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Thr Cartersville Express Mished Semi-Weekly on every TUES > ,UnAV ’ b} ir SMITH & Cos., Editor* and Prop’rs. * tit town of Cartersvilte, Bartow County, On. Terms of Subscription; Only Two Dollars a-yr., IS VARIABLY IN AD VA NCE. jH y Morning Edition, one year) 1.50 hi< Utter proposition Is confined to citizens fßartow county only. Terms of Advertising: TriiAient (One Month or fa**.) per square often ' , \„ni>:jriel or Brevier lines or less, One a for the first, and Fifty Cents for each sub ' Insertion. Annual or Contract, One Hundred and Twenty , Mars per column, or in that, proportion. j. FLETCHER LEAK l. our authorized traveling Agent, amfr-will n visit every nook and corner of Bartow and * raining Counties, in behalf of theSKMi-WKKK ( *rtkrsvii.le Express. He isfuliyautbor .«,) to receive Subscription and receipt for the iine. and contract for advertising and job work. (£at?ds. DR. W. W. LEAK Ist' DEBS his professional services to the ■7t'ue;n of Cartersville and vicinity. Spe i .ttention given to Diseases of Women and i hAdveri May lie found at Best A Kirkpatrick’s i’nig «ore, and »thi* residence. . jan. 2-1 m ~Jpfa nWTWo Ho rd, attorney at law. CAUTMUSYILLt, - GEORGIA. Office over Pinkerton’s Drug Store. Oct. 17. W. r. WOFFORD, A. r. WOKKORD. Wofford A Wofford, AITORNEYS AT LAW, CARTKKBVILLK, GEO KOI A. June 23, 1870, St. W. Wnrpliey, ATTTORNEY AT LAW, CAkTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee ureuit. Particular attention given to the col • lion of claims. Office with Col. Abda John ,„u. Dot. 1. John J. Jones, ATTORNEY IT LAW & REAL ESTATE AGENT, CtRTERBVILLR GEORGIA. Will attend promptly to all proffessional busi m*ss entrusted to his care; also, to the buying „ud selling of Real Estate. Jan 1. ?(pre. A. Howard, Ordinary of Bartow County. fIASTKRSVILLE, GEORGIA. Job 1,1870. . * A. Iff. Foute, ATTORNEY AT LAW. ARTiIiSVILLB GEORGIA. ( With Col. Warren, A bin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb, Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad joining eeunties. March 30. T. W. MU..SBB, O. H. MILNER. Milner dr Milner, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. CARTERS VII.LB GEORGIA Will attend promptly to business entrusted to tbeircare. Jan. 15. Warren Akin, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Will practice in all the courts of the State. Sam. H. Palillo, Fashionable Tailor and Agent for Sewing Machines, VETIbL attend promptly to the Cutting, He ? r pairing, and Making Roys’ and Mens’ < tothiuw; also, Agent for the sale of the cele brated Grover A Baker Sewing Machines. Of rtcc over stokely & Williams Store. Entrance from the rear. ‘ fob 17. John W. Djor, HOUSE-POINTER. CARTERSVILLE,. GEORGIA. Will attend promptly to business in his line. Jan 19, 1870—wly W. 11. Moiintca.Mtle, Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, CAP.TERSVILI K„ GEORGIA. Office in front of A. A. Skimier & Co’s Store. Kenneiaw House, MARIETTA, GEORGIA. 18 ! 'till open to the traveliog public as well as Mourner visitors. Parties desiring to* make arrangements for the season eau be accommo dated. Rooms neat and clean and especially adapted for families. A fine large piazza has tieeu recently added to the comforts of the estab hshment FLETCHER & FKEYER, juuelbwtf Proprietors. S. O’SHIELDS, Fashionable Tailor , Cartersville, Georgia. HAVE just received the latest European and America* styles of Mens’ ana Boys’ Cloth ing, and is prepared to Cut and Making to or (|Cr. Office upstairs in Liebman’s store, East aeofthe Railroad. sept. 29. Hr. J. A. Jackson, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE IN THE NE W US UO STORE. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Jau 4th, 187i. REPAIRER OP tpSftIEWEIRY, CLOCKS, I* i«*M AND WATCHES', yjzjjr 80 keep on hand and for sa^e the above goods. Hoom in the store of Simon Liebman Cartersville, mnh 22, c L. ATTAWAY, Plain and Ornamental Painter, 1 ARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA Will do painting promptly ands: ithtuUy - dec" 20, 1870. wly “ GEAR SHOP,” by ■f. C. ©Wilis, Wf CARTERSVILLE, GA. of Harness, Bri* dles> (iear etc*, and Dkalkr in \TZ Leather. r.nf P i‘ irtn A rdon ® 0,1 sl,ort “otive. Work war r,|,ted to stand the test. Hides Wanted. 1 mu. 24,1871. -swly 1 ooti o Rp r . , a Wlt^out Pain, by the use 01 nar ~~— mch 9. yv Lanta SACE FACTORY. y\ tiers f,f r re J. ,^ I ?d> at . all seasons, to All or v?