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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
Mr.. MOrrilI's Speech OH the Early Re
SUMPTION of Specie PAYMENTS.

Senator Morrill, of this State made care
fully prepared speech last Wednesday in his
place in the United States Senate, in support
of his bill providing for resumption of spc-
Gle payments by the government July 4,
1869. The speech is full of facts and figures
Mr. Morrill's speeches on financial matters
usually are, but they are presented IN an at
tractive and logical manner and the argu-
mcnt is. beside, graceful in style and clear in
expression, and condensed and forcible in its
reasoning as speech on such subject
should be- The Boston Adrertiser thus com
pliments Mr. Morrill's effort
In the speech to which we refer, Mr.
Morrill, announces views upon finance, the
sound conservatism of which, we suspect,
will not little surprise those to whom he is
only known as the framer of tariffs and rev
enue acts. He is not led away by any OF the
prevailing heresises of initiation, of irredeem-
able paper, or of sacrifice of national faith.
On all these points he holds firmly to the
settled views of the leading students OF polIt-
ical economy, and the defects in his proposed
scheme of action arise more from his omis-
sion to allow for the political difficulties
which now threaten to embarrass any plan
for resuming at fixed time, than from any
failure to meet the views of the strlctest
school of finance.
The object of Mr.. Morrill, Is speech was to
show that the resumption of specie payments
should be gradual so as not to cause sud-
den shock to business, and at the same time
not to be postponed so as to inflict upon the
country the evils Of paper money longer than
seems absolute necessary and his statistics
and reasoning were calculated to show how
there might safely be return to a specie
currency as early as July 1869 No abstract
of the speech can do it justice, and we have
not space for the whole of it, but we make
room for the following concluding portion
No manufactures can flourish at the same
time with redundant paper money unless the
latter is all the time expanding, and when il
ceases to expand or begins to contract ther
they famish and die. Where depreclatet
currency exists there can be no health to-
them there they have no continuing city O
abiding place The effect on agriculture ant
husbandry is not less unsatisfactory BE
yond the labor of the family the busines
Yields no encouragement, and the product
Of hired labor rarely more than equal tn
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
Italian JOURNEYS.

This Is n very readable volume Of travels,
written bv William d. HowclIs-who did
NOT need this book 10 establish a reputation
~ an agreeable writcr-and published by
Hurd * Hpushton, New York 1t i not
easy e. say much that is new about Italy,
unless indeed. one writes Of the political
uphcavals that are working out the destiny
w chat land of painting and sculpture, and
song. They who write Of Garibaldi and his
brave volunteers who fight for united
country. aeainst Pope and King backed by
tho troops If Louis Napoleon, have the red
bI5ld of real wax, % color their pages and
it, flames to light UP their pictures, and
thcv ought. at lc-st. q fill their pages with
news. But ho who journeys through Italy
tt study what it was in the dead centuries
who studies the land in its tombs, and relics,
and monuments Of a buried civilization II
walks in path beaten by the footsteps Of
travellers for many generations; and he can
hardly give his readers more than new YER
sion Of an old story. The student, the poet,
tLc artist. the orator. the statesman, if they
have any Imagination. must walk as in a
dream IN the land of Virgil and Cicero, Of
Tasso. Dante. ard Ariosto, Of Titan and
Michael Angelo, and the inspiration Of such
Journey should give some fresh and living
interest " the story of every new narrator.
The e..r-h the air. the sky, the sea Of Italy
are pcopIed with memories Of the most
splendid and brilliant genius, and the schol-
ar. the painter. and the poet, turn their
feet toward that land. the Mahometan
turns toward Mecca. Mr.. IIowells is Il poet,
vet his poetic faculty doesn't shine out 30
often in this volume one might expect
bat he has written an exceedingly pleasant
volume nevertheless. Occasionally he gets
AWAY from the beaten track of tourists, and
gives charming picture, all aslow with the
bright colors of his fancy, and full of tender
rathos and delightful fancies; and his whole
wav. as it is treated in this volume OF
:. Journeys carries one back to Old Italy
AZ seen in the light Of to-day, yet colorec
with the rich glory of the days long gone
We hope to find space hereafter for some eA,
tracts from this volume.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
Gerritt Smith OIL Suffrage.

