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- “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 Mour<A,
Allen Craig D.
Fred. Kurtz D.
Clarion and Jey;enan.
W. W. Barr D.
Clearfield, Elk mai For
Kennedy Robinson 1).
J. M. Crosland D.
P. F. Collins D.
'Sonzerset Redford and
rest.
Dr. C. Earley In.
Clinton, Contemn and
AlKean,
.
Futbah.
Moses A. Ross R.
D. B. Armstrong R.
.9u.srigeliansa and Wyo
I==l
Chester.
N. J. Sharpless R.
W. B. Waddell It.
N. A. Pennypacker
Crawford.
J. C. Sturtevant R.
Geo. H. Bemus H.
Cblumbia ono ..Ilon.tow
W. H. Jacoby D.
ming.
I'. M. Osterhout R.
T. Cameron R.
Tioga and Pager.
Wm. T. Humphrey R.
John S. Mann R.
Jettango and Warren
W. N. Whann R.
Harrison Allen R.
Washington and Bearer
James k. Kelley R.
Joseph 8.. Welsh R.
Matthew S. Quay R.
Wayne and Pike.
Wm. M. Nelson D.
Cremb,land.
Philip Long D.
Dauphin.
Jeremiah Sellers: R
H. B. Hoffman R.
US=
Ellwood Tyson R.
Zric,
0. S. Woodward R.
D. B. McCreary R.
James Cameron D
A. S. Lawrence D.
Republican Members....
Democratic
Indedendent Democrat
Republican maj
Republican maj. on Joint ballot
Three of the Senators elected occupied the
same honorable positions during the last
three years, and of the successful Represen
tatives fifty-eight were members of the
House last winter,.
The Fenlnns
The Irish Republic Recognized---A Sen
ate and House of Representatives
Formed—Adoption of a - Constitution
Modeled Upon the American One.
At the session of the Fenian Congress,
on Saturday night, the Committee on
Constitution and Government reported
a new constitution, which effects radi
cal changes—abolishing the Central
Council ; creating a Senate, fifteen in
number; abolishing the office of Head
Centre, and creating a President; cre
ating military, naval and financial bu
reaus, with Secretaries of the Treasury
and of War, who shall have control of
their several departments. All appoint
ments made by the President and all
appropriations must be ratified by the
Senate.
The new constitution of the Fenian
Brotherhood is after the plait of the
Constitution of the United States, the
committee having taken that instru
ment as a model.
Besides the Military Board at head
quarters the constitution provides for
an Assistant Inspector General for each
State.
MONDAY'S PROCEEDINGS
The Congress re-assembled at 9 o'clock
yesterday morning, Col. John O'Na
honey in the chair, who addressed the
Congress, impressing on the minds of
the delegates the great importance of
the business to be transacted during the
day, in the election of the President
and members of the Senate of the Fe
nian Brotherhood.
A committee was then appointed to
draft an address, and embody therein a
recognition by this Congress of an Irish
republic; the address to receive the
signatures of the delegates from all the
Circles represented.
The following named gentlemen were
then elected Senators:
W. R. Roberts, New York, president
of the Senate.
B. D. Killian, Wisconsin.
James Gibbons, Pennsylvania.
Michael Scanlan, Illinois.
B. B. Daily, Indiana.
B. F. Mullen Tennessee.
Wm. F. Fleming, New York.
F. Bannan, Kentucky.
P. J. Meehan (Irish American), New
York.
P. A. Sennott, Massachusetts.
J. W. Fitzgerald, Ohio.
S. J. Meany (Toledo Commercial),
Ohio.
P. O'Rourke, New York.
Wm. O'Sullivan, Ohio.
D. O'Sullivan, New York.
ROUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The Constitution also provided for a
House of Representatives, to be com
posed of the delegates assembled in
Congress. They held their first session
last evening.
The House was called to order at 6
o'clock, M.
On motion, Colonel M. C. Murphy
was elected permanent speaker of the
House, and P. A. Collins, secretary.
On motion, Colonel John O'Mahoney,
was declared, amid loud and enthusi
astic cheers, which were again and
again repeated, the unanimous choice of
the joint Houses for President of the
Fenian Brotherhood in North America.
After takiing the oath of office pre
scribed in the new constitution, the
president delivered a lengthy and
cheering address, which was received
with.marked approbation and applause.
The convention was adjourned sine
die. The Senate having retired, the
House adjourned, to reassemble this
morning at eight o'clock. It is suppos
ed the proceedings of the House will
be closed to-night, when the delegates
wil return home, resolved to work on
faithfully in the undertaking.—Phila.
Prem.
The Bedford Gazette.
