The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-09-07

81. The frse two - quits enough 70 threw
The onus on the compsny. for the neglect Of
their agents; and the last named heaps CEN
sure upon the company, while it adds greatly
to the strength of the claims of the injured
for indemnity. That the road should be
provided with double track, is conclusive.
The company enjoys monopoly of the trans
portation between the two largest cities in
the Western Hemisphere, and as the Jour-
nal of Commerce justly says, their neglect
to provide double track, has, in one hour,
filed hundred homes with weeping; which
a few DAYS ago were vocal with cheerfulness
and ioy. The victims die, or writhe in ago.
nv. that few stockholders, already abound
ing in wealth, may put into theirpockets the
money, which ought long since to have been
expended in rendering such calamity i'm
possible While every other line on great
thoroughfare looks to double track as q
necessity to be attained as soon as tbs means
can possibly be secured, the New Jersey
monopoIists, of the most prosperous improve
ment in the United States, have gone on, year
after year, charging exhorbitant rates, deriv-
ing enormous profits, yet persisting in with
holding from the public the safeguard deem
ed elsewhere indispensable, on every road
doing half the business which they com
mand.
This is quite enough to bring upon this
company the most powerful retribution. But
it is feared that in New Jersey. with the in
fuences and wealth by which it is protected,
the result will be very different from what it
should be. The New Haven Company were
compelled to pay to the injured and the sur
viving relatives of the killed, some $500, 900
for the Norwalk tragedy. This New Jersey
company is even more culpable for, added
to the neglect of their agents, is this mex
cusable omission to provide double track
on their road; and if justice be done, it can
not escape the application of punishment to
the pocket nerve, the only kind OF punish
ment of which soul.less corporations are SEN
sible
1t is to be hoped that the people of New
Jersey, for their own sakes; for the preser-
walton of their good reputation among the
people of the Union, (which can only follow
the scrupulous observance of all the obliga-
tons of justice, amity, and good neighbor-
hood;'' for the sake of the past of their glo-
rious State, will hold to a rigid account this
great monopoly, and compel it to fulfil its
obligations in providing for the safety of the
vast multitude of citizens of other States,
who are under the protection and at the mer-
cy of themselves and their agents.
Sioux AND CHIPPEWA BATTLE Major HERMAN,
the Chippewa agent, arrived in town yesterday and
leaves this morning, with the money to make the
aup uaI pay ment to The Chippewas. He informs US
that just he leaving the agency, DR.. Grant, oil
pembius arrived and gave informaIion that short
time snsa the Chppewss, while their Buffalo
hunt tbs plains, were set upon By over six hun
dred Sioux who defeated thsm, stole POI horses ar
81 head of cattle md then broke up their hunt-St
Paul MINI esota) Pioneer Aug %.
FROM KANsAs.-The Squstter Sovereign of Aug.
28th, nomnstes Mr.. Atkinson for the next Presi-
dency 1t denies the rumor of an intention to
Platte county, Missouri, to Kansas Says that
Kansas is de prived OF and from its southern allies
because 1t has become prey to the North. 1t
presses hope that the next National Convention
will be the last.