Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-08-01


session Of Congress, all owners of steam
boats are required to take out a license
from the collector or surveyor OF the port
where the boat is enrolled, under penal
ty OF $500, for which the boat is liable,
Ihe boat must be inspected every twelve
months. and her boilers and machinery
every six months, by inspectors appointed
oy the District Judge, who are required
TO certify whether the hull and boilers are
sound and safe.
The owners and masters are required
10 employ competent number of expert
enced and SkiIful engineers, and in case of
neglect so 10 do, will be held responsible
Tor all damages to property or any passen-
gers on board, which may be occasioned
by an explosion of the boiler or derange-
ment of the machinery
whenever any steam vessel is StODprd,
for taking in or discharging passengers or
cargo, or for any other purpose, it is re-
CURED that the safety valve shall be open
ed Tor the discharge of steam, so that it
my be kept down as near as is practicable,
70 what it is when the boat is under head
way, under penalty Of $500 for every Of
fence. Steamboats, on theV lakes not ex-
ceeding 200 tons, are required to have two
long boats or yawls, each competent to
carry 20 persons at least, and larger YES
sells, at least three long boats of equal or
greater dimensions, under penalty Of $500
: for every failure.
STEAMBOATS,, both on the lakes an! on
the sea, are required to be provided with
a fire engine, with hose AMI suction hose,
capable of being worked on every voyage
also to have iron rods or chains, instead
. of wheel or till ropes, under penalty OF
$500 for each failure. Boats running
between sunset and sunrise, are required
to have one or more signal lights, under
penalty of 5000. All penalties may be
sued for and recovered in the District or
! Circuit Courts III the name of the United
States, one half 10 the use Of the informer,
or it may he prosecuted for by Indictment
Every sea captain, engineer. pilot, or
other person employed on board such boat
by whose misconduct, negligence or natten
ton to his duties. the life of any person is
destroyed, shall be deemed guilty of man
slaughter, and on conviction thereof before
the Circuit Court, shall be sentenced to
confinement at hard labor for period moi
exceeding ten yenrs. In all suits against
proprietors for injuries arising to person
or property from the bursting of the boil
err, the collapse ofthe fue,or other injurious
escape of steam, the fact Of such bursting
collapse, or injurious escape of steam
shall be taken as full prima facie evidence
to charge the defendant Or those in his EN-.
p!oyment, with negligence, unit he shall
show that no negligence has been com
united by him or them.-Zion's Herald
C0NFIRMAT1oN.-Re Mr.. Clarke
Baptist missionary in Jamaica, VINO il
spending few months in this country
gave an interesting account oil the mission
and its prospects, last Sunday evening, in
the Baptist church in Broad street, in this
city. On every point 10 which he had
occasion to alIude, his statements amply
confirmed the accounts given US in the
book Of Kimball and Thome The no.
ton that the emancipated slaves would
not work and could not take care Of them.
selves, was met by incontrovertibe facts.
OlC IttStdhSS We uCuItOIICu III WHICH q
coIored man paid about thirty dollars tow
ard the erection Of a chapel, and soon
after surprised the missionaries with a
voluntary donation Of thirty dollars more,
to carry the gospel to the East Indies.-
4 negro congregation was mentioned who
besides supporting their own worship,
contributed Que hundred and fifty dollars
year towards the East India nilsson
And all tIis under the apprenticeship, and
) while the masters claim four days and a
half labor without wages! What a re.
proof to Americans who make less sacri-
fees to do good, and yet pretend to doubl
whether the negro is a man, and has
moral enterprise sufficient to entitIe him
to place among men! The speaker
exulted in the prospect of speedy and
complete emancI patton. The address OF
propriate remarks by Rev. MIR. EIdridge,
pastor of the Broad street Baptist church.
in which the duties of American Chris
tians III respect to southern slavery were
strikingly brought into view. The exer-
cises were closed by singing the appro-
> PIRATE anthem
daughter of Zion! awake from thy sadness!
Awake for thy foes shall Cypress thee more, &c
An inflel paper at CIpaveland adver,
tises for an apprentice, and remarks that it
does not want an irresponsible one, as it has
had irresponsible ones enough There is
no doubt of that. But the worst of it is,
that you will never have any other than
irresponsible ones'' SO long as you i'm
bue their minds with the corrupt and soul
destroying doctrines which you promul.
, gate. Inidelity is the prime minister o.
i dishonesty, fraud and RIGHTEOUSNESS; and
if its doctrines were generally adopted al