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Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-03-02
Correspondence Of the Free Press.
LETTER FROM NEW YORK.


New Nork, February 81, 1860.
Saturday mig ght was the fourth concert
night for the Philharmonic Society Of Brooklyn .,
and very good concert it was. The feature Of
the evening was Beethoven's beautiful Seventh
Symphony, by many considered the best of all. I
cannot attespt an essay on it, and should not add
much to your stock Of musical knowledge If
were to you can find out all about it much more
agreeably and fully elsewhere. Some parts Of it
did not particularly please me, but the rest was
sufficiently sweet to more than make up. What a
wonder it is that the deaf old man could write
such music picking it out of his broken stringed
piano. like-there is nothing ike it-pearIs out of
oyster pits perhaps hardly, for the pearls must
have many rub and polish and a rim of chased
gold, before Beauty can wear them.
The vocal music Of the evening was by Madame
Gazzaniga and Mr.. Cooke The concert room is
hardly the place to show Gazzaniga to advan-
tage,-she needs the whirl and excitement of the
stage to bring out her powers. Yet comparative
ly tame and spiritess as must be the rendering Of
an aria, with folded hands beside a piano, she
showed several times what she could do let out
little of the fire that slum5ers behind her eager
eyes and sharply cut face.
Last night " Lucia di Lammermoor" was given
at the Academy of Music, and seldom is it better
rendered either. I do'nOt think any one have
heard, excelIsd a little Patti" as Legion delights
to call her, as Lucia. Many consider the opera
as the height of absurdity. Who sings himself
to death not even the swans, nowadays. But
90 you to see it, and unless you settle firmly back
with the fixed resolve to see nothing but absurdi-
ty in tiff you will give yourself up to the
magic of sweet sounds and impassiOned gestures, a
fitness in such expression of thought and feeling
will show itself to Ou,-the rsfueto will no lon
ger be ai absrdun. How eagerly all eyes fol-
lowed PATHS motions last night how still the
house was, at times
Must there always be copper under the gold
the little body was paintsd-uot that know any
thing about such matters, certainly not, but-yes,
it was punt A lady remarked, 90 Patti
must have bought her new brush, and rhits-
tOash brush at that. We expect they will paint,
but why need they do it so horribly " Why, in
deed.
Another ocean steamer has gone down You
VIII have learned by telegraph before this of the
probable loss of the Hungarian, of Cape Sable. 1t
is considered certain this evening that all on board
have perished This is the fourteenth steamer that
has been lost sincethe commencement of steam nav
cation on the Atlantic, and the second that this
same company have lost The steamer Indian,
which was wrecked last year, you remember, be-
longed to this line. will write you again when
more particulars in.
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HENRY STEVENS

4 The Tribune knows perfectly that the support
rendered by journals which look one way, while
they really rowing another, is often more val
liable and efficient than that of out-and-out advo-
cates-N. Y. Times.
just what an influential Democrat of this
State said to us few months ago about the
help his party was getting from the ~ Y.
Times. "We rely upon the Times, said he,
to - help us elect Douglas-and all the more
efficiently, because it does not come out for
him in plain terms. Every now and then
you see something in it which gives a favora-
bic look to Douglas position. The paper
goes into a great many hands that would not
take it or regard it if it were to avow itself
a Douglas paper. But coming to them as an
Independent paper, and thus looked upon as
a friend rather than an enemy. it gradually
draws their minds over towards Douglas,
without their being aware of it. In time we
feel sure it will come out openly for him, and
of course it will carry great many Of that
sort of readers with it,
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-03-02

MR B. B. NEWTON, of st. Albans, who
was summoned before the John Brown In
vestigating Committee at VI Nash1ngton, sub
sequently attended the trial of Stephens and
Haslitt, and has since been interesting him
self in efforts to procure pardon or commu-
tation of their sentence. He is in Burlington
to-day, but goes on to Richmond, Va, in a
day or two, in company with Mr.. Sennott,
and with letters from influential men which
it is hoped may influence the Governor or
Legislature of Virginia in favor of the two
young men, whose crime, at worst, is really
by the laws of Virginia, only what they call
Murder in the second degree" and not
punishable with death but whose death we
fear is not to be prevented or postponed BY
any thing that northern men can do. Still it
is right that the effort be made.
