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[apl9,'7l Miscellaneous. FOR SALE. CHOICE FARMING LANDS MINNESOTA AND DAKOTA, BY THE Winona & St. Peter Railroad Co. The WINONA & ST. PETER R. R. Co., is now offering for sale, at VERY Low prices, its land grant lands along the line °fits Railroad in Southern Minnesota and Eastern Dakota, and will receive in payment therefor, at par, any of the Mortgage Bonds of said Company. These lands lie in the great wheat belt of the Northwest, in a climate unsurpassed for healthfulness, and in a coun try which is being rapidly settled by a thriving and indus trious people, composed to a large extent of farmers, from the %astern and the older portions of the Northwestern States. IL M. BURCHARD, Land Agent, for sale of Lands of said Company, et MARSHALL, LYON COUNTY, MINNE SOTA. GNO. P. GOODWIN, Land Commissioner. General Office of Chicago ,t North-western Railway Co., Chicago, ill. 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AROBLEY, Merchant Tailor, No. • 813 Mifflin street, West Huntingdon Pa., respectfully solicits a share of public pat ronage from town and country. foctlB, SCHOOT of every "ROOKS - , a- 4 variety, cheap, -A- 0 JOURNAL STORE. at the The Huntingdon Journal. J. A. NASH, - - - Editor, FRIDAY, - - SEPTEMBER 20, 1878 Circulation LARGER than any other Paper in the Juniata Valley. We find the following truthful and sensible article on National Banks in the Ohio State Journal, and publish it for the benefit of those 'slunk beads" who arc idling away their time on the street corners and on the door-steps of their neighbors, torturing people by their dis sertations on the finances of the country, a subject they are about as competent to elucidate as a hog is to preach the gospel. Huntingdon is cursed with a number of these over-wise individuals, and for their information we copy the article. Read it: Every National Bank note lost, destroy ed by fire or otherwise, is so much gained by the Government. The bank note of a broken National Bank is just as good as the note of a solvent one. The National Banks pay to the General Government and the States seventeen millions per annum in taxes. The three hundred and twenty-five mil lions of National Bank notes are taxable and yield to the States a revenue of eight millions. If you destroy the National Banks and substitute non-tamable greenbacks for Na tional Bank notes, you lose twenty-five millions of revenue in the effort to save eighteen millions of interest. More than this, you exempt the:money of the country from taxation, and put the burden on real estate and dutiable goods. More than this, by abolishing the banks you compel them to call in nine hundred millions of loans to enable them to settle with the Govern ment, their depositors and the stockholders. This would create such a panic as the country has never seen. If we had never adopted the National Banking system, it would perhaps be wise to talk about allowing the Government to supply a greenback currency and prohibit banks of circulation. But we have the banks; they are interwoven with the entire business of the country ; farmers, mer chants, manufacturers, men in all condi tions of life are indebted to them. Can these men pay up within three, six, nine or twelve months ? If they fail to do so, will not thousands and tens of thousands of others be carried down with them ? The report of the Comptroller of the Currency shows that the average profit of these banks for the last year on the money invested, does not exceed five per cent. The large majority of the stockholders of these banks are men who would not engage in private banking ; they are men who have not the inclination to engage in any pursuit which would tie them down or require their personal attention. It compelled to withdraw from the National banks, their capital would go into bonds and out of the channels of business. In addition to the other advantages which the Government derives from these banks, it has from them a permanent de posit :of twenty-five millions, which, at even four per cent. per annum, is worth to it one million a year. The account stands thus : The General Government and States to the National Banking system— Dr. Taxes to General Government $ 7,076,087 Taxes to State Governments 9,701,732 Taxes on 325 millions of National Bank notes, estimated 5,000,000 25 millions deposit at four per cent 1,000,000 Interest on bonds held by banks, esti mated It may be said that the tax on National Bank notes should not be credited to the National Banking system, but if they were abolished and non-taxable greenbacks sub stituted, the eight millions would be lost to the revenue. The following very sensible article we copy from the New York Tribune, and commend it to the careful consideration of our readers : "One-third of a day's labor bought a bond "of the United States for $1 ; therefore it is "just that one-third of a day's labor should "pay a bond of the United States for $l. "Money has been made scarce, and it buys "more labor than it did when the bonds were "issued. But it is unjust to make the labor "ing people pay 300 day's labor for a bond "which cost the bolder only the equivalent of "100 day's labor." Of all the arguments of the Greenb.zek men, not one is more specious than this. But let us see how much of reason there is in it. It is obviously based upon the presump tion that a day's labor, of a given kind, is really worth as much at one time as at another. It does, indeed, require the same exertion of the same muscles and skill, but is that all ? The worth of a thing is deter mined not only by the effort which is required to get it, but by the demand for it. A bit of ordinary stone from the top of the Rocky Mountains would cost many days' labor to obtain, but nobody would give anything for it; therefore it is worth nothing. The labor spent in making an old