Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-31

Mobile, Al, is warmly congratulating
itself. on the arrival of the first of a new
line of steamers to Liverpool, that it has
some life after all, and is busily planning
how it can improve its water and rail
communications With the interior.
The Nashville Crenn.) Ameriem admits
that negroes would get better justice in
that stale if intelligent oolored men were
on the juries, and cautiously advises that
they will be put there. This is step the
south will vet gather courage TO take, and
: it will remove great element of dissatis-
faction among the blacks and moving
cause in their exodus.
In the case of Gen. Fred. Hoyt, of Dur
ham, N. H., against the Boston and Maine
railroad to recover for loss of house and
goods said to have been burned by loco
motive of defendants road, it was left
with three referees consisting of Judges
Foster, Smith and Brigham, who yesterday
sent in their report in favor of Hoyt,
awarding damages at SlO,6l6 and about
$1,000 interest,
Blaine is the choice of eight out Of ten
Indiana republicans, according 10 an In
dianapolis correspondent of the Cincin-
mali Enquirer, and most of them want
Secretary Dick Thompson for vice presi-
dent. The same correspondent thinks
that tho republicans will get most Of the
disorganized nationals and new voters,
and carry the state by over 5000 plurality.
The New York Times says the principal
cause of the popular enthusiasm for Cen
eral Grant sis the popular satisfaction
that the country has ut least one man who
at once embodies and expresses the grow
ing craving for national unity and the
growing perception Of national greatness"
| Il is partly that; but 1t is more the feeling
that the emergency in this country calls
for II man of nerve, and honesty man
who cannot be frightened, bullied or
bought.
TIE DISTRESS IN IRELAND,-The bishop
of Achonry, Sligo and Mayo, states that
he fed three hundred starving people
Christmas eve out of his own funds. He
reserves the money sent by charitable
persons for " darker and not distant day"
lie gives an appalling picture of the APP
preaching misery and censures the cal
lous conduct of the government who,
while they cannot spare money to avert
the Irish famine, can waste millions in
wars of equivocal morality"
The seventy-fourth annual dinner of the
New England Society of New York took
place at the Fifth Avenue hotel recently.
Among the guests were General W. T..
Sherman, George William Curtis Hon.
John Sherman, General Horace Porter,
George Augustus Sala, Rev. Robert Coll
yer, Rev. DIR. II. w. Bellows, Dorman b.
Eaton, Hon. Hugh Mccullough, Mayor
Edward Cooper, Governor Head of New
Hampshire and Governor Andrews of Con-
necticut. Governor Proctor was also
present and made II brief response to n
toast in honor of Vermont.
George II. Stuart, the well known
philanthropist and Christian of Philadel-
phia, has lost his princely fortune by the
failure of another whose cndorser he had
become. Mr.. Stuart was the president of
the sanitary commission during the war;
and devoted himself to the humane and
patriotic service for which the commission
was organized with an earnestness and
zeal which made his name not only
known but beloved in every camp of the
Union armies. He surrendered his entire
estate to the creditors of the party for
whom he endorsed.
Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore made II the
atrical success of his new American
anthem at the New York academy OF
music last evening; it was played first by
! by the strings, then by the reeds,
then by full orchestra of $50 per
formers; after that George Vandenhoff
read the words, and II chorus some 200
strong sung it,with Emma Thursby taking
the third verse solo, and in the last verse
leading the chorus, all rising to their feet,
while cheer upon cheer followed the
completion of the work. 1t was like a
fragment of the Boston peace jubilee; as
10 the musical value of it, and it's likeli-
hood of adoption ahsad of the Star Span
gled Banner and Yankee Doodle, let us
wait further adviccs.
During his journey to Mexico, General
Grant will have an opportunity TO revisit
the scenes OF his first military exploits
He will land at Vera Cruz, which he help
ed capture in 1S46,and go over the ground
between that place and the City of Mexico,
which he traversed with The army of Gen.
Scott. Grant was only 23 years old when,
as STRIPPING officer, just out of West
Point, he was sent to Texas with his reGi-
ment. He fought ut Palo Alto, Resaca de
la Palma and Monterey, and then went to
join Scott before Vera Cruz. lie missed
the battle Of Buena Vista by this transfer,
but with the single exception of that en-
gagement, he took part in every battle of
the war. There were few other officers
who had the luck to be where the fighting
was hardest from the beginning to the end
of that struggle. Moline del Rev gave
him his promotion to first ieutenancy
and his behavior ut Chcpullerec earned
him Il brevet captaincy.
In one of the New York police courts
James Howard, an industrious, sober
mechanic, stated that he threw stone
into plumbers window, and stole few
brass faucets, because he wanted to raise
few pennies to buy bread for his starving
children and his wife, who is dying of
consumption. His story was found to be
true, and his sick wife and children, living
in the fifth story of tenement house on
Mulberry street, in IL small. unfinished
room, have been tenderly cared for by the
wives of merchants, and others, almost bv
the hundreds. Furniture, bedding cloth
ing fuel, delicacies, medicins and money
have been furnished. Eminent physicians
have volunteered TO attend Mrs. Howard,
who probably cannot long survive the
ravagcs of consumpto which have been
necessarily aggravated 10y the lack of
medicine and dclcacies, and when Mr..
Howard was released by the Judge, he
was provided with situation for which
he was qualified, and will be able to sup
port his family in the failure.