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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-12-06
City Meeting.

A meeting Of the tax-uayers, to provide
means for Taying the Indebtedness and cur
rent expenses of The ely aas held. pursuant
to the call Of the Mayor, in the City Hail
Monday at 10 clock.
Hon. L. B Englesby was chosen modera-
tor of the meeting.
Mayor Wales made statement, showing
that the expenditures OF the city, as indica-
ted by the warrants drawn on the Treasury,
thus far in the year, have been as follows:
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-12-06

The Grand List of Vermont for 1851 is az
follows
ss 1913 polls at.2 .i3s.es6.o0
lU.a3l dogs at q lo,e3l.0O
8, Us ts1 acres Of and,
value $l,E2,ll3
Taxable personal pro
perry over debts, p ,e-ilis
/ per cent. on .g3.o5s, 20 is s3l,562 G.
Total list for highway taxes, $685. 76 60
Deductions. - 90
List for State taxes. So OILS g
Add cores lils-,7S
Total list after deductions, sl,e>l ,26i s.
The increase in number Of polls over ls67
Is 2l99, in number Of dogs, 500. There il
a decrease in the value Of real estate 0! 500,
5C5, by corrections in the list, We suppose,
making deduction in the list on real estate
Of. S4,665.6j. The increase Of taxable per
souaI property over lo57 Is S44S SOS, which
more than makes up Tor the deductions on
real estate. The list includes National
Bank stock, but not L. ;. bonds that are
not invested IN bank stock. 1t IL a note
worthy fact that the list Of the State con-
s;antly increases. notwithstanding the large
investments in L. ;. bonds and the extra
ordinary taxation, State and national, for
the war debt. Vermont i a good State to
live in Waf0n's Journal.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-12-06
DANGERS OF NEGRO RUS

The great difference between the two races
IN physical. mental, and moral Characters
ties will prevent an amalgamation or igsiJn
of them together in one homogeneous mass.
II the inferior obtains the ascendaney over
the other, it will govern with reference only
TO its own interests; for it will recognize no
common interest, and will create such tyr
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-12-06
FRAUDS o. THE treasury.

II is known that enormous frauds have been
Perpetrated on the Treasury, aud ina, CO.
lossai fortunes have been made u the public
expense This species Of corruption has in
creased, i Increasing, and If not diminished
will SON brlns Us into total ruin aad dis
girce The public creditors and the public
taxpayers are alike interested in an tou,.t
administration Of the finances. and itbel
cas- will long endure the large -hanIed rob-
berries Of the recent past.
tor ieis disrediiab!e state Of things there are
several causes. Some OF the taxes are
30 lad as 10 present an Irresistible tempts-
'lon 10 eyade payment. The great sums
Whleh oihcers may win By connivGnce at
fraud create pressure which IS more than the
'iriue OF many can withstand, and there can
be no doubt that the open disregard Of con-
s'itauonal obligations ayowed By some Of the
highest and most influential men in The eoun.
Try has greatly weakened the moral s.nse Of
those who serve ia subordinate places. The
expenses Of the United Suites, including In.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1867-12-06

The Grand List of Vermont for l507 is az
follows
ss 9,s ...,1-..s3 sf2s eSs 10
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

A SENSIBLE RADICAL EDIT0R.-We are
in hopes that GILMER of Rockingham will
be one of the editors of the new daily
which the Republicans are about to estab-
lish in Richmond. His paper Of last
Saturday contains the following paragraph,
which is the first sensible one we have seen
in a Radical editorial column for long
time:
"Mr. Porter made good lick the other
day when he moved to have the question
of whether the Constitutional Convention
was legislative body or not referred to O
committee of five. The Convention is not
legislative body. 1t has plain and sim
pie duty to perform, and that is to frame a
Constitution for the people of the State,
based on the principles laid down. That
done, and ordinances for the regulation Of
the mode and manner of submitting the
Constitution to the people adopted, and
the mission of the Convention is ended.
This is at least our view of the case"
Now this is the plain truth of the case,
and would therefore not be remarkable if
it had come from Conservative but
coming from Radical, it is worthy of re-
production. How long would it take for
such common sense idea to enter HUNNI-
QUITS brain?
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she must become rich and happy. But
New England is land of storility. Inc
whole six States did not raise as much
wheat in 1850 as did the county OF Lou
doun, in Virginia. She maintains her
population by manufactures. These manu-
features she sold before the war to the
neople of the South, and during the war
to the General Government. Now she
has few customers in the South, and the
Government needs no shoes, blankets,
uniforms, guns, knapsacks, or any of tho
other thousands Of articles whict were
needed while war was fragrant. Her fish,
ing bounties cannot hereafter be relied
upon. Protective tariffs will hereafter be
denied her. Her bonds will be taxed. Her
sons will be driven out Of at least half the
Offices which they now hold. She will find
no sympathy from the reconstructed South,
and meme from the plundered West. Our
day of tribulation is now-her,s will come
soon enough. How much sympathy she
will deserve may be easily calculated when
it is remembered that but for her the
twelve millions of people who inhabit the
southern States would to-day be the rich.
est and the happiest upon the face of the
globe,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

