Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1881-03-23


laden with careless he liday makers is now
used by eccentrically decked out cars
belonging to enterprising hattnrs. tailnrs.
diapers and baby-bottle manufacturers.
Only a few men make fortunes in min
ing, but the farm yields comfort, com
petence and happiness to all.-Omaha
Herald.
Miss Genevive Ward, the actress, says |
that crusade ought to be made against
palace car companies for not having
special cars for ladies'. The present herd.
ing together, she says, is shocking to
modest woman and is violation of
decency and self-respect.
Senator Malone says the fight in which
he is engaged reaches beyond party lines.
1t is he says, "a fight for the relief of the
people, the education of the masses. the
publication of the ballot, the honest |
settlement of the state debt and a frugal
and efficient administration of the state |
government. 1t is an uncompromising |
assault upon the power and methods which |
for decade have kept Virginia in antago
nism to the progressive spirit OF the age"
The Tribune publishes another of G. G.
Claws letters from Canada to the confed
crate secretary Of state, written in 1864.
The great question with the rebels then
was who would be elected president. Mr..
Lincoln or Gen. Mcclellan, and Mr..
Claws letter was written for the purpose
of giving the southern leaders an insight
into the politics of the north. Mr.. Clay
makes the distinct asseyeration that " Mac
is privately pledged to make peace even
at the expense of separation, if the south
cannot be induced to reconstruct any
common government" Mac" was the
familiar way in which the rebels common
" spoke of the democratic candidate for
president.
In reference to the periodical cries of
certain state papers for tie prompt and
condign punishment of Waite, the Brattle-
boro defaulter. il seems we'll to say,
although it is not necessary, that the
officers of the United State court are not
the men to obslruct the ends of Justice.
The fact is that unprejudiced physicians
of the highest standing have all along
certified that it would be unsafe and I'M
proper to remove Waite, in his intirm
health from his present quarters. The
latest intelligence is that he has had an
ulcer in the pleural cavity, which has
seriously affected his lungs. He is daily
growing weaker and in all human prob
ability cannot long survive.-Free Press.
We cannot see why any man who would
be willing to serve as assessor or lister
under the old law and usage should refuse
to serve under the new law. The task of
the listers will certainly be an easier one,
in various respects, than it has been.
Heretofore the lister has had to do good
deal of prying after property withheld
from taxation. which now will be disclosed
by the tax payer. 1t is going to be easier
to apprase property fairly on the cash
basis than it used to be on the old varying
and capriciOus basis. And, above all, the
listers will now have list which they can
honestly swear to, instead of being obliged
to take false oath, if they took any. The
tax payers,w we are confident, are generally
going to make fair and honest statements.
and the listers. if they do their work with
reasonable good Judgment and consdera-
ton, will have easier times than before
Free Press.
1t seems altogether probable that the
Tennessee legislature will accept the pro
position of the states creditors to settle
the debt at its face value in per cent
bonds. As Gov. Hawkins has shown in a
special message upon the subject. this
would save $l62 900 in the annual interest
charge, as compared with the old PROPOSE
ton to settle for 60 cents on the dollar al
6 per cent interest. assuming the present
Indebtedness to be S27 100000. The
accruing interest could be more than met
by a tax of 40 cents on the 800, and this
too, at n total valuation for the state oil
S2ll, 76S. 438, which is ridicuously small
as com pared with the valuations in other
States 1t will be one of the most credit.
able things Tennessee has done if she
/ takes up with this offer.
The New York Star (Dem.) says tina
Barnum was made chairman of the dem
ocratic national committee directly il
opposition to the desire of Gen. Hancock
who wished Senator Wallace put there
that 1.-The whole committee was packed
l with the creatures of Tilden-all of whom
. were not merely apathetic. but inimica t,
, Hancock's success" that ",he existenc,
OF the Morey letter was known to the com
mittee long before the election" that thi
letter and the manner in which it wa,
: brought out constituted fitting china,
, to a campaign of mismanagement anc
,nI bat thA :.
reserve Twill necessitate the permanen
retirement from political life of more thai
t ont statesman who has hitherto played
, prominent part in democratic councils"
i Guess and comment upon the effect O
G the death of Alexander II. on the polite
n of Europe begins before the late car i
: buried. grounded most of it on the bar
$ fact that Alexander II. was friendly t
It Germany and the Germans, and tina
Alexander III. as czarewiz, made n
secret of his dislike for both While tn
old car was alive an alliance between
: Russia and France. or u Ruso-Germar
n war were alike considered improbable, no
# to say impossible, both are brought within
-, the range of prophecy by the accession G
1t Alexander H.; il is almost trusm tina
q an heir apparent changes greatly on be
1t coming king, and the present car i
d probably no exception The cynical con
tempt for Germans which the new empero
has so often expressed is difficult of exercis
g in All empire whose administrative machin
cry is in German hands and whose froutie
v lies open to German attack. On paper
q the Russian army is larger than the Ger
man; in fact. The Berlin staff can concen
q trate three men on the frontier wher
g Russia can gather one, and the German
r victory would probably be Ms overwhelm
ing AS 1t WAS in 1871. A Russian allianc
=, with France might leave Germany be
= tween two mill-stones, but even then th
q issue would be doubtful for Russia in tn
+ first campaign.