Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-01-27


found from one to twenty inches in diameter.
TIN GREAT REpuBLic.--The unburnt
portion of this noble vessel has been pumped
out and got anoat. The portion from the
keel upward for twenty-four feet, which in
cludes all below copper, is sound and Capt.
Mckay says she may yet be made into as fine
Il steamer as floats. Only one third Of her
cargo was touched with fire, leaving in the
lower holds at least three thousand tons dam
aged by water
-TAvERSEn's STRIKE.-A convention Of
the inkecpcrs Of Windsor County, VT, was
held at White River Junction a few days
since Col. Samuel Mutt presiding, and it was
voted that IN view of the increased prices of
provisions and assistance, new tariff of pri
ces was necessary, and an increased tariff was
accordingly agreed upon.
-LrqroR IN IliGnGArE.-Rcv. W. A.
Miller in a letter to the ST. Adams Messenger,
represents shocking state of prevailing
drunkenness in the west part Of the town of
Ilghgate, in the vicinity Of " Prairie Land"
or as it is more commonly called, the " Hemp
Yard"
Have they no authorities and Liquor law
in Highgate'
a CORDIAL ISvITArToS. The Editor of
the Vermont TriJune thus invites the Rutland
Herald to kill and eat him, or his paper
Our friend OF the Rutland Herald saws
our sheet resembles st. Peters, Good -
But we hope he won't be as squcamsh as
Peter was about helping himself to anything
good which it may contain. The angel re-
buked Peter for his fogyism SO rise,
brother Herald, kill and eat. "
-TuE YEAR lS53.-Scventy-thre revo-
lutionary patriots have died during the year
and thirty-four persons whose ages range
from 100 to 1913 years each
There have been, during the year. 6l exc
cutions. The largest number, ten, having
taken place in each Of the months of Scptem-
Der and October
-PAYISG Business Hotel keeping in
some of our large cities is becoming one of
the most lucrative departments of business
The profits Of the New York Hotel, New York.
during the past year are said to have exceed
ed 500 600; those of the St. Nicholas foot
up SOB 500 of the Astor $40 600; and the
Metropolitan So 300. The Prescott House,
it is further stated, cleared SOS during
the first three months it has been opened.
-DWoRCE.-A correspondent Of the n.
\. Trijlne writes from village in Indiana
that in said village lives mother who had u
husband whose name she does not bear, who
has two aurhters, each of them divorced
= wives, one of whom obtained her bill while
= her husband lay on his death-bcd while in
the same village resides man who has two
|. wives living Zone Of them dyorccd,) and that
e these wives are mother and daughtcr'
= -AnERlCAN CoLoyizATloN SocIE7Y.-The
Y society has sent to Liberia the past year elk
vessels with 7S3 clnigrants, larger number
:, than has been sent before in any one year for
4 twenty years. The receipts Of the year were
is SS4 ,454, and its Indebtedness il $50 600
l, The prospects of the society are encouraging
d -CoNyIcrEp.-Thc she demon who in
70 May last, in =. Ours, Canada, while nto4i-
J. Gated, tied to the fence her own child, Mario
# Quintal, eight years old, and having pre-
ID yiou.ly stripped her, burned her body from
le the knees upwards with matches, has been
II tried in Montreal and convicted of assault
u with intent TO murder. She was discovered
re in time to save the chil,ls life. although it
/. has lost several fingers and her head is now
- inclined to one side from the effects of the
brutaHties inflicted by her mother.
H., III D.
I! Prime, fthe New York Ojserr.r, writes from
-, Cunstantinoplc. December ). that the recent
IN defeat If the Turk, at Sinope, and the ies-
tructiJn OF their vessels of war, have pro-
e. ducr1 great mi,giyings Us to the result of the
NJ struggle. He also mentions that the Hon.
is Geo. p. Marsh WAS expected to leave Constan-
in tinoplc in few days, and that his successor.
t. MIR. Spence, was hourly expected
If -TnE CRYSTAL PArAcE.-The awards OF
to the jurics of the New York Exhibition, are
announced. The whole number Of silver
d. medals awarded is l05. Bronze, 1856. Mum.
ne Der Of exhibitors who receive honorable men
ton, 1910.
ne 1t is said almost every exhibitor gets some
- thing, either medal or mention, Ills medal,
eu were awarded to New England.
-CoUNTERrEI1s.-Tho Albany Journa
says that never in tho recollection Of thai
~ much respected individual, " the eldest in
40 habtant." has there been SO much counter
w felt money ahoat at present. The Polio
think that the grand depot where ALL or near
ly all counterfeit notes are manufactured il
at or near place called Bytown, Canada
- and that agents are scattered though tn
- United States to whom they are forwarded
us and who sell it to those who ore candidate
y for the State Prison,
he
-EpIToRs CONVENTION. A convention G
the editors and publishers of newspapers wa
~, held on Thursday last at Springfield, Mass
leu They discussed !, the question of advanc