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PERILoUs ADVENTURE. correspondent OF
the Vermont Chronicle gives an account OF
the ascent of party of four couples OF ladies
and gentlemen to the top of Mount Mansfield,
on Thursday the 9th inst.-the day preceding
the Friday on which occurred the great gale
which was so severely felt throughout New
England as follows
"Four courageous couples of ladies and gentle
men passed the night of the 9th inst, at the Sum
nit House on Mount Mansfield. The enterprise
was exceedingly hazardous The snow for
the last mile and half of the ascent is from six
to eight feet deep. But road has been kept open
by the workmen who engaged in hauling up
lumber for the addition that is to be erected to the
Summit House next season. And as the 9th inst
was quito warm, no apprehensions of suffering were
entertained by the party. They were able to get
House, which is half mile nearer than a carriage
has ever been before. They kept themselves COM
Portable enough during the night, but as the
weather had changed to bitter GOODNESS, and the
wind had drifted the snow into the path their
descent the following morning was attended with
much suffering. 1t is believed that had not three
or four of the inhabitants at the foot Of the
tain gone up to meet them liz the morning, some
or all of the party would have perished. The gen.
temen had become quite exhausted in their efforts
to beat road for the horses, and two or three of
the ladies had nearly given up in despair, when
friendly assistance came to their relief The party
arrived at Stowe village six miles from the foot Of
the mountain, about noon, of the 10th, greatly
fatigued. but otherwise uninjured by the exploit
excepting that they had few frozen ears, fingers
and toes" -aQr+i. ~
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NJ | 5 c E l. L A \ I .

WHAT DIVERS MEET WITH UNDER WATER
When the vessel had settled down in a sandy
bottom, il is preserved many months from
breaking up; and its position may be much
the same as it would be when floating in
calm water, if it be not tilted over by any
under current drifts. The light, of course,
depends good deal upon the depth, and
upon the nature Of the bottom hut whore
there is no chalk to give a milky thickness
10 the water, the diver rursues his work in a
kind of gloomy twilight. By the aid Of this
he can see and feel his way round the ship,
but when he ascends to the deck and winds
down into the principal cabins he finds every
thing pitch dark, and has nothing to guide
him but his hands This is the most diff
cult, and yet the most frequent, labo her
he has to encounter; the danger being that
in a large vessel where the cabin stairs are
deep, and the cabins are long and broad, he
NAV get hi air tube twisted around some un-
familiar projections, and so squeeze off his
supply of life from above In positions such
as this he requires all his nerve and self-pos-
session, all his power of feeling his way back
in the exact road that he came. He may
have got the precious casket to which he has
been directed in his arms but what of that
if he die before he can reach the stairs? The
cold, bel pless masses that bump against his
helmet, as they float along the low roof over
bis head, are the decomposed corpses of those
who were huddled together in the cabin
when the ship went down. few of these
may be on the floor under his feet, but only
when pinned down by an overturned table or
fallen chest. Their tendency is ever up
ward, and the remorseless sea washes the
dead infant from its dead mother arms, the
dead wife from her dear husbands embrace.
II the wreck be in the channel, the small
crabs are already beginning to fatten on their
prey. The diver disentangles himself from
this silent crowd, and ascends the welcome
stairs to the deck The treasure he has res
cued is hauled up into the attendant diving
boat, and he returns again to renew his work.
he seldom meets with an accident under wa
ter never, perhaps, with death, and the
chief risk he runs is from getting some heavy
piece of ship lumber overturned on his long
train of air pipe, Even in this case he teel'
the sudden check and the want of air, grope
his way back to the obstruction, removes it
signals TO his companions to be raised, anC
reaches the boat exhausted and alarmed, bu
not so much so as to give up his place IN tn
trade.-AH the Year Round.
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Some thirty years since company In
Montpelier, Vt, undertook the experiment of
boring for saline water in that locality, com
mencing on surface rock few yards from
the shore of Winooski river. The drilling
process was carried on by machinery, pro-
PEELED by water power, and the depth reached
was something over nine hundred feet, we
believe, nearly or quite the whole distance
being lime rock. The only fact OF interest
developed was variance of temperature to
the extent of several degrees between the
surface and the bottom of the well, the bot
tom being warmer than the top. No saline
property was found in the water, which was
too abundant, at times, for the convenience
of the operators. At length the drill broke
off far down in the well, the enterprise was
voted a bore, and indefinitely postponed
Il o,CeH Citizen.
