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

\ CoLoREp CLERGYMAN ON Social
EquALtrf.-Rev. Mr.. Butler. colored
minister, addressed the Kentucky Colored
Convention, at Louisville. few days ago,
as follows:
THE future Of this country depends,
not so much on what party is in power, as
it does on the removal of all disabilities ;
they weigh down its people. Then, and
not until then, will the country have peace.
We don't ask for social equality. L never
saw that white woman yet that looked so
well, in my eyes, as a good brown colored
woman And if it wasn't so, we don't
need their social equality, because our
friends, the white folks, have kindly man.
aged it so that we have every shade to
choose from, from the deepest jet black to
the purest white. Laughter And, as
there are no ladies present, allow me to
say that the practice of social equality has
not been on our side, but on the part OF
the whites, who, in their dark and devious
ways, were not always able, let us charlta-
bly, suppose, to tell black from white
This social equality has not been sought
by us, but they have run after us; and
though we are now emancipated and free,
they have mt stopped"
A voice" Wen stop it when we get
the testimony
Yes, that's so. They better not come
my way even now. We say to them, LEI
us alone we don't want any mixture. L
they had let me alone | might have knowr
what color | was but it is my creates
trouble to keep my hair just right. DOM
talk about social equality If l was {
white man in Kentucky l would hide my
head would mt mention it with SO many
evidences standing around of my socia
equality. We don't want any more of it
Keep on your side of the line and well
keep on our side, and in the course of time
we'll get back where God left u.s.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
POIly'S Old Sweetheart.
HUSBAND LONG WAITED FOR, COMES AT
LAST.
:. No use saying any more :! :

LAST.
= No use saying any more =
Well to tell you the truth, there's not
told me so before his death, | should have
looked after the place, and made myself a
farmer in station, as well as in work but
[ really thought | should be able to play
the part of gentleman Giles and 90
hunting four days week in the season
Now he's gone, there's not enough left to
work the farm properly, let alone keeping
two or three fne-skins to eat their heads
off Besides, can't stand being patron
lied. Met young Sir William yesterday
Mr. White, used to be SAM I've
heard about the state of affairs if it will
be any service to you, I'll take the gray
mare off your hands at sixty Thank
you, Sir William Monk said |, | am
much obliged but I've refused eighty for
her once or twice We'll, well, if you
like to send anything from the farm up to
the house, they shall take it at market
rates 1t may help you bit, you know,
Mr.. White Thank you, Sir William
Monk said l. not very gratefully, I'm
afraid. He meant well, | don't doubt ;
but, confound it, can't stand being patron
lied by man | was hand-and-g glove with ;
so | must 90 and see whether the sun
shines any brighter the other side of the
world"
You might, you know, Sam, put the
screw on for d year or two"
That's true enough but l can't load
up manure carts here with all the people
looking on. No, shall go-I know a
little about cattle"
almost too much, Sam
Don't laugh at me, Nunky on my
life, she was all right when you had her.
Yes, and went dead lame two days at-
terwards Oh, Sam. you should have
spared me-"
" So would have done, only you insisted
on having her.
We'll, perhaps, L did; but you Ger.
tainly had got her into very fine form when
she came, and | wouldn MT take twice the
money for her now
"Well, you see | have IA prospect !:
and I'm off next week"
"What will Polly say ?"
.Ah. poor little Polly. Here she is.'
"Polly, Sans going to Australia next
week. He won't be able to marry you be-
fore he goes"
Il shouldn't like to be married before
he goes. 1 shall only be eleven next birth
day, and mamma says people ought not to
get married till they're eighteen or nine
teen. or more: so I'll wait till he comes
back"
But suppose [ never come back,
Polly ?"
Then won't marry any one at all
Never 2"
No; never. You said was to be
YOUR little wife when l gave you the flow
ers, and sewed the button on your coat
You took off the little gold medal with
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

