Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-13

MARRixeE in THE SHAKER SocIETY-MYsTE'
R,ous DIsApPEARAscE OF THE BRIDE The
Rochester Democrat says :--'' Mr.. William h.
|Tratt called upon US yesterday to relate The par
|ncuIars of a recent affair among the Shakers To- /
Gated ia the town of Grovelaud, Livingston TO /
According to MIR. T., he had been among the
. shakers for some ten years, having come t'om
It. Louis for the purpose. Among he female
Members of the community was girl seventeen
hears of age, named Catherine Louise johnson,
Who went from this city when she was two years !
bid. She has therefore, been among them fif-1
leen years, and must have been thoroughly train.
ID as member Of the society. 1t seems, how
liver, that she gave some signs of discomfort and
Nr. Trait not long ago inlnated TO her his in
lention Of leaving Miss Johnson signifed her
Willingness TO go with him and become his wife.
i How long the courtship has been in progress
he cannot state, but on the first of the present
Month, it ripened into positive agreement, and
Ia that day the pair left for the residence of Ell
Ter Durand, a Methodist minister of Groveand,
by whom the marriage ceremony was solemnized.
They remained at the house Of Elder Durand
br three days, when Mr. Trait went to work a
Eeek for Mr.. Gray. On his return he found that
lis wife had gone TO the house of Mr.. Stevens,
Who runs the Shaker saw. mill. 1t was arranged
hat she should remain there until Trait complet
arrangements for housekeeping
He again left and worked week for Mr..
barnes, some two miles from the village of Mt.
torris On his return, to his utter surprise, his
ioung wife was gone, and he could obtain no clue
b her probable whereabouts. She had inquired
pf Mrs Stevens about the family of another
Shaker girl who resided in Dansville but care
fu inquiry convinced ~ Trait that his wife did
not go in that direction. II has been ascertaiued
that about the time of her disappearance, three
days before Mr.. Trait was aware of it. two pas
sengers, named johnson and De Groot, came
down in the Valley packet, but it is not know n
whether they we're females.
1t is said that the Oldest female in the society
is De Groot, and the wronged husband has some
suspicion that she was in company with his wife.
The Shakers, however, deny all knowledge OF
the cause Of her disappearance and OF her pres
ent location. Mr.. T., however, states, in oppo-
stion, that they were greatly excited at the deser
ton and marriage OF the parties, and followed
them up with severe remarks. The affair nat
urally creates-some excitement where it has be-
come known"
A dispatch just received from Sydney states
that, owing to some Encouragement in the LAYING
of the submarine cable between Newfoundland
and Cape Breton, when forty miles out from
Newfoundland coast, the cable was lost. The
dispatch does not inform us In what manner the
loss was occasioned and il was also silent as &c
the probability of ever recovering the cable. II
Z is understood that the Company hNe had an in.
surance on the cable to the extent of $40, 900.
CONVICTED OF MURDER. Cornelius Haskell
AMI Sarah Brown, his reputed wife, were
convicted on Saturday before the Sup<eme Ju
dicial Court in Concord, N. H., of the murder
of Stephen C. " asher, at Hopkinton, on the
3lst of last May. The testimony went to show
rum murder. The murderers had beer
drinking, and one of their employers had drank
with them. David Francis, witness, bought
the fatal two quarts of rum in Warner Village.
The SALT Caop. -Nev York, Sept 4th.-Ws
have advces from Nassau, N. P, to the 2Sth ult
AT Inagua and Rum Key heavy rains had fallen
and no hope remained Of reapng anything like q
\ remuneratve crop of salt. At the latter place
and at Crooked Island, the crop has entirely fail
ed, and the inhabitants are reduced to a state Of
restitution, but little short of actual starvation.
The pearl fishery has been carried on very
successfully on the coast of California within TIT
post five years, and the Santa Barbara Gazet'
says that very great amount Of pearls have
been found. 10 49,
Complaints from various parts Of New Hamp
shire of the potatoe rot, say that there are ap
prehensons that in some localities it will destro,
whole fields Of potatoes.
A salt lake has been discovered about Isl
miles west from St. Cloud, in Minnesota, by W
IL. lngersolI who WAS attached to the Pacif
Railroad Survey. Mr. Ingersollsays that aroan'
the edges of the lake the salt can be gathered II
baskets, and is of as good quality as ever h
found in any other part of the United States. M
Ingersoll also says that near the lake there ar
large beds oil coal of the first quality .-Sc,entif
American.
The whole number of deaths from yellow fe
yer, at Portsmouth, up 3 o'clock August 2e
had been 300, including l07 which took plac
at the Naval Hospital.
A most awful murder was committed in Mort
Sterling, about nine miles west of Oswego, wee
before last A man named Fitzgerald, togethe
with his wife, was found dead in bed, horribl
cut TO pieces. A young son of theirs was ais
Dissolved in the same room, badly mutilated bu
still alive He has since died. Another son, b
the name of John, was the murderer. TIL
weapon used was an axe.
MADISON, WIS, SEPT. 6.-The Republica
State Convention to day nominated Col Bashfor
for Governor, and also adopted the X. N. rest
lutions.
INFAMOUS OUTRAGE.-Dr. E. w. Carmchae
OF Sand Lake-a quiet and estlmable citizen
was called up about IL clock on Friday nigh
He supposed that his services were required, ar
he proceeded to the door without suspecting da
ger AS he opened it, six persons, wearr
masks and otherwise disguised rushed into tn
hall and Selling him with great violence, dragge
him into the street, threatening that unless
would pledge himself not to make complain
against persons selling liquor, they would VIII
him. This he refused to do. when they br us,
him considerably but before infiicting upon hi
any severe injury, they fed, apprehensive tn
the Doctors outcries would bring him assistanc
In the scuAe he tore of one of the masks, a
thereby recognized the wearer. The party W
from the adjoining towns of Alps and Nasss
The arrest of portion of them, at least is a
tlcipated and for the sake OF public justice
is to be hoped that all may be arrested and p,
ished.-Albany E6ening Journal.
NApoLEoN's TAcTIcs.-A letter to the NJ
Times reports Louis Napoleon to have ute
the following sentiments respecting the plan
the campaign:
II acknowledge the tactics of the Crime
campaign to be my own projection, and conf
myself satisfied mainly in the results I
people of France and England want feat
arms, and perhaps the people of America wo
applaud another Smolenski and Noskowa n
France in 1918 crossed the arid steppes a
deadly SHOWS of Russia will now make R
sia traverse her own wilderness to meet us
her frontier. There is not maa who enters
Crimea that has not undergone all we suffered
J.. the retreat from Moscow. There is not re
ment that arrives at Perekop that is not decim