fashioned spinning-wheel might be as great to day as it was a century ago, but now nobody wants the article, and labor spent in making it would be worthless. So of every other product of labor • the de mand for it determines the value of the labor expended in gettinc , or making it. Iron costs as much labor, let us say, as it did in 1872, but there is very much less demand for it; therefore the labor expnii ed in making iron is worthless. Labor necessarily would fluctuate in value quite as widely and frequently as the prices of the articles which that labor would pro duce, but for the expenditure of capital to sustain labor during a period of depression in prices, and this expenditure is prompted by the hope of ultimate profit upon the articles made. Hence, there is no reason whatever for the claim that the labor which was worth a bond of the United States years ago should be worth that bond to-day ; the labor may now be in less de mand, as in fact it is, and therefore deprc ciated in value. Remedies. But this argument also goes upon the presumption that the credit of the Govern ment is always the same, that its promise to pay was worth as much when it was doubtful whether the Government could maintain its existence as it is worth now when all foes have been vanquished. 17-.1 c.„) - ; h e A _ , "".4 JA- At L' tll * Olen _ . . , _ d HUNTINGDON, PENN'A "itional Banks. Labor and Credit. Everybody knows that this is not so. There was a time when capitalists of Europe, and very many of this country, would let their money lie idle rather than lend it to the United States on any terms. llad that last deadly charge at Gettysburg ended in a Confederate victory, who knows what United States bonds would have be come worth ? Those who took the risk, mid lent to the Union, did so because they were offered a high price for the loan, and it wag then worth a high price, for the future was doubtful. If paid in gold, they will get exactly the payment which led them to take the risk. If paid less, they will be swindled. When a man who is about to take risks asks money from a neighbor for that purpose, and, because all will be lost if he fails, offers half the profit if he succeeds, what is he but a scoundrel if, after success, he refuses to pay the promised profit? But the scoundrelism is still greater when patriotism as well as sober judgment has urged the loan. Those who brought forward their little savings to aid the Nation, and staked their all upon its success, deserve not such treatment as would be held scandalous and dishonorable, if between two neighbors in a purely busi ness venture. The holder of bonds who has purchased since the war is not less entitled to his profit Ile took the risk which we now see was not small, that ignorance and dis honesty would combine to rob him. He paid higher prices than were paid during the war, because the risk was thought to be less. But he paid what all the world then considered a fair price for the bonds of a nation, ruled by universal suffrage. He took the risk of Democratic victories, and of the creation and final success of a party of repudiation. It would be dishon est to rob him of all the money loaned, it would be not less dishonest to rob him of any part of that which his risk was then deemed worth. The laborer who receives less money for a day's work than he did when bonds were issued or sold ought to remember that he can buy in full proportion more with his money. Prices have declined, on the whole, even a littic below the specie standard. All know that the wages of labor, on the other hand, have not yet fallen to the level of 1860. A day's work according to the average rate of wages, will buy more of food, shelter and clothing now than it would buy in times of the greatest inflation. The only respect in which the laborer has to pay any part of the cost of the war, and of the enormous loans made during the war, at great risk, is that his taxes to whisky, tobacco and some imported articles have been raised. If he sees fit, he can reduce those taxes to a very small figure indeed. But whether he sees fit or not, he has no right to rob those who lent to the Union of their just profits for the risk they took, nor to make others pay his share of the inconvenience . resulting from that temporary depreciation of certain kinds of skilled labor which now appears all over the civilized world. Don't be Diverted from the True Issue of the Contest. In the time left for the contest in Penn sylvania tthe great object on the part of the Republican press of the State is not to be diverted, by any discussion, from the real issues of the campaign. It is not a ques tion of money, not of currency, not really of financial difference, because all men who understand the facts arc aware that we now have the best currency in the world, a pa per dollar that circulates over as wide a territory as the paper money of any gov ernment in the world, and that there is more than enough of this money in circu lation for all the uses of the trade, because there are now over $370,000,000 of this money on deposite in the various banks of the country, idle and awaiting investment in business as soon as the condition of the country will warrant the venture of this capital in the industries This being a manifest fact, reduces this issue down to the old common ground of struggle for the integrity of the National Government as against the theories of that politics which denies the Federal authority in its reach and influence on the States. This is the issue after all, in the politics in which the Democratic party participates, and it is the only subject upon which the party can be united. All other questions the party is at odds and ends. It bas no cardinal doctrines on the subject of the finances, except that it will repudiate a debt when ever it can do so, and it has done so in the past when it bad the power