Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-06-09
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Your o5edient,
JOHN TAPPAN.

Your o5edient,
JOHN TAPPAN.
METHODIST CONFERENCE.-THE N. York
Annual Conference, in session in this city,
elected this morning the Rev. Sam'l. Luck
ey, D. D. Corresponding Secretary Of the
Missionary Society of the Methodist E pis-
copal church, in place of the Rev. DIR.
Bangs, resigned. The vote was for Dr.
Luckey, SO; for DIR. Durbin 70, and IA
scattering. Whole number, 176, necessary
for choice SO. 49,
The Conference then proceeded to the
election of book agent, in place of Thomas
Mason, removed, when the Rev. Geo. Lane,
assistant agent, was elected agent.
The Rev. Peter P. Sanford was elected
assistant book agent, in place Of Rev. Geo.
Lane.-M YSpec.
TIE AFRICANS of the Amistad are now
on a visit with their instructor and 9uardi-
ans in Philadelphia. Meetings, and exhibit
tions Of their progress in knowledge, similar
to those respecting them held in this city,
are in progress in Philadelphia, where a
strong degree of interest and sympathy is
manifested by the people.-NHSpec.
Abolition of French Colonial Slavery.
This measure seems to be demanded by
public opinion in France. The N. York
American says:-"We have information
from private source, on which we fully
RELY, but which we are not at liberty to
name now, that the Abolition Of Colonial
Slavery will be introduced into the French
Chambers by the Ministry, before the pres
emf session closes, and that the question
will be so we'll supported, that there can be
but little doubt but that the cause will be
much advanced. pa. S. Standard
Mr.. Mackay, of Pike CO. Miss, was MUIR
deTed by his own slave, who cut bis throat
with a knife. The neighbors seized him,
and motion to- burn him was lost by few
votes. He was sent TO jail.-I6.
Gov. Sewald has recently transmitted to
the Legislature a message concerning the
mechanical labor performed 10 the State
Prison. 1t was accompanied with letter
from Henry Polhemus, the agent Of the
Auburn Prison, in which he states that sue
cessful experiments have been made in the
cultivation of silk, and that In short time
large portion of the convlcts' labor may be
devoted to that business, and thus be taken
from those articles whose manufacture inter
feres with the mechanics. He has also
begun the manufacture Of the Danube STEEL
an article which is now wholly imported.
Elizabeth Pierce, of Groton, Mass, but
of late resident of Lowell, died last week
in thai city, suddenly, from the effects OF
the oil of tansy. She bought two drachms
at the apothecarv's shop, took it, and was a
corpse in one hour.-A.S Standard.
David G. Burnet, formerly Chief Justice,
and now President pro tenn. of "Republic
OF Texas" aud also President of the Texas
Bible Society, lately challenged Gen. Sam'l
Houston to fight duel! He was publicly
censured by a meeting OF citizens called IN
reference 10 that subject.-b.
Cotton.-The entire growth Of cotton in
the world is estimated al a thousand million
pounds. Ii is stated, that The value OF cotton
manufactures annually is, in England, $l70,-
600 GOO. in France, $4,000, 900, in the U.
States, $50, ,0Oo.-b.
Formulation, of Middle FloridG.-Whlte
males. 5949; females, 4791; free eolored
males, II; females, II male slaves, 1885;
females, 1895. Total whites, 1879, total
colored, 15,78S.-B.
The export of sugar from the Island of
Cuba, during the year 1910, (accordlng to
the Diario,) amounted TO 49,, 53f boxes
The estimated price was nearly $50 box,
making total of S16.62o, 7so-B.
The President has appointed the Hon.
Joseph Eve, of Kentucky, Charge to the
Republic oe Texas.-D.
Charles River Bridge out of Boston, has
been sold by the stockholders to the State
for S25, 000.-Ib.
A hundred thousand bibles, printed in the
Spanish language have been circulated in
Spain, by the English agents since the
month of September.--lb.
An English paper says, that the Roman
Catholics have been very successful oil late
in making proselytes anon gI the Turks
ID.
The New-York Times says that the
number of emigrants wnicn arrived at the
port of New DIRK alone, in 1910, was over