Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-04-24
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houSe' IN state of insensibiIity. The
most efficient and skilIful surgical aid
was afforded, with the least possible de.
lay, but in about an hour alter the acci.
dent he expired
! Mr.. Curtis has been most faithful, &C.
tive and efficient officer Of the Railroad
Tor more than four years, and under bis
direction and superintendent the system
OF transportation, both of passengers ano
freight, had been reduced to all admirable
degree of regularity and precision. His
intelligence, promptness, and watchfuI.
ness had done much in overcoming the
obstacles to be encountered in ESTABLISHING
Kind OF business which was entirely
novel, and IN which there had been verv
little previous experience, in this part Of
'ne Country TO serve as guide As a
cilIzen and companion Mr.. Curtis was
distinguished for his uprio Illness, frank
ness and benevolence. He possessed in
nigh degree the respect and confidence
OF the community, and he was endeared
to a large circle of friends, to whom, as
Well as to his young and distressed flmj-
iy, his sudden death will he a most pain.
tul bereavement.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT Ga Wednes
| day forenoon last, the Hon. Luther Law
renee, the worthy and much esteemed
Mayor OF Lowell city, while engaged
with another gentleman in viewing the
machinery file Mddlesex Manulac,ur.
lag Company in that city, unfortunately
tell into deep pit, striking his head in
the descent SO violently as to cause his
death in about twenty minutes AFTER
Briggs Bulletin
HE AWFUL PLUNGE. The ST. Cath
arIne, q. c., Journal of the Oh, states
/ that five men were swept over the Maya
IA Falls on the previous Thursday. The
Journal says :-Chtistian Vatchmau.
The only particulars which we have
been able 10 learn, are, tha. Just before
sunrise on Thursday morning last, a boat
with two men IN il, was discovered in the
middle ct the river above the falls, vainly
endtavofed TO make their way throug h
The ice, with which they wers enclosed,
to the Canada shore. Their utmost OK.
ertlons proved unavailing, and in "a short
time they were sven TO enter the cascades.
when they disappeared. In half an hour
| alter, another boat, with three men in it
| was discovered IN the same awful si.ua-
>ion, and trying too, to gain the Canada
side; but In few moments shal ed the
melancholy fate of the other Yesterday
the body OF man was picked up in the
Whirlpool supposed TO be one of those
unfortunate men, having about his person
TWO hundred dollars, aid valuable gold
watch"
FIFTEEN DAYS LATER FROM ENG.
LAND. The Great Western arrived a,
| New York at midnight on Sunday. She
left Bristol on her regular dav-23d
March--and has been delayed by very
boIsterous passage. She brings dates to
the evening of The ga from London aud
Liverpool.
\ Cotton had advanced about three far.
things IN Liverpool since our last dates. p
The news Is decidedly pacific. The
rF'"'dSnrs message and the preliminary
proceedings In. Congress on the boundary
quesuon, with the memorandum agreed
upon by Mr.. Fox and Mr.. FORSYTH, were
received in Eng land by the packet shir
England, on The goth March and The pro
posed temporary adjustment of the dispute
as her protocol. appears to have givet
general satisfaction, and even the mos
violent atti-American journal, with ont
or two exceptions nly-are comparative
| y moderate in their language, and lhti
general tone is deprecatory of War
The subject produced in England les
sensation, than Was antici pated here, anc
was deemed, generally, local boundar,
) question, and no fear was entertained tina
, the amIcable relations oil the two coun
: tries would be disturbed. Passengers. O
, intelligence, il the Great Western. sa,
that the idea OF going to war with thi
country is deemed by the people and tn,
) Government, preposteroas, and the sink
2. lag OF the whole territory in dispute, int
, the bosom of the ocean, better than tha
such an event should take place.
The steamer Liverpool, which carrie
: out the war speeches in Congress, an
the law authorizing the raising of me
and money 10 support our claim to III
} territory, had not, however, arrived whe
| the Great Western left Bristol, aud tn
!, effect Of that Intelligence remains to b
> seen.-[Boston Transcript.
y MELANcHoLY SHIPwREcK 1t wi
y be rccoIlecled that the brig Annawan.
: and for Rochester, Ms. from whaIin
cruise, was fallen in with goth uIt., la
e 80 30, abandoned. The fate of her ere
$ is given in the subjoined letter, from IL
st New York Express, dated = Christie
l. WatcAmaa.
e Guayama, P r. March II.
y The brig Bulah, Mitchell, of Bango