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

TRAGIcAL OCCURRENoE.-The Captain
OF the sloop Planet, who arrived at Mack
mac June Sth from Beaver Island, reports
that the Mormons yesterday murdered Thos.
Bennett, and dangerously wounded his
brother Samuel, He says the excitement
among the Gentiles (all those who are not
saints) at this cold blooded murder of
peaceable and industrious citizens is fear
fully alarming, and that nothing short of a
general fight and massacre can alIav their
rage. At the time he left the fishermen
and Indians were collecting at McKinley's
Point, preparatory to an attack upon the
Mormons, who were also mastering their
forces; and while | am writing, the work
of death may be going on. The plea set
up by the Mormons in justification of this
sanguinary murder is, that the BENEFITS Of
fered resistance to fifty or sixty Mormons
who came to arrest them with warrants. on
the charge of having said that they would
not recognize Mormon law.
After they had riddled the body with
rifle balls, they broke IN the door of his
cabin, and dragged the corpse by the hair
of the head to the lake shore, and out both
brothers in their own fishing boat, one dead
and the other nearly so, and carried them
before the Mormon Justice who issued the
warrants.
These are the men whose houses they
burned last winter, and whose lives the
King doomed to destruction if they did not
give their farms to the saints and leave the
island.
A CASE was lately tried in Philadelphia,
before Judge Kelley, in which the right of
newspaper publishers to exact payment from
a subscriber, who neglects or refuses to
give notice to stop the paper, was fully
tested.
Judge Kelley charged the jury, that
where a person subscribed for a paper. and
gives directions where it should be sent or
left, he is bound to pay for it, unless he
prescribes the time for which it shall be
sent or left. If a subscriber wishes to dis.
continue his paper, it is his duty to square
his accounts, and then give notice for a
dlscontlnuance. If a paper is sent to a
person through the Post Office, and he takes
it out, he is bound to pay for it. Verdict
for plaintiff, S22,50.
IMPORTATION OF 1--we SroCK.-S. w.
Jewett, Of Weybridge, has recently return
ed from a visit to Europe, and brought with
him one hundred Of the largest class of
Merinos from France, some of them from
the government flock. In the course of a
fortnight he expects to receive as MANY
more. The extensive wool-growers of Yer
mont will be greatly benefited by this i'm
portation, as it is said they yield heeces
varying from ten to twenty-four pounds
Post.
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has
just decided at Harrisburgh that the EN-.
pIoyment of a pufer at a public auction vi
tlaIes a sale, and the buyer is deirauded.
e0en though he did not pay more than the
article wGS north IN the opinion of witness.
e$. A man is defrauded whenever he is
melted by artful means to bid more than he
otherwise would and whenever the price
is ever so little enhanced by a secret con.
trivance, he is cheated.
CRoPs IN MAlNu.-Large quantities of
winter wheat were sown in this State last
Fall, and the fields look finely this Spring.
We saw some fine fields of this wheat in
Kennebec a few days since, and we under
that in Somerset Co. the farmers have
sowed of it extensively, The complete sue
and general adoption of winter wheat
will be a great thing for Maine. The sea.
son u.s. upon the whole, rather backward
Corn, and other crops that require much
heat 40 not look very thrifty, but grass and
gram looks welL-Portlaad Advertiser.
A SEVERE STORM prevailed in Highland
McHenry Co, ILL.,, on the 18th inst, dnring
winch twenty-five houses were blown down,
and three persons killed.