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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

The INSTINCT AND MorIvE OF Dress
1t is utterly useless to try to make any,
thing of human ilk believe that dress is
not Of PRIMARY Importance, that beauty
unadorned has the slightest chance, be-
cause it is not true in fact. however excel
lent in theory. Let a pretty woman neg
lect the amenities of dress, leave all the
accessories of hair, lace. or ribbon adorn-
ment uncared for. and 60 about limp. loose.
and dowdyish, with only her natural
charms to counterbalauce, aod see how
little chance she stands for admiration. A
symetrically cut, gracefully hanging dress;
a bright knot, artisticaily disposed; a soft
delicate bit of lace, makes all the differ
enee 10 the world in the effect woman
produces upon the senses. 1t is a remark
able ia It that, while men make woman's
folly in dress the target at which to let fly
their s1arpest witticisms, it is for man
alone that she INDUCES in these extrava-
canoes. Since the far-awsy times of the
Aspasias land before, indeed). of the Liv-
las, Dl B.rrys, Pompadours. ct al down
to the representatives of Mother Eve, to
day, women are what the Pericles, Alcib-
iades, Kings, emperors, and poets. OF their
periods make them. Men and women
may exist for each other but it it is in an
inverse ratio. women living a great deal
more for men than the converse. To look
ones best for some lordly eyeis the nasur-
al instinct of every loving heart. To have
a fair, healthy-appearing complexion
round, full. yet plant figure soft. white
shapely hands /: glossy, we'll cared for and
fashionsbly arranged hair. are all of them
as much necessities to true woman as the
breath she draws, the food she eats-fol
indeed to be out of the fashion is to be ou
of the WORLDLY. Y. Erening Mail
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20
Two Notable HumbugS.

A writer in one of our exchanges, in an
article on business vagaries," recalls the
old tulip mania which took Holland by
storm, several years ago. The traffic in
flowers excited to actual frenzy whole
towns and cities, destroyed commerce and
universalized gambling, enlisted the greedi-
ness of the rich and the hankerings of the
poor, aised the value of simple root to inf
nitely more than its weight in pure gold,
and which finally ended in bitter despair.
The many we're ruined /; few were, by
bare luck, enriched. Bargains were made
for the delivery of Autumn roots, and
when, as in one case, there were but two
in the market, houses and land, horses and
oxen, were sold to pay the deficiency.
Contracts were made, and thousands of
dollars were paid for tulips, " rare aud un-
rivaled sorts," which, in fact, were never
seen or known Of by broker, by buyer or
by seller. For time, it is true, good
fortune, to greater or less degree. smiled
upon all if some lost, they also won.
Poor persons became wealthy. High and
low traded in the one peculiar flower. To
do this people of all professions turned
their property into cash. and houses and
furniture were offered at ruinous prices !;
the idea spread throughout the country
that the passion for tulips would always be
like that for gold, and, when it was known
that even foreigners were seized with the
fever, the anticipations Of wealth knew no
bounds. That they were sincere in their
belief, is proved by the prices they paid.
Goods to the value Of thousands of forms
were given for one root; another species
commonly fetched two thousand aorins a
third was valued at new carriage, two
gray horses and a complete harness; twelve
acres Of land we're paid for fourth; and
sixty thousand forms were made by one
dealer in a few weeks. Merchants pos
sessed vast or limited capital in proper
tion to the magnitude or insigniicance Of
their tulip roots. Daughters were portion
ed with few ounces magui6cently, and
noblemen of the highest consideration AMI
family Importance vested their possessions
in perishable vegetable that could be
carried in . tea-cup. When the bubble
burst-as Of course it did-and the panic
came, it is stated that defaulters we're an
nounced in every town in holland, dreams
Of wealth were dissipated. and they Who,
. day or . week before, rejoiced in the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