ARTICLES DE PARIs-One of the chief
characteristics of the article de Paris is
that, whether it be necessary or unneces-
sary, it plays upon the fancy and comes
to us in disguise. 1t is not enough that
you should have au ink-bottle on your
fable; it is above all things that this ink
bottle should appear to be something else
1t is a cannon ball-it is pound weight
it is negro's head-it is a railway en-
CINE. You take the negro by his black,
woody hair you find that his skull opens
on a hinge. and there is h pot of ink where
his brains should be, So there is store
of ink in the heart of the cannon ball, In
the pound weight, and in the boiler of the
engine! The play of fancy which is al
lowed in this way is boundless. You see
silver railway locomotive, with tender at
tached. The locomotive contains whisky.
the tender hot water; sugar takes the
ace of Goals upon the tender, and the
stoker is converted into silver sngar-tongs
re you see a silver drum upon friends
table, il is a riddle; and you must guess
what it is. 1t may be anything from
matchbox to mustard-pot.
Here is little model of an umbrella
stand with an umbrella, walking-stick.
and a whip in it. The umbrella is PEN
wiper, the walking-stick is a pencil, the rid
ing-whip is ponholder. Here is silver
gilt coal-scuttle with a coal-scoop in it; you
are expected to use ii for salt-cellar. Here
is bat-box, it is intended for matches.
Here is silver cow with fly on her back;
YOU seize the fiy, and find it is the handle of
a lid upon the back of the COW. The ami
NAL is hollow; she is intended for a cream
Jug, and the cream pours out of her mouth.
Here is an ivory coffee mill; it is yard
measure Here is a fiddle; it is tooth
pick Here is Jolly farmer. whose paunch
contains clock. Here is beehive it is
box of bon bons Here is an umbrella
handle which appears loose chain of rhi-
noceros horn; you grasp it and you find 1t
as firm as a rod of iron.
The centers for the manufacture of arti-
cles de Paris are Paris, Vienna, and Lon
don. What they make best in Paris are
/ small bronzes and boxes of enamel, of
earthen-ware, and of inlaid woods In the
making of boxes the French are unequalled.
They have a wonderful sympathy with that
extravagant passion of the human soul for
small boxes and receptacles. They have
boxes for everything gloves, for jew
els, for handkerchiefs, for stamps. for bon
bons, for pens, for waters. As misers seem
to love money for its own sake, and apart
from the use to which it can be turned.
there are crowds of people in the world
who like little boxes for their own sakes,
especially if they have curious compart-
ments, and subdivisions, and secret draw
ers A little nest of drawers is their de-
light; pretty set of pigeon-holes sends
them into ecstasies; box is box whether
it contains anything or not, and they will
put it on their tables to look at and i'm
agine it utilized. The French cunningly
play upon this weakness of the human
neart.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

DIARIEs.-The ClaremOnt Manufacturing
Company, which has had for several years
well established reputation as makers of as
handsome diaries as have been in the market,
are maintaining their position this year by
issuing for the trade all sizes Of elegant dia-
ries and memorandum books. And this COM
pany not only has COED taste in getting up
these publications, but it has good taste
as well good judgment in distributing
them, as it remembers the poor country edi-
tors and publishers who have no money with
which to buy such luxuries, and who, con-
sequently, must go without them unless some
kind and liberal friend gratuitously supplies
them The specimen diary which we have
before us is neat and serviceable. 1t contains
all the information usually found in such
memorandum books, with abundance of blank
pages for memoranda and it has one con-
venience which editors hardly understand
the use of, to wit: place for greenbacks.
We should possibly find some advantage in a
small receptacle for postal currency; but
there are - moneyed men . who will ap-
preciate the greenback arrangement The
diaries are for sale by the trade generally.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
Grants Life Before the War.

