Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-05-15
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to renew our failing faith in humanity" and
of acknowledging the reception of "good
bill > in place of the 4" counterfeit " one spoken
of two weeks since. The gentleman who hand
ed it to US. has, from our description, recognized
it as bill which he. took of person of his &C.
quaintance, and after redeemng it has passed it
back to its owner. The moral obligation which
prompts a man to make PREPARATION for deeds in
which he has good reason to know he shall never
be discovered, is not wholly dead, although we
confess to belief that there are but few,
who possess that integrity. We hope many
will catch the disease and remember the printer
From Texas The Galveston Nelos says that
the increase in the culture of wheat is very rap
id in Texas, and in five years she will supply
her own broadstuffs In the western counties
Of the State the wheat crop will not he so good
this year as it was last. The crop of sugar will
he small, the severe frost of last winter having
destroyed much of the atoon. The Indians are
still very troublesome, but the San Antinio Tea
an says the Mexican commanders on the Rio
Grandc frontier are taking strenuous measures
against the Lipan Indians in Mexico to drive
them into submission before new difficulties arise
with the State of Texas. The Texan SAYS:
We learn that the Mexican Col. Zuazua,
with force of 400 men, has surprised Lipan
camp, and taken prisoners the whole party,
amounting to about 100 persons of every sex
and age On his way to Monterey, the men
having evinced some disposition to mutiny, 40
Of them were shot on the spot.
The civil and military authority on the from
tier of the Rio Bravo, have ordered out all the
men able to mount on horseback, to watch the
passes, and thus effect the determination of the
remains Of the Lipan tribe"
An amendment has been proposed to our
Patent Laws in the Senate, to allow persons in
Canada to take our U. S patents on the same
conditions as our own citizens.
CANADA The permanent seat of government
Of the Provinces has been fixed by the Parla-
ment at Quebec.
While the discussion in regard to seat of
government was going on in the Canadian Par
lament representatives from both Upper and
Low Canada declared that if the wishes of
their particular province were dsregarded, they
would seek another state Of political existence,
The Legislature Of Massachusetts, has passed
by decided majority, q bill which provides for
the annexation Of Chelsea to Boston, subject to
the approval Of the citizens Of the t,Oo places.
NEED OF ARAILRoAD.-The North Un,on says
the people of West Charleston have had but
one mail from Boston for q week.
Mr. Thackeray is expected to return to Eng
land during the month of May.
The underground railroad conductors boast of
having run seven negroes from Kentucky thro'
Cincinnati last week, on their way to Canada.
The South Side (Va.) Democrat states that
cx-Prcsdent Tyler is about to deliver Il lecture
upon " the dead of his Cabinet"
1t is estimated that there are now in store on
Lake Ontario and the Upper Lakes, 100000
barrels of -four, and 1,584,0OO bushels Of
wheat.
At a meeting at the Office of the Portuguese
Consul in New York, on the 9th, subscription
was opened, and $2l 900 were put down for the
relief Of sufferers at Cape de Verde Islands.
The extensive car mandatory Of Ridgway
& Co., was entirely destroyed by fire on Sunday
evening, together with all its contents. Los;
estimated at 100000. Supposed incendiary.
The Worcester Transcript establishment wat
sold at auction on Monday morning, for the sun
of sixteen hundred and fifty dollars. William
H. Hooper, Esq, Of Worcester, was the pur
chaser.
The Philadelphia police and fire telegraph
went into operation on Saturday, and mum
Der of experiments proved highly satisfactory
The Gar Of Russia has issued ukase abol
ishing serfdom in that country.
Fifteen persons died in West Windsor durin,
the month of March, over eighty years of age
A schooner was wrecked near Blker's Island
last week, and three persons persisted.
Mrs Myra Clark Glines has entered anothe
suit for recovery of property. This time tn
amount is over 81 100000
A Car wheel broke and precipitatcda a train o
freight cars off an embankment on the Cheshir
Road, recently.
Two children were nearly poisoned to dealt
at Manchester, N. H., last week, from digging
up and eating the roots of water hemlock, whic
they thought were artichokes.
SPURIOUS ACCIDENT. From the North Unto
we learn that pair Of horses, valued at fiV
hundred dollars, together with the harness
and forward wheels Of wagon, belonging
Aonzo Bcmis of the Willoughby Lake Hous
were lost through the ice on Willoughby LAX
Mr.. B. had sent his team with some passenge
who had arrived late, to overtake the stag
and passing across the Lake, when they had a
rived within about one fourth of mile of Il
northern end, the ice broke and the hors
drowned. The passengers and driver were wi
difficulty saved.
The Washington Union of recent date
vors the admission of the Soft delegation fro
New York into the G ncnnati Convention,
s,ys that both delegations are sound enoug
hat that the Hards are contaminated by Nat
ism, and are not begotten of regular nomr
ton.
John H. Langdon of Washington, and p
fessed gambler was murdered in st. Louis on
Both ult.
AT the city election In Philadelphia, the
chanan Democracy were successful against t
separate tickets of the Americans and Repul
cans. Had they been united they would hi
swept the city by large majorities.
At the municipal election in Wilmington,
c., on the 9Th, the Americans were successful
SHOOTING AFFAIR. Mr. Herbert. member
Congress from California, got into dilicu
with the walters at Wizards Hotel, on the s
and during the melee shot the head waiter, k
Ing him Instantly. From the reports it appt
that the act was done in self-defense
A smashup occurred on the Michigan R
road, near Davenport, Iowa, killing ten
twelve persons.
FIVE EcMpsEs An exchange paper says til