Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1844-03-09
NEWS ITEMS, &C.

1t is said there are about hundred citizens of
the United States held as prisoners in Van Die
mans land, by the British Government, ON ac-
count of the patriot war of Canada. This fact is
we'll Known, but it creates excitement and en-
lists no sympathy on the part Of government in
their behalf. But such was not the case when
some Of our southern citizens were imprisoned in
Mexico, having been captured while engaged in
open war, in aid of the Texan rebellion. In the
first case, they were only northern men, and aiding
truly oppressed people to maintain their rights,
without adding to the extent and dominion of re-
publican slavery. But in the of the prisoners
in Mexico, they fought to extend slavery, so the
nation is reused to action in their behalf, and their
liberation effected without delay.-[ Western Citi-
zen.
The winter in England is represented as being
unusually mild. A twenty-our hours frost and
slight fall of snow is all that has TRANSFERRED to re-
mind Englishmen of its presence. VioIets and
primroses are abundant, strawberries may be gath
cred, and birds nests with eggs and young are
found.
Alabama has the oldest member of any State, in
each branch of Congress. Hon. WIN. R. King is
the oldest Senator in the U. S. Senate, having
taken his seat in that body in 1919. Hon. Dixon
II. Lewis is the oldest member in the House of
Representatives, having held his seat there since
I 1925.
| Father JlattheW.--We learn that ii correspon-
dence has recently taken place between Father
Matthew and Grnnell, Minturn 81 Co. of this city,
owners of IA London as we'll as Liverpool line Of
packet ships, in relation to his contemplated visit
to this country. They offered him free passage
in any one of their ships to America, which he
has accepted, and has signifed his intention to
make the voyage in June.-[N. Y. Eve. Post.
A Dung Drunkard-Not long since, one who
nd fin hnU hV tbor with RI
of destruction, and had been brought by it to the
verge Of the grave, was visited in his last mo-
ments by the author of his ruin, who asked him
whether he remembered him. The dying man,
forgetting his struggle with the king Of tcrrors,
said, "Oh yes, ! remember you'll remember
your store, where formed the habit which has
ruined me- Aud when am dead and gone and
my wife is stripped Of the shattered remains of my
property to pay my debts, incurred under the in
1uence Of rum, she, too, will remember you. We
shall all remember ytu an eternity.
A decisive vote has been taken in the territorial
Legislature of Wisconsin, against the formation of
a State Government
William Penn and Thomas Story sheltered
themselves from a shower Of rain in tobacco
house, the owner of which said, You enter
without eaye-do you know who | am? Pm a
Justice of the peace" TO which Story replied,
" My friend here makes such things thee-he
is Governor Of Pennsylvania"
Ne,u .4rticle Of Export 10 China.-Two passen-
gers per ship Bazaar, Captain KiIham, who sailed
few days since from New York for Canton, have
taken with them forty tons measurement of wood
Ell clocks
1t is said that though the Turks have abandon
ed for the most part, the use of opium, they have
commenced the use of more Christian stmulants
New England rum and Holland gin have become
staple articles of import, and both are drank very
freely and extensively. Intemperance is prevail
ing among them at great rate.
More fighting at Washington-- understand,
SAYS the New York express, that Mr. Brown,
one of the reporters of the Globe, and Mr.. Hart,
1.-THE correspondent of the n. Y. Eve. Post, had a