Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-04-22


The survey of the proposed Rutland &
Woodstock Railroad has been commenced.
The people along the route have very gener-
ousy responded TO the call for material aid
in making the preliminary explorations, and
are yet ready to contribute still more should
the sum already subscribed prove insufficient
for the purpose.
folders and Sailors National Con-
| ventiOn
! A National Convention of soldiers and
sailors having been called to meet al Chicago
the 10Th of May, g to express their condem-
nation of the efforts to make treason defeated
in the field triumphant at the ballot-box''
the following call has been issued for State
Convention in this State to choose delegates
to this National Convention
In accordance with the action of the afore-
said conference, and our purpose to maintain
the loyal prestige of Vermont. hereby in
vite all veteran and regularly discharged
Union Soldiers and Sailors residing in Yer
mont, to meet at Montpelier, in this Strife
on Tuesday, April 2Sth 1868, at | o'clock
AN, then and there to appoint twenty dele
gates at large from this State, and twenty
delegates from each of the three Congressional
Districts in the State, to assemble in the
National Convention at Chicago, Illinois, on
Tuesday May 10, 1868 for the aforesaid pur-
poses.
Let the - Green Mountain Bows = rally al
Montpelier.
GEO. j. STANDARD,
For the Executive Committee
Burlington, Vt, April IA, 1868.
The convention "a White River Junction.
Wednesday last. to select delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention. to be holded
at Chicago, May Goth, was not very fully at
tended. Gen. Stephen Thomas was chosen
President. and A. \. Swain, Secretary
The following persons were chosen w.
H. johnson of Bellows Falls, delegate
Ferdinand Tyler of Brattleboro. substitute
Major Stearns of Bradford, delegate Joseph
Atkinson of Newbury, substitute.
Vermont delegation is as follows
T. W. Park.
Gen. q. j. Stannard { ,.,o
Samuel E Pingree, ~ 'ais0
Luther Barker,
William y. w, Ripley, D.. n;s.uo.
George c. Shepard,
John G. Stearns, },.n:.
William II. johnson. Gu N'iio'
" " " b Greyt Sd District.
Thur'ow Weed states that no consider
alton whatever could induced Mr. Seward,
to remain in Office single day after Presi-
dent Johnson is removed, if removed he is to
be. If this be true, it will furnish an ad-
ditional cause Of qualification when Mr..
Johnson is convicted.
\ writer in a western paper offers him
self as a candidate for Testimonial He
is moved hereto, not by the consciousness of
having done anything to deserve one, but by
the fact that every body he meets, who has
done no more than ne has. seems to be get
ting one.
\ Mobile paper designates the influence of
Nsw England sc hools and churches as shoe
peg civilization.''
The Pal Nal Ga>etfe pays us the hand
some compliment ofsaying that our Supreme
Court '"has come to be recognized, even in
Europe, as the first court in the would
\ dispatch from Little Rock says that full
Congressional delegation is now elected by
Arkansas that the l4th amenmdent to the
Constitution has been ratified by the Legisla-
ture, and sent forward to Congress. for it's
acceptance. Arkansas will be the first of the
reconstructed state to be admitted to repre-
sentation in Congress
SoUTn CARoLiSA.-The election in South
Carolina, has resulted in ratification of the
Constitution by 20 900 majority.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company have
reached the summit of the Rocky Mountains,
an elevation of S243 feet, and have began to
descend the Pacific slope.
Several Democratic papers favor the nom
nation of Gen. Hancock. He, however, has
no chance for a nomination His foolish
course at New Orleans has not ohliterated
from Democratic recollection his valiant fight
against treason during the
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACcIDENT.-A fright
full accident occurred on the Erie Railroad
near Port Jervis, \. Y last week, the night
train from Buffalo to New York. was run
ing at a high rate of speed. and when going
round a curve IA broken rail threw three ears
from the track down a precpice of nearly
hundred feet, and partly into t he water.
/ One sleeping car was burned. More than
twenty persons were killed outright, some
were burned beyond possibility of recogni
ton, and fifty or more were injured, some
fatally.
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer says q" the friends of Mr.
:. Wade for the Vice Presidency figure up
q one hundred and thirty-four delegates at
- Chicago, and the friends of Mr.. Colfaz
q fifty-two. The majority of the New Eng
90 land delegates are conceded to Senator
% Wilson"
We have no doubt the friends Of all the
candidates are using their utmost exertions
to pledge delegates, but we hope those who
are to constitute the convention viii keeI
themselves untrammeled as possible. w,
do not believe that Wade or Wilson has al
many friends among the delegates Colfax
and this we expect TO see the convention
demonstrate. No other person, we think