Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-05-13
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From the Peoria Reeis,e r.

lzno. PSoPiCs since IneIr dis
pe'slon IN Missouri. have collected il
great numbers in and around Commerce
~ MS state, on the Mississippi river
Inc name of. Commerce. as we bay
heretofore stated, they have changed /,
NauVoo from the Hebrew or Eeyp,ian
though of the Specification of the term ",
are ignorant. They hold two great con
ie,ehees every year.--in the spring ant
dil ana that appointed for the presen
spring took place last week, commencin,
on the 9th and ending on the 9th ms
we learn that between 1000 and 5000 ner
sons were present, and that considerable,
acceSs'ons were made to the church from
the surrounding neighborhood. Our in
dormant states that the lumber was "A. al
received by baptism, and that at the same
time thirty of the ablest men were ordain.
ed to preach the gospel.
The preachers present were Joseph apo
Eliram Smith, John Page, Orson HYDE
ana two others. Messrs. Page and Hyde
with ten others probably chosen else.
Whefe, )were commissioned to. go to the
Holy Land to preach the gospel to the
Jews. They are to meet in Quincy nex,
sabbath, and from thence take their depar-
ture for Palestine.
About 800 house have been nut nm in
Navoo since last October. Some of them
are neat frame buildings, but the greater
portion are log cabins, designed for tenn
porary habhalions merely. The ground
assigned to. each is generally one acre.
though to some there are five acres.
1ne increase of population by immi-
grafton Is very great. Our informant
states that several families arrive evervdav
a gentleman living on the road from
quincy TO Nauvoo assured him that on
some days at least IS families passed his
house, all bound to The latter place.
RAILROAD FROM BosroS TO BUFFALO
lhe delegation from Boston to the Con.
VentIon at Albany on the subject of the
great Western Railroad, have returned
having been completely successful. They
nave managed the negotiations in the
usual style of the Bay State. The great
OBJECT was. to secure the constrpct;o,, oe
the Road from the Western line of Mas.
sachusets, directlyto Albany. Some time
ago, the city of Albany authorised an
issue OF City Stocks in aid of the enter
PRISE. The Bos;onians have now taken
that loan, will assume all the trouble of
discussing the money upon the Road. and
seeing 1t completed. The ACCOMPLISHMENT
OF the grand object is therefore secured
and Boston now will be at least the aiater
outlet of our grea: West The whole
afflir is signal triumph of Yankee en-.
erprlse and segacily. There has been no
log-rolling In getting up the internal i'm.
provements of Massachusetts. Her Rail.
roads are not all begun in the middle and
at both ends, and finished nowhere. nor
IS the State overwhelmed with debt and
broken down. IN the vain effort to make
railroad TO run by every great mans door.
NOR now that the superiority of Rail.
loads over Canals is demonstrated. is she
spending her millions upon useless en-
agreements of canals, merely because she
has those millions at control. She has
shaped her legislation for the publc Good
ana her ctlZens have embarked Their
wealth under charters which nreclnda
mem from great individual advantage
So far as her works have been begun
they are completed already, or will be
speedily; and now the Yankees have the
track of the Great Western Railroad
marked on their pocket maps along the
shore of Lake Erie, away to ST. Louis,
Mo-, more than twelve hundred miles,
and wilhIn few years, they guess they
shall bring that city and the father Of
rivers within four days of Boston. What
magnificent project! How full of wealth
and happiness! And they will not rest
until the thing is accomplished; and if
'hey push on across the Mississippi and
the Rocky Mountains to Oregon it would
not BE- stranger than what is ALREADY az.
complished. That spirit of perfect liberty
IN politics, religion, and everything else.
which pervades all New-Fagland, makes
men generous and en.erprising & mighty.
II New York has anything to fear from
rivalry, il is from such men as these
N Y.JOur. Of Com.
The CANAL FROM NORTHAMPTON TO
New HAVEN is an unfortunate concern.
1t has been the property of two or three
companies, each Of which has failed. To
the last, New Haven city lent its credit
for hundred thousand dollars, bat has
refuseI to give i! any further all, and
the consequence is. the company dies.
leaving the canal ditch of stagnant water,
for the b>auty and health OF the towns
through which it passes. Its cost is sup-
posed t. have been near two millions
Greenfield Mercury
THE WoRLD's END.-During the last
two or thee centuries, upwards Of lhir-
teen fixed stats have disappeared. One
of them, situated in the Northern Hemis-
phere, presented peculiar brlliancy, and