The New York Herald Newspaper, August 31, 1865, Page 2

WHOLE, NO. 10,594. —— .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 it * Will Not. Confirmation of the Rumor that the Failure was Maliciously Caused. RISE IN THE TELEGRAPH STOCK. General Hopefulness and En- couragement, OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. FEARS OF TNS CHOLERA IN ENGLAND. IRELAND. MORE FENIANISM ad Prussia and Austria and Théir Dificulties, ADVANCE IN FIVE-TWENTIES. , &e. &e. Haurax, August 30, 1965. ‘The stoamship Africa, from Liverpool at half-past eight @’clock on the morning ofthe 19th, via Queenstown on the 20th, arrived at Halifax Ie last night. She bas , twenty-nine Halifax and one hundred and twenty Boston Passengers. The 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 ehip EB. A. Gabain in lat. 51 52, long. 18 35, bound west. On the 24th passed a steamer, supposed to be the Asia, Dound east. On the 27th passed the steamship Cuba in Jat. 47 50, long. 49, bound east, ‘The Africa sailed for Boston at two o’clock this ‘ing, where sho will be due on Thursday afternoon. ‘The extra Cunard steamship Tripoli, which left Liver- poo? 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 ‘Mmst., and reached Liverpool’ at ten o’clock on the same night, ' 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, The only discouraging circum. tance is the apparent inability of electricians to iscover 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, ‘whother 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 Jife. ‘The Daily News special correspondent says:—It is more than probable that the Great Eastern will be de- the experience of @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 onoc. ‘The prospecty of the Atlantic cable were the pri ‘The report of the Great Eastern had a favorable effect ‘be done. . ‘The London Times says that the result of the proceed. flags on the Great Fastern demonstrate the complete ‘feasability ofthe Atlantic telegraph. The princi dif. Failure ensued which may be called provoking from Explanation’ is required why the haul- defective; but the expenence gained Tedeem their error and ac- are overcome. th the facts they do not cause dismay; but, ultimate success ; and assuming interested can a una Gary arrangements at once, it 1s even now not impossible that attempts at telegraphic communication with Ameri- a may be commenced before autumn has passed. Mee pe prospects of the cable I point view, although some express it will not be recovered, and that the enter- present. The opinion, however, Vhat ultimate success is only a Daily News says:—Fresh contracts will have to and new arrangements entered into, in the Groat Eastern being sent out again, both owners and the construction company, and Jatter and the Atlantic: bipedal company. uestion, as may be sup) will mainly resolve of finance; but it is confidently believed ship will bo again despatched without un. . Meanwhile she proceeds to Sheerness, C ged to arrive on the 20th. She passed 0 afternoon of the 18th bound up the Times of the 19th inst., publishes Russell's diary of the expedition, occupying seven columns, and in a on the subject remarks that, although the results 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 tho equinoxial gales are past ‘the month of October is generally calm, and further dela: ‘must cause @ total loss of the ‘on of the cable which has been payed out. One malicious lg was discov. A piece of iron wire was run through the covering, dead earth. ered. CAPTAIN ANDERSON ON THE CABLE. ae m, of the Nay an in a letter, says it will require ton months to provide proper gear for hi the ‘Aulaatie cable and to toake the necessary Tepairs to the Great Eastern. Ho that the cable should be made aud laid in and the co up and repaired, @onfidence in the fatu FETE i 333) i ail as eve! ire success of the cable, but thinks It useless to renew the attempt to lay it during the win- ter months. RISK IN TELEGRAPH SHARES. , Atlantic preference shares are quoted at 214 a 2). ening of the Suez Canal. Sil std fm he Neto a ‘vesse! w om the he Red Sea. Rew Rprpenes, Sens, of Steamers for merion. The prospocta te ished for the new fortnightly steam li with vesetls of fo thousand tons burden, Between 8 and Net York. The Cy is to be jundred o fouthampton with Ant 1 London, Groagh re og erlabiiened bevween thove ame enterprise is said to be supported by the London Southwestern Railway Company, South: Dock | Company and other important conce!ne. rar Fen wm in 7 nd. A Fenian demonstration on's Srna wore had taxén ——— and military preparations bad been tnade by the authori- ties, and order was not disturbed, A Limerick paper states that, a few nights since, the, }enians made a demonstration there, About one hun- dred and fifty marched throagh the streets in military