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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05
Che farmer.
Ashes as a Top-Dressing.


EDITOR FREEMAN tt will give you the
history of piece of land 10 this vicinity,
which shows beyond doubt that ashes, used
as top dressing, are as valuable as any
manure. The piece containing about three
tourths OF an acre-sandy soil seven years
since it was planted to beans. They were
not worth harvesting. Six years SINCE planted
to corn, the crop was sold for two dollars.
Five years since, planted to potatoes, aud
the land covered with ashes, taken from a
slash from log piles, at the rate of forty
bushels to the acre, worth, as they sell here,
four dollars.
The crop Of potatoes was more than an
average. The next year sowed to oats, and
seeded to clover.
Crop OF oats more than an average. The
crop Of grass has averaged more than ton
and half to the acre ever since. No other
manure has been used to my knowledge.
Yet farmers who pass this field every week,
sell their ashes, except few reserved for
making soap.
Enclosed please find sample of long
wool sheared from yearling eve, Is inches
long. Respectfully yours
A. E. Kinney.
Plaindeld, July Oath, 1858.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

HAY MAKING.-Professor Pallas describes
little animal called the rat hare, which in
habits the moist and gloomy forests of the
Altaic mountains of Siberia. This animal
is sometimes solitary, at others numbers con-
gregate in common dwelling. About the
middle Of August they begin the collection of
their winter stores of food. With the pur-
pose they bring together and spread out on
some sunny rock near their chosen habitaton
several varieties of nutritious grasses
These are cured in the sun, and, in the month
Of September, the hay thus made is put into
one or more stacks under some 3hetering
rock. These stacks are often eight feet in
diameter and six feet in hight. A subter-
ranean passag, is then constructed from their
burrow to the centre of the haystack. Thus,
however deep the winters snow, they have
an uninterrupted and covered pathway to
their store of food. Palli found on pa
tient and careful examination of the hay,
that it consisted of the choicest grasses and
aromatic herbs, cut when most vigorous,
free from flowers or ears of seed, or hard
woody stems, and dried SO slowly as to form
q green and succulent food. Can't our
farmers read the lesson of the Siberian hay
makers
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

It therefore follows that State is bound, OF
necessity, to prohibit by law the selling, Turn
ishing, or giving away intoxicating liquor to be
used as beverage, on any occasion whatever,
and if our Vermont Liquor Law is not such an
one it is as indispensable that 1T should be made
such, as it is that any one of the laws compris-
ing our criminal code should re main on the
statute book of the State. Strike from that
code the penalty for theft, and what assurance
has any man that his oxen or his horse or any
other article of property, or even all that he
may possess, may not be taken from him in
twenty-four hours, by some worthless and lazy
scamp? Remove the protection that is thrown
by our laws around domestic virtue and purity
and how soon would be developed the shame
full results of unblushing depravity. Strike
from our statute the death penalty for murder,
and should expect in two weeks, to be assas-
snated for writing this article.
said that law to restrain the use of liquor,
was as important as any one on the whole GRIM
inal list. 1t is infinitely more SO, for it has
Deell uelHOIlbtTdtcu OFtl anu uNoi again, tuoo al
dent spirit is the great fountain of crime, pour
ing its black streams Of moral pollution into
the great heart of any State or nation that suf-
fers it to flow on unrestrained.
Let Vermont repeal her Temperance Law,
(though it may be imperfect,) and open on her
people the unrestricted sale of rum, and sho
would at once commence n retrogade move
ment down the shining path of morality and
virtue. Maine tried the experiment. She re-
pealed her excellent Law. The State was like
ly to be deluged with the water of death and
damnation. Soon the Law is restricted by the
vote Of an overwhelming majority of her peo-
pie, more stringent, if possible, than before
Maine, virtuous, successful, happy Maine the
guardian angel of mercy to the nation. There
she stands, with this glorious instrument of
emancipation in her hands, inviting the other
States of this Confederacy to adopt and WELD
the same, that the thousands within their bord-
ers, now the debased slaves of appetite, may be
enabled to throw off their shackles, and assume
again the habits and characters of free men.
Rock BoTrox.
July o. 1858.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

