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The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-05-12
From the N Y. Knickerbocker.
The Chemists Dream.

Me,hought was exploring the hidden recesses of
an extensive cave, whose winding passages had new
er before echoed TO the tread Of human foot. With
ever-lresh admiration and delight, | gazing at
the thousand wonders which the flashing torch
gl revealed every side, at each step of my pro-
gress, when strange sound as of the hum Of many
voices fell upon my ear What such sound
could mean in such place is more than I could d.
vine
Curiosity led me on in the direction whence It
came. The buzz Of conversation, cheer fu il would
seem from the occasional bursts of merriment that
were heard, grew more and more distinct until the
dark and narrow passage had been following sud-
denly opened upon one ofthose magnificent rock par
lors or whose grandeur and beauty description can
convey but faint idea. A food Of light illuminated
the arching roof with tho vast columns of stalactite
sparkling with crystals that supported it, and was
hected with imposing effect from the huge sheets of
the material Of the purest white, that hung
from the ceiling in graceful, but substantial drapery
stood in one ofnature's nobest halls but not alone
strange company had gathered there Black
spirits and white, blue spirits and gray, before
me. A festive occasion had assembled in Joyous
mood and in holiday attire the first born of creaton
the Elements Of things
In dreams nothing over surprises US. Il seemed
perfectly natural to these fairy forms in that
strange grotto; So accosng without hesitation, the
to me- apologised for my intrusion, and
was about to withdraw. From my new acquaintance
however, | received cordial welcome, and so
earnest an invitation to become parnker in their
festivities, that could not deny myself the pleasure
of accepting the hospitality so kindly profiered.
was informed that some of the leading char
acters among the Elements had resolved some weeks
before upon having general picnic dinner party
Fifty six family invitations had accordingly been sent
out one to each of the broherhood and preparations
for the feast made upon most extensive scale. Sea
and land had been ransacked FOR de'icacies, and
cry thing put in requison that could minister TO
the splendor Of the entertainment to the enjoyment
of the occasion. .f.t ..... .,.f ... ....
At the hour so unexpectedly came upon them,
nearly all the guests with their families had
bled in the strange drawing room have described,
awaiting the summons to the banquet Spacious as
that drawing room was,t was nearly filed with these
children of Nature. And here they were;
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-05-12
DEEP PLOUGHING.

We copy from the repor, of Hon. II. L. Ellsworth
the following paragraph, showing the utility Of deep
ploughing:
''Few individuals Of the extension Of
roots in pulverized soil. Won Thayer mentions find
ing roots Of sainform from fifteen feet in the
ground. There now in the national gallery corn
taken from side Of hill of corn laid bare
by the resher, and presented by the Hon. J. S. Skin
ner to the national gallery. The corn was planted
on the 10th of May, and roots gathered the 18th Of
July, 1912 In sixty days some Of the large roots
tended more than four feet covered with literal branch
es. have caused the roots to be measured; the ag
gregate length Of the in the hill is, by Mr. Skin
estimate, 5000. The specimen alluded to
is open for examination. The fact is here mentioned
to show the importance Of deep ploughing, TO enable
the plant to find punishment so much below the sur
face as to avoid the effect of drought give support to
the stalk, and not expose the roots to be by need
ed cultivation. Soil is made by exposure of earth to
the atmosphere; and whoever wishes to make perma-
nent Improvements will not fail to ,plough deep"
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1845-05-12

lC@'Pa, what do potatoes have eyes Tor p $50
they can see to grow Beans don't have eyes, and
they grow.' 'Yes, but they come up wrong end
6rst
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
L e IN per a n Ce.
Who is Guilty?

