The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-03 00:00:00

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BRUTALITY OF SLAVERY.—WiIIiam Williams, a black

cted as coachman to the three Pi

1:+1llmore, Taylor, and Yolk, is himself free, having re-
cently succeeded in purchasing h!s freedom ; but his wife,
his three daughters, and his three grandchildren are
owned by some one in New Orleans, and have just been
seized at Washington by a slave-trader and carried away
south. " The poor man," says one of the American
papers, "wrung his hands, rolled on the ground, and
was nearly crazed, by the dreadful parting." Ile acted,
in fact, much as a white man would have done if he had
been suddenly robbed of his wife and children. The
President, feeling deeply for his distress, gave him money,
and let him go to Baltimore to his wife and children.
There he met with them, and also with the slave-dealer
who had carried them away, who offered to sell them to
him for the sum of 3,200 dollars. He immediately re-
turned to 'Washington, and by the kindness of the Presi-
dent, and other good friends, succeeded in raising as
much money as enabled him to buy his wife and his three
daughters. The three children were still in the hands of

the slave-dealer, who demands 1,500 dollars for each of
them. It was uncertain whether Williams would be able
to raise the sum for their redemption. This cruel case,
occurring at Washington, and to a man so well known as
the servant of three successive Presidents, had produced
a strong feeling of disgust and indignation
H ORRTI3LI

ACCIDENT TO A RAILWAY TRAIN.—
BREAKING OF AN IRON BRIDGE.—On the 31st of July
an awful accident occurred in the United States by the

breaking of

an iron

ge on t

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1 small

stream called Huribures Brook, runs through a ravine,
which was crossed by an iron bridge of C 5 feet span. The
train was freighted with 113 oxen and a quantity of sheep
and pigs.. Belonging to the train were the engineer, his
assistant, and several breaksmen. There were seventeen
cars, besides the engine and tender. At the time the
train approached:the bridge it was going at an ordinary
rate ; but the engine had just got off the solid track when
the engineer heard a crack and felt something giving way,
whereupon he put on additional steam, and succeeded in
getting the engine, which was a powerful one, upon the
other side ; but just as he had cleared the bridge it went
down with a crash, carrying the tender with it : the cars
following tumbled into the abyss one after another, until
fifteen of them, with their contents, were piled up in the
gap. The engineer and his assistant saved themselves by
jumping cff on either side of the engine. Their breaks-
man, whose name was Patrick Tice, went down and was
buried among the cattle and broken cars. Mr. Clapp,
a promising young man, about nineteen years of age, also
went down with them, and was instantly killed, by the dis-
location of the vertebrae of the neck. The scene, just after
the accident had occurred, is described by those who wit-
nessed it, as being piteous in the extreme, and horrible to
behold. There were a hundred noble oxen writhing in
torture, and making the whole mass active by their throes,
made in the vain endeavour to extricate themselves.
Some with their horns broken off, some with their backs
broken, and some only held fast by masses of the ruin
being piled upon their limbs. Their -cries are represented
as having been at the same time heartrending and hideous.
DISPUTES BETWEEN TfIE GOVERNMENT AND THE
PRIESTHOOD IN PIEDMONT.—Some years ago there was
none of the kingdoms of Italy that was more completely
priest-ridden than Piedmont. The king and the govern-
ment were under the control of the Roman Catholic
clergy : and travellers who visited the grand and beautiful
valleys of that romantic country, were not permitted to
worship together as Protestants, and were to suffer perse-
cution if they ventured to give away a few copies of the
Scriptures, or otherwise to interfere with the Church of
Rome, in its established spiritual despotism. Since the
late revolution in Italy, a remarkable change has taken
place. The young king has asserted his independence
of the priests, and the government have supported him,
so also have the more democratic of his subjects. The
Archbishop of Turin was, some time since, prosecuted for
a libel, and the priesthood, backed by the Pope, retaliated
by excommunicating the government, and denying to the
members of it the sacraments. The government have re-
torted by imprisoning the Archbishop in a fortress, and
by sequestrating the property of the order to which he
belongs. 'Whatever may be the issue of these disputes,
it is not commonly by such methods that truth prevails,
and its cause promoted. There would, indeed, be great
reason for rejoicing if religious liberty were introduced
into those fastnesses and retreats ; where pure Christianity
found a refuge from the corruptions of Roman-ism, and
suffered and resisted in the person of its martyrs, the
Church of Rome. It is possible that the events now
passing in Sardinia may be the furtherance of the true
Gospel ; but it will only be so if we find the Piedmontese,
both high and low, throwing off, not merely the yoke of
ecclesiastical tyranny, but taking upon themselves the
easy yoke of pure Christianity. As yet, we only see two
classes of Romanists quarreling with each other ; the one
with ecclesiastical, the other with political, weapons.

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