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The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
GREEN MOUNTAIN FREEMAN, AUGUST 10, 1861.

ty, to rally to the support of our common coun
try, its government and flag, as the only mean'
OF checking the progress of revolution and oil
preserving the Union of States.
/ am unable to answer your questions in re-
spect to the policy of Mr.. Lincoln and cabinet.
am not in their confidence, as you and the
whole country ought TO be aware. | am neither
the supporter OF the partisan policy nor the
apoogist of the errors Of the administration. -
My previous relations to them remain unchan-
ged but trust the time will never come when
| shall not be willing to make any needul sac
riico of personal feeling and party policy for the
honor and integrity Of the country.
know of no mode in which loyal citizen
may SO welldemonstrate his deviation to his coun-
try as by sustaining the flag, the constitution,
and the Union, under all circumstances, ami
under every administration, regardless of party
politics, against all assailants, at home and
abroad. The course of Clay and Webster tow
ards the administration of jackson, in the days
OF notification, presents a worthy and noble
example tor all true patriots AT the very mo.
ment when that fearful crisis was precipltated
upon the country, partisan strife between Wings
and Democrats was quite as bitter and relent-
less as now between Democrats and Republicans
Inc gull which separated party leaders IN
those days was quite as broad and deep as that
which now separates the Democracy from the
Republicans. But the moment an enemy rose
In our midst, plotting the ACKNOWLEDGMENT Of
the Union and the destruction of the govern
ment, the voice Of partisan strife was hushed in
patriotic silence. One Of the brightest chapters
IN the history Of our country will record the
fact that during this eyentful period the great
leaders OF the opposition, sinking the partisan
In the patriot, rushed to the support of the gov
eminent, and became it's ablest and bravest de-
tenders against all assaiants until the conspira-
cy was arushed and abandoned, when they re-
sumed their former positions as party leaders
upon political issues.
These acts of patriotic devotion have never
been deemed evidences of infdelity or political
treachery, on the part of Clay and Webster, to
the principles and organization of the old Wing
party. Nor have any apprehension that the
llEm and unanimous support which the Demo
cratic leaders and masses are now giving to the
Constitu ton and the Union will ever be deemed
evidence of infidelity to Democratic principles,
or want of loyalty to the organization and
creed OF the Democratic party. If we hope to
regain and perpeluate the ascendency of our
party, we should never forget that a man can
not be a true Democrat unless he is a loyal
patriot.
With tho sincere hope that these, my con-
sclentious convictions, may coincide with those
IT my friends, l am, very truly yours,
STEPHEN ~. DOUGLAS.
To Virgil Hickox, Esq, Chairman State Dem
'cratic Committee,
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
by TELEGRAPH
6 O'CLOCK, A. M.
New York. August 10.
TO THE FREEMAN.

NEW York. August 10.
The Schooner Hannibal from St. Thomas re
ports that the privateer Sumter was captured by
one of our men. Of war and taken back to Cura
Goa.
The New York 4th and 9Th Regiments of
Sickles' Brigade 60 to-day if possible, and An
dersons Zouaves tomorrow.
The Post says that 1000 men 60 this week
and in case of necessity 1000 or 5000 Of the
recently returned militia might be sent.
President jackson, of the New jersey trans
portation Company, has received instructions to
put the railroad lines in readiness for the imme-
date conveyance of large number of troops
from the East.
The Washington correspondent of the Times
says that Agents of the French Government
have been engaged for weeks in purchasing
breadstufs both at the West and East.
The Times Washington correspondent, in re-
ferring to the Htrald's announcement the other
day, that France and England had formed an
alliaace on American affairs, says that the real
facts are these That NJ Thouvena! did make
proposition that England should unite with
France for the purpose of procuring supply
of cotton and tobacco, but England replied that
she could enter into no such agreement.
The Tribune claims the highest authority for
saying that no European government has yet
demonstrated against the closing of the Rebel
ports
WASHINGTON, August 10.
The President is about to issue a procama-
ton declaring certain ports in the Rebel States
no longer ports of entering under the provision
of the force bill.
The Assistant Secretary made q reconnoiter-
ing expedition to Aqua Creek yesterday, and
returned this morning.
The soldiers in this vicinity now receive their
letters at their several encampments instead Of
1t the Post Office.
The Post Office Department in advertising for
pr posals for mail locks, reserved the power to
eject all others.
It is understood the number of novel and mer
torious lvcks for other purposes than the mail
offered under the advertisement was unusually
arge, but that from considerations of economy
md security the Department will readopt the
Use OF its own lock, the clam-sliell paddock of
which it OWLS a patent with certain modifca-
ions making a new key necessary. All things
considered, it is believed to be the best mail lock
ret produced.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

