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

I
hold Words, after enumerating the striking facts
Of cotton, says;
''I.et any social CT physical convulson visit
the United States, and England would feel the
shock from Lands End to J, I'm Greats The
lives of nearly two millions of our countrymen
are. dependent upon the cotton crops Of America );
their destiny NAV be said, without any sort of
hyperbole, to hang upon thread.
"Should any dire calamity befall the land of
cotton, thousand of our merchant ships would
rot idly in dock; ten thousand mills must step
their busy looms, and two million mouths would
starve for lack of food to feed them"
| The Free School System went into operation
in Alabama, last week, when County Commits
soners were elected, to make the most liberal
appropriation, says the Mobile Register, for Pub
lie Schools yet made in any Southern State, ex-
cept Louisiana
The trial of ten negroes, charged with con-
spring and assisting to poison Captain Haney,
came on at Northumberland (Va.) County Court
week before last. They were found guilty, and
three sentenced to be hung on the first Friday in
June next and the other seven to be transported.
There has been a great fire in Warrenton, Ga.
which destroyed nearly the entire town. Loss
about 81 $780, 900. Every Store, the Court
house, the Postoffice, many of the best dwellings
and number of offices were burned
CANCERS FROM THE USE OF ToBAcco.-There
are ten or twelve frightfuI cases of lip, tongue,
and face cancer in the London cancer hospital, all
resulting from excessive smoking.
A clergyman of Newark, N J., has fallen in
with the beard movement, and adopted the plan
of allowing his capillary attachments to grow I'M
checked by scissors or razor, A portion of his
congregation are highly scandllized. The cler-
gyman has determined to adhere to the beard,
and the DIRECTORS among his congregation talk Of
agitatng his dismissal.
Willard L. Brown, of Peacham Vermont,
thinks he has discovered the secret of the spirit
rappings, having succeeded in quieting a table in
several instances, by means of magnet. gal
vanic battery and compound composed of quick
silver, refined phur and sugar of lead. When
he went into room with these things about him,
where table was cutting up its antics, it became
Immediately still, and when he left the room, re-
commenced its dance again.
The OLD HOMESTEAD According to an ad-
vertisement in Concord paper, George W. Ne.
smith, Esq, of Franklin, is appointed " Com
missioner to allow the claims Of creditors against
the estate of Hon. Daniel Webster" which is
decreed to be administered as an insolyent estate
A LARGE HoTEL.-A magnificent hoel-the
eclipse of the fremont and Revere-is about to
be erecred in Boston-to be called the appleton
Honse," at a cost of $500 900.
A boiler in one of the Middlesex mills, Low
ell, exploded on Friday knocking things about
and soaring the girls consumedy.
Brigham Young, in his message, says there
have arrived 10000 immigrants into Utah during
the last yer
RECENT DISASTERS Cincinnati CONNER
cial remarks as follows:
" The list of disasters for the present year is
frightful. People are being killed by scores,
by tifties, and by hundreds on the land and on
the sea, and along our rivers they perish by
the explosion of powder and steam, by floods,
fires, and tempests. Following each other fast
have been the following calamities, all within a
few weeks: The shipwreck of the San Francis
co, the fireworks explosion at Ravenswood, L.
l., the boiler explosion at Hartford, numerous
shipwrecks about our coasts, the explosion of
the Kate Kearney, at st. Louis, the burning of
steamers at New Orleans and on various SOUTH
ern rivers, the Theatre accident at New Orleans,
a number of railroad calamities which happened
not to be specially fatal to human life, the sink
ing of a launch on Lake Nicaragua, the burn
ing of the Caroline, on White River, the sink
ing of the j. l.. Avery, the Lower Missis-
sppi, the explosion of the Reindeer, at Camel
ton. These catastrophes involve the loss of
about one thousand lives "
BEAR FIGHT AND CAPTURE-On the Sth of
March, in Township No. "a, while Mr.. Calvin
kingman's numbering crew, lin the employ of
Rufus Dwinel, ESQ.,, of this city, were quietly
attending to their duties, huge bear emerged
from his den, when he was Immediately chal-
lenged to motal combat by one of the immune
was out matched, the bear biting him very bad
ly in the knee and hand. After some further
skirmishes, Smiths comrades came to the rescue,
when his bearship betook himself to tree, and
thence was brought to the earth through the
potency of powder and lead. He weighed four
hundred pounds-was a gentleman of the old
school'-being one of the "bars. "-Bangor
Democrat.
The WASHINGTON MONUMENT. This structure,
at the close of the last working season, had at
tanned a height of one hundred and fifty feet.
1t is proposed to carry it at least twenty-eight
feet higher during the coming season. The
annual amount necessary for steady progression
of the work is $35 900.
Mr.. Smith OBrien, one of the Irish Exies,
confined in Van Dieman land is to be pardoned
by the British Government, for having, as Lord
Palmerston stated in the House of Commons,
acted like gentleman in refusing to violate his
parole of honor, even for the purpose of effect
ing his escape. .-.
Ole Bull has thirty thousand dollars invested
in Chicago, Illinois. His object, it is supposed,
is, to take his countrymen who had settled in
Pennsylvania to the West, where he has secured
employment for them.
OLD AND SMARr.-There died in Winchendon,
Mass, on the oath ult., Frenchman named
John atro, l0l years and months old. He
is said to have had the appearance of being a
man IS or 80 years old, and sawed one hundred
cords of wood at the door, the year that he was
100 years old.
STARVATION AT SEA.--On the4th of February,
the barque Bona Dea, of and from Liverpool for
Savannah, was discovered water-logged off the
southern coast of Ireland. She had been COM
lpletely dismasted. Her crew had been for
eleven and half days without food and water,
and six of Them including the master, had died
of starvation. Four of the remainder died in
1 two days after the rescue. The remainder,
seven in number, are doing we'll.