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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

The CANADIAN IIoERoR.-Auusi0nh has been
made in a brief paragraph to a horrible retrl-
button which recently fell upon a highway
robber in Canada II NourcGl Monde gives
the following particulars Of the affair
On an evening of March last at about II
o'clock. a traveller was crossing the small
bush on the left shore Of Mile Isle river, be
tween the St. Eustache and St. Rose. That
location has always, rightly or not, possessed
the reputation of being fatal to bclated tray
elers. The man. then, was quietly crossing
the silent wood when suddenly an individual
in rags, and with sinister looks. jumped at
the horses bride. and brandishing an axe
over the afirighted persons head. cried Your
money or your life. The traveller answered
II have only twenty dollars, here they are,
and let me 90 Having received the money.
the robber allowed his victim TO leave, which
he did at the fullest gallop of his horse. At
a short distance from the wood, the traveller
knocked at the door of a small house. and
begged hospitality. In the house there was
only woman. who first refused admittance,
giving for excuse that her husband was away.
However. upon more pressing cntreatles she
allowed the stranger to enter her lodging,
and directed him to the garret to spend the
rest of the night. He went up, and as he was
preparing place for sleeping, he heard a
voice which he recognized as that Of his as
sailant in the bush .'Ilerc, wife. said the
voice. u have done n good business tonight.
| have met a man in the wood from whom !
demanded his money or his lite, and he gave
me 900. .-'Good,' said the woman, / bet
that is the man who is up stairs Good said
the husband. and he must have more money.
Well, said the old woman, 'he will soon be
asleep. and we will kill him i viii 90
up to the garret, said the man. 'and
will knock him down with my axe: then
you will cut his throat with my razor.
Agreed. said the woman. During that con-
versation it may well be supposed that our
traveller did not 60 to sleep but kept watch
ing for the conclusion of the horrible drama
he had just heard the couple planning. One
hour afterward the traveller heard the ap-
preaching footsteps of his enemies, the man
in front with his ak, and the woman holding
lamp in one hand and razor in the other.
As the robber entered the room, the traye 'er
suddenly tore the ak from his hands, and
knocked him down senseless at one blow
Then the woman flew at the falling body,
whose head she severed with a razor, little
thinking she was killing her husband. The
traveller flew from the house, and made
deposition before a magistrate, and it is
said that the woman is now in jail.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

For HOUSE CLEANERs.-White chalk is the
best substitute for lime as wash. A very
fine and brilliant white-wash preparation Of
chalk is called ''ParIs White" This we buy
at the paint stores for three cents per pound,
retail. For each sixteen pounds Of Paris
White we procure half pound of the white
transparent glue, costing twenty-five cents
fifty cents pound.) The sixteen pounds Of
Paris White is about as much as a person
will use in day. 1t is prepared as follows :
The glue is covered with cold water at night,
and in the morning is carefully heated, with
out scorching, until dissolved. The Paris
White is stirred in with hot wstr, enough to
give it the proper milky consistency for ap-
plying it to the walls, and the dissolved glue
is then added and thoroughly mixed. 1t Is
then applied with brush like the common
lime whitewash. Except on very dark and
smoky walls and ceilings, single coat is suf-
fcient 1t is nearly equal in brilliancy t.
{. zinc white far more expensive article
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15
TIE rRE,IDE>r- CONFESSION.