POISONING CAsE.-Nathaniel Spoford has
been arrested at Bennington, on the charge of
having poisoned his wife, child, and servant
girl. 1t appears that on the morning of the
26th he got up before his wife, and made the
coffee for BREAKFAST very unusual proceeding
on Lis part. When breakfast was served. Spof
ford declined to drink any of the coffee, alleging
that he was of opinion the beverage was hurt
full to him. Mrs. Spoford, her child, and
servant girl, however drank Of the coffee, and
very soon after experienced burning pain in
the stomach, followed by excessive vomiting,
painful retching, and throbbing pains in the
head. Physicians were called, and at once OBJ
served apparent indications of metallic poison.
The next day the child and servaut girl were
pronounced out of danger, but Mrs. Spofford
remained dangerously i'll, and the physicians
despaired of her life. Her deposition relative
to the matter has been taken. Spoford has
been arrested. Lie denies his guilt lie recent
~ purchased some corrosive sub Innate of an
apothecary, for tho purpose, as he said, of kill
ing vcrlnin; but his family arc not aware of
his making any such use Of it. lie is farmer
in good pecuniary circumstances. It is said
that his connection with u young woman of
SALISBURY probably led him to attempt to get
rid Of his wife
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05
Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander
July q, 1858.

Sauce for the Goose is Sauce for the Gander.
EDITOR FREEMAN As had something to do
in penning the Call for the State Convention to
be held at your place the 4th of August,
think ought to have small space in your pa
per to reply to your remarks in last weeks pa
per upon said Call,
do not know that you claim to be Repub-
lican, but if you d. I think you had better
step out of a glass house before you go to
throwing stones, for if the Republicans have
not come into power by inviting in the fag-ends
of everything, and the devil himself, am no
judge. happened to be present when the Re-
publican Party was organized at Montpelier,
and if there wasn't wire-working and log-roll-
ing my eyes and ears did not serve me rightly
and how on earth they ever persuaded Mr.. Wal
ton to be made tool of, and have his name
used just long enough for the people to get off
home, and then decline, never could imagine.
was not one of the State Committee that year,
but travelled the same road in going home that
one of them did, and learned that that was
You will not allow me space to point out all
the small places they (the Republicans,) have
been in since, and which way their leaders next
dodge, the devil only knows. They have been
in favor of repeating the Fugitive Slave Law,
and then opposed; Know-Nothing and Anti
Douglas, and now Douglas is all right, and
they, 1.-THE Republicans,) are getting upa peo-
pies party for the accommodation of Mr.. Doug
las and his friends.
One word more on men they set up for Office
Mr.. Fremont must be an Abolitionist, because
while he was in Congress (only six weeks) he
voted against two bills one to abolish Slavery
in the District of Columbia, and one to leave
it to the people to say whether it should DO
abolished; and one other great thing he did,
was to lead lot of men out into the woods.
kept them on nule-meat awhile, and finally
starved them to death. Mr.. Hall must be an
Abolitionst, because he agreed with Mr.. Ad-
ans that the people had a right to petition
Congress. Mr.. Martin must be an Abolitionist.
because he made a long and flaming speech
against some resolutions introduced by Mr.. Dyer
at the Orange County Convention in 1856. one
of which was in favor of the repeal of the Fu-
gitive Slave Law, and because he now throws
up his hat for Mr.. D ouglas
Mr.. Editor, you may think l shoot rather
scattering, but one has got to do SO in order to
hit you Republicans, for we don't know to-day
where you'll be tomorrow.
| do not know as the Call suits all the Abo-
litionists, but am satisfied with it, and if YOU
are not, if you have mind to come over and
join us, erhaps we will put you in State Com
mittee, and then you can get upa Call that
will suit yourself SIDNEY ALLEN.
Tunbridge, Aug. 2, 1858.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

