Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1860-02-23

enterprising commercial Houses, Mr.. M. T.
Courser and Adams kellogg, of this village,
were aboutuniting their business. Weare since
informed that no such consolidation has been
contemplated by these enterprisng and prosper
Gus young men.
Mrs. Ingalls, Of Vernon, was frozen to death
while returning home from visit on Friday of
week before last
The disunionistS of the Goth Congressional
District met at Hydepvrk and elected Lucius
Robinson, of Newport, and H. B. Smith, of
Milton, delegates to the disunion Convention at
Charleston.
A subscriber says, " stop my paper, because
the Masonic Lodge is in the Freeman Build
ing" adding that Washington cautioned us to
" beware of secret societies." Now we are not
q Mason, but Gen. Washington was, and we
wonder what that subscriber will say to that.
Mary Fuller, young girl imprisoned in the
Ohio Penitentiary for counterfeiting, made her
escape on the LIST instant from the fifth story of
the prison, by passing out of her window and
passing along the side of the building, upon the
cornice OR water table, about Is inches broad.
Passing along the front of tho building, at the
immense height of fifty or sixty feet. from the
ground, with nothing to hold to, and upon the
projection scarcely visible2from the ground, she
reached, at the distance of about forty feet from
her room window, Llace where it was necessa-
ry for her to jump about twelve feet to the roof
of the west wing. The leap was taken, proved
safe one, and the dauntlcss woman next fas-
tened to the corner of the roof a rope which she
had made Of her bedding, grasped it in her
hands, and swinging from the roof passed down
on the outside of the wall over windows where
other convicts were sleeping, and down to the
terra frnld, where, at the distance of forty-hve
feet below the roof, she alighted in the arms of
confederate.
One Mrs Homely, of Irasburgh, prevented
the officers from Selling some liquor, a few days
since, by " squatting it. The Standard
calls her " squatter sovereign"
There is to be missionary convention held
at Montpelier the 9th and 28th insts. Five
returned missionaries are expseted to be present,
Reverends Lindley, Scudder, Perkins, Walker
and Clark, together with the Messrs. Treat and
/ Warren.
SLAVERY PROHIBITED IN KANsAs.--The Terri
torial Legislature passed the bill prohibiting
slavery in Kansas on the Sd day of this month.
1t is said that if the Governor should veto the
bill, 1t will be passed nevertheless, as all but
six members of the House voted for it.
ANOTHER SLAYER CAPTURED. The ship Alarm,
Capt Hughes, from Calcutta, which arrived at
Boston, Feb. 9TH, reports having left at st.
J Helena, December 9th, the bark Orion, of
New York, Capt. Morgan, which had been cap
tured as a Shaver by the British steamer Pluto
and delivered to the U. S. steamer Mystic.-The
Captain was imprisoned at St. Helena by order
OF the American Consul The Orion had on
board when she was captured 1923 slaves, of
whom l52 died before reaching st. Helena.
BLACK PROPERTY VS.. WHITE MEN-South
Carolina has a free White population of 274,
SOB and elects siT Representatives, to Congress.
New Hampshire has a free white population of
3l8 ,456 and elects only three Representatives to
Congress The black &" slave property" of
South Carolina, therefore, has Just as much
representation in Congress as the whole free
white population of New Hampshire.
For some years we have heard nothing of Flax
UerSuS Cotton. The expense of preparing the
fiber for manufacture being too great for sue.
cessful competition with the Southern staple
Stephen M. Allen, of Boston, has for years CON.
tinued his experiments and is now confident
that he has discovered methods of preparing the
article 50 cheaply that it will prove more re-
munerative for manufacture than cotton.
Mr.. elias E. Cheney of Thetford, was burned
to death on the morning of the 9th instant, to-
gether with the dwelling house, and contents,
which he occupied. He was the only occupant
of the house at the time of the fire, and was
about 65 years of age. Nothing certain is
known of the origin of the fire, but suppose it
might havo taken from a bbl of ashes in the
shed. The buildings were insured for about
$500.
Somebody set fire to school house in Wal
den, recently. The house and all the books in
it were burned Some boy didn't want to 20
to school any more, probably.
Israel Lawton of Wilmington, while attend
ing his sons wedding few weeks since, was
struck with paralysis, and has since died
Joseph Martin Of North Troy, cut his knee
slightly, a few weeksago, while chopping wood.
The wound was neglected, he caught cold, in
: famation set in, and that little cut caused his
J death. lie leaves wife and several children.
At Saxton's River, last Tuesday, fifty gallons
Of liquor belonging to A. K. Wilder, landlord
of the tel, were seized by the authorities
MIR. Wilder was fined $50 and costs, and tho
liquor destroyed. Immediately after tho seiz-
ure Mr.. Wilder cut down his sign and closed
his house.
Mr.. Allard Of Plymouth was fined $50 and
costs, January Is, for selling liquor contrary to
law, aud in default of means was committed to
I mil.