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Polynesian., 1845-05-10

BY the English Schooner Sarah Ann, from Tahiti,
We have dates from that place to the 7th of April.
BY the arrival Of a store-ship with 200 tons of
heavy munitions Of war, direct from France, to be
followed shortly by another, it would appear that
the French Government designs to render their
Oceanic Establishment permanent.
Queen Pomare still remained at Raiatea, off
which and Huahine the steamer Phuton was
cruising.
The Sarah Ann brings the confirmation of the
death Of Capt. Forbes, and also the supposed seiz-
ure of the Will Watch, by the French Steamer, for
the illegal sale Of muskcts to the natives.
April 9th, the Frigatc Brandywine, hence 80 days,
had not arrived. The U. S. Sloop St. Louis, Capt.
M'Kecver. was at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand,
with the English sloop Hazard. Both vessels were
employed in protecting the persons and property
Of the settlers from the natives, who threatened
hostilities.
French Barque Adolphe, Capt. Morvan, hence,
was Al days in reaching Tahiti.
Polynesian., 1845-05-10

A correct report of the American Ship
ping at Lahaina, this season, has been fur
nished US through the courtesy of M. Cal
kin Esq, the United States Vice Commercial
Agent for that port. We hope to get one
Of the other shipping shortly. There have
been, up to April 80, more than 40 ships at
Lahaina, Of which 81 were at anchor at
one time. As many as 100 seamcn have
been ashore on liberty at once, among whom
good order has prevailed. This result is due
not only to the good disposition of the
parties themselves, and to the efforts of the
native authorities, but in a great measure to
the excellent influence exerted by the U. S.
Vice Commercial Agent, WHO has shown
himself both DESTROYS and efficient in co0pe-
rating with all concerned in maintaining a
proper discipline among the crews. Mr.. Cal
kin's practical acquaintance with the habits
and humors of whalemen, eminently quail
fes him for a post which requires great judy
ment and discrimination in any one while
sustaining the authority of masters, not to in
fringe upon the actual rights of seamen.-
We believe Mr.. Calkin to have succeeded in
this, and to have gained thereby the respect
and confidence of all parties. BY a judi
clous management Of the many petty appeals
so constantly made to consular agents, BY
their countrymen, for the thousand and
one causes which operate upon the minds
Of seamen, much unnecessary annoyance can
be saved the authorities of the country,
and the Consul thereby secure their respect
and esteem.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11

two centuries since, by her learning, her decision
of character, the languages she acquired, and the
honors she enjoyed, that she erected a monu-
ment to the memory of her tutor, and always
spoke of him with the utmost veneration, as her
guide in the rudiments of knowledge.
FILIAL LOVE.
Filial love should be cherished. It has, es-
p%ecially, a s%ofjening and enobling effect on the
masculine heart. 1t has been remarked that al
most all iIlustrious men have been distinguished
by love for their mother. 1t is mentioned by
Miss Pardoe, that a "%oeautiful feature in the
character of the Turks, is reverence for the
mother. Their wives may advise or reprimand,
unheeded, but their mother is an oracle, consult
ed, conided in, listened to with respect and de-
ference, honored to the latest hour, and remem-
bered with affection and regret even beyond the
grave" wives may die say they, and we can
replace them; children perish, and others may
be born to us but who shall restore the moth
cr when she passes away, and is seen no more p
FILIAL GRATITUDE.
Gratitude is a principle ingredient in flial af-
lection. 1t often reveals itselfin a most striking
manner, WlGu pdIcIltS mOuiueL III lHe JUST ~
induces obedience to their precepts, and tender
love for their memory, A little boy was once
passing the ornamental garden of a rich man.
He was observed to look earnestly and w%ishlully
at some sprouts, that were terminating on the
trunk ofan old poplar. On being asked what
he wanted, he said, "My mother loved flowers,
and every green living thing. She has been dead
two years, yet l have planted none where she
sleeps. l was just thinking how pretty one of
these would look there" The gentleman kind
Iy gave him a rose-bush, and the fresh wand of
a weeping willow. Then the poor little fellow
lifted up his streaming eyes, and gave thanks in
a broken voice for himself, and for his dear dead
mother.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11

