On Board A Burning Ship

Norwich, Corm., Sept. 3.- The trip of the freight steamboat City of Lawrence, of the Norwich & New York Transportation line froin New York to thia city, was one o peril and excitement The boat carriec twenty-five or thirty passengere. At 8 p. m. flre was discovered in the forward part o the vessel among 200 bales of cotton, and i seemed at times as though the crew coult not successf ully cope with it The excite ment was intense, and all the passengers hac equipped themselves with Hfe preservers The crew struggled with the flames untü the vessel reached her doek in tuis city at ( o'clock a. m. The damage to the boat was slight. The cause of the fire is attributed to spontauoous combustión.