Traveling through fire—Fearful peril of a railway train, at Cedar Swamp, on the Eastern Railroad, Maine, Sunday, Sept. 17. 

One of the most thrilling scenes we have ever been called on to portray occurred in the woods at Cedar Swamp, Maine, on the track of the Eastern railroad, Sunday, Sept. 17.

The train was on its way to Augusta, conveying the 14th Maine regiment, when suddenly, without knowing it, they dashed at full speed into a piece of burning woods. Once in, there was no retreat, and on the train flew through the flames that reared themselves forty feet above the locomotive and cars. The oil of the wheels took fire, and for a few minutes it looked seriously as though the whole convoy was gone. The soldiers were smothering from the smoke and roasting from the flames, and the engineer only kept his post by almost superhuman command. The roar of the flames completely drowned the shrieks and cries of the human cargo, and for a few minutes it was a perfect pandemonium. Fortunately, none of the brave fellows threw themselves from the hurrying train, and the gallant locomotive, Cape Ann, sped them at lightning pace through the fiery ordeal, and dashed them in to fresh air and life, sound, save and except a little scorching which time will remove

Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, October 14, 1869.

Raid on the Broadway Consort Saloons, New York.

If there Is In New York one spot more Infamous than another, that spot is the section of Broadway on the east aide, between Bleecker and Houston streets. Hell gapes widely here for all who may pass after 7 o'clock in the evening. From Bleecker to Spring Street, there are at least three hundred abandoned females employed in those dens of infamy known to the public as concert saloons. During the last twelve months, this evil has grown to almost gigantic proportions, yet nothing was done to abate it until the evening of the 22d Inst., when sixty-eight concert saloon waiter girls were arrested, together with three or four of the managers and proprietors of the dens.

The girls were found in all these places dressed in "tights," in the fashion of the amazons of the "Black Crook." Gaudy and obscene pictures and temptations of the vilest nature are the only inducements held forth to enter these places, and yet night after night gray-haired men, many of whom are supposed to hold respectable positions in society, may be found here sipping beverages at double the rates charged in an ordinary drinking saloon. Boys, too, of a tender age, seduced by the glare and licentious glitter of these devil's traps, some of them have the bloom and freshness of green fields on their cheeks, with found mothers waiting patiently for their return to their homes, may be side by side with these painted harlots, spending the money which they have filched from employers' tills.

If the clearing out of the pandemonium upon Broadway has been successfully accomplished, the community has reason for joy and gratitude to the police authorities.

Illustrated Police News, February 1, 1872.