The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-26

Items.
Stock has been subscribed sufficient to secure the
charter of the Cheraw and Darlington g. Co rail-


road.
A man, named Goings, was shot dead at Colum
bia, g. c., on the 9th instant, by VIM Rabun, who
gave himself up.
Mr.. Fitz. the American Consular Agent at Go
naives, Hsyti, VINO died OF the nekness 'ner'' was
| at one time Secretary to MI Weoster.
| The Keene a. H. American News announces
the dealt, of Hon Benaiah Cooke, editor and pub
Usher of III a, paper, in the 5lst year OF his age
Anew steamship called the Star State, to run be-
| tween New Orleans and Texas, was launched al
| New York on Saturday.
| Can Wool was among the speak ,rs at the cee'
| bration of the battle of Bennin gron on the 10Th
| instant.
The campmee.' 1g for the Harper's Farry sta
ton cor menced near Ha Town, Va, on Friday last
| There are about sixty tents erected
The Savannah Republican has come out in favor
| of the Webster and jenkins ticket for President
and Vice President
Mr. Stevens the celebrated traveller and author,
is lying ngelously il at Hemps Tad, L. /, aud IA
recovery is considered doubtful
The stable of ]. NJ. Smith, at No. folk, was de.
stoyed by fire on Saturday night.
TRAVELLERS HAND BooK."-A pocket book
well stuffed with money.
POCKET MIscELLANY"-H Half dimes dimes an
quarters.
James H. Lane is the Democratic candidate for
Congress, in the Third District of Indiana.
Thompsons Bank Note Reporter warns all per.
sons TO beware OF notes altered from the Broken
People Bank OF Paterson to the Passaic Co. Bank
The Boston Journal says that the city watch of
| that city have received orders to report to head
quarters the name OF every person seen entering a
| house of illtame.
Governor Lowe has commuted the sentence of
Joshua Morgan, the youth who was convicted OF
murder in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, in Jan
uary last, and has ordered his ltinement in the
penitentiary Tor life.
Western editor, in putting vi lage hotel, says
| that new tooth brush has been supplied for the
Mushroom, attached to a strong iron chain, that
| the public will always be accommodated in that
| respect.
Two men, named Blaze and Morris were arres.
ted in LEXINGTON, Indiana few days ago, for pass
| ing counterfeit money Six hundred dollars in
counterfeit b Is, ON the Southern Bank of Kentucky,
were found on their persons.
tits stated that William Longman, a prominent
English publisher, has tried in vain to find editor
| to prepare new edition Of Johnsons Dictionary,
and has adopted the revised edition of Webster, by
| Goodrich, as perfect English standard.
| WARNING TO Observation-Disclosures Arnold
never marie d until he was forty years ofage, and
| what an end he made.-SuRdGy Courier.
| Yes-but we never heard of Arnold doing any
| thing bad until after he was MARKEDLY. Y Star.
STRANGE WEDDING A couple were married on
saud.oar in the Mississippi opposite Alton, on
| Wednesday of last week. The editor of the Tee-
graph says he witnessed the whole operation
| through spy-glass. What sneak!
Sew nteen head of beef cattle frightened by the
! locomotive whistle, near Akron, Ohio, jumped
down the river bank where it sixty feet high and
| We're killed.
| If you make love to a widow who has daughter
| twenty years younger than herself, begin by de.
| claiing that you thought they were sisters.
| WHO WERE THE NINE MUSES. The classical
| scholar will answer: /. Clio, Muse of History; 2
Euterpe, Lyric Poetry; 3. Thalia, Comedy; 4. Mel
| pomene. Tragedy: ). Terpschore, Choral Dance
6. EratO, Eratic or Amorous Poetry; T. Polyhayn1.
| MIA, Rhetoric, Eoquence; 4 Urania, Astronomy; g.
Calliope, Epic Poetry.
| fremont Temple, Boston, is rebuilding It'll said
| that also will be finished in November. superb
| organ, Il larger scale than any in this country
| Is already commences for il.
The Unitarians Of San Francisco have agreed IN
| invite Rev MIR. Harm gton, of Massachusetts, tn
preach tor them for one J ear for s6UOu, and have
raised $1,000 TO pay his expenses ou with agree.
ment to pay his way back, il he does not like It,
| CUTTING LEAVES OF BooKs.-Lieerary readers
| complain and not without reason, that the great
majority Of our modern books are lett with the
leaves uncut 1t i. bore, and as needless DIS it is
| insutfarabe.
| AvAL--The U. S sloop Of war St Louis Com.
| msnier Ingraham, bound the Mediterranean was
| towed down to Hampton Roads, from No. Il k on
| Saturday, by the u 5 steamer Ens iueer, Master
Ol!nste q commanding
u We extract the following items from
the National lutelIigencer, OF yesterday:
| We are happy to learn that the War ID part.
| ment has received official intorna ton of the
arrival OF Capt. r. b. Marcy, with all his
command, al Fort Arbuckle, on the 80 tn of
July.
The River and Harbor Bill, as amended by
| the Senate, was ordered to third reading la st
| evening by a vote Of yeas 81 nays II. Hav-
| ing been amended in the Senate, it must, after
| passing that body, be returned to the House for
concurrence in those amendments.
| The Hon. J. K. IngersolI, the recently ap,
pointed Envoy of the United States to Great
Britain arrived in this city yesterday, and will
probably remain here for some days.
| The Hon. Thomas II. Benton, late Senator
from the State of Missouri, and recently ell ect-
ed Representative to the next Congress fr ON
| the 81. Louis District in the same State, ar
rived in this city Yesterday.
The FISHING trouble MIR. Livingston,
| OF New York, in speech, on board of the At
anllc, on her trip home: made the following
statement in regard to the fishing trouble
"But have also the pleasure of saving,
which do upon the authority of our Minister
at the Court OF ST. James, that, unless so un.
fortunate thing as an actual collision shall
have occurred previous to The arrival at Wash
lngton OF the dispatches now on board of this
: nd thns f,i L..
further trouble can grow out of the matter"
Posi- OFFICE OPERATloNs.-The following
new post offices have been established in Vir-
GINA: Corowaugh, Isle of Wight county,
1hos. f. Freeman, 2. NJ; Jacksonville, Green
county, John ID. Herndon, P. NJ; Mount Car
bon, Hampshire county, Francis r. Dawson,
p. NJ.
SUIcIDE.-A man in New Orleans, named
Francis Dessonez. a native Of Switzerland,
shot himself while lying on his bed, during the