Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-04-07

VI
Doubtless coercive legislation Is a sad alter
o native. We had much rather try kindness
and Cancellation, if il would not be sure 70
be misconstruod and abused. But having
coerced the southerners into submission to
the national authority, it seems to US that
it is rather late to take ground against coeT-
cion of malcontents and criminals. And we
do not hesitate to say, that if our Union
must be one in which any citizen, even Of
bad moral character, and intensely fond Of
oficc-a failing not confined to northern
men-cannot take up his residence in any
State he chooses, and enter into politics there
if he chooses, then the war better never have
been fought.
1t is suggested, as explanatory Of Senator
Days's violence in threatening Representative
Bader. that he lie 50 little used to have attentive
lstners to his speeches that he did not know
what to make Of MIR. Butlers marked int
rest in his .emarks, and resented it as insulting
Possibly.
Later adyices from Mississippi represent the
anarchy prevailing there as extending over all
the State. Fifteen school houses were burned
in ten days in the eastern part Of the
State. ard sarerintenients and teachers have
been compelled to fy for their lives
When the San pomiugo party were about 20
sit down to dinner Tuesday on the steamer
from Acqu.s creek to Washington. the officers
Of the beat refused to allow Frederick Douglass
to take SEA, 81 the table on account Of bis
colo-. The Commissioners were highly iniig-
nsut AID Immediately lef, the table
One Of the leaders Of the Partisan sens CT
Totes bears the significant name Of "Assy." The
President Of the late French Assembly was NJ
Grevy, and this Assy came very near 50 fixing -
the Assembly's Greyy, which would hsye been
case Of zoo many cooks spelling the broth
In one Of the jess houses in this city, says
a Sacramento paper, there are images Of the
proprie,ors Of the Union "a rival psper) before
which the Chinese PROSTATE themselves, exclsim-
iug Heap cool debbe Muchee good deb
be Belly good de5ble Alice same big Chi
uese debble 60 Which, for neat thing on the
Union, will do very well
The Amherst Alumni il Boston. at their re-
cent dinner, made themselves merry without the
aid Of wine Two wine-g4sses were placed at
each Of The one hundred and eight or ten plates,
but not one Of them was use1 One alumnus
said to another, 81 should ike glass CT wine
bu; it would not be in good taste here" This /
example Is worthy Of imitation.
The Democratic majority Of the New Hamp-
shire Legislature, who were aided into power by
the efforts Of men who could not be satisfied till
they organized distinctive temperance party, (
announce thus carly that they shall repeal the
present Prohibitory act and 50 for the enactment .
Of license law.
Rry. 5. NJ MERRILL UP AoAIy.-A letter in
yesterdays Slrafogiqa says that the vertable .
Rev s NJ Merrill, who was not drowned at
Pla,tsburgb, y T., in July, 1867, is row
preaching to two congregations, one Spring
Prairie. the other at Lyons. IL one Of the
churches is a Union church Of Congreganonslists
and Me;hodist. He is said 10 be very popular
and seems to be doing great deal Of good
Boston lumber market i, active, with demands
for all classes Of stocks The Commercial
BlAdia says there Is. without doubt, 10 per
cent. more building going on in the suburbs Of
Boston than last year this time. Lumber il full
az cheap as five years ago, though the grades are
not quite so high "a second at that time Is a first
uow) hence, with the rapid and continued in
crease in value Of the real estate. buildings
increase.
Somebody says Ger Butler and Wendell Phil ]
lips were in the garden Of the White House wait
ing to see the Presilent They we're kept there
FOR some while, when Butler, picking up t
hstchet, began cutting the trees to beguile the
time. Grant soon after appeared and asked, {
''Who has been hacking these trees 2'' Butler Y
answered, 81 cannot tell lie, Mr. President; it
vas Wendell Philips" This Is an old ioke re- d
7smpei, sud good enough to stand the process. Il
Mrs Davis, ii a letter from Washington to
he Revolution, complains that while names are
oming in rsPiily very few come from east Of -.
he Hudson River. why" asks this lady, sis =
'sv England 50 dead 30 this great work We :
ave here noble workers, bur they do not seem =,
tls TO stir up constituency a home " Il
i'll Of course not % to say that the high
.snlar1 of education and intelligence among
ew England women may account for this su- %
ineness 1t must be due to the prevalence Of
d fashioned notions Of deity and proprieiy.
No law was passed st the last session of Con- L.
-ess, as some have supposed, giving land vi
,unties to soldiers who served during the re- Ia
alioa. A bill giving soldiers some advantages VI
lder the homestead law passed the House, but ella
lied to get through the Senate, so that the iu
ly provision Of the homestead act, which does oil
t apply equally to citizens and soldiers, is oae
ssed las. July, giving soldiers and sailors who ap
rvel durins the rebellion the right to enter tx
o acres of land held at $3.50 sn acre. instead set
50 acres, the maximum amount of this land
itch others are allowed to enter IN
| yea
DEATH OF Hon. JACOB NJ HowARD.-Ex- fac
nator Howard of Michigan, who died on Sun ~,
= Of apoplexy, at his house in Detroit was Mr.
tive Vermonter, born in Shaitesbury, July 10, de,
o. He wss educated ct Bennington and ner
attleboro academies, aud st Williams College, Gre
,d;a5 Ia, ,a,,o,-si - Nf;,h;.,,, - 900 81
IAN practice of his profession in 1888. In Seq
IS he was q member OF TIE State Legislature. mil
ON ls4l to l343 be was a member of Congress a v
N Michigan. From 1854 to 1862, he was and
torney- general Of Michigan, in 1862 he wss Gee
cted T. 5. Senator to ill the unexpired term Raj
X. S Bingham, snd has since had re cleo \
4. His term as Senator expired on the 4th Tor
March, and he was succeeded by Mr.. Ferry at S
an able man, an upright Legislator, and S
launch republican. inc
Washington dispatches say it is the opinion lA'
Republicans, who have taken '1ei
lie pains 10 ascertain the feeling in the House, \
t the Shellsbarger bill cannot be passed Bow
he delegation from Vermont are among the We
,ublicans who will rot vote for it, but Mr.. Alb
lard has prepared substitute, which
thought can command the entire Repubh- chu
strength in the House. He has endeavored day
make it effective, yet unobjectionsble on &C. wbe
Mt Of doubtful constitutionslity II provides pres
I if persons connected with any combination N n
conspiracy shall do any act which, if CON- =
ted within place within the Jurisdiction Of e'es
United States, would be punishable as L