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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

A mixed commission, which embraces Eng
and Russia, and Persia, is now engaged in es-
tabshing the boundary line between Persia
and Turkey, about which there has long been
difficulties. Col. WILLIAMS, well known to
many Americans, and man of character and
talent, is the English Commissioner, and on tho
authority of a scientific American writing from
Persia, the Boston Chronical relates the follow.
ing:
| In the prosecution of this work the commits
sioners have come upon the remains Of the en-
cient place Shushan, mentioned in the sacred
books of Esther and Daniel, together with the
tomb oil Daniel, the prophet. The locality ans
wers to the receive tradition of its position, and
the internal evidence arising for its correspon-
dence with the description of the place recorded
IN the sacred history amount almost to demon
siration The reader can turn to Esther, ch. /,
v. 8; there he will read of pavement of red
and blue, and white and black maroie in that
palace" That pavement still! exists, and, as
described by Col. Williams, corresponds to the
description given thus in the sacred history.
And in the marble columns, dilapidated ruins,
the sculpture and the remaining marks of great.
ness and glory that are scattered around, the
commissioners read the exact truth of the record
made by the sacred penman.
Not far from the place stands tomb on it is
sculptured the figure of man bound hand and
foot, with huge lion in the act of sprnging
upon him to devour him. No history could speak
more graphically the story Of Daniel in the,
Lions Den. The Commissioners have with
them an able corps of engineers and scientific
men and most interesting report may be ex-
pected. The Persian arrow w-heads are found
upon the palace and the tomb. Glass bottles,
elegant as those placed upon the toilet tables of
the ladies of our day, have been discovered, WITH
other indications of art ond refine nent, which
bear out the statements of the Bible. Thus
twenty five hundred years after the historians o
Esther and Daniel made their records, their his
tories are verified by the peaceful movements o:
the nations of our day.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

BREAD.-Both in Egypt and Greece, the
method of grinding corn in handmis was known
al u remote epoch but the Romans, for very
long period had no other method of making
flour than by breaking roasted corn in a mortar.
1t was not till after the Macedonian war that
public bakers were established in Rome. The
art of baking bread was afterwards spread by
the conquest of the Romans, throughout the
south of Europe. The use of yeast in the raising
of bread seems to have been first practlced by
the Germans and the Gaus. The Romans as
well as the Greeks leavcned their bread by mix
ing the fresh paste or dough with some that had
become stale. The Roman method seems to
have suppressed yeast III France and Spain. For
raising bread by yeast was not practlced in mod
ern times, in France, until nearly the close Of
the seventeenth century. Although the bread
made by yeast was so decidedly superior to that
made by other methods, upon its first introduc
ton into France, the medical faculty declared it
most injurious to health; aud the use of yeast
was prohibited under the severest penalties
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

Yates and purifes human nature, or gives the
grace and goodness of life.
The Sabbath stayes the severer pulses of SC.
cety. 1t opens the low and dark clouds that
gather round the heart and lets in the light Of
better thoughts and loftier feelings. To loose
this recurring dispensation from the course of
The mpetuous life-struggle, would be to render
our destiny that of the dungeon slave. While,
therefore, we regard the desecretion of the Sab.
bath as primarily offensive as violation of the
divine law, we condemn it as war against the
better charities Of fe--as wrong done to the
heavy-aden-as step taken outwards towards
barbarsm.
We see with great regret constant tenden-
cy to the loss of the Sabbath. This is the
greatest in those communities where the pulse
of society is more rapid and unremittent, and
where the worship of mammon, or its pleasure,
is as perpetual as it is absorbing. The hostility
to the Sabbath is manifest in the success Of the
Sunday papers, devoted to business and pleas
ure, and in the devotion Of the day to idle enter
tainments.
They who invade the day of rest do wrong to
the race at large, and aid in weakening divine
institution, given in mercy, and inseparable
from the interests of civization.-.Norih .Aner-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
Massacre of the Mame lukes.

