The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-09-01

HAN"oLAh MISUNDERSTANDING hlng OF
America.-Mr. Kendall, in q late letter from
Paris, to the New Orleans Picayune, tells the
following singular story:
:" will close this letter by mentioning the
fact, that most unaccountable whim, if whm
1t can be called, has recently entered into the
heads OF the lower classes in POsen, Galicia
and has even spread into some parts of Bone
mia and Hungary, if accounts be true. Ac
cording to the papers (you may have already
seen the report it would seem that story had
got out, and, that it flew abroad with The
greatest rapidly, to the effect that the richest
OF all the Rothschids was under sentence of
death, and that the only chance of saving his
lite was Though the means of a lottery. For
this purpose he offered what our lottery ven
ders would call a brilliant scheme, the main
| features of which were as follows: His enr;,a
property was to be divided into sums of 5000
| HORNS, and any and all who chose to take
| tcket IN the lottery, gratis, of course, would
| certainly draw that amount in yellow gold,
| save one person only! In plain terms, every
| ticket placed in an immense wheel except one
mad number upon it, and was to draw prize
OF 5OOO forlns; but the holder of the only
blank was to offer his head to the chopping
knife instead of Rothschid, who transferred
the honor.
Notwithstanding the risk of drawing the
Diank 1t is positively asserted that the rush for
tickets to many of the towns and villages has
oeen immense. The magistrates as well as the
military authorities have had the greatest diff
hcuny IN convincing the poor farmers and pea.
SAINTS tnat there is no such lottery in existence
ana thousands have been sent away disannoint'
ea' because they have been deprived of the
cnahce OF drawing 5000 horins at the ,rifIing
!sh vi grazing an executioner's block Th;s
Is an age OF progress and advancement.
In the same section where the above stranpe
excitement has prevailed, it is also sa;d ,bs,
the idea obtains that Kossuth has been nro.
claimed King Of Ameri "a, and that he !,
SnorHy 10 appear again in Europe at the
Aead o. immense army. That such story
as TINS should get abroad is not as singular.
however, as the lottery scheme hoax, for ac
counts of kossufh's first reception in the States
might lead the masses of Europe lobe lieve al
most any thing.
:, ALLEGED INTIMIDATION AND LIBEL OF A
oREiGN MINIsTER.-Mr. Francis DODGE If
georgetown. was yesterday brought before
.usuce GODDARD, at the instance of the Secre.
tary OF State, on a complaint made bv tho
EhevalIer de Bosch Spencer. Minister n ,hs
Deigian government near the United States
growing out Of difficulty in relation to inn.
bbounding COW or cows, and letter said to
10 nave eeen written by said Dodge to the Minis
ssooo mr. dodge was held TO bail in the sum If
$500 vi 70 appear at the next term of the crimi. |
; na, court 10 answer the charge of intimidat.
towards the Minister. ~ "''p '"' peace
!. also appearing that some structures in re.
gard 70 the matter had been published in the |
GEORGETOWN Reporter, the editor Of thai nan .
Mr; Joseph A. Williamson. was liksw i ap nn;
under security, upon compliant of the Minis.
'ei, 70 answer an al court charge Of having pub.
'sneo Iloeiious matter. The bail ia this case
y yesterday. ". Asep.