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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
For the Freeman. Z
Tntemperence.

Intempcrancc has carried manyu mtn to the
galluws. 1t has caused many iI,,lel to weep
aud children to suffer for the want d food, or
clothing, or fire. How must theylea' Then shey
hear the footsteps of the father or hashnd who
has many times befyre com, home from the
tavern or grog shop at dead oanigbi, but to
abuse thcn--throw them one altc se,ther into
the street What is the matter Of hlb? hrs he
drank too much cold wafer. No. llelhas pos-
uned and maddened hiulself with hatintoxlca..
ing liquid. Whenever you see a nel lettering
about incorporate places, espeCalF young
man, mark him; he can never betnNhing; he
can never be as man should bo un'ih he alters r.
his hand, and turns his course FROM such lIj =.
degrading practice. A great 10y people drr 4
.rdcnt spirits 10 keep cold water tornI injuring
them; but it IL more frequently the Slsc that
they drink cold water to keep Themselves from
being set on fire. Many use rum in tie warm
esj part OF the season to keep water G5in injuE
ing them would ask ssates them
.s-s-s,--4.s,- t--ss9sssss.
clused the most deaths in years pN Which
has been the means of committing the mos,
crime and SIN, rum or water? Vlsh it might
be realised | think it is a suhiec Y no l'ttle
consequences. Many do not sto ID consider
which will do them the most injury bat whatev-
ur their appctites most crave, they will have, il
they can getit once heard som Pen call for
bnters-says one, you know whit Ec want -
ye are both sick" am afraid III there are
many such sick oucs, but if they hidwhat they
most needed, it would be benrftlto them
Rum is good thing for some ocstons. For
Instance. in spasuls, or exlernil biu Es. But
fear that many have their scyerest VI kmds inter
nally. Rum has its place but it is i& its place
in mars mouth.
Health is the greatest earthly bFsin5, and
without it we can do nothing. If b wish to
cultivate the soil, health is needed. \ we wish
10 get al education, health we wafh or if we
want to do anything in order to uike progres,
health we must have ana without rive can do
nothing. Ii we have the riches of fKing, and
ire deprived Of our health we do nd enjoy our.
selves as we should if we were fgtuta o.
ichea and had health given us. Weknow moi
how to prize health unil we are deirRed Of it
Those that enjoy perfect health enjol blessing
that many ale deprived Of yet y We con
slider from whence these flow. Hk Thankful
hen. ought we to be that the great hi benevo
tent God has prese we'd our heal& But hai
health no connection with tempericc? Lie
conscience answer, Oh ye intemperak!
DAVID J BARNES
! EhoI5oa Nov A
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
TH7 ACCUs .EEls So. .RlT.

A farmer on his return from the mrknt II
Southam IN the county of Warwick, England,
was murdered A man went the next morning
to his wife, and i9qnired il her husband came
home the night before, She replied m, aud
that she was under the utmost terror anlanxiety
on that account, "Your terror sail h cannot
equal mine-tor last night, as | lay in bed, quite
awake, the applrion OF your husband appeared
before me, showed me several ghast'y et,bs in
his body, told INC he had been murdered by such
person, and his carcase thrown into such
mari pit" The alarm was given the pit search
ed, the body found aud the wounds answered
the description given Of them. The man whom
the ghost accused was apprehcndrd and com-
united on violent suspicion Of murder. Ills
hial came on at Warwick heioie the Lord Chief
Justice Raymond; when the jury would have
convicted han as rashIy as the justca OF tho
peace had committed him, had not the Judge
checked them. He addressed himself to them
to this effect:
81 think, gentlemen, you seem inclined to
lay more stress on the evidence Of an apPaIition
than it will bear | cannot say that give much
credit to these XII of stories but be thlt as it
will, we have no right to follow our own private
oplnious hero. We are nov in curt ot law,
and must determine according to iti and know
not of any law now in being which wllHadnlt
Of the testimony Of an apparion; nor yet, It 1t
ldid, does the ghost appear to give testimony.
Crier,7 said he, "call the ehost;' which was
thrice done to no manner Of purpose! II appear
ed not "GentIemen OF the jury" continued
the Judge, "the prisoner Mt the bar, as you
heard by uadenabe witnesses, is man OF most
unbemshed character; nor has it appeared, in
the course of the examination, that there was
any manner of quarrel or grudge between them
and as therais no evidence against him, eth
er positive or circums. .antal, he mus be acquit'
ted But from many circumstances which have
arisen during the trial, do strongly suspect that
the gentlemln who saw the Oppariuon was him
sell the murderer in which case he might easi-
IIy ascertain the pit, the stabs, &c, without any
supernatural assistance; and nn such susplclon
shall think myself justified ia committing him
to close custody till the matter can be further in-
ouired into" This was Immediately doue, aud
warrant granted for searching his house, when
suca strong proofs Of guilt appeared against
hun, that he conf'sse he nlrd.lau3 aas cxc
lcucl at III II "s lSa 40.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
A MAN WITHOUT HOPE.

