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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12
The Bible.

The Rev. Mr.. Turnbull, in recent discourse
on the law of revolutions, says:-
"Tho Bible for more than thousand years
has gone hand in hand with civilization, science
and law. 1t has never been behind the age )
nav it has always gone before it, like the pillar
of fire before Israel in the wilderness Its great
principle of order, submission and freedom nave
been the stability Of States. It's very presence
among them has been saving ark, refuge, ana
a rest, How far, even beyond the present tlme'
CLEANS the light Of that wondrous book when
describes and promises true freedom and fratef-
nlty, that divine and universal brotherhood oil
which the nations only dream. Ina word' Inc
Christian Revelation is the true sail OF the eafth
the vital force of communities and states. 1t a
lone regenerates while it preserves, preserves
while it regenerates. There never, says Lore
Bacon, was found in any age of the world, ell
Their religion or law, that so highly exalted th'
public good as the Bible"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12
Galvanized Iron Houses.

Having ascertained that Mr.. Parrot, of Mazat-
Ian, had given his opinion that the galvani zed
iron houses, of which there is large manufac
tory down town, were well suited for California,
and that he mad purchased a number, we went to
see one, in a store in Beaver street. The speci-
men was commodous fir and rust proof dwell.
ling, 20 feet by l5 with SIX glazed windows and
ilon Shutters cooler of course than tents or
painted iron houses, and can be taken down or
put up in few hours A complete Galvanized
house, set down at San Francisco, costs $3.50,
and may be removed to the mines OR anywhere
else, placed into two boxes, 9 feet long, foot
deep, and feet wide. II some $4,000 persons
are to winter in California, few Of whom have
houses or any other sleeping place, it may be a
question with them whether anything so tight,
cheap and durable can be procured at San Fran.
CISCO Flooring, 300 feet, will have to be got
in California, Of such material as may be suita-
be.-.N Y Tribune.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12
TRUTH TO BE THAT " MEN
MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY

Ableard's and Eloisa's, which is a curiosity
and about the first and the last tomb looked at
by visitors There has been expended upon the
tombs great many millions of dollars, and to
very little purpose one would Think for the great
er part of them, though very beautiful, are very
light and fragile, and cannot be kept in good
preservation very long. AT the end of centu-
ry, if not sooner, the greater part of them will
be in ruins, and Sic transit gloria mund will
be then descriptive of nearly all those expensive
structures upon which art has done its best to
emblazon pride, ambition, love, affection, friend
ship, and folly.
We observed in a cemetery, in the suburbs of
London, two monuments, remarkable for their
expensiveness-ono was to the memory of Du-
crow, the equestrian and the other to the men,
ory of the wife of French cook. Vanity of
vanities all is vanity, saith the Preacher Globe
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12
Accident at Niagara Falls.

A few evenings since, as party of ladies and
gentlemen were visiting the Luna Island, among
whom were the lady and little daughter of Mr..
De Forest, and young Charles G. Arlington, and
several others, and while the little girl was stand
ing on the very brink of the river, and only
some twenty feet from the falls, and holding by
the hand of young gentleman, young Adding
ton came up and said payfully, "Tm going to
throw you in, touching her lightly on the
shoulder-when she sprung forward with suffi-
cient force to slip from the hand of the young
gentleman who held her. She was instantly fol-
lowed by young Arlington, who caught her, and
in the effort was Frustrated by the force of the
water, throwing the little girl at the same time
so near the shore that the young gentleman who
had her by the hand nearly caught her, but lost
his balance, only saving himself by catching
hold of some brush on shore. In an instant
young Arlington and the little girl were swept
over the Falls. No human effort could avail
them,
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List of Agents for the Freeman.
V.B. PALMER, General Agent, Boston
WASHINGTON COUNTY.