and the action served its local purposes. But aside from this, we repeat, that the real object of the Democratic party in seeking for power in the States is to pave the way for the con• trol of the National Government, when it will proceed to end the results achieved by the war which crushed the slavehold ers' rebellion. Tilden, Hendricks, Voor hees, Jeff. Davis, Bayard, Stephens, Lamar, Hampton, Butler, and all the leaders of the Democratic party North and South, are resolved to make this reversal of the results named the object of their lives, as well as the prime end and object of the Democratic party. If it is not done the Democratic party cannot hope to revive itself as a political force, because it de rives all its vital elements from conditions in politics and State organizations which the war for the Union wiped out. To cover this object we have the false issues which are now being made on the subject of finance and currency—issues which are as wide as the mark of thc, true intent and purposes of the Democratic party as Satan's quoting, of Scripture is proof that he is a saint. The temper and condition of the Democratic party of the South run diametrically in the line of policy to which we refer. Every movement of the party there is with a view to restore its normal elements and reinvigorate the sources whence it derives its vital energy, State rights, negro slavery, humiliation of the national authority, and the added determ ination of forcing the National Govern ment to reimburse the States which made sacrifices in favor of them, for all the losses they sustained while upholding doctrines which they firmly believed involved the safety of the objects which held the Fed eral Union together. Tho Democratic party in the South lives, moves and acts to accomplish this. It is its study by day and its dream by night, and in its achieve ment it is seconded by the Democratic party in the North, which is as bitterly antagonistic to the events which overthrew negro slavery as it is to the party which accomplished that great result. Concealed with this ulterior object in the interest of the South, which consti tutes the real cohesive force of the Demo cratic party, is the other object of its life. running in the same line of servility to that section, free trade. No careful ob server of the political events has failed to note the persistency with which the con trolling influence in the Demacratic party $25,777,819 $ 7,777,819 HUNTINGDON, PA,, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 20, 1878 has clung to the doctrine of free trade in the last Congress. Ferdando Wood fought the battle of free trade from the organiza tion of the House to the day of its ad journre•nt, backed by nine tenths of his party in caucm, and only defeated in the House because the people in districts which demanded protection of its material interests rose up en masse and drove their faithless servants into support of their wishes. But the free-trade element of the Democratic rarty is its controlling force, and whenev , r it has power that predomi nates in arranging its policy. Let the Democracy secure power in another Con gress and the effect will be in favor of free trade; the free trade which unsettles home industry, plunges labor into idleness, de preciates invested capital, and impoverishes mechanical production at home, and re duces the mechanics of the land to a con dition of serfdom. These are really the isiucs of the con test in which we are now engaged. The Democratic party expects to ignore them, while with fatal indifference too many Re publicans do not give them the weight they deserve. They are what the Democ racy labor to achieve. The whole South is animated with the hope of securing the first results named. To it the end in view is political, social and sectional life. The enslavement of the negro and the estab lishment of the rights which render the States sovereign, are the only objects which the people of the South hold to, and just so sure as the Democratic party secures State and national power, it will insure the success of their purports. Rev. Doyle's "Manly Letter." EDITOR JOURNAL—Dear Sir :—I see in the Monitorof the sth inst.,an article head ed "A manly letter from Rev. Doyle." It is evident from the spirit of this letter that his master has told him that he would have to fix up this little "hell" matter between him and the Democratic party, or it would ruin him. Rev. Doyle finds it a difficult matter to dispose of the language be used on the occasion referred to. He acknowledges him self that he did not fully understand what he meant by the words, "no, not Nazereth, but that other place beyond." Now we do think that the JOURNAL is clear of forcing its interpretation of this language, as al most any person would understand it in the same way. The Monitor understood it in this way, from the fact that in pub lishing an extract of Mr. Doyle's speech they left out the words "no good thing comes out of—no, not Nazereth, but that other place beyond." We believe that the speaker intended it to have this meaning from the fact that we do find some good in almost every place outside of "hell." Even the Greenback party has some goad properties. If nothing else, if a minister of the gospel discovers that The has mistaken his calling, and wishes to change his base of operations, they will take him in and make a politician of him. To show true Democrats that Mr. Doyle is forced to make this explanation now, this language of his was published in the JOURNAL sometime before the Democrats endorsed the Greenback ticket. Now if the JOURNAL had misconstrued and taken advantage of his language as Mr. Doyle would have us believe, why did he not offer this apology, and make this correction then ? We answer, that his knowledge of the Greenback party was so limited at that time that he suppo sed that it would be