Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-20
MISC.E Liza N EOUS.
Chinese Literary Industry.


to memory; another six years are requir-
ed to supply them with phrases for good
style; and an additional number of years
spent in incessant toll, are needed to en-
sure success. Long before the break OF
day, the Chinese students may be heard
chanting the sacred books; and late at
hight, the same tasks are continued. Of
one man ii is related, that he tied his hair
to beam of the house, in order to prevent
his noddlng to sleep. Another, more res
olute, was in the habit of driving an awi
into his thigh. when inclined to slumber.
One poor lad suspended his book to the
horns of the buffalo, that he might learn
while following the plough; and another.
bored hole in the wainscot of his cot
tage. that he might steal glimpse of his
neighbours light They tell of one, who,
fearing that the task assigned him was too
hard, gave up his books in despair, and
was returning 10 manual employment,
when he saw an old woman rubbing
crowbar on stone; on asking her the
reason, she replied, that she was in want
of needle, and thought she would rub
down the crowbar till she got it small
enough The patience of the aged fe-
male provoked him TO make another at
tempt. and he succeeded in attaining to the
rank of the first three in the empire.
They say of Shun, (raised to the throne
by his talents and virtues,) "Shun was a
man; |, also, am a man; if but exert
myself, | may be as great as he" The
stimulus thus given to energetic persever-
ance. is immense and the effect, in en-
couraging learning, incalculable All
persons acquire some knowledge ofletters !;
and learning, such as it is, is more com
mon in China, than in any other part of
the world. Six poor brethren will fire.
quently agree to labor hard, 10 support
the seventh at his books-with the hope,
that should he succeed, and acquire office,
he may throw protecting influence over
his family, and reward them for their toll.
Others persevere, to the decline of life, in
the pursuit of literary fame; and old men
of eighty, have been known to die of sheer
excitement and exhaustion in the examin.
alton halls. In short, difficulties vanish
before them, and they cheer each other
on, with verses like the following:-
Men have dug through mountains, to cut channel
And have melted the very stones, to repair the
| southern skies;
Under the whole heaven there is nothing difficult
| 1t is only that mems minds not determined.
| lMedlurst.
LETTER MoNEY.-It is estimated thai
the money paid the packets for the trans.
portatlon OF letters between England and
America. amounts to $4,000 annually
Boston Press 8. Post
MR. Dueq AN, of Quincy, has intro
duced very useful measures into the
House, viz:-to make it obligatory on the
towns to take measures for general vac
cination of the inhabitants once in three
years Boston Press 4. Post
A GREAT PRoJEcT.-Governer Por.
ed to the Legislature to take measure:
to procure the location of railroad from
the city of Piltsburg, through the States O
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, TO St. Louis
Now ifthese Western States should agree
in connexion with Pennsylvania, to locate
railroad between these two points. Ell
Their by the funds of the different States
or of companies of private individuals, is
connection with those States, it would
make one of the most slendid lines of in
ternal improvements in the world-a lin,
ofcontnuous railroad from the city ofPhil
adelphia to the city of St. Louis: beine
perhaps about one thousand miles, -BoS
; ton Press & Posi-.
From the Massachusetts, Abolitionist.
: COLONIZATION TRIALoGUE.
Secretary Ralph Randolph G.-Agent
Elliot C. M. p.
X. r. Csc Mr.. p, you desire a,
7 Agency in our cause!
] P-I do.
t. K. G.-Where were you educated
7 PAT Princeton Theological Semina
/ ry.
e e. Good!
: r. X. Chimes are a little souan
with US, MIR. p. And as our folks some
: times backslide, and become Abolitionis,,
e we have TO be little particular. OF Lar,
i as to the persons we employ.
a f. C.-Not the least danger. frien
Ralph, as he was educated at Princeto,
: But it would be well to see how far M
: z. is conversant with our principles an
i views.
: r. r. G.-Yes, this is indispensable,
II | will ask you few questions, Mr.. p
d do you think the colored race in III
! country are an injured race!
: P.-This is a disputed point [ know
: But | rather incline to thi1k they are2
: Il. K. G.-When colored persons ar
n wronged in this country. what mode ,
d repatriation is, in your view, the fulles
n and The most appropriate