Born on the 9th OF April, 1872, at
Point Pleasant, in Ohio. Hiram Ulysses
Grant entered the Military Academy at
West Point in his seventeenth year, where
he received, through the error of the Com
gresham who nominated him, the name of
Ulysses s. Grant. The young cadet in
vain tried to get his baptismal initials res
tored, but the ominous = S" could not
be shaken off, if there was an irreversi-
bic destiny about even so small "a matter as
this His military career before the war
is briefly disposed Of by Colonel Badeau
In single page, In 1860 he was in the
leather business, with his brother and
father, in Galena, Illinois Colonel Ba-
deau, the historian of his military career.
says:
Thus, when the civil war broke out,
Grant Il private citizen, earning his
bread in an insignificant inland town. He
was of simple habits and tastes, without
influence, and unambitious Having never
been brought in contact with men of emin-
ence, he had no personal knowledge of
great affairs. He had never commanded
more than company of soldiers, and al
though he had served under both Scott and
Taylor, 1t was as Il subaltern. and without
any opportunity Of intercourse with those
commanders. He had never voted for a
President but once ; he knew no politicians,
for his acquaintance was limited to army
officers and western traders; even in the
town where he lived, he had not met the
member Of Congress who represented the
district for nine successive years, and who
afterwards became one of his most intimate
personal friends OF his four children
the eldest was eleven years old. He lived
in little house at the top of one of the
picturesque hills on which Galena is built
and went daily to the warehouse of his
father and brother, where leather was sold
by the wholesale and retail. He was
thirty mine years Of age before his country
men became acquainted with his name.
OF the assault on Vicksburg Colonel
Badeau says:
This assault was in some respects unpar-
alleled in the wars of modern times No
/
ever been undertaken by the great Euro
pean captains unless the assaulting party
outnumbered the defenders by at least three
to one. In the great sieges of the PENN
sular war the disproportion was even great
er still. At Badajos, Wellington had
ffty-one thousand men, eighteen thousand
of whom were in the final assault, while
the entire French garrison numbered only
five thousand the British loss in the as
sault alone was thirty-6ve hundred. At
Ciudad, Rodrigo Wellington had thirty-6ve
thousand men, and the French, less than
two thousand, not seventeen hundred being
able to bear arms the British loss was
twelve hundred and ninety, seven hundred
and ten of these at the beaches while only
three hundred Frenchmen fell. But Bad
ajos and Rodrigo were carried. In the
second assault Oh Vicksburg, Grant had,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
NO. 1

elers have descanted long enough upon the
stale and melancholy inanities of the Orient.
Let him that suffers with ennui, and the
soul that bankers after vitalizing realities,
travel in the borean regions of the Upper
Yellowstone, and mighty mountains, savan-
nahs of exceeding fertility, and valleys
clothed with Eden loveliness, will be seen
side by side with "a plain teeming with dia-
bolisms, from which you cannot emerge
save through the /" Pass of He'll Through
such a pass did we grope our way in almost
profound darkness, as night had set in long
before we entered the lonely deile. Why
this wild, gloomy ravine, fanked By lofty
perpendicular walls, where huge boulders
hang topplingly over, and down which 4
current rushes with its shaking footsteps,
should be called by such an ominous lame,
| know not, unless it is that We are in the
habit of ascribing such dark places under
the Jurisdiction Of the Evil One So many
abuses have been heaped upon him-every
sin laid at his door-that it is time Satan
should write his remonstrance upon his
prison bars.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

pie has cost an industrious man a hundred
dollars. A human life has many time
paid for an apple dumpling. When our
wives get to work they become so interested
in it that they find themselves in an utter
y exhausted condition their ambition to
complete a thing, to do some work well,
sustains them till it is completed. The
mental and physical condition is one of ex-
haustion, when a breath of air will give
cold, to settle in the joints to wake up next
day with infammatory rheumatism, or with
a feeling of stiffness or soreness, as if they
had been pounded in bag; or a sore
throat to worry and trouble them for
months; or lung fever to put them in the
grave in less than week
Our wives should work by the day. if
they must work at all, and not by the job
it is more economical in the end to see how
little work they can do in an hour, instead
of how much. 1t is slow, steady, continu-
Gus labor which brings health and strength,
and good digestion. FitGtl labor is ruin
uus TO aIl.-HatFs Journal of Health.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
KEEP THE BIRTHDAYs.-Keep the birth

