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of gold, which was to make them richer by a day's
fraud than they were likely to have been made by
20 years honest work such as they were competent
to perform, the despotic action of the Government
against the respectable journals that were deceived
has invested the case with an exceptionable and
wholly unmerited interest. Had Mr. Lincoln (for
it is now asserted that he alone and not Mr. Stanton,
is responsible for the suspension of the journals)
contented himself, as Commander-in• Chief, with
discovering and punishing the audacious forger
as military or civil law would have allowed and
justified, the affair by this time would have blown
over, and Howard might have been hung or
shot, or sent to the Dry Tortugas or the Peniten-
tiary, without creating much ripple in the stream
of public opinion. But when Mr. Lincoln took
advantage of the accident that two newspapers
opposed to his Administration published the forged
document and suppressed those journals by military
force, though they were wholly innocent of any com-
plicity with the forger or of any intention to de•
ceive, he made a mistake which may yet prove to
be the greatest he has committed during his tenure
of office. The suppressed journals were allowed to
reappear yesterday after a suspension of three days,
during which they suffered an amount of pecuniary
damage which they estimate at many thousands of
dollars, and the question remains whether they will
consent to suffer it without an effort to obtain
redress. The Federal Government has no right to
interfere in the internal affairs or the civil adminis-
tration of the law in any State of the Union. Mr
Lincoln as Commander-in-Chief may do many things
in New York or any other State on the plea of mili-
tary necessity. There was an imperative military
necessity to discover and to punish the forger, but
was there a military necessity to suppress two news-
papers and to ignore the laws of the State of New
York, which guarantee the freedom of the press,
and provide the penalties for the abuse of that free-
dom which are established in all civilised countries ?
That is the question which the Democratic party is
said to be determined to raise; and the first step
towards the settlement of which is alleged by several
journals to have been taken by the Governor of New
York. The District Attorney of this city has re-
ceived Mr Seymour's instructions to prosecute all
the parties who were concerned in the burglarious

entry and occupation of the offices of the Journal
of Commerce and the World. If this statement be
correct, General Dix will plecd the order of Cie
President in justification, and there will either be
a cause celebre of the highest moment to all Ame-
ricans—or a quashing of the proceedings before
the Courts by the reception of General Dix's
plea as valid and sufficient. If the plea be
received the majesty of the law will go the
way of the liberty of the press, and practical de-
spotism will have taken a greater stride than in
any previous occurrence of this humiliating war.
Governor Seymour has a great part to perform; he
has the opportunity in his hands ; and if this story
be true—though some of the papers doubt it—it
looks as if he had the courage to undertake it.
The interdict has been removed from the office
of the Independent Telegraph line, on proof that
Howard's forgery never passed over their wires, but
was concocted in this city. Mr. Stanton accom-
panies his notification of the fact with no expression
of regret for the wrong committed upon the un-
offending clerks and operators, or for the pecuniary
damage iufiicted on the company during five days'
suspension of their business. Tne suspension of the
Baltimore Transcript has not been removed ; but as
Baltimore is under the operation of martial law, and
likely to remain so, until the remote day when peace
shall agai❑ dawn upon unlucky Maryland, there is
but little probability that Gen. Wallace, unless he
have a strong hint from Washington to do so, will

allow the delinquent to reappear. But as the
Transcript never publishes leading at tides, or passes
an editorial opinion on any political event, domestic
or foreign, it seems a useless waste of tyrannical
power to break so harmless a moth with the blow of
a sledgehammer.
Although Howard's proclamation was but a
clumsy forgery, the annoyance of the Government at
its publication was less due to its audacity than to
the fact that it but too truly described the military
situation, and but too truly sketched the means
necessary to be adopted for retrieving it. But the
Government did not at that particular moment feel
inclined to divulge to all the world its want of men,
and hence the more than customary displeasure
which it vented upon all concerned in telling the
unpalatable truth in the guise of a fable. It is now
asserted, however, on the authority of no less a
person than Mr. Stanton, that a draught for 300,000
men will be ordered for the let of July ; And
the enrolling officers in this city and throughout the
North are actively engaged in revising the lists for
that purpose. The Government will need all the
men. At the moment at which I write this the
sound of drum and fife in Broadway calls me to the
window, and I see a regiment about 500 strong
marching towards the Battery. I learn that it is
the Ist Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers,

whose term of service has expired, and who have
left the Army of the Potomac in its hour of sore
trial, if not of imminent peril, when every man is
of value, determined to return to their homes and
to study war no more. The people on the line of

route towards the steamer in which they are to em-
bark for Boston salutes them with no cheers, and
not a woman waves a handkerchief to give them
welcome. Another regiment, the Brooklyn 14th,
the term of which has in like manner expired, is
expected this evening, and will doubtless pass along
the streets with as little notice. Mr. Stanton may
well believe that a new draught is imperative under
circumstances like these, and the Government may
well be anxious, if not alarmed, in view of the
chance of the great unpopularity and possible
failure of the measure.

