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THE TREASURY NOTE BIII

The Treasury note bill as it passed the
House February 6th,-ayes %, nays 50.
contained the following provisions
l. Ii authorizes treasury notes to the
amount Of one hundred and fifty millions
of dollars, in notes Of not less than five
collars each, fifty millions to be in lieu of
the fifty millions demand notes authorized
last July.
,. The notes are on the credit of the
United States. and do not bear interest and
are to "be receivable in payment of all
tsxes, duties, imposts, excise, debts aud de-
mands of every kind due to the United
States, and for all salaries, debts and de-
mauds owing by the United States to indi-
yiduals, corporations and associations with.
in the United States, and shall also be law
ful money and legal tender in payment of
all debts. public and private. within the
United States.
3. Any holder Of these notes to tue
amount of fifty dollars or any multiple of
that sum may exchange them for L. 5.
bonds. bearing six per cent interest, payable
after twenty years. or for L. 5. bonds
bearing per cent interest and payable
after FIVE years, at the pleasure Of the Seere-
tary of the Treasury, or be used at par in
payment on any future loan authorized by
Congress.
4. To fund the treasury notes and floating
debt OF the Government, the Secretary of the
Treasury is authorized to issue coupon or reg
istered bonds to the amount of $500, 900 900
at 6 per cent. interest per annum, payable
semi-annually,. the notes to be paid after 20
years.
5. Provision Is made for the proper issue
of these notes, and severe penalties attached
to every species of counterieiting or fraudu-
ent manufacture or issue with them. IN
tended to defraud either the Government, or
the lawful holders Of the notes
The bill will probably pass the Senate
There is a strong disagreement among sound
and patriotic business men about the propri-
ETY. Of making these notes a legal tender.
though we think opinion IN its favor has been
increased during the discussion. We OBJ
serve all three Of our Vermont members vot-
ed against the bill--we suppose from dis
approval of the legal tender provision. We
give to day the main points Of Mr. MorriIl's
argument against it. The chief reasons re-.
lied on by its supporters we will state on
Monday.
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The temporary respite of Captain Gordon,
sentenced to be hung Friday, was received
by the U. S. Marshal on the 9th inst, aud
forthwith communicated to the criminal
Ii was as follows
Abraham Lincoln, President of the Unitei
States Of America,
To all whom these presents shBll come greet
ing
Whereas, 1t appears that at a term Of the Cir
cult Court of the United States Of America for
the Southern District of New York, held in tho
month Of November, A. d. 1861, Nathaniel Cor
don was indicted and convicted for being engaged
in the slave trade, and was, by the said court,
sentenced to be put to death by hanging by the
neck on Friday, the seventh day Of February, A.
ID. 1862;
And whereas, a large number of respectable
citizens have earnestly besought me to commute
the said sentence Of the said Nathaniel Gordon to
a term OF Imprisonment for life, which appllca-
tion have felt it my duty to refuse;
And whereas, it has seemed to me probable that
the unsuccessful application for the Communication
of his sentence may have prevented the said Ma
thaniel Gordon from making the necessary prepa-
rations for the awful change which awaits him;
Now, therefore, be it known tha. /, Abraham
Lincoln, President Of the United States Of Amer
icA, have granted, and do hereby grant unto him,
the said Nathaniel Gordon, respite Of the above
recited sentence until Friday, the twenty-eighth
day Of February, A. d. 1862, between the hours
of twelve O'Clock at noon and three O. clock in the
afternoon Of the said day, when the said sentences
shall be executed.
In granting tuis respite it becomes my painful
duty to announce to the prisoner that relinquisa-
ing all expectation Of pardon by human authori- =
ty, he refer himself alone to the mercy of the
common God and Father Of all men.
In testimony whereof have hsreun,o signed
my name, and caused the seal of the United
States to be aft xed.
Done at the Capitol of Washington, the i:h
day Of February, 1862, and Of the Independence
Of the United States the seth.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM II. sEwARD, Secretary OF state.
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WHAT TEMPERANCE cAN DO.

