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THRILLING ADVENTURE IN INDIA.
BY GEORGE w. STODDARD.

THRILLING ADVENTURE IN INDIA.
BY GEORGE W. sToDDARD.
There are few portions of the tropical world
that present the combined beauties of the sunny
skies and rich landscapes to such great advan-
tage as many parts Of India, especially the re-
gian south of Bombay, on the Malabar coast
But here the progress of arts and civilization
does not correspond with the advantages and
beauties afforded by nature. The blue and lofty
ranges of mountains look down upon a race de-
graded and ignorant to the last degrce-the
sparkling streams reflect alike the clustering
fruit and foliage, and the most poisonous and
deadly plants known to mantle dense and
beautiful forests abound with ferocious beasts
and serpents, of the most fearful species and
formida Bile size.
During residence Of some months at a sta
ton on the Malabar coast frequently went into
the forest, for the purpose of amusing myself,
by the great variety of game, but seldom veu-
tured so far as to prevent my Returning before
night. On these occasions a,9sys carried a
heavy rife, which long practise = 4 rendered a
very effective weapon in my hands equipped
with brace of pistols and a long hunting knife
in my girdle, and this rife on my arm, ready
for instant use I had but little fear in my wan
derings, of beasts or serpents, and frequently
climbed the loftiest heights, and penetrated the
thickest jungles of that wild country.
Attended by native, one day proposed as
cending mountain, whose blue summit could
scarcely be distinguished from the town, rising
afar in the wilderness above the lesser heights o.
the great Gaut range. We started at daybrcak
add plunged directly into the forest, in direc
ton towards the object of our expedition. NJ
companion wore nothing but pair of unshape
ly shoes, made of uutanned leather, and gar
ment made of leopard skin which descended t,
the knees, was fastened at the waist by belt.i,
which was placed heavy knife with curve,
blade, which observed was very sharp on,
t bright; he carried no other weapon, except
o short fowling- piece, loaded with ball. He wa
an athletic aud bold-looking fellow, acquainte
: with all the methods of hunting and combatiu
ing all Of the fierce providers of the wilds, an
d possessed an uncommon degree of sagacity, COO
d ness and physical strength. These were tn
II qualities desired, for | had been informed tha
h the mountain we were in quest Of was consdere
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-16

GREAT Discovery Mercury taken from the
Human System by Eectr,city.-Having hearl q
rumor on the street that mercury had baen ex-
tracted from the body of sick man in the form
of quicksilver, and being anxious to witness
such an experiment, we accompanied Drs. YOU
mans and Seltzer, the operators, yesterday, for
the purpose of Judging for ourself Of the truth
of the statement.
We found Mr.. Jacob Hymrod, the patient,
living in the south part of the city, who has
been afflicted with the chronic rheumatism for
the last ten years, lying upon the bed in an en-
feebled state, who told us that he had hereto
fore tried every kind of medical treatment with
out success. He had swallowed during his sick-
ness vast quantities of mercury in the shape of
calomel and blue pills, from the effect of which
he had nearly lost the use of his limbs. He
showed us gobule of quicksilver larger than
good sized pea, which he said had been gathered
from the bottom of the electric bath in which
he had been placed.
He had been seated upon metallic stool in an
!
his feet immersed in acidulated water. The
galvanic battery was then applied, the positive
pole held in the hands Of the patient, the mega
tive pole being in the bath. 1t is claimed that
the power of the electricity upon the system is
such as to eradicate every metallic substance, and
by means of the wire it is deposited in the bot
tom of the tub. 1t requires some twenty-four
hours for the globules to collect themselves so as
to be perceptible to the naked eye, when they
may be seen by thousands clinging to the sides
and bottom of the bath. We were informed by
the doctors that three drachms of quioksilver
had already been taken from the patient, who,
together with his friends and relatives present,
confirmed the statement
Although this pumping Of quicksilver out OF
the body of man by the means of a galvanie
battery may seem strange, and smell little oi
humbug, we trust our scientific and medical men
will not pass the experiment without thorough
investigation. Columbus Journal.
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A French officer near Sebastopol was kuoek-
ed down by the wind of cannon ball, the shock
being 80 severe as to cause paralysis OF MS
ongue, SO that he could not speak. he returned
to Marseles and placed himself under electric
treatment; after few shocks he could move his
tongue, and at length, after an unusually pow
erfal shock, his speech was restored and he full
ly recovered. 1t is stated that at the battle OF
.aLe Erie one of the lieutenauts was instantly
killed by the wind of cannon ball that passed
close to his head withou, hitting him.
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VOLUME XII. NO. "a.

