Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-05-30

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: gifted country woman whose departure we ar
+ called to mourn.
NEW CONVENTIONAL Convention of wo
men was recently held in CINCINNATI, Ohio. Il
object appears to have been to discuss and TAX
action on the rights of women in this countr
generally, and in their own State particularly
where their rights in regard to holding propert.
&c. were not it was conteuded, adequately Sc
cured by law. The reports of the committee
were spirited and well drawn up; and the Con
vention was well, and, we should think, abl,
represented. Some of our cotemporaries. WI
perceive, are disposed to view this example
the daughters of the Buckeye State as a matter
of merriment. But we do not. We have long
thought that, in regard to property, the rights
and safety of the sex is now not well nor judi
ciously protected. Ithas always been notorious,
even to an adage, that the greater part of females
of property, fall prey to hollow heated fortune
seekers. This, at least, certainly can, and GER
tainly should be remedied by law in every State
in the Union.
Another new Convention has recently been
held in New York, by the Glahamites who, in
substance, concluded and resolved, that man
could only live ng,virtuousy and wisely on veg
etabe diet. They do not explain why our Ma
ker gave us carnverous, as well as graniverous
teeth for the mascation of the food on which
wo were to subsSt.
THE SECRETARY OF WAR "A Washington
dispatch of Sunday, to the n. Y. Tribune, says: :
1t is now confidently stated that Mr. Secre-
tary Crawford will 60 out of the Cabinet on the
Slavery Question. He is ultra pro. Slavery, and
opposed to the Presidents favorng any plan of
compromise whatever. Public sentiment runs
high against Crawford on the Gaphn matter.
CORNING, N. Y, MAY 39.-This morning at
half past eleven, the wind blowing from the
northwest fire originated in the Corning and
Blossbura depot, which has consumed all the
buildings from the Clinton House to the lower
end of the village, destroying property to the
amount of over 100000, laying the whole of
the business portion of the village in ruins
There Is not one store or grocery left The
Bank, Corning House, and almost all the lumber
OH the wharves are destroyed. Corning is in
Steuben County, on the Chemung river, and is
one of the stations on the line of the New York
and Erie Railroad.
FRESHMAN DROWNED An Irishman named
John Purcall about 25 years old, was drowned
in The Connecticut River, opposite this village,
on Tuesday forenoon lie had just started from
the shore in small boat when he became fright
ened, thinking the current was about to carry
him out into the middle of the river, and leaped
into the water. Though he was not more than
two rods from the shore, his body has not yet
been recovered BraHleboro Eagle.
SEMT-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF MID
DLEBURY CoLLEGE.-The Associated Alumni
of Middebnry College will celebrate the Eff
tieth Anniversary of the founding of that insti-
tuition, on "Wednesday and Thursday. the 2lst
gnd 22d days of August next. Rev. DR.. Josh
ia Bates, Rev. DIR. Stephen DIN, Rev. DR.. John
Hough, Rev. Dr. N. s. S. Beman, Hon. Alcxan-
der Buel, John G. SAKE, Esq, and others, have
acceptd appointments as Speakers of the occas-
ion. very full attendance of graduates is ex.
pected
PRoDUCTIoNs OF GOLD AND SILVER IN 1S49.
We have it from the best authority that the
mines of. Mexico produced forty MILLIONS Of
of South America about twenty millions those
OF California about thirty; and the mines of
Europe about fifty, making altogether one hun
dred and forty millions of gold and silver added
to the specie currency Of the world in one year.
and probably next year the addition will be two
hundred millions. We are within a short time
of a complete revolution and revulson in the
currency Of the whole world.-Phiiad Sun.
MACHINERY OF WASHING Dishes MIR.
Joel Houghton, of Ogden, N Y. has invented a
machine for washing dishes, so as ''to save the
,conian folks a deal of trouble" The dishes are
placed in rack and set upwright When it is
carried to a vessel containing water and little
soap, and by turning a crank the dishes on the
rack are whirled in great style TO remove all the
dirt. The unclean water is then drawn off and
rcplacedi by clean boiling water, and the crank
again turned few seconds. The dishes are
then clean, and can remain in the rack, which
obviates the handling of dishes.-.lurOra Of The
Valey
EFFECTS OF THE MARRIAGE LAw.-The
number of marriages in this vicinity has much
increased since the passage of the new law at
the last session. Many get their marrying done
at home instead of hurrying off to other States,
= and parouzing foreign justices of the peace,
cleroymen, &C. The Nashua Oasis says-"The
new marriage law in Massachusetts makes il
unnecessary for parties to come into this State
to be married consequently, quite an amount
e of perquisites is taken from the hands of our
3 clergymen and justices, heretofore received for
T.
: town. Joined in marriage two hundred couples
between the months of Apr, 1849, and 1850. for
8 which he received nearly six hundre dollars
s About nine-tenths Of them were from Massa
, chusetts. "-LoiCeA Jour-
~ Hon Daniel R. Tilden has been
nominated by tho Free Sellers of Ohio for
" Governor He was formerly a wing mem.
IT Der of Congress, when his Wilmot Provsc
t. resolution was Kissed down at the Who
e National Convention, he took up his con.
j. nection with that party.
~ The Union Ticket free Soil and
Democratic) for Commissioners has been
: elected, in Hampshire County, Mass
: t=9 The Missouri Expositor says that Mr.
). Benton likes an encounter ofhand to hand u
:, we think, that in his late affair with the
= Mississippi Senator, he manifeted decided
inclination fol an encounter of font to Foote
LouiSU'He JOURNAL
9, 70 Hon. Joshua R. Giddings and ]. G
y Vaughan, the Editor of the CIeavand True
of Democrat, have been appointed DELEGATE,
To the Wnrld's pancn Conno...