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K Y- THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE. desire to h are a ConTcatioa called for tiie puiyose of framing a new Constitution. _________ Indiana— M ista k e C o r r e c te d . 3 i^tht E ^ iior <)f TJieN. Y. Tribime S in : In speaking of elections to be held in the different •States din’ing the sarnmer of this year, I see you place In diana in ycur list as holding her election on the first Mon day in Aii^gust. This is a mistake. Under her new Con- atifution the election day has been changed from the first 0 the Tuesday following Oav II: U c tuijui. XU I’uiicuviuuiiuc vx tuo iC'itiiuru ine€ ralv cnco in tw(> years, Indiana will have no gener election'this yeai-, having elected all her oflicei-s, from Go'. emor down, last October, i should not have called your atterit’on to this if I had not seen the mistake in several other papers. Yours, &c. H oosier , You ate entirely right, of course. W e followed a newspaper table, compiled from The Whig Almanac, which has not noted the change in Indiana, as i t should Jiavedoae. I t will he all right henceforth. [JEd. -'A ppointments .—The following are among the appoint- • ments recently announced: , Collector at Korfolk, V a ., v ic e W il- \Gatewood ifaral Officer, Korfolk, Va., tPa^e?^^ ^o^olk, Va., vice Isaac H. Woods Surveyor, Pittsburgh, Pa., vice Henry Florida, vice K. W. -BY TELEGEAPHTOm^ElMOPtK TKIBUM. Appointments Songht; and Ditto Got. ^jiccial Eispatch to T7ie A*. T. TrilniTie: WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 10,1858. _ W. P. Manslbv, of Maryland, is here pushing for the of- B of Solicitor of the Treasury. He will not succeed. - - ” ------- 1,t, wiU ifice of Solicitor ’of the Treasury. He will not succe •Another Marylander, or a former M. C. from Vermon y secure it. fiowaa and McKinney have left for Kentucky, despairing of getting Cbargeships. The Oswego CoUectorship may again b e made a n open ciuestioii. Kentuckii , desires a Chargesbip, and has high hopes of obtaining it. Charles L., son of Levi Woodbury, is appointed Post master at Boston. _ Kemoved and Appointed. ifo Thc&\ r. r ■' •Special Vhpatch to 2 Clerks rei SularinjlUlaringer, J . D. Latham, n'ord, G. A. Potterfield. Promoted—B. T. Reilly, to $1,400. Appointed— W, V. H. Brown, James L. Cathcart, Wm. P. Wilson, Edward H. Fuller, James E. Conant, J . L. Cra mer. John Hood has been transferred to the office of the Secretary of the Interior, at a salary of $1,800. _ A lnomack . More about Appointments. Special XfispccteSi to T h eN. Y. Tribune. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 11,1853. There was a prolonged Cabinet session to-day, a t which the Ohio and Pennsylvania Postmasters were agreed upon. Ko foreign appointments h ave transpired. Gov. Hubbard will be Consul at Honolulu. Joel Greene is appointed Pension Agent at Cindnnati. It is rumored t h a t ----- Jackson, of Georgia will get a rforeign mission, which will conciliate Gov. Cobb. Office-seekers are complaining of delay-hope deferred. Another long Cabinet Session, to-day, which adjourned at 2 P. M. fo meet again to-night. Pennsylvanians are angry because the appointment of Bueh.anan to England is charged on the account, at the State Department, against their State. This cuts off a number of Pafriots, willing, and anxious to serve the country abroad. When Buchanan’s appointment was made, it was annoimced with a grand flourish of trumpets as “ National.” Woodburj' has certainly been offered the Boston Post- Office. \ _ Qvis. Offlee«seeking Intelligence. -Special S i^aich to The N. Y. Tribune. WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 12,1852. Removed—J. S. Carter, Clerk in the Land Office. Pension Agents appointed—Isaac Caldwell, Louisville; DanielKaleigb, Evansville; John Grayson, Pittsburgh. The President has ordered the Commissions of Green, Pension Agent, and McLean, Sitrvsyor of the Port at Cin- •climati. to be sent to them. The Foreign appointments are to be furnished to-mor- •row. _ A lnomack . F r o m W a s h i n g t o n . WASHiNGTON, Tharidsy, May 12, 18-53. The Cabinet held a protracted sesssion to-day upon the Diplomatic appointments. Henry A. Wise will probably be Minister to Chili, and ■Gov. Hiibhard, of Maine, is likely to go to Honolulu. The statement that B. F. Angel was appointed Consul at Lahaina, (spectnlly telegraphed some weeks since) was pre mature. He has not yet been appointed, nor is he likely to be. Cl The Gardiner Trial. WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 12,1SS3. ■ as recalled, anc Partride, that a ered, written in the right of it, thehe cypher.yphei. a^ove the line of writing, and two dots under t c should be translated 10th. Mr. Meiere, an experienced pro fessor of Spanish, called by the defense, testified that he had translated hundreds of Mexican documents, and these characters were the customary abreviatiou for the word primero, and should be translated 1st. Col. Abbot was recallefl, and identified the original of ■one of the letters referred to yesterday, and it was read to ■the J u ry; dated at Laguiuillas, Sunday, Nov. 28,18.’32. It gives a glowing account of his visit to that region ; states that he went to Laguinillas in company with Capt. Slocum for the purpose of inquiring into the existence and locality of Gardiner’s mines, and e.xamined the records of the dis trict in which the mines W'ere situated, to see if the title ■could be found; that tlieyhad been entirely successful, and had not only visited Dr. Gardiner's three mines, but had obtained an authenticated copy of the deed; that it •■was among the feiv public records which were saved in a ■damaged state at the time the place-^vas invaded; that the Alexican authorities had thrown all sorts of obstructions in Gardiner’s way, believing that if his claim should be dis- «Uo'wed the money ■would revert to themselves; ascribed the charges against Gardiner to political motives, &c. John Charles Gardiner recalled, testified that the body of the petition to Manuel Verastegui heretofore offered, also the fetters signed J. C. Gai'diner, of the 9th, lOtli and 13th ilovembcT. 