Terrible Accident!

of The Washington papers of yesterday statea thal notice had been reccived by the Navy Department that the ü. S. steam e frigate Missouri in ascending the Potomac h on Monday ran aground some sixty or 3, eighty miles below Washington, opposite d the harbor of Port Tobacco. Every effort - was immediately made to get her uil by !t backing her engines and tokng the guns s and other weighty arlicles aft. Lieut. d. John. F. Borden was sent out in charge d of a boai's crew wilh nn anchor, for the t purpose of heaving the vessel off, when by i, sorne means the anchor got overboard, cary rying with it the chain cable, which in runf ning out either killed ór cariied overboard every one of the sixteen men on board, inf cluding the Lieutenant, and all perished. ï The Madisonian eays that so far as the facts have come to the Department every precaution seems to have been taken, and there is no reasun to attach blame to any one. The Mississippi had been despached lo render aid.