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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08

You are a governess. What can you
teach? he asked suddenly and iercely,
thrusting his face in mine.
Manners l replied calmly.
Ha teach me
You mistake yourself l said, adjusting
my mittens. Your manners require not
the artificial restraint of society. You
are radically polite, this impctuosity and
terociousness is simply the sincerity which
is the basis of a proper department.
Your instincts are moral your better
nature, | see, is religious. As St. Paul
justly remarks-see chapter &. 8, 9 and 10
He seized heavy candlestick and threw
it at me. | lodged it submissively but
firmly.
Excuse me- he remarked, as his un-
der jaw slowly relaxed. Excuse me
Miss Mix, but [ can't stand St. Paul !.
Enough-you are engaged.'-E. Bret
Harte'S Condensed NoueZs.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
A Capital Parody of "Jane Eyre"

THE HEROINE Is ENGAGED FOR A
GovERNEss.-Mr. Rawjester deliberately
turned his back upon me and remained ST.
lent for twenty minutes. l drew my shawl
more closely round my shoulders and
closed my eyes.
You are the governess?" at length he
said.
l am sir.
a creature who teaches geography,
arithmetic and the use of the globes-a
wretched remnant of femininity-a skimp
pattern of girlhood with premature flavor
of tea leaves and morality. Ugh.
l moved my head, silently.
Listen to me, girl he said sternly.
This child you have come to teach-my
wards not legitimate. She is the off
All. Miss Mix, what do you think of me
now?'
Il admire l replied calmly, your sim
cerity. A mawkish regard for delicacy
might have kept this disclosure to your
self. | only recognize in your frankness
that perfect community of thought and
sentiment which should exist between
original natures
Il looked up; he had already forgotten
my presence, and was engaged in pulling
off his boots and coat This done, he sank
down in an armchair before the fire and
ran the poker through his hair. | could
not help pitying him. Presently he turned
without seeing me, and placed his foot alb
sently on my lap. | affected not to notice
it. But he started and looked down.
You here yet, Carrothead? All, !
forgot. DO you speak French
'Oui naonSieur'
Taisez rous,' he said sharply, with
singular purity of accent. | complied
The wind moaned fearfully in the chimney
and the light burned dim. shuddered ii
spite of myself. All I. you tremble. girl.
1T is fearful night
Fearful. Cali you this fearful, ha ha
Look you wretched little atom; look.
and he dashed forward and, leaping out o.
the window, stood like a statue in the pelt
ing storm, with folded arms. He did no
stay long, but in few minutes returned
by way of the hall chimney. | saw by
the way that he wiped his feet on my
dress that he had again forgotten N,
presence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08

THE New THEORY OF SHOOTING STARS.
A curious confirmation of Sir John Her
schel's theory of the origin of shooting stars
is now attracting public attention In Great
Britain. 1t will be remembered that Sir
John, at the recent meeting of the British
Association at Dundee, stated his opinion
at length, that the light of comets and of
shooting stars was identical in nature, and
that their substance was probably also
idendical He believed that meteors in
general had their origin from comets, and
though he would not deny that there might
be exceptions to this law, he thought it
would be found to be of almost universal
application.
The novelty of the theory made a great
sensation among the savans, and many of
them thought it impossible to reconcile the
theory with the periodical showers in No
vember, which seemed due to the passage
of the earth through a vast multitude of
meteoric bodies revolving in regular or
bit. But Prof Admas, the distinguished
discoverer of the planet Neptune, has, in
an unexpected way, confirmed Herschel's
theory By profound calculations of the
orbit which the supposed meteors must fol
low to conform to observations long made
he finds that the revolution cannot be made
in 354 or ST. days, as Prof. Newton sup
f'>,>-~, 49, l--:e- &C +h, nre-
diction of the great shower last November
but must cover a period Of 80 25-10O
years, and the orbit must extend beyond
the orbit of Uranus. He is inclined,
therefore, to abandon the theory of innu-
rperahla rnateorS in revolution as untau
able By another series of calculat tions he
finds that the revolution of telescope
Yailler's comet. discovered by Tempel,
January, 1867, comedies almost identically
with the meteoric orbit needed to explain
the November showers, and though, at the
time of publishing these observations, he
had not apparently heard of Herschel's
theory, he gives his own opinion that the
meteoric shower must take its rise from this
newly discovered comet. His report will
awaken new interest in the scientific
world.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08

