The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-02-20

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~ Iou1se upon Young Women. OF course,
sno , 4 iapefnaele Was duly filed by Young men
ana natronly ladies who remain siuoie md
halter themselves Of youth md heansys M,
Mann has made noimpression eaual to ihat ali.
tained by Emerson. 80 y '-@' s.S
Many Of our citizens are suffering froarro ], !.
iacks OF incipient ship.fever. The disenss i
painful, but not necessarily fataL 5
Mr.. Edward Stfahan, q young and nron,;
ing lawyer, somewhat widely known among
the Democracy as political declairner, died
yesterday Of consuniption. sse $50
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4 THE SHIP FEvER--This fearful and cohta.
gious disease is raging violently in New York
city, among the newly arrived emigrants and
among the policemen located at the different
station houses to which sick emgrants are
brought. There have been many deaths.
RATs.-Persons are engaged in killing off
rats in New York city, at the rate Of 10000
day. They are skinned, and their fur is sold
to Genin, the halter, by whom they are cured,
and converted into muffs and boas, and, under
a foreign name, sold to the bellies, at high
price. ~. s'
THE ORDER OF "REBEccA.n-The degree
of "Rebecca" was conferred on eleven ladies,
wives Of members of Staten Island Lodge, No.
$40, on Thursday evening last, at their lodge
room, in Tottenville, Staten Island, N York.
They expressed themselves highly pleased
with the cerem onies
/ Our old friend of Jenny Lind memory, Bel
fetti, is winning new laurels at the Italian
Opera in Paris. The critics fand among them
is Hector Berlioz} delightin his pure and ener-
getic quality of voice and his agile vocaliza-
ton. He is one of the very few men who can
sing Rossini's music. His voice and manner
sparkle. Bellelti has been singing Swedish
melodies-not willing to forget Jenny Lind
perhaps.
A singular and probably fatal accident oc-
Cured at the establishment of J. T. Allen e.
CO., in Hartford, on Thursday. caused by a
arrangement to the regulator of the steam en-
gine which was in operation-letting ON such
great head of steam as to break an iron
pulley attached-a portion OF the iron struck
MIR. A. Andrews, a workman, in the neck,
nearly severing the windpipe, and glancing by
the main artery, lodged in the neck. The
physician was not able to find the fragment OF
iron, and was compelled to sew up the wind
pipe and neck without reaching it.
Western man says that on hearing Yankee
Doodle performed on organ in the Crystal
Palace, he felt the Declaration of Independence
| and couple of Bunker Hills rising in his bosom
Chevalier Claussen, the inventor of the pro.
cess for preparing fax cotton, perfected bis
patent for his process in this country in june
last. He sold to some parties an interest in the
patent right for this country. The agent oi
these parties is now in Washington, prepared
to sell hts for the different States. 1t is said
that he has now several liberal offers and has
made some sales. He will be prepared to ex-
hibit his fax cotton and various fabrics from
it, in few days, in the Capitol. Members and
others from the West and south are looking
with interest into the subject.-Journal Of COM
merce.
man named Steingrayer, convicted of mur-
ders. was hung at Ashland, Ohio, on the 30th
ultimo, in presence Of about five thousand per-
sons, the pepulace having the day previous
demolished the jail yard fence IN order to
ritness the execution! The spectacle, il is
said, wes very revolving, the prisoner being a
heavy man, and the rope stretched SO much
that he fell upon his knees. His neck was un-
broken, and he was then drawn up an literally
strangied, hanging about thirty minutes before
life was pronounced extinct. N
THE KEY TO Ir.-Mr. Hobbs lately lec-
tured before the Society of Arts in London, on
the Art of Picking Locks. He gave the fol-
lowing statement of the manner in which he
picked the Bramah lock:
an impression of the hole in wax. He had
originally supposed that each slide had it's
spring, hut he found himself mistaken il, tina,
surmise Having contrived the necessary i'm
plements, he pressed down the disc, which left
him at liberty TO work on the slides intro.
duced lever into the key-hole, and applied
pressure to the cylinder; felt the slides sue
cessiyely, pressing them in The false notches,
and succeeding in loosening the cylinder, and
the lock was picked. He had never seen the
inside off Bramah lock before his experiments
had never tried TO pick one and he enter
tains no doubt that, with his present expe-
rence, he could repeat the process in an hour 8
time. MIR. Hobbs alluded also to the 'spower-
ful reflector he is said to have used, and
showed il to be three-penny mirror, and he
similarly refnted the exaggerations relative to
excessive filing of the lock"
It is officially announced in the Ohio Stateman,
that it is the intention of the Board of Public
Works to cause the entire line of the Ohio Cana
and the Mama ana Erie Canal to be opened for
navivation on the Goth day of March next. s'sh
GoLp, SILVER AND Tn IN EEwi MExfco.--A
ctz gen of New Mexicohas exhibited to the editors
OF the Washington Republic speciments of gold,
silver and tin, found in that territory. The gold
is in small particles, and was found mixed with
copper, sfhe silver ore is of very fair qnality
and appear ance and the recent discoveries OF itin
New Mexico, the gentleman asserts, give reason to
form expectations that very large quantity oft
may be obtained when suitable explorations and
examinations are made The tin, too. although
seemingly of little value when compared with the
more precious metals, is believed to exist in lsrge
Quantities and from its general utility It's thought