RECRUITING OFFIcEs.-It will be noticed in
our advertising columns, that D. Davenport
has authority to recruit company, with his
headquarters at Roxbury, Vt. He will CON-
mence with nearly or quite sixty men. He will
have recruiting office at Montpelier, also, I'm.
der tho charge of ]. G. Flanders.
We a lso learn that VIM. Skinner will recruit
a company at Royalton, and DR.. Templeton at
Barre, while j. II. Plat at Chelsea, and E. B.
Sawyer of lIydepark, have been for some days
employed in the same patriotic work.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
Caucus !,

The Freemen of the town of Moreown who are in fa
vor OF sustaining the Administration in its
s TO put down Rebellion and suppress Treason and to
maintain TIE honor and dignity of the Nation who are in
FAVOR OF exercising vigorously all the means at our
mana to bring about due observance of and obedience
to the Laws who are opposed compromising with armed
traitors and who have sympathy whatever with Rcb-
els or ReDcllon and who desrious handing down
10 poSterty the glory of Country untarnisned and
he Perpetulty of our civil and religious institutions per
manently secured, are requested meet at the Town
use, on tuesday, the 9th inst O'Clock P NJ for
the purpose of mating candidate to be supnorted
by our sulrages on the first Tuesday of September next
US IN the General Assembly of this State
tn year ensuing, and also arrange ticket of names
1or justices of the Peace to be elected according to law
PER ORDER OF Town CoMM1rTEF
hlorptoWn AuuuS
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

CAPE GIRADEAU.-Capel Gradeau is to-day
only known to thousands of people in the Uni
ted States as the location of Federal camp
menaced by rebels. And yet it is the most i'm
pJrt,.nt city in South Missouri, well built and
finely located, with a population {before the
wary of about five Thousand. It is Immediately
on the Mississippi river, one hundred and fifty
TALES above Cairo. The hills Of the river just
here are high and rolling, giving to the place
from an approaching boat, finely picturesque
appearance. There are fine schools, Protestant
AMI Catholic, in the place, two printing offices,
ram5erless churches, and Touring mlls.-CM
caeo Tribune.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
Post Office Notice.

The Public are hereby notified that stamped envelopes
Ct the new STYLE just issued from the Office Depart
ment have been received at this Office; that am nav
ready to exchange envelopes and stamps of the style
1or an equivalent amount of the old issue during period
OF str days from the date of this notice. after the
plratlon OF that period envelopes and stamps the OLD
issue W not be received in yment Of postage at this
Office.
N B. The smaller Post Offices in this neghborhood
which may not in the ordinary course of business. be
able to obtain supply of the new issue of envelopes
and stamps from the Department. exchange the old
envelopes and stamps hand, for Ones this Of
flee, for one month come
Ely order of the Post Office Department.,
JAMES G. FRENCH, Postmaster,
Montpelier, August 10, 186 |.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
4 O'CLOCK =. M.
Blockade respected by For
eigza Governments.

WASHINGTON, August 20.
AS much as has been said about the threaten
ing attitude of the European Powers, with re-.
gard to the blockade, special inquiry at the
State Department authorizes US to state that in
the instance when the Niagara was off the sta
ton at Charleston for "a hours, Lord LYONS
brought the subject to the notice of our Govern
ment. With that exception, which happened
II weeks ago, no foreign Government has ex-
pressed word of discomfort to this Govern
ment concerning the blockade. On the con-
trary, it is universally respected by foreign
Governments, although some of their subjects
are very active in endeavoring to evade the
blockade, and very cIamorous against it.
ST.. LOUIS, August 10.
Gen. Slegel's Major Conant, and several 9TH
er officers arrived from Rolla in to-night's train
PHILADELPHIA, August 20.
The Je6ersonian Office in West Chester was
cleared out last night bya crowd There was
no disturbance most of the residents being igno-
rant of the movement until the work was done.
Pierce Butler is now believed to be the on]v
one of our citizens that has yet been arrested.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

