Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-09
Correspondence of the N. Y. Jour. of Com.
LONDON. October. 81,

India. Thirty thousand British troops
were en- route for the Northern Frontier,
to join fifty thousand, under, and belong
ing to Kuujees Singh, who had express
edthe most friendly disposition towardsthe
Government of Calcutta 1t was rumored
that sortie had been made from Herat,
and tina: the garrison had succeeded in
Staying two thousand of the besiegers,
amongwho.n was Russian officer of high
rank. 1t is owing to this seige that the
British Minister has Withdrawn from Per
sia, because the Schah has only been in
duced to sit down before Herat, at the in
stigation of Russia, whose designs upon
British India, this was intended to adj
vance. Herat is in lat. 81 IL NJ, long
SO IA E., and the capital of ARENA
1t is situated in spacious plain, giFt with
lofty mountains of surprising fertility
and contains 100000 inhabitants. The
principal trade of Cabns, Bockhara, Per-
STA, Cashmere and Hindostan, is centered
in -Herat, and its commerce consists Of
shawls, indigo. sugar, muslins, leather,
Tartary skins, tea, china, broad-cloth, cop
per, pepper, candy and dates. lis
staple is silk, saffron and assafetida.
The Frontier.
A good deal of excitement has been pro-
duced at the north by the burning of a
/ number of buildings at Caldweli's Manor.
1t seems that party of Is or 20 armed
men crossed over from Alburgh, about
two o'clock, on Sunday morning and
burned four dwellings and six barns, the
property of loyalists, viz: Mr.. Gibson,
Isaac Johnson, VIM. Clark and Mr.. Mamie.
At this point they were fred upon by the
guard, whereupon they retreated. The
loyalists BY this time rallied, and by way
of Offset, applied the torch to the buildings
Of a patriot by the name of Glogan, who,
it's said, headed the expedition. 1t does
not appear that any Americans were con-
cerned in it; but we shall not be surpris-
ed to hear that retaliation has been made
on this side the line Great excitement
prevails at Alburgh, Swanton and Mssis-
quot Bay, and the military is all in mo.
ton. Report says that shots have already
been exchanged across the line, and that a
loyal picket guard having ventured out
the wrong side of as, was made prisoner
but subsequently released. {"
This is all wrong, and the offender:
must be promptly punished. They viii
be.
Since the above was in type, we have
received the St. Adams Messenger, which
gives the following statement Of the facts
Burlington Free Press.
cit appears that man by the name 0
4 Grogan who took part in the patrio
cause last winter, and thought it pruden
10 leave the Province, returned home las
summer under Lord Durham's Amnest,
proc lamation, where he remained quiet
But for some spleen his neighbors ha,
: against him fourteen volunteers command
ed by a volunteer Lieutenant went las
week to his house and ordered him t.
f leave the Province; which order they ex
ecuted at the point of the bayonet. TIL
volunteers went to G's house on Saturda
last and ordered his wife to leave tn
, Province also, as the house would be burn
: ed that night; she very prudentIy did s.
n and Joined her husband at Alburgh, leay
ing all her furniture, large stock of cal
: tie, sheep Sc, together with two arc
barns filled with hay and grain. Durin.
y the night Grogan's house, barns and GU
houses were burned with all their con
h tents and hearly all bis cattle and sheer
g which were in the buildings. The house
+ barns and out-buiidings belonging to Ha
y vey Huxley were also burned. Huxle
4 IS an American who has taken no part
St the politics of Canada. The property
e the following tories was burned the sam
q night Mr. Clark, two barns and cor
l. tents 1t. Johnson of the volunteer
d house, barn and contents; Mr.. Mani
: barn and contents"
!, TEMPERANCE IN GEORGIA. Abo,
r 800 of the voters of Bib county ha,
+! pledged themselves not to support an
st man for 'the Legislature, or other offic
! who will himself electioneer by treatin
IS in liquors of any kind, or by giving Ba
,e becues, or who will place money in tt
Of hands OF others to do so for him."
Re Couyant.
:. UPPER CANADA. Martin Woodru
~ Of Salina, one of the prisoners taken
:, - Prescott, was hanged at Kingston on Il
e 10th; our correspondent informs Us tn
|; H. Sylvanus Swete, of Northampton, N Y
: and Joel Peeler, also of this state, were e
:" ecuted on the 22d. They had ali plead
~ guilty Woodruff had recently become
y convert to the Catholic faith and was
20 teaded in his last moments by two Cath
lie priests.-N. Y. Spectator.
- OswEGo BUTTER Col. Meacham,
!! mammoth cheese celebrity, is again in I
field with some of the productions Of |
). extensive dairy. He is now exhibiting
~ pyramid of butter, weighing upward
: 1900 pounds. He has Forwarded anoth