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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
The Attitude of the Democracy.

The near approach of sundry important
State Elections and the earnest attempts that
are being made to overthrow the Radical ty-
rants who now Cypress the people, render
the positions and prospects of the Z" White
mans 4" party a study of unusual interest.
Soon after the Inauguration of the present
Administration the leading journals and lead
ing men of the Democrats frankly declared
that their party was helpless. They had no
hope except to watch opportunities that
should arise from mistakes or failures of their
opponents. Six months have now elapsed. 1t
is time again to come before the people and
what political strength or capital have they
accumulated which should fairly help along
their campaign? Gen. Grant has satisfied
the party which elected him. His mistakes,
if he has made any, are simple errors of detail
and of no general consequence. He has i'm.
parted increased vigor and efficiency to the
of the revenues, and has done more
than the most sanguine dared hope toward
solving the great problem of the ~extinguish-
ment of the debt. The current expenses of
the Government have been so far reduced as
TO leave the way clear for Congress to make
further and needed reduction of taxation.
These things are too well known to be con-
tradicted, and the Jeremiahs of the Democ-
racy can only say that the country is going
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

THE PRICE OF FUEL.-The coming winter
promises to be a hard one for the poor of the
cities, and indeed everywhere that the rigor
of the climate makes a fire the first necessi-
ty. Coal is way up, higher W. believe than
ever before known the supply is unusually
scanty, and the combined exertions of con-
sumers to break down prices are producing
very little effect. The headquarters of the
coal supply is the State of Pennsylvania,
and in many sections the miners were on
strikes for a large part of the summer, ba-
sing their action mainly on the ground that
a diminished production would so enhance
prices that they could take advantage of the
necessities of the country and earn more by
laboring part of the time than the whole
Heavy capitalists are helping the matter on
to suit their interests, and are making a
great thing at the expense of the public.
railways are in the ring, and refuse
to carry coal except for the parties interested
in the swindle. A repeal of the light duty
on the article might afford some relief, but
that will give no help until Congress meets.
There is one hard lesson that it seems very
many will learn they will find by
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

The MAINE ELICIT oS.--The election in
that State, which occurs next week, will not
be vigorously contested though there are
three candidates for governor. If the pro-
hib~itionists can throw anything like the
strength they claim, the election of Gov.
Chamberlain by the people, would be very
doubtful, and for the same reason he would
be apt to fail in the legislature. This result is
not anticipated by those who have the best
opportunities for judging, and there need be
little fear but that the gallant Governor will
receive his third election by a still greater
majority than the first two.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
Miss Nellie p

Miss Nellie B, a rosy-cheeked, bright
eyed, dashing farmers daughter, living in
Independence, Oakland County, Penn, has
not soured her temper in signing over fan
cied wrongs, nor does she bewail her sad es-
tate because, having been born a woman, she
cannot act the part of a man. When her
fathers thirty acres of grain, however, was
spelling to be cut, and there were men to
bird it, but no one to drive the team, she
tied her Newport hat down under her chin
donned her garden gloves, mounted the seat
and drove and worked the reaper over the
whole thirty acres. She comes Of a good
stock, her mother having helped to make the
first grain stack in the country nearly thirty
years ago.-NeI0 York Tribune.
The woman who can drive a team to t
thirty acres of grain need not sigh that she
is not a man,-and she would not be mu
more of a man, probably, if she should vote.
She no doubt would know as well what to do
with a vote, as she did with a rcaper,-and
by taking the precaution to put on her
garden Gloves could manage to prevent a
ballot from soiling her han DIS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