order, singing “The Fenian Men;” and @ letter in the Beifust News Letter alleges that the members of the or- ganization resident in Banbridge are threatening a most formidable breach of the law. For the last few months they have been secretly preparing and collecting the in- etraments necessary for the perfection of their disloyal and wicked projects. Arms and drums, with the accom- panying instgnia of banners, &ec., have been pur- Chased for the approaching display, which is to come off on Ube 14th of August. A branch of the 1. nian conspirators has, it is said, presented three or four light fleld pieces and a@ quantity of smail arms. The leaders, who are supposed to be in constant communication with those of other dlatiots, have notified ‘the men of Newry, Dundalk, Armagb and the towns in thetr own neighborhood to assemble at the Scarva Junc- ‘tion on the day above stated.” [From the London Post.} A singular caze of alleged Feniau:sm turned up in Dub- Yin 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 admission on some pretence or other. entered into conversation with two re- cruits, and, after enlisting their attention for some time, commenced speaking about there being a hope for Ire- Jand becoming a ‘nation’? again, and aaserting ber inde- pendence, The young men listened to him, and eventu- ly had tendered to them by him aform 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 Jeave the canteen, He saw his off and re- turned with him, but the bird had flown. Meanwhile bis comrade had received from the tempter invitation to attend a meeting of five hundred Fenians at Trinity place (in close contiguity to College green), the same evening; and also a half of a shoemaker'’s card, very Althy and greasy, with the name “C. McDermott” writ. ten thereon, ‘his ig the only clue Acting Inspector Daweon, of the detective force, had to the discovery of the party; but, after a great deal to do and the exercise of much sagacity, he this morning succeeded in arrest- ing bim. The prisoner was remanded until Thursday, Cholera Feared in England. Apprehensions of the approach of the cholera were btm in England. The epidemic had reached Mar- seilles. At an important meeting of medical officers and others, in London, resolutions were adopted advising the utmost care and all poseible precautions, France. Weekly returns of the Bank of France show an in- z ‘ase of cash of about one million and three-quarters of rancs, The Cherbourg féles continued until the 18th, when the Ffench and English eqnadrons left for Brest. All paseed off well, although the brilliancy of the earlier Proceedings were marred by storm: ‘ther, The Euperor and Ewpress ved at Strasbourg on the 18th. Bourse Gat, closing firmer at 68f. 15c, ; Spain. Prince Francis, Duke of Cadiz, father of the presen King, died recently, aged soventy-oue 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 Prnssia is con- cluded. Concorning the Duchies Prussia gets Lurmbrug, paying Austria a pecuniary indemnity. The provisional overnment of the Duchies continues. Prussia rules chleswig and Austria Holstein. ‘The official Vienna Zeitung reprints an article from its 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 teccive imperial sanction. All collision between the Powers has bean avoided by this understanding, in which mutual re- clamations and federal riguts have been vindicated, and union between the German Powers insured. r 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 on a new Ru Two ehips 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 Senate and the people. - Ina Bomnay, August 11.—Cott ORE oh 10, —Sheeti banged ‘ALCUTTA, gust eetings unchanged. change 28. 1d. ‘ Commercial Intelligence. LONDON MONEY MARKET—avGust 19. Consols are firmer and advancing. The discount mar- ket is unébanged. Lonpox, August 20, 1863, Consols closed at 89% a 897% for money. AMERICAN. SBCURIT Tiinois Central shares, 7834 a 79; Erie shares, 52% a 631; ; five-twenties, 68 a 683g. LIVERPOOL MARKETS—AvUGuET 19. Sales yesterday 15,000 bales, including 7,000 bales to speculators and exporters, The market was firmer, but prices were unchanged. Breapsturre,—The market is dull and nominal. The weather has been favorable for the crops. Provigions,—The market is firm, Propuce.—The market is steady. Sperm oil tends up- ward; sales at 97s, LONDON MARKETS. Breadstuffs. upward. Red Western wheat is quoted at 438, a 662, Iron quict and steady. Sugar has a down- ward tendency. Coflve heavy and deckned ls. a Is. 6d. Tea steady. Rice firm. Tailow steady at 448. Spirits turpentine dull and dormant at 45s. Petroleum scarce; crude at 28. 