Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-07-10

FantasficaI Firemen's Parade.

Fantastical Firemen's Parade.
- ~PHILADELPHIA, July 8.
An amusing fantasticaT firemen's parade
came of Tonight, the occasion being the
reception OF the Duster Steam Fire Engine
Company, on their return from an excur-
sion to Reading. The parade was divided
into four divisions, consisting ofthe follow
ing companies: Ginger Hose Company, Pea
cock Hose Company, Old Tom Cat Hose
Company, Humpty Dumpty Company.
Screw Nozzle Hose Company, Black Crook
Hose and Black Crook Hook aud Ladder
Company. Sugar Tit Hose Company and
Heffron Hose Company. Each company
was accompanied with music, banners and
mock apparatus. The display occasioned
great amusemet. sfFffF f
Arrival of Delegates.
PoTTsvILLE, Pa, July 0.
About two hundred delegates are here to
attend the Convention of the Grand Army
of the Republic. Among the distinguished
gentlemen present are Generals Pearson,
Negley, Owen and Selfridge. General
Geary will arrive this evening. The dele
gates were met at the depot by Post No.
OF Pottsville, and escorted TO the hall. -
Venezuela Advices.
New YORK, July 9.
Telegraphic advices from Venezuela state
that the Commission from Guayana were
on their way to confer with Gen. Monages
on the effect of the late treaty with the
National forces. A commission had also
been sent to compromise the difficulties
there. ;sur ETTkTlTuTA0 aHF SO
Returning to - cir Homes.
NEW YORK, July 9.
Honduras letters of May 4th state that
the colony of Georgians who had colonized
near the town of San Pedro, had mostly
departed for the United States again, their
Cotton crop being almost entirely destroy
ed by the cotton worm, which, strangely
enough, had never appeared in San Pedro
before. A small colony from Louisiana
had now taken possessionlwith a fair pros
pect.
Havana Items.
A Havana letter of the 4th contains ru.
mors of an intended invasion of Mexico by
the Imperial leaders. Tabada is reported
in New Orleans urging on operations from
that quarter. Santa Anna being penniless
remains quiet. e 10
The water in the new Havana aqueduct
is said to contain poisonous particles.
The cholara had increased during the
latter days of June. but had considerably
declined since. jsEa lEE#tEfkB B1Ff
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NEW YORK, July 9.
The baggage car, two passenger coaches
and a sleeping car on the Rutland and
Washington Railroad, near Cambridge,
above Troy, were thrown from the track
early on Tuesday morning by the displace-
ment of rail. Ten or twelve passengers
were iDiured-three of them, an old lady
and two men, probably fatally. The pas
senger coaches were considerably broken
and the baggage car wholly demolished.
River and weather.
sa : asz Us ssa PITTSBURGH, July 8.
River two feet and falling.
Weather cloudy; heavy rain last even
ing; mercury, So degrees. O,aasy --,,-54e-i
t.gl 3, aa Fire i'm Chicago. vr-saa
-lssa ls-ae CHICAGO, July 8. &
A portion of the woolen mills of Boyd,
Haskell S Co., at Decatur, Illinois, was de-
stroyed by fire yesterday morning. Loss
S60,0 900, insured for $4,000 in home COM
panies. -
"a aa Completed. ..-ss-. :.
a. q SANTA FE, New MEXICO, July g..
The telegraph line to this place was COM
pleted and opened for business to-day. -
Sam Francisco Items.
SAN Francisco, July s.
Trains on the Central Pacific Railroad
now run to Wadsworth,r one hundred and
ninety miles east of Sacramento, and five
hundred miles from Salt Lake, The Com
pany have nine thousand men at work, and
intend to lay twenty miles of track weekly,
from Big Bend eastward. , ,e.--s +, ~ =
The opposition steamer Oregonian.
which sailed Jxly 8, carried two hundred
and thirteen thousand dollars in treasure
for New York. -
Arriyed-Sacramento, from New York.
Accident ON the PhiIadeIphfa and
En- lie Railroad--LisI of the Killed
and Wounded. As1 9i@' aet o'G 7a
,,s -. ~. - - ERIE, Pa, July g.,
The Erie express train on the Pbiladel-
phia and Erie Railroad, which left Erie at
7:40 last evening, broke through a bridge
over Flench creek, about three-quarters of
mile east of Union Mills. The engine,
lender and baggage car got over safely,
but the two passenger cars went through
'he bridge, the hind car running on the top
of the other, making complete wreck.
There was about five feet of water in the
creek. 1 eds ss1r 9s-5.I .e5lszb u % ,-5l,.
The following is list of the killed-Mrs
A Freese, Flat Rock, Seneca county, Ohio,
md her two children, aged two years four
and fourteen months; Miss Angie
DrdiudTu, vi ETle, IDIIQeTlY Oh vernon,
oneida county, New York; Jennie Patton,
laughter of Scott Patton, of Erie, aged
three years. -..-...--
The wounded severely are as follows ::
Mrs Andrew McCrea, Concord, Erie coun-
~, Pa, her shoulder and abdomen severely
lurt, hopes of recovery; E Nipple, Erie,
severe injury in face, bruised on body and
Frank d Reeves, Warren, Pa,
eg, back and body and artery of left hand
,ut; Mrs Jerome Woodbury., jefferson.
county, Pa, severely, neck and shoulders;
John Boyce, conductor, serious internal in
urieS.
The following are slightly wounded:
Warren Post, Jamestown, N Y; CO Bow
nan, Cory, Pa; N r Bates, Titusville, Pa;
L III Holmes, Spartansburg, Pa; III Bartlett,
Cory, Pa; II Baker, Cory, Pa; VIM Fury,
brakeman; Charles Freely, baggage man;
scott Patten, of Erie, wife and three chill
iren, all slightly wounded.
The bridge was examined within two
weeks and pronounced perfectly safe. A
leavy freight train with an engine of ten
ons. heavier than the passenger engine,
vent over the bridge yesterday afternoon.
The bolts of the bridge were found with
he nuts unscrewed. It is supposed the
bridge was tampered with to plunder the
rain. Several passengers were robbed
while in the wreck, and baggage broken
,pen and rif1ed of valuables. 3lqFG
A special train with medical assistance
vas sent from here last evening, the i4jured
'eceiving every attention. -
Prussian. Police PamphIet-De-l
structive Confla2ratiOn.
.-.-.. NEW YoRK, July 8.
A Frankfort correspondent asserts that
! Prussian Eolice pamphlet is being circu-
ated in the city and country, warning the |
people against the political consequences
If the United States diplomacy in Europe, |
md in complete approval of the idea OF |
Napoleon's expedition to Mexico, with a |
,iew OF bounding O. North American ad-l