In a farming town, days ride from this city,
there lives young man who recently, by the
death of his father, came into the possession of
property to the value of fifty thousand dollars.
He has good natural abilities, fair education,
a lovely and excellent wife, one child, and every
thing which would seem necessary to happiness
There is one fatal drawback, however he loves
liquor, and it is running him. His days are spent
with horse-racers, his nights with card-payers,
and his constitution and property are rapidly lea
wing him He knows his danger and feels his
degradation; he has several times attempted to
stop drinking, and has signed the pledge of To-
tai Abstinence, but the drunkard's appetite
gnaws his vitals; the temptations to intoxication
surround him he is lured to the adjacent tav-
ern for society or to transact business the old
crew get around him, to take one glass and then
the demon possesses and tears him. Recently
his young and beautiful wife waited long in trav-
cling dress his return to accompany her on
long promised visit to her relatives In tnls city
at length her anxiety for him and for her child
conquered her repugnance to enter the haunt Of
revelry and ante-chamber of ruin; she went to
him and timidy begged him to return to their
desolate home Her answer was abuse and
curses, with a reminder that that was no place
for woman. Alone she returned home, and will
probably remain there till blighted love, despair
and wretchedness shall consign her to the grave
Now this miserable husband and father feels
his degradation, and in his sober moments frank
ly confessess it, but says he cannot help it, The
landlord is fair man, and deplores the ruin
that is vsibly taking place before his eyes, but
he says he cannot help it; it is his business to
keep tavern and sell folks what Refreshments they
want--he is licensed to sell liquor, and his Gus
toners will have it. He dare not refuse re-
freshments to so influential and respectable a
neighbor and customer as Mr. S. The poor
heart-broken wife-Heaven knows she cannot
help 1t, or she would, even at the cost of her
life. But THE PEOPLE can help it, by enacting
law like our States New Excise Law and
then voting in their several towns that no more
liquor shall be sold. The cure can be wrough.
in just this way, and in no other that we are
aware of Men of New Jersey will you not
have such a law this winterl Pennsylvania
New Hampshire Michigan what say you
Legislators ofaNew York we demand equal
justice and equal laws for our City Act early
Justly, decicively, and you will save from ruin
thousands of young men like him referred TO in
this true statement - Tribune
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18

WHAT IS MOST BEAUTIFUL? Is it the vast
and mighty sun, revolving in immensely and Civ
ing light and heat to unnumbered worlds around
it? Or in the words of another, sis it when its
rays gid the eastern horizon, after the darkness
of the night, and the landscape is adorned with
thousand shades and colors when millions of
insects awake and bask in its rays when the
birds awake from their slumbers, and fill the
groves with their melody when the hocks and
herds express their joy in harsher acclamations
when man goeth forth to his labor and the hills
rejoice on every side" Is it this -? Or the moon,
pale empress of the niglt-as she moves amid
the music of the heavenly spheres along her shi-
ming path, pouring cher ustre on spacious cities
and lofty mountains, glimmerng on the ocean,
the lakes and rivers, opening prospect wide as
the eye can reach, which would otherwise be in
volved in the deepest gloom 2"
Or is it the mild gentle stars, as, one by one,
they light up their brilliant lamps on high, and
gaze with unnumbered eyes of love, like senti-
nels, over sleeping world, where, perchance,
some lone watcher of the night, with heayen-di-
rected eye, marks their glorious beauty, and ex-
claims, "What is man that thou art mindful of
him, or the son of man that thou visitest him %
Is it the mighty heaving ocean, when its noun
lain pillows madly lash the shore, and toss the
laundering ship upon its bosom, till the timbers
part and she sinks far down to coral beds, and
caverns dark; or when, like sleeping infant, in
calm repose, it mirrors the clear blue sky above?
Is it the tornado, the hurricane, the sweeping
avalanche, or the storm-spirt striding over the
ruins of the forest, towns and cities; in some
worn, moss-coyered piles, in lofty mountains,
sculptured marble, the breath of fame, the voice
of'Aowers or the tanning zephyrs7
Is it man!-his stately form and noble brow ?
Or womans voice and loye-it eye? Are these
the most beautiful! If SO, who would have
marked their beauty, and of what value would
earth's varied tints and hues have been, had no.
Bile and God-like mind never been created Sure.
ly 1t cannot be in these that the highest beauty
dwells, but in the ever-active, never-dying soul !;
the vital principle within, that nought can ever
crush the ETHEREAL spark struck from heavenly
mould that is destined to live on, after all these
have persisted; after worlds upon worlds have
been botted from existence, ard system upon
system has vanished away,--LoweN Offering.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
Ny Country for a Sword.

