The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-05-09


declares that he has not, since his induction
into Office had time to peruse the epistles OF his
friends write letter or even read the newspapers,
which last deprivation is rather more than American
nature can submit to for any great length of time
So the foreign appointments will soon be made, ana
the anxiety Of applicants relieved Among others
who are in the field and ready to serve their country
our correspondent mentions the name OF Captain
! scott-not the gentleman of the same name who
brought down the coon-but the veritable Captain
| Scott. of Virginia, who brought down bevy o.
Presidential asprants Just before the last Democratic
National Convention. by firing at them single paper
pellet. Among the whole flock General Pierce was
tie only one who escaped. Captain Scctts will
probably receive attention. There appears to be
some difficulty in procuring proper man to accept
the Office of Solicitor of the Treasury 1t has twice
been refused since the administration came into
power.
We elsewhere publish some additional particulars
relative to the recent accident on the New Haven
Railroad together with correct lists of the dead and
injured We have also commented at considerable
length this mel lncholy affair in another column.
The refusal of the Governor of Maryland TO turn
MCreary, the alleged hdnapper of the Parker
girls, over to the authorities of Pennsylvania, is
creating some degree of sensation in the latter
State. Governor Biger is said to have visited Pha-
delphia for the purpose OF consulting the State
Attorney General as to the proper method of re-
plying to Governor loves refusal to give up
M'Cleary.
despatch from the operator at Montreal states
that new line of telegraph has been put in opera
tion connecting that city with New York via Spring
| field Mass, Bratteboro and Burlington, VT. The
| Eca v,bi 10 said IN ha
connects with the House Printing Telegraph line at
81 Wall street
The attention of the reader is directed to the in
interesting documents which we to-day publish
relative to the Tehuantepec Right of Way, including
| Santa Annals original grant to Commodore Porter
Father Gavazzi lectured last night usual to the
Italians in the Sunday schooroom Of the Taberna-
cle Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather
the hall was densely crow ded, and numerous was the
attendance of the ladies. The subject was q" The su
periority of the Gospel over Papacy." Father Ga
vazzi announced that the proceeds of next Fridays
lecture at Metropolitan Hall will be consecrated
to the erection of the Italian Chapel 1t is also the
intention of the eloquent reforer to establish among
us school for Italian boys, and small hospital for
poor Italian refugees.
The anniversary sermon of the American Home
Church of the Purtans, by the Rev. L. P. Hickok
His subject was the dangers that threatened this
country from its increasing prosperity and the great
influx of foreign population. Owing to the nclemen
cy of the weather the attendance was very slim.
For report of the sermon another column.
The anniversary sermon Of the American and
| Foreign Christian Union was preached last even
ing, in the Mercer street Presbyterian Church, by
4 n. TxI,n N n Of prnn l1vn
| a very eloquent discourse.
To.day's inside pages coctain an interesting
Letter from Hong Kong, descriptive of our trade
with China, action of the American Commissioner
movements of our Naval forces, &C.; Political and
Gossiping Letters from London and Paris; Account
of the New Territory of Washington; Commercial
and Miscellaneous Intelligence; Advertisements, &C.
The Massacre Mt Norwalls-Neyy Law to Pro
vent Rail, Dad Accidents.
We are still receiving hourly fresh details
of horror from Norwalk. Up to the present
moment the interest awakened by the awful
drama has never tagged. The narrative of
each new case gives fresh and terrible shock
to the mind OF all forms of death that by
which the bulk of the victims persisted at Nor
walk is probably the most hideous. Our blood
runs cold at an account of deliberate murder
with the knife or the club we are appalled,
at the sufferings of fellow men crushed
and mangled under fallen mass of ma
sorry or rafters; we shudder as we pic
ture helpless women and children buffeting
wildly with the wave that is about to engulph
them. But what are their sufferngs compared
to those of the unfortunates who found them
selves, at a moments warning plunged under
water in cage whence no escape was possible,
with a cruel and immediate death staring them
in the face, and hooking their efforts? Let
those whose nerves are firmly set picture their
agonized struggles as the water rushed in upon
them, and each frantic endeavor to escape only
showed that delivery was hopeless Under its
most fendish director, the inquistion never de-
vised a more horrible torture. The thread Of
human life has never been more cruelty severed
Ingenuity could not devise more savage
method of putting to death forty-four human
beings. No element of horror was wanting.
Suddenness, physical suffering. mental agony,
all combined to aggravate the last moments of
the victims. History will class the catastrophe
at Norwalk among the most frightful disasters
this country has witnessed.
We turn with sense of relief from this
view of the calamity to more practical con-
sideration of its causes. Inquiry has now es-
tablished the fact that the train fell into the
river either because the engineer did not see the
signalball denoting that the drawbridge was
open or because the signal-ball was not hoist
ed The engineer states that he saw the sig
nal-ball which indicates that the draw was not
open before he reached the depot, but not af-
forwards. Other officials are positive that the
signal-ball was down; and from the evidence
obtained from disinterested witnesses there
seems little room for doubling that this asser-
tion is correct. We are convinced that the sig