WASHINGTON COUNTY
Waitsfeld, o Skinner; Painheld, Dr BATES
worcester, F Johnson; Marshheia, , Fllklh
Warren, d Upham; Barre, u > Johnson
Wotarhnry I q Stmson: NorthfeId w II Smith
WoudfOrd, Town; Faystoh, II II baAtel
Calais, Mower and Pearce
ORANGE co.
Bradford. ] D Clark South Newbury, j Abbott
Brookfeld, D Kngsbulyj Randolph, II PaIkhurst
East do S NJ Bigelow East do. Brooks
'Tunbridge / II woodward West do. Nj II Sessions
Chelsea, M @ Waldo, Post Mills, L IIinckley,
Corlnth, Rev Commings; Vershire, Dr. !yier;
Fast do Or Dustin Orange, P. L. Lord;
W Tonsham R Aldrich; Washington, l. Thurbcr:
N do ] r George; Slrafford, S Barrett;
N'"Du''' N'' CHlITTENDEN co.
Burlington, Tiscom; Jericho and Underhill, Ia
Charlotte, w Baldwin; Barney
Huntington, ] Beccker Richmond, " Briggs;
Hinesb1rgh Allen Wlliston, w II French
WestfOrd T Beach
ADDISON co.
FerrisburGh o sholes; Bristol, II. Nccdham;
Vergennes, DIT. Sprague, Cornwall, l Haskell
Monkton, & Cook Addison, reeves
Lincoln, DR. Kent Hancock, n " Alhfh
Middebury, Il Fuler Weybridse, M stowe.
FRANKLIN co.
w. Enosburgh, NJ Dean; Franklin, c FELTON,;
I" Falls, Col. Kendall; St Adams, l. Brainard, Jr
Montgomery, Martin Fairfield, John Stafford;
Bakersfield c Stones E. Foster
Berkshire. A Comings; Richturd, u GoH.
CALEDONIA co.
Ilardwick, w Wheatley; Peach m, W Maitocks,
Walden, A Amsden Ryegaie, W. l. Gibson
=. Il. G Foster, Cabot, q Cock Il Mclean
Danvle 4 Howard; Sheffield, l. B, Harvey,
N w Sias Groton, Nj Weld.
ORLEANS co.
Albany, Rev G Putnam; Lowell ]. D Harding;
Barton + w Kimbal N Troy, NJ X Eastman;
Craftsbury w Hastings; Charleston, q. Warren;
Glover, S 1 Blanchard; Bloomington, Rev Scales;
Greensboro, b. Comings Coventry, ]. liurd
A. c. Babbtt, o. {. Wnslow.
Iasburgh, E. G. Kimba (;
LAMoILLE co.
Cambridge, NJ Stafford Jacksonville, Stafford;
Elmore, Scott; Hydonark, Morse, $500,
Johnson, A w Caldwell; Watcrville, II Fisk and III
MorrstOwn, ] West Hochkss;
Etowe, Lothian Wocott PennoCk;
Sden, DR.. Atwe
WINDSOR co.
Bethel, A Marsh Cavendish, ] C spalding,
Il " o Hncher Chester 0 IIutchinsonj
Rochester, 5 Cooper; Reyaton. o Henry;
Sharon, P Metcaf; Norwich, Dav';
Bridgewater L Raymond; Woodstock, L Richmond;
Windsor, ] NJ Thorndike; So &c J Lake,
Brownsville, NJ d Perkins; sheddsvlle, Maj. FAREWELL
Hartford, A Nichols; Quechee vii. 1inkham,
w. " s Steele IIarand, II. D. Osgood
Barnard, l. Blackmer; No. " N Willard, Jr;
L. =" LBelknap; Snoswve, /. Hazen;
Pomfret G Harding, Cd Stockbridge. Rev. Mr. Daily
So. " Chandler Gaysville, Nj Bennett.
RUTLAND CO.
Rutland, r Thrall; Brandon, Marsh
Graves: Poutney, Harris
" allngfod, A Ramsdill Psfeld, JOyslin
Clarendon, w d Marsh.
BENNINGTON co.
Manchester, Roberts, Jr.; Dorset, I4andon;
NJ Bennington, Nlatteson; Salisbury, Bottom;
~, hEss W w IA s,ss.
srovnshend. w n shafter; Wilmington, 9 L Shaner
Windham II Upham; Hammondsrs MINIS u AaSio'
Jamaica, L Goohale DoNGi; " MI,
Brattteboro, C. FROST BrookllNe' n Flh'j
Athens, ] l. Shafter.
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MOUNT AUBURN.