Though the planet of Love has grown DINNER,
And threatens to vanish from sight
Though the pale star of Hope gives a glimmer,
And nought but glimmer, tonight
Still the planet and star are above me,
And neltnef HAS Icru s-- oao6.
Though my lady refuses to love me,
She says that she would if she could.
They have plighted her troth to another-
Sne pends 70 the cruel
Of a tyrannous father and mother
Which sewers the heart and the hand.
When pleaded my depth of devotion,
She said-or misunderstood
That she might not encourage the notion,
But certainly would if she could.
Can ever be happy wonder,
With any one else for a wife?
No; the fates that have torn asunder
Have made me n Ceebs for life.
But Pve still a reflection to cheer me
And brighten my bachelorhood-
Yes; my love in declining to hear me
Confessed that she would if she could.
London Fun.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
in Answer to 0'S Queries.

MR. EpIToK i read in the columns of the
FREEMAN last week four queries In regard to
Sodom and Gomorrah, and the Dead Sea.
In regard to query first, we would say that
Van Egmcnt and Heyman both state that
there was large lake, called the Sea of the
Plain. in the Vale of Siddim, which received
the waters of the Jordan and other rivers OF
the plain. before the destruction of those cit
les that their destruction only enlarged and
changed the name of the sea, which was
called the Dead Sea afterward, from the great
number of dead that were lying beneath its
waters.
Second, with regard to what becomes of
the vast quantity of water poured into it,
we would say it cannot evaporate, for it
would require about twenty-seven times as
much heat to perform this work as any por-
tion of the torrid zone ever receives, and this
lake is situated bstween 81 and 80 degrees
north latitude. we are curious onough 10
ask the question, how do travellers know, as
s.O O" asserts, that there is no subterranean
outlet? Have they explored its entire bot
tom? Every writer we have read speaks of
its depth as unknown.
The Caspian Sea receives the waters Of the
Volga, the Ural, the Attruck, the Kur, the
Kill Oxygen, and many other rivers, beside
which the Jordan would only be ripping
brook 1t has no visible outlet, yet its wat
ers do not increase. Evaporation cannot b,
, the means by which it's burden of waters es
capes it has therefore almost become an All
ON for wears that it has some subterraneal
? outlet If it has, why may not the Deat
C Sea? The Aral Sea receives the waters G
: the Sihon and the Amoo or Oxus, each c
which is larger than twenty Jordans, yet
- has no visible outlet Lake Balkash, Iss
@ Kul, Kara Kul, Zurrah, Bakhtegan, Urum
n ah, Swan, Lop and many other lakes OF ives
It ern Asia, receive large rivers and yet hav
O no visible outlets We find many lakes sin
a ilarly sitnated in the western part OF tt
e United States, among which are the Mu
-e Lakes, Great Salt Lake, Pyramid LAX
v Walker Lake, Humbolt Lake, Eagle Lax
and many others haste forbids to mention
t. In the western part of Asia the Zenderot
C. and the Kiveh pour their vast flood OF waite
g. into the desert Of Persia and are lost.
N the sands of the Persian desert drink up Il
. waters of these rivers, it is not difhcult
r conceive that the water of lakes disappea
u in the same way.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08

Again, the Jordan, according to Josephus'
flows from Phiala to Panion underground.
Leaving the cave of Panion, it crosses the
bogs and fens of the Semichonitis; and after
a course of fifteen miles passes under the
city Of Julias, the ancient Bethsaid then
expands intoa beautiful sheet of water named
the lake of Gennesareth; and after flowing
onward again through the plain empties
itself into the Dead Sea If the Jordan
flows, as Josephus informs us, under ground
part of its course, it does not seem to us to
be contrary to reason that the Dead Sea may
other body of water.
Either of the methods mentioned above
would appear to us reasonable.
In reply to third query, think that the
fresh water from the rivers, being lighter
than the water of the Sea, would float on the
surface, and counteract the tendency to form
crystals and also to dissolve the crystals
partially formed, SO that the accumulation
of salts at the bottom would be very small
indeed, if any. The quantity of water is not
diminished, and its capacity for holding in
solution the various salts remains unchanged.
According to the reasoning of 90" the
ocean would be filled up in time.
Fourth, q Whence these salts" for
the waters of the rivers are pure, fresh and
sweet? 1t is not certainly known from whence
the ocean, the Mediterranean, the Caspian,
and many other seas, obtain the substances
which their waters hold in solution; but as
those bodies of water where volcanoes exist
are impregnated with volcanic materials, it
is supposed that other bodies of water derive
their foreign substances from vast beds of
Morrisville Vt
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08

