Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-02-22

was enthronsd amid storm OF WIND ana falh'
Wild and terrific 10 its power aud grandeur
If the inmates Of this house desired stronger
evidence of the terrible violence of the gale than
the crashing Of sky-lights and glass doors, da-
ring the dying hours of the waning year, the
advent Of his successor revealed its resistless
power on every hand Roofs Of wooden build
ings, which had succumbed to the rage of the
winds, had been wrenched from their frail fast
enings, and were to be found turned upside
down in a neighboring yard, or forming du-
plioats covering to some fortunate and unscathed
tenement Zinc and iron sheathings on the tops
of some Of our heavier structures, had been
torn up, eurled tightly into scrolls, and were
hanging by single nail, or hurled into the
middle Of the street. Signs, awnings, etc.,
were bus playthings in the hands Of rolicking
and maddened Boreas. And an invisible but
strong hand had raised from their muddy beds
the anchors of some Of the ships in the harbor,
and theorews found their floating bones moving
up the bay under the guidance of an unseen
Hslmsman, and impelled by Power other than
their own canvas.
Butt will not weary you with the details Of
Pacific storm, which, with the addition of the
element Of snow, would have been but a eoun-
terpart Of many you have witnessed around
those eternal hills and along the wales of your
own Vermont.
This quarter Of our city, near Clay and Bat
terry streets, is rapidly improving. The new
Merchants Exchange, surprising in extent and
originality of design that of New York, Boston
OF Philadelphia, was opened last week. Page,
Bacon & Co.. will soon remove to their magnif-
cent new banking house. Burgoyne is already
here, and an immense sign on Battery, between
these bankers, reading thus, =" Middleton, Davis
& Claghorn," gives warning that soon the
heaviest auction and commission business will
center near US. For these are all veterans in
their line.
The new Custom House is in process of cree
ton, though, as usual before another block of
granite can DO placed in the basement wall, we
shall probably hear that the appropriation has
run out.
Letm not omit to mention that prc-eminent
and peerless among our leading business houses
stands the Express and Banking House of Wells,
Fargo & Co. From small beginning this firm,
alike distinguished for unbending integrity, en-
ergy, perseverance,, and business scope and Ca
pacity, have arisen to high rank in the COM
mercial world.
Recent arrivals from the Sandwich Islands,
bring intelligence that King Kamehameha sleeps
with his fathers. The Maine law might have
saved him, though the immediate cause of his
death was hemmorrhage of the lungs. With
the demise of that kingly sot, and the ascent Of
an aspiring son to that island throne, disappears,
for the present, the treaty and subject of annex
alton. And for one I am heartily glad of it, !
profess to be a radical, progressive Democrat,
untinotured with Sewardism, Fillebusterisn, or
Nottingham. But believe that all rea.
sonable, healthy and necessary accessions to our
domain will come in the natural order of events
And, so long as those Islands can maintain their
independent position, have no desire to see the
power and influence ofthe Empire, Green Noun
tain, or my own Granite State in the National
Senate neutralized or balanced by delegates from
the Kdnakas Of the Pacific. believe that the
Queen Of the Antilles " will soon, like ripsned
fruit, DO gathered into our garner. Then why
seek to hasten or anticipate the stately and ma
jestic, but onward and sure, march of events
Why not quietly wait the order of an ovcrra-
ling, omnipotent Providence! Is it not plain
as the sun in tho heavens, thai while, perhaps
at this moment, thrones are tottering and en-
pires are rending in Europe, while, perhaps, the
descendants of Tamerlane are sweeping over the
nations Of the Old Worthwhile we know that
the servile cohorts of universal monarchy arc
marshalling for the shock and carnage OF war
Providence would lead this young Republic in
the paths Of peaceful oonquests, and hold her
up to the efste and crumblng dynasties of Eu-
rope, as the future highway of the nations, and
the hope Of the world! believe in magnif-
cent, exalted, and q manifest, destiny for this
great Republic. And let him who would scoff
dit and dsride the theory, blot from the worlds
history the war of l776-tho great revolutionary
era-and of lSl2-the great vindicatory epoch
in oar career. Let him expunge from the az
chives of this globe, the whole history of this
nation, from the hour when the May Flower
dropped her anchor in the waters of Plymouth
Bay, down to the present moment, and let him
obliterate all remembrance of our stupendous
and unparalleled career, and then his slumbering
mind may ridicule the idea of mission and
destiny for this glorious Confederacy.
TELLIAMED.