The late Joseph C Ned, in his Inning Of
" Trlbulation Trepid, man without hope" thus
hits off that class of people who are never SO
happy as when miserable:
How are you Trcpid3 How do you feel
Mr.. Trepil 2
"A gr at deal worse than was, thank'ee -
most dead, I'm obg ID to you; | am always
worse than was, aud don't think ever was
any better, and for the future you may always
know I'm worse without asking any questions,
FOR the questions make me worse, if nothing else
does"
"Why, MIR. T'repid, what il the matter with
you 2"
Nothing, I tell you, in particular; hut good
deal is the matter with me in general; and that
is the danger, because we don't know what is
the matter. That's what kills people, when
they cont know Whist it is, and that's what's
killing me. Ny grandfather died Of it and so
will /. The doctors don't know, they can't tell
they say rm well enough, when I'm bad
enough, so there's no help. I'm going off some
of these days right after my grandfather, dying
of nothing in particular, but of everything IN
general. That's what finishes us,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
REVELATION OF HORRORS

The following is taken from work by Eu-
gene RegnauIt, entitled The Criminal History
Of the English Government." 1t will be seen
that when the English Aristocrats found it i'm
possible to carry on the war and to conquer the
Americans by what is termed and generally
considered the arts Of honorable warfare, they
privately bnbcd the Indian savages To murder
by every means in their power, as many Ameri-
cans as possible, and actually engaged to give
them so much piece for every American scalp
The folluwng is letter sent by Captain Craw'
ford TO Col. iIaldiman, the British governor OF
Canada, accompanying eight packs of scalps;
May it please your excellency, at the request
Of ths Seneca chief, send herewith, to your
excellcncy, under care of james Beyd, eight
packs of scalps cured and dried, hooped and
painted with all the Indian triumphant marks
of which the follOwing is the invoice and expIa'
nation:
Pack |. Containing forty three sca|ps Of Con
press soldiers, killed in different skirmishes =
these are stretched on black hoops, four inches
in diameter the inside of the skin is painted
red, with a small black spot 10 denote thei
being killed by bullets. Also, 81 of farmers
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
INCREASING LONGEVITY.

The assertion by doctor Stevens, of New
York, in recent lecture, TINT the longevity of
the human race was gradually increasing under
the Influence of the improvements ia the meli
cal profession, has been reviewed by Professor
Gatcliel, Of the Eclectic Medical Institute. of
Cincinnati, taking an extended view of the facts
furnished BY history and Statistics, and showing
that firm the time of the Roman ompire down
tothe present. day. a progressive ameiioraton
Of the condition If man, and an increase Of nv
erage longevity, hid been taking place, on ac.
count Of improvements in industrial pursuits.
and in the comforts and increased security of
Ifs.
He traced the operations Of ll"se causes in
Great Britain, producing an average longevity
1t present nearly twice as great as in the days
Of the hep'archy, and the subsequent periods nn-
terror to the establishment of the rights of the
people. To attribute the increase Of longevity
to the labors of the medical profession, he con
sidered contradictory to the whole Testimony of
history. 1t would be far more rational, said he.
to attribute the improvement to the seam en-
zinc, the printing press, or magma charter or any
spther oI the great agencies, which have assisted
civilization.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
, VERMONT, MARCH %, 1850,

