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A SECOND JACK SHEPPARD. The Philadel-
phia Ledger Of the llth inst gives the fol
lowing account of a young criminal who
seems appropriately enough, to have acquired
the title of the = Second Jack Sheppard y;
&C George W. Townsend, who was senten-
ced to two year sin the Delaware State Prison,
at Newcastle, for robbing the Post Office at
Wilmington, Delaware, has succeeded
breaking iail again. This is the fourth time
he has escaped from this prison. The first
time, while in prison awaiting his trial. he
broke Jail and let out three other prisoners,
on the same night there were six or seven
stores broken into in Wilmington. Shortly
after this escape Townsend was recognized
and arrested in Philadelphia, and portion
of the goods taken from the stores was found
ON his person he had also on his person five
pistols, heavily loaded, and large dirk
| knife.
In a few days after he was lodged in the
old quarters, he again escaped from his ",u o,.,,
and had reached the top of the vail and was
in the act of jumr!ng down on the outside
when he was discovered by the Sheriff the
Sheriff fred at him and he was captured
Shortly after this second attempt to escape
his trial came on. Before he was sentenced
he made q strong appeal to the Court fol
ccmencv: that he was sorry for what he haC
done, would reform, Il. About month af
ter he was sentenced he made his third escape
from the prison this time he let out two
other prisoners with him and on this SAM
night the Post. Office at Wilmington was rob
bed. This time he was recognized by th
conductor while in the cars between vii
mington and Chester. The conductor locked
both ends of the car, and when they reached
Chester an officer was procured and Townsen'
was again arrested. One Of the persons h
had let out of prison, " Oyster Charley,
was with him in the car, and he also was ar
rested
Townsend was taken back to the prison
and this time, to make sure of him, he wa
put in double irons, which means handcuh
and hobbies or leg-irons. He was locked il
his cell and closely watched Notwithstand
ing all this precaution, he again effected
| another and fourth escape on Friday nigh
f last This time he mad filed or sawed off hi
handouts and leg-irons, and, cutting hol
through the oak floor of his cell, he descende
7 into a room below from there he got int
r the prison yard, and then scaled the wall
. which is about 20 feet high. His fcats wi
Q rival those of Jack Sheppard or Sixtee
n String Jack. lie is certainly the most su,
b cessful iaI-breaker this country has pre-
= duced Townsend is young man, about
a years of age.
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RURLINGTON:
FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 81. 1856.
The Herald of Freedom.

We have before us the second number of
the Herald of Freedom dated Lawrence, Kan
sas, Nov. /. This is the Journal which a
scoundrel mob-led on by Government officials
protesting to act in the name OF law and or
der, destroyed few months ago-breaking
the presses destroying the stock, throwing
most of the type into the river and then set
ting the building on fire. Friendly hands
put out the fire and saved what they could.
To make the overthrow of o free press and
free speech the more sure, the editor, g. w.
Brown, was arrested on bogus charge Of
high treason, and kept incarcerated like
condemned felon for four months. But fire
would not burn and water would not drown
the Herald Of Freedom, nor could unjust
imprisonment and threats against his life,
crush the free spirit of the editor. While he
was kept in prison his wife and one assistant
agent. Rev. A. ST. Clair of Leoni, Michigan,
undertook the arduous task of raising con-
tributions from the friends of liberty and
Justice to aid in re-establishing the paper The
present number contains long list Of dona-
tions mostly in sums of from $40 down to 25
cents from donor. In some instances very
generous sums were given-from $50 up to
$50, and one gentleman, G. W. Hunter of
Alton, Ill. gave $500.
This number contains an interesting ac-
count of the presentation of beautiful flag
to the editor on the 18th of Oct. by the Ia
dies of Iawrence-the address of the ladies,
the editors reply, and many valuable articles
from the pen of the talented editor and his
assistants The price of the Herald Of Free
dom is 50 year in advance.
