Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-11-29
From the West indies.


es Dates from Mayaguez Porto Rico, are to
the 10Th instant The greatest force of the
hurricane was spent on the eastern coast. The
greater number of buildings in the towns, as
we'll as on the plantations, were demolished. =
At some places not house is left standing
The blast swept from north to west. The
floods which followed were unprecedented,
DESTROYING houses and animals, and many per-
sous were drowned. The hurricane was also
very severe in its effects in the interior Of the
island. The growing crops on the plantations
were annihilated, and halt the coffee crop on
the island has been destroyed, but the loss in
the cane. fields has been exaggerated. Floods
came down from the mountains, but proved, 1t
is said, beneficial to the growing canes, which
we're saved on many estates.
The reports of the earthquakes at st. John 8
are confirmed TIE shocks were the severest
known for seventy years. Five distinct shocks
were felt on the 10Th, at the same time the
river rose and fell three feet.
ST. Thomas dates to the 18th instant have
been received. There was great activity there
in raising suuken vessels. Twenty had been
sold at auction; some of them bad bargains;
The raising Of the shipwrecked steamers and
the dry dock has been found to be impossible.
Advices have been received from the city OF
St. Domingo to the 10th instant. A hurricane
visited the capital at a quarter past ten on the
morning of the 18th. The wind came from
the southeast, and veered to southwest by south,
blowing with great fury. The lighthouse was
damaged, whole parishes we're desolatcd, and
buildings are in ruins, probably all over the
island
Flour and other articles of prime necessity
arc to be admitted into St. Domingo duty free.
The EXPORT OF produce and provisions is pro.
hibited.
FIGHTlNG. The numerous gang Of puglists,
thieves, roughs and gamblers attracted to Bal
timore by the projected prize fight between
Collyer and Kelley, left here on Tuesday even
ing, on the Philadelphia train, for the purpose
Of carrying out the projected encounter some,
where in Delaware. On the train, fights and
pocket picking we're the order OF the night
At Havrc de Grace one man is reported tC
have been killed and thrown from the train.
Newark, Delaware, was taken possession of by
the roughs, and, as the dispatch graphically
saws, was IA hell all night. The fight was
to have taken place near that town yesterday
morning, but the Sheriff, with nerve and
decision which entities him to commentator
assembled an armed posse OF citizens and scat
tered the crowd in all directions The fight
finally took place in Chester county, Pcnnsyl-
vania. Onc hundred and one rounds were
fought, the brutal contest lasting noarly I've
hours Collyer was the victor, furnishing his
opponent very severely, and escaping without
much damage himself.
T As a natural incident connected with the
gathering of the Jail birds, rowdies, and rough<
who attend these brutal fights, we append the
following:
THIEvINd.- Two bold, and in both instances
| successful, robberles were committed by some
of the numerous gang of thieves who have
been brought to this city in the wake Of the
prize fighters. In the busiest hour of the day
two men yesterday entered the banking house
Of Messrs McKim & Brothers. One of them
engaged the attention Of the clerk by offering
some gold for sale, whilst the other reaching
behind the money screen distracted q package
| of compound interest notes, valued with the
| accrued interest at about So, 000 The thief
was seen in the act, and gentleman engaged
| in the bank, leapt over the counter and seized
HIM His confederate came to his aid got hold
of the package, and made off with it. The
other thief was secured and is now in jail. HI
is not known to the police, and is supposed tc
be from New York. About the same time the
office of the German Correspondent was rob
bed of 500. Two men engaged the proprle
tor in conversation, drawing him towards the
door, whilst third made his way to the SAFE
and carried off the money. -B0H. american.
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| DEpRAVITY OF THE PoMpEIANs. There is
one matter in relation to Pompeii says ar
American correspondent, that is seldom touch
| cd on by writer's, and which dare not touch
too closely, to-wl: The horrible depravity o.
| the Pompcians, as illustrated by the lrcscoes
mosaics, sculptures, and bronze statues thai
are found Hundreds of these vile objects
! have baen carried away to the museums OIL
Naples, and put 10 a room which no woman is
allowed to visit; but there arc still houses in
Pompeii that are kept locked, and others that
| have such scul ptures over the doors on the
outside that the guides hurry past them when
there arc women in the party. Even in pri-
vatc houses there are scores of lrescocs, maenif
| ceDtly executed too, which no one would dare
| to visit only in company with his nearest and
| dearest friends, if ladies, and in other houses
pictures and statues than which none can
imagine anything worse. cannot understand
| why the writer's on these matters have been so
anxious to conceal the faults Of che ancients
1t is u fact that deserves to be generally known.
Great God! what picture Of corruption in
Imperial Rome is revealed to one who looks
into Pompeii with thoroughness. The very
stones Of the door.posts tell tale more dam
nable than ever was invented by modern
thought Sodom was clean and Gomorrah
was pure, compared with Pompci Where
was ever people on earth, before or since
Pompeii, that advertised the ways that lead
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