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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
Terrible Tornado.


FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. Feb. 25.
A few minutes past four o'clock Yesterday
morning, great portion of our town was laid
in ruins, by storm which swept everything be
fore it, Webb g. Smiths, and Goodrich and
McPhai's stores were blown to the second floor.
Both hotels were badly injured Hines new
building was riddled, Bagley's, Isaac's, Mrs. J.
V. McKnneys, B. s. Russels, Hammon's, w.
Neld's, c.. p. Churchs, Berry's, Washburn's
Mrs ShalPs, the Garvin House, and many 9TH
crs, were blown entirely down, not even the
foundations left. DR.. R. r. McKnney's, DR.
C. McKinney's, Mrs. Greer's house, Jas. l..
Thompsons, and others, are an entire week
The chimneys and east gable end of Sneed's
house fell on the roof of Nick's store, and mash
ed it in DIR. M. II. Dormus' and ]. M. Brght's
houses were unroofed. Several Offices, the
market house, stables, and smoke houses were
blown down.
Mrs. Bowzee and child are dead. A. H. Ser
ry's oldest child was killed, and he nearly so,-
Several others were dangerously, and many Sc.
riously wounded. Cows, horses and stock are
dead in every direction.
Mr.. Neil's stables and kitchen were blown
down. Pen cannot describe the awful scene.-
The world seemed coming to an end. The
wind roared and blew with fearful violence Q
perfect hurricane, amidst which could be heard
the shrieks of women and the screams of chill
dren, falling houses, crumblng walls, timber
dashing against timber, mingled with peals O.
thunder; and the air was alive with electricity
followed by rain in torrents, and an inpenetra-
bic darkness, while still from every quarter
came agonzing cries for assistance. Truly il
was a terrible scene! The heart sickens at the
recollection.
The tornado came from the southwest. The
streets are almost entirely blocked with a con
fused mass of timbers, and not unfrequently the
whole wreck of large houses was thrown and
strewn for hundreds of yards,-.NonparetI.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
Streets in the Middle Ages.

The public thoroughfares of the metronolis
were unpaved, and were little better Than the
country lanes. the inhabitants, and even the
butchers, threw the offal into the streets. and
swine reveed unmolested in the cutters. In
rarls French Prince of the royal blood was
NlIIec oy fall from his horse In consequence of
hog running between the animals legs. An
order was issued to prohibit them from wallow-
ing In the muddy streets but the order, it is
sald' excited the anger of the monks of the Abb
Oy OF st. Anthony, who from time immemorial
mad enjoyed the privilege of turning their swine
into the public tloroughfares The monks urg-
ed their plea with such pertinacity, that It was
round necessary to grant them an exclusive right
Of sending their pigs about town without moles.
talon, only requiring that the holy fathers should
turn them out with bells hung round their necks.
The swinish multitude grew fat upon the filth,
and formed, with the Kites, crows, and otnel
ravenous birds, the only scavengers of the busy
streets Of Paris and London In France the
people were allowed to throw out of their win
dows into the streets filth Of the most offensive
nature, on calling out three times Scare Peau.n
The principal streets of Paris we're not paved
till the latter part of the twelfth century, and
those Of London not till much later period
llolbOrn, the great artery Of modern Babylon,
through which pour in quick succession, one
loud, busy rattling stream Of life and commerce.
was not paved till the commencement of the
fifteenth century. Some of the minor streets
were scarcely passable, Narrow lanes with
hedges broken only here and there by strag-
Cling house, were the primitive Wood Streets,
Grays Inn Lanes, and Aldgate Streets, Of mod
ern times: some would venture to traverse them
in the day, but lew would risk such perlous
thoroughfares at night. Some of the streets
were so bad in the prosperous days of King
Henry VIII, that they are described as Every
foul, and full of pits and sloughs; very perilous
as well for all the Kings subjects on horseback
as on foot" Along such dangerous paths the
traveller at night had to grope his way about
town in total darkness, except he was neal
enough to be guided by the lanterns on the
steepe of Bow Church, which served as the on
ly Landmark to the bewidered strangers s.--LighI
and ShGdolcS of the Olden Time.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
An Argument for the Graham
Theory.