both made an instant resolution to be more care
ful in future of their words and actions towards
each other; and they were more careful. When
Mr.. Jones offended, as he still too often did, his
wife checked the instant impulse she felt to up
braid him, He perceived this, and appreciating
her sclfdenial, compelled himself, in conse-
q%uence, to be more orderly in his habits. A few
years wrought so great a change in Mr.. Jones,
that, to use a hyperbole, he hardly knew him
self. He could shut a door as well as open it
could get handkerchief, or any thing else, from
a drawer, without turning it upside down; could
hang his hat upon the rack, and put his boots
away when he took them off. In fact, he could
be as orderly as any one, and without feeling
that it involved any great selfdenial to be SO.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
R cE& s. i o % s .
LUKEWARMNESS.
By REV. EDWARD BEEcHER.

Lukewarmness in a redeemed sinner is emf
nentIy unreasonable and ungratefhl. The char
acter of God is perfectly lovely, and angels are
never lukewarm, But the relation of a Chris
tan to God is more interesting than that of
holy angel. Ask a lost angel what he thinks oil
it, to whom no Savior was ever offered. Ask a
lost sinner, whose day of grace is forever closed.
what he thinks oft. Ask the holy angels in
heaven what they think of it. Among these can
You find one Indifferent! Not one. All heaven re.
sounds with songs Of glowing love. But ask the
lukewarm Christian, over whose conversion God
and all heaven once %rejoiced, what he thinks o.
his W salvation, and Of his Saviour and Of his
cause, and hear, o heavens, and give ear, 0 earth.
he has but half a heart to give to God lie is
lukewarm and neither hot nor cold neither j
decided friend nor a decided enemy Of his GOD
What shall we say of such conduct What car
he ask to excite his feelings, if a view of his re-
demption and relations to God cannot Do moi
the claims of God appeal to every emotion OF
honor and right How can he help feeling T.
The OK knoweth his owner, and the ass MS
masters crib, but IsreaI doth not know, my PEG
pie doth not consider.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11

he can rear a log cabin, and in the mean time
we have a school in a vacated house near by
To-day he has the body of a log house raised,
% by Is it., and it is at intervals spared from
the work, that | now write. His, together with
the children with me make nine of us in a fam
lily. Can we be sustained till the crops come off,
| trust, with the blessing of God, we shall be
well supplied. Here is the largest body of color-
ed people in the Province, and they are c%ontinu-
ally moving in. Though very poor, think there
is quite as much enterprise as could be expected
under the circumstances.
The soil is of the very best quality, and the
climate, though about as cold as Maine, is very
healthy. After all, the cause ofeducation must
be advanced-this, and nothing but this, will ell
evate, or essentially benefit them 1t is compar-
atively little can be accomplished any where with
out means; and unless our friends cooperate with
us, we cannot expect to accomplish much here.
Will not each friend of this much injured, des-
pissed, and neglected people, feel fer US, and fri
in their pocket too, and soon let us receive the
fruits oiitl Were it for myself alone, | would
not ask aid but | cannot sustain myself, all the
other labolers needed here, defray expenses of
building, keep an open door for the missionary,
the destitute, the weary, and the hungry, besides
the daily increasing calls too numerous to be men
toned, without hip does come, and that right
early, though | am willing to " spend and be
spent"
Beside cur day school, we have sabbath
School, both of which includes scholars from the
grey-headed to those Of four years. Parents as
well as children are learning to read.
Yours, in behalf ofthis much injured people,
FIDEL1A CoBURN.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
MONTPELIER. VT, THURSDAY SEPTEMBER II, 1916.

Such a man has little reason to pride himself
on his extensive possessions; and paradoxical as
it may appear, he would in nine cases out of ten,
add to his riches as well as his enjoyment, by
giving away one half of them at least. lie is,
in the true sense of the word, miserably pour, in
TACT a slave; and when his eyes are opened to his
real condition, it is no wonder that he is glad TO
emancipate himself, by selling his farm for what
he can get, and escape, post haste, to Texas OF
Iowa.-Secper'S Agricultural Address.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
TKEE F~ERE~SHDE.
GOLDEN SCRAPS.
BY MRS. L. II. SIGOURNEY.
HABIT.

