Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-05-18
CHE Nous BIeontr,

SPRING beautiful Spring is upon us. Aswe
slt at our window, we can almost see the trees
unrolling their leafy banners to the breezes of
Summer. We love Spring above all seasons; for
we always associate the bursting bud, and the
germ OF new life springng from every decaying
secd' with our hope of a new life to come, when
we, too, like the seed, shall have been mingled
with the dust
Inc STRUGGLE AT WASHINGTON. our Con-
gresslonal proceedings up to one o'clock Satur-
day. 1t will be seen that the Nebraska copsnira-
TORS have once more been bafled by the perse-
verlng and resoute opposition and tactics of the
minority IN obtaining an adjournment over to
Monday and they strongly hope till Tuesday.
wnen the Pacific Railroad bill. being the order
OF the day, mnst take precedence and throw the
fnal struggle still further off, which. M the
House now stands, gives the opponents their
only chance to defeat the bill.
WILD charlottesville noblest pair of Wild
Buhaloes ever in New England are now being
exhibited in this village by A. B. Perno, the
proprietor. They are pure bloodod, and still
wild, genuine bufaloas, taken from the count-
less herds of the animal that rove the prair;es
OF the West, one having been Captured in Me-
oraska, and the other in the Rocky Mountains.
Their weight is stated to be 5000 pounds, and
their ag five and six, They are magnificent
specimens, and should be seen by every man.
woman and child in Vermont.
RAILROAD AcciDENr.-We learn that, last Sat-
urday, at Golf Falls below Manchester. the
passenger train of cars ran into a freight train
standing on the track, and not switched off an
had been ordered, and that a brakeman was
killed, and the engine, baggage car, and DOR
ton of the baggage were nearly demolished.
The STEAMBOAT DIFFICULTIES AT BuRIINcrov
We learn from the Free Press and private sour-
ces, that the Contempt of Court case, arising
out of the refusal of the old Steamboat Comma
ny to heed the injunction served on them on an
plication of the other party, was tried and fully
sustained by Judge PECK, last week. de-
cision being that, within two days, the agrees
ing Company shall remove the old steamboat.
sunk to hedge in the Saltus, and restore every
thing to the condition in which they found it.
Judge PECK is reaping golden opinions for his
able and independent decision.
HYDRoPHoBIA.--On Monday, another COW on
Onion River, in the track Of the rabid dog which
recently made such havoc there, run mad She
was mich COW, and the family had been using
the milk every day, which causes them some
uneaslness for the consequences, but we think
the disease is not communicable in that way.
Some six OF eight cattle, which had been bit bv
that dog, have already run mad, and been
killed.
The ladies' of Boston find they can clothe their
little boys at one half the expense they formerly
did, by visiting Oak Hall. There is an immense
stock of Bays Clothing in the beautiful rotunda
and our ladies will do well to take their how,
there. when in Boston. Our word for il. ,hev
Will always go there as long as the little respon
slbilltles remain under their care. One Price
Cash System. ''~0
The store of William P. Downing. of Wash
ing'on, was entered Saturday before last, and sY
teen hundred dollars in cash stolen. together with
sundry articles of merchandise, mostly .ilk,
The burglar entered by breaking into the cellar
door, outside Of the store, and ascending tho cell
lar stairs. The horse of Hon B. w. Har,bol,.
NEW was missing Sunday morning, and j, is ans.
pected that an old man, who had been anon, tho
village short time, rode him off.-N. Journal
Disastrous FIRE IN QuEBrc.-A d;sn,,eh
from Buffalo of May 4th, says that Handsome
and capaoious ediice situated on Cole and Colon
streets, Quebec, and built by the Church for the
Sisters Of Charity, and fitted up at an immense
expense Tor the use of Parliament, was found to
DO on hre at ten o'clock the previous evening. +.
In a few minutes the building was one mass of
Names and thousands Of persons focked to the
scene Of re, but their efforts to save the building
were, at the last accounts from Quebec apparent.
!. y fruitless. Fears we're also entertained tina,
the buildings adjoining would also be consumed.
1t is ascerteined in France, beyond doubt, that
Inc vine and potato disease is caused BY the pres
ence OF small insects Of the order Of the +" heni-
pferes-!homopteres," of species very similar to
ground lice