Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-05-29


round trip tickets to Philadelphia and re-
turn, good from June to June Is, for SO.
For sale on board the steamers after the 25th
instant.
Two or three weeks since we published the
report that Collector Casey of New Orleans
had been requested to resign, and had done
so. But it now turns out that he has not re-
signed or been turned out, and that no report
has been made by the committee sent out to
examine into the case. This additional
statement in reference to the New Orleans
business is demanded to correct the record.
The House have adopted the report of the
Conference Committee on the Supplementary
AppOrtionment bill securing to Vermont and
New Hampshire an additional member of
Congress.
The New Jersey Republican Convention
was held last Thursday, and resolutions in
troduced. emphatically recommending the
denomination of General Grant, and were
adopted with a perfect roar of enthusiasm.
Ohio has one hundred Republican news
papers, and every one of them, says an ex-
change, favors the denomination of Grant and
Colfax.
When the bill taking the duty off tea and
coffee was passed, it was provided that
draw back equal to the amount of duty paid
should be allowed on all tea and coffee in
bonded warehouses on the first of July, 1872.
There was, however, no authority given to
the Secretary of the Treasury to refund the
amount Mr. Dawes on Monday reported
and the House passed bill to correct that
defect in the law.
BY order Of the President, the several de-
partments will be closed on the Both inst,
to allow the employees to participate in the
ceremony of decorating the graves of union
soldiers, in the cemeteries around Washing
ton.
ADJOURNMENT OF CoNGREss.-0n Monday
the House pissed a concurrent resolution OK
tending the session until Monday, June Sd.
at noon.
The resolution to adjourn Congress at noon
on Monday, June 3, has been concurred in
by the Senate.
1t was Long John Wentworth, now a sup
porter of Greeley, who called him, not many
years ago, q a undermined slovenly cross
between a yam and a cylinder press. "
The KU KLUx BILL.-In the House yester-
day, Mr. Poland moved to take up and pass
under a suspension of the rules the Senate
Ku Klux bill, which was lost by vote of
ayes "a nays los Messrs Willard and
Smith voted nay Mr.. Maynard moved to
take up the Civil Rights bill recently passed
10y theSenate, under a suspension of the rules
which was rejected by a strict party vote of
ll3 to 50 ;-two-thirds being required
THE TREArr.-The Senate voted on Saturday
TO recommend to the President that he con-
, tinue negotiations on the basis of a new
article u be substituted for the draft of Lord
Granville The majority IN favor of this &C
ton is stated to be - to .. The majority in
favor Of the original treaty was 80 TO u. \
larger proportion of The Senators voting
therefore, favor the new treaty than were in
favor of the original treaty which was rati-
fy a year and day before. 1t Is announced
BY the cable that the English ministry
accept the new draft of the article, SO the
arbitration will doubtle = proceed.
The names of Senators Sumner, Schurz,
Corbett, Kelley, Casserly, Morrill, (Yt.),
E1munds and Upton are mentioned as having
voted against the Treaty
HIGH SOUTHERN TRIBUTE TO GEN. GRANT.
Col. Bsnitmin ). Ewell, Adjt' General of
Gen. Joseph E Johnston during the rebel
lion, brother of the late Gen. Ewell, and now
President Of the College of William and
Mary, at Williamsburgh, Va. has published
a long letter, urging the Southern people to
vote for the reelection Of General Grant. He
not only believes that the administration Of
Gen Grant has been in tho main highly sue
cessful, but that the South herself owes TO
him largely whatever of peace and prosperity
she has attained since the war, aud that her
best interests demand his reelection.
Mr. ) X Wolfe, nominated for Congress
in the Second Indiana District by the Demo
Gratis, denounced Horace Greeley in 4 recent
speech as a - hoary political sinner, with
whom he would not make his = political
bed lie also stated that next to Sumner,
Greeley was the worst enemy of the Demo-
cratic party and :. the most Objectionable
man in the land Clearly the Indiana
Democracy are not unit for Chappaqul.
A man has recovered $4,000 from the New
York Central Railroad because he was expell-
ed from palace car for refusing to pay ex-
ira fare when the ordinary ear of the train
was full.
c. P. Chase. Tutor of Greek in Dartmouth
College, has been appointed Professor Of
Mathematics in Orient College.
The first velvet mandatory in the United
States has been established by French
colony at Franklin, Kansas.
On the 10Th Of June delegates represent
q all the railroads in no
country, and embracing some Of the most
eminent engineers and railroad builders, viii
assemble in convention in St. Louis. I'm
portant results are anticipated.
Tie latest thing in spring hats for young
ladies is to have the rim so bent and crum-
pied TO be strongly suggestive of late
supper, and a lively dance afterwards
Jaunty, but not judicIous.
Cart. Halls POLAR ExPEDlrIoN-Cspt.
Alston, late of the steamer Retriever lost off
Newfoundland coast during the terrible storm
which recently prevailed there, brings intel
lgence confirming reports that Capt. Hall 5
polar expedition had been heard from at St.
Pierre ,Miquelon. a Danish trader, which call
ed at that port about Gig hit weeks ago, brought
an account of the arrival at Disco, Greenland.
of the Polaris, in disabled condition.
Monday morning Of week before last,
Orrin Slate, formerly well known merchant
at Brattleboro, was found lying dead on the
the stone steps leading into the basement of
the Clark House at Hartford, Conn. He was
returning from New York, where he had
been to purchase goods, and retired the night
previous in seeming good health. Il is
thought that he must have fallen from the
window of his room, as there was no marks
to indicate struggle, and everything in his
room was undisturbed.
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