Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-04
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WASHINGTON County GRAMMAR ScnOoL.-Our
Academy has at length found teachers fully
equal to all the responsibilities of their impor
tant station. Mr.. Goodrich, the Principal, who
commenced with the Winter Term, was accoun-
ted the first in scholarship of the talented class
who graduated at the University of Vermont in
1853, and besides his superior scholarship, he
enjoys the reputation of possessing every quality
which goes to make up the successful teacher
Miss Hunt, who takes charge of the Female
Department, is every way competent and ac-
eeptable instrucress; and the Institution cannot
fail of soon taking u high stand under the su-
pervision of two such teachers.
A New LANDLORD TO THE UNION IIousE-Our
will known village hotel, the Union House, has
found new Landlord in the person of Mr. A.
H. Davis, who has become its proprietor. This
hotel has now become, we believe, the depot Of
all the different lines of stages running to and
from Montpelier and this, and the other ad-
vantagos of the location will enable the new
proprietor, we trust, to make his enterprise alike
advantageous to himself and the public, in ma
king himself acceptable to whom, by keeping
an orderly and good house, he starts with the
determination be outdone by none of his
predecessors.
How TO GET ASLEEP Nothing is more COM
mon, among sedontary persons especially, than
what is termed watchfulness, or inability to get
to sleep when sleep is most courted To break
up this painful and health destroying habit, or
condition, and ensure slumber when desired, o
thousand remedies have been tried by the suffer
ers, and successfully abandoned as Intellectual.
Such, at least, was our experience, and we had
given up in despair; when we were advised by
our ingenious family physician, Professor Grin
Smith, to try counting backwards We did so,
and found it perfect remedy Let the wake
full person begin with one hundred, counting
backward, as 100, 80, %, 81, &c, and we will
ventu# the assertion that not one in ten making
tho experiment, will ever get back to the teens,
before falling fast asleep. But should one hun
dred fail, let him try two, three, four, or five
hundred, and we will answer for tho success of
the experiment in the most hopeless cases for
we do not believe there is person in Vermont
who, unless exercised by some acute pain, can
lay abed, in the stiffness of the night, and count
500 backwards, without losing himself in sound
slumbers.
The philosophy of this is plain enough to US ::
This process, which cannot be carried on by rote,
as counting the usual way, requires just enough
of the constant eyertion Of the mind to break
up the harrassing chain of thought and attend
ant irritation of feeling, which causes the wake
fulness, but not enough to indispose US to the
sleep we are coveting Try it, fellow sufferers ;
for it may be with you, as it has proved to us,
as simple as it may appear, a very mportant
discovery
FREMONT AND TIE UTAH CHIEF.-There are
two connected incidents in the chain of won
drous events exhibited in the different explora-
tions of that greatest of modern adventures,
John G. Fremont. which form story and sequel
sJualling, in the romance of their development,
the most studied fiction, and affordng at the
same time, subject of equal Interest to the be-
lever in special Providence, and the student Of
our aboriginal history
While oncampins in one of the beautiful val
leys of the Rocky Mountains, during one of his
first explorations of the Wild West, Col. Ere
mont ascertained that he was in tho vicinity of
the chief village of the Utah Indians, from
whose known hostility to the whites, he and his
little band had every reason to apprehend serious
trouble. But being anxious to conciliate the
tribe, andlacting on his knowledge of the Indian
character, he conceived the heroic design of Wis
iting their camp for that purpose, wholly alone
and unarmed. Accordingly, he stole away from
his company, and after walk of an hour or
two, found himself at the entrance of their vii
lage, when, with dignifed and fearless air, he
slowly advanced into the immediate presence of
band of these terrible warriors and their white
haired chief sitting in their midst, all of whom
started in surprise and wonder at behOlding
white man coming, alone and unarmed, thus
boldly among them and many the bow and
tomahawk that was stealthily grasped, in antic-
patton of an order from their chief for the
death Of the bold intruder. But that chief,
struck, probably. by the heroism, and perhaps
the implied confidence of the visit, under such
circumstances, after short pause, graciously
exclaimed, " Let the white brave sit in peace 4"