-; 'tualiti? or onn n ™A n ' l i Flour Sacks, of any (, a . J ’ or quantity at our factory in At •I”-\ !p;o.u-l j ' A * Mm:nKLl * CO. S. H. SMITH & CO., VOL. 9. READ XT Is well known to Doctors and to Ladies \ that Women are subject I. to nuiu«rous diseases pe- JTVSr THpaas culiar to their sex—such *£■•£. ■ as Suppression of the Menses, Whites, Painful >l# M'nthly ‘Periods,’ Kheu- lyc-A matisui of the Back and K Womb, Irregular Men struatiou. Hemorrhage. or Kxeessive ‘Flow,’and Ml Prolapsus Interior Fall- fe ing oi the Womb. These diseases have sel dom been treated snecessfalty. The profession has sought dill i gently lor some remedy that wo’ld enable them to treat these diseases with success. At last, that remedy bus been discovered bv one of the most skilful physicians in the State of Georgia. The remedy is * Bradfield’s Female Regulator. It is purely vegetable, and is put up in Atlan ta, by BRA ft FIELD A CO. It will purify the blood and strengthen ttie system, relieve irritation of the kidneys, and is a perfect specific for all the above diseases; as certain a cure as Quinine is in Chills and Fevers. For a history of diseases, and certificates of its worderlul cures, the reader is referred to the wrapper around the bottle, Every bottle war ranted to give satisfaction or money refunded. LaGkanoe, Ga., March 23,1870. BRADFIKLD A CO., ATLANTA, GA.: Dear sirs: I take pleasure in stating that I have use.d, for the last twenty years, the medi cine vou are putting up. known a iDR. J. BRAD FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR, and con sider it the best combination ever gotten to gether for the diseases for which it is recom mended. I have been familiar witli the pre scription both as a practitioner of medicine and in domestic practice, and can honestly sav that 1 consider it a boon to suffering females, and can but hope that every lady in our whole land, who may be suffering in any way peculiar to their sex. may he able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings may not onlv be relieved", but that they may be restored to health A strength. With mv kindest regards, I am, respectfully, W. B. FERRELL, M. I). We, the undersigned Druggists, take pleasure in commending to the trade. Dr. J. Bradfield’s Female Regulator—believing it tube a good and reliable remedy for the diseases for which he recommends it. W. A. LANSDELL, PEMBERTON, WILSON, TAYLOR & CO. RED WINE A FOX, W. O. LAWS HE, Atlanta, Ga. W. ROOT A SON, Marietta, Ga. DR. PROPHITT’S Celebrated Liver Medioine, It is purely vegetable, and will act upon the Liver and Kidneys as promptly as Calomel ami Buchu, without any danger of salivation or de struction of the bones. e Parties taking the medicine need not fear get ting wet, or any other reasonable exposure. Symptoms of Liver Disease; Headache, Dull Feelingorthe Blues, Sour Stom ach, Sick or Nervous Headache, Heartburn, In digestion or Dyspepsia, Bad or Bitter Taste in the Mouth, the skin has a thick, rough feeling, and is darker than usual, Costivouess, Melan choly Feelings, Cramps, Cold Feet, Colic, Dys entery, or Diarrhoea, Chills and Fever, and Piles. In fact, where, the Liver is out of order, you are liable to every disease that is uot conta gious. l’rophitt’s Liver Medicine, if taken properly, will prevent and cure any disease resulting from a deranged liver. It will regulate its functions and thus cure all diseases caused by the failure of its healthy ac tion. It has been used for a great number of rears, and has given universal satisfaction. There is no brother or son claiming to have the origional recipe. It is put up in both Pow der anu Fluid form. Faihbckn, Ga., Sept. 4, 1868. I>R. O. S. PROPIIITT: Sir: My wife has been an invalid for fifteen years. Doctors all agreed she bad “Liver Dis ease.” In connection with their practice she used various and noted remedies, none of which seemed to do any good. Sometime ago 1 o roc ti red a bottle of vour “Liver Medicine,” of your agent here, C. A. Harvey, which being given ac cording to directions, has affected a comulete cure. Respectfully, Ac., GEO. L. THOMAS. Charlotte, N. C., Sept. 24,1868. 