Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-05-17

Are. Mary N4tl-l-tl -AAl-rr WIZ WINES O.
Woman s Letters from Washington o. the
y. Y. Ird,perdHt, is very funny person.
Her Jas. ike. i- the assertion taa- Register
Of the Treasury :. b CoLHr. stood ~ the
very head Of the bar e. Vermont, when be
became Register"
AT the last annual examination al ~ est
Point Military Academy, C. p. 5ii.er. from
Vermont. stood fourteenth. and Wm. j..
s4r,le, from Vermont, s,o.i forty eighth.
There are d3 cadets DO the class.
Jstl p. C.. Cltt-.l, E-+., Of Milwaukee,
Wis, has received tic elmF LINEN, of lan-
quet from the bag o. tla, city ID The ocoa-
sion Of his leayir. Milwaukee 60 establish
him-ei. 10 New Ylrk. Mr CJ,triI ls
native Of MONTPELIER. and en- Of NaLln
c ,;ril, E-4 z5 long the landlord OF the
Pavilion. ami graduate of the University
OF Vermont. "a, the cla-- % I.-- Judge
Macarthur presided 81, tae banquet. aud 10 q
-Ieccl. said /. Wee tlc custom q. lawyers 20
be prodi-aI 10 speaking Of ths virtues Of tie
departed and be had half Mid to speak
Of those Of Mr.. C5ttsi.l who had al ,le
sharpness Of Nerm1u,er and all the case
and grace ola Western gentlemen. he add
cd tina; ,Lcre was nothing like q man having
& good opinion Of lis own opinion. and III
tha, particular ti. friend JEDI ,zc,l.cI.
H.a. SAMUEL Il Ba1s, [. s. Dis,uc;
Judge Of the Eastern District Of New York,
(Nev York City, resigned bis Office few
days since, and the President has appointed
III his place SAMUEL BLTcmoED, Ea.. Of
New York Judge Belts was originally ap-
poin.ei by John Quincy Adams, and is over
50 ycars Of age. Tire resolutions ofersl on
the occasion Of biz retirement, in behalf IF
the New York Bar, by D. D. Lord and Eras-
tus c. Benedict, Esq. say thl. 90 aim mole
than 70 any other judge Is due that c0nstitu-
tioual administration o. the Admiralty law
which now prevails untispu,od throughout
the nation MIR. Blatcbiori. the new Judge,
is a friend and former assocatc o. Secretary
Seward, and has Tor many years been az
active practitioner in and the reporter Of the
United States Circuit Court in New York
We notice the name Of CALVIN L. ROBIN
son, who married here. and Is well known 90
some OF our readers, mentioned in councc-
ton with that OF Col. Hart Of jacksonville,
Florida, IS active in Organizing a Union
Republican party in Florida. onion Leagues
have been formed IN a dozen counties.
The Masons Of Boston have invited Pres
ident johnson TO ,l-i, ,hat city Cd tie coca
sion Of the dedication OF their new temple,
and have promised him an escort Of 200
knights Tcmplar from Washington. lie IL
CONSIDERING tie matter.
W. II. Hall, formerly OF johnson, ye1-
mont. bas unearthej two pound gold mug
get IN mine n,ar Virginia City, Montana.
At the anniversary o. a new association
called the Universal Peace Society, Lcld in
New York on Thursday last n. p Wilder 1f
Vermont, was eloctod one Of The Wee Pres-
dents and Mrs. NJ. 5 Townsheud, Of Bridge
water. VT, Corresponding Secretary. Mrs
Townshend made a speech at tie meeting.
Hon. Horace Maynard was r,-romInated
on Saturday for Congress by the Radical
party Of the Second District % Tennessee
His election by large majority is considered
certain.
Mrs. Lucy Stone and Mr.. Lucy Stone, ire
convassing Kansas IN behalf OF female suf-
irage, and say it Is going to g
DEATH OF HIRAM SIXTH, EQ.-Hlmm
Smith. who for half century has been q
mes; estimable and honored citizen Of Brc-
port, died at his residence, near the shore OF
Lake Champlln, where he had lived during
all that period, on the 1Oih inst. aged -
years. He had filed nearly all the most in
portant local Offices Of his township repeated
", in 1899, 40, '55, and So was Its reprc-
sentative In the General Assembly and was
for many years past the larges; land-holder
IN the town
Ii is now said that II the event Of war b. .