Y #3*mod:, INTITITAP - AXB - : 13 M BF I R : 25 ; 1-50- - “Tlie "whiting presses sludtbe tree.to every person who undertakes to examine the: pin eeedings of the leglidattae;er any branch of government; and no law_ shall ever be made to restrain the thereof. _The free commu nication of thought and opinions Is one of the invaluable rights of men; and every citizen may freely speak, write and lariat on any sub ject; being .respotudble* ha' The/ abuse of that liberty. In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of offi cers, or men in nubile capacities, or where the matter published is for public informa tion, the truth thereo may ,he given in evi dence." WE PUBLISH AN ARTICLE of some length from the New York Evening Post in relation to the lamentable acci dent that happened on the Pennsylva nia Railroad on the 14th inst. The Post goes on the presumption that the acci dent was caused by the breaking of an axle, and it says the reason why the axle broke was because it had been too long in use. We are assured by persons in whose veracity we put every confi dence, and who assert that they exam ined the car, that the accident did not occur from a broken axle. We under stand the Coroner's Jury will make their report to-morrow evening, and we trust it will turn out that they have spared no efforttogetat theliteral truth. The Evening Post indulges in a good deal of unnecessary and undignified sneering about the conduct of the Rail road Company's Solicitor at Lancaster, as if it thought he ought to have pre vented the accident instead of busying himself about the killed and wounded. What it says concerning the Railroads of Germany is far more worthy of at tention. It asserts that - no person has been killed since the introduction of that system of travelling, thirty or forty years ago. If this is true, then it must be regardeitps proven that there is some way to prevent Railroad accidents alto gether. This we had not supposed pos sible, as accidents frequently happen with other modes of conveyance appa rently less dangerous. But what can be done in Germany certainly can be done here, if this "Universal Yankee Nation" has half the mechanical genius it has claimed and got credit for. We cannot and do not believe that the officers of the Pennsylvania Rail road are,indifferent to the safety of travelers over their road. Self-interest, if nothing else, would make them anxious to avoid accidents. If it be true that there has never been a life lost on May Railroad in Germany, the means whereby the German companies have avoided fatal accidents ought to be as certained and brought into requisi tion. It would be no great thing for a wealthy corporation like the Pennsyl vania Railroad Company to send a com mission of two or three of its best men to Germany, to observe and study the working of the Railroads of that country. If what the Post says be true, the information such a commission would bring home ought to be worth ten times its cost to the company every year; and to the traveling public, thus saved from accident, its value would be beyond computation. Down on the Clergy Our pious neighbor of the Express de nounces with great severity the recent action of the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for re fusing to permit the inevitable negro to be lugged in to mar its deliberations. Our contemporary calls it "a disgrace to Christian civilization," and holds every man who voted to table the Afri can resolution as "unfaithful to his God, his church and his country." Whew! Just think of it, geatle rea der, the editor of the Express says that he " blushes with shame at the general action of the Convention," and he turns up hieyes with holy horror at the aw ful sin the majority of the clergy of the Episcopal Church have committed in refusing to bow down before the ebony idol prepared for them by Greeley, Sumner, Stevens, Phillips, Garrison, Beecher, and the other saints of the Abolition household. Whether the Protestant Episcopal Church will survive this terrible on slaught of the editor of the Express is more than we are able to say. At all events we suppose it will lose the labors and influence of that distinguished Christian gentleman, who will, doubt less, transport himself to Congo or Da homey, or some other Christian com iuunity, where his sanctimonious soul will not be grieved with a body of clergymen whom he denounces as un faithful to their God, their church, and their country. We trust the church will be spared the infliction of such an incalculable and irreparable loss, and we therefore earnestly advise the Bishops and Clergy of the General Convention to retrace their steps without delay and go in for the nigger " without a why or a wherefore." By so doing, they may yet save the services of the editor of the Express to the Church and the cause of Christianity in general, and he may still be induced to continue " a burning and a shining light" to lead sinners in the way they should go. THE EXPRESS a few days ago quoted the New York New& as saying of Presi dent Johnson's speech to the negro troops, that: If it is to be considered as a deliberate ex pression of the President's views and policy, it is extremely objectionable, as indicating that he does not differ very essentially from the radi-als as to what ought to be the future status of the negro in the United States. The" Express then exultingly asked : What if the Democratic party had gone and indorsed a radical on negro suffrage, as well as an annihilator of State Govern ments and an enforcer of emancipation proclamations. The Chicago Tribune, which is quite as good Republican authority as the Express, does not regard the Pesident's speech as proving him "a radical on negro guffrage." Its Washington cor respondent says; I think I shall not be amiss in presuming that this last Presidential speech will fail to give entire satisfaction to the mass of the Northern people. And this first, because the speaker did not in his effort assume a clearly defined position with regard to the leading issue of the day; and secondly, be cause the leanings discloed, notwithstand ing his evident reluctance to commit him self definitely, are in a direction diverging from rather than consonant with the views of the progressive party of the country. MONTGOMERY BLAIR, Lincoln's first Postmaster General, was one of the speakers at a great Democratic meeting held in New York city last week! "Mr. Blair contended against negro suffrage, saying the result of such a system would be that the plantations would become those of a New England instead of a Southern oligarchy; and urged that if the negroes were to be free, eqUal and independent, thpy must have a place of refuge set off for them, and said such a land of promise was held out tO' them by the liberal govern ment of Mexico, where that region ex tending round the Gulf of Mexico from the Rio Grande would become a line of demarcation between the United States And Mexico." The meeting endorsed President Sohnedm's restoration policy, denounced negro suffrage and declared for the en forcement of the Monroe doctrine in Mexico. ,TAE NEXT COXQIIESS.