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The immense majorities for Fremont IN
the New England States have enraged the
Washington Un,on, and it expends its venom
upon the clergy. The following is the esti.
mate of the Administration organ of the cler-
gy and people of New England
-" Priest Ridden Ne,c En- sland. The result
of the Presidential election in New England
proves that majority of her people have
bowed their necks to the dominion OF religious
fanaticism. While their hearts are bleeding
over the condition of Slavery in which the
negroes at the South are placed, they seem to
be wholly unconscious that they are the vic
Tins of a far worse serviity themselves
They are the slaves Of passion, of prejudice,
of religious tyranny; and yet they hug their
own chains of absolute subsection to puritan
ical fanaticism, and think they are doing God
service in shedding tears over the serviity OF
Southern slaves, who neither desire nor are
in need of their sympathies New England
is to>day groaning under despotism which
challenges parallel in any other part Of the
world They labor under the delusion that
they are free men, and they boast loudly OF
their devotion to freedom. But there is no
freedom in New England. The Church Is
supreme over the minds of the priestridden
people They do not think for themselves,
but the political oraces of the pulpit do their
thinking The worst species of deerot,Sm is
that in which the mind is enslayed. That is
the despotism which broods over New Eng
! land The slave Of the South is happy and
conteuted with his condition. lie knows that
he i not fitted by nature for freedom, and he
is contented with the guardian protection
which he enjoys from humane and kind mas
ters. The New England men are deluded
with the idea that they are free, and yet they
are wearing the chains of enslayed intellectu-
al beings. They look to their religious
teachers for their thoughts, and they follow
the dictates of bigotry and tanaticism Will
4laysh submission, They accept whatever
ialsehood, whether of doctrine or of fact
that their religious guides choose to impos
upon them. Church and State are virtually
one in New England. The power of the pul
pit is supreme, and it has just been exerte'
in debating the vote cast for Fremont.
The Boston Atlas says, aptly of this tirade
The Union seems very anxious to establish
monopoly of rascality for its own party. |
buasts, substantially, that not a member @
ITS miserable lite faction in New Englan
belongs to a church, or cares farthing 10
.clisious teaching. We do not say that it il
right, but we beg our Democratic iello'
citizens to consider into what an uniortunat
, uuandary their organ has conducted them.
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Mr.. BUCHANAN on TIE Pacific RAILROAD
Mr.. Buchanan, it appears sent letter TO
California favoring the construction of the
Railroad, in time for it to influence the
election there, but too late for 1T to get back
and iniurc his prospects on this side. The
following is the essential portion of the let
ter
then desire to state, briefly, that, concurring
with tho Convention. | am decidedly favorable to
the construction of the Pacific Railroad; and de.
rive the authority to do this from the constitutional
power "to declare war;" and the constitutional
duty ''to repe INVASION" In my judgment, Con-
gress possesses the same power to make a-propria-
ions for the construction of tho road, strictly Tor
the purpose of national defence, that it has to erect
Notifications at the mouth of tho harbor of San
Francisco Indeed, the necessity, with a view to
repel foreign invasion from California, is as great
in the one case as in the other. Neither will there
be any danger from the precedent for IT is almost
impossible to conceive that any case attended by
such extraordinary and unprecedented circumstances
can ever again occur in our history.
Yours respectfully,
JAMES BUCHANAN.
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Yours truly,
X, NJ. FULLER, Esq,


EXPENSES or THE RUSSIAN CORONATION, is
not altogether unnatural to wish to know how
much an Emperor spends on the occasion of
coming into his property, and 1t appears that
the sum has continued to increase in geOme-
trical progression with the advent to the
throne OF each successive sovereign since the
time of Paul. Thus the coronation of the
Emperor Paul amounted to 100000 silver roubcs,
Alexander |. cost coo 0OG
Nicholas, 100000 "
Alexander H. li,O00,00O
Thus the present Emperor has spent five
times as much as Alexander, who spent five
times as much as the Emperor Nicholas, who
spent five times as much as Paul. fancy
the present Emperor must have reached the
limit of the progression, and if any Of his
successors 90 beyond him IN the mere matter
of outlay, it Will certainly be difficult to
transcend his magniicenee,
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1t is very natural that our brethren OF the
Administration press, in Vermont, should
throw up their caps over the event of the
National election. 1t gives them for Presi-
dent the man of their choice, and it contin-
ues them in the quiet possession of their
respective Post Offices. But how much have
the disintercstcd labors of these gentlemen
contributed to the result The Senhnels
county gives MIR. Buchanan not quite one
vote in fire the Patriots county gives him
one vote in fire the Ages county gives
him about one vote in sir the Stars county
gives him one in three the Argus county
gives him not quite one in Sir. Vermont,
the field of labor Of these papers, gives Mr..