consi,t Of two par.s-a circular temple on the
ground, and an enormous cbesk rising out Of
its centre, in the same way as candle rises
from the socket on the cover of tlsi old fashion
ed tinder box, to which useful implement OF do
nestic service its whole outline "a seen at a
distance, bares striking aud uDNessakabe re-
semblance The expedlent Of spHareniy rest
ing pile Of stone, six hundred feet high, on
the roof Of building beneath i, ~ hardly be
defended on any serious principles Of artistic
propriety. Were our eyes shut and our wits
gone out visiting, our books aFe still full Of
denunciations Of such practices, sfd from pre-
cept at least, if not from exasfa we might
learn better. The stceple,' sayr j elegant
critic, appears worst and ugliesi, z ID as at st.
Martin in tho 'GielIss i..i1snru ssxsbfsart a !,
Purtico 10 vncn IT does not bar sheb bughtest
affinity 1t avails nothing, so far & The, con
structire oppression is concerned, 70 tell as that
It is really supported inside on Foundation OF
ITS own. We see it riding on i,e five
think Of sugar loaf set on end HI basket Of
eggs, and the mind is panied by the apparent
instability, and the evident inproT ,iaty lof po-
stion. All the great steeples of lhe middle
ages run TO the ground, and rest oathat alone
they never rest on The roof, or htelTsre with
i in any way; all Wicn's steerfs though
composed in a totally different stile,Obhrve the
same ule and it is, in reality, ma drulc cf
style, but Of construction; not die nm pf taste,
exclusively, but posIulate Of nee sik and Of
common censc."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
Ell DORADO.
By J. @. SAKE.

Let others, dazzled by the shining ore,
Delve III the dirt to gather golden store.
Let others, patient Of the mental toll
And diiy suffering, seek the precions soil -
White most shall struggle through the weary
years,
With nlught Of Midas save his ample ears
No hero |, in such couse to brave
Hunger and pain, the rubber and the grave.
I'll work, instead, exempt from hate and
The fruitful "placcrs" of my mountain farm,
Where the bri1ht pioughshare opens richest
From whence shall issue countless golden
gains,
Which, in the fulness of the year, shall come
In buunteous sheaves, to bless my harvest
honel
But, haply, go"d may come of mining yet
Twill help to pay the natiun's foreign debt
twill further liberal ats; plate rings and
pins;
Gid books and coaches, nerrors, signs, and
sins;
Twill cheaper pens and pencils, and, per
chance
May give us honest dealing for finance.
(That magic art, unknown to darker times
Whom fraud and ialsehood, were ieputed
criIncS,
Whose suriOus laws, with nice precision
teach,
How whoIc.e estates were made from parts Of
speech;
How lying rags for honest coin shal pass,
And foreign gold be paid in nj ii braSs y
'Tw save, perhaps, each deep indebted
State
From all temptation to repudatc,
Till time restore our precious credit lost,
And hash the wall of Peter Plymey's ghosl
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
FIRST POETRY WRITTEN IN
AMERICA.

A correspondent Of the Bangor Wing thus
clOims for popular nursery rhyme. the honor
OF being the first poetic cffnslon ever produced
on American soil:
"The first poetic effuslon ever produced on
American soil, originated in a circumstance
which was handsomely expressed by one Of the
fill bloodS Of the Jibawa, or-as we call them
The Chippewas. All those who witnessed the
performance of the Indians Of the far west, re-
Gently in cur city, must recolect the cradle and
the mode in which The Indians bling up their
children.
Soon after our foreEihcrs landed at Plymouth,
some oil the young people went out into field
where Indian women vera picking strawberries,
and observed several cradles hanging upon the
boughs Of trees with infants fastened to them
novel and curious sight to any European. A
gentle breeze sprung up which waved the era.
dies to and fro. A young man, one of the par.
/ ty peeled off piece Of birch bark and upon the
spot wrote the following, which has been rerea
ted thousand times by thousands of American
natrons. very few of which ever knew or carct
for its origin:
Lula by bnby upon the tree tor
When the wind blows the cradle will rock;
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down comes lullaby baby and all.
The above facts were taken some years sucr
from the archives of the historical socioy in Dos
ton"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
Time.-A Sketch.