Below we print an extract from a letter
written by Gerritt Smith to Herschel V
johnson on reconstruction
:. Before leaving the subject of suffrage,
let me say that this atheistic exclusion of
men from their political rights because of
their complexion is fast losing favor at the
North. 1t finds but little, now, with the
Republican party; and it would find but
little with the democrats, were it not for
their hope, that, by continuing to war up
on the negro. they will continue to com
mend themselves to the South, and thus be
able to renew the old alliance between the
Northern Democracy and Southern Aris-
tocracy-that alliance by which both sue
ceeded, for nearly half century, in
gaining their respective ends. Whenever
YOUR Southern gentlemen shall be ashamed
as you ere long will be, of this base SER
vice, which the Democratic Party is still
rendering you, that party will be glad to
desist from what its conscience cannot fail
to condemn, And, Just here, let me warn
the negro -despising Aristocracy of the
South not to be deceived by the recent
election in Ohio The great vote in that
election for negro suffrage-and it would
probably have been greater but for the
provisions coupled with negro suffrage
makes that election the most honorable to
her of all her elections. In this great
vote she has taken wide step towards
making herself a christian state. Its
spirit of caste is what most of all, dis
tinguishes heather from christian
state \ state, which upholds caste,
may call itself christian-but it, never
theless, is heather. Nothing on earth is
so Anti-Christ as the refusing to recog-
nize the equal rights and common brother.
hood of ali men. The Republican Party
is fast committing itself to the christian
doctrine at this point To identify itsel
fully with it will be only measure of the
highest justice, but, considered in the ligh
Of a party policy, it will be, also, its high
est advantage. Let the Republican Part.
become, clearly and unquali6edy, party
for the equal rights Of all-and how thel
can it be opposed, any longer, in the nam
of Democracy? | do not, indeed, forge
what successfully Juggling use dema
gogues have made of the word democracy
But they can never make such use c
it against a party, which Is seen OF a
men to be thoroughly identified with re;
democracy. 1t has been because the R'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
QUEEN V1cToRIA's FAMILY DISCIPLINE

QUEEN VIcToRIA's FAMILY DISCIPLINE.
An anecdote illustrating Nictoria's ad
mirable good sense and strict domestic dis
cipline came to me directly from one who
witnessed the occurrence. One day when
the Queen was present in her carriage at
military review, the princess Royal, then
rather willful girl of about thirteen. sit
ting on the front seat, seemed disposed to
be rather familiar and coquettish with
some Young officers of the escort. Her
Majesty gave several reproving looks, with
out avail" winked at her, but she would
not stav wlnked." At length in flirting
her handkerchief over the side of the car
riage. she dropped it-too evidently not
accidentally Instantly two or three young
heroes sprang from their saddles to return
it TO her fair hand-but the lawful voice
of royalty stayed them. Stop gentle
men :" exclaimed the Queen leave 1t
where it lies Now, my daughter, get
down from the carriage, and pick up your
handkerchief" There was no help for IT.
The royal footman let down the steps for
the little royal lady who proceeded to lift
from the dust the pretty piece of cambria
and lace She blushed good deal, though
she tossed her head saucily, and she was
doubtless very angry, but the mortlfying
lesson may have nipped in the bud her first
impulse toward coquetrv. 1t was hard.
but it was wholesome. How MANY Amer
can mothers would be equal to such apiece
of Spartan discipline ?-Grace Greenwood
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25

Rooms that are made dark by being
shut in by higher buildings may be lighted
by the followidg ingenious method If the
glass of window in such room is placed
several inches within the outer face of the
wall, as is the general custom in building
houses, it will admit very little light beyond
that which it gets from the opposite house.
If, however, for this window be substituted
another in which all the panes of glass are
roughly ground on the outside, and flush
with the outer wall, the light from the
whole of the visible sky, and from the re-
motest parts of the opposite wall, will be
introduced into the apartment, reflected
from the innumerable faces or facets which
the rough grinding of the glass has pro-
duced. The whole window will appear as
if the sky was beyond it, and from every
point of this luminous surface hight VIII
/! radiate into all parts of the room.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25

Let not widow haste to wed
man bereaved by death,
Nor think his first wife surely dead
Because she's out of breath,
Nor widowers hurry, when forlorn,
That other wives be found
Before they're sure that those they mourn
Are cold aud under ground,
And let all men be of this,
That for the happest life
Enough 5 enough of any bliss,
Especially of wife.
While this poem is somewhat of satire,
there are many passages of simple and touc h
ing tenderness and beauty scattered along
its pages, proving that the author is gcnu
inc poet and not a mere witty rhymster
and the whole volume is agreeable ant
entertaining and much of it very amusing
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
ki.,n Wife too TsanY.