On the first day of March, 1911, Mahemet Ali
perpetrated crime which ever afterwards rem
dered his name Infamous. He collected all the
MameIuke Boys in the north Of Egypt in. the cita-
del at Cairo. He gave out that lie wished them
to share in the ceremony of investing his son
Jonsam with the caftan. 1t was remarked on
the morning of tnat day that the sun rose the
color of blood, and the face of the pacha looked
dark and troubled; but at times cleared it up
with smile Of kindness to deceive his victims.
Tile boys came mounted on their finest Arabian
horses, In their magnificent uniforms, forming
the most superb cavalry in the world. The pa
cha presented them with coffee, and paid them
all honor. AT Iength they were commanded 10
move in procession from the citadel. Mean.
seated on a carpet, and calmly smoked his Per-
sian pipe. He toook care to be so situated that
he could see what was to take place below. He
permitted the procession to reach the critical
point; he then ordered the gates of the citadel
10 be closed upon the hitherto unsllspecting
Mameukes. When the portculIls fell behind
the last of the proud procession, they were at
once hemmed in like ship in the lock of ca.
nal. Before and around them there was nothing
but pi,iless walls and barred windows, and
the only opening upward towards the bright sky.
Mahemet Ali waved his hand, and forthwith the
heighths bristled with guns. The Gagged and
de enceless warriors had only time to look around
them with one stare of surprise, indignation and
despair, when every musket was fred, and most
of them fell at once beneath the shower of bul.
lets. Voey after voey flashed from thousand
guns upon this devoted band They met their
fate nobly. Some calmly crossed their arms on
their mailed bosorns; some covered their tur-
baned heads in prayer; some drew their flashing
swords, and uttered fierce curses--all in vain.--
One spraug rapidly beneath the deadly fire into
red and writhing mass He spurred his char.
ger over heaps of his slaughtered comrades, and
his noble Arabian fairly leapo ll battlements;
and, although the poor animal was ,illed by the
dreadful tall, The rider escaped, am,l the storm
of bullets. and 'ound safety first in the sanctuary
OF ITO 4sc, and next IN the desert. Four hun
dred Mamelukes were slaughtered in the citadel
Those persons who are slandered, are oftcp
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
j. w. WHEELOCK, Printer.
poetrp.
For the Freeman
RESPONSE TO THE VOICE OF FREEDOM.


Far oer the blue waters rich melody floats,
Like the soft pensve sound of the Rolian's notes,
And bright as the song that an angel harp makes;
Glad thoughts in the bosom of solitude wakes
No swee,er the song of a fair angel band,
Than the glad song of Freedom from Monarcha land.
List list thou wild breeze but bear it once more,
Meath thy svery wings, from that far distant shore
For bright hopes OF the future famed Into life,
Beyond those dark scenes OF confusion and strife;
Each pulse Of my heart doth respond to that strain,
And the rue blood Of freedoms IS reviving again
But list to our land long boasted as free,
From the land of the Monarch there cometh plea,
A plea, yea, plea for the honda ged opprest,
In this land of the favored, tn enlightened the bes-
A plea to the weak ones, that cannot but feel
The wrongs Of the slave in bondage they kneel-
That their prayers and enreates at Slavery may gnaw
Till they smile Ger the bones of the Compromise Law
plea that they struggle to haste the glad day,
When that blot from country shall vanish away,
Lest the sevt IL plaques Of Egypt with fury descend
And the stout hearts like Pharoah's fearfny rend
Lest our a tie type offreedom devour
Lest our f,thers arise with Hurculean power,
And wrest from our hand that long cherished name,
'ris not to our termed the noble and brave,-
Tho oer their proud heads freedoms banner doth wave
For they retain the spirits our freedom hath cost,
OR regard The rich blood our fi.hefs have lost
But whence cumeh this Plea All, horrid disgrace
Shame thee my country. thou knowest tn ep'ace,
Thou rememberesI the rocks PymoutlI's stem shore
Thou remembrest the yoke thy naughty neck wore!
Thou rememb'rest the blood and the cold silent dead
That purchased that Eagle to fit u er thy head
Yet cometh this plea far o'er the blue wave
Release, oh We pray you, rolease your poor slave
Say, hast thou no that retain in their breast
One spark of the spirit Of Washington best?
Say, Teturnelh th- breeze with the answer afar,
That our stripes have oershadowe0 our liberty's
Be So yet each morning shall bear Upward prayer
To meet Ger the ocean, and mingle with theirs.
Highga,e, Jan, % 1853. H.E.w.'.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