We all acknowledge the strength of habit
Its power increases with slime. In youth, it may
seem to us like the flmy line of the spider in
age, like the fly caught in its tolls, we struggle
in vain. "Habit, if not resisted, - says st. Au-
gustine, "becomes necessity"
The physical force of habit is thus clearly it,
Iustrated by DR. Combe: GA tendency to resume
the same mode of action at stated times, is pc
culiarly the Characteristic of the nervous system;
and on this account, regularity is of great conse-
quence in exercising the moral and intellectual
power. All nervous diseases have a marked
tendency to observe regular periods, and the
natural inclination to sleep at the approach Of
night, is another instance of the same fact. 1t is
this principle -four nature, which promotes the
formation of what are called habits. If We re-
peat any kind of mental effort every day at the
same hour, we at last find ourselves entering up
on it, without premeditation, when the time APP
proaches."
THE ELDEST DAUGHTER.
The department of the older children of the
family, is of great importance to the younger.
Their obedience or insubordination operates
throughout the whole circle. Especially is the
station of the eldest daughter, one of eminence.
She drank the first draught of the mothers love.
She usually enjoys much Of her counsel and COM
panionship. In her absence she is the natural
%viceroy. Let the mother take double pains to
form aer on correct model; to make her amia-
bic, d~iligent, domestic, pious trusting that the
image of those virtues may leave impressions on
the soft, waxen hearts ofthc younger ones, to
whom she may, in the providence of God, be
called to fill the place of a maternal guide.
DoMEsTICs.
Children should be required to treat domestic;
with proPriety. Those on whom the comforts O
a family so essentially depends, are entitled to
kindness and sympathy. The theory, that in
dustry and good conduct are worthy of respect
in whatever rank they are found, cannot be toe
early illustrated and enforced on the members o
a household.
GRATITUDE.
Be careful to teach your children gratitude
Lead them to acknowledge every favor that they
receive, to speak of their benefactors, and to re
member them in their prayers. Accustom the"
to distinguish with a marked regard, their IN
structors, and those who have aided them III the
attainment of goodness or piety. 1t is an inter
estinp circumstance in the life Of Ann, Counties
of Pembroke, who was distinguished more thar
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
n g'FiCasEgMFNE
THE P


Saw ye the farmer athis plow,
As you were riding by
Or wearied meath his MONDAY toll,
When summer suns were high ?
And thought you that his lot was hard
And did you thank your God
That you and yours, were not condemned
Thus like a slave to plod?
Come, see him at his harvest home,
When garden, field, and tree,
Conspire, with flowing stores to fill
His barn and granary.
His healthfll children gaily sport,
Amid the new mown hay,
Or proudly aid with vigorous arm,
His task as best they may.
The dog partakcs his masters joy,
And guards the loaded vain,
The feathery people clap their wings,
And lead their youngIing train.
Perchance the hoary grandsire's eye
The glowing scene surveys,
And breathes a blessing on his race,
Or guides their evening praise.
The harvest Giver is their friend,
The Maker of the soil,
And earth, the mother, gives them bread,
And cheers their patient toll.
Come, join them round their wintry hearth,
Their heartfelt pleasure see,
And you can better Judge how blest
The farmers life may be
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
Fac R MENT.
For the Green Mountain freeman.
FACTS FORA THOUSAND MILLIONS

