pays one-third
of the cost in the next ten rods B. and G. are
alone interested and each pays one-half the
cost for the last ten rods c. is alone interested,
and pays the whole cost. Then A. pays 49,
33 1-3; B. pays 1888 l-3 on the first, and
S. 100 on the second ten rods, making 1888 l-3;
G. pays 1888 l-3 on the first, $500 on the
second, and $1,000 on the third, making $751;
33 1-3.
We have also received any number of prob
lens for solution. We give two or three:
Three men, A. B. and c., buy 300 acres of
land, each one paying $500. tits to be divided
in such manner that AS land shall be worth
one dollar per acre more than BIS. and BIS. one
dollar per acre more than C's. Required the
number of acres each man will receive.
There is a conical glass, inches high, 5
inches wide at the top, and which is is part
filled with water. What must be the diameter
of ball, let fall into the water, that shall be
immersed by it? A READER.
What is the difference between per cent
annually, and 5 per cent. quarterly?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

Hor-BEDs. -March is the time to 6t M
the hot-beds Every farmer may have, at
triiing expense, few square feet covered
with glass, to bring forward at least some
early tomatoes, cabbages and cucumbers
Dig out space as large as your glass will
cover, about eighteen inches deep. Add to
the top of this ten or twelve inches of horse
manure, and cover it with four inches of good
soil, and sow the seeds, put on the frame and
cover with the glass. Or pile may be
raised without digging, and the frame set up
on it, banking up about the edges with the
warm loan and manure. 1t must be six or
eight inches larger each way than the frame.
When the plants grow so as to reach the
glass, the frame may be gradually raised out
Of rheir way, and in this manner strong and
vigorous plants may be plentifully supplied
The nearer the plants are to the glass, the
better they will grow. Raise the glass in the
middle of pleasant days. and occasionally
sprinkle with watering-pot. The ferment-
ing manure will keep the soil warm at the
bottom, and the sun will warm the top, and
thus the terminating seeds will find a warm
soil and warm air, which will put them for
ward some two or three weeks earlier than
they would come in the open air, and you
will have fine, thrifty plants to set out about
the time seeds are usuallys own in garden beds
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18
New Hampshire all Right!
5000 REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.

The returns from the New Hampshire State
Election, held on the 9th, show about an aver
age vote, with some $500 gain for the Repub-
licans. 90 towns give Halle 5l92 majority
with l9l Republicans and 80 Democrats, and
l6 towns to hear from. Council all Republi.
can. Nine out of twelve Senators are Repub-
lican.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

MANUmNG.-Never int your crops. Plant
no more land than you can manure well. 1t
is better to have one-half an acre of soil well
managed, than ten acres imperfetly worked
and manured. 1t requires no more labor to
manage one acre of land that will produce
fifty bushels of shelled corn, than it does to
manage one that will yield but twenty-five.
1t is acknowledge to be poor policy to half
feed our domestic animals and why should
it not be considered equally as absurd and in
judicious to half starve our corn and other
crops which we rely upon mainly to feed us.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

Satisfy OR VEGETABLE OYSTERS 2
quarts of satisfy and boil two hours in milk
and water then add l cup of butter; of
sweet cream with pepper and salt to taste.
Toast some thin slices OF bread delicate
brown, place them in small dishes or platters
and pour the oystersover them and serve
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

To PoAcH EGGs.-Have on the fire a fry
ing-pan with water fast boiling, break each
egg into seperate cup, slip them carefully
in the boiling water when the white is quite
set, the eggs are done. Take them up with
slice, and serve on buttered toast or bread
and butter. Fried eggs are done in the same
manner, only instead of water little fat is
used, or rasher of bacon.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18
A correspondent says !:

| know not how it may be in other sections
of Vermont, but in Rutland county farms
have come into market within the last three
months, and have been sold almost daily at
prices varying from twenty-five to forty per
cent, less than at any other period within the
past ten years.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

A NICE DISH FOR BREAKFAsT.-Takeo one
egg and beat it up, add a teaspoonful of salt
pour into about two-thirds of pint of water
then slice some bread, dip it in, and fry in a
little butter. Serve warm, and you will find
it an excellent dish.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