This Is the title Of a pleasant volume OF
roetrv-something after the style of HOOD
and saxe-issued by Hurd and Houghton OF
%cw York. giving the experience OF hIP
Van Bigham, of Tappan Zee, who was 50
unfortunate as to be separated from his wlie,
AMI q, afterwards to believe her to be dead, ana
,I,ar, to fall into the snare Of a widow VINO
.vDnatbized with him in his affiictIon, ana
then to marry this widow, and then the hrSt
wife appeared again, and the poor husoano
tried to have peace in the family py ii'ins
,yitb both wives. and rather failed IN the uIi-
dertaking. and finally com promised the mat
ter bv giving the last wife the farm TO quie'
her. which she was quite willing to take DIS
she thought, with that. she would nave ny
trouble in getting another husband ihis iF
the story's
MORAL
To all WHO dwell on Tappan Hee'
o. any sea beside,
would this truthful tale might De
COMPASS chart and guide
Let not n parson shrink from uu'y'
Whate'er his duty he,
because ofwife wealth or beauty
Or best Of tongue or tea.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
From the Toledo Blade
MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. 1.
Nasty.
THE ALABAMA CoNvENTIoN-THE WOES
or JoHN GUTTLE., JR.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Dec. l.
[ am in Montgomery, in attendance, ez
= locker ON in Venis. Nv the Constooshnel
Convention, ez it it is called, now In ses-
sion in this accused town. 1t wuz Curl
os;tv wich brot me hither | had heard
of this piebald body-uv this black and
tan gartherin, in which niggers and white
men-niggers in which the white blood
predominates-wuz gathered and settin
side by side, the same ez tho Noer had
never cussed Ham, and ez tho the niger
wuz not beast, and not our inferior at all.
Ez | gazed [ sed to myself;
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25

HAKPER's MONTHLY for January has the
following articles Chattanooga and how we
held it Unreturning The Cafes of the Paris
Exhibition Holocaust; Memoir of Babylon !;
Fancy My Brother-in-law Among the
Wheat-Fields of Minnesota Three Ships :;
The Woman's s Kingdom love story; Why
Shall they Do it In the Five Points Tray
elers for Night German Newspapers !;
Mrs Ent's Lodger; The Inevitable Crisis :;
Day and Night Easy Chair. Monthly Rec
ord, and Drawer
-. The Womans Kingdom > is the COM
mencement of the promised story by Miss
Mulock.
.. No Thoroughtare - is the title of the
new C.-istmas story written by Charles
Dicke and Wilkie Collins. 1t is printed
in this country in an extra Christmas num-
Der of that popular weekly. $ Every Satur-
day making AZ double-column pages. Its
sale already in England and ibis country is
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-25
skINx1Na TIE aCoNFEpERAcY.n

When Grant went to Washington to re-
ce;He his appointment as Lieutenant-Gen-
eral. he stated to Mr. Lincoln his plan,
which was to occupy with the Army of the
Potomac the main Rebel army in Virginia
while Sherman destroyed the Confederacy.
Mr.. Lincoln replied L see you will
hold the leqs. while Sherman skins"
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

Races for society's Purses.
races to take place at the Chico Race Course the
cattle ground.
FIasT DAY. THURSDAY, OoT Sd. AT JPN,
Purse Of $3.50 co. free for all fouryear olds or up
waris-re heats, to rule.
SECOND RACE.
sweepstake Purse of $50 co. free for all three-olds-
mile heats, to rule. Entrance $40 90. added.
SECOND DAY, FRIDAY. Ocr 4rH. $50 P. NJ.
a Purse O: $3.50 90, free for all horses-two mile
heats to rule.
SECOND RACE
Purse of $50 CO. free all horses-ile heats to rule
THIRD DAY,
Saturday October 5th at $50 p NJ, purse of three
hundred dollars free for all troting horses owned
in the Northern Agricultural Districtmie heats. best
three in five. 10 rule.
SANE DAY.
purse of twenty-five dollars entrance 81 50 added
free for all mules, for mile.
SLOW RACE.
purse Of ten dollars entrance So 50 added free for
al horses
The entrance to all the above races except as other
forth above will be ten per cent Three to en-
ter and two to start.
Address J. C. Martin, Secretary Butte County Agri-
cultural Society or j. C. Soonan, Assistant Secretary.
Chico, California.
Certificates OF Membership can be procured Of the
Secretary or Treasurer.
JUN blDNtl@l- President
j. c. MARTIN. Secretary.
J. C. NOONAN. Assistant Secretary.
GEO. Z. JONES' Treasurer.
VICE PRESIDENTS:
". P. T1LDEN, J H. GULL. R. NJ. COCHRANE-
DIRECTORS:
J. C. MASDEyILLE. J. W. B. MONTGOMERY,
MARMON BAY, s. K THOMAS,
". W. DAVIS, J. HICKCOX,
CHARLES BALL
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
S THOMAS, HICKOX
W BISHOP, III GULL
] c NOONAN.
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