185l, were notin his handvrriting but in that of Jose Vincent Verastegui, nephew and clerk of the Prefad. The defense.offered to produce other letters from Jose Yin-. cent Verastegui in proof of the handwriting. Objected to and niled out. Mr. Bradley stated that he had closed the evidence on the part of the defendant and offered to submit ■the case to the Jury without argument. Mr. May consid ered it his duty to review and argue, and declined the offer, but was willing to limit each address to the Jury to three or four hours. Mr. Carlisle was very sorry theii' offer was not accepted. He was perfectly -n'iHing to rest the case on the facts proved; but. if they must argue, he would not agree to a limitation as to time. Mr. Bradley said he would not consent to limit himself. Three or even six honrs would afford no sort of opportunity lo give that review of the evidence which he should deem essential if he must go into it. He should ask of the Court jnstruetions upon points of law, and would submit several propositions in the morning, Ik e Court made a note that the eiridence was declared to be irrevocably closed on both sides, whereupon the Court Sentenee of John White. ■Sipccial ]>tn>aUh to ThtN. Y. Tribune. WASHINGTON, Wednesday, May 11,1SS8. In the case of Corporal John White, on trial for attempt ing the life of Brevet Major Pemberton, at Port Hamilton, ■the Court Martial has pronmmeedhim guilty, and sentenced him to death. The President commutes the sentence to solitary confinement, on bread and water for thirty day% and hard labor for the remainder of bis enlisted term, with ball and c b m , and suspension o f pay and allowance, save necessary clotlung and subsistence. A lnomack , -Later freai H a v u a ^ e u b le In Cnba-lllarine IHews. The IT S TW.n E. CH^LESTON, Wedaeriey, Mmy 11,18M. The Massachusett’s Liquor Lnw. b o s t o n , Wednesday, M»y 11,1853. In the House to day it was voted not to adopt the amend ment to the Liquor I»w, providing for licenses where pub lic opinion is in favor of licensing. The vote stood 111 y^s, to 141 nays. So the old liscense system is repudia- Thc M a ssachusetts Liquor L a w . b o s t o n , Thursday, May 12,1853. Ihe minority report before the House to repeal the Liquor Law, was rejected to day 103 to 149. Tornado in Virginia-Four Lives Lost and Many Wounded—Wreck of a Steamer. NORFOLK, Tueidty. M»y 10.18f!3. A great tornado has passed over the lower part of Prin cess Anne County, Virginia, A number of houses were swept off, and everything was prostrated. Four lives were lost and many persons ■wounded. The steamer Bladen, from Baltimore for Wilmington, has been ■vs'recked on Kelly Hatvk.' The machinery was saved. Conspiracy* INNATI, 1 last night ______ ____ .3 _ case has 1 ________________ __ the nexttenn, a part of the defendants not being ready, and the Judge having decided that all should; be tried together. The Bar of Hamilton County met to-day, and passed ap propriate resolutions relatiim to the death of Judge Burnet, and determined to attend his funeral in a body. All the Law Comts will adjourn over on the day of tho funeral. Tlie heavy columns and portico of the Burnet House, are draped with mourning, and flags are displayed on that and other hotels, Ac., at half-mast. The death of Judge Burnet is deeply lamented by all classes of our citizens. jnel, th e _______ _ ■ -------------------------- dor to the United States. He is visiting (Ne-w-Orleans,) after an absence of 45 years. Connecticut LcKislature—S a ilfo a d nnd SteambAat Disasters—The N o r walk Cati HARTFORD, Thun he Senate this morning, a bill m ..^„.'ty of stockholders liable for the de rejected, on the ground of its being an e.r •poet facto law. A bill making steamboats liable in the sum of $5,000 for probabl Maryland Legislatu re. BALTIMORE, Thursday, May 12, IE le 1 a bill auf gisiature havefixedl the Canadian Legislatu re. QUEBEC, Thursday, May 12,1858. The bill to reform Seignorial Tenure passed to a. third •eading in the lower House last night. From Australia. BOSTON, Thursday, May 12,1853. Letters received in this city from Quebec state that the accounts brought there by the British ship Try, front Port Philip to the 3d of February, are to the effect that there was a great scarcity of all kinds of building materials, and such ' . \ - - . - - -------------- ijggjj New-Orteans and Texas Telegraph—Coal Transpor. B A t IM ^RE, Thursday, May 12,1853. New-Orleans papers of Friday last are received. The full amount of Stock for the construction of the New Orleans, Red River and Texas Telegraph line, has been subscribed. Fire a t Cincinnati. CINCINNATI, Thursday, Alay 12,185 the lumber-yard of Mess Canal Break Repaired. SyRACUSE, Thursday, May 12,1853. The Canal break at Butternut Creek has been rep fired ;nd the boats again commenced running during last: night. Sailor Drowned. PHILADELPHIA ® John Rodgers, of Belfast, Me., 3ark Levant, ■was drowned to-day. Thersday, May 12i 1853. >n board t seamen on DELAWARE. War with the Fishermen. From The Delaware State Reporter, May 10. The town of Lewes has been thrown into great confusion for Hie past two days, on account of a fleet of fifty or moro sail of fishermen, from Maine and Cape Cod, appearing in the harbor, and the riotous conduct of the sailors. It seems these vessels, for some weeks past, have been fishing off the coast for mackerel. On Saturday last they ran into harbor; and on Simday, some dozen or more of the men came ashore, and raised considerahle disturbance in the town ot Lewes. On Tuesday morning the vessels put to sea, blit failing to discover the fishing grounds, theyreturned again the same afternoon. Angered and vexed with their disappointment, a large body of the men marched up> to the town, where they committed the most excessive acts of riotous behavior. They made forcible entrances into private dwellings, frightening and insulting the female oc cupants. A few energetic individuals succeeded in driving tlicHiback to their boats, and the town authorities forbade them from returning, at their peril. Shortly after sundown on Vi’'ednesday evening, the citi zens were aroused to immediate action by the report that one hundred and fifty fiskermen were crossing the beach, threatening to attack and burn the town. The men all turn ed out, armed with guns, muskets and huge clubs. 