Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-06-26


was ready. and received the whole of it in
his-thigh. We learn that the shock to
his constitution, and the bleeding conse-
quent on so serious an injury, caused his
death within about an hour from the time
1t happened. EIe waslhe only son of Mr..
Seth Copeland, and promising young
man. Boston Patriot.
TERRIBLE DEATH.-We are informed
that on Saturday last, woman residing
IN Little Water street, between Lombard
and South streets, died of hunger; her
husband was confirmed drunkard, and
1t was in consequence of her total want oe
all necessaries of life, which fact she had
not made known to her neighbors, that
she was reduced to dying condition.
Her situation was only discovered when
all remedies were Intellectual. She has
left five children to mourn her DEATH
PhaIG. Ledger.
HINDoo WIDows.-We learn from
the Bombay Gazette, that the Hindoos
are stirring themselves to obtain permits
sion for widows to re-marry. It is IA
question of their law, and one which con-
sequently can not be interfered with by
the English government, unless they can
show that the present prohibition is not an
essential part of the Hindoo system
| Certainly, if in any country such pro-
hibition is absurd it is there, where Hin
doc females are frequently married at
two years of age; SO that the ordinary
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ten times the widowhood OF persons mar
rying at maturity. A child who has
been thus pledged, and whose husband
may have died before be left his nurses
arms, is thus sacrificed to an absurd pre-
JUDGE, which the Hindoos are beginning
to be ashamed Of
This change in public sentiment must
be ascribed to the influence of the Chris
tian system, which has been for several
years making progress in that long be.
nighted land The false and cruel rights
of Hindoo superstitions are giving way
to the mild and simple services and the
pure doctrines of the true faith, land as
natural consequence, woman is beginning
to be regarded no longer as the slave, but
as the equal companion of man. 1t i:
one of the browning excellencies of oul
holy religion, that wherever it goes, i
, scatters with liberal hand the blessing s
! of the life that now IS, while it promises
the more satisfying ones of that which 4!
3 to come Watch TOacer.
A PHYSIOLOGICAL FACT. A surgeon
D in the U. S. Army, recently desired tt
know the most common cause of enlist
ments. By permission of the captain O
the company, containing fity-fve, on
J. pledge never to. disclose the name of an,
!. officer or private, except as physiologic
4 al or metaphysical fact, l obtained from
r him the true history of every man. o.
investigation, it appeared that nine tenth
a enlisted on account of some female diff
f Guilty; thirteen of them had changed thei
I. names, and forty -three were either drunk
. or partially so, al the time of their enlist
4 ment Most of these were men of fin
4 talents and learning, and about one thir
i had once been men in elevated stations i
# life. Four had been lawyers, three doc
4 tors, and two ministers. The experiment
:. er and writer of this believes, if it wer
'. not for his pledge of secrecy, that th
o. would be as Interesting a history, an
. would exhibit the fraity of human natur
as fully as any experiments ever made o
a the subject Of the passions.-St. Lou
n Gazette.
y THE ALLEGED SLAvERs. 1t appear
a tina: the brig Eagle. brought III here b
he H. B. M. ship Buzzard, was captured Q
~ the coast of Africa. She was commas
90 ed at the time by Capt Letting. III
i. schr. Clara. Cap. Hooker, was also ca
4 . tured by the Buzzard en- the Africa
he coast, and arrived on Tuesday night
q. charge of British prize master. Bo
~ vessels being American built and cor
- manded by American officers, it W
re deemed matter of courtesy to send the
he to this country for trial We understa
ed that no slaves were found on board eth
II vessel at the time Of the capture, but til
on they were provided with hand cuffs a
, q other implements OF the horrid traffic, a
that the captains subsequently admit
of. the fact of their having been engaged
~ the slave trade. When captured the v,
Il. sells were under the Spanish flag.
I'll We rejoice that Great Britain has g
". en- as this friendly hint in regard to Q
lin remissness on the subject of the sa
oh. trade; remissness which can be in
he way accounted for except on The volun
The ry principle; for it is fact, that the CT
On ture of SLAYER by an American crui
ms is thing unheard of for years, and wh
ced ~ unexpected. Scores Of slave vess
but are caught every year by British cru
the ers, and we will not do our own batiol
ew vessels the injustice to suppose that II
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