Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-04-28


-lr ms nrrx lately decided by the pro-
per officers Of the post-Ohicc Department, that
letter postage is legally chnrgcablc On.
packages having writing, other than the
simple address, ON the outsid'. If payment
is refused, the party sending it cannot he pro-
secuted for Il fraud on the Department Gas
an attempt to ,on,,ol the writing is necessary
to constitute IA lraudD as in the casc'of
writing words Ut sign, ilS,j" Of a package of
printed matter, olich J., fraud. under the
law.
~ tor>ttH rr1Ir'. ncst rar broken ny
last week in New York, and ,cihufts made Of
. largo number "f counterfeit bill, mates.
dies. mould>, Sc. Among the bank note Ijs,,s
were we'll executed plates ON the Farmer
and brpycr'. Bank, OF Nplncrs. y Y. Manu-.
facturcr's Einl. Of Brshom1to Union
Bank Of Albany nirn Bank. Of Montreal
and several southern bank \ largo guam
titv Of counterfeit gold coin IF various Icnom-
nations WIS also seized
&c. Mn. BorL,Hn, orr Minister to Control
America has NEGOTIATED and sent homt treaty
with Nicaracn but not such treaty os HI
mission contemplated If the runner IN regard
to tho treaty IL correct. the main uhrct Of -
is the extension Of the boundary Of Ntaragua
over the Mus1uito territory, including 'ho Mus.
quito KIM aud all hrs Indians who arc row
under the protcctrratc Of the Queen Of Gre'-
Britain.
-SrWir uDirNs have been consulted IN
MI In, -; a. c., 81 a.
Ing steamship City Of Glasgow. and hl,e
answered that fho steamer took FIRE from tho
engine, when cighteeN days out FROM Europe,
and that forty-onc persons were lost-thirtT
by fire and eleven by water, the survivors.
two hundred and ,c,cnty-rinc persons.
escaping by the small boats. After fifteen.
days exposure they mad" Prince Edward
T~iard, April Sth, since which u have died
a frspNr,u to the New York paper
from New Orleans saws that rumor reached
that city on SATURDAY. last from Vera Cruz 10.
| the effect that fifty Americans had been ar
rested at San Bias for laudirs without pas
ports and ordered to be shot.
Two Sr,rE prison convc,s, cn their
| way :" AUBURN prison in charge OF an Officer.
| heavily Shackl.d. hand-cufed and chaine't
| together by the lrg-. lcnpcd together from The
cars. which were going at the rate of thirt,
| miles an hour. and succeeded in ma king their
ESCAPE. They have since bc"n rccoptured.'
~ W>Su>GT oN despatch SAYS that
Douga, declares that the Nchrask hill hoH
go through the house. 1t also gives Col.
lcnion last as follows
- gentleman talking with the Colonel
about the administration yesterday. the
Colonel remarked, . never supposed they
had much sagaclty. but did think the
had common sense enough to know that il
they applied match to gunI"wder it would
explode"
y S,p lN,rpE>r of the recent wreck Of
the Powhattan. is told in some of the accounts
Of the disaster. On Monday morning the
body Of man found upon the sand liNr
about fifty yards from the corpsc-strcwn beach =.
with a child in his arms. 1t is supposed that
he alone Of all on board reached the shore
alive, and crawling out Of reach of the waves,
in order to save his own life and that Of the
infant in his arms, fell down exhausted on
the sand, and was frozen to death during the
night The child was firmly locked in rs
arms, quite dead. and appeared as If it bal
also died ashore from exposure
a 11rIE girl | years old in Ellicott-
vile, \. y while getting down from her
chair last Friday. fell. from her clothes hc-
coming entangled in the chair and ras
thrown upon an axe which lay with its e1-e
upwards Between two sticks of wood Her
head was split oreu and instant death vas
caused.
a HORSE was recently killed in Leila
non, Mo, from fright. First, an elephant
belonging to the Hippodrome, passed by,
which nearly killed him them came tbs
camels, and finished him. He was previously
in good health.
r -Tur NV York Tribune says 4
steam-engne capable of doing the work Of
twenty slaves can be purchased for the price
, Of II single one, and fed at less cost than ths
, single laborcr.'
, -TnE LAST species of foul play pcrre
trated upon the unsophisticated portion of
Gotham is that Of glucinS feathers upon the
legs of the common fowl and selling them for
), Shanghaes.
-TmE HARTFORD Times seems disposed
to take the recent decomposition of its party
pretty complacently, though inclined to hold
: on to any small fragment of hope that may
: present itself Speaking of present prospects,
the Times says - The democrats may posi-
| bly, carry four SenatOrs-probably only three,
however, possibly only two" Did the editor
ever hear of the blacksmith who undertook
1 1
+ he concluded to make hatchct-fDund he
only had iron enough left for horse shoe
nail, and not succeeding in saving material
i enough for that. then threw what he bad
. left into the water trough-cxclaiming - !
don't care there is enough of you for darncd
y siss ,''-Ncw London Chronicle
;, -Cnr,AlRr-Thc Washington sta, j.
fearful that the Rev. Henry Ward Beechcr
may be settled over church in WashinStnn,
T. and threatens him with tar and feathers if he
l.
-Tnr CANADIAN LoA>.-ltis just twenty
3 years since the province of Canada first hor-
y rowed money of this country. The loan was
i for twenty years, and the time being up ~
saturday last, the LIST of April lsj4, the
&c whole sum due paid in full our Of ne
surplus rercuueS The prOriHces. This fact
l. speaks volumes for the progress Of the colo
ny.-Europcdn Times.
-DEArH OF PROFESSOR WILso, The las,
= steamer brings to us news of the death, ON
N the third Of April, of Prof John Wilson,
If celebrated as the Christopher North of Black
wood Magazine. and whose works, poetical
u and prose, have secured him a warm welcome
II among all classes of readers in England and
America Mr.. Halam characterized Wilson
a. writer of the most ardent and enthusiast
n tic genius, whose eloquence is as the rush OF
Vt mighty waters.
=. Prof Wilson was one Of that brilliant