Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-05-24

HE DARtEN SHIP CANAL PRoJscr Rsv,vpn
Washington letters state that no,w;ths,and;nn
ne uisdsu' US termination Of the attempted sur
NJ; sI VI me lsthmus last year, by the joint Eng
Il. isa anu american commission, the project of
'ne mp canal across the lsthmus of Darien is
I NJ aoanaoned' DR.. Black, the Secretary of the
e Gs.i omp lanai Company, recently came over
rom England, and has full authority to make
engagements to prosecute the scheme Fifty
milons OF dollars is the estimated cost of the
undertaking.
HE BABY SHow.-Barnum announces that
no black babies will he admitted into his show
VI Infants. THIS is very proper; our blessed
CONSTITUTION must be supported we must draw
ine line somewhere But will not the relening
Fnneas make an exception in favor of yellow
oaoies, and thus permit the great state Of Vir-
gina to exhibit her staple production i--Boston
Atlas.
BOLD GROUND "A. 0 Brownson, noted
Roman Catholic writer, recently lectured in New
Orleans The Creole reports him as follows =
IL must become the arbiter between the State
aud the subject. 1t must guard the man by in
'erposlnS Its flaming sword as a defence. II
must conSfrue constitutions and erpound la,us,
deciding where is the limit of centralized power
and what is It's absolute duty to perform"
The Philadelphia Pennsylvania says that
the States of New Jersey, Delaware and Penn
sylvanla are apportioned off into districts by as
soclalions of poiatoe swindlers, by whom the
crop is bought up, and the prices controlled, sub
]ecllng the citizens 10 great extortion. That pa
per remarks: Hundreds of thousands of dol
lars are taken out of the pockets of our citizens
by the frauds perperated in the measure of this
vegetable alone without considering the means
taken to enhance the price of the article.
FAMINE IN NORTH CARoLlNIA.-A cores.
pendent of the Dalton Times draws distressing
picture OF the starving condition of tle poor in
that region. More than one half of the people
are without corn and money The writer ar
CUES the proprieiy of appealing TO the Govern
ors of Tennessee and Georgia for aid.
:, The N. Y. Independent has secured Kossuth
as its London correspondent. not however, tc
the exclusion of his connection with the New
} York Times, He is, besides, regular contrib
utor to London weekly journal.
1t is stated that Matt Ward, who murdered
Butler, in Kentucky, is the great lion of the New
Orleans streets. He sports fine span of ba,
horses, beautifully caparsoned, and oarriag,
brilliant with splendor and upon the box sit wv,
colored gentlemen, with blue suits, white gloves
black hats, green band around, and a small
feather upon the upper edge
A HUSBAND thus announces the departure
e from his /" bed and board 'of his dearly beloved
S My wife Annie. Maria, has strayed or beef
stolen. Whoever returns her will get his heat
broke AS for trusting her, anybody can do a
ne s'es fi'-for as never pay my own debts,
is not at all probable that will lay awake night
a thinking about other peoples.
f OPENING RIcA.--The hungry will learn wit
!. pleasure that at Milwaukee there are 10 600 bar
;, rels of -four, and 5500 900 bushels of wheat
:. hound for the East, as soon as the Lake opens
! The shipments of Milwaukee will double thos
4? OF last year.
: In Boston they continue to find their Cochitu
1; ate water fshy, and, what is very remarkable
t the same fishy flavor is perceived in their milk
In painful of milk just delivered by milkmar
a city customer found the other day, says tn
Traveller, small fish, alive and in motion =
Harvard College may explain the phenomenon.
Capt Alfred Nuskey and wife, of Sing Sing
A. 1's HdfE d pcilSCtIy lOTHltu Clllui ABOUT Nv
months old, that weighs only trine over fou
pounds. When born it weighed one pound an
e fourteen ounces. Hundreds of persons have Wis
r tied it.
The Natural Historic Society of New Jerse
has appointed a committee to consider the feast
bllity of stocking the rivers with salmon. Their
seems to be no doubt that it can be done. Tn
only question is if it eau be made profitable.
The Scientific American cautions its reader
against the use of painted pals, and says tn
7 oxide of lead, with which pals are painted, is
8 dangerous poison, and has been known to be pre-
t ductlve of evil in many cases.
A New SETTLEMENT IN AFRICA The Amel
lean Colonization Society has resolved to con
mcnce settlement in the interior of Africa
probably fifty or hundred miles from the coast
q ORR, the Angel Gabriel, has been imprsone
If at Greenock, Scotland, for preaching in ii
}. street.
X The whole number of applications for boun'
land, under the new law, is 10000.
3 The experiment has been tried, successful
y of ENGRAVING the currant upon the maple tree.
" MILWAUKEE is only twenty years old, and
I, has population this day of forty thousand.
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