Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-08-28
Whole number 494
Voice of Freedom1


SHIP Wreck AND Loss OF LIFE
The Pickering Dodge, Captain Ho-
brook, according to, the Liverpool papers
OF the 18th July, sailed from that port ON
the l4th for Salem. From Lloyd's List
OF the 22d we learn that the vessel struck
on the middle patch of Carmarthen river
on the 10Th, and that the master, mate,
supercargo, and two of the crew were
drowned. The second mate and ten of
the crew were saved. On the 29th of
July, the vessel was imbedded in the sand
with twelve feet water in the hold, appa-
rently bllged and the stern frame broken.
In the List it is stated that the Picker.
ing Dodge was bound to Newport.-N.
Y. Spec.
STEAM-RAcING ON THE ATLANTIC
We are not without our apprehensions
that the passage of the British Queen and
the Great Western, in their .homeward-
bound course, will have been signalized
by some disaster. The fierce and career.
ing manner with which they left the bay
OF New York,-a thousand bets upon
them, and the ambition of their engineers
excited to the utmost pitch, gives room for
apprehension. In this majestic elemental
sttlie-the vast ocean for the scene-a
mighty and dangerous power the agent of
accession, and two great nations as expect-
ants and umplres,-it becomes a matter of
magnitude, IN which even those whose
safety may be endangered deeply in the
issue, find even their passions excited, and
a stupendous sporting feeling predem-
lnant over all other emotions.
But let us consider for a moment the
dangerous consequences ofthis grand sea.
racing. Let US think Of the many pre-
cious and blameIess lives confded, within
these powerful craft, to the care of their
engineers and captains. Are they to be
as mere "dust IN the balance" of that
question which decides merely upon the
superior swifness Of a steam packet2-
Are their bodies and spirits to be thus
jeoparded, for the sake of few sums wa
,gered on speed between New York &
London We trust not.
The great danger is, in matter of this
kind, that it will introduce upon the At
lantic the era Of steam racing, thanwhich
nothing can be more ultimately fatal and
revolving to humanity. 1t will not be
merely race at sea. monthly repeated
it will likewise be the commencement of
steam packet gambling in the way of bets.
That which the laws Of many of our states
prohibit even upon so comparatively un-
important thing as the event of polit-
ical canvass, will be tolerated on the high
way ofnations, to the yearly peril ofthou-
sands OLIVES. How many human beings
would now be treading the green earth
and enjoying the free sunshine of the
West. butfor the first race on the Ohio, or
the Mississippi, andthe horrible numbers of
such contests as followed it! We hope
that IN the present point, the press will
annui so dangerous movement in the
onset, and prove that even the omnipo-
teuce of steam in reckless hands, may be
met and vanquished by the omnipotence
of public opinion. -Phitadetphig Ga
zette.
FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY SOON PART
ED.-A better illustration OF the adage
could not be conceived of than the follow
ing-Mass. Abolitionist.
CoLonszatiOR,-Elliot Cresson, Esq,
has collected tor the Colonization Society,"
$4,000, in about two weeks, in the neigh
borhood of New London, Conn. In New
London two gentleman contributed $1,000
each. and in Stonington one gave $1,000,
and another $500. The New London
Gazette states, for the information ofthose
who charge the Wings with abolitionism,
that every contributor in that county is
Wing.
We will undertake to demonstrate, for
fofr-pence-half penny, that neither the
wings nor the democrats are abolitionists.