Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-08-12
General Intelligenc.
From the Albany Argus.


uleu- ndnklnS you loI YOUR hiuuneSs
in publishing my former letters relative to
the great Temperance Reform now in
progress in Great Britain and Ireland
[ continue to make extracts from papers /
recently received.
! In ireland the cause continued to prog
ress during the month of April with unil-
fmlnshed interest From Wexford, where |
he administered the pledge 10 from 40 10
$4,000, Father Mathew proceeded, on the
10th. to New Ross, the classic ground of
intemperance, where every disl,ller aud
brewer, mourning over their hopes, may
say, Hoe fonte derivata clades.' The
first Temperance Society ever held in Eu-
rope was in New Ross. The chairman
of the meeting was Joseph LsnphieI.-
The first advocate of the now prosperous
cause, George w. Carr. By half past
, three on the first day. $4,000 had received
the pledge At Enuiscarthy, where he
, next went $4,000 received the first day,
and 1000 the next. In Dublin 500 la
dies, of the first responsibility, took the
pledge at his hand an incident which we
notice with particular pleasure, as the
t question has often been asked, whether fe-
e males take the pledge. The Lord Lieu
: tenant paid the apostle every attention,
aud invited him TO dine with him, an hon
or which was declined.
: Ga the Goth we find him at E<llfearle,
e where he was to preach at the opening Of
y "a new chapel. The teelotal societies o
y CasheI, Tipperary. Golen. Thomastown
e Sc, mustered in large numbers, to testify
% their respect for the founder oftheir body
and thousands hocked thilher to enro
themselves under his banner. Out OF 50,
- 600 persons assembled but two were seer
Oh intoxicated. So engaged, early In May
ry was Mr.. Mathew at his work, that h
n could no, attend the London anniversaries
us On the first of May, be was at kaIlow
~ and the 9Th at Killaloe. Throughout Ire
: Ilnd the new societies, so wonderful
- formed and enlarged under Father Matt
~ ew, were holding, through April, publ
lol meetings, soirees, and anniversaries
IDS Universal Joy seems to pervade the matte
of on the reform.
lat The Lord Bishop OF Norwich (Protes
re- ,snt) declared publicly that Father Mat
to ew had done more for the peace AMI nal
A, piuess OF Ireland, than any other pers'
:, for the last 100 years
De [ give YOU brief sketch Of the life
this distinguished Catholic Eccieslas;ic
to MIR. Mathew was born in the ye;
ose 1850, at Thomastown House, the seat
mo the Earl of Land Fl, IN the county
Jug Cork. When about twenty years OF a;
~ he catered Kilkenny college. where, hi
lot ,ng completed the usual course OF stodi
nth he took orders as Z Franciscan frlaf.
leaving college he fixed his residence
Cork, where, IN u short tune, he carr
'aa- bloh reputation BY the zeal with WI
nm he discharged the duties OF his sacred
I'm nee, anu particularly by his powers a
IT nulpt orator. 10 ennmefatf the servl
fice' which he rendered to his teliow-cltiz5
VIVA particularly the humber classes OF tn
ne'o is ask agreeable in itself, but one WI
ne would require more time and space t
Gnu we can afford to bestow. Let it be 81
sets, CON, ~ saw that he has spent the last
state aud twenty years In continual exeruon
r mitigate the suhefngs OF the poor OF
neighborhood. and to raise them from
AND state of moral aud ply steal degfadatIe
mia which they had been reduced. NJ
me TO during that time, WAS an attempt 10 t
anv of the great ends of charity, to ms
,nicle, the ignorant, 10 feed the hungry, to G.
nd. if the naked, that did not either orig
,,;,;o w;,h him. or at least receive his
! ro,a ardent support. He never stopped t'
nuire whether such an attempt ORGY
II with Protestant or Catholic he req
he ma hut 10 be told that its object Was TO c
versed a benefit on his fellow man.
logic, by such course oil iiie' W. M
IL
auence over the minds OF the suffou
moor. About two years ago'lt was
Il IS io' rested TO him, by a few benevolent
;tioneer v,daals. who had attempted to eslao
saIional total abstineuce society in Cork, u
2 could not better employ his laen
ioAuence than in reciaimng the a.
classes Of his fellow citizens from Il
1910. of drunkenness. which prevaile1
: others lime TO frightfu. extent amon9s'
of the He embraced the proposal without
ron About the commencement
from the year 1000 ~ Th,,a,ance
nio'le u like all great revolutions, mas gfoS
|, as we small beginnings. For seVeta'
prayer OF a6sr the ftst society was estaoilsn
V saving number of us members scarcely
mo, we Eve hundred.
,aa-aad I'm October last he CONNER
er, Einer- tour en''u ms,s,far5 Dnoarvo
offered - mel, Killarney, Talow, GtiwaN
h The Cos h n Dublin, Wexford, add sevel
.,,end. II nlaces, addressing the people an
/ evening, istering the pledge o. sG me,
% Zines. from all tha. inloxieates, TO lnm -
soiri, was IS Of men and women VINO noes