The newspapers are still discussing the
Tennessee election, in its progress, results,
and consequences but there is now a gener-
Democrats, and the energies of newspaper
writer's are mainly spent in specializing
about the probable use the Democrats will
make Of their triumph. The chairman OF
the Republican committee of Tennessee, a
Stokes man, thus writes of the election
When the returns are all in and the
table shows that two-thirds of the new mem
bers of the Legislature are men who opposed
the election of Grant, and who will vote
against the ratification of the fifteenth amend
ment, L suppose there will be no doubt in
the minds of Republicans anywhere that it
was a Democratic victory. The returns are
not all in yet, but SO far as heard from we
have for the Senate Suffrage" Republi-
cans (Senter,} z; Democrats, Is full Senate
25. House of Representatives" Suffrage
Republicans (Senter,) 9; Republicans
(Stokes,) 5; Democrats "a; not heard from,
O. full House, "a. l suppose there was not
n in every twenty-five Republicans of this
state who voted for Senter where there was
no coercion practiced.
1t should be borne in mind that Tennessee
has been recognized as reconstructed for
several years. and the passage of the pro-
posed Fifteenth Amendment in that state
is no more compulsory than in the states
which have not been in rebellion. The ne
groes have, however, the right to vote now
in Tennessee, by the State constitution, and
the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
would only be operative-if the requisite
number of States should ratify it,-in pre-
venting the Democrats of Tennessee from
amending the state constitution 30 as to take
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

WoMEN's RIGHTs IN GREAT BRITANNIA
review of the doings of Parliament. shows
that the cause of woman's rights is adj
vancing in Great Britain. The women of
England have obtained the municipal fran
ch use, and 1t is expected that young women
will obtain a fairer share of the educational
endowments than heretofore. The House of
Commons has passed the married woman's
property bill, and it has been read the sec
ond time in House of Lords. This bill, is
not satisfactory to the married women of the
realm, whe have suffered in many cases
wrongs under the common law, and a new
bill will be reported, to be more liberal and
imposing no restrictions on the wife thai the
husband is held by. Although there are few
strOng-minded women who appear in public,
the cause seems to prosper, and Parliament
has been commercially thoughtful.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
Railroad Meeting.

Pursuant to the notice of the committee a
large number of citizens met q the Village
Hall to hear what had been done to secure
further railroad facilities for the town. Mr..
Taft, for the committee. reported that they
had seen the managers of the Montpelier and
st. Johnsbury corporation, and had asked OF
them permission for towns south of Danville
to make subscriptions to their stock. The
answer was substantially that the books were
closed, so far as those localities were con-
cerned. Still the COMMITTEES we're in hopes
that circumstances might arise which would
induce the managers to modify their present
decision therefore they presented a resolu-
ton that the town should bond itself for
5000 900, placing the money in the hands OF
commissioners, who would be empowered to
subscribe for stock, if they could get the OPP
portunity.
The friends Of this plan favored 1t mainly
because the amount which might be raised
under the Wells River chaSter was only
500, 900, while under Johnsbury
one the law did not limit t6s amount. This
proposition and several Others were debated
with the utmost vigoP and enthusiasm by
many of our most prominent citizens. We
have no wish to give even an abstract of the
remarks of. the various speakers it is
enough to say that there were nearly as
many plans as there were speakers, and each
man was confident, of course that his scheme
was the true one. The result of the whole
was, to most, a painful conviction thai a
Montpelier town meeting was not the place
TO build railroads in. The differences of
opinion among the men who must bear the
brunt certainly seemed vital, and thus were
most disheartening. The meeting finally
a adjourned without taking any definite action.
In one sense perhaps some good was accom-
plished people now understand fully what
their n~eighbOrs think and what they are
wanting to do. Every speaker expressed
himself in favor of a railroad somewhere,
and we can rightly enough have some faith
the good sense of our people, aided by
the freedom of private discussion, will,
before the next meeting, enable us to show
a united front on something. If that re-
suit can be secured the discussion of Monday
evening will have been Of some advantage.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
Death of General Rawlins.

