Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1861-03-21

" he late Congress passed some one t"hHlou
and eighteen private and public acts and lIteeh
joint resolutions. Tais compares la'oTbIy IN
number with the work Of other sessions, Whlia
thecharlcter Of the bills is much Sore ihpor-
tant. The new patent law, a5 it passed Con-
gress at the very last hour OF the session.,
makes some radical changes. Patents are To be
run twenty years instead Of fourteen. board
OF appeal from decisions OF the examiners OF
patents il provided for in order to relieve tie
commissioners No appeal ID allowed irom the
iull decision OF the Commissioner To the judge
of the Dstric. Court, as ha. heretofore been
the ease.
Lastly the sAlery Of the Commissioners is
Increased from three thousand to iorty-h'e hun
bred dollars"
Reoantly,a fugitive slave named Lee was ar.
rcsed at Mound City, H. and restored to the
man VINO claimed him, W. {. Faulkner Of
Mississippi Lee claimed to be white man,
saying that his parents were white, but thy
dying when he was young, he was brought up
BY a STAKEHOLDER to believe that he was a mula..
to. lie had been at Mound City nine weeks,
and was generally recognized as a white man.
The New York Commercial says the Poly
t3ehnic Association is at its next meeting to be
Ioasted with sugar, made by chemical translor
nation from old rags, and with pudding made
from the gelatne Of old shoes Leather being
composed Of tannin and gelatino, the fannie
acid is extracted, and the gelatine is then pnrI-
fed from the Glscol0rIng tannite Of iron, after
which it Is tit for culinary purposes.
SLAVE TRADE The European Powers are
urged 70 establish forts along the coast Of At.
ric!, and to the withdrawal OF their squadrons.
The purpose is % entirely prevent the deporta-
ton Of slaves from Africa. 1t is contondcd
that tbs will be a cheaper method 81 putting
an end to the Slave Trade that the means now
employed while tho new plan will be complete
y ehactuul.
FORTS SuKrra AND MouLrRlE.-A gentleman
who arrived from the South a day or two since,
relates an auecdote that was current in Geor.
ga, though little wa4 said about it in Charles
ton. The gunncFs al Fort Moultrie recently
anchored . rice tierce cqui distant from Forts
Moultric aud Sumter, and fred between twenty
and thirty shots at it without effect Mao-
Anderson watched their proceedings for some
time. aud then aiming and sighting one % his
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Trareler
lurty thousand dollars worth oil DIAMONDS
rich sets and magnificent single articles, wero
sent last wees BY single house IN New York
to Montgomery, Ala, for the Inauguration Ball.
The consignment IS said to have been made to
somo Of the most distinguished and fashionable
Of the Southern ladies.
The National IabLigenc,r, Washington.
says The total population of the United
States as indicated by full returnsot the census
received at " ashnston, is 81 100000 an in.
crease since the census Of ISoO OF upwards q
r'oo'o'o persons
r,o ci..vl,,d.ot,, D..,.-., 49,. aa, ,
bill to repeal the Act 10 prevent KiduL.giug,
IN 'nai STATE. was considered n nc te,".o =
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The BFkloy Assocliton, OF Boston, pay
Henry Ward baechef one thousand dollars for
iae iaar lectures he is row giving before it, and
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Z Ut" HA"'4 uaSe' N..' uiNlH-
IA. ',''',.o noun ~ V .I o. ~ ~ Two
di.s .broo,, I'm ,r.r,,i. j ,,,,,a mi h.,,,r
and lsft M finJ b,s w,v INN, ~ bs.. H. ,n,,Lt
The next div ILL., essoilsnts wore e,rs,teJ AMI
b,rnl over IN som o,eb +, auoi, ,rij T,,n
Of them ,,ere AKA NM nn5or siooo L,nds ~, =
claim "a, rrivsi, dsnogsa
AZ New Haven week ago last sunday a
IRE destroyed the urlst Mill OF LayIos Lall, the
carriage shop OF q " Flint, and TIE Saw
MI. Of Sylyanns Thompson, with all their con
tents The loss Is about 5000. Insurance,
) 1910.
A. the recent session Of the Sunreme Court
at Rutland ten divorces were rrante1-5 for
adultery. > for desor,ion and z lnr intolerable
severity.
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