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

They have nearly completed the neces-
sary repairs, and expect to open the house
for worship, the second Sabbath in August
They are favored with preaching hall the
time the current year, have received already,
ten accessions to their numbers, and more
are expected soon.-Bre,hreu, pray for Mid
dlebury church. w. q. 49,.
| DREADFUL SUPERsTITIoN.-the Rev.
Richard knill, the Jealous agent Of the
+ London Missionary Society, at meeting
at Leeds last week. gave thrilling and
dreadful account of a superstition which
has lately been discovered 10 prevail ii a
part of the Madras Presidency, India,
where the farmers are in the habit of fat
tening and killing boys, and cutting their
flesh from their bones while they are yet
alive and sending piece of their flesh
to each OF their fields or plantations that
the blood may be squeezed out of 1t on
the soil before the child dies; this being
done with the view of making the soil
more fertile twenty-five boys, amongst
the finest that could be found, were DIS
covered by the British soIdiery in one
place, under the care of the priests, fatten-
ing for slaughter; and in another place
fifteen were found. They were of course
rescued, and put under the care Of the
collector, and it was believed that the mis-
sionaries would take charge Of the poor
; boys. and bring them to the Christian re.
ligion.-LtUerpooL paper.
Dreadful enough, surely. But dreadful
as it is, more than parallel to it exists in
this Christian Republic. The victims sac
rifced TO this hedthen superstition are tewe
than those sacrificed 10 our Christian Sldre
ry. If the latter die by a slower process, j
d is no drawback on their sufferings, or on thu
y barbarity Of those who inhict it, Wad'
5 Hampton, Of slave-murderingm memory, avow
J. ed, in the light Of the sun and the face o
d Heaven, that, when sugar was high, h
il sometimes found it to his advantage to drv
Q his slaves at a rate that would "work off,
3. as he called it, wear out, a set of hand
,, once in seven years! The class Of murder
7 ers to which Wade Hampton belonged, 9
v which be was a conspicuous character, car
:. not be in the whole a small one, in the
=, States of this Union which sustain tn
~ bloody system Of which this monsters cor
- duct was the legitimate fruit.
&c Again: After the reader has discovere
:" numberless instances brought to light, {
'e murder with impunity, resulting from tn
d. system which takes away from millions til
re protection of law, let him contemplate as
b. the probable Numbers who perish in seer
8, and in silence. And while on this point,
TO should know that no slave is allowed, in
b. slave State, to testify against white perso
10 A slave cannot be party before judi
to ial tribunal, in any species Of action again
his master, no matter how atrocous the mi
on ry he may have received. So says Strou
40 in his sketches Of the slave laws-and
"a abundantly sustains the position by citation
- from slaveholding laws and reports. Or
~ more view. A slaveholding member ga,
it as his opinion, on the floor of Congress,
~ few years since, that the foreign mportatic
:" Of slaves into the United States, by way
''e Cuba, was 1900 annually. AS the Unit,
NY States government has continued to exter
its slaveholding territory, it is not probab
'"- that the importation has very much dimi
Us ished. Here then. allowing hat those wi
ah keep the market open are equally guilty wi
OF those who supply it, there is indirect pro
We which alone abundanty sustains my slroI
md charge, that, for numerous atrocity, 0
Christian Sldrery exhibits more than
Mr.. parallel to the hedthen superstition.
tho If further proof be called for, take the ft
not lowing advertisements, which have con
ow under my eye since commenced pennil
the this article:
re- From the Wilmington IN. c. Advertiser.
aw 500 REWARD.
lnd 500 is subscribed and will be punct
,np ally paid by the citizens of Onslow,
He any person who may apprehend and sal
y confne in any Jail in this State, a c.
se' tain negro man, named ALFRED, sa
'ou and believed to be the property of Mess
'ful Barnes and Eaton, traders of Virgin
>. He is legally OUTLAWED. And t
same reward will be paid if satisfacto
evidence is given of his having be
. KILLED. He is about 40 years of as
Oh spare made. yellow complexion, and b
81 one or more SCARS on one of his hand
vi conSed In, has hnrinr bppu Suor