'I’he win dows and doors of nearly every dwelling were locked and •ed, and the females were in dreadful trepidation In the ntime, the assailants continued to advance until they grape shot, and upon the repuLe of the fishermen a volley be ascertained whether any one was shot.* The firing of the cannon served as a signal to the pilots off at the Breakwater. Several boat loads immediately came ashore, and joining the citizens, a pursuit was made after the repulsed assailants. Their rear was protected by a loaded swivel mounted on the bridge, with a slow mateti kept in readiness. The pursuing party, numbering a hundred or more, armed with some sixty to eighty guns, quickly reached the beach, and discovered the fishermen had embarked for their vessels. The firing of the cannon warned them of the fact that there is plenty of fight in the men of Sussex, t twenty of the rioters made forcible entrance into entered the house of Dr. Hall, and insulted e same party burst into the bouse adjoin ing, and drove the females into the back buildings), where they succeeded in resisting the further advances of the fish ermen by halving all the entrances, s skirmish Mr. AYm. A. Me le eUWOX UIAAWJO fcV UVAAA8J VIA AUUUUUt U1 lltVVlIlg n o len with which to man the vessel. On Thursday and Friday nights patrols were stationed on the bridge and on the beach, -where they paced their watch to prevent the landing of any large body of the fishermen. The citizens now have matters so organized as to permit only one or two to land »t» time, for the purpose of pro- eanBfr provisions, and supplies of sea stores. Tnis arrange ment Will avoid the fishermen collecting in the town in any ^*^1th altelescope, several small squads of the fishermen are now seen on the beach, off the lighthouse, prowling about, and plundering the shore of all property of » movea- character. One of flie citizens of the town informs me that he ha* a fine boat at the Cape, ’which they have stove, and which he is anxious to obtain possession of, but dare ^ g o in quest of his own property for fear of being at- The affair, it is thought, wfil now terminate quietly, as the citizens have several hundred guns, ready for' service at a moment’s notice, besides soveral cannon at hand, which TH E NORWALK DISASTER. uenrly so, the road from that point to the bridge, neoes saruy cuives very much. Along the line of that curve ther. are buildings which hide the bridge and ball from \’“w as shr— view, a heretofore. one Facts i .riTYio ,„fY.. o oo..:, trn ,nr> 1 count of the gradcs, Rod U wus about tho samo Duoiber of mioutes behind time at Norwalk. It was under the man agement of Charles H. Comstock as conductor, and Edwd. w. Tucker as engineer. The rules and regulations of tho Company do not make it the duty of the conductor to ob serve the signals, or look out for danger upon the road; but that responsibility rests upon the engineer, who has charee of th§ locomotive. The engineer is, ho’ to the authprity af the conduetor, in relal manner in which the train shall be run. When this train emerged from the absence of the ball from the pole upon the bridge was observable, and could be observed most of the distance of thirteen hundred feet from that point, as heretofore stated. The engineer was at his pest; the conductor in the second passenger car, and unoccupied—^the taWng of fare between Stamford and Bridgeport, the only places at which the train stopped, being the w o r k of a feiv minutes’ rwalk, to go on a shooting excursion, when this aeeiden occurred. Immediately on seeing the cars go int( the draw, he sprang into the water, and swam ti a boat, which he quickly unmoored; and rowed to to the nearest car, which was partially visible above tho water; and dashing through the window he drew out in succession Mr. Nathan Harris, of M( his three children, and their nurse, 1 and put in with them for the shore; on landing, Mr. Harris embraced him, and eagerly pulling out his pocket book filled with money, offered it to him, saying, “ take it, thou Savior of my children! I wish it was more; I cannot otherwise express my heartfelt gratitude.” “ AU right, sir,” said the noble-hearted fellow; “ I don't want you to insult me, though ”—and, seizing an ax, he pushed again for the wreck, and with lusty blows ai perhuman exertions soon made a buge hole in the car’s and rescued as many as the boat would hold, when he wa* forced ing to the surface, and sinking a%ain to the iTottom to die; it was awful to see their agonized features, all wound ed and bloody, as they struggled with the energies of de spair, for life, dear life!” Many of those who were stri-ving for life, when he left with his boat-full, were silent in thelong sleep of death on his return. “Ah, it made me feel good,” said he, “ when I drew out the terrified little children from the water in the car.” There was only the upper part of one side above water. He was afraid that bis strength would fail him before he could finish his good work, but said he, \my muscles felt just like steel bars, as I swung the ax, and stove in the panels.” When all was finished, and no more lives could be saved, he felt that his duty was accomplished. The many horrors he had to witness. The manned and maimed; the agony of bereaved relatives; and the