Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-12-20

JuAHE ioby a P"S1hhE uV"H WAN street a lew
morsings since, she was somewhat siarilad .non
hearing some one behind her in earnest en,rla,v
that she would stop looking around she beheld
a man. apparently we'll dressed, but with u wild
look, rapidly approaching her. " it'll admirable
GOODNESS, the lady walled his approach, and upon
his resting his hand upon her shoulder, said
: Well. sir, can | do anything for you" Yes
madame, you cam repl ed the maniac. : | am
in search of a partner and a bosom friend
: Well, answered the lady, almost any one who
behaves himself in a proper manner, could, l
should think, easily find one. Do you really
think So was the rejoinder, then, madame,
laying his hand impressiyely upon his breast,
{ allow Inc to hi4Ae you a formal offer of my
heart and hand THE lady, not at all taken
aback by so astounding a declaration. quietly re-
piled that the street was hardly a proper place
for so important a declaration-that a more pri-
vate one would be better suited for so delicate a
communication. The maniac, soothed and de
lighted, with visions, perhaps, of a cosy tete-a-
tete with his fair interlocutor at some future time,
said, | thank you for your good advice-good
morning, and departed with a graceful bow,
leaving the young lady TO pursue her walk with
out further molestatiun.
KANsAs.-From a private letter from an Off
Ger of the army, who has been on duty in Kan
sas, we make the following extracts 1.-THE news
| see in the papers is grossly exaggerated. When
| was Hickory Point, not a month ago, we stop
ped at Hart's house, the residence of a discharged
so older, and there was but one more house in
sight. How can Is or IL houses have been
burned at that placel 1t is 90 miles from Leav-
enworlh to the Fort Riley road, 1t is folly for
the pro-slavery men to contend any longer the
majority is against them and will increase every
day. | was told that McCrea and Clark are both
British dsssrters, They served at the same post
baA ept%rcsiments in Canada, were known
as bT~zzS.erted, and joined the patriots. If
both Fad been XII led, it would scarcely have been
considered a loss to the country. "--Bufaio
Commercial Advertiser.
The WAR IN KANsAs-ARREsr OF GENERAL
PoMERoY-MILIrARY PREPARATIONS l--NeU
York, Dec. l0.-Mail dales from Kansas are TO
Dec +, which state that four or five hundred men,
accompanied by artillery and one thousand mus
kets, had passed through Independence, for the
purpose of assisting in the maintenance of order.
A dispatch to the St Louis Republican of SAINT
oath, says " Last night about IL o'clock the
pro. slavery party encamped on the Wakarusa by
the directions of Gov. Shannon, arrested Gen.
Pomeroy, as he was passing the camp on his way
to Lawrence, and found important dispatches
from the Fast about his person.
They will probably hold him in custody until
order is restored 10 the Territory. Threats have
been made by a number of people in the neigh
boring towns to tear down The American Hotel
at this place, under the impression that it belongs
to the Emigrant Aid Society, but the citizens
here will defend it, as they know it does not.
200 men, 8 pieces of Artillery, and 1000 stand
of arms, PASSED through Independence yester-
day from Liberty and Lexington, to Jones' party.
LATEST FROM KANsAs-Chicago, Dec. Ia
Mr.. Parsons, of Mass, who left Kansas on the
Sd inst informs the Tribune that there are 700
men at Lawrence under arms,-and upu ards of
300 Missourians at Waukesa Creek, seven miles
distant, with rifles and cannon. Mr.. Parsons
also met a company of Missourians on the 4th,
just over the border, with arms and baggage
wagon stores. On the 9th he saw another squad
of Missourians, with three pieces of artillery,
stolen from the Clay CO, arsenal. The squad
was talking violently, and swearing they would
burn Lawrence and kill all aboIitionists. Mr..
Parsons says that the stories about the Free
State men burning houses, and committing other
violences, are all false.
\ AShWENI'-h u6lIHUOT lWIUTulS
US Of a very singular and strange attachment
which has sprung up between a rooster and a
kitten on his premises. They are hardly ever
separated day or night, and may be seen kissing
each other or enjoying a quiet siesta together. as
much satisfied with each other as if really engag.
ed, and the happy day set which is to make them
twain of one hair and feather At night the kit
ten goes upon the roost with her liege lord, evil
DENLY ayInrinu a dpSiro IN conE,rrc nj, rn.1k 40
possible to his habits of life. AS there should
always be some yielding on both sides, we think
The rooster will learn to catch mice.-Ddusn
Journal.
In Washington city, the other morning, a lady
accidentally dropped a gold dollar into a basket
in which were live chickens for sale, when one of
them instantly caught up the g~littering bait and
swallowed it. The lady did the next best thing
by buying the fowl, and probably before dinner
she had her dollar again.
Mary Moriarty, an Irish girl, who killed her
%seducer, an lrlshman, at Memphis, a month or
two ago, has been tried and acquitted. The iury
were out a few minutes only. The trial excited
unusual interest. All the members of the Mem
phis bar appeared for the defendant.
STIMULATING INVENTIVE GENIus.-It will be-
rccollected that an advertisement appeared in the
SCIENTIFIC American, some weeks since. holdiep
forth a reward of ten thousand dollars for the best
continuance by which two sides Of a stone pvra-
mid could be sawed at the same time. The in.
ventive energies of the country were set to work.
and IN less than a month, according to the w ash.
ington correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial.
more than a hundred saving machines we're sub
ml'ted to the Commissioner of Patents.
The Milwaukee, Wis, Sentinel of SATURDAY.
week says that on the previous day one of the
CITY Aldermen was taken to the watch-house, in
broad daylight, drunk, on a dray.
The clerks in the telegraph Office at Berlin,
Prussia. are locked up during the time of bust
ness and for two or three hours afterw ards, so
they may not be able to betray the secrets of
customers. This precaution has been found in
dispensable.
A correspondent of the Petersburgh, Va, En-
press says that the contributions for the yellow
fever sufferers in Norfolk and Portsmouth have
amounted to $4,000, of which Portsmouth re-
ceived $50, 900.
An ~lrishman, at work on the line of the Mo
bile and Ohio railroad, in Haywood county, was
'aAe" sGh t"e "'her uay ana applled 70 pnysi-
clan OF that county for medicine. The physi
clan gave him a phial of some kind of solution.
with directions to take a tea spoonful three times
a day-assuting him that it would cure him in a
day or Two. A short time afterwards the physi-
clan saw him and asked him if he had taken the
medicine Faith | have" said he d" thought
il a tea spoonful would do me good, the whole
of it wOald cure me at once" 1t was too true.
and il was toe late TO rescue the ignorant suicide.
He died in an hour.
1t an idiot asylum in the North of England.
seven out of ten of The patients are the children
of parents related TO each other by the laws of
consanguinity.
PRAYING TO NoAu.-The Archbishop of for
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