-A Washing ton correspondent of s ate Ledger says an old politician in the Federal City gives him the following estimate of the "make up " of Congress, based upon the supposition that the Southern Aep iesentatives will be admitted, which he says ~ there is daily less and less doubt will be the case," Viz.: House—Oppo nents of the President 127; supporters of 4-isP?IIO.Y 121; 'opposition majority 6. ,SenCitePPPoneuts 3 8; suppotprti 34; opposition majority 4. '74ll3l.ftrtelF WATEV-REitin s tril = BE- - COED has worked himself Into a State of ^ sensible perspiration on the subject of the late railroad apeident near this City. He has been sitting as an Investigating Committee,"ias a _Coroner's Jury or a Grand Inquest, and helms got so many facts inside of his skin that he would surely burst if he did not openhis valve and let them escape. Prominent among the facts he' has collected is the itriportL ant one that "Especial efforts are being made by every newspaper along the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad to white wash ,this great calamity, and to keep down-the least suspicion that possibly some of the men connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad are responsi ble." We pronounce this a groundless and inexcusable calumny, so far, at least, as the Intelligencer is concerned. We have not made "especial efforts" to " whitewash this great calamity," nor have we made even the slightest effort to do so. We have left it to the respectable gentlemen who were select ed as a Coroner's Jury, and duly sworn as such, to determine whether 'the case was one that ought to be whitewashed or blackwashed. We presume they will soon be ready to report; and the fact that they have not made haste to do so, but have taken time for investigation and deliberation, will give value to their finding, whatever it maybe. We have no great faith in newspaper verdicts on such subjects, and we do not intend to usurp the functions and' uthority of the 'Coroner's Jury. We print two of the Record's articles in another column, thus putting the Lancaster public in possession of the great array of facts which that paper has gleaned. What will be apt to strike the intelligent reader of these articles, is the comparison they institute be tween the quality of the rolling stock used on the Pennsylvania Railroad and thatused on certain Railroads in which Reading has a deep interest. It looks very much as if the Record was ani mated by a desire to turn the current of travel through Reading, and the deliber ate lying it has indulged in about the newspapers along the line of the Penn sylvania Railroad, shows what means it is willing to use to accomplish any pur pose it may have in view. To help it along in the good work of convincing the traveling public that the route through Reading is perfectly safe, we give place to the following items from the Rea ling Journal of Saturday last: RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—OLI Tuesday morning, through the carelessness of a brakesman, an accident occurred to the accommodation train which might have resulted in considerable losS of life. The six o'clock passenger train was just pas sing through the cut a few miles below Reading, when it run into a portion of a coal train that had broken loose from its coupling while the brakesman was asleep, which was left standing on the road. Fortunately, there was no loss of life. Mr. Jacob Gou'rad, steward of the al mshouse,ho wever,received some inter nal injuries by falling on his breast. TWo children who were on the train, were also hurt. The unfortunate occurrence might have been avoided by the neces sary precaution on the part of the brakesman, but for causes already sta ted, this accident occurred. Such ne glect is criminal, and should not go un punished. THE EVENING TRAINS on the Phila delphia and Reading Railroadhave been running very irregularly during the past week, occasioned by the heavy passenger business of the Road. The six o'clock train on Thursday evening was an hour and a half behind time, on account of having-run off the track near Norristown. In a Tight Place General Banks, one of the played out Abolition Generals, who succeeded the amiable Ben. Butler iu the command of New Orleans, is likely to become as des picable as the beast himself. Being disposed of and having nothing to do, he conceived the idea of going back to Massachusetts and running for Congress. He did go back, and the first thing he did to secure the confidence of the Rad icals was to openly condemn President Johnson's plan of re-organization. This secured him the nomination in the sixth Congressional district of Massachusetts. But several persons express doubts as to his eligibility, and the very substantial reason that he removed to Illinois in 1861, and in 1865 he was admitted to the bar in New Orleans, making the decla ration under oath that he was a citizen of Louisiana. Banks' game at that time was to settle in New Orleans and be elected United States Senator by her bogus legislature. But like his prede cessor he came to grief, and sought re fuge in Massachusetts. The following little bit of inside history will give the reader an idea of the cause of his hostili ty to President Johnson ; it is from a cor respondent of the Montgomery Advcr tiscr : A strange misconception prevailed until lately as to the effect of the Presi dent's amnesty and pardon. As plain as the President's proclama tion appeared to impartial readers, the Freedmen's Bureau decided that am nesty and pardon carried with them immunity from arrest and punishments for crime only. But the matter was finally brought directly to the attention of President Johnson in the case of Mr. H. H. Short, a well known citizen of Louisiana, who, on the 29th of July, re ceived his pardon, but General Howard, Chief of the Freedmen's Bureau at Washington, refused to restore him his mansion in New Orleans, occupied by General S. P. Banks; whereupon Mr. Short went to the President in person and obtained the following letter, from which dates all the subsequent rulings on this vexed question. It is needless to add that upon this showing, Mr. Short was speedily restored to his rights of property, and General N. P. Banks " ramosed to Bosting :" EXECUTIVE MANSION, ) WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 14, 1865. j R. H. Short, of New Orieans, La., having being excepted under the Am nesty Proclamation of May 29, 1865, has this day been pardoned specially, and he is thereby restored to all his rights of property, except as to slaves, just the same as though he had been entitled to the benefits of said Amnesty. ANDREW JOHNSON, President. No wonder Gen. Banks is opposed to the President's plan of reorganizing Southern society; had he permitted Banks to hold on to the mansion in question, and also enabled him to get to the United States Senate, wouldn't he now be the President's champion, in stead of being among his most virulent opponents? The Opposition Notwithstanding the attempts now made by those Republicans whom Thad deus Stevens designated as " parasitie Republicans," to disguise their opposi tion to the President's policy, under the hypocritical profession of support, but a few months will elapse ere the entire Republican party will be arrayed in open warfare against the Administration. We say the Republican party—of course excluding those noble patriots who pre fer country to party, and give their ad herence to the President's policy be cause they deem it to be the only plan for the complete restoration of the gov ernment to its old status. With these exceptions, the great mass of the Re publican party cling to their organiza tion, and on purely partizan grounds re ject the salvation of the country. 