Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-03-17


IT revolutionary measure; it is very
great extension of the suffrage. A DR..
Slgmond has published volume in de-
fence of tea drinking, and wine bibbing,
against the assaults of the tee.lotalIers.-
The cause of abstinence is extending rap
idly among the working classes. Sever
al OF the Chartist leaders are about to-
recommend it to their political friends
A female Chartist association has puba
lished an address on the subject 10 the
women of England. In 1910 couples
married, in England and Wales, in one
year, 40 ,587 men could not write. The
criminal commitments have averaged g..
l72 year, in 1879, of whom s20i
could neither read nor write; 1861 read
and wrote imperfectly.-FTee Amerieam
DEATH OF THE AMERICAN Consul
IN FRANcE.-Died on Sunday evening,
Jan. 81, in Paris, in the 68th year of his
age, oftyphoid exhaustion after gout, DAN
lei Brent. Esq Consul ofthe United States
OF America for Paris, and agent of Amer.
lean claims.
EXAMPLE FOR IMITAT1oN-The Post
master General of England, has issued an
or6cr prohibiting any Individual employ
ed in the Post Office Department, or their
wives. from keeping houses for the sale of
intoxicating liquors, under the penalty Of
forfeiting their Office.
| Would not our Government do we'll to-
take the same course. We think il cruel
to compel a young girl to go into bar
room for her letters, to be exposed to the
obscene remarks-the insolent stare, and.
perhaps nameless insults of the drunken
and worthless loafers who always congre-,
gate In such places. Besides, general
customers, are seldom able to get regular
| ly, either their letters or papers, from a.
bAr-room.-OLaue Branch.
| The PULPIT AND THE PREss.-I feel
no seruple in asserting, as my own opin-
ion, at least, that had all the pu!pits and
presses in Europe been occupied by hon.
/ est men, and delivered nothing but the
truth, during the last hundred wears, there
would have been no wars for al least
ninety years back! And believe, more
over, that were they even now to make
truth their refuge, and abide by principles
at the risk Of interest, they would soon eff.
feet universal peace. Solomon says.
4 Life and death are 10 the power of the
tongue How much more, then, are
| peace and war In the power of the press
and the pulpit, which may be called the
two great tongues Of the world Req E.
Beaumont.
i The Hon. George E. Badger, the gen.
tleman designated to take charge of the
Navy Department under the new Admin
istration, arrived in this city from North
Carolina on Sunday. Ali the proposed
Members of the new Cabinet are now on
the ground. National Intelligeneer.
By the above from the government pa
per, it appears that all the members of the
new government that had the opportunity,
were careful to show that they do not in
!. tend to obey the laws of God, by violating
one OF bis commands publicly just before
coming into power.
Ell DEDICATION AT BRATTLEBoRo'. VI.
E The new Meeting house, erected by the
Baptist Church and Society in Brattlebo,
!. ro', Vt was dedicated to the worship OF
God on the Sd inst. The Scriptures were
read, and the first prayer was offered by
Rev. E. Andrews, formerly of Bernards.
ton, Mass; Sermon by Rev Elijah Hutch
inson, of Windsor; and Consecratine
J. Prayer by Rev. Samuel Fish, of Halifax,
: The singing was conducted by Mr.
= Thomas NJ. Marshall, OF Shelburne Falls
Mass. All the exercises were appropriate
3 and listened to BY crowded and apparent
$ ly deeply interested al dience The house
J. is forty-two feet wide BY fifty-sevenI long
pleasantly located 10 the centre of the vii
q iage, neatly finished, with convenien
IS ves.ry underneath, and cost between TWEEN
8 ty-six and tweaty-seven hundred dollars
IS most of which is already covered with tn,
n sale of the slips, and the prospect is fai
t. that subsequent sales will soon cover tn,
E. whole The church which is thus favor
- ed, was first organized on the second daI
q of April last, and received the fellowship
: of sister churches on the sixth of May
u May she still enjoy the Divine presence
!, that her future prosperity may bear some
o' proportion TO the past-Gom.