Senators. ,lil before thlt the rule of .fee.t.-
mon law and the common sense Of mankind s..
that whom man does qn unlawful r.t be ba-1.-
of a sounl mind and understanding. he intends
rre.isaly what l does. and thereis an all 10 au
further rantro,crSv. II sometimes laruar-.
l,,,over be.quse in the pr5viIcnceo of God. truth
T.. strc,,,rer Than f,lsabooI thar ouiItv ..r.a;-
enee sometime. makes revolutions and thereby
,o,,-ribr-.. Il, the viali,i,i5n 4I Violated Inv, and
tIa ,d,Iiristr,,,ion IF iu-tic, between man and
NAV, -, s,,rrort .f tin. RIGHT So Fl La, h3uu.ueI
S,,,+,,. ib,r tbo accused .,t v,ui. b,r tit p,-
L. - tho I-,itel S+ltss ,r,s ,o ax.or+-.1 +a
tI,- r,lo tbat ..tbat murder will out'' lie could
, l-.or. his se.r,f II 1,as.esse.l him and II -r
Ill lin, I'm sr,--a Of himself 10 sranrre- ONT
ii -,;1t,- irtarf and tLer.lv silence tha fr..rrs
g - ,I.o.,to ,ybo unjart,Las to .c..,-s.. the
,,,,. mon, who ala NOT know fine CONSEQUENCE ar
f.; ~, acts He ,y;g iutspd II and bo confessed
:. " osl- H.. Ss,,,tors IN mott. ,ybo+ +. ,,-
Id II, 1,re .34 of the r,.orI in his letter t
~, CIT r. SOC ,rI,t be.o,oe, ot His ,re,,,-
,I.,+ ,J' ;to,t Is NOT ,rov,l tIat ho Iil rot IN
tl.'I i't;,,,co NJ tbc ev,rsss words If tb. 1.,.
,,ii.b ,rc That tbe Secretary s5,Y e.rtl,yyi-l r-
-, .I,. f,,,..ti,s IF the ofice i'm +f. ,,,lt- -b,t
.t So sI,oll ,,,,,-,orc,,,. IN tI s,,.,.1,.;.u
VI Dirob,,, hon. r,.,l tI,e letter If rbe Pr,.i-
I,,,+ e. Con Grant dated Feb 10 in which he
- tot Con Grant was ovar. of his rIalr-
a,,,s7 ;rtapt IN force NJ, Stanton Ia resrf t fire
o,,rtI anJ to ,Ircvet his resumir,r tbe Office Of
Ss9arota,.r If War
How could he know it. if tbat was not his pur-
,,ose3 II was the Presidents purpose to prevent
Nr stanton from resurninr the office. What
saws tbe law That it shall be the duty Of the
snsnendeI secretary. if the Senate shall non-con-
l,,r in the suspension. forthwith to resume the
functions If the office and vet the Senate is 10 he
tolJ that we must prove tie intent. Well. we
ta,e .. and in Gods name what more are we To-
,,rove before This man is to be convicted lad the
ppeonle iusti6eI in the Judgment Of their own
SenatorSq The President saws to Gen. Grant If
,ras INV r1,.nose. and Won know il. to prevent
Mr. Stanton from resumino the duties Of the Of
fec gave him the benefit of.his whole confcs-
SION. There is nothing in this stammering con-
fession of this vioator Of oaths. and violator Of
the Constitution. and yiolator Of laws, that can
helm him. either before this tribunal or any other
tribunal constituted rs This Is. Of inst and IN
unricbt men. He SAYS. .sYou knew the Pres
dent was unwilling to trust the office with anv
one who would not by holding it compel Mr.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

is no man in America but knows that under the
second, third and eighth articles, by issuing a
letter of authority, the President was guilty of
high misdemeanor in the words of the statute.
He did issue the letter of authority, and he has
written it down on the 10th of February that his
object and purpose was to violate that very law
and to prevent the Secretary Of War from resum-
ing the functions Of his Office, although the law
says he shall forthwith resume the functions Of
his Office in case the Senate noncencur in his sus-
pension.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15
The True State ofPublic Opinion at the
South.

The figures of the recent Southern cleo
tions indicate that much larger proportion
Of the white voters, than has been supposed,
have accepted the situation, and ceased 70
butt the locomotive.
The following table shows the number Of
registered voters in FIVE States, and the ma
jorities which each State has given for
universal suffrage.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

The WEALTHIEsT WOMAN IN AMERICA Such
Is Mrs. Myra Clark Gaines, since the final
decision of the Supreme Court in her favor.
After contest Of twenty-seyen years in that
court, and of thirty-six years in all, on the
9th ult, the Supreme Court gave final de-
cision in favor of Mrs. Gaines The property
involved is estimated all the way from six to
twenty millions Of dollars. She is a childless
widow of nearly seventy, but still vivacious
and graceful. Her opportunities, in the dis
posal Of so large an estate, are splendid, and
what to do with 1t may be as troublesome
question as has been the old one Of, how to
yet it? Much of the property is now in the
hands of others, under the sales of the execu-
tors Of the rejected will of 1911. The hold
ers are now dispossessed by the Supreme
Court, and many family-many an inno-
cent one, probably-has come to ruin. viii
the wealthy and long-suffering widow in re-
turn remember the poor and distressed?
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

