Spirit of the age., 1853-05-04


with the emigrant train on the Central road.
eight miles from Chicago, by which accident
some fifteen or twenty persons are believed
to have been killed, and about fifty severely
wounded: some supposed fatally. All the
killed and wounded were on the emigrant
train. Those on the express train fortunate
" escaped without injury except severe
shock. 7 he concussion was terrible, break
ing some Of the engines and c3rs to pieces
The names Of the killed and wounded have
not been aseertained. Most Of them were
foreigners.
ADRIAN, Michigan, April 27-A gentleman.
Just from The scene of the fearful collision last
night, between the Southern Michigan Express
train and the Central Road Emigrant train, at
the crossing near Chicago, reports that there
were twenty dead bodies when he left, and ad-
dtional deaths were constantly occurring
among the fifty or sixty Others injured. The !
sufferers are mostly emi5rants.
During the confusion incident upon the acci- !
dent. the Galena mail was robbed of the bags |
for Boston and Albany.
BUFFALO, April %, 1S53.-The Chicago
/ papers contain heart-rending details of the
/ late melancholy accident The entire road
! in the vicinity of the catastrophe was cover
ed with ruined cars and the dead and dying.
One by one the wounded and injured crept
from beneath, and the shrieks of the women
and the groans of the dying added to the hor-
ror of the scene. One poor woman, with
both her legs broken, lie with a dead child on
her arms, andtwo little ones, uninjured, cling
ing 60 hers Ayoung woman stood by the
dead bodies of her father, mother and broth
er, shrieking like maniac. Three children,
from eight to ten years Of age, were taken
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left alone. Beneath the edge of a carappear-
ed the bald head and hand of an old man, a
leg of one, and the mangled body Of another.
The scene at the depot was awful in the
extreme when the remains were brought in
the floor was covered with blood, and a
heap of limbs gathered together in a corner,
while many bercaved ones were searching
for lost friends or relatives.
E RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-On Thursday NOR
ming last the mail train on the Raleigh and
, Castor Railroad, came IN collision with the
Engine g Tornado" at the Pacific Depot.
about twenty miles from Raleigh throwing
the Tornado" off the track breaking in the
front of the passenger car attached to the
mail train, damaging the engine very much
and slightly iniuring some oftha engine hands
The accident, it is said resulted entirely from
, the carelessness Of the hands on the ''tTorna-
do" who had gone to sleep without closing
the latches, and the mail train instead of ta-
king the regular track, ran off to one side,
where it came into collision with the ''Tor-
! nado." It is, indeed, fortunate that more Sc
rious damage did not result from the acci-
dent.-POst.
RE- The death of Rev John Kane, very
s laborious and useful Minister of the Meth
+, odist Episcopal Church, is communicated
!. through the Northern Christian Advocate
LATEST FROM EURoPE.-We have the la
test intelligence by the umboldt-Liverpool
E dates to the 18th ult. The political news is
- not important. France was quiet. The re-
bellion in China was still increasing, causing
a complete panic at Pekin. Cotton had beer
= in fair demand, and holders were very firm
Baconand Breadstuhs had slightly improved
APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT Th
! Washington Union, of Saturday, announce
e Solon Borland, Of Arkansas to be envoy extra
h ordinary and minister plenipotentiary of tn
r United States to Central America, by appoint
d ment of the President.
n A REMARKABLE ANIMAL-We saw vester
l. day sheep, which the owner calls Califor
e MIA sheep. The animal is not lrrge in bon
% and flesh, but enormous in fleece. The woo
S, fleece is estimated to weigh forty pounds.
it is of very fine and valuable quality. apparentl
Of like the Merino,-Prooidence (R. ~ Journal
ia The N. Y. Legislature has refused to pas
lg a law proposing to allow Southern Citizen
removing with their slaves, to pass throug
err the territory or ports Of New York, withou
L. mourning the loss Of their Slaves Is this tn
j. way our natural allies treat us s? ttu Brute
ne e" We are requested to give notice th'
SEAToN GALES, Esq. will address the Student
ne of Castalia High School, on the 27th of Ma
oh inst, the day of their annual exhibition in Ell
re re cution.- Weekly Post.
so The National IntelIigencer states that stor
,re is now being hewn by steam in that city at
er yard near the Capitol. It is supposed that
will greatly cheaper thecost of hewn stone f
,f. building. Unless pressed brick are great
lin cheapened by some invention yet to be annou
he ced, Is c0njGctufes thatfn competition with II
I'd. cheaply hewe1 stone they must go to the res
Eat We learn through the Greensboro Patri
ra- that JOHN KERR is candidate to'represe
on the District composed of the Counties Of Pe
lh- son, CasweIi Alamance, Chatham, RandoiF
lP Gulford M Moore and Montgomery. Mr. Nor
Ihe HEAD the late Representative declinesa re-elt
:e " ton.
Dto The annual meeting of the Grand Lodge
tho the Independent Order of Odd Fellows oft
ar. State, will take place in Wilmington, on No
om day, 9th of May, inst.
~ Mr.. John Taylor has been appoint
ore Postmaster It Goldsboro.'
ice, Mr.. H F. Hlnc0ck has been appointed C
ors, lector of the Customs at Washington, ~
ren In few days, the following appointme
'hlp will be nnounced:-Minister to France, S
to vice to begin lst of July next Hon. John
she Dix: Minister to Brazil. Gov Wood, of OH
sa- Ministerto to Russia, Ez-Gov Troudsale. of I
ma nrssee; Minister to Chill, Henry A. Wise
hey Virginia.
ltI 1uo AUSTRIAN VESGEANCE.-Iti is said that
,"l0 process now going on against Madame M
l"y- seIanyi. a sister Of Kossuth, will terminate
wno a sentence Of death The lady is, howe'
"no ont of the reach of the Austrian anthorit
She is in Brussels. and it is expected that
of with an elder sister and their children,
PEN soon Join a third sister, already estabiishe
pas the United States.
0as- HEALTH OF THE PREsIDENT-The Ur
ran states that the rumors Of the falling health
President Pierce are not only unfounded,
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