SooT AND CHARCOAL FOR ONIoNs.-Besides
the maggot which is so destructive to the
onion as to have wholly put stop to its
culture in many sections OF the country, we
have heard complaints Of the rot, which
proves more destructive even than the worm.
A writer in the Germ antown Telegraph
recommends SCOT and charcoal as preventa-
tives. He gives the result of an exaIrina-
ton Of his own onion beds, August a., 1857,
as follows:
Examined my onion beds; found that
with two exceptions the entire crop was dis
eased. The rot has latterly assumed a new
and more virulent type, the very tops are
dead. The exceptions to this are two south
erly beds, on which | sowed half bushel of
SCOT, raking it in before sowing the seed in
the spring, applying the same quantity of
palverized charcoal as soon as the plants
were up. There is not symptom of the
disease apparent here; the tops still retain
their verdure, and the roots are smooth and
well formed"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

Who Would NOT BE A FARMER ?-The
Louisville Courier, pays the following tribute
to the occupation of the Farmer =" If a
young man wants to engage in business that
will ensure him, in middle life, the greatest
amount of leisure time, there is nothing more
sure than farming. If he has an indepen-
dent turn of mind, let him be farmer. If
he wants to engage in healthy occupation,
let him till the soil. In short, if he would be
independent let him get spot of earth /;
Keep within his means, to shun the lawyer
be temperate, to avoid the doctor; be honest,
that he may have clear conscience i'm
prove the soil SO as to leave the world better
than ne found it; and then, if he cannot live
happily and die content, there is no hope for
him"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

Miss Sprague, Spirtualist, informs the editor
of The Repository that we suppressed > a part
of her reply to "a, S. B. and 'refuso to pub
lish " another. Both of these statements are
wrong. We published the whole of her reply
to the amount of one and half columns, leav-
ing an accompanying article upon Spiritualism
to a more convenient time, and have never retit-
sed to publish an article of any kind from her
but wc reserve the right to say ,chen we will
publish, and how long the article shall be. As
she has now handed her communication over to
the Repository, we trust she will relieve us from
further obligations. Our paper is not a spirit
ual paper, nor u religious one, but family
newspaper; and zoe are the judge of how to
conduct it, by and with the advice and counsel
Of our subscribers and couusellors,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05
Hiving Bees.

alVlLS beeS,
If not already known to your readers, the
following recent incident may be useful:
threw open my blinds few days since
and raised my window, to inhale the pure
air and take morning look at the gay flowers
that were in full blossom under the windows,
when | heard most unusual humming of
bees; not seeing any on the flowers looked
into the air, and just over my head they were
i'll agtated commotion preparatory to swarm
ing from the hive Of a neighbor. On fine
locust, near the front door, they were soon
settled, but before any effort could be made
to hive them, they commenced flying, and all
returned to the old hive. Next day they
oil came out again. and man who knew
something of bees was sent for to hive them.
He called for long woolen stocking, and
drew it on to the end of the pole, and placed
it where the bees seemed thickest near tree,
as if they had selected it as place where to
light. He held it few moments, and the
stocking was very soon covered completely
with the whole swarm.
A table had been spread with white cloth
and hive all ready. He laid his pole or
rather stocking of bees upon the t.ble, and
then put the hive over, while he carefully
drew out the POLE In an hour or two the
bees were all in the hive, and placed in the
bee-house-and in short time more, they
were at work furnishing their new home
While they were upon the table they clean
ed house" and disloged every particle of
dust and old matter adhering to their new
abode.
In two days more another swarm came out
Of the old hive, and in the same manner the
son and females of the family secured, in
this simple and easy way, another fine swarm.
The ladies told me. as watched their move
ments, that they could now do it any time
alone.-Cor. Farmers Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

SUMMER CoMpLAINT.-Editor Freeman -
will send you a receipt for cure of Sum.
mer Complaint and Dysentery, that l have
never seen printed, which | had from a
physician and friend of mine from the West.
l have used it in my own family four years,
without its failing of doing the cure:
One teaspoonful of Rhubarb one do Pep
ermInt leaves one do Cinnamon bark one
do Soda. Steep in a half-pint OF water
strain and swceten with loaf sugar. Dose
Tablespoonful each hour till relief is obtained.
This for an adult A. E. K.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