An Ohio paper tells very strange and
startling story of the revelation made bya
stroke Of l. shtn,ng few days since. The
stroke. it seems, prostrated a splendid
gro, ,e of oaks in the Miami Valley. Among
them was one which was rent asunder from
top to bottom and, according to the narra-
tor. the trag uents, in fall'og apart. dis
gorged a gaunt skeleton, yellow with age.
which instantly fell to pieces and was scat
tered over several feet of the surrounding
pasrurage. With the remains were also
found few buttons of ancient pattern and
leather pocket book in a good state OF
preservation This pocket book told the
sad and tragic story of the disentombed
skeleton Il contained papers which were
brown and discol red, and were covered
With rude penc l,ngs, scarcely ieg'ole. but
enough could be deciphered to show that
they had been written by soldier in the
revolutionary army. man in fact who had
been an aid and companion of General
Washington. His name was Roger Van
Ienburg, and he held the rank OF Captain.
After participating in the privatloas OF
Valley Forge. and in the retreat across the
Jerseys, and serving brief time at West
Point. be marched with St. Clair against
the northwestern Indians. On November
3. 179l. he was wounded and captured BY
the redskins. He subsequently escaped,
however. and being hard pressed by his
savage foes, he took refuge in an oaS tree.
rne hollow afforded convenient retreat.
aud he allowed himseIf to drop into IT.
Tuen, too late he found that he had mis-
calcua ted the depth of the hollow, and
there was no escape. Toe remaining hours
of bis life we're spent in writing diary.
the entries of which show terrible record
of human suffering, and during a period
of eleven days he painfully described his
sensatioas as he felt himself slowly starv-
ing to death. The story is certainly a
stran ge one, and there is really nothing
Improbable about it.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20
For the Freeman.
massachusetts, Memorial NtatueS for
the Capitol at Washington.


I, has finally been decided that the two
s.o,nes to be furnished by this State shall
,-oscnt the settlement of the country and
.ho var of the revolution. Governor Win
.h-,r,s name and statue have been selected
- .ba committee who have had the matter
:. .borge to emblemze the settlement or CO.
lor,al period, and Samuel Adams was desig-
mated by the Legislature rs the proper person
n mark the revolutionary period.
Tbore Is now in Mount Auburn Chapel a
ro-v fine and expressive statue of Governor
Winthrop in a sitting posture, by Richard
: Greepough; and the same artist has been
ooo,n;ssioned to furnish the statue of Mr..
U,,tbrop for Washington. which is to be in
standing position. Mr.. Greenough visited
the chapel few days since and took mask
Of the Governors face, and now has the
-,o5sl completed at his studio in Newport,
RI.
Miss Whitney of Belmont, an artist oi
considerable merit and experience, and ol
rising fame, has received the commission tc
.,ecute the statue of Samuel Adams.
TIE selection of the latter named gentle
mans statue to grace the Washington gal
1sry gave great satisfaction to the old schoo
Jefferson and jackson Democrats; while the
selection of Governor Winthrop pleased the
members of the old leading families of Mas
sacbusetts, aud all seem to feel we'll satisfied
with the selection of the two men to repre-
sent the two periods named.
1t is to be hoped that the dead men will
make more honest representatives than SOME
of the living ones,
VERHoNTER IN BosToN
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

