New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-14

41 "sl- NUMBER Si33.
TIE ACCIDENT ON rHB PEssszEvAsrA AM
Ono RAILROAD. published q paragraph q
few days ago, stating that o hightful accident
had occurred on the Pennsylvania and Ohio
Railroad, BY which four persons we're KILLED
and sixteen wounded. We find III the New York
Express Of the 9TH, the following particulars Of
the affair: 81 .,., .:...,.ss.gz8 a
vas % minutes oas OF time
Tha persons killed and injured all in the first pas
The baggage car was driven entirely through
Two Of the dead did mot survive an instant. Every
person in the fatal ear killed horribly mutfated
with but two exceptions and they suffered from slight
We are indebted to Prof 8. b. Williams Of Louisville
for the following: fif5t n F53g3F Ell 53
Train from pitssburg TO Cinsinna was turning curve
neaf pa frightfrl collision took place be-
tween this and the freight train going East The solis
ION vas 90 Sudden That no time allowed to apply the
:. brakes The huge locomotives rushed upon each
other as in deadly conflict and having spent their giant
power in one onset sank together upon the track COM
lively little ipiury-nos 90 the ether The baggage car
passed entirely through the fst passenger carhe bo
tom q thc former above the oor o. latter
sweepng In the tWinkng Of eys every seat from its
place, and crowding passengers baggaEe stoves and
broken pieces Of timber in space large enough foF
one car The concuasion felt but for few seconds
and all was still except the fierce kissing the escaping
steam Almost instantly the shrieks of dying ne were
heard far above the noiae Of the crushed angne The
or FOUR MEN lay off to- ons side in the anoMsome with
pfoken Arms, others with shattered logs and hRiaed
noass crying n piercing tones Of agony for help. Just
above the front end Of the second passenger where
geas mass Of fragments had been washed up, three
were seem two Of them held up their legs the third
out q shs mass Of runs but his esd and hand
. y snd olaes rom eongestiye blood Poor fellow
"a
near 60 hus on the other side Of the cars stood
q. ssaye maI-aatsheW KoItons lsg broken and bis
right arm held firmly beneath the heavy tiUbsrs Of the
bottom Of the baggage car resting npon the front Of
the second passenger car. Hs uttered no conplsint
though his leg was broken and his literally ground
pieces nearly an hour elapsed before he could s
leased yet he showed no mpatIsnee and let no
escape his lips 8The other two were alnoes enuslY
brave, enduring thsir long confinement with remarkable
the passeners exerted almost supsrbnman aortsso *
the wounded and to place them in he unbgoker
Has probably not LEGS than an hour before all were
taken out, The cries Of the wounded for physicians m
water for warmth, and for wives and sisters were au
cient to rend the stoutest heart hi d. 3gSEff 81
One poor man. whose throat had been cut either BY
splinter broken gass sid upon the floor Of th
and afterwards pEopped Eo three seass bu
out in his throat forsn hour and then lay still
death From papers in his possession his name was foan
to 30 Samuel Johnston from New Middleton, idle Ohio,
THE CEsTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION. We pub
lish in another column, says the Baltimore Sun
\ the closing letters of the correspondence be
tween Mr.. Buchanan as the representative q
the United States, and Earl Clarendon on til
part Of the British Government This CORES
pondence fully sustains the sentiments Of Jth
| Presidents message, and will confirm the peopI
of the United States in the conviction tia
Great Britain is trihing with the plain lsngusg
and purport of the treaty, for the deliberat
purpose Of maintaining her own interests j
Central America, to the exclusion Of the Unite
| States. "A, ~
The subterfuge WhichSafects only prospect
the British Government, and entirely inegcusa
bic. Il it was o reserved policy at the time I'll
treaty, was made and ratified, it only betral
the uneandid nature Of the diplomatic inte
course Of Great Britain, and throws into reli
the frank and honest spirit and design Of th
I Of the United States. i The arguments Of Lor
Clarendon do not reach the quality Of respects
\ bic sophisims, And in view Of the very lett
Of the treaty, can only be esteemed asl eYasio
of the obligations which it distinctly imposes.
4 fAMALGAMATIoN OF EHE NICARAGUA TRANS
! COMPANY AND THIS PACIFIC STEAMSHIP GoMPAs
We learn that the Nioaragua Transit CO
8 pany and the Pacific Steamship Company {
stl
terms are agreed upon, and the contract
: drawn out, and will probably be signed witt
: the next forty eight hours, if not sooner.
: Commodore Vanderbilt is to have the contr.
!. ON this side the continent, of all the ships
t present belonging to the two companies, a
d / Mr.. ABpinWall of those running on the Paci
side. We have several times alluded to |
movement which has been going on for some ii
: in the stock Of the Transit Company, which
! now controlled by the large shareholders Of
f Pacific Steamship Company, and the mari
Q value Of the stock has advanced already #,
IA to 194, under the impulse of the mo-
advance, to which the proposed amslgamati
Of the two hitherto rival companies must &C
' tribute,
8 A leading party to the new movement bougl
i yesterday, two thousand shares Of the Tran
Company on time. Other arrangements IT
be made, and the present directors of the Nj
sragna Company will cease to be such in q We
> short period. IN. Y. Eve. Post, Sd. sst
ANOTHER "IssULT,a -o oR WHAr = Ca,
Atkins, of ship Liberty, from New Orleans,
this port, reports: we 33%' .'9" ~
Dec. goth, calm, with fresh breeze from E. N
with fine weather. At P. M. saw b1
bearing about east of us, running before t
wind, under two topsails. s SO ?. M, taokil
to the north, ship Westmoreland tackled abo
the same time, about two miles to windward
us. The brig before mentioned hoisted t.
Spanish flag, and hauled to under the ship
Windward. set my ensign and kept it fyi
about ten minutes, and then hauled it dow
The ship to windward outsailing the brig, q
again kept before the wind and ran down on o
weather quarter, but my ship outsailing hi
> he kept off and gave us a gun. / then back
my mizzen topsail, and again set my flag, a,
he made sail after me, by which time he was
my wake. He kept after us about half an hou
and getting to leaward, hailed US and told
We could go on hauled down his hag and ke
before the wind .5. ~ +ye~a$Sd. 4.
had an ensign flying all the time he W
after us. When he told us we might go, ask
him why he had insulted the American flag, b
received no answer.
The brig was pierced for guns, and had t,
quarter boats, both painted white. New Yo
Express, ..-..,,-r
The END OF THE WAR IN ST.. DoMISGo.--.
, letter from Macao, St. Domingo, November %.
says: a" rs 4
. The Emperor Soulouque, SO recently at t
0 head of formidable force against the DomiI
: clans, is on his return, without having fired
shot at his adyersaries. Two French men,