Sometime ago we appealed to our military
friends for an old sword. Ifany of them have
such tool, that has done the state some service
on training days, and will lend it to US we will
give it christian name on our anvil About
the first of January, there is to be great Anti
Slavery Fair in Fanue Hall where thousands
ofthings, bearing each the crown mark of Lib
erty, will be exhibited and sold Hard, red,
horny fingers, and fingers like twgs of aabaser
ringed with diamonds, are at work for the slave,
and we would have hand in that business too.
1t may be mere fancy of ours, but we should
affect much to stick the devil end of a sword in
to the fire and shape it into pruning hook or
horse shoe, and then hang it up in Fanueil Hall
as an evidence of the possibility of welding
Christianity on to Paganism-BmriH
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
THE FIRE-sIDE.
A Parable for Little Girls.

Naomi, the young aud lovely daughter of Sal
athiel and Judith, was troubled in spirit, because
at the approaching feast Of tTumpets, she would
be compelled TO appear in her plain, undyed sto-
la whilst some of her young acquaintance would
appear in blue and purple and fine linen of
Egypt Her mother saw the gloom that appear
ed upon the face Of the lovely child, and taking
her apart related to her this parable, A dove
thus made her complaint to the guardian spirit
Of the feathered tribe:
kind genius, why is it that the hoarse-yoi-
ced and strutting peacock spreads its gaudy
train to the sun, dazzling the eyes of every be-
hStaer with his richly FURNISHED neck and royal
crown, to the establishment and admiration. Of
every passer-by, whilst l, in my plain plumage,
are overlooked and forgotten by al' Thy ways,
kind genius, seem not to be equal towards those
under thy care and protection"
The genius listened to her complaint and
thus replied.
81 will grant thee train similar in richness
to that of the gaudy bird you seem to envy, and
shall demand of thee but one condition in re.
turn"
"Whai is that" eagerly inquired the dove
overoyed at the prospect of possessing wha
seemed to promise so much happiness.
at is" said the genius, "that you consent tc
surrender all those qualities of meekness, ten
derness, consistency and love, for which thy fam
lily have been distinguished in all time"
"Let me consider" said the dove. "No--
cannot consent to such an exchange. No, no
for allthe gaudy plumage, the snowy train, o
that vain bird, will surrender those qualities O
which you speak, the distinguishing features O
my family from time immemorial, must de
cline, good genius, the conditions you propose.
"Then why complain, dear bird Has Provi
dence bestowed upon thee qualities which tho
valuest more than all the gaudy adornings yol
admire And art thou discontinued still 2"
A tear started in the eye of the dove at thi
mild rebuke of her guardian spirit and she pro
missed never to complain.
The beautiful GIRL who had entered into tn
story with deep and tender emotion, raised he
fine blue eyes to meet her mothers gaze, and
as they rolled upwards, suffused with penitenta
tears, she said in subdued Tone with smil
like that assumed by all nature, when the boy
ofGod appears in the heavens after storm
" My mother think | know what that stor
means Let me be your dove let me but hay
that ornament Of meek and quiet spirit, and
am satisfied to see others appear in rich and gar
dy apparel"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
10 the Point.

The following pnngent paragraphs which we
find in the Essex Transcript, are from the pen
of the poet Whittier:
If Texas comes amongst us, lei her do SO on
terms of equality with ourselves. Why give to
foreign people rights which Massachusetts has
notl What right has Texas to demand rep
resentaton of property in Congress, when Mas
sachusetls, one of the "Old Thirteen" has only
a representation Of mSn in that body
The people of the Free States--the great body
of both the political parties, who are necessarily
uninfuenced by an insane desire Of Office or of
scrip,-they, and they alone, should dictate to
Texas the terms other admission. They should
speak to their representatives in a tone too en-
phatic to be disregarded "Wslc0me to Teras
as Free State, Eternal Hostility to her as a
land of Chains and Slavery"
Thank God the people are moving. The
frecross Of Freedom is passing from hand to
hand from Maine to Illinois RESPONSIVENESS
against Texas and Slavery, are at this moment
in circulation in every county in the Free States
IhV 'oiloWihS lotih VI ieulonSFanCe is pre-
sented by the State Committee Let each one
who is willing to degetean hour 10 Freedom,
cut it out, paste it atthe top of blank sheet,
and go forthwith to all his neighbors for their
signatures. When a town has been thoroughly
canvassed, let the remonstrance be sent to one
of the most trustworthy of the free state repre-
sentatves at Washington.
Let the work he done at once twill not be
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18

