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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

In this free country Of ours if man don't
spplaud every act Of his party he is called sore
head if he dent knuckle at each crack OF the
party whip he is called disorganizer if be
dsres to suggest that there are as good men out
of office SIS in, and that, in some instances, the
people could be better represented, be is called
conspirstor. And yet this is republic in which
we live ''-SPrinqfeld Republican.
We are glad to see in the Republican any in
dicstiols of constituencies to the position it occu-
pies in common with the New York Tribune
The trouble with these papers is notlthst they do
not applaud every act of the psrty-pleuty of
Republican papers in good standing disspprove
of separate acts of the party sni are free to &c
knowledge that there are as good men out of Of
fee Sc in. But there happens to be a little knot
Of paper. and of politicians. professedly republi-
can, who must rule or ruin who must have the
Offices allotted exactly to suit them; and who,
though small minority. must have the priv
lege of overriding the popular choice Of the great
majority, or they at once begin to frsternizs
with the Democracy, and render them all the aid
they can in their attempt to overthrow Republi-
can supremacy in the nation. They find moth
ing to applaud in the party; acknowledge no
claim Of party organization snd, as was well
said in one Of the debates in tine Senate by SenS-
tor Conk!ing, are always engaged in showing
" that if man has been selected By the senti-
meat and intelligence around him as a proper
person to hold a public trust lie must
-, L. = 70 10 ffsorafif-
ed and branded Such papers end poll
tieiSns deserve to be called conIpirstors and
disorgsnizers No party could exist month in
which they were allowed control, aud they are
always a damage rather than help to the party
to which they profersedly belong. The RePubh-
cGH is not sore head 90 far as We are
aware. We do not know that any one connect
ed with it has been disappointed in the allotment
Of Offices but it is certainly " disorgsnizer,
and is not new in the business In August,
1850, when Andrew johnson vas trAitOrou,ly
eudeayoring to throw the government into the
hands Of the Democrats snd rebels, and WAS
sustained by the Republican, the New York
Tribune thus wrote
The Springfield Republican has for some
time made itself convenience Of the pro-rebel
party It's " beings end and aim would
seem to be to furnish apt AMI telling quotation,
for the Copperhead journals, and they almost
live or it. 1t IL mol a Copperhesd sheet, but it
serves the Copperheads more efectusly tnan if
it were We wish it would either 60 over to
them or cease to serve them.
So now, the Republican is not Democratic
sheet. but it terves the Democracy more efiectu-
ally than fiji were
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05
The Twenty New York Liberals.

We have hsd some curiosity to learn who the
twenty individuals were, whose names are at
t,ched to what lie called the New York response
to the call for the Cincinnati Convention. With
two or three exceptions they are men Of no Ma
tional reputation. Mr.. Greeley, Of course, is
known, and is getting to be pretty well known,
in Vermont but Of the other sguers probably
not ten men in this State could have told before
the response appeared, whether they were demo-
Gratis or Republicans We learn now from the
New York Times, that the first sgner, MIR Sci
den, is of Rochester, an eI-judge who once want
ed to be, but not, made judge Of the court Of
spptss. Frederick A. Conkling WAS formerly
member OF Congress, " whose recommendations
for offioe,' the Times says, have been uo,ori-
ously based upon principles very different from
those which lie st the base of civil service Tt
form Mr.. DOrihesmer is lawyer Of Buffalo,
formerly district attorney of the northern dis
trici of the State, who has failed in getting sp-
pointed to q foreign mission. and who has Of late
years voted the democratic ticket about As often
as the republican. Sincisir TouEey has been
known as TGmmany republican. Sigismund
kaufman was once republican candidate for
Acknowledgements. On the strength of that
he has been most persistent seeker Of Of
fees in the custom house and other
public places There ID an individual whom no
body seems to know well enough to spell his
name twice alike, snd who appears in different
copies Of the call, as g krackogizer, 80 Cracks
mizer, - " Kerehorrizer," sc. Henry O. Lloyd
is described as q boysh young man Of no in
fueace, William W Goodrich is a disappointed
seeker of the office Of attorney general. Waldo
Hutchins has notorious affiliations with the
Tsmmsny ring. Barney was collector Of the
port under President Lincoln. Fithsn hiss
been an occasional Tsmmsny receiver and coun-
sci, his last appearance being in behalf of Oasey
Hall Horace Bemis is an eE-member Of the
assembly, and, says the TINES, when the peo-
pie refused to return him the lobby LOST valu-
able tool and the bar frequent prsctitiouer."
Who Louis Lowenthal is no one seemH to know.
So runs the list. Evidently ,hese are not the
men who ,re entitled to fpe.k f5l the Bepubli-
cans of the Empire State says the Times
d" The people who have been laughing At the
Cincinnati Convention could never have done
half SO much to bring it into general derision IS
" New y FORK" in the persons Of Greeley, Tou-
sey, and Messrs Tsg-rsg and Bob-tail have nov
done The best friends Of the " great move
ment'' must be bitterly mortified"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05


