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Year: 1868

fnrtsculufb OIL the recurrence


correspondent OF the Boston Herald gives the
following particulars Of the recent disaster on the
Shore Line Railroad mention OF which has already
been given In our columns:-


on saturday afternoon, as the express train on
the Shore Line road, which reaches this city from
New London a. halfpast four was passing just east
OF the stony Greek depot, the engineer, Jack Saun-
ders, discovered u few rods ahead n railroad rail
lying across the track. He Immediately whistled for
''down brakes" and reversed his engine, but the
train was too near to arrest its progress IN time and
the rail was struck, throwing the forward truck OF
the engine OF the track. The driving wheels still
remained on the rails and the engine passed on TO
the east end of the pile bridge, which Is located
few rods west OF the Stony Creek depot where
short piece Of rail, about three feet long. lying
upon The track, was encountered This threw
the engine entirely or the track. II made few
jumps across the ties and then plunged on the
south side of the bridge into the mud aud water fol-
lowed by the tender and baggage car. The engine
Immediately sank in the mud and now al that can
be seen of 1t is few feet OF the smoke stack. The
baggage car went or endways and now stands upon
end, partly sunk In the mud. The lrst passenger
car Just as the baggage car tipped on the bridge:
struck against the end Of II, savin9 In the end and
sides Of the AMI throwing splintcrs and bits Of
wood about the forward end. Mrs. ii. a.. Pratt, OF
Boston, but more recently Of Newport X. J., sat on
the llrst seat with little boy at the window. The
sides Of the car were broken IN close by the boy but
he escaped with no more serious injury than few
slight bruises and scratches about the face Ills
mother was thrown or the seat and had a severe
cash cut over her right eye and slight cut was made
under her chin. she also had her face and shou-
der bruised and OF her arms somewhat
sprained. on the opposite side OF the car lay a
Younger child asleep on the forward seat aroyind
whom was thrown shower Of spllnters, but without
harmng II IN the least. No other passengers were
injured, but oil were more or less shook up by the
shock.


The engineer, Just as his engine was about TO leap
from the bridge, jumped from II safely upon the
bridge: The fireman, Charles Emerson. remained
upon the tender and went of the bridge with H. In
the descent he was caught between the engine and
tender, and " was feared on saturday that he had
received dangerous injuries


Yesterday force OF men were set at work TO re-
pair the track. They entered staging at the side
when the staging fell, carrying down with it the
upon 1t. one man had his jaw broken and two
others we're injured.


soon after the railroad accident q young man named
Charles Hull, residing at Stony Greek, was arrested
on suspicion OF having placed the rail the track.
lie was seen going down the track short time
before the accident with short piece Of rail In his
hand
Year: 1868

instances to pay five per cent but this rate is
as yet very exceptional. The rates Of discount are
hardening In consequence Of general anticipation
OF higher rates for call loans within the next thirty
sixty days, ana the best grade Of commercial
paper is quoted at per cent, most OF the banks
less than the legal rate for four months paper Ap'
prehensions OF strngency are however Ill founded


the conditions affecting the money market having
materially changed since the autumn of 1851, and
still more so since that Of 1885, and there is likely 10
be an ample supply Of loanable funds at OF below
seven per cent during the remainder OF the year.
comparison OF the last statement OF the banks OF
this city with that for the corresponding week IN
each Of the three previous years shows the following
Year: 1868

Chicago journal Of Friday remarks that the dis
count line among the banks there is unusually low
and that only few Of the better report slight In
crease in the demand. 1t, however, says:-


Orders for currency from the country continue to
increase and the large amount going out created a
scarcity here that necessitated large orders within
the last two days by several OF the banks from New
York. The anticipated arrival OF this has had but


little effect on the selling prices OF exchange as 1t is
expected that more and more currency VIII be re-
quired now IRON day 10 day to Ill the demand from
the country.


Cincinnati paper OF Saturday observes:--


Currency continues i'll fair supply, although the
now 10 interior points does not diminish to any ma
teral extent, white the demand for loans Is q little
per cent In bank and 10 q II per cent in the open
market on the usual run Of commercial paper, but
large amounts for specific time OF thirty or sixty
days can be obtained on strictly first class paper at
6 Il per cent.


