Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-02-08
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.

editor of the Essex Gazette, has Dissolved
his conuexion with that paper, and in the
number Of the 18th instant, has given to
tho public his valedctory. During his
connexion with the Gazette he has endeav-
ored, he says, 10 maintain those principles
OF i'm pa rtiaI libety which form the basis
Of our republican insiitu!ioAs.-HsyG!L Ct
Freedom.
Regarding domestic Slaverysas sin
against Gol-a hidrous anomaly in
government proiessed.y free-bligh,irg !
nd mildew to the moral influence of our
professions Of free principles upon the ma
tons Of Europe-a curse in the Church !
-discord and danger in the State-in all
things evil and full of wrong unima gina
bic, he has felt it to be his duty to hear
constant and consistent testimony against
it, lie trusts tina: his Iabors have not
been altogether in vain. Never. again,
until slavery ceases to dehIe and curse
our republic, will the spirit of Free In
quiry and Christian Liberty slumber in
| Essex county. Like the Greek fire, it will
blaze with hercer intensity for every effort
which is made to extnguish it and the
exercise of the rights of free discussion
and Of petition and remonstrance against
slavery will increase in proportion as those
rights are called in question:, or Denied
Cruel and lamentable as has been our in
difference to the woes and wrongs Of slave
ry, We are not prepared to introduce it into
the North ; nor to sacrifice our own llber-
ties for its safety and perpetuity. And it
is now evident to every one who has
watc he'd the progress Of the present strug
gle, that it must terminate in the freedom
Of the slaves, or the slavery of the free
The efforts of the enemies Of liberty are
indeed no longer disguised. We can see
as it were the smoke of their furnaces
we can hear the sound of their hammers
forging letters for our limbs-ve can see
the very twisting of the cords which are
to bind US with the bondmen God forbid
that we should surrender at a crisis like
this, any Of those rights which He has
given US If the malaria and the blight
of slavery must be extended yet wider, let
it not smite with barrenness the mora
beauty Of New England. If oppression
requires new victims, let not the land Of
the pilgrims pass its own children through
the fire to MoIoch."
GREAT CONFEDERATION!
PORT IN RUSSIA fire broke out in
Brock port, on Sunday the 22d inst, about
II O'clock, m, in the store adjoining the
American Hotel on Main street. Aided
by strong northwest wind, it ragged with
almost unparalleled force, running to the
soUth-westWard, consuming the greater
part, if not all the buildings in that section
OF the village, to the street running east
and west, on which stands tie Baptist
chapel.
At A o'clock. ?. NJ. the church had
taken fire, and was generally crouching
Leneath the power OF the mighty element.
We have not heard any estimate Of the
damage, or who the sufferers are, but it
must be very great, for that was the most
compact part otthe vlllage.-ALb Ado.
HEALTH OF THE PREs1DENT.-Let-
tiers from Washington announce that the
+ President was again visited with hem
, orrnage OF the lungs on Saturday. The
attack was so severe as to revive the appre-
henson that he won ID scarce survive till
the close of his term. He was, however,
. mendIug again at the last adyices-N Y,
Spec.
! Natures Railroad, as the Gazette hap
PLY designates the layer of snow with
which the ground is now covered, is in
good running order from Canada to Vir'
ginia, and produce comes down freely TO
1 the city from our neighbors in Vermont
aud New:Hampshlre, tor which very high
| rates are freely obtained.-Bos. Ado.
The coinage at the Mint last year was
: 1854 900 dollars, of which 4, | 80, 7Oo was
in goid.-Ib.
There has been fall in the New York
l stock market-sales Worcester Railroad,
943 951 Prominence Railroad, 1854 a
= lly. A bank investigation has been or
f dered by the legislature OF that State.-B.
The number Of banks and branches in
- the United States, Dec. /, 1886; was 823,
capital 1918, 42l, lO6.-Ib.
a ARSENAL BURNT. The Z. S. Arse
nal in Watertown, Mass. was destroyed
: by fire, on the llth ult About 10000
Il. stands of arms were consumed. The loss
is estimated at about S80U,OUO.
D SPECIE. The importation of gold and
n silver coin and bullion during the year
O 1886. was $l2,l66,372, and the exports
e S4,445, Sl5, leaving balance in the coun-
d try Of $7,7z0,557.a
h @SHIPwREcKs. During the year 1886,
J. there were lost, on the coast of the United
States, Sc ships and barques, 81 brIgs, III
a schoonsrs, he sleeps, 20 boats and Szt
l. lives IS ~