S-ri5aer's Monthly takes so much Of DR..
lIollauis time that he ofers his Sc Brightwood -
place near Springfield for sale, snd will take up
his home in the metropolis
The ac;or Hackett, who del not long ago,
tnruei of bis other heirs with tittance, to give
the bulk Of his large fortune to his infant son,
born TO him after he IVES seventy years Old by
the Irish maid servant, whom he married three
years ago. Another son is the present Recorder
of New York city.
Who says that Republics sre ungratefal The
Navy Department has just awarded medal Of
honor to Thomas Lyons. who, in the ,ttack on
Forts Jackson and ST. Phillip, 9" was dashed out
eide the U. S S. Pensacola, on the port sheet
chain, With lead in hand. to lead the ship past
the forts, and never finched although under
heavy fire from the forts aud rebel gunboats -
Tha, wss only nine years and eleven months ago.
Judge Barrett Of the Supreme Court was an
nouneed to speak on temperance, at the town
hall, in Woodstock last Sunday evening.
David 4. Gage, George ". Gage and John A
Rice have taken a lease Of the Pacific hotel at
Chicago fcr 20 years, the building to be com
pleted March l, 1873 The Pacific will have
500 looms and cost Sl'OO0.O0O. The Cages are
Yermonters.
President Chsmberlin Of Bowdoin College. has
commenced at Sabbath evening prayers to read
portions Of Scripture and to give familiar ex-
plHnAtons Of the same.
The Trustees of Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio,
nave elected Prof N White. of Vermont, to the
,hsir Of Ancient Languages and Comparative
1t is stated that General Francis A. Walker i,
o be appointed commissioner Of pensions in
place Of General j. Ii. Baker, and General O
}. Howard will succeed Walker IS commission
II Of Indian affairs
Mr.. Aaron Bancroft, the 81 Old Sexton ~ of
Montpelier, who died lsst week was an own cousin
II the historian, Hon. George Bancroft, and
lameiake Of his father. He was very proud of
lis cousin George. Soon after Geroge's birth he
eceived a letter from his mother inviting him to |
nat her and see her big boy" He kept the
etter many years, and felt much pleasure in
howing it.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

Persons la,ely returned from England reports
thst there i' very bitter and angry feeling
there against the position Of the United States in
relation 20 the Geneva arbitration The press
shows this very plainly, bu, it is sail that
these organs Of public opinion are mild and re-
tervei upon the topic, il comparison 90 the out
spoken sentiments At the clubs, AMI il society
generally in Loulop The government is st
work in srIeaal sni navy yard with unWontei
visar. On one iron-c,ai now building Al hat
hsn. si1 hundred men are to be employed dur
ing the year, and IS, 500 is put down in the
navy estimates to be expended on labor AMI ma
terials for the hull Daring the same time nine
thirty-ave ten gunt, made Al the royal gun fac
tories. Woowich, have Just been DO ,el out 10
cslibre Of twelve iuches. and have been aided
to the naval armament The navy has al,o It.
Gently received thirteen guns, called the &" Wool
wich Infants. " which are called the most power
f1l pieces Of ordnance now in existence 10 Eng
land or elsewhere. They will send a steel shot
through fifteen inches Of srmor plate, or cArry
oO0-p5unler cannon ball from WoolWich into Lon
don, distance Of seven miles. These guns will be
used in the 3 large iron-clsis now in course Of
completion, I'll Of which /, thought TO have
peculiar sgnifcAuce At the preient time.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05
Presidential Electors.

