Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-01-03

/ mOueJ " DuJ u luItueI supply his eStl-
mate of the number Of persons who viii
starve unless Congress provides some relief
| is three millions, two thirds Of whom are ne
grOes.
NEW YORK, Dee. q.
Washington dispatches say President
johnson has determined to remove Gen.
Pope from the command of the 81 District
This step has only been delayed by the diff
Guilty of finding a competent and relia bic
successor. The charges against Pope are nu-
merous and daily increasing. The last is
that he encourages the armiDg and public
displays Of negroes.
HAVANA, Dec. 90.
Tho steamship Virginia from Vera Cruz
Goth brings dates from the city Of Mexico to
the 18th A general call has been made on
the Government to take measures to prevent
the increasing brigandage to which many of
the people were compelled to resort by hun
ger.
An official count of the votes for President
was to be made on the Goth. The majority
for Juarez is known to be very large.
WASHINGTON, Dec. %.
The rumors relative to the reduction Of
the regular army are entirely unfounded.
Gen. Giant has not recommended any such
measure, as reported in some papers, but
stated some time since that ne did not think
a reduction of the force, at the present time,
at all advisable.
GreatsfJrts will be made by the House
committee on foreign affairs to carry the
purchases of Alaska and the Danish West
Indies.
Ez-Secretary Stanton Is busy in preparing
his defence.
1t Is probable that Gen. ROsecrans VIII be
assigned to the command of the 3rd District.
vice Pope if he reaches here in time, but if
the order displacing ten. Pope is issued i'm
mediately. Gen, Meade Will be placed in
command.
Gen. GIllen has arrived IN this city from
Miss. under Gen. Ordd's order respecting
the great destitution OF the people in bis
command, and has had an interview with
Genls. Grant, Howard and the Pres. and
shows wide and hard suffering. The Freed
mems Bureau it appears is unable to relieve
this destitutiOn, and the aid Of Congress
will be invoked, should other means for re
lief fail
The revolution in Yucatan is assuming
proclaimed Dictator by the revolutionists
and was expected hourly to nrriye from Ha-
vana with men md million Of dollars.
The fort and town Of Sizal were in the
bands Of the rebels, but the fort was block
AIDED by two Mexican gunbOlts On the
10th an engagement took place between the
gunboats and batteries on the shore. The
Mexican steamer was ready to sail for Siz2l
on the 2lst with an expedition to restore
the authority of the Mexican government at
Sizal.
Santa Anna Is IN this city. Many ex-Im-
perial officers have arrived here. They all
seem 20 be very busily engaged.
Gen. Hancock has telegraphed for authOri-
ty to place starving negroes at work on the
levee generally, and to issue to them ratiOns.
4 large military force Will be needed, it Is
added, to prevent a rising of the loyal league.
The military have quietly dIsbanded large
assemblies Of armed negroes at jackson and
Felicien.
Advices from Texas say that Indian depre-
dations continue on the frontier notwith-
Gen. McC0Ok' disposition Of troops.
FORTRESS Monroe, Dec. 25th.
A riot oceurrcs. n Hampton yesterday,
Deputy Sheriff Latimer, had some
with a colOred boy, when a man
came along and took the boys part, when
Latimer, after abusing the negro a few mo-
ments, drew a revolver and shot him through
the head. The news spread. 4 mob Of ne
groes assembled, attacked Latimer's house,
and beat him nearly to death. lie was
saved by the interference of some eolOred
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NBw YoRK, Dec. %.
The committee of % appointed at the
Grant meeting in Cooper Institute on the
4th inst, held meeting on Thursday eve
ming, A. 7. Stewart in the chair. A eircu-
lar letter was adopted to be cent to business
men throughout the country urging them to
organize meetings similar to the one at
Cooper Institute, exclusive of parties, for the
purpose of urging Gen. Grant as candidate
Of the people OF all grades OF politics for the
next Presidency.
A Charleston despatch states that Gen.
Candy has issued an order for the convention
to meet in that city on the 9th of Jan.
The total official returns give little over
s 900 majority for a convention.
New YORK, Dec 80.
Thos. Mexican, Edward Cory and W.
CORY were arrested on Saturday night and
the men who robbed the bank
messenger in Wall street a week since of
three millions in checks. CORY fired at the
officer when Mexican was arrested, Saturday
night, and escaped, but was reclpturcd.
NEW YORK, Dec. 30.
4 desratrb from New Orleans lest niCht
says that the first meeting Of the Union
League, mostly negroes, was held last night
in Lafayette Square. The resolutions de-
clared the object of the League to be the re-
lease Of Louisiana from rebel rule During
the meeting extras containing news Of the
removal of Generals Ord and Pope, fell like
bombshells among the leaders.
NEw YORK, Dec. 80.
Washington dispatches say a movement
is on foot to prevail on the Legislatures of
those states which have retired the Consti-
tutiOnsl amendment and which have since
obtained an snti-Republican majority to re-
peal these resolutions of ratification. Ii is
plain If n. j. Ohio and ColshOuld do so,
the effect would be to prevent the proposed
amendment from becoming part Of the Con.
There are excellent reasons for believing
that reports of destitutions at the South,
particularly from Gen. Ord's district, are ex-
aggerated; 50 far the most reliable infor
nation goes to show the destItution is ra-
ther prospective than present, Il may be
greater before spring but at present Is not
excessive.
Gen. Howard proposes to meet the cases Of
destitu tion at the south by liberal applI-
cation of the surplus fund undtr his control
as head oil the Freedmen's Bureau, an un-
expended balance Of our eight millions re-
mains IN the Treasury.
Gen. Glllen has reassurances IRON the
Presicent and Gen. Grant that whatever
scheme be adopts to give immediate relief to
the sufferers at the South would receive their
appreciation.
Notwithstanding the abrupt termination
of correspondence on the Alabama claims it
is understood the new British minister comes
with the power to reopen the question with
prospect of OF an easy and proper ADJUST
ment Of the difficulties.
When the Internal Revenue bill comes IN
Gen. Howard will amend it as follows
To remove internal taxes from all articles
of manufacture, except whiskey and tobac
co, and TO provide new measures Tor collec-
ton of taxes, licenses, and on railroad and
steamboat receipts, and some othere, and In
large measures to abandon the present ex
pensiye system of tax collecting.