Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-08-04
dhe News GIeaucr.
Notes and Comments.

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| CHAR,Es pAINE.-Afterv various contradictory
reports, the melancholy Intelligence at length
reached us, last week, that Gov. Paine died at
Waco village, Texas, on the 9th Of July.
Charles Paine was no ordinary man. son
Of Judge Eljah Paine, the most Roman of the
old Green Mountain Boys, and inherlting very
many of his sterling qualities, educated at Cam
bridge College, and connected with the most in
fuen,ial families of the country, he yet prided
| hlmseif on loue of these advantages, but re.
solved to become, as he did, the articer Of his
great capacities, we have learned to ask what
he has accomplished and to estimate him ac.
cordingly. Judged by this rule, Charles Paine
may be justly ranked among the distinguished Of
bis times. Besides smassing handsome private
property by his enterprise besides the many
marks of lberalty and public spirit he has len
in his own town, of which he has been the chief
benefactor besides acceptably filling the high.
est office in tn e gift Of the people of his native
State--tn him, as all must concede, belongs the
chief credit of starting, and, against all but tho
most usurinountabe obstacles, forcing through
the stnpendous work of building, through land
Of mountains, the Vermont Central Railroad.
And whatever mistakes may have been commit
ted in its construction or management, the Road
is there, and will there remain, an untold benefit
to the public OF his own and other States. Let
that be his monument Few can point to
prouder one.
JOHN DAVIS WATERMAs.-.Abodtt len years
ago, slender little fellow, who was then prin.
ters apprentice, came 10 our ofice. and oargained
for our Blackstone and other elementary law
books, to study in the leisure of his apprentice
ship during which he acquired respectable
knowledge Of the legal profession, but still con-
fined himself to his trade. He afterwards be.
came the Foreman in the Freeman Office, but
soou concluded to try his fortune in CaIliornia.
While in that place he was engaged to establish
paper in Oregon, of which he has now become
the growing town of Portland, in that territory
and by the last Oregon papers we perceive he
has been elected to the honorable and RESPONSE
Bile office of Judge of Probate for the County in
which he resides, making good the maxim that
honest industry and ambition, in the right dircc-
ton, never fail Of their reward.
Our On Man OF THE MOUNTAINS.
" Fen where M,ssflELD', -oluudcs ascend
sit n.e down prilsiv. hour to spend,
And PLACID IN high, above The storms career
Look downward, where Il hundred towns appeal
Lakes, forests, Villa, ps MS, extending wide
The t''inp Ut wetith, the yeoman npbler prlde'
About forty thousand Moons aga, when the
race OF c'ond-iali giants yet roained the earth,
having long before deserted the Old World for
the food supplying wllds of the New, the Great
Spirit, in aus W.T. to the cries IF his red children
of The forest, collected the whole huge race on
the sea shore, p,ured down his sever -voliied"
thnnder-51's upon their heads killed and hurled
them into the sea. where their shoulders,
launches and backs, reaching above or nearly
to the surface, formed the islands and sunkon
reefs along the coast. Two, however, more pow.
erfu than the rest, euivivrd the first general
slaughter, and fed in dsmay for the screening
recesses Of The bill and forest clad interior but
in vain The pursuing artillery of the uneluds-
BILE avenger overlook and struck down the least
of the tS", as he was passing over the first great
swell from the sea coast, where, with body
crushed down and mngling with the bouders
of the White Hills Of New Hampshire, his Dol,
upright profile still stands out, in bold relief, at
the Notch OF Ffancon,, under the well known
The other, and last Of the monster race, succeed
ed in reaching The second great swell of the
Green Mountains, when, standing on the sum-
NIT of ,lauSfeld, he received n doubiy. charged
thunder b'It on his capacions forehead, stagser-
ed few steps forward and fell with face 10.
wards, where, with head raised OF! his mountain
pillow. he still hes III stern, eternal repose
hi4h and nnbIy expanded forehead, his Clearly
cut Nose, his chiselIcd lips, anl high round
Chin, standing out to the view of the surround
ing country foi almost hundred rtiles in every
direction. as clearly defined as in the hour of
amman m, aud boldly out.towering every other
object trorl Mount Marcy il the Highlands in
Northern New York, to Mount Washington in
New Hlnp.hire.
If the foregoing be not an authentic SEQUEL or
counterpart 10 the well known Iddan Mylh re-
speeding The destruction of the mammoth race,
So Beautifully told by Mr. Jefferson, ii his Notes
on Virginia, it must be one, we stptGse, of our
own dreaming, as last Thursday we sst out the
midday hour on the Chin of our Ol2 Man of
the Mountain in Mansfield, by hundreds of feet
the highest spot in Vermont, enjoying prospect
Of lake and river, field and forest, moor and
momtain, dottirg farn.honses and village spires,
which, for magnifcence and variety, IS not sur
passed. if equailcd, in the whole of New Gag.
land. But after the fine and accurately descrip-
tive articles respecting the scenery OF this Noun
tain, we recently published, we shall not go into
details. except by few statistics OF heights and
distances Connected with the spot, for ascertain
ing which we availed oursalf of the hest means
in bur power. The forehead of this strikingy.
defined noun ain profile, from where the resem.
bance to the human head commences, on the
South, to the end of the nose, is abou, a mile
and half; and from the nose to the chin sbon,
mile and half more. From the nose TO the
lips two rock elevations of 80 or forty feet high
and near 300 feet apart) il is mile, while from
the lips to the point of the chin, it is but BALI a
nile, the only defect being the too great eayth
OF The upper lip The perpendicular from the
highest point Of the nose to the level of the Inns
is about 300 feet, and from the top of the chin
down over tho Adams apple protnberance to tho
throat and breast on which little crystal pond
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