The range of the gold market In the month Of
August in each year since the suspension Of specie
Year: 1868

The announcement of the death of Captain 10
Comstock will cause many Aeartache In the wide
circle or his friends. Few citizens of this busy me-
tropolls were more widely known and none more
generally beloved than the Thorough and gallant
sailor and the true and kind hearted man who is
the subject OF this brief notice. In his profession
Captain Comstock held the very first rank lie was.
in fact, the representative man of our mercantile
responsible posts OF command. This position was
fairly due to him, inasmuch as his talents and train
ing fully qualified him for the honor iis apprecla-
tive and sound judgment, quick decision and rare
knowledge OF all the details Of his profession justi
ned The confidence which steamship owners and
travellers felt when Jo Comsock held com
mand. No mariner ever more devoted
To- his calling and his iiag tnan Captain Com
stock. travellers by his pet Ship the Bal lc,
VIII recall the enthusiasm with which he watched
satisfaction which he expressed when his fayorlte
distinguished herself by an unusually good days
rum lie reluctantly gave up the sea rs u regular
pursuit when the Adriatc passed from his control
ana ceased 10 lily the American nag and since then has
only accepted occasional and exceptional commands
He took the General Admiral to Russia the Re dc
!tala TO Italy, and last summer commanded the
DuEderberg on her voyage across the Atlantic.


No one regretted the decline OF our ocean steam
marine more than Captain ComsOck. He was
stanty planning measures for It's revival and striving
10 arouse our legislators and capitalists to the neces
sity OF adopting decisive policy looking to It's re-
VlyaL His labOrS in this cause occupied the last
hours OF his business career


AS a man Captain ConsOck was greatly beloved by
all who had the privilege OF knowing him well. He
was true friend, Kind and sympathzlng on all oc-
Casions of trouble distress, ever ready with his
counsel, services ana purse to direct and relieve
those who stood In need. BY the members of his
own profession, especially by the many young men
who sought his counsel, his loss Will be severely
felt and deeply mOurned.
Year: 1868

After protracted suffering OF two years the wife
OF Senator Trumbull died ut Washington. For the
last two years she was afflicted with an abscess In
her right side, and she recently underwent a sur.
gical operation, which Jailed to give her any relief
She gradually sank and on Sunday morning her
spirit passed away.
Year: 1868

He was an extremely judcious gentlemen
who proposed lately in Hampshire, in the
course Of Democratic stump speech, to re-
move either by fire, burial, or otherwise, all
evidence of the Rebellion, including our battle
flags, the tomb-stoncs of our dead soldiers,
and all one nelegged and one armed warriors for
the Union who still survive. This process of
reducing history to oblivion is natural one in
the minds Of men who obtained ignominy alone
during the great contest. The popular memory


is too long and too active either for their comfort
or convenience, and trophies of patriotism
and of valor can hardly be agreeable to those
who had no share in winning them. The fatu-
ity, however, of these sensitive gentlemen does
not seem TO comprehend that they are them
selves living mementoes of the war, and that
under their system Of sweeping all unpleasant
reminders out of sight, it might be necessary
to hang them as well as their more loyal neigh
bors. They exert kind of negative sugges-
tiveness While they live, every body will re-
member our battles in which they took no part,
our victories over which they mOurned, and our
defeats over which they rejoiced. 1t will be
time enough to consider their proposition when
they set the example by disappearing from the
world. History, however, does not depend for
its perpetuation altogether upon records or upon
relics. If all the copies of Mr.. Buchanans
book should be burned, all the smoke of the sac
rifce would not preserve his reputation from its
predestinate taint. Although every monument
to the memory of Mr.. Lincoln should be pulled


down, his murder would still be public grief
and a freside horror. There is no fumgation
which can remove the smell of blood from the
military prisons of the Confederacy. There is
no sophistry which can cheat the children of
martyred heroes out of the legacy of ancestral
part of this Republic of forgetting the names of
those who gave their lives to save it. The
memorials which we have raised to them arc
Year: 1868

but the smallest tokens of our gratitude. II
the New Hampshire gentleman is acquainted
with any process by which events comprehend
ing the destiny of nations can be swept out
of the recollection of mankind. he will
deserve well of his party if he will but con-
fide to it his precious secret. If he-knows OF
any device by which millions of emancipated
serfs can be restored to slavery, he may sue
ceed in destroying the noblest monument OF
the war. If he can transmute the base metal
of treason into the precious gold OF loyalty II
he can prove public virtue to be but name,
and falsity to solemn Oaths venial misde-
meanor, he will win immortal honor by re-
yersing that whole system of morality which
Mt present enjoys the respect of the human
race.


