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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

MIsrAKEN.-The old adage 1t is hard
to learn an old dog new tricks" is being
illustrated in the new order of things at
Washington. A newly appointed special
agent of the Post Office Department for
one of the Southern states recently wrote
to the Postmaster General Key, complain
ing that instead of organizing an admins
tration party he had TO tend to the bust
ness of the department. He probably felt
rs if Il mistake had been made some
where when he received the follow
ing letter.
Wonder if he will consider his duties
too arduous and resignP
Posr-OFFIcE DEPARTMENT
Mr.. Special Agent-Dear Sir: Mr.. Parker,
chief Of the special agents OF this department mas
inst. You certainly labor under serious misaDpre-
hension in the belief that it was my understanding
deserve the position hold were to make that or sim
liar understandings The special agens Oh the ire
portant duty of detecting thieves and rascals stran
is likely to succeed in this duty than one VINO
is well known; hence our agents must often Oe sent
where they are unknown, must 60 and be ready 70 r.
service may demand They must often leave the high
ways of travel and go into the mountains and terri
night and day in rain sunshine and storm to detect
and arrest offenders. Not unrequently do our agents
another matter You were not appointed to organize
and build an administration party IN your stte on
elsewhere. You appointed to do the work Oh the
post office department You serve your party Dest Dy
dong that work and shall take great pleasure u IT,
cover that he has time to attend to party
aud party discipline We must have no greater force
| than do the post Office WORK, cannot
dare not viii not, give special prlVeges 70 a. any
for every other agent l might as well disband the
| force as do this Every agent must be worker; he
must not only be ready, but willing to 80 anywhere
i'll all sorts Of weather, on horseback or foot II need
he, TO do Whatever work is needed Like soldier mt
must obey orders without complaint, or objection OIL
D.. KEY, Postmaster re General.
Another case was that of a delegation Of
clerks that had been discharged from one
of the larger post offices and who waited
on the postmaster-general and laid tFeir
grievances before him, representing thai
the new postmaster had discharged faith
full and efficient clerks themselves, Of
course) and had made poor appointments
also that the present postmaster was not
loyal to the administration. Mr.. Key
promised TO lay their case before the presi-
dent. The following letter shows the con-
clusion:
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, |
Washington, ID. G.
DEAR sIRs:-I have seen the President and present
ed to him the papers you filed in this department IN
fully considered The same Your records seem to be
ven e hs the ee
conducted at present, and that special agent has
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20
TIE MARKETS.
BOSTON Market

BOSTON MARKET.
ReBorttddnd tettgrdphed srpressil tor thee
Mountain Freeman,
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET
ATCAM RGDGEAN BRIGHTO,
For the peek ending Tuesdcg, June lg, 4,
cattle sheep, ShoteS, Hons Ii
This week, 3,O3i j93s 81 CHS
Last week 2,o2s 2,9!l lol 80
PKICEs.-Beef CntNp-Extra tat andu4a,.
MUM Oxen IS j00S9OO. first quality, i,
82j; second quality, oiG7ja1!j, lnIri gps
ALLOW aud lressed beel. a lcwchoicG ,lugI,
sO.OO0800 on Bulls, &c Sj,jOlj1j
VOrEiitJ OreH-Sl2Jd2!O per paIr, or a.
ing to their value as beef. Steers, iS1al.i
Stitch CowS.-S2j ais; extra good, ii
with or without calves, as may Gcagrepd +,
and ordinary, Sl6Os3J yearlngs Sl0Wdy
wear Odds, Slj.G0G30. 3-year Oils, S!5uUai.
Sheep. Live weight 5dICi extra, 7tds. :
Veal Cdtees-S+ OOdj ~ T. head.
Hides.-Brgnton, 7lC, country lOts, 7d,.r
cali skins, lOdllc + h.; Pelts with wooIou /
) 80 each. TailOw &c; country lots sass
REMARKs-CNttle arrived freely during lbg
and the rise effected last week ht- ,uu. Ida,
so rates are not materially changed from lvUI
ago. The market to-day is very dull HIT
4 swift sold two carloads Of steers, gro,, n
Al 1925 lbs, at &c y ID, and one car. Dad d, 40
| lye-all fine steers; y, W. BiChlOrl ,old two
to dress 900 lbs each, at SIC - lib, IRE I
| sold oxen at I "a q SC, and Two steers at 10
| dressed weight.
The sheep are mostly from the west Mr.
sold lorty-two sheep and lambs, ayeJasc 81
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FINANCIAL TROUBLES.