1 have used Dr. O. S. Prophitt’s Liver Medi cine as a tonic, and found it to be powerful and efficacious. It is excellent, for functional de rangement of the Liver or constipation of the bowels; in most cases superceding the necessity of a regular course of medicine. E. J. MKYNARDIE, Pastor Tryon-str. C’h. Marion County, Texas, Aug. 1,1869. DR. O. S. PROPHITT: Dear Sir: 1 write you this to iuforni vou that I liave been trouliled a great deal with indiges tion, hut after using one bottle of your Liver Medicine, 1 find great relief. I cheerfully re commend it as a good Family Medicine, and feel coulldent that It is good for anything for wlf it claims to be an antidote. Very respectfully, DICK LOCK ETE*. Dr, Prophitt’s Dysentery Cordial, Ts one of the most valuable compounds now put up for Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera Infantum, or Cholera Morbus. This medicine has been in use for rears, and gives uniuersaj satisfaction. The most delicate child ntav take it with im punity. ■ Covington, u a., Nov. 9,1867. I)R. PROPHITT: Having a severe attack of Dysentery during the past summer, I was induced to use! your Dy sentery Cordial, and derived therefromimmedi ate and permanent relief. It gives me pleasure to recommend this remedy to all who may be so attacked, believing that, should the directions be followed, relief would surely be obtained.— Truly, Ac. ‘O. S. PORTER. Cess at a, Texas, 1569. DR. PROPHITT: Dear Sir: Your Liver Medicine ami Pain Kill It is a complete success. J. L. WHITTLE. West Point, Ga., Aug. 11,1869. This is to certify that I have used Dr. O. S. Prophitt’s Liver Medicine myself and in my family, for twelve months or more, and l unhes itatingly sav that I believe it one of the best Family Medicines in use. M. T. WALKER. PEOPHITT’S Pain Kill It. This is the celebrated medicine that run Perrv Davis’Pain Killer out of the market, wherever it was sold. Davis made l’rophitt change’ the name Iran Pain Killer to PAIN KILL IT? For Rheumatism, Neuralgia, or pain of any kind it has no equal. For Cuts, Bruises, Burns, or old Sores, it is the best thing you can use as a dressing. For Snake Bites or Stings of Poisonous Insects, it is a perfect ANTIDOTE. It is good tor Colic, Colds, Coughs, or Bowel Complaints. Its name indicates its nature fully. It is truly DEATH to pain. * Manufactured and sold bv UR AD FIELD & CO., Atlanta, Ga., and for sale by all druggists. . . . Doolt Bounty, Ga., April, 1867. This is to certify that I was confined to the house, and most of the time to ntv bed, and suf fering the greatest agony imaginable with Rheu matism, tor five months, and after trying cverv available remedy, with no relief, I'was cured with two bottles of Dr. O. S. Prophitt’s Anodyne Pain Kill It; each costing fifty cents only. It relieved me almost instantly.' I therefore re commend it in the highest degree to others suf fering from similar disease. I can sav that it is one of the finest Family Medicines now out, Cer tain. Yours, truly, W. A. FOREHAND. Dooly County, Ga., Oct. 27,1867 DR, O. S, PROPHITT: I have, during the last eigeteen months, used your 1 am Kill It and I consider it uueoualed bv anything tor pain in the head, breast, back or aulet C S IC , nothing gives relief half so if • , F ol,r Anodyne Pain Kill. theVtVmm s mutth S ood iu the community in o thei lamilies us well as my own. Yours, &c„ D. T. FOREHAND. DR. PROrmxT: 0 * FaCTORY ’ Ga - N « v > 1*67. verely sprained his knee se twEftte natural «i. Whole , to sweU to about Kill It thoroughly cured it JNO B DAVIS STATE OF GEORGIA,! Know all men bv these ... , Fulton County.] presents, That I H manu facto re and sell my Family have furbished them with the lull and have authorized the said BRADFJELD A co to print, or liave printed, anything they mavsw proper concerning any and all the above named €ABTERMVILL£, BARTOW €Ol T VTY, GEORGIA, EEB. 17th. IK7I. Modicim>s. This 15ch day of June, 187tX [Signed] ' O. S. PROPHITT, In presence of Thomas F. Jones, and Robert Crawford, Notary Public. (l. s.) Manufactured and for sale by BRADFJELD A CO., Broad street, Atlanta, Ga., and for sale by all druggists. iuly2o—wly CERTIFICATES: , the undersigned, haved used Dr. Proph itt s Preparations, and take pleasure in recom mending them to the public, as being all he claims for them: Col. It J Henderson, Covington, Ga.; O T Rog ers, Covington, Ga.; O 8 Porter, Covington. Ga.; Prof. J L .Tones. Covington, Ga.; Rev. M W Ar nold. Georgia Conference; Rev. W W Oslin, Ga. Conference; F M Swanson, Montieello. Ga.; Ro bert Barnes, Jasper County, Ga.; A M Robinson, Montieello, Ga.: James Wright, Putnam county, Ga.; A Westbrook, Putnam countv. Ga.; JurUe J J Floyd, Covington, Ga.; W L Bebee, “Cov ington Enterprise,”; A H Zachrv, Convers, Ga; George Wallace, Atlanta, G*. ;* Dick* Lockett, Davis county, Texas; W Hawk Wlutt-lev, Cua seta. Texas; W C Rolierts, Linden