1t is indeed, fact worthy of remark, and one
that seems never to have been noticed, that
throughout the whole animal creation, in every
country and cline of the earth, the most useful
animals cost nature the least waste to sustain
them with food. For instance all animals that
work, live on vegetable food and no animal
that eats flesh, works. The all-powerful ele-
phant and the patient camel, in the torrd zone !;
the horse, the OK, or the donkey, in the temper
ate and the reindeer in the frlgid zone, obtain
all their muscular power for enduring labor
from natures simplest productions, the vegetable
kingdom. But all the flesh-eating animals keep
the rest of the animated creation in constant
dread of them. They seldom eat vegetable
food until some other animal has eaten it first,
and made it into flesh. Their use seems to be
destroy hfs-thsir own flesh iJ unfit for other
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
A Death Bell.

A pretty story Is told ofthe casting of the bell
for the church of st. Mary Magdalene at Bres-
au. When the metal was just ready to be
poured into the mould, the chief founder went
to dinner, and forbade his apprentice, under
pain Of death, to touch the veet by which the
metal was to be conveyed. The youth, curious
to see operations, disobcyed orders, the whole of
the metal ran into the mould, and TIE onraged
master, returning from his meal, slew the ap-
prentice on the spot. On breaking away the
mould, he found he had been too hasty, for the
it was hung in1ts Place, the master mad been
sentenced to death by the sword for the murder
of the apprentice, and he entreated the auhori-
ties, as a great favor that he might be allowed
to hear it once before he died. His petition
was granted, and trom that time the bell was
rung on the execution of a criminal Colbura's
.New Monthly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
A Tower of Skulls.

Lamartine, in his "Pilgrimage to- the Holy
Land )" writes as follows:
" When | was about league from Mas, the
last Turkish town almost on the frontier of Ser
via, saw large tower rising up in the midst
Of the pain as white as Parian marble. | took
the path which led to it. | desired Turkish
lad who accompanied me to hold my horse, and
Isat down under the shade of the tower to enjoy
few moments repose, No sooner was | seated
than raising my eyes to the monument, discov-
cred that tine walls which supposed to be built
of marble Or of regular rows of white stone
were composed of regular rows of human skulls
bleached by the rain and sun, and comented by
little sand and lime, formed entirely the tri.
umphal arch which now sheltered me from iht
burning SUM- there might be from fifteen tt
twenty thousand. In some places portions o
hair were still hanging, and waved like lichel
or moss with every breath of wind. The noun
tain breeze was blowing fresh, penetrating the in
Vulnerable cavities of the skulls, and sounded
like mournful and plaintve sigh. These werr
the skulls of fifteen thousand Servians who hat
been put to death by the Pacha in the last in
surrection at Servia. Servia, however, is nov
free, and this monument will teach their chill
dren the value of independence, by showing
them the price at which their forefathers pur
chased it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
Bites of Mad Dogs.

Not one dog-bito in ten thousand comes from
an animal which is mad. Where any one is
bitten by a dog which is unquestonably mad, /,
take carving fork and break of one prong,
and heat the other in the hottest part Of COM
mon fire. Apply this thoroughly to the whole
ofhe bite, SO as to destroy the surrounding parts.
If a surgeon be within halfan-hours journey,
tie string tightly above the part and use all
possible dispatch to secure his aid. In all sus-
pectod cases Of madness, keep the dog chained
up, for perhaps it may be false alarm, and the
continuance of the dog in health will be great
satisfaction to the party bitten.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27

| ly recommended to the government for uncOndi-
tonal pardon this very night"
The convict drew forth Fint-Enr from his
bosom, kissed him several times and then pac-
ing him within the vest of young tellow-pris-
oner with whom the rat was already familiar, he
said in broken voice
elf do not return, be kind to him, and love
him as have loved him."
Then, having armed himself with an enor-
nous bar of iron, he marched with determined
step to the dormitory, without regarding the
missiles which the rebels huled at his head.
With few blows of his bar he made the door
fly open, ard darting into the room, he overturn-
ed those who opposed his entrance, threw down
his weapon, and seizing the turnkey, put him,
or rather flung him, safe and sound into the pas
sage.
While in the act of covering thi mans escape
from the iufuriated convicts, he I Pdenly fell to
the ground, bathed in blood. JrE6I 'ta wretch.
es had lifted the IRON bar and struck down with
it his heroic comrade
He was carried dying to the hospital, and, Nre
he breathed his last, he uttered ole wOrd--it was
Slime Ear !"
Must tell it 4? the rat appeared restless and
unhappy for few days, but he soon forgot his
master, and began to testify the same affection
for his new owner that he had formerly shown
to him who was dead.
Fine-Ear still lives, fat, sleek, and strong;
indeed, he no longer fears his feline enemies, and
has actually succeeded in killing full-grown
cat and three kittens. But he no longer remem-
bers the dead, nor regards the sound of his mas
ter's number, which formerly used to make him
prick up his ears and run from one end of the
court to the other.
Does it only prove that rats, as weA as men
may be ungrateful? Or is it little illustration
of the wise and merciful arrangement, that the
world must 60 on, die who will ?--Foreigr
Travels.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
Select AltsfelIanp.
The Convict and the Rat.

