Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-07-14

II IS suggested, and with apparent prob. |
ability, that in this encounter on the waste
OF waters we have final and conclusive
lntimation of the fate that has befallen the /
steam ship President.
II must be remarked, however, that the |
wreck of burned vessel, supposed to be |
a ship and cotton loaded, had before been
fallensin with, more than once. at points
not very remote from that indicated by |
Captain Sawyer. The London Shipping |
Gazette of May 18th contained a report
from the Jessie Richie, arrived at Fall |
mouth, that, on the 7th of April, wreck
was seen from, and visited by the captain
of that vessel, in Lat. % n, Long. ~ W.;
found to be North American built, from
four to five hundred tons, lying on the
starboard side, and burned to the waters |
edge.
| Unless Captain Sawyer is positive and
fright about the fragments of wheels and
lmachinery, in.Ihe. wreck seen by him, the
Ipresumption is that his wreck and the one
seen frou q the Jessie Richie were the
same.-N 7. Spec. -.
/ WHEAT AND GRAIN CRoPs.-We re-
ljoice that the honest cultivators of the soil
are now able TO obtain fair prices for the
products other industry. We fear, how
ever, that there is al efort making great
ly to underrate the amount of the coming
crops with view to Speculation, by CIV
Ling an undue price to the immense guam
tity of bread-stuffs now in the hands of
dealers. A correspondent of the n. Y.
Express writing from Canandaigua under
date of June ed, says the wheat crop of
Il84l will be less by six millions of bush
els in the state of New York than it was
: in 1929, being less than one-half crop.
J This is so great an error we cannot but
, regard it as a misstatement designed for
effect. Were this an isolated case, it
would not be worthy of Lotice; butsthe
papers are filled with the most exagger-
ateG accounts of the failure of crops. I'm
less some one great calamity shall befall
the grain now standing, before it shall be
harvested, there must be large surplus
e in the country, and the market price can
: not rule above the value Of wheat and -four
f to ship 20 Europe. And we will add that,
by the last accounts from England, the
prospect of an abundant harvest is said
never to have been better. 1t is always
a public calamity for any property to, &C.
quire fictitious value. It ruins buyers.
and often sellers, by regulating all their
: pecuniary engagements by false standard
I of value.-Bufalo Commercial 4~
DEPTH OF THE SEA.-We copy from
: the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, the
. subioined remarks on the depth of some
u of the lakes, and Of the St. Lawrence riv-
e er. II -.~..~". ..*:s>.
Is Lake Huron is said to be about 800
i. feet deep, and the depth of Canandaigua
,e and Seneca lakes has never been satisfac-
torily ascertained. The early settlers,
:, many of them, on the borders, believed
y they were unfathomable. The Skaneate.
u les lake also fills a chasm of fearful depth
We wish some intelligent gentlemen
whose deli ghtful seats overlook the waters
would sound them. :
One of the most remarkable instance:
~ of deep fresh water, is a river, laid dowr
V. on the map as the Saguenai, that dlschar
IN ges into the Gull of ST. Lawrence, sons
200 miles below Quebec. It is rather /
~ sluggish stream, but with perceptibl,
Sc current, confined for good part of it
course by perpendicular rocky banks
with an average depth Of nearly 500 feet
1t. 1t seems TO flow through an immense ifs
=. sure produced by some awful conyulsior
of nature.
q. REsUscITAT1oN FROM DROWNING
=, A boy about years of age fell into tn
y river at Haverhill, one day last week, an
l. his b1dy was not recovered until it ha
been under water all of ten minutes. Fl
- was then taken to dwelling house nea
by, where the application of warm blanl
- cts and gentle friction had the desired e
nd feet of restoring life, though to all appeal
ere ance the child was dead, his face an
on hands having become discolored, and pu
i'd sation entirely ceased.
ley La remarking upon this case, Dr. Spo
ford, of the Haverhill Gazette, says tn
es- many persons, in the case-of a browne
on person, are disposed as the first relief,
tho roll the body on barrel, the consequent
IN OF which, in our opinion, is certain deaf
zen lif any chance of life is remaining. "
mes believe that not one in a hundred would
1t restored by this method. while the appl
The cation of warmth, in any manner, by blan
sed cts or warm bed, will restore ninst
ng, mine in hundred
he A HORSE THIEF DRowNED.-The
an was a melancholy and somewhat singul
g. occurrence at East Berkshire, Vt. the OF
er dav. A stranger, mounted on fl
horse, arrived at the hotel in that place
lam the morning ofthe 18th ult. and demand
yes accumulation for himself and beast. T
In landlord knew the horse once belong
Inc, to a gentleman in a neighboring TOW