Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1879-12-17

The immigration of the year ending
with November amounted TO one million
three hundred and forty thousand persons.
The Louisiana sugar planters associa-
ton calls for the immediate abrogation of
our reciprocity treaty with liking Calico"
of the Sandwich islands.
The man who dies worth ten or fifteen
millions, like Goelet of New YORK, and
leaves not dollar to any public object, is
fortunate in not being alive to hear what
people say about him.
A new memoir of Lord Beaconsfield,
just out in England, bears this motto from
Artcmus Ward: {" He asked what was
my prinserpuls; l amt got emmy | said,
not II prinserpul; I'm in the show biz
ness.
Gov. Van Zandt's friends are said to
have made up their minds to bring him
forward rs n candidate for reelection as
governor of Rhode Island tor fourth
term. In case Gen. Burnside cannot be
reelected to the Senate. Gov. Van Zandt
will be urged for that position.
Cyrus Il. Mccormick of Chicago, rich
western democrat Of rilden sympathies,
says in an Interview that Tilden is in
the hands of his friends" but shows q
readiness to withdraw in favor of some
ether hard-money man which he has
never before manifested. Mccormick
suggests Bayard rs the coming man.
Senator Cameron of Wisconsin an
nounces himself firm believer in an old
fashioned Scotch Presbyterian hell since,
he personally encountered Louisiana wit
nesses in their native jungles in New
Orleans, where he went with Ben Hill of
Georgia, and Zeb Vance of North Carolina
to investigate Kellogg's contested seat in
the United States Senate.
Congressman De La Matyr says he voted
for Hayes and with the same choice would
do it again. He has no sympathy with
republican effort to revive the dead war
issues. and less with the democratic folly
of state rights. He finds that true heart
ed" people of the south have no sympathy
with the democrats in congress. With
Butler De La Matyr waits for the green
hackers to fuse the opposition into a new
party which shall successfully champion
"tho cause of the people whatever that
may mean.
According to the official figures New
York is a republican state. The returns
on senatorial candidates, us declared by
the board Of canvassers, would seem to
Indicate it to be such beyond doubt, for
while the votes returned for the republican
candidates in the 80 districts of the state
foot up 43S,478, those for the democratic
candidates are only 5,270. Mr.. Cor
nelTs vote was 4lS,j67 and Mr. Robin
sons 375, 790,while John Kelly got II, $3.50.
On the rest of the ticket the vote, as
officially declared, is as follows: For
lieutenant governor, George G. IIoskins.
republican, 49,, 304; Clarkson n. Potter,
democrat, 435, Ola; IIoskins' plurality over
Potter, 300 For secretary of state, Joseph
B. Carr. republican, 439,0l3: Allen C.
Beach, democrat 34. 1888. For comptroller,
James w. Wadsworth, republican, 1885,
235; Fred p. Olcutt, democrat, 49,, 1926.
Foe treasurer. Nathan d. Wendell, repub-
ican 43G,30O; James Mackin, democrat,
l33 2S5. For attorney general, Hamilton
Ward, republican, 437 1872; August
Schoonmaker, democrat, 433. 23S. For
state engineer and surveyor, Horatio Sew
mour, DR., democrat, 43o,68l; Howard
Soule, republican. 427,24O. Seymour's
plurality over Soule, 12,441.