Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1875-09-15

latest news from herzegovina leaves little
doubt that the backbone of the rebellion
has been broken, and that some kind of I,
peace will be patched up ere many days.
Specials to the London papers from Con-
stantnople represent that the insurrecton-
ary forces are already reduced to bands of
robbers. The porte is growing polite and
has instructed Servia Pasha, the commits
sioner to Herzegovina, who has started for
Mostar, to issue a proclamation giving as
surance that henceforward no vexations or
Illegal acts will be permitted in the name
of the government. He has al-o been di-
rccted to dismiss and punish officials guilty
of depressing the people; TO institute a
special tribunal. which shall examine and
satisfy the demands of those who have
been the objects of arbitrary treatment; to
recall any persons eXiled without Just
cause, and to eXpel all agitatorS. He is
authorized to employ all necessary means
TO execute these instructions.
Another story of brutality in Il lunatic
asylum is out. Nelson MaSee, u New
York commission merchant, formerly of
Berkshire county, and an officer in Mass
chusetts regiment in the war, has been
released from the Kings county asylum,
upon the threat of legal proceedings by
his wife. He was in Just fifty days, having
been thrown in under the temporary delir-
ilIm of sun stroke To make Il long story
short, he was constantly reviled and abused, |
and saw other patients similarly treated.
His wife was covered with the most op-
probrious epithets to his face. and, when
he resented such treatment, he was put in
Il strli Jacket by brutal German keepers
and nearly pounded to death. and threat
ened with death itself. All this might be
the fiction of u lunatic. but the scars and
welts upon Mr.. Magee's body can hardly
be products of the imagination.
SlICIDE.--A man named Elisha Merritt
committed suicide 1T the lookup, at
Springfield. Mass. Thursday evening, I'd
by hanging himself from the bar of the
grating over the cell door with rope
made of strips of his cell blanket He
was arrested on a telegram from Sheriff
S w. Stimson, of Windsor county. VT.
for forgeries committed at keene, n. H.,
and Cavendisb, Vt. The first was for a
trifling amount.and he was arraigned for it |
about six weeks ago, and was bailcd out
by his nephew. II. l.. Merritt. of Caven-
dish, who took his uncle home with him. |
But the latter was ungrateful enough |
to forge his nephew's name for 80, for
which offence a warrant against him was
placed in the hands of Sheriff Stimson.
Merritt came to Burlington and then went
to Rutland. in both places getting into |
trouble by his efforts to raise money. after
which he went to Springfield, and was AZ
rested there. Merritt was 80 years old, |
and. half Il dozen years ago, had property
and Il large salary tinishcr in Il woolen
mill in Maine.
Public opinion is divided rs to the guilt
or innocence of Mr.. Beecher. rs it was
when the trial began. Nor is this differ
ence between distinct classes of men. as
the good and the bad. the learned and un-
learned Ministers of the Gospel, hol ling
the most influential stations. and having
the reputation for pietv and talents, take
precisely opposite views of the question.
This we affirm from actual knowledge of
the opinions of Il large number of clergy
men-NeW YORK. Ot<errtr.
A GREAT RAIN-In the last fortv-one
wears we have had only one rain-according
to the records of DIR. Caswell-that fell at
so rapid 4 rate rs that of yesterday. and
then the amount was less. being 3.lJ
inches. willie Yesterday the amount was
;. Il inches But in the first case, July l..
1870. the whole amount fell in about an
hour. and Yesterday it was about IN hour
and Il half in falling. 1t is estimated that
Il part of the rain fell ut the rate of more
than , II inches per hour. The only 9th
cr record of rainfall within the torty-one
wears approaching this rate was on June
-, 1873, when 332 inches fell in about
an hour-Pr0ciitncc JOUr1ltI, 13H.
TIE ACIIUsETTs CENSUS-Thc
first aggregates of population for the
whole State will be sent by Colonel
Wright of the Census Bureau to the Secrc-
tarv of State next week, and will show a
still larger number than has been cstima-
ted In Boston the population will not
much exceed OF fall short of 34p,0WD. and
in the whole State outside of Boston there
will be nearly or quite ,4oo, oo,OoO-giving
L total from 80, 900 to 1.1Jo,ooo. against
Il reported total of Az 900 in 1870. This
will give a Gain Of nearly or quite twenty
per cent i'll ten years. The order OF the
cities after Boston will be Worcester,
Cambridge. Lowell, Fall River, Lawrence,
| Lynn. Springtield Salem. New Bedford;
cities of Chelsea, which contains only
%. .692. or about the same number as
Taunton; Somerville, IIolvoke, Newton
and Gloucester will show large gains, but
neither of these is quite correctly footed up.
Salem will not vary far from 10000. Fall
River has A., ,296, and Lowell. after its
second enumeration and all its anncxa-
tionS. less than 40 600 Cambridge will
show about 1000. Springfield about 80.
900, Worcester between $4,000 and $1,000.
Lynn. which had almost rs many lnhabl
tants in 1870 us Lawrence. is now more
than 2OOO short, AMI Springfield has near
Iy Overtaken Lynn. Chelsea has gained
2l4j in five vears-less than twelve per
cent-and IIavcrhll has gained only
eleven per cent since 1870, while Win
chester and Needham has gained more
than twenty per cent. and other country
towns near Boston have made even
larger g:,in-Boston Transcript.
Tie NORTHERN PACIFIC EEORGANIZA-
TION-'Ihc reorganization of the Northern
Pacific railroad by the owners of its bonds
goes on most admirably. The sale to their
committee has been confirmed; and the
bond holders, becoming the stock holders,
are to meet on the 3O;h of September to
choose their directors, and to take actual
possession of their property. Over two
thirds of the thirty millions of bonds have
already accepted the arrangement, The
door is still open for all the the rest to come
in. And now the important question to
the resumption and completion of the great
enterprise is the selection of the right men
for its practical leaders. The new compa-
nv will have so miles of completed road
and nine million acres of land, all free of
debt, which would certainly seem a good
bottom for the new money-nOt more then
ten millions at the outside-necessary to
build the road on into Montana. And, when
there. it certainly ought to earn enough to
pay expenses and interest on its new loan.
| leaving to its lands and its future growth
a good prospect for ultimate full return to
il nriniual honI-nOlders the new stock