8d. Sperm oil upward; quoted at £95 per tun. ° is quiet. Ex- NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE, Our Fortress Monroe Correspondence. EPP. DAVIS, CLAY AND MITCHELL. Fortress Monros, August 29, 1865. There are no new developments regarding elther Jeff. Davis, or Mr. Clay or Mitchel, Each still liveson at the expense of Uncle Sam, and lives well; each occupies the same casemate 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 iinpression that he is allowed freedom in writ- ing | which is not the case, He was allowed to write the letter referred to by the Secrotary of War, and this was vised before it was sent, and is the only letter he has been allowed to write. has grumbled 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 ho will be tried is less @ settled question than ever, MILITARY MATTERS, The Third Pennsylvania heavy artillery regiment still 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 regiment in the fleld—but to allow it to be mustered out of service— an order to which effect both officers and men are look- way t0- mustering 00 regiment, Lieutenant Colonel White commanding, and the transfer of General Ludow from Yorktown and Wil- lameburg to . Before assuming his new com- mand_ the General makes a brief visit North, going away by this afternoon's steamer. AFPAIKS AT NORFOLK. It is about as dull in Norfolk as here. The only no- ticeable events of recent oceurrence are the turning over of the Jurisdiction of the city last evening to the Colonel Taylor, late General and agent of the New believed the the military can take hold of the nicipal rein: However mach of a revel Colonel Taylor may hav , he is certainly very popular among his neighbors, and in accounted a man of unusual firm, business capacities, The Press Despatch, Fortrers Monroe, August 28, 1865, Brigadier General Osborne and staff arrived in Norfol k this morning from Richmond. The General ts en route for his 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 Islands arrived last night at Norfolk. Her eaptain reports that on the eve of her di hi ineer went ashore for the mails, and on he return "0 the boat was attacked by two negrece; Whereupon he dofended himself by knock- ro of them down, for which he was arrested and locked up over Fe. In the morning he was brought before Colonel Holmes, of the Firet United States colored regiment, tried and itted. Tho officers of the steamer say the negroes do as on the island, and it is uneafe for ® white man to land there, Outward Bound, The C Boston, August 30, 1966. ‘The steamship China sailed at haif-pant two o'clock Exchange NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1865. THE SLAUGHTER. Accidents on Railroads Since the Com- * mencement of the Year. Two Mundred and Sixty-six Killed and Eleven Hundred and Nine 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. Killed. Wo'ded. 8—Michigan Central . 3—New Jersey..... 6—Morris and Essex, N. 7—Baltimore and Ohio. $—Hudson River... § 11—Norwich and Worcester. 14—Cleveland and Toledo. 16—Lackawana and Bloomsburg. 16—Catawissa............. 18—O. and Miss. explosion of locomotive 18—Hudeon River... 18—Indiana Centra). 18—Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. 19—Corry and’ Titusvill 19—Pitt-burg and 21—Northern Central 21-—Philadelphia and Eri 21—Iron Mountain, Mo, 23—Pennsylvania. Date 141 S8Sn1 a8! S801 ae Siwswa 28—Ohio and Mississipy 28—Indianapolis and ¢ 28—Covington and Lexingion, 29—Nashville. 29—Pacific. 30—Galena 31—Hudson River, $1—Cleveland and Toledo, Total (29 accidents). . VRBRUARY. 2—Pennsylvania, explosion of locomotive 4—Marietta and Cincinnati. 4—Pennsyivania... 6—Baltimore and Ohio. 8—Ohio and Mississippi 12—Baltimore and Ohio. 16—New York and New Haven 15—St. Lonis and Chicago, . 16—Ohio and Mississippi 16—Louieville and Chicago . 16—St. Louis and Chicago. 17—New York and 21—Pittsburg and Erte. . *. 22—Piusburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. 23—New York Central. 24—Long Island. 24—Pennaylvania. 26—Hudson River. 26—Knoxville and Chattanoo,a, 27—Cleveland and Columbus, 27—Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chica; Total (21 accidents)....... MARCH, 1—Nnsbville and Chattanooga. ....... i 2—Pitt-birg, Fort Wayne and Chicago. . 3—Opelouas, La 7—Camden and Amboy... &—Hudson River. 9—Hudson River. 9—Erie ... 10—Long Island. 10—Obio and Mississippi. M—Erie........ 17—New Jersey Central 17—New Jersey Central 20—New Jersey Central. 22—Terve Haute... 23—New York Central....... 29—Kuoxville and Chattanooga Total (16 accidents)... Pb mt bel el el | eee SanBeanS Bl aewnel [ewe SeiolnlelFe BIITI I bat om B Seman S! eoS! woke! Fy we BSe two accidents: in one day Kl melbaomt | tol wasn | eBrowl | mean! APRIL. 2—Indianapolie and Cincinnati. 6—Charleston and Memphis. 