Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-11-22
Che Nous G!rautr.
Notes and Comments.

The Steam Ship Ohio, carrying the MOntpe-
!ier California Company, has reached HAVANA
a safe and WE'LL Prospecting winds to them.
A most imposing funeral pageant over the re-
Gently arrived remains OF Gen. Worth and Coils.
Duncan and Gains took place on Thursday last
n the city of New York. The procession was
half mile in length, and minute guns W re
ired while it was passing. The Grafton was de-
iiveled by. John Van Buren,.
",Sic transit gloria mundi"
There was last week great freshet in the
Mohawk, and another in the Saco, sweeping
away bridges, mills &C.. on both these rivers.
At Albany, the whorves and the lower streets
we're overaown, running many thousand barrels
Of -four and doing immense damages in the sub
merged stores and cellars.
The last of the two bodies of the girls lost
from the Rail Road bridge last week, was recov
cred Monday 18th, having lain in the water one
week, and euded the search of the hundreds
who had been dragging the river daily for her
recovery. The body was at last found floating
on the surface about two miles below where the
accident occurred. A more heart rending cas-
ualty has never transpired among us. O, what
4 week has the past been to the bereaved pa.
rents of the one last recovered!
The Morristown (Ohio) Presbyterian Cdngre.
CATION recently met TO call pastor, when thy
resolved that they would call no man who read
his sermons, nor pay one cent to have the gospel
written nut and read to them. We think they
we've right. II they were not, were not Saint
Paul and Peter wrong in not writing and read
ing their sermons? We don't mean to be he
retical, but we could never quite understand
how those of our clergyman who preach by note
dispose of the example of the apostles in this
respect.
CANADIAN AFFAIRS. A Circular has been
addressed to the Adjutant General of militia in
Canada, to all the commanding officers of the
various military corps in Montreal, deslrng tina
they will ascertain if any of their officers sign
ed the annexation address; and if so, whether
it was of their own free will and accord With
those holding her MaJesty's commission as jus
tce of the peace, the Provincial Secretary has
done likewise. But tuey do not stop here. The
government announce that they will Deprive al
those who have signed the address, no matter
how high their station, of all the offices in the
gift of the Crown.
AWFUL STEAMBotT EXPLOSION. New Or
loans Nor. Is. A terrible steamboat expl sioI
occurred here last evening. The steamer Lou
| lsiana, bound to st. Lonis, when about starting
from the wharf, burst both her boilers, shatterin!
her to atoms. and also badly injuring steamer
StoIm and Bostona, that were lying alongside
The Louisiana was crowded with passengers, a
we're also the other two, which had just arrived
1t was supposed that altogether $50 lives wer
lost, tsides many wounded Already 50 deal
bodies have been recovered. The Levee i
strewed with the dead and diving, aud hundred
of our citizens are around The melancholy scene
rendering all the assistance in their power t
those in whom spark of life remains. Dea
bodies, legs, arms and heads are scattered IN eV
cry direction.
A later account puts the number killed at 20(
TIE COOLIDGE AFFAIR. The WatervIl
Mail, referring to the Coolidge affairs, says:--
: We see strong indications that the general de
: mand for an official examination into the crcuu
= stances connected with the reported death {
j. this man will ultimately have to be met. E.
v citement ls gradually extending, and the col
/, viction that there is something wrong in tn
= matter is evidently fastening ltset where it wi
Il command attention. Mr.. Drew, of the Banne
who at first resisted as decidedly as we dl
the idea If any deception, is finally cpmpee
f to admit that the case looks like one of niue
doubt. The editor of the Bangor Courier sa Y,
The idea that such "a scoundrel died of griet
lie most absurd" aud asserts the opinion that aft
q the facts already thrown before the public, it
:, "qute unaccoumtable that the people renal
y quiet ON the subject" The editor of the Gala
~ Advertiser expresses the fullest conviction th
. Doctor Coolidge has been set at liberty by Il
e Pri on Warden" The conviction is to OF
h mind, unavoidable, in the face of all the fact
d that the body buried at Canton was not that
~ Coolidge. This is evidently the general sent
!, meut of the press, through the State. VIII
then does public excitement upon this matt
~ =, pass unheeded by thuse whose duty and intere
II It is to allay it? How should this matter
p treated when the public voice is thus sighted
'e We coudnot answer; but the wonder is no lei
n to us than to Others that the silence Of the Wa
n den and his friends does not meet a rebuke th
n shall put the matter beyond further question.
= The Homes county, o., Farmer has broke
y ground in favour of Vim. Allen, Of that stat
le as the democratic candidate for president
1852, and in favour of Gen. Houston, of Texa
ID for vice president
= ANoTAER VICTIM TO ANTI RENTIsM. Ro
n ert Murphy of Westerlo, Rensselaer, Co.. N.
n who. we have stated. was shot while acting as
IS deputy sheriff and serving writs against tenan
n of the Rensselaer, estate, has died of his wound
" G~A whale has been captured in the Thame
d 1t was So feet long, and so feet round 1t g
On aground on shoal, Bnd was captured by son
laberers.