as if a boat was leisurely approaching. scrib-
ner, in his attempt to cut the rope attached
to the anchor and boat, lost his knife, and pulled
up the anchor Hall grasped the oars and pull
led vigorously for the west shore, Mcknight
steering the boat Scribner took q seat With
Hall and assisted in rowing. All this was the
work of an instant, and their unwelcome and
mysterious guest disappeared while it was 90.
ing forward, to the great joy Of the party.
But they were not clear Of their visitor The
boat had not been propelled more than thirty
rods when the strange customer was again visi-
BILE on the surface for the third time, to the
northeast Of them, and between the boat and
the outlet. This time the visitor was within
rod of the boat, and the party were making
rapid progress towards the inlet AL in the
boat saw the.creature. 1t again disappeared.
For the fourth time, when the party were
within thirty or forty rods Of the now nearest
proposed landing point, the south side Of the
inlet, the serpent, for now there was no nistak-
ing its character, darted from the water about
four feet from the stern of the boat, close by
the rudder paddle, the head and forward part
of the monster rising above the surface of the
water eight or twelve feet, in an oblique direo-
tion from the boat. All in the boat had q fair
view of the monster, and concur in representing
it most horrid and repulsive-looking monster.
A.! agree as to the length exposed to view. On
the opposite side of the boat, about a rod and o
half to the northeast, the other extremity of the
serpent was an full view, lashing the water with
its tail When the forward part descended upon
the water it created waves that nearly capszed
the boat, and suspended regular operations at
the oars.
The party reached the shore in safety, but
frightened most out of their senses. They left
the boat on the side of the lake farthest from
home, and footed it some two miles rather than
venture down the outlet, not more than half
mile in length. 1t is almost needless to say that
they slept but little that night.
We will add. for the benefit of the incredulous
that these m'n are persons of character. They
would be believed in this community in any Or
dinary matter as between man and man. We
admit that it is very large story, but it is
n very large serpent. lie would bea msnster at
half the size.
Here is the affidavit of two of the party:
Joseph R. Mcknight and Charles Hall, both
being duly sworn, say that they have heard read
the article published in the Wyoming Times in
| ralo finn Tn the aernent in Silver lake and that
the statements there are true Of their Own
knowledge. J. r. McKNIcHr,
CHARLEs HALL.
Subscribed and sworn this 10th day of July,
1855, before me,
ENos W. FRosr, Justice Of the Peace
One dollar a foot has been offered for the skis
Of the serpent if over sixty feet long.
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For the Green Mountain Freeman
TEACH REFORM WITH THE RIGHT
SPIRIT.

