Lflltr frcta Ktv. Stjrfinnis Tusiiu. Macomb PUI E, Washington city. July 15, 1856; To the Ed/tar oj the TV.: shingtoet Union : Dixit bik : 1 have been edified by your recent an ■ i mad versions on the interference of clergymen with the politics of the country. Sincerely dot prav that the rebuke administered to the rector of the church oi the Epiphany, in Philadelphia, may he repeated to every clerical meddler throughout the length and breadth ot the land. It is no wonder that the church es in some portion oi the country have put on the hablimeuts oi mourning hi < onsequence of the declin ing state of religion, when the pulpit has been trans fortned into a mere serniar arena, and the political question* of the day have been substituted loi the sublime themes oi our holy Christianity. 1 do not deem it improper, however, in the present fto-Ture of our national atfairs, for ministers of" religion to avail themselves of every appropriate occasion to kindle up afresh on the hearts o. their countrymen the lire of patriotism, and io employ aii the influence with which they are invested to perpetuate our precious and priceless institutions. The perpetuity of this Union is nor merely a polit ical question which may be used by demagogue.- and ianatics for the purpose., of p. rsonal aggrandizement; it is thoroughly interwoven with the leligious inter ests of our race : and sad, it deed, will it be for the present happiness and future hopes of mankind when " l'eoja fruit ted nun est'' -i ali be written on the scattered fragments ol our national L nmn. All out i.iitecedeiiis as a nation indicate, beyond a peradven tnre, that the hand of Cod was active in our liatton "ai organization, for centuries anterior to <>m exist ence was the gooi'iir ss oi God engaged m laying the foundation-ol If - glorious edifice of liberty, under whose ample dome, we. as a nation of freemen, are this dav permitted ? rejoice. The ind-cent levity, T; ore fine, to say nothing of the daring impiety, with which the demolition of this glorious structure is -spoken of in some quarter-, should be lepiobated in terms of unmitigated severity by every friend ofliod and man. C was my c od fortune to be present in the Bpic of the United S; uteb when Mr. Calhoun, who kindly honored nie with his .i; •unship for more than a quar ter of a century, expaciafed on the evils (•! ccle-ias tical disruption, in connexion v. .iii the peculiar ii.sti t dfc uoi tne f-outh, a- tending to sectionalize the -country, and reconcile the j>eo;>ie to the feniful idea of dis-oliit.nii. livery -wand, however minute, which was thus snapped asunder, served To weaken, by so in. 1 . the bond, that held n- together in gjfH-i --; national brotherhood, and To hasten a catastrophe i eonteiops.ilion of winch is enough to make the blood feci oiiti in our,t! the heart ol the patriot and the Chisiian. Whilst, therefore, 1 rejoice in the ■titifii'i'i'yo/ tJt.l Uic.t!ylerinn Church, of which 1 am an humble minister, J profoundly regret that some el our sister churches have felt compelled to yield to the idrceol circumstances, and assume the name, if not the sect.oi.a, chaiacteri.-lics, of North and South. No eccles.a-Tu al n ensure, having the remotest ten dency to such a reu!r, shall ever receive my sanc tion : on the contrary, i will, whenever occasion may require it. entreat my brethren, l*y the memory of our tore-athers; ly the lieavcidy inspiration which led tfern to declare these colonies flee and indepen dent States; by the blood which was ,-piit during the revolutionary struggle: hv the sticce-s which, through the divine blessing, crowned tiieir patriotism and their valor ; by the r. h inhertunce of civil and religious liberty which th-y have bequeath d us; and liy the present happine-- <>, the future hopes of mankind, [ will entreat them to itb-lrin from saying anything, or doing anything, which might weaken 'he boi.-d-. and thereby accelerate the dissolution oi this thrice glorious c: leilerac •. My heart is for the t uiun, the it-hole Union, and nothing hut t'u V -1/1 O: / . "i -rv respectfully, your obedient servant. SEPTIMUS TL'STIX. A I'iv.iv. fiCAL SiuA ! Extract of a letter frorn Mr. B. 1". LEADER, to the ••■htor of the Bedford Gazette, dated Berrien Springs, Michigan, July M. 1 SAG. ••rather, (Maj. Henry Leader) seems to be per-j tectly delighted with the nomination oi the Cine it:- nati <'(invention for President.' Indeed, he is quite i enthn iastic on the question—and is doing for the i •treat Pennsylvania Statesman all that he van. The j , Hoys are all going with the old gentleman, ronse- i •iiiently we shall ca-t FIVE. votes for the democratic j nominees. Pretty good "or one family, when we j Take into consideration the fact that in the