'That the success of the President's wise and patriotic policy is not depen dent on them we may be thankful—but we may rest assured they will not cease opposition so long as they are able to oppose. But sustained by the entire Democratic and other Conservative masses of the country', the President may well dispense with their support. —Washington Union. New York corres pondent of the Ledger says that passen gers just arrived from piba, report that the Cholera has made its appearance'in Havai;ta. The lateness Of the season will probably preVent it fpnl extending to JAPP liort4er4 c/408.. Aktisinif: As surely, says the Journal of Com merce, as thrift follows industry,and economy, does want succeed idfeness and extravagance. There has been a rrianistimprovement in the habitif of the people during the last few months in the management of their private con cerns; but the national treasury still disburses the hard earnings of the la:- borer with the most wasteful abun dance, and this extravagance is almost wholly unchecked by the public press. The current national expenses - still ex ceed two million dollars per day, and this frightful outlay is chronicled with little concern, or pointed at with pride, as if it were only a liberal handling of unlimited means. It is high time that all who have the best interests of the country at heart, should cease their wrangling about matters of little mo ment, and pay more attention to this drain upon the life-blood of the nation. It is all very well for fluent orators to tickle the ears of a well-dressed audi ence with highly wrought descriptions of our unlimited resources, and poetry and music may lend their aid to give brilliancy to the charming romance ; but there will be an afterpiece of another sort if this play is long continued. The undeveloped resources of a country will not furnish food and clothing without the earnest toil which can make even a wilderness to blossom ; and there will be a terrible awakening from this dream of plenty if the present wastefulness is not speedily checked. The road to ruin has its farniliarland marks, and it needs no Plophet's finger to point out the inevitable future if the national treasury is to be drawn upon with such a reckless hand. We have been told each month that the limit of this heavy expenditure was reached, and retrenchment had begun, but there are no signs of such economy, and we do not believe there will be until it is insisted upon by the voice of an indig nant people. It is difficult to check the wastefulness of a prodigal, even when it is his own fortune which he is squan dering ; how much more difficult, then, to induce office holders arid private plunderers to take their hands out of the public purse when the general waste contributes to their own gain. There never was a people whose generosity was more grossly abused. With a lav ish hand they have heaped their for tunes into their country's treasury, ask ing no account, and only hoping there would be enough to last until the trial was over. They are proud even of their wanton liberality, and, thankful if the nation's life is saved, they do not now ask for a too careful reckoning of the cost. But changes of popular feeling occur very quickly in this climate, and if it comes to be understood that this unselfish devotion is traded on for the mere purpose of plunder, they will be as quick to resent the insult as they were to respond to the first appeal. It is time for plain speaking, and a little wholesome severity in examining the daily accounts of these most extrav agant expenditures can do no possible harm. A few years ago, the whole country was stirred up by a fierce de bate about a few dollars extra mileage paid to members of Congress. But here are hundreds of millions running outof the public treasury id the most waste ful profusion, and we hardly hear a warning voice. Somebody has yet to toil for these uncounted millions. Some one's back must bear a grievous load for every petty thousand in these enor mous aggregates. There is yet to be, not only toil, but suffering and want in many a home before the final settle ment for all this waste. There is a long gaunt procession of real people, our own flesh and blood, who must yet mourn over this uncalled-for extravagance.— We wish that the ghostly presence of every poor toiler, whose burden is thus wickedly increased, could hover about these harpies who have fastened on the public crib, and give them a foretaste of that fearful retribution which must await them if even-handed justice be not evaded. Let the cry for economy, to begin at once in every department of the Gov ernment, be taken up and echoed all over the land, until the people shall be aroused to a jealous watchfulness of thosewho have access to the public purse, and the current expenses of the treasury be reduced to one-third of the amount now so lavishly squandered. Gov. Boreman vs. Gov. Plerpont From the Staunton (Va.) Spectator. It has been a question whether the county of Jefferson belongs to the State of Virginia or to the State of West Vir ginia. A large portion of the citizens of that county, denying that it was le gally and constitutionally apartof West Virginia, intended holding an election on Thursday last for a member of Con gress, a Senator and Delegates for the General Assembly . ; in consequence of which Arthur I. Boreman, Governor of West Virginia, on the Monday preced ing the election, issued a proclamation forbidding the citizens of Jefferson to participate in an election under the as sumed authority [he should have said so-called] of the State of Virginia, and that if they attempt it they will be ar rested and brought to punishment. The following is an extract from his procla mation : "And 1 hereby direct all civil officers in said county to arrest and bring to justice every person who attempts to hold an elec tion, or engages in holding an election in said county, under the assumed authority of the State of Virginia, or any authority other than that of the State of West Virgin ia; and the military authorities of the Uni ted States in the District of West Virginia, are called on and requested to issue such or ders and to use such ibrce as may be deem ed necessary to prevent such election being held, and, if attempted, to aid the civil au thorities in arresting