Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-01-05
Items Of News

The National Unlon League has in existeuc,
about $500 councils Of that order in the Iowa
States, with membership OF over $50, 900 ii
number. Wisconsin has over 300 councils and
%, 900 members, and Illinois l40 900 members
A heavy robbery took place on the stage lin,
between La Crosse, Wis. and ST Paul, On til,
goth. Some parties organizing National BanI
we're sending $4,000 in United States bonds t.
Washington They were placed in the trunk
aud strapped on the back OF the stage A few
miles north Of Lake City the trunk was cut Of
from the stage, and no trace OF it has yet been
found.
EMIGRATION FRoS EuRoPE.-During the past
year the number II emlgrants from Ireland Ia
New York was 92,6Sl from England Is 252
from Scotland, 1914. Total. l55 223. In Is.
62 the total number was rs POO, showing am in.
crease during The past twelve months of IS ,9l7
| CONFEDERATE PRIcEs-0u Christmas dav oys.
ters sold in Richmond at S2a per gallon and
milk at the same price per gallon At a sale oil
negroes in Macon, Georgia, last week, one hun,
bred and one sold at anaverage price OF S220t
each. This high rate, and the great demand
for" human cattle, is heldby the secesh as an
evidence tha, the people do not care for Presi.
dent Lincoln threats of =" subjugatiOu.'
Men whJ have gone to Canada to get men to
serve in our armies ale rapidly coming to grief
Two Of them have been sent to the penitenliary
for fourteen }ears, two for twenty-one, and lots
of others are awaiting trial One Of the run.
ners whom the authorities are now after i a de.
scrter from the army and if caught in Canada
will be sent to the penientiary, and il caught
in the States viii be shot,
The official rebel lossat Chiekamauga is stated
as follows killed, 2299 dangerously wounded
1850; slightly, 10 500, missing 1900, Total
lS,4I5-Jr one halt at least OF the whole number
OF Bragg army.
Private letters from Florida state that there
is great disatfeeton among the people to the
rebel government. Icy threaten TO resist
Bngg's levy for beeves, and want arms.
A Federal force will probably be sent there.
Seven members Of the Sixth Ohio Battery,
have been captured by the rebels, near Tulaho-
ma, and brutality murdered. They were tied
to trees, shot, and their bodies thrown into the
river.
The ladies of Hartford, Conn have collected
nine hundred dollars in money, and seventy
barrels OF clothing, worth nearly three thou.
sand dollars, for the freedmen Of the South
The Halifax Citizen says that demand will
DO made upon the English authorities, by the
Coniederates, for the surrender of the steamer
Chesapeake,
A CASE TO TEsr rHE PRESIDENTS pRlolAuA.
TIoS.-A case has come up under the enamel
patton proclamation at st. Louis, which may
possibly be carried to the Supreme Court, on
points most 10 question, A negro woman from
Alabama, an escaped slave, has been sentenced
to the penitentiary by tho criminal court at st.
Lonis for yagrancy By State law she is liable
as a runaway slave to be whipped and detained
till her owner claims her, or to be sold after n
limited time to pay her Jail fees Tho criminal
court took the freedom OF the woman under
the proclamation for glanted, and therefore
sentenced her TO tho peuitentiary. Her ooun-
sci raises the point before Judge primm that
she Is still legally slave, and if the Judge de-
cidcs against him he will carry The case 10 the
Supreme Court on appeal
lrhe Schleswg. Holsten question is near its
llsis. Tho German forces have certainly en-.