contes •..4'| y-l . r g a JJICT wen Ti"e'l)emocracv her- hail the nomination df Jatneg , the Olive branch of Peace, at(d so sayK I.t:o.ia , t,is election that tbev are "ipMJf Kl succe - 1 .. ; - y look M tb>- "iy tnuu lor tne crisis, and teef ts.yjjfed unanimity with which ;.i. wntinMtiWWlll been received that he will lie tri'imphautly elected, lie has been tested, and well tested too, and has pro ven hime!f competent for any emergency* and the people here look upon it as highly e-sential to the a i'l lure of tlii s Gov en meet that h- should he cho-en. S'he election djv wifi di-riose. iiowev. r, that lie i- a i.ivorite of a large majority of the freemen of this country." Ext met of a letter from u distinguished gentleman in Easton to the editor ol the Bedford Gazette, da ted July !$, 18GJ: '•Politico! matters are warming up in Oid North -tmpion, a id, from present appearances, trie conte-t will he altogether a ones led 0..e, as every body is for "Old Buck." Tie - only I,gating we nave is be tween the Fillmore and the Fremont nicGon*. Look out for such a majority for our candidates as were never given before." TU~ - ;ir ,. iii receipt of a letter front cir re.-pect od townsman, Mai. TALIAFERRO, bearing date Tort knelling, June 2'., ! Sio, from which we make the following extract fur the edification of his nu merous frier.ds. It was intended tor last week's pa per. but crowded out: ••I am now located in inv own house, a claim fur "which I have In. I much in cce - iry trouble. | via nrcihly ejected from .t years ago. I now have the pleasure to - -ay to vou, lor the information of.the world arid '-trie re.t of" maiikirid," that 1 walked to my i/tptim riri't in op-n day without it-kitig ; rn ission of any man. The right to wlvch I refer ;s known here by everv honest -—4-tlev to be indispo t V v ju-t—yet the office of Indian affairs foolishly and blindly contested ir.y right to what my money ..ill nut the ".and- tu lie.: Government, pa for. It •mi welt -or niv intere-t that 1 came h"re—for, as land i.. valuable, and the -ijn thebe-i in t. e country, i was near bc'ng , mp'd hv speculators and others. Some ot mv friends placed m niy hnm'.s tio-.r laud warrants to be i.ed in ti, JJ ' territory, but as 1 would not e. t r iai ' for them which 1 would not for myself, it is deemed proper to bold on for :i more fa vorable opportunity—for the best lands are with held from location that actual settlers may take up claims ;or pie-emptiou, which, on reflection, is the !.••-; for •i .• t. :: ,'.ory. 1 c'.o - by saying, and it ! • my heart grxid to i.iv it, that JAMF.S BU- T'.IAXAN. if he live-, will he the President of ft.. - t ; nited States." 1 THE MAHKETS, PB:r.AT)Er.n:tA, Jniy 21.— FLOi'R market is i • ady with a linritl- d ririnatui for export, atui we notice s'.' s r i 12o0hiiis. xuperftue at Baii 50 per hbt. foi old stocK atui fresh ground. iticJmling rOv> bl Is. extra at 23 per bbi There is a limited tlei,;a;)d fir the supply of the c.'v retail Ira,if w hich is limit; d at 25a§S per bid. as ii> -jualiiy. Rve Flour is dull, with si' sats3 73 per bb!. Corn M< - al is in lair r.-qiiest ami M.-adv, with salcsuf 200 Lbls. Fenn sv lvnnia at §2 b7.j per bhi. There is a lair supply of Wheat, and with hut a limited inquiry price- - have declined 7c. per mi. Sales of 3,000 bu. Southern and Pennsyl vania ted at I fjQal 33r. per bn., and prime w hite at 160 c. Pye is duil, and held at 72c. pei bu. Corn i- less active, and the sales small a't>on6!r. tor good Southern yellow. lot of oilOO bu. sold on private terms. U7 *. ' • CD tii:rn - 'dia!elv. a * ouno man to •.it as fl • .ils". 'J"he blood-hounds oi' Ab olitionism and Know Xothingism, however, stick to it - .i!:ii a pertinacity which reminds us ot' the year i when Peg Beatty figured so conspicuously, j Mr. Buchanan himself—a man upon whose charac [ ter no stain of falsehood ha- ever been fixed—denied fjihutically. His neighbors of Lancaster decla id r their hands in ;; paper which we apnctld to uch an expression—that they never rieatd it yd against him until many years after he should said it —and that ii' he had said it, thfcy must heard it or heatd of it. MfeMßhe story is false upon its face—a broad, plain, I palpable, manifest falsehood. "I'f. Buchanan's con -1 stitntional coolness of bo ha vi qui-—hi< steady pru- I dencc—and the habitual modera-fSfca.f bis language j —make it absurd in the eyes of ant? bo know him. j But, in addition to this, the propagators o; the ca lumny contradict themselves at every turn. One says : j that he made the expression in a Ith of July oration J —another that he uttered it in a political speech—a nother that lie said it in some private conver-ation— | while a fourth version fixes the scene at a -upper [ j which