the parties engaged therein and in bringing them to justice." Query? Does Gov. Pierpont claim Jefferson county as part of Virginia, and, if so, will he not make Gov. Bore man stand back and let the citizens of Jefferson vote? If there is to be any fighting, we hope it will be confined to the two gallant Governors. The people of this State have done fighting enough to satisfy them for some time, and they wish now to attend to their farms and their own immediate personal and' private inter ests. The voice of the people is now not for war, but peace, and if the two Gov ernors of the dismembered fragments of Virginia cannot live in peace, they de sire the Governors to confine the con flict to themselves. We will " go our pile" on our Gover nor, in the patriotic faith that the Gov ernor of West Virginia, so-called, will come out of the conflict • "With twenty trenched gashes on his head, The least a death to nature." Negro Bravery. General T. H. Benton, the late sol dier's candidate for Governor of lowa, tells how the negro troops got their reputation for bravery. - In a late speech, after alluding to the capture of a bat tery by his men, at the battle of Jen kins' Ferry, Arkansas, he-says: " What was the indignation of his men when they saw in the printed let ters of these correspondents a glowing account of the bravery of the colored troops in storming this battery, and ig noring the Very existence of his regi ment, who really captured it, by not even mentioning its presence there. But this indignation was still further in creased, when, by some one's orders, these very guns were sent to St. Louis and exhibited there at a soldiers' fair, with certain battle-flags, as trophies of the bravery of certain colored troops, who were said to have stormed and taken them at the battle of Jenkins' Ferry, when, in fact, there were no bat tle flags there, and' the. whole work of taking the guns' was 'done by, his own regiment, whioh was not even men tioned!" • ' . • , Major-General Franklin is in' Wash iOgion;will 'resign : llls 6OritiniSelow.in lthe'.seMee to take' the' inanitge*etit of the Colt's Fire:arine Mittinthchirliii-C4**t 'oimt=tx= Why Will Compose the Legislature. SENATE. S'icalcer-4Davis Flerning , or - Dauphin. - Districts. - L Philadelphia--Teremiah Nichols, R. IL" Jacob E..Ridgsvav, ILL " C. M. Donovan; 15. IV. " Geo. Connell, R. V. Chester, Delaware and Montgomery —Worthington R.; Horace Royer, R. VI. Bucks-0. P. James, D. VIL Lehigh and Northampton—George B. Schall, D. VIII. Berks—Hiester Clymer, D. IX. Schuylkill—Wm. Ili:Randall, D. X. Carbon, - Monroe, Pike and Wayne— H. B. Beardslee, D. XL Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyom ing—George Laddon R. Luzerne—l. D. Shoemaker, R. X_ILL Potter, Tioga, McKean and Clin ton—Warren Cowles, R. XIV. Lycoming, Union and Snyder--J. Walls, D. XV. Northumberland, Montour, Colum bia and Sullivan—David B. Montgomery, D. XVI. Dauphin and Lebanon—D. Flem ing, R. XVFL Lancaster—B. Champneys, R., J. M. Dunlap, R. XV In. York and Cumberland—A. Hies tand Glatz, D. XIX. Adams and Franklin—C. M. Dun can, D. XX. Somerset, Bedford and Fulton— George W. Householder, R. XXI. Blair, Huntingdon, Centre, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry—L. W. Hall, R., Kirk Haines, R. XXII. Cambria, Indiana and Jefferson— General Harry White, R. XXIII. Clearfield, Cameron, Clarion, Forest and Elk—W. A. Wallace, D. XXIV. Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene—John Latta, D. XXV. Allegheny—J. L. Graham, R., T. J. Bigham, R. XXVI. Washington and Beaver—Wm. Hopkins, D. XXVII. Lawrence, Butler and Arm strong—Rev. R. Audley Brown, R. XXVIII. Mercer, Venango and Warren —Thomas Hoge, R. XXIX. Crawford and Erie—Morrow B. Lowry, R. Republican Senators 90 Democratic Senators 13 Republican majori ASSE Philadelphia. 1. Geo. W. Ghegan R. 2. W. H. Ruddiman R. 3. Sam'! Jcisephs D. 4. W. W. Watt R. 5. Jos. T. Thomas R. 6. Jas. Freeborn R. 7. James Subers R. 6. James N. Kerns R. 9. Geo. A. Quigley D. le. Elisha W. Davis R. U. F. D. Sterner R. 12. Alex. Adair R. 13. Jas. Donnelly D. 14. Francis Hood R. IS. G. DeHaven, Jr. R. 16. D. A. Wallace R. 17. Ed. G. Lee R. 18. Jas. N. Marks R. Chas. E. Boyle D Greene. Thos. Rose 13. Huntingdon, hfillin and Junia a. Ephraim Baker R. James M. Brown R. Indiana and Wasintore land. George E. Smith It. J. R. McAfee R. Jas. McElroy R. Lanceder. R. W. Shenk R. Chas. D.-nnes R. Day Wood R. Jno. M. Stehman R. Jacob B. Melly R. Lehigh, N. Weiser D. Jas. F. Kline D. Lycnining, Laion. and Snyder. Samil C. Wit:ward R. 'lsaac Rotlirock. IL D. A. Irwin "8:. Adams. Philip I. Houck R Allegheny. Geo. T. Meßlee R. Hans B. Herron R. Alfred Slack R. David Shaffer R. John P. Glass R. John A. Dank R. Armstrong F. Mechling R. Luzern e. Anthony Grandy D. D. F. Seybert D. D. S. Koon 1). Mercer, Lawrence and Barka. John Missimer D 11. B. Rhoads D. Fred. Hamer D. Josiah , McPherrin R. J. H. Negley R. Sam'l McKinley R. Henry Pillow R. Montgomery. A. D. Markley D. E. L. Satterthwalte D Bucks. Luther Calvin D. F. W. Headman D. Bradford and Sullivan Lorenzo Grinnell R. C. W. Kinney R. Joseph G. Adhun Northanzpton. Oliver H. Myers D. T. D. Barrington D MMEEMSAIMI Northumberland. Charles W. Tharp 1). Perry and Franklin Geo. A. Sherman R, N. J. Stambaugh R. CVirbon and MourL We shall soon see what rights the colored people Of Virginia have that a white man is bound to respect. If the Legislature will promptly repeal the Black Uode of Virginia, allow colored men to testify in court, to sue and be sued, and otherwise treated as citi zens, they can wait awhile for the right of suffrage. It may not come this year or next ; but it will come sooner or later. The Union men of Virginia look to Con gress—shall they look in vain—to see that all things are done decently and in order. They think that President Johnson has for gotten that he was in the wilderness himself not a very long time since, and that those now praising and flattering him were his bitterest enemies. Shoemaking by Horse Power The genius of mechanism has invad ed the realm of Saint Crispin, and shoes are hereafter to be manufactured by horse power instead of hand. The Haverhill Banner has the following: Now that it has been fully demon strated that shoe-making is to be done by teams, and eventually in a regular factory, workmen must try to accommo date themselves to this altered state of things. It will soon be impossible for workmen to take out their cases of shoes and come to town once in a fortnight to bring them in and settle. The first re quisite is boarding places or tenements, and whoever has the capital and energy to take the matter now and put up board ing houses built with some sort of refer ence to the wants of a decent boarding house, and small neat tenement houses, will not only make money, but confer a great favor on the shoe trade. It is al ways for the interest of real estate own ers to have our population a permanent one and this can of course only be secur ed by offering people decent homes. A Workingmen's Building Association has been