Shepherdstown Register

Trains Thrown from the Track- Gen. Grant and Gen. Sherman on Board.

Cincinnati, Sept. 28.- While General Grant was returning from Indianapolis, at an early hour yesterday morning, the switch at the end of the curve at Guilford had been turned, intentionally, and the car in which the General was seated was thrown from the track and dragged some distance, but no one was injured. About the same time the train on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, carrying General Sherman, was also thrown from the track, this side of Lawrenceburg, but no person was injured.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE GEN. GRANT.

The recent peril in which General Grant was placed by the displacement of a switch on the Indianapolis and Cincinnati Railroad, seems to have been the result of an infamous attempt on the General's life. The Cincinnati Gazette of the 28th ult., says: The president of the road, H. C. Lord, Esq., on hearing of the occurrence, immediately proceeded to Guilford to investigate the matter. It was found that some infamous scoundrel, as wicked as Booth but with less courage had broken the lock from the switch and turned the latter with a view of throwing the train from the track. Fortunately, the work was bunglingly done, and to this fact the escape of the train from being smashed is due, the locomotive and tender having, as described, kept the track, and thus prevented the car containing the General from going over. It was a narrow escape, and while the public will rejoice that this dastardly attempt on the life of the Lieutenant-General failed, they will regret that there is little probability of finding the scoundrel who would plunge the nation into mourning a second time for another of its great and valued men.