7—Baltimore and Ohic 10—N. Y. Contral—explos 12—Cieveland and Toledo 13—New Jersey 22—Cincinnatt, Total (7 accidents) SILL ee mwces ' Bl emsnese 11—Baltimore and Ohio.. 16—Pennsyivania i 18—Chicago, Alton and St. Louis—explo- sion of locomotive, 21—City Point, Va 29—North Carolin 30—Cleveland and Pimbarg — --East Teunessee avd Virgi Total (10 accidents)... Bl commerce | scones 12—Explosion of locomotiv 13—Baltimore and Washingt 17—Pennsyivania.... ‘ork Central. . a" Miseieei yp) Iphia and Baltimore 26—Washington 27—Rutland and Burlington 28—Mobile and Great Northern. Total (14 accidents)....... JULY. 1—Hadson River. 1—Now Haven.. 4—Northern Central, 4—Missiseippl and Tennessee ‘At Centrolia, Mo. 7—Michigan Centra 17—Mobile and Montgomery 18—New Haven... 20—Obi0 and Mississippi Zi—South side, 22—Camden and ‘%4—Cincinn 81—Miszissippi and Tennesse Total (14 accidents). BivelBlleSercoed Ble%enStaccato on SIS aS! wl wl 2—Penneylvania, 2 4—Ohio and Mississippi... 9—Norwich and Worcester. 10—At Muscatine, Iowa, * 10—AUantic and Great Western—explosiod eS! l 20 ide... “ 10 a1—Ch and Northwestern,.., 3 22—New Haven and Stonington, 9 23—Old Colony. 6 24—Oil Creek efi 8 ‘%4—Pittaburg and Fort Wayne 1 26—Nashville and Nec ” *70 26—Petersburg, Va. endville, Pa. SlelweSiablewse enwe Slelecwmlonnliiw 8! wwmlalinliwe we 26—Near M 28—Hudeon River. 1 26—Long Ivland.. 16 Total (17 aocidenta).....c.seceeeeees 161 A THR TOT. Total accidents in ei Total nomber of killed. Total number of wounded. * Rati An we have not yet received full detaile, Each new gram from Nashville, however, giver a greater pumber of ‘the last one ‘that “one af a. het of ‘stream, and has not yet been reached, K {s eaid that it contained over twenty negro soldiera, who have, of course, all perished.” THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD. Continuation 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 profession; was called upon to attend William Gauley, William Waiker, Jos¢ph Wilson, Shel- don Crooker and John George Lowell; these Qve 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 alongsido of the track; Joseph Wilson’s flesh was torn off the upper and lower parts of the legs; his injuries, I found, were fatal ; Sheldon Crook: 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; Joseph Wilson died about three’o’clock, in the afternoon of the game 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 discovered there had been 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 fireman on the mail train from Hunter's Point oa 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 Winfield: from Winfleld we started for Jamaica; the express train wags 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 it; could not tell b express train was going; it’ was going at the least fifteen miles an hour; we were just roving along when I first saw the express train; we had blown down the brakes, aud I put down my’ brakes at the first alarm; the engineer told ine that they (the express train) were coming; this was three or four minutes before the collision, when the engineer told me they were coming we were this side of the high bridge; couldn't ray 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 tho express train; have been tireman six years, and have been on the Long Island Railroad about four months; had no watch with me; no. flagman wa around the curve; before Wintield I hear conductor say to the eu; “You have fourteen minutes to go to Jamaica; I don’t kn {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 atter the collision, “There will be a hell of atime about this,’ and by this I meant to be understood as saying that T expected the company would discharge the employes; didu’t hear this observation made by any per- son other than inyself; I think the tong whistle was blown before we got to the first bridge above high bridge, and it was south of this bridge that the enzi- 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 cond e the or- der to leave’ Winfleld ; meat our usual ranning tine from Winfeld to Jamaica; my train had just commenced to move back when th collision occurred ; our Whistle was biowing ail the time; if the whistles on both engines were blown at the same time, the ehgincer could only hear his own whistle, un- es were quite close together; there was a mage cur, TE MONY OF OLIVER CMAKLIOK. Oliver Catiuck, beng sworn, deposed as follows—I reside at New York city; aim engaged in a number of enterprises; am President of the Long Isiand Railroad; Robert White is the superintendent; the mail train going east in the morning should leave Hunter's Point at hali- paste ght o'clock; that train should meet the express train—both being on time—at Queens; if the mail tran ig not at Queens it is the dity of the conductor of the express train to move on to Jamaica, aud to wait there four minutes; the cars are always to remain four or five min:.tes at Jamaica; the mail train not baving met him at Queens or Jamuica, it is discretionary with the express conductor