KEEP THE BIRTHDAYs.-Keep the birth
days religiously. They belong exclusively
to, and are treasured among, the sweetest
memories at home. Do not let any thing
prevent some token, be it ever so light, to
show that it is remembered. Birthdays
are great even to children. For one day
they feel that they are heroes. The spe-
cial pudding is made expressly for them
a new jacket, or trowsers with pockets, or
the first pair of boots, are donned and
big brothers and sisters sink into insignif-
canoe beside "little CHARLIE who is
/" six to-day" and is soon g going to be
man." Fathers who have half a dozen
little ones to care for are apt to neglect
birthdays, they come too often-sometimes
when they are busy, and some times when
they are "nervous; but if they only knew
how much such souvenirs are cherished by
the children years after, they would never
permit any cause to step between them and
a parents privilege.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

An UNDERGROUND RIvER.-The Ere
mont Ohio Journal says there exists,
about mile west of Fremont, a remarka-
bic underground stream, with swift cur
rent, and no outlet above the surface Of
the ground this side of Lake Erie. 1t
was discovered several years ago by man
who was returning from days chopping
in the woods. In walking over a slightly
sunken place he noticed hollow sound,
and turning, struck the ground with his ak
The AK broke through and disappeared,
and never has been heard from since.
Further investigations showed a rock about
six feet below the surface, with a crevice
foot or more wide, in which water could be
seen several feet below. BY tracing Its
course further down and breaking through
the crust, the same phenomenon appeared
again, and by dropping piece of wood OF
other floating substance in the upper aper-
ture, it was soon seen to pass to the lower
one, showing a strong current. \ lead and
line let down to the depth of seventy feet
found no bottom. The supply of water is
only slightly affected by drouth, and
pump set up in one of the places above
mentioned, has furnished the purest water
to the whole neigborhood during the late
Try season. 1t is certainly quite re-
markable stream.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

PAT AND THE DEACoN.-Some months
ago, as Deacon Ingalls, of Swampscot, r..
l., was travelling through the western part
of the state of New York, he fell in with
an Irishman who had lately arrived in this
country, and was in search of Il brother
who had como before him and settled in
some Of the diggings in that part of the
country.
Pat was IA strong man, true Roman
Catholic and had never seen the interior
of Protestant church. Ingalls, was d
pious man. He told Pat he was going to
church, and invited his new-made friend TO
keep him company thither, his destination
being small meeting house near by.
There was great revival there at the
time, and one of the deacons, who was Il
very small man Ill stature, invited brother
Ingalls, to "a seat in his pew He accepted
the invitation, followed by Pat, who looked
in vain for the altar, etc. After he was
seated, he turned around to brother In
gals, and, in a whisper that could be heard
all round, he inquired
"Shure, an is MT this hereto church ~
Hush !" said Ingalls,, - if you speak a
word they will put you out
"Diyil word will l speak at all, at
all, replied Pat.
The meeting was opened by prayer by
the pastor.
Pat was cycling him very closely, when
an old gentleman, who was standing in
the pew directly in front of Pat, shouted
" Amen j."
Hist. ye divil," rejoined Pat, in his
loud whisper, which was heard BY the min
ister; = be dacent and don't make block
head of yourself, !"
The parson grew more fervent in his
devotions. Presently the deacon uttered
an audible groan-" Amen !"
Hist, We blackguard Have We no
dacency at all ," said Pat, at the same
time giving him punch in the ribs, which
caused him to lose his equilibrium.
The minister stopped, and extended his
hands in a suppliant manner, said:
i" Brethren. we cannot be disturbed IN
TIL Wy. VIII some one put that man
out -
Yes, your riverance,' shouted Pat,
4" will do it.
And suiting the action to the word, he
collared the deacon, and to the utter hor-
ror of the pastor, brother Ingalls,. and, the
whole congregation, he dragged him up
the aisle, and with tremendous kick, sent
him into the vestibule of the church.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
The Boston Tyarezer has this iottin,

