Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-08-27

parties are known as tho flinders and re-
adjusters. The former favor the PROPOSE
ton of the bondholders to fund the debt
and accrued interest in three and four per
cent bonds with sinking fund. The latter
may as well he called regulators.
Cyrus w. Field announces with great
vigor in an interview with the New York
World that "nothing under Heaven ~
would ever tempt him TO have any more
dealings with Samel j. Tilden. Field
hints dimly at lawsuit. The two men
were associated in the New York elevated
railroad, and Tilden came out of the asso-
citation, so Field says. one million dollars
richer.
The democratic platform of Mississippi
resolves " that all Independent candidates
are inspired solely by lust for office. and
they shall be treated as enemies to the
welfare of the people and avowed enemies
of the democratic party of Mississippi"
They have just shown in Yazoo county
how they treat such candidates by assass-
mating one of them. 1t is well suggested
that they follow Nasby's method when ut
confederate crossroads. He settled the race
question with this proposition: ReSOlUed,
That the nggars is inferior beins and hev
no rites the Caucashens are bound to
respect"
The wheat report for Illinois rs made
out by the secretary of the state board OF
agriculture shows that the crop of this
year is the largest ever cut in that state.
1t yields over forty-two millions of BUSH
els, and at the average August price is
worth over thirty-seven millions of dollars.
The total area of lanl sown to wheat was
2,137 ,063 acres, and the average yield was
a little below twenty bushels to the acre.
The recent statement that Indiana pro-
duces iifty-fve million bushels was not
official or correct, for the state is smaller
than Illinois, and its crop must be less,
The Illinois exhibit is the best ever known.
Here is u specimen of southern heart
lessness. The Baltimore Gazette, in refer
ring to the efforts of Mrs. Chslom to have
the murderers of her husband and children
brought to justice, coldly remarks: "Mrs.
Chislom is advertising extensively in the
republican newspapers that she intends to
90 to Mississippi with her son next month
and testify boldly against the murderers
of her husband. She expects to be roasted
at the stake and then be thrown into u
den of wild coon dogs. Mrs. Chislom
will be disappointed. She will not
be an issue in the next national can
vass. Not hair of her head will be
harmed in Mississippi, for even the most
reckless of the boys down there are too
smart for that"
The Mississippi plan" of carrying
elections has two notable features. Public
attention has been most frequently direct
ed to the bulldozing of voters; but it is
not forgotten that candidates as well as
voters have frequently to be disposed Of
The killing Of Captain Dixon was done in
the regular manner. Somebody provoked
a quarrel with him, and in the melee he
was shot, and the report comes out that it
was onlya personal matter. Within a few
years past, hundreds of candidates, run
ming in opposition to the democracy, have
been killed at the south in Just the same
way. Captain Dixon was familiar with
the method, and it was only when driven
TO desperation, that he took the risk in
volved in an independent " candidacy.
The forthcoming report of the commits
sioner of internal revenue will show that
the tax on matches, to abolish which so
strenuous au effort was made last winter,
produced in the fiscal year about $780,
900 revenue, being an increase over any
previous year. That it is not oppressive,
though unquestionably high, is shown by
the fact that, so far from importing
matches, rs we did in large quantities for
a time, we are now exporting to consld-
cradle extent. This is due in no small
measure to the new process of manufac-
ture by machinery of II most ingenious
description. Little work is now done by
hand, except to pack the matches when
ready into boxes. From tive-eighths to
three-fourths Of the price of matches is
due to the tax.
Sir George Campbell. in his White and
Blacb IN lie United States, says that he
was in the south during the elections of
1873. lie describes the cheating in detail
us practiced in South Carolina. There
was no conccalment, and no pretense that
ANYTHING but frand was intended; and he
states that there was matter enough with
in his own knowledge to have vitated
such elections in England a hundred times
over. The result was, he adds, THAT
i South Carolina returns Il solid democratic
representation to the next congress" The
question raised by such elections Sir
George frankly admits to'bc whether the
amendment of the United States constitu-
ton securing equal electoral rights to the
blacks is really to be enforced, or whether
it may be set aside in practice by the
action of individual states" Is, in fact
the settlement at the end of the war to be
maintained or surrcndercdp' Sir George
is not stalwart shaker of bloody shirts,
but IL sensible Scotchman and shrewd
observer, who sees the situation without
party spirit or sectional prejudice; and his
testimony is of the highest value.
TROUBLE IN TIE DOMINION. The
United States consul at Quebec reports
that S., 100000 capital have been wholly
wiped out by the failure of the CONSOLIDATE
ed Exchange and Vile Marie Banks, be-
sides the loss to deposilors and bill holders,
which is half a million more. The depre-
citation the last twelve months in stocks
dealt in at the Canada exchanges is esti-
mated at 100000, and the bottom is
not yet reached. Tho protection policy
recently inaugurated has failed to produce
any other effect than decreasing the reve-
nue. and increasing the cost of living. But
worse than all is the condition of the
working classes. In Quebec during the
past, winter there was scarcely any en-
poymcnt. and the few who labored on the
" Duiferin Terrace received forty to six
ty cents daily. The present wages on the
new government building are fifty to
eighty cents, and on the harbor improve
ments seventy cents to one dollar, many of
these employees being skilled mechanics.
It's estimated that seven thousand work
ingmen arc at the present time employed
in Quebec and its suburbs. The consul
says the riot of the 10Th was entirely n
question of bread. and us repression does
, not feed the hungry, the situation is any
thing but agreeable.
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