Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-03-16

Tine RAILROAD SUSPENSION Badge, nj
Niagara is nearly completed. On Friday a
locomotive with passenger car, filed with
guests, crossed and recrosscd it, The struc-
lure wos found to bevery steady, sinking less
than three inches at the middle as the train
passed over 1t is estimated that it is capable
Of sustaining a weight of IL 900 tons.
- ANTHONY Burns has given public re-
ceptions in NewYork and Boston, at which
he told to large audiences the story of his rem
dition to Virginia, his imprisonment, sale and
redemption in simple and touching manner,
and expressed his gratitude to the friends who
purchased his freedom. The proceeds of these
receptions, at 25 cents an admission, go to
refund the sum paid for him.
INDIANA. The Legislature of Indiana,
has adjourned without cecting either US
Senator or the State officers, whose election
is left with the Legislature. The Nebraska
ties were afraid to 60 into joint ballot, be-
cause they knew if they did they would be
beaten. 1t is, however, but DELAY of
twelve-month.
ILLINOIS will need redceming several
times over to make her deccntly Just. Her
Legislature has refused to repeal the black
law, making negroes, mulattoes and Indians,
incompetent to give testimony in courts of
justice. This law not only protects the per-
pctrators of any outrage, murder not except
ed, upon the prescribed classes, when not
witnessed by Anglo-Saxons, but it gives to
Indians and negroes, the power to commit
crime with impunity upon white or black, if
they are only careful to avoid the observation
of the whites
--IN AN ARRAY with the Indians near Kla.
math bay, Oregon, caused by an attempt to
take their guns from the natives five whites
were killed among them, Charles X. Proc
tor, Of Proctorsvillc, Vt.
jams Brown. Esq, Of the well known
Boston Publishing House of Little, Brown &
Co, expired Saturday evening at his place of
residence, at the age of So
a MAN named George Stacey, has been
arrested at Winchendon. Mass, on suspicion
of having something to do with the horrible
murder of two aged maiden ladies at South |
Gardner, Mass, reported by telegraph on
Friday last. lie was on the point of taking
the cars for this place, when arrested
-TuE Albany correspondent of tho Ne,o
Yo,k Erening Post remarks that there never
was SO much animosity exhibited among poll
ticians, and there never were such outbreaks
Of personal violence as have occurred the
present season at the New York Capital. lie
says;
These sometimes take ludicrous form
For instance, one gentleman in Congress Hall
Walks up to another and says: Are YOU
he Executive Chambors,' Yes. is the hongh.
y response. is the Governor within u, is
he second strange query, Sir, do not know
What you mean, is the puzzled reply of the
,lficial. Il mean that want to see the Gov
rnor, and | suppose this brazen protuber-
nee is the bell-pull. will ring for him
50 forthwith he commences hauling at what
lie calls the bcll-pull, ringing, and making it
20 ting-a ling but no Governor comes. The
,uls extends on all sides"
--TuE London Morning Advertiser says:
Jenny Lind has entered into an engagement
o revisit England, in her professional capa-
ity. From religious scruples. she has de-
crmincd that all her future exhibitions be-
ore the public, shall partake more or less,
1cctcd here some time in the month of April.
)ur readersare aware that Jenny Lind is now
he mother of two children ~