Vermont Temperance Herald from Woodstock, Vermont • 2

HERALD. MONT TEMPERANCE THE HERALD The following extract from the Cold Water Fountain, will give our readers some idea of what is going on in Maine, in the manufacturing line. Saco, as you well know, is situated on the river by that name, about 3 miles from the ocean. The Saco is a beautiful river. It has its rise in the White Mountains, about 00 miles north-west from this place.

It is deep and rapid in its progress, flowing on with hardly an interruption, until it arrives here, when it amusing. Answer to 1st charade, farewell, to 2d, thread-bare. Answer to 1st conundrum, because it is a bad habit, to 2d. Yan-Jteys. Riddles.

1. What tree is an officious gossip 2. What tree is a city 3. In what tree would you impound donkeys Charade. My first is a musical measure, My second's the profits of trade, Connected you'll find me at liesuie, Too often repented when made.

Onrself. On Tuesday morning oflast week, we set off, for the first time in about eighteen mouths, to cross the Green Mountains, and visited some of our friends in Rutland County. We shall give an account of our tour next week. As we did not return till Saturday evening, we have no opportunity to do so in this number. To Correspondents.

A communication from Franklin County, and from on the Rechabites. were received by the last mail and will appear next week. Death of Silas Wright. The death of Hon. Silas Wright, will be learned with profound regret.

He expired in an apoplectic fit at his residence, Canton, St. Lawrence county, N. on the 27ih tilt. He was about fifty-two years old, and had filled a large space in the history of his country. As a private citizen he was universally respected and beloved.

Prosecution in North Madison. A Correspondent informs us that the Mayor of Nineveh has been recently arraigned on a charge of selling red eye or oilier liquor contrary to law. Nineveh, we would inform our readers, is among the rocks in the town of North Madison. "About six months since, soon after liis election to the Mayoralty, finding the receipts of the office not sufficiently lucrative, he formed a partnership with a gentleman by the name of Foot," and commenced business. His assortment consisted of Rum, Brandy, Monougahela, Red-eye, For these articles, the Mayor took anything and everything for pay, and if his customers had nothing to pay, the head partner, Mr.

Cloven Foot, agreed to lake llieir bodies and souls. In a corner of his house, where he had furmerly stabled "dumb beasts," he now formed a place for the stabling of "beasts" in human form and in this stable the Mayor could be found at all times, dealing out the seeds of wretchedness and death. The effect was alarming. Nineveh not only felt the shock. The deleterious influences of that place was felt for miles around.

Men who for a long time had been industrious and happy, now frequented the Mayor's stable, to sip the poisonous draught of death. It could no longer he endured. The good people of North Madison were arroused. The Mayor was arrested, and last Monday brought to trial. He was defended in a most able and eloquent plea by a young and choice disciple of lilackslone, fresh from the mint," who proved to the entire satisfaction of the court and all present, that the Apostle Paul did actually advise Timothy to lake a little wine for his stomach's sake and often infirmities therefore, the Mayor should be allowed to keep what sort of a stable ho pleased, without being molested.

But it was no go; the Mayor was fined ten dollars and costs, amounting to twenty-two dollars and seventy-six cents. He appealed the case to the County Court. Cl. Fountain. Tun British Temperance Association.

At the thirteenth annual conference, lite Rev. F. Ilowarth, in the course of his remarks, said that the British Association contained 170,000 teetotalers, "000 were reformed drunkards, and of that number 2180 were improved characters who had joined christian churches. Out of 20,000 Sunday School teachers, 7000 had joined the teetolal movement and as one out of every seven of our youthful population fell victims to intemperance, this, it would seem, was a step in the right direction. Catholic Statistics.

Tho Calholic Almanac for 1817, says (hat the number of priests in the United Stales is 831, being an accession of 98 in one year also that there are 812 churches, 70 of which were erected during the paslyear. In addition lo this there are 577 stations visited by clergymen, but as yet without any commodious place of worship. Magnetic Telegraph. There are now 2350 iles of telegraph wire stretched in the United Slates, about 700 miles of them in a continuous line from Philadelphia to Conciiinati. In the course of three or four months there will probably be 800 to 1000 miles more chiefly west and southwest of this city making, say by the 1st of January, 1818, at least three thousand miles of instantaneous communication, between the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mcxic, and the rich and populous central regions of the great North American Valley Cincinnati Gaz.

