Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1865-08-08
Union Nominations.
NEW OF LII WEEK.

says The steamship City Of Boston from Liver
pool, July 2Oth, via Queenstown 9th, arrived
at one 0 'olock. Her adyices are one day later
than per Germania. The Boston has nearly
eight hundred passengers.
The shore END Of TIE Atlantic Gable having
been successfully submerged on the night Of the
22nd, the splice with the main cable was COM
pleted at ! rs Sunday afternoon, July 26rd and
The Great Eastern Immediately commenced pay
ing out. The working through the whole length
was perfect and the weather very line. On the
Oath defects Of insulation were discovered. and
the Great Eastern hove to in lat 81 lon. 10,
about SO miles from shore. The latest dispatch
is AS follows
"YALENTIA, July % The Great Eastern
telegraphs from lat. 81, long, II, that a small
fault has been discovered and cut out. She is
now paying out again and the signalling Is per-
feet, weather very fine.
A dispatch from Queenstown per steamship
City Of Boston, dated July 9th, states that the
steamship Great Eastern was on that morning
three hundred miles out at sea paying out the
cable successfully. The Signals we're good and
the weather fne. A private letter from Cyrus
w. Field says " We expect to reach Hearts
Content, New FJundland, about the fifth of
August. The following dispatches from on
board the Great Eastern to Mr.. Seward, Lon.
don, are Of interest.
TUEDAY IL, =. NJ.
One hundred and fifty miles Of cable laid.
IL o'clock midnight-One hundred and fifty
miles run,
WEDNESDAY, 6 A. N.
Two hundred miles of cable laid, signals good,
all going well.
There has arrived at Washington q delegation
representing a large emigration society IN scot
land, having a capital OF SO 100000, which
they propose to invest in southern lands, If sui
fcleut Inducements are offered. The society is
mainly composed Of the industrial classes, and,
on the reception Of a favorable report from their
representatives in this country, will increase the
capital to IS 600, 900, and commence emigra-
ting Immediately The Richmond Republican
holds out great inducements ~ the society to
take lands in Virginia. 1t appreciates the Sterl-
ing qualities Of intelligence, industry, thrift
and reverence Tor law-and heir reverence for
genuine chivalry-and says there Is scope for all
those qualities and sentiments in the old d0min-
ion.
All the accounts from the Plains are to the
effect that before the coming ON Of winter we
shall have on hand the greatest Indian war we
have ever fought. Since the massacre OF the
Cheyennes by Col. Chivington, the Indians have
been breaking out into constant hOstilitIes, and
not a day has passed lor SIX weeks past that the
overland telegraph wires have not been cut sye-
tematically at points usually ten or fifteen miles
spart. This is a new feature, and indicates a
general concert of action on the part OF the In
dian tribes.
Quite a serious panic is said to be prevailing
among the Kentucky negroes, who are fearful
Of being reduced to slavery again. Large mum
bers Of them are daily vending their way to
headquarters for the purpose of securing their
free papers.
ln Southern X ansas the people are getting
terribly in earnest 10 putting down thleyiDg.
Not long since six thieves were hanged in
Franklin County without the least benefit of
clergy.
An attempt to raise the wreck Of the frigate
Congress, sunk by the Merrlmac in Hampton
Roads, has been partially successful. On the
portion of the deck which was recovered, are
two rusty guns, covered with oysters and bar
nscles. The wood work IS OF course rotten
and worthless, but the great amount Of metal
In aud about the wreck, Will be quite valuable.
Several pieces OF coin have been found on the
deck which are priced highly by the finders,
and will be treasured as relics OF peculiar value.
OtVerhl naval nutlOnb were PICKUP up, anu AT
once fastened to watch guards.
1t looks US if the old war dog might yet float
the Stars and Stripes under the eyes OF Mr.. J.
Davis.
Gen. Cox, the Union candidate Tor Governor
OF OHIO, has published d long letter, in which
he fully defines his position as u candidate, and
gives his private views on the question Of negro
suffrage. The latter, briefly stated are, that
the white and eolored people of the South can
not live together as equals, politically, aud he
therefore iasors a peaceable separation Of the
two races, ON Southern soil the blacks, in
their separate condition, to enjoy full political
rights. lie does not propose, however, to per-
NIT his private opinions to prevent him from
giving u cordial support to such measures as
Congress and the President may deem best for
the fnal adjustment and settlement OF the disi-
cult questions that have grown out of the wal.
Poor Sanders manages to keep before the
public 10 Canada in the role OF prosecuted pat
riot. One evening this week his son-in.law and
q friend entered his dwelling, aud found the
kinky headed P. p. and oil his family absent
BY and 10y the son-in.law made II voyage to the
cellar, where he found two men. lie grsppled
them, and bawled Tor help but the men got
away with outside help, " there being no police
present. livery like New York J Upon this
alarming state Of faces the Montreal Hrald
says "I II was possible that their object was the
abduction Of Mr.. g., n. Sanders aud heads Its
statement with large type, " Attempted ebduc-
ton of Mr., sanders" 1t looks a good deal
more like = an attempted abduction" Of the
silver spoons,
&c NEWS.
The steamship ASIA, which left Liverpool on
the 23d and Queenstown the next day, arrived
at ilalliax Thursday, bringing two days later
new from Europe.
The shore end VI the Atlantic cable was land.
ed, and connection made with tue land instru-
ments GU July %, IN the presence Of u large
ooncourse Of people. Enthusiastic speeches
were made by Sir K Jbert Peel and others, and
three cheers were given Tor the Queen aud Pres
ident johnson. Two miles had been paved oul
to sa.
SIX hundred and tweEty-six members elected
10 the House OF Con m show 252 Liberals
and 263 Conservatives. The Liberal gains will
reach "A. Mr.. Walker Of The London Time
was defeated in Berkshire. The two colleague.
OF Mr.. Gladstone in the representation OF South
Lancashire are Conservatives.
Constance Kent, having pleaded guilty OF The
murder OF hor brother, has been sentenced Il
death, but is wac generally believed that the
sentence would not be executed.
The French Monitcur denies that Alb del X
der has been appointed to any pos. in Algeria.
The cholera had almost entirely disappeared
from Alexandra, Egg pit, and was %decreasin,
in Constantin0ple.