When the Democratic orators talk of for
giveness we are ready to listen to them, for
forgiveness is manly and Christian duty /;
but when they ask us to forget. they make a
demand to which, without abdcating our man
hood, it is impossible to accede. Is there any
thing to be ashamed Of in the struggles OF the
Republic to preserve itself that the citizens OF
the Republic should Danish them from recol-
lection Was it a good deed to rebelf was
it a bad one to encounter and suppress rebel
lon7 The people of NewEampshire had their
opinion upon these questions during the war,
and have they any reason to change that opin-
ion2 Chauncey Burr says they have, and so
SAYS Franklin Pierce, and so says Henry Clay
Dean. Pray, what has occurred to make New
Hampshire alter her mindP No soldiers were
brayer on the battlefield than the soldiers OF
that State and here comes gentleman by the
significant name of Burr, and tells them that
they were fighting for nothing, and that
the South really conquered them, while another
gentleman proposes to burn all their battle
flags, and to demolish the tomb-stones of their
companions dead upon the field of honor! a
very curious way this of winning votes, al
though it seems to be based upon the assump-
ton that every New Hampshire soldier left his
brains at the South, and came home non compos
mcntis, and rejoicing in a spurious and deluslve
gNry. These are arguments to offer TO men who
skulked, or to men who deserted, TO towards
and to bounty jumpers, and not to those who
served honorably and yaliantly. Having been
tried in New Hampshire, they will next be tried in
Connecticut, and upon a broader and more gen.
eral scale during the Presidential canvass. They
show n sort of bad candor, for which we are
duly grateful and from which we have nothing
TO foar
Year: 1868

Mr.. Disraeli is somewhat unfortunate in being
called to the head Of the English Ministry
without possessing the entire confidence of his
party When Earl Derby retired, he was selected
as Prime Minister through dearth OF English
statesmen, or, as some of the London journals
confessed, because there was none so well fitted
for the position rs he. Mr.. Disraeli himself
does not seem to be altogether comfortable in
his place, and he has called private meeting
of the Tory members of Parliament as we take
it, to harmonic matters and smooth away the
distrust that is felt in man who was once
Wing, and whose course on the Reform bill
was, to say the least, so peculiar as to give
occasion for the fear that he might one day
cease to be a Conservative. The ministerial
changes have been much commented on in
England, and not always in way compliment
ary to Mr.. Disrael; but he seems determined
to hold the reins Of his party in his own hands,
in spite of the distrust that is felt in him or
the doubts that have been expressed against
him
Year: 1868

Persons who write to us that they cannot oh
tain THE TRIBUNE Of newsmen informed that IL they
order he served either the nearest stand
or through regular carriers, they will be regularly
l
Year: 1868

We are authorized to announce the retlrement
Of Mr. c. W. Tayleure from the position Of businessman
ager OF the Olympic Theater Mr. Tayeure leaves a1s
office In order to accept the position OF Masager OF Pixies
Opera House. over the destnes OF which establishment
Le will henceforth have unlimited control. wiser
choice OF manager could not have been made ny the
new owner Of the new house. Mr. Tayleure has every


thing I'm his favor He is in the prime OF life, man OF
extraordinary energy courage and perseverance, fero
I'm expedients for catching and holding public attention.
wise in Judgment prompt in action rich In experience
and In cultivation. Moreover lie has touched notng
he has not made q success. HIS business management
of the Olympic Theater, extending over period
of two years marked by continuous series or
trumphs Whatever else has been forgotten the public
has never once suffered TO forget the Olympic This
prudence in the choice of attractions and this ingenuity
and perstency in keeping them conspicuous are faculties
OF great import in manager. Mr.. Tayleure viii carry
them into his field Of enterprise, and We cannoe
doubt that he will make Pixies Opera House great sno'
cess To the worker be the credit OF his work. Mr.
Tayleure will have obstacles TO surmount and viii begin
under the disadvantage OF being midway E the season.
But Pixies Opera House 0he name, we presume VIII %
changed now is Of the most beautiful Of theaters
and under the control OF manager to whom there
no such word as fa Il manifestly destined to bright
and prosperous future The Drama, and not the Opera


