The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1865, Page 1

ae THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 10,594. —=z_ _EWROPE. Two,"Days Later News by the Africa at Halifax. PROSPECTS OF THE CABLE. Possibility that the Attempt May be > Renewed in October. Captain Anderson Believes 1t * Will Not. Confirmation of the Bumor that the Failure was Maliciously Caused. RISE IN THE TELEGRAPH STOCK. @eneral Hopefulness and En- couragement. GPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. FRARS OF "TNS CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. MORE FENIANISM IN IRELAND. ad Prussia and Austria and Théir és: Difficulties. ADVANCE IN FIVE-TWENTIES. “| de. be. ke. Haurax, August 30, 1865. ‘The steamship Africa, from Liverpool at half-past eight @clock on the morning of*the 19th, via Queenstown on ‘the 20th, arrived at Halifax le last night. She has , twenty-nine Halifax and one hundred and twenty Boston Passengers. Tho Africa makes the following report:—August 21 Passed the steamship City of New York, in lat. 61 52, Jong. 18 35, bound east. On the 22d passed Bremen ship EA. Gabain in lat. 51 52, long. 18 35, bound west. On the 24th passed a steamer, supposed to be the Asia, ‘ound east. On the 27th passed the steamship Cuba in Tat. 47 50, long. 49, bound east, ‘The Africa sailed for Boston at two o’clock this ing, where sho will be due on Thureday afternoon. ‘The extra Cunard steamship Tripoli, which left Liver- pool on the 19th inst. direct for Halifax and New York, algo arrived bere this morning. ‘Tho steamship Scotia, from New York, arrived off @rookhaven at one o’clock on the morning of the 18th ‘Must., and reached Liverpool’ at ten o’clock on the same might. { The Cable and Its Prospects. ‘Moorings had been laid down for the Great Eastern at Sheerness, and the inference was drawn that she would ‘not go out again this season. The London Times says the expedition is full of encouragement for the future. Tho only discouraging circum- stance is the apparent inability of electricians to Giscover serious faults in the cable before it is payed over ‘the sideof ship. The delay for another year will not be ‘thrown away if it enables them to devise better tests of excellence of cable before it ts submerged. Though, swhother they do so or not, we must believe the possi, Dility of an Atlantic telegraph established, and look ‘forward to the day as certain, even if distant, when Eng- Jand and America will throb with one pulse of life. ‘The Daily News special correspondent says:—It is more than probable that the Great Eastern will be de- ‘@patched to fish up the severed cable as soon as she can ‘Be refitted with stronger ropes and grapnels. No formal @ecision can be taken until the meeting of the various Doards on the 2ist; but it is tolerably certain that the ex- Pedition will re-start at onae. ‘The prospecis of the Atlantic cable were the prevalent . morn- the experience of i ‘The report of the Great Eastern had a favorable effect a the shares, which rallied from 1% to 2%. There was ‘be done. , ‘Tho London Times says that the result of the proceed. fags on the Great Fastorn demonstrate the complete feesability ofthe Atlantic telegraph. The principal dit: o faculties — are hyo has et from wi may called provokiny mm ‘their teens Ex; Y is saqaired why the haut. id planation fim apparatus was defective; but the experince gained fa Beweg hy apie f to redeem their error aud ac- aw, News pecsaree ese who Bed Speen ving op hand a sufficient quantity oe in me Lig Satya the facts it mont, they do not cause dismay ; but, Se contrary, puint to ultimate success; and assuming the three companies interested can make the neces- ‘at once, it is even now not impossible hfe communication with Ameri- ger has re ese @ prospects the cable from I point of view, although some express fears that it will not be recovered, and that the enter- ‘prise will fail for the present. The opinion, however, ‘Vhat ultimate success is only a ‘The Daily News says:—Fresh contracts wit! have to new arrangements ontered into, in the Great Eastern being sent out again, both owners and the construction company, and Jatter and the Atlantic Telegraph: company. as may be sup 4 will mainly resolve one of finance; but it is confidently believed in despatched without un. she proceeds to Sheerues ted to arrive on the 20th. She p gah 0 afternoon of the 18th bound up tl The Times of the 19th inst., publishes Russell's diary of the expedition, occupying seven columns, and in on the subject remarks that, although ‘the resul ero encouraging for the future, still, even if perfect machinery were at hand, it would now, we fear, too late to lay the cable this year, although sanguine spirits remind us that after equinoxial gales are pact month of October is generally calm, and further dein: ‘Maust couse a total loss of Lgl nang of the cable whic! has been payed out. One malicious injury was discov. A piece of iron wire was run through the covering, causing dead earth. CAPTAIN ANDERSON ON THE CABLE Captain Anderson, of the Great Eastern, in a letter, gays it will require ten months to provide proper gear for lifting the Atlantic cable and to make the necessary repairs to the Great Eastern. He — ‘that the mew cable should be made aud laid in May next, and the one be then ney up and repaired. He has every @onfidence in the future success of the cable, but thinks At useless to renew the attempt to lay it during the win- ter months. RISK IN TELEGRAPH SHANKS, , Atlantic preference shares are quoted at 214 a 234. Greate of the Suez Canal. ‘Tho Sues was opened on the 17th inst., and a aeieete with coal passed from the Mediierranean to i Hew European Line of Steamers for Amertoa. fs published for the new Lag an if ine, with vessels of four thousand tons burden, eS ee, ny. ei a ‘thourand Pounges to be in fifty pou: within ten days; two