The U'Gtciman, in looking up the matter,
comes to the conclusion, as we surmsed it
might, that there il, after all no occasion for
the Republican National Committee to amend
its call" The apportionment on which the
number Of electors bsted. IL, it ,eemf, de-
termined by statute. The UaichmGn ssys:
The Burlington FREE PREs, asks: " How
does the U'atchman know that the electors who
are TO vote for the next President are to equal
the number Of Sensters and Representatives in
the present Congress p We thought we knew
it on the authority of statement by Senator
Irumbull, in the debate on the new spportion-
ment act, SIS reported in the Congregational
Globe. But we did not know " it after all.
through some error somewhere, and most
probably il was in our memory The
law ,ince March LIST, 1892, has been, and
still is, that the electors shall be equal to
the number Of Senators and Representatives
TO which the several states may, by law, be en-
titled at the time icheH the President and Vice
President thus to be chosen should come into Of
fee. PrOri9ef always, that where no sppor-
tionment Of Representatives shall have been
made after any enumeration, at the time of
choosing electors, then the number Of electors
shall be according to the erssting dpporfioa-
meHt Of Senator's and Representatives. Our
statement was correct in cases where no ne,r an
porfiORmenf had been made, and not correct in
other cases As TO the next Presidential election,
1t is clear that the electors must correspond to the
new apportonment, either a. it i. or as il NAV be
amended, unless for lack Of time to act upon the
supplementary bill, the new superintendent act
shall be repealed. This i, hardly to be expected
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05
The French Arms Investigation.

twill be remembered that Senator Schurz charg-
el-snd the charge was put into the preamble on
Tuesday -that there was fraud to the amount Of
100, 900 in the sale Of armE, by which Gov
eminent officials had Intentionally profted
These were very grave accusations, such as 3
Senator of the United States, who had either
any adequate sente Of his own position or any
pride in the good name Of his Government,
should have been slow to make. But when Mr.
Schrrz came before the investigating committee,
he bad nothing whatever OF any consequence to
reveal BE showed that be had been much intiu-
enced by the French sgent, Chsmbrun. As for
the rect, Mr.. S;hurz acknowledged that he had
nothing but hearsay and roundabout stories to
give, thirl-hauded At the beat; or as Mr.. Steven
son, Democratic member Of the Committee, Ii
uiently phrstei il: " As | understand it, Gen.
s,hurz states thst the persons from whom he got
this information did not profess to have any
knowledge themselves, hut only suggested names,
which nameG be hiss had summoned, or will sug-
gest to be summoned, so as to be- brought be-
fore the committee" It would seem that he
might at least nave called upon the heads Of the
departments implicated TO ascertain whether
frsuda charged actually existed; but when he
wss stkei if he had ever done 50, he answered :
" No;I hal no reason for doing 50.
Senator Pstterson's testimony on Tuesday,
before the ssle Of armt committee WAS straight
forward and clear He VAS informed by Cham
brun that frauds hal been committed. the DIS
closure Of which would sid Victor Place, Chsm-
bruins friend, IN securing an scquittsl on the
oasrg-s Of pecalstion brought sgsinst him Nj.
Patterson communicated ChAmbrun's statement
t3 The PRECEDENT, who declared tina. the matter
fAogld be investigated, sni if any officer WAS
implicated be should be promptly msde to an
tsar before the proper triauusL
Senator Sumner, who had been request
Ell TO sppesr and give testimony, appear
ed, but declined TO be cateehisei, snd read
a written protest. reciting thst senator
acts on his responsibility uller the sanction Of
an oath aud shat as The CousJitution declares
that for sny speech or debate he. thsI not be
questioned Ina any other place, it ir plain Sens-
tor cannot be Intercepted with regard to his
conversation with other Senators on public bust
ness, OF with regard TO itnesses who
have c5ndientislly communicated with him.
lie objected, furthermore, 90 tesiifying on the
gr5uni Of the constitution Of the Committee,
which, contrary to parliamentary law. was form
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

Full returns from Connecticut give Gov.
Jewell = plurality Of $40 over Hubbard, and =
majority OF forty over al, the complete vote Of
the staie being " follows Jewell, 90, $50 ;
Hubbard ii445; Gillette. l,a25 Harrison,
3,l The t5tsl vote f1ou up 3-.742, agsiutt
q SO las. year, VIXEN Jewell received i7,i73
to 1873 f.r Eng,i,h-s decrease Of ., l01 votes.
The Senate stands fifteen Republican To- SIX
Democrats The H use stands l3l Republicans
to 10 Democrats Republican majority on
joint ballot 80. Lat year It was =. The Re
publ.caus elect .heriIs in SIX countie', and the
Democrats in two.
The Hartford C9,faal nys I'VE al cal
our,eiye, Liberal Republicans There are some
who prefer that Gen. Grant should not be re
nominated, bu; We DO not know how many, or
where they are la this election they have
stood shoulder TO shoulder with their COM
raies.'' The moral which the C5uaut draws
j. that the &" new departure experiment" j, =
miserable f.i ure
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