he gave to bis friends when he was admitted .j to the Bar. If their story had a shade of truth it . ! would fang Tng-ther better than it does, li there j i I was a particle of foundation for it they would at j Hast agree in telling it somewhat alike. It is mani j Ic-tly the coinage of some impudent knave who wan * ; ted an ofiice and thought that slandering Mr. Bu- • ' i clianan was a good way to get it. ' j Look at their evidence. Some ot these scribbler ■ ref-r to our deceased friend, J-i-nt \ F. Cox, Esq., - a - authority or their falsehood. Mr. Cox never as serted ton - , he himself knew any thing about it. He mentioned it once in debate as a tiling which he be- 1 Leved. But why did he believe it ? Because he md i r.ot then know Mr. Buchanan, atnl had never heard j . ' any conttadieticn of it. He never reaffirmed it af ; ter ttie appearance of Mr. Buchanan's letter deny ing ' i or sft<-r had a full opportunity o! knowing the . charuetor of the evidence on which it rested. On ! - I the contrary, he then became, and continued to the i i i day ol his death a warm and devoted friend ot Mr. ; ' j Buchanan. He was the Senatorial Delegate trom I this District to tiie State Convention in 18 IS, and, I i though uiiin-tructed. he was arirong the firmest Bu i, i i aiiau n."ti in that body. Xo one car, doubt that if I r ; Mr. Cox were now alive, he would defend Mr. Bn- . : clianan and rebuke the slanderers who are making , i this unwarrantable use ol his name. f j They give us the written statement of Georch: i j Fono. Jr., who says that Peter Shindel told him that ! i i he heard Mr. Buchanan use the oifeti'-ive words iin- I i puted to him. Let it be remembered that Mr. Slur,- : j die does not :-ay this himself. He makes no certifi- \ ' cafe. We have nothing but Ford's word to show ' j that Shindle ever said anything of the sort. Wbo. ' i then, is this George Ford, Jr. ? He teas a leader of ' } i the Native American Party. According to his own * account, be was entirely too righteous to live in a ' county where Catholics, and irishmen, and Ger- j j mans had equal rights with himself! fie would have * i been a worthy and activp Know Nothing it he had | ' i found it convenient to remain at Lancaster until the J : secret order came up. Bu: before that time it was : discovered that he had been engaged lor years in j i stealing money from the General Government by 1 j means oi/orced pension certificates, to the genuine j ness oi winch he regularly made his oath. Let the 1 I Know Nothings make the most of him. He is a i ' marvellous proper man for the use they put him to. j | it is fit that such , s cause should be sustained by ! 1 such a witness. | Lastly, they produced Anthony McGlinn. His | testimony was directly to the point. He is madc_.to - ray that he heard Mr. Buchanan (he does not say I ' yten) ir. * political speech at the Court House in ' Lancaster, with his Land uplitted, declare that '• if he had a drop of Democratic blood in his veins he wc .-Id t:i out. Now, consider this in connection ' with the statement ni Mr. Buchanan's next neigh i bors in Lancaster city that they never heard of it i until Mr. C. was a candidate for Congress the last timp. Js if not amazing that an expression so likely to arrest universal attention should lie noticed by m>- ■ body b'ut Anthony McGtiou? Is it iiot a most mys terious and wonderful fact that such a sentiment, publicly spoken in the hearing ol* hundreds, should have been kept a profound secret from all but Antho ny McGlinn for fifteen or twenty years? But the mystery will be cleared away from the mind of t},e reader when we tell him 'that Anthony Mc- Glinn was a man of intemperate habits, without standing or character —one of those poor tools that knave- often make use of at a pinch—a mete Peg Be illy in pantaloons, who could be got to sign any thing that was written for him. Thi< i< absolutely all tie evidence there is on the i subject. There is not a man in the country who will ; not feel his indignation roused when he sees a man • like James Buchanan so traduced upon such grounds, j It must be plain to all that lie i- thus assailed ! merely because be is the chosen champion of the the ! Constitution and the trusted leader of its friends. Well may the Democracy be proud of their candi i date. iLs character, public and private, is impreg nable. llis enemies go back to his earliest youth :or matter oi accusation, and even then they have nothing to sustain their charges except the state ments of a perjured thief and a characterless inebri ate. Several of the undersigned have known Mr. Buch anan ever since he.drsF came to Lancaster to study law, with the late James Hopkins, and the others lor many years past. We are al! convinced that if at a public meeting at the court-house, or anywheie else in this city, be had ever used such an expression, or anything lik it. as that which has been attiibiited to lum by Mr. Cox in the Convention —to wit—"that | lie thanked Ins God he had not a drop of Democratic bloo l in his veins, and if he had lie would let it out" —some of us would have heard it. and all of us would have heard ol it, arid it must have becomes subject of general conversation throughout Lancaster. To the best of our knowledge it never was mentioned bv any person until the year ISC'-, immediately before Mr. Buchanan's last election to Congre-.