Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-10-11

! General Wells and General Pitkin of this
State bore the Governors invitation to Gen.
Sheridan. 1t is safe to predict that the cap
ital will be full when Sheridan comes.
PoLITIcAL.-The last rumor from Wash
ington through the New York Herald is to the
effect that at the opening of the next session
of Congress a committee may be appointed by
the consent of all Senators and Representa-
tives who concur in the proposition, to wait
upon President johnson and request him to
state definitely what plan he has to submit
for the speedy reconstruction and admission
of the Southern States, as he has hitherto
opposed every policy that has been initiated
by Congress. They would then ascertain
to certainty whether there is any pos
sibility of the legislative and executiv e
branches of the government harmonizing on
a policy that would restore the ex-rebel
states to representation before the next Presi-
Dental election.
Chief Justice Chase is said To have written
to Gen. Sickles on hi, return to New York.
saving that his esteem and admiration for
him had not diminished. and that the services
of the General commanded the gratitude of
the country. The Chief Justice differs
from Gen. Sickles as to the propriety of
General Order No. 10, but says that had
his advice been taken and followed, Gen.
Sickes would have been retained in com
mapd He regards the present administers
ton of the Carolna> just, able and apt to
conduce to early restoration on the plan
proposed by Congress.
The New York Star contains the fol-
lowing important letter from Baltimore,
, Maryland
The subject of our State Militia is almost
the absorbing topic of conversation Just now
in the citv. 1t could hardly be otherwise in
view of the fact that our four or FIVE thou
sand militia men appear nightly under the
ewes of the Baltimore public, marching
hither and thithcr in squads or companies.
uniformed in Rebel gray, armed to the teeth,
and reminding all most torcIblv of the con
slant scenes in our thoroughfares, when the
preservation of the Mon against the trea-
,onable and murderOus acts of - many OF
these same militia officers and men made this
city : military occupation vital necessity.
| need hardly write YOU that the nionists
here look upon this organization with great
distrust, believing that its Interior purpose
is To inaugurate revolution backed by
force of arms The Unionists in it are there.
almost to a man. only in order To hold it in
check in it be attempted to use II To an
unlawful end. Taxpayers. too, are begin
ming to groan over its financial aspect. The
Legislature AT its last session appropriated
80 900 To purchase arms for 1t. and passed
a communication law requiring all citizens of
militia age who declined serving in it To- pay
y per annum for the privilege OF declen-
sion, etc. This tax, it was alleged, was 70
pay for uniforming and equiping the forces.
Thirty thousand dollars was the sum to be
thus raised annually according t. Governor
Swami : figuring. The so 900 mentioned
above has gone Tor the purchase of artillery
and Springfield rifles. Instead of $500 600
having been collected for ammunition and
militia fines, but 81 900 have found their
way from that source into the State Treasury.
OF that amount $1,000 have gone To paw
tor drill and mceting-room rent. etc. leav-
ing but balance of some Sl1 600 applica-
bic in payment for the uniforms ut Sis
= ! > each. Already the State has incurred
a debt for ) 900 of those delivered u Balti-
more milItia-mcn. SlX hundred more are
now being made up to be delivered 10 the
members OF the 10th Regiment. That regi-
Inent has been raised in 1t. Marvs, Charles,
Prince George. and Carroll Counties, where
Secesh sentiments 80 universally prevail
Tho total force being thus enrolled outside
} OF Baltimore il 900 men. - unitorming
our State Militia is To cost our State tax
PAYERS SlSS 100, the Communication law to
the contrary Notwithstanding. MARYLAND Is
entitled t. arms from the General Govern
ment only to the value of $4,000. Swami
refused them IN small arms. demanding ar
tillcrv. which Stanton first and Grant subse
quently refused him. The force is now be
ing equipped with Springfield muskets and
Announcements ut Il cost of about S23 per
man. which. for the whole ten thousand, will
amount To- an aggregate of $3.50 900. Add
t. these enormous sums $lsS $50 and $3.50
600. the allowance. a per day. for the hire
of each of all the officers horses parade
DAYS. the commissaries expenses of the
grand encampment for drill practice, &c..
already provided for, and YOUR readers will
see that this mysterious Maryland military
organization can hardly fail to cost the state
/ taxpayers, during the first year of its eX-
lstcncc. quite 50 600, and this stoo, in the
face of the formal report of the State Treas
urer and Controller declaring the State
Treasury bankrupt What the exigency
! requiring this enormous increase of the
state debt NAV be, can only be drawn from
! the pro-Rebcl demonstration, in words and
ieers. of more or less of these militiamen,
az they tramp our streets nightly. Col. J.
c. Mercer late Colonel of the LIST MARYLAND
Rebel Regiment, commands the 9TH Regi-
mcnt of the Maryland militia. He was
wounded severely at Gettysburg, in his eff
fort to destroy the Union. This 9TH is the
crack regiment of the force. the - white
kid - regiment. The story that the new
Constitution provides for the speedy dis
bandment of this state military force is all
bosh 1t provides that the Legislature may
or may not amend or abolish it at It's next
session, Il year hence, perhaps. In the mean
time its work will be done, if 1t is To have
aught to do. If not, and there remains n
possibility that it may thereafter be able to
accomplish anything for the Secesh cause,
the men who will compose the next Legisla-
ture under the existing order of things in
Maryland, will he the last in the world TO
leopard its efficiency.
The Chicago Ti75,utc. which is generally
accurate, has made up from various sources
the following table of the registry returns in
all the southern states.
state. White. Colored, Total.
Z Alabama SS2tS leo, 40
! Arkansas, 10000 $500 $1,000
FlOaida, AIS 1855 ii,l2l
Georgia, 1880, g3,4l. lsS, 30
Louisiana, 4f,42s s2,SG l21, 5Ss
Mississippi, 1i.f5; sO,0l9 l22, l73
y. Carolina, i,50e 40,603 IS, l03
: Carolina. 2l.l76 a6,0Io 7,l9s
Texas f00an 10000 90,T 200
Virginia, ll5,l57 I0I,i91 2I6. 24o
Total J25,os0 6I73i6 LIZ, 1896