Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-01-25

.Ne'c and WondertM application Of the Mag
netic Telegraph. The Boston Traveller, under
tbis hoad 90 Nf"y~' Se"i"
cy's telegraph signals,by which, through tee
grapic wires, all the fire bells of the city are
set ringing at once and thus it is made known
on the instant, and all over the town, the mo-
ment when, and the place where, fire breaks
out. 1t succeeded so well that an operator in
New York succeeded in ringing the alarm bells
in Boston, and what was more than expected,
though there was no fire at the time, yet the fire
apparatus was drawn out, and being ready for
service, fire burst forth directly after, which
they soon put out.
DISTRESSING Occurrence. AT the Albany Gas
Works, on Thursday afternoon, two workman
went down into the dry well to tap the pipe by
which the gas was discharged from the METER
One went up for plug to stop the hole that they
were to drill, and while one was gone, the ether
commenced boring, and the gas escaped so fast
as to overpower him almost Immediately. His
comrade, returning with the plug, was also sut
located with the gas Alarmed at their prolong
ed absence, the laborers above lowered third
person into the well by rope, to reconnolter
and he, too, fell victim to the destructive ele-
ment. All three were lrishmen and leave nu-
merous families to mourn their loss.
n Land Cmse.-"Wc should like to know
saws the Boston Chronotype, "what business
capitalists have with land except to curse it p
Go to the West and you will frequently find a
set of hard working emigrants pining in the
shadow of vast body of unimproved land. af
ficted with its bears, wolves, raccoons, fever and
ague ask why it is not settled, they will tel
you it belongs to some bank or capitalist, who i;
holding it for higher price"
70" Render unto Caesar the things
which belong to Caesar"
~ Why did the Green Mountain Free
man omit to credit 10 the Olive Branch thu
article" A Word to Young Men," sign
ed D." which appeared in the Freeman
of the llth! 1t was written by Mr.. DEyENs
for this paper.-OHve Branch.
1t was through mistake. We shall b
happy at all times to credit the Olive BrancI
for those articles which we take from it
columns.
"A Clergyman writing TO his son in the JON
nal Of Commerce, touching California, speaks {
men being carried away by excitement, and Xix
crusaders Of the 10Th century yielding to a spl
it of wild and reckless fanaticism. We hay
no doubt the wliter is sincere in advising hi
son, but we can say that his argument again:
excitement, if applied to his own profession woul
strike death blow to all reviyals of religion
Acted upon ages ago, they would have cooe
, the fanat'cjsm of Columbus and left the wester
: hemisphere in wilderness. Humanity in i
= progress, is but E series of excitements, and a
= the great enterprises of the world have been d
veoped by it. Fonaticism is supposed to be
2 relation of insanity, and clever writer has sa
that the confirmed lunatic is one who is insar
va o"ly VIC punt WIHle tne mass OF llanklhd u
/ insane on all points. It is thia general insai
1 ity, more properly called movement per impgl'
= Or eXciiemon that is drawing thousands 70 ~ -
itornla, and the result may be happy, - :" -
case of Columbus.
The wife of Rev. silas Meh'T,"' u a 49, =
u w. was Instantly killed
n leaping ont from eo, s,ng Of tbo harness m
! fn, son. " s; 1 Mr. ,Es'o ', va.
IS mcd, b.l % ''''o"'y