Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-05-18
Later from California. Of the Northern
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NEW DIRK, May lb.-lhe steamer Northern
Light, from California, arrived here to-day with
$50 passengers and $27S,000 in specie.
She left San Juan on the night of the 9Th inst.
Owing to n general dstrust of the banking
houses, the passengers brought Urge amount of
specie in their care.
Purser Hatch, of the Northern Light, reports
that accounts from the interior of Nicaragua
state that there no further fighting going on.
Tho government troops, finding the army of Mar
roz too strong for them, had retired from Leon
and begun terrifying Grenada.
The Nicaragua Expedition, under Elk President
Walker, was to sail from San Francisco on the
9Th inst. 1t numbered from IS to 100 men, in
GLIDING Achilles Kerven Captain IIornsley, and
other we'll known individuals. The brig Nesta
had been chartered to take them down emf
grants.
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Maazanillo, a new Mexican port, will hereafter
he the loading depot of the Nicaragua steamers
in their passage to and from San Francisco.
There are reports of recent discoveries of gold
mines IN the sand hills of the Yuba county. They
are reported yielding $50 per day to each
miner.
Vigorous efforts were being made to get up a
new election of l. 5. Senator, but the chances
of success appear to be very slim. The San
Francisco Delta, which has no connection with
the elections, seems to doubt the right of Colonel
Gwnn to seat in the Senate, under strict con-
structon of the constitution. On the other hand
clau. e in the constitution declares that ma
jority Of votes in any election shall decide the
choice of the voters; and Gwinn having received
seven votes over Edwards on the first ballot, in
joint convention, it is contended that he is con
stitutonally elected.
Two hundred and sixty four ejectment suits
have commenced i'll san Francisco, in view OF the
expiration of the statute Of limitations
Terrible 4ccideat on the JeftrsonriUe Railroad.
The Cincinnati Times gives an account OF the
explosion on the railroad, published by day
or two since. 1t says:
The locomotive Bartholomew, to which was at
tached the freight train, the Jacksonville
Railroad, blew up on Wednesday evening, few
miles beyond llenryvie, by which accident the
engineer Griffin Harris, and the fireman, Tho
mas Cornell, were instantly killed, and brake
man, whose name we did not learn, was serious Y,
if not dangerously wounded.
The accident was caused by want OF water in
the boiler, and was the result Of either gross ig-
noranee or calPable careessness.
The pumps were known to be out of order and
un>eryiceahle; and, under these circumstances,
1t is matter of surprise to US that the engineer
was allowed to use the engine.
The force OF the explosion was terrific The
engineer was blown one hundred and seventy pa
ces from the train, through the thick branches of
the trees, upon which were scattered remnants
of his mutatad body and torn clothing. The fire
man was horribly manged; his entrails torn out;
portion of his liver was found in one place an
arm in another-his legs in another The speed
taoe was shocking to look upon. Mr.. Cornell
was highly respectable citizen of Edin-
burgh, and a member of the Masonic Lodge of
that place. Mr. Harris,the engineer, also
young man, of high responsibility, and of sober,
steady habits.
The locomotive was the most complete wreck we
have ever and portions of it were thrown
several hundred feet Several of the freight cars
were badly smashed up. The loss which the Com
pany will sustain in consequence of the accident
will not fall short of $4,000.