LICE ON CArTLE-One of the best things
for destroying lice on cattle is to rub them
well with rancid lard, or whale or tanners oil.
1t is said, also, that scattering upon them
buckwheat -four or Indian meal will drive the
lice away.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

The Woodstock Age is the most given to small
mean, dirty personalities of any paper we know
of. 1t cannot possibly exist without seeking
some vent of low blackguardism at gentlemen
too honorable or high-minded to notice it,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

Roor CRops.-Farmers, cultivate more
roots. Do not delay preparations for this
important crop. You can soon increase your
ability to feed double the amount of stock
you now feed this will double THE manure,
and the manure will double your future crops.
An acre, with twenty loads of manure and
we'll cultivated, will give two tons of hay as
an average. Call it worth $40 it will cost
So to harvest it. Another acre, with the
same amount of manure, will give 800 bush
els of carrots, as an average. Cost of cult
walton, $50. They are worth 25 cents a
bushel for stock, making 5000 Deduct cost
of cultivation, $40, and we HAYS $50 to off
set against $35, value OF the hay. This is
one way, anda sure Que, to increase the pro-
fits of the farm; let us try it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

Col. Orr, Speaker of the National House of
Representatives, is said to be the proposed can
didate for the Presidency, to be nominated at the
National Democratic Convention, at Charleston,
in 1860.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

10 RAISE AND KEEP CELERY-Celery must
be sown early in the spring. As soon as the
plants are four or six inches high, then dig Il
trench one foot deep; put in some good barn
yard manure, mixed with good earth; then
set in your plants, about nine inches apart ;
cover them for the first three days through
the day; as they grow, keep filling in earth
occasionally until the ditch becomes full, and
by this means you can bleach it from twelve
to fourteen inches in length.
1t mnst be taken up in November, in the
new of the moon, and then prepare box in
your cellar, and put in good earth at one end
of the box; then lay in your celery, santing,
in rows; then put in earth, SO the tops stick
out four inches; so continue on till the box
is full water it occasionally during the win.
ter. By this means it can be kept until
spring.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

A correspondent of the Tribune says that
Bennett of the Herald is to receive the appoint
ment of Minister to Austria, in return for his
defence of the Administration.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

The Temperance candidate for Commissioner
is elected in Windham County. In Orange
County the Rum candidate is elected by small
majority
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

Tuckerman, the great mail robber, was in
dictcd by the grand jury at New Haven, on the
9Th. lie failed to obtain bail in the sum of
100000, and was committed to await trial at
the United States Circuit Court in April.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

REMEDY FOR STRING HAM.-Just say to R.
n, Randolph, VT, to bleed in the leg.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

TERMS.-The FREEMAN is 81, so per year in advance,
but $500 will pay year behind and year in advance
paid by the close of the year. No account allowed
to ran over one year unpaid.
LEGAL NOTICES---The FREEMAN has much the
largest circulation in Orange Lamoille and Washington
countless and double the circulation at large of
any paper in the State. 1t offers the best medium
or legal advertisements, and at as cheap rates.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-03-18

|
SENATE.--Mr. Polk of Missouri spoke in IA
vor of the admission of Kansas She had q
constitution which no one except the Senator
from Connecticut denies to be republican in
form. That instrument is the deliberate choice
of the people in pursuance of law, with all the
forms necessary to insure the free expression of
the will of the people. Congress could only
ask, is that Constitution republican? In this
respect he considered it as unexceptionable as
that of any State in the Union.
The Senate passed the House Printing De-
fciency Bill and adjourned.
HousE'-The bill for the increase of the
army by volunteers was taken up.
! Mr.. Harris of Illinois rose TO question Of
privilege, saying that he and six other members
of the House Kansas Committee felt it due to
themselves to present the facts, showing the
failure of the committee to execute the orders
of the House.
Mr. Letcher asked if this was privileged
question.
The Speaker thought it was not.
Mr.. Harris appealed from the decision of the
Speaker.
! Mr.. Stephens moved to lay the appeal on the
table.
The House refused to do SO by 81 against
ll2.
Mr.. Humphrey Marshall of Ky, moved
that the question be postponed until to-mor-
row.
Mr.. Stephens had no objection, providing the
ma jority report be then made.
Mr., Harris had no objection to embody that
report in tho journal and minutes of the Com
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

