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Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-02-20

much needed and from that street ives, to Champlain
st. the distance from Pearl ST. 10 North 81. IS as far
as from Pearl to College SITS, between College and
Pearl SITS. there are THREE cross streets, between
Pearl and North SITS. NONE!!! Will not our fellow
citizens say at once cross roads should be opened
that the village should Immediately he laid out in
squares blocks of the size of present village
blocks and the roads opened as speedily as the law
will allow far north the bank OF the swamp
Will you speak TO the people what you think of it
The public convenience would, unques.
tionably. be promoted by tho opening of one
or more streets through from Champlain to
Maiden Lane; and the marvel with Us is,
that individual enterprise has not brought it
about ere this. Our correspondent is right,
also, as 10 the land beyond North st. 1t is
now valuable building ground, and, much
sooner than some people imagined,t the town
will DO peering over the intervalc ba nix. At
present there are but few buildings to be in.
terfered with, and it is hardly supposable tina,
much danger could accrue TO the individual
owners by an operation which would so ma
terally increase the ultimate value of the
whole. The power lies with the selectmen /;
and, il they are disposed to exercise it, we
are quite sure they would find a majority of
the land owners ready TO cooperate in the
measure.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-02-20
JOHN c. CALHOUN.

Mr. Calhoun has been thirty.hve year, in
the Nstionsl Councils. His whole carse,
has been but succession ofexcsniricties, in
the progress Of which he hes stumbled owe,
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1846-02-20

FATAL ACCIDENTAL correspondent in.
forms Us that B. Roberts of Lowell was kill.
ed almost Instantly on the Sd inst. by the
falling Of tree.-St. Adams Messenger.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
Equal Suffrage.

S5,406 electors of the state of New York
have recorded their votes in favor of the great
truth that g All men are created free and
equal" in civil and political rights, and that
:" all Governments derive their just power
from the consent Of the governed," This is
many times the number Of Washngton's ar
my Of Freedom seventy years ago this day,
and is about two seventhS Of the entire
vote of the State-probaby larger pro-
portion than could have been obtained in
any former year. Within twenty years, we
are conlident,the principle of Equal Rights in
Government will prevail. But, whether it
ever prevail or not, we are proud to be num-
berel with the Eighty Five Thousand who
stood firm for Principle and Justice against
hateful, unchristian prejudice and ferocious
clamor. 1t is a stand as truly noble as was
ever made on Bunker Hill or Guilford, and
for essentially the same Cause
The Counties of ESSEX CLINTON, WASH
INGroN, OswEGo, WYOMING, FRANKLIN,
MADISON. CRrTARAUGUs, and CORTLAND
nine in all-have given majorities for
Equal Suffrage, Shame to such Counties as
Ontario, Livingston, Erie, Monroe and Chau-
tauque-shame to the Counties whose voters
profess to be specially Equal Rights" men
---meaning that they are jealous of any inter-
ference with their oUn rightS-that they gave
majorities the other way. That party which
has perpetual halter round its neck of which
the rope is held in the Slave region, had some
sort of a miserable apology for the almost
unanimous vote it gave against Equal Suf-
frage; but Wings who opposed it have no
such excuse They have done a deed at
once unrighteous, cowardly and suicidal, which
we trust they will live to repent and atone
for.-N. Y. Tribune
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
Explosion of a Powder Mill.

FIVE LIVES LosT-GREAT DRsTRUC'
TON OF PROPERTY. Beatty's powder mills
situated about seven miles from Baltimore, on
TIE York Road, were blown up on Tuesday
morning. The explosion was terrific it was
felt SO sensibly in this city, that the general
impression was that the shock was caused BY
an earthquake. The houses were shaken,
and numerous panes Of glass were broken,
and crockery, &c., thrown from the shelves.
Three large buildings belonging to the mill,
and which stood about 70 yards apart,are now
IN fragments, and scattered over about ten
acres of ground At the time of the explo-
sion five men were in the buildings--there is
nothing to be found of them now but pieces of
legs, arms, heads,&c. lying about in every di-
rection. The bowels Of one man were found
hanging to the limb of a tree, one hundred
yards from the mill.
The names of the men were James Bush,
Francis Woodward, VIM. Brandon, -
Knoop, and negro named Nelson Wagr err.
The quantity of powder in the establish
ment at the time Of the explosion exceeded
two tons.
The houses for mile and half were more
or less damaged; doors were forced open,
windows broken, and in many instances per-
sons at work miles from the mill were
thrown down from the effects of the explo-
sion.
AS all the persons ut work in the mill were
killed, no idea can be formed of the
cause of the accident.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
News from the Army.