-, on the Deinociatic Jackson ticket. As this election imme diately preceded General Jackson's fir*t election to the Presid-iicy, (in November, iS'TS,) and us Mr. 1 Buchanan had been for several yeais previously his anient and active supporter he was then opposed with II urh zeal and bitterness. Leer since we firs! heard this story, referred bar! i as it did To 181.", we have always believed, and stil 1 believe, that it was got up without anv foundatioi i in .'act, J'or the purpose oi operating against Mr. I'm . chanan's election to Congress in 182 S. Indeed, w j have uevei supposed lhat any pcr-on acquainted witi I his character could believe that at any period of lie [ lie would have made such a declaration as now seeiis to be seriou-'y imputed to hint. William Jenkins, Wm. ft. Fordnev, Renh Frazrf, i F. A. Muhlenberg. John Mathiot, W'm. Norris, Jnji. : Christ, Geo. Musser, Wm. Liick. Samuel Dale. Jrs. , : Ogilby, John 1". Sreinmaii, K. C. Reigbart. Adutri ' lleighait, I'mi j. Charnpnevs-. Jas. Iluiue-, (ieo. :f. Krug, Wrvi. Cooper, Joim X. Lane. John Reynolds. John R. Montgomery, Menrv Rogers, .lacoti DemnSt. Christian Lachmari. John Boinberger, John Hois, 1 James If vans, John Miller. Henry Keller, (.ieo. M>- , senkop. TJif iVE crofting rC Wj. l'S:airviESc GAT"Our irieud- will bear in mind that t-AT! 11- DAY the 'JGth inst. is the day fixed upon :or raising a BUCHANAN fx BRECKINRIDGE Pole in the vil lage of St. Ciairsville, and it is expected that there will be such a turn out as will satisfy the enemies of Democracy that Bedford County is certain for BU CHANAN and the whole Deinociatic Ticket by a handsome majority. A cordial invitation is given by the County Committee to " all good citizens, ol WHATE\ EU PARTY, Who love the Union, and de sire an end to the Know Nothing Abolition agitation wh.ch now threatens it,"' to meet with u 5 on the oc casion alluded to, us well as all our other political meetings. The committee further assure ail, our ad r-.t discussion of tin? great is'-nc.- bVfnre 'R.VcotfillVV' We desire to speak to the people earnestly and can didly, and point out to thein, by fair argument, the daugers which threaten the peace ol' our happy country by the atie.ripled onialganation of aii the rotten factions whicii ivtvv disgrace the N The chairman or" the Know Nothing County Com mittee of Bedlord, in telling Ins political friends that they are not invited to this and ail the other Demo cratic meetings, pays them a sorry compliment. If i his party friends are " good citizens, who love tie V ttioit," then the invitation of tiie County Commttee includes them as fairly as the Democrats. If, How ever. they are the r< rrcsc oi this, then we col less the call has no reference to them. This 1- not the lirst time that this -tereotyped chairman has ex : hibited his contempt for the masses, hut, fortunately, the time has passed when hone-t freetnpn cai be made believe the moon i- made oi green cheese;and hence we shall expect the attendance of large lum bers of our former political opponents at the neet • ings we Lave called in the several Townships of ied ford County, where they will ail he treated as (en- ! tlemen, whether they endorse our sentmcnt or ot. U'by Oppose ihe lirmocratic I'aiiy? 1- it not a strange infatuation That, at this ved by the people, has, m turn, been condemned btl the enemies of tiie Democratic Party, as the certaia ! de-truction of our beautiful country—and yet it hav ! never yet been ruined ! tr a: CAT*" No answer has yet been given to the inquir,, ! as to who appointed the delegates to the late K. and Abolition State and National Conventions— ther have we been toid who selected the delegate ; called to meet in Bedford on the HI st inst. to nomi n nate a County Ticket, Sic. 'The people used to at tend to these duties, but a secret few now contro matters to smt thems Ives. Will freemen submit til such indignity ? 