Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-07-05

buildings, which, together with their
Halls, are worth liz, 900 dollars. They
have thirty -four ministers; seventeen sun
day schools; a public library, con-
sisting of about 500 volumes, besides
1888 volumes in private libraries; three
debating societies three Female Literary
societies; two tract societies; two Bible
societies, and two temperance societies.
Philadelphia Facts for the People.
DANGER OF MODERATE DR1NK1NG.-
Do not say that l exaggerate your expos
ure 20 inlernperance. Let no man saw,
when he thinks of drunkard, broken in
health and spoiled in intellect, L can
never so fall He thought as little of
falling in his earlier years. The promise
of his youth was as bright as yours; and
even after he began his downward course,
he was as unsus picious as the Rrrnest
around him, and would have repealed as
Indignantly the admonItion to beware of
lntemPerance. The danger of this vice
lies in its almost imperceptibIe approach.
Few who fall by it, know of its accesses.
Youth does not see or suspect drunken
ness in the sparkling beverage which
quIckens all its susceptibIitcs of iov.-
The invalid does not see it in the cordial,
which his physician prescribes, and which
gives new tone to his debiitated organs.
The man of thought and genius detects
no paIsylng poison in the draught, which
seems a spring OF inspiration TO intellect
and imagination The lover of social
pleasure little dreams that the glass which
animates conversation will ever be drunk
in solitude, and will sink him too low for
the intercourse in which he now delights.
lntemperance comes with noiseIess step,
and binds it's first cords; with a touch too
light to be felt This truth of mournful
experience should be treasured up bv US
all, and should influence the habits and
arrangement of domestic and social life in
every class Of the community. -Doctor
Claiming.
VALUABLE BUT NEGLECTED 1NvEN-
TIoN.-Itis remarkable that an invention
far more valuable to all who travel upon
the seas, lakes, and rivers of this great
commercial country and more important,
on the score Of humanity, than any other
devised by human ingenuity, should re-
main in comparative oblivion and neglect.
We aIude to tina: beautiful preparation of
pulrer1zed cork, for seamen's and passen-
gers mattresses and beds. Will it be be-
lleved that mattress made of this materi-
al weighing on y twenty-five pounds,
cannot be sunk by the weight of seven
men and that one or two persons might I
float on it in the midst of the ocean, with
as much security from drowning as if he
were on board a ship! Yet such is fact,
as demonstrated by experience. The
beds, cushions, &c, made of this prepara-
ton of cork, ale more elastic, soft, and
comfortable than those of the best hair,
and have the superior advantage Of never
becoming matted. Every ship and steam
boat should Immediately Substitute them
for all others, and every passenger going
to sea should purchase one. If they had
been on board the unfortunate Bristol and
Mexico, every soul might have been saved
in few minutes.-New Era
ANEcDoTE-Neart the close of the late
General Assembly y, Dr. Beman, in little
pleasantly, inquired whether the Assembly
had received any report from their dele
gate to England. Mr.. R. J. Breckenridge
replied, that he had not reported, and ne
wished the Assembly mi ght learn from
his colleague the reason why he had not
fulfilled his appointment. DR., Beman re-
joined, that he had been unavodabIy de-
tanned by events over which he had no
control; that he had fully intended to
perform the commission, if ia his power,
that he should have taken pleasure in ,
standing at the side OF his colleague, al
though ne could not have promised to be
always at his side; and that ifhe had been :
there, was not sure he should have been ;
able to help him out of the Thomp3onian '
steam bath into which he had plunged IL
himself in Scotland v
PAYsoN.-The Riographer Of this dis Il
tngulshed servant Of Christ says, His q
knowledge was not as many have sup a
posed, Limited chiefly to theology. He n
was familiar, beyond what is common, Il
with the whole circle of the sciences, so S
much so, that eminent men OF the differ "
ent professions, who have incidentally d
net with him without knowing who he o
was, have, Tor the first half hour of thei. 3
mistaken him for one Of h
heir own class. By physicians he has "
been thought physician, and lawyer by n
awyers; and even the experienced Sena- "
or has found him an invincible ANTAGONIST e
IN ground which his profession merely
would not require him to assume. And -.
ne never ceased to add to his stock of ',
knowledge" !.
PRoFANE SwEARING.-If there are l.
1ypocrites in religion, there are also. P
strange as it may appear, hypocrites in n
mpiety, men, who make an ostentation Of O
more irreligion than they rossess.