to move on or to Wait the four minutes; to avoid aij ac idents this is a general rule, and ali other rules are subordinate to that; the mail tain being be- hind time must use the same precaution; L should not consider it (he duty of the express train ¢onductor 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 supposition that there Was another train between the two stations, approaching, it would be the duty of the express train to wait at Jainuien, and not to leave the station; it would be the duty of the engineer of the mail (rain, on perceiving any other train approuch- ing in the opposite direction, to blow down his brakes, reverse bis engine, drop off & man from his train as soon as the train changed its motion, with a flag to the other enginecr to back his train; the company does not keep a man at Van Wyck avenue to signal the trains; T beard that a conductor bad le"t the station at Winfield on the time of an extra train, and that one or-the other of the trains vad backed out; don’t think this was on the he trains run slower around the curve than on a straight track; the number of brakemen furnished a train depended upon the size of the train; toa train of eight cars we furnish two brakemen, besides the fireman and baggage master; the two last ave the nest important on the train; if the express train was on time, and the 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 shouid Fave detained the train four minutes; the conductor should have the diecretion to hold the train the same as 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 responsibility of running the trains ie divided between the engineers and conductors. TESTIMONY OF MICHAEL SHREHAN. I revide at Van Wyck avenue; my house is about six hundred yards from the Long Island Railroad tract 1 was at the litte station between the Long Island and Brooklyn Central tracts, and was waiting to pul dome baggave on the Central train; balf-past pine was the time for the Central car; I beard both of the whisies of the two trains—the one coming from Hunter's Point, the other trom Jamaica; the train from Hunter's Point was coming around a curve, and as soon as I saw the train I signalled to both the trains; when I first saw the exptese train coming I was on the Jamaien side of the od; Tran towards tiat tran; I held vp my bat and ands to signal the Jamaica train; when I first saw the trains they were a quarter of a mile apart; the train from Hunter's Point blew for the brakes to be put down, and it came ata very moderate rate of speed; I heard the whistle of the Hunter's Point train before it got to the high bridge; it whistled all the time; both trains whistled ; the train from Jamaica began to whisle from the time it left the depot; the express train was going faster than the mail train, TESTIMONY OF JOSFPIT MANWARING, I live at Jamaica; was on board the mail train from ' Hunter's Point; it was some litile distance when I first saw the express train; it was as far as from Remsen's Hotel to the Union Hall; I did not 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 chureh ; I could see the enyine of the express train; I was about in the centre of the train; when I jamped off the mail train was going slowly, and when I first saw the express train we were gol ite slow; M A. Simonson was on the seat with mo and called my attention to the approaching train; there were some vacant seats in the car I was in. TESTIMONY OF H. L. BULKLEY. I live at Jamaica; 1 tried to go down on the half-past nine train on Monday moruing, but could not do it; I reached the depot at about twenty eight minutes past nine; I know by my own watch; I knew by two clocks in my own house; I knew by the clock in the County Clerk's office; I knew by the watch of Bernardus Hen- drickron; when I left home it was perhape ten minutes past nine; I stopped at the County Clerk's office; it was a quarter past or perhaps seventeen minutes past nine; I remained (here afew minutes, and when I left the office it was exactly wenty minutes past nine; I stopped then at the Post itice; may bave been five minutes on the way from the Coumy Clerk's office down to the depot; when 1 got to the James 8. Remeen and Bernardus Hendrickson called to me; the train was moving and I spoke half a dozen words to them when I was.gettin, out of the wagon; the rear end of the car was then clearing the end of the house; I looked at my watch; it was rome twenty odd minutes after nine, and Mr. Hen- drick#on’s was some five of seven minutes ahead of mine; on Thursday | cet my watch by the railroad time ‘and on Thoreday afternoon I ee rd watch with the clock in the County Clerk’s office and it agreed with that exactly, and it also agreed with the County Clerk's office on Monday morning; 1 regulated my watch by the regulator in the Hunter's Point depot, OLIVER