ID3 The Governor and Council of New-Hampshire have appointed Thursday the 25lh of November for Thanksgiving in that Slate. A Sad Spectacle. The Memphis Eagle of the 27th says that a most sad and painful spectacle was the public funeral in that city, on Sunday evening, of Lieut. Gill and his father, at one and the same time. Young Gill was a Lieutenant in the first company of Volunteers from Memphis, and fell at the battle, with many others, while gallantly advancing lo the charge at Cerro Gordo.

Hie falher Lyman Gill, grieved at his son's death, repaired to Mexico, lo bring his remains and bury them among his kindred, in his own country. The father, in returning home with his son's remains, sickened and died. Mr. Lyman Gill was formerly from Litchfield, but more recently from New Haven. He was an upright, amiable and warm hearted friend and citizen beloved and esteem-cdby every one.

Litchfield Rcpub. EPThc gamblers of Pennsylvania arc going to test the constitutionality of tho gambling law. Gamblers and rumsellcis are death on constitutionality. Italy. A letter dated Rome, July 2, says: We are here in a curious position.

Our sovereign is a liberal and enlightened radical priest, who Bees the necessity and propriety of allowing the country to move forward with ihe common progress of the civilized world. He is checked by the overruling power of Austrian diplomacy, connived at by France, and encouraged by this, his council of Cardinals have mutinied, thwarted his designs, rendered his measures abortive, disappointed his hopes, and even compromised his popularity. The populace, who are ill able to appreciate the difficulties against which the sovereign pontiff has to struggle, ascribe to him the symptoms of re-action, which are really the work of others, and, within the last few days, the holy father, who lately never appeared without exciting the most enthusiastic acclamations, passed through the assembled multitude, amid the most ominous silence. The belter informed, knowing where the fault really lies, talk of a popular movement, a revolution, in fact, which shall secularize the governmentof the Papal Slates; placing, nevertheless, Pius as sovereign over it for life. The liberal movement which took place soon after the accession of Pius is suspended.

The press is allowed a quasi existence. The railways flag. The municipal reforms stand still. Bread versus Bullets. The Americans having nobly supplied food for ihe Irish, we shall look at their flag wilh increased respect.

Their stripes shall he to us significant of a gridiron, and their slars of sugared buns. Glad are we lo find that the American subscriptions have been so nobly acknowledged in tho House of Commons. These thanks for bread will go far to keep bullets out of fashion. The Indian Meal Book is, to our mind, as much more delightful volume than any History of the American War; and the directions therein written for ihe composition of Hominy cakes and Slap jacks, far betterthan any talk of red-coat tactics. Bombs have had their day let us henceforth try buns; and wherever America have battered our shields, let her, for all time to come, baiter our fryingpans.

To paraphrase the pieman, "Brown Johnny-cakes is in Congrevc- rockets is out. Punch. Go Armed. Don't veniure without, not a step. Go armed.

Take your double barrelled shot gun load and fire! Draw the sword, poise the spear fight. Storm the fort, fly the bomb-shells fight. How, what, when? With weapons carnal?" Nay, spiritual put on the armor of God, failh, hope, and charity." Conquer your enemies with love. Love is Omnipotent. Our Titles.

The Vermont Temperace Herald calls "the highest officer in the nation among the Sons, the worshipful Patriarch." Not quite so bad Bio. Herald There is nothing worshipful among us. Worthy the word, and of such we trust we have all I he degrees of comparison from worthy lo most worthy. N. Y.

Organ. A Chinese Under-Shirt. This garment is sometimes composed of numerous pieces of bamboa, about an inch in length, and strung together so as to form a kind of net, with large interstics or meshes. This singular shirt is worn next the skin for the double purpose of coolness, also to keep the olher garments from coming in contact with the perspiration of ihe body. It has sleeves of the same manufacture, and is, indeed, a complete shirt, except the omission of the buttons.