AN INCIDENT OF FRENCH PRISON.
Ten or twelve years ago, there was, in the
prison at Brest, a man sentenced for life to the
galleys. do not know the exact nature of his
crime, but it was something very atrocious.
never heard either, what his former condition of
life had been, for even his name had sunk into
oblivion, and he was recognized only by num-
ber. Although his features were naturally well
formed, their expression was horrible: every
dark and evil passion seemed to have left its
impress there; and his character fully CORES.
ponded to its outward indication. Mutinous,
gloomy and revengeful, he had often hazarded
his life in desperate attempts to escape, which
hitherto had proved abortive. Once, during
winter, he succeeded in gaining the fields, and
supported, for several days, the extremity of
cold and hunger. He was found, at length, half
frozen and insensible under a tree, and brought
back to prison, where, with difficulty, he was
restored TO life. The ward master watched him
more closely, and punished him more severely
by far than the other prisoners, while double
chain was added to his heavy fetters. Several
times he attempted suicide, but failed, through
the vigilance of his guards The only results
of his experiments in this line were an asthma
caused by nail which he hammered into his
chest, and the loss of an arm, which he fractured
in leaplng off high wall, After suffering am.
putation, and six months sojourn in the hos.
pital, he returned to his hopeless, lifelong task
work.
. One day, this mans fierce humor seemed
softened, After the hours Of labor, he seate1
himself, with the companion in misery to whom
he was chained, in corner of the court and hi.
repulsive countenance assumed mild express
sion. Words Of tenderness were uttered by the
! lips which heretofore had opened only to bias
pheme and with his head bent down, he watch
: ed some object concealed in his bosom.
| The guards looked at him with dsquietude
r believing he had some weapon concealed in hi
clothes; and two Of them, approaching hin
stealthily from behind, siezed him roughly, ant
began to search him, before he Could make any
resistance. Finding himself completely in thei
| power, the convict exclaimed:
; "Oh, don't kill mm Pray, don't kill him !"
As he spoke, one of the guards had gancc
possession of large rat, which the felon ha,
3 kept next his bosom.
} "Don't kill him" he repeated. Beat me
chain me do what you like with me; but dom
, hurt my poor rat! Don't squeeze him so be
: tween your fingers Ifyou will not give hin
= back to me, let him go free p And while h
spoke, for the first time, probably since hi
childhood, tears filled his eyes, and ran down hi
! cheeks,
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27

GoLD is an idol, worshipped in all climates
without single temple, and by all classes with
out single hypocrite.
A DESIRE to set our faults in the most fayora-
ble light. is often mistaken for their candid
avowaL
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27
VOLUME VIII. NO. l3.

animals to eat, having been itself made out Of
flesh, and is moe oally offensive. Greatstrength
Heetness Of foot usefulness, cleanliness, and
dociIity, are, them always Characteristic of veg
etable-eating animals while all the world
breads flesh -eaterS.-HeaM and Wealth, by j.
Bend,y,
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America ! tits of theR,
Sweet land of LIBERTY,
OF thee | sing !"

nay, it may tear your minister from his pulpit,
and incarcerate him in den of felons For if
am not taken for the color of my skin, may
possibly yet have the opportunity Of trsnsgress.
ing the law by extending aid to fugitive ass-
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Original 4fltsteIIaap.

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For the Freeman.
The broken Temperance Pledge.
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For the Freeman.
r Q p e al.
BT Z. R. MORSE.
Repeal repeal OH far and wide,
Let hill and valley ring;
Repeal repeal each mountain side,
Sends back its eChoing'
Our happy homes no longer free
For those who hither fly
That they may taste sweet liberty
Repeal repeal they cry.
What though but scorn our prayer may meet,
Petitions cry repeal,
Till "thnnders shake the judgement seat"
And Legislators feel.
For Liberty unmOv'd by awe,
Let sober reason speak;
And doomed shall be the +" Odious Law"
Which makes blest Freedom weep.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27

Cold WATER,--To dlink cold water or 9TH
liquids after fatigue and abstinence in heat
above IS degrees, is almost certain death
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-03-27

Did our readers know there was such man
in New England as the one described below ?
Believing they generally did not, we have pro-
cured the following to apprise Them. ED.