Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-01-03
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merly of Chelsea, left home on Monday If Ia,
week, for the purpose of collecting note which
was due at Chelsea, and on Tuesday his horse
was observed standing by theroadside, some two
miles from this village, on the Worcester branch
road. The length of time tina. the team ,.
manned, awakened suspicion, and Soma mo,
followed the drivers tracks to the river wbe, !,
was discovered that he had entered in obon.
three feet of water and slid under the ice wbo,.
MS oooy was found soon afterward. By informa.
; ton from his family, we learn that he wa, snh.
Ject to tits Of insanity no other cause 10 kroun
Tor the act. lie was forty-seven years Of a,o
and leaves distracted wife and three children
| VERMONT STATE AGRICULTURAL SoctRrv
r Inc Fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for
q the election OF officers, and for the Transaction
OF other Important business, will be held nj tho
Court House in Middlebury, on the Second
wednesday of January, 1856, at 10 o'clock
A. NJ.
STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION, -Tbe ANNA,
meeting of the Vermont Temperance Society
will be held at Ludlow. on Wednesday. the
sixteenth day of January next, commencing at
one clock, P NJ, and will continue through
out that and the next day.
We wish tho Society success and hope the
friends of the cause will secure it a GOOD at,en-
dance.
IHE MAINE FARMER enters upon its twenty
fourth volume the first of January, under yeYv
pleasing auspices. II is published at Augusta.
Terms, 5 LIS, in advance.
IHE HoRTICULTURlsT.- our notice of this
admirable monthly, last week, we insdyertantlv
stated that it was published in Rochester instead
of Philadelphia. 1t was formerly published in
that place. Those cultivating fruits and i'm
proving or laying out gardens will find it an in
ispenslble assistant. 1t is edited BY J. Jaw
Smith, long experienced ruralst and whose
corps of contributors will make it The reliable
work of the kind. Terms, $500 per year col.
olored edition $500. Specimen numbers NAV
be seen at this office.
PATENT AMBRorYpEs.- suggest to all
who wish life-like picture, to visit Mr.. s. o.
fersey's gallery over Ellis & Bancrofts Store.
Mr.. Hersey has just received new stock of
well selected cases, lockets &c., and his new
suit of rooms are well adapted to the art; while
his skill is not surpassed this side of the cities.
See Advertisement
Muslc.-From Oliver Ditson, Boston, we have
received the latest new music, among which are
the pieces entitled 1.-The fair land of the Vest
words by I. B. Reed" The groves of Blar.
ney," an Irish song, Black eyes and blue"
and " We laid her down to rest" and so.
breathe not her name," which are decidedly pref
ty
N. c. BACON, at the Corner Store, has lust
received large acquisition 10 his former excel
lent stock of beautiful goods See Advertise
ment.
The NICARAGUA FILLIBUsTERs.- York.
Dec. "a. Shortly after o'clock o-day the U.
5. Marshal received dispatch from Washing.
ton, ordering the seizure and detention of the
steamer Northern Light. Officers were accor-
dingl y sent on board, but Mr.. White, the coun-
sci for the Transit Company, declared that the
vessel should sail at her usual hour, o'clock.
About o'clock, the N. L., was got underway.
but had not proceeded far when she was inter
rupted by Revenue Cutter, which fred two
guns across her bows and brought her to- There
were apparently between and 400 young men
on board, whose appearance indicated that they
were Nicaruguan adventures, and one of them
confessed they were SUCH and had been engaged
by Col. French and others to 60 West.
Council OF CENsoRs. We have received the
Journal of the I'd sess IN of the Council, which
contains much that is able and interesting.
The Trustees of Barre Academy, propose to
establish department of that Institution exclu-
sively for females, upon the principle and after
the model of Mt. Hoyoke Female Seminary at
South Hadey, Mass.
Two marble statutes of very large size are
among the spolls taken at Sebastopol. They
represent st. Peter and St. Paul, and will prob
ably be placed, one at London and the other at
Paris.
More than eight thousand copies of Tenny-
sons " Maud" it is said, have been already
sold
The iron towers for the suspension bridge
across the Genessee River, at Rochester, have
fallen. They were nearly one hundred feet in
height.
HENRY M. RICE is the delegate to Congress
from Minnesota Territory.
The Legislature of Tennessee has it in con-
temptation to purchase General Jacksons Her.
mitage.
The Emperor Napoleon has recalled to France
eleven regiments from the Crimea. This is
looked upon by many as sign of approaching
peace.
A Paris correspondent of the National Intel
hgencer estimates the cost of the European war
to be over one million of dollars per day.
Mr.. Ericsson is still engaged in his caloric
enterprise. A few days since he caught one
his hands in the machinery and manged it quite
severely. This will necessarily retard his la
Dor, for short time.
In the Georgia Senate, resolution has been
introduced for appropratne one hundred thou.
sand dollars TO aid Southern men 10 emigrate TO
Kansas, as an offset to Northern emigration.
GEORGE LAW has leased house, and intends
to spend the winter in Washington.
Pennsylvania now produces as much iron as
was manufactured in Great Britain thirty years
ago, and of quality that compares very favora-
bly,.
A resolution has passed both branches of the
General Assembly of Florida, authorizing the
inhabitants of West Florida to vote upon the
proposition of seeding from the State, and unit.
lng themselves with the State nf AlnAaan ~