We take the following facts respecting Mount
Auburn, from the Boston Atlas. We have WIS.,
tied that beautiful and romantic Cemetery, and
can vouch in some measure for the accuracy of
the description
The Cemetery contains one hundred and ten
acres, and was inclosed and consecrated in 1881.
There is granite chapel 66 feet by 40, decora.
ted with marble statues of Justice Story and DR.
Bowditch. The whole cost was $4,000.
The number of proprietors is now 1850. The
purchase of 300 square feet constitutes propri-
etor--the price is 100 and 100 dollars. There is
still land enough for seven or eight thousand ad-
dtional proprietors. The average cost of mon
uments is about $500. DR.. Bowditch's cost $4,
900. There has been already expended on the
Cemetery more than 100000.
About 400 persons are inferred annually in
the Cemetery, and the whole numbers now -four
thousand. 1t is much visited, the number of WIS.,
itors averaging IL or Is hundred daily, at this
season.
1t is proposed to make various improvement,
Ito surround the Cemetery with high stock
ade wood fence, and to introduce pure water-
This is needed. We recollect some small pond
of not over lmpid water that were not particu
larry ornamental, as we thought.
We have visited the cemeteries at Londo
and PARIS, and for extent, picturesqueness, mai
ural beauty and adaptedness, we think Aubur
+ is far before them, and far behind them, as re
cards monumental and decorative architecture
The cemetery of Pere La Ghaise, at Paris, is
bijou in its way. 1t is not near as large as M
Auburn though, but is full of beautiful and e'
D quisitely executed tombs and monuments-son
of them very costly, and some very ancient,
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Discoveries made by Lord ROSES
Telescope.

One of the greatest wonders of modern times
is Lord Rosse's great rejecting telescope, loca-
ted at Birr Castle, Ireland without exception the
largest telescope ever constructed. This Won
deru instrument is fifty feet long, six feet in d.
ameter, and weighs about twelve tons but it is
capable of being moved by the machinery at
tached to it with the greatest case. Is has a re-
hectng surface of 6,l84 square inches, being
1880 more than the great reflector Of Dr. Her
schel.
By this instrument, itappears, mountains have
lately been discovered in the ring Of Saturn
The irresolvable nebula, which before was sup
posed to consist of vast fields of matter in high
state of rarefacton, now appear to perform
more magnificent part in the works of creation,
though it had long been suspected that they
might be resolved into stars, if we had teles-
copcs of sufficient power. About the close of
last year, the Earl Of Rosee succeeded in get.
ting his great telescope into complete operation,
and during the first month of his observations
on fifty of the undesirable nebula, he succeed
ed in ascertaining that forty three of them were
receivable into masses Of stars. Thus is con-
frmed the opinion that we have only to increase
the powers of the instrument to resolve all the
nebua into stars. It ought to be understood,
that though this great telescope has been erect
ed nearly two wears, ii has not been in complete
operation more than six or seven months, and all
ready the nebula, not before fully examined,
have been discovered to be collection of suns.
Nothing made in vain; Gods creation a, uni-
verse oil wonders The little nebHla are not
floating mists, or mere fields of highly rarifed
matter, but glorious sans, so remote, and withal
so situated relatively to our eye, that we catch
only dim and confused glances of their stray
Cling rays What power of penetrating space
must those rays have that they should reach us
at all!
Among the wonders pertaining to this subject
is this, that we should be able to know anything
about worlds so immensely distant. How curl
ously are we imprisoned in the deep vaults Of
almost boundless space We can look away off
from our little planet; that is all. We are fixed
win be luxury to traverse the vast ne Sias .
' Gods kingdom, and talk with suns, and moons
and rings and nebula, face to face We shall
one day have range and scope for the study O
= God through his works, course of study i.
! prepared for MS both large and long-large as
: the breadth Of tie universe; long as our pros.
= pective Immortality We have as yet taken on
ly the first letters of the alphabet. The infnity
of God is still before u.s. The faithful here shall
be honored there. Jehovah has ample means to
reward his dutifuI and docile servants. He can
easily make them rulers over many things, and
give them the joy of their Lord
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j, JULY -. 1SA9.

