Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-07-06

by M MoLT and was every way worthy of his
distinguished. reputation.
| large patty also made n pleasure excursion
upon the lake on board the burlington.
The pleasures of The evening were much height
ened by the efforts Of the Bur fington Band, who
favored our town with variety Of excellent must.
cal performances. r. Il.
We learn from st. A bans that two men
were SO severely injured on the 4th, by the
accidental discharge Of the gun while load.
ing, as to render ampulation necessary.
Two persons escaped from our Jail on
Tuesday morning, neither of whom have
been re.taken, wo believe. OF what use
is it TO arrest criminals and commit them
to this rickety, miserable, sinking hole,
except TO give the masons job in patching
I'D the breach after the bird has flown.
A child with bodkin might level the
whole concern. We would suggest, that
hereafter when delinquents are committed.
they should be made to promise pom honor,
not to escape. Such pledge would afford
vastly more security than all the bolts and
bars the county of Chttenden can at present
turn upon them.
A bear weighing upwards of three hundred, was
killed in Wiston in the beginning of last week.
Old hunters who saw him pronounced him 10 be
twenty years old or upwards. 1t is shrewdly gus.
pected he was on his way to Montpelier IN order
to give the collective Wing wisdom of the State
some of The benefits Of his exper ierce.-SentineL
Very possible. All the better informed
portion Of the Van Buren, party are quitting
the administration; and it is on old trick Of
Van Buren's to "shoot the deserters. -
Aye, and what lesson might this old set
tier have taught his loco foco brethren, had
they but half the candor Of their grizzly
elder. He too, had been trying "experi.
ments." Teeth, as we'll as banks, being
only means to the accomplishment of an
end, were susceptible of great abuse. not
unfrequently made instruments Of oppreS-
sion, making him who had them fatter, and
those who had none poor indeed. Besides,
like banks, some of them were "rotten,"
and would overwhelmingly producing
serious inconvenience to the community OF
members interested in them. Deeply i'm.
pressed also with that first principle of de
mocracy, that all men are born free aud
equal, and recollecting that in his first
estate man is without teeth, he very logi.
caly came 10 the conclusion that the
existence Of such "grinding" APPENDICES
were inconsistent with primitive "f'eedom
and equality" Accordingly, on the day
that Gen. Jackson vetoed the U. S. Bank,
BruiD bid adieu TO his last grinder, and from
that time TO this, like the government, he
has "gum'd it," With what success, is
demonstrated by the fact that when sum-
moned to render account, like his great ex.
cmplar, the administration, he was found
the poorest of all "Pharaohs lean kine'-
shabby, tatter'd, and in the last stages of
starvation. His treasury too was empty,
the "drafts" Of his appetite had been "pro-
tested and his "deposites rendered I'M
available" for the Legitimate purposes OF
nature. But, unlike too many of his party,
he was an honest, tho mistaken bear,
ready to admit and atone for his errors.-
He therefore resigned his station among
the quadrupeds, retired from the mountain ms,
and learning that Mr.. Van Ness had not
returned from Spain, was about TO Offer
himself as candidate for Congress-no
doubling that a party who insist upon
carving on the business of the country and
the government without currency, would
feel a very natural sympathy for bear
! without teeth. But the brief notice above
quoted tells the rest. He too fell a sacri
dca TO an ''untried expedIent" and in the
future tables of chronology let it be recor'
ded that on or about the same day, of thu
same year, Van Burens administration and
an old bear--both Of whom had warret
upon and plundered the people--were pros
traled by "metalc" hun-bugs. Peace l.
!, their names. May our brother of the Sen
e tnel treasure up the moral.
D MAINE.-The friends Of The Administra
ton in this State held their Convention a
y Augusta last week, and nominated Hon