Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1843-11-17
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Deer and bears were never more numerous than
they have beer this season. One man on Lvcoming
creek, Pa, las week. killed three bears within half a
mile of his house; another two, several one, making
twenty in all, n a district of a few miles.
A RUNAwAy PosTMAsTER.-The Postmaster Cen
eral offers a reward of three hundred dollars for the
re-arrest of Thornton II. Freeman, postmaster at
Carrolton, Missouri, said Freeman having been ares
ted asa robbcr,f the mail, and made his escape from
the marshal.-N. Y. Com. Adp.
All Saints d,y was celebrated at New.Orleans BY
visits being made TO cemeteries by the friends of the
dead to deposit garlands on their tomls.
MELANCHOLY AccIDEST.-Ship Cravan, BRAY,
sailed from Newburyport yesterday, at noon for N
Orleans, and the pilot boat in returning was cnpsized,
and two OF the best Newbnryport pilots. Messrs.
VIM. Colby and Jeremiah Lunt, were drowned
They were both Young men, and have left families
Bos. Cour.
ANOTHER STEA@sup.-An English paper says n
new steam vessel is 70 be- commenced forthwith on
the slip where the Worcester was constructed. She
is to be one of the LARGEST ever butt, as her length
wiiexcecd by twenty-five feet tina: of the largest l20
gun ship in the Royal Navy. Her engines will be of
eight hundred horse power. and she is to be called the
Terrible, Mr., Lang, Jr, master shipwright, of Dept
ford, will be the builder.
KILLED ny A WHALE.-Letters received in this city
from Capt. Reed Of the ship Candace, of this port,
states that dudley Lax, second mate of said ship, was
killed by , blow from a whale on the 9th of June.
last, on them. w. Coast. Mr.. Lax was a native of
tnls Cny.-Neb LONDON Gag.
HHRrroD AND New HAVEN RAIL RoAp.-An
lnstalment Il ten dollars on each share of the Ex-
tension sIo* has been called for by the Directors,
payable l5thinst. New York stock holders can paw
at the UnionBank in that city. The Extension stock
IS that recently subscribed, for the purpose of extend
ing the Road o Springfield.
The LAST VI THE CoAcHEs.-Within the past
week the onlycoach that has been left on tho road
from Bristol TO london (the Prince of Wales,) ceased
running. The r'lroad monopoly is now, therefore,
complete.-Englsh Paper.
JUNCTION OF TIE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.
The contract inferred into by the Earrings, with the
Republic of Nev.Grenada, for the construction of a
ship canal acres the Isthmus of Daiien, provides
Tor cedlng to tn company the line for the projected
work, with eigty thousand acres of land in the inte-
rlor. The Barigs appear in the contract not as Off
cial agents of tie BRUSH Government, but as British
subjects.
NATURAL CpfosITy.-A piece of honey comb,
weighing abouti half a pound, and completely petri-
fled, was left a this office some days since, for the
purpose Of bery presented to the Illinois Historical
Society. 1t wal found q few years ago in Iowa, BY
the Rev. John iillham, formerly of this county, and
is IN a state OF geat periecton-the honey cells being
mostly filled with petrifed bee-bread and retaining
their usual form 1t is one of the greatest curiosities
of the kind with has ever fallen under our notice
Alton Telegram.
AFRICAN Co.oSIzATIoN-FALL EXPEDITION To
CAPE PALMAs.-The ceremonies on Monday attend
ing the embarktion at Baltimore of about so colored
Immigrants, mile and female, sent out by the Mary
land COLONIZATION Society to the colony of Cape Pal
mas, in The new and beautiful bark 'Latrobe,' Capt.
John +. Allen, we're said TO be of a most impressive
and solemn character.
iSDiAS Nsws.-Thc Arkansas lntellis encer Of the
met tie CdSmancie ana other Indians at their co our
cl upon Red River. We are gratifed to learn that a
friendly feeling exists among all parties, and that am.
iicable negotiations are in progress. Next week We
hope TO be able o inform our readers OF the result
The Choctaws and Chickasaws are sitting in Nation.
a. Council at Aiameeche. The Cherokee National
Council is in session at Talequah. The Creek Ma.
tlonal Council has adjourned. We are pleased 10 learn
that crops have been good throughout the Indian
country
A gray Eagle, measuring 7 feet 3 inches from tip ia
up Of wings, was shot in Walpole, N. II. on the 3Oth
MI. Joel Mayo, the lucky marksman, reports The
Eagle 10 have been as large as a full grown Tur-
key.
COPPER MINE.-The mineral wealth of the prea,
west is vastly increasing in importance; not n veal
Pnsses nut That new discoveries are made. DR.. John
Hays mas discovered upon his premises at Copper
Haroor, ISL miles from the Sault st. Mary, in Michl-
gan, a NINE OF copper ore of the richest kind
Specimens have been analysed, and it has been pro
nounced that the ore will yield 33 per cent. of pure
copper. ~
There is a man travelling over the Western States
and e%xhorting who calls himself an Indian
and says he IS a brother TO Oceola, the famous Semi
mole. He pretends to have been converted to Chris
utaRuX aRYea, tfvsJaQop from. lhvee,Egee;rl ;SSibpeened when
ne was a child. He says the light was visible to him
for ten hours of a dark night, during which he heard
a voice calling him, which he altcrward ascertained to
have come from above-but whether it spoke in the
English or Seminole language, he has not disclosed.
ne boasts OF having in his possession the identical
rifle with which he shot down several of our fellow
citizens, and tbs after the heavenly evelation.-Ar
Gdr. "
MINUTE MEcHANIsM.-By a measurement lo,eIv
made by one skilled in curlosities, il is found that The
silk worms thread is so fine that one drachm of II
VIII extend a distance OF one hundred and eighty-iye
miles and nlnety-two feet while the same weight of
a common spiders thread will reach two hundred
and twelve miles and seventy four feet.
THANxsdTvISc.-C;ov, Bouck recon mends Thurs.
day the 18th dayof December to be observed nc a d,y
of Thanksgiving in that State.