countv, Tex as; Tommy A Stewart. Atlanta. Ga; W A Lans dcll, Druggist Atlanta, Ga; R F Maddox A Cos.; Atlanta, Ga.; Uriah Stephens, Cartersville. Ga.; A S Louis, TAvvndes county, Ga.; .Joseph Land, Lowndes county, Ga.; Jas. Jefferson. Carters villc, Ga.; W L Ellis, Doolv county, Ga.; W A Forehand. Dooly conntv, Ga.;.John B. Davis Newton Factory. Ga.; B F Bass, Lowndnes co. Schedule of* the Western A; Atlantic R. R. The Day passenger trains pass Cartersville, Going Up, at 11.00. a. m. Going Down, at 11.53, a. m. The Night passenger trains pass Cartersville, Going Up, at 12.22. a. m. Going Down, at 1.37, a. m. CARTERSVILLE ACCQIYIMOCATIUN, Leave the passenger Depot, Atlanta. 3.00 p. m. Arrive at Marietta. 4.27 p. rn. “ “ Cartersville, 1........ 7.39 p. in. Leave Cartersville, f.. ? 5.50, a. m. Arrive at Marietta, ...1. ~,8.36 a. m. “ “ Atlanta, 10.80 a. m. jan- 27- A. L. HARRIS, M. T. & S. Schedule of*tl>e CARTERSVILLE & VAN-WERT B. [R. ON and after January 20th, 1871, the trains will Leave TAYLORSVILLE, at ...0.30. A. M. “ STILESRORO’. at .10, A. M. “ FOR REST 11 ILL, at ...-, 10.25, A. M Aj-rifing at CARTERSVILLE, at 10.50, A M Leave CARTERSVILLE, at 1, I\ M. Arrive at TAYLORSVILLE, at ... 3, P. M. A Hack will soon be running from Cedartowu to Taylorsville via. Van Wert, connecting with the trains. » An Extra train will be run to Cartersville and Return to Taylorsville, every Friday evening. By order of the President. D. W. K. PEACOCK, Sec’y. Lawshe & Haynes, Have on hand and are receiving the finest stock of the Very Latest Styles of Diamond and Gold JEWELRY, in upper Georgia, selected, with great care for the Fall and Winter Trade, Watches, oi the BEST MAKERS, of both Europe and A meriea; American and French Clocks; Sterling and Coin Silver Ware; and the best quality of Plated Good?, at prices to suit the times; Gold, Silver and Steel Spectacles, to suit all ages. VV atclies and Jewelry Repairsd by Competent Workmen; Also Clock and Watch Makers Tools and Materials. sept 13.-swly ATLANTA, GA. W. n. GILBERT. A. BAXTER, TANARUS, W. BAXTER, Jr. QILBERf* SAXTIB (SUCCESSORS TO W. H. GILBERT & C 0.,) Dealers In HARDWARE, IRON, STKEI,, MILS, CLOVER & GRASS SEED, AGENTS FOR SALE OF CO AL CREEK COAL. Guano. And other Fertilizers. Agricultural Implements, Agricultural and Mill Machinery. ALSO GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS For sale and Purchase of COTTO#. WHEAT. CORN. And all other Country Produce, Cotton, Hay, AND OTHER PRODUCE SHIPPED ON liberal terms. GILBERT & BAXTER, Cartersville Ga. Jan. 19, 1871—ly. JAS. W. STRANGE, Dealer In, and Manufacturer Os TO WARE, House-Furnishing Goods, ALSO DEALER IN First-Class Stoves At The Lowest Cash Prices. WILL BARTER FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE, RAGS,&C. Cartersville, .Tan. 20th, ’7l-iy. Fresh Garden, Flower, Fruit, Herb, Tree «fc Shrub, and Fvergreen Seeds, pre paid by mail, with direc tion* for culture. Twenty five different packets of ei ther class for SI.OO The six classes for $5.00. 20,000 lbs. Evergreen and Tree Seeds; Apple, Pear, Cherry, &c.; Grass Seeds; Beet, Cabbage, Carrott, Onion, Squash, Turnip, and all Veget able and Flower Seeds, in small or large quanti ties; also Small Fruits, Stocks, Bulbs. Shrubs, Roses, Verbenas, &c., by mail, prepaid. New Golden Banded Japan Lily, 60c. Priced De scriptive Catalogues sent to any plain address, gratis. Agents wanted. Wholesale List to Agents, Clubs and the Trade. Seeds on commis sion. B. M. WATSON, OH Colony Nurseries and Seed Warehouse, Plymouth. Mass. Established jan. 31-sw 2m HE HI-WEEKLY. GOWER. JONES & CO., MiSUFACTCBERSOF Aad Dealers in CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, AND I, 2 & 4 Horse Wagons. MATERIALS, *C„ REPAIRING, kinds, DONE WITH NEA TNESS and DURABILI TY. ' CARTERSVILLE, GA. feb. 7, 1871. wly READ THIS! I feel grateful to my friends and cus tomers for their liberal patronage in the past, and will continue isy Livery Business at the old stand, where I propose to give as NEAT A TURN-OUT as can be had at any stable in the up-coun try, and respectfully solicit a continu ance of their patronage. In justice to myself, I am compelled to adopt the cash system, in order to keep my business in neat style. Very Respectfullv, W. W. MILAM. BOU rODACCO.