O3 The Legislature of Louisiana has declared it optional with the jury lo have persons who are convicted of murder, either capitally punished in the old way, or imprisoned for life, The jury, in the only case that has occurred since the passage of the new law decided on imprisonment in preference lo hanging. MonK than F.vkrv One can sAv. When the renowned Admiral Haddock was dying, he begged to see his son, lo whom he thus addressed himself Notwithstanding my rank in life, and public services for so many years. I shall leave you only a small portion of my fortune but my dear boy, it is honestly got, and will wear well, there are no seaman's wages or provisions in it nor is there one penny of dirty money." mThe Sabbath is like a stream hich has no cataracts to astonish us with their magnificent thunder, hut which winds along the tranquil valley, asserting its existence only in the life and verdure which appear along its course. One of the Old School Gentlemen An odd chick in Philadelphia, lately deceased, left behind him a curious will, of which the following is a specimen daughter refused me a night's lodging in her house when Iliad no place of abode, I therefore leave her one cent, and to a henpecked husband, half a cent, as a man who allows his wife to insult her father in his presence, is no man.

To my olher children I recommend a perusal of the Fifth Commandment. To my molher-in-law I bequeath six cents, provided she buys therewith a halter lo hang herself, for having swindled the Elecl out of a gold watch she wears, under a pretence of benevolence and christian conduct and behavior." A Coercive Measure. At Portland, on Friday night of last week, a woman who seems to believe in a love of law as well as the law of love, having found her husband drunk at the groggery of one 11. G. Cole, undertook to lecture the creature for making a viclim of her liege lord.

The fellow ordered her lo go home whereupon she demolished all the decanters within her reach, gave the sad rummy a sound cuffing, and then took her belter half" much worse for liquor into a carrijge and 8larted homeward. We don't approve of violence oh no; hut wo almost wish the world was full of such women. A'. Y. Reformer.

Good Reply, If we are to live after death why don't we have some knowledge of it asked a sceptic of a clergyman. Why didn't you have somo knowledge of tho world before you came into it!" was the caustic ply. Which is the man? I see its pins, and chains, and rings, Its eye-glass, and its trumpery things I see its whiskers they are fine Ornaments in the hairy line I see its coal I see its hat I see its boots, and its cravat. If such a thing vou chance to meet, Sauntering up Bleecher-street, The tailor praise who makes such euits, And praise the artist of such boots. ii.

I do not see him in his shabby dress I see him in his manliness I see his axe I see his spade I see a man that God has made: If such a man before you stand, Give him your heart, give him your hand, And praise your maker lor such men They make this old earth young again. Railroads. The Vermont and Massachusetts Railroad will be opened for passengers and freight to Baldv insville (about 19 miles this side of Fitchburg) to-morrow. The proposition for uniting with the Connecticut Rivei R. R.

at South Dcerfuld, or at Greenfield, are now under consideration. The stock books for a Railroad from this place to Bellows Falls are now opened, and it is hoped the pressure from without at each end of this line will cause a speedy filling up of the hooks, so that the road may be commenced this Fall, and be completed to Bellows Falls during next year. This link completes the great chain of roads through the Connecticut valley. The Directors of the Rutland road, and of ihe Cheshire and Sulivan roads, met at Bellows Falls last eck, and agreed upon the location of their De-po also, the proportion each company shall pay for its construction. The Cheshire company are to build a bridge across the Connecticut.

Semi- Weekly Eagle. 30A. Causality on the Northern Railroad. On Wednesday 25lh the passenger train of cars upon ibis road encountered an ox team, loaded with hay, standing across the track directly upon crossing near the lower part of Franklin. The team being near a curve in ihe road was nol discovered until too late to stop the engine, which went with full foice against il, killing one of the oxen and injuring the other so that he was immediately slaughtered, at the same time dislodging the teamsier, (who was asleep on Ihe load) from his bed of repose.

