Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-02
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
A new treaty of commerce has been
concluded between England and Austria,
comforting reciprocal advantages.
From the Natchez Courier, Dec. S.
Another Awful Steamhoat Exnlosion.


From the Natchez Courier, Dec. S.
Another Awful Steamboat Explosion.
STEAMER AUGUSTA BLOWN UP AND
MANY LIVES LosT.-The Augusta left
this port on Monday evening for Vicks-
burgh, with the ship Jeanette in tow.
Before she had proceeded many miles the
ship got aground, when the Augusta left
her and made her way to wood pile. At
one place she supplied herself with four
or five cords of wood, and was making
for another, when the pilot seeing some
floating timber ahead, rang the bell to stop
the engine The engine was stopped till
the float passed and the pilot again rang
as the signal to 60 ahead. The engineer
here discovered that the engine was at
the dead point, and he Immediately ran
back to turn the bar, but before he had
time to return, the dreadful explosion took
place.
The Augusta is one of the most fright
full fragments Of destruction we have ever
seen. The boilers and whole machinery
are rent into triaing pieces; the social
hall and its appurtenances>are scattered
into atoms, and nearly the entire main
cabin is swept away, a very small portion
OF it, next to the ladies' cabin, being all
that is left, and that in such split up
condition as to tell US plainly the dreadful
extent Of the explosion. .......
The names of some Of the passengers
dead and missing are not yet known; the
Augusta was, however, not very full oil
passengers. She came down Yesterday
morning in tow of the Hail Columbia
! and we found there were persons or
; board dead, and their bodies wofuIlv mu.
= tilated; and IL persons more or less wound
ed, Of whom the medical gentleman whom
: we consulted thinks that not more than ;
or will recover some, it was thought
! could not outlive yesterday.
i % deck hands and fremen were on
board, and when they called them togeth
: er, some time after the explosion, only {
S could be mustered.
:. The pilot at the wheel with his pilo
| box) was blown upward of fifty feet ant
d contrived to get ashore by using one sid
i Of the pilot box. The bodies Of those deat
e and wounded were much discolored AM
+ disfgured, presenting heart-rendinE
| spectacle
/ There was one female passenger OF
r board, who escaped unhurt
81 On examination of the pieces of tn
/ boilers found on deck, no doubt is enter
t tanned that this explosion was the result c
I, culpable negligence on the part of the en-
is gmeer.
1e We have been requested by friend {
Il Mr.. Leonard Brown, Zone of the person
e killed by the explosion on board the Al
$ gusta, to say that ne was formerly cler
he Of the Invincible, and to ask of the Ne,
re York papers the favor Of making sim
y lar statement, if they should chance to Sc
this paragraph.-New Orleans Sum-
AWFUL DEATH-A child of Mr.. Joshu
er Haskell, mason, was scalded to death
a this city one morning last week. 1t wa
Vo about year old, and had been taken fror
n bed and tied in a chair near the stove.
ne the mean time tea-kettle of boiling waite
n had been placed on the hearth of the stow,
m. The child. by an effort of its own, pitche
us forward direc.l y upon the boiling kett
II and received its contents in its bosom
a The scald was so severe, although ii
gn little sufferer fingered in frightful agon
he through the day, as to cause its death