Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-08-03


were, on Tuesday last, visited with one
OF the severest storms ever known in this
part ofthe country. The corn crop, which
had previously suffered severely, has been,
In many cases, FRUSTRATED and beaten to
pieces; and many of our farmers, who
have annually sold hundreds Of barrels,
will not save sufficient for their own use.
In addition 10 the vessels already men.
toned as stranded, are the schooner Vir.
ginia Hodges. Rollins; schooner Ana
conda, from New Y ork. bound to Wash
lngton; and large English schooner
from Philadelphia name not recollected
having on board one of the owners and
his daughter, who lost the whole Of their
effects.
Two vessels were capsized and beaten
to pieces, on Cape Hat'erss ShoaI, and
their crews entirely lost. A great part
of the wrecks have drifed ashore We
also learn that seven men were drowned
near the shoal, while endeavoring 10 save
drifting goods.
On the inside of Ocracoke Island there
are fourteen vessels ashore. Among them
are the schooners Paragon, Waughop;
w. Fl. Harrison, Midyett; Mary Caro-
line, Nichols.
Six vessels were driven 10 sea from
Ocracoke, with their crews on board, and
have not since been heard of.
A gentleman who passed Portsmouth
opposite Ocracoke reports that he saw
only one house standing in that place!
VIM. Howard's store on Ocracocke was
blown down and floated away. The store
of 1'iIman Ferrar, at the same place, also
dana ged. ..... -
Capt. Etheredge, who came from Chick.
amacomieo on Thursday last, states that
he saw large numbers of dead cattle,
horses, &C.. drifting down the Sound.
WHAT AN ExAMPLE.-THe Washing
tonians resorting to Dsstillery The
Westinghouse OF Hartford celebrated
the anniversary of American independence
in the first distillerv erected in Connecticut.
The building is 204 feet long and there
was room to set six tables the whole length.
The stand for the orators was still up
side down, and capable of accommodating
A persons. This is carrying the war
into Africa" @.
TarB:-The tariff bill passed the
House Saturday evening, lie to ll2.-
The tea and coffee 90 per cent. tax was
restored. The bill repeaIs The pro0iso tt
the distribution act.- W. Patriot.
IMPEACHMENT OF THE PREsIDENT.-
Bots of Va. has made an effort to have
the President lmpeached Articles ofim-
parchment drawn up by Bolts, have been
published in the National Inlelligencer.-
At a caucus of Wing members of Con-
gress, oaly seventeen voted in favor of the
impeachment. so the matter will probably
rest there Voice Of Freedom.
The late decision of the Old Presbyter-
ian General Assembly, prohibiting within
the pale of that church marriages with de,
ceased wives sisters, and pronouncing all
who have thus married guilty of incest,
has received the general condemnation Of
the public press, both religious and secular
and that, we think, justly. 1t is not lit.
tie surprising, that, while the Assembly
were so excessively righteous on this point
which providing it were the evil they
| would have it, has been perpetrated by bu
comparatively few, very few, that they
should give the enormous evil of slavery
the go by, in which hundreds oftheir min
listers and thousands of their members arr
| involved, either as masters or slaves p
They absolutely refused to consider tina
/ subject, even so far as to pronounce It al
evil under any circumstances Ii this
not straining out the gnat and swallowing
down the camel, we do not see what coul
be properly so denominated. Morn Sta,
! Loss OF AN EMIGRANT SHIP.-Letter
were on Monday received at Lloyd's c
the total loss of the emigrant ship Ken
Captain Gardner, on the night of the 81
of last month, in the Western Ocean, Of
the Seven Islands, duriag a heavy snow
storm. The vessel, j: appears. beionge
to Gleenock, and was bound to Montrea
having seventy emigrants on board. Th
disaster, it is said, occurred between eleve
and twelve o'clock by the ship runnin
on to a mass Of sunken rocks a short dit
lance from The coast. Owing to he S,
! verify ofthe Storm which prevailed at tn
!, time, for length of time it was expecte
that she would fall to pieces. Proyider
t italy, however, she held together unit
, dayDreak. when the whole of the EN-
) grants were safely landed on the coas
f though in a most deplorable condition
j many of them having lost every thin
they possessed. The ship was about 90
, tons burthen, and is, together with her ca
/ go. reported to, be insured English pa
| per.
FRANcE.-A letter in the Rhone, give
; particulars of a whirlwind at ChaufaIlt
and its neighborhood, on the 24th ult.-
I Thirty houses were actually carried ava,
{ Six persons of the same family were kill
: ed, others were mutilated, children wei