Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-01-05
NEW YORK.
The TrIbune on Impartial Suffrage
The Times ON Grants Policy.

The Tribune on Impartial Suffrage
The Times ON Grants Policy.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4-The Tribune edi.
| torially says: We hore to see constitu-
| tional amendment framed and adopted
which will couple universal amnesty with
| impartial suffrage, and make il a part of
our fundamental law. OF course, the rep
resensatives of West Virginia, Missouri,
and Tennessee will not like TO be voted
down in their respective States or in
portions thereof by the now disfranchised
Rebels, bat no more will the now dominant
Rebels Of Missouri, Kentucky and Della
ware relish the enfranchisement Of their
black neighbors, No comprehensive senti-
ment of great controversy ever did or
ever can help exciting some local griev-
snces, real or imaginary, as in this case.
Statesmen will disregard selfish and short
sighted Glamour in the contemplation Of
the general and enduring results.
The Times says the whole country ex-
poets TO see Gen. Grant enter at his Access
sion upon bold, resoluie, and determined
crusade against the government swindlers,
and the holder and more resolute he makes
it the more completely will he be sup.
ported. The tenure of office bill ought TO
be repealed. Gen. Grant should be left
entirely free TO undertake and execute
such reforms in the civil service as may be
required. If Congress sees the wisdom of
making good behavior the sole tenure OF
Office, let Of adopt Jencks' civil service bill,
but until some general provision of this
SORT is adopted, Gen. Grant should have
full power over appointments and removals
which the Constitution gives him.
A premature explosion occurred yes:e.-
day noon at the wreck of the steamer Scot
land, off Sandy Hook, which resulted in
the death of four men and severely wound
ing several others. The Submarine Com
pany made contrac. with the government
last fall TO remove the wreck of the Scot
land, and have been at work for several
weeks, whenever the weather would per-
NIT, in blowing the wreck to pieces. There
were about twenty men employed in this
service, under Capt. VIM. L. Churchill,
late of the navy, with the company's
steamer Commodore Preston, yesterday.
Two charges Of powder were taken on
board small boat at Sandy Hook, and
towed to the wreck Another small boat
was loaded, containing sn air-pump, diving
apparatus, two divers, and four men.
ne OOat CONTAINING Tue tWo CnaTSes Vi
powder, eighty-seyen and a half pounds
in each, was now manned by Capt. Church
hill himself, and three men. The diver
went down and signaled to have one charge
sent down, which was done, leaving one
charge in the boat. Both charges were
connected by a wire several hundred feet
in length. After placin the charger, the
diver came up and reported everything
ready, when the boats began to pull
away, but had proceeded but half the
usual distance when, from some unex-
planned cause, the submerged explosion
took place. followed almost instantly by
the explosion of the reserved charge in
the boat, blowing Capt. Churchill and the
men to atoms. 1t is supposed the charger
10 the boat was exploded by the concus-
sion. Several men in the divers boat, who
were seriously injured, have been sent 10
the hospital by the officers Of the company.
The names of the killed are Capt. Wm.
Churchill, diver Louis Jurgins, seamen
George Moore and James OShay. Mr..
George w. Beardsley, the electrician in
the employ of the company, was notpresent.