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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

THE Rev S S Cutting, d. D.. Secretary
Of the Baptist Home Missionary Society, has
been making tour Of the mission stations
of his church in the West, and this is the
testimony he gives in letter to the EIdDan-
e, and Chronicle of New York on the eff
cheney of the Catholic church wherever he has
gone Zone feature Of the West" he says,
(which arrested my attention is too impor
tant 10 be unnoticed here The one force
which found everywhere organized and
effective was the Roman Catholic church.
In a town of 5000 inhabitants which have
in my mind was told that one-half the
population were Roman Catholics. Of
course | found them consolidated and eff
5ient Tie Protestant population Is divided
into a large number OF sects, who are weak
by the very fact Gt their division. Omaha
il but young city, yet it has cathedral
and colleges for the young men and young
women. Aiar in the Rocky Mountains the
object as you approach mining
city is the Roman Catholic school, which
looks down upon the whole scene of busy
activity. These are but samples What
ever we may do, or neglect to do, in the in
fancy of tho West, the Roman Catholic
church will not be idle.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08
Mrs. Thompson,s Gln 10 the Government.

In the Senate, January Goth, Mr.. Howe
of Wisconsin, from the Committee on tht
Library, reported favorably on the House
joint resolution accepting Carpenters paint
ing of President Lincoln and his Cabinet, y
presented by Mrs Elizabeth Thompson, Of
New York. Mr.. Edmunds said, that as one
member of the committee, while he felt
deeply grateful to the donor, he did not con-
cur in the favorable report of the committee.
lie did not think the picture of character,
as a work of art, to merit place in the TO-
tuuda or Capitol building.
Mr.. Howe said it was painting for which
the donor had paid $4,000. He hoped the
Senate had not reached that degree of excel
lence in matters of art to refuse painting
which had been sold in the market for
S25 900
The resolution was agreed to-yeas, 43 /;
nays, Mr.. Edmunds voting no, together
with six Southern Democrats.
1t was a seemingly upgracious and doubt
less an unpleasant thing to vote agains. re-
ceiving an expensive present from an estima-
bic lady. But Mr.. Edmunds's independence
in the matter strikes US as much to his
credit What the painting amounts to, as
h work of art, we do not know but that 1t
cost S25, 900 proves nothing as to its merits
When the "gift-horse is a poor painting
which may disfgure the walls of public
building like the Capitol, for centuries. serv-
ing to degrade public taste and excite the
dersion of cultivated observers, it becomes
necessary to look him pretty sharply in the
mouth and if there had been more of such
discriminating taste exercised at Washing
ton, hitherto, the public would have been
the gamer.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

Two very able speeches have recently been
made in the Senate-by Mr.. Morrill, and Mr..
Dawes-though they were delivered without
ostentaton and without rhetorical flourish.
But argument has no influence upon votes.
Even Lamar did not influence single South
ern vote by his eloquent speech. The peo-
pie know that they are in distress, and are
all crying after something new. The body
polite is like the individual man who has a
severe fit of the colic,-he is in pain and in
sists on Misunderstanding and no matter
what. This medicine of cheap silver the
people uiH have. But the real leaders in
this movement-Jones, Voorhees,, Kelley,
Ben Butler and Ewing-are bent on initiation,
trild initiation make this prediction now,
in advance, that Is soon as the silver bill be-
comes law, if it does. we shall see the next
step, and it will be right on toward more
green6dcks - Washington Letter.
1t is of course, the initiation element in the
silver scheme which makes it dangerous. If
it were simply move to secure more
silver currency, to be introduced and
kept On a par with gold. nobody,
or 1t least very few Of those who now
oppose it, would object to it. But it would
in that case have no help from Voorhees,,
Ewing 4 Go. The feature which secures
their support for the silver bill is the proyis-
ion that the dOllsr which is to be made legal
tender shall be of light weight-that it shall
contain less than dollars worth Of silver
The thing they are after is the nominal rise
in prices to follow the introduction of cheap
dollars, which they expect will bring about
condition OF things in which the Western
land spectators. loaded down with unstable
real estate, can unload, and debtors every
where can scale down their debts ne-tenth.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