Another banker. this time u German
named Gerndt, has absconded leaving his
depositors with nothing. lie wasn't n
great thief, only Sl25,000 was taken by
him, but when it is considered that this
money was the all of thousand poor
laborers, widows and girls, who had put
each their little pittance where it was sup
posed to be safe, that they might have it
to pay rent and for food against the day
when there could be no work procured,
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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

The Jealous politicians who hasten e
Washington to assist in reforming the CIV "
service continue to meet with disappoint
ment, The President has great capacity
for absorbing advice--but he doesn't oea
out the pap worth cent.
The 7ribune's special says Col. Whar
tons recommendation for the Louisiana
marshalship show that his appointment
was asked for by nearly all the members
of the Packard government, from Packard
down, and also by prominent conserV"
lives.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-06-20

The Tiidune's special says the total
amount of national bank note circulation
is 1902, 7000 900, and remains stationary. II
has been but little lower than this figure,
and at no time has it reached $500. 100000
the limit at which it stood until it was au-
thorized in 1869. The greenback circula,
ton is S3600O0,000. The treasurer hopes
before September to get it back to $780,.
100000, at which it stood before Richard
son put out the legal tenders retired by
McCulloch.
, 1877-10-05
How to Learn to Swim.

Every boy should know how TO swim,
and girls, too, for that matter. How
many trsgedies would be avoided If
youth would but acquire the simple art
Of learning how to swiml 1t has been
well said that man is the only animal
that loses himself in the water. As the
season OF swimming is at hand, we ap.
pend directions for acquiring the art of
swimming, as furnished 10y correspond.
ent OF the american Agrielturist.
When | was Il boy | learned to swim by
means ot a swimming board. This is
the safest method possible. II corks are
used they may slip from around the
breast down beneath the body, throwing
the head below the surface, aud putting
the wearer in danger of drowning. Some
country boys get two bladders and then
tie them together with short cord, and
use them as supports. They are the
most dangerous things possible for boy
to have. The board is perfectly safe, and
one may learn to swim in very short
time by using one. 1t should be over
four feet long, over foot wide, and two
inches thick, made Of soft white pine or
cedar.
To use it boy wades into the water
up TO his shoulder, then taking hold of
the end of the board he pushes it before
him--towards the hank, aud not into
deeper water springs forward with his
feet, and throws himself fiat upon the
water This movement carries him along
few feet. He them draws up both his
legs at the same time, keeping the knees
as far apart as possible, and then strikes
out with both feet, not straight back
ward, but sideways, just as a frog does.
The stroke is made slowly, and is re-
peated again, drawing up the legs slowly
and steadily. The board keeps the head
above water. When the leg g-stroke has
been learned, one hand is taken from the
board and the stroke learned, or the chin
may be rested on the board while the
stroke is taken with both hands. This
is very good plan, as it compels the
swimmer to keep his hands under the wa
ter, which he should always do. By-and-
by the board may be pushed ahead, and
the young swimmer may swim after it,
always keeping it within reach. When a
number Of boys go to swim, they should
always have two or three of these boards
with them for use in case of any acci-
dent.
, 1877-10-05
Thomas Carlyle's Father.