tenant William s. Mackay, Twenty ninth
United States infantry-Carroll, Floyd,
and Grayson counties. Station-Hills-
Vile, Carroll county.
Twenty-ninth Division. - First Lieu
tenant F. J. Dunn, Eleventh United States
infantry-Wythe, Russell, and Buchanan,
Smythe and Washington counties. Sta
tion-Abipgdon, Washington county.
Thirtieth Diyision.-Second Lieutenant
FL. W. Torbett, Twenty-ninth United
States infantry-Lee, Scott, and wise
counties. Station =. Estillyille, Scott
county.
2. The military commissioners in charge
of "divisions are appointed superinten-
dents of registration and election for their
respective divisions.
8. The officers herein assigned will pro-
coed without delay to their respective
stations, and be prepared TO enter upon
their duties on the first of January, or as
soon thereafter as practicable.
4. The officers of the Freedmen's Bureau
relieved from duty as Military Commits
sioners will turn over to their successors
all books, papers, and funds pertaining tt
the Office of commissioner, and render
their final accounts to the Paymaster O.
the Military District for settlement.
By command of Brigadier and Breye'
Major General Schoield.
S. F. CHALFIN,
Assistant Adjutant General.
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A CHANCE FOR OTHER HUNNIcUTTs.-
Orders having been received at the Boston
navy-yard to discharge thirty per cent. of
the force employed in the mechanical de-
partment, it may be presumed that, follow
ing up the idea of the immortal HUNNICUTT,
some Boston philanthropist will at once
take steps to induce the Legislature of
Massachusetts to provide for these poor
victims Of political persecution. The field
which has thus been opened in our mon
grel convention may be cultivated extern
sively by the Yankees of "the Hub" 1t
may be not out of place to suggest to Con-
gress also that some five hundred mechan-
les at the Washington navy-yard re'look-
ing every day to be discharged, and will of
course expect to be supported during their
compulsory idleness at the expense of
Uncle Sam.
It never will do in this free country to
allow employers to discharge their en-
ploveS,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24
. OBITUARY.


Died, at Scimino, his residence, in York county,
Virginia, on Tuesday the 2sth o. November, 1857,
after a protractsd illness, MICHAEL d: SHEAR
MAN, native Of New Kent county, In the thirty
second year of his age.
The portals Of the grave have closed upon one
plunged into mourning. We feel incapable OF
portraying the many virtues possessed by one so
universally esteemed yet we cannot allow 30 sad
that chivalric spirit has been committed to the
dark chamber Of death. Full Of grief and sorrow.
we shed tears over his tomb, and place chaplet
upon his youthful brow, as an humble tribute OF
his worth and as an evidence of regard for one In
whom we conhdsd and loved while living. We
knew the deceased well; gamboled with him at
school In the sunny and mirthful days OF child.
hood when his young and tender heart was full OF
pleasure. 1t ives then that mutual friendship
was formed which continued without inter-
rupton till the last vital spark ceased to flicker.
Death-alas that relentless monster-has snatch
ed him from earth and has yelled from view
his bright and cheerful face. That hand has
persisted which has given the most cordial greet
ings to his friends under his hospia BILE roof. His
memory cannot fail to awaken the kindest emo
tons of the heart.
When the first tocsin Of war sounded, full Of pa
triotism, he girded on his armor and rushed to
the field Of carnage, and there remained until he
had proved himself gallant soldier. But before
that mighty contest ended, his health became fee
BILE from the exposure and hsrdships OF camp, rem
dering him uu fit for active service.
BE was one Of the most genial men we ever
knew. Many an hour has been bsguiled plea
sanity with him while on the lonely and dreary
outposts by the bright, cracking, bvouac fires,
when recounting in his playful and humorous
manner some amusing episode Of the war
But alas his arfare here is closed. His gentle
spirit is reposing swesty In that bright and happy
realm above. R$E T.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

