Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-07-22

AldAllilO NOIHCZ, W IlittlItio VI tJ'tiitH'
Lncia, and to President Cisneros; that he
wrote an account of the battle of Narango
and brought out some letters from insur-
gents, but says his motive was self-defense
He compromised himself through weeks Of
exposure, of danger and half starvation
He was held against his own will within
the insurgent lines, and it was to escape
therefrom that he did acts for which he is
charged with being an active insurgent
The Spanish fiscal appears to have accus
ed Dockeray of being an agent of the
United States government, sent to Cuba
in the interest of the belligcrent rights Of
the insurgents.
The gauge of the Grand Trunk road
will be changed on the Goth day of Sep
tember at which time the fifty new loco
motives contracted for will be ready fo1
use Five hundred and forty miles Of
road are yet to be changed, and this will
be done in one day, when the company
will have about fourteen hundred miles OF
track on the American gauge. Then the
Boston and Maine cars will be run to Au-
burn and Lewiston, making through
route without change to Boston.
THE REPUBLICAN ADDREss.-The Union
Republican Congressional Committee has
issued long address to the people of the
United States, 1t is review of the
claims of the republican party to the con.
tdence of the nation and of the claims OF
the democracy to the distrust of the ma
ton. Though pretty solid reading the
points are sharply made, and are so de
serving the attention and thought of the
people before an important election, that
we intend giving the whole or the greater
part of the address in our columns next
week.
Mr. Benjamin Moran, it is now said.
declines his nomination by the President
as Third Assistant Secretary of State We
trust that Mr.. Moran may, if he chooses,
remain in London many years, to render
further good service in American diploma
cy, or be promoted to some other first class
mission and do 50.
Mr.. J. A. Froule is about to leave Eng
land for n year or two. He starts in
August on tour of inspection, visiting
all the English Colonies, beginning with
the Cape and ending with Canada. Mr.
Froude's opinions on colonial government
are well known, and valuable report on
his return from his journey round the
world may be expected
BARNUMS HIPPoDROME.-Mr Barnum
announces the removal from New York
to Boston of his great hippodromic enter
tainment, which has been the admiration
of the people of New York since its open
ing early this spring 1t will be exhibited
in Boston for three 'ceeks only, commencing
August 3,
Prof. Watson, ofthe University of Mich
igan. accompanied by other astronomers,
are on the way to stations in China and
Japan, where they will observe the transit
of Venus. Four carloads of astronomical
instruments preceded them.
Mr. Gamaliel Smith, who erected for
the late Prof. Morse, the first line of tele-
graph poles in the country, between Wash
ington and Baltimore, in 1914, died at his
residence in Newfield, Me-, Il few DAYS
ago at an advanced age
The Senate Naval Committees pleasure
trip to the various Navy Yards on the
Pacific coast is delayed for few days by
an accident to the United States steamer
which is placed at their disposal 1t is
too bad thus to disappoint these dignified
pleasure-Seekers.
RETIREs.-Capt Joel c. Baker, who has
been editor of the Rutland Herald for a
year past, has resigned that position, to
take effect, the last of August, and will
then resume the practice of law.
Capt. Bakers work upon the Herald has
been very creditable to himself and to
the live paper on which he has worked.
The enterprise of the HeralGs publishers
will, we doubt not, see that Mr.. Baker is
succeeded by some one who will keep up
the standard of the paper.
HONEST CONGRESSMEN.- All intelligent
New Englanders, whether they have been
in the habit of calling themselves repub-
licans or " democrats" are agreed about
the Importance of making integrity the
rule in our public life; about the impor-
lance of genuine and radical reform in
our civil service; about the importance of
combining the general government to its
proper duties, among which are not canal
digging and railroad building; about the
mlschlevousness and peril of imitation ::
about the wickedness and suicidal madness
OF reputation; about the ACCESSIBILITY of
getting back to specie payments as speed
lily as possible. On these points-except
possibly, the third-there is practically no
difference of opinion in New England !:
certainly no difference represented by ex-
isting party lines. If, then, the present
representative of any district accurately
and faithfully reflects the mind of his con-
stituents upon these vital issues of the dav
if. over and above this, he is a man of
proved capacity and integrity,-no matter
whether he calls himself republican OF
democrat,-he is a man to be reelected,
and it will be a disgrace to the intelligent
people of his district if he is defeated.
The bigger his majority, the more credit
able to him. 1t behooves American con-
stituencies fortunate enough to be served
by Hoar, Hawley, Willard, Cox, a
Potter, a Phelps to hold on them. To
vote for the poorer man simply on account
of the party label, always foolish perfer-
nance, becomes, at this time and in the
the actual condition of things in this coun-
try, the very height of folly. There is
absolutely no excuse for it.-Sprinafeld
Republican,.