Of the five brother masoDs, James Car.
lyle, though not the eldest, WAs the virtu-
al leader The brothers usually worked
together, but it WAS James who acted As
"master," making contracts for building
aud repairing cottages, the Others work.
ing under him, If not quite As servants,
yet in some sort Of dependency. James
Carlyle Vas acknowledged far and vide,
not only as the most skilliul man at his
trade, but sagacious in all his undertak-
ings, and with a store Of knowledge, de-
rived from study and observation, that
VAS the astonishment of strangers with
whom he came in contact. He was par.
ticularly noted for his habit Of using
quaint and uncommon expressions, de-
rived, probably, from extensive reading
OF old books, chiefly such as related TO
the times of the Reformation and the
deeds of the Covenanters. There now
lives at Eccefechan, where she Was born
and spent all her life, an old lady, past
ninety, yet still full of intelligence and
vivacity, Mrs. Muligau, who remember
ing James Carlyle most distinctly, was
able, when asked, to give a singularly
striking account of him. "Old James,
aye! What root (originaD of bodie
he was" the old lady exclaimed, with
singular animation; faye, curious bodie;
he beat this warld. A spirited bodie; he
would sit on no mans coat-tals. And
sic stories he could tell Sic sayings,
too! Sic names he would give to things
and folk! Sic words he had as were
never heard before!'' Continuing her de-
scription of James Carlyle, of whom she
evidently was sincere admirer, Mrs.
Mulligan added, in answer to question,
ut is not true that he was ever an elder
OF the kirk. He never belonged to the
auld kirk he and all his brothers were
members of the Relief Church here. He
never held any Office that | knew of; nay,
not he; but he always spoke out his mind
at meetings" And, in answer to another
question, the old lady went on with her
description of James Carlyle: "He was
the best of the brothers; there Gamma be
any doot about that. But l think they
sometimes led him into trouble. He was
a good scholar, he could do his ain busi.
ness well, and was looked up to as a
knowing bodie. He had old fashioned
words, like nobody else. He red muckle;
he was a great talker, weel gifted with
the tongue. 1t was muckle treat to be
in his house at ncht, to hear him tell sto-
ries and tales. But he was always very
strict old bodie, and could bear no con-
tradiction." Such was James, the father
of Thomas Carlyle. ru
, 1877-10-05
Don't be Funny.

run IS like murder, in that there ara
two kinds of people who ought not 10 hs
punished for committing it: those who
cannot help 1t, and those who do no,
know they are guilty of it. But any in
olyldual, who with malice aforethouoh,
ana no provocation, goes to work TO he
funny ought to be put out of the COM
munity. Some men are so charged with
Wit they can no more hinder its f,ash
than summer cloud bristling with elec-
tricity can smother up the liehtnino
Such men are public blessings. Again
there are humorous people, full of oddest
conceits, all their own, who make dull
outlooks sunshiny. They may not be he.
folc characters, or even self.sacriRcinp.
but martyrs are not grilled on gridiroas
every day, nor countries saved at regular
intervals; 80 the hero market is never
exhausted, while the demand is constant
for these gay peace-makers. Their value
never tiuctuates. We have heard of a
home possessing one-a house wherein
the cook gets periodically, as the humble
preacher puts it, "fearfully and wonder.
fully mad" She strides up stairs to give
"&arnin'," putting, blowing, squirting
out wrath, like an over-hot a-kettle.
The good man, who can't help being
funny, sits in judgment on her case.
The result is always the same. Bridget
steals sheepishly out; at intervals through
the day, she filings her apron over her
head and relapses into wild levity. Ask,
"What ails you Biddyg" And the answer
is always the same: 80, but the mas
ther passes such comics on me-" The
baby cries after him, as the true soothing
syrup, and the children get joked out Of
awkwardness, meanness and juvenile frail-
ties. The little mother, tired and Just
ready to scold, turns q sharp corner into
some closet and laughs hysterically at
his timely jest. Woman-like, if he can
make her do it, he shall not see his tri-
umph. uf.
But to the real subjects of our scrutiny:
The people whose fancies are "as dry as
the remainder biscuit after a voyage"
but who cherish the idea that witticisms
are as easy TO make as good resolutions.
If one just goes systematically to work.
1t would be revelation to them to-
realize that one joke differs from another,
as fy-specked lemon-drop, out of an
antique grocery, differs from strawberry
crisp with dew.
Let man be lacking in almost any
other mental endowment, and if he does
not openly acknowledge it, he is particu-
lary careful to avoid any strain in the
direction of that missing link. What man
ignorant of time, rhythm, notes, and the
whole theory of music, ever offers to lead
a choir or to perform a solo in public z
Where is there one, without mathemat-
icsl mind, who longs TO calculate eclipsesa
But the world is overrun with people
who are forever trying to be funny, al
though they have not wit enough to salt
them.
If the good God gave you the gift of
wit, use It well if you are without il, take
heed to old omas-a-Kempis: "What
thou art that thou art and thou canst not
make thyself other" ~
, 1877-10-05