all national debts are, to meet the expenses OF
war, past or prospective, amounts to $685., OOO,-
OOO To liquidate this debt would require a
tax of three dollars and twelve and half cents
on every inhabitant of Europe, and rs cents on
every individual on the globe Divided among
the population of Holland, the share of each in.
habitant would be 1866. The wages Of labor
ing men throughout the world probably do not
average 20 cents a day. Then, at that rate,
three thousand three hundred and forty millions
of hard-toiling sons Of labor would have to work
one day in order to foot this war-bil Of little
Holland
Let every Englishman read this fact, and look
upon the hungry millions of his countrymen,
and ponder, feel and speak: During the year
1885, one of great commercial prosperity, the
value of all the British and Irish Produce and
Manufactures exported from the United Kingdom,
was $2Os,437 $50. The appropriations for
the payment of the interest of the British war
debt and for the support ofthe Army, Navy and
Ordinance, during the current year, amount to
1925 ,403 soon! Think of that, all who love
humanity The war expenses, in time ofpeace,
excee ding, by nearly 100000, all that the
human and iron machinery ofthat great kingdom
can produce beyond its home consumption II!
But let us end, if we do not begin, at home
Let US assume the average price of cotton, at all
places of its expectation in the Union, to be Z
l-2 cents per pound. The crop of lS45 is es
timated at 972, 0OO, 900 pounds; worth, at the
above rate, $65, 100000. In 1884, the CAPT
tai invested in the production of cotton was
$500, 900 900, and the value of the whole crop
SIG, 0O0, 900, at sixteen cents per pound i
may then be fair to suppose that 81 900, 900,
600 have been thus invested in 1945. The in
terest of this sum, at six per cent, amounts t.
500, 900 900; which, being deducted from the
home value of the entire crop, leaves but S.,
400 900, clear profit of the business itself. Now
the appropriation to the u s. Navy, for the en-,
rent year, was $6,35O, 7s9 i! Let cotton grow
ers ponder on this fact, and on another of vita
interest to themselves: A war, to prepare fol
which, we are absorbing three fourths ofthe rev
enue Of the nation, would annihilate at least hal
of their capital now invested in the production
OF cotton; for they would find that $500, 900,
600 of their money were invested in stock which
would not bring one cent on the dollar, in time
Of war. ''ln case Of war with England" the
function of our glorious little navy and of the
glorious great navy of Great Britain, would be
mutual effort to destroy the commerce of both
nations, an interest which they own in partner
ship, amounting to 800 ,0OO, 900 per annum
of which RAW COTTON makes an item of $50
100000 So all that our navy would do fol
the cotton growers in such war, would be tc
destroy market for Fifty Millions of Dollar.
worth of cotton year. E. B.
Worcester, Mass. Nov rs, l945
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
Gle TIFF FIG.
Process of Water Cure.