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NEw YORK. Feb. %. 1860.

! NEW YORK, Feb. %. 1860.
| To-day is Wsshingtons birth day, and
am if he were alive to see, he'd be ashamed
/ to be born on such a day. Rain. now a drizzling
mist, again fierce shower, driven clear through
overcoat and all by strong wind overhead, and
such horrors under foot heard it said, in
crossing the ferry from Brooklyn this morning,
that Broadway had been cleaned, over night
the birthday Of Washington, or rather the militia
~ display thereon, proving stronger inducement
than the health or comfort of the city. So hur-
rying up Wall street. plunged into Broadway to
escape the detestable mass of briny slush that
lovingly clings round your feet elsewhere.-
| Plunged yes, that is the word. Shade of Au-
geas if this is Broadway cleaned what is it dirty
/ the filth was knee deep to cross a street
engineering feat worthy of-who is it that builds
such famous bridges But reaching the corner
of the Park it became evident that the street had
been what a New-Yorker calls cleaned, down to
that point. You could see the outline of the
pavement, by mounting one of the piles of dirt
along the gutter.
The military display of the day was melancholy
in the extreme. The procession Of the American
Protestant Association did well enough, for the
worst Of the weather did not set in till they were
nearly ready to march back up Broadway home
Thirty-three lodges composed the procession,
some having large wagons ornamented with the
regalia of the order, and they made as good an sp
pearance as the unpleasantness of the day would
allow. But the unlucky soldiers who started about
2 o'clock P. NJ, and the last Of whose companies
reached the Park about 4, just at the very height
of the storm Patriots indeed, to dare such foes
in honor of Washington How melancholy such
a march, drenched and weather beaten, scarcely
able to hear the dismal beat Of the wet-slackened
drum for the fierce rsttling of the rain, without
the inspiriting shouts of the multitude no fair
eyes watching from crowded sidewalks, but in
stead, plashy walk through streets deserted but
for few umbrellas, and the boys, to whom the
cleansing rain was mercy,-it would have been
ludicrous, if it were not so pitiabIy uncomforts-
ble
THURSDAY MoRyIyG.-A bright clear sky and
warm sun, like April. This should have been
yesterday. Has Leapyear dissrranged the calen-
dar o. Merriam, set it right before another
rainy term comes on.
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SINGULAR CASE OF SoNNAMBULIsM The
Manchester Mirror says that last Thursday
night, during the violent snow storm which
was raging at that time, Mrs. Helper, wife of
George Helper of Fisherville, arose in her
sleep without awakening her nurse, who was
sleeping with her ,and passed out at the back
door, and jumped or fell into a well, 40 feet
deep, containing about two feet of water.
The nurse subsequently awaking missed her,
when search was made and she was at length
found in that precarious condition and extri-
Gated She rad long been fearful that some
of her children would fall into the well, and
had frequently dreamed about it, and had
probably been dreaming on this night of such
an accident and went to the supposed rescue.
She escaped with few slight bruises.
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At the request of many of our best citizens
we very cheerfully mention the name OF FRED
VAN SICKL1N as a candidate for Constable and
Collector for the ensuing year. Mr.. VAN
S1ckLIN is deservedly popular man, and ev-
ery way qualified for the duties of the Offices for
which he is named.-Iimes, Feb. 25.
The thorough and faithful way in which
the interests of the town have been attended
to by its present constable and collector,
SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, Esq, is reason enough
why the great body of the taxpayers ought
to vote against transfer of those Offices to
any other hands whatever, and we are sure
they will do so.