"KEEPING =" ANIMAL LIFE IN IcE.-
Some curious facts with respect to the
freezing Of certain animals have long been
known. During his voyage to Iceland, in
1928 or 1899. Gainmard, having exposed
in the open air box flied with earth In
which toads were put, opening it after n
certain time, found the reptiles frozen,
hard and brittle: but they could be res
tored to life when put in warm water,
Many ancient authors cite similar Cases
and we can almost bring ourselves to unr
derstand bow great Eoglish physioIogls
might for moment have given thelL the
whimsical Interpretation that be did.
John Hunter fancied that it is possible to
prolong life indefinitely by placing man
in a very cod climate. and there subject
ing him to a periodical freezing. The
man, he said, would perhaps live thous-
and years, if, at the end of every ten years.
he were frozen for hundred, then tbawed
out at the end of the term for ten years
more, and SO continuously. "Like ali in
veutors," Hunter adds, al expected to
make my fortune by this scheme. but an
experiment completely underceIved me. I"
Putting carp into freezing mixture, be
observed, in fact, that. after being entirely
frozen, they were dead, past recovery.
The case is the same with all other an,-
mails, as the late and very remarkable ex-
periments of 3. A. Poucbet have proved.
The influence of cold on organized be-
iugs varies, according as We regard supe-
rior animal or the inferior species. In
general, it may be said that it requires q
very low surrounding temperature TO chill
many animals, because the vital heat they
develop resists the process with energy.
Yet the mammals Of arctic reglons,in spite
of their thick coat of fur, can only brave
the temperature of the pole-sometimes
equal to 400 (oent) below zero, the freez-
ing point of mercury-but living under
the snow, where they make their lair. The
Esquimaux, too. dig huts in it. where they
pass their wretched days. When the
organism can neither react nor protect il
self against temperatures 50 low, death by
freezing quickly overtakes it. The body
is stiffened, and retains afterward . state
of remarkable incorruptibility. Every one
knows the story Of The antsdiluvian nam.
moths, discovered in the polar ioe, where
they had been buried. - fresh - animals
just dead. While beat destroys the tis-
sues, cold preserves them -Dr. P&pilZox.
IN Popular Science MonsAy.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

FANNY FERN ON SoNs-IN-LAw.-" How
any young fellow can have the face to
walk into your family, and deliberately
ask for one Of your daughters, surprises
me. That it is done every day does not
lessen my astonishment at the sublime
impudence of the thing. There you have
been, eighteen or twenty years of her lite.
comb;ng her hair and washing her face
for-himt 1t is lucky the thought never
strikes you while you're doing it, that this
is to be the eId of all. What if you were
married yourself? That is no reason why
she should be witched away in separate
establishment just as you begin to lean
upon her and feel proud of her; or, at
least, it stands to reason, that after you
have worried her through the measles, the
ehicken-pox, scarlet fever and whooping
cough. and had her properly vlcciuated.
this impudent young man might give You
aishort breathing time before she goes. He
seems to be of different opinion he NO,
only insists upon taking her, but upon TAX
ing her Immediately, if not sooner. He
talks we'll about livery well; you have
no objection to him, not the least in the
world. except that when the world is full
of girls, why couldn't he fix his eye on
the daughter of somebody else 7 There
are some parents who are glad to be rid OF
their daug ghters. Blue eyes are as plenty
as berries why need it be this particular
pair? Isn't she happy enough as she is
Don't she have meat, and bread, and
clothes enough, to say nothing of love
What is the use of leaving certainty for
an uncertainty, when that certainty is a
mother, and you can never have but one
You put all these questions to her, and she
has the sauciness to ask if that was the
way you reasoned when father came ioI
you. You disdain to answer, of course
1t is mean lodging of the question. Bu
she gets round you, for all that; and SC
does he, too, though you try your best MOI
to like him and with we'll, If l must
L must" you just order ter wedding
clothes. muttering to yourself the while
Dear, dear, what sort of fist will that
child make at the head of house? How
will she ever know what to do In this, that
or the other emergency ?-she who is call
ing on mother fifty times day, Il
settle every question-what folly for be-
to set up house Tor herself. How many
mothers have had these foreboding thought
over daughter. And yet that daughte
has met life, and its unexpected reverse
with heroism and courage as undaunte,
as if every glrlish tear had not been kisse,
away by lips that. alas! may be dus
when the baptism and womanhood come.
upon her,"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

