Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1836-01-07

slmed by FIRE, InDecennber, 1896, fire in
Front-street, beginning at l04, consumed 40
houses. - - = = 4 S-,.>
Butto show the rapid growth of commerce
In this city within the last forty years, we
need only state that these forty houses and
their contents were valued at only $1O6, 700!
which is far less than. half the amount of
merchandise consumed during Wednesday
night in several Of our principal stores
1t appears from the report Of the chief en-
gineer to the Common Council, that in 1928
there were 131 fires, occasioning a supposed
loss of $3.50, 402, including the BowerY The
atre; which was burnt on May the 26th of
that year. There have been several other de-
structige fires in this city but the most de-
structive of all others that has occurred with
in the recollection Of the present generation,
was the late desolating confagration in Ann
Fulton, and Nassau-streets, in which about
forty buildings, mostly Of the first class
worth, with their contents, more than mill
ion of dollars, were soon reduced to smoul-
dering and unsightly ruins. 1t is probable
that the amount of property burnt in the re-
cent cenfagration, is nearly equal to all that
has ever been destroyed since the city was
founded. The total number of buildings
does not vary materially from that we gave
| last week, FIVE HUNDRED. A share of ground
lies covered with ruins, Of about FIFTY
! ACRES, Of which we have given a plan a.
bove. The amount of property is still vari-
ously estimated, from fifteen to Twenty-Five
] millions Of dollars. On Monday. in the
committee of citizens, Mr.. Disosway stated,
that the subcommittee had heard from 1879
firms, whose losses in merchandise were
upwards Of four millions, and their insurance
upwards of six millions.-N Y ErangeliSt.
WHAT THE PAsToRs CAN 30 FOR ANTI
SLAvERY.-Many are calling here and there
| tor antl-slavery agents to visit them, when
the committee have neither agents nor means
to send them. Now we have been admon-
ished by what has just been done by one of
! the pastors in this city, of something which
( every pastor who is friendly to the cause can
do, with profit to himself and his people,
Let him do, on his responsibility as minis
ter Of the Lord Jesus Christ. what was
| done by the brother referred to- Let him
study the subject, and collect its facts and
principles, and the Scripture authorities on
the several points, and arrange them into
sermon, as good as he can make, plain,
raight-forward, expressing his own views
OF what his people ought to dpprore and be-
t1ere and Do. Let him preach this, with
great fidelity, and with the determination to
carry his hearers along with him, or at any
rate to secure their consciences in his favor
IF be does this with becoming spirit, he
will have conquered all the difficulty about
abolitionism in his congregation, and will
then be able to pray for all the slaves and
their masters, and to speak of slavery and
abolition just as freely as he now speaks Of
points connected with temperance-his hear
ers will respect him as man Of principle
one who fears God and not man, and who
believes what he says; the church will a.
wake to Their duty in regard to the oppressed,
and thus be prepared to receive the divine
blessing, and this "agitating subject" being
put to rest, things will work smoothly for a
REVIVAL OF RELIGION.-M Y. Evan.
A CoNTRAsT.-WEsLEY AND NAPOLEON
Who was Wesley? The hero OF the Chris
tan Church-the means Of saving millions
from temporal suffering, and eternal thral-
dom-the man who wept for the sorrows of
the universe-the man who bore in front the
Impressive motto
"THE WORLD IS MY PARIsHr'
Who was BoNAPARTE A Europen mon
ster-a blood-thirsty tyrant-an ambitious
despot-the cause Of an ocean of tears from
widows and orphans-the man who, to graf
ify self, his god, hurled ruin at half Europe
the man who inscribed on his shield the
arrogant boast
"THE W oRLD IS MY EMp1REm