able to send him to Harrisburg independent of the Democratic party. And now, when he discovers that it is exceedingly doubtful whether he can be elected with all the Democrats he can get, he is willing to take back this severe remark and offer any apology so that he may secure their votes. We certainly think this a little too thin for intelligent Demo crats to take. Mr. Doyle also charges the writer with misrepresenting and falsifying a speech he made in Yenter's Hall during Court week. Ido most emphatically deny this charge, and say that there is not a point I made in my strictures, that his speech would not justify me in making. The only thing I regreted was that time and space would not allow me to show up more of his mis representations of our government. The assertions made by him on that occasion were bad enough without adding anything to them. The intelligent reader will see that he admits almost everything I charged him with in his letter in the Monitor. Mr. Doyle closes this "manly letter" with a challenge to any candidate on the Republican ticket to publicly discuss the political issues of the present campaign. Oh ! is it not a pity that a minister of the gospel, who solemnly pledges himself, by his ordination vows, that he will spend the balance of his life in •earnestly con tending for the faith once delivered unto the saints," should thus be led estray. Yet so it is. In an evil hour he yielded to the tempter, and now he says by his ac• tions that he would rather contend for the faith of the Greenback party, and in place of praying for the success of the church, he closes his letter with a prayer that the Greenback party may succeed. We would say here that we do not wish to misrepresent Mr. Doyle, or injure him before the people, but while this is true, we cannot allow him to misrepresent our government by inflammatory speeches, thus giving encouragement to communists, and other enemies of our government, without at least gibing him a passing notice. We should be careful in sending men to re present us in Harrisburg, to select men of stability, men of fixed principles. We all have our peculiar dispositions, and we really cannot help this. Mr. Doyle is evi dently a very changeable man, and while he cannot help this, and is in no way to blame, the people should look to this in selecting him to represent them at Harris burg. It is said that Mr. Doyle was educated for a Catholic priest. He changes his plan and becomes a United Brethren preacher. Next we hear of him reading law, and studying dentistry. Politically, we first find him a Republican ; a little further on a Greenbacker, and inside of four weeks he is a Democrat. In proof of this. fact we find his "manly letter" that we have referred to published in the only reputed Dem'ocratic paper in the county, and with all these changes we would not be at all surprised if Brother Boring makes a Spiritualist out of him before this cam paign i 3 over. If we were to vote for Mr. Doyle to carry out certain principles for us at Har risburg, we would want to send him down on the Day Express lest be might change his principles before he would get there. SPECTATOR. S. R. MASON, esq., the National can didate for Governor, rides on a Pennsyl vania Railroad pass. "Down with corpor ations 1" Ile is the grandest demagogue of the age. *manfic*tibtnt. DARKNESS AND DAWN. Some years ago, while making a brief sojourn in the city of Baltimore, I set out one evening with a friend for a stroll through the city. We had visited several places of interest, and were on our return to our hotel, when, in passing through a dark and narrow street, a female, closely muffled in a coarse shawl—which, thrown over her head, was drawn around her face, so as to conceal all but her eyes—hurriedly crossed over from the opposite side of the way, and accosted us in the accents of de spair. . . "Gentlemen, for the love of God, give me money ! My mother is dying of hunger, and I have not wherewith to purchase a morsel of food !" We were both struck with the tone of her voice, for though agitated by a feeling of desperation, it had a peculiar sweetness, and her language was that of one both ed ucated and refined. "Do not think me inquisitive," said my friend, in a kindly tone, as he drew forth his purse, "if I ask what misfortune has brought you to this? for it is clearly evi dent that you are no common applicant for charity." "Oh ! no, sir—no !" she said, shrinking back into herself, as it were : "I never asked for charity befure; and though I have not tasted food for two long days, I would sooner perish than ask for it for my- self now; but I could not see her die, my only friend—oh, God ! I could not see her die !" "Here l" said my companion, placing a sum in her band which I immediately doubled. She clutched the money like a miser, and for a moment or two was completely overpowered by her emotions. Then, with choking effort, she gasped forth : "Thanks, gentlemen ! may God in heaven bless you !" She turned away, and took two or three hasty steps, and then stopping suddenly, she looked around, and added— "You asked me what misfortune brought me to this ! I shall seem ungrateful if I refuse to tell." "Never mind," said my friend ; "the re cital wi'l give you pain, and therefore con sider the question unasked." "Your noble generosity overpowers me, sir !" she rejoined, in a tremulous voice, "and my pride shall give way. If you have a few minutes to spare, come with me and you shall know all." "Nay," said I, "do not let us intrude upon your sorrows, unless you think we can be of further assistance. You are welcome to the little we have given, which should be doubled if we bad more to spare, but we have no right to claim your secret in return." She buried her face in her shawl, and burst into tears. "Alas !" she sobbed, if all mankind were thus generous. how many a miserable being