successfully operated in France, and could be tried here with equal pros pect of success. It is reported on the street, that Mr. Chas. C. Coffin has purchased the lot of land on Washington street, known as the Hovey lot, and the house east of it, which is to be moved off; and a large building is to be erected on the spot for the manufacture of shoes. D. D. Chase and Brothers, have com menced layingthe foundation of a build ing, on a lot of land, near the depot. When finished, it is to be used by them as a shoe manufactory. Startling Nashville News Immense Caves Discovered Under the Vity—Counterfeiters' and Murderers' llotne—Astonishing Developments Of Crime—A Subterranean Lake Under the City, &c., (Special Dispatch to the World.] NASHVILLE, October 20. A startling discovery has been made in this city within the last few days. A large number of thieves have-been dep redating around the city for some time past. All efforts to catch them have been unavailing until lately. It has been ascertained that there are five dif ferent caves under the city, which are occupied by thieves, burglars and coun terfeiters. The McNary vault in the grave-yard has been put under guard f and men set to work to effect an entrance into the cave. As fast as the earth is removed, fresh earth is thrown up from the inside of the cave. This is the same cave that Murrill and his gang occupied when engaged in running off negro - es and horses. The affair has been kept secret, but leaked out in spite of the military. A year ago it was reported that the Mc- Nary tomb was used as a place to store plunder, and it is commonly reported that a lake, covering five acres and very deep, is directly under the city. One man swears to have thoroughly explor ed the entire cavern, from one end to the other. A guard has been stationed over the Acklen and Harden tombs.— The locksmith gives his opinion that the lock on the McNary tomb has been used recently. The entrance to the cavern is at the foot of Summer street. The military are determined to find out the outlet of the cave. The entrance looks like a fissure in the rock. The dis covery originated from the fact that quite a number of murders have been committed in the immediate vicinity, which led to an investigation disclosing the above facts. LOUISVILLE, Oct. 22.—The President has approved the action of General Thomas in retaining General Palmer in command of the Department of Ken tucky, and the Secretary of. War ap proves of General Palmer's action in re gard to granting passes to colored per sons. The Journal will publish to-mor row:a letter fromnovernorßramlette, of Kentucky, to the Secretary of War, complaining that. Gen. Palmer's action in granting passes to negroes who are neither free by the action of the govern anent authorities ' nor by the laws of Ken tucky, Is seriously detrimental to the intereets of the State. Kentucky Maks `s`lhe~es = ~ent Home~o'theit ~ ~e3a=` That soft-hearted authority, the tele graph wire, concludes its account of the recent terrible slaughter on the Penn tylvania, Central_ Railroad, - with the. most consolatory remark—that "aft the bodies have been sent home -to their relatives." Nine-human beings, suddenly killed by the cupidity and recklessness of a great privileged com pany, will no more see the light of their homes; their husbands, wives, sisters, brothers and parents will grasp their warm hands -no more; children have been madeorphans and women widows i and the hope and joy of many a circle extinguished forever ; but the compas sionate telegraph informs us, as if it were sothething of a solace, that "all the bodies have been sent home to their relatives." -. Not satisfied, however, with this ex- pression of his profound and keen in terest in the bereavement of the suffer ers, he tells us furthermore that the " olllcersof the company appear to have been unremitting in their efforts to re lieve the wounded and in endeavoring to identify the dead. The solicitor of the company has also been prominent ly active in helping to identify the un fortunate dead." This was very kind in the officers. To stop their usual business or pleasure long enough to pay some attention to the lacerations of the wounded and to a census of the dead, was ex.!,eedingly kind. It seems to have been expected of them, by their eulo gist, that they would leave the wound ed to pansy their own wounds, and to the dead to tell their own names ; but his expectations were not fulfilled. Even that august personage, the solicitor of the company, put himself to some trouble to find out who they had been killing. What generous conduct! The company might have neglected all this ; it might have paid no attention to the bodies, and refused to inquire into names ; but it was not so inconsiderate ; it collected the names of the " unfortu nates" who had been run through with a- bit of iron, or crushed into jelly by two posts, and wrote them down; and what is more, it sent the bodies home when the names could be found out. Unfortunately we are in some doubt as to the perfect impartiality of this wit ness, and whether we can believe the novel and almost unparalleled magnani mity and compassion which he ascribes to the "officers of the company." We are afraid that his mind has been preju diced ; that his reports were inspired, as they say in France, from the neighbor ing station-house. For he is careful to tell us, before he closes his pathetic statement, that " the train was on sche dule time, and running at the usual rate of speed. The breaking of the axle, which appears to have been au unavoid able occurrence, was the cause of the accident." Thus while yet the facts of the case are not known at all, while it is even re ported by one story that the " accident" arose from a " broken rail" and by an other from " a broken axle," long before any investigation by coroner or any other competent authority has been pos sible, the whole world to which the electric wires run, is carefully informed that the "occurrence"—dainty phrase —" seems"—another dainty phrase—to have been " unavoidable." o ; let us tell this suborned reporter, let us tell his managers, let us tell all the directors and agents of railroad companies, that such occurrences as the killing of nine persons whom they have been paid for conveying from point to point safely, are not unavoidable. They are just as avoidable as anything else that depends s.mply upon human skill and foresight. They are no more neces sary than it is for a man to choke him self in eating his breakfast, or to set fire to his house in kindling the grate.