PANTHER KIILxp.-A panther measuring seven
feet from the nose TO the tip of the tail vas killed
in rather a singular manner on Mike Welch.s
Ranch. sixteen miles from here, and near the Sc
sanvile road. Harris. better known as 'Texas,-
resiGiDg On the premises, had for some tim. been
ANNOYED By an animal of some kind killing his
hcgs- On Friday night he heard pig s1uesl. and
when near the pen discovered an animal which
Immediately sought refuge in tree. Texas not
being armed. CONNIE need the battle with stones.
6riving the panther into SIX different trees, and
when on the Es>t he took q club and followed up
the tree and pounded the animal until life was ex-
ti1ct- TEXAS must be from the Stale of that
name. il would be hard 10 ind man from any
other oousI-y that wunld undertake difficult
task without arms.-Butte County Press
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

"MoRE EvInEScs OF THE E-EsNAL FITNESS OF
THIxGs."-The Gold Hill, Nevada, N1r, says
1--WE have in our possession letter from one OF the
principal Engineers of the Union Pacific Railroad
Company. OF recent date in which he Us
= that the Union Pacific will march GA their own
line TO California 1t is claimed that the law fully
authorizes the company t1 d., and the Engineer
remarks: The tools of the 'Ceutral Pacific" in
Congress, cannot block our progress on own
line. l think Cole lSenatorI viii be for us >
The Humboldt. Neyaia. Register adds: 1T is un-
derstood that the Union Pacific Company will leave
the Humboldt river somewhere in the vicinity Of
LaSsens Meadow and strike directly aero the
country for Susanville and California. going the
Sierra at pass in the mountains that does not pre-
sent the same obstacles in the way of deep SHOWS
that encountered on the Dutch Flat road =
We have never doubted but Win, such woald be the
result of the seiShne>s that prompted the selection
of the Central Pacific route. That crowd Of public
swndless and government bummers have read their
doom during the past two years, and have sought
10 avert exposure and condemnation by dlcta
ting to California anI Nevada thsr Senator's and
representatives in Congress. while the Union Pa
oidc Company building railroad across the
continent. There is no danger that company, in
earnest in building railroad 10 California. as the
Union Pacific" are. VIII give the Feather River
route the 50 by. They want practical and valaa'
able railroad Fhe rou,e for it is here. And engi-
gineers. who are locating and building a railroad,
instead of enieavorias - control State Coaven-
tions and State Legislatures. will dna it. Let
be prepar ed to help Ourselves, and success is GER
tain.
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17
PACIFIC MAIL S. S, COMFY.
STEAMSHIPS FOR
NEW YORK, JAPAN & CHIIA-
Will be dispatched - follows:

~~ LEA AVE FOLSOM STREET
astsels W han at IL O'Clock A. NJ Of the follovJpc
dates, for PANAMA, connecting, via Panama Railroad
ASPINwAIL for New York
days ~ "
On the 10th. 10Th soh of each month tb., Ia, 3,
days. -
When the 10th, 18th and 3oh fan on Sunday tbev viii
ieaVe on Saturday preceding: when the 18th fails Oh
Sunday, they viii leave on Monday following
Steamer leaving San Francisco on the loth torche.
Manzanillo. AL touch Acapulco
Departure OF 18th 18th connects with French Trans
atlantic Co.'S steamer for st. Nazaire and Enrnsh
steamer for South America.
Departure cf loh connect. with FnoI,sh st.,r,., for
australia Southampton, and South america and p r.
T. Co steamer for Central America
Inc following steamships Will be despatched on dates
as given below
Steamers for August.
Aug 1?th-SACRAMENTO Captain / NJ Cay>r,x CON-
neciing with HENRY CHAUNCEY. CAPT GRAY
Aug 5o-MONTANA, Capt. Z. s. Farnsworth connect.
ing with ARIZONA, Capt. Maury
Passengers berthed through. Baggage checked .hfo.
100 pounds allowed each adult.
An experienced Surgeon on board Melsc;n. ,a4..
tendance free. ~ 1iiu ~
These steamers viii positively sail at II O'Clock
are requested to have their baggage on beard
through tickets for Liverpool BY the Cunard lnn.n
a.a ~ Naona steamship Lines be obtained al ofice
OF the r NJ s. s Co, San Francisco
ZEN er Merchandise Freight, apply Messrs WELLS
The GREAT REPUBLIC" Capt. 6. Do,,e r,1,o
dispatched SEPTEMBER 3D. at noon and vii, h. III,
h,s 0meu oy ,hes'eaInship CHINA, Capt; Geo H Brad
Brannan streets, for Yokho,na and Honkone conns-.
Shanghai. 0'iA MIA LOT
or passage and all other information app,y At ,bs
Pac1nc Mail Steamship Co.'S Office corner 81 S.r. - ~
to and Leidesdorf streets -
OLIVER ELDRIDGE, Agent.
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

BErrISa.-A Mr.. Tiffany. in Ssa Francisco. has
bet Mr.. Brooks 81 ,aeo that Mr. Gorham viii be
elected Governor of this State. +. +. Ferris, OF
Oakllnd offers a string ei bets amounting TO the
same sum on similar result. Here in oroville.
rather singular bet made the other day. Is be;
s. that a third party had said that. II he had
daughter he would prefer she should marry a co..
ored individual in preference to marrying B. The
umpire Was the third party himself. who denied
having expressed any such sentiment. whereat. B.
forgetting the compliment to himself conssyed by
the decision. jumped stiff legged over the loss Of
bis "
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

ScrrHxzx PAcIrfc RAILROAD ExPEprr1os.-A
correspondent Of the Tfmes, writing from San
Diego. July 2sfh, says:
Major General Rosecrans- and party, consisting
CT sune fifteen erscns. lett here early this morn
ing for Iscumba Pass. |. is the intention Of the
General to examine this pass thoroughly. and I
understand, if II ! found practicable. recommend
TO the parties interested. that thi, great work be
brought through II II this place, and then along
the co4se 10 san Francisco. As soon as the re-
suits oi this expedition iranspire viii send them
along for Publication
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

The oil of penuyreyal will keep mosquitoes out
Of a room, if scattered about even in small quanti-
ties Reaches are exterrainated By scattering
handful of fresh cucumber parines about the house
No fly will light the window which has beea
washed with water il which little garlic has
been boiled.
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

KILLED--A man uamei Patrick enuings was
kill al Jones Camp, on the French Camp road,
says the Nevada Gazette. on the 81 instant He
became entaugled il the harness CT a horse he was
driving. AID was dragged over one hundred feet.
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17
Lyons Extract Ginger.

LfoSs Extract o Pure Jamaica Ginger for induces
non, NanseA Heartburn. Sick Headache Choler. No
bus, Fztulency etc. where a warming stirmJ.nt 4; ~
aured Its carofu preparation and entire purity ate
cheap and reliable article for culinary purr.n.es
Pure Extrzct-take no other
Fsntsoon Bitters Magnolia Water, Lyon Ksth.,;on
Mustang l4niraent etc. fer sale By
Ar4 cacssl PU8rr1 OroviIe Ci
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

TnE Japanese Commissioners in Paris i: Is IN
derstood. have purchased the exrebel ironciai ram
Stone wall They are - take her with her present
q ma ment, gose-nmen; putt.ng ler IN sea going
co edition. Price $50 000
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

RExovEp.-The telegraph reports that President
Johnson has removed Stanton fr,m the War De
nartment. and transferred the pnr; folio tenporsr
ly TO General Grant EN Governor Andrew, OF
Massachusetts,, is mentioned tor the position.
The weekly Butte record., 1867-08-17

woor.-Mr. G.idley has sold his spring clip of
wool. amounting to between forty and fifty thous-
and pounds. to Marcase & Bro. of NarysviIle. 1t
l. said to be OF an extra ine quality.