SEEING THE CHrPs FLY-Some years
ago, young New Highlander found him.
self in the back part of Pennsylvania,
ashore as to the means of living. In this
strait he applied to wealthy Quaker in
the neighborhood for help. aa
&c 1 will furnish thee with work, anC viii
pay thee for it, friend,' said the Quaker
but it is not my custom to give aims to
one that is able to labor like thee" i
"Well, that's all want" said the Yam
kee A." of course, am willing to work"
What can thee do, friend 20
"I will do anything to get little money
to help me out of my difficulties
We'll, there is a log yonder, and there
is an AK. Thee may pound on the log with
the head of the ak, and if the is dilligent
and faithful, 1 will pay thee dollar a
day"
Agreed, I'd as soon do that as any
thing else"
And so the youth went to work and
pounded Justify with the head of the Ak
upon the log.
After time he paused to take breath,
then he began again.
| But after half an hour he stopped, threw
down tLs impatiently and walked away
saying, 50 I'll be hanged if I'll cut wood
without seeing the chips fly -
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
THE WARM LAKES OF CALIFORNIA

The WARN LAKES OF CALIFORNIA
A California letter-writer describes the sim
gular lakes on the Oregon border of that
state as "series of marshes-at times
miles of clear, uninterrupted water-ex-
tending north and south upwards of forty
miles, and in places fifteen miles wide, the
mountains making high. steep, rocky
shore on the east, and on the west the lakes
are bordered by the usual variety OF
scenery and formations-varied with low,
dry, alkali fats on level with the tules,
which is the principal vegetable and the
nearest thing to timber ! have seen on the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08

Total DEPRAvITY IN THE CoNCRETE.-
Theologlans sometimes appeal, and very
properly too, to the fact of our teeming
penitentlarles and jails, the super-abound-
ing crime that everywhere prevails in spite
of abundant criminal legislation to prevent
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
The Recent Discoveries in the Arctic
Ocean.

Two interesting letters have been writ
ten by Captain Long, of the bark Nile, and
Captain Raynor, of the ship Reindeer,
concerning the discovery of land in the
Arctic Ocean, already reported by tele-
graph.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

For one Square of II lines less of Nonpareh typs
one insertion, Stoo; for each subsequent ertion -
cents Unless the number OF marked on
the advertisement II will he continued till ordered
made TO merchants and others advertise
ing by the year.
Probate and Commissioners Notices, $500 each.
For notices of Liberations Estrays Formation
Dissolution OF Coparinerships &c, so
insertions, u sent by mail the money accompany
the letter.
Notices in news columns, 10 per line each inss
hon, out no charge made of less than so CENTS
Notices of Deaths aud Marriages inserted gratis but
extended Obituary Notices Poetry will be charged
the rate of five per line.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1868-01-08
lakes. | am told, however, that sage-brush