The gold market has been greatly unsettled
during the day, mainly on account of the vague and
unsatisfactory character of the news from Virginia,
and of the rumours of disaster to General Butler—

rumours, however, which cannot be traced to any
authentic source. The highest point attained was a
premium of 88 at half-past one p.m. It afterwarda
fell, however, to 841, at which it closed.

Fatal Accidents on the London, Brighton,
and South Coast Railway.

Yesterday a most distressing accident occurred
at Croydon,
at the works for the construction of the
new extension line to the new cattle market, which
are now being carried out at this spot. During the
last three months a large body of workmen have
been engaged in making the new line, and yester-
day,employed
form partof
in removing the earth from a
port iliownhofe
a wall which used t o
old Brighton line, the mass, from some at present
wn eaxs a terrific crash, which
Phiaeainrdedfocrauasclfseildteraitbille distance round. The
greatest commotion prevailed at the time, and when
the dust occasioned by the fall had cleared away it
was discovered that at least one poor fellow had
been buried beneath the ruins. All the workmen
were instantly set to work to remove the hundreds
of tons of brickwork and rubbish in th„, hope of
finding the body, but at the time the report was
despatched the poor fellow, whose death must have
been instantaneous, had not been dug out. On
Sunday morning last, between the hours of four and
five o'clock, the body of a women, supposed to be
related to one of the workmen employed on the
extension lice above mentioned, was discovered on
the line adjoicing the spot where the above accident
happened, most horribly mutilated. There appears
to be great suspicion attaching to the case, from the
Let that at the time the train ran over the poor
woman it was discovered that the legs only of the
deceased had been placed across the line of the
" four foot"—a most improbable way for a person to
commit suicide. In addition to the injuries which
the poor woman had received, her legs being com-
pletely smashed, she had a very severe contusion
over the right eye and temple. It appears from
information collected on the spot that the driver of
the train noticed something on the line when it was
too late to stop the train, and he had an engine sent
down the line to pick her up. When discovered
the woman was quite dead, and she was immedi,
ately conveyed to the new tank-house at East Croy-
don, where an inqaest will shortly be held. The
deceased W3B shout 30 years of age.

Dreadful Accident to an Ascot Train.

A fearful accident occurred last night on the
South-Western Railway.,' One of the trains return-
, ing from the Ascot races—one of those long, un-
. manageable trains, heavily laden with holiday-
' makers, and such as are only seen at race times—
ran into another train at the Egham station,
destroying two carriages, killing five passengers
almost on the spot, and more or less seriously in-
juring between 20 and 25 others. The accident
occurred at about a quarter to 8 o'clock to the train
which had left the races a little after 7, and which
was followed as soon as safety, as it was thought,
permitted, by another train equally long and equally
heavy.
It may be mentioned here that owing to the
many false starts the races were not over till a late
hour, and as it drew towards evening considerable
anxiety was experienced by the railway officials as
to the rush of passengers they would have, all de-
siring to be sent off as fast as the trains could be
filled. This rush came at about 7 o'clock, and the
trains were despatched very rapidly one after the
the other.
That to which the accident occurred left Ascot
soon after 7, and though the line is a particularly
difficult one, full of dangerous curves and steep
gradients, it arrived at Egham safe enough shortly
before 8 o'clock. Tickets were collected there, and
while this was going on a complaint was made to
the station authorities of some card-sharpers being
in a carriage. An altercation arose about their re-
moval, which, whether successful or not, was long
enough to delay the train two or three minutes
more. Daring this interval the next train from
Ascot came up, just as the first was moving off. The
inevitable collision was so clearly seen that those in
the station called to the passengers in the last car-
riages to jump from them. The guard was in the
break-van, the last of all, and his experienced eye
needed no iwarning as ho locked out and saw the
next train corning on. He jumped out at once,
though not a moment too soon, as the crushed frag-
ments of his van caught his coat skirts and tore
them off.
The collision was very violent, owing to the im-
mense weight of the following train. It crushed the
guard's van to splinters, crushed a second-class car-
riage next to it, and partly crushed another beyond,
The usual scene of confusion and dismay succeeded.
Assistance was at length lelegraphed for to London
and to Ascot, and the work of succouring those in-
jured instantly began. There was a horrible scene
beneath the ruins of the broken-up second-class
carriage. From out of the wreck the bodies of four
gentlemen were removed. A fifth died as he was
being carried to the bank, and a sixth was so injured
as to leave, last night, almost no hopes whatever of
recovery. About 25 other passengers were found
to have sustained injuries, such as concussions, dis-
locations, and broken bones. But even the most
serious of these, it is to be hoped, will not be likely
to prove fatal, as with the exception of one whom
we have mentioned as believed to have been mortally
injured, all, it is stated by the railway authorities,
were in the course of last night enabled to come up
to town, and either proceed to their own homes or
were taken to the hospital.