In Mrs. Halls book on ireland occurs the
following passage, which person will bard-
ly read without emotion: -..-.-..--
We entered one day cottage in the sub
urbs OF Cork young woman was knitting
stockings at the door. twas as neat and
comfortable "a any in the most prosperous
districts Of England. We tell her brief story
IN her own words. as nearly rs we can recall
them 'My husband is q whselwright, and
has always earned his guinea week; he was
good workman, but the love Of drink wsa
strong to him and 1t WASH: often he brought
me home more than five shillings on Sat-
urday night, and it broke my heart to see
the children too ragged TO send TO school, to
say nothing of the starved look they had out
of the little could give them. Well, God
be praised, he took the pledge, and the next
Saturday he lald twenty-one shillings upon
the chair you SIT upon. oh didn't give
thanks upon my bended knees that night;
still was fearful it wouldn't last, and
spent no more than the FIVE shillings | used
to, saying to myself. may be the money will
be more wanted than it is now. Well. the
next week he brought me the same. and the
next. until eight weeks had passed; and
poa hhtfC WINS nD CilAllkc lOE tut
bad in my husband and all the while he
never asked me why there was nothing bet
ter for him out of his earnings 80 4 felt
there was no fear for him. and the ninth
week, when he came to me, had thi table
bought, and these six chairs, four for the
children and one for himself and was
dressed in q new gown, and the children all
had new clothes and shoes and stockings, and
upon his chair | put new suit, and upon
his plate | put the bill and receipt for them
all, just the eight sixteen shillings, the cost
that I'd saved out OF his wages, not knowing
what might happen, and that always went
for drink. And he cried, good lady and
good gentleman, he cried like baby, but
twas with thanks to God; and now where's
he healthier man than my husband in the
whole county Of Cork, or happier wife than
myself, or decenter or better fed children
han my own?
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Miscellaneous.

LADIES CoSFIDKNcE.-Two men, he thev
the dearest friends in the world, when they
have once lighted their candles and said
good night, think no more of one another.
and feel no lack of one another till they
meet at breakfast the next morniD.. But
two women, two sisters. or two dear friends,
are not satisfied with talking all day down
stairs, they must talk half the night in their
bedrooms. Some prying novelist says some
where. that female nature is such that con-
hdence cannot be perfect till the back hair
Is let down. but we do not know enough of
ladies' toilets to know whether this is the
right explanation. If it be. We feel
quite sure that many husbands would be
quite satisfied to allow their back hair to be
let down IN the drawingeroom; at all events,
from the Withdrawing thither to the an
nouncement Of tea. As it is, the poor man
has creeping sensation. that he, and his
house, and bis friends, and all his affairs are
being discussed Just when he is anxious to
forget them all in sound slumber. We
commend the question TO the investigation
of Social ScIenoe. Why do women delight to
chatter in bedrooms, while men, if they do
chatter, invariably chatter down stairs p
Saturday RerietO.
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PUNcH.-The London Punch hopes that
there will DO ''no fuss with Mason aud Sli-
dell. and gives this counsel to the people
OF Southampton
you fcssted kossuth some years ago. and the
other day you feasted the ATchduke Of Austria.
Apparently you don't much mind whom you feast,
provided it is a celebrity. But pray, now, don't
60 fcasting Slidell and Mason.
1--WE have narrowly escaped from being involv-
ed in a war because Of notion on the part Of the
Yankees that we sympathize with the South. 1t
is advisable for us to abstain from any act which
may tend to confirm that absurd but inveterate
persuasion. They are mad as snakes because
the Nashville is lying in your docks. If you
ask Slidell and Mason to dinner and drink their
heslths, and have them snd your orators spout
ing end speechifying, ard extoIlirg the British
Lyon, Yankee Doodle, who does not understand
your enthusiastic hospitality and dcmonstretive-
ness, will aesuredly regard your welcome Of the
Sou uthern Commissioners q declaration on the
part of the people of England for the Confederate
side. Invite those gentlemen to dine at your own
houses if you like, bat beware lest, by giving
them what continental editors call an ovation,
you cause all of your countrymen TO be Jumped
BY the Yankees as confederates with the Southern
Confederscy. Be pleased, therefore, 20 deny
Yourselves on this occvsion, for once the gratif-
cation of feasting iluFtrious strangcrs and oblige
your obedient humble servant. PUNCH.
