Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-12-20
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Notes and Comments.

4NOGO1 GILL NQ4nA4OASbs
Willis ON WEBB. N. P. Willis comes out
in his Home Journal with a manly and energet.
ic article on the improperly Of the appointment
of Col. Webb to represent our government and
nation in the foreign court to which he has been
sent, on account of his ostentatous manners
and arist0cratic predictions, which, it is truly
commended, are poorly calculated to give mo
narchists true idea of the republican simplici.
ty of our people and their institutions We
were the more pleased with these severely Just
structures of Mr. Willis, because, in common
with many others, especially in the country, we
had imbbed the notion that his own views and
feelings were the reverse of the sentiments he
has so finely and forcibly expressed on the sub
ject in question. The whole article is sensible
and opposite; and on reading it, for the first
time, we felt desire to make the personal ac-
quaintance of the writer.
. 0FThe Convention Of the delegates recent
" lected to act on the proposed amendments
OF the Constitution, meet on the first Wednesday
of January. The prospect is becoming more
and more certain that the section giving the
election of county officers to the people will be
adopted. Several Wing papers are now out in
favor of the measure.
Mr.. FREANER, the correspondent of the New
Orleans Pieayune, in Californa, estimates that
from the LIST of June l649, to the LIST of June
1850, the amount of gold collected IN that coun-
try will reach the enormous SUN of forty two
millions This will give the diggers, if their
numbers have been rightly estimated at $4,000
So400 to each man,-not cheaply earned at that
in many instances, we fear, even supposing
this estimate Of the amount collected were not
an exageration as probably is.
~ The Boston Bee publishes our note in
relation to the 1900 pounds of trout taken by
Mr.. Mallory the past season by his own single
hook and line, under the head of " FISH STo-
RY' 1t is fish story, to be sure, Mr.. Bee but
true one for all that, UNLESS as Mr.. M. now
informs us, the quantity stated is an hundred or
SO too small
0CF%Mr. FINNEY, one of the contractors on
the Central R. R., and one of the parties in the
trial for speed had III October, between the Elk
presses of the Central and Rutland Roads.
comes out in the Burlington Sentinel with an
article showing that the claim of The Rutland to
The victory is unfounded, and concludes with
challenge to his opponents to try it again on any
forfeit up to the sum of $4,000. Should the
challenge be accepted, we hope the parties will
wait till the snow is four feet deep, that there
my be come better chance for the necks of the
iron-horse riders in case of running off the
tack. We witnessed the trans it of one of
these Expresses in the October trial, and as 1t
flew by US enveloped in its accompanying cloud
of smoke and flame, we could think oil nothing
but some fiery flying dragon we had read of in
heathen fable. The spectacle associated as IL
was with such speed and supposed peril to hu-
man life, was absolutely frighttul.
TyptcNArioN Doc MEETING. A Frenchman,
who had probably been peslered by transient
dogs, last week shot and badly wounded large
md valuable dog that he saw near his house IN
the outskirts of this village; when the poor
creature Jumped off towards his home about
mile Distant leaving a continuous line OF blood
stains IN the snow behind him as he went In
a short time the neighboring dogs were seen
with an agitated air, following the trail as one
after another clme up to it, towards the wounded
dogs home, and then back to his cruel agrees
ors, house. around which, ut safe distance,
they at length assembled, and sat for hours look
inc at the premises occasionally utterlng wild
AMI nournful bowls, expressive, as it appeared
I, rs who witnessed good part of the curious
performance, of their grief and indignation at
the outrage. After keeping up this demons'ra-
ton till nearly dark, the company quietly dis
persed for their respective homes. We have
named this little incident because it developed
trait in this class of animals which VIC had new
er before observed, and which, we confess,
touched and interested us, and we knew not but
it might others.
IMPORTANT DECIs1oN.-The Supreme Court
of Pennsylvania made, few weeks since, the
following important decision under the new la"
for protecting the rights of married women;-
81. The guardianship Of females under agt
is terminated by marriage, and the husband, be
fore the act of l645, relative to the rights o
married women, might call on the guardian
settle his account and pay him the balance !; bu
that act has worked radical change in the cor
dition of married women. 2. By the act {
1913. a married woman must be considered Q
sinple, in regard to any estate OF whatever nan
or sort owned by her before marriage, or whiS
shofhaccrue in her during marriage, IN any wa
and the husband is not entitled to the possess
of his wife's funds. 3. The consent OF the WI
A that the husband shall have her luhus' "elhe
Il = minor, is of no avail.
NJ The cost Of collecting, the customs ao rs
this country last year, amounted to $@,@o0'oo
No. The Washington National Monument
Wssh;ngton. il advancing with all prud
sneed. It is already fifty feet in height
Father Mathew arrived in PhAde phia
Wednesday, and is the guest OF the HI Ut
Bishop Kinrich.
A r;ot occurred in Baltimore, on Monday nj
at ball, BY which one man was STABBED 81"
ly in the thigh
Several BOYS on Wednesday last at wa
,o, started 10 run with the engine, when on
them stumbled and fell across the track ana
instantly killed.
Austin's large powder mill, near xena,
exploded on the morning OF the @olh i. ut {
stantIy killing two men. This maK's .lin II
,im, Mr. Austns mill has explored wlInlh
years. :.
There is now living ia New York city, II
treme want, man, who at ore tim, time ha "a.
Hundred and eighty thousand dollars am
by few weeks successful gambling, FOR
years he lived in the utmost luxury, ia having ing
four hundred suits of clothes, but the snll