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d" 1t is very lamentable that our friends of the
Free Press should applaud and emulate its fatal
example,
The Times distorts what the New York
Courier and Enquirer says, charges it with
" an utter and shameless abnegation of prin-
ciple" and then laments that the "Free Press
should applaud and emulate its fatal exam
pie" In respect either to what the New
York Courier and Enquirer actually said, or
to what the Times represents it to have said,
not word has appeared in the Free Press to
Justify the remark of the Times "It is very
lamentable that " the Times cannot break it.
self of its reckless or unscrupulous way of
making accusations
Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-03-02
Who will be the candidate of the Repul

Who will be the candidate of the Repub-
lican party in the approaching campaign is
a matter of extreme doubt. This results
from no want of interest in the nomination,
but from general willingness to subordinate
all personal feelings and local pride to the
general good of the party The Republicans
of Vermont, according to our best judgment
and belief. would prefer the election of VIZ.
H. SEWARD to that of any other man. They
believe him to be not only the foremost man
in his party, but the ablest and most far
seeing statesman now living of whom our
country can boast. He is emphatically a
representative of the party in all those dis
tinctive attributes which define Re-
publicanlsm as distinguished from de-
mocracy. He is one of the earliest exponents
of the anti-slavery extension sentiment of the
country, as he Is its ablest advocate on the
floor of Congress. But the Republicans of
Vermont will cheerfully support any man
whom in its wisdom and Judgment, the Chi
cago Convention may nominate, provided he
is man whose Republicanism can be safely
relied on.-PhenI1.
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Yours, &C.,
CONGRESS-.

Nothing of interest occurred in the Senate.
The House was occupied with balloting for
Printer. After two ballots were had, in
which Defrees rather fell off, Mr.. Kilgore of
Indiana withdrew Mr.. Defree's name. Mr..
Dawes of Mass. nominated Samuel Bowles Of
Mass; Mr.. Bowles received 81 votes, and
there was a wide scattering of the rest. Gloss
henner (dem.) receiving "a, three less than
he did on the preceding vote. After some
talk about postponement till Monday, but
without any vote on it. another ballot was
had Whole number of ballots given 1T.
Necessary to choice 49, Edward Ball of
Ohio had 50 Glossbrenner "a scattering 5
Adjourned.
The House occupied some time with
balloting for printer, but with no approach
to an election. .-...... .-.r
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24th.
The Indian Bureau has received official
advice, that the Navajos have at last com
menced a decisive war upon our people. and
are killing the Mexicans along the BIO
Grande. Superintendent Collins says war
with the tribe is now beyond the possibility
Of prevention. 80
The Republicans are to have caucus to-
morrow afternoon, on the subject of
urinter. & t--4LLH9 = i
LEAvENwoRrH, K. T., Feb. oath.
Governor Medary has vetoed the bill
abolishing Slavery in the Territory of Kansas.
The Legislature have taken the, bill up
again and via probably pass IL over his
veto. .Vab-ol szzglco gUc nI sz1sgqa aos
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A FLASH IN THE PAN The committee of the
Virginia legislature appointed to investigate the
Brown invasion, and to report upon it, has come
to precisely the result that might have been e1pec-
ted. They say there is much evidence g to show
the existence in number of northern states OF
widespread conspiracy not merely against Flrc
ginia, but against the peace and security OF
all the southern states. But the careful era
sure of names and dates from the papers
found in Browns posses on, renders it diti
cult to procure legal evidence of the guilt Of the
parties implicated" No doubt of it; there Is
great deal of evidence in the brains of the Viz
ginians, but none to be got at elsewhere: What
has become of the bushel ofletters which Governer
Wise is said to have taken from Browns carpet bag
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less party had left before his arrival. They
had taken different roads, and thus he had
missed them.
The remains of the deceased were brought
to Pembina on Thursday week, and to Fort
Garry on the following day. The body con-
tinued there until yesterday, when 1t was
conveyed to Saint Andrews, and inferred
side by side with Mr.. Mackenzie's g father and
mother.
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20 E T r Y
TFor the Free Press.
SONG OF THE SKATERS ON LAKE
CHAMPLAIN.

CHAMPLAIN.
He, Skaters all, attend the call
Our Ice King halls to festival.
Nov to his court, for joyous sport,
0, sll ye loyal ones resort.
Though polar zone displays his throne,
Yet we his shining sceptre own,
Beneath shield of mail concealed,
Lake pool and stream their homage yield.
In double line, arms intertwine,
Or singly, skim the crystalline,
Wide spread, from shore to headland Ger,
The even surface Of our & oor.
