Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-05-26


the Chancellor could not compel its return.
The missing parts are being replaced anew
and that matter still remains to be settled by
law. They also state that in retaliation. a
move will be made before the Legislatures Of
Vermont and New York, to repeal the char
tiers of the Champaign Transportation Com
psny, as not having fulfilled the object for
which it was incorporated
Two CoNvICTs at work in the coal-pts
outside the yard of Clinton Prison, near
Plattsburgh, after making preparations by
putting on extra shirts to protect them from the
weather, and secreting enough Of bread about
their clothes, to last them several days.
made determined effort to escape on We'd
ne.day last. One of them young man
named Swan, was shot by a guard. and died
instantly, the other ran a mile before he was
taken and had a narrow escape from a shot
fred by another guard
- Butter declined some eight cents la st
week in Boston market, and is dull at Is to
% cents with prospect of still further de-
cline. In New York market the price is less
demand for California, we may, if the season
prove favorable, expect prices to rule lower
than the average of the last two years.
- Four thousand cords of piled wood
were burned on Valcour Island last week
- Nh. EvERErrs letter of resignation of his
seat in the [, S. Senate has been published
lie resigns IN consequence of impaired health +,
which in the opinion OF his physician, renders
the longer discharge of the duties of his sta
ton dangerous, and also because Of the deli
cate state ofhealth of member of his family.
-THE NORFOLK (Na) Argus says, &" the
class of writings from which the South has
most 10 opprehend are sohoolbooks and morks
of religious Instruction. and the Richmond
(Va.) Inquirer says, " Virginia is the imper-
sonation of the well born, ,reH educates and
well bred Aristocrat. Put that and that
together.
THIS CORRESPONDENT of the n. Y. Times
announces the receipt of letters at Washing
ton which indicate that the Cubans are
thoroughly reused and ready to shake of
the Spanish yoke and render it probable that
the Island is At the present time struggling
amid the tlroes of Revolution. The Tn
bnne's correspondent says the Administration
have similar intelligence and thoroughly rcly
upon ITS correctness.
WAR manufactures can do for place
is shown in the case of Manchester, \. II.
l.. IL l.. "a
it had but 1925. Thirty years ago, it was
one of the poorest towns in the State. with
only 900 to 800 inhabitants, subsi.ting
by fishing and II poor apology for Agriculture,
-DARrHorru COLLEGE holds its com
mencement ON the 2jth, Goth and 9th of
July. The orators are President fitch
cock, of Amherst College, before the Theolo-
gical Society; Prof Shedd, of Andover, be-
fore the Phi Beta kappa and }. T. Fields,
of Boston, who gives u poem before the Phi
Beta Kappa. The number of the graduating
class is ~
"A LETTER published in II Detroit paper
gives the following pleasant picture of the
place named " Erie looks, actually, as
though the curse of Cain was there 4 blight
seems to smitten upon her prospects para
lysis to have fallen upon the hand of her in
dustry. There seems no stir, no active en-
terprise, no growth. In the mouths of the
crowds of passengers that daily cross her
" break, she is - kissing, by-word, a re-
proach."
--THE ESTATE of Daniel Webster is an
nounced as insovent, and G. W Nesmith of
Franklin, y H.. is administering upon It
AS comm ssioner
-THE CHATS of Arkansas seem to he
rather bad. The Young Amcr,ca (Eldorado
Ark,) states that not less than one hundred
horses have been killed in Union Country, in
the vicinity of the river, by the gnats, within
the past three weeks
-PRRTINESr, The Churchmdn discover.
strong traces Of consanguinity between the
kentuckians and Shakspcare's Jack Cade,
who put a man to death for the following
good reason
Thou hast most traitorouslN corrupted the
youth of the realm in erecting a grammar
school and whereas, before, our turcfathers
had no other books hut the score and the tai
ly, thou hast caused printing to he used
| and, contrary to the king. his crown, an'
dignity, thou has built paper mill, twill
hc proved to thy face. that thou hast mel
about thee, that usually talk of u noun ant
verb, and such abominabc words as no Chris