The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-04-01
THE LONDON TINES ON THE sICKLEs CASE


THE LONDON TINES ON THE SICKLES CASE.
We published yesterday March 18TH a very
strange and very sad story from W ashingto
With the recollection of Sir Cresswel CresswePs
clients before eyes we are not about to hv into
paroGy SIMS of virtuous indignation because in the
United States, as elsewhere, woman is sometimes
frail and man generally vindctve-such things are
of all ages and of all countries and this Washing
ton story about Mr.. and Mrs. Sickles and Mr.. Key
might at any given season find its counterpart in
the scandaous chronicles of any of the European
capitals-London included.
1t is true indeed, that the husbands vengeance
was swift, savage, and severe. Such is not the way
in which such injuries resented in Eng land, but
according to the civilization of country, is the
fashion of its revenge. One nation stiletto,
another revolver, another an old fiint-gun, a
fourth a barrister. We employ the fourth weapon;
in the United States the second comes more famil-
iarly to the hand of an outraged husband. The re-
markable part of this occurrence, then, far we
concerned, is the form which the husbands ven
geance assumed.
Had such story as this happened in England,
and had the husband in due course put his in
to the hands of the family solicitor, and bad that
useful parsonage, still in due course feed counsel
and brought it before the Judge Ordinary, we
should scarcely have given the report second
glance. Deny it who may, the truth is that habit
renders all persons but the immediate family friend:
and acquaintance of the parties to such suits, pro-
foundry indifferent to the matter. We can hardly
say if equal apathy exists the other side of the
Atlantic, when injuries of this class avenged in
the terrible fashion of this Washington tradgedy
At first sight, the fact that an injured husband al
once rushes to the conclusion that nothing but the
blood of the adulterer can be accepted as expia
ton for his wrong, would seem to argue higher
conception of the marriage bond than the one
which obtains among ourselves We eahnot
however. at the same time, forget that American
hands are swift to shed blood for injuries of
far inferior class to those of which we are speak
ing.
EXPLOSION OF A LoCoMoTIvE.-Early on Wednes
day morning the locomotive Perkiomeno, one of thu
largest on the Reading Railroad, while standing
near the toll house the west side of the Schuyl
kill at the Falls bridge from some unascertainet
cause exploded.
The locomotive was broken away from the rest o
the train bv the force of the explosion, and wa
dashed on to the bridge, a distance of sixty OF
seventy feet. The engine was literally blown t.
pieces, the boiler being shattered and even the run
ming gear wrecked. 1t was a coal burner engine @
great power.
Two men were instantly killed by the accident
The engineer, Josiah Missimer, was upon the en-
CINE at the time, and it is supposed that he wa
blown into the river, as no trace has yet bee
found of his body. John Foley, the first brakes
man, was blown a distance of fifty yards from tn
spot where the explosion took place. His body wa
found upon the towpath within four feet of tn
river. He had fallen headforemast among som
rocks, and his brains were dashed out.
The toll house at the west end of the bridge wa
I shattered by the explosion and the building was Sc
on fire. The toll-gatherer and his family wer
asleep in their beds at the time. The toll-gathere
was thrown from his bed by the shock and dashe
against the wall. portion of the iron work Q
the boiler was blown into window of the toll
house, and falling upon the foot of boy lying
; bed, it burned him. A daughter of the toll-gatl
erer was so stunned that she could not be arouse
for some time. None of this family received an
!. very serious injury.
The explosion accompanied by tremendou
shock and report. Buildings in the Thirteenth
Fourteenth and Twentieth Wards of the city, wei
shaken by the explosion, and the report was hear
distinctly for dreat distance. The safety val'
n of the engine was blown entirely across tt
Schuylkill, and it was found after daylight in Il
yard of house at the Falls.
= 1t seems that at the time the explosion toe
i place, the train waiting for additional e
CINE to push the around curve. The shot
!; of the explosion shook buildings at frankfort al
Germantown, as well as in upper parts of the cit
:, Philadelphia Bulletin