Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-10-23
Editorial Items.

Editorial Items.
The rumor that General Sherman is 70 go
into the War Department is without found
alton. The General has no thought of re-
signing his position as Lieutenant General
for any such precarious appointment as a
place in Mr.. Johnson's Cabinet and besides
the President prefers civilian, or some man
like Mcclellan, whose war record is not of
the fighting kind, for the Office kA'
Governor Brownlow announces himself as
a candidate for the United States Senate
from Tennessee. He says his health is bet
ter, the prospect of snug place at Wash
ington having had favorable effect upon
hope, however, the legislature will have the
good sense to elect Mr.. Maynard.
The United States Court in Kentucky, has
just sentenced two ruffians to ten years in
the penitentiary, for assaulting and robbing
negroes. The state laws provided no pun
ishment for such offenses, and the prosecu-
ton was founded on the provisions of the
civil rights act The penalty was made
more severe, the court said, as an impression
seemed to prevail in that community that
such offenses were not serious enough to be
visited with any punishment
The Philadelphia National Union Club
have adopted resolutions g recommending to
the Republican party of Philadelphia, of the
State, and of the Union, General Ulysses S.
Grant as the Union Republican candidate for
President of the United States -
The Republican General Committee of New
York city, representing the conservative wing
of the party, gives in its adhesion to the
State ticket and recommends its united and
earnest support to all Republicans, The Re-
publicans of that state are making vigorous
canvass.
The London Daily Ne,rs says of President
johnson: q He has deliberately steered the
vessel of State back again into the storm from
which it was so steadily emerging, and he
will deserve his fate if he is thrown overheard
to still the waves When this is done, will
the fish whose luck it is to swallow him, be so
good as not to throw him up again.
IMPEAcHMENT.-A rumor has been in cir
culation for few days that Mr.. Wilson,
chairman of the Congressional Judiciary COM
mittee had become convert TO impeachment,
which, if true, would make majority of the
committee. A similar IT started
last summer respecting Mr. Woodbridge
but that report was gotten up stock
jobbing operation to send up the price of
gold, and after it had accomplished all it
could in that way, was authoritatively
denied We presume this is similar dodge
CALIFORNIA judicial election held in
California last week resulted in the election
of the Democratic candidate by majority
somewhat less than that given for Haight.
the Democratic candidate for governor in
September.
The COUNTERFEIT SEVEN THIRTrEs.-Col |
Wood, chief of the secret service division of
the treasury department, has had all his de
tcctives at work since the di scoverv of the /
counterfeit 80 notes, and il has been def !
nitely ascertained that 1000 of them
81 900 00,-have been put in the market, |
and that the plates were not made in Europe,
but in this country. 1t is further stated that +
Philadelphia has been the headquarters for .
ceeding is said to be in the possession of the |
secret service officers. According TO repre-
sensations one of the gang of countcrtelters
had been SO successful with his seven thirties |
that he forgot his discretion and commenced /
putting into circulation counterfeit : 10 and
$50 bank notes, and upon this latter charge +.
was captured when he proved TO he one of /
the yerv men of whom Col. Wood and his I
assistants were in pursuit. He was also F
tiet hay he Of he
seven thirties Brooklyn banker His |
name is Cooper. and he is known as one of
the gang, and is now in prison in New York
awaiting the action OF Solicitor Jordan and
Col. Wood, who are both in New York.
Thirty-eight counties in Ohio which give
Hayes 1894 majority, givea majority against
the constitutional amendment of To- "a. that
is the amendment runs % ,l3s votes behind
the vote for the republican state ticket. If
the vote shows the same proportions in the
other counties. the total majority against the
amendment will be about 50 600
The full official vote in Pennsylvania. gives
Sharswood. Democratic Judge, 200 major
ity in Il poll of 535 900 votes
The entire falling off in the vote of the
cent OF this the Republicans lose 40. AL,
which is thirteen and one-sixth per cent on f
their vote for Geary, and the Democrats lose
% ,O70. equal to seven and two-thirds per
cent decrease from their vote for Clymer
The first reports from the local elections in
Indiana this fall, were more unfavorable to
the Republicans, than the truth which has
since come out.
The Republicans are reported to have lost +
three small counties, but as compensation /
they gained heavily throughout the northern /
and central counties carried nine out of the /
eleven Congressional districts, making gain
of one; and rolled up an aggregate majority
of 90 900, gain of more than five thousand
over the majority of last year
The conservative and radical Republicans |
in Virginia. are so much at loggerheads,
that it is doubtful if the election Yesterday, !
resulted in the call of convention.
LegiSl AZURE of Vermont.