disiayor, and ceased 10 be sold at the
roadside inns and taverns, formerly their
principal depots; and none were made in
that old English town, except, | suppose,
now and then a painful on the sly, 10y
some white-h haired old baker, just to see
tina, the cunning had not left his hand,
or perhaps for his pretty grandchildren
who had heard their fathers talk many a
time of the battle of Banbury Cross, aud
wondered how the cakes tasted whose
name had passed into a aprOverb.
Now, when Charles ii. became King
of England, taat monarch "who never
said foolish thing and never did a wise
one the Banbury bakers began to see
bright times ahead OF them, and to get
down old dusty receipt books that had
been laid away ON the shelves by their
fathers with leaf turned down at Ban
bury cakes" For a Merrie Monarch had
come To rule them who lived for the in
dulgence Of his appetite and cared little
for matters of state or party quarrels.
And so once more the time came when
hungry, belated travellers, stopping at
English inns on country roads, were
served with tankards Of foaming ale and
hot Banbury cakes to send them on their
way rejoicing.
AT the present day these cakes are
more widely sold than ever, and in 1S4l
five thousand were sold weekly, large
shipments being made to America and
India. On the marriage of Victoria Ade-
aide, the Queens eldest daug ghter, to
Frederick William, of Prussia, the Ban
burians rebuilt the cross in honor of the
ceremony. Every year they exhibit a
pageant in which lady, beautifully
dressed, rides through the town upon
white horse. She is preceded by Robin
Hood, Little John, and Friar Tuck;
company of archers, with bands of music,
flags and banners, follow. After march
ing up and down the principal streets
they halt in front Ct the cross, where the
lady, Maid Marian, distributes to the
poor people Of the town baskets of Ban
bury cakes.-Christian Union.
, 1877-10-05
The Origin of Vaccination.

All honor to the name of the immortal
Jenner, who sleeps in his quiet grave on
the green cliffs of Folkestone. What a
glorious morning 'for England, home,
and beauty" was that of the 14th of May,
1856, the birthday of vaccination On
that day matter was taken from the hand
of Sarah Nelmes, who had been infected
while milking her masters COW, and this
matter was inserted by two superficial in
cisiOns into the arms of James Phipps, a
healthy boy of about eighteen years of
age. He went through the disease in a
regular and satisfactory manner; but the
most agitating part of the trial still re-
mained to be tried. 1t was needful to as
certain whether he was free from the con-
tagion of smallpox. This point, so full
Of anxiety to DIR. Jenner, was fairly put
to is ssueon the first Of the following July.
Smallpox matter, taken Immediately
from a smallpox pustule, was carefully
inserted by several incisions, but no dis
ease followed. Now, by this one simple
and brave experiment upon the lad james
Phipps, DIR. Jenner established law
which the experience of millions upon
millions of human beings, in generations
since, has only served to strengthen. 1t
is wonderful, too, to think that there can
be a single individual in these islands who
cannot see, at glance, the simplicity,
beauty, and truth of this law. There is
no contagion in the world so certain and
sure as the contagion of small.pox-not
even that of hydrophObia or rabies in
the dog. The very emauations or exha-
lations from the body Of any one sick of
the smallpox, is breathed by a healthy
person, are, in many instances sufficient
to induce the disorder; and yet there is
this healthy young boy, James Phipps,
who receives the smallpox matter into his
very blood, and still he does not take the
disease l-CdsSeil's Magazine.
, 1877-10-05
The Mosquito.