might be made happy ! Come with me and hear my story ! I know I can trust you, and I shall rest easier to know that I have convinced you I am no imposter." We assured her that we did not for a moment doubt of her being the victim of some terrible misfortune; but as we might be of further service to her, we would see her safely home, and she might then relate her story or not, as she should think proper. "Follow me," she said, and set off at a quick walk down the street, we keeping a respectful distance behind, and I for one feeling an unusual curiosity to know some thing more of her. At the next corner of the street was an oil lamp which threw out a dim light ; and standing near it, in a listless attitude, we observed a man in the garb of a sailor, and evidently just from sea. As our unknown guide drew near him, I noticed that she seemed much agitated; and on coming up to him, to our surprise, and apparently his, she stopped, and looked eagerly into his face for a moment, and then, with a wild cry, she suddenly threw out her arms, clasped him around the neck, and appeared to swoon upon his breast. '.See !" said my friend, making an abrupt halt ; "we are duped—this is some trick —that girl is an imposter !" "Impossible !" returned I, unwilling to believe that such grief and misery as she represented could be a base counterfeit.— "Ha ! see I" As I spoke, the sailor, as if in deep sur prise, partly unwound the arms of the un known from his neck, raised her head, and looked, first curiously, and then wildly, into her face, which we could see, even from where we stood, was pale and beauti ful. The next moment he uttered a wild cry of surprise ; and quickly throwing his arms around her now lifeless form hc ex claimed "My God ! my God ! Mary ! my God !" It seemed to be all that he could utter, as he fairly tottered with his fair burden, and for a few moments we stood dumb with amazement. "What's this ? what's the meaning of this ?." he now demanded, looking fiercely at us. "Well, if that is acting, it is the best I ever saw," muttered my companion, as we hastened forward and gave a hurried ac• count of all we knew of the matter. "Great God ! is it possible ?" said the man, looking alternately at us and the fair creature in his arms, and clasping his fore head as if to collect his scattered senses. "Mary !" he continued at short intervals ; "my wife ! my dear wife ! oh, my God ! and my mother too! starving !" Ile continued to repeat these expres sions like one overpowered by some terrible shock, and who knew not what he was saying; while we stood looking on, too much astonished to think of offering him any assistance. At length, with a sort of gurgling gasp, the poor creature opened her eyes; and looking wildly and fondly into the manly face of him who supported her, she mur mured : "Charles ! Charles ! is it you ? in life— in death—or in a dream ?" I pass over the wild, frantic, passionate exclamations on both sides, as each began to realize the truth—the one that he had round a loving wife in the depths of misery —the other that she had regained a fond husband at a moment of all others when she most needed his aid, counsel, love and support. "Come," whispered my friend, touching my arm; "let us withdraw ; their meeting should be sacred from the intrusion of strangers." Though deeply curious to know some thing of their history, I silently acquiesced in his proposal ; and quietly departing, re turned to our hotel, musing upon the un certainties, vicissitudes and romance of life. Two days after, as I was sitting on the piazza of the hotel, I saw the sailor passing along the street, and curiosity prompted me to address him. The moment he saw me he came bounding up, grasped my hand, end burst into tears. "God bless you !" he exclaimed in a choking voice; "God bless you and your friend ! and so says Mary. I've been hunting you all over the city, but feared I'd never see you again. Here, let me pay you back your money; and will you be so kind, sir, as to accept these two rings fbr yourself and friend ?" I took the money—for I saw if I did not he would feel very much hurt ; but fearing his circumstances might not justify him in making a present of so much value, I attempted to decline the rings. It was of no use—be would take no denial—and so I reluctantly accepted them, thanking him in behalf of my friend, who was ab sent. I then drew from him his story, which I will give in a few words. He and hie wifewere both natives of a small village on the Chesapeake, and find often played together as children. His own father was then in good circumstances, but subsequently lost his property, and died soon after, leaving himself and mother to struggle along as best they might. Among those believed to be friends in prosperity, but who forsook them in ad versity, was the father of his present wife ; but though the change of fortune separated the youth and maiden, it only increased an attachment which bad begun in child hood. For years, however, they did not meet; and during that time the narrator became a sailor, and acquired sufficient means to purchase a cottage for his mother, leaving a small balance on mortgage, which his next voyage was to clear off. While at home he and his Mary again met; and discovering a mutual passion, and knowing her parents would not consent to the union, but were most anxious to ally her to a wealthy suitor, they took advantage of the opportunity, and were privately married. Charles Delaine, for such was his name, then took leave of his wife, and shipped for a whaling voyage, intending it should be his last cruise. 