Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-07-23

senator, he proposed that each of the
party should write on a slip Of paper the
name of the probable republican candidate
If Gen. Grant were out of the way. With
characteristic modesty, Lord Roscoe, not
feeling willing to express his Utmost
Judgment by voting for himself refrained
from writing. The list included every
body's name except Lord Roscoe's.-BOS-
ton Herald.
The Duke of Argylls opinion of ex-
President Grant is interesting. "No one,
believe" says the duke, imagines that
Gen. Grant, either AS commander-in
of your armies or as your civil ruler. was
ever guilty of taking money for his own
uses or enriching himself in any way at
the public expense. If around him were
friends who served him well, but who at
the same time may have used the position
in which he placed them for their own
aggrandizment, his experience in this
respect has not been different from that Of
nearly every sovereign in Europe"
Thomas Crandall. Hollis Qll.) boy
deserves mention for real heroism and
presence of mind. His step-father,a miner
named Harland, lighted a slow match
leading to blast. and then signaled to be
drawn mp the shaft seventy feet deep.
When Harland had been raised fourteen
feet, he struck projection, and was
thrown back to the bottom of the shalt,
where he lay bruised and with rib
broken. Realizing his fathers peril Gran
dali promptly slid down the seventy feet
of rope, decorating his hands terribly, but
reaching the bottom of the shaft just in time
to tear the match from the fuse and pre-
vent the explosion that would probably
have killed Harland.
The calamties of the past spring seem
to be repeating themselves both in En-
gland and Russia. The former is suffering
from a commercial and industrial depres-
sion, which, ON the testimony of trust
worthy observers, has stopped the work
ing of a full third of the cotton mills in
several of the busiest centres of Lanca-
shire. The latter is being ravaged by
cholera in the central, diphtheria in the
southern districts, aggravated by the
ignorance and superstition of a semi
barbarous population. Such calamites,
occurring at time when the one state is
still waging costly and tedious war, and
when the other has but half recovered
from the effects of that which she
lately waged, seem to make a mock
of the old saying. 1.-The English are
strong in money, the Russians in men"
by striking each nation in the very point
where it deemed itself strongest.
The greenback paper printed in Auburn,
Maine, says: We are informed by
private advices from the south that that
entire section of the country will support
General Butler for president in 1880 on a
straight greenback-l ticket. Southern
democrats are disguised with their hard
money brethren of the north and will not
stand any nonsense. They are determined
to give sectionalism rest and have finan-
cial relief. The hard money democrats
don't want to keep the financial agitation
down" No doubt the south wants more
greenbacks-every bankrupt does, and the
south is practically insolvent; but the
story of their laundering after General
Butler as Il presidential candidate may
well be taken cum gro1ao sails.
Chastinc Cox, the murderer of Mrs.
Hull, has another chance for his life.
Judge Noah Davis has granted a writ of
error which was then taken before Judge
Potter who thereupon granted stay of
proceedings in the case. Cox was at once
| informed of the propitious turn in his
affairs, and the condemned man is re-
ported as oveljoyed at the news, although
he has at no time seemed very down
hearted. The writ is returnable to the
supreme court on the first of October, and
the murderer thus escapes until that date.
Judge Cowing, who sentenced Cox to be
hung, is reported as saying the appeal for
u new trial will delay the hanging until
next spring, as it will take two months to
reach the case after October in the court
Of appeals if taken from tho supreme court
to the last court.
The treasury department has signalized
the practical close of the refunding opera
tions by publishing table showing the
comparative changes in the national debt
every five years since 1856. As a general
thing the country has forgotten that it had
debt in 1856, but it had small one OF
S31, 1852, 761.77, and paid interest on it tc
the amount of 81, 1863, 1870 an average oil
about cents per head as its population
then stood. Less than Il generation before
the United States had actually divided a
useless surplus among the states, but this
feat of financiering unprecedented in the
fiscal annals of civilized countries, is now
remembered as thing before the flood
Men to-day are more interested in know.
NO that while the burden of interest or
the national debt was Sl50,977 ,697 in
a, I,t c,ll -
of 40 per cent. The country then had tc
face debt of 50, 700, 431 ,571 it has now tc
carry mortgage on the national farm Of
one fourth less, or 81 ,996, 4l4,9 05. Taking
all the changes in the interest paid on the
} debt together since the war, about 81 ,00O,.
| 100000 per cents and $50, 100000 7-30s
have been extinguished, paid or converted
into securities bearing II smaller rate OF
interest.
Hon. 4. Eastman, formerly editor Of
the Newfanc (Vt) Free Press, gave, in q
public address, the other day, some inter
esting "reminiscences of the abolition
struggle. Associated with Mr.. Eastman
in the publication of his paper, was John
E. Wheeler of Newflne. Both drifted
, west, after they found that the Free Pres
must be financial failure, and Wheeler
t afterwards became the founder of thu
f Chicago Tribune. Mr.. Eastman, associat
ed with Benz. Lundy in the publication o
, the Genius of Universal Emancipation
one of the most thoroughly heroic of the
abolition papers, and after the latter.
Q death, conducted the paper alone. He
= was one of the founders of the famous
underground railroad, and during the wal
was appointed consul to Bristol, England
e where he remained eight years. Another
1 associate of these men in the early days o
r the anti-slavery cause, was Ichabod Cod
ding, who was disciplined by MiddeburN
= college for his lectures on this subject
: and who afterward became the "prince 0
e orators in the wesl," MS Salmon p. Chas,
Y pronounced him. The first anti-slavery
y convention in Windham county was helC
at the Court House in Fayetteville, il
: 1887.
! In II conversation recently reported
: Postmaster General Key gave some inter
esting facts connected with his department