South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-01-30

swer for q contempt in refusing to give
testimony before a select Committee ap-
pointed for that purpose, and the House.
after protractei debate, decided by a
vote of so to 43 to discharge the wit
nesses, ADMITTING BY IMPLICATION THAT
THEY HAD NO CONSTITUTIONAL POWER
TO CALL THEM THERE! Thus has ended
the farce, in which the would be great
THADEus STEVENS, of Gettysburg, was
the principal actor.
OF The Senate of the Ohio Legis-
lature, have resolved, only eight dis
sen,ing, TO instruct their members ia
Congress, and request those of the
people, to vote against the admission
Of Michigan into the Union until the
boundary question is settled.
Two men were sufocated to death,
by furnace Of charcoal they had been
burning in their room, few nights
since, a. MISUNDERSTANDING Mass
Courier.
A Syrian physician has published a
cure OF Scarla.ino 10 its last and all but
fatal stage, by covering the abdom en-
Of the patient, child seven years old ,
with ice and snow, and renewing the
cold application continually for a con-
Siderable time.
STEAMBOAT ExpLosloN.--The Cincin.
natl Wing of the 18th has the following
account of another steamboat explosion j:
About IL o'clock on the 9th inst. as
the steamboat Wyoming was leaving
our wharf for Maysville, her wheels
having made but two revolutions, a
terrific explosion took place on board,
owing, It is said, to the incapacity OF
her engineer. One boiler was blown
entirely from the bow to the stern Of
the boat, and out, striking the water
by the side Of fiat boat several yards
of, making frightful havoc in its pro-
gress. A respectable man by the
name of Wheeler, from Point Pleasant,
0. was Instantly killed two blacks,
one a man grown, the other lad a.
bout Is, slaves, owned in Augusta,
Ky.) were so severely wounded tina,
they died yesterday morning.; and two
other persons are missing, supposed to
have been thrown overheard. Such
was the force with which the boiler
flew, that the main shaft, bar Of iron
six or eight inches through, was broken
into several pieces, and various parts
ofthe machinery, furniture, &c. scat
tered in every direction over the boat.
A horae which was standing on the
forward deck, was knocked into the
hold and killed and much Of the
freigh, injured.
The same paper also says:
Ii 10 currently reported in this city,
that the steam boat Mobile Farmer, ia
recently attempting to make the out
side passage from N. Orleans to Mo-
bile, suddenly sunk, carrying with her
every person on board. The news is
said TO have been brought by the LOU
isiana, recently arrived at Louisville,
and was communicated to us by a gen.
tleman just from the latter place. We
have heard-no further particulars.
o. A correspondent in the Bali
more American says-"Ia former
commu oication l showed that the Bal
timore and Ohio Rail Road had cost,
upon an average, somewhat less than
$4,000 dollars mile, including the
charge of 266 dollars paid on compro-
mise to the Canal company, and that
excluding this charge, the average cosl
! mile was about 10000 dollars. ]
said, NOR cover, that l did not believe
there was as good and substantial q
road in the United States, that had
cost less.
have been seeking information on
This point, and upon the best authority
am warranted in giving the following
statement.
The Providence and Boston Rail
Road has cost upwards Of SC, 900 dol
lars a mile.
The Lowell and Boston upwards o.
10000 dollars.
The Worcester aud Boston upwards
Of so, 900 dollars.
The Camden end Amboy, with a
single track, upwards Of $4,000 dol
lars.
The Philadelphia and Columbia.
with an uudulating surface, several
SUBMITS, and with wooden bridges, a.
bout As 900 dollars.
The French Town and New Castle