The Ne,e. Orleans Delta returns with zeal and
constancy to its advocacy of the right of importing
blacks into Louisiana from Africa as well as from
Maryland and Virginia. If the arguments OF the
advocates of African Slavery good for anything
so far as they refer to the necessity OF forcing the
black man to work for the good Of mankind, or the
Chrstianizing of black heather barbarians for
the good Of their own souls. The Delta makes out
a prima facie case. All the advocates of Afrc An
Slavery, from Carly lie to Keitt say "Quashee ought
- to work" to raise sugar and cotton and spices;
and as he will not work without being striped then
he ought TO be striped TO make him work. But 10
do this effectually he must be transferred to that
predestined place of bliss, the plantations. Here
only can be fnd.both bodily and spiritual oversight
Here be can be treated TO both lash and prayer.
book without even the trouble of asking for either
If il is permissible, then to carry negroes from
Maryland TO Louisiana who already have Gospel
privileges, merely to make them do their duty in
raising tropical products it ought 20 be esteemed
praisewortby act to bring them from Africa, where
they sre riotipg in heather idleness, aud whence
their transfer will rebound not only to the benef.
of mankind in general but to their own spiritual re.
generation in particular. Logically considered,
therefore, from the Pre- Slavery point of view TIL,
Del,a's position in favor of bringing blacks from
Africa Is nvulnerable. We quote from its article
We must saume that South viii deiib-r,,ely sni
voluntarily subscribe TO practical ineausity and prescription
To deny her her labor scofdns - th- do
tor il the hand TO txpspd tertory ssoor
ia to her geographical vans on the other 10 require hcs q
bow yos- Of inequality aid TO stand bsOis the world
brsd,d with degrstaion obq guy Add tbs souh when
such 9 n lui euen sSe what che TO do We have
sumed and jusaby too that shs vii te-ist aud
Iced acsps ndsDco 10 her sub In shs
even; tho U1qu YOU'D b ~ col wagd b e99Tss, "a.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

for tae benefit Of their country with any skill. Bat
we could bear with stupidity if the sttache or his
master would but be content with playing the fool
We have had wiseacres abroad who passed for
wise men simply BY holding their tongues aud
wearing knee. .breeches and long faces. AT some
courts respectable ass is regarded as the perfe'-
tioo of human wisdom. But when the American
dplou atist forgets to pay bis bills upon his depart
ure: when he makes his hotel hdeous By midnight
orgies: when be is such boor as to become Gu
riosity, like .chimpanzee or Catlin Indian; when
be fights dues about prostitutes; when he neglects
bis ewn business 10 attend to what is mons Of his
busine,s when he is rude at court rude in his inn,
rude TO servants and tradesmen and postlons;
when he is niggardly although he should be liberal
and prodigal although he should be prudent when
he bullies and browbeats and cozens and cheats
wby-we wish him well at home again. The Gov
erpment should see to it that this Secretary OF Le-
cation be uot received again into the diplomatic
fold. When any man incorporating us IN any
way abroad has the grace to resign, great should
be the alacrity in accepting his resignation, aud
when be does abroad what would subject him to
severe punishment at home, he should, no'sns
rolns, be made to resign 10 twinkling
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

tranquility, security; and the Country ssda for
delversnce from agitation respecting her. "Who
"shan deliver US from this Kansas broil = is
very general and impatient query. Once admit
as Mr.. EDglish's project clearly dOes-that the Le
compton instrument is not the Constitution of Kan
sas, but needs ratification to make it such, and the
inquiry irresistibly follows: Then why not frame
ga project which shall cover the whole ground aud
"make an end Of the controversy Why convulse
"the afflicted Territory once more, only to create
ga necessity for further agitation Why not pro-
"vde tbst if the People Of Kansas pronounce
"once more and conclusively against Lecompton'
"they may proceed forthwith to frame or adopt
"some other Constitution, and Herewith present
themselves for admssioni" Mr.. Crittendens
proposition covers the whole ground, aud, II
adopted, closes the controversy. SO does Mr.
Green's Mr.. English's does just the opposite, and
hence is sterile and inadmissibe. We are not sur
prised therefore, to learn that it is Indignantly re-
PEELED by the Anti-Lecompton men, without being
acceptable to their adversaries. We presume this
will end the Conference.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