FACTS FORA THOUSAND MILLIONS.
GEHrLEmEN Will you again allow ne to
ill some spare corner Of your paper with a few
facts deduced from the bloody history of human
%yiolencel The newspaper press has long per-
petuated "reminiscences Of war, seasoned, to the
ardent fancy of youth, with the gorgeous hero
les Of patriotism and poetry and romance, |
should be exceedingly grateful to your courtesy,
and you might lay mankind under some obliga-
ton to that bland quality of Christianity, if you
would occasionally admit into your columns
some of those "Reminiscences of Vcr calculated
to inspire both the young and the old, of this
enlightened age, with an indomitable adherence
of all that savors Of the spirit, or tends to per-
petuate the existence, Of that sanguinary mon
ster. These unpoetical "reminiscences are living,
without any association with romance or the
heroics Of the imagination, in the s~leepless mis-
cry of millions of your fellow beings-the burn
ing inheritance of War. The down-crushcd
poor Of Christendom, with the bIeared vision of
their starved i%nteIlects, are cropping for the cause
of their poverty and degradation, and ~grasping
it in its slow revelation.
They have discovered, in the monstrou8 Inca
ments of War, the pampered Gorgon which for
ages, has fed at the veins Of Labor, and is now
eating out the substance and subsistence of their
bodies and souls, and e%nslaying them to want,
wretchedness, and hopeless ignorance. They
appeal to you to indict this horrid cannibal,
War, before the tribunal of Humanity, and en-
ter there the evidence of its savage atrocities
perpetrated on the race, and written in lines OF
FIRE and rivers of blood around the globe,
Here then, are a very few Of the runin-
sciences of War, entirely shorn Of poetry
They are bloody witnesses to the truth, and let
them testify. In the periodical butchcries in
the human family, the following hecatombs have
been offered up to that God of battles which both
Christians and Pagans have worshipped with the
same devotion:
Loss OF Life in the Jewish Wars, 25, 600, 600
By Wars in the time Of S~esostris, $1,000, 900
By those of Semiramis, Cyrus and
Alexander, 10000, 900
BY Alexander Successors, 90, 1000, 600
Grecian Wars, $4,000, 00O
Wars of the twelve CAESARS, 80, 900, 900
Roman War, before julius Caesar, $4,000, OO0
Wars of the Roman Empire,
Turks and Saracens, $50, 000, 900
Wars of the Reformation. 3O,OOO,O 900
Wars of the Middle Ages, and
8 crusades, $4,000, 000
Tartar and African Wars, 10000, OOO
American Indians destroyed by
the Spaniards, 10000, 00C
Wars of Napoleon, 5000, OOC
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
THE ALPHA AND OMEGA.

BY PROFESSOR HOLDRICH.
Christ is the central point Of the evangelical
economy. From him revealed truth emanates ;
by him life and immortality are brought to light
The whole Bible is full Of him. The types
point to him the prophecies speak of him the
law leads to him the gospel exhibits him. All
evangelical doctrines, obligations, and motives
circle around him, Light, strength, and COM
fort flow from him faith takes held ofhim; hope
is based on him mercy flows through him. He,
He is the highest, most glorious expression of
the Fathers love through him the Holy Ghost
is given, and through him aIone our love and O.
bedience flow back to God. How, then, can
we preach any ofthese truths clearly, fully, and
effectually, without preaching Christ ? He is
the Alpha and Omega in the Gospel scheme
He is not like a planet in the solar system,
making but a part Of one great whole, that may
be treated on separately, and then let alone I'M
til the lecturer comes to that part again; or
that might be even omitted without marring the
consistency of tie whole; just as the solar system
was not thought imperfect when the planet
Herschel, or the rings Of Saturn were still un-
known. He is rather like the sun, the great, the
glorious centre Of the system, giving light, heat,
attraction, and consistency to the whole.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
683,OO0,000

The above is a mere extract from the bloody
statistics of glorious War; one chapter in the
annals of violence, crime and misery that have
followed in the footprints of the Great Destroy
en-. The loss of souls is entered where human
eyes may not read the list. Mr.. Dick estimltes
the number Of those who have persisted directly
and indirectly by war, at fourteen thousand mill
ions, or about 0ne-tcnth of the human race
Edmund Burke placed the number at Thirty
Fi0s thousand millions. Taking the estimate
of DR.. Dick, and assuming the average quantity
of blood in a common sized person, the veins
of those fourteen thousand millions would ell
a circular lake Of more than s~eUentecs miles in
circumf crencc-tcn feet deep; in which all the
navies of the world might float Surprising
these slaughtered millions to average, each, 4
feet in length, if placed in a row, they would
reach nearly 442 times around the earth, and
four times around the sun. Surprising they av-
eraged 1870 lbs. each, then they would form a
globe of human flesh of nearly a mile in diam
eter, weighing 100000 ,OOO, 1000 lbs.--l4
times more than all the human beings now living
on the globe! L. B.
Worcester, Aug. %, 1e45.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11

Work-work-work
From werary chime to chime,
Work-work-work
As prisoners work for crime,
Plow, and harrow, and hoe
Hoe, and harrow, and plough
Till the heart is sick, and the arm benumb't
And misery stamp'd on the brow,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-09-11
Missionary Department.
For the Green Mountain Freeman
CANADA MISSION.
CHESTER, SErrEMBER, 9, 184.