'While absent, his wife's parents, discovering the secret of her mar riage, disowned and drove her forth, and she took refuge with his mother. Together the widowed mother and wife struggled along, both anxiously looking for the return of the only friend; but he came not at the time expected, the mort gage was foreclosed, the property sold, and, almost penniless, they repaired to Baltimore hoping to be able to maintain themselves by the needle. I need not prolong the story—it is an old tale. Sickness and misfortune followed them; they failed to procure sufficient work for their necessities, and on the night when the wife appealed to us, they were in a starving condition. Charles had just returned from his cruise; and at the very moment when his Mary so unexpectedly met him, he was thinking of home, which he expected to reach next day. He had been prudent ; the voyage had been fore than usually profitable, and his share, he said, would enable him to start in business. "Come what will," he concluded, "I'll never leave my dear mother and Mary again while we live. They're happy now, thank God ! and it shall be the aim of my life to keep them so." He urged me to come and see him and his now happy family, and bring my friend; and then invoking upon us the blessing of heaven, he wrung my hand and turned quickly away to conceal the emo tions he cared not to display. "Ah ! such is life, in this world of sel fish and unselfish humanity," mused I, as I watched his retreating footsteps, till a turn in the street concealed him from my view. We never met again. OUR NEIGHBORS. Altoona Tribune of Friday.] FEARFUL COLLISION. Nine Men Jammed into a Wreck at Ninth Street Crossing. 7 lc() Persons Probably Fatally injured.— Yard Supervisor Mc Cully's Feet Mashed and Amputated, and Assistant conductor Johnson Terribly Bruised and Gut— Several Others Badly Hurt— Some Hai-- rJw Escapes—Full Particulars of the Accident. The driver of C. C. Stanberger's grocery wagon about 3:30 o'clock yesterday after noon rushed into the store at the corner of Seventeenth street and Eighth avenue and communicated with a blanched face and trembling lips the startling intelligence that five men had just been killed by the oars at the railroad crossing at Ninth street. The news was soon distributed throughout the neighborhood, and a crowd of people ran in the direction of the accident, where already many people had assembled, the blood curdling facts having previously pen. etrated to many sections of the town.— While, the information was exaggerated as to fatal results the number of wounded people was understated. Nine persons had been hurt in various degrees , and the re ports and rumors were of a sufficiently ter rifying and shocking nature to create the wildest excitement throughout the city.— Men were struck speechless with astonish ment, women wrung their hands in agony, and children wept tears of fear ; for who could tell whose brothers, husbands or fathers lay mangled and bleeding on the track ? _ _ When a Teibune reporter arrived at the scene of the accident, a few yards below Ninth street, the unfortunate victims had been removed, and the remains of two cars, one of which was not recognizable as the costly and valuable "trackometer," was all that was left to give evidence of a frightful collision. A heavy box car loaded with coal was bearing its immense weight upon the wreck of the trackometer, which had been shot under the freight car with fear ful velocity and split and broken into hun dreds of pieces. A lot of railroad iron with which it was ballasted was being taken from the ruins, and large 'quantities of broken iron and wood of all kinds used in the construction of the cars were scat tered about in dire contusion. Workmen were removing the debris as rapidly as possible, while knots of psople stood about discussing the matter and the probable re sults to the men who were so unlucky as to be caught in the disaster. There were there persons who could have been witnesses of the calamity who, with no desire to see fellow beings crushed and mangled under the wheels of clashing railway cars, closed their eyes when the final crash came, and only saw what they could not avoid—the inevitable finale of two trains going in opposite directions upon—practically at the time—one track. The noise was terrific, and when fearful eyes were opened broken and bruised bodies met their gaze. HOW IT HAPPENED. About 3 o'clock P. at., a party of em ployes of the railroad company started fr(.na Mr. McCormick's office, at the upper end of the yard, for the purpose of pro ceeding to the office of James 11. Cramer, train despatcher, at the extreme lower end of the yard. They were aboard of engine No. 910, which was pushing the "trackom eter" car, the uses and general appear. ance of which is so generally known to our people that a description is not necessary. Suffice it to say, for the benefit of the un familiar, that to a casual observer the trackometer would, at a short distance, have the appearance of a small pleasure car. Upon the car wero Joseph H. Sands, the yard master; C. P. McCully, yard su pervisor ; Special Conductor, James Boyd, of Pittsburgh, and Griffith Garrard, a pas senger brakeman. The engine crew con sisted of George M. Jackson, engineer ; Taylor Grant, conductor; Joseph Johnson, assistant conductor ; S. W. Arble, fireman, and D. W. Baumgardner, brakeman. The car proceeded on its way, and the rate of speed at which it passed down the yard is put by some as low as twenty miles an hour, and by others as high as thirty five. The majority of the reports, however, which are of course conflicting, agree in the statement that the rate of speed was an unusually rapid one. Orders had been given to run fast, and the engineer com plied, as it was generally understood that there was a clear track. The car was noticed flying down the rails, and some speculation was indulged in as to the pro bable consequence of a possible accident. All went well until a curve near Ninth street was reached, when suddenly there was noticed a car ahead, which appeared to be occupying the same track as the one upon which the party was riding. It took but a moment to satisfy the engineer of the danger, and the engine was immedi ately reversed, but the condition of the track and the impetus the iron horse had received operated against a stoppage. The feelings of the occupants can be better imagined than described. Each one thought only of escape, and, with bated breath, each watched the opportunity.