Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-22

no doubt, was made under great excite
ment and passion, for which Southern
politicians are somewhat noted; but this
is no excuse, unless upon returning rea-
son, the mean act is retracted and repent
ed of-Zion's Herald,
Iowa TERRIToRY.-The tide of emf
grafton is fast setting to this Territory. -
Burlington, the capital of the Territory,
tour years since had no Inhabitants; now
it has from Is to 1900; Gov. Lucas. of
Ohio. has recently removed 10 Iowa
ZsOn's Herald.
A new Unitarian meeting house has
recently been erected in Newly rk city,
the best pews of which sold for $3.50
each; sum sufficient to buy a pretty
good farm, one-hundred miles from Bos-
ton. The whole expense of the house
was S96. 000!-Zioa's Herald.
WESLEYAN MIssIoNs.-The commit
tee of the Missionary Society having re-
quested the Rev. Robert Alder, one of
the general Secretaries, to undertake a
special mission to British North America,
that gentleman left town on Wednesday
morning, to embark at Liverpool for N.
ork,>on his way to- the Canadas. and
the neighboring provinces of Nova Scotia
and New-Brunswick We wish him
great success in his important mission,
the difficulties connected with which will.
we fear, be greatly increased by the crit.
ical and painful posture of affairs in That
quarter.-LsrerpOoL Mercury
The Rev. MIR. Alder arrived at New
York city, on Monday of last week, in
WHICH place he remained two or three
days, and then left for Upper Canada,
whence he proceeds to Lower Canada
and Nova-Scotia.-Zi6n's Herald.
BowDoIN CoLLEGEAOn Wednesday,
the 9Th inst. Prof Leonard Woods Jr.,
of the Bangor Theological Institution,
was elected President of Bowdoin College.
Oice DIR. Allen, resigned.-Zion's Hen.
Meeting of Baptist Aboiitionists.
An important meeting held during the
Anniversary week, was that of the Abo-
lltion -Baptists. They had two public
sessions, which Were attended by breth-
rem from different parts of the country
The particulars will be found in the
Christian Reflector of this and next week,
to which we refer our Baptist readers
In thisJconnection we take peculiar pleas
ure In referring to the Reflector, as an
edition OF that paper is to be published,
Tor the present, simultaneously at Wor-
cester and this city, at 142 Nassau street,
over the New York Observer, Brother
Z. w. Denison is associated with brother
Grosvenor in conducting the New ork
| and more southern department of the
paper, and We cannot but believe that the
new arrangement will be productive OF
great good
We only add, that the meeting resolved
TO take the preparatory steps for calling a
National Baptist Anti-Slavery Convention.
| The Reflector will contain circular on
the subject, addressed to Baptist Abolition.
isis in all parts of the country. We
wish them abundant success
New METHODIST PAPER.-The New.
York Conference of the Methodist Prot.
testant Church. at its late session in this
city, took measures for establishing re.
lglous newspaper, called the New Y ork
Lumnary. The publishing Coma are
John l.. Amber, Thomas K. Witsel.
George Thomas. Albert r. Speer. Thorn.
as Scott, John ]. Reed, and Stephen Parks u
| The necessity of this measure is indi.
Gated in the preamble of the resolution
adopted by the Conference:
/ Whereas, one of the delegates to the
last General Conference offered to that
body a resolution giving to the severa
annual conferences the right Of having
their proceedings published in the sMeth
odist Protestant & Family Visitor with
out being mutilated or abridged by tn.
4 editor Or any other person-and whereas
this resolution was rejected by the sait
General Conference-and whereas thi
Conference now feel released from al
; obligations in relation to the Methods
Protestant and Family Visitor'-there
fore,o &c.
r The mutilations complained of were tn
: omissions of all Anti-SIavery resolution
: and sentiments of the Annual Conference:
4 The new paper is "open for dis ussio
| on the great question of human rights
5 We wish our brethren much prosperity
# EmGnc1pGtoy.
: CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH IN New
: YORK CITY-We feel much interest i
7 calling the attention of our readers to tn
e Congregational Church recently organ
!, lied here, and worshipping IN what wa
y formerly the Bowery Presbyterian churcl
10 near Walker street. The entrance
now in Elizabeth street. Rev. Henr
R Benedict is the pastor. We learn that tt
,e church have assigned to, the claims of tn
N slave the same place in'their regards an