Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-01-11

ABOLITION IN PENNSYLVANIA-IH
STATE CONFERENCE.-The number of
sIgners to the call for this Convention,
now amounts to considerably more than
1000.
Things are going on swimmingIy
here at the West Cpiltsburgh.) am in
hopes OF getting a good turn out to the
State ConventIon.-Letter from S. L.
Gould, Dec. %.
"There is a slumbering Sampson
among us, ho onl y needs to be aroused
toexhlbit tremendous nergy."-Corres-
pondence of the Nat. Ing. in Bucks Co.
Enlanclpator
CINCINNATI. There are in this city
$4,000 inhabitants; Banks, with an ag-
gregate capital of 100000; 4 Insurance
Companies, and 2 Agencies Medical
and | Law School; so Churches Is
Common Schools; Water Works, with
reservoirs for 100000 gallons; %
Pubic Cisterns for the Fire Department.;
10 Fire Engines, with II, 900 feet ofHose;
daily, | semi-weekly and 8 weekly pa
perS, and monthly journals; Nee hanics
L
A NEW SYSTEM OF Moral PH1Loso-
PHI.-1he Rev. DR.. Adams, President
of Charleston College, S. c., is about
publishing a new system Of Moral Phi
iosopby. Dr.. Wayland's excellent Trea-
tIse will not answer for that latitude, be-
cause 1t condemns slavery as contrary to
the principles Of natural and revealed law.
In the name OF humanity outraged and
Deity biasphemed, we ask how long
shall it be ere our presidents of colleges,
professors of theology, and learned doc
tors Of divinity, will cease to "pervert the
right way of the Lord '-Altou Obs.
SHOCKING We learn from a gentle
man who came on Saturday in stage
from MedfeId, that daughter of Samuel
Evans Of that place, about two years old,
was burnt to death, on Wednesday 18th
ut. The child had been placed in stand
ing stool, in the middle O. the room which
was by some means upset while the mo
Their was absent, and the child disengag-
ing her>elt from it, had crawled near the
Fireplace, where her clothes took fire -
the mother was called to the room by the
cries OF the little sufferer, but too late 10
save her life. She died in three hours af-
ter.-Boston Mercantile Journal
PRUss1AN TAvERNs. The hotels in
Berlin have certain arrangement which
makes imposition extremely rare, ifitdoes
not render it impossible In every room,
the daily price of the apartment is stuck
| !, in 10 iaA q
bill, containing the price of every thing
too, the former days bill of every lodger
is placed on his breakfast table, not to be
paid but as check upon Mistakes
FOREIGN GRAIN. The Baltimore
American of yesterday, says that vessels
which are now in the river bound to that
port, have on board from seventy to eighty
thousand bushels Of foreign grain.-N Y.
Spectator.
REFORM IN THE RIGHT QUARTER. A
large convention of Stage Proprietors, at
| BrattIeboro', VT, resolved not to continue
in their employment an Incorporate dri-
yer, and not to employ driver, who had
been discharged from any other road for
drunkenness.
The condition Of the New York Seam
stresses has excited much sympathy among
all classes there. A meeting was held at
the Tabernacle on Wednesday last for
their aid, which was attended by John ia
cob Astor, Cornelius w. Lawrence, Myn-
dert Van Setback, John d. Costar, Isaac
Lawrence, and many others of similar
standing.
FOOD FOR REFLECTION. For the last
twenty years, only eleven electoral votes
out Of 5I5 have been given by slayehold-
ing States to Northern candidates for the
Presidency !-L1beratOT
Memoirs OF Mrs. JUDsoN. 1t is sail
that nearly $4,000 copies OF this work,
have been sold in the United States, be-
sides several editions in England that it
has also been printed in the French and
is about to be published in German.-Zj-
0n's Herald
II is somew hat remarkable that among
. SO large body as constitutes the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, more than 600, so
few persons take the oath Of office by af-
: tirmallon. eSterday but two affirmed in
the Senate Messrs. Oliver of Essex and
. Joy of Nantucket, and five in the House.
Boston Press.
APPLEs.-There are some excellent
apples IN our market at this time You
can buy them at retail for I24 cents each.
Mobile Mer Ado
5 The whole number OF days Of naviya
, ton this season was ZIG. Dividing the
5 tonnage by this number, it will show an
5 average equal to 800 tons arriving at, anc
departing from ports eYerY daV-RufnL