Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-07-23

/ DRyApyu1 RAILROAD DIsAsTER.-On Thurs
day last train of cars left Philadelphia on the
North Pennsylvania Railroad, filled with some
eleven hundred persons-children composing o
Catholic Sunday School and their parents and
Thanksgiving out to have pic mic. Near Ter
nantown, the train came in collision with Q
down train, and terrible calamity ensued. The
description we have of the accident, though
brief is sufficient to afford some idea OF the ter
rible scene presented of smashed locomotives,
and broken cars loaded with passengers and
piled in one mass on top of the steaming en-
gines, setting the whole mass in flames, adding
to the fortunes of the wounded.
When the locomotives came together they
rose on end the fire boxes Of each nearly touch
ing, and fell over across the road. The fire be-
ing scattered about the wreck, the first excur-
sion car soon caught fire, and the flames rapidly
communicated to the two others piled up upon
It. The most extraordinary efforts were made
to extricate the unfortunate mutilated beings
who were crushed amid the wreck, rending
the air with their dying groans. Many of these
poor beings were still alive when the flames
reached them, and thus suffered, as it were,
double death. Their groans and shrieks for aid
were awful and heartrending- altogether beyond
the power of language to describe.
Forty persons were killed and sixty-nne
wounded. Twenty-seven bodies were SO badly
burned as to defy recognition. William Vansav-
rem, the conductor of the down train, driven to
desperation by the calamity, committed suicide
| by swallowing arsenic. VIM. Lee, the engineer
of the same train, has been arrested and COM
mitted for examination.
| According to the accounts in the Philadelphia
papers the number of killed is about fifty-two,
and the wounded, fully one-third of whom can
scarcely survive, is not less than one hundred.
FALLING OUT BETWEEN RIvAs AND WAIKER.-
A letter from Nicaragua states that Rivas and
his entire Cabinet, with the exception of Ferrer,
had deserted Gen. Walker and attempted rev.
olution. This, however, proved unsuccessful
Walker afterwards accused Ryas and party of
being traitors, when the latter issued o procla-
nation and Joined the enemy. The election for
q new president was to come off on the Oath of
July; in the meantime Ferrer was acting as pro-
ascendancy and it is believed would ultimately be
chosen. The Ministers of England and France
had dispatched couriers to Washington on q
special mission. Padre Will had returned in
poor health.
The Ell Nicaraguense of June 81, abiding to
the fight of Rivas, says: "We can only account
for it on the ground of fear, both from external
enemies of the State and from the fact of an APP
preaching election. 1t is well known that when
ever an election has taken place in the Republic,
the defeated candidate either fed or was sum-
marily executed. 1t is probable that his Excel
lency remembered this failing of the State, and
knowing that an election was about to transpre
in the country, he accordingly concluded to fol-
low the example of bis predecessors and save
himself by fight"
Mr.. FILLMORE IN SoUTH CARoLINA.-The
Charleston Courier, one of the most influential
papers in South Carolina, publishes an able COM
munication in defence of Mr. Fillmore, which
concludes as follows:
He conducted the Government, in difficulties,
with so much moderation and wisdom, that his
enemies can discover nothing to blame-no ere
vice in his mail of proof for the shafts Of SANDER
and party hostility. He was the President Of
the nation and not of section, Of the American
people and not of q faction. Every man in the
nation knows. whatever may be his party or his
choice of candidates, that if Mr.. Fillmore is eIec
ted, the nation will he safe in his keeping, that
no man would more certainly secure the peace,
dignity and prosperity Of the country. Such at
least is the judgement Of one who is devout
believer in the wisdom of Washington, in the
incalculable value of constitutional union and O.
government of equal rights, good faith and
JUSTICE.
TIE GRRMANs.-A convention of delegates
from the Turnverien Association from New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut was held re-
Gently at Military Hall, in Williamsburg, for the
purpose of amicably arranging some matters Of
difference between the Eastern and Western as
sociations HAM Deck presided and F. Hume
acted as Secretary. Twenty-eght societies were
represented, and the matters in question were
duly arranged. Afterwards q political discus
sion arose, and the delegates reported that all of
the associations were in favor of the election OF
Colonel Fremont There are 10000 Turner's in
the United States, of which about 1000 reside
in the Southern States and are in favor of the
election of Buchanan. In New York and New
Jersey there are about 10000 Turner'S, and it is
reported that with the exception OF about 200,
they are Fremont men.
HEALTH OF NoRFoLK.-The city of Norfolk
continues to enjoy excellent health. During the
past month the number of deaths there was only
thirty-eight, including sixteen colored persons.
Nearly two-thirds of the whole number were
children under two years of age.
(ADvRRTIsEMENT.
The Fourth Of July.-A friend of ours burnt
his hand severely with fireworks on the "glori-
GUS fourth :" he applied the Perry Davis Pain
K;lIar ond In holf nm hour WAS entirely free