Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-05-15
THE NEWS.

A frighful railroad accident occurred
on the N. Y. Central Railroad, yesterday
lth,) at half-past six o'clock, by
the crushing of bridge over the Saquot
creek. near Whitesboro. A dispatch from
Utica says seven or eight are already dead,
and five or six Others are barely alive. The
injured number abou: 40 or more The kills
ed are, A. Moore of the Rising Sun, Ind,
head crushed; two children of Abraham
Mack, Cincinnati; an unknown man, lying
in the baggage room at Utica; an Irshlnan
aged, apparently GO years, name unknown;
his head is entirely ja'nmed in, he seems to
have died instantly; negro whose legs are
cut off, and an infant child of Carl Hoorer
of St. Louis. The accident occurred to the
Cincinnati Express due at Utica at $50 A. N.
1t was somewhat behind eime at Whites
boro, and was coming at high rate of speed,
when it met on the bridge over the Saquoit
Greek the Utica Accommodation for the
West or its own track. The engines crossed
the bridge, but as the passenger cars Of the
Express and the freight cars of the accom-
mediation came upon it. the north side gave
way, precipitating the freight cars into the
creek and piing the pas enger cars one upon
the other, splintering pla' forms and seats to
atoms as the cars struck the abutment. The
persons injured were all on the Express; the
passenger cars on the accommodation did
not reach the bridge. Among the wounded
was the conductor Of the train, Jas. Ward,
of Schenectady, who though badly bruised
is thought not to be dangerously hurt also,
J. F. Tracy, Sup't Of the Chicago Il r. l. r.
R., badly cut over the eye but not danger
ously.
The Southern Commercial Convention
assembled at Montgomery, Ala, on the 10th.
1t was composed of over 800 delegates, rep
resenting North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Florida,
Alabama and Georgia. Kansas, Central
America, the re-opening of the slave trade,
African apprentice labor, southern publica-
tons, a direct European trade, and other
matters, are expected to be discussed and
properly adjusted perhaps!
A dispatch from Utica of the 18th says
of the railroad disaster on the n Y. Central:
The following are the dead up to this time
A. Moore, of Rising Sun, Ind: Danl S.
Brayton, of Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y;
two children of Abram Mack, of Cincinnati,
one girl aged r. the other a boy aged 6
John Fitzgerald, of N. Y, who had been to
Detroit on q visit to his sons; Vim. II.
sharpe, a colored preacher, and Chas. Bet
terman, of Cincinnati, aged - years. The
coroner's jury tonight examined several
persons, and the testimony all went to show
the extreme rottenness of the bridge.
CoSGEEss.-Nay 18th. -Messrs. Rice and
Shields were sworn in as Senators: but I'M
expectedly to the former, MIR. Harlan OBJ
jected on the ground of certain charges of
fraud while he was in the Land Office, and
Mr.. Brown objected to both Senators because
they were elected before Minnesota was a
State. Mr.. Rice demanded an investigation
of the charges against him, declaring that he
would resign if one Of them were substantial
ted. One Of the charges is that Mr.. Rice
sold land at one dollar and half per acre,
and gave receipts for one dollar and a quar-
ter per acre. Mr.. Harlan declared that he
knew nothing about these charges, nor per-
sonally the Senators elect, but felt it his duty
to present the petition Of his constituents.
| In the House, Mr.. Smith, of Va, reported
Il bill to establish the Territorial Govern
ment of Nevada. Several bills relating to
the Territories, of no general Importance,
were then passed. The remainder of the
session was consumed in the consideration
of the bill to ascertain and settle private
land claims in New Mexico. The House
then adjourned for want of a quorum.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference in
session at New York passed resolutions, on
the 18th, almost unanimously, declaring that
the system of Slavery is at war with the gos-
pei of Christ, the rights of man and the best
interests Of society, for the extirpation Of
which all wise and prudent measures are to
be employed.
The American Tract Society, at its an
nual meeting in New York, on the 18th,
unanimously re-afirmed its declaration of
last year, that the Society ought to publish
tracts on the moral duties growing out Of
slavery, and resolved, moreover, that its
decision should be carried into effect the
present year. Thu action of the Society on
this subject was looked for with eager inter-
est by the religious public. The course
which it has taken, while it will be very
generally approved at the North, cannot fail
to widen the breach already existing between
the Northern and Southern Churches The
Southern members of the Society will, in all
probability, now withdraw from it, and es-
tablish an independent organization.
ASTONISHING DlsCLosURB.-The mystery
connected with the barrel of human remains,
lately detected at New York, and traced
back to Chicago, bids fair to be solved. A