Franklin Repository

Pennsylvania is still true to her noble fame, to her heroic soldiery, to the memory of her martyred dead, to the Republic rescued from treason in the field and then threatened by the treacherous friendship of its deadly foes.

The same Democracy that proclaimed the war a failure but one year ago, turned upon its own consistent record and sought to deceive the patriotic people it could not make faithless to their government. It endorsed President Johnson, with the hope of making him perfidious in case of their success, and demanded that the authors of treason and war and our widespread bereavement, should be restored to the power they wielded for our destruction.

They appealed to every prejudice that hates, even justice to the victims of slavery, and impelled thousands to vote against their own best interest lest they should be degraded by negro equality; but the profound, patriotic convictions of the people have prevailed, and once more Pennsylvania thunders that to faithful me, and not to traitors, shall the power and destiny of this government be entrusted.

The Union party occupied no doubtful position. It had no concealment--no double-dealing. It met the issues manfully and trusted to a just cause and the intelligence and virtue of the people for success. Their platform is explicit as to the true policy of the administration, and although assailed with all the ingenuity and malignity that accomplished Democratic leaders could exercise, it has triumphed solely because the people believed it Right.

--There is Pennsylvania--behold her! Her voice is one of admonition to her Rulers, to the South, to the Democracy, and one that bids loyal men be of good cheer and hope confidently for the full fruition of the causeless, bloody war with which treason appalled the Nation. Let the doubting look to her sturdy sons--ever slow to accept, but equally slow to surrender--and go forward in renewed faith that the Republic lives!

FRANKLIN COUNTY ELECTION.--We give herewith the official vote of Franklin county as cast on the 10th inst. The army vote is not included, and it may vary the result sufficiently to elect McConaughy and Rowe:

It will be seen that the entire Union county ticket is elected by the home vote but Col. Rowe, who is eight behind; but we confidently look for more than enough of soldier votes to elect him. The vote cast in the county is 7109--574 less than that cast for President last year. It is however 134 more than the vote, home and army vote together, cast for Congress last year, and is therefore a very respectable poll for a quiet election. We presume that there are not ten counties in the State where the vote has been as full as in Franklin. The Union men have done nobly, and assured their supremacy in the "Green Spot."

In order to show the variations in the vote of Franklin county during the last twelve years, we append the vote of each party, the aggregate vote and the majority each year from 1854 until now, including the vote at both elections in 1864. It will be seen that in that period Franklin county has given a Democratic majority but once--in 1857 when there were two candidates (Wilmot and Hazelhurst) opposed to the Democracy, and the majority has varied from 17 to 779, and the total vote from 5271 to 7683. The largest Republican vote was 4053 cast for Lincoln in 1860, and the lowest was 2860 cast for Nicholson for Canal Commissioner in 1855. The highest Democratic was 3821 cast for McClellan in 1864 and the lowest 2411 cast for Plummer in 1855:

SENATOR--OFFICIAL

The following is the official home vote for Senator in this district:

ASSEMBLY--OFFICIAL

The following is the official home vote for Assembly in this district:

THE SOLDIER VOTE

But a few scattering votes from our soldiers have as yet been received. Those on file in the Prothonotary's Office give M'Conaughy a gain of 7, reducing Duncan's majority to 27, and Rowe a gain of 4, leaving Stenger but 4 majority.

Lancaster, Oct. 15, 9 PM--Yesterday afternoon as the day express train [illeg] on the Pennsylvania Railroad was within four miles of this city, an axle of the head passenger car broke, and a part of it striking the bottom of the car, near the front end, tore out part of the bottom, precipitating the occupants off their seats, on each side, to the ground, who were run over by the wheels of the rear truck. Eight persons were killed outright and another died some hours afterwards. Only two others were badly hurt. The train consisted of seven passenger and two baggage cars. The last four cars were thrown off the track, one of which was turned on its side. No one in these cars were seriously hurt.

The accident occurred nearly opposite Mrs. Kauffman's mill, in a cut in the road, nearly midway between Lancaster and Landisville. The passengers were immediately brought to Lancaster, where preparations were made to administer to the wants of the wounded, the entire medical force of the city being assembled at the depot as soon as the news of the accident reached here.

Mrs. Barr, one of the killed, was the wife of Hon. James P. Barr, of Pittsburgh, Surveyor-General of Pennsylvania.
Col. Butler, killed, was whiskey inspector in Philadelphia.
W. H. Butler, Clerk in the Surveyor-General's office, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Willet, killed, was the wife of Theo. Willet of New Cumberland, Pa.
The three children who were with Mrs. Yetta of Milwaukee, state that their father had died in the South, and that they were going to an aunt in Philadelphia, whose name they could not give.

Three females, evidently a mother and two daughters, and apparently Germans, supposed to be recently from California, have not yet been identified. One of the girls may have been fifteen and the other nine years of age. All the bodies, except that of Mrs. Yetta and the three not identified, have been sent to their relatives. The others have been temporarily deposited in a vault in one of our cemeteries.

Colonel Isaac Moffet, of Philadelphia, it is supposed, was somewhat injured internally. He is the only one known to have received serious injury.

The train was running on schedule time and at the usual rate of speed. The breaking of the axle, which was the cause of the accident, appears to have been an unavoidable occurrence.

The officers of the Company here have been active and unremitting in their efforts to minister to the comforts of the wounded. Much difficulty has been experienced in identifying the bodies of some of the dead. The solicitor of the Company for this district has spared no exertion to secure the identification of some of the dead.