Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-05-01
May l 1889.
From the Voice of Freedom.
.,,bern Tcstin,ony--siIk C"lture--si""
very.

A valued lTleHu haS n'S :,
rs to copy for our readers the following
oy,roct f1om Il letter written by highly
respectable gentleman residing on the
southern border of Pennsylvania, and
who has ample opportunities to mark the
nrorress of events in the adjacent slave
|S,otes. The shareholder, whose opinion
IS naoted as 10 the prospective effect ofthe
lsilli culture upon the tslave interest, is by |
no means alone in his conjeetares. Time
w;U tell whether the introduction OF the
silL business is not 10 form an era. as ia
(ol 10 slavery as the discovery of Whit
news cotton.gin was suspicious. 49,,
The reader will not fail 10 mark the
confession from the lips ola Kentucky
avehoIder, that the abolitionists "are be-
ginning to make US lsIaveholdersl believe,
That the acursed thing [slaveryl SHOULD
be, and WILL be, done away" The let
Ter bears date, t....., b.
NEW BRIGHToN, lst mo. Sd, 1889.
One word about the silk business. Are
sou dong anything at it in Vermont
The people in this country are doing
much, and are determined to make it a
treat business. am little concerned in
with a young man. We shall plant
hbout four acres 10 the Morus Multicautis,
bud shall tel from $1,000 to 10000
worms this summer, just 10 get introduced
nto the business. 1t is believed by the
best informed, that it will in a great meas
lre supersede the cotton business of the
kouth-thGt one acre of Morus MulticGu-
is mag be made 10 produce more profit
hc@ ten acres Of cotton. . A STAKEHOLDER
old me the other day, when going down
he river, that he belicred 1t aoould under
ruine The a0bOJe Stace system, for he said it
y ,qured so little labor to produce large
acome, AMI hence it would destroy the
demand for slaves, and owners would find
/ for their interest to divide ,lle profits with
heir people, rather than keep them on
band at their own expense "But,n1 said
be IF nothing more, it will work grea
Ehange in their condition, for no way thai
We can Fix it will it 90 so oppressive AMI
aborious as any other kind of business
pnd trust you and | may See the deS
hat the acursed thing is done away-lS
Pready yoU are beginning to make US be
lere that u SHOULD be done, and WILL b
R0ae, Jut aDe had rather 1t aeouId b
brought about By silk than northern inte1
Ierence." -. }.'--.-
These Kentuckians arc an open, fran
ind candid set of fellows. | love to tai
Nth them, they do it so good-naturedI
believe that that state will be the first /
cad the way in the abolition of slavery
Should they do it, the Keystone Of th
rch will be destroyed. perceive tht
bthel states are looking towards ther
Eith trembling. Having much opportt
Aiy to converse with men Of first stan(
pig on the subject, | believe that lh
kenluckilns are thinking very seriousI
|n the subject, with view that il mu
ne 10 an end in that state before long
ICehurgs Floating in the Atlantic.
LIVERPOOL, March 22.
Several vessels which have arriv
within the last fortnight, were interrupt
IN their Progress by getting entangted
Fields Of floating ice. The George Was
#ngton, the Elizabeth Bruce, and t
South America we're all III this predi;
lnent. The South America was ents
gled among floating icebergs for THU
hours. The fist iceberg the ship fell
with rose from fifty to sixty feet above't
level Of the s5a 1t was dark when S
approached it, and Capt Barstow We
wisely resolved 10 lay to till daylight,
About 2 o'clock, when the moon bro
out from the dense clouds in which S
had been previously enveloped, and thr
her light on the numerous icebergs, she
ing up like hoary cliffs, which were Vi
bic all round the horizon, the spectacle
described by the persons who beheld it
having been awfuily sublime. The
reflected the beams of the moon, and
combination produced mild splen'
which approached, if it did not rival.
light of day. The presence of 50 mt
floating ice in the Atlantic as far down
lat A, is rather unusual occurrence
Upper Canada.
The resolutions of the House Of
sembly, in favor of uniting lhetw pr
lnces, have been rejected by the Legi;
tive Council, eight voting against ;
only two for them.
The Toronto Colonist OF the 10th i
mentions the arrival of a deputy she
from London District, with % of
prisoners taken at Sandwich, and t
and condemned at London.
From the London Gazette we learn
names and desinies of these prisoner:
Eighteen of them are to be transpo
10 penal colony, and the other, fiv
Be released at The boundary line on
Ontario. -
The names Of the Is are Sam'l ST.
.Ellzur Stevens, John Chester Willis
John Burwell Tvrril. John Semnre {