CHESTER, SEPTEMBER, 2, 1915.
.MesSrs. Editor8:-Please insert the following letter
which l find in Zion's Advocate. Having spent more
than a week at Queensbush, / know that the priva-
tons, ~hardships and s~uferings of the missionaries there
are but partially presented in it. My greatest wonder
is, that these sacrifices have not, ere this, carried Miss
Coburn to the grave.
She speaks Of the prospect of their being compelled
to leave these poor creatures in the wilderness for
whom, and with whom, they have suffered so much for
want of support. But l do hope this will not be per-
mitted, for | know of none who could fully supply their
places. They are every way well qualified for their
work, and have the confidence of the colored people to
an extent that no others could obtain without years of
selfdenying labor among them. Shall they be COM
PEELED by our indifference or covetousness to tear them
selves away, with bleeding hearts, from these objects
of their philanthropy and affection? Remember that
something beside clothing for the fugitives is necessa-
ry to supply the wants of these missionaries. Money
can be easily and safely forwarded to them, and the
same amount, there, will go further towards supplying
their wants than it would in Vermont.
As there is no probability that an agent will call on
you, can you not, and will you not, respond to this call
without delay? A remittance will probably be made
from Montpelier in the early part of October, and
money Or clothing can be forwarded to the Freeman
Office, or to either member ofthe committee who have
before been named. Now, friends, what say you to
doing something worthy of yourselves and the cause,
at once, that these dear missionaries may be assisted in
furnishing themselves a shelter, and something to sub
sist upon through the coming winter?
Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1845-04-25
NAPOLEON CROSSING THE ALPS.

Our friends whe have paid high prices for copies Of Da-
vds great picture Of Napoleon crossing the APPS in which
splendid horse seems TO
"sharc with his lord the pleasure and the pride"
will feel little mortified when they learn that the great
crossed first. mule, and then crossed the Alps upon
that unpoecal animal. Had it been would have
been better. We copy the following from Theirs History
Of ths Consuaie:-PmLA u. S. GAz
Arisshsye delineaed him crossing the Alpine heights
mounted fiery steed The plain truth Is, that he
eendcd the st. Bernard in that gray surout which he
usually upon mule led by guide belonging TO the
country, evncng in the difficult pnsses the abstract
os Of mind elsewhere, conversing with the o
6css scattered the road. and then at intervals question:
ing the guide who attended him, making him relate the par
tieuls OF his life his pleasures, his pains like idle
traveller, who has nothing better do This guide, who
quite young, him simple recital OF the details Of
his obscure existence. and especially the vexation he felt
because, for want Of little money he could not marry
OF tho girls Of his valley. The first Consul
times listening somemes questioning the with
whom the mountain covered, arrived the Hospce
whsse the worthy monks him pion. No
sooner had he aRh;,d from his mule than he
which he handed his guide, desiring him TO be and
deliver u 20 the quaermasor OF the army who had been
LEFT the other side Of the St. Bernard In the evening"
the young man, returning " ST. Peire. learned with
surprise powerful traveller IL whom he had guided
In the morning and that General Bonaparto had ordered
that house and piece 81 ground should DO gyon 10 him
immediately aud that he should be supplied in short, with
the requisite for marrying and for fosizDg oil the
dreams Of his modest ambition. This mounianeer died
long since, in his county, the Of land given
him BY the ruler Of the world. This singular Of ben
hcencs, al moment when his mind engaged by such
mighty interests, Is worthy Of attention II there
nothing in u but coBquerOrs caprice dispensing s
random good evil alternately oyefihrowng empires
rcsring cosge II may be useful 10 record such csprccs
only temp the masters of the earth 10 imitation but
such an set rcvesls something more The humnn SOUL
In those when IL Is filled with ardent DESIRES
disposed kindness; IL does good by way Of merine
which Il 10 soliciting ~ Providence"