The wool. And in Vermont, where the greatest
attention has been paid to sheep husbandry, the
average yield per sheep is almost four pounds
Yet we import considerable wool-mainly the
cheapest and coarsest. In 1885, the import was
l9,669.7o4 pounds, valued at 81 ,6sl ,G9I, or be-
tween eight and nine cents per pound. The
imports of wool have largely increased during
three or four years.
VI tobacco, the aggregate returned in 1910
was 349, l62.2l9 lbs; in 1850 it was 200, ,752. GAG
lbs,-a decresae of about Ten per cent. We
fear the Millennium is not approaching so rap
idly as these returns would indicate.
Of cotton, the production continues largely to
increase. The product is now over 10000 900
bales or 100000 tons per annum.
| Of potatoes, the product would seem to have
fallen of from l0S 29S 900 bushels in 40 to 1O4,
055,999 bushels in 1850; and we presume this
is correct; the reason being the effects and fears
of potatoe rot. This disease would nows seem
to be passing away and the cnlsPse of the root
consequently reviving.
Or wine, the production is steadily increasing.
Our importation amounting to six millions of
gallons per annum; our consumption, to at least
twenty millions of gallons SO that home produc
ton must be not far from fourteen millions gal
Ions. Ofthis aggregate, it seems that only 22l,
249 are acknowledged in the census-whence
Ipfnr that ottr mar foc re M,Jo,;,
Champagne, Hook, &C., prefer not to let their
light shine before men," but merely put aside the
credit of their enormous consumption of Cider,
Turnips, Logwood, and other domestic and i'm.
ported products. Such an example of modesty
is very rare in this brazen age.
OF spirtuous and Malt liquors. the annual
product reaches the enormous aggregate of eigh-
ty six millions of gallons, (six gallons for each
person old enough to drink or to know better -
our imports and exports just about balancing
each other. This is "a great country The hop
culture (mainly confined to New York State) is
extending.
OF fax and hemp. the production did not ma
teraly vary from lo4O to 1880. We trustlt has
since so received a strong and lasting impulse
but Rome was not built in day.
Our silk culture is a ruin. We produced in
1881 no less than 10000 pounds of coccoons
in 1910 only 81 $50 pounds 1850 barely l4,76t
pounds!
Our Sugar culture is extending. Our produc
ton (maple and cane atogether) in 1910 was
l55, 100S09 bs.; in 1850 it was 2Sl $50 1856 lbs.
an increase (mainly in Louisiana and Texas Of
l26, ,730,077 lbs Much credit is due for this lc
the Tariff of 1912, which gave the sugar culture
an impetus which it has never lost. 1t has now
obtained command of the most admirable and
efficient machinery, and is steadily working fur
'her and furthgr Northward, through the gradual
Inclination of the cane. and can neyarmora be
/ broken 6owG
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
The Sabbath.

There is no land where-alI religious obliga-
tlons aslde-,he Sabbath is so necessary as 10
this country. We should be barbarIans with
Quit. Already line lust of money and distinc
ton, acting upon natures hshed by our peculiar
-'''nlions into the most vehement emula,lops
~'"kles almost every brow, and makes ankle Y
constant presence and power, on which stran.
gers gaze and wonder. Our very pleasures
have this dasn of lnpatience about them, and
our days and hours, hurried on the whirl of con.
stant excitement, lose their distinctness. and
mingle in misty mass, in which the better rea.
sonlng faculty can distinguish little that accord,
with the rational purposes Of life. Were th
eager hunt OF gold or rank uninterrupted,
would soon sweep away before it all that ele
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

THE BEAR WITHOUT BRIDLE.-Among the
early settlers of Worcester county in this Slate,
was German by the name of Forepecks or
Forepeck. The wild tenants of the forest had
not vet given place to man. And Forepeck
being employed on certain time, with some
others, in the manufacture of maple sugar, saw
bear coming among them, and without wait
ing to count the cost, threw himself upon his
back. Bruin, unaccustomed to this mode Of
salutauon, began to make off as well as his load
would permil-but he could not help turning
round every now and then to bite the leg of his
daring rider. Nevertheless the hardy German
kept his seat in spite Of the smart and the streams
Ct blood which we're trickling merrily down his
logs, till one of the company coming up, knocked
the weary bear on the head with an axe and
despatched him. TheDutchman was justly proud
of his exploit-.but when the excitement which
had supported him through the pearous ride,
was over, he exclaimed, der tyil I'll never
reit baar again midaut bride !'-.hanchester
Messenger.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
Wrecu nlouutain freeman,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING,
In W Wtia oight's Building, Second Foor-Front
Main Street, Montpelier, VT.