Senator Morrill's great speech on the silver
bill is probably the most careful and elabor-
ate discussion of the question that has ap-
peared on either side during the recent de-
bates in Congress. 1t will be found mine
of interesting and useful and pertinent in
formation on the subject; and We regret the
necessity which has compelled US to condense
it for our columns. Mr. Morrill, treats the
question, not from the point of view of the
banFer or capitalist; but as a man of the
people. He opposes the bill, because he be-
lieves it threatens serious disaster to the
labor and to the credit of the country. He
has evidently given prolonged and patient
study to the question and no man, be he q
hard or soft money man. be he inaationist
or contractionist, be he for a single or
double standard, can deny that the Senator
gives weighty reasons for the faith that is in
him. We commend his speech to careful
perusal, by all who wish to understand
this foremost question Of the day.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08
WASHINGTON NEWS.

SENATOR THURMAN ON TIE SILVER QUESTION.
WASHINGTON. Feb. Q -Senator Thurman
spoke on the silver question to-day. He
said the burden of proof rested on those
who insist that silver should be demone-
tized. To rehabilitate the silver dollar of
4l24 grains would not defrsud the public.
The condition of the contract is to pay IN
either gold or silver of the standard value
OF July 1870. Ii remone.Eng silver will
bring 1t to par with gold tho public cred
itor cannot lose. lie argued that the pri-
vate creditor also would not lose, as the re-
mOnetized silver dollar would be at least
equal in value to greenbackS The average
duration of drafts in the United States is
two years. The passage of the bill could
not iniure any considerable number offered
ltors, for in the next two years not over
hfty millions of silver dollars could he
coined, an! nearly all these would be alb
sOrbed by the payment OF customs duties.
The objection that silver would drive out
gold rested on the assumption that the .il-
yer dollar OF il25 grains would be of less
value than the gold dollar of 256 lilo
grains The ratio between the two is
Is $500. The ratio in France is Is l2,
aud yet the silver franc piece equals in
value the gold 5 franc piece. The deprec-
alton in the market value OF silver bullion
is tho result of characterization by Germany
and the United States, and the efforts to de-
mOnetiEs it in the Latin union states. Re-
monetlzstion in the United States will stop
demonstration elsewhere. II the greenback,
which has no intrinsic value. and no circu-
latiou outside OF the United States and is
but limited legal tender even here,
IL yet within less than two per cent of par |
with gold, why should not silver money |
which has intrinsic value aud which cir
culstes over the greater part Of the globe. if /
endowed with full legal tender faculty, rise |
to par with god2 especially if We rate
metals at 10 9S-l00 to one, while most
other nations using both give but l55 for
One2 One reason WHY greenbscks have
been and are deprecated is they have not
been receivable in payment of custom duties.
OF of interest on the public debt but make
the silver dollar of 4l2d grains full Legal
tender and it will DO receivable Tor both
these purposes, and it must closely approx
innate it, if it does not reach par with gold.
" hen We consider how slow will be the
process of coming the silver dollars, We
will find we ara in no immediate danger
Of losing our gold. Ii gold Ia expelled it
will be by our small notes. We never had
and never can have free aud customary cir
culation of gold coins while We use small
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

THERE was a vote in the House, on Tues
day, on the question of the restoration of the
income tax. 1t required two-thirds to sus-
pend the rules to pass it. which it failed to
get but the majority was nearly two to one,
indicating that when the Internal Revenue
bill is reported it will probably be amended
so as to provide for an income tax of some
.xl
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

Tue friends of the members Of the Louis
lana Returning Board have hoped that their
case might be transferred from the State
Court to the United States Circuit Court,
in which they would have the fair trial
which it is hopeless to expect from the State
Court. But Justice Bradley, of the United
States Supreme Court, to whom the petit
ton for such transfer was submitted, has
decided that it cannot be granted; and that
the only remedy is an appeal aftes verdict
in the State Court. 1t has been said that
unless they were protected, the returning
board would turn States evidence, and tell
all they knew. Ii they know anything to
which the public is entitled, it is to be hoped
that they will do so.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