IA TO prevail, and the new season will commence about
at the Olympic to superintend the flushing touches
the Christmas Reconstruction Of Humpty Dumpty fof
which MT Hayes has painted some excellent scenes ana
In which Dir. Fox is an evergreen Of merrment.
Year: 1868

In tho hour of keenest sorrow


In the hour of deepest woe
Wait not for tho coming morrow,


To the i'll and suffering 60;
Make it thy sincerest pleasure


To administer relief
Fully opening thy treasure


To assauge brothers grief.
Go and seek the orphan signing
Seek the widow in her tears;
As on mercy's pinions flying,


Go, dispel their darkest fears;
Seek the stranger sad and weary,
Pass not on the other side,
Though the task be sad and dreary,
Needing not the scorn Of pride.
Go, with manners unassuming,


In q meek and quiet way
Ger the father nc 'er presuming,
Though thy brother sadly stray;
'Tis a Savior's kind compassion
'Tis His righteousness alone,
All unmerited salvation


That around thy path has shone.
When thy heart is warmly glowing
With the sacred love Of prayer,
Be thy words of kindness flowing
Not as with a miser's care
DUTY e'er should be thy watchword-
Pity drop the balmy tear;
Always toward the fallen cherish
Sympathy and love sincere.
Year: 1868

Poor white men are falling victims to the
heat all around us, as they toll toll for daily
bread, and for money to give the tax.gath-
ercr. Thousands of poor fellows have left
their families at home in the morning, gone
forth to provide for the next days necessi-
ties, and never returned. A paragraph in a
newspaper records the fact that man has
been sun struck, or it may be that scores
are included in few lines, and it is said
"the cases of sun stroke were very numer.
ous."


Down South, the thick-skinned, thick
skulled negro, who could bear any amount
Of heat without serious Inconvenience, and
certainly without danger, is taking his ease,
or doing the voting for the whole country.
He is not working at all, badly as his labor
is needed, yet he is living at the top Of the
heap, and getting into legislatures, where
laws are made to govern white folks.


How is this? Who has reversed the Or
der Of nature, and who is paying the expen-
ses of cuiFee's subsistence? The poor white
la5orers who are falling in the heat of the
sun are supporting blacks and whites both.
They are bearing the whole burden of the
country; they are not only keeping the lazy
negroes Mt the South, supporting the army
which is quartcred there, and keeping up
the carpct-baggers who swarm in that afilict-
cd country, but they are also paying millions
of dollars in gold to the capitalists Of the
country, who pay no tax at all. Every day
the poor man must work harder and grow
poorer, while the rich man works less and
grows more wealthy. Yet, the party which
promised so much for the poor has been in
complete power for eight years, and all the
changes which have taken place have been
the work of their hands, and not of ours.
If the laboring men, the bone and sinew Of
the country, have received any benefits from
their administration of the government. let
them have full credit for it, for We certainly
had no hand in it. But if, on the contrary,
the poor man has been dragged from his
iCihC uhu oSb uP oS u mai w uC Suoe ~
his taxes have been increased, if the price
of living has been doubled, if all together
the poor have been oppressed until they are
sinking from exhaustion, we bear none of
the blame, We had nothing to do with it.
Mongrelism did it all, and has fairly won all
the praise and all the blame which can at.
tach to their eight years administration of
the government.


But it is time laboring men were waken-
ing up to their interests. We propose to
tighten their burden at least one-half the
first year We have complete power. Will
the people give us power? Are they tired
of feeding and clothing negroes and sup
porting armies to keep their brethren from
exercising the rights of men? If they arc,
let them stand forth in the dignity of man
hood, and place in power party which
never betrayed nor oppressed them in the
past, and which alone can save them in the
future. democratic Watchman.
Year: 1868




issue plainly to the country.


