Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-09-04
Editorial Items.

Editorial Items.
Returns from all except eight counties in
Virginia show the registration to be, whites,
ITO 900: blacks, 10000. OF the counties
not heard from four, will give large white
majorities.
Judge Fowle, of the County Court, at
Williamson, N. c. recently gave decision
in favor of colored jurors, stating that since
the abolition of slavery in 1868 by North
Carolina, there was nothing excluding negroes
from acting as jurors, and since the Civil
Rights bill was passed by Congress, granting
them all the rights of whites, they were fully
entitled to act in this capacity.
Asbury University, at Greeneastle Indiana,
has opened its doors to women on the same
terms as to men. They can enter the college
classes and take the regular four years,
Course. The Western Christian Adrocdte
says ''W We heartily concur in all parts of
this arrangement Mind has no sex why
should not equal opportunities be given to
all mankind? Woman may have a peculiar
sphere, but if the college is the place for
culture, for education, she needs and deserves
as niue of it man
There are lSS, 9S5 widows in the state of
New York being 90, 1870 more than there arc
widowers. This is owing in part to the late
war.
Gen Sckles friends in New York say
that he has been anxious to retire from mill
tary district No. > for long while past
that he had repeatedly urged the President
to accept his resignation, and that his retus-
al to do so. with the resort now to form Of
dismissal, if TO disgrace him, is proceed
ing which partakes of malice, rather than
desire for the public good.
Chancellor Peck has decided, as we sup
posed he would decide, not to grant the
injunction asked for restrain ing the town Of
st. Johnsbury for issuing bonds or subscrib
ing for stock in aid of the Montpelier and
ST. Johnsbury, or Essex County railroad.
English .. Stilton " cheese is made largely
in New York, shipped to England. and John
Bull don t know it from the genuine
their State Convention for the nomination of
Governor. &c., at Worcester on September
18th. On the 18th Of September mass con
vention of Temperance men will bc held in
the same city to take such action in regard
to political matters a. may seem advisable
and on October st the Democrats will also
hold their convention at Worcester t. nom
mate State officers.
free and easy conversation with Gen.
Sheridan on his Presidential prospects j.
reported to have elected the following reply
Il expect to live and die in the army.
have no aspirations for civil position. be-
lievc | can discharge the executive duties ~
my present position, IA | have succeeded in
the command Of both infantry ana cavalry
forces finding new exigences ever tapping
energies commensurate with new helGs
of labor within the army, but love army
life too we'll To seek it's exchange for new and
untried labors in civil life.
STATE Observation-Disclosures. september
/, Maine, Sept. Q, Pennsylvania, Indiana and
Ohio, Oct. :, New York. New Jersey. Della
ware, Maryland, Massachusetts. Michigan.
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois. Kansas. Mis- .
souri, and Nevada, November -.
Andrew johnson was recently elected 2
member of the =. Mutuals,'' baseball club
of New York, then on a visit to Washington. (
The club in a body waited on the President
and informed him of his election, when he .
accepted the position, and put the badg'.of
the - Mutuals - on the lapel of his coat, and
spoke in praise of the national game. With .
Attorney General Stanbery for ." short stop"
it is supposed Johnson can play . first base -
very we'll.
An effort is being made to remove Com
missioner Rollins of the Revenue Bureau.
He is a Radical, which renders him obnoxious
to the President. and the whSkey interest is
also opposed to him as he has been taking
very effective measures to put an end to the
frauds perpetrated by the whiskcy manuflc-
turers upon the Revenue Department. Gen.
Stedman has been offered the place, but is
said to be waiting to take the War Depart
ment when Gen. Grant leaves it.
President johnson has under consideration
proclamation of amnesty. He hopes there
by, no doubt to make voters of rebels now
unpardoned, although the reconstruction law
expressly declares that no amnesty shall have
such effect Attorney General Stanbery
WILL however, be ready at the proper moment
to furnish an elaborate opinion that the law
doesn't mean any such thing.
The Republican State Convention in New
York is fixed for the 25th inst. The officers
to be placed in nomination are Secretary of
State, a Comptroller, Treasurer, an Attor-
ncy General, State Engineer and Surveyor,
a Canal Commissioner, and an Inspector of
State Prisons. The Democrats have hope of
carrying the state by the aid of the liquor
interest
Chief Justice Chase has recently been Wis
iting New Hampshire, his native state. He
has been received everywhere with great
Somebody belonging to the antediluvian
period dominates VIM. H. Seward for Presi- !
dent, and Robert c. Winthrop for Vice Pres |
ident. .
BASE BALL The " Mutuals,'' Of New I
York, in their recent excursion were success /
full in Washington, were beaten in Baltimore. /
and at Philadelphia beat the Z" Athletics"
and were beaten by the I" Keystones' The +
latter beat was, however, the result of shock :
IN " moor NAV on tho ma rt of tho :. NutuoIs