A CHANCE FOR US TO GET INTO OFFIcE.-See
" Sauce for Goose is Sauce for Gander,' in this
weeks paper. If we should accept the offer
which the correspondent there makes us, we
should call the State Conventions at precisely
the same times, day and hour, and place of the
Republican Convention, and endeavor to get all
true anti-slavery men together in counsel. But
have you the authority to- make the proposal
Mr.. Allen?
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

FIRST Corn OF THE SEASON. --On Saturday last
we were shown couple of ears of the common
yellow corn, suitable for roasting, grown by
Theodore Strong, ESQ.,, of Berlin.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

An old " neagy Clay Wing" dominates in
the Richmond Wing the following ticket For
President, John j. Crittenden of Kentucky;
for Vice President, Robert c. Winthrop, Of
Massachusetts,.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

Messrs. Baker & Tilden, the enterprisng pub-
fishers of County maps, are just finishing up IN
Orange County.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

The Administration Democracy are making
every possible exertion to defeat Douglas in llli-
nos.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

Republican County Nominations.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
JOSEPH = 3 pI1 PStA A For Senators.
E. EIt 6. WATSON pTstnI'' County Judges.
D. X. SMITH, States Attorney.
GEO. W. BAILEY, Judge Of Probate.
l. G. BROWN, Sheriff.
WIN. M. ELLIS, High Bailf,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

A patent was issued, July Goth, to S. H. Tiff,
Worthwhile, tor improved clothes dryer.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

The Gerrit Smith Abolitionists hold Con.
ysntion at Syracuse, N Y, this week.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

Indemnity for the past--pay up. Securi-
ty for the future--pay down
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

TERMS.-The FREEMAN is 1,5O per year in advance,
but will pay year behind and year in advance
II paid by the close of the year. No account allowed
to run over one year unpaid.
LEGAL NOTICES---The FREEMAN has much the
largest circulation in Orange Lamoille and Washington
counties, and double the circulation at large of
any paper in the State. 1t offers the best medium,
Tor legal advertisements, and at as cheap rates.
s. r. NILES, Successor to v. R. Palmer) Newspaper
advertising Agent No. l. Scoays Building Court street.
Boston, authorized to receive advertisements for this
paper, at the same rates as required by us.''
3. NJ: PETTINGILL h CO., are authorized to receive
Advertisements for this paper, at lowest rates. in
New York and Boston.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-08-05

ORANGE COUNTY
NJ. Bill For senators.
johns JOHN w u fHSRsE' County Judges.
CHARLES c. DEWEY For States Attorney.
ELISHA ALLIS, For Sheriff
RICHARD SMITH, For High Bailf
FOR JUDGES OF PROBATE,
WILLIAM +. DICKINSON Randolph District.
JOSEPH ATKINSON, Bradford District.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-29

SECRETARY FLoYD's COMPLETELY WITH THE FIJI
IlBUsTERs.-Designs Of the Administration on
Merico.-Gen. VIM. Walker, of fllibuster noto.
riety, having in several of his southern speeches
stated that certain communications and over.
lures had been made to him by members of
President Buchanan's Cabinet, with regard to
Mexico the Washington Union took the res
possibility ofdenying that any overture had
been made to Gen. Walker. This denial has
called forth aletter from the General, which We
find published in the Mobile Register of
the Goth inst. The following extract we
make from the letter, containing the evidence
on which these statements were made, and if
they IRE to be relied on, place the President and
some of the members of his cabinet in rather an
unenviable attitude before the public. The ex-
tract states
In the month of October last was in New
Orleans preparing to return to Nicaragua
About the middle of the month General Hem
ningsen arrived from Washington, and soon
after we met he informed me that he
had important news to communicate. He then
proceeded to state that while in Washington no
had held several conversations with the Secre-
tary of War; that in the course of one of the in
terViews the Secretary had informed him of the
arrest the expedition to Nicaragua, adding at the
same time, that the acquisition of Cuba during
his administration was an object dear to tho
heart of Mr.. Buchanan. The Secretary further
proceeded to say, according to Mr. Henning-
sens report, that five would turn our attention
toward Mexico and enter into the service of
Comonfort we should have the support of the
United States Government; that while in the
Mexican service we might, by someact, such as
tearing down the flag of Spain, bring about a
war between Mexico and Spain, and Cuba,
might then be seized by the former Power
The Secretary, according to the report recei.
we'd, informed Gen. Henningsen that means
would not be lacking for such an enterprise, and
when pressed by the General to state how the
means could be had he replied, II have gone
the length of my tether; before can say more
it will be necessary for me TO see person who
is above me-" In the next interview the Secre-
tary informed the General that he was not au-
thorized to go further, hut that ne might rely
implicitly on the means being provided ifthe en-
tcrprise were undertaken. When Gen. Henning-
sen made this communication to me, was shock
ed at its nature and remarked that the govern
ment could hardly be in earnest. lie said that
he had been authorized to place before me the
character of the conversations held with the Sec.
rotary of War, and to communicate them also to
friend ofthe Nicaraguan cause residing in New
| Orleans.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-29
ASO7nER swIsDLE-A Government Contrae.