We understand that he had been out nearly all the night previous and was availing himself of the shade of some beautiful elm trees lo make up his lost rest. Democrat Freeman. Rum Signers. A petition fur the repeal of the restrictive law was sent to the Maine Legislature from the town of New Glouchcster, with 33 names attached. A citizen of the place, writing lo the Portland ashing Ionian says that only seven oflhe 33, are citizens of this town one of them is a minor, one a rumseller, two have separated from their wives, and are drunk when they can get liquor; tho others are far from being what they should be.

The balance of the 33, if they exist at all, are not known as the citizens of this town." Another outrage was attempted by the anti-renters in Taghkanic, N. on the 26th ult. A sheriff and deputy, hile proceeding lo sell some property which had been levied upon, were waylaid by three men in disguise, and an attempt was made to discharge a gun at tl.ein, which fortunately missed fire. Death of William Freeman. This wretched man, whose murder of the-Van Ness family, in Cayuga County, ahout a year ago, excited an unusual feeling of horror, died in ihe county jail at Auburn on Saturday morning last.

It will be remembered that Freeman was convicted of the murders and that a new trial was obtained. Dangerous Fraud Ten dollar hills from the genuine plate, but with counterfeit signatures, of the New Haven Bank, are in circulation. Persons in the habit of taking money would do well to reject all bills of ibis denomination. The public ought not to suffer from the carelessness of the officers of the Bank in allowing their bills lo get into Ihe hands of rogues in this way. Trav.

Discovey at Athens of Old. A Creek manuscript of the sixth century has been discovered at Athens, which, beside a treatise on Byzantine painting, is said to contain an account of the daguerreotype process, and hints for the manufacture of gun cotton. In this manuscript, the art of producing photographic pictures is called Heliotype." Yellow Fever. The list of interments for the twenty-four hours preceding nine o'clock yeslerday, exhibits an alarming increase in the number of deaths by yellow fever. Fifty two deaths in twenty-four hours is certainly, considering the sparsness of our population at present, a large number, and shows that ihe disease has assumed an extensively epidemical character.

That number is about the usual weekly mortality of our city. This time last year, we thmkjihe deaths in our cily did not exceed sixty or sevenly a week at the present rale they would be 418 per week. This is a truly frightful increase. The weather yesterday was pleasant in the shade, but very hot in the sun. The southern wind blew freely, and altogether the atmosphere was not unfavorable to health.

New Orleans Helta 18th. Drowned. John Riley, a man having a wife and i inn ciniureu, was maae urutiK yesterday (Sunday) in one of ihe numerous rumlioles on River street, and staggering down the dock, fell into the river about 5 o'clock and was drowned. Jour, of Troy. Murder.

An old man name Phelps was murdered at Nassau, on Friday, the 20lh inst. Ho was found in his bed, his head split open apparently with a hatchet. Tiic murdorer has not yet been discovered. Jour, of Troy. WOODSTOCK, Tuesday Morning, September 7, 1847.

Pronunciation. If our mechanics were to blunder half as frequently in the manufacture of the articles which they expose fur sale, as even well educated citizens do in the pronunciation of words, we should seek at once for some new man on whom to bestow our patronage. We are not about to give an essay on this subject, but merely to present an instance or two in which mistakes are exceedingly common. For example. Speak alternately the words presents and presence, currents and occurrence, noting the enunciation of the last syllable of each word.

Note carefully the position and movements of the tongue, the only organ that is active in uttering those sylables, and ascertain whether they are hot precisely the same. Nineteen out of twenty, probably, among "good readers," will find they speak each of them exactly alike. But they are not alike. Again, every school boy has heard much of the power of letters," but very few know the meaning of the phrase. In the words month, and among, how unlike are the sounds of and only because in one instance, it is followed by tit, and in the other by is not sounded, it has no such sound as is here uttered, but has power to give a new sound to the that stands before it.

