The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-03

- - ANOAAb AA0kR-- 0t1ck w n
rior," remarkable war horse, died in New York
y" week at the advanced age Of twenty yeish,
years. The Herald speaking Of him says:
He was raised in Tennessee, and branded II.
~ Omitted States Dragoons) ON the opening Of
fne war IN Florida, whore he served in the svamna
and everglades to the close of that ineiorious a
paign after which, for several years, he was used
IN Tue ena4e OF WHO Indians, horse thieves border
humans, and at odd spells, Of foxes, deer and buff
faio at tho various military posts on the praires
west OF Arkansas Having marched all over the
country and swan all the principal rivers between
.. augustine, Florida, and Mexico, he was In the
whole Of the Mexican war, and took an active mart
in nins general battles, having been wounded by
muskes ball at Molinos del Rey, and again by .
piece of she'll 1t aChepultepee. Peace being re-
stored. Major Merrill was unwilling to part with
nis iahe1ul companion in arms, who had borne him
successmly through two wars, from the grade of
second Lieutenant to Brevet Major, or to break
MIN oown with more service and 90 he brought
nim North. and placed him on q retired list for
hIe, In this city. with full ratons, where he has
equestrian Professor. He was ridden by Kossutb
ana Also by President Pierce on occasion of their
triumphsi entries into the city of New York q few
years since
IHE COMING WINTER-Professor Merriam has
written another communication, which treats of
the temperature of the coming winter" from
Brooklyn Heights We give the following extracts: :
"PeoplsahoPs>that the coming winter will be
mild. The same hopes were INDUCED in the
autumn OF 1855, of the then coming winter, and
were frequently expressed, and In some cases
what were supposed to be indications Of . mild
winter, were stated in the newspapers bat not.
withstanding the winter here, and West, and Soutb.
was very severe, but at the North it was not of
unusual severity.
serving of atmospheric changes, and recording
hour by hour and day by day thermometrical and
meteorological observations and in connexion with
simultaneous observations made and recorded
Is not in the power of any human being to deter.
mine, even single day in advance what changes
Will take place in the atmosphere"
ANOTHER PROPOSED CHURCH DIyrstoN-A
meeting of delegates representing the Methodist
Protestant Church in the est recently took place
at Springfield, Ohio, when the following resolution
among others was adopted
Resot0ed, That we recommend to the several
Northern and Western Conferences to appoint at
their next session their representatives "a usual
and clothe them with conventional powers and in.
struct them to meet in the city of Cincinnati Ohio
on the second Wednesday in November. 1857 and
tnen and there determine whether they will attend
the General Conference to be held at Lynchburp
Va, in May, 1853; or whether they will take meas.
ures for the organization of General Conference
embracing only annual conferences opposed to the
system OF American slavery.
1t is said that only fifteen persons attended the
Springfield meeting but that the resolution was
adopted by vote of IA to /
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.-The Orleans IN w
Advertiser has an account of an accident which
occurred on the Erie Railroad on the 9th nit
caused by the breaking of a rail. 1t says
The train was going at a fearful rate of speed
some OF the passengers say forty miles an hour,
and nearly all OF them say thirty-fve miles-when
the engine struck and broke the rail- dragging the
baggage car OF the track, and the two passenger
cars-in which were some twenty i've or thirty
passengers-becoming uncoupled went plunpine
into the earth, literally smashing them to pieces
The first passenger car went over upon it's side
thus loosening the forward wheels which came
crashing through the floor of the car near its cen
tre stripping it of its furniture, and smashing ey
erything before them. In this car were some ten
or twelve passengers, and marvellous as 1t NAV
seem all escaped without serious injury The
second passenger Car was not so fortunate In it
were some eighteen or twenty passengers and the
conductor, Mark Ball
After uncoupling from the first passenger car
the second went to the left first striking the stone
wall of the cattle-guard, then bounding for ward to
the sign post at the road crossing shvering it into
thousand spnters-then, still further forward and
over on its side, where it lay when we reached the
wreck. Both cars were literally gut.ed of their
seats. and every pane of glass and nearly all the
blinds, and in fact the whole wood work of the cars
- as destroyed by the shock. The baggage car
was dragged some sixty rods over the ties by the
engine, which kept the track.