Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-04-03

an abundant crop, to be sure, but not OF
the sort which was promised when the seed
was sown, at the last session of Congress.
VI all the proceedings of the government
for the last twenty five years, we do not re-
collect any which has been so fruitful of
agitation and discord, as the very measures
OF the last session, which, according to their
auditors, were to hush the confederacy into
a profound tranquility.
MELANCHoLY.--The Worcester Tribune
learns that OF Friday morning last, at an
early hour, the house of a Mr.. Phillips, in
N. Woonsocket, was destroy ed by fire and
three of his children burnt to death by the
devouring clement, and another severely
injured. Mr.. Phillips, whilst endeavoring
with true parental love to save one of the
children, had his ten toes completely burn
ed off. His vile barely escaped u%nlnjur-
ed.
The war department at Washington has
received information of the death of Gen.
Brooke at San Antonio, Texas.
AMERICANS AT THE WoRLD's FAIR
Frazer's Magazine communicates the sur
prising information that twenty thousand
Americans have secured births to go to the
Worlds Fair. There will doubtless be a
considerable addition before the exhibition
closes.
SoUTH CAROLINA The Augusta (Ga.)
Constituencies, a strong " Southern
Rights paper, entreats the people of South
Carolina not 10 persist in their rash and
single-handed project of separate State Sc
c%ession. 1t believes "that events are hasten
ing on rapidly enough, which will force the
whole South to unite and to act and move
on as one people. "The Southern States,
or at least a respectable majority of them"
says the Constituencies, "will then die
tate in authoritive language, the conces-
sions to be made to them-the rights to be
restored-the guarantees to be solemnly
given and faithfully observed as the only
conditions on which they will remain in the
Union"
The Constituencies develops the present
divided state of public opinion at the South:
and does not think that even with what as
~sistance might be rendered by Georgia anc
other States adjacent, the immediate seces
sion of South Carolina would result in any
good.
"South Caraiina," it says, "should have
too muchpride in her own we'll earned fame
to be spurned to precipitate action, o
swerved from the line of statesmanlike poll
cy by the impetuous zeal of her friends o
the malignant taunts of her foes"
The Free Sellers of Connecticut hav,
nominated John Boyd for Governor, ant
William Field for 1t. Gov.
, BAPTIsTs IN VERMoNT.-By footing VI
} the columns of statistics in the Vernon
Baptists Convention, it appears that tn
whole number of members in the severa
: Baptists churches in the State is 1864
, number Of churches 104 of pastors II
baptized the past year 80.
!, FRANCIS Williams and twenty other:
crew of the Isaac Webb, have been CON
+ mitted at New York for trial for revolt, an
were removed in chains to the Tombs.
The Grand Jury at Boston have foun
r indictments against all the parties boun'
g over for aiding and abetting in the escap
d of the fugitive Shadrach.
t DEATH OF Gov. HILL.-Hon. Isaac Hi
y died in Washington City, last Saturda
evening, at the age of 60. His disease wa
o spasmodic catarrh, with which he has bee
u more or less afflicted for many years.
= The deceased was one Of those men Dor
Q to leave his mark upon his day and genert
S ton. Possessed Of a strong indomitabI
1t will, and an industry that never tired, fe
men have performed more active labor, {
g welded a mightier influence in the sphel
:, in which he moved. Whatever iudgmel
y may be formed of his political course, tho'
most opposed to him. will, with no dissen
ing voice, pronounce him kind neighbc
r and a useful citizen.-Concord Mdepen
10 ant Dem.
a A FINALE domestic has heen c~onvictt
IL at the Lincoln Assizes Of attempting
tn poison her mistress, her confessed mott
.. being the hope of getting a mourning Dire
IN N from the family p! She was sentenced to
1n hung,
We SHADARAcH FREE.-It is stated here til
e Mr.. Davis, the U. S. Marshall has by sol
~ means obtained from Mr.. Debree of N
folk, the Claimant of Shadarach, pap
III which secure his freedom, and that he is
~ return to Boston from Montreal, and
q come evidence for the Governmental
Tx to Free Press.
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