For the Green Mountain freeman.
TEACH REFORM WITH THE RIGHT
SPIRIT.
TO extricatc ourselves from one fault is often
to expose ourselves to another. Few are sufi-
ciently true to our best interests as to tell us
our faults and fewer still, that do SO in the
right spirit, so that the spirit can whisper to
his loving heart, "w we'll DONE" When have
reproved an erring friend, have often found it
small thing to reprove, to what it was to re-
prove Alright, and in the right spirit to the glory
of God. which is successful, generally, and al
ways in love, accompanied with an afectionatc
desire to save the person from the error.
Convince person who offends you that you
are his friend, and that you love him, and you
have gained him otherwise, in most cases, you
lose him. We forget two things LIST, we for
get we are servants of Him who laid down his
life for his enemies. I'd, that Lore is the hot
test fire, the sharpest arrow, the most pointed
dagger, the truest rifle. For Charity (or Love)
never faileth, whilst everything else may fail
yea, does fail. Happy if writer's on reform
would often dip their pen in love-grieve and
weep over an erring fellows clay.
But who is sufficient for these things, when
man will enslave man sell his brother--his
child (the greatest sin that curses the earth,)
repeal sacred contracts drive freemen from the
polls, compel MS to do that which conflicts with
our principles and forbids US doing that which
both God and our conscience commands us to do !
1t really seems almost " impious to be calm. :"
Then we recollect Christ said" Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they do" Well
if our Savior could pray for them, we will
Lord help us. So, we will dip our pen often in
Loue, for We greatly desire to conquer. And
since " Charity never faileth," Lord help us to
think, pray and write with Charity.
cannot imagine how any one who gets into
a passion, flies into rage, and curses ard swearl
at the STAKEHOLDER is as great an enemy to, Oh
will do more harm than shall for have talked
with shareholders themselves, and in every in
stance made them acknowledge the sinfulness O.
slavery, and the Importance of its abolition
Cruel and unmercful talk looks bad after oul
death MS
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For the Green Mountain Freeman.
STANZAS.


Look up, my love far up above
Is one can give relief
Dry up thy tears-dispel thy fears,
Give not away to grief
Though you have been buried In sin,
II you act well your part,
And do Ills will, He'll save you still,
And purify thy heart
know cloud has been thy shroud
From infancy till now;
No fathers care-no mothers prayer,
Or kin, to fan thy brow.
cherries world, temptations hurled
At thy unguarded feet AfykP
Them soon ensnared.-thy soul despaired,
And sought in vain retreat
Oh do uot cry, nor deeply sigh;
True, its bitter thing,
But God iinparts to contrte hearts
A balm for every sting.
Despair nskpow-my plighted VOW
Shall stfiaround thee cling
Then raise thine eye beyond the sky,
To Heaven and our King.
I'nlove thee yet-thy faults forget,
And take thee for my bride;
For life to Inc is an open sea,
Without you by my side.
III seek spot a humble cot,
Far in the western lands,
Where hard I'll toll, tlling the soil,
With these my willing hands
There love shall reign DER our domain,
No strife shall enter there,
For we'll unite our hearts with might,
In constant, fervent prayer. JAcoUls
depark, Vt, July Oath, 1855.
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D. P. THOMPSON, EDITOR & PROPRIETOR.

things as you are now, or shall hereafter become
convinced is by the Laws of Christ made 20
Duty. An Afectionate Wife with Inpiolable
Loyalty till Death shall separate you.
This Solemn Covenant you make, and in
this Sacred Oath bind your Soul in the presence
of the Great God and before these Witnesses.
81 then Declare you Husband and Wife,reg-
ularly Married according the Laws of God and
the King Therefore, what God hath thus join
ed together let no man put assunder."
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A RUSSIAN BURIAL GRouND.--A letter f'sn
Kertch, in Lyons journal says;
"An English officer having paid visit to the
cemtery of Russian church, was greatly snr-
prised to see number of newly made graz.
As no one had been killed, and as no epidc n
malady had prevailed in the town, he conceived
suspicious, and had the graves opened. He
found in them not fewer than fifty magnificent
brass guns, quite new, and number Of wcjee-
tiles aud gunpowder.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-08-16
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
TO MY SISTER.

