Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-10
Latest News from California.

Latest News from California.
The winter in California has been one of al
most unprecedented severity. Heavy falls of
rain and snow have covered the mountains and
flooded the valleys in all parts of the State, cut
ting off all communication between the cities
and mining districts and rendering all the roads
nearly 'mpassable. Bridges have been swep,
away stock destroyed, and property OF all kinds
destroyed by the extraordinary floods, which
have placed Sacramento and other large towns
in the interior wholly under water. The scarci
~ of provisions, or rather the great difficulty of
obtaining them in the mines had, as already as
certained, accustomed great suffering among the
miners, many OF whom have nothing 10 subsist
on but barley and potatoes. In the Yuba and
Sierra counties the snow was at the last ac-
counts, ten feet deep and still! falling. Further
accounts OF suffering and disaster IN the mines
were anticipated.
The severity of the winter at our extreme
West, and in California seem to go in confrma-
ton of the lately preached theory that, when the
winter is mid an one side Of the EARTH il is sure
to be severe on The other
TREATY SETTLEMENT WITH GREAT BRITAIN
1t Is reported that the last Steamer brought
the frame work or substance of treaty from the
British Cabinet. for a full settlement Of the
Fishery question, and al other difficulties pend
ing between Great Britain and this country
This is probably so, and that Mr.. Everett and the
President have now the subject under advise
TELEGRAPH TO THE PAcIFIc.-A project for
Telegraph Line, direct, overland, from the
Mississippi to the Pacific coast, has been sub
mtted to Congress by Mr. James Eddy, Manager
Of the Maine Telegraph Company. The wires
are 10 be enclosed in guua pcrcha, placed in
metallic tube and buried in the ground, and the
whole work is to be completed in eighteen
months The object is Of such commercial, as
well as social importance, that it can hardly fail
of receiving, sooner or later, the favorable con
sideration of Congress-
nFThe person spoken of as most likely to be
Postmaster in Montpelier, under the incoming
administration, Is Major Eastman. who, now be
ing in favor Of strict observance Of the laws
of the United States will, Of course, give the
paper having the greatest circulation the adver
Using of the letters, So luck will be on our
side for once.
THE KNIcKERBocKER for February GENES to
US laden with its usual variety of literary delica-
cies, among which the ife-like pictures and
quiet humor of the Country Doctor" and the
"Portfolio of Georgia Lawyer" strike US as
admirable. The Editors Table, the exceing
feature of this magazine, is still sustained with
its usual spirit Among the literary notices we
find very laudatory one of new work Of our
old friend, F. w. Shelton, tenttled the Rector
of St. Bardolph,') who can't very we'll write any
thing but what is more than readable. Ask him,
Mr.. Editor, if he remembers catching his first
trout, when out with US up the Lille North
Branch, and when, in the fulness of his exultu-
ton, he exclaimed -
"oh this dear child has last augh whole trout "
PHILOSOPHY OF POPULAR SUPERSTITION, &c.
Published by l.. P. Grown g. Co., Boston. We
have received and read this new work. which
will be found advertised IN our paper of this
week. 1t is very interesting book, and must
we think, have great and rapid sale. For fur
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ers for sale by the same publishers, we refer the
reader to their advertisement.
PUrNAM's MAGAZINE, for January and Feb
ruary has just come to hand, but too late for the
extended critical notice which we intend here
after to give it, deeming it journal of great
promise. The leading article of the February
number relates to the strange incidents connect
ed with The life of the Rev. Elezer Williams
ian account of whom we lately published in the
Freeman,) proving by arguments hard to be re-
fnted. that he is really the son of that iuckles'
couple, Louis XVI. and Marie Antolnette.
ADEApLY AFFRAY.-John Gossin, the cele
brated clown, who left here upon the Floating
Palace, with SpauIding g. Rogers's circus, go
into fight at Baton Rogue, on Christmas day
with one of the citizens OF that place. The par.
ties cut each other terribly, and in the course
of the conflict Gossin succeeded in lnlctDg G
mortal wound on his antagonist, who died in {
few hours after. Gosen at once delivered HIM
self up to an Officer and partial investigat on
which was had, disclosed that he had acted en-
trely on the Defensive Cincinnati Inq Jan
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DREADFUL CALAMlrY.-I'wenty Lives Lost
We learn from reliable source, says the .Net
Madrid Journal of the 18Th, that four coal boat
were sunk al Merriwether's Bend, one day las
week, and out of twenty-one men who composed
the crew, only one nan escaped. The SURVIVE
states that there was high wind howng a
the time, and while rounding the bend, the waves
ran over the side Of the boats, causing them t.
sink Immediately. We did not learn where ,h'
boats belonged Louisville Jour, jan. 26
Mrs. Baldwin, an elderly lady of Flushing
l.. l., while filing her iea-kettle, slipped ant
fell into the well. depth of forty feet, wher'
she would have persisted had 1t not been for
little dog who So the accident, and by his out
cries aroused the rest Of the family and directed
their attention to the sei'. The lady was iakeI
out with but slight injuries.
BOLD SURGICAL OPERATIoN.--W We learn tina
Prof Ackley performed an extensive surgical
operation Yesterday, at the Medical College
for the removal of horrid deformity of tn
face. The patient, young lady of sixteen, ha
her face sadly urtated when child, from tn
effects of severe inflammation of the side Of he
face The cheek was destroyed, the mout
drawn to one side, and her jaws firmly cenche(
tod in th.1