The telegraph brings the sad announcement
of the death Of John A. Rawlins, Secretary
of War, at Washington, Monday afternoon.
He had long suffered from pulmonary disease,
induced by exposure in the field, but his
friends had good hopes that he might be
spared for many years, even if they could
not hope for his ultimate recovery. Last
week be was attacked with violent hemor-
rhage, and the end was at once seen to be
near. Gen. Grant, then at Saratoga, hast
ened Immediately TO Washington, exeusing
himself from a visit to Utica in a most feel
ing dispatch to Senator COnkling. With all
his diligence he was not in season 70 witness
the death of his true friend whose last mo-
nvuGs were. hv~ovrr, soothed py the kindly
messages from the bravest and best of his OLD
associates. Gen. RAwlins was a rising young
lawyer at Galena, Illinois, at the outbreak
Of the war, and, moreover, q warm friend Of
his future leader. From the first he attached
himself to the staff Of the man in whose abil-
tiles he had so much confidence. From that
time he was at the head of Gen. Grants mil
itary family, until he resigned to be made
Secretary of War. While his military abili-
ties were always necessarily overshadowed
by the brilliant career of his leader, yet he
was ever known as a brave, able and faith
full soldier. He had rare capacities for the
work of organization, and speedily made his
influence felt in whatever army he served.
By his untimely death the country has lost
an able officer, and the President one of the
most honored and trusted of his advisers.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
The. Debt.

The official debt statement for September
LIST shows a reduction of $500, 234 in the
debt since August lst, and of S49, 500, 75S
since March LIST, 1869.
The statement shows that the Treasury
has been able, chiefly out of the current rev
enues during the month, to increase the
Sinking Fund -. OBS .63s. and the amount Of
bonds held subject to the future action Of
Congress, but intended by the Secretary 10
be applied to the Sinking Fund, by 8 5000
AIS.
This is a gratifying exhibit, and yet
strange as it may seem, the Democrats make
a point against the administration that it is
reducing the debt. The New York World
says
There is no good reason why money
should be taken from the pockets of the
people for the rapid extinction of the public
debt before it falls due. Most of our enter
prising business men are borrowers, and the
money which is taken in taxes could be used
by them with great advantage and profit in
the prosecution of their undertakings; thus
multiplying the national wealth and increas-
ing the resources out of which future taxes
are to be paid. At present, we are taxing
many of our great industries out of exist
ence, we are impairing the national wealth
and resources out of all proportion to the
small reduction of the public debt. Half
the business men of the country would be
ruined if forced to make immediate payment
of their private debts, because they need the
borrowed capital which they are using to
enable them to make the money by which
they hope to extricate themselves from their
pecuniary obligations. A forced payment of
tho nnhlIo dohf onarafaa in tho 90 N a ann
inasmuch as the heavy taxes applied to that
object diminish the resources of the communi-
ty for the prosecution of lucrative pursuits.
Great Britain, the wealthiest, and fnan-
cially the most intelligent nation on the
globe, does not deem it wise to make anv
strained efforts to reduce the principal of her
debt"
As soon as there is any surplus revenue,
the first thing to which British fnanciers
and statesmen turn their attention is a dim
mutton of the public burdens, by taking off
some of the taxes which produce the surplus.
They regard the growth of the national
wealth as more important than the reduction
of the public debt"
The way to reduce the burdens of the peo-
pie is nOt0 to begin to pay the debt. This
will improve the credit of the Government,
and make it easy to sell a loan at n much
smaller rate of interest and a reduction of
two per cent. in the rate of interest on the
debt reduces our annual expenses forty mil
lions of dollars, and diminishes the burden of
taxation to that extent. But Democratic
fnanciers prefer not to pay the debt at all
and therefore they how continually about
taxation.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
Justices of the Peace.

BERLIN.-J. W. Wheelock. Sylvanus F.
Nye, Artemas n. Person, Oscar D. Jones,
William Mcintosh, John Bedee, John E.
Hale.
EAST MoNTPELIER.-A. Peck, s. Kelton,
j. Rich, 5. Bailey, A. ID. Arms, n. ii. Ben
nett, t. G. Kelton.
observation-disclosures Reed, Carlos Ban
croft, William W. Caldwell, Luther Cross,
Denison Dewey, Nelson Robinson, Oramel
II. Smith, john S~palding, Samuel Wells,
Medad Wright.
MoRErowN-G. T. Eaton, I. j.. Deavitt,
n. r. Marshall, p. Conway, c. Carpenter
Smith Freeman, \. l.. Smalley,-a!1 dem.
but Smalley.
WAITsFIELD Hiram Jones, Calvin Fuller
ton, J. Ii. Hastings, Ira Richardson, J. S.
Campbell, f. o. Joslyn, L. w. Jones
WoRCEsTER.-N. A. Kelley, c. Brown,
H.. Hovey, f. b. Harris. F. Leonard.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
To Fe M L -.