For the Green Mountain Freeman.
TO MY SISTER.
Return to thy home, my sister.
Return to thy father's cot,
Though cloudless be thy pathway,
And cheerful be thy lot,
Return, my sister, never more to roam,
20 far from the scenes Of childhood and home.
Come back to the fresde, sister,
HE to the olden nest,
Ply on the wings Of the morning,
To those that love thee best
Forget not, sister, the faithful and true,
The tears they shed when far away from you.
Thou art missed in the circle, sister,
place in our home is drear,
place in our hearts is sadness,
Which thy presence alone can cheer.
Then to thy home, sister, as in childhood years,
Forgetting thy sorrows, and forgetting thy fears.
have twncd the woodbine, sister,
As we twned II long ago,
In the merry days Of childhood,
Around our window low.
Then farewell sister, once more we meet
With those around the hearthstone we greet
ROSE MRRros.
Orange County, Vt.
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A traveller, journeying wisely, may learn
much Yet much may also be learned by him
who stays at home.
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Che family Circle.

Educate thy children, lest one of these fine
days they educate thee in a school with no va
cations,
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Grace is to the body what good sense is to the
mind.-Rochefeucauh.
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y Doetrp. Q

j. W. wHEELOCK, PRINTER.
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MONTPELIER, VERMONT, THURSDAY,

by the natives as dangerous place, even for
the most skillful and daring hunter, being full
OF rocky caves inaccessible to any thing but the
beasts to whom they afforded shelter and the
country in its vicinity being covered with dense
forests and dark tangled jungles, into which the
foot of man had never ventured.
Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-08-22

the mess of pottage for which the traitor sold
his birth-right 1t is to the honor of bis coun-
trymcn that. while they stranded every nerve
to bring him TO condign punishment they
wreakcd not their anger. even in the first flush
Of their rage, upon his family They offered
to spare Andre if Arnold was given up to them
they sent spies into New York. and organized
expeditions fer HIS capture; they instructed
their generals to put him to death by drum
head court martial should he ever fall in their
power, and their hatred to him lives beyond
the grave Yet his deserted wife met with
naught but plying kindness at their hands;
and when few years after the war, she came
to Philadelpbia. she encoastere2 nothing worse
than cold politeness, ss Mrs Arnold, wife 10
die Fiir traitor, wrote one IN that city to his
friends in England, - has been here on . visit
to her family six weeks, and passes the winter
She has met no insult or inciFiiity; and many
warm Wings out of respect for her family,
visited her, though everybody is of opinion she
would have shown more feeling by staying
away, for it places her family in an awkward
position. She is handsome and woman.
But when we reflect the ornaments of her per-
son are the price of has cursed villany it is
not pleasant to the feelings, a monster who is
as much reprcbated your side of the water as
tl,is.4s sast a ~ gsa
Brought. by Washington's orders before
court of inquiry, consisting of fourteen gen.
eral officers, he was formally adjudged by
them to be spy, and was decreed worthy of
spy's death. This finding was, in every
particular approved BY the Commander-in-
chief and on I'd of October, 1880, the un-
fortunate prisoner underwent the punishment
which by the laws of civilized war has ever
been to such character. Never" says
Alexander Hamilton, /" did . man suffer dealt
with more justice. or deserve it less" His
last impulse was one of honest grief at the
manner Of his execution. He had hoped to
die as a soldier not as felon. by the bullet
rather than the rope. But the serene cour-
age which had attended him throughout did
not desert him here. In his own beautiful
language his soul was buoyed above the terror
of death by the consciousness of life deyo-
ted to honorable pursuits, and stained with
no action that gave him remorse. II am
reeoncilled to my fate" said he, but not to
the mode Then sprfnging lightly upon the
cart, g l call you all to witness" he, cried,
:. that ] die ike brave man p In another
moment he was struggling in the grasp of
DEATH
If, as Hamilton says. !" even by his enemies.
was Andre universally esteemed and univer-
sally regretted = it is natural enough that his
own ccuntrymep should feel and speak with
much more poignaney. What consolation
royal rnuuifceuce and public sensibility could
afford was freely rendered TO his bereayed
kindred. A baronetcy enobled his nearest
kiDsman and beside those of genius. virtue
and grandeur. his cold remains were brought
to rest ins Westminster Abbey g 1t was not
fit indeed" says the historian, ssthat they
should rest in American ground" And all
this was very proper.
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BY OLD GRA,

