Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1849-08-10

GEN. CAss TO REsIGN.-The following from
the Chicago Tribune, seems in accordance
with the previous course of Gen. Cass. and
we think may be relied upon. The Tribune
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"We understand from reliable authority that
Gen. Cass will resign his seat in the Senate
during the ensuing winter. The Michigan
Legislature have instructed him TO vote for the
Proviso, he proposes waiting until that ques-
ton comes up, when he will make great
speech against the Proviso and Col. Benton,
and then resign IA IN. rrs
FATAL RAILROAD Acc1DENT-Two PER-
SONS KILLED AND EIGHTEEN WoCNDED.-A
terrible accident happened on the New Jer-
sey Railroad ON Thursday, the I'd instant, by
which two persons were killed and large
number severely wounded. The Philadelphia
Ledger, gives the following account OF the af-
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"ADout half past O'Clock, on9Thursday
morning, as the train from Philadelphia was
approaching Princeton, the locomotive tender
and the truck of the baggage car was precipi-
| tated into the canal. by the switch near the
bank having been malieiously turned for the
| special purpose of causing an accident. For
| tunalely, the passenger cars maintained their
! position upon the track, but the sudden check
10 speed of about twenty miles an hour,
caused the way car to be crushed into the bo-
| dy of the forward deck car, carrying death
and dlsmay to those unfortunate passengers in
| that portion ofthe train. Two persons were
crushed TO death, and eighteen others more or
less injured. aa - e3sf< @S't5a
or" The killed were, William Connover, be-
| longing TO Trenton, carpenter, in the en-
| ploy OF the Company, and German, one OF
| the forward deck passengers, whose name is
unknown @"a 755o1 a7+- - .f''
| IN From an investigation made after the affair,
| by officers of the Road, they are convinced
| that the disastrous occurrence was oceasioned
by some malicious individual having turned
the switch out of its proper position. A re-
ward of one thousand dollars has been offered
for the detection of the perpetrator of this
| iendish outrage. 80 -.. -.. <.D,. -.
| The N. Y. Tribune, of Saturday, says
The sight when the writer (who was in
the third passenger carr reached the scene in
question, was OF the most agonizng character
three human beings being suspended by
| their lower limbs from the wreck, head down
ward, and were obliged TO be supported by
hand for near half an hour, before, by the aid
of axes. they could be removed from their dis.
tressing position. s.s So. .s
.' This sight, together with the groans and
shrieks of the wounded, was sufficient TO I'M.
man many present, while others of the pas.
sengers (among whom an elderly gentleman
named Chase, of Baltimore, and Mr.. Hutch.
inson, of Philadelphia, were conspicuous fol
the GOODNESS and judgment with which they
directed their efforts,) did all that men could
do to relieve the sufferers"
A letter to the New York Herald, from B
B. French, who was on the spot soon after
the accident, says -
"The locomotive tender and baggage cars
were lying bottom up in the canal The two
first passenger cars were smashed to atoms
the first car having passed entirely through
the second, leaving its roof inside of the Sc
cond s a
''An incident was related to me that exem
plifes how constantly on the alert are the af
fections of mother. At the first indication
of the accident, a lady tossed her child from
the window of the second or third car, AMI
an single instant she was Frustrated. Thu
child was pickedup unhurt, while the mothe
was so badly injured as to render her recove
ry very doubtful