—Messrs. JOURDAN, HOW AltD & IIARRALSON, Atlanta, Ga., have on hand the following Choice Brands of manufactured Tobacco, which they offer to trade as low as the lowest: Brown’s Log Cabin, Cabin Home, Golden Choice, ** Pike’s Peak, Winfree’s Gold Leaf, Pranly’s XXX, Montsicf, Hyco Belle, Peach Mountain, Sunny Side, Saranac, McGhee’s 4 A, Golden Rule, Rosa Belle, Globe Twist, Crown Navy, May Apple. And many other desirable brands not men tioned; together with a fine variety of Smok ing Tobaccos and Cigars. •Tolrn T. Owen, JE WELEK, Main Street, Cartersville F totlie wishes and interests of his patrons. He can be found at his stand ai all times, with a good stock of material, Pr iVe a ke2p t 9 °^good y iot o of belongin « to hii li,ie - GOLD AND SILVER IfATCUBS, JEWELRY, SILVER-WARE , Spectacles, &c., etc. All of which he will sell as CHEAP as anv one else CAN afford to sell such. Satisfaction guaranteed in everv in stance. Be sure to give me a call. JOHN T. OWEN, jan. 9,1871-swly Cartersville, Ga. » A RBY’S Prophylactic Fluid. fjp Medicine,for puri fy ing, cleaning, for Erysipelas, rheumatism, and all skin diseas ggj_for catarrh, sore mouth, sore throat, dinthe ria; for cholic, diarrhoea, cholera; as a wash to goftgn_and beautify the skin: to remove ink s^ots^^mildew^jnrui^jstaijas^takejajEiterMallvas well as applied externally: sg_hjghlv recom mended by all who have used it—is for sale by alj_Drnggists and Country Merchants, and mnv be_ordereU directly of DARBY PROPHYLATICCO., Dec. 6, w-ly. ltTf William Street. N. Y. In future the Editorial Rooms ■of the ‘CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS” wRI be in Col. J. \Y . Harris’ Law Office, where the business of the office will be transacted, and wberg subscribers ran get their papers. The Huibon River Riilroml Horror. A freight truiu, mainly made up of oil cars, started from Albany in the evening, on the down back. There were twenty-live cars in this train.— Before starting they had been duly inspected, and, so far as human pru dence could guard against it, accident seemed impossible. Almost at the end of the wood en bridge over Wappingers Creek, at New Hamburg, nn axle broke, tipping it sideways, and letting it down upon the ties. For a few j yards further, to the entrance of the bridge, it dragged, then, striking a timber, was tossed over on the up traok, and instantly all the cars behind it were piled on it, a mass of wreck. It was the work of an instant, and while the echoes were still but half j awakened by the awful crash, upon this chaos glared the head-light of a passenger train —the .Pacific express— dashing onward with lighning speed on the up-track. Yards, not even rods, measured the space which it devoured in a breath—before there could be a motion to check its advance, before even there could be one warn ing shriek from the locomotive; before one of the doomed train could leap into the black uncertainty on either hand, or even see the horrid fate ahead. Then, with a terrible noise, as of an earth-quake, the loco motive at its furious speed plunged into the mountain of ruin heaped up on the track. Down on it came thun dering all the cats which followed in itn wake, each with un iufornal crash, mingled with the wild shrieks of its terrified inmates. The locomotive had burst opeu the oil tank of that fatal tenth car tLe instant of striking it.— From the fire-box of the locomotive the flames leaped up to the Heavens. The oil, dashed high in air by tbo shock, ignited there, and where it fell there lay a sea of fire. , Another and another oil tank exploded and gave their boiling, flaming contents to feed the swelling fury of the fire. Up, up, round the cars, and down over the timbers of the bridge, lapping ail with tongues of flame, bin ding the madden ed ones who strove to escape, shroud ing the awful death-cells where, from their sleep, the miserable ones had no time for any thought but wild affright and agony, were hurled into eternity. From the bridge into the waters of the creek, eighteen feet beneath, plunged the engine of the express train, down upon it fell the tender, a baggage car, and an express car, then the Buffalo sleeping coach, whence none escaped alive, and over these poured the liquid fire rained down from the bridge, as it, too, fell, with its load of the remaining cars of both trains. So fierce was the fire that nothing could be done to save those so instantly enveloped by it. It wrap ped two more cars so quickly that few escaped from them uninjured by it.— Down beneath the ice, drowned, lay some, fortunate that their death had been leas horrible than that of those eugulfed by the fire; others, still more fortunate, had known no pain, but in the sudden crash had taken, all un conscious of its cause, the short step from mortal life to immortality.