Platform less than one vote in flee she gives
Fremont, the man of her heart a majority
nearly three times as great as the entire rOfc
for his opponent. The Democratic party in
Vermont, which hut three years ago polled
over $1,000 votes, has dwindled nearly one
half. 1t has fallen off sensibly, even since
the September election,-a fact due doubtless
to the disgust occasioned in their own ranks
by the dishonest and abusive manner in
which tue campaign has been conducted by
the journals of the Buchanan party. Some
sober meditation on these facts may mode
rate little the exultation of our Admins
tratlon cotemporaries.
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POETICAg.
LOCHINNAR.


n young Lochinvnr is come out Of the west,
Through all the wide Border his stced was tho best
And save his good broad sword he weapons had
none,
lie rode all unarmcd and he rode all alone,
50 faithful in love, and SO dauntlcss in war,
There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
lie said not for brake, and he stopped not for
stone
lie swan the Fskc river where ford there was nonc
But. ere he alighted at Ncthcrby gate,
Tho bride had consented, the gallant camo late;
For a Iagcard in love, and bastard in war,
was to we'd the fair Fl on of brave Lochnvar
So boldly he entered the Nctherby Hall.
Among brides men, and kinsmon, and brothers,
and all +;
Then spoke the brides father, his hanu on MS
sword,
+ to aaScS S al oa af'G6 asTG 6g Sgm lord yF @
.'I long woocd your daug ghter my suit Won denied
Love sv ellis like tho Solway, but GIBBS like its tide
And now am I come, with this lost love OF mine,
To lead but measure, drink one cup of wine,
There are madcns in Scotland more lovely by far,
That would gladly be bride to the young Lochin-
var
Tho bride kissed the goblet the knight took it up
lie qua fled off the wine. and he threw down the cup.
She looked down to blush, and she looked up to
sigh,
With smile on her lrs, and a tear in her eve.
"Now tread we measure ~ said young Lochnvar.
So stately his form, and so lovely her face,
That never a hall such rnlliard diA grace
While her mother did fret, and her father did fume,
And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and
plume
And the bride-maidens whispered, "Iwere better
by far
To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochn-
var"
One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear,
When they reached the hal.door, and the charger
stood near ;
So light to the croupe, the fair lady lie swung,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung
e'She is won we gone, over bank, bush and
scaur
They'll have feet steeds that follow" quoth young
Lochinvar,
Their. was mounting 'mong Cranes of the Neherby
clan
Fosters Fenwcks, and Musgraves, they rode and
they ran
There racing, and chasing, on Cannobic Lee,
But the lost bride of Nctherby no'er did they
So daring in love, and dauutcss in wor,
Have We e'er heard of gallant like young Lochin-
var
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Mormonism and Sauatter Sovereignty.


The N. Y. Commercial is in trouble about
Utah and Mormonism. 1t has doubts
whether our political institutions can sup
ply remedy for the great wrong to morals
and decency that is there daily committed
and whether, consistently with that entire
freedom and popular sovereignty which our
institutions confer, any authority Legislative,
administrative. Judicial or executive is power
ful enough to cope with and strangle the
ecclesiastical political monster that Nor
monism has already become" 1t " had
hoped that Utah, while under the rule OF
Mormonism, would never aspire to be any
thing more than territory of the United
States As nobody is responsible, under
the Squatter Sovereignty doctrine, for any
thing done in the territories, we suppose
then, all may feel quite at ease about the
domestic institution" of polygamy, unless
Utah comes in as State And as to that,
though it would be very unpleasant the
Commercial thinks, to have State of that
sort, it is quite in the dark as to how 1T
could be kept out on that ground because,
forsooth, Brigham Young and his associates
say its a matter of religion
Well, human sacrifices are part of some
folks religion and some say grace before
killing and eating their aged parents, or
their captives in war. The thugs Of India
kill strangers, privately, and call it part o'
their religion. OF course none of these prac
ticcs can be interfered with under " that en-
tirely free and popular sovereignty which
our institutions confer
Great is S7uatte, rcignty-wonderfu
his privileges We are in hopeful wa.
under his irresponsible rule
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GEN ATcnIsoN UPoN KANSAS. The follow
ing brief letter has come within our reach,
and we claim the privilege of publishing it,
not only to show the energy and true South
ern feeling of our esteemed fellow-citizen, Mr..
