Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1866-09-21

/ fiually we reached Detroit his Oein 4 DIM
okratic city, the President WIZ hisself agin.-
/ His speech here wuz Wun Of rare merit He
| gathered together in one quiver all the sparklin
arrows he had used from Washington to this
| pint, and shot en- one by one. He swung around
/ the cirkle-hc didn't come TO make a speech
| he he'd bin Alderman Nv his native tOWn-he
mite hey been Dicktater but woodent-and end
/ Ell with pOetickal cotashun wich coodent
| ketch, hut wich ez reer e. cool understand
| Euz
KUN Wun-Kum all-this rock shell iy,
From is firm base-iu 4 Pigs eye"
| Here We reposc for the mite. Tomorrow we
| start onward, and shel continer SNingIn around
/ ths cirkle till we reach Chicago.
/ PETROLEUM Y. NASBY, PM
(Bich Is Postmaster,)
| tsu. likewise chaplin to the expedishn.)
Tie Montpelier Journal and Freeman,
whose editors attended the loyal Philadel-
| pba Convention. take the Vermont Senators
and Representatives in Congress to task for
no; also Icing present. The Journal says
that the absence of Senators Poland and
Edmunds was particularly commented upon
as a neglect Of duty not merely to the State
and to the Republican Union party. but to
themselves.
We agree with our Montpelier brethren
that it Is to be regretted that none OF the
representatives Of Vermont in Congress,
were present TO welcome and encourage the
Southern loyalis,s Not doubling. however.
their full sympathy with the objects of that
convention, We have taken it for granted
tha. each had some good excuse Tor his ab-
scncc. As TO Senator Elmunds, We happen
to know that he notified the State Commit
tee, before his appointment as a delegate,
that professional engagements which could
not honorably he postponed, would prevent
his attendance on the Convention. We
know, too, that while attending meeting
OF tie RctTenchment Committee, in New
York, the week preceding the Convention,
Mr. Elmunds had several interviews with
leading Southern gentlemen who were after
wards prominent in the Convention, IN which
be earnestly urged on them the duty Of tax
ing decided stand tor impartial suffrage,
as the true policy and the one that must
eventually be adopted. The Journal ought
not to be ignorant that Mr.. Edmunds has
not failed to improve number Of 'oppor-
tuuiues 20 identify himself clearly with the
Republican Union men of the North and the
L0yalists Of the SOUTH Ii not sltlsfed on
that point We should be glad to point Mr..
Walton to two or three passages in the record
Of NJ. Eimunds which will remove all pos
sible room for doubt or excuse for the sugge,-
ton Of such unjust and unwarrantable sus-
Iicious as mlsh; be drawn from the Jour
Hors structure.
Our townsman, DANIEL MuRRAY, ESQ,
and his wife, were on the train which was
wrecked On the New York Central Road near
Rochester, last week Wednesday, by which
disaster five persons were killed and forty
SIX wounded. Mr.. and Mrs. Murray were in
g rear car and fortunately escaped uniniured
The FRIGHrrrL ACCIDENT at Johnstown
Pa, on Friday, by which thirteen persons
were killed and more than one hundred
wounded, was occasioned by the breaking
down Of road bridge across the canal, upon
which a crowd had gathered to sec the Pres
dental PARTY pass just as the tram was
about to move away, the timbcrs supporting
the bridge snapped and precipltatcd the
crowd distance Of fifteen feet to the hard
grayelly bottom Of the dry canal. The rest
Of the bridge toppled over upon the mass of
human beings. As the bridge broke IN the
centre, its two halves formed an inclined
plane, along which all were slid with light
ming speed and pitched on opof those who
stood in the middle and went down first.
Probably not les than four hundred persons
were on the main bridge and one thousand
on the whole structure. The killed were
mainly crushed TO death by those who fell
upon them but few were hurt by the tim
hers OF plauks. >plintcrs caused a large
proportion Of tao lesh cuts and contusions.
From the manner in which the mass Of peo-
pie was Irecipi;ated struggling ,clutcbing and
gra-ping, to the ground beneath, a great
many arms ami leg were broken. One re-
markablo fact was that NJ infants CT small
children were know 20 be hurt in the slight
Get, although many infants in arms were
among those who lell to the bottom. The
most unfortunate feature OF the affair was
that tie prominent physicians Of the place
were among the severely injured, and the com
munity was deprived Of their services in the
hour OF their greatest need
The agent Of the railruad telegraphed
each way along the line, urging forward all
assistance, and in less than two hours about
twenty physicians arrived by regular and
special trains Few calamities of this kind
have been so widespread, or carried desola-
tiOn and mourning into SO many different
families