There must be some wise reason for
everything. Therefore, there must be
one for the musquito. 1t is hard to be-
lieve so; but / came to the conclusion,
the other day, after battle with very
savage one, that they were sent to pre-
vent any one from being even for mo-
ment contented with this wicked world.
When the baby is in the crsdle sleeping
the sleep of innocence, do they not bite
his cherubic nose and waken him to
shrek and cause his mother, who has just
declared that she is "rid of him for an hour
or two, thank goodnessW to feel like
shrieking alsoG
Do. they not come at the time when ma
ture is brightest and people likeliest to
he happy2 Do they not sting the lone
fisherman, and change rejoicing in his
magnificent "bite," to misery, because OF
their bitesl
Do they not hum fiendishly between
ones eyes and the pages of delightful
book, and cause one to lose interest IN
the bewitching heroine and gallant nero
just as they areabout to go down together
in the briny deep, or just as the c,uei
rival is creeping up behind with dag
gerl And do they not fendishly pers,e-
cute those otherwise blessed people-me
lovers who take moonlight walks, aRa
cause them to cease kissing each othaf,
in ordertoslap themselvesi Veal know
they do. Evidently, musquitoes were
sent here for the purpose of giving happy
people something to be miserable about
Mary Ryle Dallas, in N, y. Ledger.
, 1877-10-05
TennysOn.

The great poet enjoys the comforts OF
life in quiet, unobtrusive fashion. His
house is modern Gothic, designed in ad-
mirable taste, with wide muliioned win
dows, many-angled oriels in shadowy re.
cesses, and dormers whose gables and
pinnacles break the sky. line picturesque.
ly. Within, everything is ordered with a
quiet refined elegance quite in keeping
with the character of its owner. The
hall, in spite of its richly tassellated
pavement, has delightful sense of cool.
ness in its half-light. The lofty rooms
have broad, high windows, the light from
which is tempered by deicately colored
hangings; walls of the negative tints in
which modern decorators delight, dia-
percd with dull gold; and paneled cell
ings of darkly-stained wood with mould
ed ribs and beams. High-backed chairs,
of ancient and incorporating stiffness,
flank the table, typifying the poets stern
er moods; while in cozy corners are COM
Portable lounges that indicate tendency
to yield sometimes to the seductions of
soft dreams and inspirations. There are
no glaring colors. The paintings are
good; among them an excellent copy of
the Peter Martyr, which is doubly valu-
able since the destruction of the original.
But there is one room in which all that
is most interesting in this house centers,
The door opens noiselessly, and the tread
of your feet is muffled as you enter dim
corridor, divided from the room by a
high screen. The air is heavy with the
odor of an incense not unfamiliar to men
of letters; and if you could doubt whence
it arose, your doubts would be speedily
dissolved as the occupant of the chamber
comes forward to meet you, the insepara-
able pipe still between his teeth.
, 1877-10-05

ENGLISH FooT- -BALL.-Our English
games are, as a rule, manly and healthy,
demanding courage, endurance, and fine
temper; but in some cases they can hard
ly be called sane. To the uninitiated on
locker, the game Of football is one of the
most mysterious performances which it is
possible to contemplate. 1t would ap-
pear to be called football, on the lucas a
non lueeadO principle, because the ball is
hardly ever kicked. After the first "kick
off, II is seized 10y one of the players,
who runs with il In his arms as fast and
as far as he can. His opponents forth.
with set upon him, and, if possible, knock
him down. Then there Is general strug-
gle foF the bail. of course, the posses.
sion Of IL lies between two or three men
in the centre Of the throng; but all the
rest close around them with the exception
II certain persons Who, appointed for the
purpose, with hands on knees intenily
watch the "scrimmagc.' Every one la
the main body pushes and struggles Gs
vigorously AZ may BE-, and the outer ones
pu, down their heads, and butt like goats
against their friends. There Is nothing
b. bc SEGA bat a wfi,hing, swaying, con.
fased macs Of humanity, frum which a
column Of steam rises into the wintry air.
Az length, those 10 the centre arc com.
pslled 10 drop the ball, and after innu-
merable kicks at each others shins, IL Is
pushed out of the little forest Of legs,
NhereupOu one Of the outside watchers
makes a snatch At il and carries Il few
yards, when he Is in turn set upon by his
adversaries, aad the same scene is re-
peated.--Tihslsy.
, 1877-10-05

WE are complaining Of bard times in
this country. In India the sum of $32,-
500 600 has been expended in appropria
tions Of from two 10 three cents per day to
keep the people from starving--thati is 10
say, the sggregaie Of time during which
the people Of the famine districts have
subsisted on such allowances would be a
year each 20 over 100000 Of people.
The price Of glass Of larger beer per
day 10 zach would be opulouoe and joy 10
the Shaving myriais. ia the best times
thcy have not bad the price of tolerable
cigar per day on which % subsist.