Springfield Weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)
March 3, 1855
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4 o||c ^rpnblUan. SPRINGFIELD, MARCH 3, 1835. County Treasurer*. Most of the annual town elections in this state occur next Monday, though many towns do not meet until the first Monday of April. At these meetings county treasurers have to be chosen for the several counties for the next year. In the several western counties, the present incumbents who have given eminent satisfaction through n long series of years, arc candidates for continued re-election, and will probably be generally sus tained, unless the know nothing organization bring some of their surplus office-seeking mate rial into the field against them. In Franklin county, this has been done by the nomination of T. M. Dewey of Greenfield against Almon Brain ard, the present treasurer, and the result there is therefore doubtful. The Gazette urges the re election of Mr Brainard on the general grounds of faithfulness, long experience, 4c., and the special one that he has the private credit neces sary to raise 10,000 or $12,000 to meet the matur ing obligations of the county, as the state of the finances has required of the treasurer. Mr Rice, the long acceptable treasurer of this county, is a member of the ‘order,’ and will not proba bly be disturbed by opposition from that quarter. The Northampton Gazette supports the re-elec tion of Mr Delano for that (Hampshire) county, and no opposition to him is yet developed, that we know of. Whig Nominations in Connecticut. The Connecticut whig state convention met at the Melodeon in Hartford, Wednesday, for the purpose of nominating a ticket of their own, or uniting in the support of that selected by the know nothings. Austin Baldwin of Middletown was appointed chairman, and the chief point of discussion appealed to bo the propriety of adopt ing the American nominations, Thomas M. Day of the Hartford Courant advocating the move ment, while others opposed it. On the informal ballot which followed, Henry Dutton of New Ha ven, the present governor, was re-nominated, re ceiving 120 of the 161 votes cast William T. Mi ner, the k. n. candidate, had 3-1 votes, scattering 8, and blank 2. Railroad Accidents in Massachusetts.— From the last annual reports of the railroads in this state, it appears that 13,029,218 passengers j were carried during the year, 7 of whom were killed; during the same time 32 employe's of the I roads, and 20 persons walking or sleeping on the I tracks were killed, and 12 other persons were killed by collisions. The deaths of the seven passengers were caused by their own carelessness, three in attempting to get upon the trains, and three by jumping off, while the cars were in mo- tion, and one by falling from the platform of a car. Eight employes were killed by coming in collision with bridges under which they were passing. During the last nine years, the number of passengers carried was 80,430,160, 73 of whom were killed, 31 of the number in consequence of their own carelessness in attempting to get upon or jump from trains while immotion; 154 persons while walking or sleeping on tracks have been killed during the same length of time, the greater number of which accidents occurred on the Bos ton and Providence road. The number of em ployes killed was 171, 46 by coming in contact with bridges, and 3 by explosions of locomotives. Among the ‘serious but not fatal’ accidents, the Fitchburg road reports that Franklin Mead, in at tempting to jump from a train at Littleton, fell, i and had his toes cut off. The United States Mist.—The aggregate amount of gold and -silver deposites received at United Sates mints last year, was 855,858,- j 982, and the coinage was 860,756,503, comprised of 44,645,011 pieces. Of this amount $13,108,978 was coined nt Philadelphia, $9,731,574 at San Francisco, $4,520,500 at New Orleans, $292,760 at Dahlonega, Geo., and 8204,652 at Charlotte, N. C. The coinage charge of one-half per cent, yielded 8101,853 at Philadelphia during the year, 820,421 at San Francisco, $6/272 at New Orleans, $1,463 at Dahlonega, and 81,073 at Charlotte. The San Francisco branch mint did not com mence operations until April last, and the work i has been vury much impeded there by want of necessary materials. The director of the mint accounts for the small demand for $3 gold pieces, only 140,000 of them having been issued, by the fact that it does not harmonize with the decimal Bystem. The gold dollar has been increased du ring the year in size, and its devices made to cor respond with those of the $3 piece. The director favors the establishment of a medal department, and suggests that the snbtitution of lighter and more convenient coin for the cumbrous cent now used, would be advisable. Massachesetts Schools.—From the annual report of the state board of '■ducation, which we noticed some weeks since, it appears that the lit tle sea-girt town of Nahant has the honor of ap propriating the most money for the education of each child, the sum being 8700 for 47 scholars. Wclfleet, another sea-board place, takes the lead in the proportion of the school appropriation to the whole amount of taxable property in the town. By the third table, which compares the towns according to the average attendance or scholar.; during the year, Pelham, little Pelham, takes the premium, and returns an average at tendance of over one hundred per cent, which anom aly can only be accounted for by supposing that a sufficient number of scholars less than five and over fifteen years of age, attended the different schools, to more than balance the absentees be tween those ages. Incredible Babbabity.—A man and his wife, residing near Carloe, Ohio, having no chil dren of their own, had taken the child of a neigh boring widow woman, a little girl between four and five years of age, to raise. From the time of taking the child, these fiends subjected her to in human treatment, such as divesting her of her scanty clothing, turning her out of doors, and leaving her exposed for hours, in the coldest nights of this winter. This conduct was pursued I until the child was frozen so as to be unable to leave the filthy mattrass which was her only bed. A neighbor, hearing groans, insisted upon see ing the child, and upon entering the apartment, there lay the little sufferer, writhing andgroan ing with pain, her body covered with running sores, and almost buried in the accumulated filth of days, bhrhair matted together, and the frozen flesh actually dropping from her bones! The hu mane neighbor immediately procured a physician, who pronounced the child to be frozen, and be yond the power of medicine. Her mother, who resided some six or eight miles distant, was in formed of her child’s situation, but the poor lit tie creature was bevond the reach of a mother’s love, and died within a few hours after her arri val. The man was arrested, and is now in jail; but the woman, on account of her delicate situa tion, is at large for the present. The programme for the opening of the Panama railroad includes the laying ,of the cor ner stone of a monument in honor of the origin al projectors of the railroad, Aspinwall, Chancey, and th late John L.Stevens,which is to be erect ed at the Summit; an ixcursion on the Pacific, with a banquet; a breakfast at Aspinwall, and a ball at Panama. Nklrmiah in Congrrm. lii the general discussion of the House, which was protracted until near midnight, Tuesday night, some of the southern members repeated the stale threat of disunion, If the north made any I further objections to the extension of slavery over the territories. Mr Goodwin of New York gave notice of his I intention to present a bill prohibiting slavery in I Kanzas and Nhlng!icy of laying discriminating duties on the manufactured productions of the North, as an efficient remedy against their aggressions.
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