Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-05-13
Editorial Items

ministers to none of their religious wants ?
Editorial Items
The PUBLIC DEBT tary
McCulloch's monthly statement Of the debt
for May shows that since the first of April
the amount Of the National Debt, less cash
| in the Treasury, has decreased SIS, $50 $50
The amount of coin in the Treasury in
| creased 81 ,6l0,04 the amount Of currency
IN the Treasury increased $S,S44, 100. The
debt bearing coin interest increased SIS ,937-
$50; the debt bearing currency interest de-
creased 81 800, 700; the debt bearing nc
interest has increased 81 AZ "a ; matured
debt not presented for payment has de-
creased S1,l3l 100. The amount of the
debt now outstanding is 50 500 ,52S .S27. oil
which s i 1868 1878 POI bears interest in coin
$780, $50 bears interest in currency. and
S407 1913 III bears no interest
There is an imperfection in this statement
as in all statements Of the public debt, in
not making any account Of the accrued inter
est on the debt, which at this time amounts
to ten or eleven millions
The Memphis Aralanche closes long and
malignant article on the necessity of organic
ing White Mans party preparatory to a
war of races, with the following paragraph.
. The white men of the nation must com
blne. They must organize, and hurl their
whole strength against the malignant, incen-
diary, agrarian, black and radical oroaniza-
ton which is menacing their lives and pro-
perty. We must defeat and utterly rout it.
We must speedily teach the blacks that it Is
not safe for them to meet in midnight con
clave to conspire and plot against and abuse
those to whom they wear faces of kindness
and good will
An exchange has the following
FREE RAILROAD LAw-The PENNSYLVANIA
Legislature has just passed free railroad
law, giving nine persons or more the right
to organize company and build a railroad
and branches. and to enter on any other road
and connect Herewith on terms of mutual
agreement, or, in failure of such agreement
on terms determined by jury Of three men
appointed by the court of common pleas. No
such association can be recognized unless it
has a capital stock paid up of at least SO
600 for every mile Of road to be built; and
the law does not apply to street railroads
" = AiSoH J'4Se sum d law III
Railroads are conceded to be most valua-
bic helps in the Development of the country
through which they pass, and that being so
can any one give any reason why there should
he any objection on the part of the State to
law allowing railroads to he built whenever
money can be found to build one?
There has been terrible volcanic crup-
ton in the Sandwich Islands. accompanied
by two thousand or more shocks of earth
quake Many lives and much property were
destroyed. We trust there is no connection
between these commissions Of nature and
the proposed commercial treaty between the
Sandwich Islands-yet the coincidence IN
this case, as well as in that of the island IL
the West Indies which Mr. Seward nego-
tiated for, might alarm 4 superstitious Sec
rotary of State. Or perhaps it is one of the
preliminary throes to which Manager Bout
well alluded, and the earth is getting ready
to pitch Mr.. johnson into that . hole in the
sky.
The constitution-articlc >. section g.
declares that q Judgment in eases Of i'm
parchment shall not extend further than To
removal from Office. and disqualification to
hold and enjoy any Office Of honor, trust or
profit undcr the United Slates." IF Mr..
johnson is found guilty he will be removed
from the Office Of President but he can be
a governor, or mayor, or alderman, or mem
Der of the New York City . Ring - or if he
should prefer, he would not be disqualified
from resuming his trade as tailor.
The Virginia Republican Convention, held
last week, passed the following resolutions
Resolred, That in the person Of General
[. 5. Grant we recognize the great soldier
by whose patriotic ability and devotion to
his country the forces of the rebellion were
subdued upon the battlefield, and he is
now the choice Of the Republicans of this
State, with Hon. Henry Wilson as the stan
dard bearer of loyal millions in the next
Presidential campaign.
An exchange says
Beecher has invented a new religion,
founded on the dogma that d" when millen-
MUM comes, it will be known by the univer-
sal prevalence of sweet, pure butter
w Ill IIc DutltI nc hitbDuJ JIplcf ANU
without price? is the important question
with consumers.
Mills, the notorious Franconia murderer,
was executed at Haverhill, y. H., the 9th
inst
The New Constitution Of Florida has been
undoubtedly ratified at the recent election,
and the Republican candidates elected
In the trial Of Gen. Geo. ". Cole, at
Albany, n. Y, for the murder Of Hiscox,
the q geducer' of his wife, the jury could
not agree and were discharged Six were
for conviction, and six for acquittal.
At the convention of the Republicans of
Cook county, Ill, held May LIST, to elect
DELEGATES. Norman Williams, Jr., presided.
Homer N. Hubbard was delegate from Hyde
Park. Among the delegates to the State
convention were Col. F. A. Eastman, and
Homer n Hubbard, Esq. All these gentle
men were former residents Of Vermont.
THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL.-In the Senate
Wednesday, the order of Senator Edmunds
admitting official reporters to the final delib-
erations of the Senate, tabled by a vote
of % to 90.
Judge Poland has been appointed mem
her of the select committee, to investigate
the charges against Mr.. Donnelly of MINI.
A shocking murder was perpetrated near
Portsmouth, Y. II, last Thursday night, two