Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-02-02

value of permanent property.
OF the seventy millions of production,
about TWENTY-FIVE millions in value are
surplus products for which the stale re-
ceives value in money or goods.
The expenses of the state government
of Ohio have been less in proportion to the
population than that in any state in the
Union, except North Carolina, and as
low as that, and to the white population
much lower
The expense of the state of Ohio, to
each soul is IA cents.
OF Massachusetts, 90 y"
OF New York 81
OF Virginia AZ
OF Kentucky SO
This is the civil expenses of these states,
independent Of the public works.
! THE GREAT FIRE AT DETRoIT.-We
find in an extra from the Detroit Daily
Advertiser, Of Jan. 4th, the following
statement of the losses sustained by this
terrible calamity, which.we publish as be-
ing more full than the hurried and i'm
Fperfect account copied into oar paper Of
yesterday.
The fire broke out on Saturday night,
alto o'clock, in a wooden building adj
joining the Ohio house, on Woodward
Avenue, and bv O'clock, not one of the
twenty -fve buildings which occupied the
best square in the city was left standing.
The aggregate loss is estimated at $780,
900. "....@..
! From the Savannah Georgian of Jan. 10.
Two STEAMBOATS, DESTROYED BY
FIRE, Steamer Isis.-We sincerely re.
gret TO announce the destruction by fire,
at Tampa Bay, OF the steamer Isis, Capt.
Hart.
| The subjoined extract from a letter to
Messrs. Claghorns & Wood, principal
owners, details this misfortune-one
which it was accidental.
The Isis cost origionally $4,000, and
was valued, when Destroyed, at SIS, 900,
she had been repaired and thoroughly
equipped at heavy expense for the SER
vice of Government, and had barely, 10y
two or three days onIy,] repaid to her
owners the expenses OF equipment, &c,
when she fell a prey to the destructive
element.
The boat was not insured, the premium
| demanded being SO per cent.
| From the Mobile Register of Jan. 6
The fine steamboat Hercules, Captain
La Vergy, 50 long and favoraoly known
as a regular packet on the Tombecbe and
Warrior rivers, took fire yesterday morn.
ing, on her upward passage, while neal
Tuscahoma, not far from DemopoIis, and
it is said, burnt down to the waters edge
together with all her freight on board
She had number of passengers, all o.
: whom, as we hear, saved their baggage
1t Is not vet ascertaned with sufficient &C.
curacy how the accident occurred, or en-
able US to state any additional particulars
except tina; the freight was not very
heavy.
! CoNsUMPTIoN.-In the annual repor
} of deaths in the city of Providence we fne
1 there were six hundred and forty-sever
D deaths during the past year, including
forty-fou stillborn, and what to US appears
1 remarkable, is that there were one hun
E dred and ninety-eight who died of con
q sumption being more than one third o
S the whole number, excluding the forty
n four mentioned above.-N Y. Spectator
1t is said that the Rev John WayIaDd
8 pastor of one oflhe Baptist Churches il
: Salem. and brother TO President Wavland
is about torenter the Protestant Episcopa
f Church.-ZioA's Herald. -
RICE CEmENT.-This useful and ele
CANT cement, which is beautifully white
s ard dries almost transparent, is made b.
. mixing rice -four intimately with cold wa
IF ter, and then gently boiling it. Paper
q pasted together with this cement will soon
er separate in their own substance then a
the joining. ii is, therefore, an exceIlen
!, cement in the preparation Of curious ptpe
= articles, as teatrays, Ladies' dressing anc
u work boxes, and other articles which re-
: quire layers of paper to be cemented 10
? gether. In every respect it is preferable
/ to common paste made with whea: -four
} 1t answers well for pasting into books th,
2 copies of writing taken off by copying
{ machines on unsized silver paper. Wit!
this composition, made with small guam
!. tity OF water, that it may have consis
IS tence similar to plastic clay, models, bus:s
) statues, basso relieves, and the like, MA
j. be formed. When dry, the articles mad
of il are susceptible Of high polish, the
are also very durabIe.-M Y. Mechanic
IRoN.-h is estimated that the amour
Of iron manufactured in the United State
i is worth S29. 265,0O0 per annum. Ga
: fourth oflhis is wrought in Pennsylvania
If not more. The Savannah Georgian
abiding to these facts, says" A poun
: Of iron can be made hundred times NOR
i valuable than pound of gold. Gold ha
!, an intrinsic value, ever the same. Iro
~, r,,n,f,ctnro con he cbaprod in "a RI,