Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-12-29
11hc Mems Wleaner.

late of the st. Adams Messenger, has become
the editor and proprietor of the Rutland Herald,
which, with the acquisition of such man as
Mr.. H., togelhes with its recent improvements
in other respects, can now hardly fail to make
one of the best Wing journals in the State.
The BURLINGToN COURIER AND AMERICAN
OBSERVER are, as we observe by their announce
ment Of last week, to be united and published
simultaneously at Burlington, St. Adams and
Morristown, but under what name is not an
nounced. The terms, 81 so, are 10 be in adj
vance, system which we feel an interest in
seeing tried in this State, and one which we
must soon al! adopt, or give up newspaper pub
fishing Our losses under the present trust sys-
tenn cnnnoi have been less than $500 per year
ever since we published the Freeman.
EUROPE, PORTLAND AND CANADA.-The PEG
pie of Portland have been celebrating the srriva
of the Sarah Sands, the first European steamer
reaching that port in the recently established
line of communication between England and the
Canadas, Of which Portland is to be the connect
ing link.
ALMANAC CALCULATION FOR 1854-The
next year begins ON Sunday-has five months
containing five Sundays each and will embrace
ffty-three Sundays within its whole twelve
months Examine your new almanacs, boys
and see if we are not correct. And il 50, is it
not novelty?
THE LAws-All our State contemporaries, we
perceive, are publishing the lave, and we will
try to note their progress, that we can certify it
they have any trouble about getting their pay
for that at the least, is not more than one half
what wise State policy would award them.
VERMONT STATE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY,"
The annual meeting of this society is to be
held at Montpelier on the ltlI day of January
next, agreeable to a vote passed att last meet
ing of the society at Rutland.
The cholera is still raging in New Orleans.
Two hundred AID fourteen deaths from this Ter.
ribc pes,iIencc, in that city, are chronIcled by
the papers for the week ending December 5Ih.
Gas was introduced into the dwellings of Bur-
lington, on Mon !ay eve ing OF last week, lllu-
minatlng the place brilliantly.
At a recen, session of the County Court of
Guilford County. North Carolina, an application
having come before the Courts for a license ia
retail spurious liquors by The small measures, II
was re iected by voice Of 10 to 9. This being
considered a test voe no further application
was made, and there IS not single licensed re,
tail shop in the County.
Some days SINCE says the Traveller, we gave
an account Of woman residing 10 South Bos
ion, who was urged to join the Catholic church
BY her husband, and cut her throat at the time
appointed for her baptism. Her wounds did moi
prove fatal, aud the woman went to Hopklntcr
on visit She had fully recovered her strength
and was thought to be rational, when she agalI
took razor and inflicted so serious wount
upon her neck as to cause her death. Her nant
was Mahony and she leaves several small chill
dren.
The Swedenborgians have established col
lege at Urliana Ohio, which has in attendance
nearly one hundred students.
PuBLlC PRlNrING The aggregate cost O
the public printing ordered by the th,rty-secon
Congress a, its first and second session, amount
ed to 1925 595 GO ard the cost of paper $l9l
956 27-tolaI, $3l7 $751; ~.
TorAL Loss OF THE HuMBoLDT.-The fol
low Ing despatch. to the agent of The underwr
ters at New York dated Halifax, 18th inst DIES
troys all hopes OF saving the steamship Hum
boldt.
The forward part Of the Humboldt has broke
up, the stern holds together yet but under wa
ter. The goods are nearly al in the after p1
of the ship. and some are floating out. In
Government, at the request of Mr.. Cunard.
sending dewn force to watch the shore, and
Revenue Gutter tie protect the goods seawar
The cargo was 1919 packages; about $50 lan'
' ed-the rest will be nearly a total loss. III
A Marion will not be ready to begin loading uni
morning
!; A runaway slave at Natchez, week before a'
stabbed to the heart a white man who was {
recting his arrest. and when pursued, TIM
J. himself among the machinery of mill by whr
,, he was instantly Torn TO pieces.
Mr.. Albums now nine'y.six years of age,
y forms the Boston Guzeite, that this will be
very tUlIu WlHlcls tlC Hno opoOiSCo wv Sh@
n ges for eighty years, and never failed in his p'
dctiOns.
:, Three murders day is said to be the a,
rage in California
u The dwelling house Of Mr.. Quinlun, of Oh
i lo,te, VT, was destroyed by fire on the s h in
y" and Mr.. @. and one Of his children persisted
b. the flames
The Nofolk papers state that NJ less III
y, seven slaves escaped from that vicinity on 81
day last. They are supposed 10 have gone
:. in The steamer Star of the Vest. which put
,rs there and left again for New York on that
III Five persons were seriously injured on
-, Erie Rraroad. last week, by colsian. TIL
=, have since died
A RIVER FLowING UNDER CITY.--1
srs Newark ~ J .Aiuertiser states, some pers
Ter who wert engaged in grading the streets of
CITY on Saturday, 10th inst, while working
srs the corner Of Nesoiu street, between High
ell Summit, came upon large hole, about tive
feet deep. two feet wide at the mouth, and Sc
- at the bottom. A stream OF water five feet d
ard running in south east direction, was funn,
the bottom. The discovery has excited conslt
I'd able curiosity in the vicinity.
81 The Revenue Cutter, Hamilton, Capt.
dolph, was lost on fully Breaks, near Char
me ton, s. G last week. Many OF those on be
IT were lost, and among the quarlermaster, Tho
Ap- Stone, OF Boston. Lleutenants Saunders
be Hines left the wreck with Others in fe
boat from which nothing has yet been hear
OF CLEVELAND, Ono, Dec. 81, 7 P. M
ost weather here continues cold and frosty.
one snow is six inches deep, and a few miles
'ses the Lake it is foot deep. Ice formed last II
"A to the thickness OF an inch, and there is
e"- nothing doing on the canal or river.
that
ap. BURLINGTON, (Vt) Dec. 2l.-A. J. Fren'
as stage proprietor, committed suicide, this m
inn Al o,cl.lck hu ha nj hirnsalf In the