Some reader may doubt this last position, but we invite such to divide the word congregation into syllables. We do it thus con-gre-gation. But the in the first syllable, has the same sound as it has in among. A host of words of this description, in each of which the sound of the final of a syllable is changed by "the power ol the letters which follow, might ba named, in the pronouciation of which the same mistake is often made, as anchorite, congregate, ankle, Our object is not so much to specify the instances in which this error is committed as to draw the attention of teachers and pupils, of all ages and conditions, in school and out, to the subject, that they may mark their own mistakes and correct them, in their own discretion. Hereafter we may present the subject more generally and critically.

ASTRONOMICAL EXERCISE. The Harvest Moon, and the Hunter's Moon. The Moon advances in her orbit round the earth about 12 degrees day. The plane of her orbit is not however in the plane of the equator, but nearly coincides with that of the ecliptic, varying from it only five degrees and nine minutes. The lime of her appearance on any successive nighls will be earlier or later according to the magnitude of the angle made by the intersection of these two circles." When therefore the moon is near one of the intersections of these planes, at the time of is in Pisces, or in Libra, as in Spring and Autumn, it will then rise more regularly than in any other part of her orbit, and the full moon which happens at this season will rise shortly after sunset for several nights together.

This is called the "Harvest Moon," as formerly husbandmen took advantage of her light to gather in the fruits of the earth." The daily difference in her rising, at these periods, is about 22 minutes. This occurs in September and October. The former of these is the Harvest Moon, and the latter the Hunter's Moon." In Winter, Pias and Arks rise about noon in Spring they rise with the sun, and in Summer about midnight. Hence, though the same regularity takes place in lie time of the moon's rising, in each of these seasons, it is not perceived. Maus is visible now, in the east, rising a little to the south oflhe Pleiades, or the seven stars" which are known by almost everybody, and are in the constellation Taurus.

This constellation will be described in one of our subsequent exercises. Auriga, Tub Wagoner. A star of the fust magnitude is now visible," one of the most brilliant in the heavens." It is east of Perseus, (which is east of Andromeda) though to us it is apparently further towards the north. This is Capclla, the Goal, upon the left (west) shoulder of the Wagoner. It forms the apex of an inverted triangle, the base of which extends from the polar star to Cassiopeia.

At nine o'clock it is near the horizon. Sons ok Temperance. We acknowledge the reception of a pamphlet containing the Constitution and Jiy-Laws of the Division of" Sons recently organized at Springfield, Mass. Our friend will please accept our thanks. Rev.

James D. Butler has icceived an unanimous call to settle over the Congregational Society at Wells River, and from what we have understood, it is probable that he will accept. Mr. Butler is one of the most learned men in the Slate, and is a very able and interesting writer. Vermont Election.

The Governor's Meeting" as it used to be called in Massachusetts, occurs to day. Let every man faithfully and honestly do his duty, as if the fate of the whole State rested on his action at the ballot box. ARITHMETICAL. Solution of Question. As the earth passes through 360 degrees in 21 hours, it will pass through fifteen degrees in one hour, fifteen minutes, or miles in one minute of lime.

Of course, 10 minutes will require a difference of 150 miles. As his watch was too fast, ho had been approaching the sun, or going towards the east. Question. Three hoys wero playing at marbles. The first says, I have jusl marbles enough lo make a square and he placed them in rows on the floor, forming a square.

The second hoy says, "1 have 12 marbles, and I will put a row on two sides of yours and make your square longer but on placing his marbles, he found ho wanted 3 more to complete the square then the third hoy says, I have just three, and that will make the square complete." How many had the first boy, and how largo was tho square which all the marbles nude divides, and flowing in opposite directions for some distance, experiences a fall of 30 feet. Below ihe fall, the mad waters again unite, thus forming a beautiful islaud of several acres in extent. On this Island known ns factory Island are situated the celebrated York Mills. The water power here is about equal to two-thirds that of Lowell and the stieam is more reliable than the former, as it is not so quickly affected by long continued dry weather. The York Manufacturing Company as before staled, have their mills on this island.