MAKE the Bland bill law, as it now
stands, and the owners CT silver mine can
.snd 1000 worth OF silver to the mint,
aud have it coined into 100000 legal ten
der silver dollars. Why should these al
ready enormously wealthy mine owners be
allowed this privilege?
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08


Inc hard times bring out good deal Of
wild talk. Plenty Of people-more at the
West than at the East-are ecboipp the
raEying cries of inhationists, agrarians, end
dsmagogues, like VOORHEES,, Bland and
Butler. "The people are suHering''-they
cry ;-"they want more money,-therefore
let there be more money coined or printed
durrah Tor new division of property
Down with the 'bloated bondholders' -
LET the banks beware the vengeance of the
needy masses :" This sort Of talk is to be
expected from the Jack Cades in every time
OF commercial and consequent industrial dis
tress. We hardly expected, however, to sec
man Of as much honesty and brains as
Rev u U. Wheeler oountenancing, much
less joining in, this loose and wild talk.
Mr.. Wheeler's argument amounts to this
Silver has been money, time out Of mind.
Nest people, especially back in the country.
would be glad of more of it than they have
got 1t cant he that any body wants to
coin silver dollars worth less than dollar
in gold. Therefore if you dare to oppose |
palpable, distinct, open, unmistakable at
tempt to food the country with dollars now /
worth ninety cents and sure to become
more largely deprecated in future; es
pecislly if you are fnancior or banker or
"prince Of mammon" and dare to oppose
the redeeming of your own and the govern
menss promises to pay by payment in de-
currency,-then beware the mob
This may please men, like Mr.. Forest, who
think gold poor material for money
silrer better-and the better the more it is
De bssed-and irredeemable paper the best
It all but it will hardly commend itself to
;alm and sensible thinkers.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

| SUSPECT that Redfclj Proctor, OF Rut-
land, present Lientenant-G cuts
good deal more of figure among the pretty
numerous candidates for the next turn as
chief magistrate than appears on the surface
Of things NOodnoet Cor. Springfield Re
publican.
If so, it Is because Col Proctor is thor
oughly known throughout the State a. an
honest, hgh-minded, independent man one
Of the kind that it is always safe to "tie to "
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

WASHINGTON specials state that at a
Cabinet meeting, held on Friday last, Secre-
taries Sherman, McCrary and Thompson and
Attorney General Devens notified the Presi-
dent that unless the practice of appointing
Democrats to Office was stopped they would
be compelled to tender their designations.
The subject was fully discussed and decis-
ion reached in acc ordance with the views
expressed by the Cabinet officers, Post
master-General Key aiding by his advice in
reaching this harmonious conclusion.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

A SIGNIFICANT illustration of the reason
why the West is mad for light weight
silver dollar is given by the Chicago Times.
Champaign county, Illinois. has real estate
assessed at about ST. 900, 900. upon which
there are mortgages recorded for about So
900 600. The annual interest on these
amounts to nearly 100000 and the taxes
to more than S4O0, 900 more Comment is
unnecessary
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

A citizen of Burmah dares not Kill the
mosquito that bites him for fear of annlhl-
lating the spirit of his grandmother. He
considers his chance Of being saved through
his religion as equal to the chance that a
sword thrown from the sky will fall on the
point Of another sword fastened in tho
ground and pointing upward In such way
as to balance itself.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08
Terms year, always in advance.

