Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-04-26
WASHINGTON COUNTY EMIGR<N Mt AID
COMPANY,

AT the meeting of this Company, at Montpe-
lier, on Friday last, an Emigrant Company was
formed for Kansas, and portion of them are
already on their way, The meeting adjourned
to meet at NoRrHPIELp, depot village) on Mon
day eDeaing nert, 1T o'clock.
p All persons who desire information from
this Society, relating to Kansas emigration from
Vermont should either apply in person, or d.
rect their letter to the Secretary, at whose Office,
In Montpelier, the business is transacted. Tick
cts of passage may be obtained, provided the
applicant is a member of the Washington Coun-
ty Emigrant Aid Company, Or sends one dollar,
to become member
JOSEPH POLAND, Secretary.
Montpelier, April 90, 1855.
a REAL BLESSING TO MOTHERS. "A Gin
cinnati paper mentions an invention which it calls
u " real blessing TO mothers" 1t is cradle
which winds up like clock, and rocks itself
twenty-four consecutive hours. We know of an
other real blessing t, all sorts of women
whether mothers or not 1t is the Self Heating
Smoothing Iron
This is found to be no humbug, Hundreds
are being used in our neighborhood, and the anti
Gle is greatly admired. Ironing can be done with
less work and trouble, and woJd enough saved in
short time to pay for it. This is not 'all-ihe
uncomfortable heat If the room, where the tatnn
are heated in the usual way, is altogether
ed A handful of charcoal, orOf COAT
stove suffices for an ordinary ironing. ~
h ghly esteemed among us that neighhor~V
marked the other day that he would not part with
his for $40 provided h. could not purchase
another. 1t is really a blessing to the ladies' ~
They can be found an Oliver & Hemer S, who
are wholesale and refill agents for Vermont.
Butter FOR BosroN-The Detroit AdUertis-
err states that provision dealor in that city ship
ped fifteen tons of Wisconsin butter for Boston,
a few days since
TRIUMPH IN WISCONSIN Hon, Orsamus
Cole, the ant-Fugtive Slave law nominee, has
been elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of
Wisconsin,, over Judge Crawford, who was
candidate for reelection. The latter, it will be
remembered, was the only member of the Court
who dssented from the opinion that the Fugitive
Slave Law Was unconstitutional. The people of
isconsn were determined that their Supreme
Court should be unit upon that question, and
therefore they excused Judge Crawford from
further service. This result is cheering sign
of The times ~.
A THIRD orifco has been formed in Mount
Versuylus, which is said to be threatening an
eruption.
The Worcester Transcript gives an account
of the accident of the 10th inst , on the Northern
Railroad The train which was thrown off con-
, sisted OF powerful thirty ton engine, two bag.
gage and three passenger cars, and was running
on down grade in nearly straight line, at
the rate OF thirty miles an hour The cause of
the accident is supposed to have been the expan-
sion of the iron by the heat of the sun, which
caused rail to curve
! The engine was buried upside down in the
T sand as to be hidden from view entirely and
, singular to relate the engineer, fireman, and a
man riding with them, unable to leap from the
, engine, were thrown into the corner of the cab,
. and In that position were plunged into the sand
with the machine, head foremost. All three
were got out unbruised. A baggage car in
which were the baggage master and two express
men. in like manner. was turned over and over
J. boxes trunks, and all sorts of packages tumblng
n over them, and yet all escaped without serions
@ injury. But the most singular feature was in the
escape of the passengers In the foremos, cal
were about. fifty. persons of both sexes. all o
whon--with the exception, of.a lady. slightly
Ebrnised--were fortunately rescued unhurt The
!. rear car only remained upon the track. So re-
, markab'e all escape we do not remember to have
chroncled.
ADvIcEs from Utah to the 18th of Februar,
% assure us that the Mormons were little surpris
ed at receiving the news the day before, of Col
D. Steptoe's appointment as Governor, but were
r disposed to swallow their disappointment in 81
lie lence. On New Years day. there was row
which brought the United states troops and tn,
so Mormon Legion into state of armed opposition
III After three days and the wounding of several OF
each side, the anger Of both parties was appeas
ed. The row began in the free use of rum, ant
of hence the civil authorities wisely forbade he'saf
~ of any more liquor in the city. These prohbi,o
;" ry laws are all the fashion
. The troubles in Cuba are filling the prisons O
the island with arrested persons, Recent report
vs. chronicle the arrest of about three hundred ant
or eighty OF the suspected.
n. The SEASON IN TEXAS The Galveston Neu
bo says, so late spring as the present has not bee
O known In Texas for thirty years past. Bot
Us corn and cotton have had to be replanted, on &c
We count of the bad stand from the first planting
nv In many Instances planters have plowed up thei
" ground entirely, and replanted their entire crop
But the drought continues, and there is no,
~ scarcely moisture enough to sprout the seed.
~ The MEREDITH BRlDGE ACCIDENT "A lette
n from Merideth Village says that of the person
ut injured by the IA ling of the Town House foo,
on election day. four have died, and four other
are permanently disabled Nine-len,hs of tn
lie injuries were slight and the individuals have Ell
is- tirely recovered
is By u law recently passed in Michigan, ma
yn red woman may receive buy, sell, devise, NOR
-. gage, &c , her real and personal property witt
. out the consent of her husband and, also, ST
nd and be sned without joining the husband in til
ct suit in either case.
all The Quitman, Mississippi LntelEgencer,
the 10th of March says, TINT week or two pr
vious, a woman in Kemper County, in that Stat
De "gave birth to a child, covered all over wi
rs, hair" 1t lived three hours, and.spoke three di
'inct words" three gears taminsll ~
slrangest thing about it is, half ia
oni kemper believe it, and are struck
the the portentious warning.
ORDERED TO SERAsT oroL.-The N. Y. IT.
'oy une learns from Washington, that our Cover
md ment have detached Col. Richard DeIafeld,
the Engineers, Major Alfred Mordecai of i
Ordinance, and Capt. George b. McCleand,
at the Cavalry, on special duty, to proceed to S
nse bastopol, to inspect the works there and vie
If the operations OF the war. They are ordered
-, depart as soon as possible. 1t is supposed ii
Us their official credentials will give them free
i've cess to the camps without and the fortress
within. their city.