Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1851-10-31
StanG;,s.
ny MRS. NJ. II. MAXWELL.

Upon the prisIit lay;
And as pass mc-tIIouglt heard
a gentle whisper say -
"llms, thus will fade the bloom
Upon the youthful, brow,
Tlulrrycr waves it, rapid wing
Secure It's moments now ~
IsHw nm infant lie
Upon a narrow bed
And dccm'd | heard Il gentle voice
Beneath the COiliu-Iid -
Good grants a longer time
~. life aud health to you
Secure it now Tor IN the tomb
Death lays the youthful too
saw q silver star;
Upon the evening sky;
listcn'd for Il voice and heard
The good shat never die"
by the way of Washington, We nrc in
formed that there is n probability of the release
of the entire party of Cuban prisoners who have
been sont to Spain. Should this provo true, it
will cause many parents to rejoice, whose mis-
guided children have been laugh n most terrible
lesson.
Tho Governor of Maine has appointed
Thursday, November %, as the day of the an
nual Thanksgiving in that State.
a merchant of n certain city, who died
suddenly, left in his desk a letter written to ono
of his correspondents. His sagacioB clerk, a
son of Erin, seeing it necessary to send the let
ter, wrote at the bottom: "Sincc writing the
above | have died"
-SpELL murder backwards and you have
its cause. Spell Red rum in the same manner
and you sec its effects.
p. Y. Barnnm, the bridgeport Standard
says, will be nominated for next Governor of
Connecticut by the Temperance and also by the
Democratic party Of that State. As tho De-
mocracy' have carried Connecticut twice on
Rum, VIC should admire to sec them try Ten
pcrancc for their next dodgc.-Troy Post.
Tile expenditures in the Schools of Dos
ton, during the past year, have amounted to
nearly $4,000.
Daddy, want to nsk you a question:
We'll, my SON. why is ncighbor Smiths liquor
shop like 4 counterfeit doIlar?' 4 cant tell
my SON Because you can't pass it, said tho
boy.
-The returns from the Congressional
election in Virginia indicate that the next DEL
egation will stand 3 Wings and IL Democrats.
In the last Congress it stood 10 Democrats, l
Wing, l all sorts of a Whig.-Morton, who is
now beaten by J. F. Strouther, straigh, out
Wing.
- Advices from Belize, Honduras, to Oc-
Salvador and Great Britain, have been .ottled
by a treaty.
-Kossuth will remain only two weeks in
England before coming to this country.
The steamship Atlantic, with so pass
engers and 100000 in American gold, sailed
from New York on Saturday, for Liverpool, as
did also the Georgia and Illinois, for Chagres,
the former with 300, and tho latter with 400
passengers
-GEERIT SMITH has issued another Of
his wild addresses to the Liberty Party, in
which he inculcates the Doctrine Of forcible
resistance to the Fugitive Slave law, even to
the killing of those who attempt to enforce it.
- The Washington papers Of the 18th,
publish a request from the Post Master Gener-
al to correspondents writing to friends on the
Pacific Coast, not to secure their letters with
sealing wax. In passing through the tropics
it inrariably occurs, that the wax becomes melt
ed 30 as to destroy all samblanco of a seal, and,
in many cases, adheres so closely to the letter
under it as to cause injury or destruction Of the
address in separating the two.
The Columbus (Ohio) Insurance Com
pany has failed.
The New York Sun thinks that this ma
ton is pledged to assist Turkey if she should
be attacked by Austria for libcrating Kossuth.
There arc more landholdcrs in Massl-
chusctts alone, than i'll all England and Ireland
together.
MIR. John Thompson, Of New York, who
took nearly all of the Oswcgo Canal Loan Of
100000, has disposed of upwards of one half
of the loan, Mt private sale, at an average OK
cecdinG II per cent premium. Mr.. Thompson,
more than any Of the other bidders, seemed to
have the best appreciation Of the credit of the
State Of Now York.
-Gen. Twiggs was married. on the 9Th
inst, at Pensacola, to Miss Tabitha Hunt.
The Prcabytory of New York recently
recommended to the pastors Of Churches in the
city, and other clorgymcn belonging to that
body, to preach, us far as they can do so, in the
open air, at %populous points, for the benefit Of
those who cannot or will not attend church
Tho practice has been successfully introduced
in London, and is warmly advocated by Thu
.Ntw Ir6 Obserrcr, US applicable here.
The New Sunday Times is in ~ecstrcy
in consequence of the triumphs achieved by the
great Yankee nation at the Great Exhibition il
? London. The Times says:-"We have out
Watched, out-rcapcd, out-sallcd, out-india-rub,
bcred, out-clocked, out-biscuitod, out-stoved
out-lockcd, and out prcsscd John Bull, beside,
di.tancing all his burglars Mt breaking into
bank. In fact, if we had missed oil the othe
prizes, we should at least have
"Plucked up drowned honor by their locks"
IIooray :"