Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-02-06

destined to run between New York and
Mississippi; the Illinois and the Madison.
on Lake Erie, are the next IN size, the
former being 755, and the latter 700 tons: ,
the Massachusetts, in Long Island Sound,
is the next largest, being 627 tons; and E
the Buffalo, on Lake Erie, next, being Of c
6l3 tons. s
The end OF the World in 1913.
1t was stated in your paper some months
since, that man in Troy, II. Y, was en-
deavoring 10 prove that the confagration
ofthe world would occnr in l843. learn
that the same man is Propagating this
opinion in Vermont, and that he has re-
Gently delivered lectures on the subject at
/ Montpelier. His name is MILLER. 1t
is said that many GO to hear him, and that
some are inclined TO adopt his sentiments.
| am informed that his opinions are found
ed on some passages in the prophet Dam
lei, and the Revelation Of John; on those
| suppose that contain the prophetic num-
bers, as $500 days, 1920 days, 1885
days, AZ months, time, times and hall, |
&c. Every person, who hgs paid much |
attention TO the writers on prophecy, |
knows that the numbers in Daniel and
Revelation may be so computed and COM
bined by ingenious men, as TO show that
, the commencement of the millennium, or
the restoration of the Jews, or the des-
tructon OF the world, or any other import
ant event, will happen in such year as
> they choose TO select. f -.
The belief that the end of the world
) was at hand has been propa gated many
: times since the Christian era. will no.
= tice one or two instances. La the 10Th
century, o few years before A d. le00,
the priests and monks propagated the no.
= ton that the day of Judgment and the end
: of the world would be in the year 1000
n This opinion threw the world into the
II deepest CONSERVATION, and produced dread
nt full terror and dismay in many countries.
- Prodigious numbers of the people gave
:, all their lands and treasures to the church
, es or monaSteries, and hastened 10 Pales-
80 tine, 10 witness the descent Of Christ from
W heaven. Others devoted themselves TO the
10 service Of the churches, converts, and
,te priesthood, whose slaves they became in
-, the most rigorous sense ofthat word, per.
IN forming daily their heavy tasks, and I'M
!, agining that the Supreme Judge would
= look more fayorably upon them, becaus,
,s- they had made themselves slaves Of hi
70 ministers.-W hen there was a visible
-, eclipse of the sun or moon, the cite
: were deserted, and the inhabitants fed 70
ad refuge TO cayerns, rocks, and mountains
10 La that ignorant and supersticious age. tn
or priests and monks, who were generally
| op1 lio,n,1o,e i
Of wealth by the terror they had excited. -
no (Sse Mosheim.) es
sed Some intelligent men, in more enlighler
as ed ages, have entertained the belief that III
M end of the world was not far Distant
ed) Lord Napier, the celebrated inventor
he logarithms, man of learning and pr,
,de found mathematician, published, in 1895
ma. a "Plain discovery Of the whole ReveIa
m ton of St. JOHN in which he proved
Der his own satisfaction that the latter da
rst would fall between 1853 and 1900, an
led that the world, al the latest would not SUI
his vive the year 100. He had devote
ov- much attention TO Inc subject, and his boo
led passed through many editions, and wa
led translated into most of the European lar
by guages; but the world outIived the yea
1ly 100, and Lord Napier verified the re
38. mark of Elihu, in the book of job, grea
Els, men are not always WISE" -HampsAir
the Gazette.
OF CENSUS OF GEORGIA. The Milledge
vile Journal contains the census of tn
, Ia several counties in the State of Georgif
De- just taken, from which it appears that tn
zen entire population is &c., souls; {
ATE which 1913, 1870 are whites, and 268 81
re- are blacks. .-
ex-
New York City has eightv.ihr foul
till ishng Public Schools, with seven,ee
ar thousand pupils. Yet there are suppose
ne, TO be near twenty thousand children b
la tween FIVE and fifteen years of age, wh
the DO not, from neglect of parents and guaI
ore dams, attend any school. These are tb
cen materials for juvenile crimes.
10, The bill TO repeal the laws restrictin
cen The issuing OF small bills, has passed boz
as branches of the New York Legisatur
Fly In the Senate by vote of 2S-t 2, and
'ac, the Assemblysll7 to 6.
There is stocking factory in Port
:; mouth. n. H., in which 1900 pairs
Ia hose are made in week. Ii gives en-
ployment to seventy hands-and will
&c another year, probably, give emplovne
ie- TO two hundred 1t operates part of Il
o ~" time by water, and when that fails /
a ao- steam.
rms ANECDoTE OF REV. LEMUEL HAYNE
sral Mr. Haynes happening one day TO pa.
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