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Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02
Mr.. Marshalrs Claim against tie Baltimore ana
Ohio ContDanu.


The Baltimore American of Monday publishes
Illegal opinion prepared by Messrs. Rs~erdy
johnson and ]. H. B. Latrobe. the counsel of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, re-
lative to Mr.. A. ]. Marshals claim against that
corporation. If this statement, which we lay
before our readers, comprises all that can be said
by the friends of the Company in defence of its
conduct it is not at all surprising that the Balti
more journals should long have preserved n
studied silence in regard to the matter. The
facts set forth by Messrs. johnson and Latrobe,
SO far from rescung the fame of the Baltimore
Company, from the odium cast upon it by
MIR. Marshall's representation of the transaction
in question, will serve only to make the stigma
broader aud more indellihle than before. We
have here an open and distinct admission on the
part of the Company, that one of their defenoes
against Mr. Marshals suit was, that their con-
tract with that gentleman was fraudulent and
therefore void. 1t is true that they rested their
case on other grounds, independent of the lille
gality Of tue contract, and now ondeavor to show
that it was upon these grounds that the suit was
decided in their favor. But what does this plea
avail them in a court of morals? 1t appears that
when their counsel asked, on the eve of the
trial. whether the invaidity of the contract should
be insisted on, the Board replied, after mature
deliberat ion, that they 'dd not feel at liberty to
abandon any of the Offences set up by their
COUNSEL This declaration proves conclusively
that it was the deliberate purpose of the Compa-
ny to take advantage Of the plea of fraud, if ne
eessary, and TO refuse payment of Mr.. Marshal's
claim, even though it should be pronounced a
fair and just one. 1t is evident that had the
Court refused to sustain their other grounds of
defence, they were fully prepared to fall back
on the plea, that their contract with MIR. Mar
shall was fraudulent 1t was their fixed deter
mination to evade payment of the $4,000 at all
hazards, and to accomplish that object, they not
only acknowledged themselves guilty of a fraud
in open court, but went the extreme length Of
employing counsel to prove it.
In respect to the validity of Mr.. Murshall's
claim against the Baltimore Company, we know
but little, md therefore express no opinion in re-
gard to it. But we hold that the means resorted to
by the Company to escape from the fufment OF
their contract, have been in the highest degree
scandaous and disgraceful. There is nothing what
ever in the defence now published to the world
by their legal advisers, calculated to remove the
unfayorable Impressions already existing in the
public mind, la respect to their conduct, or to
paliate in any degree the moral obliquty of
which they stand convicted.
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MeD0NoUGMIs PATENT UNIYEK.A7.

lVl Observation-Disclosures subscriber offers for
sale the above patented Refrigerator 1t is altogether
different from al others before the public its
binaon apartments, vessels and the philosophical prn-
cipes of its construction, The case is made Of wood
which is free from SMELL and lined with mesaic sur.
face and its interior vessels are of stone 1t is
arranged that each article OF food orproysions is kept
trely asate, and moved with facility.
By the plan Its construction current of cold air is
in constant circulation around each vessel and within
each apartment, while by simple ventatins contri-
vance, the complete purity of he whole apparatus is
sured thereby thoroughly obviating all the old obec
tons shat have been made any other invention the
same purpose viz by avoiding that liability to engen-
der local or relative odours from the viands meat b.
vegetables, pastry fruit, which may be contane ed
therein. The convenience which it affords for retainin1a
the purity and butter particularly
not be surpassed and the small quantity of ice that is re-
sideratum
The proprietor challenges the country produce any
thing that will compare with it, and he guarantees to
keep provisions colder and sweeter with halt peck OF
ice twenty four hours than any Refrigerator can with
peck. Orders solicited r. NJ. ZIMMERMAN,
fe Corner Main and 12th sts
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LKsrsLArunE OF vrnerN1A.
SENATE.
FRIDAY, February %, 1858.

