Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-03-15
ITEMS or NEWS.

The Hudson River is nov open from New
York to Albany, and the season of na7l CATION
has commenced.
! Allen j. Nheelock. extensive mluuiactur-
/ ers of firearms. of Worcester, Mass, have
steadily refused to fill any orders for arms
where there IS reason t. believe they were
designed to be used against the United States
Government. They have declined several
orders from the South.
y despatch from Atchisoo, March 5, says:
Seventy tons of provisions have been shipped
fer Wyand Jtte and Topeka, in both Of which
places supplies will be kept. The rush for a
few days past has been tremendous. Little
seed wheat. compared with the wants of the
country has yet been received, and it has to
be distributed IN small quantities.
The cause Of I recent boiler explosion a:
Whitneyville, Conn, is said to have been,
that "the brick work caused the FIRE, instead
of heating the under part of the boiler, only
to heat a great portion Of the same abere the
trater."
The Jackson (Aliss.) Bqpiist states that on
the 10Th, while several young men were en-
gagged in putting up cartridges at the shopOf
Mr. Mans.r, one Of the young men dropped
the cnder from q cigar which he was smOk-
ing into Il keg about half full Of powder,
which instantly exploded, breaking al the
windows IL the room, and seriously injurIng
four of the young men. Two of them wele
very badly burned, and all seriously hurt.
The Confederation newspaper, started 10
sooth the declining days of Mr.. Buchanan's
administration. died the day Mr.. Buchanan
left.
.The Legislature Of Delaware, which ad-
iourned on Friday. refused, by large ma
iority, to renew Wood T. !dy i Co.'S Lottery
grant, which expires in few months. They
refused, also, To grant any more Lottery
grants in the Stat.
Freight is now ssnt from Chicago to New
York by rail without trans-shipment, going
over the New York Central and Hudson
River raiIr,a,,e, by way of Troy, where
there is q r4..sJli b,idge over the Hudson
river.
A man named Thompson has been missing
from his home. near the mouth Of the Ausa-
BILE river. for some time He left Keeseville
on the 2lst ult, with a grist of flour, which
aour was afterwards found in the house of
one of his nsirhbOrs. The river was dragged
to find his body.
The Keeseviile Republican says that no clue
has been found to the fate of the missing slr.
Thompson. The persons arrested as likely 10
know something about it, have been dis
charged The impression now is that tThomp-
son must have perished in the storm some
where on the line Of the road between keese-
vile and his home.
There are now Eve ex-Presidents living
Van Buren,, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierea and
Buchanan. 1t can hardly be said OF either
Of them that they went out OF Office with
the same public respect with which they en-
tered upon their duties.
Two distinct shocks or concussIons OF an
e,rtbnuake were felt in Newark Nj on Ihes-
L. about noon. In Bloomfield bells wero
~, and houses shaken. In Orange. doors
were shaken to and fro, while in Patterson,
Belleville. and other places, there were SINH
lar phenomena
Out of 4l0 prisoners for life. sentenced du-
ring the last sixteen years, in New hork'
there remain in the three State Prison. only
90: 243 hav, been pardoned, and AU4 have
died.
Notice is given in the Canadian payers
that an application will be made to paria-
ment for the passage Of law authorizing
the erection Of another suspension bridge at
Niagara Falls. '
The fremont House, Chicago, was raised
4 feat last week. to bring it up TO the nav
straet grade. Ii is one of the largest build
;nss ni in the city. add was raised with scarcely
a crack in the plaster 500 men were em-
nloved. and 900 screws, which raised the
whole building three inches in an hour,
tearing of part OF she foundation which had
not been cut,-a stone wall, 6 feet in depth,
cemented with unusually tough cement. and
resting upon white oak planks, and those IN
turn upon the clay .-as easily IS II iS nad 0een
| of straw. --l---- ?
A gang of eight counterfeiters was arrest
ed AZ Corunna, Michigan, lately, while IN
the act of manufacturing eounserfeis coin-