Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-20

Consul at St. Johns, who died last week,
was very largely attended at Shelburn, last
Sunday Over one hundred were present
from Burlington, and various other towns
in the vicinity had representatives there.
Services were held at the Methodist church,
conducted by Rev. Messrs. Atwill and
Royce of the Episcopal church. The pail
bearers were Gen. Grandey of Vergennes;
Gen. Barstow, Col. Plat, t. p. Moves, of
Burlington; L. s Drew Of South Burling-
tom Guy Tracy, E. S. Rowley, Walter A.
Weed, Shelburne.
DEATH OF A WAR or-
General Hartsuff died in New York on
Saturday last, of pneumonia, aged forty
four years. He distinguished himself in
Texas, and afterwards in the late civil
war; was severely wounded at Antietam;
promoted Us full Major-G General. June,
1871. The funeral will take place at West
Point, Wednesday.
The departed glories of the - Anniver-
sary Week" are the theme of wondering
comment in New York. The annual meet
ing of the Missionary, Bible, ben evolent,
and moral reform societies, which used to
gather such overrunning audiences ard
develop such varied eloquence. are reduced
chiefly to mere executive summaries of the
year, like annual meetings of banks and
railroads and insurance companies. The
boards receive their reports, elect their
officers. have their consultations. deter
mine their plans; and then, like other bust
ness men, 90 home.
An international horticultural show is
to be held at Florence in May, from the
11th to the 18th The Tuscan ROYAL Horti-
cultural Society offers 100 medals of gold.
221 of silver and 131 of bronze. and five
grand prizes of honor are offered respec-
lively by the King of Italy, the Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce, the province
of Florence, the town of Florence and the
lady patronesses. Prince Demidoff and
Professor Parlatore have also placed gold
medals for special classes at the disposal of
the committee The International Botani-
cal Congress will be held ut Florence at
the same time.
CAKES AMES' EsTATE-The assets of
the estate of the late Cakes Ames has de-
preciated to such an extent that the exc
cutors have CONCLUDED TO represent the
: estate insOlvent. In the probate court ut
Taunton, Judge Bennett has appointed
commissioners. 1t is believed the estate
| will be able to pay nearly OF quite in full,
with sufficient time in which to realize
from investments, many of which are in
southern bonds and stocks The estate
was currently reported worth $4,000, 900
to 100000, at the time of Mr.. Ames'
d eath.
GOOD TEMPLARS.-Th twentieth annual
session of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge
of Good Templars, which opens ut Boston
on Monday evening next, will probably be
the most important one in the history of
the order. There will be 200 or 800 dele
gates from all parts of the world. repre-
senting 6000 members. The order
claims to be the largest one in the world
except the Masons and Odd Fellows The
delegates from abroad are already on their
way.
Newspapers SO fairly represent the cur
rent of public opinion that a canvass Just
made i'll the Northwest must be taken as
Just indication of the sentiment of that
part of the country upon national finance.
OF 933 newspapers in nine states of the
, Northwest, 514 have responded in favor
of the Presidents veto of the imitation bill
40S are opposed to the Presidents views.
and the remainder are non-committal
There does not seem to be any need of re-
plying to the loose and oft-repeated asser-
ton of one or two intlationists in Congress
that the West wants more currency, and
Twill have it." But if there were, this
little straw ought to be sufficient to show
which way the wind blows.
The genial editor of The Louisville
, COurier-J0ur7adt wrote a letter the other
day from Washington, saying that his OBJ
servations there tended to convince him
that the inevitable purpose of the Presi-
dents mind and heart is nothing less =. than
that sort of personal government to which
Prince Louis Napoleon addressed himself
after his elevation to the Chief Magistracv
of the French Republic. The Cincinnati
r Commercial declines to be alarmed at this
n prospect, and while it admits the possibility
+ of Gen. Grants desiring a reelection, it
adds: SHOULD he become President a
l third time it will be by the consent of the
American people, in accordance with the
/, forms of the Constitution, and without any
surrender of sovereignty on the part of
those who would hurl from the Executive
chair and grind to fine dust any man who
should presume to hold the Presidential
4 office one hour beyond the time to which
: he is entitled to exercise its prerogatives. )
e The current reports about snow-drifts
: and such things reminded the Christian
Union, the other day, of" a Vermont story
which we heard in our boyhood' On
a July day, early in the present century,
the mail-stage was passing over Cabot
d plain" when passenger observed wo-
4 man, armed with a br DAD, wooden shovel.
digging into a snow-drift by the roadside.
:" Why, madam said the traveller.
g g" don't you take the snow at the top of
i the drift, instead of taking the trouble to
) dig so deep" "Oh!" replied the wo-
man, the. snow that is three or four wears
old is a great deal the best!''