Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-08-02

r. SOUTHERN RyCHlvALRY.-We announced last weel
that the correspondent of the Tribune had beer
assaulted for an article on Capt. Pate. The wr''
| ter thus tells his own storv :---j bus sHI sdf
| Your correspondent H., in a Washington letter
| published in the Tribune of the 8th inst, said
| Capt. Pate showed the white feather. The Cap
tain. through his friend, Col. Jackson, of Geor'
gia, has labored very hard for the last four OF
Eve days to bring II. to say he would retract
But he (H.) invariably refused, asserting each
time that he had the proof, and if attacked fol
insisting would fight. r58ij stdi 1sa. si ad
Yesterday be was called upon at his lodgings
BY four or FIVE men, headed by Pate, in true Bor-
| der-Rufian style, and after another demand to
retract the charge Of cowardice, and a refusal
being given, Pate struck at him and just grazed
his face and then, to save himself from the in
slant punishment which he knew he deserved, he
darted behind two of his friends. 1ud 4sp
Capt. Darling, doorkeeper Of the House, and
others, came to the rescue of H.. also Mr.. Rog
ers, assistant doOrkeeper, who was afterward the
same day attacked AMI beaten and kicked by two
| tance to your correspondent. Such is chivalry
in Washington. s.uT e-t esrroa .8.
The RAILROAD AccIDENT.-A correspondent of
the N. Y. Tribune gives the following particu-
lars of the late Railroad accident 80 3i
81 have just conversed with gentleman who
was in the down express train which ran into the
pleasure train the conductor of the former, it
is reported did not wait at certain point to al
low the latter train to ptss-the road being a
new one, and there being but single track.
But, as it is reported the conductor concluded
there no train to encounter, dashed on at
full speed. ran into the pleasure train, the con-
cussion being like the closing of telescope, each
train running into the other, and being fully in
terlocked. The result was consummatiou Of
horrors, for not only were there ferocous crush
ings of the children, whose entire number was
600-but the genius of horror was crowned by
some of the cars taking fire and deliverance be-
ing at the time impossible, nineteen Of the in
mates, men, womec anl children, were roasted
alive --charred TO ashes. Certainly the details of
this accident which have received from an eve
witn. are the most terrible of anv which has
ever taken place iu this country, for in cases of
the burning of steamboats, the sufferers can end
their agonies by jumping ov erboard and being
speedily drowned: hut here were persons, chiefly
children, locked in the prison of despair and in
famed to death besides heing horribly mutiated.
My informant escaped unhurt, and rushing with
others to the nearest house, procured axes to cut
the cars so as to liberate those not vet roasted
alive. My informant saws that five of the cars
were destroyed utterly. From out the ruins were
drf fggcd bodies of the dead, the diving, the
crushed, mutilate |, burne lin every form of
misery and horror --foaminy, shreking, cursing.
waiiing, impioring, and beyond misery. The
KILLED so far ascertaincd. amount to thirty
nine, and he wounded to sixty-nine, but these
figures will doubtless b., swollen, for the wound.
ed will som; of them dlc and fresh sufferers will
be discovered. .l.t.Lr r. fe.saat ats
"Thc pleasure train was composed of ten cars
CoNGREss.-The time set for adjournment is in
August. UnimpOrtant matters atpresent occupy
the attention of the members. Douglas and his
friends are endeavOring to push the Kansas
Senate Bill through the House, but we do not
tion of Brooks and keitt, and the imprisonment
of Herbert, will give three votes that hitherto
have been against In our opinion the bill of
Douglas will never pass the House-at least this
session of Congress.
''Piercc will appoint the right kind of men for
commissioners, and Ue WiA take care of the rest as
De did befOre!" 't" q ."iA
Cy- The Pioneer has been considerably exer-
csed of late because the TixEs opposed Douglas
''kansas Paciication Bill,' as it is called, and
very innocently wishes to know the cause of our
opposition. We have already stated that it was
but another shuttle Of the cards bt Douglas to
carry out his scheme, and would prove swindle,
and We are convinced of the fact from the
above quotation which emanate from a partic-
ular friend of the Little Giant" Let Pierce
appoint the Commissioners, and ,ce'H manage the
rest"
MoRE OUTRAGEs.-Armed Missourians are now
engaged in pillagiDs emisrants on the Missouri
river. The emigrants called upon Smith, the Com
mander at that place, for aid, who replied that
he had no authority to assist them, and that the
armed bands were regularly enrolled militia act
ing under the color of the laws and that there
was to redress except by civil law.
DUgL.--A challenge has actually been sent
to Burlingame Of Massachusetts, by Brooks, and
accepted. The former desires to 60 to Canada
to settle the df6culty--the latter (Brooks) was
afraid to pass through the country. We question
| If he had whether he wo1ld have returned with a
whole skin. ., -,,l ,t,,,..t .....t,.. E
To- 1t cost seven millions seventy-hve
thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollar.
for carrying on the city government Of New
York for one year only. equal to Sl2 per head
for every person in the city.
| Coon FOR BURuSe,xE.-The National Intell
gencer publishes card from Mr.. Burlingame o
| Mass, in which he saws the conversation bctweer
| him and Mr.. Brooks having received an iuterpre
taton that does in Justice to its real meaning, h
now withdraws and says explicitly, that he leave
the speech to interpret itself, and holds himsel
personally responsible for it, without qualification
| or amendment. .,,. 4
e A Mr.. Glover, Of Western New York, VIII
for twenty wears has been a member of the Dem