ASHLEY SPEAKs.-AsHLEY has written a
letter in vindication of his visit to DUNHAM
in Jail. ASHLEY may learn from the fate
of BEAST BUTLER what his is to be. All the
waters of Jordan, much less those of
ALBANIA and Pharphar, cannot wash from
either the damaging stains which bad con-
duct has put upon them. Either may
repent in sackcloth and ashes, and be as
good hereafter as he has been vile and
despicable heretofore, yet neither can 60
down to posterity in any othor character
than that in which he is best known.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

A TRUE PICTURE OF THE RADICALs.-Mr.
FooTE, in his letter to the Tennessee Lee
gislature, quotes the elder ADAMS as saying
of revolutionary party that it " seemed
"to have wrought an entire metamorphosis
{" of the human character. It destroyed
call sense and understanding; all equity
"and humanity all memory and regard
"to truth; all virtue, honor, decorum,
sand veracity."
If that isn't good description Of the
Radical party of the present day, then we
are no judge of such things.
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Presidential Movements.

A letter from Alexandria, Va, appears
in the Anti Slavery Standard, in which let
ter it is stated that movement is on foot
to bring out General BUTLER for President
and BEN. WADE for Vice President. TINS
movement is, Of course, a diversion OF inc
CHASE men, and will be supported only W
the extreme Radicals Of the southe'n
States, whose policy is to rule the coun'ls
or ruin It. These extremists thrcs'en "
hold e national convention in Feoruary, 80
IS to be ahead of the GRANT men, and TO
adopt ga platform Of principles around
which to rally in the future 1.-THE main
blanks Of which will Of course be negro
Supremacy and the persecution of the
white man. We regard these as mere
.breats. The Radical party in the
South is contemplate in every par
ticular except its numbers. We do not
bold them in greater derision than do the
respectable Republicans Of the North.
The whites Of that faction are known to
be mere adventures, and the negroes to
be too ignorant 10 make an intelligent
choice as between CHASE and GRANT. So
that the managers Of the Republican party
will proceed as if no such threats had been
made, and will nominate GRANT for Presi.
dent because he has not come out in favor
Of negro suffrage. FoRNEy jumped under
GRANTS wings within less than week af
ter the results Of the recent elections in
the northern States became known; and
he is type Of his party. The negroes
will be left to take care Of themselves il
the northern States, and those in the
southern States will be upheld only be.
cause there is no respectable element
among the whites upon which Radicalism
can rely to carry the southern States fol-
a Republican candidate for President. Nc
one, we suppose, who knows the compost
tion of the dominant party in Congress
doubts for a moment that if the whites
could satisfy that party that they would
hereafter vote the Radical ticket, Congress
would leave the negroes Of the southern
States without the ballot and without the
Bureau. Of course such party will not
nominate candidate to please their
southern tools, but will choose one who
can assist them to retain power in theil
own States.
The National Ilteligencer of yesterday
has long article upon the subject OF the
Democratic National Convention. 1t says
the Convention should be held in Indiana
in order to give an impetus to the Demo.
cratic party in the West. 1t also argues the
question as to when the Convention should
be held. It alludes to the recent State
Convention in Virginia, and says that the
South will send to the National Conven-
ton such men as were here assembled on
the 18th Of December.
These movements indicate to us that the
presidential campaign is near at hand, and
remind US that while Rldicalism hopes to
carry every other southern State for its
candidate, the Conservatives confidently
expect that Virginia will cast her vote, il
she cast it st all, for the nominee Of the
party which proposes to govern the country
under and by virtue Of the Constitution.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