With balance true, We votaries new,
Your scene of future triumphs view,
Well poised on steel, from toe to heel,
Stand firm Of foot, and fearless feel.
Out from the Bay, with easy sway,
Away to Juniper, away
Then wheel aback, upon the track,
Avoiding wisely faw and crack.
So side and side, well smoothly glide.
Along our merry, merry slide,
Across this sheen, aqua marine,
Might proudly float a fairy queen.
Ger all the place, in sportive chase,
Fair maidens move with gentle grace,
In kirtle gay, with eyes whose ray,
Beans cheerful as the clOudless day.
With cheeks aglow, and lips which show
The ruby tide in healthful flow;
o, elfn fair might scarcely dare
With these, her graces to compare.
Fearless we 60, where just below
Vibrates the tide, in restless flow,
Through gloomy halls, with wave washed walls
Hhere voice of gladness never falls.
With snow wreaths crowned, mountains around
Ger look our peerless skating ground,
In light arrsyed, and fitting shade,
By blended cloud and sunshine made
Ho Skaters all, attend the call,
Our ice King holds high festival.
Come, when serene, in Orient seen,
Tb. smiling morn illumes the scene,
Or when the day pursues her way
With rising and declining ray,
When evening fair, with shining hair
sits throned upon the western air,
And vale below, receives the glow
OF tints which from her vesture fow.
Come when the night with satellite
OF orb srrayed in silver light,
And diamond gem, on diadem
And robe,-from zone to trailing hem,
With regal grace, through ambient space,
Reveals the beauty Of her face.
Ho Skaters all, attend the call,
Our Ice King halls to festival
Now to his court, for joyous sport
o, all ye loyal ones resort. c. E. D.
arlington, Feb. 25th.
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A Paris letter thus describes Louis NapO-
poleon, on one Of the spacious avenues of
that imperial city
Driving pair Of splendid bays attached to
box wagon, with the reins in his own hands, and
handling them as though he were accustomed to it,
without any outriders, equerries guards, the
Emperor Napoleon came along the avenue. He
was dressed in black overcoat and a hat which
was of fashion of its own. The points Of his
moustache looked particularly sharp, and his i'm
perial' though it had just come from the bar
bers 1t required a steady hand and quick eye
to guide these dashing horses through the immense
throng of vehicles of every description which filled
the avenue, particularly the driver while keep
ing eye upon their steeds, was obliged with
the other to acknowledge the salutations which he
received on every side, and he kept up contin-
ual bowling. I consider myself a tolerably good
democrat, but 1 took my hat entirely from my
head he passed. A great man is he-he has
been successful. and cant pseudo philosophers
may about it, is the true measure of great
men, after all. The Emperor gives as yet no
signs of age, Che will be fifty two on the 2Oth of
April next) but looks as fresh and young, I
think, as when saw him FIVE years ago, before
he had the whole weight of Europe his shoul-
ders, and the Pope down on him."
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A MELANCHOLY FATE.-SOme three years
ago, typographical engineer in the Russian
service, but Prussian by birth. becoming
involved in some difficulty with the Govern
ment, fed to New York with his wife and
one child, saving also $4,000 of his fortune.
His name was Schultz-C. P, if our infor-
msnt recollects correctly. lie has spent the
intervening time and his entire property in
perfecting an improvement upon the steam
engine, and securing an American and an
English patent for 1t. 1t was at last COM
pleted, and about fortnight ago the first
machine was put up at the paper mill in
West CummIngton, in Hampshire county.
II worked like charm, and, last Friday
the happy inventor wrote to his wife, exult-
ing in his prospect of speedy and abundant
reward for his long labors and promising to
return TO her on Monday On Saturday
evening he went to the mill to observe the
working of the machinery, and while sug-
gesting some slight change, he stepped upon
q belt, was at once drawn under large CYL
inder and instantly crushed to, death The
body was recovered as soon as possible and
on Monday-placed in a plain coffin and ac
companied by a single machInist, who had
learned to be his friend while assisting him
IN putting up his engine-all that remained
Of him who expected to return in the
triumph of successful genius to his family
Was on Its way to New York.-Pittsfeld Ed-
gle