men, and among other things, she really cursed
the garment, and casting it under her feet, wish.
ed that person whose name is uncomfortable
might take her if she ever wore a ruff again
This dark parsonage, whom it is said that an
invocation will always summon forthwith, APP
peared in the likeness of favored sutton, and
lnquiring the cause of her agitation, undertook
to instruct her how to finish the attire, as he had
learned it from his cousin, celebrated French
professor. The good lady was delighted! Her
lover had never before appeared so amiable in
her eyes. She wondered how she could posi-
bly, have been SO long insensble to his merits /!
His conversation was so brilliant, his counten-
ance so expressive, his manner so obliging, that
she was almost sorry that her promise to attend
the wedding would prevent her having more of
his company that day. The lover was, of course,
delighted with the altered manner of the lady,
and having placed the ruff round her neck toher
great satisfaction, he humby begged the favor
of kiss at parting Could she refuse her ia.
vored sutton? History does not relate what re.
ply she made but the parsonage, taking her two
cheeks between his hands, as if about to salute
her at parting, suddenly "writhed her neck in
sunder, so that she died mserably.'
The servants all alleged that they saw mar
velous handsome gentleman" walk down stairs
with lively air, as If he had come from ball
but it was proved that the person whose likeness
had been assumed by the demon was a hundred
miles away at the time. And when the hand
maids of the unfortunate lady went into herroon
to attend her, they found nothing but a grea
black cat, as the most veracious chroniclers as
sert, "setting of great ruffs and frizzng of hail
to the great fear and wonder of the beholders
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12
Slavery in California,

A letter from California to the Newark Adver-
tisel, says the voice of the people of California
is almost unanimous against the introduction of
slavery, and yet negro woman and child were
bought by merchant of San Francisco recent
Iy for 81 800. The buyer was originally from
Rhode Island, and the seller from Oregon. The
occasion of the purchase was the difficulty Of
obtaining servants; but this cannot be repeated
without calling out public demonstration.
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he retreated into the forest, where " was seen
no more, though traced some dlslAIlee BY the
blood next day. The OK which hadsenselzed,
was, it is scarcely necessary to apul severely
wounded, so as to be unfit for laoes iof some
time. Ere taking leave of this circumstance
which forms prominent point IN lnsllFsI Oesln-
ming of nv parents settlement in ths place, and
Of which nv father has the honor of being the
first pioneer in clearing the woods MINIS town,
it may be we'll to mention that large Dear was
year OF two afterwards killed BY tle contents
of a gun set for the purpose, in acesnheld, on
this same farm of my fathers, Thlfh he was
found to have visited, upon the caIcat 4of which
as he was dressed, was found the III 81 for
mer wound, made by bullet andA vas thot
probable that he was the same thos made the
afole mentioned attack on the OK.
Another circumstance, the localtyf which
was not so near homo, nor the time md place
sufficiently clear to enable one to fig i even if
it were material, is the somewhat Humorous whm
of an old soldier, in the days of the rFolution.
Iii simply this: that an oldsh manlOt much
above board in worldly circumstlllEs, and it
would seem, not over scrupulous astehe sensa-
ton an unexpected absence might crate in his
better hall, being despatched out doris for an
armful of oven wood with which 10 heathe oven
for baking, was persuaded by recruiting officer
who just then happened along, to enlis as SOL
der, and off he started, not stopping tacquant
the folks in the house OF the circumstace. He
went, served out his time, got his dsGarge, set
out on his return, and approaching hlslwelling,
prepared and took up an armful ofauen wood
and carried it into the house, as thongl he had
but just been sent out after it Wouh, that all
truants would return and do as wells this &c.
centric old soldier,
A curious circumstance was Oncenlated tc
me of the lucky recovery of younyalf alive
which had been seized and carried Nfb a cat
amount, in the south part of this State some six
ty or seventy years ago. A calf fga missing
from the pen where it was kept, and be track o
a beast, whch,it appeared must huyeben cat
amount, was traced to and from the place whence
the calf was taken. Hunters were soon in pur
suit and following the tracks to theuountains
discovered them together in afhd of {
hollow, where this feline invader, acting on tn,
instinct of its species, whenever it ANa victim
in its power, was diverting itself a h payinI
with the innocent calf like a cat wgi a mouse
Watching the opportunity, one Of men fire
and MORALLY wounded the cat, VIII vas 500
despatched. They then took thai alG whc
was still alive, and no; seriously Ha&apd ca
ried it home to its owner, whegss III :.
ante, gsnfSl 4sfI4s- u she'sot ssa5snf (WHICH oe
come the prey of these savage inhabants of tn
forest. Yours respectfully
JAMESJOHNS.
DANIEL P. THOMPSON, Esq.
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Winter in Spitsbergen.