7 i r. .lordan, Em|. t VYe-bavc often wondered why this young gen- j I than was selected by our opponents as their espe c; moulh-piece and organ tor he has certainly ex- j ijted hut few characteristics of a prudent and jti- , ■ dons leader. As a citizen-ami neighbor we will . ■ ihirn the justice to say that he is a very clever I iti, and discharges his dutie-, as far as we know, • th integrity. But, as a politician, his conduct has ' iched even the lowest point of contempt and viran -1 is, a fact which has been frequently and publicly I ferted by many of those who have heretofore acted I'th him. To say nothing of his vacillating course ither buck than three years, how stands his record? living failed in all his predictions about the ruin of r country, growing out of the veto of tiie L. S. itnk—the Tariffof M'2—the admission of Califor ia the passage of The Independent Treasury Bill-- ad the refusal to abrogate the VETO power from 1 je Constitution of ihe U. S. and of the several - tales composing tiie Union—he fell upon theexpedi nt ol building up a great party by putting down lie " Hum Traffic and, in violation ol trie will ol lie people of Bedlord County, fairly expiessed at he ballot-box, (alter having heard and read his lia angueson the -object a thousand times.) lie deliber itely-voted in the Senate for the Jug Law which was ntended as one of enlire Prohibition, lint which vas in nowise respected, because it was an assump tion of power not war ranted by the suflr.ig*-sof those Who had a right to decide tile question at the Poils. j nder this Law the Licenses weie tak-ri iVoin all : he Taverns, arid the question was thus again btought before tiie people, who sent such a majority to the popular branch of the Legislature as corvid not fail to jihow their entile disapprobation of the proceeding. In the lace ol this fact. Mr. J. continued to treat with jontcmpt his constituents, by voting steadily against every attempt to repeal the .lug Law, and in favor of ail the severe nea>ures calculated to punish those who had in any way violated its dirty provisions. This he done up to near the close ot the se-sion, when, all of a sudden, without giving a single rea son tor In-, extraordinary course, lie wheeled about and voted for a Law granting a wholesale system of Licenses to retail Liynor by the gill and re-establish Ale and Beer Houses—anil, after lie returned home, ' on being interrogated by the Couit on the subject, lie gave it as his opinion that Ihe licensing ot a I hou-e to retail Ale and Beer in the Borough oi Bed ; ford came clearly within the meaning ol the law lor which HE HAD VOTED 1 notwithstanding '-Beer > iion-es" hail been cited as one of the great evils S which temperance men desired to eradicate! Mr. JORDAN has been as much tiie cause ot the I troubles emanating from political temperance a- any j other fanatic on this subject in the State, a IJCI well understood by the People—and, if his party do not repudiate his dictation, in the present canvass, they : deserve all the odiutn he has cast upon them in his legislative capacity. Notwithstanding Mr. Jordan wrote letters Iroiri Rarrisburg expre-sing the greatest, admiration lor FII.T.MORK and DOXEI.SON, every body knows that he is a thorough convert to Black Republicanism, al \ though Mr. Fillmore lias publicly declared that the triumph ot' Black Republicanism could not laii to result 111 a dissolution of the Union .' Not only so—after having united with an organiza tion which required its followers to take a soienui OATH 1 hat they would not vote nor give lh"ir in fluence to any man, for any office in The gift ol the people, who was a Roman Catholic or a foreigner, Mr. J. now stands ready, as indicated by his -crib bhngs, to go the whole hog lor Fremont, a Catholic and the son ol" a Foreignei !! I outd political mean ness get lower than 'his I In thus speaking of Mr. Jordan's political wind ings, we do it as a matter of justice to those who have heretofore suffered themselves to be humbug ..t Wo hi. notions, and not because it gives rned the leadership of the elements opposing the De mocracy—being Chairman of the Comity Commit tee—Chairman ot the Committees on Resolutions at all the meetings—and generally the sole speechifier —it becomes nece--ary that i: should be known what manner ol man lie i. His conduct in reference to tiie Temperance Qnr'tion alone ought To he sufficient to -atisiy every reflecting mind that his personal ad vancement is the highest theme of his political am bition. If he was honest in his efforts, for years, to force the people to submit to a Prohibitory Liquor Law, against their will, how does it come that lie fi nally found it convenient to vote for a License Law as general in its provi-ions as any Liquor, Ale oi Beer dealer could pos>ibly desire? It is true, he had quite an agency in raising the rates of License upon the Tavern-keepers, and thus preventing some of our best citizens lrom taking out License, but