terror- stricken people, making desperate efforts to render as sistance, but perfectly paralized through horror, at the awful event, made a deep impression on him. We think too much praise cannot be given to Mr Car- roll,, for his nohle conduct in this case. Mr. C. is a resident of Norwalk, and recently of’Brooklyn, New-York. Mr. W h ite , the witness Tuesday, had the pleasure of seeing his friends, (wife and sister) who came on in answer to a telegraphic dispatch received on Sunday last. The Of the tt?!? other from the recollections of the psril which her husband had so recently been rescued from, can be imagined better than described. Our Reporters are under great obligations to Mr. Wa»aer, Cashier oi Fairfield Co. Bank, for his unremitting attention to their wants, and endeavoring to furnish them with the latest and most authentic information of the accident. Miss Griswold, we are happy to say is much better; she has rested well, and will in allprobality recover. We in quired after her health at a late hour last evening, and learned the above. Dr. Alexander H. Stevens was in attendance on her yesterday afternoon, and entertains great hopes of her recovery. We learn that Mrs. Fluent of Lancaster, Pa., who was lied at Norwalk, was a daughter of Mr. Abner Brooks, ------- It married the evening before the ' ^ 11. She was on her way to ts. H e r father, -within faur years past, has lost three sons by accident. One was shot, last fall, at a shooting match in Fitchburg; another was drowned at the same place, at the time iham reserzoir, thre< was run over by a team at the same m, a fourth son narrowly .C .l.. o;,3 -------- -e - great hope; Mrs. Fluent killed at Norwalk, was a daughter of of Fitebbur^h, and was not married th( accident, as stated, but last fall. She Fitchburg to visit her parents, years past, has lost three sons h] tstfall. at a shooting match i rownedatthe same place, at way oftbe Ashbumham reserzoir, three years ago month; and the third was run over by a team at the s place, £tnd killed. A few weeks ago, a fourth son narroi escaped death from the breaking of tho side props of a ■ full of timber; and on Tuesday last, Mr. French, i Verdict o f the Coroner’s Jury. The Jury retired at 7 o’clock on Monday evening, and after twenty-seven hours’ deliberation, returned the following Verdict according to law, to inquire of the cause^and manner ofjthe death of Sam’I Beach, Jno. C. Gray, Walter Frenih, Norman Parker, Natlian’l Ring, jr., Michael Reardon, Mrs. A. L. Des- angue, Francis W. Sayles, T. M. Hutchinson, Arch’ld Welch, Ann T. Greene, Butler Wilmarth, Sam’I N. Hassard, — Har ley, a female infant aged about 4 months, Oliver Birr, D W. Dimmock, Emeline Sheppard, Mary Tane, Ellen Goss, Ellen S. Bacon, Jacob Vandeventer, Wm. C. D wight, Joa. M. Hill, John Henry Lehrs, Mrs. J. M. Fluent, Anna R. Lang Jobn Moss, Francis Harley, Beverly Parker, Miss Mary B. Robbins, James M. Smith, Robert Stonham, Alice Carri- gan, Sarah J . R. Hannah, Susan Pomeroy, Mrs. Mary E. Robbins, Mrs. G. R. Sparks, Josiah Bartlett, Abel L. Pierson, Isaac P. Colbatn, Martin Tane, Julia Anderson, David B, Newell, and B. F. Lozier, the death of which said persons was sudden and untimely, and the cause and manner of which was unknown. Having viewed the bodies of the persons above named, and considered the evidence given to us, do, on our oaths, say that all the per sons herein before named were dro-wned in the harbor of Norwalk, at the west opening of the draw in the Railroad Bridge at South Norwalk, or killed by injuries there receiv ed, on Friday, the 6th day of May, A.D. 1853,inconse quence of the falling of the engine and tender and two bag gage cars, two passenger cars, and a part of another of the 8 o’clock, A. M., express train from New-York, into the har bor at that place, they and each of them being passengers in said train. lenly launched so many of our innocent fellow beings into eternity, without a moment’s warning, and which has car ried desolation and anguish into so many households. The New-York and New-Haven Railroad crosses the har bor of Norwalk at South Norwalk, one thousand and eigh ty-six feet east of the ddpot, upon a bridge. In the bridge over the channel of the harbor, and one hundred and fifty- three feet from the next abutment, there is a draw, which revolves horizontally upon a central abutment, and leaves, when open, two passages of sixty feet each. This bridge was under the care of William Harford, who was in the employment of the Company as bridge tender. By the regulations o f the Company, it was his duty to open the draw for the passage of boats and vessels when they de sired to pass, -without reference to the time when trains were due. This being supposed to he in accordance with Hie paramount rights of tnose in the legitimate use of navigable waters, and it was equally the duty of those having the management of trains upon the road to as certain, before attempting to pass the bridge, and be fore they approacht d so nesu: that the train could not bo stopped, whether the draw was in a condition for them to pass or not. To enable those who have the management of trains to ascertain this fact, a pole was erected upon draw- about forty feet in hignt, with a cross-piece nptm tiie top, to which was to be hoisted and kept a red Dafl about two feet in diameter, containing a red light in ffie'XDgbt. The regulations of the Company required this ball to be kept up whenever the draw was in a condi tion to be passed by the trains, and lowered be fore the draw was opened, or in case of accident to the- bridge, so that when the trmns were ap proaching from tho east or west, and those having their management saw the ball in its place, they wonld know that all was right; and on the other hand, if they should not see the bSl in its place, they might know that the bridge was not in a condition to he passed. mg iruui luc east, ^au lue ume aiiat: