Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1838-09-14

lapse ola few years is alone required to
make the United States a large producer
ofraw silk, and few more superadded will
enable the genius and enterprise Of our
people to compete with the silk manUfac.
turers OF France as successfully as they
now do with the cotton factories of Great
Britain.
RISE OF THE LAKES A gentleman who
has just returned from the west, states that
forests OF oaks have been killed by the rise
OF waters in the lakes, and that some of the
trees on being cut down, are found TO be
marked with the growth Of hundred and
forty years; thus proving that during that
long period the waters had not before been
an high as at present. The cataract of
Niagara has gained in grandeur, while
many cultivated farms are now only 10 be
found under water, and city lots which had
been sold for thousands OF dollars. are in
the same submerged condition. Dwelling
houses, barns, &c. stand "in the water and
out of the water" and the fences which
once divided estates, now divide watery
wastes" The rise has been regularly go
ing on for seven years, and irregularly for
seven more. u is however stated in the
Buffalo Advertiser, that within the last
two or three months, owing probably TO the
great evaporation by heat, the water has
fallen few inches. Lake Erie ia now
about four feet higher than in 1924, and
Lake Ontario about feet and six inches
higher. CON-
WHIRLwIND FREAKs.-The Providence
Journal relates the following exploits of the
late whirwind in that neghborhood.
Zone the most amusing incidents oc.
CURED in Cranston. An old woman who
has long earned an honest penny by telling
fortunes aud promising rich husbands and
! handsome wives TO the inquiring damsels
and swans, stood in her door, broom in
, hand, when the tornado passed 10 i,s fury;
, she was borne aloft by the whirlwind
, amidst trees torn up by their roots, the ru.
ms of houses, and whatever else had lain
e in the path Of the tempest but true TO her
, character, she rode out the storm and de-
t scended uninjured. The suspicion long
: entertained that the old woman holds con-
p verse with spirits of another world has
: thus become certainty. In passing through
t Cranston, the whirlwind drew all the water
e and the fish from Tongue Pond. 1t also
J.. drew, all the water from Pond nf several
S acres in extent on the farm of MIR John
= Burr. A powder house on the top of Fen
ners Ledge, iE Crans,on, containing ten
casks Of powder was carried away, and no
: traces of either the building or the powder
C have been found, although dligent search
T. has been made.
LAND SALEs.-Tbe President has by
q Proclamation fixed the term of Public
v Land Sales at the different offices as fol.
:, lows, viz:
. In Wisconsin.-A, Green Bay on Monday
n the 22d OF October. and the 5th of Novem
y Der next. At Milwaukee on the 10Th Of
/, November and the 81 day of December.
. IN Iona--At Dn Buqnc on the 9TH, and
!, at Burlington on the 18Th November.
In Minois.-At Danville on the 5,h; at
= Chicago on the 10Th, and at Quincy on the
n 5th November.
@ In Missouri. S.. Louis on the 5,h,
:. at Lexington on the l2th at Jackson on
:. the loh, and at Fayelle on the 9th No.
o vember: at Palmyra on The 29h October :;
70 at Springfield on the Sd December
O. In Ohio. AT Bucyrus on the 5h Octo,
N ber
, The Albany Daily Advertiser snys:-
''Lieu;enant Governor Tracy will not be
b IN he field again for the office of Lieut.,
ot Governor. He is to run for Congress in
- his district probably agaIns, John C. Clark.
d, The SOb'Treasury par v viii put up VIM.
l.. Marcy and Addison Gardner-and that
h Is as strong ticket as they can make"
a; Dr.. JOHNSON, who will, of course, be
Iro IoI hon h., L. l.
H. marked that "a woman's preaching is like
p a dogs walking on his hind legs. 1t is not
- done we'll but you are surprised 10 find it
tn done at ALL"
~ Pretty FAIR.-A Postmaster recently
- transmitted US sum Of money by letter
~, and said in postscrip t-"I none of nv
vs. vs. brother Sub-Treasurers finger this before
Us 1t reaches you. please send me a receipt.
~ Louisville Journal
A S1GNArURE.-Th infant daughter o.
Ed Louis Philippe the French King, has beer
named Victoria Augusta Ludovic Luccc
Isabella Amelia FIomena Helena Penelope
%. Bourbon. 1t stops there,
90 MOBILE A slip from the Mobile Chron
40 ic'e, by the late express mail, contains
~ paragraph calling on the citizens of Mobilt
o, not to abandon the city TO a mob, ant
urging upon them to take measures L
- maintain law and order. We fear tina
90 this paragraph has reference to some out
.. RACES committed in Mobile, which, from
=, the manner in which they are alluded to
% have either created great CONSERVATION
90 90 among the people, or been widely parlc
30 paled in by the citizens.
~ CASUALTY - Yesterday the life of lit
40 tie child in this city two years old was pu
30 in danger by swallowing quantity ofars