The Wet-Sheet or Lem Tuth-This applca-
ton is used for the two-fold purpose of increas.
ing or diminishing the animal temperature; in
either case it is equally anOdyne and antiphtog-
istic; soothing aches and irritation; removing
languor and fatigue; tranquilizing the pulse and
subduing fever. 1t opens the pores, favors Gu
taneous TRANSLATION, and aids the elimination
of effete elements and morbid materials Hence
the intolerable odor sometimes exhaIed from the
Sheets the thick coating of Shiny matter with
which they are vanished; the debris smell, and
color of medicines and ointments long before
used deposited in them; and the eruptions that
soon appear upon the skin, The fluids repealed
from the surface by the first chill return with a
brisker circulation; the escape of calovc is pre-
vented by the covering; and the moisture of the
sheets is converted into vapor. According TO
the delicacy of constitution, and the ieebeness
of the reactive power, the temperature of the
water and the weight of the covering must be
increased, The inhibition of water by the
body in this and the other processes is manifest
ed by very uncguiUOcal symptoms. This origin
OF the effect In question, IN the wet sheet at
least, is a legitimate inference.
The wet sheet is Priessnitz's greatest discove-
ry, and far outstrips all other therapeutical inn
provements ever made in the healing art. This
is destined to be by-and-bye the universal do
nestle remedy used by mothers and nurses in
the outbreak of all illness; and will supersede
in nine cases in ten, both the employment of
medicine and the attendance of the physician,
With every water-cured person its efficacy will
be an article of faith that no argument will
stagger, and its practice in every emergency a
source OF confidence that no authority will baf-
fe' Henceforth the name of PrieSsnitz will be
househod-word, and grateful posterity will
embalm his memory, Few are the complaints
in young or old in which this remedy will not be
hailed as one Of the best boons ever given by
Heaven to suffering mortals This language i,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18

too late until the question is actually settled
Let US bury all party prejudices--abandou all
mere party watchwords--letthe common danger.
unite as brothers all who value the blrthright OF
their liberties Wings Democrats, and Liberty
men, have we not common interest in the well
fare ofour country? Let the past, then, with
its sins and errors Of commission and omission
be forgotten let us ceaseto criminate each 9th
er, and in the name of God and Humanity do
our duty NOW.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18

A FRAGMRNT-I saw pale mourner bend
ing over the tomb, and his tears fell fast and of
ten, As he raised his eyes to heaven,h cried:
"My brotherl o, my brother"
A sage passed that way, and said: "For whom
dost thou mournl'
"One," replied he, "whom did not sufi
cienty love while living, but whose inestimable
worth now feel"
"What wouldst thou do if he were restored
to theel"
The mourner replied, that he would never
offend him with an unknd word, but would take
every occasion to show his friendship if he could
but come back to his fond embrace"
"Then waste not thy time in useless grief
said the sage; "but if thou hast friends 90 and
cherish the living, remembering that they will
soon be dead also"
What lesson may be learned from this!
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-12-18
Peace Department.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
Scraps Of Useful Information.
COURSE NO. 2.

The king Of England took from the pockets
of his subjects $4,000 100000 to replace the
Bourbons on the throne of France The inter
est of this sum, at 5 per cent would be $780,
0O0, 900 annually; which would go so far to
place Jesus Christ on the throne of this aliena-
ted world, as to support standing army of 4OO,-
600 missionaries of the Gospel in pagan lands
and christian lands paganized by systems of
grinding oppression and moral degradation. The
interest Of the money thus wrenched from the
hard, lean hands of the toiling people of Great
Britain, would build 10000 miles Of railroad
every year; until the habitable globe were inter
seeted by the iron highways for the nations, The
amount PriAcipgss # divided, among the Pa,
600, 900 inhabitants Of Europe, would put sde,-
SO into the hands Of every individual
The debt Of the Netherlands, contracted as
Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1845-12-13
EST BATON ROUGE.

Mn. L'EDtrEuR.
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Riea CONNIE candidat pour Ia place DC
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n ,uveIIe constitution.
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IN nouveIle constitution.
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pIaes do grofiur dc Ia coar du Be- district
sous Ia %aouyoIle coustiOn.
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nal skolheld CONNIE candidei pour Ia place
d. erefier do Ia cour do Be. district Sous
Ia nauvalle constitution.
Ua grand noabre de posats'
Yeuillez anDoncer Mr.. Archibald Stuart
CONNIE eaudidat pour coroner pour IA pa
roisse. d'Est Baton Rouge, sous IA noavol,
h constitution. Voa peppit. 2
Veuillez annoncor Nj. AMAsA READ
CANINE candldat pour Ia place do membre
do Ia legislature a Ia prochatno session.
VeuiIlez announcer Leroy G.. Mounts,
CONNIE candldat pour Ia place dc shctlI
pour Ia p~aroisse dEst Baton Rouge, . 70
~prochaine election.