— In two of the sleeping cars immediate ly following the Buffalo coach the loss of life and injuries were great. From those behind, most of the passengers escaped—few without serious injuries —broken bones, burns and bruises, but with life, and how fervently they thanked God for that. Looking before they saw, wrapped in tire, the chaos of wreck; in their ears, mingled with the roaring and cracking of the flames, resounded the shrieks of the poor wretches in their death agony, far be yond i.Il human aid, in that infernal furnace. They stood upon the ice, scantily clad, for most of them had been half undressed, preparing for sleep when the disaster came, and the eager wind was down-to zero, but they forgot these things in their great thankfulness that they had escaped with mere life. As the*ice melted, the cars upon it sank down into the water beneath, and with them, the burning timbers of the bridge. This destroyed all faint hopes, which the more san guine had cherished, of giving any s accor to those in the cars which had been in the flames Nothing could be* done for even the rescue of their re mains, thus preserved from total de struction, until morning light, and how painfully long the night seemed, can only be appreciated by those who waited for the gray dawn to aid them in that horrid search for the dead.—' For hours the furious flames revelled in their work of ruin. Their lurid glare reddened the skies; the ice and snow brought out in keen relief the branches of the tall pines and made blacker the shadow’s behind them on the snow-clad sides of this awful gorge this valley of death. Near the wreck lay a human body, upon the ice. Its entrails were torn out, its head and legs crushed. The ghastly hor rors of the scene could have had no mure vivid climax. Such an object in the foreground made complete a pict ure which will never fade from the re memberances of those who gazed upon morning light-. only enhanced the awful horror of the scene. The fire had died out. leaving all where it had touched chari'ed and blackened. Haif-buried in the ice and water of the creek lay the shattered, partially burned cars, hideous coffins of an unknown number of the dead.— On the ice and upon the banks' stood Editors and Proprietors. a crowd of rescued passengers, people who lived near the scene, nnd railroad employees their faces blanched w ith the realization of the fearful catastrophe. Over all this arose the cold, grey light of dawri, while through the gorge came the icy w ; nd, keen and strung, lading its wings with the sickening odors of the still smouldering embers. The voices of men were hushed, but the tall pines sighed mournfully in the breeze a requiem for the dead. Few of the passengers remained near the scene of the catastrophe any longer than they were enabled to get away. Few of them had been able to save anything in their flight from the burning cars; even their overcoat* were left behind, and several were in their stocking feet. As well as possi ble, UDder the circumstances, their pe cessitses were supplied by residents of the neighborhood, and then they hur ried away, some to Albany and beyond, others returning by the fiist down train to the city. * ? SEEKING FOE THE DEAD began with the first clear light of day. The intense cold made the work very severe. The.thermometer stood below zero, and ice was forming rapidly over the surface of the chasm in the ice where the cars had gone down. That removal of the dead from the wreck was a soul-sickening, horrible work.— Each corpse brought to light, instead of inuring the spectators to the ghast ly bideousness of these poor remnants of humanity, increased their painful, sympathetic anguish and filled them with dread of the possible horrors still to be encountered. Mangled by the wreck, mutilated by the fire, their fea tures, where at all preserved, stamped with an ineffaceable expression of ago ny and terror beyond the power of de piction in words, those ghastly corpses were tilings of terror iu themselves.— The charred body of a mother, still clasping the shrivelled remains of her two children to her blackened breast, was drawn forth, and then the headless body of another woman, the body of a man with the extremities consumed by fire, a mangled muss of shapeless, dis torted fragments of a man, once the engineer, now so dreadfully disfigured that its once having been a human be ing seemed a doubt, then more bodies with arms, heads, and legs burned off, frightful things, beyond recognition.