Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1866-10-12
The Storm at Sea.

FORTRESS MONROE, Oct. 8.--The British
steamer Queen Victoria foundered at sea on
the 4th inst, during the recent storm in lat
itude 80 deg. Minis, long. 70 deg. 80 minis.
The passengers and crew were picked up
yesterday by the brig Pomfret, from New
York. Tbirty-fve were transferred this
morning to the steamer Joseph Gerry, from
Wilmington for Baltimore, which arrived in
Chesapeake Bay this P. NJ Two lives were
lost. The engineer died from exposure, and
the mate was washed overheard. The storm
commenced on the End, and the steamer
sprung leak on the morning of the Sd.
CHARLESTON, 8. c., Oct. s.-The Spanish
brig Roma, from Matamoras for st. Johns,
Newfoundland, dismantled and leaking, ar
rived here to-day.
SAVANNAH, GA, Oct. S.-Tbe steamer
Evening Star, from New York bound to New
Orleans, foundered $50 miles cast of Tybee,
with $50 passengers and so crew. Five OF
the crew and Frank Gerard, passenger,
were saved.
SECOND DISPATCH.
SAVANNAH, GA, Oct. S.-The boat from
the steamer Evening Star arrived at Fernan-
dina. 1t left the steamer with eighteen per-
sons, including Captain Knapp, one lady and
child. The boat was capsized nine times.
At the sixth time the captain was lost.
AS the steamer Zyloon Shore left Fernan-
dina boat was reported to be coming in
with the purser and engineer Of the Even
ing Star.
-Four boats left the steamer as she sunk
The other two are supposed to have been
swamped.
The schooner S. j. Warning from New
York for Apalachicola, put in in distress hav-
ing thrown overheard part of her deck load.
The Warning brought the chief engineer,
purser, two passengers and six Of the crew
Of tue Evening Star, picked up at sea.
MEMPHIS, Oct. 9.-In the Appeal of to-
day an item headed "Negro Insurrection,"
appears as follows:
AS result Of the teachings Of Radlcalism
in our midst is calculated to bring about
scenes of bloodshed and carnage, no one will
be surprised in reading the following afro
cious attempt of number of negroes to
murder and plumber. 1t is but one of the
many acts of barbarism which the poor I'M
educated negro, bolstered mp to think that he
- thO CIudi w tuC 10 iCu W uo
by Others, when if he was in his proper po-
sition he would never dream of committing
such atrocities.
1t seems that some fifty or sixty negroes,
on plantation opposite to Cat Island, in Ar
kansas, some twenty-five miles below this
point, on Sunday last, took it into their heads
they would no longer work for living, but
take to the road for it. .
The party, led on by a negro named Bill
Dixon, and armed with Enfield rifles, started
on their path of plumber, vowing they would
kill the first white man they came across
They had been on the rampage but short
time, when Ike and Henry Turner, the own
ers of the plantation on which the negroes
were employed, came in sight, and true to
their intentions, the blacks fired on them.
wounding Henry slightly in the head. Y
Here the two brothers drew their revolv-
ers and returned the fire, killing Bill Dixon,
the leader, and another negro. The Afri-
cans, seeing their leader fall, and having
three or four of their number badly wound
ed, scattered in every direction. Some three
of them managed to cross in a skiff to the
Tennessee side, and it is supposed made their
way TO Memphis.
The Turner brothers followed them, and
arrived here on Saturday evening. Up TO
late hour last night we had not heard that
the fugitive negroes had been arrested
New York, Oct. 5.-The Commercial says;
We learn through one having the entrance to
the court circles that President johnson is Of
the opinion that Congress intends to impeach
him at the next session.
The Post says that the report that Gen.
Dix will 90 to Paris on the 9th of this
month is premature. The Generals family
will probably embark on the steamer Arago
on that date, the object being to avoid the
rough weather that would be experienced la
ter in the season. His departure is likley to
take place in November or December.