\ writer in Putnam's Magazine says
3. 1t Is a curious fact that there is never a
white colt nor black calf The whitest
horse was the blackest at its birth, and the
let black colt was unmixed red" Where
upon one of our exchanges says, - We have
long been familiar with the colt proposition,
but think VIC have seen q black calf. VIII
any Of our readers who have seen such ami
mails state the fact Yes-AIr. Mark Hill
at Governors Farm, Byfeld, has calf that
at birth was as black as the King Of Daho-
mey, and has, if possible, been growing
blacker ever since. But its weight, rather
than its color, is Its noticeable point. 1t il
four weeks old, and weighs one hundred and
eighty pounds.-Nao61tryport Herald.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

The ST. JANEs.-The new and splendid St.
James hotel in Boston, recently opened, was
built by son of Rev. Hosea Ballou, at cost
Of three quarters Of million 1t has a num-
Der Of suites Of parlor, bedroom, and bath
room, furnished gorgeously, which are let at
the modest rate of $50 per week. 1t is
kept by one Of the Stetsons.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

OLDEST FLocK-We find the following
item in the Rochester, N Y, Democrat
In February, 1908, Mr.. James Webster
was located in Orwell, Vermont, with Hock
of fourteen sheep. In 1912 he moved to Oaks
Corners, with twenty sheep, where he has
since resided. He has never disposed of his
entire flock, and claims 10 have the Oldest
flock of sheep in the country
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

The '.rANIERs. - These are the latest
novelty in ladies' fashions and already hooped
skirts have been filed with enormous bustles
to wear under them. lie Pauier consists
simply of gathering Of the hind folds Of the
skirt in such a way as to allow them to fall
over in a b03all0H upon the lower part of the
skirt. The arrangement Is as simple as it is
absurd, but it requires to be done correctly
Or it Is supremely ridiculous, and not "A few
young ladies have attracted the attention of
a crowd by their effort to effect amateur
P0NiTs, and the grotesqueness Of their ap-
pearance when they yentured courageOusly
into the streets. Paniers for a short dress
are effected by lengthening the upper skirt
somewhat at the back and running draw
ing string from one side to the other through
the centre Of the back breadth. The front
breadth Is inserted plain, and Of the proper
length, the junction at the sides being con
cealed by rosettcs, bows and ends, sashes or
some other ornaments. would not advise
any one to attempt pGnier on their own ac-
count without first having seen a correct
model. In full dress, however. many ladies
imTroyise them very respectfully by tying up
the tram with a wide sash, and arranging
the folds over the t0lUHure, for | am ashamed
20 say the oldGshioned hustle Is revived,
sometimes in stiff hair cloth, sometimes in
springs which are shaped to form the hustle
at the back of the hooped skirt. The latest
styles Of
UoorED SKIRTS
rc horrible. In addition to the enormous
hustle or wide shelf, which sometimes extends
.1 the sides as well as across the back, there
l I-.o1 +r,ir ,,-I- oh .1aerr.,v-s +I, Is,,,+--
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