TERMs-One dollar aud fifty per year in advance
81 rs after three months 90 after six months Village
subscribers, who hlve The paper left at their door, SOO
M pper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, ex
sept at the opti'n of the publisher.
vertise Inserted in neat and tasty manner, at
customary prices.
Probate and all other Legal Notices published at the
usual rates
E- Tne FREEMAN is sent to each town in washington
Conny tree of p,sage. The postage for any distance not
over 50 miles from Montpelier is cents per quarters not
70 miles, 10 cents not over 1000 miles, Is cents not
1900 miles, % cens 1000 miles, 20 ceEts
and exceeding 1900 miles, 80 cents.
". d. PALMER, the American Newsp per Agent, Is
the only authorized Agent for this paper, in the cities OF
Bostun New York and Philadelphia, and is duly empow'
cred to take advertisements and subscriptions at the same
rened by His receipts will be regarded as
payments. His offices are-BosToS Scolay's Building
New YoRK, Tribune Building; PHILADELPHIA, N. w. cor
Third and Chestnut sreets.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03


panions upon earth, it is never understood by US,
but will remain, like the sphinx, an enigma to
the dav of doom.
However this may be, take it for granted
that the approximation of sphinx and pyramids
was not altogether accidental. The stranger
and traveller who approach might learn from the
mystic figure beneath the rocks that around him
was all symbol and alIegory, and that if he could
not read the riddle of its existence, he could
scarcely expect to interpret the most absruse of
all symbols on the sacred mount.
In all ages there has been an esoteric philoso
ply, doctrine and language confined to the
few, and even now, they who as travellers jour
ney over the face OF the earth, must veil a por-
ton Of their discoveries behind an obscure term
inology. When perfect, the sphinx, in all likei-
hood, formed the crown of Egyptian art. There
is something inexpresslbly majestic in the dusky
head suggesting the idea of buried goddess,
emerging from beneath the sands; and if we
contemplate the outlines of the features, and
restore what centuries lave mutilated and marred
we shall probably have perfect type of the
beautiful as it existed in the mind of the Egyp-
tans.-J. A. S. John.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
Che .G'omilp Girfle.

We seek happiness by heaping on our puny
selves all we can. each one building, according
to the joint force of his intellect and seIfishness,
a reversed pyramid, under the which the higher
it rises the lower he is crushed on the small spot
his small self can fill.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

Unnecessarily deliver not your opinion but
when you do, let 1t be just well considered and
plain. Be charitable in all thought word. and
deed, and ever ready to forgive injuries done tc
yourself; and be more pleased to do good thar
to receive good.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

WHAT is LIFE?-The following beautiful
description, in answer to this question, is from
Rev. Mr.. Mountfod's Euthanasy":
"The present life is sleeping and waking it
is good night on going to bed, and good
morning on getting up; it is to wonder what
the day will bring; it is sunshine and gloomi-
ness; il is rain on the window, as one sits by
the fire it is to walk in the garden, and see the
flowers open, and hear the birds sing it is 10
have the pos;man bring letters it is to have
news from east, west, north, and south it is to
read old books and new books it is to see pic
lures and hear music; it is to pray with family.
morning and evening; it is TO sit in the twilight
and mediate; it is to be well, and sometimes to
be i'll; il is to have business to do, and to do it !;
it is to have breakfast and dinner and tea; it is
to belong to town, and to have neighbors, and
to be one in circle of acqaaintapces it to
to have friends to love one; 1t is to have sight
of dear old faces; and with some men, to be
kissed daley by the same loving lips for fifty
years: and it is to know themselves thought of
many times day, in many places, by children
aud grandchildren and many frends.''
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
The Sphinx.

What the Egyptians signiied by the symbol
cal figure, seems not to be exactly decided
think it was the type of womanhood, in which
power is engrafied on beauty and genleness.
This thew represented by wonan's tace neck
anu bosom, terminating in the body of u lioness,
not in fierce and violent action, but in eternal
repose. This is the nature of the passive p-in
clple, which receives within itself the germs of
life, and quick rs and brings them to perfection
without any external manifestation of energy.
Possibly, aIso the Egyptians meant to insinuate
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03

Those persons who are sandered, are oftcp
the most sQ,hv.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-17
~ 1t Meeting of The Council Of the

IAi} u Richmond held Aprii 18th, 1853 ii was
=. heS9tsedl That poll oe, and the same is hereby
greeted to take lhe sense Of the freeaGders Of he
S4ay On the question, whether the Council on behai
U me city o Richmond may subscribe to the
ktocA Of the Virginia Central Railroad Company .
NsHlFahy Incorporated tor work 81 internal Inn
3-9'eH+ent IN 'hla state part Of which is construc
- ~ Aa2 near tnis cay az amount not exceeding
~ heAaFra thousand Go;.ars--tlat me time u
Hot9'Lg gag ppii .e Monday the 23d day of May,
hagefh and afterwards Until the day Of the poll. ia
81 .eaEl two 2ews papers o! tap div.
Il copy. w, =. eHFpphRn = I'm
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-17