subsidiary steamers, of hundred tons, to be employed to connect the service ree OF freight being Siaked bere thes i Ove cmerrprtae Is tad to be ipported " ti don Ld muy y the Loo western Railway Co! ’, k and other important conceina. ne PO ninm in Ireland, ion on a #nall weale had takn and military preparations bad been tnade by the authori- ties, and order was not disturbed, A Limerick r states that, a few nights since, the Jenians made a demonstration there. About ove hun- dred and fifty marched through the streets in military order, singing “The Fenian Men;” and ¢ letter in tho Beifast News Letter alleges that the members of the or- ganization resident in Banbridge are threatening a most formidable breach of the law. “For - = aid Haren they have been secret}: ing and collecting the in- semen necessary ‘for the perfection of their disloyal and wicked jects, Arms and drums, with the accom- panyin; pata of banners, &c., have been pur- Chased for ‘the approaching disp! which is to come off ‘’A’branch of the Liverpool. Fe- th it. ene A of Saas nted them with nian conspirators has, it is said. three or four light field pieces @ quantity of smail arms. The leaders, who are supposed to be in constant communication with those of other districts, have uotitled tne men of Newry, Dundalk, Armagh and the towns in their own neighborhood to assemble at the Scarva Junc- ‘tion on the day above stated.” [From the London Post.} A singular case of alleged Fenian:sm turned up in Dub- Jin on the 12th inst. It appears that on the 4th inst, a man entered the canteen of the constabulary depot, Phe- nix Park, having obtained adinission on some pretence or other. He entered into conversation with two re- cruits, and, after enlisting their attention for some time, commenced king about there being a hope for Ire- Jand becoming a “‘nation’’ again, and asserting her indo- pendence. ¢ young men listened to Lim, and eventu- y had tendered to them by him a form of oath which braced a renunciation of allegiance to Queen Victori and a promise to take up arms for the ‘freedom Treland.”? One of the recruits to whom this oath was tendered became somewhat alarmed, and made a pre- text to leave the canteen, He saw his officer and re- turned with him, but the bird had flown. Meanwhile bis comrade had received from the tempter an invitation to attend a meeting of five hundred Fenians at Trinity place (in close contiguity to College green), the same evenin, ind also a half of a shoemaker's card, very filthy ana reagy, with the name “C, McDermott wrii- ten thereon, This is the only clue Acting Inspector Daweon, of the detective force, had to the di ry of the party; byt, after a great deal to do and the exercize of much sagacity, he this morning succeeded in arrest- ing bim. The prisoner was remanded until Thureday. Cholera Feared in England. Apprehensions of the approach of the cholera were Increasing in England, The epidemic bad reached Mar- seilles. At an important meeting of medical officers and others, in London, resolutions were adopted advising the utmost care and all possible precautions, France. Soda f returns of the Bank of France show an in- bo ase of cash of about one million and three-quarters of ance, The Cherbourg féles continued until the 18th, when the Ffench and English squadrons left for Brest. All passed off well, although the brilliancy of the earlier Proceedings were marred by stormy weather. anal eure and Empress arrived at Strasbourg on the 18th. Bourse fat, closing firmer at 68f. 15c, i Spain. Prince Francis, Duke of Cadiz, father of the presen King, died recently, aged seventy-one years, He was a brother of Ferdinand VII. and consequently uncle of Queen Isabella II. Schleswig-Holstein—The Austrian and Prussian Difficulty. The convention between Austria and Prussia is con- cluded. Concerning the Duchies Prussia gets Lurmbrug, paying Austria a pecuniary indemnity. The provisional overnment of the Duchies continues. Prussia rulea chleswig and Austria Holstein. The official Vienna Zeitung reprints an article from ita general correspondence, in which it states that an under- standing has been arrived at between Von Bismark and Count Biome, at Gastein, which will very soon teceive imperial sanction. All collision between the Powers has bean avoided by this understanding, in which mutual re- clamations and federal rights have been vindicated, and union between the German Powers insured, Later despatches say that the question of the Duchies has not received a definite solution. The negotiations only resulted in the continuance and regulation of the commission of the two Powers in the Duchies ono new Russia. Two ships of the Russian iron-clad squadron were wrecked on their way to Stockholm, ‘The Czar had gone to Moscow,to present the Czaravitch to the Sevate and the people. x Indta, Bomnay, August 11.—Cotton is quiet. Exchange 28, 134d. Carcorta, Angust 10.—Sheetings unchanged. Ex- change 28, xa ee ‘is Conrmercial Intelligence. LONDON MONEY MARKET—avausT 19. Consols are firmer and advancing. The discount mar- ket is unéhanged, Lonpox, August 20, 1865. Consols closed at 89% a 897% for money. AMENICAN SBCURITIES, Tiinois Central shares, 783, 079; Erie shares, 52%; a 53:5; five-twenties, 68 a 6834. LIVERPOOL MARKETS—AvGuEST 19. Sales yesterday 15,000 baics, including 7,000 bales to speculators and exporters. The market was firmer, but prices were unchanged. Breapsrurr.—The market is dull and nominal. The weather has beon favorable for the crops. Provisions.—The market is firm. Propvce.—The market is steady. ward; sales at 97s. LONDON MARKETS. Breadstuffs. upward. Red Western wheat is quoted at 43s, a 662, Iron quiet and steady. Sugar has a down- ward tendency. Coffee heavy and dechned Le, a le. 6d. Tea steady. Rice firm. Tailow steady at 448. Spirits turpentine dull and dormant at 453, Petroleum scarce; crude at 2s. 8d. Sperm oil upward; quoted at £95 per tun. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Our Fortress Monroe Corresponden JRPP, DAVIS, CLAY AND MITCHELL, Forrress Monros, August 29, 1865. There are no new developments regarding elther Jeff. Davis, or Mr. Clay or Mitchel, Each still lives on at the expense of Uncle Sam, and lives well; each occupies the same gasemate allotted him on his entrance hore; each daily reads the newspapers and other additions to his reading matter allowed him by recent orders, and emokes his pipe, and that with agreoable relish; each takes his hour's daily walk, and while enjdying good health, lives in the expectancy and hope of soon being tried and learning the fate awaiting him, regarding which, ‘as time advances, each has an incessant and growing anxiety. Seeing in the papers an extract from a letter of Jeff. Davis to Mr. Gillett, one of his counsel, may give some an impression that he is allowed iom in writ- ing lettera, which js not the case, He was allowed to write the letter referred to by the Secretary of War, and this was vised before it was sent, and is the only he has been allowed to write. eee umbled a good deal on this score, but the grumbling has done no good. As to his trial, the impression prevails here that it will take place directly after the investigation is coneluded in, the case of Captain Wirz. Where he will be tried is lees a settled question than ever, MILITARY MATTRRS, The Third Pennsylvania heavy artillery regiment stl is stationed as guard inside the fortress, It is ramored that it is soon to be relieved by a regiment of regulars, not from any dissatisfaction with the regiment—for there has not been a better or more faithful regimont in the field—but to allow it to be mustered out of service— an order to which effect both officers and men are look- ing forward to most earnestly and hopefully. There are only three other military items—the sendit way day by schooners of a quantity of pontoons, tl romised mustering out on Thursday of the Kighty-first New York regiment, Lieutenant Cofonel White com ling, and the transfor of General Ludlow from Yorktown and Wil- Liamsburg to Danville, Before assuming his new com- mand the General makes a brief visit North, gomg away by this aflernoon's steamer. APPAIRS AT NORFOLK, Tt is about as dull in Norfolk as here, The only no- ticeable events of recent occurrence are the turning over of the police jurisdiction of the ho or evening to the Mayor, and appointment of Colonel Taylor, late General Lee's ascigtant adjutant general, and agent of the New York Underwriters’ Association here. It is believed the former movement will be productive of happy reaulie. It is certain if the police cannot preserve order, or will not, the military can take hold of the municipal reins again. However mach of a rebel Colonel Taylor may have been, he is certainly vory popular among his neighbors, amd is accounted a tpan of unusual firm, business capacities, The Press Dei ich. Fortress Monnor, August 28, 1865, Brigadier General Osborne and staff arrived in Norfol k this morning from Richmond. The General is en route for bis home in Chicago, expecting to be mustered out, ‘The sale of government horses and mules which took Place at Camp Hamilton to-day was very satisfactory. The animals brought high prices, The steamer Washington Irving, from Roanoke Island: arrived last night at Norfolk. Her captain reports that on the eve of her his ineer went ashore for the mails, and on his return to {Re boat wae attacked by two negroes, whereupon he dofended hunself by knock. ing one of them down, for which ho was arrested and locked up over Ee. In the morning he was brought before Colonel Holmes, of the First United States colored regiment, tried and acquitted. Tho officers of the steamer leave on the island, and it is say the negroes do as uneafe for a white man to tna there, The © ‘The steamship China tale tinier ktennaa’ Sperm oil tends up- pn Ae, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, - "1865. PRICE FOUR CENTS. THE SLAUGHTER. Accidents on Railroads Since the Com- *— mencement of the Year. Two Wondred and Sixty-six Killed and Eleven Hundred and Niae Wounded in Eight Months. ‘ The Disaster on the Long Island Railroad. . Coptinuation of the Coroner’s : Inquest, Collision Between a Passenger and Freight Train at Philadelphia, SEVERAL PERSONS SEVERELY INJURED. The Late Terrible Disaster in Tennessee. FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE. &e. &e. &e. Rallroad Accidents for 1865. JANUARY, Name of Railroad. seh Central. Data 8—Michi; 38—New esas 5—Morris and Essex, 7—Baltimore and Ohio. 8—Hudson River... &. 11—Norwich and Worcester, 14—Cleveland and Toledo... 16—Lickawana and Bloomsburg. 16—Catawiesa...... * . 18—O, and Miss. —explosion of locomotive 18—Hucdeon River... 18—Indiana Central 18—Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati 19—Corry and Tituaville 19—Pitteburg and Erie. 21—Northern Central, 21—Phila ii 21—Iron Mountain, Mo 23—Pennsylvania Wo'ded. 1481 S80 ree) SSsu wal! ae Sree 31—Hudeon River. . $1—Cleveland and Toledo, Total (29 accidents). Dies ee ee See ee ee Tr ! an Breack VWARUARY. 2—Pennsylvania, explosion of locomotive 4—Marietta and Cincinnati =I = 12—Baltimore and Ohio 16—New York and New 15—St. Louis and Chics 16—Ohio and Mississi| 16—Louisville and Ch 16—St. Louis and Chicag 17—New York and Ene 21—Pittsburg and Erte. 4 22—Pitisbarg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. 23—New York Central. 24—Long Island, 24—Pennsylvania. 26—Hudson River 26—Knoxville and Chat 27—Cleveland and Colum 27—Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicag Total (21 accidents)... Bl mone! | awe Sel col wl al Be =! em S aman ds! eaS! vo MARCH, 1—Nasbville and Chattanooga. 2—Pitt-burg, Fort Wayne and Chi 3—Opelouens, La... 7—Camden and Ambo; 8—Hudson River. 