— Some succeeded in jumping, while others were hurled with tremendous force, as they themselves and the spectators thought to instant death, among the ruins of the wreck. The last box car of a freight train was almost out of the way when the little trackometer, propelled by the powerful motor in its rear, was dashed into and under the car, raising it from its wheels and crushing the diminutive concern al most level with the earth. Then there was a hurrying to and fro and the search for the injured, many of whom were ob served as they were THROWN INTO THE DEATH MILL, began. With the exception of Messrs. Sands, McCully and Johnson, the men succeded in jumping from the engine and from the trackometer before the collision occurred. Mr. McCully was taken from the ruins with both feet mashed terribly; Mr. Johnson was very seriously hurt on the head and internally, while Mr. Sands escaped with a broken arm and a couple of slight cuts, although considerably shocked. James Boyd, the special conductor, was unable to get out of the car in time to avoid the crash, and, throwing up his feet to escape being caught by them, was thrown by the concussion clean through the cab and landed on top of the engine's boiler, behind the steam guage. . . Griffith Garrard, a passenger brakeman, remained on the trackometer as long as he thought safe in the hope that the engine would be checked, and when within about twenty feet of the freight car jumped and fell on a parallel track. Geo. N. Jackson, the engineer, jumped and alighted on some person whom he took to be Garrard, which broke his fall and probably saved his life. Taylor Grant, conductor, jumped when about three car-lengths from the freight car, and was thrown a considerable dis tance. lie got off with some ugly cuts on his hands, and was walking on the street an hour or two afterwards. S. W. Arble, the fireman, jumped, and fell on his head and shoulders. His in juries, though severe, are not dangerous, and he w,,s taken to his home on Sixteenth street. Mr. Arble has had several narrow escapes on the railroad, and to-day rejoices in a sound leg which be owes to his per sistent refusal to permit amputation when cut up in an accident less than a year ago. D. W. Baumgardner, the brakeman, sprang from the engine when within a few feet of the subsequent wreck, sustaining half a dozen severe cuts on his head and face and a three-inch eat to the bone be low the right knee-joint. He was sup ported as far as Ninth street, when his strength failed him, and ha was carried to his home at Ninth street and Eleventh avenue. THE INJURED AT THEIR HOMES. Joseph B. Johnson resides at No. 2113 Seventh avenue. The unfortunate man remained iu the vicinity of the disaster for some time, when a stretcher was procured and he Was placed in a wagon and con veyed to his home between 4 and 5 o'clock. A. Tribune reporter visited the residence last night. Dr. Findley, of Twelfth street and Eighth avenue, who attended him, told the family that he believed Mr. Johnson's right lung was torn in some manner; two of his ribs were broken, be sides other internal injuries, and he is very dangerously out about the head Mr. Johnson is the support of a wife and six children his condition last night was critical, and he was suffering intense agony. It had been reported early in the eveninc , that he was dead. People in the neighborhood say that the wagon in which he was taken home was roughly driven, and that the injured man begged piteously to be taken out and oarried. Mrs. John son is a slight woman, but she exhibited a great deal of firmness under the trying circumstances, and poured out her hus band's with a very steady hand. As but one person had volunteered to watch with him during the night Mayor Hard said he would procure additional as sistance. Messrs. Sands, McCully, Boyd and Gar rard were carried to the Logan House, where they were attended by Drs. Win. R. Findley, Christy, Walker, Rowe, Allen and Rowe, and others. Dr. Fay was at Bell's Mills, and as Mr. McCully es pecially requested that he attend to his in juries, Mr. John Reilly, superintendent of transportation, sent an engine after him. Mr. McCully lay in room 126, a pleas ant third story apartment of the Logan House. He reclined upon a stretcher, and when a reporter entered Dr. Walker was at the head of the couch administering ether to the wounded young man. The amputation of both ihet about half-way to the knee had already been very successfully pertormed by Dr. Fay, assisted by Dr. Christy, and the arteries and veins were being closed. Mr. McCully is not injured internally, but his hands are slightly brai sed, upon which he fell as he jumped. The wheels run over his feet, and -he was car ried under the wreck. He moaned con siderably at times even when under the influence of the drug, and turned once or twice. The physicians say that few men stand an amputation so well as he. During the evening, after the effects of the ether had passed off, he chatted pleasantly with friends who called, but a little later, while reaction was taking place, the visitors were limited, as Mr. McCully was not feeling quite so well. However, it is the opinion of the doctors that unless tetanus or some nnlooked-for change supervenes the patient will undoubtedly recover. Word of the sad occurrence was sent to Mr. McCully's family at Ardmore, Pa. James Boyd occupied room 96. Mr. Boyd has some ugly and deep cuts about the face and head, one near his right ten►- ple being especially noticeable. His face and nose