— Nothing is more invariable than the laws of mechanics; nothing is more benignant in respect to us when we faithfully apply them; and nothing more malignant or destructive than they are when we utterly disregard them, or apply them ignorantly, carelessly, or improperly. Now, railroads are but ap plications of these invariable laws of matter and motion, and to say that the slaughter of multitudesof human beings is an " unavoidable " result is to abuse the minds of men. It is a base and dis graceful attempt to screen either incom petency or irresponsibility. Let us repeat a historical statement which we made several times before, namely, that in the German States no single person has been killed by a rail road since the origin of that mode of travelling, thirty or forty years ago. Not a violent death of that sort in more than a quarter of a century. Yet in the Uni ted States the deaths of that kind are counted by thousands. Even in a single year the newspapers have lately given them as no less than four hundred. An other careful account, compiled and printed by underwriters of insurance companies, computes them for the last eight months, giving the particulars of each thus : Total accidents for eight months Total number killed Total number of killed What a fearful consideration ! Now why should there be such an awful waste of life in the United States —wasted by railroad, that are like the silent tread of pestilence or the terrible sweep of battle when none such exists in the German States? Precisely be cause we are humbugged by railroad companies and their agents into consid sidering them to be"unavoidable,"while the Germans know them to be avoida ble. We are made to believe they are "accidents," and so do not take the need ful precautions, while the Germans know they are the result of some cul pable disregard of nature's laws, and so provide against them. The Germans know, for instance, that the iron used for rails, and axles, and wheels and cmplings will endure no more than a certain number of years wear, and knowing this they renew their iron work every few years, whether it gives signs 'of weakness or not. Here the practice is to use the iron till it breaks, and a dozen or a hundred persons in consequence are killed outright or mu tilated for life. This Pennsylvania slaughter came from a defective axle, it is said ; but why was it defective ? We will answer for it, because it had been used too long. It had been used until the incessant beatings and strains to which all parts of railroad equipage are liable had dis integrated the material, had disorgan ized its parts, had discharged them of their adhesive properties, had rendered them certain of breakage, if not to-day, why to-morrow. In order to save the renewal of their running gear the com panies allow tens thousands of passen gers daily to run the risk of losing their lives in the most awful way that it is possible to imagine. Our hearts,wecon fess it, burn with indignation when we think of these things, and yet they sink with dejection too, when we see, in spite of the almost daily warnings, the utter indifference of the Boards of Directdrs and the public itself to any improve ment.--.21`. Y. Evening Post. THE TELEGRAPH AND THE LAST RAIL- ROAD KILLING It will be seen from the following let ter that we were right yesterday in doubting the correctness of the tele graphic report of the killing on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Our corres pondent gives some particulars, which show how little of an " accident" was this disaster.—[Ed. N. Y. Even. Poe. To the Editors of the N. Y., Post Your editorial in last evening's issue concerning the recent accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad is worthy of care ful attention. As one of the lucky survivors of this slaughter, I wish to state that the tele graphic reporter, whoever he may have been, who asserted that the train was running at the time of the accident at its usual rate of speed, and that the breaking of the axle was an "unavoida ble occurrence," was grossly misinform ed or deliberately prevaricated. We had been running at fearful rate for miles, and were ,just beginning to check our speed wnen the disaster oc curred. Two trains had been merged in one at Harrisburg—one about two hours late from Erie, the other from Pittsburg, about fifteen minutes late when leaving Harrisburg. It is usual for the employees of this road to try the axles and wheels of the cars at prominent places along the route. Now, this is all very well. But at Har risburg this slight precaution was ne glected, and, contrary to custom, this fated train received no such examina tion, probably because we were fifteen minutes " behind time." Two immense engines were attached to the train, consisting of only nine cars, and the breaking of the axle might have been caused by the sudden resistance by these two powerful engines to the fright ful momentum of the train. It is notorious that this railroad. com pany, as' well as 'many others, allow their engineers to run very fast to make up lost thue. , This the engineer of the - - - this Via piece of mad," as he expressed it. My fellow-passeAgers will substantiate the truth of these - statements in every case where it does not serve their inter est to conceal the facia from the public and Shield-th e, merciless corporation. As long as the press refuse to state facts in relation to thereckless disregard of human life by railway officials, and does not call - for appropriate legislation by Congress, we shall have these appal ling accidents, and hundreds will be sacrificed every , year by such "unavoida ble occurrence. ' WILLT 4lt D. SPALDING, Hartford, Conn The Railroad Slaughter. (From the Reading Record, Oct. al On Wednesday we referred to the wholesale slaughter on the Pennsylva nia Railroad last Saturday, about five miles west of Lancaster, near Landis ville. We then expressed the convic tion that the accident was the result of carelessness or recklessness—the use of miserable old• cars and running at a more than ordinary rate of speed with a train so crowded with human beings as to require two locomotives to move it. We have since read an article in the Lancaster Express, strongly and repeat edly asserting that it was only an acci dent,—that " Mr. Franciscus (Superin tendent of that division) is a Lancaster county man, and eminently a self-made man," and, therefore of course, this was only—au accident. Especial efibrts are made by every newspaperalongtheline of the Pennsylvania Railroad to white wash this great calamity, and to keep down the least suspicion that, possibly, some cf the men connected with the Pennsylvania Railroad are responsible. We are now making the effort to ob tain a statement of the facts, by eye witnesses, of the slaughter. We believe we will prove, beyond a shadow of doubt, that the nine lives were lost through recklessness ; that the car was not fit for use ; that the train contained thousands of human beings; that it was run at fearful speed, and that the broken car was, above all others, im mediately removed from the place where the accident happened, and that neither editor, coroner or other person, had any chance to see it, or know whether it was or was not fit for use. - . The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is great and well managed. But, it is an undeniable fact that they have Many old and worn out cars that are totally unfit for use. Whilst they have plenty of rolling stock, it is not of the quality of the East Pennsylvania, of the Le high Valley, the