9—Hudson River 9—Erie - 17—New Jersey Central | in one day 20—New Jersey Central 22—Terre Haute 23—New York 5 29—Kuoxville and Chau Total (16 accidents) eBeowl | maeen! S250 z APRIL. =, 2—Indianapolis and Cincinnati 6—Charleston and Memphis. 7—Baltimore and Ohio... oe 10—N. Y. Contral—explosion of locomotive 12—Cleveland and Toledo 13—New Jersey... 22—Cincinnati, Hamilton 9—Hudson River....... 10—Baltimore and Gio. 1l—EFrie. eee Goss wl nano El emwac | cnn go, Alton and St, sion of locomotive, 21—City Point, V: 20—North Carolin 80—Cleveland and Piimburg — --East Tevnessee aud Virginia, Total (10 accidents)... . Bist ae! 2%—Mobile and Great Northern. Bl aBend%eccattc on 8! romt ad i! Total (14 accidents). % 4—Northern Central, 6 4—Missiseippi and Tennessee 3 Mo. . i 7—Michigan Central 4 17—Mobile and Montgomery 0 18—New Have 4 20—Obi0 and Mi: - - 24—Cincinnati, Hamtito 81—Mississippi and Tennessee, Total (14 accidents). Zl wel 2—Pennsylvania.... 4—Ohio and Mississippi. . 9—Norwich and Worcester, 10—At Muscatine, Iowa... 10—Auantic and Great W: of locomotive 1 17—South Bid es ey 2 and Northwestern. 22—New Haven and Stoningtot eit SlelweSiallente anwe Sleleceslearnl liv =I 1 Seeecs8! Total (17 accidents), * ‘THE TOTAL SLAUG! Total accidents in eight months Total nomber of killed. .<* + Total number of wounded. *Retit an we have not yet received full detaile. Bach new gram from Nashville, however, giver a umber that “one tha sabamn ia be hed gf stream, and has not yet been reached. MH is said that it contained over twenty negro soldiers, who have, of course, all perished, ”” THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD. tinuation of the Inquest—Testimony of the President of the Road, the Sta- tion Agent and Others—The Exact Place of the Collision—Another Delay Last Night, &e. The investigation into the cause of the late disaster on the Long Island Railroad was continued yesterday at Remsen’s Hotel, in Jamaica, under the direction of Mr. Alexander Hagner, foreman of the coroner's jury; and the testimony elicited beyond that already published is a8 follows: — DR, WILLIAM D. WOOD'S TESTIMONY. Mr. Wood, being sworn, said—I reside at Jamaica; am a surgeon by prof mn; was called upon to attend William Gauley, William Waiker, Josépb Wilson, Shel- don Crooker and John George Lowell; these §ve are dead; I found them first at Van Wyck avenue, and we had them brought up to McHughes’ room; Gauley, the newsboy, I did not seo alive; William Walker's death was caused by injuries to his legs and injuries about the head; I found him alongside of the track; Joseph Wilson’s flesh was torn off the upper and lower parts of the legs; bis injuries, I found, were fatal ; Sheldon Crooker’s injuries were similar to those of Wil- son; John G, Lowell's left leg was all broken above the knee; he dicd at half-past nine on Monday night; Crooker died about five o'clock in the evening; Josoph Wilson died about three'o’elock, in the afternoon of the same day, and Walker died between three and four o’clock on the same day; the injuries of the German (Lowell) were of such @ character that he would have died if the amputation had not been performed; when I ar- rived at Van Wyck avenue I a collision between the trains upon the Long Island Rail- road, and { have no doubt that the death of the perroys above named was caused by said collision. TESTIMONY OF CHARLES H. PALMER. Charles H. Palmer, being sworn, testified as follows— I ama fireman, and reside at Greenpoint; was flreman on the mail train from Hunter's Point on Monday morn- ing; don’t know what time we left Hunter's Point; sup- posed we were behind time; don’t know how long we stopped at Woodside; we went from there to Winfleld; from Winfleld we started for Jamaica; the express train was in motion when I first saw it; I saw the smoke of the train just as it was coming around the curve, and that is the first I saw of ould not tell how fast the express train was going; it was going at the rate of at Jeast fifteen miles an hour; we were just roving along when I first saw the express train; we had blown down the brakes, and I put down my brakes at the first alarm; the engineer told me that they (the express train) were coming; this was three or four minutes before the collision, when the engineer told me they vere coming we were this side of the high bridge; couldn't say how long it was after this that I saw the engineer; I was excited at the time and could not tell how near the engines were together when I first saw the engine of the express train; have been tireman six years, and have been on the Long Island Railroad about four had no watch with me; no flagman was sent around the curve; before leaving Winticld I heard the conductor say Ww the engineer, “You have fourteen minutes to go to Jamaica; I don’t know that { heard the reply; I went and pot on my engine; they were upon the ground at the time of this conversation; Ith nk I said after the collision, “There will be a hell of a time about this’? and by this IT meant to be understood as saying that expected the company would discharge the employes; didn’t hear this observation wade by any per- gon other than iyself; I think the long whistle was blown before we got to the first bridge above high bridge, and it was south of this bridge that the engi neer stated that the express train was coming ; I supposed the persons injured at Van Wyck avenue reeeived their: injuries by the collision; the man who was throwing up his hat was signalling the express train; the conductor gave the or- der to leave Winfleld; owe went at oor usual ronmvg time from Winfleld to Jamaica; my train had jus’ commenced to move back when the collision occurred, our Whistle was biowing ail the tine; if the whistles on both cngines were blown at the same time, the ehgincer could only hear his own whistle, un- Jens the enpines were quite cloxe together; there was a flag