Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-09-23

amount ofcrlme perpetraled on this canal
is beyond computation" ." .... 49,.
The article below is too we'll suited to the
latitude Of Vermont, in relation 10 what il
treats of, to be lost or kept out of sight
The country political newspapers generally
do very lutte credit 10 their publishers, and
afford as little benefit to their readers. la -
From the Christian Reflector.
NEWSPAPER TRASH.
The writer of the following article in
forms US that it has been excluded from
the columns ola paper for whose benefit it
was particularly Intended and inasmuch
as zoe think it contains some sound sent
ments and timely suggestions. we give it
room. In single point, however, we
take the liberty to differ from the writer.
II, instead of leaving the ill-occupied por-
tions of their papers blank, as limited by
him, the Editors alIudedtowil fillthe space
with good Anti Staoery or Temperance
matter, they will very much improve their
papers and benefit their readers. =-...
A LETTER to the Editors of certain
country Newspapers. -- Gentlemen,
Please to excuse any seeming reflection
on you, which may be contained in our
proposal for improving those papers,
which occupy your daily labors. Much.
Of your first page is usually filled with the
same kind of matter that fills the novels,
that are SO justly condemned by all per-
sons of intelligence and character, as only
calculated to weaken the minds and cor
rupt the morals, of society. Those old,
authenticated stories are made Of the same
moon-shine that our talented novel writ
ers, like SO manv mountains in labor, are
often bringing forth. Whether secular
or religious, they are mere stories or
chiefly SO, as much as those of Jack the
giant killer and tend to Danish all moral
regard for truth as we'll as love of solid
learning, out of the world. These you
publish, we suppose, to secure the patron
age of the uneducated but let US suggest
to yon, that you are mistaken in your cal
culations; for you are in this thing a
quarter or half century behind the i'm
provements Of the age. Time was when
farmers and others used to spend more or
less oftheir winter evenings in telling
and hearing old and strange stories over
a mug of cider; but, by the increase of
Science and temperance, that time has
gone by. Most Of those, who read your
tpapers at all, or more than the foreign and
domestic news, want something substan-
tial and worth reading What you fill up
! froai novels or similar sources, they would
prefer to have you leave blank, which
would save the time spent in examining
! it, and keep them from an evil JOB dep
recated. being filled with the east wind,
And as we are now taking the liberty 10
counsel you, please also 10 shut out o.
your pages those low puns and bits o.
boys wit, which offend serious minds, and
make people of sense think strange of your
Judgment in selecting them. Occasional
lstrokes Of real, pure wit are not objected
TO here. Editors should keep up with o
4 go before the common people, in the i'm
provements of the times, in which cas-
they will be useful and respected. Bat
j when seen publishing false, profane, cor
rupt, or silly things, and SO catering 70
: the vitiated taste Of the lowest class in so
! tciety, aad this merely TO fill their CIV
pockets, it is hard task for our cando
| and charity TO CALI them respectable
{ Now, gentlemen, these things are all sal
in friendship to yol, and through you
!. the public, however harsh they may SCUM
6 in the ears of those TO whom they appl
a / Please to read and consider them, and
q oblige your humble servants. MANY.
!, LONDONDERRY, Sept. -, 1910.
Brother Murray:-As the public print
y the only means through which ! can a
e dress Daniel Rowley, not knowing whe