~ new daguerrean Gallery.--MINEfs
WATSON beg leave to inform their friara.
anc the public, that they have removed the Gals
low the American Hotel, on the opposite a.; ~
where they have fitted up splendid Dagna, ~.
GALLERY, for the accommodation OF those who =,
Wait their rooms may
The subscribers too well known for -,
ment, rs they have had rooms for the ,as, LII .
years in this city, and have always given en,;,o
satisfaction. But they are happy to snnnnnea 80
the public that they have superior facilities sor
taxing fine Pictures, to what they have ever ha5
and pledge themselves to give Pict,res mac
Ia ths United States In softness of tone or a.va -
coioring Gall aud the beautiful specimsn. ~
the art, whether you wish Pictures or NOT "a
40 ~ MtNHIS d. WATSON
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-17
Sailing or Oeesa !stesw s1lps.

NEW YORK, Nay l5--Fotu ocean steam
es sailed from his port to,dsy, viz. the U. s.
gal sfeaAer Pacific, for Liverpoo., at L
O'Clock; Ala5E-ge, for Savannah; Marion
u a. Chaile Ton; and Roeucke, fot Norfolk and
u s..t-ola. .morg 1eJ paoseDgeEs by the
. ac'ac are Mia Deiis ;, Bacon, thu historical
LEci-'eF, Hon: GcorE. Briggs, Of New York
- Joseph Il. Chandler, Of Fhilsdel phia
SeaaIof Douglas. Ct Illinois; d. Graae. Of
a{aiIa!9fe Hon. {. Be!mfutlh, bearer old
Ea.cAea 70 Chise C.pI.J. c. Walk ~, u. S
hFIy u. u. Shepard, OF North Carolina ;
apd - s. Mil, L. s, Army. The paciG3
okGBoat $9o0 IN gpece.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-17
BROAD ROCK RACES

On A<A WILL Commence Tues.
-A>AssssSSa and continue four days
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES FIRST DAY-TUES-
DAY A Sweepstate for years old colts and fill
lies, Sl00 entrance; $50 forleit-three subscribers
md closed. The following entries for the race
have been made:
mir. John Harrison, names bay, c., by Glide
Harold, q N Net Popes dam
2-Mr. James Taliey, names CD. FLY, by Herald,
dam Betsy White.
3-Mr John Belcaar, names ch. colt, by Alem3de,
dam by Sir Charles.
SECOND RACE, SANE DAY-A match for
S200-cne mile out-in which Mr.. q Pulliam
names ca m, by Bengal and Mr.. n. Green names
br. mare, BY Alemode.
SECO&D DAY-WEDNESDAY-Pr
Purse S20U--twU mile heats.
THIRD i AY-TAURSDAY.-Joc Club
PursR-tRree uAle hests-&4a1.
FOURTH EAY-FRIDAT A Sweepstakes for
coils and files three years olG-S5 4 90 entrarce-
hgf forfeit; 70 uaGaa and close Tuesday, rae Iush
May.
SECOND RACE, SANE DAY-For n saddle. for
saddle horses one .l.e OUT ch gYa;g ats-S5 en-.
trance.
C. &; y. GREEN. Pronrietors.
R37Iha Broad Goci5 Jockey Club are
invlIeu to met III the "Aroaur,' co.aer len aud
Agin streets, This Ev%n5ziz, 8! : O'Clock, at
which tine the entries ior the HIopFalor's Purse,
will be raade.
Pgac-ua. agtazds@c. is carr ast,y solicited.
my Id &. q Il. G21 -, Fsopriat0rs
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-17
TIE MARKETS.

NEW YORK, May IS Sales of $500 bbls Flour at
unchanged rates; 10000 bushels white Wheat at
81 co. and 80 ,0o0 bushels mixed Corn at g. cts.
BALTIMORE, May NO transactions 10 Flour
Sales of $1,000 bushels Corn at "a to SIS cents for
white 50 TO 60 cents for yellow.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-05-17
Fall of Building and Loss Of Life.

NEW YORK, May I6.-A building in course OF
construction at the corner Of New and Water
streets, in this city, fell this morning with terrible
crash, barying several persons beneath the ruins
Two have been taken out dead