Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-12-11
SO MOTE 1T BE.

The report of Secretary Browning of the
Interior, states that during the last fiscal
year ,04l III acres of public land were dis
posed of for which the cash receipts were
81 ,347 ,S62. The Indian commissioner re-
ports favorably on the progress and condi-
ton of affairs in his department during the
year, and recommends an increase of the
salaries of superintendent the best means
Of getting men fit for the positions. The
immediate appointment Of superintendent
for Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Dakota is
also urged. During the year ending Sep
TENDER 30, there were l6,547 applications
for patents, and IL 90 were issued. The
of the patent fund is now S2S6, COZ. The
whole expenses Of the United States courts
during the year amounted to 81 ,695, 62G.
Mr.. Edmunds made a speech last week in
the United States Senate il support of his
resolution to pay the public debt in coin.
The Washington correspondent ofthe Spring
field Republican says oft
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, continued
his speech in the Senate upon financial ques-
tions 1t is one of the ablcst and soundest
made in Congress for years, and is opposed
10 the new school of expansion and legal
tenders
The NATIONAL DEBr.-The statement Of
the national debt for December shows that
the aggregate debt has increased since Nov
ember LIST, ten millions of dollars Sixty
millions have been added to the coin interest
debt, and fortyfvc millions taken from that
bearing currency interest. There is one
hundred millions of gold and thirty-seyen
millions of currency in the treasury. The
large amount of interest paid in November
accounts for the increase of the debt.
The Republican National Committee are
divided on the question Of the proper time
to call the National Convention. Some urge
February, others May next. Grants friends
generally urge February. 50 saws a Wash
ington dispatch.
The House passed, Saturday a bill repeal
ing the act authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury to contract the currency. The vote
was l27 TO -. Me>srs Smith and Wood
bridge of Vermont, voted for the bill Mr.
Poland was absent or did not vote We in
fer from this vote that the inhltionistS have
4 large majority in the House, and that all
efforts to get back to specie payments by tn
governments declining as far as possible To
issue any more irredeemable paper money,
are to bc pcrsistently fought by that body
REAL ESTATE OPERATIoNs.-It is said See
rotary Seward denies that ne is negotiating
for the purchase of Cuba. His transactions
in real estate in the West Indies are limited
as yet, to thc island Of St. Thomas and the
value of that purchase has mt been improved
by the recent freak of the clements in that
vicinity, which pretty much submerged the
land, and destroyed five steamships in the
harbor.
In the House at Washington, bill to
pay Russia for Alaska, has been referred to
the committee on Foreign Affairs Some
opposition to the bill was developed, but it
will doubtless pass.
A bill repeating the cotton tax has passed
the House and is now in the Senate. Senator
Morrill, OF this State will oppose it.
Mr.. WILLIAM F. BURDEN, of Troy, y. y.
who will be remembered by many of the pco-
pie of the State, who were in Montpelier
during the session, as one of the petitioners
for the charter of a railroad to the iron mines
of Messrs. IL. Burden and Sons, in Benning-
ton, died last Saturday, of hemorrhage of the
lungs. Mr. Burdens illness commenced
with severe cold while he was in Montpe-
lier during the session. lie was Christian
gentleman, who won the respect and friend
ship of every acquaintance.