The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-12-24

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panv, shall be referred; and that said committee
have power to send for persons and papers.
| Bills were PASSED TO. day Establishing an
''Independeni Bank" in " inchcster-A bank
at Point Peasant-and amendments agreed to
a till from the senate establishing bank at
Charleston, in kanawha county.
The House resolved TO adjourn from Friday
| TO Tuesday next.
Near clock the House adjourned.
- In the House of Representatives Of the
| United States, on Wednesday, resolution
was introduced to pay john Iallaterro, of
Virginia, mileage and pay, during q certain
period, he having been declared as entitled TO
his seat in the year 1911, and also in another
contested election in 1913, when the commit
tee on elections reported in his favor, but
which report was reversed by decision of
| the House.
| Ia The Washington Union announces
| that the health Of Mir. King has much i'm
| proved within the last two days. lie TIC lon
| ger needs the attendance of physician, and
| i, is confidently hoped that he may soon ap-
| pear in the Senate chamber.
Ia A colored woman in Petersburg last
Tuesday night dreamed that her husband was
| being murdered, whererpon she jumped out
| of bed, seized a knife and inflicted several Sc
we're wounds in one OF her arms.
| Another coored woman, in the same city,
the same night, overIaid her infant child, and
| killed it, So SAYS the Express.
| a. The British bark James Ramareus, l04
days from Baltimore, pat into Pernambuco
| on the 9Th Of October, in consequence Of a
mu,iny oa board. Some three or four of the
| crew stabbed the captain, but he recovered,
| and the mutineers were sent from Pernambu-
| co TO England in irons.
- Atr. George Dev0se, masters mate Of
the United States sloop-ol-war St. Mary's,
was robbed of $35 600 or upwards, in Balti-
more, on Wednesday evening. The money
was all in PENNSYLVANIA bills, some of them as
high us 81 600. Ii is supposed that the mag
niude of the bills mag lead to the detection
OF the thieves.
Ia News has been received in Washington
that Mr. Dobbin has been Withdrawn by the
democratic caucus Of the Legislature OF North
Carolina, and Mr.. Clingman substituted in his
stead, as IL candidate for the United States
Senate.
sS The President has appointed Abraham
J. Jerusun, Of Curacao, to be commercial
agent of the United States at the Island of Gu
racon, in place of John McKelway, deceased
r The seal of the Emperor Napoleon is
to be a crowned imperial Gag lie reposing on
thunder (reposant sur la foudre.) We have
no definite idea of engraved thunder probably
the French have sufficient ingenuity 10 con-
vey correct embodiment Of H.
70 The Delaware Gazette says that char
ter will be applied for to the Legislature of that
| State, ct its ensuing session, Tor direct line
of railroad from New York to Norfolk, Va.
10 The Baltimore Sun announces the sud-
den death Of MIR. Joseph Hart, proprietor Of
| Miler's Island, at the mouth of Back river
| He was one of the gallant band who marched
10 defend the city of Baltimore in 1914.
! II William S. McCulloh was seized and
robbed OF q gold watch and chain, in the de-
| lightful city Of Baltimore, on Tuesday night.
| - Madame Sontag's second concert in
| Washington on Wednesday night was crowd
ed to excess. The President, Heads OF De-
partments, Foreign Ministers, &C., were pre-
sent.
- The annual exhibition ofthe Methodist
Sabbath School, in Alexandria, took place
on "Wednesday night A large audience at
! tended.
To- John Brown, an aged and wealthy
| citizen Of Pembroke, n. y was murdered near
Buffalo. He was found afterwards, with his
pockets rifed. His wife and son, who were
with him, are also supposed TO have been
murdered.
- On Monday last the dwelling house
OF blr J. Smith, near New buryport, Mass,
was burned, and a blind daughter of Mr. Smith
persisted in the flames. A l,le child was also
badly burned.
E There are yet no signs Of the steam
erS Andes and Washington, now due at New
York, OF Of the Canada, due at Halifax.
e The report, that the jail of Randolph
county, Virginia, was consumed by fire, is
incorrect
- I. F. Meagher is on a visit to St.
Louis.
- Rev. Mr.. Harris, of Virginia, is deliver
ing lectures on spiritual agencies, in New Orr
leans.
q Mr. Robert Joyner, of Sampson county,
N. Carolina, committed suicide on the 18th in
slant.
II A Huntington, who fought in the bat
tie OF Lexington in l77o. died in Lexington,
BASS, last week.
I- De Bull is 10 give concert ia Pitts
burg on Saturday evening.
SAD AcCIDEsT.-A few weeks ago, Mr..
Edward Davis, OF Gimer county, whilst fell =
ing a tree, was struck by limb, which caused