Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-02-12
GENTLEMEN OF roRrusE, who are

GENTLEMEN OF FoRTuNE, who are
anxIous to become beggass, had better
commence @ publishing Daily Paper
The Baltimore Chronicle has been
| recently discontinued for want OF support.
One, OF It's late proprietors states, that
since the commencement of the pubica-
! 'ion' few years ago. theSenormous sum
/ o. one hundred and fifty thousand. dollars
has been sunk in CARRYING it ON
/ The Baltimore Post truly remarks that
th+re IS no pursuit in which men embark
with SO blind calculation of the chanc-
Is OF success as in this. And there is
none WHICH they so reluctantly abandon.
even when practical knowledge should
convince that failure is inevitable. Al
most every newspaper is gradually, tho
| ooen very slowly. increasing its patron
age AMI the publisher is thus iured on
ward believing that the struggle Iil,le
longer continued will place him OH a safe
| iootlng And then, when he looks over
nls book OF accounts. aud sees what a
goodly appearance his patronage makes.
| as there exhibited. another irresistible lure
IS presented, aud he Struggles on, hoping
against hope, and only years of unavail-
ing TOLL and too often absolute bankrunt-
cv alone, can convince him of the differ
ence between his income charged on his
books, and as actually received in cash
into his treasury. Boston Press G.
Post
Mr.. Richard Hildreth has sued US for
IWenty IboNsadd Dollars DAMAGES for
expressing our belief that he is insane
II SUNG printer for $4,000 is not suf-
/ hcIent evidence that man is crazy there
IS no use IN having the Worcester Hos
pita!.-Boston Press &, Post.
PERSONS LOST IN THE LExISerox
From day to day new names have bpen
added to the melancholy list of sufferers
10 the Lexington. The lives lost in this
liI'fated boat will not probably fall muck
short of the first statement, viz one han.
dred and ffy-CA- WutcAman.
MELANCHOLY Acc1DExr.-Tbe
Newburypor Herald states that on Fri
day last Mr. Ebenezer Smith. aged about
70 eldest son of Mr.. Richard Smith
while employed in blasting rocks with his
ofotnerS, near their fathers house. for the
Eastern Railroad, was instantly killed bv
premature explosion, supposed 70 bayt.
been occasioned by a spark from the
match which he was arranging. The
rock had previously been split. and the
opening was filled with several mounds of
powder, the upper surface of which was
exposed TO the air. He was thrown nm
nearly forty feet, AID fell about fifty feet
IRON The spot, lifeiess. and shockinolv
mangIed. This melancholy even: has
taken from our community an industrious
ana worthy young man, active and ener-
getlc, highly respected and beloved by a
large circle of friends, and a sincere
Christian. He has left wife.
APPEAL OF THE AMIsrAD cAsE.-At
an adjourned term of the u. S. District
Court held at Hartford, Jan. "a. on a
further demand on the part of the Minis.
Ter OF Spain, an appeal from the late
decision OF the Court, in the Amistad
case was taken. removing it to the Cir.
| enh Court. The Emancipator saws on
'he authority of private advices that
Inns appeal against liberty was taken bv
| Mr.. Holablrd. q. S. District At,orn,,,
acting on behalf of the government. and
( oy order OF the President" Voice Df
| Freedom.
DREADFUL CAsUALTY.-Mr. Isaiah
Huckins, Jr. was instantly killed in
Brewers ship yard in Robinson, a few
days ago. by the bursting of three
pound CANNON, while in the act of dis.
charging 1t by igniting the printing with
hot iron rod, wh:h was driven into his
side under the right arm, Causing instant
death The gnn and carriage were torn
10 pieces, and one piece of the Gun
weighing at least twenty pounds, was
! thrown about fifty rods, and as sevsr,t
persons were near the gun at H., lime
there Is much cause Of gratitude to PRIV.
Idence that no others sustained injury
Calais Democrat
lMPR1soNMENT FOR CoNsc1ESCE
! KE.-Mr. Charles Stearns, of Green.
field, Mass. clerk ia the Anti Slaverv
Depository in this city, was Yesterday
imprisoned In the Hartford County Jail,
tor refusing on account of conscientious
scruples IN regard to military warfare, to
pay a line imposed upon him by Capt.
/ Merriam, of the Hartford LnyincisIes, for
InegectIng to perform military service
last autumn Hartford Daily Couramt
The BLOODHOUND Wharf.-The fol-
loving paragraph is from the Tallahas-
see Star of The 9th instant -
Colonel Fitzpatrick arrived on Tues
day at St. Marks, from Cuba, with thirty
three bloodhounds and six Spaniards,
their trainers md Lor lie .Los.