Irepeat that this is the real and only
question which VIC should allow to control
US shall we submit to the usurpatlons by
which the government has been overthrown
or shall we exert ourselves for its full and
complete restoration. It is idle to talk OF
bonds, grecnbacks, gold, tho public faith
and the public credit. What can Demo-
cratic President do in regard to any Of these
with Congress in both branches controlled
by the carpet-baggers and their allies? He
viii be powerless to stop the supplies by
which idle negroes are organized into polit.
ical clubs-by which an army il maintained
to protect these vagabonds in their outrage
upon the ballot. These, and things like
these, which eat up the revenues and resour.
ces Of the Government and destroy its cred
it, make the difference between gold and
greenbacks. We must restore the Constl.
tuition before We can restore the finances and
to do this we must have President who
will execute the will Of the people by tramp
ling into the dust the us,irpations OF Con.
gress, known as the reconstruction acts.
wish to stand before the Convention upon
this issue, but it is one which embraces
everything else that is Of value in its large
and comprehensive results. 1t is the one
thing that includes all that is worth con.
test, and without it there is nothing that
gives dignity, honor Or value to the struggle.


Your friend,


FRANK P. BLAIR.
Year: 1868

WASHINGTON, June 3O


Col jas. O. Broadhead.


DEAR COLONEL: In reply to your inqui-
ries, beg leave to say that leave you to
determine, on consultation with my friends
from Missouri, whether my name shall be
presented to the Democratic Convention,
and to submit the following as what | con-
slider the real and only issue in this contest.


The reconstruction policy of the Radicals
will be complete before the next election !;
the States so long excluded, will have been
admitted; negro suffrage established and
the carpet-baggers installed in their seats in
both branches of Congress. There is no
possibility of changing the political charac-
ter of the Senate. even if the Democrats
should elect their President and majority
of the popular branch of Congress. We
cannot, therefore undo the Radical plan Of
reconstruction by Congressional action; the
Senate will continue Il bar to its repeal
Must we submit to it? How can it be over
thrown by the authority of the executive,
who is sworn to maintain the Constitution,
and who will fail to do his duty if ho allows
the Constitution to perish under series of
Congressional enactments which are in pal
pabe violation of its fundamental principle.


If the President elected by the Democ-
racy cnforces or permits others to enforce
these Reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by
the accession of twenty spurious Senators
and fifty Representatives, will control both
branches of Congress, and his administra-
ton will be as powerless as tho prescut one
of Mr.. johnson.


There is but one way to restore the gov
ernment and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare these acts
null and void, disperse the carpet-bag State
governments, and elect Senators and Rep
resentatives. The House Of Representa-
tives will contain majority of Democrats
from the North, and they will add the Rep
resentatives elected by the white people of
the South, and with the cooperation ofthe
President it will not be difficult to compel
the Senate to submit once more to the obli-
cations Of the Constitution. 1t will not be
ablc to withstand the public Judgment, it
distinctly invoked and clearly expressed, on
thia fundamental. issue, aud it is the sure
Year: 1868

A WASHINGTON special to the Philg,


Age of the Goth ult., says: A large major
ity Of the members of each house of Con
gress have already left for their homes, and
the Capitol to-day presents rather a deserted
appearance. The Democratic and Radical
Congressional Committees have their head
quarters in the building, however, and quito
a large force is employed sending out docu
ments for the pending Presidential cam
paign. From present indications it is not
likely that there will be session in Sep
tcmber, but as the matter rests with Nor
gan and Schenck, it is, Of course, impossi-
bic to tell what these worthless will do when
the time comes round. 1t is observed that
the Radical leaders, and even the followers,
are more cautious now than they were when
the New York nominations were first made
They declared then, as will be remembered,
that they would have no trouble in defeating
Seymour and Blair, Now they say it will
require hard work, and some of the more
sagacious men of the party express the
opinion that New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio arc already lost to the Grant ticket,
This agrees with the Democratic view of
the matter and the probability is that ere
the expiration Of tic first autumn month
the Radicals will discover that they have
been reckoning without their host, and
that the election Of Seymour and Blair is II
forcgone conclusion.