Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-22

IL NGSuMFTION.-1nl MS IS
inc day, Aug. IA, fixed upon for a gener,
a resumption of specie payments in New
England, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Viz
gina, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, illinois
and Missouri Maryland and North Car
DINA resumed about the LIST Inst. and the
Banks of New Jersey generally resumed
with those of New York on the 1st of
May. Louisina, Georgia and South Car
DINA will probably resume before the
commencement of receipt of the next cot.
Ton crop, and Alabama, Tennessee and
Mississippi some time in the course of the
ensuing year.
Silver coin has been at par in the cities
for some days past, in consequence of the
near approach of the general resumption
OF specie payments by large majority of
the Banks throughout the country.
| 1t IS mentioned in the Philadelphia pa
pers OF yesterday, "that the notes Of the
Philadelphia Bank are now received in
payment of duties at the Custom House
satisfactory proof having been furnished
the Collector by the officers of the Bank,
that notes and checks on this institution
are redeemed in specie"
Of course by the same rule, the notes
OF all the Banks in the Atlantic cities
which resume specie payments on Mon
day, the 18th inst, will in like manner be
received at the Custom Houses in their
respective cities.-Newark Sent.
THE GREAT ECLIPSE OF l838.-This
eclipse will occur September l8, between
3 and o'clock, p. NJ. 1t will not be TO-.
tai, but annular-a bright luminous ring
being visible in the place of the sun. 1t
will pass over the United States from the
Northeast to Southeast, the centre passing
over Lake Superior, Wisconsin Territory,
Michigan, the Northwest part of Ohio, the
Northeast part Of Virginia, into the Allan
tic Ocean. The eclipse will be anuaIar
overa space OF 42O miles wide. The ring,
where visible, will only continue from
to 6l2 minutes This eclipse is remark
able, as being the last Of the series of
arge eclipses, which have been occurring
at short intervals for several years past
The next central eclipse visible in the
United States occurs May 26, 1854. The
next total eclipse of the sun will be Au-
gust 7, l869.-Morning Star.
A VETERAN PAUPER.-An aged Eng
Iishman has lateI y been admitted to the
Aims House of this city, who gives in
substance, the following account of him
self:-He belongs to Norfolk, England,
where he was a parish pauper-some-
times an inmate of the work house, a: 9TH
er times subsisting on outdoor ~,lief,
parish pay at the rate of four or five
shiIlings per week. The parish was sad
~ burdened with poor, and the magistrates
and overseers adopted the common expe.
dient Of inducing them to emigr ate to A
mericM He declares that Canada was
represented as the garden of the world
Astounding in every thing necessary fol
the poor mans comfort. Houses, lands
promised.
; Between fifty and sixty, all supported
or relieved by the same parish, were per
suaded TO cross the Atlantic, and landed a
Quebec. His fellow paupers were of boil
sexes, aged and infrm, and helpless chill
dren, with their able bodied, but idle O.
, incompetent parents-all unfit 10 provid,
for themselves 10 a new country. Tn
. poor deluded emigrants soon found tina
! houses and lands were only to be had 70
y money, and that now there was no week.,
"parish pay' TO depend on. The compa
ny soon scattered-a few found opportunt,
It to return TO England-all, or nearly al
(, left Canada before the old man-most G
II them came into the United States, to b
e paupers or disturbers on the frontier H
e made out to raise few potatoes aid dra
l. out a miserable existence, until he set OF
v a few weeks ago for Boston, hoping t
e find parish relief here, or passage t
Y England. Boston Mercantile Journal.
:, The Planet Mercury, which can b
d seen by the naked eye on y about tn
~ times Of its greatest eastern elongatior
will be visible on the 231 of the preseu
month-that being the time of its great
est elongation, when it is 81 IA degree
e from the SUM- According to Dicks &C.
l. lestial Scenery" it will be seen for neal
l. " an hour after sunset, little to the sout
ID of the western part of the compass, and
few degrees above the horizon. 1t ma
ot be seen during ten or twelve days befor
10 the period mere stated, and for six or figt
l. DAYS after it. This is one of the most f;
m vorable periods during the year for obser
o ing this planet. 1t will be at its create
% eastern elongation on the 4th of Octobt
" when it will be visible in the morning, i
e direction nearly due east. During tt
le interval of week, both before and att
Id the time of its greatest elongation, tt
he planet may generally be seen in a cles
ee sky.-CO~rier.
us RELATIONS WITH MExICo-We leaI
De that Mr.. Martinez, the Mexican ministe
r; has been detained at New Orleans, wal