saw a temple, reared by the hands of man
standing with its high plnnaces in the distant
plain, The streams beat upon it, the Col OF
nature hurled his thundcrbolts at it, and yet ii
stood firm as adanant.
returned and 10! the temple was no more
Its high walls lay in scattered runs moss and
wild grass grew rSnkly lhere and at the mid
night hour, the owls long cry added to the deep
solitude--the young and the gay who reveiled
there, had pissed away. saw a child rejoic-
ing in his yCuth--the idol Of his mother and the
pride OF his father. returned, and the child
had become old Trembling with the weight
OF yenrs, he stood the last of his generation, a
stranger amid the desolutiuRs around him.
"Who is this destro, er'" 4aid to my guard
ian angel
1T is timc,' said he. "Whrn the morning
stars sang together with joy of the new world,
he commenced his course, and when he shall
have destroyed al that is beautiful on eurth
Pucked e sun from his sphere, yelled the
moon in bIood-yea, when he shall have rolled
the heavens and earth away as scroll, then
shall an angel from the throne of God come
foI'h, and with one foot on sea, and one On land
In up his hand towards heaven, and swarc b,
heavens Eternal, Time is, Time lo1s, but Tim
shall teho longer"
Ia there no way" said I, 'to render Time
blessing instead of a curse;"
Yes" said the angel. "By luying hold o
him as h" passes by he will wafi you to blts
ed Immortality; but by neglectpg him, ant
suffering him TO pass unbeedcd, he will bar,
you swiftly through waves of trouble to deeI
gulf Of woe. He rolls on most rapidly, an,
will reward you for your conduct towards him
II you would be happy, you must esteeme hin
Of infinitely m"re value than gold or silver. -
Grasp each moment as ii flies, and spend !, !,
doing good"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
THE NATIONAL MONUMENT

The plan Of the National Monument, design.
ed to be erected to Washington, at the Capital,
meets with littler favor from the architectural
critics in any quarter Recently, proposition
having been made in the Massachusetts Legis
lature to furnish block OF granite by the State,
Mr.. TIillOrd let fly some shais at the plan which
told with considerable effect; and now he is
backed in his assertions by q sensible writer,
A. g., in the Boston Courier, who comes down
upon the "anomalous pile7 in the following
sharp slyle;--
This anomalous pile, then, is intended tc
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
TEE VALUE OF AN AFRICAN
WIFE.

Some English settlers in South Africa, in a
hunting excursion across the frontier, were en-
tertained at the KraaI of the Amatymba Caffres.
F'Dc cSlrf inquired now many wivesun Eaglisn-
man usually had, and how many cattle were re
quired to by paid for one. lie was told that no
man, Rot even the king himself, was allowed
to have more than one wife. and that property
was not given for them, but on the contrary ex
pected with them.
"You are people Of strange CUSTOMS" said
the Cafflre-" among us no man can procure
t,lcrable wife for less than ten good oxen, and
our chiefs sometimes pay sixty cattle for one Of
superior qualities. Your women fear make
hut Indifferent wives, since no one will pay for
hem, am! their relatives must even pay the men
omary them of their hands"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
Tbe familp Circle.
For the Freeman.
TO TEE ORPHAN.

"Forget not the dead!" they are lowering round
thee,
Their spins with thine are forever cntwined:
And nften in mo nents Of sadness they've found
thee,
When thoughts Of the past tilIed their sensitive
mifid.
Oh! remember them, still, with undying afec
tiOn,
Though SHOWS now are laid on the graves where
they sleep,
a in monents of DANGER their wings Of pro
tecihin,
Thy feet, from the snares Of temptation, shall
keep
b., when tho bright torch Of affection is bcnm-
ing,
AID Is gliding the forms Of the loved, and th'
lost
And when as the snrrowful past is returning,
Thy soul on the wave of affection is tossed,
On, slv, will no thought Of the dear ones re-
malnlnI,
Whose hearts are still near thee to bless and to
cheer,
Come hume 10 thy spirit, that's SO sadly com
plaimng,
AMI check the swift flowing of memoy's tear'
Thou art not a.ons There are many who love
thee
Whose ardent affection will never decay,
Who weep, when adversity's cloud Is above
thee,
And VIII, smile when the shadow has fitted
away.
Then mourn not in vain, for the past and its
pleasures,
But turn Ihen to those which are still by thy
side;
Sweet Friendship for thee is unfolding her trea-
sures,
HLe will not forsake thce whatever bctile.
W. II.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
CURIOUS.

We have heard of writing down to the peo-
pie" but never came across so curious an in
stance of it as the following. The London
Christian Examiner says that the British For
q gu BOlc Society have given version of the
New estamert for the use of the English ne
proes at Surinam The first four verses of the
5th chapter of Matthew, read as follows in the
Suranm edition.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28
THE LANGUAGE OF AMI
MAILS.