Fuller, but that our people may be encouraged
to do something more yet for the Kansas
cause. The General, you will see, feels, that
one more broadside from the South will carry
the debatable land. Mark the tone of his
concise but emphatic note. and let us be
aroused to one more exertion.
PLATTE CITY. Tuesday, Oct Q, 1856.
DEAR SIR Your letter, together with
the draft for Sl3S 40, has been received, and
your instructions shall be followed | will
inquire diligently for the Edgfeld boys. We
have carried the elections in Kansas. The
new Governor gives satisfaction, But my
dear Sir, it is not time for Southern men tC
relax their exertlons. We must do II. II We
do our duty, Kansas will be Slave State
in twelve months State either IN or om o.
the UHi0n.
Yours truly, ID. Il. ATCnlsoN.
X, NJ. FULLER, Esq
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DISASTER AT SEA.-Tho New York papers
announces the loss of the French iron screw
steamship lie Lyonnais, which sailed from
New York for IIavre on the LIST of November.
was run into on the I'd by an unknown vessel
and abandoned on the next day in a sinking
condition. Only five passengers, including
three women out Of forty in the cabin, have
been rescued, together with eleven of the
crew. The remainder of the ships company,
near one hundred and fifty souls, is supposed
to have been lost The New York Herald
gives the following details
On the night of Sunday, the I'd inst, while
in dense fog, Nantucket light ship bearing
y. n. w, and distant 60 miles, the ship
was run into by an unknown vessel and her
stern cut clean of Nothing more was seen
of the unknown vessel, and it is probable
that she went down Immediately.
All hands staid by the wreck until the next
day, when it was abandoned. The ship was
provided with six boats. only one of which
was life boat. That boat only has been
| heard from.
| On the morning of Monday. raft was
constructed, and about forty persons, includ-
ing passengers, (probably the steerage pas
sengers) took refuge upon it. 1t is the
opinion of the second officer that this raft
could not have lived through the rough
weather that succeeded.
The boat left the ship on the morning of
Monday, the second. She was then with her
stern sunk below waters edge, and her bow
high out of water. The boat contained eigh-
teen persons. The weather was very rough,
and the haploss voyagers suffered terribly,
They were beaten about six days, until the
afternoon of the ninth. and two of their num-
Der (passengers) died during this terrible ln>
terval On Sunday their eyes were gladdened
by the sight of friendly sail, which proved
to be the Bremen bark Elise, on board o
which vessel they were Immediately taker
and made as omfortable as possible. Thei
limbs were frozen, and altogether they wer'
| in terrible condition.
At present they are like to recover. Th
ladies suffered terribly.
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-11-21

ANEcDoTE or BURNs.-Burns was standing
one day upon the quay at Greenock, when IA
wealthy merchant belonging to the town,
had the misfortune to fall into the harbor.
lie was no swimmer; and his death would
have been inevitable had not sailor, who
happened to be passing at :he time, immedi-
atcly plunged in, at the risk Of his own life,
and rescued,him from his dangerous situation.
The Grecnock merchant, upon recovering
pocket and generously presented the sailor
with Il shilling. The crowd, who were by
this time collected, loudly protested against
the contemplate insignifance of the sum, but
Barns, with a smile OF ineiiablc scorn, cntrea.
ted them to restrain their clamor, For 'said
he" the gentleman is of course the best Judge
Of the value Of his own life"
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establish Board of Education the bill was

establish Board of Education ; the bill was
rejected
Ayes, lOl
Nays, lO5
Mr.. Noyes moved to reconsider the vote
just taken, and on motion of Mr.. Green, the
motion to reconsider was laid on the table
Ayes, l22
Nays, 81
Reports OF the Committee on Corpora
tions in favor of Senate bill authorizing tho
Champlan Transportation Companyl to in
crease its capital stock, and the bill was
passed
Of the Committee on Banks, in favor Of
Senate bill increasing the capital stock and
extending the charter of the Bank of Middle
bury, and the bill passed.