lakeS. am t0ld, however, tnat Sage-DruSh
islands abound farther north, where the
lakes widen. Ducks, geese and gulls in
Vulnerable are in sight. BY the way, I
should not forget that there is very per-
ceptible current in the lakes, setting north,
and the question arises whether they are
not the out-croppings of large subterra-
mean river. Besides, [ am told that the
water rose in them one foot during one day
last spring, which would require hundred
times more water than the natural water
shed of the surrounding country can pro-
duce. Here, then, may be something of
the solution of the problem of what becomes
of the waters that sink in Nevada"
The TEMPLES OE ATHENS-In the GEN.
ter of the city, on Its western slope, was
the Propyl9a, one of the masterpieces of
of ancient art, also of Pentelic marble,
costing 1000 talents, or S23, 600, 900, when
gold was worth more than twenty times
what it is now. Then there was the Erech-
theum, then temple of Athena Polias, the
most revered of all the sanctuaries of Ath-
ems, with its three Ionic porticoes, and its
frieze of black marble, with its olive statue
of the goddess, and its sacred Enclosures.
ne great temple Vi ZieuS OlN uplus, cOn-
menced by by Pisistratus and completed by
Hadrian, the largest ever dedicated to the
deity among the Greeks, was four stadia
in circumference. 1t was surrounded by y
peristyle which had ten columns in front
and twenty on its sides. The peristyle
being double the sides. and having .
triple range at either end, besides three
columns between the anta at each end of
the celia, consisted altogether of one hum
dred and twenty columns. These were
sixty feet high, and six and half feet in
diameter, the largest which now remain cf
ancient architecture in marble, or which
still exist in Europe. This vast temple
was three hundred and ifty-four feet in
length, and one hundred and seventy-one
in breadth, and was full of statues. The
ruins of this temple, of which sixteen coll
umns are still standing, are among the
most imposing in the world, and indicate
grandeur and majesty in the city of which
we can scarcely conceive. The theatre of
Bacchus, the most beautiful in the ancient
world, would seat thirty thousand specta-
tors" Old Roman World" by DR.. Lord.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24
RednctioM 81. Freighls.

Some weeks since petition was sign
ed by the citizens of Montpelier. and
sent to the managers Of the Vermont
Central railroad requesting a mOdifica-
ton OF the rates of freight at this station.
In pursuance ofthe petition, Gov Smith
and Mr.. Taylor, two of the trustees. in
company with Mr.. Merrill, the Super
intendent, and Mr.. Hobart. the Master
OF transportation, met our citizens at
the Pavilion Hotel Thursday, and had
conference in regard to the matter.
Gov. smith stated in detail the occa-
sion of the rates being higher at this
point i'll proportion to distance. than
they were at Burlington. or through to
Chicago, which was in consequence of
competition; at the same time he Thought
the rates at this point were TOO high. and
so far as he was concerned he was will
ing to reduce them he thought the true
policy of the railroad company should
DE To satisfy their customers on the line
OF the road, and that the management
should be of such a character that there
would BET mutual and cordial good feel
ing between the road and the people who
supported it,
Gen. Pitkin, Hon. c. w. Willard. and
Joel Foster, Esq, stated the grievances
of Montpelier. Gov. Smith replied if
the people would indicate what would
be satisfactory to them, the managers
would consider it. Therefore, on mo-
ton Of j. c. Emery, Esq, committee
ofsevern of our merchants were appoint
ed to consider the subject they di5 30
and reported the result, which was ac-
ceded to by the managers of the road.
The result is a modification of 20 TO
p per cent on each class of freight at
this point. The meeting was exceeding
ly harmonious, and the iudicious and
friendly manner in which the petition
of our citizens was received and enter
tanned cannot fail of having an agree
able effect.-Nontpelier Journal.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24
unsAinaton Correspondence.


The Providence Journal recently
had noteworthy leader on this
subject. As Senator Anthony is one of
the proprietors of that paper, it is easy
to infer that it does not speak at random.
We quote two paragraphs rs showing
the origin and worthlessness of much OF
what purports TO be intelligence from
the Capital:
We have frequently referred to the
exceedingly low tone which so common
~ pervades the dispatches and letters
relating TO the impeachment trial, that
are sent from Washington to the press
throughout the country. These COM
munications appear for the most part TO
reflect mere bar-room talk, or at best the
petty gossip of Washington society.
They seem to be designed especially for
the presses to which they are sent,
and they are fitted for no end but
to misrepresentandm islead. The worth
less speculatiOns that chance to be set
GfiOat among neWsmOngers in the en-
ploy of Democratic presses are every day
sent abroad for those presses TO print and
circulate, and the equally idle rumOrs
that are manufactured on the other side
are in like manner forwarded to the Re-
publican newspapers Of the country. \
plain citizen, wholly unacquainted with
The cliques that deal so largely in the
manufacture Of Washington news, would
naturally conclude from the dispatches
and letters daily placed before him, that
the government j. in the hands of ii set
OF desperadOes and that the American
Senate is more venal than that OF Rome
in the worst days Of the Emperors.
There is probably no place in the coun-
try where local opinions ON political
questions are of less value than at Wash
ingtOn These opinions are really of so
little importance, and are controlled by
considerations so petty, that they scarce
~ form any part Of the great and per-
vading public sentiment OF the country.
The population of that city are for the
most part in dependent condition, and
what they think and believe, as well as
VIVA. they say and do, is largely inspired
10y their personal hopes and fears, or by
certain local interests and passions pc
culiar 10 themselves. And Vet out Of
such worthless stuff as this is much of
what IS called Washington C0rrespOn-
dence' daily manufactured, most espec-
ially in connection with this impeach-
meut rial. The political gossip of the
capital very fortunately is not matter
which need affect Senators ofthe ( nited
states, nor any other man of national
position, and nothing Is more idle or
useless than its transmission over the
country through the newspapers Of the
great cities.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24

