Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-03-16

ElfSUAAL.

16. 1877.
rEnsUAAL.
Col. Henry 4. Smalley is now on Oi the
principal uroprietors and managing editor
Of the New York Star.
Alter an exciting election, on Tuesday, ex-
Professor and ex-senator j. W. Patterson
was elected by the students vote to represent
the town of Hanover i'll the New Hampshire
Legislature
The New York Herald reports the receipt
OF three letters from Stanley. dated at Ujiji,
Angus. :, ionr months later than the last
previous advices from him. lie has cJm-
pletely surveyed Lake Tanganyika,
Gen. W. W Grout was to lecture on
Robert Burns, at Montpelier last evening.
the Montpelier Wa'chmGn says of DR..
Lord: "Dr Lord has been losing strength
during the past week. His disease seems to
baille the effHs Of his physicians, and great
anxiety is felt by all his friends a. to the
result" DIR. Lords disease il poisoning Of
the blood, from inaction Of tho kidneys.
Washington dispatches say that Senator
Edmunds has been quite Ill, and is not ex-
pected to be in his seat again, during the
present session of the Senate. lie was re:
ported somewhat better on Saturday, but
his physicians desire him to take trip
Southwark, to break up the intermittent
fever, by s change of air.
Vice-President Wheeler has appointed
his private Secretary. Edwin Z. Dickinson,
son of Hon. Wells Dickinson, of Bangor,
N. Y. Young Dickinson is graduate of
the University Of Vermont, of the class of
~. and is young gentleman whose char
acter and courteous bearing will make him
an acquisition to Mr.. Wheeler.
Miss Mary A. Burnham, formerly precep-
tress in the Montpelier and Rutland Academ-
les and more recently Of WELLESLEY Female Col
lege, has been applied ITO take charge of a
young ladies seminary, to be established at
Northampton, Mass, with Il view especially
to preparing girls for admission to the new
Smith Female College, and has consented to
take the position.
At the meeting OF the National Butter
and Cheese Association in Chicago, last
week, o. s. Bliss, Secretary Of the Vermont
Dairymen 5 Association, read an article on
the dairy, showing that the ideal COW would
makea net profit to the owner OF Sl22 per
year.
Senator Eimunds' illness is severe at
tack of neuralgia, accompanied with a
catarrhal difficulty. He was expected to
leave Washington for Southern trip, yes
terday.
PERHAPS no portion of the history of the
late Judge Smalley is dwelt on with more
satisfaction by the general public than his
loyal stand for the Union before the out
break of the war. Ia his celebrated charge
to the grand jury of the United States
Circuit Court, in New York city, on the
Iith Of January, 1851, ne instructed them
that all persons engaged in furnishing arms
to the South should be indicted and prose-
"The combination and assemblage of a body of
men with a design ofsezins and the actual seizing
Of the forts and other public property in and
Charleston, C., and some O her States, are levy
ing of war gainst the United States, consequently
any and every pers n " no engages therein. Is by
law regarded rs levying war against the United
States and all who adhere TO them are to be re-
garded as enemies and all who give them aid and
comfort, in South Carolina or elsewhere come with
In the express provisions Of the first section Of the
act Of April. 1870. and are guilty Of treason
hat uhh 10 and iU7r al
and comfort to our enemies II Is somewhat Diff
cult, in all cases. to define; hut certain 1t Is that
furnishing them with arms or munitions Of war,
vessels or ether means Of transportation, or any
materials which will aid the traitors In carrying
ont their traitorous purposes. with knowledge
that they are inteniet Tor such purpose, or inct-
Ing others to enga, in or aid tho traitors in any
way, does come within the provisions OF the act
and it is immateral whether such acts are induced
BY sympathy with the rebellion, hostility 10 the
government or a uesre Of gain.
''under the SECOND section Of the act Of 1890, all
who have any knowledge of any such acts OF trea-
son, and do not, as soon poss BILE, make it known
in the manner therein prescribed, are guilty Of
misprison Of treason, and suhjeet to the punish
ment therefor"
" This charge" says a writer in the Rut-
land Herald, "startled the country, and
opened the eyes Of the South to the unity
ofthe North in opposing secession. 1t sent an
electric thrill through the heart the loyal
North. then trembling with apprehension,
and the Judge was warmly thanked by the
recently elected President Lincoln and the
entire Northern press.
While thus earnestly opposing disunion
and the iniraction Of the laws against the
slave trade, he resisted with equal energy
the encroachment Of the War Department
upon the rights of the citizens and the judi
ciary. In September. 1862, q conflict arose
between him and Secretary Stanton. in the
Circuit Court of Vermont, in which the
Judge was entirely triumphant. lie issued |
a writ of babeas corpus in the cases of
three men illegally imprisoned under orders |
from the War Department. in which Senator |
Edmunds and W. G. Shaw, Esq, appeared |
for the REALTORS. Secretary Stanton ordered |
the Marshal to disobey the writ. Judge
fearlessly denounced the arbitrary
and illegal act Of the Secretary. fined the
Marshal for contempt, AMI suspended him
from acting as an officer of the court until
he purged himself The mon were released,
the fine was paid, and the obnoxious general
order on which the men were arrested was
revoked by the Secretary. This was before
the suspension Of the writ OF habeas corpus,
which event occurred not long after
The University and state Agricultural College.
The editor Of the NeiO England Farmer,
one of the best of the agricultural news
paper, and circulating largely in Vermont.
was in attendance upon the meeting of the
Dairymen's Association in Burlington. In
The last number of his paper. he speaks as
follows of the Agricultural College and of
Prof. Cressey's lectures:
While the Vermont dairymen were in ses-
sion at Burlington. an invitation was re-
,eived from the President to visit the col
egc. and see what was being done towards
the young men OF the State in
those sciences the knowledge of which tends
10 make men useful citizens in cOmmu-
ty. Accordingly, on Friday morning,
Ileighs having been provided, q company
numbering twenty five or more, spent
short time looking through the sew
.ral apartments of the college buildings,
md examining the various apparatus and de-
7lces Tor acquiring or impartlng knowledge.
The college Is finely located. on the heights
overlooking the city. and is well provided
with every thing essential for carrying Ou
he work tor which 1t was established. We
never before had such college fever a.
Turing and since the meeting at Burlington.
The forthcoming Course Ut public lectures
" DR.. Cressey, which are to be delivered
Turing the last half OF March. are little
l. A.