\ FAcETIoUs MURDERER.-Samuel Mills,
the Franconia, n. H., murderer, hung at
Concord on Wednesday, wrote the following
% terse and appropriate" inscription on the
wall of his cell before leaving it:
6. Samma Mills murder, going to be 'ung to-
day Of May-good fellow, but no man don't
no it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15
3istrllaneOus.
The Planting of the Apple Tree.
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.
tome, let US plant the apple-tree
relve the tough greenswarl with the spade;
Vide let its hollow bed be made;
There gently lay the roots, and there
Sf the dark mould with kindly care,
And press it DER them tenderly,
SIS, round the sleeping infants feet,
We softly fold the cradle-sheet
So plant We the apple-tree.
What plant We in the apple-tree?
Buds, which the breath Of summer days
Shall lengthen into leafy sprays
Baughs, where the thrush with crimson breast
Shall haunt and sing and hide her nest.
We plant upon the sunny lea
4 shadow for the noontide hour,
4 shelter from the summer shower,
When We plant the apple-tree.
What plant We in the apple-tree?
Sweets for "a hundred fiowery springs,
To load the May-wind's restless wings,
When, from the orchard-row, he pours
Its fragrance through our open doors;
\ world Of blossoms for the bee;
Flose,s for the sick girls silent room;
For She glad infant sprigs Of bloom,
We plant gith the apple-tree!
What plant We in the apple-tree,
Fruits that shall swell in sunny June,
And redden in the August noon,
And drop, as gentle airs come by
That fan the blue September sky;
While children, wid with noisy glee.
Shall scent their fragrance rs they pass,
And search for them the tufted grass
At the foot Of the apple-tree
And when above aPple-tree2
The winter stars are quivering bright,
And winds 90 h0wling through the night.
Girls whose young eyes o'ertlow with mirth,
Snail peel its fruit by cottage hearth,
and guests in pr0uder homes shall see,
Heaped with the orange and the grape.
As fair as they ia tint and shape,
The fruit Of the apple-trec.
The fruitace Of this apple-tree
Winds and our flag Of stripe and star
Shall bear TO coasts that lie afar,
here men shall wonder at the view,
And ask IN what fair groves they grew;
And they who roam beyond the sea
Shall look, and think Of childhood's day,
And long hours passed in summer play
In the shade Of the apple-tree.
Each year shall give this apple-troe
s broader flush Of roseate bloom,
A deeper maze Of yerdurous gloom,
And loosen when the frost-clouds lower,
The crisp brown leaves in thicker shower;
The years shall come and pass, but We
Shall hear no longer, where we lie,
The summers songs, the autumn's sigh,
In the tcugAs of theapple-tree.
And time shall waste this apple-tree;
Ol, when its aged branches throw
Thin shadows GA the sWarl below,
Shall fraud and force and iron viii
H1rre>s the weak and helpless still
What shall the task Of mercy be,
Amid the tolls, the strifes, the tears
0t,hose who live when length of years
lsVasting this apple-tree2
"N- planted this old apple-tree 20
-- children Of that distant day
Thus to some aged man shall say;
and, gazing on its messy stem,
The gray-haired man shall answer them:
"a poet Of the land was he,
Born in the rude, but good old times
I is said he made some quaint old rhymes
On planting the apple-tree.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15
PERSONAL.

Hon. LIP. Poland is a member of the
House inves igating committee on the charges
brought by Mr.. Washburne Of Ill , against
Mr.. Donnelly of Minnesota.
At the convention of the Republicans of
Cook county, ILL.,, held May lst, to elect
delegates, Norman Williams, Jr., presided.
Among the delegates chosen to the State con-
ventIon were Col. F. 4. Eastman, and HON.
er n. Hibbard, Esq. All these gentleman
were former residents of Vermont.
Rev. E. II. Chaplin starts for Europe on the
9th Of May.
Commodore Ridgely Of the L. S. Navy
died at Philadelphia Tuesday He had been
50 years in the navy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

VALUE OF ADvERrIsNG.-Th largest in
come in New Hampshire, is that Of Chas. A.
Gills, proprietor of Halls hair restorer-
S57 600 y half dozen years ago this resto-
rer was unknown, and to day it would have
been worthless but for advertising.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

The jersey City Ereairg Journal, edited by
Z. X. Pangborn, formerly of the editorial
fraternity Of Vermont, comes to US enlarged
and improved, and bearing every mark of the
prosperity it claims. We extend our cor
gratulations.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

Mn. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in the ReU-
oiufion, thus " groups and arranges the
sides, as among the women, on the suffrage
question " On one side behold ballots,
brains, and babies. On the other bonnets,
halls. brocades, buchu and barrenness.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

TBE LECTURE, THIS EvENNG.-Thc doors
are open for DR.. Chapin's lecture at quarter
past seven, and crowded house is expected.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1868-05-15

THE SHEEP S17'RNG.-The following is
the report of the Judges at the sheep-shcaring
at Shclburn last week:
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-31
Our so-caned Legislature.