uiey uav within half amile or more of the bridge—the grade ing to the bridge at the rate of from fo)^ to fiftyet 1 mue. But it is not so when the train is approaeJ ___ fe to the approaching from the west. As the train emerges from the cut at the north end of the east abutment of the protection-wall, which is thirty-three hundred and thirty-six feet south-west of the west abutment dred feet—it is then fairly in -view for three himdred feetfurther—then it is obscured by a tree for the distance of one hundred feet—it is then visible for the fur- Iher distance of four hundred feet, being twelve hundred feet from the place where it is first -vi sible. From this point, it remains obscured until the train has passed the depot, and come upon the highway, where it may be seen again for the distance of fitly feet. This point is nine hundred and ninety-nine feet from the draw. The ball does not again become -visible until the train arrives at a uomt five hundred and sixty-four feet from Qia draw; from tnis point it remains in -view until the draw If the draw is open, the north end of the draw can be seen some fifty feet sooner. At the time of this occurrence, the draw was open, and the draw-tender was just about to elose it. Ithadbeen open about 15 nfinufes before, for the passage of the steamer Pacific. The hall was lowered be- fcreTbe draw was openedw a s down when the emerged from the cut, where its absence could and sboi have been noted—and remained down until the train \ latffram w M ^ at the time of the occurrence, about eight minutes; but as the draw-tender was actine pursuant to his directions, we do not find that - '' not find that any blame can attach to the Company from the mere fact that the draw was open when a IS due. The channel of the harbor of Norwalk, the bridge crosses it, rum about north and The eourse of the railroad from the oat spoken of was again observab of not less than tweL , ____ ^ ___ ____________ ___ , ___ out any regard to the condition of the bridge. When it had Lched within three hundre inty miles p er h* u r, and obviously with- l ^ C < ................................... .. ................ were blown; the engineer, £ imperfectly att ^ whistle was blown, to the time when the the opening, there could not have been an interval of than eleven (11) seconds. The engiaa and tender were about 40 feet long, weighed about 25 tuns, and passed in its descent, quite across the opening of sixty feet, striking against the pier on the other side. Thetende ider followed, its against the pier on the other side. The tend ------------- , — S e r end being thrown by the momentum over and for ward, so that it fell b o ttom up o n the engine, and a gainst the pier. The first baggage ear brought up ggaiost the pier upon the top of the tender, all being thro-wn to the opposite side of the opening. The second baggage car, which con tained a smoking apartment, in -which were several passen gers, follo-wed next, but got a cant, and being strongly built feU off, little broken, to the north side of the draw, and wardei sar, and its after end top of this, fell the second ^ fragments and in the water, the occupants of the first pas- neer car. About one-third of the third passenger car ■ ' of tne bridge, the [staying the coarse jengercar. About one- ----- was broken off and hung over the edge other part remaining upon the frack, and of the two cars which were behind. In tiie confusion incident to the occasion, and in conse quence of the departure of those who were able to leave, ft has not been possible to ascertain the number of those who were thus, in an instant, buried in the water and broken fragments of the cars, but it is supposed that over one hun dred must have been plunged into the opening, including those in the smoking car. We find that all the dead herein before-named were of the number; but we have not been able, from the nature of the case, to find, and have not deemed it necessary to find, which of them were killed and which drowned. W e further find that e v e ^ engineer a n d conductor oi will move around the curve with exceeding care; and con ductors of trains, out of time, are cautioned about crossing the b ridp. They -will be held responsible for the safety of *^The^immediate cause of this disaster was the negligence and recklessness of the said engineer. 1st. In running around the curve at a rate not less, cer tainly, than twenty miles an hour; when, under no cii’cum- stances should it have been half that. 2d. In not discovering that the ball was down imme diately after emerging from the cut. 3d. In not looking for the ball at the highway crossmg east of the depot. 4th, In relying, as he says h e d 8-?ritch-tenders, when he well kn Sight of the draw, and had nothing to do with it. 5th. In not running even slow.er than usual when the track was wet and slippery. ^ In addition to all this he well knew that the draw was required to be very frequently opened. In not discovering that the ball was down, we think he was guilty of gross negligence. In running around the curve at such a rapid rate, and under such circumstances, we think him guilty oftbe most criminal recklessness. At the same time we do not think the entire responsibil ity of this disaster rests upon him. As we have before observed, the rules of the Company ................. ... ^ ... -'-lervethe perfectly performed; and it may ti At the same time we cannot forbe ir the expres.sion of our opinion, that every careful and prudent Conductor will, when not otherwise necessarily occupied, endeavor to sec whether the signals are down or not. In this instance, he admits that he did not, though not otherwise particularly occupied. But he must have known that the train was on this occasion, and habituailyi driven round the curve -west of the bridge In iittefvislation ofthe rides of the Company; and this he might and should have put a stop to. Nor do we think the responsibility