CHARLICK RECALLED. The time pieces used on the railroad are regniated every day; it is the bneiness of the condnctors to regn- date their time according to the time at Hunter's Point; we change the regulator perhaps once every month or tis weeks. TRATIMONY OF OMARSES FR. HARAIA. Up" the sesnh Say sae vena, novige ihe Slag af PRICE FOUR CENTS. the arrival of the Greenport oxpress train; T usually note the arrival of the train and roport it 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 tckets were sold for the half-past nine train; I do not know how many got on the train; we sold ninety-five Now York tickets, one hundred and thirty whole tickets and fifteen half tickets to Hunter’s Poiut during sor Ly might have sold twenty-five or thirty tickets for the half. 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 stopped the express train; I had authority to do so; the em- ployes aro held to a strict compliance with the printed rules and regulations of the company. As none of the other witnesses who had bee subpanaed 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 place Of collision to the farm road crossing, 2,100 feet; m place of collision to an intermediate crossing, be- tween 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 intention of the jury en- gaged in this matter to do the utmost in its power to place the blame where it rightly bolongs, regardlees of private opinion, and to endeavor to have the guilty ones ‘summarily dealt with, BRAIND TIME AGAIN. The train which should have left Jamaica last eveniny at five minutes to six did not reach that station atl twenty minutes of eight, and left there just one hour And three-quarters behind time. The employes of the road, being 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 there was only the light’ which the con- ductor cairied when they left Jamaica, = Collision at Philadelphia. Wasmxotox, Angust 20, 1865. Passengers by last night's through train from New York report a collision at Philadelphia, parrowly escaped wrecking the entire concern. As the train was being backed around Philadelphia a freight train, com- posed mainly of heavy iron coal cars, also backing on the same track and in the same direction, ran into the pas- senger train, destroying the baggage car, smashing tho Platforms of the first passenger car and breaking a track and several windows in the second one No one was seriously injured, it is thought, although several were considerably bruised and more frightened. Areport that oue 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 BRIDGE—FORTY OW FIFTY PERSONS KILLED AND A LARGE NUMBER INJURED. {From the Nashville Dispatch, August 28.) A terrible accident occurred on the’ Nashville and Do- catur Railroad yesterday about noon. ‘The passenger train which lft here for Huntsville yesterday morhing had arrived at Reynolds’ stagion. sixiy-nine miles {rom Nashville, on timé, and there met a freight train coming this way. The (rain then procecded on and arrived at the trestle across Richland oreck, about three-fourths of a mile south of Reynolds’, at about twenty minutes past twelve, and while crossing, the trestle gave way under t of the train, immediately in the rear of the engine, when the nine cars aitached to the engine went down witha tremendous erash, their weight eee the engine with them, crushing aud wounding @ lat Portion of the passengers in a frightfui manner. A tt was immediately sent from here with assistance, and in the meantime every effort was made to extricate the killed and wounded. Up to the time our informant left yester- day morning, twelve dead bodies bad been taken ‘out of the wrecis, and about thirty wounded. There was sup- poved 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 contained about thi nogroes, ‘This car appeared to be at the bottom of creek, agit had not been reached when our inforn left, and all had of course perished. ‘The engineor, W. Maee, was severely wounded, and the freuan,” Deretuer, of Owego, New York, was scalded to death. Two express messengers, Mosely and Hazlett, of Pulaski, were killed and one other was wounded,’ A citizen named Snodgrass was among the killed, besides others, together with a number of suldiers, Whose names we could not learn, The wounded were taken to Athens and Huntsville, wher tion will be paid them, This isa frightful ac he details are sickening. Itis torriblo to think that imperfect timbers should have been used for such a purpose. The train was well filled With passengers, ond it is almost a miracle that apy es- caped with their live: NEW JERSEY POLITICS, Mecting of the Democratic State Con- vention—Nomination of Gencral Theo- dore Runyon for Governor—The Reso- lutions of the Convention—The Siates Rights Doetrine Upheid-and Negro Suf- frage Opposed—Sympathy and Grati- tude Expr for the Soldicrs, &c. TRenion, August 30, 1965. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention met in this city this morning. The attendance is very large. Colonel Robert Hamilion was chosen temporary chair- man, Committecs on resolutions, credentials and permanent organization were appointed, when the Convention ad- Journed for dinner. AFTERNOON SESSION, The Democratic State 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 mad: Major General 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 HALLO, 87 THE THIRD BALLOT. Runyon «++ 265 Randolph. Mott. . 169 Bayard, Bigelow i The name of Mr. Bayard was withdrawn, end Somer- set county changed her vote, which gave General Renyon three hundred and twenty-two votes. Other counties changed, and he war unanimously nominated, ‘The Committee on Resolutions reported a series charg- ing the consequences of the war on the election of a sectional President and the fanaticism of a sectional party; favoring a return of the government to its orl- ginal purposes and objects; declaring ant insisting on the rights of the States; opposing negro suffrage em Pphatically ; agreeing with President Johnson that this snbject must be left with the States; favoring a return to the gold and silver currency; opposing the exemption of government bonds from taxation as unequal; express. ing sympathy and gratitude to the soldiers; insisting that the government shall pay the soldiers the fall 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.” Afler & speech of much force from General Runyon the Convention adjourned. News from New Orleans and Texas, New Ontsaxs, August 20, 1965, The steamer B. E. Hill sunk in Yazoo river on Satur- day night, Boat and cargo are a total loss, 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 Vickeburg on his tour of in- apection. —_——. The New Chamber of Commerce in Chicago. Cmicaco, 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 responses were made by numerous dele- gates from other States and Canada. The most perfect good feeling ail i LA aha bate abe Hae this Vrening the now Dg. A and marderone plot to teleace al) the prison. on ine ep ry Joie, Dimoie. pes been dim 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 fmpli- citly as Gocd and True Unionists. Very Much Pleased With and Resolved to Support the President's Re- construction Policy. &e. &. &e. Our Richmond Correspondence, Rictuoxp, 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 Washingjon, . 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 despateh must be on its way to New York in less than half an hour, T can but present fou with the mervet sketch of the affair, together with its most important feature—the resolutions which have been already adopted, with some little appa- rent enthusiasm, They were written by Judge Meredith, of the Court of Concilistion, and will, under the singulag circumstanges in which they are given to the world, at tract a wide degree of attention and perusal, THE PRESMLST. Judge William H. Lyons presides, aleo of the Coneiling 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 eom- fortable position for the musicians, who break the air with the long unknown sounds of ‘ Yankeo Doodle,” “The Star Spangled Banner,’ and other national pieces 80 long estranged from Southern ears. THE SPHAKERS 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, THE TENOR OF THE MEETING. The readers of the HxRarp will catch tho tenor éf the specches from the accompanying resolutions. It is re- garded as a litte 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 adoptea by the meet- ine, Their signtficant character will be at once to the attentive reader: — We, the people of the city of Richmond, in mass meet- ing asssmbled to express our opinions in the present ext- gency of pubhie affairs, do Resolve, That we have witnessed with just indignation the pers'stent and wic! offirts of a portion of the prees aud people o” the Northern States to brand the people of the South withrpe y and insincerity in the honest at- tempts they have made, and are making, to resume their formor relations with the Union, by questioning their fid-lity 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 anthority, Such imputations are not only false, but mischievous, being calenlated to retard, if they: be not designed to defeat, that perfect and constitutional restoration of the Union which the war was ore: waged against the seced ng States to effect, and whic good men and patriots in all sections of the country carnegtly desire to accomplish, And it being of the lait importance that the minds of the whole people be disa- bused of there errors, and particularly that the authori. ties at Washinton be truly in‘ormed of the temper and disposition of the Southern people, we do solemnly pro- nounce