The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-12-17
letter from Petersburg.

PETERSBURG, DeCcHlDcT lOy 1Sil.
Yesterday evening about O'Clock, after n
protracted illness, of which mention has
already been made in this correspondence,
Rev. Thomas Mulvey, Ficar-General Of this
diocese, breathed his last. The deceased was
born in Meath. Ireland, and was about sixty
one years of age. He graduated at the Mis-
sionary College of All Hallows, Dublin, and
came to Petersburg in 1855. In 1862 he was
appointed VicarGeneral of the diocese.
The deceased was Il man of q rare order of
intelligence, and strict purity Of life and
manners, adjoining a Christian character with
many social virtues, and greatly endearing
himself not only to the members Of his i'm
mediate charge, but to the entire community.
He has sister living in Brooklyn. His
body will be inferred at Blandford Gene
terry next Wednesday. The obscquics to be
conducted by Bishop Gibbons or Becker.
This morning colorcd boy, whose name
could not learn, was painfully, though not
seriously, crushed by the northcrn-bound
train at the Richmond and Petersburg de-
not. lie was engaged in coupling the cars,
and the accident is supposed to be the result
of his own carclessncss or ineXpcriencc.
A man named Alexander Warrcnton in a
drunken phrcnsv created considerable excite
mcnt on Plum street to-day by promiscuolisly
firing a pistol. One of the balls narrowly
escaped killing small child. The police
secured him lodging in Jail for the present.
a cargo of granite arrived here to-day
from Richmond to be used in building
family vault for General Malone.
RumorS Of smallpox are prevailing here,
but generally considered unfOunded. One
case ofvarioloid, young lady named Howard,
from Richmond, proved fatal last week.
This is the only instance that has occurred,
though much sickness is prevailing.
Rev. Nr. Sicdd, of the Market-Strcct
Methodist Episcopal church, preached his
Introductory sermon last Sunday.
Rev. }. L. IIutSOn continues severely III
disposed.
The directory of the Petersburg Railroad
Company, it is stated, has determined to lay
steel rails over 50 much Of their track as
passes through this city. ROBIN ADAIR.
A LIGnT-IIoUsE DESTROYED AND AN En-
TIRE FAMILY klLLED.-A correspondent OF
the New York Times, writing from GaSpc
bay, Quebec, December 9Th, says: "The
Jane Merrman, fishing schooner, arrived
here last night from Cape white, LabIa-
dor, having touched at East Cape, on the
Island of Anticosta. during violent storm
which prevailed near that coast on Noyem-
Der Goth. The Jane Mcrriman lost the most
useful portion of her forward rigging,
and her mainmast was badly sprung. On
reaching East Cape she was safely
harborcd. The few families who in
habit that dcSolatc island were found by
Captain Hay, of the schooner. to be In
state of utter CONSERVATION, owing to ter
rible disaster which had taken place on the
nreyiolls night. The highest and principal
lighthouse of Anticosta had been dashed
into heap of ruins by the terrific hurricane
which ragged on the coast. Not even the
wall near the base of the pile was left. All
was destroyed, and nothing was lett OF the
tall and solitary pile but II huge heap OF
bricks. stones, iron work, and mortar. Hard
bv the ill-cuted lighthouse stood snug
dwelling, the home of one Edmund Barter
and his family, consisting of wife and SIX
children. The once snug dwelling was all
but as complete ruin as the llght-
house; and of Edmund Barter and his
wife and six children, eight bruised
and irrecogniZabe corpSes were all
that were left. The few lonesome in
habitants of East Cape seemed, by their ten
derness toward and sorrow for the dead, to
hive entertained very genial feelings for poor
Bal ter and his family while they lived. The
DO lies were conveyed to the house of resi-
dent who generally performed such simple
religious services as were practiced by the
solitary inhabitants. Several small boats
w,re driven ashore at East Cape, and the
people there describe the hurricane as the
IN ,st terrible and destructive. The Jane
NJ ,rriman got away on the morning of the
9th ullimo, and brought her load of herring,
cd, and salmon safe home to Gaspc bay"