About 25 passengers thus came to Waterloo, all
more or less alarmed and shaken, many weak and
faint, and with their clothes covered with blood.
At 12 last night the gentleman whose almost fatal
injuries we have mentioned was brought up on a
stretcher bed in a guard's van. Ho was accompanied
during the journey by a surgeon, and was removed
from Waterloo on a bed placed in a ligla long chaise
which the officials had provided to take him to
Charing-cross Hospital. His name is unknown,
and he remained as insensible as one already dead.

In appearance ho was a young gentleman of six
or eight and twenty years of age.
_ _

It is stated that the train which run into that at
Egham was going at great speed. This, however,
can scarcely have been the case, as in this case its
weight would have been sufficient to crush it through
half the train it ran into. Very few persons were
injured, or even mueh shaken, in the second train.
None of its cArriages were hurt, and its engino-
driver and fireman kept their posts on the engine
unhurt. All this would seem to prove that it could
not have been going at great speed, but from this
very fact it seems equally clear that there either
must have been no signals at all at this station, or
else that they were most recklessly disregarded.
The line was cleared in the course of aborc an hour,
and passengers went on as usual ; out up to this
morning the inquiries were auxi"Jus and incessant
at Waterloo from those who t.ed friends and rela,
Lives missing to know the r Jones of those killed and
wounded.

Three of the bodies, were identified. Mr. Clegg, a
licensed victualler ,
landlord of the Harp, Jermyn-
street ; Mr. C,ockerell, the clerk or confidential
agent of Mr. Padwick, the well-known racing man;
and a Mr. Winfield, who is not known, except from
the direction upon a letter found in his pocket.
There therefore remained two bodies that had not
ben recognised, They were all removed to the Rail-
way inn, close to the station at Egham. We may
state that the corpses were not much mutilated,
death apparently having arisen from concussion.
One gentleman was also conveyed to the Railway
Inn in a very dreadful state, having had both his
legs so much shattered that amputation is inevitable,
and will be performed as soon as he is capable of
bearing the shock. On inquiry it appeared that he
is a gentleman in the establialam :ant of his Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales. One gentleman was
brought to London at his own request, and conveyed
to Charing-cross Hospital in charge of Mr.Heyward,
where he was promptly examined by Messrs. Travers
and Hughes, the house surgeons, and it was found
that he had several ribs broken, his right
leg was also broken, and he had sustained such
severe internal injuries that the issue is extremely
doubtful.

We subjoin a letter from the Secretary of the
Railway :

" Sir,—lt is with the utmost regret that I have
to announce to you a sad accident on the London
and South-Western Railway this evening at about
8 p.m., at the Egham station, by which five passen-
gers have unfortunately lost their lives. This acci-
dent arose, as far as can be ascertained at the mo-
ment of my writing, from one up-train having run
into another when in the act of leaving the station.
" These few lines are simply intended to allay
any great public anxiety and exaggeration conse-
quent on such a melancholy event, every passenger,
with one exception, beyond the number named (and
whose names are unknown) having been enabled to
proceed on their homeward journey.—I am, sir,
your obedient servant,

" FREDERICK CLARKE, Secretary.
London and South-Western Railway, Secretary's-offloe,
Waterloo-bridge Station, S., London, June 7."

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