Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-12-23
Ihc Nous Glrnurr
Chickens and Turkeys.

Wedd not get any Turkey at all for Thanks
giving, as we perceive, by their grateful out,
paurngs that many uf our brother editors dill
The reason we fancy, must have been, that,
. though hundreds Of our friends were ca cnlating
= to do it, yet each one, supposng SO many others
would be rushing forward for The purpose, and
that we should have thus forced upon US great.
c err supply han would keep in that warm weather,
! concluded to defer the sayory boon to future
! opportunity
Now, having been thinking upon this matter
, and cyphefng little over it, we find that one
new and good subscriber isworth about asmuch
to US as a chicken, and two as much as a turkey;
S and we would suggest to our friends who thus
t oddly got cheated out of the pleasure of pre-,
5 senting us with chickens and turkeys at thanks
giving, that they can now give them us a New
Q Years Present. in The shape Of new subscribers
" who however many if we succeed in making
our next volume as good as we intend, will keep
on through the whole year.
: AN EDIroR WITH PIG-We see with sur
. prise eqnlIed only by our qualification. that our
y respected Brother Chad WICK OF the Caledonlan
has recently slaughtered pig of his own rais-
; ing, of the very handsome weight of $50 pounds.
= = Well, one editer has got pork at last and we
= all might, but for the singular mschance which
r betidcs US country editors Our ideas ale not
worth more than half as much as the same arc
a when coming from city editors, owing perhaps
/. Oh ~ dad II
from which they derive what passes for attic
e salt with the public and the upshot Isl we can't
=, compete with them, and therefore cannot buy
stuff to fat our own pgs-can't school our chill
dren cant appear decent at the chantcs-can't
clothe ourselves SO as to be out of danger of be-
4 ing seized by the peddlers, for bundle Of rags,
# and, finally, can't any thing, like other people.
q But this pig There is an omen Of hope in it.
SHOWING THEMSELVES PATROSs.-Fhe jog
O. we recently gave deIinquents, has been Tespon-
q ded 10 so far already, that we begin TO hope
nearly all who have taken our paper, will actn-
|. ally become patrons, as well as subscribers
This, to be sure, is almost too much for printer
E. to hope but intending to keep them still oil
s. square on the Conscience Block, and finding it
d. is not generally intentionaI injnry that makes
Sc them what they ale, but though!essness from
D, which due amount of sharp jogging may
u arouse hcm. we are not sure but what such
ID hope may be fully realized.
THOMAS BARTLETT, we perceive, is left off
al from all the committees in the House, for his
re Free Soil course, and especially his Free Soil
10, Speech last winter, we presume We are glad
o, of it, and trust 1t will hereafter be to him good
"N and sufficient certificate of standing in the ranks
OF the Free Democracy We will see how
/, much Hunkerism is to make out of all this
ro' RETURN OF LADY FRANKLIN's SCREw DIS
on kCoyERY VESSEL IsABEL.-Ths little vessel,
for which left the shores OF England in July last,
alo has made an extraordinary voyage INTO the Arc.
so tic regions, and by the aid of a small auxiliary
80 steam engine has been enabled to penetrate be
he yond the furthest point of Bafin and ByIot hav-
- ing passed through Smith Sound Tor Strait as il
ms now proves to be- thirty-six miles wde,) into a
he great open sea. the land on either side of tho
mt strait tending to the eastward and TO the north
he westward, with nothing before them bat a bound.
less sea as far as the eye could range Such is
r.; the main feature of the news brought by CAPTAIN
lInDOTtgnt
coveries yet made in those regions.
n The Isabel, in going up The east coast of Baf
to fms Bay, Looked into Whale Sound, and ran
d. some twenty five miles up. AID there found no.
IL thing but an open sea, open to the east. She
- visited the reported scene OF the massacre vt the
crews OF the Erebus aud Terror, and found some
harmless natives, who had never before seen
Europeans. At Que or two other spots she also
tie found natives not hitherto vsited-all inofFsn
sve. good hnmored people, robust in health
Quitting Smith Sound after gazing at this won.
drous sight eff an open sea, and seeing no indi
cations on any of the headlands of Franklin
having gone through, Captain Tnglefed returned
Of down the west side of Baffins Bay, looking into
- Jones's Sound, and thence through Barrow's
-. Straits, and communicated with Captain Pulep.
{" at BECKY Island, on the 9TH of September at
&c which time Wellington Channel was clear of
We ice as far as the eye could reach
~ RUM, appears by the census that the con.
II sumption of spirtuous and malt liquors reaches
the enormous quality Of IS 100000 of gallons
III annually, equal to six gallons for every adult
of pernon. Who will say there is no need of tenn
or perance societies? How many schools ii would
je establish, II the people of the United States
would give up their grog only for one day.
Mt IMPORTANT ARREsr.-Seizure of a kqrge n.
6, mount Of counterfeit money -On Saturday. saws
or the Troy Wing, of Monday of last week, Chic
10 OF Police Morgan OF Albany, accompanied bv
'e hive officers, made descent upon house in
IL West Troy,-long suspected Of being the head
E. quarters OF notorious counterfeiter and his ac
II, compIces-and after a desperate struggle. ar
a rested Robert Morrison, proprietor of the house.
c. Upon ms person were found 81 ,256 in counter
Il eit notes. 1t is supposed that Morrison is CON-
nected with well organized gang, and it is said
:" that from $4,000 to $75 900 counterfeit monev
81 has passed through his hands since January last
he besides a large amount in possession of accom-
is pieces II Is believed that from him and his con-
ii. iederates, very much Of the spurious money now
IN circulation, has emanated, and the arrest is
=, considered one of the most important made far
!" long time.
Nv The RAPPER's DELUsION.-The editor of the
Il. Cincinnati Advertiser who recently visited the
co State Lnnat.c Asylum at Columbus. saws there
- are IN That institution twenty persons whose in
= sanity is clearly traceable to spirit warnings.
y and II IS stated that there are in the Utica. IN.
l. ~ Lunatlc Asylum nine victims of the same
he deluson. The Cleveland Herald saws:
" In many minds it seems tn finish tho work
,e commenced by second Adventisn the fruits
no oelng neglect OF business, neglect of families,
y running after Missionaries and pretended seers.
= scouting OF Christianity and its institutions.
e spiritual welsn, insanity, and in some cases
Z suicide ~ Y. Jour- Com
d SINGULAR ACCIDENT During the session
OF tne United States Senate, on Monday lady
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