The Sacramento Bee tsys box running the
foil length Of the front Of the telegraph Office in
that city has heretofore furnished tempting
seat for the hIbitues. 1t is now covered with
zinc, which has been connected with the bat
ieries that were contained in the box. A per-
son sitting upon the box. without touching his
hands thereto, will not feel the electricity, but
If his hands drop on the box, or he puts them
thereon to assist him in rising, he receives such
sudden and astonishing shock as sends him
an unbelievable number Of feet toward the lofty
roof and the adjacent river. Any good day
perfon mEy see some Of these unfortunstes uu-
e1pectedly struck with this dome.ticsted light
ming, describing fifty feet parsbols IN the air.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

and trust We msy De able to do 60, except in the
office Of Chief Magistrate and hereafter give that
officer = second election. Your article not only
plesses me in sentiment, but it!is just in time
For Representative to Congress think we can
give John ", a unanimous nomination.
That is the opinion Of square, intelligent and
disinterested Republican of Rutland County,
whose views are doubtless a more correct index
Of the set of popular sentiment N that quarter,
than those of our not altogether disinterefted
contemporary the Herald
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05
STATE OF VERMONT
BY JOHN %. STEWART GoVfEN'E

Thereb, appoint FRIDAY, TEE FIFTH DAY
OF APRIL next. as 10 day of Fasting AMI F-'- er
and earnestly relues, tie people af the state. re-
framing On that day 1rom secular oc,uplu as &c
assemble 10 tle.-re-e ,t.re places OF rel ls Ho--
ship. and unite IN hum .e Confession IF or mani
fold sins and i earnest payer i5- ths -lIit OF sine
cere repentance, and for forgiveness through ls.-h
in Je-ls the Christ our LORD.
Let Us eutraat oar Heavenly Father, tha- -ie lay
shield Us FROM danger and disaster.
That he nay continue o. us the blessings OF
health, pence, prosper IS, and civil AMI religious
freedom That he may avert from Us The evils Of in-
Temperance, Iicentious-es and every form si social
vice and disorder
That we may he quickelel 70 more earnest
effort ID the promotion Of education and every good
work or'charity and heuevolence. That we may
cherish spirit ofIoyal obedience 70 Law, and that
W. may have per ect and abiding faith 10 Him
d" from whom clns.l ever, good and per.e-, STRIP
Given undar my hald and the seal sf J1i- STATE
ia the Executive Chamber, this twenty second
day Of March, 10 TIC yel- Of our Lo5t, one thou
sani eigh. hundred and -svo1ty-tEo. and et the
Independence OF the United states tAc ninety
sixth.
~ tbs Governor, JOHN W. STEWART
JAWS 81. SlAuE. Jr.,
Secretary Of Civil sad Military Aalrs.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

The telegraph has announced the des'h Oh Tue
father Of the Electro-Msgnetic telegraph, when
took place at New York Tuesday evening at
o'clock
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was the son OF
Rev. Jedediah Morse, D. D., known as the
Father Of American Geography lie was
born in Chsrlestown, Mass, April p, 1871, And
graduated at Yale, in 1870 de became an ar
fist studied painting in England under WASH
ington Allston and Benjsmin West, and tried
his hand at sculpture, receiving gold medal
from the Adelphi Society of England for model
Of " Dying Hercules." His worldwide lame
however. WEE no, due to his eminence as an al
fist 1t was while on board PACKET ship, the
Sully, in 1882, that PROF. Morse conceived the
idea Of the Electro-M,gnetic telegraph. de
made drawing, at the time of an apparatus
but it was not till three years later that he con-
structed the first recording apparatus From
1887 to 1913 he Was en1esvoring to secure an
appropriation from Congress to put his inNen-
ton into practical use At last in 1874 he sue
Cetutl III OUltlnluB AL aPPANf - y 0~'~-9
to build an experimental telegraph line between
Washington and Baltimore, which demonstrated
the prActioabty Of the - Morse System" This
is the system now in use over all the immense
network Of telegraph lines in this country, as
well as in South America, throughout the eon-
tinent of Europe, in Turkey, India. Australia,
and psrts Of Africa and China and it has
plsced Prof. Morses name high in the roll Of
the crea. inventors and beneflctors Of man
kind.
Probably no American ever received so many
marks Of distinction a Prof. Morse. Honors
were thoTered on him in later years by Euro
pean sovereigns and governments in the shape
ofgoli medals. snuff boxes. and crosses Of honor.
Representatives Of ten European governments,
met in 1855, At the instance Of the Emperor
Louis Napoleon, to decide on a suitable testi-
-nonisl to him. and voted to him award Of
400. 900 francs He had numerous honorary de
grees conferred on him, and but few months
since he WAS present at the Inauguration CT a
costly monument, erected in his honor, by nj
feuow-citizaus Of the United States
Prof Morse laid the drst submarine telegraph
wire in New York hErbor in 1872, and in let
ter 10 the Secretary Of the U. s Treasury IN
1913, he made the fret tuggertion Of the Allan
tic Cable lie has been quite indrm Of late
years, under the burden Of over eighty years Of
life sni effort His last moments we're quiet.
and he died vithouts struggle, a. though he
had fallen asleep.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

