Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-01-04

The pipe of peace was then passed and smoked
by the chief and Fremont, who soon succeeded
in explaining satisfactorily the object of his e1-
petition and by the exchange Of some triaing
tokens, in establishing relations Of personal
friendship between them, when he returned to
his company, with whom he was permitted to
proceed, at his convenience, on his journey to
the Pacific.
Yeas passed by; and tho circumstance was
nearly forgotten by Fremont, or if recalled at
all, it was from the contrast which that cxemp-
ton from the hostility OF tho Utahs presented
to their later assaults on other whitcstravelers,
till that disastrous expedition in 1850 when he
and all his companions came SO near perishing
in the cold and SHOWS on the mountains of New
Mexico After his thirty mules had frozen dead
and solid in their tracks and he found his whole
party on the point Of destruction, he, with two
chosen men, attempted to make his way back
towards the first settlement for succor for his
perlshing companions And when toling tbro'
the chin deep SHOWS with the thermometer at
zero, and nearly despairing of ever being able to
reach the settlement alive, he fell in with an
Indian TRAIL which he knew must have been re-
GENTLY made by the formidable Utahs, whom no
and his company, from what they had learned
of their recent atrocities, had more dreaded than
any peril they thought themselves likely to en-
counter in their expedition. But such was the
desperation of his circumstances, that he even
eagerly seized on the alternative of following
this trail, and thus throwing himself into the
hands of his supposed mortal foes, rather than
to try further to make his way through the fear
full SHOWS, cold and storm which he must en-
counter in the long trackess waste to be crossed
, before reaching white settlement After fol-
} lowing the trail some distance, Fremont espied
"a solitary young Indian trying to obtain water
through an air hole of an ice-bound stream,
whom he and his two companions contrived 50
to approach on opposite si1es as to prevent his
escape Fremont then went up to the Indian,
and made himself and situation known when
" TO his joyful surprise the native, after cycling
+ You same come to my father; my father your
y triend-me your friend" 1t was son of the
: old Utah Chief whom Fremont had made his
10 friend, as above described, years before in
J. his early expedition. And the young chief
IS now took the sufferers to the not far distant
n camp OF the warriors, warmed and fed them,
lie and then furnished them with horses to 20 back
y to the rescue of their companions who, but for
r. this timely doliverance, had al, probably. to-
lie gether with their heroic leader found their last
c. sleep in the snowy winding sheets of that ter
OF rife mountain.
L. These facts, which we have never seen pub
l'shed, were related to US in substance ty Capt
~ Iapiln, OF Montpelier, who, next to Kit Carson,
.. was Fremonts best man, and what was COM
!. municated by Capt 7. was confirmed with an
ia addition of some Of the particulars by Col Ben
- ton in bis recent visit to Boston.
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W who unsolicited are our subscribers, and the
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n SEMI CENTENNIAL ADDRESSES. The proceed
n ings of the Semi Centennial celebration of the
ct Vermont University-held last August, have
TX been published, making a handsome, and to
ing volume. The price is so cts and copies
r can be had by addressing post paid E. A Fuller,
i. Burlington, Vt.
~ WASHINGTON County APPOINTMENTS IN THE
y SHERIFF Decentralization. 0. Wood the
- High Sheriff of Washington County, has made
y the following appointments of the deputies fer
the present year, viz
. Montpelier, Addison L. Paige, and Joseph
IL Bradish; Barre, Silas Town, Jr. RorJury,
'g J. G. circuit; Northfeld, N. E. Briggs and
g. Il. Circuit; Waterbury, J. Brown Pldinfeld,
- N. Page.
7c VERMONT CENTRAL RAILRoAD.-We have been
=.
Or Charles Barrett, of Mortified, VT, has been
at appointed Treasurer of the Vermont Central
n Railroad Company, with his Office located at
ut Mortified, and that E. P. Walton, Jr., of
ID Montpelier, has been appointed Clerk of said
Company, with his Office located at Montrelier;
and also to announce, that John B. Wheeler,
G, of Burlington, has been appointed Treasurer,
III and ). Gregory Smith, Esq, of st. Adams,
IL Clerk of the Vermont and Canada Railroad
L. company with their Offices in the respective towns
a. Of their residences.
ne FOREIGN NEws.-Another Steamer, the At
y lantic has just arrived but she brings not one
9, word Of news from the seat of War. The
at British Parliament, which has been called to-
gether earlier than usual on account of the
"a war crisis, has convened; and the Queen, in
n. her speech, spunkishly recommends to prosecute
A. the War with all possible vigor. Russia, on
the other band declares she will raise and have
81 in the field, in the spring, million of men.
t. Austria it seems, has really made some kind of
IA an alliance with France and England. If SO,
=. constitutional Liberty has little to hone for
f from the continuance of the War. 1t will be
but struggle among despo,s And let dog
eat dog " is all we Americans need say to the
: leading actors.
= A PLACE FOR Choice PURcuAsEs-If those
# visiting Boston will call at the store Under the
n conspicuous sign Of Fred. Brown, near the head
is of Washington Street, they will find an excel