Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-01-29

IL,
who arrived from Philadelphia by the
Morning line,-name not known.
Mr.. Robert Williams, of Cold Spring,
N. Y.
BOATS COMPANY.
CAPT. Chiids, Commander.
I'll. +. Newman, Steward.
E. Thurbur, LIST mate
Mr.. Manchester, pilot (saved.)
job Sand, head waiter.
Cortland Hemsted, Chief Engineer.
VIM Qnimby, Cd do.
Martin Johnson, WheeIman.
K. B. Schultz, George -, Benz
Cox, ond Cbas Smith, (saved,) 6remen.
Five colored walters.
Susan G. Hulcumb, Chambermaid, col
Joseph Robinson, cook, colored.
Oliver Howell, I'd do do.
Robert Peters, do.
deck hands; l boy, deck hand.
2 wood passers
Bar-keeper.
How many more names will vet have
TO De added to this melancholy list, time
Will determine, The Agent of the steam
boat line here, is Of opinion that the whole
number OF passengers did not exceed IS
or &c. and the pilot says he asked the
Clerk on Monday afternoon how many
passengers, and that he replied 70 to IS.
1t was about eight hours after the fire
commenced, before the boat went down.
Inc pilot says that as late as midnight,
nall toe passengers might have been saw
ed, had assistance arrived. So we are in
formed by Capt. Jennings, of the sloop
Ganges. who assisted in taking care of
the pilot and fireman on board the sIoop
Merchant on Tuesday evening.
The Lexington was provided with
three good boats, including life boat, but
they were all rendered useless by the con-
fusion and haste of the moment. She all
so had fire engine, with the necessary
apparatus and a suction house.
Her value is estimated to have been
S5O,OOO-partially insured. She had on
board about $50 bales of cotton.
This is by far the most Distressing
Steamboat disaster which has ever occur
red In Long Island Sound, or indeed in
this portion of the Union. The snffar.
Ings OF that awful night can never be de.
scribed, nor conceived.
! PAINFUL ACClDENT--Jane. onlv
daughter OF Mr.. Henry Langworthv, of
this village, aged three years, was burnt
to death yesterday afternoon, by her
cl"ths taking fire, while left for few
mlnnt@s alone. it is thought the fire
caught the child's apron, as it attempted
to use 1t as "holder" in opening the
stove door.-Nidd!ebury Peoples Press.
From the Peoples Press.
death from Apoplexy caused by drinking
spirit.
mr.. M@rAam The subject of the
ABOVE was Rosanna Lynch an athletic
girl OF about twenty-five years of age
She had resided in this town nearly six
months, and was regarded as good hired
help but reported to have been at peri
DDS addicted to Drunkenness. She had
however, in this place been so catious as
to conceal this vice from the fomly where
she resided She was frequently absent
in the evening, but WAS uniformly at her
residence before ten O'Clock.
On Saturday evening last, she return.
ed at about half past nine. She attended
TO her ordinary domestic concerns for the
night, and was heard to GO into her bed
room at ten or eleven. In the morning,
Jan, 10Th, she vas found dead by the side
of the bed, her head lying on the edge of
the bed, her bod Y sustained on her limbs,
and feet resting on the floor, with her
body ncllnlng against the bedstead.-
Her ordinary dress was on, and laced
rery tight! Partially under her face,
and between the beds, was found a pint
bottle, about lhree-fourths filled with
rum.
On the body there were no marks of
violence. The face was livid and the
: cutaneous vessels engorged with blood
Ga opening the head, the skull was found
to adhere uncommonly strong to the du-
ra matter, and on one side of the longi-
/, tudlnal sinus, near the vertex, the dura
matter appeared near y or quite as hard
!. as cartilage. The blood vessels on the
surface, and within the brain, were crowd
ed with blood. The medullary substance
on being cut was immediately bespan
gled With blood The chorosd PIerus on
each sideswas surcharged with livid blood
land each yentricle contained d considers
! bic quantity of thin fluid colored witt
blood This fluid when flung into ths
FIRE. burnt with slight fame, and ever
: when considerably diluted with the blooe
which was discharged largely from tn
: vessels OF. the brain it appeared to burr
with small blaze. The common blool