DR., FRED'K MORRILL,, Physician aud Surgeon,
gives exclusive attention 20 Diseases of Women lie
has made diseases Of women mis- study for the iNst
twenty years. HIS practice has been very extensive
both in hospital and private Practice HIS repuia's"
has vouchers il all the city paper his patients, and Tue
medical profe ssion, both here and abroad as b ine me
most skillGul specialist t>rs, and a thorough master al
all sexual Diseases ,
D.. MORRILL,. is admitted by the best Wtdicat
talent # the country to have no equal IN The Treatment
of Female Complaints, and IL is no unusual occurrence
TOR physicians in regular practice to -recommen patients
to hIm for treatment when afflicted with diseases m
his speciality
Ladies will ecsiye the most scientific siteRton- rom
medically and surgicAliy, with private apartments auF
ing -ickness, aud with old and experienced Iufse71 "
they wish
The poor advised free Of chRrge. Physicians ~
patients wishing his opinion or advice, by letter, %
. clio sing the usual fee. ~ i'll be answered By IetAtH
mail. Medicines sent to all parts If the country
Office, No. 4s HOWARD STREET, Boston, Mass
snE2QVl
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

ACCIDENT IN A COAL MINE--A fire broke
out on Monday morning in a coal mine in
Plymouth, Pa, and in a short time a whole
breaker and out-buildings were in flames,
and the hosting apparatus, the only avenue
of escape for the miners, being DESTROYED.
All efforts to stay the flames were unavail-
ing, and the whole structure fell, partly
filing up the shaft. Over two hundred men
are in the shaft, and have no communication
out, with no chance for air, as the only way
for getting air into the shaft was through
the main opening, and that was filled with
the burning timbers and the debris of the
flames. 1t is feared that the whole number
have been suffocated by the smoke. or perish
ed for want of air. The fire departments of
Scranton, Wilksbarre and Kingston are on
hand, and are playing streams down into the
shaft for the purpose of quenching the fire
there, so that the rubbish can be cleared out,
and the condition of the men ascertained. 1t
will probably take till tomorrow morning
before any tidings can be received from them.
The scene at the shaft is heart-rending. The
families of the miners are congregated there
in great numbers. Miners from all parts of
the country are there at work, and the mer-
chants. and in fact the whole population of
the town, have turned out to assist.
The miners had that morning resumed
work after a suspension of three months.
The latest information states that the shaft
was cleared, and two men went down and
penetrated sixty or seventy yards to a closed
gangway door which they could not force
open. They found three dead mules outside
the door, and sulphurous fumes were pour
ing out through the door. No signs of life
were discovered, and it is feared all are dead.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

Sax is credited with the ~following-writ-
ten probably when be was a candidate for
governor of Vermont
When John was contending Though sure to be beat
In the annual race for the governors seat,
And a crusty old fellow remarked to his face,
He was clearly too young for go LOFTY a place.
" Perhaps so,S said John - but consider a minute
The objection will cease by the time I am in it,"
The result of the election in this State,
yesterday, has doubtless satisfied Mr.. Heaton
the Democratic candidate for governor this
year, that he will have all the wisdom that
comes with mature years before he succeeds
in being elected governor on the Democratic
ticket.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

The Knoxville Press (Democratic) calls
for the suppression of the negro
Ku-KIux in Tennessee. With re-
to the politics of the lynchers, it
says: We don't know, and we don't care.
The politics of thieves and eut-throats don't
concern us. We propose that the scoundrels
be caught and hung. Their politics can be
ascertained afterward if it be important"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

