Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1839-10-11
Macomb, about the first OF Nav announced r

"tbe war ended" the Indians have killed |
FoRTY.sIx citizens and soldiers. destroyed
a vast amount Of properly-and kept the
whole Territory in turmoil. This 10 Mr..
Van Buren's war COMMENT Mr.. Van Blu
rem was toasted the her day as one who
had distinguished himself equally in the
Cabinet and the field.
METHODIST CONFERENCES. The min.
utes of the several annual conferences OF
the Methods, Episcopal Church have been
completed, The aggregate increase Of the
past year is 4,2O9-for the two last years
about IS 900.
PERPETUAL MORTON. Some Yankee in
Clclnnati, has discovered the long sought
for Perpetual Motion. and ls exhibiting it
in room over he post Office IA very nppro.
pirate place. as we seen by an advertise
ment in the Gazette. 1t is said the mov.
ing power is quick siluer. The fellow has
stolen the invention from the Sub.Trea-
surers, the Baltimore Chronine thinks.
RApE.-At Georgetown Ky. sentence
Of death has been passed upon two negroes,
one of whom was a woman, convicted Of
murder, and The other boy of about six
teen, found guilty Of an attempt to rape.
A QUEER THING TO BE PROUD oF.-Tbe
editor of the Missouri Argus boasts" that
the inksland from which he writes editorials
is the same from which Col. Benton wrote
his celebrated expunglng resolutions"
The Countess of Wes,moreland and
suite dined with Capt. STURGIs, on board
the U. S. Revenue Gutter Hamilton, in
Boston Harbor last Sunday.
Touch, BUT TRUE.-The editor Of The
Boston Mercantile Journal was Informed by
most respectable authority, that there was
ted there is now) a township among the
highlands Of Vermont tWillamstown,w we
think 1t isl where one and the same stream
of water runs in two opposite directions,
viz the Southern division into a branch
Of the Connecticut, and SO finally into
Long Island Sound-and the Northern
! INTO a branch of Onion River, the Canada
waters, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence!
1t once ran like other streams. (withn re-
collection) bat the fall ola tree has effected
the strange result we have mentoned-n not
stranger perhaps, thun some cases of bal.
anclng stones nice equllibr um-thats a. Z.
Republican states that the Rev. Mr.. Mafi
is laborng with great zeal at Lawrence
burg, Indiana. At a proraced meeting
there had been between two ard three hun
dred converts received in the church. So
great was the desire to hear him preach.
that all business was suspended, stores and
workshops closed, and attending public
worship was the order OF the day.
The Cranberry Beds on Cape Cod. near
Barns,able,are bone ofconienton. When
the yearly day arrived for picking, stealby
rogues had each carried off the best of
these berries, The town discovered the
poachers eighty in number, and they are 10
sweat for their stolen "sasse."
EARLY SNow.--On Friday afternoon
there was a snow storm at Auburn, N. Y.
which commenced about o'clock and
continued with little or no in,ermssIon un.
I'll towards 9 O'Clock in the evening"
Though the most of it melted on reaching
terra frma yet the next morning white
sheet appeared spread over the roofs of The
buildings, presenting WINERY aspect for
the close of the first month Of autumn.
Judge Buel, of Albany in an address be
fore the Stale Agricultural Society of New
Jersey, at Trenton, urged the necessity OF
individual example, competition, the intro.
ducton Of agriculture studies in our pub
lie schools, and the encouragement Of leg
islalive enaC ments.
S. Crawford recovered $40 damages in
the Superior Court at Hartford on Thurs.
day for injury caused by the careless drIv.
| i'm If n inlo
The epidemic at New Orleans is rapidly
abating, the New Orleans paper say.
. A LIBEL --"Morton's Hope" new
work Just issued by the Harpers, contains
the following paragraph, grossly caluml'
mating the gen'ler sex. The author de-
serves TO have his head battered with
Broomslicks.
woman is trained so earlyto conceal
ment of feelings, that she slips on decent
: outward demeannr as easily as love-"
PREcocIoUs VILLANY.-- Bad for Dozen
East--CIement Wyer OF Bangor,nged 10
was stabbed in the breast yesterday BY
= Fayeie Warren, Of the same age, with &
Jacknife. The wound was nearly an incl
: in depth, and would have penetrated the
: lungs had the instrument not met the rlt
\ and glanced. Warren was arrested and j;
now IN goal.
Judge Buel's agricultural! newspaper
called the "Cullivator," published IN AL
s oany, has a circulation of twenty lhousane
a copies. This shows the interest which i
e cherished in agricultural pursuits anon!
o the farmers Of the North,
The ScoTT flag floats at The mast hea'
Q of the Conneaut Ohio Gazette, as can
dldate for the Presidency.
"RoHAN PoTAToEs" are all the 90 il
. Mary land. One man there planted sepa
. ra'ely two potatoes, weighing each pound