and old back on the very verge Of consummasion
is to betrsy not only iDcspacy and lack OF energy,
but blindness to the dictates Of true economy and
Of common sense.
Three courres were open to the late Legislature
l. The direct, manly one Of pushing the Caua' for
ward to completion and imposing an extra Stae
tax to defray the cost; 2. That OF amending the
Constitution and 90 borrowing the money needed;
or 3. To require the Railrosds competing with the
Erie Car ais, but especially the Great Central. 70
contribute toward the Canal Revenues, as 'he
Central originally stipulated to do. An Extra
Mill Tax, the same as last year. would have yelded
81 500 600; add to this S5OO,0O0 raised BY Canal
Tolls on the Central Railroad and our Canals might
have been CON peted before the cose OF 1859 with
out adding except momentarily to our State Debt.
None of these courses was ultimately taken; but
the Legislature, after turning in mpotent De-
wilderment from one to another, afraid 10 tax,
unwilling to borrow, and shuddering at the thought
of incurring the hostility Of the great ruling Kali
road, the Warwick Ct our State politics, finally
ended by doing nothing and leaving the Canals to
get on as they can or stop as they must ~ most
" lame and impotent conclusion"
The actual doipgs of this Legislature are of small
account-and therein, perhaps, is the highest COM
mendation that it deserves Its best deed was
thouphtess haphazard ope-that namely, Of allow
irg the people to vote for or against Constitu-
tional Convention. II chartered new railroad IN
Brooklyn ard refused to charter one in this City
the latter immensely clamOIed against, yet In the
main We believe a wise and benefcent project.
We concur, however, with the directors in urging
that, wien this Psralle-to Broadway Railroad Is
charter the franchise shall be sold at auction and
the proceeds put into our City Treasury. Two
paltry fist shakngs at the Central Railroad were
enacted-one of them repeating an act OF last ses-
sion allowing Railroad officers to estimate the value
of their companies property for taxing purposes;
the other providing that passengers carried over
the Central any distance might be charged at least
half dime therefor; over three miles dime;
over FIVE, three half dimes; over eight two Dimes
&c. This is small business, and We think poor
business alec. 1t is a tub thrown to the popular
whale. intended to distract attention from the
"weightier matter of tOllipg railroads. which was
foredoomed to defeat.
No very considerable forays on the Treasury have
been made at this sesson-we mean, no successful
ones. True, this is a negative virtue, but in the
absence of positives, it may be dwelt on with ap.
probation. If there are any more hooks to hang
good word upon, we shall endeavor to find them
On the whole, however, We are clad the Leg'la.
ture of '57-8 has not another year to serve, and
rejoice in the consideration that we shall not look
"upOn its like again."
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