The latest news from the Army shows that
Gen. Wool is about to effect junction with
Gen. Taylor. A rumor is started but not cred
tied, that Gen. Bustamente had gone to meet
Gen. Wool
Con. Taylor had abandoned all idea of at
tempting to reach San Luis, as the difficulties
of the route over what may justly be called
the desert between Saltillo and that place
were almost insurmountable, and it was doubt
ful whether he would even attempt to advance
on Saltllo.
The government had requested him to de-
tach 1000 men under Gen. Patterson to Tam
pico, but he had declined DUNG SO, and would
not part with any portion of his force, believ-
ing the whole of it to be necessary to maintain
his position, and keep open his communica-
tons.
The signs are, that our forces will never
abandon the positions they have taken this
side of the Sierra Madre mountain ranges and
that these ranges will hereafter be our boun-
Diary.
We have from no quarter any confirmation
of the report that Santa Anna had seized a
conducta with 100000 of specie, and the re-
port is yet to be confirmed before it is credit.
ed. The two millions Mr.. Polk was to have
given him, may have been the basis of the
story-BoSt. Mall.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
Winter Route to Albany.

| The Albany Evening journal announces
the arrangements for travel between New
York and the Capital during the ensuing win
| ter as follows:
AS the season for Hudson River Naviga-
ton approaches to a close, public attention
will turn to the winter communications with
our Commercial Metropolis. In this connex-
ion, we are happy to learn that the Housaton-
lc Railroad Company, overcoming by their
| lndomtable energy, the manifold cmbarrass-
ments by which they were so long crippled,
are rclaying the whole of their track COS miles
long) with a heavy and durable H iron rail-
This work has been progressing through the
summer and is now going forward at the rate
OF mile per day. The rails will be all down,
and the road in perfect order by the first week
in December, when the Housatonic Railroad
from Bridgeport to the State Line, where it
connects with the Western Railroad will be
found, in all its appointments, as safe, as rap
id and as pleasant as any other in the United
States.
The company has provided new and pow
erful engines, and an ample number of con-
venient passenger and freight cars. They
have also erected spacious depot buildings at
their termination in Bridgeport They have
also arranged with a fast steamboat, which
will run Separate from their freight boats)
regularly between Bridgeport and New York.
The Housatonic Company has, we are glad
to learn, contracted with the postmaster gen.
eral to carry the New York and Albany mails
during the suspension of navigation. This is
Il very important change. For the last two
winters the New York mails were the last
things to which we looked for news The ar
rangements made and making by this compa-
the winter, between Alba and New York
THROUGH IN ELEVEN HOURS. And we know
enough of their intelligence and spirit to say
ti.;.t they will do it.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
Storm on Lake Ontario.
Communicated for the Tribune.

Steamer Rochester, OswEGo, Nov. %, 1916
Another terrible tempest swept across the
Lake flashing the clear waters to madness, and
driving the trail banks of men like slavery
before the diffusion Of intelligence. Fortu-
nately we were in the Noble Genesee River,
having gone there for the last time this sea-
son. We could neither see nor feel much of
it but saw enough of it to be assured that the
Rochester, was more safe under this pro-
lection than if outside. Several vessels have
been beached and dismasted. We came
down yesterday morning to this place and in
the afternoon towed in a large vessel with
both masts gone-some 10 or II are ashore
above here-two in this harbor have gone a.
shore, will be total wrecks. One of them is
large timber bark which was dismantled du-
ring the October gale and remnined out, drift
ting at the mercy of the waves for three days
and nights. Most of the steamboats, laid up
about the 1st of the month.
Yours &c.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
The Copper Mania.

