Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-08-29
NEW YORK.
Bills of Indictment against the
Westfield Officials.


| Westfield Officials.
The International Want to Pa
Tade the Red Flag.
Are Common Carriers Licensed as
Wholesale murderers9
NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-At the General
Sessions to day Recorder Hacket deliver
ed lengthy address to the jury who
were reassembled to consider bulls of In
dictment against the parties charged with
criminal negligence Of the late explosion
of the boiler of the Westfeld. He called
attention to section 16, by which the
captain, engineer or other any person is
responsible deemed guilty of man
slaughter in the third degree if boiler
explodes and life is lost through the ig-
norance of gross neglect of such officers,
and section IL, by which every other
killing, not murder, is manslsughter in
The fourth degree, and said if the inspec-
tor did his work negIigently he should be
indicted under the latter section. He al
so directed them that if the president or
superintendent of the ferry company had
such notice of the incompetency of the
engineer or of the insecurity of the boiler
as to require greater care or a more rigid
inspection of them was usually exercised,
the grand jury should inquire if these Of
ticials did not contribute to the result by
culpable negligence. The first section
would also apply to the engineer.
If common carriers could be
rocyNnncih1o upa'1apsp
to passengers, a great and beneficial
example would be made. With a whole
nation looking to this jury's judicial ac-
ton in reference to this catastrophe, the
court, grand jury and prosecuting officials
should give no room for after reproaches
from any quarter.
The Red Flag!
The French Secretary of the Interra-
tionsl Society of this city has resolved
TO accept the invitation of the Working
mems Association to take part in the dem
onstration of the 15tl of September, pro-
vided the Association is allowed to carry
the red flag.
German Militia.
The Germans of this city who had not
served in the Landwehr at home, met
here to-day to devise some means to es-
cape punishment if they were to return
to Germany.
The War on Tammany Transferred
To Europe.
The New York STATE Zeituug declares
the cable despatch published a few days
ago, about the exclusion of the bonds of
this city from the Berlin Exchange a
foloahnnd hot
man or English newspapers comprising
the time when that pretended measure
would have taken place, whica have ar
rived in the meanwhile from Europe con-
tain one word about it.
The Democratic Germans of this city
are beginning to take action in reference
to the alleged frauds in the City Treasu-
ry. Yesterday the German Democratic
eX Committee recommended the German
General Committee 10 adopt resolutions,
declaring themselves opposed to fraud,
corruption and dishonesty in public office,
and that if the gentlemen accused of
maliessance in ofice do not Immediately
reIeve themselves and prove themselves
innocent of these charges, the German
Democrats will no longer acknowledge
them leaders or representatives of the
Democratic party or its principles. The
German Democratic Committee meets at
an early day, and its action upon this
question is awaited with great anxiety by
the ring and the German citizens gene
rally.
Death of Chas, ScrIbner.
A private dispatch announces the death
of Chss. Scribner, the well known book
publisher. He died at Lucerne, Switzer-
land, on Saturday, of typhoid fever.
Rotten boilers.
1t has transpired that two boilers on
board of the Union Ferry Co.'S boats have
been in use eight years, three have been
in use nine years, and one Of them has
been running eleven years. 1t was sworn
by the boiler makers at the Westfeld in
vestigatiOp that boiler was not safe af-
ter being in use five years. That after
that it is liable at any time to explode.
Governmental Alterations.
II is stated that when Grant leaves
Long Branch he will take 2 trip to Ohio
to visit his father. From thence he will
go through the oil regions of Pennsylvs-
mia, and expects to arrive at Pottsville
about the 18th of September.
Pushing the Times.
The Board of Assistant Aldermen TO-
day concurred with the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen in directing the Mayor to
take immediate steps to recover posses
sion of the properly known as the old
brick church property. There was but
ore vote in the negative. Mayor Hall
has declared his intention to sue the Times
for the rent for the past six years of the
gIound of which the Times building
stands. He also states that he will move
at once for the appointment of receiver.
Jury of His Peers ~
Michael Burns, Flushing, l. l., was
arraigned before Justice Hamilton on
Saturday on charge of assault and bat
terry, and found jury exclusively of
colored men selected to try the case.
The sccused, however, protested so
| strongly against being tried by negroes
wholly, that the court took the RESPONSE
biiity of discharging the jury and ordering
new panel
The Railroad Horror.
All the journals are discussing the
Boston Railroad accident, and are unani-
nous in opinion that the case demands
such an investigation as will result in
| fixing the responsibility of the catastrophe
and visiting the guilty with the severest
penalties of the law. The World says of
the accident: eff this be not murder,
murder most foul, most unnatural, most
clamorous to God aud man for justice,
then it were as well to strike out at once
from all legislation the useless statutes
which pretend to hedge with pity, with
power, the lives of innocent men,"