Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-08-01

Convention which he ,ceN kno,rS were never
uttered. We refer to the matter, not for the
purpose of denying well known fact, that
Vermont Wings do, in general cordiaN approve
Of the present administrator, but only to dem
onstrate his clerical honesty.
CuRlors CHARGE OF JupGE.-An article
in Blackwoods Magazine, on Modern State
Trials, contains the following anecdote:
Mr.. Fletcher Judge in Ireland, in lSl2,thus
addressed an Irish jury in Il trial for murder
occasioncd bv duel "Gentlemen it is my bust
ness to lay down the law to you, and | do So
Where two people go out to fight duel, and
one of them falls, the law says it is murder
And tell YOU by law it is murder; but. at the
same time. II ft;rer dncl nerer heard of in the
,rloie course Of my it" The prisoners wcre
of course, Immediately acquitted.
Peter r. Washburn Esq, of Woodstock,
has been appointed, under the broad seal of the
State Of California; commissioner for that state,
to take the acknowledgment OF deeds, admins.
ter oatbs, &c.
The Boston Herald makes this excel
lent suggestion in relation TO postage: " Let
Congress pass law that every letter shall be
prepaid, By aGiring thereto a stamp before it is
sent. Then the Post Office account will
cease, and there will be no necessity of making
the change. Such a law would, at once
diminish the Post Office expenditures more
than one half, and then boxes might be OBJ
tanned at price nearly nominal"
Tile Wing State Contention, of Mas
sachusetts for the nomination of candidates
for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, will be
held at Springfield on Wednesday, the 10th Of
September Courier
The State election in Vermont will be held
Just eight days previously, (Sept, 81 and if our
opponents don't all resign before that time, we
will give them Jogging that it will trouble
old Massachusetts to initiate Our Massa-
chusets friends had better nominate their man
and send him up into Vermont TO be elected.
There was an eclipse of the sun in Bur-
lington, this morning. as set down BY the alma
nae makers, which lasted nearly two hours. and
it would have been exceedingly interesting
were it not for the serious circumstance that
the clouds rendered it inr,sible. But few peo-
pie came in from adjoining towns to wit ess
the phenomenon, owing to the fact that the
handbllls and tickets for the occasion. We
know of no pleasanter place than Burlington
to witness an eclipse Of the sun or moon, and
we are free to remark that our Secctmen neg
lcct their duty, when they omit to give due no
tcc of such an occurrence. Our friend, Mr.
STACY, is an intelligent gentleman, and of
course kncw that there was to be an eclipse in
Burlington, this morning, and we are constrain-
ed to say that some Indignation is justly felt
that he should have omitted to notify the ''rural
districts We don't say he will be moJbed
when he next comes to town, but we do say that
emitting to i've public notice of an eclipse of
the n Is someth ny that was entirely unex-
pected, and deserving Of reprobation. We
should have mentioned it ourselves, on Satur
day, but that we thought it unbecoming to in
terfere with a plain duty f the Civil Authori-
ty. If the sun will be good enough to eclipse
again, next week, ue will take care that invita-
tons are properly sent out. We must be par
doned for this rmth of comment, but we
speak for "thc Masses" Ours is Burlington
paper to be sure but Burlington is interested
in giving as wide publicity to a thing of this
kind as may be practicable.
--During one of the warmish DAYS last
week, the Editor the Springfield Republican
presented himself to his readers as follows -
TIE WEATHER.-It may appear nonsense
fora shirt and a pair Of pantaoons to lit down
to lndle weather paragraph, but so it is.
There Is pair Of pants in our chair, and we
perceive IA pen at the end of a shirt sleeve
scratching away as if the heat had not eyapo-
rated the arm inside of it. This compensatory
property in all the phenomena of nature is as
singular it is beautiful After caIoric has
exertcd its utmost to dissipae the arosser ma
teraIs of the editorial constitution (Super-hu-
man in its energies and effects the portion still
cIIngs to the lean territory having its termin
IN the hat and boots, and is able to perpetrate
some of the most splendid specimens OF wit
ever left over, or, over the left
If shirt and pan,aoons" is not the
Bloomer costume, we should be glad to know
what is.
Some Frcc-Soil chap has written to oul
neighbor, the Sentinel, a discourteous letter
stopping his paper, and the following is the
way she catches it" We hope his friends
will see him decenty buried
TO a GRUMBLlNG SUBSCRIBER.
a ee-soil patron of the SENTINEL
Politely bids us send the thing to hellw
A timely hint IT'S proper, We confess,
With change of residence, to change III address
It shall be sent if Charon's mail will let it,,
Where the subscriber will be sure to getit
o. Part XIV of "LossIxG's PrcroRIAI
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