The Boston Traveller has this jotting:
+" Bishop Simson, in his eloquent lecture
last evening, predicted that in very few
years, here in Boston, we would have Chi
nese servants in our houses. Paterfam-
ilias referring to this at the breakfast table
this morning, when little Minnie, after :
while, came to his chair and whispered,
/ o pa, won't it be nice we shall have ,
Chinese servant, and she will eat all the
rats, 80 we wont have r. keep cat!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

'' Golden Truths ~ is an unusually good
compilation of selections in prose and verse
from the best authors upon religious subjects
The prose extracts are well chosen, and the
poems are selected, not only for the moral
lesson they convey, but for their exquisite
poetic beauty. The motto of the title-page
is well exemplifed by the contents of the
book: '' A word fitly spoken is like apples OF
gold in pictures of silver
A notice of ' Claudia," Miss Douglas s
new story, is necessarily deferred.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01
Golden Truths.

Of this book, published by Lee Il Shepard,
Boston. we have only space this week to copy
the following notice from the New York
Eoensng Posi-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-01

NIAGARA FALLS RY.-Almost, and
for few hours; for the strong easterly
gale of last Thursday blew the waters of
Niagara river back into the lake, and pro-
duced extraordinary phenomena at and
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-11
Dispatches GO the Associated Press 10y the
Western Union Line.
WEST TENNESSEE
Great Excitement Ia Upton
County.
Threatened TusurrectiOn by
Armed Negroes.
FIST TENXESSEE
Women and Children Flee
for Safety.

MEMPHIS, Nov. IO.-A dispatch is re-
ceived 10y Gen. Granger last night from +.
p. Price, Commissioner Of registration at
Masons Depot, Upton county, stating that
the greatest excitement existed there in
consequence Of The report that Gen. Smith
the defeated candidate to Congress was
coming there with large body of armed
negroes 10 take dispositions for the purpose
Of contesting the election Of DR.. SefIwitch
and asking for troops to preserve order.
This morning n dispatch wa received
from Sheriff Slaughter stating that abou,
1000 armed negroes, principally from
Fayette county, had arrived there and the
greatest apprehensions felt for the security
of the whites. Many women and children
had left on the trains in consequence
Since noon it is impossible to cJmmuuicatt
by telegraph with that point and il is be.
lieyei that the operator had been driven
away. General Granger dispatched fifty
men OF twenty-lfJh infantry. uadsr thr,e
officers by special train tonight, for tie
purpose of preserving order
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-11
SOUTH CAROLINA.
GOV scott and citizens Visit New
York On Important Public BusI-
ness-The Blue Ridge Railroad, Etc.

GOV scott and citizens Visit New
York On Important Public BusI-
ness-The Blue Ridge Railroad, Etc.
NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-The Times
Charleston special says: Governor Scott,
accompanied by Gen. Sawyer and a depu-
tation Of prominent citizens, start for New
York this morning, with the view Of ad
vanCing the financial interests of the State,
and enlisting Northern capitalists to secure
the speedy completion Of the Blue Ridge
Railroad, whiCh is the missing link in a
continuous railroad line between Charles
ton and Cincinnati.
The Governor Is much gralitisd At tie
quiet and order that marked the election
throughout the State. After the announce
ment Of the result, a number of prominent
Democrats, including Wade Hampton,
called in a body on Governor Scott and
declared their determination TO accept
cheerfully and abide by the decision Of the
people, to stand by the State government
in its acts, and to use all their influence in
inducing the people throughout the State
TO do the same.
They expressed the conviction that the
future prosperity of the State depended
upon an unanimous and hearty support
of the government and reliance upon the
ballot-boz alone in the future, as a remedy
for the evils of unTise legislation. La
reply the Governor expressed the great
pleasure their visit had given him, and his
belief tia, this action on their part Wold
do more TO restore unanimily among our
people and place the credit OF the State
where il deserves to be than any political
expression could possibly effect Ex Gov
ernor Orr has accepted and qualified f
the Judgeship under the State government
to which he was recently elected By the
| reconstruction Legislature.