Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-15
Editorial Items.

1nerc are serious disturbances IN IeXaS.
4 Republican meeting was broken up by
mob, and the speaker was fired at several
times, and compelled to seek protection at
military headquarters. The military arrest
ed these disturbers of peaceable assembly,
but Gen. Hancock ordered them to be turned
over to the civil authorities. The civil au-
thorities of course will not punish them, as
Gen. Hancock well knows, and yet this Of
ficer boasts of his respect for laws, and the
rights of the people. \ second Washington,
orsooth
There was an animated debate in the SEN
ate Saturday, over the report of the COM
mittee in the case of Secretary Stanton.
Messrs Doolittle, Buckalew and Dixon de-
speeches, and occupied the entire session,
Mr.. Dixon having the floor at the adjourn
ment.
Gen Robert L. Lee is reported to have
said that 50 the course of Gen. Hancock was
the first dawn OF hope he had seen for the
people of the South since the termination of
the war" When Gen. Hancock was fight
ing under Gen. Grant in Virginia, Gen. Lee
did mt look upon his course as the 4" dawn
Of hope but since Hancock has reported to
johnson for orders, Lee begins to like him.
Hunnicut the other day, in the course of
some debate in the Virginia constitutional
convention, called Henry A. Wise and r. NJ
I. Hunter traitors. A relative of Hunter
told IIunnicut he was a liar, and thereupon
there came near being a general melee, but
order was finally restored. But if Hunter
and Wise were not traitors, what were they ?
Only hayward brethren?
The Senate. Monday, voted. 50 to =, to re-
instate Secretary Stanton. We shall soon
see what the President will do.
The present Indebtedness of Wisconsin, ac-
cording to Gov Fairchild's message, is 49,
279 900.
! Mr. Sumner has introduced. in the Senate,
! a Joint resolution declaring the constitutional
amendment respecting the basis of represen-
tation adopted. No action has yet been
taken upon it.
majority vote, recommended Pendleton as a
candidate for President 1t also enthusias-
tically complimented Gen. Hancock.
The velocity of the Gulf Stream is report
ed by experienced navigators to have recently
been greatly increased, and the currents
along the Florida coast are said to be SO strong
as to almost draw steam vessel upon the
reefs This phenomenon is supposed TO be
the result of the recent commissions of the
earth.
The :. spiritualists = of Connecticut held
a state convention the other day, at which
they declared that g we as spiritualists deem
it our imperative duty to associate together
without creed or ritual, with no abridgemen1
Of the whole individuality of each and al
who associate with us to disseminate the
facts and philosophy which the heavens have
! given us in trust to an anxious and expectan
world The I" anxious and expectan
world - is impatiently waiting for thes'
revolutions.
The Grand Army of Kansas go for Gen
Grant for President.
Butler is opposed to Grants nomination
They have not been particularly friendly
since the Fort Fisher affair
Doolittle has become an out-and-out Dem
ocrat, and is, of course, bitter in his denun
Citations of Grant and the Republicans. Il
he doing this to save the Repu blican party
He made that an excuse for supporting John
son.
Tae committee on Reconstruction have re
ported a bill giving more power over the Soutl
ern military departments to Gen. Grant.
is thought necessary to do this to proven
johnson from substantially defeating the ex
ecution of the laws for restoring the Southern
States to their practical relations to thu
Union.
We inadvertently omitted to state las
week that the books We received from Messrs
Harper Brothers, came through the estab
lishment of Messrs. A. Williams Il Co.,
Boston, who are the agents in Boston OF tn
, Harpers, and from whom all current pub
, locations can be obtained.