Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-01-30

ming 10 save alive some one clinging TO any
Thing within reach, aud also 10 regain all tne
bodies possible, for the purpose of rendering
to surviving relations the only consolassC. "a
left them in this painful separation from '"ei'
departed friends.
saw Captain Manchester at Sou'npor. u
Wednesday night, who perlecliy colISOU D
rates Capt. billiards. statement SHOWING III
collected each must have been ~ tnls pei
ons situation. He also assured me tnat uo
had perfect command Of the boat until qtN.
en- from the whcelhOuse by IRE; He Is i'o'
Sufficiently recovered to come To New loIA:
No lei, Crane Neck for New York at IL
~ arrived at New York at y A. NJ, amer
n massage of 10 IL hours; came oU mics
- i,nTh the ice. Yours, with respect,
'"' JOSEPH !. COMSTOCk.
TIE LExrNcroN.-We are happy to state
that The bodies of four more OF the unioftu-
nate passengers by the Lexington nave OeSn
Craig and Mr.. N. Bracket of this city OF
Mr.. William Albert Green, OF Providence
and Mr.. David Green, of Philadelphia,
These we're all found by Capt. Nalhamel
Brown, of Smithtown, l.. l., on Iuesoay
morning, in one of the quarter boats Q! the
Lexington, embedded in the ice IN stony
Brook harbor, Smithtown bay, about nan
mile from the shore. The boat was full OF
wafer. md Can't. Smith, with the assistance
of his neighbors, endeavored to bail the wa
ter out, but finding Notwithstanding tne!r eX-
.o-4:sys, tl.e -wotvT In her lid not dlmlnlSns
they hauled her on the ice and then balled
her out. 1t was then perceived that she had
no plug in the hole in her bottom. The un-
happy sufferers had been sitting in the bot
tom of the boat in the water, and had died
with their arms clasped round the seats, ap-
parently for the purpose of preventing tnem'
selves falling out. Notwithstanding the evil
dence before the coroner. it would appear
probable that these gentlemen launched the
boat in the hope of saving themselves, with
out first ascertaining that the plug was III
her, which is generally taken out to allow
the water that would Otherwise accumulate,
10 run out. No plug however was found in
the boat, which is usually attached to the
hole by chain. Mr.. w. A. Green had his
overcoat on and $l5, 1000 ia his pocket. They
were all dressed in their ordinary clothes,
but none had their hats OH.
Captain Brown, of Shutdown, who ap-
pears to be an honest, plain spoken man, re-
Iates circumstance in connection with the
discovery of these bodies, which we should
not relate, If we did not tell It with an appa'
rent conviction of its truth. He says that on
Monday night he dreamed that q boat had
come on shore in Smithtown bay, that he in
consequence rose before day light and went
TO the spot, where about half an hour after
sunrise, he discovered the boat, and immedi.
ately called upon his neighbors and the Cor.
oner, Darling d. Whitney, Esq. to accom-.
pany him to secure the bodies. This was
done with great care, and In way to pre-
vent even the suspicion that any of the vafu.
able property about the bodies, had been
disturbed.-N. Y. Courier. b..
Case of the "Linle Boy."-After making
considerable inquiry yesterday, we obtained
the following Information, which probably
gives the true account ofthe little boy whose
body was brought into New York among
those recovered from among tho passengers
of the Lexington, and who has been hitherto
unrecognized and unclaimed.
Mr.. james Bates of Burlington, NJ j., went
to New York with his wife and two children,
little boy and girl, and on Monday the 18th
placed them on board the Lexington, and re-
turned. He was arrested for debt, immedi-
ately on his return, and confined in the
Mount Holly Jail. His family persisted in
the Lexington disaster, and the little boy
above mentioned was probably his child. II
is said that MIR. Bates has been informed of
his bereavement, and is overwhelmed with
ETICLs VIZ give tNS 4VPOtt 40 We IS~StN"
ed il, and have no reason to doubt its cor
rectness.-Phii. North American.
The body of Henry J. Finn, who persisted
in the Lexington, has been found, with a life
preserver attached to it, on the Long Island
shore, 100 miles from the wreck.
The position in which the House of Repre-
sentatiyes Of the United States. now finds it.
self, is about as remarkable an Illustration of
the danger of first error as we remember to
have ever met with. The vice Of the first refu.
salto recognize the authenticated credentials
ofthe members from New Jersey hangs like
milestone round the neck of Congress, and
obstructs all its movements. Except in hav-
ing passed bill to make partial appropri-
alton for the pay Of its own Members and its
own contingent expenses, the House of Rep
resentntives is at this moment as far from en-
tering seriously upon the proper business for
which It has assembled, as if this was the
second, (instead Of being the fortieth) day of
tho session.--NationGlI nteHigencer.
SHOCKING DEArK.--We learn from pas
senger who arrived at the City Hotel on Fri
day evening, that man in a, sleigh was in
stantly killed on ths railroad track between
Worcester and Springfield. on Friday. He
had stopped his sleigh directly on the track,
and did not hear the bell which was rung by
the engineer, and was probably not aware
that the cars were near. The engineer shut
offthe stean-but the locomotive struck him,
dashing out his brains and killing him in
stantly. The sleigh was dashed to pieces,
but the horse escaped, Hartford Courier.
The New Orleans papers announce the
death, in that city, on the 21st ult., of Gen.
Robert T. Lyle, Of Cincinnati. Gen. L.was,
n few years since, a member of Congress,
from the Cincinnati district, and took dis.
tinguished part in the politics ofthe country.
He was appointed by Gen. Jackson, Survey
or General of Ohio. FL.