The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1861-09-18

through to Washing ton. A correspondent OF
the y. e. Herald, relates the circumstance as
fellows:
They proceeded safely. az rate Of about
isht miles per hours until within four miles oil
Cooke, s,ille, when the engineer put on the
steam and began TO run the train at fearful
speed. Col. Fitzpatrick aud bis wife, ana most
OF the officers We're in the last car The brakes
man lett his post and came INTO the car oeciarin
that be could DO. manage the brake wheel the
train was dashing along at such speed In go
| ing around a sharp curve, as soon as the engine
reached the straight road, the steam was sudden
Is let on, fearfully Increasing the rate OF speed
Lieut. LyoD, nephew of the late Gen. Lyon, vol
unteered 10 man the brake at the last car
| Aided by Sergeants Mcdonald and Fuller, and
one OF the privstes. he had managed TO put down
| the brake, when the four cars Immediately III
front of il were violently thrown from the track,
and the breaking of the coupling OF the last car
let it escape the same fate. Lieut.. Lyon and
Sergeants Mcdonald and Fuller and the private,
Who were manning the brakes, were instantly
killed. They had calamity exposed themselves
TO danger, and los, their lives, but saved those
of the occupants of tie last car.
| 'As soon as the cars were thrown OF, the
engineer detat he'd the locomotive and tender
There, your Cd id train is a wreck, and
hope the whole party is killed" Col Kilpatrick
promptly gave orders for his arrest, and some q
the nen started after him AID eldeavored by
hurting stones TO knock him off the engine. The
hreman bes de him VAS thus knocked iusensiole
and fell from the car, but the engineer at thai
| time made his escape"
The engineer was subsequently arrested. In
1 Ill ,lr
so badly wounded that they have since died
Fifteen Others were badly wounded, and mum
Der received Commissions more or less severe
Two valuable horses were also killed.
An important reconnaissance was made or
Wednesday last, by large number of he Ma
tions troops from the vicinity o: Chain Bridge
The force, which included cavalry, infantry, AID
| artillery, went in excellent order 10 Lewinsville
about seven miles from the Bridge, and recon
notered with view to the occupation OF the
place, remaining about three hours at LeWins
vile. and gaining the information sought, they
returned in good order The Rebels cred upon
them from their batteries, but the guns were
| quickly and repeatedly senced by our artillery
In the course of the affair we lost three or four
men, had several wounded slightly, and some
missing. The reconnaissance considered
| highly successful.
| The Washington correspondent OF the New
York Tribune, Sept. llth, says: "Adjutant
General Thomas has decided tina: under no cir.
cumstances whatever will soldiers be discharged
from the army the allegation that they were
minors when they enlisted.
| "Mr. Serr was Internationally discharged
| from his arrest at Fort LAFAYETTE. He is al
agent of the Bank OF England, and held abun.
| dant proof of his responsibility and loyalty al
the time he was denounced TO the police. Mr.
Serrell had long interview this evening with
the President. The disclosures and suggestions
he made were of such Importance that the Sec
rotary OF State was sent for TO receive them.
| "Of the sixty two prisoners confined at Fort
| LAFAYETTE every one but three has been found
| guilty OF treason for which he was arrested.
capt Dove, OF the Pocahontas, is under ar.
rest on a charge of reasonable Intercourse.
"CoI. Rankin, member o! the Canadian Par.
| Lament, was mere few days since, and obtained
power to raise a regiment of 800 lanceIs and
TO arm and equip them Ike the Sixteenth Eng
| lish Lancers with saueTs cal binss, pistols aud
| lance, the shaft of which is TO be sixteen feet
long and the blade fourteen inches. The rem
devious viii. be Detroit. They will be in tn.
| field nv Decemhn. ard be conlnaudded oy ex
perlenced officers.
| A dispatch from Mexico, No, states that an
other fendish attempt to destroy tire lives o.
our soldiers was made day or two since on the
North Missouri Railroad. The timbers of 9
bridge just this side Of Sturgeon were partially
burned in expectation that train with troops
would be precipiiated into the creek below, but
the design OF the villains being known the
train stopped tn re, and the troops are now en-
camped at that place, where The will remain
until the bridge is repaired.
Advices from Jefferson City, Sept IL, state
that gentleman from Georgetown, Pettus
county, reports that Gen. Prices army was en-.
camped the Saturday night previous on the
WarrensburSh road, near Clinton, in Henry
county, destined, it was thought, for Lexington.
Another messenger from Sedalia brings in
formation that DR.. JennIson, the Kansas jay.
hawker. with small force from that State had
fallen upon party of five hundred rebels I'M
der the notorious Dr.. Staples. and completely
routed them and killed their leader II this be
true, the most difficult part Of restoring peace
in Pettus and adjoining counties has been ac-
complished.
This nan Staples and Captain Magofln,
captured some days since, have been the prin-
cipal instigators OF secessionism in these coun-
ties.
The same messenger states that Colonel
Marshalls Illinois cavalry had surrounded six
hundred rebels under Captain Shelby, a short
distance below Lexington, and mad taken the
whole force prisoners. Shelby had two cannon.
This latter report needs confirmation, but it
has been known for several days that Shelby's
band had taken position at the place indicated
after abandoning the siege of Lexington.
1t is stated there is to be a large increase Of
the military and naval force at Fortress Monroe.
The following is the result of the Maine cleo
ton One hundred and ninety-ive towns, cast
ing two-thrds Of the aggregate vote Of the
State. give Washburne. Rep. 80 COS; Jameson,
Union DEM. - IFS: Dana Peace DEM. l., lao.
Majority for Washburne, 1916 against 1912
in the same towns last year.
VIM. H. Winder, brother OF the rebel Gene
raj. is in custody in Philadelphia. charged with
REASONABLE communications with the enemy.
He has another brother a resident of WaShin o.