A year ago, nothing was to be heard of or
talked about, but the great discoveries in the
Lake Superior Copper Mine region, and in
less than no time companies were formed and
chartered, stock went up almost out of sight,
and fortunes were made " too numerous to
mention" Recently there has been but little
agitation on the subject and we had almost
began to think from the low state Of the Cop
per Stocks in Wall street, where they are
cried down to nothing, that the fever had en-
tirely subsidized, and to use a modern phrase,
the bubble had burst. We are glad to find
better chance for making a fortune in Copper
ore than ever before, and as an evidence we
notice that the first considerable shipment of
Lake Superior mineral received in this city is
a lot Of 80 tons from the Eagle Harbor loca-
ton consigned to Phelps, Dodge s. Co. and
now TO be seen at their warehouse, Cliff-st.
near Fulton. In the lot are five pieces or
bou'dcrs nearly pure "copper" together weigh
ing $500 lbs. A portion of this copper has
been tested and used in Sheet Brass Factories
at Waterbury, CT. and proved OF better quail
lty than any other they have used, probably
owing TO the absence of Arsenic, Sulpher or
Iron, with which nearly all the sui phurets are
aloyel, and from sulphurets most of the cop
per hitherto in the market is obtained, and
can only be purified at heavy expense for
fnel. But all that is required by the Eagle |
Harbor copper is to be melted and poured off, |
when it is ready for use. 1t is found embed |
ded in a rock which is easily melted We
are informed that the Eagle Harbor Com
pany has done very well this season.-.Sat.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

THE CRY OF TRoY-No longer ago than
1920, according to a travelling correspondent
OF the Post the territory upon which the NV
large and furnishing city OF Troy stands, in
GLIDING an extent of near five hundred acres,
was rented to ID Van Derheyden, at three
bushels and three peckS OF wheat, and four
fat fowls per annum. 1t was not until the
close OF the Revolution that the spot attracted
much attention, and the yankees were the first
to suggest to the Dutch proprietors division
into town lots. 1t was first called Ferry Hook
for three subsequent years Van Derheyden,
and in l789,assumed the classic name of Troy
twas previously divided between three of the
Van Derheyden. Jacob, always known as the
PATRON Of Troy, erected his farm house on
the spot now occupied by the National Hotel.
The house of Matthise still stands on the cor
ner of River and Division streets, but wholly
transformed from its Dutch original. Troy
has been chiefly or largely colonized from
New England. DR.. Gale, from Connecticut,
was the earliest settler. The transportation
and manufacture of wheat and the lumber
trade, became, at an early day. the leading
branches of business-N Y. Saturday En-
p0rtum,
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The terrible Gale on Lake Erie.

The Albany Knickerbocker has the follow
ing particulars in confirmation of the above
and with details Of the loss of life.
Buffalo, Monday morning.
News reached here yesterday, giving fear
full and melancholy accounts Of gale which
visited the Lake ON Thursday night. The
cannot at this time form any estimate. Its
immense.
The wind blew from the southwest, with a
fury never before experienced by some ofour
oldest seamen. 1t was awful.
The Helen Strong lies complete wreck
above Barcelona.
The schooner Swan lies ashore above the
same place, and a schooner, name unknown,
which are greatly damaged. There is also Il
sloop capszed, lying there.
The brig Oceola and schooner Cleveland
are ashore eight miles above Barcelona. The
brig lost four hands in the gale.
The brig John Hancock, Captain de Groot,
is ashore on the rock above Erie, and is prob.
ably total loss.
The brig Europe, Captain Rossman, is
ashore at Fair Point, and may probably get
off without much damage. The Ainsworth,
United States, Charles and A. p. Haywood
are ashore at Erle, and Will get OFT but with
trifling damage.
The brig H. H. Siser,and schooner Huron,
at Erie, arc total wreck.
The steamer Indian Queen, is on the rocks
at Dunkirk, and is perfect wreck.
There are fourteen vessels and three steam
ers ashore this side of Cleveland.
On Saturday morning sixteen dead bodies
tloated ashore at Barcelona.
The shore for miles along the lake is strewn
with fragments of vessels.
Dead bodies were being picked up along
shore. The storm has been a most disas-
trous one, and we fear to hear further ac-
counts.
The steamer Illinois weathered the gale,
and arrived safe at Detroit.
The schooner Convoy was driven back and
escaped without any great damage.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

