The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-04-22
THE ArI.ANrIC STEAMERS.

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The letters by the Cunard line, and those BY
the Collins line. were delivered in Washington,
and we suppose here also, on the same day
The America tCunard) sailed from Liverpool
four days before the Arctic tCollins.) This Is
one of the greatest triumphs that has yet been
achieved by the daughter over the mother. 1t
indicates, we think, very fairly, the relative
excellence of the, sailors and ship builders OF
| the two nations.
| HIGH PRICE OF PRovisIoEs.-The New
York Herald and Washington Intelligencer,
both complain Of the excessively high prices
of provisions in their markets. The Herald
quotes beef at Is cents per pound, ham IA,
butter 30, potatoes $3.50, shad 81 apiece, &c.,
and attributes the scarceness TO 'the obstruc-
ton from the West by long, hard winter,
always force the price of provisions to 60 up,'
as part Of the cause. The result, it says, is
to drive away from New York some of the
most industrious and useful of the population.
The Herald calls on the Pennsylvania farmers
10 come TO the aid of the Gothamites, and save
them from starvation.
The following we copy from the Intelligen-
Ger of Monday:
"At Centre Market on Saturday morning the
people met and perambulated more than usual.
They found marketing of all kinds at very
} high figures, in some instances almost at war
. prices. Bacon, for good pieces, stood ut 12aa
cents per pound; for shoulders little else than
bone, 10 cents; beef 10 and IL cents; butter
81 cents for anything fit to eat; cheese Is cts.
] We are at a loss to conceive the cause of these
, high prices, especially as the season of 1851
was fruitful one, aud as no extraordinary ex-
portations have occurred that we know of,
There can be no doubt that one of the
! safest and most profitable investments for time,
money, industry, and intelligence is to be
found in raising vegetable, dairy, and fanny yard
produce for the Washington Market"
The same rates of prices apply to the Rich
mond Market, with an exception in that of
shad, which have been selling from 10 to 90
cents apiece. Butter is sold here as high as
374 cents at retail. The Intelligencer's advice
will apply to our farmers in the interior, in re-
lation to the Richmond Market, as well as that
at Washington.
: We find the prices of provisions in the Nor.
/, folk market quoted as follows:
"Firkn butter 37Ia40 cents ID; eggs IA
cents dozen; fowls IS cents 81 a pair; oys-
tiers, of poor quality, IS cents gallon; shad 25
4 cents each; sturgeon l0al2I cents lb; fresh
pork 10 cents h., and vegetables in proper
| ton.
YOUTHFUL aDEPRAvITY.-On the 18th inst.
II George Rouse, Francis Michel and James
: Cahiil, youths under the age of l4,were brought
: before the court of sessions at Charleston, for
s manslaughter,in killing slave on the 22d Feb
n ruary. and George Rouse for manslaughter
in the killing of Joseph McGorty, white lad
a on the same day. In the case for the man.
S slaughter of the slave, the Judges sentenced
: each of them to be imprisoned for six months,
n and pay fine of $500, the extreme penalty
II under the act ofIS2l, and in the case of the
: manslaughter of McGorty, the court sentenced
Rouse TO twelve months imprisonment, to COM
: mence after the expiration of his imprisonment
E on the former case, and to pay a fine of
S 500.
THE QUICKEST TRIP ON REcoRD-The
Norfolk Beacon, of Tuesday, states that the
schooner Se'ern E. Parker, Captain James
Davis, sailed from Hampton Roads on Wednes.
: day last, at II o'clock A. NJ, went to New
5 York, discharged cargo of 5000 bushels of
oysters, took in 20 tons of ballast and was
back in the Roads at 10 o'clock A. Nj. on
Safeguarding the round trip including the
time of discharging and taking in ballast, in
the extraordinary short time of ninety-fue
? hours The S. E. Parker was built at WASH
i, ington Point, by MIR. Isaac Miles, and is
in hu O.
Delk.
RACES AT New ORLEANs.-Annexed is a
report of the first days races of the spring
meeting on the Bingaman course, New Or.
leans
First Day-Tuesday, April IS, 1S52.-The
, Club Purse, $400-three mile heats-entrance.
, 10 per cent. added.
A. l.. Bingaman's CHI. f. Hilarot, bv
imp. Glencoe, dam Fanny Wright-3
20, /
T. J. Wels's CHI. h. Hiddlestone, by
imp. Trustee, dam by Muckle John
5yo, 9
n H. L. French's b. C. Georgetown. bv
Il imp. Sarpedon, out of the sister OF
I Queen Mary, by Bertrand-3yo dist,
Time
lst mile. I'd mile. Sd mile. Total.
lst heat. l.534 1.57 1.5S 5.4SI
: 2nd heat, 1.50 1851 9g41 5.50s
UrAH.-We have news from Deseret TO the
2lst OF February, three months later than our
previous advices. The Legislature assembled
January l, and adjourned February IS. A
special session had been called by the Cover
nor to complete work left undone Governor
Brigham Youngs Message is interesting. The
D publ cations concerning Gov. Young at Wash
/ ngton, provoke considerable discussion in
! Utah: A lady had appeared at public as
: sembly clothed in bnckskin SACK PRAYER
meetings were so prevalent in Utah that there
1 was no time to attend TO dancing
: FURTHER FROM TExAs.-The Houston Tel.
y egraph has been informed by a gentleman re.
siding in Washington county, that consid-
cradle alarm has been excited in that county
lately, ewing to the conduct of the negroes on