The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1875-07-26
EKroRrEo ExPHEssAT FoR rHE MORNING LEADER.
Ugh It H E p o R IT.
A Great Confagration in
Charleston, S. G.
Gordon, the Black Hills Miner
to, be taken to Omaha.
Postmaster General Jewell
on the war-path.
Yellow Jack at Pensacola.
Yellow Jack at Pensacola.


the north bound passenger train on
the Virginia Midland Railroad, was
thrown from the track near Bull Run
bridge by the breaking of flange OF
the driving wheel of the engine. The
engine was thrown down an embank-
ment and turned upside down. The
baggage, smoking car and the ladies'
car rolled in, and were piled up on and
around the engine. The baggage
master was probably fatally injured.
Several passengers received scratches
and cuts. The engineer and fireman
were taken out from beneath the debris
unhurt.
The Post Office Department has sent
to the Deartment OF Justice the names
of thirty mail contractors, to be prose-
cuted for falling to perform the service
after their bids were accepted. They
will be sued for the difference between
the bids and the amount paid by the
government after re-letting them,
which on thirty-nine routes, for one
year, amounted to Sil7. 900. The De-
partmeut will also bring civil suits
against the contractors for damages
sustained by the government In provid-
ing temporary service after their
failure to fulfil their contracts. The
routes were subsequently let for four
years, and should the government
recover the above amount, suits will
be commenced to cover the losses for
the remaining three years.
Washington, d. c., July 25.-The
Commandant of the Pensacola Navy
Yard, has been ordered by the Secre-
tary of the Navy, to take whatever ac-
tion he may deem proper for the secu-
rity Of the yard, and safety of the peo-
pie under his command. The Com
mandant had previously advised that
the yard be closed, and that the officers
and families leave TO save themselves.
There are twenty-nine cases of yellow
fever at Barrancas.
The Daniel O'Connell, centenary eX-
ercises here, August 9th, will include
a parade, ringing of church bells, and
an Grafton. Boston is preparing pro-
gramme, and in Brooklyn Hon. Rich
ard O'Gorman will deliver the Grafton.
New York, July 25.-The Tribune
tomorrow announces that the Post
master General has let the mail route
along the shores of the lakes for fast
mails to the west, it is expected to be-
gin to run the first of October. 1t will
make the distance from New Y York to Chi
cago in not more than twenty hours,
and it is hoped to reduce the time to TWEEN
| ty four hours gain oftwelve hours over
the present mail and the express train.
The amount of mail to be carried by
this train will be enormous. There
will be four large postal cars OF the i'm
proved construction. capable of carry
ing thirty-five tons of matter, and it is
thought the amount to be carried will
reach forty-tive tons before six months.
The greater part of the work of distrib-
uting will be done on the cars, news
papers to be taken in by the bundle
and folded and distributed en-ronte !;
relays of clerks to be stationed at
Syracuse, Buffalo and Toledo. This
enterprise will not cost one cent addi-
tional, the railroads having met the
government in the most generous
spirit.