no candid man can say that tins has reduced the amount of drinking a single gill. 1 hat Reward! C".""No oue ha- yet called upon the County Com mittee to claim the reward of one thousand dollars - offered for the proof that JAMKS Brcu ANA \ ever advo cated the reduction of Labor to 10 cents a day—al though the charge has been asserted and re-asserted with ail the seriousness due to truth in its cleanest firm. Could it he believed that men laying claim to any respectability would invent a slander so infa mous, and then stand ready to swear that it was tine '? \et such i- the fact. The committee, how ever, have spoiled their calculations, and rendered these slanderers the reproach and contempt of even their own political friends. Poa trait s'asiaiici^! OF? ' Professor Ghounnti, the eminent portrait and Landscape Painter, has arrived here. IVo may refer ; to his work as his highest commendation. H- brings with hirn a Portrait ni Rev. Mr. HFVUF.V, of this place, which is considered by all who have seen it as an excellent one, and a fair specimen of the tal ents of the distinguished \rtist, as a Portrait Paint- j IT. in our judgment, this likeness is S o perfect, that i it is not susceptible of improvement, and we think al! who examine it Will concur with us in this opin ion. .Mr. G. will exhibit alo a magnificent painting ol "Diana" preparing with her attendants for the chase. This painting, ln.s own production, we un derstand, he will offer fur sale. He j< stopping at . the "Washington Hotel," and will he in readiness to take Portraits at any time during his stay. , Byway of illustration to the painting in question, : it may be well to subjoin a brief account of the my- j < thology o. the Pagans re-peering "Diana." Diana ' is represented by heathen writers, as the Godde-s of j minting. She is said to have been born at the same < jirth as Apollo, in the i-land of Delos. To shun 1 he society of men. she devoted her-elf to hunting, t ind was always attended by a number of chosen f •irgins, who. like her-elf, abstained from the use of! 2 narriage. She is represented with a quiver, a spear, s md sounding horns, and attended with dogs. She was 2 opposed to be the same as the moon, and hence she ' vas called Pha-be, or the hriiliant. Many other I lames and offices were given to her, but vve have ' aid enough about her, to illustrate the admirable ' laintmg of Profes.-or GLOGGEK. (E7"Otir friend, Col. JOHN M. GH.MORE, is among v lie visitors at the Bedford Fpiings, looking decided- b 7 wet!, and quite as enthusiastic a democrat as ever. Fium the PiiilmMphia Bulletin of 17th inst. j f PARTICULARS OF THE**- ! c Collision on the Nerlli Pruna- Railroad. AN EXCURSION TRAIN WRECKED. |j SEVERAL CARS IH RN'ED. < NEARLY FIFTY LIVES LOST!!! About nine tnorning the apjall ing intelligence read ■T.fUe city tt;u* a colli sion had occurred i™n the North P.i. Railroad, , between the regular morning train fium Guy nedd, and at) excursion train that Eft the city j, at tive o'clock this morning, vv ith a large parry of school children, with their teachers,&c. 'i'lie particulars, as far as we have been able to glean their. Iron) reliable sources, are as id lows : At five o'clock this morning a special train of tell cars left the Master street Depot with tile schools oi St. Michael s Roman f atho ic ! Church, in Kensington. The excursion parly consisted of between five atid six hundred per- j sons, the greater maj nity of whom were chil dr-'n. They intended proceeding to-Fort Wash- j ingto'i, fourteen and a hail miles from the city, ! wh-re they were to enjoy a pic nic. Owing to the number oi tars, and the weight of the train, there was some delay, and the j conductor, Air. Alfred J . Ilonp-i, finding him- | self beliiml time, pushed forward with gnat iu- i piditv, when towards the end ot his trip. The regular pa~s-ng-r train tor the city left (1 tit*oedd at fi o'clock and I S minutes. J-Hid ing the excursion train had not y• t airived, ; Mr. VV. Vanstavoren, the c inductor, d-termm- 1 ed not to wait for it : and his train was moving along, when the expected train came thunder- j ing on around a curve, at the rate ol d f mil < : an hour. A collision of course ensued, will) the most appall*: consequences. Tie* down trmri escaped without serious dam age, but the scene presented hv the exclusion train was fearful,* I tie three forward cats ol thetraio was crushed completely l< pieces, and j the wreck, minghtig with that ol the locomo tive, took fire, and tile fames comu.uiiu-atnl to | the otliei cars ol the train. i In* te xt two cars 1 after the th-ee that were wrecked, outright; took fire, arid were entirely consumed. The inmates of the three firward cars w ere completely ir.ix-d up with the jgr-ck, large r: urn in-r of them were killed outjigi.t.