I was always fond of dogs Goldsmith in
his beautiful style, makes touching and elo-
quent plea for the dog, where in alluding TO
sort of mania for dog killing, which prevailed
at the time of which he speaks, in consequence
of an unreasonable apprehension of the spfead
of hydrophobia. he says among other fine
things that the dog is the only animal which
viii leave his own kind voluntarily to follow
man. ., ti ....s
1t is true, and the truth should bind man to
be the dogs protector and friend
The American brig Cecilia. Captain Sym
mes, on one of her voyages, had ON board a
splendid specimen of the Newfoundland breed.
named Napoleon, and his magnificent size and
proportions, hrs Intelligent head, broad white
chest, white feet and white tipped tail. the
rest of his glossy body being black. made him
as beautiful as his peerless namesake, who no
doubt, would have been proud to possess him.
He was owned by Seaman named Lancas-
ter. who was naturally enough extremely fond
of him.
Captain Symmes. however, was not partial
to animals of any kind, and had an unaccount-
able and special repugnahce 10 dogs, SO much
SO indeed, as if all his ancestors had died of
hydrophobia, and be dreaded to be bitten like
his unfortunate predecessors.
This dislike he one day developed in most
shocking manner, for as Napoleon had several
times entered his room and by swagging his
great banner of a tail, knocked paper and ink
off his desk, on the next occasion the captain
seized knife, and cut half the poor animals
tail off,
The dogs yell brought his master to the
spot, and seeing the calamity and the author
of it, without moments hesitation he felled
Captain Synimes to the cabin floor with a
sledge hammer blow, which bad it hit the
temple. would forever prevented the captain
from cutting of any more dog tails
The result was that Lancaster was put In
irons, from which, however. he was soon re-
leased. Captain Symmes partly repented his
cruel deed, on learning that Napoleon bad
once saved the owners life.
The white shark. as. all my nautical friends
arc well aware, is one of the very largest of
sharks 1t averages over twenty, and have
seen one twenty seven and half feet in length
1t is generally considered to be the fsToest
and most formidable Of all sharks.
But few days elapsed after the catnstro-
phe Of poor Napoleon ere he became tA hero
Of most~ thrilling occurrence. the very
thought OF which has often thrilled M wifh
horror. During the interval the noble beast
was not at AL backward in exhjhiting bis
wrath ss the captain By low grovb ~sen be
aplros<hed. -
IN vain aid his master. fearful sas he ltS
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ron SALE AWD RENT.
n yhe subscriber wishing to remove to the West,
ii is anxious TO rent the house ID which be
now resides He also wishes to sell house and
one half lot terms viii Be made advantageous to
ths prrchsssr. WM. LLOYD,
Etens6urs. August !, Is55.-3t.
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HVHE undersigned. having been appointed by
j the Orphan'a Court of Cambria County. to
examine decide. and report upon the exceptions
fled to the administration account Of Stepher A.
Meyers, execdtor Of Michael Meyers deceased,
hereby gives notice that he Will SIT in discharge
of said daty at his Office In the Borough of Ebens-
burg, on friday the S1st day Of August next. at
one o'clock p. NJ. Eaz E ss
=. - - A-sC MULLEN. Auditor.
July 25, 1S55,-4t.
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There is an important principle stated in .
remark which We find, occurring in sketch
of the history of Whitney's Cotton Gin
The writer, referring to the labor and toll
which the invention cost, says:
= There is theory much in favor with in
venters and the public. and often enforce
with many plausible instances. that brillian'
discoveries are made by accident; and. IN
deed it is easy to collect examples where
chance has given birth to every wonder real
tiles. Bur If ne could institute more careful
inquiries, we should learn that the fortunate
accident only set In motion train 20 receive
it. Such accidents never happen TO fools.
A majority of cases show US The new discov-
ery elaborated by repeated trials. and each
Improvement won at the cost Of unrcmittipg
experiment and thought" 80