It is difficult to see in what particular the
so-called General Assembly of South Caro-
lima has 80 acted as to command the conf
dsnce and good will of the moderate mem
bers Of the Republican party, or so as to
prove to the colored people that their rep
resentatives in the Legislature are working
honestly and sincerely for the well-being
and advancement of their race.
The decency shown by the freedmen in
their ordinary intercourse has not been
seen in the legislative halls at Columbia.
Grossness, indelicacy and obscenity have
been the rule of the hour. There has been
no observance of the laws which govern
Parliamentary bodies; but he who could
shout the loudest has won the most regard,
and members who could not prevail by ar
gument or reason, have again and again
given the lie direct to their victorious ad
versaries. The colored majority have been
led astray by the example of the white men
who sit by their side. The follies and cor
ruption Of Washiagton are aped and imi-
tated Bribery is practiced without con-
cealment as without shame. The chances
Of success of any measure are in the ratio
Of the benefits to be derived from it by the
members who give it their opposition or
support.
Nor has the Legislature shown any public
ability, OF even that rude common sense
which might have been expected from
body in which there are more intelligent
negroes than capable white men. No meas
ure has been introduced and passed which
is broad and impartial in its policy. No
movement has been made which had not for
its direct or indirect purpose to strengthen
the backbone of ultra Radicalism, and to
fill the shrunken pockets Of the bitterest
disciples of it's doctrines. Caucussing for
the election of officers and judges, debates
upon the per diem, attempts to establish by
law that social equality of distinct races
which Nature herself has forbidden, ver-
bose schemes for pulling down all that is
conservative in character and honored by
time, and for setting up in its stead any
thing that is different, new and untried;-
these have excited the keenest and most
lively attention. But the important bill to
regulate the assessment and taxation Of
property is hustled through before its pro-
visions are known to three-fourths of our
legislators; and bills whose effect will be to
destroy the internal trade Of the State, to
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-31
Lot Cunee Read, Mark and Inward1y
Digest.

Our neighbors of Georgia are ell in
litter over the action of their mongrel Leg
islsture. 1t seems that the soalawags of
that precious body are already sick Of 1850
ciating with their ebon-faced, thick-ipped
and woolley headed colleagues; and as these
latter do not, as in ColuRbia, enjoy the ad-
vantage of numerical superiority, the fiat
has gone forth that they are one and all to
be summarily unseated and kicked out of the
legislative halls into the cotton fields whence
they came. The pretext for this move is
stated to be that ga free person of color is
not, under the Constitution and laws Of
Georgia, eligible to seat in the General
Assembly" When the question Of the eli
gibility Of the black members was under
discussion in the House, by the ruling of
the Speaker those members were not allow
ed to vote. Somebody inquired whether
the carpet-baggers were included under
this ruling. The Speaker replied, drily,
that "it would depend entirely upon the
color of the carpet bagger." At last &C
counts the discussion of the measure Of e1-
pulsion was still in progress, with slim
chance apparently for Cuffee.
A singular result of this queer and sig
ni6cant movement is that Rel resentatives
Beard, Beloher, Fyall and Davis, who have
heretofore been olassed as colored members
of the House, now deny the soft impeach-
ment and claim to be white men. Upon
this plea they have actually succeeded in
getting their names stricken from the bill
which declares certain parties ineligible !;
but it is said that the question of race will
be duly investigated as soon as the House
shall have disposed of those who do not
deny their color.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-31
aotiffs in Bankruptfp.

TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
i UNITED STATES. FOR THE DISTRICT OF
SOUTH CAROLINA-TN TIE MATTER OF Ed
IION FOR ADJUDICATION OF BANKRUPTCY
WAS FILED ON THE 29TH DAY OF MAY, A. D.
1858, IN SAID COURT IN NBANKRUPTCY.-Thisis is
to give notice that on the t,rents first day of august
against the Estate Of EDWARD F. DAVIS, Of Col
Teton District and State OF South Carolina who has
been adjudged Bankrupt on his own petition;
any property belonging to sail Bankrupt, to him
for his use, and the transfer OF any property by
him are forbidden by law; that meeting of the
Creditors Of the said Bankrupt to prove their debts,
and to choose one or more Assignees of his Estate
will be held at Court of Bankruptcy. to be holden
at No. 70 Broad-sreet, Charleston. south Carolina,
before R. B. CARPFNTER, Registrar. on the fourth
day of November, A. D. 1858, at II O'Clock, A. n.
j. P. NJ. EpPING,
United States Marshal as Messenger.
August 81