of this occurrence stops here. We further find th,at, for the protection of trains ap proaching from the Bast, and of all trains from the West, stopping at Norwalk, the ball signal was sufficient; inis- \ om the depot in Norwalk will I ' ) coming in sight of the bridj __ ___ ^ _ iy stopped if the draw should open ; ^lut, for trains coming from the West, -which do i Stop .at the ddpot, the signal was insufficient. B u t we do n ot mean to be understood that the Euginf was excusable in this instance, in not observing that the b„„ was down. W e would, however, express the opinion that the signal ought to he raised above the summit of the hill, on the east, that it may h e more plainly seen, and also, that if this train does not hereafter stop at the depOh a man with . s ig n a l ......................... ' ’ ’ ~ rher^h In relation to the capacity of this Engineer and his employ ment by the Company, we find as follows: Said Tucker was employed as Engineer on this road about the time it commenced running (-rhieh was about the be ginning of the year 1849) by Mr. Mason, the then superin tendent; in the -winter of 1851 he w a s running a commuta tion train between New-York and Bridgeport; some time in January of that year an accident occurred in the daytime at Mamaroneck, which caused some confusion in the trains, there being at that time but a single track; some little time after the accident the train upon which Tucker was em ployed arrived at Poitchester (which is this side of Mamaro- neck), where it should have waited until the arrival of a train fromNew-Haven;the Conductor insisted thatthetrainshould go onto Greenwich; Tucker objected; but the Conductor assured him that he had sent forward a verbal message to the conductor of the other train, and that it would be all right. He accordingly went on, and a collision v^as the consequence. The company recognized tbe conductor as in authority, and did not consider the engineer to blame. For six or eight months after the collision he remained in the service of the Company, butnot asengineer—^not being\ able to perform the duties of that office, m consequence of injuries received at the time of tbe collision. He then re ceived from the Company a year’s salary, and went to Cali- forma, whence be returned not long since. Not quite two months ago he was again employed as an engmeer by Mr. Whistler the present Superintendent, not to tahe charge of any particular train, but to relieve other engineers as occa sion might require. On the afternoon of the 5th inst. he ■ ’ Jharge ot this train for the first time, from New-Haven w-Ymk—consequently this was his first trip u ------ ' \ e been on any othe did not appear that this engineer had, on the morning of fatal occurrence, been readmg a newspaper white the Whether he had ever before been on any other than a ay train does not distinctly thaUhis wasunderwaAS““'“c^^ way lt< Latest from N o r w a lk —A n o t h e r D e a t h . , From The Daily T ribaae of yeiterdaj. . , We learn from Dr, Griswold that Mrs. Gen.'Harvey, of excitable and not so well. Gris-wold exerted herself rather too much ingoing see her daughter, and is consequently much fatigued. Rev. Mr. Oncken is now at Rev. Mr. Woolsey’s house. Dr. Bemis is sufficiently recovered to return to Boston to-morrow. __ _____ ___ jule. Miss W. is at Gilbert’s Hotel in New-Haven, notha-ving entirely recovered from her in- The derrick was rigged for work yesterday, and it was thought that the locomotive would be got out during the Gollislon on the Paterson ^toilroad—Four Men Dan- Between 8 and 9 o’clo^ck on Monday evemng, a oollision took place on the Paterson Railroad, about amile from Ber gen Hin, between the Paterson emigrant train going west, and the Erie express train coining east, by winch two men were fatally injured, and others wounded. The locomotives dashed against each other, and were completely smashed; the tend^ of the Express Train was driven back into the baggage-car, destroying the car and much of the passengers’ baggage. Immediately, as the en gineers and firemen perceived that a collision was inevita ble, they jumped off the tiainand escaped without injury. Four brakemen, however, named Harrison, Van Kleet, Griffin and Farrell O’Gara, were seriously—and two of them, it is feared, fatally-^injured. The greatest sufferer b y , the calamity is O’Gara, who had his right leg smashed, and . his left foot severed from the leg. The party whose injuries 'Gari He I children living in Jersey City. Griffin has a leg broken. were next in severity to those of O’Gara, was Van Kleet, who had his leg smashed to pieces. He has a wife and two ig in Jersey City. tears from the statement of Mr. Seth Geer, Conduc- fae met the Paterson train, which ought to have remained rgen t ' ' had passed. On the other hand, Mr. Gale, the Gonductor of the Paterson train, alleges that he was not aware of the new time-table, and accordingly run on the old time; and not meeting the express train on the double track, believed he le arrival of the train at Jersey City, the conductor The injuries of Harrison are internal; he has no bones broken. Of course tbe g reatest consternation p revailed among the passengers, none of whom, however, were injured. The D a y Express T rain should h ave reached J ersey City a t 8.35, but it was detained about 2| boiu’s, not arriving at the depot till 11 o’clock. It appears from the statement of Mr. Seth Geer, tor of the express train, that he was running on time, when on the double track in Bergen cut, tmtil the express train On had a right to the road; hence the collision which took place s t sixteen minutes past eight o’clock, according to the time of Conductor Geer. Immediately after the collision, the conductors of the express ti-ain telegraphed to the depot for assistance, and for a locomotive to bring the train to the city. The only medical gentleman -who happened to be on board the cars