A ST. PETERSBURG despatch says; at has
been assumed, until lately, that England
would interpose the principal obstacles to a
satisfactory arrangement, but it is now be-
lieved that Austria will offer the most
serious opposition.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

The Wool TARIFF The following resolu-
tions were passed at meeting OF the Yer
mont Merino Sheep Breeders Association,
held at Middlebury, Vermont, jan %, 1873:
RssolreG, That the resolution adopted by the
Association and OF the National ton Of wool
Manufacturers ut Rochester, Ny, Jan. 9. 1873,
meets our hearty approval and that this Assooia-
ton representing ove- one hundred and seventy
fOcks OF Pure Bred MernO sheep, scattered through
eight different States of union. sesond tie re-
quest OF resolutions passed at Rochester to give
ninety days in which to collec. statistics anu to
present the facts in regard to the operations OF the
present tariff on wool and wOlllens-
hesoirsd, That copy Of the above resolutions %
attached TO the resolutions passed at Rochester,
and by the secretary OF this ASSOCIATION owardsd to
the Committee OF Ways snd Means at Washington
aud that the newspapers % the State and elsewhere
be requested to publish the same.
At the same meeting, resolutions were
also passed requesting the Senators and
Representatives in Congress from Vermont
to use all the legitimate means of legislation
IN their power to preserve with some slight
reductions the present duties on wool and
woollens, believing that the prosperity of
those industries will be promoted thereby,
and that they in common with nearly all
other Industrial pursuits will suffer great
depression il those duties are abolished or
essentially reduced.
ALBERT CHAPLAIN, Secy.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

The surrender of Erzeroum in aecor lance
with the terms of the armistice, is officially
announced. The Russians entered the town
Tuesday, the Turkish garrison and the
poorer Mahommedans who wish to go re-
firing to Turkish territory.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

WATERvILLE.-0u Friday afternoon last
as Deputy Sheriff I. j. Baker, OF johnson,
was returning from Bakersfield. he found
near the mountain two young men with
team, both thoroughly drunk. He helped
one Of them in his sleigh and the othsr came
behind him down TO our village. They
proved to be Henry and Levi Rus,en. OF
our village. The next day both of them
were brought before l.. X. Miller, Justice
of the Peace, upon complaint OF Luke Pot
ter. Town Grand Juror and each was fined
IS 90 and costs, amounting in all to about
$500 The law is being enforced hers
a nd it is hoped that such prosecutions will
be uncommon in future. G.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

Tue board of trade of New York city
adopted resolution, on Tuesday, recon-
mending that the associated banks of the
city of New York, and all other moneyed
institutions 10 the United States, in the
event of the passage Of the Bland silver bill,
Immediately take measures, as a protection
to themselves and the community. to consid-
er gold values as the standard or par, and
quote all other values at discount or pre-
MUM thereupon, as the case may be, there
BY making gold coin the monetary standard
of value throughout the United States.
The cooperation of all boards of trade and
other commercial bodies throughout the
country was invited.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

THE MosT NOTABLE of recent literary
eyents-it indeed it be a strictly literary
happenings the union of the great pub
fishing houses of Hurd & Houghton and
james R. osgood i Co. By Il is finally
eItinguished, practically, what remained
though it could almost be called por ct
preterea niail-of what was probably the
greatest lin the truest sense of the word)
Of American publishing houses. By il the
firm Of which Mr.. Il. o. Houghton is the
head ranks among the first publishers in the
country as to the size of its list and second
to none in its quality. The copyrights of
the books Of Hsw thorne, Longfellow, Emer-
son, Whittier, Lowell, Holmes and Howells
should satisfy the ambition of any publisher
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

THE Democratic House at Washington
has trouble with its Democratic doorkeepers.
The last House turned out its Doorkeeper for
general idiOcy, and for writing himself down
s"biger man than old Grant" His success
sor, Doorkeeper Polk, has now been sent to
an investigating committee. charged with all
sorts of irregularities and offences. The
most serious allegation is that Polk is inter
ested in lobby schemes, particularly claim
for laying the Pennsylvania avenue concrete
pavement. 1t is shown, too, that he has ap-
pointed some fifty to sixty more
subordinates than be is lawfully en-
titled to, and that be has largely
exceeded the allowance of funds sppropri
sted for mis- Office. The only palliation Of
Tered is the pressure on the Doorkeeper for
places, from hungry Democrats, which is
fearful, bevond doubt.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