in the heguage cur. TH OMONY OV OLIVER CWARLICK. Oliver Cutnick, being sworn, deposed as follows—L reside at New York city; aim engaged in a number of enterprises; am President of the Long Island Railroad; Robert White is the superintendent; (he mail train going east in the morning should Jeave Hunter's Point at hali- paste ght o'clock; that train should meet the ex, train—both being on time—at Queens; if the iail tran is not at Queens it is the duty of tho conductor of the express train to mov to Jamaica, and to wait there four minutes are always to remain four or five min:tes at Ji the mail train not having met him at Queens or it is discretionary with the express conductor to or to wait the four minutes; to avoid al) ac idents this is a general rule, and all other rules are subordinate to that; the mail train being be- hind time must use the sane precaution; I should not consider it the duly of the express train eonductor to send a flagman around the curves, for the same reason that he is not required to send a flagman ahead of him; upon the suppoeition that there was another train between the two stations, approaching, it would be the duty of the express train to wait at Jamaien, and not to leave the station ild be the duty of the enginee of the mail train, ¢ ving any other tain approw ing in the opposite « tw blow down his braki reverse bis engine, drop off & man from his train as soon as the train changed 1t8 motion, with a flag to the other engineer to back his train; the company does not keep a man at Van Wyck avenue to signal the trains; I board conductor had Je"t the station at Winfield on the in, and that one or-the other of the trains vad backed out; don’t curve; the trains run siower aron curve than on @ straight track; the number of brakemen furnished a in depended upon the size of the train; toa train of abt care wo furnish two braken ii and baggage master ; the two last are the most i on the train; if the express train was on tim conductor had vo indication of the other train approach- ing, he would have strictiy the right under the rule to ceed, although had I been present myself I Rave detain'd the train four minutes; the cond: should have the discretion to hold the train the #an if I was present; the conductor and engineer have charge of the train; the engineer is under the direction of the conductor; the conductor has general rupervision; the rexponsibllity of running the trains is divided between the engineers and couductors. TRSTIMONY OF MICHAEL SHEEHAN. T revide at Van Wyck avenue; my house is about six bundred yards from the Long Island Railroad track; 1 was at the litte station between the Long Island and Brooklyn Central tracts, and was wasting to put gome baggave on the Central train; balf-past pine was the time for the Central car; I heard both of the whisles of the two trains—the one coming from Hunter's Point, the other from Jamaica; the train from Hunter's Point war coming around a curve, and as soon as I saw the train I signalled to both the trains; when I first saw the exptess train coming I was on the Jamaica side of the od; T ran towards tt ; 1 hela “A my bat and nds to signal the Jom: train; when I first saw the ‘were i quarter of a mile apait; the train from oint blew for the brakes to be put down, and avery moderate rate of speed; I heard the whistle of the Hanter’s Voint train before it got to the high bridge; it whistled all the time; both trains whiatled; the train from Jamaica began to whistle from the time it left the depot; the express train was going faster than the mail train. TESTIMONY OF JOSEP MANWARING, I live at Jamaica; was on board the mail train from Hunter's Point; it was some litile distance when I first faw the express train; it was ae far as from Remsen's Hotel to the Union Hall; I did see the trains come together; I heard the mail train blow for the brakes at High Bridge; the other train did not blow their whistle until they got pretty close to the mail train; they were about as far off as from Remsen’s to the Dutch ehurch ; T could see the engine of the exprees train; I was about in the centre of the train; when I jamped off the mail train was going slowly, and ni first saw the express train we were going quite slow; Mr. J. A. Simonson ‘was on the seat wilh me and called my attention to approaching train; there were some vacant seats in the car I was in. TRSTIMONY OF H. L. BULKLEY. I live at Jamaica; 1 tried to go down on the half-past nine train on Monday morning, but could not do it; I reached the depot at abont twenty-eight minutes past nine; I know by my own watch; I knew by two clocks in my own honse; I knew by the clock in the County Clerk's office; I knew by the watch of Bernardus Hen- drickron ; T left home it was perhaps ten minutes past nine; I stopped at the County Clerk's office; it was a quarter pret or perbaps seventeen minutes past nine; I remained there afew minutes, and when I left the office it was exac'!y wenty minutes past nine; I stopped then at the Post Oitice; may have been five minutes on the way from the 2, Clerk's office down tothe depot; when 1 got to the depot James 8. Remeen and Bernardus Hendrickson called to me; the train was moving and T spoke half a dozen words to them when I wan.getti out of the wagon; the rear end of the car was then clearing the end of the house; L looked at my watch; it was some twenty odd minutes after nine, and Mr. Hen. drickeon’s was some five or seven minutes alead of mine; on Thursday I set my watch by the railroad time ‘and on Thnreday afternoon I compared my watch with the clock in the County Clerk's that exactly, and office clock on morning ; by the regulator in the Hunter's Point de; OLIVER CHARLICK RECALLED. Tho time pieces uved on the railroad are regulated eveny day; it is the bneiness of the condnetors to regn- Jato their time according to the time at Hunter's Point; we