The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-30
BALTIMORE, August 2S-2, P. M.-The
Northern markets are unchanged.
tens.

The nomination of Orson Hyde, as one of the
Judges of the Territorial Court of Utah. has been
withdrawn by the President.
A mammoth skeleton was lately dug out at
Sharpsburg, Eath county, XIV. One tooth is l6
inches long and four wide.
Bishop Payne, Of the Methodist E. Church
South, makes call for ten additional Missionaries
for California
Among the books not allowed to pass through the
Lombardy custom-house, is Hawthorne's House of
Seven Gables"
The steamer May Queen struck a snag and sunk
in Arkansas River, on Friday. The boat is total
loss.
The barque Marmora, ashore at Dog Keys, has
reached New Orleans with q loss of part of her
cargo of railroad iron.
Capt Carl L. Strandberg, well known hotel
keeper, at Chestertown, Md, died on the 18th inst
in the 18th year of his age, from the effects of fall
| On the pavement in Baltimore, last winter.
| Rev. Aaron Judson, of the cd PRESBYTERIAN
| Church, died at his residence in Oswego N Y, on
Saturday, Of long and painful Illness in the forti.
ethyear OF his age.
A man. named Peters, at Louisville ATTEMPTED
the life OF his wife by shooting. The ball. however,
took effect in her arm. He then shot himself in
the stomach twice, and has since died.
Mr.. Thomas Ashcom, living near Chestertown,
Md, lost negro woman by death, the other day,
aged thirty-two years, who had been the mother of
"a children.
Two passenger cars from Philadelphia and 10
connective from New York, arrived at Savannah on
Monday, in the schooner Virginia They are in.
tended for the Western Railroad.
woman named Elizabeth Dewey was arrested
IN New York for brutal assault upon her little son.
When she was arrested, she had him down and was
upon him Choking him. She probably would have
killed him but for the interference of the police
George Garrabrant of Paterson, who has lately
been enuating Sam Patch, by jumping off the hen
bridge in New York, intends to leap from mast
into the Passaic OF Friday, just below the railroad
bridge.
1.-THE explosion of the steamer Franklin No. 9
near st. Louis on the 23d, Is said to have been
caused by the careessness of the engineer. The
boilers burst with tremendous force, completely
shattering the boat amid ships One account states
that Is persons were killed and forty severely
wounded.
A serious riot has occurred at Tremont Ohio
amongst the lsborers on the railroad in which one
man has been killed and several wounded The
murderer's name Is Rose, who fired pjs,ol Ar an
lrishman put inc ball missed him and entered the
breast OF Mr.. EHWa.ger, Germ ian blacksmith nv
trade, killing him instantly. Rose has been lodped
in Jail, and other arrests have also been made =
Great excitement prevails
Extract from a letter dated Madeira, August I'd
We much regret to inform you Of the entire
failure of the Vintage this season-the Grapes hay.
ing been destroyed by disease. similar 20 thai
which appeared in France in l647 Wines have
advanced at least 30 per ceI since last advees
to you.
ms alexandria Gazette says that the sickness
wnicn has prevailed in some portions of Fairfax
Iounty during the last month, has almost entirely
disappeared. The general health OF Alexandria,
Town and county, Is now also yerg good.
A. western paper contains the advertisement of
lsnd agent, headed Land CLAIMS prosecuted -
Well, they ought to be-clams have no more bust
meas on land tnan hens In water.
Alta wedding the other day, one Of the guests,
who was often little absent, observed aravely.
have remarked that there have been more women
than msn married this year."