The old and time-honored organ of
the Democracy: of Bedford, the Gazette,
comes to hand this week enlarged and
elethed in ,a new. suit of type, making a
Very handsome appearance. We hearti
ly wish-friends Myers. and Mengel all
the.o,otiOrity thioexcellent and
influential journal is entitled to. . .
EMM;=M
~~e'"ln~Bieei[on:
Below we give a sketch of the mem
benrrecently elected to Congress from
*irginia. As will be seen, it is from a
very radical correspondent of,thelsT. Y.
21ribune. Some of the statements reside
must :therefore be taken with many
grainsof allowance:
Cbrrerin ndence of the N.-Y. Trthune.
CmcvnEvittm, Va., Oct. 14,1865.
Gov‘..Pierpont's efforts forconciliaticm are
decided failures. Union men refuse to be
controlled by those who are enemies of the
United States. What little Unionism is de
veloped lies on the surface. It is a mere
pretense to get representatives in Congress,
so as In coalesce with the northern Copper
beads to embarrass the Government
Sufficient returns have been received to
warrant the opinion that about one-half to
two-thirds of the representatives elected to
Congress on Thursday , last will be able to
take the test oath required by Congress be
fore they can be admitted.
Dist. L It is supposed Mr. Curtis of Ac
cximac will be chosen, and can take the
oath.
H. L. H. Chandler, formerly ',United
States Attorney for Eastern Virginia, is cho
sen, and can take the oath. Mr. Chandler
is a Maine man, of fine ability, and thor
ough Union, but found it neceary, in or
der to secure his election, to take strong
grounds against negro suffrage. Whether
he is opposed to giving them the right of
testifying in court, and otherwise acknowl
edging them as citizens, time will develop.
111. B. Johnson Barbour of Orange is
elected. He is a son of the late James Bar
bour of the Supreme Court of the United
States; a gentleman of fine character, and
(it is understood) has been always opposed
to the Rebellion, and can take the oath. Mr.
J. S. Pendleton, of Culpepper—of no poli
tics except his own—was most decidedly
beaten.
IV. Robert Ridgeway, formerly one of
the Editors of The Richmond Whig, is elec
ed. He counseled the people to keep shady
until their Representatives in Congress were
elected, and they could get rid of military
rule; then they could talk. The Richmand
Whig was suppressed for a short time by
the military, because of some offensive ar
ticles written by him, but subsequently al
lowed to go on. He can take the oath.
V. The district is very close between C.
L. Mosby and Col. Robert E. Wethers. If
Mr. Mosby is elected he tun take the oath.
• VI. A. H. H. Stuart, of Augusta,is doubt
less elected. He " would:feel himself dis
graced to take the Congressional oath,"
considering it unconstitutional. At Rock
ingham Court, a few days ago, he said.
"Oh, how I loved the old flag! But
when I saw my brothers' sons, and my
nephews, and my neighbors' sons in the
fight, I must confess my sympathies were
with the South. Oh, how I loved the old
Flag! But I would not degrade myself by
taking the oath. The exigency having pas
sed away, it will be repealed." The people
believed him, and Mr. Lewis—a thorough
Union man who could take the oath—is de
feated by a large majority.
VII. R. T. Conrad, of Winchester, is
doubtless elected. He would not state
whether he would take the oath or not;
but it is understood that he cannot. He was
a member of the Virginia Convention, and
voted against the ordinance of secession,
but subsequently signed it, and, after a
short recess, returned to Richmond, and
performed legislative duties in the Conven
tion, in the absence of the Legislature, to
prepare the State thr defence against the
United States. He is a honorable man, but
is understood as opposed to taking the oath.
Mr. Lewis Mckenzie, the Union candi
date in this district, refused to give his own
opinion on the subject of Negro Suffrage,
leaving the whole question to the States.—
He takes the ground that it was a matter
Congress had nothing to do with. The
Union men of this district supported him
pretty generally, although in some precincts
of Fairfax county they refused to open the
polls or vote, because they considered that
Gov. Pierpont had sold out the Union men
of the State to the rebels, and in consequence
they wish Congress to upset the Governor's
structure and commence de novo ; the foun
dation on which it is laid being weak and
its constructors incompetent.
VIII. It is supposed Mr. Hoge, of Mont
gomery, a Union man, is elected.
It is supposed that nut two-thirds of the
members of the Senate and House of Dele
gates elected are eligible. The balance may
have to wait a while outside until the Leg
islature repeals that provision of the Con
stitution which the voters on the 12th or
dered done away, so that hereafter every
nm, wether he held .0 stain a rebel Legis
lature or Congress, is eligible to any office
in Virginia. The greatest enemy ef the
Government is reinstated. Such is the work
of Governor Fierpoint and his pliant Legis
lature.
Let,cuw>L
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.