THE WONDERFUL GUN CoTToN. The
President having received some gun-cotton,
or cotton prepared to explode like gunpowder,
brought by Mr.. Robertson, our present con-
sui to Bremen, for the purpose of securing a
patent for the inventors, Messrs Schenbein
& Bottger, experiments were tried with it on
Tuesday, in presence of the Cabinet, Gen.
Scott and others.
The effects of this article astonish every
body who witnesses them The smallest
quantity explodcs with the quickness Of full
minating quicksilver-powder if struck with
a hammer on an anvil. If put into a gun
smaller quantity in weight will do as much
execution as gunpowder. 1t is used precise
ly in the same manner as gunpowder-a piece
of paper being necessary between it and the
bali or shot as in ordinary firing. The igni-
ton is always certain from the explosion of a
percussion cap.
A. to the experiment in Washing ton, the
cotton was not we'll prepared and yet succeed
ed pretty we'll A ball was fired with it
from a common musket, from the window of
the War Department against the wall of the
Navy Department, with immense force; an
excavation of nearly the depth Of an inch be-
ing produced in the wall, and the ball being
completely fattened.
The next day the expansive faculty of the
prepared cotton was to be tried at the arse
nal with the musket pendulum. 1t will I'M
doubtedly succeed, as similar experiments
have succeeded with it in Germany, Switzer-
land and England.
And yet the preparation is so simple, so
clearly scientific deduction from the known
property Of each ingredient part, that it is on
~ a wonder that the same discovery has not
been made years and years ago.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
Yours, &c.

TIE Storm. The steamer Massachusetts
left New YorSp, on "Wednesday aftcrnoon,bu
the weather was so thick that it was obliged
to anchor at Throg's Point, where IL remain
ed until ~ o'clock, and then came on to Ston-
ington, encountering heavy gale and very
rough sea. The mail arrived here at about
o'clock last evening, The Massachusetts
passed the steamer Atlantic (Which left Aliens
Point on Wednesday afternoon) anchored at
Fishers Island, some 20 miles from New Lon
don, with her chimney's carried away, and
apparently very badly damaged. She hoisted
signals for help, but the Massachusetts could
not reach her.
The steamer Mohegan of the Norwich line,
passed the Massachusetts, while the latter lay
at anchor at Throg's Point, and has not since
been heard from. Probably she put in on the
Connecticut coast.
The Long Island mail due last evening has
not yet arrived.
In New York it raned heavily during the
whole day Wednesday. In this city the
ground is covered with snow and we had for
Thanksgiving what may be called pleasant
winter day.
In Portland the snow fell quite deep on
Wednesday, and we presume the same was
the case all the way to the north and east
Mail.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03
Correspondence of the Globe.
Gen. Scott on the way to Mexico.

WASHINGTON, d. C. Nov "a, 1916.
General Scott ,0ih all his staff, left here by
the II o'clock train. 1t was given out by his
suite that he was going to New York. New
York or not, he is going to Tampico, thence
to Vera Cruz, and thence to the halls of the
Montezumas, if he can get there-unless Il
conquered peace arrests his progress
A few days ago the President and War
Secretary sent tor the General to consult with
him and receive his plan of operations, under
the present exigencies of the war. He de-
tailed them they were accepted, and he was
given carte blanche for their execution, in per-
son, if he chose.
1t is not understood that he is to supersede
General Taylor, though he would outrank
him by seniority in the same field of opera
alton. He will take all the available force
that can be spared from every quarter, take
Tampico and Vera Cruz, and then, if Taylor,
has not by that time reduced San Luis Poto-
81, will simultaneously, with him, attack that
place, and then advance upon the Capital. -
He may effect junction with Taylor at San
Luis Potosi from Tampico, before proceeding
South to Vera Cruz. Yours, &c. t.
E7- Hon. Willie P. Mangum, U. S Senator
from North Carolina, has been reelected by
the Legislature of that State forsix years from
teh 4th of March next.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

"A KIDNAPPER SENTENCED. Finnecar.
VINO was convicted at Gettysburg Pa, of Eid,
mapping family of free colored persons from
Adams county was sentenced last week ~
solitary confinement and hard labor in the
Eastern Penitientiary for five years.-NaI
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

