The Daily spy., 1850-02-05
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.


SENATE, Passed to be Observation-Disclosures in
vor of the establishment Of National Board of Agri-
culture,
Resolve was passed in favor Of the town of Little
ton &
The Valuation Bill was taken up and debated on the
question CT adopting the amendment taxing all the stock
&c OF manufacturing corporations iu the town or city
where it may be situated and the amendment was re-
ected, II to 10. All the other amendments were also
rejected and the bill was laid the table, Adjourned.
HOUSE. Petition presented and referred.
VI the Mayor of Boston, for alteration in the time
OF assessing taxes from May 1t to January lst in eac
year.
Passed to be enacted-Bills to incorporate the Graf
ton high School Association; to extend the time for
paying in the capital stock of the Cochituate Fire In
surance Company for the protection of the fisheries in
the vicinity of Nantucket
MIR. Wilson, OF Natick, offered the following order
ordered, That the Committee on the Judiciary be
instructed to report forthwith the following resolution
Resolved, That Massachusetts sunalterably opposed
to any compromise whatever with slavery: and o,r
Senators in the Congress of the United States are here
by instructed to oppose the compromise resolutions re-
Gently introduced into that body for the adjustment of
the slavery question, any other propositions that give
ID any degree whatever, the sanction of the Federal
government to human slavery make the people othe
free States responsible for its existence.
After some discussion between Messrs Wilson. Hoar
of Concord, Barry of Hanover, Brnley ap schouler.
of Boston-the order was committed tie the Special
Committee on Slavery, &C., by vote of LAG to 81.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT IN NEW YORK
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION IN New YoRK-
FIFTY LIVES LOST 4 Steam Boiler burst, and
sac story building destroyed! This morning about
: O'Clock, the neighborhood of Hayne and Frank
tort streets was alarmed by terrible explosion, the
violence OF which shook the buildings and caused the
ground to tremble for several blocks around while
| In the immediate vicinity the glass was shattered
from windows, and the conclusion was so violent
and seemingly lasted so long as to bear every resem
blance to an earthquake, This was succeeded by a
/ cry of fire.
The explosion was at the establishment of A. B.
taylor, Esq, a well known printing press manufac-
turer, Hayne street
Mr. Taylor employed about sixty or seventy hands.
nearly every one of whom had assembled and com
menced work for the day, at the time of the acci-
dent 1t Is feared that very few of them have lived
to report the tale of the disaster by which they were
overtaken. Within week or two, change had
been made IN the boilers and it is apprehended that
some defect IN the manufacture or the adjustment oi
some part of it, the cause of the terrible catas-
}, rophe.
As usual on Monday mornings, the fireman had
started the fires under the boiler at an earlier hou
than was usual on other mornings, and hardly hat
steam been raised and motion communicated to thu
shattlng, when the explosion took place, and in al
instant the upper part ofthe building was blown com
pleely off and fire communicated to the remainder
The boiler was one Of Morgan's patent, with upgigh
tubes, and the explosion was from the top and uppe
: ends. The night watch David, who had ief
the building but an instant before, had Just remarke,
to Cressy, the engineer, that hewas getting too muc
e steam on, which Cressy paid no attention to.
BESIDES the establishment of Mr. TAYLOR there wa
!" IN the same building that of ST John. Burr e. O.
y hat-body manufacturers, who gave emnIoyment +
IN about 90 men and boys; all, or nearly all of these
nad assembled Tor the day, and some were Just com
J. ing IN at the time of the explosion Another floor O
lhe building was occnpied by T. Yakes, glass cutter
: employing many workmen. 1t is thought that there
L were loo IN all parts of the building.
Inc bodies OF those who have been recovered have
been generally found to be so angled that If wa.
e impossible to recognize them. Ten bodies were
drawn out In the course of half an hour only three
OF whom were recognized,
M Taylor resides in Newark, and did not arrive
D On tne ground TILL O'Clock that he is SAFE We
havebeen unable to get any perfect list of the mer
h VINO worked in Mr.. Taylor's concern.
~ Poisohs ~ho lVed III the Ward were taken
10 the station houses, and afterwards to their bon,es
y not being mortally injured Several badly hurt ver,
70 taken to the hospital Theshouts ofnany who wer,
entirely covered up in the ruins could be heard. anf
e caused the most intense interest and excitement or
L the part of the spectators
e rs. 10 minutes past IL, A. M. The fire i
sun raging In the ruins, which are surrounded bv a,
n immense crowd of people.
f Ihe foreman of the principal mandatory in the
. building, says there sixty persons now missing
whom he supposes to have been in the building.
It 1he whole building appears to have fallen into
$ runs Immediately after the explosion Hardly a
It piece OF the walls is standing on Hayne street.
SUICIDE. We learn by r. Walker, of Ross.
Apress, that Mr.. Lowell Stowe, of Grafton Mass.
committed suicide BY cutting his throat last Sun law
lie was found between 10 and IL O'Clock, A. M. II,
leaves wife and four five children Insanity is the
cause assigned for the act. He was n man i, ,,ros