Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1859-12-30


There seems to be NJ use in recording
from day to day the idle talk which is kept
up by the Representatives in Congress, nor
the repeated ballotings for speaker-thus far
to no purpose whatever. The twentieth bal
lot made on Friday last, out of 2l2 votes,
showed lO3 for Sherman-still 4 less than a
majority the other 100 votes were given
for nearly 80 different persons, no one receiv-
ing more than p, and the most Of them but
one, two or three,
The Saturday vote. the Goth, was Of
the same sort Such a course is hardly
worthy to be called children 5 play it looks
more like fools play. Considerable annoy
ance is sand to have been lelt by most OF the
Republicans. from the fact that on Friday
one of their number, Farnsworth, Of Illinois,
contrary to the expressed wishes Of most Of
them. would make a speech on the
Helper book business, &c. To be sure he
hit hard, and showed that the very things
the Democrats clamored about had been done
by their own men, and he held up to ridicule
the dlsunion threats 50 freely put forth by
Southern politicians but ofwhat use was II
to help waste day in unproductve interlo-
cutions, which could only furnish occasions
for still further waste of time
Meanwhile, Mr.. Helpers book goes off I'M
der the influences of Democratic advertising,
at rate hardly surpassed by Bonner 5
Ledger The n Y. independent of last
week says that it was informed by Mr.. Bur
dick, the n. Y. publisher Of the - lmpend-
ing Crisis" that the sale had then reached
over - sixty thousand copies, and was in
creasing at the rate of from a thousand to
sixteen hundred a day. Eight presses are
kept running to supply the demand" The
Independent adds
The success Of this book is gratifying not only
on account of its merits compend Of facts, but
because it was at first refused by every we'll
known publisher in New York, from the fear OF
losing Southern trade. But now, while the trade
the great houses is said to be unusually duh,
Mr.. Burdick, who alone had the courage to give
fair play to an antl-savery author from the
South, finds himself overwhelmed with business,
while the Congress Of the United States is sitting
at Washington merely to do his advertising.
Not only are they advertising the book
but the southern members are pretty actively
employed in circulating it among their con-
stituents The n. Y. Courier & Enquirer
Washington correspondent writes as follows
The publica ion OF the debates in Congress- in
the Southern press, has created great demand
for the Helper book, which can only be supplie'
through the Southern members, and under cove
of their franks. They cannot refuse TO lie
their constituents it, as that would imply dis
trust of their intelligence and judgment. Book
sellers cannot legally sell it because it is declare
TO be incendiary. 1t cannot be forwarded b
mail, postage paid, or under the franks Of north
ON members, for under the recent decsio
Of the Postmaster General, the postma'
tiers of the South are bound to burn ther
as dangerous to the well-being Of the country. ;
the Southern members, whose franks cannot /
suspected of covering incendiary matter, have
supply the demand for their several constituencies
They consider it a great bore.