In his last chapter of Political Economy,
Horace Greeley gives a complete history of
the production of beet-sugar in France
which has now reached the enormous annual
figure of 600 900. 900 pounds. selling in
Paris for six or seven cents a pound, or quite
as cheap as cane-sugar can be imported
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

We bave from Hon. Daniel Needham, of
Massachusetts,, Secretary of the New England
Agricultural Society, complimentary tickets
to the Sixth Annual Exhibition and Fair Of
the Society, which is being held at Portland,
this week. continuing until the 10th inst.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

Som Northern Democrats must feel queer
when they hear such a fre-eater as the Mem
phis Avalanche crying out, " For Gods sake,
and the sake of decency. let the poor negro
alone. for he is a citizen with all the rights
of a freeman, will never be shorn of them
and is irrevocably free"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

b official returns of the recent congres-
sional election in Alabama show the follow.
ing result: Total republican vote. 1904
vote. 47,434; republican major
ity, Is, 1870.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

The republican state convention of Wis
%consin, Wednesday, made the following
nominations For governor, Lucius Fair
child, the present incumbent lieutenant
governor, I. c. Pound secretary of state,
E. A. Spencer state treasurer, Henry Booth.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

bitter experience how comfortable a strike
really is.
Comparatively little coal is consumed IN
Vermont, but its appalling scarcity every
where win perhaps influence somewhat the
demand and price of wood.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

The itemizer man of the Chicago Post is
guilty of the statement that the worst all
ment of A. johnson " is a cataract in the
throat. A cataract is a waterfall, and there
is no record that A. j. has let any water
fall in his throat for the last forty years.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

We understand that ALBERT CLARKE, ESQ,
editor of the St. Adams Messenger, and for
several years Assistant Clerk of the House
of Representatives of this State, will be a
candidate the coming session for the position
of Clerk of the House. Mr.. Flagg. the for
mer Clerk, holding the Office of Journal Clerk
officer will therefore become necessary. Mr..
has been recognized for several years
as in the line Of succession, and his famil-
iarity with the duties of the office, and his
ready ability and official courtesy, render
him exceptionally well qualified for the Office
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

DROP LETTERs.-Under the present Postal
Laws of the United States, all unpaid (do-
mestic)drOp letters must be forwarded to the
Dead Letter Office. It requires only one
cent stamp to prepay
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

California is reported to have gone Demo-
cratic at the election last week, thus giving
that party the control of the legislature, and
securing the state against the proposed Eff
teenth Amendment.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

Senator Fessenden has been lying almost
hopelessly ill for several days of an acute
disease of the bowels. The latest reports
indicate hat he is slightly better and that
there is good ground to expect his recovery.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

Geo. |. Higgins of West Concord, lost a
colt, on Monday evening by the
of a blood vessel. He was four
years old, had trotted a mile in 2;40 and was
7alued at $500.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08
SPECIAL NOTICES.
ALL WHO ARE SUFFERING

from nervous debility and prostration Of the PHYSICAL
power, caused by the errors of youth, should immsdi-
steiy procure a copy of the new medical work of Dr A.
II. Hayes, Consulting Physician 10 The . Peabody Medi-
cal institute" Boston, entitled THE SCIENCE OF
LIFE, or SELF PRESERVATION" an invaluable
work, and the result OF the widest researches and deep
est thought upon the subjects Of which IL treats. The
Institute has also put lished 1.-THE SEXUAL Pays
LOG Of AND HEB DISEASES" fro n
the pen of the same author. The title of the work indi-
Gates iss character. Fuller particulars msy be found in
tbs advertisement Of the Inst Ute ia cur columns.
T32w4.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

\ young Jersey girl snatched an epilep-
tic fellow off the rails Just in time to pre-
vent the express train from mangling him,
and then would MT tell her nam e.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

An impoverished fe How in Paris gave
his sweetheart a ticket in the last lottery.
1t won $4,000. and she will marry him
out of gratitude.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

Gen. Lesea is supposed to have been
poisoned by the same mysterious plant
that eazed poor Carlota.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-08

Fourth of July was celebrated at Sitka
by canoe races, reading the Declaration,
and prayers of the Greek Church.