~ Brass Clocks are now manufacturers -
steam in New York One firm en,ia ~
twenty-five men, and complete IN one p' Js.,
one hundred clocks beautifully Gnisbnd oa{
large sheet of brass is put into a heavy nrose
ana after few twistings, comes out in r. t tbe'
shape sa OF highly finished wheels, at the rate Of
super minute. -"'e u
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hough also a much longer route, Even,
therefore, should Ampudia have the spirit
Which the prevailing opinion gives him credit
tor, still the two armies may not meet 1T
the march OF Gen. Wool has been uninter-
rupted, he is doubtless now in Monterey,and
if ne has encountered Ampudia, we shall soon
know the result.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE OF COUNTERFEIT
NOTES AND PLATES. The Philadelphia In
quirer of yesterday says: On Sunday last
officer Brumaker, of Recorder Vaux's office,
arrested n man on suspicion of having been
concerned in making counterfeit and altered
notes From information received, officer
Brumaker, by direction of Recorder Vaux,
visited house in the upper part of the coun-
ty,and there succeeded IN selling about $4,000
in counterfeit notes of the denominations of
SOS, zoos, los and IS on the Bank of Mont
gomery county, the Trenton Banking Compa-
ny, and several other banks
He also succeeded in obtaining possession
of three altered plates on the following institu-
tons: the Mechanics Bank of Burlington,
the Bank of Montgomery Co., and the Tren-
ton Banking Company. Two plates, one for
rs on the Trenton Banking Company, and
one for Is on the Bank Of Corning, were also
seized. The accused is held in custody for a
further hearing.
The officers are now in pursuit of the per-
son who is charged with being the perpetra-
tor of these frauds, and strong hopes are en-
tertained that he will be arrested and brought
to justice. We have examined the notes and
plates mentioned above, and found the engrav-
ing and printing of superior kind and like.
ly to deceive the best judges
Some Of the notes were filled up, ready to
be issued, and the writing and ink are admi-
rably calculated to impose on the community
The Recorder and his officers deserve the
thanks of the public at large, for their lauda-
bic eXertions.-B0St. Mail.
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

A United States Senator is to be chosen
by this Legislature to succeed Hon. WILLIAM
WooDBRIDGE, Wing, whose term expires on
the 4th. Of March next.
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DISTANCE FROM MONTEREY TIC
MEXICO,
Monterey to Mexico,

Eruption OF MOUNT HEcLA, AND SHOCKS
OF AN EARTHQUAKE "A letter from Copen-
hagen of the 21st of September, says ave
have ust received news from Iceland to the
18th and from the Ferroe Islands to the 18th
ult. Never in the memory of man has there
been more disagreeable summer than the
present. Torrents of rain and storms sue
coed each other without intermission. The
measles and the dysentery carried off almost
the fourth of the inhabitants, especially on the
coasts, which caused the cultivation of the
land to be paralysed, and the fishery which
would otherwise been most abundant to be
neglected. The bad weather prevented the
Danish, German, French, Belgian, and En-
glish sarans from pursuing their researches
into the state of Mount Hecla, but they have
decided on passing the winter in Iceland, in
order to profit by the cold and dry weather to
carry on their investigations Towards noon
on the 22d ult. there was sudden and vio-
lent eruption of Mount Hecla, the commence
ment of which was accompanied by several
shocks of an earthquake, extending to a radius
of about three miles (seven French leagues)
The eruption lasted about forty minutes the
flames rose to an immense height, and all the
country around the volcano was covered with
thick layer Of ashes"
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-12-03

Fy Hon. Geo. E. Badger whig has been G.
lected U. S. Senior from N. c. in place of
Haywood, resigned.
A NICE PoNT IN LAW. In Ohio black
or muatto person is not allowed to be wit
ness in any case where white person is n
party. In recent case, hand employed
on board canal boat, brought suit against
the boat for wages. The witness relied on
was a colored man, and the attorney for the
defence objected to his testifying. But the
Justice decided that canal boat is not a
white person, is aparty in the meaning ofthe
law; the testimony Of the witness was heard,
and verdict rendered for the plaintiff in at
tachment,
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A STAMPEDE. The 1900 mules belong
ing to the United States, that have been fer
some time about two miles above this city,
have made regular stampede, and breaking
through their inclosure, have scattered in ev-
cry direction up and down the coats and into
the swamp. A gentleman, who is our inform
ant, and saw the rush, says it was the most
magnificent sight he ever witnessed, as they
dashed off at full speed-NeU Orleans Com.
Bulletin.