Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-09-06
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TnE DEArH OF +. ID. BAEsaR beeoaes
orr painful duty to announce he death Of our
old and distinguished fellow-laBeseI M the cause
of Freedom, Edward D. Barber, ESQ, Of Mid
dlebury. of dysentery, last wsek, at the age of
about fifty years.
Mr.. Barber was man Of uDasaal intellect
ual endoWments, Of great moral courage, and
high moral purposes and these With his fine
social qualities made him man who will be
widely missed and mourned. Mr. Basber was
a successful practitioner at the bar Nd Addison
County, and had the reputation, bOaA ct home
and abroad, OF being one Of the ablest political
writers in New England.
IMPORTANT ERROR CORRECTED. III has been
laid down in MI our Biographies, and coasslered
a fact well established by the early surveys Of
Col. Lloyd and Gerelfs, tina, the level Of the Pa
ei6c Ocean, is a, least from Eve TO ten feet above
that of the Atlantic. But that IS now discover
ed to be an entire mistake :-Cvl. Toiten, the
engineer of the Pxnama Railroad, has recently
made careful survey seross the Isshmus on the
level of that road, and established n beyond
doubt, that the levels Of tbs oceans are the
same.
Il SINGULAR CAsE---Aboas two years ago,
Mr.. John Cookson, AZ honest and INDUSTRIOUS
teamster and laborer oS Montpelier, became con-
scious while drinking at brook in q moving
field that he had swallowed something which he
ought not, but which be supposed nigh, be a
piece of grasshead. He soon, however, began
TO be troubled with some unwon.ed ailDents in
the stomach, which has been increasing .ia this
season, when, from tina, cause IS rs now believed,
has been repeatedly visited by sever ccovslsive
fits, which somtimes rendered him senseless for
three hours Last Saturday evening, after sup
per, he felt crawling motion IN his stomach,
and being seized with nausea went to the door
and threw up, with the freshly taken food in
his stomach, live red evit three and half in
ches in length 1t may be still seen alive at
the store of Collins & Pierce in this village.
BIG EGG.-Mr Jonas Abbott, Of Worcester,
has an old hen of the native breed, which laid am
egg, one day last week, that measured 7 "a in
ches in circumference the larges, way, and 6 IL
inches in circumference the shortest way, and
weighed just four ounces.
) LATE AND HIcHLY IMPORTANT PROM MRx,-
Co.. Ne,o Orleans, Aug. 25.-The steamer
: Orizaba has arrived from Vera Cruz with dates
to the 22d.
Santa Anna left for Mexico on the 9th of
August under the escort of $500 men, On
reaching Perota he signed his abdication and en-
barked on the 18th at Vera Cruz for Havana.
Two days after leaving Mexico 700 or 800 Of
his escort revolted, killing one or two officers
and joined the insurgents. The Alverez Plat
form was adopted, and General Caire appointed
provincial President, and General La Vega Com
y mander in chief.
All the State prisoners were liberated. The
mob had Quilted several houses, including that of
Santa Annals mother-in-law.
The appointment of Veda as Minister to
Washington, has been revoked.
A fight occurred at Vera Cruz between two
revolted battaions and regiment which remain
Il ed faithful to Santa Anna The former was
beaten and fed to the mountains, leaving twenty
: killed. Order was finally restored.
VI 4-Neo Orleans, Aug. GA despatch from
81 Brownsville states that Zacatecas would pro-
'. nounce against the government on the 10th
: inst
San Louis Potosi had already pronounced
! against the Government, and sent 1900 men TO
I. Vidaurri, who was to march on Matamoras.
Gen. Wo still remains at the latter place.
NeD Orleans Aug. 28.-The San Antonio
. Sentinel, of the 18th inst, mentions the arrival
Of Col. Riddell at the headquarters of the revo-
, lutionists in Northern Mexico. He saws Vdaur-
" ri is willing to deliver to their ow ners all fupi
tive slaves escaping to Mexico, and is anxious to
= make treaty therefor.
The deaths from yellow fever in the Charity
Hospital in this city now average about fourteen
daily.
THE LAST OF HIS TRIBE.-The last Ameri-
!, can mechanic or member or of the American
q Party, was discharged yesterday from the out
door work of the Capital, and an anti' appointed
/ in his place. The person alluded to is a most
= exemplary man, and one of the best artisans in
II his line in this country, When charged with
- belonging to the American party he boldly,
but camy admitted it; and was immediately
, and with indecent haste, thrust from an humble
!. position, in which he had been supporting his
family honestly, and by the sweat Of his brow ,
99f Comment is Unnecessary Washington Or
- gan.
A Boy DEvoURED BY WILD BEAsr.-The
Free American lat North Adams, Mass y of las,
to week, announces that boy was deyoured in the
woods BY beast, supposed to be bear or pan
of Their, in Woodford, adjoining Readsboro', VT.
the week previous. All but his head and feet
1.-THE latter encased in his boots) were eaten by
the animal. Near the remains lay fishing rod
and line, and small string of fish. His name,
as we learn, was Jones.
A FoRTuNE,-SolomOn Rothschid, whose re.
cent decease at Paris has been announced left
to the his two sons the enormous sum of one
hundred and twenty millions of frances, or more
than twenty millions of dollars. As an old
Quaker gentleman of this city said when leay.
ing an immense sum TO an only daughter, we
- hope there is enough to make them comforta
bic. "-Prop. Journal.
The statistical tables of mortality shows a re-
ductlon IN this country of the proportion of death,
from pulmory diseases. Doct Aver attribute,
this result to The eiiselaf his Cherry pictorial,
tie also asserts that the cures from his Calhartic
Pills give reason TO believe they will, as the,
}. come into more general use, materially reduce
The mortality from those particular diseases fo,
tn which they are designed. From what we know
en- OF his preparations, we think he has grounds fo
his claims. and If he has it is an attainment of
IL which an Emperor night be proud. Rarely is i
n permitted any one man to know that his skin Is
of bestowing health and life to the masses of hi,
in fellow men.
d. Such a reflection is worth working for. even
though he had only the reflection for his reward
er -Springfeh Daily Courier.
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