Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-07-20

3Oth There will also be Commencement
Soiree, at the Exchange Hotel, Commence
ment evening. DoDwoRTH's Conllon and
CUrnet Band will be uttuudance, and tho
occasion cannot fail to be an agreeable one
to all
QjSTnE CRors.-Thc accounts from all
quarters, render anticipations of four at So
II Dbl no longer visionary. In Ohio and
Kentucky, II splendid harvest is gathering
in and farmers fear only lack Ct barns to
house their grain. In Virginia, Delaware,
&c, as we learn from public and private
sources, the crops were never better. \
letter just received from Rochester rp"Ik. -;
the wheat crop in Western New York us
generally excellent, while barley, oats, &c,
are " too good. The corn is lite but there
is yet abundance of time for good crop
The damage done by the IIes.ian fly to the
wheat crop it is now generally admitted, has
been overstatcl.
In Indiana the nillers and farmers are clo-
sing contracts for new wheat at one dollar
per bushel. In Canada the largest grain
crop ever grown is expected. In this vicin-
ity every thing is doing well but corn which
is very backward, and will give but Il small
crop unless the season should be ii long one
Fl The MowING MACHINES The trial of
moving Machines on DR. lIendees farm
Tuesday, attracted some thrco hundred sppcta-
tors, mainly farmers, who watched the opera
tions with great interest and satisfaction
| The day was excessively hot Four machines
were on the ground-NEwcoMB' KETcnuM's,
DANroRD's, manufactured by Murray y Pat
rick Of incsburgh, in this county, and
MANNY's with Woods improvement. Each
had fair trial in both light and heavy grass,
and each did good work. The two first named
were both compact and simple machines and
very similar, apparently, in construction
We did not discover the difference between
them. The principle Of Danfords invention
struck us as an excellent one, and the ma
chine as capable of being made TO do superior
work. The Nanny machine, with Woods I'M
provemcnt, seemed however to be the favor
lite, owing perhaps in part to the capital
manner in which it was driven and managed
slower motion of the team, to be more easily
adjustable to the nature of the ground, and
to combine other advantages. Each machine
had, OF course, its friends and Its peculiar
merits All seemed satisfied of one thing -
that the laborious task of cutting grass by
hand is destined in good measure to be done
away by the easier and cheaper mode Of call
ing in the aid Of machinery
y-lhe Middlebury Register says. The
remaining delegates 1.-THE Vt Delegates to the
National Convention at Philadelphia after
the adoption of the platform, all signed pro-
test to go on the private records OF the coun-
ell, obiccting to the introduction of Pro-
slacery pr'ncp'cs into the platform, prn-
ciples not embraced within the original OBJ
jects of the order
The italics are those of the Register. Com
pare that statement with the following
language of the protest referred to-
&" The undersigned citizens of the United
States and residents of the State set opposite
their names, solemnly protest against the
introduction of any question connected with
Slavery into the platform or principles of the
American party, being convinced that no
such issues were intended to he embraced
within its purpose and objects.
We no longer wonder that the Register
has kept that protest out of its columns.
O. The Ohio Republican Convention
nominated for Governor SALMON p. CHASE,
the fearless opponent of the Nebraska bill in
ba to nd f,r | inut l.
ii. FORD, the Capt. FORD who so snubbed the
Shareholders and Dough-Faces in the Phila-
delphia Convention. And their associates on
the Ticket are like them,
QT@The Middlebury Register publishes a
letter from Senator Wilson of Massachusetts,,
which states that whatever differences Of
opinion or of action there might have been
during the sittings of the National Council
ut Philadel phia, among the northern men,
these differences We're forgotten when the
main issue was presented; that the Vermont
delegation then acted in harmony with the
other New England delegations, and met the
issue " boldly and uanfully''-iacts which
have not been questioned by anybody, We
]
gates in signing after they had thus met
the main issue-Gov. Johnsons milk and
water protest, Mr.. Wilson expresses no
opinion
VThe Incorporate Standard says that
the late State Convention " pujhshcda hing
record as regards The officers who scrred them a"
That is not The report of the Convention
is strictly true and correct in every line Mr.
j. II. Barrett was appointed member of
the Committee on Resolutions a. the record
says, and if he had subsequently declined
the appointment, the record would still be
true as far as it goes. But he did not decline,
and has not said that he did. lie has merely
stated that no took no part in the doings
Of the Committee. The secretaries could not
have been supposed to know that fact, and it
would not have been their duty to have men
toned it, ifthey had The Standard seldom
let's slip an opportunity for saying you lie
and when no occasion exists, is ready, it
seems, to manufacture one rather than for go
its propensity to use hard words,
An Amir of Honor.
The Rutland Hra| C.. II llayd,n El)
and the Temperance Standard O.. G. Samp-
son, Ed are engaged in duel less danger
Gus to the parties than amusing to the by
ISLANDERS. One of the combatants is armed
with a sharp pegging awl,-the other with
a heavy, clumsy, scraggy and trife dirty,
brush broom