The establishment covers about seven acres. Capital 1,500,000. In these mills about 1200 operatives find constant employment in manufacturing cutlon goods, ticking, pantaloon stuffs, 70,000 worth of indigo is used per annum. 775-looms and 25000 spindles are run. The other establishments are situated in Biddeford, a town rapidly increasing in trade and population, and connected with Saco, by several bridges.

The Water Power Company, with a capital of 1,500,000 is here erecting buildings and putting up-machinery, for the purpose of manufacturing staple' cotton goods. The Laconia Company with a capital of $1,500, 000 has two mills erected here and others in progress, for the purpose of manufacturing jeans, and 300 looms. 12,000 spindles are in operation in one mill, and when the whole is completed, 50,000 spindles will be put in operation. The Pepperell Manufacturing Company has recently been chartered, with a capital of 1,000,000. Most of these improvements owe their conception, lo the foresight and energy of Boston capitalists, who are the principal owners oflhe mills.

Slave Labor. Mr. Bruce of North Carolina in an Agricultural lecture, has openly avowed his conviction of the unprofitableness of slave labor, as at present employed in Virginia and North Carolina, and earnestly advises that the policy should be speedily adopted of sending the slaves in large numbers to the more Southern States. The Richmond Times says, that Mr. B.

is a large slave-holder, who travelled in the South, with a view to the acquirement of accurate information, and all who know him will have confidence that the results of his observation are highly worthy of reliance. Without assenting to his arguments in all their extent, it adds, We must say, that his conclusions are such as must at some early day, be forced upon the minds of all the planters and farmers of our State." We have no doubt that free labor in Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Missouri. Kentucky and Texas, one half of it at least, would prove many times more profitable than slave labor, but the policy of sending slaves south, is so questionable, that we hope the planters will hit upon some plan whereby emancipation may be instituted instead of sale. Kentucky has voted to hold a convention with a view of revising the Stale Constitution, audit is not too much to expect of such a Stale, that she will take a safe lead and make a good example for more ultra Stales to follow. Why nut adopt the plan oflhe old free Slates in gelling rid of slavery altogether.

Pittsburgh Gaz. Successful Surgical Operation. We are informed from a credible source, that an eminent physician of litis city, a few days ago, opened the stomach of a patient, and removed several hard substances-which had completely obstructed the passage from it. However singular this may seem, it is nevertheless true. The patient, we are glad lo learn, is doing well, and will undoubtedly recover.

The operation was performed in the presence of several gentlemen, and occupied from ten to fifteen minutes. Manchester N. H. American. A Good Old Age.

An old man who went by the name ofBilly Duff, and who has been an inmate of the Roxbury Alms House fur 90 years, died in that institution on the 23d at the advanced age of 102. During Ihe whole of the time he was in the Alms House, he enjoyed uninterrupted good health, having never been ill until within a few days of hi, death. Transcript. Indicted for Manslaughter. The Grand Jury of the court of sessions indicted a few days since, H.

L. Kellogg, captain of the steamboat Niagara, and Ilosea Birdsell, the engineer of 6aid boat, for manslaughter in the third degree, in causing the dealh two firemen of the above boat, and scalding several of the passengers, by carrying too much steam, which; blew up the steam chest, thereby causing the loss of life and limb. Ilosea Birdsell the court held to bail-in the sum of 5000. Mr. Coleman, of the Astor House, becoming his surety for his appearance at court for trial.

N. Y. Herald. Gen. Taylor's Temperance.

Among the many events which indicate the progress of temperance, none are more interesting than the influence of its principles over military men. A few years ago Gen. Taylor visited the Northern States, and made this remark in conversation with a friend: "In the Florida war I preserved my health solely by temperance. Where the water was very some of the officers and men insisted on the absolute necessity of using ardent spirits with it. But I always observed they fared the worse for it.

As for myself, I would mix the water with coarse meal, so-as to clear it from sediment, and content myself wilh such a beverage." Indictments for a Steamboat "Accident." Our readers will remember that the steamboat Chesapeake was sunk in Lake Erie nol Jong since, by which occurrence several Jives were lost. The captain, mates, and clerk of the boat have been indicted for manslaughter and an indictment has also been found against the owners for not providing the boat with yawls..