change the regulator perhaps once every month or fis weeks, RAE HB. HARRIS. TRATIMONY OF 0 the arrival of the Greenport oxpress train; T usually noto the arrival of the train and roport 1t to Hunter's Point; by my time this train arrived at my depot at twenty. five minutes past nine; when they left [ took my watch out, and it was thirty-four minutes past nine; f endeavor to keep Hunter's Point time; I tell how many tekets were sold for the half-past nine train; I do not know how many got on the train; we sold’ ninety-five New York tickets, one hundred and thirty whole tockets and fifteen half tickets to Hunter's Point during the day; I might have sold twenty-five or thirty tickets for the balf- past nine train; 1 can’t say positively whether my watch reed with the Hunter's Point time or not, but think tt did; Thad compared my watch with the Hunter's Point time the previous Tuesday; if I had had any idea that the mail train was coming up I would have slopped the express train; I had authority to do so; the em- ployes are held to a strict compliance with tue printed rules and regulations of the company. As none of the other witnesses who had been subpoenaed were present yesterday morning, the jury proceeded to the place at which the collision occurred and made the following measurements :—Distance from the place where the accident happened to High Bridge, 2,700 feet; from luce of collision to the farm road crossing, 2,100 foet; m place of collision to an intermediate crossing, be- tweou Fanner’s crossing, is 1,680 fect; from the piece of collision easterly to the eastern point of the curve is 720 feet. Having noted the above, the jury returned to the inquest room, and, none of the other witnesses having yetarrived, the inquest was adjourned till Friday mora- ing, at nine o'clock, It is the wmtention of the jury en- gaged in this matter to do the utmost in its power to place the blame whore it rightly belongs, regardless of private opinion, and to endeavor to have the guilty ones summarily dealt with. BEHIND TIME AGAIN. The train which should have left Jamaica last eveniny at five minutes to six did not reach that station unt! twenty minutes of eight, and left there just ove hour and three-quarters behind time. The employes of the road, boing asked the reason of such a delay, “did not know,” or they “had a little delay on the road.” One of the passengers stated that they were obliged to back up @ considerable distance, after waiting a long time before starting, at two piaces to allow trains from Hun- ter’s Point to pass. The westward bound train conststed of five or six passenger cars and a baggage car, and on the whole train (here was only the light’ which the con- ductor carried when they left Jamaica, j Collision at Philadelphia. Waswxoton, Angust 20, 1865. Passengers by Inst night's through train from Now York report a collision at Philadelphia, which narrowly escaped wrecking the entire concern. As the train was being backed around Philadelphia a freight train, com- posed mainly of heavy {ron coal cars, also backing on the same track and in the same direction, ran into the pas senger train, destroying the baggage car, smashing the platforms of the first passenger car and breaking a truck and several windows in the second ono . No one was seriously injured, it is thought, although several wete considerably bruised and more frightened. A report that one female passenger was killed on the platform could be traced to no reliable source, and is probably untrue, The Late Terrible Acctdent on the Nash- ville and Decatur Raflroad. A PASSENGER TRAIN CONSISTING OF NINE CARS AND AN ENGINE BREAK DOWN A_ TRESTLE BRIDGK—PORTY OW FIFTY PERSONS KILLED AND INJURED, [From the Nashville Dispatch, August 28.] A terrible accident occurred on the Nashville and Do- catur Ratiroad yesterday about noon. The passenger train which left here for Huntsville yesterday morhing had arrived at Reynolds’ stgion. sixiy-nine miles {rem Nashville, on tim’, and there met a freight train coming this way.’ The (rain then proceeded on and arrived at the trestle across Richland oreek, about threo-fourths of a mile south of Reynolds’, at about twenty minutes past twelve, and while crossing, the trestle gave way under the weight of the train, immediately in the rear of the engine, when the nine cars attacked to the engine went down witha tremendous crash, them weight age the engine with them, crushing and woynding a lk portion of the passengers in a frightfal manner. A tral was immediately sent from here with assistance, and in the meantime every effort was made to extricate the killéd and wounded, Up to the time our informant left yoster- day morning, twelve dead bodies had been taken ‘out of the wreck, and about thirty wounded. There was sup- ed to be still a considerable number of dead under t] wreck, which was being cleared away as raptdly as sible. There was one car which contaned about th negroes, This car seen to be at the bottom of creek, as it had not been reached when our inforr left. and all had of course perished, The enginess . Mayee, was severely wounded, and the flrewan, “J Deretuer, of Owego, New York, was scalded to death. Two express messengers, Movely and Hazlett, of Pulaski, were killed and one other was wounded, A citizen pamed Snodgrass was among the killed, besides others, together with a number of soldiers, whose names we could not learn, The wounded were taken to Athens and Huntsville, where every attention will be paid them, This isa frightful accident, and the details are sickening, Itis terrible to think that imperfect timbers should have been used for such a purpose. ‘The train was well filled With passengers, end it i8 almost @ miracle that avy es- caped with their lives, NEW JERSEY POLITICS. Mecting of the Democratic St; Con- vention—Nomination of Gencral Theo- dore Runyon for Governor—The Reso- lutions of the Convention—The Siates Rights Doetrine Upheld-and Negro Suf- frage Opposed—Sympathy and Grati- tude Expressed for the Soldicrs, &c. ‘Trenron, August 30, 1965. