The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-10-31

A GOOD TOWN. Beverly is said to be
the most moral town in Massachusetts, if
not in the Union. With five thousand
inhabitants, there has not been person
convicted of crime for FIVE years!-ES-
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IMPORTANCE OF A SINGLE VoTE-The
Cincinnati Atlas publishes the following
remarkable instances of the importance OF
a single vote.
One vote in the city Of New York re-
turned a Republican member to the AS
sembly, which made majority in the
Legislature of that state for Thomas JEFF
ferson, and gave him the vote of New
York, without which he could not have
been elected. The whole policy of the
United States during the Jefferson and
Madison administrations-a period OF six
teen yearS-hung on that vote.
One vote elected Marcus Morton Gov
ernor of Massachusetts in an aggregate
popular vote of nearly one hundred thou
sand.
One vote elected William Allen in the
ChiIicothe district TO Congress in 1884,
and one vote subsequently made him Uni
ted States Senator for six years alter-
wards,
One vote elected Mr. White to Con-
gress from Vermont, in 1922, and mem
Der was chosen in 1924 by a single vote,
in canvass where about 5000 votes were
polled.
The following case of the kind is still
more remarkable:
In 1880, Dan Stone, of this city, was a
candidate for the State Legislature. Walk
ing up Main street on the morning OF the
detection, he overlook an acquaintance go
ing 10 the polls, who intended TO vote the
opposite ticket. Stone solicited his vote
d" We are old friends" said he, "and |
know you will show friend tina, mark Of
kindness" Party spirit was then com
para,iveIy quiet. The voter replied,
Well, Dan, you are pretty clever tel>
low, and | don't care if do.' That vote
elected Stone, and gave a majority of one
in the Legislature, which made Thomas
Ewing United States Senator. Mr.. Ew.
ing's vote on the question of confirming
the appointment of Martin Van Buren as
Minister enipotentiary to Great Britain,
enabled the Vice President to give the
casting vote against it, and recalled Mr.
Van Buren, home. That recall made Nj
Van Buren, first Vice President, and then
President, and determined the general pol
icy of the country for four years.
) One vote accomplished all this.
|
: Curious REPEATING WATCH.-.ln the
Academy of Sciences, at St. Petersburgh
in Russia, is repeating watch, about the
size of an egg. Within is represented tn,
Redeemer's tomb, with the stone at the en-
: trance, and the sentinels; and while th'
; spectator is admiring this curious piece 0
mechanis m the stone Immediately remov
es, the sentineIs drop down, the angels ap
: pear, the women enter the sepulchre, ant
the same chant is heard which is perform
: ed in the Greek Church on Easter Eve.
Saw M1LLs.-By an Article IN th'
; North American Review, we learn tina
the first saw mill, of which there is any
, record, was erected in Madeira in the yea
1920; the second was at Breslau, sever
years later; buttheir multiplication in Eu
. rope proceeded very slowly. One wa
/ erected in London in 1858, but it was de
i molished soon aherward, that it might no
r be the means OF depriving the poor OF EN-
' ployment. About 1889 company wa
! incorporated in England, which made
large purchase Of pine timber, erected
mills and Introduced various improve
, menls in the manufacture and transporta
ton of lumber. But the company mad
itself odious by the innovation, and IN
popular feeling against machine saws con
tinued very strong. A saw mill set up a
: Limehouse, about the year l766, was de
n slroyed by mob.
The first built in America was in wha
It is now the town of York, Maine IN 1925
: under the direction of Sir Fernando Cor
= ges, and in 1880, mills were put up Of
e the Piscatuqua.
5 The first mill in Massachusetts wa
/. built on the Neponsett, at Dorchester, /,
S 1888, and the second in 1856, on the Her
j. ring Brook, Scituate, There was one o.
= the Saco as soon as 1868, and one on Nil
+ River Taunton sis years afterward. Ii
J. 1851 another was put up in plymouth
e colony, and in 1855 four were in opera
: ton at Cape Porpose, Me. AT Machia
There was one in 1853, within year afte
IS the first grant of land and mill sites east
n the Penobscot.
y Ia the slaveholding States saving
e still extensively done by hand, and that
q the neighborhood of sufficient water pow
n er.-W. Chronicle.