TIE public debt statement for January
shows reduction for the month of over
$1,000, 900, and for the seven months of the
fiscal year of nearly $4,000, 900. In jan
uary, 1877, the reduction was siOO, 900
greater than for the last month. but the
aggregate reduction for the same months of
last year was little more than one half of the
reduction for the seven months lust ended.
That the reduction for January is not greater
Is owing to the large falling off in revenue.
The custom receipts for last month, as com
pared with January, 1877, fell off $751;
ITO, while the receipts from internal revenue
fell OF Sl,l7l,l70, making a total loss in
revenue of over S2,G00,OOO. The coin bal
ance, alter deducting coin certificates, coin
held to redeem called bonds, and due and
unpaid interest, is sec $50 .524, which in
eludes $3.50 500 in subsidiary silver coin.
Compared with December, the coin balance
shows falling of of nearly $4,000, 900,
which is accounted for by the large disburse-
ment of coin interest falling due in January.
The gold coin now in the Treasury, against
which there are no outstanding current coin
obligations, is s6l.74s, 995-an increase of
over sac, OOO, 900, since February l, 1877.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08


sltiOn upon which both sides could unite.
The GREAT STORM ON TIE CoAsT-The
storm of Thursday night struck Coney Is
land, near New York city. with tremen-
dous violence. and eight lives and much
property were sacrificed. On Manhattan
bach were two small shantiss, where two
men, named Wynne and Brennan, employed
as watchmen BY the hotel company, lived
with their families. Finding the tide rolling
in over the bulk heads, and the waves reach
ing their doors. the men left their homes to
report the alarming state of affairs to the
head Waterman. and during their absence
the shanties. in which they left their fami-
lies. were swept away. When they returned
there was no trace of their homes and loved
ones. The victims were Mrs. Wynne and
three children. five and three years old and
an infant; Mrs. Bremen and two children,
two and four years old, and nurse whom
Wynne brought down few days ago from
Brooklyn TO attend his wife during her
coming confinement. The husbands so sud
denly rendered desolate could not remain
near the spot a moment, and with great
difficulty escaped with their lives Three
great waves followed in quick succession,
and not vestige of the shanties was left
The Manhattan beach hotel suffered severely.
The east end Of the hotel was damaged,
the engine-room and b.t1ing-houses were
swept into the sea, the stables aud
out-houses and over 2 900 feet of new rail-
road track is washed away. All other
structures along the whole line of the beach,
not firmly secured, were wrecked. The
total loss to property Is estimated at be-
tween $4,000 and $50 900. At Long
Branch, N. j., the storm was the most
terrific ever experienced. Almost every
building on the shore between Sandy Hook
and Long Branch is more or less damaged,
and all the places on the beach had their
grounds badly washed, in many instances
Is or 20 feet of the bluff being taken away
in front of the cottages and hotels. The
are all gone, and many bsauti-
full summer houses were either washed away
by the sea or blown to pieces by the gale.
The bulk heads are all destroyed. Tho
beach for miles is strewn with debris from
these wrecks.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1878-02-08

STATE Beard OF AGRIcuIrURE.-The State
Board of Agriculture will hold meeting at
johnson. Tuesday and ednesday, e brusry
IL and ID. observing the following pro-
gramme:
IUEsOAT AFTERNOON.
First Words, II A. Waterman, johnson.
Fertilizers Their connection With the Grlss Crop
and Dairy Products. DR.. II p Wakefield. Morris
vile.
Dscussion-How can Vernon. Farmers realize
Better Results from Msausssl J. u. Meal. West
hutland, and Ora Paul, Foufret.
TUESDAY EVENING.
WOmAn's Work Mrs. T J. Baker, johnson.
The Vermont Plough, Ii. NJ. seely, NJ idle bury
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
Fruit Culture, Harmon Morss, Camb-idse
Size not an Index OF Merit, A, Chapman Middle
bury.
WI
WEDNESDAY, AFTERNOON
The Needs OF the Dairy. q. 3 Fassett, Euosburrb.
Discussion Long Wool sheep HusbsndIy.
WEpsEsDAr EVENING.
Mixed Farming, Z. r. Towle. West berkshire.
. Education of Farmers Boys, L. u. SleTwin, HYDE
Park.
All are invited to take part in the dis
russions.