Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-07-14
Che Nous Gleaner.
The GloiioussF Fourth.
Squeak the fife and heat the drin
For Independence bay has Gomez

Squeak the fife and beat the drim
For Independence bay has GOMEZ
And gone too, we are happy to say, though il
passed of this year, we should think, from tn,
various accounts we had seen of Celebrations
with less than the usual number of accidents
not more than FIVE or six persons, as far as W,
have heard, having beenkilled outright, nor NOR,
than one or two doaen wounded, in consequence
OF burning gun powder. If the excited OLE
patriot, John Adams, had enjoined tIlanksgiv
ing or STRICTLY civic Celebration for the com
memoration Of this day, instead, of military pa.
rades, ''the firing of cannons the ringing of bells
and other appliances for roar, rum and racket hi
would have done that, the results of which
might have added, Instead OF deracting, from
the benhts he rendered his country. We do not
wish to be Hreverent towards the memory of any
of the old Revolutionary heroes, but can't help
believing tina! same speech of the elder Adams
to which we alluded, and tho spirit of which
has been transmitted through Just sucn efiusions
as that of old Tom Fessenden, above quoted
for the text of the only 4th of July sermon OF
Grafton falling to our lot this year to deliver
to have been the innocent cause of more deaths
accidents and social disorders than any one
speech ever uttered in America.
-- ILLNESS AND PaonABLs DxArH OF Elk
Gov. PAINE.--Letters, it is asserted, have been
received at Mortified from Texas, giving in
formation that Gov. Paine who has been ex-
ploring Railroad ronte in the western part
of that State, was so dangerously sick, that news
Of his death is hourly expected, we can only
hope the account may be an exageration.
UNITED STATES MINISTER TO CHrNA.-
Robert J. Walker is now officially announced as
Minister to China. Walker il a man of talents,
but, also, we have thought, tnan of some polt.
ical vagares. His is one of those foreign ap-
pointments, we suppose, which the New York
Evening Post with such refined satire, con.
graduates the administration with having "made
so as not TO have weakened the party at home, -
"a thrust for which, and the never to be forgiv.
en- crime Of denying the compromise to be any
part of the Democratic creed, the Union now
proposes 10 ride that able and influential journal
out Of the Democratic party
GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS IN VERMONT
Mail .agents-Saul Bishop, of Richmond, IA
straight going, efficient many on the Central,
and C. Moultou, of Castleton, on the Rutland
and Washington Railroads.
.Np Post-.Naslers-J. M. Morse, Bethel D.
+. Hunton, Barnard ]. X. Eyerton, Quechee
Village C. B. Leslie, Wells River; ]. H. STUFF
febean, Sheldon;P Fitch, Pawiet; o. Lewis,
Wells F. v. Randall, Mortified A. G. Burke,
Bellows Falls s. C. Casey, Barnet.
HERREw AND AMERICAN SLAvERY..-We hope
none of our readers, whether wanting light or
already possessing it on the subject, will tail of
an attentive perusa of the able teatise we this
week give on Hebrew Servilude and American
Slavery, contrased. 1t constitutes one of the
series of excellent tracts now issuing at the
Office of the Christian Press, at Cincinnati
Those W ho instify -AsaAria..
sbould be made to know where their Jewish
precedent,if adopted as guide in the whole, as
we'll as in part, will land them. 1t the South
will agree to abide by it they would have very
little more trouble from the North.
The CRYSTAL PALACE is to be opened to-day
bn,ing accidents. o. Gaskill, the Nova Scotia
Giant, 7 feet 8 inches high, is to be standard
bearer of the procession.
A CONVENTION OF THE CoLoRED MEN OF 'he
Free States, and some probably from the slave
States. was held last week in New York. 1t II
said the attendance was large and the proceed
ings able and elevated.
THE FOREIGN NEws.-All that is really Suc'
will be fond under our usual Heading. Inc
At,ontic arrived Monday, but her news Goes nc
vary that of the previous arrivals, except pei
haps the slight alteration of the manifestation
of England and France towards Russia. In
British Lion, as we feared, seems inclined
cover before the Northern Bear, bat The frenc
Rooster is bristling up right spunkily. We don
know but what we shall have yet to take bac
mart of what we have said of the 'crltter"
SIS. JACKSON & Cove would invite tt
attention of all our Mercantile and Agrlcultur
friends. TO the advertisement of 5. ). Jackst
&Co.. Commission Merchants in Boston. w
have had occasion to consult some OF their n
merous reliable references, and find this firm
and more than they represent themselves
capacity and fair dealing.
VI. PALMER.--W have now tried V.
Palmer, as our sole Newspaper Agent in Bosto
New York and Philadelphia, for the past ye
and in justice to him, volunteer to say that
want no better, no more prompt, fair or etiicle
Agent than he has shown himself.
THE KNIcKERBocKER fer July is uAusua
excellent. Sheon'S up the river contribute
is a fine specimen of conversational brilian
on paper.
Dickens Household WoRDs, the most pC
ular Journal in Europe, perhaps, is republish
monthly and weekly by McEroh g. Bark
II Spruce Street, New York, price 400
year.
TIE UNITED STATES ILLUSTRATED in vic
of country and city with instructive text,
splendid work just commenced BY Herman
Never city Of New York, in numbers, SO
per No. $500 per volume 1t is Of the So
s,vle Of engraving as the Uuiversum, an,
truly superb work.
TIE CRurs.-The grain fields in this res
have most promising look. but we learn
on close inspection, the wheat on many ia
shows the sad ravages of the fly. How far