Connecticut responds to New Hampshire with
3 sseefiuE Republican victory, su5 confirms
the recent indications tbs. the PhuiIelohia
Convention Will represent the Republican party
substantially un5roken. The New YORK Uorlt
declared sst week that if The Sc Liberal Repub-
iic,us Of Connecticut should fail to hgud over
the State to the Democrats, they would forfeit
sll position Of importance, and that q" the Gin
cinnAti c nvsn,-1n will be Of ss little clnse-
quence SIS the Cleveland Convention WIS in
1864 50 q" The Democratic party it s3ls, Twill
waste no more breath on the Liberal Republican
leale7s, but viii hereafter directly appeal to the
people" They haze failed, Anl coalitions Of
e. Li5ers,s '' and Democrats, for the overthrow
Of regular Republican n7niastio, ms Will hence
for;h be at le,vy discount Tie Connecticut
Republicans have done well. and deserve the
thanks Of the party {. large
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05
NJ. Greeley Cove Over.

The Cincinnati Convention is to be Free
Trade conyentcie. It's platform demands a
genuine reform of the tariff, and that those duties
shall be removed which, in addition 70 the rev
euue yielded to the Treasury, involve al increase
in the price Of domestic products and consequent
tax for the benefit off.yorel interests Discuss
ing this resolution. the other day, the Iriie4s
correctly said
Free Trslc, A. al bat universally under
stood, means not the abolition Of imports and
custom houses but the Adjustment Of duties
on imports with AZ eye TO revenue alone
Now. in the Response Of the gentlemen from
New York to the solicitation to meet 10 coaveu-
ton in Cincinnati, IT is declared thst 90 VIC, Re-
publicans Of New York, wish to szp5ess or
concurrence 70 the principles lately set forth by
the liberal Republican, Of Missouri We believe,
they adj. that Federal taxation should Re inn
posed for revenue, and SO adjusted As TO make
the burden upon the industry Of the country 81
light as pss,ib'e" The second n,me attached
to this declaration Is that ofHonce Greeley, who
8 feE days $50 wrote the w0rls, &c We shall as
to be counted cut if the majority shall decide TO
make Free Trade plank in their platform .''
The New York Ers1fg Pest, tie great Free
Trade orcsu, welcomes Mr. Greeley heartily info
the Free Trade ranks 1t ssyt
sc This conversion Of Greeley nay be regard j
ty some readers at suspicious for iis suileuuess,
but we are not disposed 70 question the sincerity
Of the Tribune Editor, and heartily welcome
him SIS new snl important ally In the cres,
cause Of revenue reform We desire nothing
more in the Esy Of tariff legislation than thsc
the principles which Greeley nov openly sup
ports be faithfully carried out
We think, however, that though S!r. Gree
ley's opposition TO rresiient Grant leads him
now to subordinate 20 it the convictions Of a
lifetime, he will not prove very hearty con
vert, and a, he lookr about him =, Cincinnati
he will be compelled 20 fsy 20 himself, " Misery
makes us acquainted with strange bsI-fel,oTs'
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1872-04-05

II may be interesting to many readers IN Am
cries TO know how land il held in ireland. The
agricultural statistics Of that country for the
year 1871 just published, show thsi the total
aumter Of Irish holdings is 10000 one-tenth
Of the land is held by 1900 occupier', who each
I'LL over $40 acres 10000 persons hold ls''
than 80 acres, and take up quarter Of the
land. There are 100000 under crops. TO-
OO0, 900 under grass, and the enormous extent
OF 100000 acres under bog sad waste. In a
country SO small as Ireland. and so long cult
waited, this is an astonishing Smount Of waste
land An etfor; is soon to be made to induce
the government to give premiums and assistance
to farmers who will reclaim portions Of this beg.