"A TREND OF Senator Douglas has handed t,
the National htelhigencer, for publication ,
copy Of the following letter from him On tn,
state of the country:
CHICAGO May 10.
My DEAR SIR Being deprived of the use OF
my arms for the present by Il severe attack OF
rheumatism, am compelled to avail myself Of
the services of an amanuensis, in reply to your
two letters.
Il seems that some Of my friends are unable to
comprehend the difference betlocen arguments asa
IN faror Of an equitable compromise, Nth The
hope Of a"ating the horrors of acar, and those
urged IN support OF the government and the flag
OF our country, ,chen Uar is being ,paged against
the Onlted States, aUih The auoced PURPOSE of
producing permanent disruption of The Union
and a total destruction Of its government
All hope OF compromise with the cotton states
was abandoned when they assumed the position
that the separation OF the Union was complete
and final, and that they would never consent to
a reconstruction in any contingency-not even if
De Dould furnish them with blank sheet of pa
per and permit them to inscribe their own TERMS
Still the hope was cherished that reasonab bic
and satisfactory terms of adjustment could be
agreed upon with Tennessee, North Carolina and
the border states, land that whatever terms wchld
prove satisfactory to these loyal states would
create Union party in the cotton states which
would be powerful enough at the ballot box to
destroy the revolutionary government, and bring
those states back into the Union by the voice Of
their own people. This hope was cherished by
the Union men North and South, and was never
abandoned until actual war was levied at
Charleston and the authoritative announcement
made by the revolutionary government at Mont
gomery that the secession flag should be planted
upon the walls of the Caption at Washlng ton
and proclamation issued inviting The p,rafes of
the ,oerM TO prey upon the commerce of The Un,l
ed States.
These startling facts, in connection with the
boastiul announcement that the ravages of war
and carnage should be quickly transferred from
the cotton fields of the South to the wheat fields
and corn fields Of the North, furnish conclusive
evidence that it was The faed purpose of the Sc
cessionias utterly 10 destroy the government of
our fathers and obhterate the United States from
The map Of the world.
In view of this state OF facts there pas but one
path of duty left TO patriotic men. 1t was not IA
party questson, nor question involving parts
I'm policy; it was question of government or
no government country or no country and
hence it became the imperative duty of every
Union man, every friend OF constitutional liber-
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
Arrest of Northern Rebels.

Philadelphia, Aug 49,. Pierce Butler was
arrested this afternoon by the United States
Mlrshal, by order of Secretary Cameron. He
was taken to New York this evening, en- route
for Fort Hamilton. The arrest Of Pierce But
Ter WAS followed by the arrest of WIN. B. Reed,
late Minister to China. Geo. NJ. Wharton, late
U. ). District Attorney. Chas. Brown, ex Col
lector of the PORT and David Solomon. It IL
STATED that Butler arrest was caused By inter
eptel letters giving information to the eaemy
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

Your Country has made an urgent call for
your services. Two Regiments Of Volunteers
are to be raised in Vermont. All those brave
men desirons of joining their ranks, can now
enlist at Roxbury, w., where a Recruiting
Uthce Will be open from date aug 2Oth) fer
the purpose OF raising and organizing Compa-
with any physical infrmty. AS ever before
let Vermon,ers now respond to this call from
your Country. ID. B. DAVENPORT.
Roxbury, Aug. 20, 1861.
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Volunteers +!

me undersigned having been appointed Re-
crulting Officer at Barre, would give notice that
ne Will be at his Recruiting Office at the Town
hall to receive enlistments for three years, I'M
less sooner discharged
Each recruit will be entitled to his pay and
ra'ions from the time of enlistment. Those
whose patrlotltm prompts them to the service
o. tnlir Country are requested to call soon and
they will be cordially received
W. F. TEMPLEToN.
Barre VT, Aug. 90, 1861
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
East Montpelier Caucus.