Mr.. English of Indiana yesterday submitted to
bis colleagues of the Congressional Committee of
Conference plan of compromise between the two
Houses which is substantially as folows The
People of Kansas, under. the direction and super
vision of Pro-Slavery or " Democratic" Board,
are to be allowed to hold an election and vote di-
recty for or sgalnst the acceptance of the Lecomp-
ton Constitution, with modified Land Grab thrown
in by way of bait to vote Yea; but if majority
should nevertheless vote to reject, then there shall
be no admission until Kansas is shown by al official
census to have 93, $40 inhabitants (the number re-
quired by the present Apportionuent law to elect
Member of the House).
Now, while this proposition is exceedingly one
sided and unfair consisting Gas Gen. Wilson
promptly observed) of ga threat and q bribe'-
bribe in lands and instant admission for voting
for the Lecompton Constitution, and threat Of
protracted exclusion from the Union should the
People nevertheless vote Move still cannot con-
slider this scheme very tempting to the Pros Slavery
interest We can very well understand why every
Free State or genuine Popular Sovereignty" man
in Congress should Indignantly reject it; but we do
not why the other side should eagerly accept it.
For, while it gives Slavery an apparent chance to
clutch Kansas through the votes of the land specu
lators and others among her citizens who are deeply
inte rested in prospective Railroads and in getting
into the Union at the earliest moment, it on the
ether hand admits that the Lecompton Constitution
has Lot already been sanctioned by Kansas, which
the Pro Slavery side are not disposed and cannot
well afford to do 1t is possible that the pressure
of private interests and personal ambition might
double the fair Pro.SIavery vote for acceptance, car
pipg it up to Four or Five Thousand; STILL Lee
coppt, N would inevitably be voted down by at least
two to one and then wba. would be the position Of
the Pro-Slayery men Having thus divested them
selves Of the shield Of technical legality, how could
they hope long TO resist the demands fer admission
under the Leayenworth or some future Free-State
Constitution 1t seems to US perfectly natural
that while the Free.State men should resist this
scheme from the start the Pro-Slavery men, on
sober second thought" should eschew it.
The worst feature Of the scheme is il, barren.
ness. 1t concludes nOthiag-settes nothing. If
Copg,ess were to PASS it, the Kansas controversy
would not thereby be advanced one ,tep toward its
COL cusiop. There would be new and fierce cleo
ton. gross frauds, more embttered fsud, and an
inteDser excltem ent but no advaLce to aard 6na
] adjustment. Now Kansas urgently needs rest,
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21
nuu. l.d.ee-e... .. Advertiser.

Ia the present stsspston Of business, Advertising i
more thsn ever necessary 10 those who would col
public attention asd psnoHsgs to articles which they
wsh TO dispose Of and We have determined sos short
period, to oer to the publishers of books, dealers i,
dry goods manufacturers of agricultural imp snents,
and merchants in general the opportunity Of sdvers-
inx in The DAILY, SSNIwKEKLr and WEEKLY
TaIsysx. ciioulssing al together more than 40 900
copies, Of the rate of One Dollar hre for inser-
sios in ali Of these papers. This advantage, however
Il 90. offered to the publishers Of periodicals, or to
dealers in patent medicines.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21

Our late Legislature passed 376 acts. They are
not generally worth even naming. Its predecessor
passed little over Eight Hundred. AS the virtue
of Legislature is estimated inversely ndica
by the number of its acts, the Legislature of 1853
may be presumed to have done twice as well Cor
only half 80 ill) as that of 1857.
The Canal contractors, always powerful at
Albany, had their own way in the organization of
the late Assembly, and in a good share of its
action. They came in collision at the close, how
ever, with the equally potent influence of the
Central Railroad and the result was a dead lock.
The Railroad saved itself from being toed, but the
completion of the Canals was not provided for. The
Democratic party did not dare to pass the SO, 900
Loan, subject to approval by the People, which
its State Officers and organ recommended. Nor
could they continue the Special Mill Tax for the
completion of the Canals because most of them
had been ee ,ted solely by dint of demagogue de-
nuncaton of that Tax. So the Canals went by the
board, and the Railroads have full swing. The
Central could afford to pay literally for the election
of just such Legislature for each Of the next ten
years.
The Lobby was never stronger nor buster than
in this Legislature.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-21
Mr.. Csreys Letters TO the President.

The Letters to the President by Mr. Henry C..
CAREI, which have recently appeared in our columns,
have been reprinted 10 a handsome pamphlet OF III
octave Psges, which be procured at The TRIBUNE
Office price 3 cents. These letters contain by Tar the
fullest discussion Of the recent financial catastrophe
ard of the present condition and prospects of the ag-
culture, industry aud commerce Of the country, which
bas yet appeared. That they are written with emil
IsD. sby, snd abound in the most Instructive expo
stoDs OF the vital principles OF Political Economy,
every oCs who has read them will testify. No one,
whatever BIS ptions, can study them without profit,
asd ws 'rUs ha: ia their pesent form they may have
vide eIcU a,lOg-