Rev. II. L. Gross, editor CT the Ball
ston, n, Y, Journal, it is said, has ac-
cepted call to the pastorate of the Bap-
fist Church in Hydeville, VT.
Rev. Henry C. Potter, of Boston, has
accepted the rectorshipof Grace Church,
Episcopal New York, and will assume
the duties of his position on the ist of
May.
A Washington despatch says that Mr..
Seward has made all his preparations to
leave Washington in May. He will not
hold office a week under the Wade adj
ministration and he expects impeach-
ment to succeed. The Seward office
holders in New York are very blue over
their prospects.
DR. Hoffman, one of the oldest physi-
clans of Boston, died on Friday evening
at his residence. He was aman univer-
sally respected. He leaves two sons, also
physicians of much repute.
Hon. Robert b. Hall, SIN eX-member
of Congress and Mason, who had at
tanned to the thirty-third degree, died
in Plymouth, Mass, Thursday morn
ing.
1t is stated that p. T. Barnum has de
cided to retire from public life, and de-
vote his remaining years 30 the cultiva-
ton of his farm near Bridgeport, Conn.
The New York Commercial Adver-
tisero Saturday, although conservative,
highly compliments Judge Poland for
his frank statement OF the grounds on
which the impeachment rests as indi-
Gated in his letter addressed 10 Ex-Gov-
ernOr Fletcher.
Major A. b. Cain, OF the 4th Z. ).
Infantry, in company with his wife,
who have been spending few weeks
with relatives in Rutland left Monday
to join his command, which Is stationed
at Fort Sedpwick. Colorado.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24

NEW EDITION OF SAXE's POENIs.-It
will be seen by the handsome paragraph
below from the atlantic Monthly, that
the many admirers of our Vermont po-
ct, SAKE, will soon have an opportunity
to procure a new and elegant edition of
his poems. The volume will be hand
some one, and in respect of matter as
full and complete as possible:
A new and complete edition OF the po-
ems of John G. SAKE, with numerous
additions and revisions, in one elegant
volume in the style of "Farringford
Tennyson," will shortly be published
by Messrs. Ticknor & Fields. Among
the pieces that will be fresh to the read
er are several lyrics of kind in which
Mr.. Sake excels. His reputation as a
humOrist and satirical writer has blind
ed many readers to the positive and I'M
usual merits of his serious poems. This
volume will contain additional proof
that Mr.. Sake is poet "a well as a wit.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-24

THE LEGAL RIGHTS OF REBELS
An important decision was made in the
3rd District Court of New Orleans, on
the 9th: In July, 1867, suit was in
stituted in the Third District in behalf
of Judah p. Benjamin, Secretary of
War of the late Confederate States, for
the recovery of large fee from Alexan-
der Norton for legal services rendered by
Benjamin & Micou in a suit entered in
the United States Court in 1853 for said
Norton and successfully prosecuted TOR
his benefit through the District and
Circuit Courts. Mr.. Benjamin's claim
was made in his own behalf of the heirs
of his deceased partner, Mr.. Micou. The
amount claimed, was $500 and twenty
per cent upon the judgment obtained
which was for $109, 800. The whole
claim, therefore, was $1,000.
Judge Emerson dismissed the suit, on
the ground that the plaintiff was debar-
red from being heard because he was
IAN unpardoned rebel and public enc
N.Y." and was disfranchised from the
exercise of any civil rights by the laws
Of Congress and the proclamation of the
President.