The famous or notorious HENRY S.
FooTE is out in long letter to the Legis-
lature of Tennessee. He advocates the
calling of State Convention to reform
the Constitution of the State, and argues
to prove that the people have right to
alter or abolish their State governments at
pleasure, and that this right being "inhe-
rent, unalienable, and indefeasible," as
solemnly affirmed heretofore, cannot be
given away or taken away from the people
by any convention.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

POCKET VEToEs.-Certain congressman
argue that the adjournment of last Friday
to meet on the 9Th of January is not such
an adjournment as is contemplated by the
terms Of the Constitution as to signing
bills, but the present is only recess, and
hence the bill striking out the word
"white" in the District laws, and other
bills in the Presidents hands, do not fail
to become laws by reason of last Fridays
adjournment. This is nice point, and
therefore we quote the words of the Con-
stitution which are:
off any bill shall not be returned by
the President within ten days (Sundays
excepted) after it shall have been pre-
sented to him, the same shall be a law in
like manner as if he had signed it, unless
the Congress by their adjournment prevent
its return, in which case it shall not be q
law"
We are inclined to think that the Con,
stitution is on the side Of the President.
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What Radicalism Has Done.

The telegraph informs Us that Genera
ORD has not only sent Colonel GILLEM t.
Washington to represent to the Presiden
and Secretary of War the starving condi
ton of large number Of negroes in Mis-
sissippi, and the absolute necessity of pro.
vision being made for them, but has also
issued an order which implies that the ne.
groes owe their suffering condition to their
refusal to work last summer. The General
has given formal orders that all freedmen
who are able will be required to earn their
support during the coming year, and to go
to work upon the best terms that can be
procured, even should it furnish o support
only, and thus prevent them becoming q
burden to the Government; and that
freedmen who can but will not earn live
lihood when employment can be procured
will lay themselves liable to arrest and
punishment as Migrants.
Before they were emancipated, negro
paupers were unknown. Every slave had
a home and master to feed him and his
children. The sick, the aged, and the
young, were all well cared for. Now, left
to themselves, thousands of these same
negroes are in danger of starving. The
mere recital Of these facts should open the
eyes Of the negroes who are told, and of
the Yankee schoolmarms who tell them,
that they had to work for nothing while
they were slaves, and that their late mas
terS owe them wages even now. The facts
show that the negroes do not earn enough
to keep themselves out of the poor-house,
and therefore prove that slave labor is, as
most Yankees contend, dearer than free
labor.
We suppose that never before in the
history of the world was there a country
SO nearly ruined as this fair southern land
has been by the meddling fanaticism OF
New England. Both the whites and the
blacks have been intellectually injured.
The blacks have been deprived of good
masters, comfortable quarters, food, raj
ment, and medical attendance, and con-
verted into paupers. The whites have
been deprived Of good servants, and been
surrounded in their stead by wander
Ing mobs Of rogues, thieves, vagabonds,
and paupers, among whom no man
can live and prosper. New England
herself is beginning to feel the effects
OF her ruinous policy, and will before
many years find that she has indeed
destroyed her own best market. Boston
mas already been deprived of the benefits
OF inc Cunard steamers, which hereafter
Will not stop at that port. Many of the
New England factories are idle, and many
more Of them will soon be; and wear by
year that detested region will sink lower
anu lower in the scale Of adversely, The
curses she has heaped upon us viii return
aoine 10 roost. She will learn when it ;s
700 late that she was fool as we'll &c .
n ..p and knaye. She is doomed as
no,,a.. Wrote to Us from Boston. To
po'or.y and want. The South mnst 80 ~
safily Dc prosperous before no., e.s
snail nave passed over, unless, indeed TN ths
negro is to acquire supremacy amopy nc
fate which, at any rate, is not imnena;..
over Virginia or North Carolina. Her M
tural advantages are such that if the white
are allowed to maintain their supremac,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

WATCH PREsENTATIoN.-Mr. Nat. Hays,
the accomplished and popular master ma
chinist Of the Alexandria, Loudoun and
Hampshire railroad, will be the recipient
tonight, at the Phoenix Hall restaurant,
OF magnificent gold watch and chain,
winch will be presented to him by the ma
chin'sts employed at the workshops on that
oad.-Alerandria Gazette.
Nat. is one Of the finest mechanics that
ever worked in this CITY.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

According to the Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Gazette, whose letter
we publish this morning, General GRANT
cannot even spell correctly. West Point
will weep when it learns this fact.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24
MARRIED..

