u The following letter shsud have reached 0s IN time
for our paper yes,ercay-but did not:
Robbing of the lIail-Bad Managemeni Of


the Western J1oii-Railroad Accident


Death of an VI. G..
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Monday evening or tuesday morning FOR AlexsE-
dra stolen from the mail car after its arrival


in this city on Tuesday afternoon, or Wednesday
morning abou; l O'Clock. The pouch was found
this morning concealed in hogshead in an alley
adjoining the railroad depot, in Prat,-street II
had been cut open and its contents abs,racted ex-
cept the New-iork American of Monday evening,
and copy sf the Tocsin Of Liberty, printed at
Albany. The rogue who committed the theft ap-
pears to have been adept in his business. or
opportunity did not him to steal more val
liable bag than this. Being from New.Ysrk TO
Alexandria, it is supposed not to have contained
much, if any, money, the remittances are gene
rally the other way. Those in New ork who had
letters mailed for Alexandria on Monday will know
what they have lost, as the pouch riff ed contained
the letters OF that day.


The snow storm of Wednesday cut US off for
while from intercourse with the cities all round.
but the railroads and turnpkes ale again in order
for travelling, and the mails from all points, except
the South, arrived to-day regularly. This South
ern mall as you of course know is about as ,Incer-
tain and irregular it could we'll be made 1t
has been long since received for three days in
succession the papers regularly due from New-Or-
leans and there are tonight three mails due frem
that city.


Speaking OF Mails reminds me to-day that the
Eastern Mail FOR the West will be on a very bad
footing this winter if the arrangement now under
stood to be adopted be persevered in. After the
18th instant the mails fer Boston, New-York and
Philadelphia will arrive in this city about three
o'clock P. M. and remain here till seven O'Clock
the next morning They will then be dispatched
TO Wheeling, and reach there the second day there
after at about FIVE P. NJ Here they will be de-
tained ill the next morning. and then be forward
ed to Columbus, and so on to the West and South
west You see by this that the mails will be de-
tained in this city some sixteen hours, and in
Wheeling some sixteen more, causing delay of
more than thirty-two hours in this great and i'm
portant mail route This we may suppose is Mr.
Wicklfe's arrangement for the benefit of his
friends in the West


The train of cars for the West due Yesterday af-
ternoon at about o'clock did not get in til! this
morning about clock The detention was oc-
casioned by TWO accidents, the second of which
6t,
broke when some fifty miles from Baltimore. and
the train was detained till another engine was OBJ
tanned. They had not proceeded far before the
locomotive encountered an obstacle when on the
banks Of the Patapsco, and was precipita,ed into
the river, where it still remained at the last ac-
counts. AS the engine fell it carried with it the
tender and the engineer and fireman. but fortun.
atey neither of them was injured, though they
got good ducking. The passenger cars were
not injured, and no passenger hurt The baggage
car was broken in twain BY the upsetting of the
locomotive, and to this circumstance is owing the
safety of the passenger cars.


We received intelligence this morning of the
death of James w. Williams, the Member Of Con-
gress for the Third District of this State. He has
not been for several years in good health, and in
1880, when Speaker Of our House of Delegates,
attacked with paralysis, which rendered it
necessary for him to resign the chair, and for
time disabled him from public business. He died
from apoplcxy, and was in his carriage Con Thurs
day) at the time of the attack, his way to this
city to 60 hence to Washington. There was no
one with him in the carriage at the time he was
attacked, and his coachman was unaware of his
situation until he stopped to water his horses.
Mr.. Williams then Immediately taken home,
in Hartford County, and lived till yesterday, Fri
day. when he died


The District represented by Mr. Williams was
composed of Hartford and Baltimore Counties and
partof Carroll County A new election will have
to be had, but as the District is decidedly Loco
Foco, of course one of that party will be elected.
There will be a good many aspiran.s for the sta
tion Mr.. G. 7. H. Worthington (who preceded
Mr. Williams in Congress) will be anxious 20 60
again, and perhaps Mr. Otho Scott Estate Senator
for Harford) will urge his pretensions, though he
is not exactly now in good odor with the Loco
Focos, by reason of his course last winter in the
Senate on the Bank question.


NORTH RIVER OPEN AGAIN.--The steamboat
Superior arrived yesterday morning from Cox
sackie, only 90 miles below Albany, and the Utica,
which left here last evening, expected to reach
that City. The Peoples Line have resumed their
trips. The Swallow and South America are ad-
yertised to go through to-day.


Loss OF THE SHlP JEFFERSON OF NANTUCKET.
Letters have been received in Nantucket, re-
porting the loss of the ship Jefferson, CASH of
that port at the Sandwich Islands, in August last
The ship was lying off and on the Island, await
ing the return OF TWO boats which had been sent
or shore for supplies. In attempting to tack, the
ship missed stays and went on shore. The Jefer-
son had been absent but "a months, and hed 2, 400
barrels of spern oil on board LOO barrels of
which have been saved. She was owned by John
U Shaw nf Nantucket and was injured at ihs