The single night of this dreadful country be-
gins about the Both of October, the sun then sets
and never appears again till the 10th of Febru-
arv. A glimmering indeed continues some days
after the setting of the sun; then succeeds clouds
and thick darkness, broken by the light of the
moon which is luminous as in England, and du-
ring this long night shines with unfading lustre.
The cold strengthens with the new year, and the
sun is ushered in with an unsuu0l severity of
FROST Nv the middle of March the cheerful
Gght grows strong. Arctic foxes leave their
holes, and the sea fowls resort in great numbers
to their broodng places, The sun sets no more
till after the 18th May; the distinction of day
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12

MARY lbwIrT.
Terrible are the legends of other hns The
of Germany TEEN with fhtories.---
France has Legendary romance, andEltly stores
of romantic song; nor is England Fthout her
tales of terror; and in hcl iron claspl records
of the past we find narrative that cannot fail to
engage the wrapt attention of lade4h particu-
lar, as its interest arises from particular taste
of fashion among the beauties OF the English
aristocracy in the good old day OF Elizabeth
1t is not for us to condemn those ancleN danes.
but the truth must nevertheless QUIT md there
can be no denying Of it, that those EXCELLENT la
dies Of the court of her Majesty Qvfa Eliza.
beth, of blessed memory, adopted Styles of cos
tune which, with the utmost extensifO of good
nature, we cannot say were even asIaby pref
ty Imagine a group of maids of aOnor in a
dance, with starched ruffs round tltir lovely
necks, of so tremendous size that ~ suffel-
ers were obliged to feed themselves wfa spoon
two feet long Fancy the elegant Duchess Of
Sutherland, or the beautiful Lady Jpcelyn, in
such a costume, at an evening party In the
year 1880, sumptuary laws were punished by
proclamation, whereby those enonnitlea we're re-
duced to dimensions rather more iii Al Eordance
with ideas of propricty. Extravag4t prices
were paid for them, aud they were made at first
of fine holland, but afterwards of lawn hnd cam
brio, which were brought into England In small
quantities, and sold charity almost by inches, for
there was then scarcely one shop keeper in fifty
who dared to speculate in a whole PIECE Of Ell
Their commodity. $50 strange and wonderful
was the stuff" says an old writer speaking OIL
lawn {" that thereupon rose general scon' orby
word, that shortly they would wear quits of q
SPIDERS web" Another difficulty arose whcr
the Queen had rufs made of this new ana beau
tiful fabric, for there was nobody IN Engan(
who could starch them. To her MaiesF's grea
relief however, Dutch woman was tdnd pos
sessed of that desirable knowledge winch Eng
land could not supply; and "Guillan'S Elte wa
the first starcher the Queen had, a7Gullal
himself was the first coachman.' The rYns wer
adjusted by heated sticks of iron ana peel, o
E silver. But the mysterious legend arl'f, g iron
| this popular fashion remains to be told IT'S al
n legged land people may believe the 'al7 Or mo-
D as they plelse) that lady of high DIS nctior
n whose name, as the song says, " shall Y name
d less now" being invted.to wedding, were a
e the leading members of the Queens OOfa "er
= expected to be present, could not, aluiTsn sh
i employed two of the most celebrated Pipessol
: of the starching art and mystery, ge'fsf III
| finished according to her taste; wheFe'P0a sh
y made such strange EXPLANATIONS TOR iaop' Ser
y not nice about words in those days any ulEe 'ha
d they were in Diet as to amaze her wan asW'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1849-07-12

