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

sisted in parcebng out the majority OF New I orK
Offices to his sat saction, is said to have been
ceedngly tired of being pestered by placeseekers,
and is positively determined that the missions shall
be disposed Of in the shortest possible order He
declares that he has not, since his induction
into Office, had time to peruse the epstles OF his
friends, write letter, 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 their country
| our correspondent mentions the name OF Captain
| Scott-not the gentleman Of the same name VINO
brought down the coon-but the veritable Captain
/ Scott of Virginia, who brought down bevy o.
Presidential aspirants just before the last Democratic
National Convention by firing at them single paper
| pellet. Among the whole flock General Pierce was
the only one who escaped Captain Scctts case will
probably receive attention. There appears to be
some difficulty in procuring proper man to accep'
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 on this mel lncholy affair in another column
The refusal of the Governor of Maryland TO turn
M'Creary the alleged kidnapper of the Parker
| girls to the authorities OF Pennsylvania, Is
/ creating some degree of sensation in the latter
State Governor Bigler is said to have visited Phila
1 delphia for the purpose of consulting the State
Attorney General to the proper method Of re-
| plying to Governor loves refusal to give up
| NJ Creary.
despatch from the operator at Montreal states
that line Of telegraph has been put in opera
ton, connecting that city with New York via Spring
field Mass Brattleboro' and Burlington, vt. The
new liGe, which is said to be very superior one,
connects with the House Printing Telegraph line, at
81 Wall street.
The attention of the reader is directed to the in
| interesting documents which to-day publish
relative to the Tehuantepec Right of Way, including
| Santa Annals original grant to Commodore Porter.
| Father Gavazz lectured last night usual to the
Italians in the Sunday schoolroOm OF the Taberna-
Gle. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather
the hall was densely crowded. and numerous was the
attendance of the ladies. The subject was The su
periorty 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 refomer to establish among
us a school for Italian boys, and small hospital for
| poor Italian refugees.
| Tie anniversary sermon of the American Home
Missionary Society was delivered last evening at the
| Church of the Puritans, 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 inclemen
| cy of the weather the attendance was very slim.
For report of the sermon see another column.
The anniversary sermon of the American and
| Foreign Christian Union was preached last even
ing, in the Mercer street Presbyterian Church, by
the Rev. John Kennedy D. D., of Brooklyn 1t was
| 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 Norvvalk-New Law to Pre-
| vent Rnih 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 sufierings 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 it's
most fendish director the inqusition never de-
vised 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-
sderation of its causes. Inquiry has now es-
tablished the fact that the train fell into 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
Dal-ball which indicates that the draw was not
open before he reached the depot, but not az
forwards. Other officials are positive that the
signalball was down; and from the evidence