Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-01-07


sole survivor OF deporable accident, no blame
attached to the serYants CT the complny:
Collisions four.
Or five sh- bore,
The signals were i'll vain;
Grown old and rys,eu,
Her hi er busted
And smashed the excursion t.a!l.
Her end toas pieces. '-PCN.H.
--TnE GIANT WEs~.-What constitutes
the States of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin.
having twenty three Representatives. and six
Senators in Congress, was. not many years
ago, one Congressional District; and The dele
gate who then represented all this territory is
yet living.
EprrAPH.-The following singular cpitaPh
Is on tomb in the parish churchyurd Of Pew
sey, Dorsetshlre. in England;
" Here lies the body of Lady OLooney,
great niece Of 3urGe commonly called "Tno
Sublime; :" she was bland, passionate, and
deeply religious: also, she painted II watet
colors, and sent several things to the ex ub-
ton; she was first cousin To Lady Jones, and
cf such is the Kingdom Of Heaven
--IMpoRT5 OF OrLS AND WH,LEBoSE.-
We learn from the Shipping List that the i'm
port of sperm oll the present year into TIE Uni
ted States is ~, 40 barrels of whale, e30l3
of whllebone, LAS 900 lbs. This is decrease
from asst year of 2l72l bbls Of sperm oil, 2+5,=
100 bbls whale AM 255S, 400 lbs bone.
--There are % coach and wagon facto.
ries in Chicago, employing 23O men, and turn
ng out 2G25 vehicles in the course of the year.
Their aggregate value amounts to s!IO,4l5
and the capital employed is Sl27 600. hese
are sent even so far as to Missouri, after sup@
plying the demand III the vicinity.
At Cincinnati they opened bale of
cotton, and found the body of a negro pressed
into it, So great was the pressure that the
body Of the man was not more thln three inches
thick.
--THE ERIcssoy.-This vessel was yes
terday afternoon towed from her do;k IN VIII
lamsburg to the Section ! Dock in New Yori,
for the purpose Of being coppcrel lnis W..
lie done during to day ana to-m1rrow, wAeI
she will be entirely finished, AMI we are in
formed from a reliable source III, she viii I'M
medialely proceed on her tri5.--.N. T. Times
2sM
.tuNclA-IH8, sllS ulr ~ 1 butCHHt t''
is to business, what manure is to land, md breaQ
and butter to the growing school urchjn- olng
the stone of Syslphus Up the hill Of commerce
as easily as a soap bubble soareth III the air.
- The loss CT property by disasters on
Y the lakes during the season of navigation OF
= l>52, has been 1922 go; 260 600 greater than
any previous year. The whole number Of lives
e los was as near as can be aScertalEel POS
= There were 300 disasters reported. tx steam
ers, seven propeers, and thirty five sail yes,
:, sells, have gone out of existence entirely
OF the two hundred and twenty nine disls
. tcrS, seven occurred in The month of Ap.l
n nineteen IN May, twenty-four in June, ftteer
:, in lay. sixteen in August, wenty- one in Sep
: tember twenry-sevon in O tober eighty iy,
{ in November, (55 IN one gale of the lth an,
e 18th and ilaen in December.
\ - TuE CABiNEr.-The Washington cor
respondent Ct tSe " Y. Tyit4,,i, writing o.
Monday, SAYS;
"Gov Brown, Of Miss, states that des
g patch just received from Concord gives Hun
L. er. Of Virginia, the Department Of State
4 SIldell, of louisiana the TreasGry Dix, G
ur New York, the War Johnson, cf Arkansas
es the Navy Br ght, of Indiana ,he Interior
N, Medary, of Ohio, the Post Office, and Nchol
90 % son, of Tennessee, the Attorney GeGeralshiI
ne This news has created great confusion in th
at party"
us There are SIX pcres of barrelcd por
NJ three tiers high, at Louisville, and ab lut 5
,.r acres Of live hoge in pens