— There were probably fifty persons in each of the three car-, and the lowest est in ate we heard, ; fix the niffhberof killed at tiliy, vvhib- it was feared that the dead aggregate would reach oni /lundreiJ. When our informant left the spot, every ef fort was being made to rescue the wounded and the bodies < t the dead from the wreck. Eve rything was in the wildest confusion, am! it was oi course impossible, under the circumstances, to arrive with anv certainty at the number of the , victims, or pretend to obtain any particulars as to their names. Mr. H >ppel, the conductor, escaped with verv little injurv. Harry Harris, the engineer of ttie excursion train, was cut to pieces and . killed instantly, and John Pagans, the fireman, is among the missing, and it is believed he is under the wreck. One ol mr reporters, on hearing (lie news, immediately repaired to the otiii e of the con■- paiiv. at Corner of Front and Willow- streets, but the ten o'clock train had just left the sta > t ' or '* He then proceeded along the line or the road to the outer depot ol the company, where he (.vmm-u.'W V',v-f l?r' V.>J.-.ut. and_ Fngineer_ of the . thou-.in s i-f excited nu-n and women. 11- was intormed that an att-mp! had been r mad- to # ad hand-cars along the road to the J scene ~} (i,,. accident, but they had been inline > diat-ly surrounded he the mob, and the p.lice ami- employees oft he roiiauiiy l;ad the ut most difficulty HI keeping them frotn being ma off with. The excitement at the Willow Street Station was also intense. Excited crowds were eager ly inquiring for the latest intelligence from the scene, while those who had children on the di lated train were in the most dreadful conditio:) of suspense. The m-ws oi the accident Inn ing been widely circulated, a l.irge number of persons who im agined tii-ir friends might lie among the injur ed, also proc-eded to the outer station. f'nc excitement among the pedestrians, the majority of whom were females, appeared to increase as they reached the Cohocsink Sta tion. ACCOUNT BY AXOTIIKR REPORTER. I lie locomotive Aramingo, under charg- of Conductor William \ anslavoreii, left Fort U asfiiisgton station, one and one-half miles be low (.iiiynedd, at six o'clock, fourteen minutes. 1 here were only about twenty passengers on the train, which consisted of a locomotive, a smoking, and baggage car and one pas.-enger car. When the train was at the station the con ductor inquired if the excursion tiain had arri- j ved. A gentleman answered in the negative, j j 1 he conductor said "they ought to he up" and j immediately gave the word "right':" the hell j was rung, and the train proceed,-d down at a 1 slow rate—the engineer constantiv sounding his whistle. The collision took place about one j hundred yards north of Dewey's Lane, and I2i miles from Philadelphia. 1 lie up train vvas drawn hv locomotive Shack- j amaxon, VV m. Harris, engineer, who was soli dreadfully injured that he soon died. 1 | I lie train was under the charge of Oooduc- I; tor A. Hoppel, who had one ol his legs bro- j i ken. ! . They were going :.t n rapid rate, and as the j - trains m.-t at a short curve, could not discern • I tli-train coming down until they were within ! t a lew yards of each other. f , Ihe up train consisted of twelve passenger I ; cars, a baggage car, a locomotive and tender. ! t It is estimated that there wvre over eleven bun- ! t dred persons on this train, of which ovei-hali j i were small children. j The next down train left Gw vneddnt 7.22. 1 • and arrived at the scene of the di.-asler at 7.10 ! the proper time. Conductor Henry Keyset- s and ;he Engineers of the locomotive "Cohock- n sink at once set to work and rendered every s assistance that humanity could dictate. Thev t served water, procured settees, physicians, and b bid everything that it was possible for any men n to do. " ~ 1 lie crash of the two trains was distinctly " heard at the Hotel at Fort Washington, and itl for the distance of over a mile out at D.-wvy 's ! a L 'T,j . . " A.I the physicians in the neighboring towns : r< were summon-d fi> the place and used their : U best efforts ti> relieve the wounded. ! t| The most horrible sight of all was that of the j p burning cars—for In a K-w moments after i| collision, the fire spread rapidly through t'j broken remnants, burning and roasting to deal nineteen men, urn wen and children. The groans and wounded, and \y,Z lield by the l#|Mut arms to the bornic wr. ck, were ol iiMj lrr to appall the brav* est heart. I " A n>w of men was at once formed, and back ets used to extinguish the flames, but they were unsuccesfnl. A large number ?>} pe ltoi ; s w ere taken from the wreck slightly bruise! who made hair-breadth escapes from, hurried t<\death. 