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention met in this city this morning. The attendance is very large. Colonel Robert Hamilton was chosen temporary chair- man, Committees on resolutions, eredentials and permanent organization were appointed, when the Convention ad- Jjourned for dinn APTERNOON SESSION, The Democratic Siate Convention reassembled at two o'clock. General Charles Haight, of Monmouth, was elected President, with a vice president from each Con- gressional district. The following nominations for the candidate for Governor wore made:—Major Geueral Mott, of Burlington; Major General Runyon, of Essex; Theo- dore F. Randolph, of Hudson; Moses Bigelow, of Essex, and Samuel J. Bayard, of Gloucester, ‘THK FIRST HALLOT. 50 Bi Randolph. 87 “8 80 35 17 THIRD BALLOT. » 265 Randolph 14 : 160 Bayard... u ‘The name of Mr. Bayard was withdrawn, and Somor- set county changed her vote, which gave General Renyon three hundred and twenty-two votes. Other ties changed, and he wae unanimously nominated, Sommaittee on Resolutions reported a series charg- consequences of the war on the election of a President and the fanaticism of a soctional favoring a return of the government to it ori- declaring ant insisting on osing ne uffrage em. sident Johnson that this party ginal purposes and objects Tights of the States; o} iy; agreeing with gold and silver currency; opposing the exemption ernment bonds from taxation as unequal; express ing sympathy and gratitude to the soldiers; insisting that the government i pay the soldiers the full bounty promised to them; opposing military arrests; favoring freedom of elections, and the restoration of the habeas corpus, and “coming down’? on the national debt as “onerous and improperly managed.” After a speech of much force from General Runyon the Convention adjourn News from New Ortle Texas. New Onunaxs, Auguet 20, 1865, ‘The steamer B. E. Hill sunk in Yazoo river on Satur- day night, Boat and cargo are a total lows, Advices from the Mexican border to the 19th instant represent fa curiously fraternal state of affairs between our generals on the Rio Grande and certain dignitaries of the Maximilian government, who, it seems, have been hobnobbing together and toasting each other in truly convivial style; and our generals are reported as expressing friendship for the empire. The steamship Andalusian, from Boston, arrived to- day. Carl Shura has arrived at Vicksburg on bis tour of in- apection, The New © mber of Commerce in Chicago. Cuicaco, August 30, 1865. The new Chamber of Commerce building was for mally dedicated this forenoon. A large assomblage of citizens and strangers were present, and the ceremonies passed off harmoniously, The opening address was de- livered by Mr. Charles Randolph, President of the Board of Trade, and responsos were made by numerous dele- gatos from other States and Canada. The most perfect good "Seoetes take among all parties . A takes place this evening the new ihiing. A ore and marderone plot to release ali the prison- ine oon oh Jie, Tillmgie. psa bean die: onyerge THE RICHMOND MASS MEETING. Reconstructionary Movement in Virginia. A SINGULAR SET OF RESOLUTIONS, The Richmond Rebels Complain that the North- ern People Refuse to Trust Them Impli- citly as Good and True Unionists. Very Much Pleased With and Resolved to Support the President's Re- construction Policy. &e. &e, &. Our Richmond Correspondence. Ricumonp, Va., August 20—6 P. M. An hour since witnessed the opening of that long an- nounced anomaly in the city of Richmond—the capitu- lated capital of the rebels—a Union (?) mass meeting. ‘Tho meeting is being held in the public square, in the midst of which is the Capitol, the statues of Washinggon, . Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason and Henry Clay. ‘The flags of the United States and Virginia float over the main speaker's stand, and an immense crowd are gathered together to behold the strange scene, As this despatch: must be on its way to New York in less than half an hour, T can but present fou with the mercet sketch of the affair, together with its most important feature—tho resolutions which have been already adopted, with some little appa- rent opthusiasin, They were written by Judge Meredith, of the Court of Conciliation, and will, under the singulag circumstanges a which they are given to the world, at tract a wide degree of attention and perusal. THE PRESKLNT. Judge Willlam H. Lyons prevides, alvo of the Coneifing tion Court, assisted by five vice presidents from among the prominent citizens of Richmond, THE STAND whence the speaking takes place is a model erection, be- ing strongly and conveniently built, with elaborate ac- commodations for the Richmond reporters, and a ¢om- fortable position for the m ‘ans, who break the air with the long unknown sounds of ‘ Yankee Doodle,’? “The Star Spangled Bavner,’’ and other national pieces: #0 long estranged from Southern cars, THE SPRAKERS are Raleigh T. Daniel, James Lyons, W. H. Macforland and Thomas P. August, all eminent rebels six months ago, willing and desirous, but wanting the ability, to mince meat the Union armies beleaguering them in this capital, P wpag THE TENOR OF THE MEETING. The readers of the Henan will catch tho tenor of the speeches from the accompanying resolutions. It is re- garded as a litle singular that among the speakers there is no well pronounced Union man whose ringing elo- quence, broad statesmanship and untemporizing motives: would tend to lend to the occasion an element of honesty aud apparent sincerity. THE RESOLUTIONS. The following are the resolutions adopted by the meet- ine, Their significant character will be at once to the attentive reader ;— We, tho