A YOUTHFUL ASTRONOMER. The Boston
Traveller states that, at the last meeting of the
American Academy of Arts and Science, the
elliptic elements Of Peterson's comet were pre-
scented by boy named Stafford, only IA years of
age. The computations were entirely his own.
His astonishing mathematical powers were the
subject of much newspaper discussion some
years ago. He now resides at Cambridge, Mas
sachuSettS
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THE SOULS REPLY.

Preacher too dark thy mood;
God made this earth
At its prineval birth
"God saw that it was good"
And if through Adams sin
Death entered in,
Hath not Christ died to save
Me from the grave?
Repented sins for His sake are forgiven
There Is heaven.
For that this earth is no abiding place,
Shall we displace
The flowers that God hath scattered on our path
The kindly hearth;
The smile of love still Frightening as VIC come,
Making the desert, home
The seventh day of rest, the poor mans
Treasure of holy leisure;
Bright sunshine, happy birds, the joy of
Flowers? All, no! this earth of ours =,
Was "very good" and hath its blessings still
And if we will, $500,
We NAV be happy. Say, dark Preacher, VIII
Should we thus hate to live, OF fear to de-.
With love for Time, Heaven for Eternity
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place. Jerome was gathering together the rem
nants of the army Letort had been cut in two
by cannon ball. Napoleon lifted his head very
slow, looked round as if rousing from dream
and then, with his brief strident voice, he asked
"What place is this2 "Villers- Coteret, sire"
How many leagues from Soissons?" "Six,
sire" "From Paris? Nineteen" "Tell
the postboys to go quick" and he once more
flung himself back into the corner of his car
rage, his head fell on his chest. The horses
carried him away as if they had wings"
The world knows what had taken place be-
tween these two apparitions of Napoleon!
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VOLUME vi. NO. %.

and night is then lost. In the height of summer
the sun has heat enough to melt the tar on the
decks of ships but from August its power de-
clines-it sets fast. After the middle of Sep
TENDER, day is hardly di nguishab'e and by the
end of October takes long farewell of this
country the earth becomes frozen, and winter
reigns triumphant.
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Tbe familp Gtrfle.
From Sharpe's Magazine.
THE PREACHERS ADDRESS
TO THE SOUL.

Weary Soul,
Why dost thou still dlsquiet
Thyself with senseless riot,
Taking thy fill and measure
Of earthly pleasure?
The things that thou dost prize
Are not realities;
All is but seeming.
Waking, thou still lest dreaming
That which before thine eye
Now passeth, or hath past,
Is nought but Vanity
1t cannot last,
This evil world, be sure
Shall not endure.
Art thou weary soul, and dost thou cry
For rest? Wait and thou soon shalt have
That thou dost crave.
For death is real-the Grave no mockery.