ANOTHER SwINDLE-A Government Contrac-
tor A6sconded.-A letter from Washington City
to Forney's Press, contains the following:
On the 18th of May last contract was sign
ed with the War Department to furnish for the
Utah army $4,000 bushels of corn, GRAIN of
| 1860 at eighty cents per buShel, to be deliv-
cred in two installments, viz: the first 5000
bushels on the 10th of June last, at Nebraska
City, and the other % 900 bushel on the 18th
of June last, at the same place; it was also
| stipulated that the grain must be there few
days prior to the appointed days ofdelivery,
for the purpose Of inspection. An officer who
was commissioned to that duty was at the
proper time in Nebraska City, but there was
| no grain, and when the day at the tirst delivery
passed, with no indications of any grain
being delivered, he reported the fact to the
| Quartermaster General. The latter instituted
| inquiries of ex-governor Porter, who was the
security for the contractor An answer was
returned that they did not know where the
contractor was, and the Ex-Governor came to
sorting that he had not seen the crontractor
since the day when the contract was signed,
| Cthe 18th of May.) In the meantime, the 18th
of June approached, on which day the whole
SO, 600 bushels ought TO have been delivered,
but instead of which the War Department re.
eelved information that there was no grain
The Department then dispatched at once an
officer to look after the contractor. After
several weeks absence, during which he visited
many places in Pennsylvania, and proceeded SO
far as 10 Nebraska City, he returned recently to
Washington, and reported to the War Depart
ment that he was unable to ascertain anything
of the contractor. As a matter of course, the
Department dispatched an agent to buy grain at
any cost, and to hold the bondsman responsible.
The Ex-Governor was again in this city and re-
NAMED nearly week, and was told by some
of his friends that the ex-G Governor feels quite
comfortable, being convinced that the Govern.
ment will not hold him responsible. This, how
ever, remains TO be seen.
Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-29

THE News FROM MExlco--The special cor.
respondent of the Philadelphia North Ameri-
can, under date of New Orleans, July "a, sends
that paper the following telegram, giving the
late Mexican news in much more inteIligibIe
form than the brief dispatch furnished by the
Associate Press:
By the arrival at this port to-day of the steam.
er Gen RuSk, Capt. Smith, from Brazos Santa
go, the Picayune has received advices from
northern Mexico to the 21st inst. The most
important intelligence is thereported abdication
of Gen. Zuloaga from the city of Mexico, leav.
ing the government in the hands of Canto and
two bishops. Col. Zuazua had marched upon
the town of San Luis Potosi, and captured it
after feeble resistance. A considerable mum.
Der of prisoners were also take. Col. Zuazua is
one of the chiefs of the Liberal party. Gen.
Cara took his departure from Matamoras on the
18th, for the purpose of joining the forces of
Governor Vidaurri. It was believed that the
combined forces medtated an attack upon the
city. Gen. Caravejal had intercepted train of
fourteen hundred mules, with goods, while en-
route from Tampico for San Luis. The pros
poets of the Gonstitutionalists generally were
believed to be very hattering. The reported
violation of the territory of zamora had been
satisfactorily explained.