Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-03-29

and the weather so cold that not pound of ma
pie sugar, probably, has yet been made in YER
mont.
"0h, why, unfeeling Winter, why
Still ags thy torpid wing
Fly, melancholy season, fly
And leave the year to Spring"
pursuance of the late resolution of Congress, an
expedition is fitting out to go in search Of DR..
Kane, who went in search of the lost Franklin.
And who is to go in search of the vessel and
crew now fitting QUIT We do not believe either
in the wisdom or beneyoencc Of thus multiplying
and sending out searchers after the lost, and
scarchers after the scarchcrs. All now there
would be just about as likely to get back alone
rs by the aid sept after them while every new
crew stands an equal chance to perish. The
best wisdom and humanity, we believe, would
have been, instead of offering inducement. to
discourage men from running the terrible risks
Of that frightful ocean which has already
proved the grave of SO many gallant seamen.
MosE," THE LADIES BEAU.-Mr. Levi Pierce,
of this village, has nohle-looking Newfound-
land dog, named {. Mose,' black and white, and
weighing nearly a hundred pounds, that exhibits
q remarkable degree of intelligence in every
thing, and some traits which have struck us as
quite peculiar. Among the latter is his fond
ness of escorting ladies that happen to be out
without attendance, at dusk or in the evening.
So we'll has this become understood, by our
smaller girls especially, that they often go to
his stand, usually at the corner of State and
Market streets, to solicit his attendance, which
is always cheerfully granted, and away he gal
lops by their side, and wo to the dog, COW or
clown that don't cl ar the path before them. If
they wish to call at house for moment, they
bid him to wait, and he patiently lies down on
the doorstep till they rc'appear, or if they tell
him he is dismissed he seems to understand it
equally we'll, and trots off homeward according
ly. Having noticed him first as he attended q
little daughter of ours home repeatedly, and OBJ
served him afterwards in various services of the
kind, we are prepared to pronounce him the best
LADIES' beau in Montpelier.
MONTPELIER ACADEMy.-Among the various
sketches we have made of the most noticeable
things in Montpelier, we have never, we believe,
said anything about the conspicuous structure
known as the Montpelier Academy; and yet it
is an edifce which seems not only to fill the
measure of our oon village pride, but to be the
observed of all observers from abroad Its loca.
ton, indeed, is peculiarly favorable for the OBJ
servation of the stranger, and has not, we fancy,
very lately failed to attract it. Ae he enters
the town from the south, he scarcely gets fairly
into the Main street before this building bursts
on his view, in the distance in all its magnificent
proportions. And if he enters at the north, he
finds it terminating the view of a long street
there, also, and standing out SO prominently that
not an architectural beauty is lost to the sight.
But besides the advantages of the location for
displaying this imposing structure to the admi-
ring gaze of the public there are other and far
greater ones which more Immediately concern the
school, whose favored lot it is to be convened
within its classic walls, and which strikingly
evincee the taste and sagacity of those by whom
the site was so happily selected. 1t is situated
exactly in the sharp corner formed by two nearly
transverse streets, which run directly under its
windows, and SO near that the wagner can
strike it with his whip, as he passes on one side,
and on the other reach the entrance with three
bounds from his wagon. This contguity of the
street to the building involves saving of time
and expense which cannot but strike the dullest;
for when it is considered that five steps at the
most will take the pupil from the middle of the
street to the door, while most other buildings of
the kind are so set back that it requires hun
dred-when it is considered that here loads of
wood or pupils can be tipped directly into the
door, and especially when it is considered that
all exterior cleaning is entirely obviated by the
loads of hay of the marketmen that daily come
brushing against the walls none can fail to per-
ceive that the savihg of the precious time of the
pupils in one year, and of the actual expenses
of the establishment, must be almost incalcula-
BILE. But even these are not the greatest advan-
tages of this unriyalled location. The streets,
passing, as before intimated directly under the
windows of the building on two sides, are con-
tinually filled, during school hours, with .t.b-
bering tootmen, Gathering horsemen and rafting
carriages, and their conmingling sounds, added
to those OF the fierce rumbling Of wheels over
the closely contiguous bridge, all go to raise
DIN almost equaling the roar of u cataract. Here
is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
consider it for we all know that Demostbenes
had to go searching about the country for water
falls and cataracts for the purpose of practicing
in theii roar, before he could make his voice and
nttcrance fit for public speaking. Whata priv
ilege it had been to the great Athenan orator to
have attended an Academy situated like ours
1t will be said, perhaps, that oratory is not the
only branch to be cared for in such an institu-
ton Most true, But are not our reading,
writing, arithmetic, composing, cxtemporising,
and nearly everything we study at school, al
ways to be brought into practice in the crowded
store the filled office, or the noisy public assem-
oiy And are there not manifest advantages in
accustoming the pupil, while getting the theory,
70 circumstances which attend the practice, or,
In other words, should not theory and practice
De made as far as may be, to go along together!
Certainly, All schoolmen agree in that, Why,
nad Lewis Cass been educated at Montpelier
Academy, his great speech, which was lost in
!" the noise and confusion p" of the multitude at