Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1850-11-21

I A leading Wing member, representing town
not thousand miles from the Capitol, had the
,oste to get up, and introduce, though young
member Of the same party, Bill "To INcoRPo-
RATE THE FREE-Som PARTY, who might, "by
that name, sue and be sued, embrace and be
embraced, annex and be annexed have con-
mon seal, and enjoy all the rights and priv.
leges, and panks still left of the Buffalo Plat
form,"-with second section, declaring " the
natural song Of said Corporation to be OLD Nor
tally, which shall be sung annually.
The last words of this splenetic effusion, in
the shape of bill which was an insult to nearly
half the members present, had scarcely escaped
from the lips of the clerk in the reading, before
the voice Of Thomas Bartlett Jr., who, with flash
ing eyes, was instantly on his feet, rang like
trumpet through the Hall
Mr.. Speaker, Imoue The reference Of that Bill
to the Wing Party Of Massachusetts :"
Anything but granite walls, seemingly, would
have been shaken down by the roar and shouts
of laughter, that, with one accord, now burst
forth from the Free Democracy, who were in
exactly the right vein to send up the uprorious
rebuke, having just heard Of the signal defeat of
the party, in Massachusetts, to which the refer
encehad been pro -poscd.
VT. CENTRAL RAILRoAD.--The receipts of
this Road for October were 35,256,46, which,
it is estimated, would have been swelled to forty
five thousand, had there been freight cars enough
to do all the business that might have been had.
The very encouraging report just issued, con-
templates the purchase of four new engines,
FIVE passenger,and one hundred and eighty eight
freight cars, as necessary to meet the present
and prospective business of the road. The stock
is now selling at about $4,000 per share, and,
as the right of bridging the Lake is now obtain
ed, and connection with Ogdensburgh about
to take place, we may reasonably look for still
further, and, as we think, continued advance, till
the stock is at par. The dark day of the Cen
trail IS over.
PETER M, DEsHoNe is DEAD.-This young
Pennsylvania mathematician died on n steam-
boat, in October, on his way home from Quebec,
where he had been lecturing on his new methods
of computation.
1t may be recollected, perhaps, that, last sum.
mer. we made comment on Mr.. ID g proposal
to send us or any one enclosing him $500,
pamphlet embracing his secret Of enabling one
" to add, multiply or divide any column or sets
of numbers, and obtain the results, in one line
of figures, as fast as pen could write them
down !" and that we, in turn, offered him $780,
90, if he would first send on his rules, and we
could perform by them all he promised" Well,
he took us at our word, as far as to send us his
method, with rules and tables all clearly set
forth. But after practciug reasonable time,
tho all would come out right with the sets offig
ures he gave in his tables, we soon got into the
fog when taking other figures, and besides that,
we could get answers no quicker than by the old
way. That, however, may have been our fault,
which famlIarizaton might remedy. Indeed,
we think there may be something in the method
since one of our young farmer mathameticians,
of Montpelier, has discovered similar method,
by which he can very rapidly multiply any two
sets of figures together, and put down the pro-
duct in one line. But whether persons general
ly can be brought to do so, either by his method
or any other of the kind, with more dispatch and
certainty than by the common method, we very
much question.
THE INDIAN SUMMER.-Never, within the
memory of the Oldest inhabitants, has there beer
in Vermont longer and more beautiful lndiar
Summer than the one now giving place to the
encronches Of dreary winter. But the Yves
and South seem not to have been proportionally
favored. In western New York, Pennsylvania
and even Virginia, there have been severa
SHOWS, varying from three to twelve inches il
depth.