Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-10-09

ySot tAdn any Stdt0 IN the union, and
1t IS OF great value The crop of 1888
amounted only to 10000 hogsheads-
TINS year it is estimated at $4,000 hogs
heaos The entire tobacco crop of Vir.
glnla' Kentucky, Maryland and Ohio, COR I
TINS year is estimated at $4,000 hogs
heads. Last year it was only $4,000.
ROBBINS REEF LIGHT. This Light !
House, which rises out of the sea, and is
Quilt entirely of stone, is nearly in readi- !
ness to be lighted up. The situation is
nearly down to Staten Island, at the mouth !
OF the Kills. The light will be an excel |
lent guide in the night, to all vessels, out
particularly to Steamboats, running up and
down the bay. A bell with clock ma
chinery is TO be placed on the cupola-to
De to'ed In foggy weather or in storm
AN improvement greatly required. The
man who is stationed at this Light House,
VIII not have a foot of ground to stand
upon, except that within the house The
foundation is brought up from the rock
under water.-M Y ErpreSs.
CRUELTY We learn from the Phila-
delphla World, that young man, ma
rlne attached to the navy yaId, stayed GU:
OF the yard few nights since, with his
wife during the night-cortrary to the
rules of the service. He returned to his
duty IN the morning, but although it was
MS flrst offence, he was punished bv or
der OF the officer on DUTY, with eight
lashes on his bare back with the cat
The rules of discipline should be en-
torced-but we verify believe this NAV be
done without such acts of brutal tyranny
as related above. Corporal punishment
should not be recognized by the United
States laws. 1t is time that this degrad.
ing mode of punishment-this system of
torturing man into the performance of
duty should be abolished under an enligh
tened oyernment--Bostom Journal.
FEVER AT THE SoUrH.-Augusta.
24th Sept. The Board of Health report
three deaths In the city, and two in the
country, from fever, during the previous
"a hours.
At New Orleans, to the Goth, there was
no favorable change reported of the pre-
vailing epidemic.
The Mobile Register of the goth states (
" We have no more favorable accounts to
give of the health of the city. The NOR
tality is still frightful, in proportion to the
population of the city, and though our ia |
bles shew singular fuctuaton from day |
to day in the number of interments, there
IS, we fear, no reason to hope that the dis
ease is mitigated in violence, or IesseLed |
in extent. The number of deaths since |
our last publication, in which our table
was made up TO Wednesday night, the (
18th inst, up TO Wednesday night ofthis
week. is 90, and the total interments Since
the lst to the 18th, inclusive, is 27I."
The KIDNAPPED BoY-whose rescue
from slavery we announced on Saturday
has reached this city, on his way to his |
home at Worcester. He is a bright, in
telllgent little fellow, about eight years of
age, and the son Of very respectable me-
chanlc at Worcester. The gentleman I
who went 10 Virginia in search of him is
Mr.. Rice; he deserves much credit for
the skill and promptitude with which he
effected his benevolent object Shearer,
the kidnapper, was left in Jail at Freder-
lcksburg, awaiting a requisition from the |
Governor OF Massachusetts. He had two
or three accomplices, and there is a strono
reason to believe, from what came out on !
the examination, that three or four other |
colored boys have been kidnapped and
sold by him and his confederates. Svd- |
ney, the boy now rescued, was sold bv |
Shearer for four hundred and fifty dollars.
~ Y. CON- Ado.
The fourth anniversary of the n. York !
Anti-Slavery Society terminated at Utica
on the goth instant Gerrit Smith, Esq,
presided. AT this meeting a delegation,
consisting of J. c. Fuller. G. Smith,
Esqrs., ard DIR. John Mcclure Smith,
were appointed to represent the society at
the Anti-Slavery Convention of Ma
tons" to be held in London in June next.
| ~. Y. Spectator.
LUST OF GAIN. The New Orleans
Courier relates that the Germans and
Swiss, from Havre who were landed in
New Orleans last week, when warned of
the danger of coming into the CITY. the
emigrants declared that they had been as
sured in France that laboring men might
here earn three dollars per diem; that
they had crossed the Atlantic to make mo-
ney; and into New Orleans they would
enter, at all hazards. Probably, most of
them had Mt time to earn money enough
to buy coffin before they required one.
Boston Press d Post.
HE MISSING PILoT Bears. These
vessels have now been absent more than
month, and not a syllable has been
heard from them. The Gratitude had
three branch pilots on board when last
/ seen, viz. Joseph Hendershott, Sydney s.