Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-01-19
NEWS OF THE DA 7.
''7o shoao the very age and body Of the times.

A dispatch from Memphis dated yesterday
says:-s'About sixty lives were lest by the
sinking ofthe steamer Platte Valley last night
She struck the wreck of the eunboat jeff
Thompson. tearing away her starboald side,
and sunk 10 few minutes in forty feet water
Most ofthe cabin passengers were saved, but as
the passenger list was lost it is impossible TO
obtain correct list A family named Roberts,
consisting Of thirteen were all lost. y
A dispatch from Boston, dated yesterday,
says:-"A girl, aged twelve years, persisted 10
the snow to-day while returning from school,
Com. G. S. Blake, member of the Light
House Board, aged sixty-two years, was lost
yesterday in the snow storm, and has not yet
been heard from. He served forty seven years
in the navy. The police assisted to their homes
one hundred and thirty women and children
during the storm, most of whom would have
persisted had they not received assistance.
The packet ship Mercury, which has been
loading for some time at New York with con-
tributions from this country to the Paris Ex-
hbition, will sail to-day She has On board
about fifteen hundred packages or lots, weigh
ing about one thousand tons Among the az
tic!es is glass plough of full size. 1t is not
model, but working plough, and it is to be
tried, SOFT is said, near Paris.
A dispatch from Baltimore, dated yesterday,
says :-"There have been no arrivals of trains
from the Eastward since last night, and three
trains bound for Baltimore on the Philadel-
phis road are overdue The snow drifted in
large banks On the fats near Chester, and the
track was not cleared until late this morning.
Navigation is completely suspended, the Ice III
the harbor being at least ten Inches thick. =
The Norfolk boat had great officially in fore
Ing her way up. She reports heavy masses OF
ice floating off the Potomac.
4 dispatch from Fort Mitchell says -
Government herd Of sixty horses and mules
was stolen on the 10th instant by Indians, who
also killed TWO men engaged in hauling tee-
graph poles.
The Postmaster General yesterday afternoon
received a telegram from the Postmaster Of
New York, which says: mo mails arrived
to-day, except the Erie and North. Last
nights mail from Boston is only fourteen miles
on it's way to New York. Last nights aud
this mornings Southern mails are blocked up
near EIi1abethtown, New jersey No trains
will leave on the New Jersey road to-day
Two Boston, one Eastern way mail, and two
Sou hern mails due.
The trial Of the negro Greeley for the muir
der of Mr. Rhett is the first capital case tried
in Charleston, S. G., under the new code
The Court assigned j. S. Senator Campbell
and other eminent counsel to defeod the prls-
oner The evidence for the prosecution was
chiefly by negroes and conclusive Of the prls
oner's guilt. The trial excltes much interest.
Under the provision Of the new code the pris
oner made statement in the witness stand
The schooner julia Ann1, bound from Balti-
more TO Boston. is supposed TO have been lost,
with all hands on board, as papers belonging to
her have been picked up on Nantucket beach.
A telegram from Gloucester, Massachusetts,,
states that schooner was reported yesterday
ashore at Kettle Cove. Two OF her crew were
frozen to death and others were suffering
severely from the same cause.
A Deputy Collector of United Statcsrevenue
was robbed recently at Du7aIl's Bluff, Arkan.
sas, of fifteen thousand dollars belonging to the
Government II was subsequently ascertalued
that the Collector had puroned the money Tor
his own purposes, and orders were issued tor
his arrest.
The colored men in Baltimore, have deter
mined to hold an election to count their ballots
for member of Congress from the 81 congress
sional district. Their votes will, be cast for
Joseph Stewart, the Radical, competition Of
Col. Phelps. Mr.. Stewart had advised the
colored men that if their ballots do him no
good, the election win be good memorial to
Congress in behalf of their rights.
Hon 3. G.. Harris. Of Maryland has been
absent from his seat in Congress in consequence
of the illness OF Mrs Harris. She is now re-
covering, aud Mr.. Harris has returned to his
seat
4 terrible tragedy occurred in Cincinnati on
the night of the 10th inst. The victim is Mary
J. Thompson, daughter Of Peter Thompson,
wel-lknown Scotch liquor dealer Of that city,
recently deceased. The wife OF a man named
Mclaughlin went to house on Baym!ller
street last night, and found her husband and
Miss Thompson in company, which so enraged
her that she seized a poker and inflicted
wounds upon Miss Thompson that caused her
death in few hours.
4 fire broke out in New York harbor yester
day, which threatened to destroy much ship
ping, and for a time caused great excitement.
The fire was eventually subdued, the damage
done being limited to the steamer Ellen Terry,
on board of which the fire originally occurred
The tariff bill reported from the Senate
Committee on Finance, as substitute for the
bill; which passed tbs House at the last session,