Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-08-09

were boaslfullly told that they followed
Jesus more closely than any other sect.
10 lest The truth of his assertion, we ask
ed him what pay his minister received.
6 Sixteen hundred dollars.r said he
We then inquired if he could show, from
the teachings or the examples of Jesus,
any authority for taking this salary p
He honestly confessed that he could not,
and neither can the Editor oil the Trump
ct notwithstanding all his pretensions 10
humility !-Boston Investigator.
SUICIDE. "A stranger, about fifty-fyc
years of age, name not known, was
found hanging few days since, in a.
barn, in East Haddam He had evil
IDENTIFY been dead for several days. No
evidence of his name or residence could
be found upon his person. = Chris. Free.
The Southern Repeal Associations.
are all struck with paralysis. O'Con-
nelPs noble speech against slavery gave.
finishing stroke to taeir organized and
differed hypocrisy Chris Freeman.
BERNARD Hunt of Philadelphia,
came near breaking his neck on Friday
last, by striking his head against the
bottom of the river, when diving. I'm
mediate paralysis of his limbs resulted
from the injury to the spine. Chris. FIR.
Rogers, who murdered the warden of
the Massachusetts state prison in June
last, was brought up for trial GU Mon
day. George T. Bigelow and John Be-
miss, Esqrs. appeared as his counsel.
lie pleaded not guilty. The killing is
admitted, but the "malice aforethoug ht"
is denied, and the plea of Insanity is
urged, So far as we have read the test
imony, it goes strongly to sustain this
defence. Christian Freeman. -.
A Wyandot squaw, 1l2 years old,
died at Cincinnati, on the 18th inst.
Chris. Freeman.
Cincinnati has increased 1000 houses
and 1900 inhabitants within three
years Chris. Freeman. -. .-.... .."~
I Sr. THoMAs.-The yellow fever, al
| the last adyices, was alarmiugly preva-
lent at St Thomas. and still increasing
every day. Business was dull, and the
market glutted with American produce
Chris. Fireman. r.. =: III
| DRoUGHT.-From almost every part
| of New England, and from some of the
Middle States, we receive melancholy
accounts of the protracted dry weather
The crops are suffering severely-veg.
citation is becoming parched--the
streams are low, or entirely dried up
ing roads are dusty and nature is droop.
the and almost dying for lack Of moist
) ure.-Chris!iaA Freeman. :.*~
: CosT OF MOE LAw.-Philadelph
has been compelled to pay, for damage
committed by mobs within the city limit.
during the last eighteen months, th,
Psotty sum of 81 ,I94.5O This is ex
; elusive Of the bill which the city an,
county are compelled to foot for the de
struction of Pennsylvania Hall, severa
years since. Perhaps her citizens NAV
by and by, begin TO appreciate the i'm
r portance Of giving no sanction, open o
E tacit, to mobocracy. They have sow
\ the wind, in virtually justifyirg the mob
j bing Of abolitionists-they are reapin!
\ the whirlwind, in the direction Of mo
i violence upon their capitalists, and be
:, ing compelled to tax themselves to pa
r for property destroyed. -Chri. freeman
: HosTILITIEs COMMENCED IN TIL
, INDIAN CoUNTRY.---The St. Loui
{ New Era Of the 18th, says We hay
e been permitted to see letter from tn
/ United States Blacksmith at Willo
: Greek, (Pawnee country to his frien,
l. in this city, dated the 29th June, giyin
e an account Of the murders committe
by Sioux Indians upon the Pawnee
e and upon the wife of the Blacksmith
ID His wife was shot on the Tuesday NOR
o, ing, the 9th, about 7 O'Clock. IT
s. husband had endeavored to save her [
7e shutting her up in the shop, but she hs
e. not time to bolt the door, and it W;
" burst open. She was killed, and the
il fell TO whipping the Blacksmith, witho
he doing him serious injury, having the
I'd guns all the while cooked. ready to fir
The Indians had also killed Lashap
the United States Interpreter, who h;
&c been in that country for % years; Car
=, Blue; first chief of the Pawnee Tapp
III ges, and father-in-law efthe Interprete
= a son-in-law of the chief Moulin, al
:, - several other Chiefs and Braves, your
~ men, women and children.
: 1t also stated, that out of41 lodges,
\ of the largest were burnt, and most
= the horses were stolen or killed On Il
]" spot The Pawnee Indians had /,
:, their villages to go on their spring hui
. Willow Creek, from whence this lett
70 is dated, is $50 miles up the Platte rive
~ ), and the Sioux are $50 miles above
y These Indians exhibited hostile feeIin
6 on several occasions during the winte
;, and this attack on the Pawnees had be
= expected for some time. Chris. Free.