are swollen. Beyond this and a generally 'stove up" condition, he said he , felt very well. In dragging himself out of the debris of the cab of the engine, which was badly wrecked, he tore his pan taloons and vest. His escape, in his con dition, was miraculous. There are no in ternal injuries in his case. Mr. Boyd's wife was telegraphed for and is probably with him at this hour. Griffith Garrard, whose residence is at Pittsburgh, sat upon a chair in the Logan House in room 94. As a reporter entered Mr. Gerrard treated him with a pleasant "How do you do," and turning aroandez posed a face literally covered with tato of white court-plaster. When he gsli on the track after jumping his face strack a rail, and he received a deep gash on the nose between the eyes and several severe cuts on the forehead. He was also out and bruised in the left side and upon his hands. His injuries, while severe, are not serious. Mr. Sands was in bed in room 100. His broken arm had been set. His bruises did not amount to much, but he felt somewhat shaken up. Mr. Sands was resting easily and was receiving every attention. A visit to the residence of Mr. Baum gardner, who lives with his mother on the corner of Ninth street and Eleventh ave. nue, revealed the fact that he was suffer ' ing very little pain. It was thought by many that Mr. Baumgardner had been more seriously hurt than was at first sup posed, but Dr. Hall, who was oalledlin, has no fears for him. His mother stj she heard the noise of the oolf • ed to run to the railroad crossing, SOWS one having told her that David was killed. Another parson informed her that he was not hurt, but she met the men who were taking him home. Mrs. Baumgardner said the young man complained great deal of pain in his head, and could not relate any thing in regard to the calamity. At last accounts Mr. Baumgardner was dciing very well, and the doctor was of the opinion that he would be all right in a few days. THE ENGINEER'S STORY OP THE COLLISION. Mr. George M. Jackson, the engineer, who lives on Sixth avenue, etween Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, and who only es caped being under the wreck by about five feet, saved his life by unwittingly jumping upon Garret!, He suffererd ,some braises and cuts in the knees and a three-eernered gash was made in the thumb of his left hand. Mr. Jackson displayed preienee of mind on this occasion that is worthy of special mention. His story is perhaps the most lucid explanation of the aticadeist.that can be gathered from the mass of °Naha ing reports. He said that he had receiv ed verbal orders to run the tracrioineter rapidly through the yard—the ides evi dently being to test the rails. Going down he said he noticed some cars in motion, and presumed they were on NO. I south siding, as it was under stood the way would be clear. A closer view strengthened his opinion that the cars were on the same track with his engine. He immediately reversed the engine, opened the throttle and gave it steam, and applied the alrbrake. The track was wet and slipperyand in such a conditi)n that the wheels slid, and all the power of the engine was fruitless - to check the impetus it bad gained. The car that was struck was the last of a train of thirty freights that were in inositweed crossing from the south trick to the north side. The train, he says, was loadid - with coal. The engine was detached' ?tont. it at the time, and was the intention toswing across to another track fur the purpose of "dropping" the loaded ears to a vidintrat the lower end of the yard. When Mr. Jackson saw the imminent danger be pull ed the whistle rope. On his first attempt to reverse the engine the reverse lever slipped, and he reversed a g ain , and it was at this time that he open ed the' throttle and gave the engine steam. Had it: not, been fur the slippery condition of the ?ails the engine would doubtless not have run into the car, and of course, as soon as a body not easily moved was struck the en gine recovered equilibrium, as it were, and shot back with almost as strong momentum as with which it ran into eke freightcar. It was at this point that Mr. Jackson's presence of mind was exhibited. Recover ing himself, he perceived the engine mov ing away from the wreck. He rammember eithe open throttle and the consequent head of steam, and he molds a dash fer-the engine, climbed upon her, and walked over the footboard to the cab. He was unable to observe the throttle through the mass of debris, but succeeded in scraping sway enough of the broken material to enable him to and the throttle, which he closed, and the engine came to a halt. Otherwise there is no telling the result, with the machine tearing up the yard with the velocity at which it started. Jackson then got down from the engine and fell exhaust ed in his father's arms, when he was con veyed to his home in a carriage. A physi clan dressed his wounds, and he felt able to take supper with the family, but soon after, not feeling quite so well, he lay down. No fears are entwined for him, as he is not injured internally. THE VERY LATEST FROM TUOSE 81R10US• LY HURT. A Tribune reporter again visited Mr. Johnson's residence about 1 o'clock this morning and found that he had been rest ing easy since 9 o'clock and Was then sleeping. He complained somewhat of his legs and a pain in his right breast. Mrs. Johnson said she feared the worst, as he had been in bad health most of the sum mer and bad lost much time. About 2:30 o'clock this morning reports reached this office that Mr. Johnson bad: died after the Tribune reporter saw his at 1 o'clock, and the news bad been tele graphed to relatives. Inquiry at th. et*. graph offices showed that no diepekieii had been sent. Reports from Messrs. MoCußy, Sandi, Garrard and Boyd up to 1 o'clock this morning were that each felt well in proper• tiOU to their different conditions. NO. 37.