Philadelphia et; Read ing or of the New Jersey Central roads. Many of their cars are now, and have been for a long time, unfit for use, even on the celebrated "Strasburg Railroad." Yet we cannot find anything but white washed apologies for the slaughter of many valuable lives, by the newspapers along the line caused by worthless cars. We shall refer to this subject again, and give a few facts calculated to justify all we have said on this terrible whole sale slaughter. (From the Reading Record, Oct. 21.] Since our article of yesterday we have a few additional important facts in re gard to the Pennsylvania Railroad ac cident one week ago, near Landisville. We said, and repeat now, that the car which,broke and caused the death of nine passengers, was unfit for use. We have very good authority for saying that Mr. Barr, Surveyor General of Pennsylvania, whose wife was killed, and who received- an injury himself, stated that the first intimation of the accident was the floor of the car giving way and breaking down. No rail broke, but only the car, without collision, be cause it was an old rickety concern, crowded with human beings and going along at fearful speed. But what makes the sad affair still more suspicious, is the fact that no Cor oner's inquest pretended to investigate the real cause of the accident. No axle, wheel, or part of the wreck was exam ined. There was, we believe, a formal inquest held over the bodies of the vic tims, in the city of Lancaster, but no inquiry was made as to the fitness of the car containing them. "An accident," says the Jury. " A terrible accident," says the newspapers all along the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and that we suppose is the end of it ! The wreck is speedily removed. No one—neither coroner, juror, editor or other citizen is permitted to look at or examine it! What has become of it? Where is it, and by whose order was it moved out of sight in such hot haste? Can the edi tors of the Lancaster papers inform us? Terrible Explosion Three Men Torn to Pieces—A Large Boil er Thrown Twelve Hundred Feet—A Manufacturing Establishment Com pletely Wrecked.. From Saturday's New York Tribune In the small settlement known as Blazing Star, about five miles from Rah way, N. J., the boiler of John A. Stein hauser's establishment for preparing phosphate of lime exploded, about five o'clock Tuesday afternoon with such terrible effect that the building, a frame 100 feet square was entirely wrecked, and the tubular boiler, 14,4 by 16 feet, hurled to a distance of 400 yards from the place, and 100 feet high, when it struck the earth, throwing up the dirt to a great height, and then rebounded 85 feet further. A number of men were in the build ing, and three of them who stood near the boiler were killed, two of them in stantly, but the third lived until the following morning. The names of the killed were A. F. Beyse, Superintendent, a resident of the vicinity ; J. Master, boiler-maker of this city, and J. Broush, fireman, of Williamsburgh. Beyse's clothes were torn completely from his body, and Broush's skull was crushed to atoms, rendering it probable that neither of the two unfortunate men was conscious of the least suffering. Master did not believe he was seriously hurt, and the following morning was walking about when he complained of a difficulty of breathing. His respiration grew short er and shorter for two or three hours, when he expired. The accident is ascribed to the defec tive steam-gauge which was purchased in this city. Mr. Beyse had no idea of the quantity of steam in the boiler, (and he was an experienced engineer, having been in one of our gunboats, and on the Otsego at the time of her destruction by a torpedo,) and therefore anticipated no danger, supposing the gauge would indicate the pressure upon the boiler. All of the killed were men of family, and their remains were promptly cared for by Mr. Steinhauser, and lots pur chased for their interment in Green wood Cemetery. He has alsogenerously offered to provide, we understand, for the widow and children of the Superin tendent. A strange circumstance connected with the casualty is that Beyse seemed to have a premon i tion of his fate. When he was in New-York last Monday with Steinhauser, he said he felt a strong disposition to have his life insured, and returning home asked his wile where she would have him buried in theevent of his being killed, saying he felt us if something were about to happen to him. The boiler had 103 tubes, which were thrown 100 feet apart, and this fact, with the tremendous force of the explosion, indicates that there must have been at least. 150 pounds of steam Va-the square inch. From Washington WASIIIIsiGTON, Oct. M.—There was a large crowd of Southerners at the Ex ecutive Mansion to day. Ex-Senator Soule had a private interview with President Johnson to-day. General Dick Taylor was in the ante-room wait ing to see the President. A notice was posted giving a list of eighty or ninety persons whose pardons were ready for delivery at the State De partment; among them, William C. P. and Robert J. Breckinridge, and W. Bullock, of Kentucky. The Wirz Military Commission were In secret session to-day, examining and deliberating upon the testimony, which covers 5,000 pages of legal cap paper.— It is supposed they will make up their findings by Wednesday. Railroad Accident NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The New Ha ven Journal of to-day says that last night, a construction train on the New York and New Haven railroad came in collision with a milk train on, the Dan bury and Norwalk road. Two passen ger cars of the latter train were smash ed, and both engines demolished. A hatter, from Bethel, named Hurlbut, was killed. Mr. "'among, conductor of the milk train, was badly injured. En gineer Lyman, of the New York and New Itaven road, who was on the milk train, was also' injured. Mr. Willis Mansfield, track superintendent atNew - Haven, and others; were somewhat in jured. . Yotnifferiat at Sea elhe Brig Man% • • • -of Philadelphia. Sufferings of tier Crew and Passengers • on a Raft. [From F. id. y'x New York Heraldd The brig Titania, Capt. sa. W. Frame, which left Philadelphia on the morning of the 9th inst., with a cargo of coal and hay, for Mobile, encountered a severe gale on the night of Friday, the 13th, which caused her to spring a leak not long afterward. Both pumps were at once manned ; but it was discovered that d spite every effort, the water was gain ing steadily. To lighten her as much as possible the cargo on deck was thrown overboard ; but on sounding the pumps again five feet of water was found in the hold. All on board now went to work with redoubled energy, with the hope of keep ing _her afloat until the arrival of succor. The water still gained, but not so rapid ly as on the first night. Two days pass ed in this incessant labor, when, on sounding the pumps, it was discovered that the water was now eleven feet deep. As the vessel in this condition was liable to sink at any moment, it was deter mined