Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-12

trade foreoer! Alter the port shall have
been shut up, no matter whether We may
bring opium or not, the tea and rhubarb
OF the inner land will not be permitted to
leave the country; and thus may we in
stantly hold the life of every foreigner at
our command
THIRTEEN DAYS PAssAeE.--The
steam-packet Great Western, Captain
Hosken, arrived at the Quarantine last
night at Ii o'clock, having received a pi-
lot at halfpast O'clock She made the
run from Bristol in thirteen days and
eight hours, having made the shortest
Western trip across the Atlantic that we
have on record.-N Y. Spectator.
The Lowell Courier gives the follow
ling account of horrid catastrophe which
occurred at Lowell last week, growing
out OF a violation of the license law Is
not the man who encourages the rumsell-
er to violate the law which prohibits the
sale of rum in small quantities, morally
Irresponsible for these dreadful consequent
ces ?-Zion's Herald.
" The public Good requires it."-On
Wednesday afternoon, concourse of peo-
1ple was to be seen about dwelling house
on Central street, looking in at the win
dows and crowding in at the doors to see
the burnt and blackened body of diving
woman whose clothes took fire while she
was in state of intoxication. 1t was a
horrible and awful spectacle. Death soon
closed the scene, and coffin Immediately
concealed from view the crisped and mu:
tilated remains of WOMAN, the mother
of family of children, who should have
been to them guide and protector. We
envy not the man, who, for. the paltry
profit of two or three cents, sold to this
wretched female, in violation of law, the
contents of q tin paiL, with which she was
seen staggering through the streets, an
hour before the fatal catastrophe
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT NIAeA
RA FALLs.-We learn from the Buffalo
Commercial of Monday, that DR.. Hun
gerford, of Troy, was instantly killed tina,
morning at the Falls of Niagara. II
company with Lindsey, the guide, he hat
descened the Biddle stair case on the A
merican side, and was standing near tn,
water, when mass of rock, weighing
several tons, fell from the bank above,
! height of some $50 feet, directly upon him
t Lindsey suffered a severe confusion OIL
4 his left arm. but was not otherwise iniur
a ed.-N Y Spec.
The legislature of Pennsylvania invite
the consideration of that of New York t
an effort to connect the canals of the tw
States, at point that will enable the on
3 State to exchange her coal for the salt an
Y plaster of the other.-Old Connecticut wi
q next wish to cut canal for the better e1
e change of her nutmegs and other nc
: tions,' for the "tar, tumeric and turpen
tine" of North Carolina. Boston Time!
Great Hail Storm.
\ Friendship, Anne Arundal Co. May 2!
y yesterday we had one of the severe
( hail storms ever experienced in this neigl
;. borhood, which although not as viofel
> in the immediate vicinity of this villag
:, was very destructive to all the countr
Il southwest of us. Information has reacl
- ed US OF several wheat fields having bee
- cut to pieces, tobacco been ruined, barn
= outhouses and chimneys blown down. ar
= allthe windows demolished. There ne
:; :. er was such destruction before-the ha
" laid in some places six inches deep, al
- as large as hens eggs. Every hour brin,
- us fresh intelligence of damages done
! fences aud trees, and of our neighbo
10 having lost hogs, calves, &C."
MS Drowued-A lad, the son of Deac'
nd Brown of this city, was drowned in CO
ell cord river, near the upper bridge at B
ms videre. In company with younger Ia
Ike ne was playing upon a plank, and
ed some unaccountable means, fell into t
ell. water, and was drowned, where its der
re does not exceed three feet. Every pos
ut bic means for resusitation was applied,
proved unavailing -Losoeu Ado.
FPS RIaHTs OF JURoRs-I understal
ID Mr.. Editor, that threats have been Civ
elk out as to the Juror who adhered to
tor own conscientious convictions in the CT
ms recently tried in the Municipal Court
ur. merely allude to'it to assure that jar
OF and all others, that they have indeper
OF ent rights which no man and no Co
ov- can infringe. His conscience is in
WIS own keeping, and he cannot transfer it
are another, without moral perjury. Jur,
Ind should understand their rights, and fe
ons lessly act upon them, unawed by Cou
or the system of teazing and torment
1lt- which is so ofton resorted to in j.
sue rooms. It's unmanly as we'll as uni,
the and should be frowned down.-Bos
CHI Press and Post. q
l,b ANTI-ABoLITIoN Riot IN M
,;ns HAvEN-Several members of Yale {
IF lege, and others, principally young n
VI nCorth h.olro on obotit