The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-07-23
Correspondence Of the Dispatch.
ALUM SPRINGS,
RoCKRRIDGE

RoCKBRIDGE July IL, 1852.
MEssRs. EDITORS This is one of the
most charming watering places in Virginia
and If you were to make visit here you would
never mention the "Slash Cottage" again. 1t
is situated in most enchanting valley, about
sixty miles above Lynchhurg, and ,he Packet
Boats pass within O half days travel of them
The Hotel is large and comtaodious; the
suites of cabins are neat and tasteful, aud the
dining room abundantly supplied with every
thing the mountains afford.
The buildings are of brick, and entirely
new. The proprietors are kind and accom-
modating, and really deserving the patronage
of every body who go to the mountains.
There a,e, at present, about $50 visitors
here, and the number constantly increasing.
There will probably soon be about 400, and
that number can tie accommodated by a little
squeezing.
The amusements are music, backgammon,
billiards, ten-pns, reading the Dispatch, Wis
iting from one cottage to another, and pleasant
evening rides.
Do come up here for few days, or I will
write you longer letter than this. G.D.s.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT FROM GUNPowDER.-
On the 18th instant, at The :aines of J. & r.
Carter, at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, train of
five cars was started into the drift. In the first
CdT iui MY Vi Icuucu pOWucT Udu Ueeu pa
ced, and fourteen miners had taken their po-
sition in the first two cars, proceeding to their
work in the mines. Several of them had their
lamps burning, and some of them were smok-
ing their pipes in the same car in which the
powder had been placed when, just upon en-
| tering the mouth of the drift, the powder igni.
ted from spark from one of the lamps, and
instantly exploded, burning every man 10 the
cars more or less. About one half of the
men were severely injured, two or three of
| them it is feared fatally. The others were but
| slightly burnt.
ACCIDENT AND DEATH-We learn that Mr..
Jesse Nelson, son of Capt. Sam1 X. Nelson
of Pendleton County, died on the ] st inst, from
the following painful and distressing cause
| A few days before before his death, his father
had been using his gun, and whilst engaged
in putting it away, it exploded in his ands
shooting his son through the side of the head
cutting off his ear, &C., and eventually
causing his death as above stated.-Rocking
ham Reg.
LATE FROM ST. THomAs.-The schoone,
Aliaretta, Capt. Conkling, arrived yesterda,
from st. Thomas, with dates to the 9Th inst.
and reports freights and business dull there
and but few vessels in port.-N. Y. Times.
Commander Mafit, of the Coast Survey, i:
now engaged in surveying the harbor q
Charleston.
The total estimated rental of Irish encum
bered estates to be sold is stated at $500, OO0
man named Jno. Smith, murdered his wife
at New Albany, Ind, last week.
| Thomas Elkins, of Defiance, Ohio, was
drowned on the I'd inst, whilst bathing in the
Maumee.
Baltimore bathers are compelled to keep one
| eye open for sharks.
Boston is Ornamented with ten fountains
which, when playing consume 500 $50 gallons
Of water in an hour.
German shoemaker, named Halter com.
mitted suicide at Montgomery, Ala, few DAYS
since, by "cntting himself open with razor"
John Gossin, the clown, was nearly drowned
at Cincinnati, in endeavoring to rescue man
who had fallen into the Ohio.
About Memphis, Tenn, there is no " greet
mortality among cattle. Some of the planters
have lost nearly all their stock
The United States ships Germantown and
John Adams, left Madeira, for the east, Nav
2lst. All we'll.
From Liege, we learn that Mile Jenny Lind
and her husband, formula always used in
France when speaking Of them,) had arrived
| in that city.
Lieut.. James Totten, u. s. A.. and na,,v
nave finished their surveying operations NJ K az
West, for the season, and returned home in he
Isabel. - 'uo
| Steamboats, on the Missouri aud Uoper Mis-.
s'ssipp rivers are lying up, on account of ,he
low state Of the water. Freights are conse.
II queniiy high.
Mr.. Webster has prepared family bur;a
Price at Marsh6eld, at c,st Of about $1,000
on me summit of a hill in one Of bis fields, over