to abandon her without delay, and accordingly a raft ten feet square was constructed and launched, and on the 16th instant the crew and passen gers, ten persons iu all, embarked upon it. The party consisted of nine men and one woman. Leaving the ship, which went down two hours after being abandoned, they drifted at the mercy of the winds and waves. The weight of the persons on the raft sunk it one foot below the surface of the water; which thoroughly saturated their cloth ing. In this wretched state, without food or water, they floated about twenty four hours, until on the 17th, in latitude 32 degrees 20 minutes, longitude 74 de grees, they were discovered by the United States gunboat Florida, Acting Volunteer Lieut. Maise commanding, which immediately on sight of the raft steered for it, and took on board itsTam ished voyagers, whom the exposure of their situation had rendered helpless and almost lifeless. On board the man of-war they received every kindness and comfort at the hands of Lieut. Maise and his officers and crew. The Florida, in addition to her regular complement, had as passengers one hundred and fif teen sailors and marines of the Pacific squadron, en route for this station for discharge, who, in combination with the officers and crew of the vessel, raised the handsome sum of $361, which was presented to the shipwrecked voyagers, who had lost everything on the ill fated brig. This sum the captain, with great generosity and magnanimity, di vided by giving one-third of the amount to the female passengers and the re mainder to the crew. The Florida, which left Aspinwall on the 10th inst., arrived here yesterday with the rescued crew and passengers, whose names are as follows: George W. Frame, captain. John McLaughlin, first mate Joseph Daily, second mate. John Williams, steward. Henry Search, seaman. - William Watson, seaman. Robert Cowan, seaman. . Frank Bush, seaman. Mrs. Daily, passenger. A. A. Black, passenger. The Titania was built at Perry, Maine, in the year 1854 ' • she was two hundred and forty-eight tons register, and rated as an A 2 vessel in the American Lloyd's Register. She was owned by Hall S. West, of Delaware, and was not in sured. The Confederate Loan Denials continue to be published by persons who were included in the list of alleged holders of bonds in the Con federate loan. Mr. Sampson, the city editor of the London Times, had addressed the fol lowing letter to the editor of the AS'tar : SIR: You have published my name in a list of alleged holders of Confeder ate stock. I beg to say not only that I have never held any Confederate stock, but that I declined to accept an allot ment offered to me at the time of its in troduction. I am, &c., M. B. SAmrsoN. The editor of the TillleB not only denies the imputation as far as he is concerned, in a leading article in the columns of that journal, but personally writes to the London Star under his own signature, "John J. Delane," em phatically denying that he ever had any of the loan. The Star, in publish ing this letter, justifies itself for having admitted the list into its columns, and contends that had the list been au thentic, as there appeared no reason to doubt, its comments upon Mr. Delane's appearance in it would not have been in the slightest degree unfair. The S'tar also thinks that the allega tion against Mr. Bailie must have been eagerly accepted in America, on ac count of the bitter hostility of the Times to the North during the late war, which hostility cannot be easily effaced by the ostentatious means now adopted by the Tinies to conciliate the North. The Times publishes additional pm phatic denials from Lord Warncila; George Warren Peacock and Edward Akroyd, and as a heading to theletters, prints the term "Thy Lying List." Mr. W. S. Lindsay,.M. P., in a letter to the Times, says that his losses in con federate stock, instead of being $20,000, as alleged, do not amount to a tenth of that sum. His small investment was made long after the loan was issued. Beyond this investment, he says he had no personal interest in the success of the South; but he adds: • "I deeply regret, that the Southern people, who fought so nobly and so well, were not able to achieve their in dependence." A Negro Celebration The Negroes Advised to Arm and to De nand their Rights, by a Son of Old John Brown. • From tie Ottawa (O.) News. I On the 23d ult., quite a number of ne groes from differentparts of the State met at Put-in-Bay, for the purpose of celebrating the anniversary of the is suing of the emancipation proclama tion by President Lincoln. The crowd present called upon John Brown, son of old Ossawattomie Brown, who re sides upon Put-in-Bay Island, and in vited him to address them. Mr. Brown accepted the invitation, and addressed the negroes. A republican friend of ours, who was present, and in whose veracity we have the greatest confidence, has furnished us the following synop sis of the mainpoints of the speeCh. Mr. Brown opened his remarks by referring to the occasion which had called them together, and after some complimentary remarks in regard ti President Lincoln, and a lengthy dis sertation upon the noble qualities of the black race, he said : "My colored friends, you have now the right to one box, and that is the cartridge box ; but there are two other boxes you ought to claim, one of which is the ballot-box and the other the jury box. If the white people fail to give you these, and if you cannot get them in a peaceful way, I advise you to arm yourselves and demand your full rights from the government." In order to impress this idea more firmly on the minds of his hearers, Mr. B. gave the statistics of the number of negroes in the United States, Canada, and Hayti, and said : "They can be depended upon, and will aid you in your struggle for your rights." Mr. Brown, in alluding to the coloni zation scheme, said :1 " There is some talk of colonizing you, my colored brethern, in some far-off State or clime. I advise you not to lis ten to any such a monstrous proposition, Do not go; but on the contrary, remain here, and fight fo.i your rights if neces• sary. You will be aided in the contest by many of your white brethern. The son of old John Brown will nevedeceive you," etc., etc. In conuding his speech, Mr. Brown gave the negroes the following advice : " Remember your arms, keep your bayonets bright, and be ready for the coming issue. It is hardly necessary for us to com ment on the speech of Mr. Brown. Our' readers will fully understand what he means. They will see that he is but following in the footsteps of his father, who was hung for getting up an insur rection in Virginia, capturing the Gov ernment armory atHarper's Ferry, and for the murder of innocent persons. The younger Brown seems to have in herited the insane ideas of his father, and if possible, is more bold in the enunciation of his opinions than was his ancestor. Major-General A. D. McCook tendered his resignation to the Secretary of War on Saturday, in order to identify himself with ,the' Butterfield Overland Express Com pany.