was Dr. David Ward, of Hornells\-ille, Steuben Co., N. T , •vvho bound up the wounded limbs, and rendered all the aid in his power. procured wagons for the conveyance of O’Gara .and Van K leet to the New-York City Hospital. Anetber Railroad Disaster. T he A ccident on the N ew -B edfokd At was greatly exaggerated, as the embankment where the ac cident occurred is not more than ten feet in hight. The ears were badly damaged, but very fortunately no one was seriously injured. We leai-n that tlr louslj' injured, v 3 recovery is d ..Liio i., > be entirely paraly_zed. lie was tf The Atlas says: “ The third and last car _ was displaced fi’om the frack, but not thrown down the'embankment, Seventeen persons were, more or lass injured. Amoog; them was Mr. John Witliercll, conductor, -who resides in Eoxbury. His injuries are not of a dangerous natiiTQ, The cars and tender were thrown some foi-ty feet from the track, and completely revolved tlu-ea times. the track were torn up for ^ev discovered in the axleti'e lived tlu'eatimes The rails of several rods. No defect was discovered in the axletree. The engine —^Asheiithnot—is a new one, built in TauntOD, and, with the tender, was be lieved to be the very best on the road. Among the passen gers were several ladies, a portion of whom were in the second car. The locomotive was uninjured.” The New-Bedford Standard relates thO foUowin.g in cident : “ A friei upon the^chaotic mass, the wounded and injured about hei voice : ‘ Where is my bandbc The box probably containt woman feared was sm stance oftbe ruling pas for her bonnet ?” hereofied^out at the^top^of her mittee t< not feel - honorable' _______Try is doubful, Jlis lower limDs were thought to to be entirely paralyzed. He was taken to Taunton for medical assistance. The axle was a new one, and used for the first time on Saturday. The loss of the Company by the accident is estimated at $5,000. The loconaotive was uninjur ed. This was an accident which no possible prudence could prevent, and one of those rare cases in which no blame at taches to anybody.” The Providence Journal says: “ That it is little short of a miracle all in the train were not killed. Seventeen persons were injured, only two severely. Thomas. S. Hathaway, of Somersett, Mass., who is here on a visit to his friends, was very badly hurt. He was brought to the City, and is doing as well as could be expected. His face was shockingly mangled, and he will probably lose the use of one leg. Oliver Lewis, carriage-maker, was also hm-t, but not badly. Two colored people, oelonging to this Ci^, whose names we did not learn, a man and a woman, were injured, but not se riously.” Kii.i.En on the Boston and Worcester Railroad, in Westboro’, Mass., on Sunday morning, 8th inst.—an Irishi man, by name, John Holmes. The result of the-inquest, thus far, shows that in company with a lad, he wentto Wor cester on Saturday, obtained rwiB,—returning home in the night, left the lad,—lingered on the track, finally discovered by tbe Engineer of the Kew-York Steamboat ExpressTrain, passing round a curve, but too late to stop the cars. He was lying with his neck across the rail—of course, horribly mangled. ^ ______ _________ G ypsum at the F ar W est .— Port Smith Herald u of Dr. Shumard, of that River. We give the material portions of the communica- entire ext such a mail] >m tu 6 WlCOlta iU-OlUlbaLUS LU WlUliU a SUOIX UlS* the nearest Mexican Pro-vince. Throughout its ,xtent the Gypsum presents itself to the surfase in maimer as to be very easily worksd, and is of the quality. Not unfrequently we traveled for miles mtinuous beds, which, from their snowy whiteness, of the 3d inst. After the e^reisea were over, the Chi fratemite held its annnal meeting, at which about one hun dred and fifty members were present. The PUloteohnian Society is about to have the portrait of President Hopkins taken and plaoed in their hall. Prof,Tati6ck i* on the point of leaving for E utom . to purchase apparatus for the Astronomical and 'Philosopmoal aepwtmeni of the College. ONE WEEK LATER FROM 4 BRIVAL OF T B E FBOMETHETTS. T H E N E W S I N O E T A l C s . a o s s o r t b e s . s . z m w i s . M I N I N G I N T E L L I G E N C E . DESTRUCTION OP LIFE BY THS JE N H LIND. $ 3 0 0 , 0 0 0 i n « o i d — O v e r $3,OOO,OO0> o n tlsc W a y - PASSEMEES-MARKETS-NARRIAGES AND DEATHS; The steamer Prometheus, Capt. Churchill, from San JttStt del Norte, arrived yesterday morning with 400 passengeci and specie to C. Vanderbilt. The Prometheus left San Juan on Wednesday morning, the 4th inst., bringing 400 passengers, «170,000 in gold dust on freight, also a large amount in the hands'of passengers. She brings dates to the 17th ult. from San Francisco, and made tbe passage from San Juan to this port in 7 daysaaS 22 hours. The steamer Brother Jonathan left San Francisco o a ths morning of the 17th ult., with 640 passengers for New-Tori: and New-Orleans, and $200,000 in gold dust on freight. Her passengers and specie arrived at San Juan del Norte on the evening of the 3d inst. % Very healthy on tbe Isthmus. Geo. Gulliver, a passenger, was accidentally killed by ft fall on board the Prometheus in the harbor of San Joan on the 30th uk. Vessels in port, U. S. sloop-of-war Cyane, Capt. HoUin*. Officers and crew all well. Brig Townsend Jones, Dayton, for New-York soon. The following persons came passengers in the Prome~ J. B. McLane and lady, Mkh A. M. Jndaon, O. F. Lane, C. H. L ane. Mr. J . Smich and lady, C. HaU, H. B. Fomeroj, J . D. Careneri, J . A. Bacon.Mra. Giimi, Mua M .and Mait. Egberc Maynard, A. ftaayan, A. C. Cooke, W. G. Mathews-H. G.Kiligore, Thomai Stephens, Gteorgs Stepbecs, J . Smifli, lady and infant, J . Anderson and lady, A J. Don- ner, W . RoEera, J. Lippincot, James Rogers, A. Crocker, P. Grant, J. Flora, W . H. Kerrick, J. W. Porter, A. L. Crane, J. K. Dndenrood, D. M. Hoyt, W . Hewerston, R. A. Campbell, J. W . CampbeU P . C. Pickins, A. Connelly. S. J . Sade^ L. Carman, wife and infant, S. P . Wisner, J r. McAllis, B . MartiD, J . Adams, £ . Mills, Csth. ICcCioasen and 2 children, R. B. Buckley' G. Buckley, F. Buckley, J. J . Mullao, H . H. Hopkins, B. F . Briggs, B. C. -Wbolston, J . -Warren, W . Danms, G. H. Grant, E. Kellog, H. Bradley, S. -Wiight, H. Hope. J . L. Proffitt^ OtisSonle,Mor. ______ , ■.. Berry, li. Cortes, R. Ziaman, J. Stanhope, R. H. Adams, V 265 steerage pasaengera. The following Gold Dust was shipped on the North- ii l i S i E - i ' l i .............. risli Iigma&&Co.... 5 k. NewhoBfle.... ....12,596,559 46 We are under obligations to Mr. R. Lord, Parser of tha rometbeus, and to the Eapress Agents of Bedford Sa Co, Gregory & C o, Adams & Co. and Wells, Fargo & Co. for the prompt delivery of our files. Death o f Several Old R esidents. We are again called upon to record one of those awful catastrophes, incidental to steam navigation, carrying dis tress and dismay to the survivors,, and death and deformity to the sufferera. Yesterday, at about 12J o’clock, as the steamboat Jenny Lind was on h.er passage to this city from Alviso, just as she got abreast of tue Pulgos Roncho, the plate on the after head of her boiler blew out, sweeping away, in its com’se, and followed by the whole bo;ty of steam, the cabin, bulit-head- and the exhaustion pipe of the engine. It is hut proper to premise this accoimt by stating that the hand-hole is a small eliptical hole m the head of the boiler, for the purpo.se of cleaning it out when dirty, and is different from what Ls known as the man hole, which w used to .admit a person inside the boiler. It is secured by a crossbar, fastened down with screws. The greatest pos sible cave is requisite in pn-tting in this plate, which is fre quently known to blow out, but scarcely an instance has ever occurred, where it lias resisted tlie pressure ou it for so long a timo when defective. The exhaustion pipe being caTvied a -vrayat the same time accounts for the excessive destruction on this occasion. The Jenny Lind was running at her usual rate of <speed when the accident occurred. Sb® had lately undergone extensive repairg, and was supposed, to be in as good order as any otlier boat on the line, No blame has. been attached, as far as we have leai^ed, to any one connected with the boat, whicli will a?;riiYe here to-day, open to the inspectioa of the public. The terrible loss oflife is ou-ing to the fact that the major part of the passengers had just sat down to dinner, a‘nd were in a direct line with the boiler when the exploiiou oc curred and the cabin bulk-head blown through. The whole humbCi* of scalded, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to fifty persons in all. 'J’here were at the time eight ladies jon board, nearly .all of whom were at table and are among the sufferers, and we are sorry to add that all are either dead or probably will die. No passenger list has been obtained, owing to the fact that only the passengers from Alviso were registered on the beat’s hooks; those from San Jose were not put down. We have, however, succeeded in obtaining the names of the following persons: Mr. Noah Ripley, wife and four children; three of the children died before arriving in this city, and the other died soon after; both Mr. Ripley and his wife were in the agonies of death when oiw reporter saw them, s morning at 1 o’clock. Thus a whole family had been teacher, dead. Mrs. Page, fatally, and her child dead Kimball, dedd. Mrs. Emerson, dead. A lady whose ____ we could not learn, probably a French lady, dead. Mr. Murphy, of San Jose, dead. Mr. J. D. Hoppe, of San Jose, badly, if not fatally. Mr C. A. Shelton, fatdly. Mr. Claude ” ’ ’ ” Bain, of North Beach, Colyer, of Wisconsin badly. A. Goldsmith, slightly. Geo. Simmons, badly. Mrs. Lorrain, badly. Mr. Bell, badly. One Frenchman, name unknown, fatally. The cook, slight ly. Both stewards, dead. One of the firemen, dead. On® child, name unknown, dead. Quite a number of others, whose names we were unable to obtain last night, were more or less injured. Theloss oflife thus far has been computed at eighteen, and the whole number injured by the disaster, at fifty. It appears that those only who were in the cabin at the time, or on » line with the volume of steam were injured; all those oa deck, on the guards and forw a rd o f tlie boilers received n e damage. The dinner bell had just been rung, the ladies were seated at their places and the gentlemen just taking tlieirs, when this horrible accident occurred. Had the ex- plo.sion happened but five minutes pre-vious it is said that not a soul would have been injured, as the cabin was empty, all hands being on deck; no other part of the boat has sustained any injury, the cabin only having beenhlowa to pieces. •'* ■''' As soon as the accident had taken place and a boat could, be landed, Mr. Clark and another gentleman went ashore at thePulgas Rancho to obtain aid. Mr. C. hurried on to this city for medical assistance, there being none onboard, -while the other gentleman employed himsmf in carrying off oil, lint and everything else he could think of for the relief of the sfferers. No persons belonging to the boat, except the two stewards and one fireman, who are dead, and the cook slightly injured, were among the sufferers. As soon as intelligence was received here, two boats were immedi ately dispatched to the relief of the Jenny Lind and the ■unfortiinates onboard of her, but the passengers were all brought down by the Union. IThe .scene on board beggars all description. Here a fond . ___ and long tried husband, surrounded by the dead bodies of their four innocent off spring, but a few hours before buoyant with life, health, happiness and hope. In another spot was the dying mother, endeavoring with her raw and sekLded arms to embrace the child- of her bosom, a cold, stiff corpse, untimel^hur- y a violent a ' '
