The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-24
Nh DAILY DlSPAICi
Items.


The Lowell News says that Samuel L.
uambIet, a "mesmeric physician has beer
arrested in that city on warrant from Bruins.
WICK, Me-, charging him with having obtained
in that place, the sum Of $3.50 under false pre-
fences, by making a disreputabie charge
against a citizen Of Brunswick, and extorting
the above sum to keep il secret. He was taken
to Brunswick on Saturday for trial.
A petition TO the governor OF Ohio TO par
don James Summons, under sentence OF death
for poisoning, is in circulation in Cincinnati.
The United States Marine Hospital q, Chi.
cago, has been completed. and is now occu'
pied. The cost of its erection was forty five
thousand dollars.
A villain named Darrow was arrested al
Buffalo, on Saturday, charged with beating
and biting his wife in an inhuman manner. The
poor woman died on Tuesday from the effects
of her wounds. No person was in the hOuse'
with her and she was found dead in her bed in
the morning by the neighbors. The murderer
is in Jail.
On Monday last, in Cambridge, Maryland,
a large barn, the property of Mrs. Hutchin-
son, filled with,hay, provender, &c, was set on
FIRE, and totally destroyed. There is no doubt
of its having been set on fire. Several at
tempts TO burn it were made a.few weeks
since.
tits said that Miss Duff, the actress, lately
deceased at Memphis, was a sister of the wild
ow Of Thomas Moore, "Ireland's last and
greatest poet"
The body which was found in the canal at
Buffalo, proves TO have been that of Patrick
Shields, an Irishman, who has been for some
time subject 10 the detirium tremens and who
disappeared on Saturday week.
The Legislature of Mississippi adjourned on
Tuesday last, the 10th inst.
A little daughter of Mr.. Lewis, at Defiance,
Ohio, died few days ago from the effects OF
poison, by eating colored candy
A colored woman, weighing s,me three
hundred pounds, broke the floor Of a privy in
West Boston, on Tuesday, and descended to
the vault. Luckily some one heard the noise,
and gave the alarm, or IN ten minutes she
would have been subjected.
A MIsTAKE.-A statement has been going
the rounds Of our exchanges, to The effect that
Col E. +. TaylOe Of King George, in a recent
difficulty upon his plantation, shot one of his
negroes dead. We are authorised to say, that
this statement, as far as Col. Tayloe is con-
cerned, is totally destitute of truth. A diff
Guilty did occur, during his absence, between
his nserseer and one Of the negroes-but no ia
tai consequences ensued-and from this doubt
less the mistake orig inated.-Fredericksb
Herald.
POLITICAL MANIFEsToEs.-Gerrit Smith is
out with letter, in which he declares that al
though he opposed the nomination of Hale
and Julien, by the Free Sellers, he hopes to
be able 10 vote for them in November. The
Temperance Alliance of New York is also out
with an address 10 the temperance people of
The State, calling upon ihem 10 meet in con-
venton in Rochester on the 18th September, 10
take measures to secure the passage of the
Maine Law, by pledging themselves to discard
the old party lines and 10 vote for none but
thesfriends Of TINT measure.
We learn from the Lafayette Ala.) Tribune
that on Saturday the Yin inst, Berry SherroII,
Of the neighborhood of Cusseta, Chambers
county, Ala, was shot by Jack Love, black
smith living at that village. The ball took
effect in the hand (which was thrown up to
push away the pistol and chest of Mr. Sherroll.
There had been a misunderstanding, for a
month or more, between the parties, about
note.
Love ran off, but was captured on last Mon
day, brought back to Cusseta, and after an in-
vestiga,ion before WIN. Davis, Esqr., commit
ted for trial.
cg A man named Brown was stabbed near
acamp meeting in Louioun county, few DAYS