Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-06-10

There is a suspicion in Alabama that
Congressman HAYES, in his anxiety to Sc
cure a reelection, is causing serious dam
a@e to the agricultural interests of the
state The Mobile Register says his pro-
cct to supply rations for the inhabitants
of the ovcrtOWed districts of Alabama has
completely demOraliZed the negroes, who
have abandoned all work and iOurneyed,
some Of them as far as fifteen miles, to get
the rations " Gubermentn - had ordered for
them. but which they did not find. The
EeqiNcr is convinced that. if Mr.. Hayes
does not stop his - electioneering nonsense,
hc will ruin the crops of the section he is
irving to make votes in since it has trust
worthy advice that there is no lack of food
for them. 1t, therefore, beseeches 'scnsi-
bic men in Congress to put Il stopper on
the lips of this enterprising Hayes, who is
So iutently clcctioneering on the public
money and at the expense of our growing
crops"
The Italians seem to be the most unfOr-
tunate of all immigrants in New York
The hardships of the adults who come to
this chcerless climate reach their climax
in suffering from the cold i'll winter and
hardly milder impositions in summer.
slavery in which they have been held by
cruel tlsk-masters among their own coun-
trymcn has been made unpleasantly famil-
lar The sequel to this business is the or
der lust passed hy the Police Board for the
arrest of ali children under sixteen Years
of age found in the streets playing on mu-
steal Instruments. This act will. we hope,
put an end to the suffering of the poor
children; but consideration for the feelings
of the public ought to have extended it to
the adults who infict tortures upon lovers
Of music. through the discords Of the dis
curdant hand-organ and the dreadful hur-
dy-gurdy.
The Troy Times thus disposes of Assist
ant Secretary Sawyers modest estimate Of
himself and Secretary Richardson 80 These
two men stand convicted by their own tes-
timonv of having most disgracefully mis-
managed the important national interests
committed to their charge, and of further
inc. through neglect, some of the most
~-andalous frauds ever perpetrated on the
treasury and yet Sawyer claims that those
who have exposed them are not worthy to
loosen the latchets of their shoes! Well,
let him slow in what respect the accusers
are unworthy The latter have given speci-
Gcat5ons of their charges, and the response
has been. substantially. a plea of guilty.
10 follow up that plea with denunciation
of the prosecutors, at the same time neg
Letting to say they have done wrong, is a
very decided piece of audacity on the part
OF Nj. Sawyer
lhe compulsory education act, recently
approved by the Governor of New York.
provides that no child under the age of
fourteen Years shall be employed by any
person to labor in any business whatever
"cH!ng The school hours of any school day
~ 'He school term of the public school in
,., lIe 7chool district of the city where such
'llliu l. unless the employer has Il certifi-
Viit iIon teacher or school officer tnat
'ile chlIo has attended some public or pri-
Na'e day school where instruction was
gwen III the common school branches by a
4"|l'lled teacher or has been regularly
Instructed IN SAID branches by some person
guulHed 10 instruct in the same, at least
lourteen OF the tifty-two weeks next pre-
ctt..ung any and every year in which such
child shall be employed.
1t Is an unusual season for gossip in the
brltlsh metropolis. Parliament is in ses-
son and the new men come in for quizzing
EuWari Jenkins, who has heard himself
called the author Of . Ginx's Baby" till he
mates the name, made most unhappy im-
preston in his first speech. His conceit
ana priSgish style of delivery maddened
Ile House. He happened to speak of " her
h'Ie maJestys government instead OF
her majesty's late government" and the
house beloved back the slip with many
variations 1t turns out that the wonder
i1l political satire, Prince Florestan OF
Nohaco, was written by Sir Charles Dixie.
Nopody suspected him because he was one
the book.