— But why continue here this dreadful recital; let it be left in part, at least, to imagination. None can conjure up in their minds a picture more full of vivid horrors than this scene presented, one which will not fall short of the re ality. The dead, as they were extri cated from the wreck, were laid upon th3 floor of a baggage car brought up for the purpose, and a fire was kept up near them to thaw out the frozen garments of those upon whom any clothing remained, in order to prose cute the search for means of identifi cation. Most of those found in the wreck of the Buffalo coach were in a mass at the lower end, that plunged down deep in the mud and water, and seemed to have been making an effort to reach the door, to escape when death seized them. The dead were G. F. Thompson, of 47 Wall street; Dr. Nuncrede, and George Stafford; five railroad employees; Peter Yos burgh, conductor of the sleeping car; E. Benedict, editor of the Cleveland Herald, his w ife, and two children; A. j A. Gillett, of Buffalo; Rev. Morrell! Fowler, wife, and three children; L. j A. Root, David Simmons, engineer;! Laurence Mooney, brakeman; James j Yosburgh (colored,) porter of the Buffalo sleeping car; and the follow- j ing list of surnames, found in the pock- ; et book of Vosburgh, the conductor; j howler, Pease, of Buffalo; Germanuel,, of Rochester; Sorhis, Curry, Forbach, j and Rosenthal. BTARTING FROM THE DEPOT. The “Pacific express” train had ac quired a national reputation. It was started soon after the completion of the great iron band which binds the the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, and its object was to convey passengers with the utmost speed over fcbe first thousand miles of their journey from the metropolis of the east to the metropolis of the west. It surpassed all competitors in the endevor to carry the busy, impatient travellers of the country over that dis tance in the shortest possible time, and for many months it bore the laurels for attaining the extraordinary actiiev meut of conveying passengers from New York to Chicago in twenty-nine bou’-s. Hie express left New York daily at 8 o’clock, p. m., and there are very few* persons comparatively in the city who have not seen the long train of palace cars roll out from tne depot | at Thirteenth street and disappear on its long journey to Garden City.— Each night, previous to the starting of the train, the scene at the depot was most intereating. Amid the noise of the ccaches and carriages bringing in their conti-ibntions to m*ke up the quota of passengers, the din of the numerous railroad men shouting instructions, and the rattle of trunks over the plank, friends were taking a long farewell, some in tears; and every one who went aboard the train carried the blessings of someone dear to tho heart, und a solemn prayer that no accident should interfere to make the voyage a dangerous one. At and then wheu one looked in and saw the voyagers com fortably ensconced in their small but elegant drawing rooms, with a supply of newspapers, the latest magazines, Ac., all at hand, one was alwa j s con- drained to believe that all the annoy ances of traveling had finally become i things of the past, and that to ride in | this manner through a wide and di versified country was nothiug else than a luxury. ON THE ROAD TO DEATH. j All these scenes were re-enacled on I Moudy evening last. The Express train emerged lroin the. loDg dark de pot, and soon wasspe ding away along the shore of the rigid Hudson. The night was clear and intensely cold, as every one who exposed himself to the chilliug blast will remember. As the l assengers Si. fc by the windows and gazed out across the great river at the bleak mountains crowned with snow, the clear sky all studded with stars that shone like diamonds—for a clearer at mosphere has seldom been known in this vicinity—it was probably difficult to decide whether the majestic stream MO. 35. with its towering borders was ever more charming, even iu the midst ot blooming spring or green summer.