Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-06-26

SNN' '''NN ~ CbHPNetI 70 ISdH us from Wy aGhin
ton that Col. Benton, who is now in II
city, is engaged in the preparation of a ii
tory OF the working Of the government fra
the day he took his seat in the u. S. Sc
ate, 10 the 4th of March last, a period
81 consecutive years, during which he w
member Of that body.
The period alluded to has been fall
exciting and important events. both in an
out of Congress, and if an impartial histe
ny can be furnished, of the working of on
government during that interval, it will b
invaluable, not only to the present genera
ton, but to posterity.
A GREAT variety of watches are exhibit
ed at the Worlds Fair. There are yatoba,
for the deaf and blind watch which nm,
with one winding three hundred and SOW
enty-ionr days; one smaller than fourpen
ny piece, to hang in serpent brooch one
still smaller, in the top of gold pencil
case, tells the hour, day of week, and
month
GREAT SroRM.-Upwards of fifty houses
were blown down by the high wind in Som
erset, Canada, on the Goth ult.
VALUE OF AN EYE.-CharIes Tbom,o
recovered a verdict of 1915 against the
National Road Stage Company in the II
D. Circuit Court at Pittsburgh, on the 9Th
INST lie lost the use of one eve in conse-
quence of being overturned in one of tho
defendants coaches.
D. T. CHAPMAN, of Manchester, N. TT
who has recently been engaged upon tho
vermont Central Railroad, was so badly
injured at Mortified, VT, by locomotive
on wednesday of last week, that he died
on Friday following. He leaves n wife and
child in Manchester. 'O ""N
Mrs. JUDsoN, {" Fanny Forester ny left
Calcutta in January, for the United State.
by way OF England, and is now daIv ex,
pected home '
WHITE CRows.-We saw, on Sunday
two young white crows and black one iii
taken from one nest in the west part of this
CITY, The nest was found in near the same
locality from which a white crow was taken =
asst summer. The gentleman who BUR
'hased the first one, has also bought the "
Wo just found, and they are believed to be
ne only specimens of the kind, in this part d
IT the country at least He states that he ~
vas offered 500 for the bird he purchased 81
asst summer. 1t died, however, while in n,
is possession, having been wounded when ST.
aptured-A4g~st0 (Me.) Journal, 18Th. OF
"A LATE BREAKFAsT.-T Canadian of
armament in session at Toronto, adourn- he
one day last week at S P. NJ, to break
st. The Montreal C0urier thus notices E,
lie matter:
" rms refers to public breakfast given an
the Earl and Countess of Elgin, on
,edneSday evening, at P. M. A break W
st at 3 o'clock in the evening! A very
gtenous device TO save the Governors Cen nIa1E
ais port which, after all, is reported not MI M
be OF the very best vintage. We won cd cd
r when the Earl and Countess Of EIgin to
ne. Our stad sober ancestors used to Du
down to that meal at the meridian. Two w
'lock then became the fashionable hour, COT
lence 1t crept on later and later, until it ma y
lcheo SIX, seven, and even eight o'clock rosj
the evening, which gave occasion for the til
re remark of an Irish butler, that he be- wht
'ed the gintry would, by and by, put all
their dinner till tomorrow p Dav
~, one
HE Roman Catholics are about to es. .-....
llsh nunnery in Providence, r.
FIGHTING LocoMortvE.-A man intox-
led at Mill Creek, in Huntington Coun. -
Va, few days ago, resolved to fight the . J,
'omotlve. He took position on the m mnu
*, and waited until the Locomotive was bep
him, when he sprang forward to make E W
lie, out the coW-catcher struck him, and ews,
w him off thetrack, fracturing his skull J Phi
otherwise seriously injuring him, SO g 8
it is probable he will die, N N r. r.
'ETEKMINED.--The North MSssissip- S Ch
}, published at Hernando, learns that s MI
70 belonging to a gentleman in Pauola sey,
nty, who had run away, being chased ~ 81
ONE persons with intent to capture him, A q,
nded tree to the height of twenty-five kips
llrty feet, and with leather strap which O.
ad in his possession, hung himself L B
srEN UP BY CANN1BALs.-The Boats sm
of the French corvette Alcmene were N
on the 28th of November last to find burn,
ssage for her nthe western side of new $O,5(
donna, in the Pacific. As they did not OWN ! IN
n, the barge was dispatched, and found Si'EI
they had been killed and eaten by the e0 1g Sa
ema and Bellep tribes, except three, C oi
were made prisoners, and forced to ham,
7sS the feast. These men were given bury,
When the barge arrived. The huts, 1870
ations, and canoes of the canbals
destroyed, some persons taken, and
ty others shot. ~~-~-~
FOUGHT IN MExrco.-A letter, dated
tecas, May 10Th, states that the peo-
l that region are suffering greatly, in :, fL'
'quence of the long protracted drought @n %!
hich the country is visited. There 4 * .
cen no rain since August last, and the
ry is actually burnt up. Many of the GRl
are impossible for want of water oic'
sions of all kinds are very high, and "h
ss of cattle and sheep has already
great
E Oldest Sovereign in Europe is En- At
King of Hanover, who, on June 5th, pairs Y
eted his 8Oth year. He is the only sheep
ing son of George the Third, and MI In !
'rmerly known as the Duke of Cum < M y y
I'd. He, instead of Victoria, acceded Woi
throne of Hanover on the death Of Cow
other, William the Fourth, in June SHE
on which day the thrones of England 400
anover were separated---the preva- =
of the salic law preventing the ac- =
n of females.
gRICAN lNGENUITY.-At the Worlds 100 Ste
Mr.. A. c. Hobbs, of the lock making d Call
n Of Day g. Newell, has succeeded Pki
ling a six lumber bank lock of Mr. c"t.' II