these end all other imputations upon them of @ kindred characier, no matter from what source they. come, to be utterly ungrounded and false. Resolved, That the general temper and disposition of the Southern people, meluding our own, are to accept and acquiesce in Ue results of the late sangninary strug. gle and to resume the duties of citizensfip ia the Union, That the men of character and ability who have hitherto intlueneod public sentiment neither advise nor intend anything different from the dsehorge of their duties aa citizens of the United states, and are setting an example of {ull and ready submission to the authority of ite , and couneel a full recognition of the facts clual situation, including the accept d and irre- vernible abolition of slavery. Resolved, That we, the people of Richmond, fully and thorooghly comprehending and accepting the results of that straggle in all their force and significance, and ua one of the most important, the abolition of slavery, alrcady effected by the restored constitution of the Btate under which we live and which we are sworn to support, do pledge ourselves to support the reconstsuction policy of the President, which purposes a restored equality of rights and privileges to all the States, including the power in each to regulate the right of suilrago for iteelf, as distinguished from the reckloss and pernicious theo- ries of the so-called radical party, which propose to the Southern States the alternative of negro suffrage or an indefinite exclusion from the benefits of a common and equal Union; and that we will support the national au- thority and the supreme rale of law and order ee a where, as the only sure guarantee for the re-cetablisl meat of the r'ghts dnd privileges of our own and of the x. Southern States, under the constituijon, ip the Union. Resolved, That we earnestly recommend to our fellow citizens throughout the State to hold meetings as soon as practicable in their respective co .nties towne, and adopt suitable resolutions exproasive (as we do not doubt they will be) of their entire sympathy in the purposes and objects herein declared; that no cloud doubt, no shadow of suspicion may rest on the integrity, honor and good faith of their expressed desire and honest attempts to resume the duties of allegiagce to the United States. Resolved, That it 18 no less a pleasure than a duty on our part to give public expression to the extecw re. spect which we feel for the present Chief of our State, whore conciliat bearing, frank and manly manners, and firin and well considered statesmanship, have enabled him to grapple succoss{plly with the un- usual difficulties of his position. With the opportunity to wee of face to face as wo are, he has the wisdom ta appreciate the true character our people. He has thrown himeelf without reserve on their candor, truth. fulness and conscientiousneéss, and they have = and will continue to meet, him in a like spirit of cordial com fidence, THE PAY DEPARTMENT OF VIRGINIA. el Stanton Not Connected with the Richmond Banks. OUR RICHMOND CORKESVONDENCE. Ricumioxp, August 20, 1866. THE PAY DEPARTMENT DIFFICULTIES. It te not true that Licutenant Colonel Stanton, Acting Chief Paymaster of the district of Virginia and North Carolina, is in any way connected with the transacti@ha of Binney and others, Inspector General Gibeon, of the United States Pay Department, explicitly relieves Colonel Stanton and Major Fithian, the two paymasters statioried in Richmond, from all conneotion with the un- fortunate disturbances. This statement may be im) ite ly relied upon, and should be given to the pablie in be. half of two of the Onest officers in this or any other de- partment of the army. RERIGNATION OF ASBRAGOR R. P. W. GARNETT, R. P. W. Garnett, Assessor of the United States Inter. nal Rover tho First district of Virginia, is about to tender his resignation of the office. ive Fire in New Haven. New Haven, Conn., August 30, 1865. Tho saddlery and hardware establishment of the Lind: say Firearms Company in this city was destroyed by fre at noon to-day. The loss of the company is thirty thou- sand dollars, on which there is an insurance of twenty: eight thousand, mostly in New York companies. Tho fire communicated to a large brick building oe cupied by the Parmalee Pianoforte Company, destroying the interior of the building and # large amount of val- uable stock, ‘The loss of the pianoforte company is twenty-eight . thousand on which there is am insurance of twenty Tho fire was accidental \ Fire + Loats, * Br. Loum, Angost 90, 1868. a Two homp warchonses on the corner of Ashley Second streets, containing 10,000 bales of hemp, were burned Inst night, Total loss about $825,000; inaurance, The principal loners aro B. W. Lewis & SESS aos ‘Lowis & Go., Carr & uke, worth & Co and P, Rando ’