Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-06-29

being exaggerated, appear to have under
stated the destruction of life and.property.
There is, however, one exception TO his
remark. The calamities al Gonaives, as
reported by Captain Varina, of the brig
Pandora, arrived this week at Boston,
were happily confined to the ruin of hous-
es, the inhabitants had timely warning in
a groaning sound. which they readily un.
derstood, and rushing into the streets, all
escaped with life but two. Most of the
buildings in the place were destroyed.
A letter from Cape Havtien, received
in Philadelphia, estimates the loss of lie
at between eight and nine thousand.-N
Y. Spectator.
Congress has passed an Act to reim-
burse the expenses incurred by the State
OF Maine. in 1889. for the protection of
the frontier, at the same rate as if the
militia called out had been in the service
of the United Slates.-N.Y Y. Observer.
At New Orleans, on the 9th inst, a boy
was crossing street, when he was knock
Ell down by the horses of a porter or beer
wagon, and the wheels passing across his;
neck, completely severed it from his head.
I THE EARTHoUAKE.-Capt Ward,
of the barque Condor, arrived this NOR
ming from MaYaguez, Porto Rico, reports
that the earthquake was severely felt at
that place on the 7th Of May, and up to the
3Olh, when he sailed, there had been two
or three shocks every day.-N Y. Specta.
tor. II
1t will be seen by our foreign news,
that the Emperor Nicholas has determined
TO emancipate the serfs or slaves thorough
out his empire. Thus despotic ruler of
a semi.barbarous people is already in ad-
vance of the boosted republic of this en-
lis htened and civilized country. BY the
way, we hope that The editor of the New
burvport Herald-a paper which we prize
very highI Twill investigate this matter,
aud see if he can detect any design on the
integrity of our Union in this movement
of the Emperor Nicholas, He seems 70
think that the movement of the European
powers, in relation to the subject of slavery
and the slave trade, may have originated
in desire to produce dissolution of the
Union ofthese States Ifsuch be the case,
we should like to be enlightened as to the
mode in which that object is to be promo
ted by the abolition of slavery in Rus sia,
Worees'er Spy. .:.s..
Wheat IN Great BritGin.-It is stated
that in 1880. 10000 600 bushels were
the entire product of Great Britain. Ii
!. 1910 it had increased to 41O,000.OO0.-
The entire grain product of England is
. | IF H.c bolc
per annum, and it is believed by scientif-
ic authorities, that this vast amount may
in few years be doubled. -
! EGYPT.-It will be seen by the follow.
wing paragraph from late English pa
per, that the energies of Mehemet All are
not impaired by age, or the interference OF
the British: ..+-
Letters from Alexandria Of the 10Th,
, states that the Pacha was chiefly occupied
. with extending cultivation in the country,
and as preliminary step, is everywhere
increasing the means Of irrigation. New
! canals are to be dug, and those of Daman'
! hour and Auech are being cleausec and
deepened: 10000 men, soldiers and civil.
ians, have been sent from Alexandria to
assist in these works"
=, On Friday, in Chelmsford, Mass, as a
lad about IL years old named Parker, to.
: gelher with his sister, aged about 10 years
were playing with loaded gun, which
had been careIessly left in the loom, the
, gun accidentally went off in the hands OIL
, the ladd, and the whole charge passed
. through the body of the little girl causing
l. doo,h -, bo,,f tu,o houFS
e PRoeREss OF TEMPERANCE IN IRE
y LAND.-There has been a decrease of TIT
produce of the spirit duties in IrelanC
: within three years past, of 9795, 667.-
r The whole revenue OF Ireland in the NEAR
r time has been increased viz, from A, lo7,
K 866 in the year ending January, l84l, t.
i G4,l98,689 in the last year.
The Detroit Advertiser states that the
recen: rains have removed the zapprehen
!, sions felt for the Wheat crop in Michigan
" and that the surplus this season will prob
ably be over {, 100000 bushels.
Il Bo,anists record $4,000 species OF var
y ious plants-3s, GOO are to be found in cat
aIogues. Humboldt makes the species o
= insects $4,000, of fishes, $500, OF reptile
v roo, of birds 1000, and of mammiferou'
g animals 1000. ~
EEL Mr.. George Goodwin, Of Hartford, CT
% formerly one of the firm Of Hudson 8
n Goodwin, many years Proprletors ant
publishers of the Connecticut Courant,
r now "a years of age. walks to tie print
l. inc office daily, and sets his paragraph II
e type, to crafty long established habit.
Is The fare on the rail. road between Al
$, bany and Schenectady has been reduced
Q, to so cents.