Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-07-08

FERlNGs FROM THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
WASHINGTON CITY. June II. 1857.
wished To have seen you again before ] left
ST. Louis, but was compelled to depart before
your return from the east. ! am so absorbed in
my work that can call no time my own. Ny
publishers have an immense capital invested IN
the abridgement. and cannot, in justice to them
Us well rs myself, permit any part of their force
10 he idle.
Thus far have kept up to my engagement.
Only beginning last September, aud trnversing
the country almost ever since, we have still three
volumes issued, the fourth in the press, and part
OF the fifth prepared. shall finish. within two
years from the time began. barring accidents.
though nobody thought ii when said ! en-
close you prospectus 10 show the public opn.
ion.
had railroad accident three weeks ago raih-
or worse than the public was allowed to know.
Was going Ia Plttsburg to fulfill an engagement.
and had travelled all night To join the Philadel-
phia train al Harrisburg. which we did at day.
break. The train had gone but mile or two Ia
large train | in the fourth cnr) when felt my
car hobbe and jump. aud had barely passed the
reflection through my mind that were on
bad piece of road when felt the car to be going
over, and had barely time to realize that feeling
when | felt the slam on the ground. II was the
on y one that went over, Us it broke loose from
the rest, aud lis fall coca -oned by the break
ing Of IA forward axle, from an old haw) over
which was sitting.
The locomotive was Immediately sent back for
physician. aud "A chr detached to take back the
injured. appeared 10 be among those serious.
~ hurt in fact tho people were much alarmed
for me, seeing the head was bleeding from n cut,
and the shirt bosom covered with blood, and
! could not rise get out without help. But
the blood on the breast was from wounded per
son who fell me. and bruised the breast; but
the real injury was on the small of the back;
across which seat had struck me. Would not
be carried back, for that would have clnsscd me
with the seriously injured, and alurmcd my
friends; so | went forward TO Plttaburg. and that
chased me with the slightly hurt.
We were nearly ell day getting TO Pittshurg,
aud fever came On, with soreness and stiffness.
Was 10 speak ;hnt evening. and did it. though i
lad to hold up by n char. When came home,
my physician found the bruise on the back very
lare"-rnlirciy across II, and four or five inches
wide all black with cxtrhvnsated blood. 1t has
cost me three weeks 10 recover but am not yet
able To take NV usual horseback exercise.
But busy or hurt, shall have time to think
Of Missouri. and of the Governor election, and to
wish success to Rollins The welfare of the
State requires it. We want real Missouri
hearted man at the head of the Stnte--one that
will make her interests paramount considera,
ton, and especially what concerns the great
central Pacific railroad. That object is now sac
reed to the Southern route, and none but true
hearted Missonrians can redeem it. No nullilicr
can be trusted in TINT business. 1t is II shame To
see how Missouri has been sacrificed in this bus
iness, and how apnthetic the people have become
in what concerns them nearly; nullilier need
not call himself democrat to me.
go by Jacksons proclamation, and consider
the nuliers rs the authors of all the miSchiets
which now aillict the country; and the end of
which is not yet. The present dangerous con.
dlion of the Union finds It's org gin in those null
teation and fire brand resolutions which, orgna
ting in the United States Senate. and, driven
Out of that place. found refuge in some State
Leg slatures among others, in ours. Rollins
was against tlrse trencherous resolutions; and
being gentleman in his department, and pa
trio, in his principles, and Mssourian IN his
heart, | wish him success.
THOMAS II BENTON.