The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-11

What will the wings of New York do ?" and I
wait in impotence for something to turl
up" Micawber is not dead yet. No!
MORE RAILROAD ACCIDENTs.-Are we never
to be done with the recital of railros d acct
dents and the penning of editorial ARTICLES de-
mandatory of the wretched, insuficj ent, care
less management of the road? Is no day to
pass without seeing registered in our columns
the details of a calamity on some one or other
of the various lines of railroad throughout the
country by which oue a dozen, a score, or
perhaps hecatomb of victinv, have been sacri-
feed! 1t would really see m as if that time
would never arrive when tae public is to be
spared the infection of such appallingNdaily
intelligence. We have progressed but one
third through this n1nth of August. and yet
we could not, at this moment. reckon from
memory the number of casualties which have
occurred en- our lines Of travel; and the task
Of recapitulating them if we did would be at
once sickening and unnecessary
As us,tal our ociums to-day are by no means
exemptEsrom this species of news. They chron-
icle the details o. the collision which occurred
on the Camden and Amboy Railroad, on Tues
day, which resulted in the instantaneous death
Of four individuals and they ALSO give the par
ticulars of another accident which occurred the
same evening on the New Haven line, by which
the engineer lost his life, and one of the firemen
was grievously if not fatally injured. In these,
% in almost every instance, the cause is attri-
butable either to the wretchedly deficient man.
agement Of the roads, the parsimony Of the
directors in neglecting to provide efficient police
| and other regulations. or the recklessness of
those in charge of the trains. But it is little mat
ter to the public which Of those causes operate,
| or whether the casualties which come so often
| to shock their sensibilities are owing to q
combination of them all. The dreadful conse-
quences are before them and might we'll have
| the effect of lettering the stoutest-hearted
from undertaking q journey, where danger i'm
ponds at every curve, drawbridge, and cutting
were it not that with great portion Of the
community travel is an absolute necessity.
The two casualties noticed in our columns
this morning have neither of them the faintest
shadow of extenuaton. That on the Camden
and Amboy Railroad stands out prominently
| the work of the most utter recklessness, COM
bined with the grossest stupidity. The regular
afternoon train of cars from Amboy to Phila-
delphia had not yet passed the station where
the train coming from the opposite direction
was to have awaited it as usual 1t was to be
expected momently; but nevertheless, the con-
ductor, with a blindness or reeklessness hard to
be accounted for. allowed or ordered the en-
| gineer to drive on and court a collision with
this rapidly moving train, which was not long
in taking fatal effect. The accident on the New
Haven line was simply attributable to the mig
gardliness of the company, in failing to main
tain proper police along the line, as is done on
| the English railroads. and to their disregard OF
consequences, in not having removed DANCE
rous piece Of rock loose, and at any moment
liable to fall on the track as it did at last.
| We have not been wanting in irmness in the
| denunciation Of those railroad companies who
so trife with the lives Of thousands. Time and
again we have expended our wellgrounded
censures upon them; but the seed fell upon
hard and stony soil. 1t would seem that rail
road directors are as impervious to sensations
Of shame as they are regardless oftheir weighty
Responsiveness w Vic Puuiic. we have now no
hope of efectng any good by an appeal to any
interests save only those Of pecunary and
| personal character. But we feel it incumbent
on US. in view Of those terrible daily-repeated
scenes Of railroad manslaughter, to register our
heartfelt condemnation of the miserable parsi-
mony. the wretchedly deficient arrangements
and the INSCRIPTIONS recklessness which make
such dreadful annual carnage of our fellow
| citizens.
| Hon. HENRY JOHNSON AND THE HATHAWAY
BIBLE SroLATIoN.-We give place, with
| pleasure, to the following note from Hon. II.
johnson. of Louisiana. in reference to the ex-
tract which we lately published from an Eng
lisb paper, charging him with the mutilation of
the Ann Hathaway family Bible at Stratford-
upon-Ayon -
TO TIE EDITOR OF THE BENNINGTON SPA
COURIER.
New YORK, August 0, 1853.
| Ny attention having been just called to publ.
cation in the NEW YORK HERALD, purportng to
have been taken from your paper, without date)
stating that "a me- scandaous act was perpe-
trated at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the house where
Shakespeare wooed and won Ann Hathaway on the
5th of July last, by abstracting portion of the fly
leaf of an old family Bible and that the act was
committed by three strangers-a gentleman and two
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