"P. S.-My advice to you is also my advice to
Liverpool
an. B.-Slidell and Mason can have little pow
er to promote the commercial interests of South
smpton."
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Correspondence Of the Free Press.
LETTER FROM CAPT. DREW.
CoIUsBus, 5. c., Jan. 81. 1862.

CcIusBus, 5. c., Jan. 81. 1862.
MessTs- Editors of fhe Free Press:
am bound TO write you once in while, even
though l cannot give you any thing Of general
interest, fince the time spend in writing passes
more pleasantly than in any other way. II seems
to carry ne back into the world of life and &C.
tiOp. 1t brings to mind the many times I have
chAtted pleasantly with Friends now far away"
and wandered on the free soil and through the
| luxuriant woods of Old Vermont.
The men now we'll clothed, and comforta-
| bly, cared for. We received from the Government
3 large lot of blankets and clothing, so sI are
we'll provided. Lieut.. Connolly Of the 69th
Y, was yesterday sent home from here on his
parole. II was done by his friends in New York.
Time passes slowly here, though VIC have nea.-
ly all got some occupation to kill prison ennui.
Perhaps you do not know what il is2 Let me
tell you its effects. You begin to read book and
fling 1t down as dull and stupid. You commence
to talk and stop short in the middle of sentence
with the idea that never in all your life did you
hear or utter such tame and insipid stuff. You
' -~s-' duu lue Jew ls
no comparison. Here aud there you 20, listless,
languid, aud with head do-u Every little knot
Of takers interests you, and when you hnd out
what they are taking about, you turn away dis
appointed. The least rumor sets your norve.
shaking and new face sends the blood bOsndior
into the face, to flow back, chilled and oongeal.d
by the thought that it is only stranger. fly
on the wall furnishes an hours amusement by
watching its movements. The least strange sound
makes you treIuble, and the greatest noise of or
dinsry occurrence has no power to attract your at
tention. In fact you dead to every thing old,
and alive to the minutest thing new. Ibid have
this malady, but curei it by taking to the max
ing Of all sorts Of trnkets out of the beef bones
You might see me one day eating the beef from
bone, and in less than 4 week find every piece Of
the sa ne bone made into rings and crosses.
The weather is fno, and reminds US Of very
pleasant May day in New England. We are all
anxious to 60 away from this Sunny Cline" and
when the time comes for our departure, it will lie
a DAY OF 1cep rejoicing. We continue to receive
here kind treatment. The health of the men is
generally good, and all are as cheerful as can be
possible.
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DEATH OF TIE LAST REVOLUTIONARY PEN
sIoNER IN NEw HAxPsHIKE.-We learn from
a correspondent that Lieutenant Joel Nc
Gregory died in Newport, n. H., October
81, aged one hundred years. eleven months
and nine days Lieut.. MeGregory was born
In Enfield. IT., November 81, l760. lie
volunteered in the army Of the revolution,
was taken prisoner and confined in the
"Old Sugar House, New York, for eight
months. His fare was barely sufficient TO
sustain lie, though living animals were
abundant on and about him. He has en-
loved good health in his last years. though
his mind has been somewhat impaired. ln
olden time he worked at nail-making by
hand, and has made txeks ~ susll that he
could put one thousand Of them in an egg-
she'll. For many years be has received
pension which, with what he had laid BY in
his younger days. has made his declining
years peaceful and happy. 1t is supposed
that he was the last surviving revolutionary
soldier in New Hampshire, e,-HstOrieal Ma
gasine.