Inc republican voters and all others in the town of
East montpelier who are in favor of supporting the pres
ent Administrations and in favor of putting down Re-
belllon, and sustaining Governments are request
ed to meet at Mr.. ilammetts Hotel on Saturday. August
3lst 1851 at IL O'Clock NJ, for the purpose of nom
1natng some one to represent the town in the General
Assembly of the State for the year ensuing and also ia
nominate seven Justices of the Peace.
PER ORDER p TOWN. CoNu1rTrr
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

The Ten MILLION LoAN.-The several Boston
banks have agreed to take their respective
shares of the ten million loan to the Government.
The aggregate capital of the banks is $3S, 63l,-
700, and the per centage to make up the above
loan will be Is $500 per cont.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
Barre Academy.

THE FALL. TERN begins Thursday, August Goth
The prescribed Course of Study and a Board of ex
perienced Teachers afford at Barre Academy excellent "a
clites for pursuing education prepaave for college
or business.
I. N CAMP, A. NJ, Teacher Of Vocal Music.
]. TEACHER, A. D , Assistant PrincipaI
Other efficient teachers employed
-" j. S. SPAULDING, Principal.
Barre, Aug. 9, 1861.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
Republican Ca,1cus in Middiesav

The Republican voters of Middlesex re hes by notified
to meet in Caucus, at the Town Hall in said Niddesex
on the 2gth inst at 2oclock NJ for the purpose of
candidates for Justices of the Peace to be supported by
the Freemen of said town at the ensuing September
election PER ORDER OF REPUBLICAN, founIrrrp
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
WASHINGTON co. GRAMMAR scuooT

fNHf Fail Term, under the charge Of u. D. GORHAM
4 Principal, assisted by Mrs. GORHAM will commences
Monday Sept. ID. The " '
MONTPELIER UNION SCHOOL.
will be opened at the same time These sohoIs t.,;o.
ton. ~ ''"sn .aN'-
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
by Telegraph
FROM EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, !,
St. Johnsbury, August 10, 1861. {
GENER AL ORnEn

UENERAL ORDER.
The several recruiting officers commissioned
to enlist volunteers for the 4th and 5th Pn',i
ments arc required to use the utmost dispatch IN
filling up their respective companies to he hoi Il,
ready for immediate service ''0i0
Such officers are further reouirod 70 mo,.o
daily report to the Commander-in Chief nv many
or telegraph, of tho number of men enlisted sta1'
that at the earliest div practicable an ;,snnat;a.'
may De made and an election Of officers held by
the Adju tant and Inspector General y
recruiting oihcersi failing to enlist sufficient
number =, OF men Tor gull companies; will hold
themselves IN reaoliess to be called into head.
quarters with their men prior to such inspec-
ton and election oflofficers.
BY Order of the Commander in Chief,
GEORGE A. MERRILL,
Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

The Rutland Herald says that j Halscy Cush-
nan, Esq, of Bennington, has been appointed
Q'artermaser of the 4th w. Regiment.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

HAVING CHOSEN OUR CAUSE WITHOUT GUILE
AND WITH PURE MOTIVES, LET Us RENEW OUR
TRUST N GOD AND GO FORWARD WITHOUT FEAR
AND WITH MANLY HEARTS
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

Adj tant IRAN Stevens returned with the
Ran som Guards on Saturday. He will remain
hereabouts for few days when he will repair
to Fortress Monroe to enter upon the duties of
his new position.-lMd.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

Over sixty men have already been enlisted by
E, 3. Sawyer, Of Hydepark, for the Fourth
Regimen Messenger.
Captain Chandler of the Ransom Guards.
has been appointed a recruiting officer for the
fifth Regiment, and will open an Office at this
place Immediately Messenger.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

The FIRE ZoUAvEs.--Over 600 of Ellsworth's
Z,aaves responded at roll call in New York
Monday. No difficulty is anticipated in reor-
ganizmg the Regiment.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
. Senator Douglass last Letter.

"A friend of Senator Douglas has handed to
the National htelHgencer, for publication, a
copy of the following letter from him on the
state of the country:
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
County Nominations.

