Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-06-18

to another In reaching the latter passed the wreck
Of two and engine The evening before the train
of the Southern Railroad had into an emgrant train
the Central The dead and MANNED bodies had been
taken to Chicago but there had been time to clear
away the wreck Sixteen dead bodies were taken from
the ruins As we passing into New York on the
New York and Erie road, the tour passenger
handed the account of the Norwalk destruction
fifty persons being killed by the driving of the cars into
anopen chasm in the face of the regular signal the
draw Of the bridge open These but part Of
the accidents in nearly the period The Ocean Wave
steamer burnt Lake Ontario and destroy
ed in California with fearful loss Of life and build
ings fell in at New York and Buffalo, because doubt
too insecurity built This is positively fright
full The most valuable earthly thing human life 1t
is that which is guarded by the most awful sanctions
This wholesale slaughter must necessarily diminish its
sacredness and make murder rife% But viewed
is unquestionaby the truth only of muudes of
indications of reckless extravaganza characteristic of
America, it becomes still more serious If right
in believing surely do that in Church and State,
in society and business in sentiment and feeling in lite
nature and politics. there is recklessness fifty illus
trated by the Of Chicago and Norwalk, then
will not readers agree with that something should
be done?
The illustrations Of this madness press upon every
where Let readers look politics No sound and
sensible will deny that their condition is disgrace
to the country We will not stain pages with par
tcular description of the manner in which political
paigns are carried on. Newspapers filed with the
vest matter where the wretched slang Of the expressions
bears the relation pure English that the ideas do
to any thing like decency Every form Of corruption
works into the nominations and elections end in gen
era and disgraceu scramble for spos and to bring to-
gether House of Representatives at Washington which
by universal acknowledgment is every year becoming
feebler in intellect and more indecent in manners
"The efervescence of Young America manifests itself
all know, in its views of manifest destiny to
take possession Of this Western Continent and the mean
choy Cuba expedition but of its oubursts There
is welterng mass of excitement ever ready to burst
forth in any direction whittier enterprise opens chap
MEL For the present California and Australia absorb
much of this material and the land therefore has compa
rative rest But unless find some means of reaching
the of the disease it will more be cured than is
Vesuvius of volcanic tendencies by an eruption"
= since writing the above have met with the fol-
lowing remarks IN the Evening Bulletin, paper we are
happy to say which with much talent untes sound views
the moral questions intermingled with the exciting to-
pics Of the time The remarks made upon the SEN
tence by Judge Kelley of the murderer ONeil:
eve trust that this example will have beneficial effect in
staying the current of crmsoned violence In years
past numerous hare been the murders midst
public mind had become tdr assiueness tch them
and it required climax butchery, that furnished
by Arthur Spring in the murder women
public feeling proper contemplation the horrors the
crime OF homicide. We believe that murder is conagous