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ABOLITION IN DELAwARg.-The report is
that bill is to be introduced into the Leg
islature of Delaware to abolish slavery in
that State. By this bill all slaves over thirty
five years of age are to be freed within ninety
days after it becomes law all under thirty
five shall become free on reaching that age !;
all males born after the bill becomes law are
to be slaves till they are twenty-one, and
females till they are eighteen and all slave
~ is to cease after January lst, 1872. These
provisions are made conditional upon this,
that - Congress will, at its present session,
engage to pay TO the State OF Delaware, in
bonds Of the United States, bearing interest
at the rate of SIX per centum per annum, the
sum of 5000, 900, in ten annual instalments,
$50, 900 to be payable on some day before
the first day of September, 1862, to estab-
lIsh q fund for securing full and fair com
pensation to the owners Of slaves who shall
have been dIvested Of their property by force
Of the act in question
Delaware has, according to the census of
1850, eighteen hundred and FIVE slaves, and
the sum asked of Congress for their gradual
emancipation amounts to five hundred dol
lars a head, which taking young and old,
81 k and we'll, Is rather large price. The
Wilmington Republican says that many of
the largest Shareholders are in lavor of this
bill, and that many of the shareholders
would gladly exchange their slaves for
money, which they could use in payment for
their lands and contemplated improvements. 8"
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T. D.


CHITTENpES Co. AGRICULTURAL Socl Ely
At the annual meeting of this Society, held
Feb. 5th, at thu Office of the Secretary, the
following officers were elected
Prendeni-C. W. BROWNELL, Of VIII
liston.
Iice Pres'dsHS.-JoHN B. WHEELER. Bur
lIngton GEO. BLISS, Shelburn.
TreauTn.-L. NJ, HAGAR, Burlington.
Sceraary.-RussEIL S. TAR, Burlington.
1idnGgers 5. Morse, Bolton; W.
r. Villas, p. IL. Catlin, S. E. Howard, Bur
lingtOn; Geo. r. Pease, John II. Sherman,
Charlotte; W. S. Freeman, Colchester; Chas.
II. Weed, Hinesburgh Harmon n. Tracy
Essex; julius HapgOod Jericho Reed Bas-
comb, Milton E. ID. Mason, Stafford Bron-
son, Richmond; Fred. j. Mech, Shelburn.
Smith Wright, St. George; George p Howe
Underhill; Amos Hobart, Westiord; C.. E.
Miller, Williston.
The Board of Managers are to hold their
first meeting on Saturday, Feb. Is, at the
Secretary's office, Town Hall.
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: FARMERS sHoULD Grow FLAx.-Plcase to
recommend all farmers to raise piece of flax.
Linen cloth can be made as well now as fifty
years ago, and will answer for shirt and over
alls, and many other purposes that cotton has
been used for. Our women will look just as
we'll, and appear little ,marter. with check
ed aprons and dresses made of linen. Cotton
has risen at such rapid rate that few will
be able to buy. The poor class of women can
make linen cloth themselves, and the little
boys and girls can be clothed with it. would
recommend, for the benefit of the people, that
you tell them where they can obtain flax seed
If you know. Instead of using the seed fer oil,
it should be saved for tie great benefit of the
people H. Leeoh, Gredi Valley, NY,
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The BATTLE OF Mill SPRNG, KY.-A let
ter in the n. Y. Tribune, saws:

ter in the n. Y. Tribune, says:
1.-THE bayonet charge of the 9th Ohio was the
most striking incident Of the battle, and the
plucky Germans continue 10 receive encomiums
from all that witnessed it. The captured seoess-
ionists themselves acknowledge their superiority
to any regiment on their side. DR.. Clia, one Of
the Confederate Surgeons, says that the 9th swept
every thing before it like mighty, resstless wave.
About dozen Mississippians suffered death at
their steel, probably the first rebels killed by
bsyo. cts in this war. Gen. Thomas highly com
piimonted the Germans for having decided the
battle BY their vslor."
When the rebels reached the bank Of the river,
after their precipitate flight from the battlefield,
they rushed in crowds upon the fst-boat, that
with a steamboat formed their means Of crossing.