erty the former receivers and managers With |
out impairing by one jot or little their re-
eponsibility to the owners of the trust estate
for all their acts 1t ordered the settling OF
their accounts in full, and leaves them open
to inspection and objection, holding these
officers in it's direct custody and under it's
orders until the last farthing is settled and
for. 1t places the new company
precisely in the same position which the old
receivers occupied as regards its accouuta-
biIity and responsibility and under bonds of
one million dollars as an additional security
for the faithful discharge of its duty.
This is the " corrupt Vermont COURT" the
elave and tool of the ring monopoly!
The writer does not pretend or wish to
enter upon the merits of this contest outside
of the courts. He does not enter in any
wise upon the question whether citizens OF
this State who have always hitherto possessed
the respect and confidence of the people,
have suddenly developed into villains and
thieves, or whether the wires which rule and
order the contest are pulled by stock,job-
bers and speculators, whose names are only
known in the circles of finance.
But he is persuaded that we are now for
the first time in a way to find out the truth,
and when in obedience to the order Of the
court the accounts of the outgoing receivers
and managers are presented for settlement,
the real matters at issue will be fairly and
squarely reached, and he believes, with
every true Vermonter, that in the courts of
this State, traduced by a venal and hireling
press in vain against the testimony of our
knowledge and of our experience, if any
tribunal under Heaven those who have in
any wise been wronged will find justice both
quick and sure.
Here at home these ISLANDERS upon our
Judiciary will be received with the contempt
they merit, but when within our own bor-
ders are found men sitting in editorial chairs
whose eyes should be undazzled by any vel,
low glitter, pen and publish unblushing as
sertions that our Judiciary department is cor
rupt and rotten, the tool of despotic rail
way monopoly; that Homer E. Royce hai
been bought with price, and that Timothy
P Re field as a matter OF courtesy assenteC
to and supported decision he knew to be
unsound and corrupt. it is time, for the hon.
or of our State abroad, it is time for you
true menbers of the Vermont press, and
every one of you, boldly, honestly and faith
fully to speak. VERMONT.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20
For the Freeman.
Seward.

Drifting apart are the ships that lay,
Only little year away,
Side by side through the golden day.
Holy and sweet were the moments all,
Soft and light was the shadows fall,
When the tide dropped down from the surf beat wall
Darker and deeper the shadow grew,
Fainter and fainter the light shone through,
Out of the heavens hidden blue.
Day went down in a leaden sky,
And silently glided one fair ship by,
Freigh ted and trimmed, with its lamps hung high ;
Seaward set, for the vewless shore,
Calmly sailing the dark waves DER
And love and faith the freight it bore.
Drifting apart and yet it may be
Nearer far than our dim eyes see
Lieth the land of all mystery
But when our souls in dim eclipse,
Feel the angel of the Apocalypse
Set his seal upon our dumb lips,
Dropping down the fathomless sea,
Freighted and trimmed may ships be,
Seaward set for eternity.
Maria r. Baker.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20
Are We a TaCiturn People ?

1t is said that when DR.. Franklin once
visited an obscure village, where he pro-
posed to stay over night, he had such a
lively sense of the inquisitiveness of the
people, that he requested his landlord to
invite all his neighbors 10. whercupon the
Doctor told them just who he was, where
he was going, and all the other particulars
which otherwise would have given them q
great deal of trouble to find out. This
anecdote always used to be considered
quite illustrative of the habits of our
countrymen, who, said British scribbler,
years ago, were competent to talk the
leg off an iron pot" Sam Slick, Jack
Downing and the other professional hu-
morists have done their share to spread
our reputation as peculiarly inquisitive,
unre served and loquacious people.
Intelligent New Englanders, however,
have always known that the description
had no just application to this part of the
country at least. The ordinary Yankee
may be inquisitive-as every quick-witted
race, from the old Greek down, has always
been-but he uses as few words as posi-
BILE to extract his information, and since
the newspaper has come to his aid, he pre-
fers to use his eyes to using his tongue any
day. And the later tourists who come
among us untrammeled by the old tradi-
tions, report that this characteristic ex-
tends more or less over the whole country.
The last English book on America is the
work sof Lieutenant Colonel Medley, dis.
tinguished officer of the Royal Engineers,
of long service in India. He is gentle.
man Of liberal opinions, and during our
war was q firm friend of the Union. The
Colonel when he landed in New York,
found our people " not all English looking,
but, as rule, darker aud sallower," with
longer and leaner faces and beard of for.
eign aspect-although he says that be
says that he observed this appearance
diminished somewhat as he went West.
He was struck with the absence of pau.
perism, druDnkeness. There is," he re-.
marks, "a singular quietness and patience
shown everywhere, which are . pleasant
contrast to the grumbling Of 40 English
man." We struck him in fact. q .
strangely silent people. Those who are
unsequainted seem never to speak to each
other st oil !" and he declares that in the
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

