Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-10-05

along the line of Jones Falls, il Baltimore,
was discovered yesterday not to have pecn SO
great as was anticipated, many persons having
taken the precaution to get all their valuaDlcs
out OF harms way. Centre street bridge was
carried away, aud Pratt street bridge aud the
drawbridce are considerably injured by the
dredging machines which we're wrecked against
them. The damages to the city Will probably
be over hundred thousand dollars, wnlie prl'
waite individuals lose from sixty to >eventy-hVe
thousand, as nearly as can be estimated. ihe
food was general along all the water courses IN
the vicinity OF the city, and from Baltimore
Howard and Anne Arundel counties there arc
many reports Of losses Of property by the water.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is washed
away in the vicinity OF E.ysvilie and no trains
passed ever the road yesterday. The North
ern Central was damaged at various points, but
repairs were promptly made and the trains Will
run as usual to day. The country along the
Washington Branch is inundated, but the road
is unhurt. Philadelphia has experienced a
terrible and destructive ireshet 10 the Schuyl-
kill, the river spreading over many blocks OF
houses on either bank and sweeping everything
before it. Houses and railroad cars have been
| washed off and several lives lost The railroad
| bridge at Gray's Ferry was washed cut, cutting
| of railroad communication between Baltimore
| L
who we're due here Yesterday afternoon, we're
transferred from Philadelphia to Wilmington
by steamer and thence 10 Baltimore by rail,
arriving here late last night. From Central
and Eastern PENNSYLVANIA and New ork tec-
| grams tell one unbroken story OF great floods
| in all the streams, and OF buildings OF every
sort on their shores being destroyed by the tor.
rents. Railroad travel in these localities has
been entirely cut off, bridges and track being
alike carried away by the waters. In the dis
lance that it covered, the storm appears to
have been one OF the most disastrous that has
ever happpcued. 1t will be many days before
the enormous total of damages will be ascer-
tained,-B0k, Amdtca@.
THE YOUNGEST GOVERNOR. Abingdon
Virciniau says We see it stated in our cx.
changes that Governor Walker is the young
est Governor that has ever occupied the gu
bernatorlsl chair of Virginia. Such is not the
fact. Ex-Governor Wyndham Robertson, Of
this city, who filed the unexpired term OF Gov.
Litteton Waller Tazowell, from March 1886,
20 March 1887, was only thirly'three years old
when he entered upon the duties OF his office.
Governor Robertson was Senior Councilman at
the time OF the resignation OF Governor Taze-
well, and under the constitution became the
Governor Of tie State.
SALE OF LANDS. On Saturday Messrs.
Charles Hcrndon aud St. Geo. Il. Fitzhugh,
as commissioners, sold the following property
at public sale :-''Whipsawansin." 445 acres,
in King George, to Mrs. Ann s. Browne, for
l,SO0. "Windsor," 525 acres in Stafford, to
Mrs. Aun S. Browne, for $500. Also, 80
acres Of Woodland, in Stafford adjoining the
Eagle Gold Mine, to Mrs. Ann S. Browne, TOR
$500
The farm OF w. T. b. Frazer, in Orange
was sold last week to Mr.. Hardenberger, of New
York, for $ll 900. fredericksburg Herald.