15 The farmers in the vicinity rendered V ery assistance in their power, except one man, w|j 0 demanded $lO lor aw agon to go a mile for a physician. The'locomolive Cohocksink, under charge „f Mr. William Saultz, Superintendent of Power, went up at ten o'clock, and brouobt down a portion of the chad and wounded. " The scenArffcui 'he arrival at Master si rf . P j beggars description — the fathers and mother and relatives of the excursii t.ists haviu.T a ,_ j semhled there to the nnniber of about two thousand to learn the result ol the dit-adf'ul cu j tastrophe, Mr. John H. Ainsworth, the superintendent jof t lie baggage department, was on the down j train, but escapad uninjured. H- made an ah I most superhuman effort to rescue those i . ji ; burning cars, and was particularly attentive to j the wounded. Mr. Stephen A. YVirslbvv, nn of the I'-fficient Reporters of the Philadelphia p r ., . I w as a passenger on tire down train, but 4 .-cap-.| ; without Eleven and wMtmr and two j children were ; Their names are unknown. caught : under tin* side of one oi the cars ai; I r- j,; ! I alive. When we saw- the remains they | r.- I sented a horrid spectacle. , The mutilated remains of lour m-n and v - rn.-n arid a child were found under the iiu:.so! the engine, in the ash pan. t The remains of six other bodies were raked out of the ashes, and placed on the g:u?s op; 'site to where the accident happened. The killed amount to no less than thirty nine pet sons, and the wounded to,sixty-cine.— These numbers will probably D* increased, as s-orne of the wounded will probably die, and there are some whose injuries are not known. l-'rom the Cutler, llerahl. I3r.Ti.nK, IT July, lS5(i. Dear Sir.— You will confer a favor on ; e fj hv giving a place to this note. I joined the American party some tim* age, with the express understanding that. 1 would not he bound to continue in it or support it 1 longer than its principles and nominee.) suited me : and reserved myself the right to Mue from it at anv time bv giving notice, which no tice 1 hereby now give publicly. 1 intend to cast my vote for Pennsylvania's candidate for President. H->n. James Buchanan, and the whole Democratic State and county ticket, except two personal fiKnds on the Re publican ticket. While 1 remained in the Know Nothing or der, I considered my self bound to support its nomine-#, whether they were honest or dish 1- est, competent or incompetent, and u-nv b eg opposed to both the principles and candidates ••! • j the order., I hereby respectfully retire from it, , and take my position in the Democratic }•;- tv- Yerv R -spectf.il!v. JOHN 0. JACK. ■* ff'O o Rnnks. 'i'.-.nnxTCM, July 14, 1876. Mrssns. Enirons :—For some vears rao, jt has been im,possible lor ir.e to act w rhtlm \V: party, to wtiic.h I once belonged. Mv las! i-g.- wrt that pa;- . iy to the utmost of mv inllqence ami a ilily, 11. M. Rrivi-ksxriout- THE WIIKiS OF MARYLAM>. fhe Whigs of Maryland met in < nventioa at Baltimore on J huisdav last ami u;ioj t'-d a se ries of resolutions, in which thev condemn in no stinted language the claims of Frem 1 t ir.d Buchanan, and recommentl in -xt 1 uvj u-.t tera s those of Fillmore. They disclaim anv connex ion vvith any 4>f the existing political organiza tions, and avow their purpose of maintaining their independent position until such time as they may deem an active reorganization aihi- I hey call themselves vvhigs, but their resolutions hear inherent evidence that they are something more or son-ething less than ulo-line vvhigs. 1 iiere is quite as much <>i the odor u! know-not 11 ing isrn about their proceedings as there is of vvhigism ; and if they arc not really members of the partv which proscribes men on account of the accidental place of their birth, thev have shown verv distinctly that they are ready for initiation. The men who could en dorse the unjust and untruthful comments which are made in their resolutions on tile pusi'i n 01 She democrats and their candidate in regard (0 our foreign policy show that they ought to adopt some other name than that ot vvhigs. ih-y make pretensions to a virtue which is often as sumed to cover up partisan purpos-s— consiri'"- tixm. They would have established a rnindi better claim to it if they had been less ultra ami partisan in their allusions to others who, >0 say the least, have quite as good a title to it as their -'model President." Judging the character ol 'hv convention by its proceedings, and by the ihs-rice from its list of delegates of those prom uent men whom we have been accustomed to ■egard as theold-iine vvhigs, we lee] authorized o regard it as a know-nothing movement lor he benefit of a know-nothing candidate for the 'residency.