Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-01-23
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Notes and Comments.
Jan. ~, 1851.

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Notes and Comments.
The OLD VERMONT misunderstanding that
every fact of any significance, going to illus
trate the ''oid Vermont spirit" is worthy of pres
ervation, as tending to keep alive in the rising
generation those moral qualities Of our fathers,
which made Vermont what she is,-and which,
if cherished, tnay long preserve her sons against
the roads OF the political degeneracy so rap
idly stealing over the land we insert the follow.
ing anecdote OF the times of the York Contro-
versy, recently communicated to US by ]. o.
Walker, ESD, of Swanton:-
"An anecdote related to me by Judge Her
rington, more than fifty years ago, goes strongIy
to show the feelings which, in those days, per-
vaded the masses. The late Judge Henry Olin,
who, for more than twenty years, exerted an en-
vlabe influence in oul Legislatures, but was
then great clumsy boy eight years old, and
seemingly as unsUsceptibie lump of humanity
SALISBURY; when the new schocI-Ristress in
giving her orders at night, told the boys that if
they met any one in the road, they must make
bow to him Henry, wishing fully to under
stand the order, o,e and aid-"School marm,
schoo-rnarn, ii meet an lRdan, or Bear, OF
Yorker, must make bow to hm:7
Coin At FRANcoNIA NoTcK.-The Boston
Museum, after stating that the thermometer, on
the cold morning Of the 3Ist of De :ctnber, stood
at &c below zero, says "Franconia ha4 the
reputation OF being the codes, town in the Uni
ted States" At alt again, Mr. Museum At
our residence in Montpelier, OH the highest
ground Of any in the village, car tested Their
nome ter stood, that saupe tnoraiag, at 30 . be-
low zero, while another on lower ground in the
village, stood at 80 below Ee0. But that is
nothing H. Feb. 1912, we think it was, The
mercury in all oar thermometers settled to 40
below zero, the point Of coagelatlon, three
mornings in Succession; while one morning in
the Writer Of 1884, it sbrUnk to az below zero,
which shrtNkage Of two degrees below the point
of congelation would have probably given, by a
spirit thermometer, double that Number of de-
grrPs Of lie nperature. Any better thunder
IN England than that, Mister? ?"
EKPeRTATIoN OF PoTAToEs.-We have late
ly been witnessing "a new thing uuder the sum-
here ia MGNpeGef,-we mean the expectation
Of Fotatoes By the farmers, at prices nearly
dcunle to those they .AaHe usually rrceiv-
ed Ter them. More tkan tem tkousand bushels
perhaps double that aunlber-have, within the
last two or three InohthS, been delivered
at. and sent from the Montpelier depot, to the
city markets. So gIeat, Indeed, has been the
draK, from tais sectoh that the price has risen
from 25 to about so csRts; and considerable a.
arm fol our own warts the coming spring, has
been excited. But Yet them go, say we. 1t will
bring the needed cash into the country, and
help that interest tnat msst needs encourage
meRt II Cur supply tor the table should prove
short, we can betakc ourselves 10 our "hog and
hominy," of which we have an abundance and
as to the starch into wh,ch the surplus of this
crop has usually been made, we plain people
can do without that and the dandy folks must
go with lees stiff collars one year. AS great a
calamty as il may appear to them, they will sur
vive it. we reckon.
INTERESTING ARMY ORDER Under date
Of Jan s, an adutaut general issues an o.
der that, to promote the health of the troops
and to reduce the expense of snbsisting the
army, the commanding officer Of every per-
maneHt post and station where the public
lands are sufficient, OK private lands can
be leased on reasonable terms, will annually
cultivate k;tchcn garden, with the soldiers
uuder his command, 10 enable him to sup
ply the hospital and Nen with necessary
vegetables tM .ho@t abe year. A sys.
TEN Of field culture viii soon be common.
ced in the military departments in Texas.
New Mexico, California aud Oregon, for
the purpose ofraising grai" for bread and
forage fer catte-tte surplus over the ex-
pense Of cultivation to be distributed among
the enlisted mea Of the gartisons.
DREADFUL AcCiDENr.-NrwY York, Jan
f nary l5th.-About one o'clock, this after
noon, six new buildings, the mason-work o
which was just completed, im 2lst Street,
Tell with crash! The workman had JUS
returned from their dinners, and from Ihir
ty 20 forty Of them were buried beneath the
ruins. Up to4 O'Clock, four dead hode
had been takeH out. aRd six severely injur
ed. 1t is supposed that from fifteen II
twenty have been killed. The appearance
!, Of the mortar used. caused great excitement
er II Is said 10 be almost all sanl and but very
little iIme ia it. We understand the build
10 er's name is Spencer
L. III O'Clock, P M haze JUS return
ne ed from the late catastrophe on Dist street
Thirteen men have been recoyered-lou
OF them dead. O.e boy was killed on III,
;. sidewalk while carrying dinner to his faith
IL err There are probably over twenty bod
nd les still IN the ruins Men will be AZ worI
all night assisted by the Police Erebaug q,
A later account says that only six ar
dead
n- CR Henry H. Paine at Worcester ha
received. by the last steamer Tram FnrI..,