people of the city of Richmond, in mass meet- ing assembled to express our opinions in the present exi- gency of public affairs, do Resolve, That we have witnessed with just indignation the pers'stent and wicked efforts of a portion of the press aud people o° the Northern States to brand the people of the South v peat and insincerity in the honest at- tempts they have made, and are making, to resume their former relations with the Union, by questioning their fidelity and trath in the oaths of allegiance whi have taken, aud, by vague and unsupported charges, that they desire, if they do not contemplate, further re- sistance to its authority, Such imputations are not only false, but mischievous, being calentated to retard, if they be not designed to defeat, that pervect and constitutional restoration of the Union which the war was prokemmeriy waged against the seecd ug States to effect, and whic! good men and patriots in all sections of the country earnegtly desire to implich, And it being of the last importance that the minds of the whole people be disa- bused of theee errors, and particularly that the authori. tles at Washinton truly in-ormed of the temper and disposition 0: the Southern people, we do solemnly pro nonince these end all other Imputations upon them of @ Kindred cbaracier, no matter from what source come, to be utterly ungrounded and false. Resolved, That the general temper and disposition of the Southern people, including our own, are wo amd acquiesce in the results of the late sanguinary strug- xle and to resume the doties of cirizensfip ia the Union. That the men of character and ability who have hitherto influencod public sentiment neither advise nor intend anything different from the dsehorge of their duties aa citizens of the United States, and are setting au example of full and ready submission to the authority of tts government, and coungel a full recognition of the facts of the actual situation, ineluding the accept'd and irre- vernible abolition of slavery. Resolved, That we, the people of Richmond, fally and thoroughly comprehending nnd accepting the results of that straggle in all their force and sigmiicance, and as one of the most important, the abolition of slavery, already effected by the restored constitution of the State under which we live and which we are sworn (o support, do pledge ourselves to support the reconsteuction policy of the President, which purposes a restored ce ity of rights and privileges to all the States, inch ling, the power in each to regulate the right of suilrago for a as distinguished from the reckloas and pernicious theo- ries of the so-called radical party, which propose to the Southern States the alternative of negro su or an lusion from the benefits of a common and equal Union; and that we will support the natiopal au- thority and the supreme rule of law and order a. where, as the only sure guarantee for the re-cetablish- meut Of the rights snd privileges of our own and of the ee. Southern States, under the constitution, in the nion. Resolved, That we earnestly recommend to our fellow citizens throughout the State to bold aT an soon ae practicable in their respective co nties to and adopt suitable resolutions expressive (as we do not doubt they will be) of their entire eympathy in the — purposes and objects herein declared; that no cload Houbt, no shadow of suspicion may rest on the Integrity, honor and good faith of their expressed and attempts to resume tho duties of allegiagce to the United States, Resolved, That it 18 no less a pleasure than a on our part to give public expression to the extesan re. spect which we feel for the present Chief Magistrate our Stat hose conciliat bearing, frank and manly statesmansh' manne! oy bi, iy E & and firm and well consi aba — succosefplly . With the have enabled him to grapple usual diffieutties of his position. to vee a face to face as we appreciate the true character of our thrown himeelf without rererve on fulnes# and conscientiousness, and they have will continue to meet, him in a like epirit of fidence. THE PAY DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA. 1 Stanton Not Connected with the Richmond Banks. OUR RICHMOND CORKRSVONDENCE. Ricusoxn, August 20, 1866. THE PAY DEPARTMENT DIFFICULTIES It ts not true that Lieutenant Colonel Stanton, Acting Chief Paymaster of the district of Virginia and North Carolina, is in any way connected with the travsac of Binney and others, Inspector General Gibeon, of the United States Pay Department, explicitly relieves Colonel Stanton and Major Fithian, the two paymasters stationed if Richmond, frotn all conneotion with the un- fortunate disturbances. This statement may be im Iy relied ‘upon, ‘and should be given to the pabiie in be Lalf of two of the Gnest officers in this or any other de- partment of the army. c RRA OF ASHRAIOR RB. PW. GARNETT, RP. W. Assessor of the United States Inter: nal Revenue for the First district of Virginia, is about to tender his resignation of the o ve Fire in New Hav New Have, Conn., August 30, 1865. ‘The caddlery and hardware establishment of the Lind. tay Firearms Company im this city was destroyed by fre at noon to-day, The loss of the company is thirty thou- sand dollars, on which there js an insurance of twenty: eight thousand, mostly in New York companies. Tho fire communicated to a large brick building oo cupied by the Parmalee Pianoforte Company, destroying the interior of the building and ® large amount of val- “Stare the pianoforte company is twenty-eight insurance Ext thousand on which there is an oa twenty Tho fire was accidental. Fire in St. Louls. Br. Loum, Angust 90, 1968. ‘Two hemp warehouses on the eorner of Ashley and Second streets, containing 10,000 bales of hemp, were Durned Inst night, Total loss about $825,000; aa . incipal loners aro B. W. Lowi ey a ogi ee & Go., Carr & hue, worth & Co and 2 s