Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-05-18

'e"'io', III spite OF the fellows expulsion
from the Massachusetts, Legislature. Tho
Atlas remarked, just before that event
" The whole affair is rapidly involving itssif
in such maze of scan1alous dirtiness, that
we see no escape from it, except in an instant
adjournment In the name Of all that is
fragrant, do not let thi. inquest be prolonged
into the summer months II it " smells So
in May, how will it smell in August"
-OGDENsBuRGH is to be lighted with
gas. The works are commenced and are TO
be completed in the fall.
--ST. ANTHoNvs NosE, n wooded pro-
montory on the bank of the Hudson River,
has been on fire. The Traveller sug.
gests that probably it was not the regular St.
Anthony's Fire, or erysipelas, but tempo
rary uose-burning, occasioned by the now and
pungent rrohibitory liquor law
"A FRrcurfuL Know Nothing riot took
place in Louisville, Ky, n week ago. If thu
account given by the Louisville Democrat ia
correct. over one hundred persons were
injured by pistol shots, and blows from ,lung-
shots and clubs, including feeble and gray
haired old men, peaceable citizens and women
and children, mostly Germans apparently.
- The EXODUS Of cmigrants to Europe
continues. The packet ship New World
sailed on Thursday, for Liverpool. with two
hundred and fifty second cabin and Storage
passengers. The steamer Africa, which left
Boston on Wednesday, took out one hundred
and siSty-four passengers.
- The New York papers have made
some natural comments upon the English
adulation towards the French Emperor, in
contrast with the abuse which was showered
upon him few years ago. The Albion re-
plies in the following pertinent paragraph
WAS ever man more villifed than Mr.
Fernando Wood previously to his election
Was ever municipal officer more honored
than Mayor Wood has been Of late The
man is the same. Circumstances have COM
PEELED and justified the change of language,
Englishmon have not been hailing Louis
Napoleon on their own soil as the guardian
of French liberties, but as an efficient and
most desirable ally
--TrE MAINE LAW did not prevail at TIE
dinner given by the cityof London to tho
French emperor andEempress. The TIM"
says
The deieuner and wines for the Emperor
and suite, as well as the general refreshments,
were furnished by Messrs Staples Of the
/ Albion The wines supplied to tho Imperial
/ table included the choicest hook champagne,
malvoisie, amontillado. and sherry 100 years
old, of matches. quality. The latter wine
was of peculiar interest, being part Of cask
supplied at the enormous price Of 5000 per
butt to his late Majesty Napoleon "
There are men, who would have their
friends Join In all their personal likes and
dSikes. They would pay clergyman for
preaching their bigotcd notions, and they
value him according as he gratifes their
whims. They would have a newspaper add
fuel to the fame of their prejudices. They
call every one not favorable to their whims,
an enemy and rascal. They value their an
tipathies more than their reasons, and would
dcnounce an opponent to their transtory, ex-
cited feelings with more vehemence, than him
who opposes justice and right. Rutland
Herald.
TO FARuERs-CdrroH. Try an half
acre or so, and if you regret it, let us know
Your horse. and cattle will not regret it il
you do.-Roon' Roots More roots for the
COWS, calves, sheep &c, should be raised this
year than last, if you would have more and
better milk in the winter, and finer calves in
the spring Now is the time to put the seed
in the Garth. Please don't forget 1t for your
sake and for the comfort and luxury OF your
cattle.-Corn Fodder. In few days this
business must be attended to, if at all. Tho
farmer who neglects it. neglects his own inter-
est, and is not to be pitied half as much as
his cattle and horses. The southern yellow
corn, white corn, and the large sweet corn
are all good for seed sown broad cast or in
drills. Wellke the drill process best. But
gentlemen farmers, suit yourselves and we
shall he suited, provided you put the seed
into the earth about the same time you plant
the corn field Waterman.
"A Stick Of white oak timber mea su r
ing tifty-one feet eleven inches in length, and
squaring forty-one by forty inches, making
nearly six hundred cubic feet. has been
" manufactured" at Walaceburgh c. W
This is said to be the largest stick of timber
ever cut on the North American continent
- \ Merchant, not so celebrated far the
elegance of his dction as for the length of hi.
purse, wrote to his correspondent in distant
city for a lot Of flour, adding by way OF
showing his Impotence, that he wanted il
" the worst kind He was not less .urpr,-
ed than chagrined on reception of the article
to find it full of wcevil, sour and mu.ty.
a Miraculous CuRE.-A new paten,
medicine is warranted to repair all cases Of
dull uuricuar drums. A man who had
been 50 deaf tba, twenty-five percussion caps
were snapped upon his head, without hear
ing it, 10y the application Of one small bottle
of the OIL, has been enabled in a day or two
to hear from a brother who had been three
years in Australia.
-DANcING WATERs.-The Genera Go
,ene Of the 2lst says that for several previous
days the citizens Of Geneva had been much
interested in watching the curious and mex
plicable capers of the waters of Seneca Lake.
The Lake would continually rise and fall,
from five inches to two feet, in spaces Of time
varying from ten minutes to half an hour.
One exact measurement showed that it fell
seventeen inche. in fifteen minutes, and then