— The cold moon threw' her cold rays down slantingly on the sheet of ice, aud they were reflected on the shining armors of sleet which clad the side of every valley on the other side nnd the top of every anoint bluff. Now and then the nnuature figure of a cottage, with its lighted window, could be seen dotting the snowy field on the opposite side of the river, each one affording a subject for thought to the dreamy voy- agers. Ou, on sped the streaming train, its wheels grinding the frosty rails, and its shrill wills'm making the whole frigid valley resound tbo echoes for miles around. Cottage,, hamlet appeared and instanlly receded from the view of the swift ffyiug trav ellers. At last weariness overtook the dreamers gliding past these weird, arotic scenes, and they begun to turn their small parlors into snug sleeping rooms. Meanwhile the never tiling iron horse drew them on the fieot ness of wings INTO THE JAWS OE D^ATH. A great black shape, with one daz zling eye, was crawling along the truck in the opposite direction, miles alove the point now reached by the expre. s train. That object was death. It wound its long form around a curve, and while passing under a dark bridge, just after leaving the village af New Hamburg, it prepured the weapon of destruction. The black oil-tanks were partially covered with a sheath of ice„ and all the iron wheels and axles were brittle with the intense frost. One of the axles snapped and dropped down, so that it gruted ou the track, and dragged aloug over the sleepers W hen it came to the over the mouth Os Wrappinger’s Creek, which runs down from the hills cn the eastern shore of the Hudson, and which, at its confluence, becomes so broad and deep that it lias the appear ance of an inlet, the broken iron drop ped down and began to root up the wood-work. Soon there was a sudden jeik, for the iron fangs had got a strong hold. The entire oil train stopped suddenly, and a portion toppled over upon the other track. ! THE HORRIBLE COLLISION. A flash of light danced upon the track, the shriek of a whistle was heard, and on came the Pacific express with its lightning dash. The engineer, peer ing out behind reflector, saw a mass of black matter on the track before, and pulled the lever, sounding the sig nal for “down breaks.” The breaks were applied, but not in time to check the terrible momentum of the train. It rushed into the face of the wreck, and the engineer's assistant, seeing death inevitable, sprung from his post, at the same time calling upon the engineer to follow. The engineer replied, “Iff go with my train.” The locomotive plunged into the black wreck, tnero was a tremendous crash, followed by death-shrieks, and then an explosion that was heard for miles, and next the devouring flames. The engine of the express train was the first to go dowu and bury itself and driver in tfie swo len river beneath the ice. Then follow ed the coal-tender, the baggage-can with its contents, the heavily-Uden ex press car, and lastly, the first drawing room, or sleeping-cur, with its freight of human lives. To bury them out of the reach of hope, the ugly oil-trucks, fell upon them and then a hellish fire was kindled over the pregnant grave. if THE FLAMES SHOT UP as if some devilish power was in them, | exulting over the victory. The great I light was seen for miles around. Pres ently the clear night air W;'.s filled wi th the dismal pealing of church bells from the villages far av-ny. A fire en gine came to the scene with hose to engage in the useless attempt to ex tinguish the flames. Hundreds cf people flocked to the carnage, and the sight was one that can never be ef faced from the memory of all who saw it, and one, the recurrence of which, all pray may never come. Last night the scenes in the vicinity of the sickening disaster was dismal in the extreme. There was the yawning gulf which had enveloped the dead, over it was a frarn of charred timbers, and half a hundred men carrying lights were moving about above tfio wreck. The sound of the axe, saw, and hammer of the workman’ repair ing the bridge was heard, Two loco motives drawing trains, had approach ed the brink, one on each side and stood with their great lights glaring down into the abyss. The night w dark, and tho scores of people on the field of ice surrounding the wreck could just be discerned. All the vil lagers had been at woik on tho ice and in the water as long as the ligth of day lasted, and were nearly frozen. To keep from perishing, many of them had resorted to spintous liquor, and in tlie evening they were half intoxicated. In carrying the passengers from tho trains around the wreck on the ice, they ran, cursed, and shouted at the very brink of the grave. A few tall masts, with their crossing spars stood close by the side of the tomb, 11m monumental crosses erected lo cum in t inol’uto* the disaster.