OF the Select Committee on the part OF tho
House, with resolution IN favor of fixing
on Wednesday next at o'clock, A. NJ, AS
the day for the final adjournment of the AS
sembly adopted. go,
OF the Committee on Banks, against bill
to incorporate the Bank Of Wallingford.-
The Ayes and Nays on the third reading
Of the bill were as follows -
Ayes %
Nays, l41
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VERMONT LEGISLATURE
From Walton's Journal

I'VE condense the report of Legislative pro-
ceedings as given in Walton's daily journal.
Most of it being merely titles of bills, reports
and resolutions introduced and acted upon,
conveys no useful information to the distant
reader however convenient it may be to the
members of the General Assembly,
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-11-21

Mr. f. MERRIAM OF BROOKLYN, the man
who gets up heated terms for the public
has written letter from the Banks of the
Ausable to the n. Y. Courier and Enquirer
giving an account of his travels and dis
soveries in this region. He got specimens
of the Colchester variegated marble which
Justly considered very beautiful. He says -
"a quarry of beautiful V,rd Ant9u, has been
opened sixty miles further east, at the aper of the
water shed of the Green Mountsins--a wonderful
locality for such deposit. 1t is the Peak Of
Killington, on the summit of which | erected my
spruce. bough Observatory in 1910, where, at the
still and solemn hour of midnight, | attempted to
measure the intensity Of profound s'lence. | was
overwhelmed with the undertaking, and for the mo-
ment became lost to myself. Such is the feebleness
of the human mind"
After this recurrence to his failure to
measure a silence term, he speaks of the
Ausable as follows.
This is wonderful rivera sweet water, that was
born of the lofty peaks of the Adirondack Noun
tans, and is the offspring of the union of cleo
current passing from the Northern seas through
the Gulf of the St. Lawrence on the one side, and
| from the Southern Atlantic through the Gulf Of
Mexico, the other. This is one Of the most won
derful rivers the earth its bed is almost n con-
| tinuous ca taract, and OF them perpendicular
fall Of more than hundred feet. Near its mouth il
presents the deepest chasms, considering theiI
width that have ever seen in a river of its size
They were cut by the river by its power, to the
depth Of one hundred feet in the solid rock. Ii
this deep channel are seen cavities, basins with
waterfalls from which the spray arises in vast col
umns presenting during bright sun the rich and va
ried and beautiful tints Of the rainbow. Travelled
up one of the tributaries Of this river three thou
sand feet, in a less distance than three miles II
might be termed single cataract, Often wa
obliged to hold the bushes to maintain my posi-
tion, or aid me in the ascent.
About the electrical rarentage Of the Au
sable we do not feel so clear as to the won
de-ful features of the High Banks, as the.
are often called here, we consider Mr.. Mer
RAMS statement fully upheld by " the fact
of the case"
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\ LITTLE Boys PRAYER, A little boy after
saying nightly the prayers which had been
taught him, was quite tenacious OF what he
called praying in his own way lie had a
large number of brothers and sisters, whose
needs and peculiarities he sometimes made
the subject of his petitions. On one occasion,
at commencing this exercise, he was overcome
with sleep. Wrestling with bis stupor he
said
"Oh Lord, bless Elizabeth, and make her
better than she is.'
His head fell back on his pillow, but soon
rousing, he murmured, drowsily, "Bless Hen
ry too II was in vain the tongue refused
its oiEce--so he added, indistinctly
"Oh Lord, | can't there are too many of
EN- and he sank into the deep sumber Of
childhood.
At an other time, while conducting this
exercise in somewhat more wakciul manner
he said
Lord, please to bless father, and give
him new heart. BE 80 kind as to bless
Mary my little sister, and give her new
heart. Oh Lord bless mOther-but you neeC
not give her a new heart, for she could not
have any ottcr one than she's got and
don't see how she'd go to work to be any
! better woman than she is now.
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The Irish census tables just published re-
port that in one year there were 81 40 deaths
Iron siarratonI The editor of the Medical
Times, commenting upon this appalling state
mcnt says The figures must be far short OF
the truth. Tho narrowing details given in
the body of the report leave no doubt that
multtudes perished by the wayside and in
the cheerless Irish howell whom neither po-
licemcn nor coroner's inquest ever took note
of.