On the 18th instant, by the Rev. Father John
Hsgan, JOHN FEENY. OF the county Of Galway,
Ireland. and Miss MARY MARTIN, of New York.
New York papers please copy. Ns
On the 18th instant, by the Rev. &. n: sledd: at
The residence OF the BRIDES parents, Mr.. JoHG
W. BJRUM. Of Portsmouth, Va, to Miss eALLlE
A. KERSEY, of Richmond, Va. No cards.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

OLD APPLE BRANDY,
bum,
IRISH WHIsKEY,
COOKING WINE.
POET snd SHERRY WINE,
FRENCH BRANDY and GIY,
FIvE-YEAR OLD BYE WHlsKRY-warranted
LONDOG PORTER,
CRUSHED, POWDERED, and COFFEE ST.
CARS,
PRIME LAGUAYRA and RIO COFFERS,
SUPERIOR GsGEN aud BLACK TEAS,
FLOUR and BUCKWHEkT,
BUTTER and LARD,
in store for sale by JOHN u. HIGGINS,
1910 FTanklin street,
de low near Old Market.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24
DIED.

On Monday, December %, at % o'clock A. III ;,
Mrs. LUCY PHILLIPS, in the ninety fourth year
of her age.
The friends Of the family and OF her grandson,
James &. Phillips, are respectfully invited to at
tend her funeral THIS MORNING at II o'clock
from the First Baptist church.
On Sunday. 22d Of December, Mrs. HENRIETTA
D. WEYMOUTH, aged ffry-two years.
Her funeral will take Place IRON r. N2NG
December oath. at IL o'clock. The friends and ae-
uai ntences of the family, and those OF her Eon-
in.law, Peyton p. Walden, are respectfully In
vited to attend without further notice.
On the morning of the Goth instant, at the resi-
dence OF her mother. Mrs E. H. Clay, Chesterfield
county, Va, Miss MAMIE s. CLAY, aged six.
teen years.
On Wednesday the 18th Of the present month,
at La Nallee, in the county OF Goochland, N.
FRANCES FERG USON, daughter Of the late James
B. Ferguson, of Goochand, aged fifty years.
On Saturday evening, 2lst Of December. after q
brief illness, BMME IT LEE, infant son OF Ed. ..
and J. C. Crump. aged nineteen months.
In Baltimore, on Friday evening. Goth instant
after long and painful illness, which she bore
with Christian fortjtude. ANNA O'EEAL, of thai
city, in the sixty first year Of her age.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

TWO BARRELS PRIME CIDER ON
4 consignment; five hogsheads prime Porto Rico
Sugar Just received. Farmers aud Others visiting
The city Will find ]. TO their interest TO examine
the large lot OF Wagons Carts, Axes, Br0oms,
Br0gues, WheeIbarr0ws. sc, made az the VIZ.
ginia penitsntisry, and for Gale Ut reduced prices
ARMtSTsAD & CARY,
ldsl2 ;ali Cary street.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24
SUecSNE Notices.

Rg STEARINE SOAP.-This best Of all
family soaps, now 30 favorably known all over
the United States, is, its name indicates, made
OF the g hard substance Of pure tallow" upon an
entirely new principle. Clothes need no boiling,
no rubbing on a washboard; ono pound will go
as far as three pounds OF other family soaps. II
1t does not give satisfaction return 1t at our ex-
psnse. Beware OF limitations; the genuine Is
made only by
MokEONE, VAN HAAGEN Il CO.,
Manufacturers,
az south Front street, Philadelphia; so Barclay
street, New York. no 3o-eowom
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-12-24

DOR RENT, IN LINDEN SQUARE,
C a frst-class DWELLING G, HOUSE with .ksys,
ten ROOMS. In the parlofs there are pair OF s;sS
Tending above the windows. Five rooms In the
kitchen, large smokshouse, two coal vaults In the
rear with gas sc. Possession given the lst Oh
January next Apply TO me, al the corner Of Clay
and Eleventh streets. JAMES g. Books.
dc 13-3tawlstJan