Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-07-09
WAsHINGToN City, June IA, 1857

Thomas L. Price, esq.
DEAR SIR-I wished to have seen you a.
gain before left St. Louis, but was COM
PEELED to depart before you return from the
east. | am so absorbed in my work that
can call no time my own. My publishers
have an immense capital invested in the a
bridgement, and cannot, in justice TO them
as well as myself, permit any part of their
force to be idle. Thus far, have kept up
to my engagement. Only beginning last
September and traversing the country al
most ever since, we have still three volumes
issued, the fourth in the press, and part of
the fifth prepared. l shall finish within
two years from the time begal barring ac
cidents, though nobody thought it when l
said Sc. enclose you prospectus to show
the public opinion.
Had railroad accident three weeks age,
rather worse than the public was allowed
TO know. Was going to Pittsburgh to full
fill an engagement, and had travelled all
night to join the Philadel phia train at Har-
risburg, which we did at day break. The
train had gone but mile or two Ga large
train, l in the fourth car when l felt my
car hobble and Jump, and had rely passed
the reflection through my mind that we
were on bad piece of road, when felt the
car TO be going over, and had barely time tc
realize that feeling when felt the slam OF
the ground. 1t was the only one that wen
over, as 1t broke loose from the rest, and ir'
fall was occasioned by the breaking of for
ward axle, (from an old fiaw,) over which
was sitting. The locomotive was imme
diatey sent back for a physician, and ca
detached TO take back the injured. | ap
peared TO be among those seriously hurt; il
fact, people were much alarmed for me
seeing the head was bleeding from cut
and the shirt bosom was covered with blood
and / could not rise or get out without help
But the blood on the breast was from
} wounded person who fell on me, and bruised
the breast; but the real injury was on th
small Of the back, across which a seat hat
struck me. Would not be carried back, fo
) that would have classed me with the seri
ously injured, and alarmed my friends S
| Invent forward to Pittsburg, and that classe
me with the slightly hurt We were near
all day getting to Pittsburg, and fever cam
on with soreness and stiffness. Was Il
speak that evening, and did it, though ha
TO hold up by chair. When came home
| my physician fourd the bruise on the bacI
very entirely across it, and a or
inches wide--all black with extravasate
blood. 1t has cost me three weeks to recover
but am not yet able 10 take my usual hors
J bach exercise.
But, busy or hurt, shall have time
think of Missouri, and of the governor
election, and 10 wish success TO Rollins. TIL
welfare Of the State requires it. We ual
real Missouri hearted man at The head {
/ the Stdte-one that ,DiH make her interests
: paramount consideration, and especially wht
concerns the great central Pacific ra,lroa'
That object is noW sacrificed 10 the Southe,
route, and none bue true hearted .MiSsouia,
s can redeem ii. No nuilifer can be trusted
o that business. has a shame 10 see hotC Nj
souri, has been sacrificed in this business. an
hoD apathetic the people haze become in ,ch
concerns them so nearly, a nuLlifer need n
call himself a Democrat 10 me. | go
Jackson's proclamation, and consider Il
D nulifers as the authors OF all the mischie
which now afflict the country and the er
If of which is not yet. The present dangeror
70 condition of the Union finds its origin
l. those notification and fire. brand resolution
c which, originating in tha U. s. Senate, al
l. driven out of that place, found refuge
e some state legislatures among others,
e ours. Rollins was against these treachero
e resolutions; and being gentleman in /
h department, and patriot in his principle
and a Missourian in his heart, wish hi
.e success. Yours, truly,
}. THOMAS H. BENTON.