70 great was the rush upon the former that many
were pushed overheard. Others hung themselves
in such numbers in the water, holding on to the
sides Of the boat, that they threatened to upset
the boat, and compelled those upon it to loosen
their hold upon it by force. large number
rushed headlong into the river after the boats had
stood of the bank, and tried to swim acros.. Over
l5O are thus supposed to have found watery
grave The rebel cavalry dismounted on the
bank and tried TO swim their horses over, while
crossing on the bosts. The animals, however, all
swan back. Four additional pieces of artillery
have been discovered, making the total number
captured 2l. Nearly 200 prisoners, who had
scattered through the woods, were taken. Some
scouting parties sent out from the entertainments,
found the bush on the left bank full Of horses and
brought in over 200 Of them. On Saturday last,
two companies Of the 10th Indiana crossed the
river and pushed far south as Monticello. They,
also, all came back mounted on rebel horses.
They reported that the flying rebels came through
that town on a run on Monday, Crittenden at
their head, and informed the inhabitants that
$4,000 yankees were at their heels. SO reduced
were they TO a starving condition, that they rush
cd into the corn heds and sstishsi their hunger
with the raw grain.
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CRrISG BABIES Little books on natural
history tell US that if a cricket were as large
as an elephant, his chirp would be heard from
London to COnstantInople. On what exact
Data this interesting calculation is founded
does not quite appear. but if there Is any
truth in 1t. We should suppose, by parallel
process Of reasoning. that if an infant were
as large as an adult person. its cries, when
hungry OF IN pain, would be heard as far
as from London to Paris. The yulgar no
tion is. that this tremendous power Of voci-
feration has been bestowed by Providence,
in order that the small helpless individuals,
termed baby, may have the best chance
possible OF attracting the notice OF friends,
and the public in general to its wants and
necessities. The ingenious Mr.. Darwin
would, of course, explain the matter differ
emily. Babies have acquired the faculties
Of roaring through the process of natural
selection. 1t was originally mere accident
"A sport of nature. But beng a pryflt.
able modification OF infant functions, it
turned the nicely balanced scale in the strug
gle for life, and gradually became the com
mon property OF blbyho ID. Crying babies
hourished and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. babies
became rarer and rarer, and are now an ex-
tinct Species Saturday Rerieto
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4 DE~ERvED CoNPLIxENT.-0ur readers
undoubtedly remember the narrow escape Of
the mammoth the steamship Great Eastern
in September last, when, after having broken
her rudder post, and lain three days in the
trough OF the sea. in gale which bent and
twisted her massive iron paddle wheels as if
they had been made of tin plate, she was
saved by an ingenious steering apparatus,
devised 10y young American engineer, Mr..
Hamilton Z. Towle. His plan, 1t will be
recollected, was adopted in spite Of the op-
position Of the captain and engineer OF the
vessel who did every thing to embarrass and
defeat its success, and after they had been
saved by 1t endeavored to rob Mr.. Towie of
his well earned laurels. We have before US
a Autographed plan and simple description OF
Mr.. Towle's device, which was procured on
their arrival il Cork, by Mr.. Towle, for cir
culation among his friends. Subsequently,
as it is stated, the captain and engineer of
the vessel went to the lithographer, and In-
duced him to erase the name of Mr.. Towle
as the inventor of the plan and to put thar
names in its stead. and then caused large
number of copies go falsiGed to be struck Of
and circulated
We have felt additional interest in Mr.
Towle since learning the fact tina, be was
engaged not long since as engineer on the
works of Fort Montgomery, at Rcuse's
Point, for two or three years, and is well
known to number of our readers
in the Champlain Valley. and we are glad
to perceive that there are some who have
seen to it that he should have the honor Of
which the envious Englishmen would have
deprived him. Mr.. Towle received last
week present of beautiful and costly
watch, made expressly for the purpose, and
encased in a richly chased case set in
diamonds and rubies, accompanied with the
following letter
NEw YORK, Jan. 80, 1862.
HANILTos E. TowLE, Esq.. c. E.-Dear Sfr
In behalf Of the passengers board the steam
ship Great Eastern, during the storm of Septem-
Der Il, 1861, in which the rudder was disabled,
and the ship left for three days at the mercy Of
the sea- We lake pleasure in deliverias 10 you the
accompanying watch, suitably Inscribed ss . TO-
ken Of the appreciation of those on board Of your
skill in devising, and your rntiring and successful