WASHINGTON COUNTY.
e. W. WILLARD, )rc.
PAUL DILLINGHAM;, fo' 'e"'o'' %
s9S F. 6 e1 KnhHoHa Judges
TIMOTHY R. MERRILL, Judge o Probate.
II. W. HEATON, States Attorney.
J H CIRCUIT, Sheriff.
EBEN. W. CORSS, High BailiF
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

CALEDONIA COUNTY
t. I. n F. H I{TIRHAVlSH' Senator's.
SERENo MONTGOMERY, ! ,Ju1ges.
EZHAA A. P ARkS, 'u"scs'
A. l.. FRENCH, Judge of Probate.
GEO. W. CAHOON, States Attorney.
EMERSON HALL, sheriff.
CHAS. SHIPMAN, Bailinf.
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20
R'otOus Conduct in Pennsylvania

Easton, Pa, Aug. 1910 P. NJ The Office
OF the Sentinel, paper advocating peace and
compromise Is now being Quilted by a mob
Goi. Fhhlp johnson, the member OF Congress
erect from TINS District, has been burnt in effigy
and made to show his colors. The rot s,;lI
prevails, and there is great excitement. -
The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-08-20

LAMOILLE COUNTY.
HON HENRY STOWELL, Senator.
sfGoAM aAr f y EST County Judges.
r. s. PAGE, ESQ, Judge of Probate
DAVID RANDALL, Sheriff.
JOHN l. GLEED, States Attorney.
A. r. BAILEY, High Baliff.
ORANGE COUNTY.
7 7HSA1 .. 1 GF2Aa, Senators.
i. L l. TRACY, Judges
X. FARNHAM, Jr. States Attorney
". 7. GEORGE, Sheriff.
II VI. AVERY, High Bailif.
JUDGES OF PROBATE.
p. c. JONES, Randolph District.
ALCXANDER H. GILMORE, Bradto District.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-12
Our Attachmentto Life.

The young man. till thirty, never feels
practically that he is mortal. He knows 1t.
indeed, and, if he need were, he could
preach homily on the frugality of life !;
but he brings it not home to himself any
more than in hot June we can imagine
the freezing daysof December. But now
shall confess truth | feel these
audits but too powerfully. begin to count
the probabilities of my duration, and to
grudge at the expenditure Of moments and
shortest periods like misers's fartbings.-
10 proportion as the years both lessen and
shorten, set more countupon their periods,
and would fain lay my Intellectual finger
upon the spoke OF the great wheel. am
not content TO pass away like weayer's
shuttle. These metaphors sOlace me not
sweeten the unpalatable draught of NOR
tality. | care not to be carried with the
tide that smoothly bears human life to
eternity, aud reluct at the inevitable
course of destiny. | am in love with this
green earth--the face of town and country
the unspeakable rural solitude-and the
sweet security Of streets. am content
to stand still at the age at which l am ar
riyed-to be nc younger, no richer, no
haudsomer. do not want to be weaned
by age, or drop like mellow fruit, as they
say, in the gravel ANY alteration on
this earth of mine, in diet or. in lodging,
puzzles and GiscompUses me. My house
hold gods plant a terrible fixed foot. 81 and
are not rooted up without blood. A new
state of being staggers me. Sun and sky,
aud breeze and solitary walks, and sum
mer holidays, and the greenness of fields
and the Juices of meats and fishes, and so
ciety, and freside conversations, and jests,
and irony,-do not these things 60 out with
life? Can ghost laugh, or shake his
gaunt sides, when you were present with
him ?-CldrleS Lamb.
Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-02-12
Night on the Plains of Texas.

know of nothing in the world more
melancholy than those vast solitudes seen
on fine summers night, when the moon,
shining in the midst of the stars, sends
forth the reflection of its silvery light over
this boundless plain. The view is lost in
d pale twilight, without shade, without
echo light, Transparent mist hovers in
a space. Scorpions, in crawling along
make their scales crack, large green and
yellow Lizards move slowly on the burnt
grass. The meloGious murmuring of the
flowing waters is nowhere heard, nor joy
full rustling of the leaves. The birds, hav-
ing no branches whereon to rest, enliven
not the air with their song the breeze
whispers not in the foliage, nothing dis
turbs the silence of night, unless it be the
monotonOus cri-cri Of the solitary cricket
The silence Expresses, 0verwhelms you,
like the thought of the Infinite. You fan.
cy yourself wrapped in a shrowd of Grape
which envelopes the whole world, fOrlife
is only revealed by the twinkling of the
stars movement is only manifested by
the motion of the moon pursuing its tran
quill course through the celestial spheres
Nature seems plunged in an awful slum-
Der, dismal, mysterious, full of sadness
and pain, like the sleep Of the dead in
presence of eternity.