The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-02-29

I.lnStohldn PledSe, after making temper"
ance speech, elicitin9 great applause. If
all the members would do the same and
then adjourn, it would prove the most
usefn session of Congress ever known
Liberty Herald
SUICIDE OF Gov. REYNOLDS. Gov.
Thomas Reynolds, OF Missouri, commit
ted suicide at Jefferson City, on the 9th
instant, by shooting himself through the
head with a pistol, He fingered several
hours in great agony. The ST. Louis
Republican OF the 18th instant says the
Governor had been in bad health for some
time past.
WATERFALL FROZEN The Water
fall at Chittenango, N. Y, being 0 cas-
cade of nearly lao feet, is completely fro
zen up, into The most beautiful series Of
columns and arches and other glorious
icicular formations, the water stealing out
with faint murmur far below. This is
nature.
The Washington correspondent OF the
True Sun writes:
The most remarkable hallucination
seems 10 possess The inmates OF the White
House they again confidently believe
that Mr.. Tyler will receive a reelection,
and the miserable and degrading hope is
Inspired by the specious lies of few cor
rupt politicians, who are DESTROYS OF OBJ.
tainlng office beneath the Administration
The man who can initiate Mr.. Tyler's
| creduIity with these phantasms Of his
Ionglngs, is his Very worst foe, and should
be stunned as the mariner fled the voice
of the sirens, but such is the strong desire,
joined 10 the bounded faith Of the facIe
President, that every canning tale and
every sophsm that inscriptions ingenu-
ity can weave from it, is believed and lis
tened to, until it seems to be the very alb
stract of all reason.
A LONG, Low, BLACK SCHOONER
There is lying at the buIkhead opposite
No. "a South street, savage looking.
Baltimore built craft, which could say
some strange things if she could only
speak. and in truth her appearance speaks
for itself She is a schooner, with heavy,
raking masls and spars enough for ship,
with hull so feet long on deck, l6 feet
beam, and 10 feet hold, with high bull
warks, pierced for six guns and 81 sweeps.
She had made five successful voyages
from Africa to Brazil, with cargoes con.
sjsting of about 500 slaves each, and had
just taken on board another cargo of 500
and when the slaves were yet almost all
CT them standing on deck the boats Of a
British cruiser made their appearance
and rapidly coming up, fired, killed 7 oil
the slaves, and captured the schooner
The slaves were liberated, the vessel vas
condemned and sold, and is now owned
| by British merchant at Sierra Leone
She has brought to this port a cargo O.
palm oil, and is loaded with tobacco, flour
&C., for her return.-N Y Jour. Com
HEALTH OF BosToN. An unusual &C.
gree of good health characterized our city
the past year. No raging epidemic ha.
prevailed, either to alarm the people, OF
sweep off The multitude to premature
grave. The whole number of deaths wa;
2l97-which was by no means large, it
proportion to the population, now beIiev
ed to be considerably above 100000
There is extreme care by the city author
tiles in an admirable system of stree
cleanliness; and so long as the same ef
forts are made to preserve the public
health, Boston, we may hope, will con
tinue TO be distinguished for is freedom
from those pestilentiaI scourges which
occasionally sweep off mutitudes in GU
southern ciiies.-Medical aud Surgica
Journal.
I FATHER MATHEW COMING. Ireland
great reforner, is expected to visit thi
country in June next. The New Yorl
Evening Post says that a correspon
dence has recently taken place between
Father Mathew and GrinneIl. Minterl
& Co. of this city, owners of London a
we'll as Liverpool line of packet ship;
in relation to his contemp plated visit to thu
city. They offered him free passage il
any one oflheir ships TO America, whc
he has accepted and has signifed his in
ten,ion to make the voyage in June
Glea'S Falls Clarion.
The political aboIitioniss of Massachu
sits held State Convention at Boston, o.
the 18th, and nominated their old ticket
for Gov. Samuel E. SeweII, of Boston
and VIM, Jackson, of Newton, for Lieu
Gov. for the year ensuing. John 6
Whittier and Joel Hayden, were nominal
ed for electors at large OF President an
V President and the ronvpntion INN n;
mously recommended James c. Birney
for the first and Thomas Morris for tn
second office. Measures were taken t
establish daily paper in Boston v
Patriot.
Another attempt has been made 10 tn
Legislature of Mass. to obtain remunera
ton for the destruction Of the UrsnIin