whole course of his travel he was never
addressed 10 the first instance, though he
always received perfectly civil replies.
Plainly DR.. Franklin's joke would have
been wholly out of place among such q
people.
Have we, then, changed. or did our
predecessors get a reputation for loquacity
that was undeserved Partly both,
probably. National characteristics are
often discovered to be only :" founded on
fact" and quite as much the work OF in
genious authors as of actual experience,
Eaglishmen are not generally morose /;
most Frenchmeu have good homes OF their
own; and the AustriaDs of Vienna, we
recently learn, instead of being of the dull
German type, are actually more volatile
speculative and excitabIe than the Paris
ians. By similar Misrepresentation the
wide-awake American people have come
to have the reputation OF being remarkably
laxative. And then, as we have intlma'
ted, change in this respect has been
gradually gong on as isolated communi-
ties thickened, the occupations Of life be-
came more pressing and the means of get
ting intelligence otherwise than BY ora
communication increased. And then, too
the natural Anglo Sax ~ reserve-so un
like the impulsive voiubillty OF the Latil
races--vindicates itself in spite of all dlf
ferences OF culture and social conditions
The fact is there is danger of our peopI
getting into the habit OF talking too little
They do not even learn so much as the.
easily might. while they chill that goo'
fellowship which is the lie of all soc,et.
worth the name, and repress partcuiarl..
the healthy expression of young and sen
sltive minds. Genial nonsense even /
sometimes better than the wlsest look tha
was ever stamped on the human face
Boston Journal
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20
During the last two years, an extraordin-

During the last two years,a an extraordin-
mary advance has occurred in the value of
nickel In 1871, it Was obtainable in any
quantity in England at As. 81. per pound.
but it has nov reached the eDormus price
Of los, per pound. and it is very diff
cllt to procure even at this quotation.
This remarkable rise is partly, if not princi-
paily, due to the new coinage contemplated
by the German Government. It is expect
Cd that the coinsge will absorb within
the proposed term Of the contract-two
years-sbout Eve hundred tons of nickel,
in which ease it is not improbable that
the metal may rise to 3Os. per pound.
notwithstandiog)that number Of old mines
are again being worked both in Norway
and Sweden.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-08-20

The highest excellence is seldom attain
cd in more than one vocation. The roads
leading to distinction in separate pursuits
diverge, and the nearer We approach the
one, the farther We recede from the other.
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1873-04-16
N Office OF ASSESSMENT
TO the Tax Payers Of the Parish OF
kapideS!
TO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CON.
GERM

VOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
l. will be at the following places for
the purpose Of Listing property, and col
Letting all Tax dues. Punctual attendance
is requested:
Alexandria, April LIST to 5th, Lamothe's
Bridge, 7th and Sth. Cotile, (James' Store)
10th and llth, Nichols Store, l4th aud
10th, Panfs Store, Eth and 18th, Cal
hnnn's Store, 2ist and 22l, Randolph's
Precinct, Gath and, 25th, Chcueyville, 18th,
18th and Both, Lecomte. May I'd and Sd,
Latannler. (Dennls smith's) 5th and 9th,
Ptneville, Stu and 9th, J T.. B"reland, 18th
and 18th, Asa Bells (Flaggon) 18th and
10Th, Holloway's Prairie, (john A New
els) 10Th and Goth. Big Island, (Michael
Deville) 22d and ODD
MICHAEL LEGRAS,
Assessor and Collector, Parish VI haplaes.
April 2d-4t. .