1t is often asked why animals hage moi the
power ofspecch. This is taking 1t fo granted
that they have not. From few Is M kgtkasi
ly proved that they have the faculty. PI ancua-
ton, like men, aul that they have way of
communicating their ileas. Thosd GLASSES of
animals which seem To possess this power in
the most remarkable degree, are these that live
together in communities and societies, for 10
them it would, OF course, be the most nccessa.
y.
Bees arc able to make different NOISES by the
means of their feclers, and these sounds convey
various meanings. When they are about to
swarm, scouts are sent out to find suitable To-
cation these return, report what they have seen
IA buzzing mise is made, and the whnIe swarm
start for the place on which the scouts have fix
cd. ...
wasp which has found some store Of food,
has been observed to 90 to iti nrst, and in some
way impart such information to his associates
and that they have flown to the place in one
body.
Aa,s possess this facally in still greater de-
gree. When they are at woE, there is evi,
IDENTIFY communication between the master-
workman and the aborers SO when an army
Of them is moving, the march is conducted with
a regularity that would be impossible unless
they understood each other At given signal
from their leaders they arc seen 10 quicken
their pace; scouts are despatched and rein
forccments brought up, and messages sont from
one portion to arothor, insonuch that the vari
ous movements seem almost to be directed bj
human beings. ...a
An ant that has found a piece Of food to,
large to be carried unasss'ed, wiz return to IL
nest, and bring to its aid several Ol It's Comrades
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

Knowledge and Ignorance. -ihe uuedncotcd
never admire; they are aston8lel, Tho wise
are forewaned, he ignorant fear. An eclipse
Of the sun induces the philosopher to Ioaye il
home and watch ts prog'cas; but The savage
and the untaught hide themselves in caves and
conceded pacea tembIng like the beasts Of
the field.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

The smallest bird of America, is the hum
mng. bird; and of Europe the G''d crested
wren. The smallest qnldrupol in the world, is
the pigmy mouse of Siberia. The most dinn-
utive plant is the Arctic raspberry, which is so
small thl six ounce vial will hold the whole,
branches, leaves, and all.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

VI. franklin gives US an instance in poiLt. He
had suspended pot of molasses by string.
from the ceiling, in tsler to preIerve it from the
ants. ~.
One of these troublesome visitors had remain
ed on thu pot, and was seen ascending the
string, and betaking itself to its hole. Not ma
ny moments had elapsed before large compa-
ny OF ants we're dscerned making their way to
the extremity of the string; they descended to
the Pot, eat their fill, and then paye way TO
smother band of their hungry confede-ates. It
would seem in this case, that information must
certainly have been given by the first discover
er.
A crow perched on lofty limb, while iIs
companions are feeding. win bYa single COW,
,sihish a d. once ,nder tod apa asncted on give
no'ice of approaching danger. Indeed the note
of danger is one that all animals seem to under
stand.
A hen, by her cnckling. calls, will collect her
chickens under her wings, as expeditiously as
human mother cun gather her children by her
words.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

O. A Miss Russell was recently married ct
St. Louis, whose wedding dress was marntac-
ured of glass, and cost $i.500 The lady pri-
ded herself doubtless, TINT she was the glass Of
tashion-but then, as Col. Greene, Of the Post
slys-" such folly may be very easily seen
throuchn
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

What a deal Of troubla the devil takes some
times to propi late fortune! The largest sub
scription 10 the fiind for the construction Of a
church il cllsornia.- given by a alHlalnS
house, viz: $4,000.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

A PuzzLr.-Read correctly the following
lines, the second Of which iA II copy Of note
brought by boy to the school mistless, an "x'
cuso for absence:
THE Great Being, NJ. T., man came and
put"
"CepaT ontoataFurn."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

An infide' remarked within hearing of little
girl of thirteen, that all things came b, chance
and that the world like mushroom sprapo m
in night. 81 should like to know, sir" she
said, where the sesd came frcm." H..
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

The Snranim copies have been scarce. At
the sale of the Duke Of Susseks Library, one
brought SlJ,G4.
We suppose that when the Missionaries are
preaching they use Tie neg dlllect. And why
not? The object Of speaking is to be under.
aood. But on the ether hand, so ong as the
negro dialect in question, is talked to the ne.
gnes of Sunsm, they will not be apt to learn
better English.
BY the way, the fourth verse above quoted Of
The Surnnim edition, compares very tavoraby
with the corresponding verse Of the common edi.
aion. tis, IT anything iJcse expressive, hut
not SO concise or -vftturr,f,s. ~ .l----.-4s
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-03-28

GFS One murder IN likes a viI'ain-and thon-
s1nds a hero" The former soon gets his neck
slretched-and the latter his brow laureled.