The daily union., 1854-11-21


much less dictation.
am proud also, of your noble vndcation of that gallant
old statesman and dplomatist
PUT THAT AND THAT TOGETHER.
In the Maysville Kentucky) Express of the l4h inst
we find the following;
For ourselves do say that regard the
Washington Uniou conducted disgrace to the dem
ocratic party and the administration"
In order enable the reader to form idea to
the degree of credby which should be attached to the
opinions of the Express copy from the issue of
the paper the following:
"He1 1Governor Seymour, of New York; generally
voted for by the know nothings and free-solers."
CONTRAST-LOSS OF THE NEW ERA.
A few weeks ago frightful collision took place the
Great Western railway Chatham, Canada by which
large number of passengers killed and shockngly
mutIaed If the collision had occurred in the States the
press would have discharged its duty to the public by
speaking in the unttered language Of just condemna
ton regard all the parties supposed to be implicated
in this terrible destruction of life and limb The reading
public would have exaggerated upon the sentiments Of the
journalists there would have been talk about prose-
cutting attorneys and grand ures and after the indignant
and exciting vaporngs of fortnight the whole matter
would have consigned comparative oblivion The
different course pursued Commissioners appoint
ed by the provincial government who promptly repaired to
the scene of death and disaster The legal officers of
the Crown were likewise the spot coroners jury
was SUMMONED and after patiently investigating the whole
particulars attending the collision have found the engi-
and conductor of the gravel train guilty Of man
slaughter The former has been arrested and committed
to jail-bail being refused.
We cite this with the view of contrasting the action
of the Canadian authorities with that of relative TO
still recent and more terrible calamity We aude
to the wreck OF the ship New Era of New Jersey
The circumstances attending this shocking tragedy de-
tailed by several of the surviving passengers of the i'll
fated ship, be briefly told The New Era sailed from
Bremen in September last and after encounterng
cession of gales from the west made the American
coast days ago in eaky condition. She had
Pde evldence It is ruethat during the passage the cap
tain and mate behaved in such a manner as would not
have been tolerated for moment will say in
preached the coast the weather became thick and squay
and there heavy The lead had been cast and
the soundngs indicated that land near Night set in
and what should have increased the vigilance of the officers
of the vessel of the sun had been taken for
dence say nothing of the stern necessities Of the case
would have required the appearance deck of the cap
tain or his mates both, during that night of storm and
darkness. careful commander duly impressed with the
awful responsibility of having upwards of four hundred
lives intrusted to his guardianship, would have shorten
ed sail, would have laid to until favorable change in
the weather would have enabled him to ascertain his true
bearings Not one of these precautionary steps was
adopted. The captain retired his berth He was fol-
lowed by the first mate md when the vessel struck
an officer Of the ship deck After the ship struck
the captain and nearly all his officers and crew took possess
sion OF the boass in the OF the Yankee Badeand
made for the Shore leaving four hundred men, women
and children to the mercy of the winds and waves.
This is the story told have said before by
eal OF the surviving passengers of the New Era II may
be true may be greatly slightly exaggerated
may be wholly false But with the testimony before us
and uncontradcted there for
want of action the part of the public authorities of New
York While the public mind is sickened with the details
of the coroners Investigations at Deal while the naked
and mutlaed bodies of men, women, and children are
washed hour after hour upon the rocks and sands Of
fatal coast it like mockery of laws that the
officers of the New Era should be walking through the
streets of New York with the utmost freedom and mpun
ty 1t may be that the captain of the New Era guiltess
Of all the charges preferred against him and may be
that his officers have acted the part Of good and
before proper tribunal they should feel surprise at
the present resentful state of the public mind.