FRIDAY, February %, 1858.
BILLS PASSED
Mr.. BASEL called up the bill to naeadamize
the Staunton and Parkersburg road. The bill
was explained by Mr.. BASEL, several amend
ments agreed to, and passed-ayes o6. noes o.
Mr.. PITMAN called up the bill to increase the
capital stock of the Rockingham TURNPIKE Com
pany, and to provide for State subscription to
such increased capital stock. The bill was ad-
vocated by Messrs. DENEALE and SuAcKELFoRp
and passed-ayes 80, noes g.
Mr.. CREIGH, called up the bill to extend and
complete the Huttonsville and Huntersyie
Turnpike, aud for the erection of n bridge across
Greenbrier River. Mr.. CREIaH explained it. and
the bill passed-ayes %, noes s.
Mr.. DENEALE called up and explained the
bill, incorporating the Browns Gap Turnpike
Company. The bill was advocated by Mr.. WAT.
SON, and passed-Ayes 30, noes 8.
MIR. BARNETT called up and explained the bill
to appropriate an additional sum of money to ex-
tend the Floyd Court House and HilIsvie Turn
pike, from Hillsyille to the Raleigh and GRAY
son road. MIR. STUART advocated the bill. It
passed-Ayes 80, noes g..
THE SENATE CALENDAR.
The following bills were read third time and
passed:
To incorporate the Lewiston Plank Road com.
pany-ayes %, noes 7.
Authorizing the Treasurer of the State to
receive from the Banks any Bonds guaranteed by
the State as securely for their issues;
Imposing a tax on dogs in the county of Isle of
Wight;
10 incorporate the Berkely and Maryland
Bridge Company;
Authorizing Abel ]. Barrett to erect piers in
the Rappahannock River;
Toincorporato the Clarke and Warren Turnpike
Company
CoALFIELD AND MANAssA RAILROAD
MIR. THOMAS moved to amend this bill by ad-
ding that neither the Company hereby incorro.
rated nor the Winchester and Potomac Railroad
Company, shall have au thority to connect with
each other by the construction of any branch Of
railroads, otherwise; provided, however, that if
the Alexandria, Loudoun aud Hampshire Rail-
road Company shall hereafter purchase or ANAL
gamate with the Winchester and Potomac Rail
Road, or unite Herewith, as provided for by the
charter OF said Alexandria, Loudoun and Hump
shire Railroad Company, the exception above
shall be deemed void and of no effect.
On motion of Mr.. PITlAN
The Senate al journed.
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ARRIVAL OF THE U. STATES.

DETAILS OF THE CALIFORNIA NEWS.
The steamship United States, Capt VIM. C.
Berry, with the details of the California intei-
gence to 1st inst, arrived at New York Monday
morning. She left Aspinwall ON the 18th inst,
at half past P. NJ, aud Kingston, Ja., on the
2lst, at 3 2. M.
The steamer Tennessee arrived at Panama on
the evening of tho 18th.
The British bark Larne arrived at Panama on
the 18th inst, with advices from Melbourne.
Australia, TO the 9th of November. Several
Americans have returned from those auriferous
regious-none Of them with less than three
thousand dollars, and some Of them with upwards
of twenty pounds in weight of the fine METAL
Several of these gentlemen were passengers upon
board the United States. One thousand emf
grants were daily pouring into Melbourne from
Great Britain aud this country.
The California papers contain little of interest
IN addition to what was given in the telegraphic
synopsis of the news hitherto published. The
floods had nearly subsidized but the roads were
still in an almost impossible condition. and the
sufferings of the inhabitants of the Interior from
the want of provisions, were truly heart rending
The supply OF flour at Nevada and its vicinity
was entirely exhausted. The miners in some
places were sustaining life on scraps they had
previously thrown away.
A gang of Mexican marauders, headed by
person named Joaquin, who had recently COM
mltted several murders and ether outrages in
San Andreas have been driven from the country,
together with all their countrymen, by the Gu
ragged Americans-not, however, before they had
killed maEy miners and Cinnamon and carried off
or burned their property.
We have accounts of the terrible destruction of
property by freshets in Oregon. Several bull
dings had been swept away in Oregon City, and
the face of the Willamette river was mt one time
covered with floating dwellings, saw mills, &C.
he bap ES md 7 Mopit
between San Francisco and the Columbia river
had been wrecked at the entrance to the latter
The former disappeared in the quicksands, and
the latter sunk at her anchors.
The health OF the isthmus continued good and
the roads rapidly improving
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

THE City JAIL is now pretty we'll filed with
desperadoes. Probably at no former period has
there been collected withir its walls more
despcable set of malefactors. All the grades of
crime-from stealing paving stones up to wilful
murder--have their representatives in this pam
demonium. 1t therefore becomes the duty of
the Sergeant to look we'll to the custody of these
follows. They must not be allowed to 60 ''un-
whpt of justice" by scaling the walls or sapping
over the jailor One or two "jal deliveries"
have already taken places another misfortune of
the kind, just at this juncture, might operate to
impair the force of a certain netitiou from the
Hastings Court of this city, now pending before
the Legislature; or, what is worse and still more
to be apprehended, it might have tendency to
induce the people in April to forget their Ser
geant. We know the jailor to be- vigiant and
prompt in the discharge of his duties; but it
seems to us that greater security ought to be
guaranteed. He needs two or three stout. ath-
letic assistants for brief season. The Circuit
Court sits next month, for the trial Of criminal
cases, when there will be legal Jail delivery
Already an attempt escape has been frustrated
by one of the prisoners lodging Information with
the iailor. Other plans will probably be formed,
and attempts made to carry them into execution
before the session OF the Circuit Court COM
mences. The Sergeant ia forewarned-let him,
thon, be foreRrmed.
William Willis. Albert Monroe and James
Martin, three prisoners now confined in Jail for
the commission of grrve offences, having come to
the determination to leave for parts unknown,
made rope about fifty feet in length from their
bed cloths, with which to scale the walls of the
prison. This rope was found in the cell occupied
by the :rio on Monday last, was also small
file, which had been struggled into the Jail by
some outside friend of one of the parties. As soon
as the discovery WAS made, the prisoners were
put into irons and every prscaution taken to pre-
vent an escape.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

MEcHAsIcs.-The Charlotte IN. C.) Wing of
the 9th inst. says: 'Any number of mechanics,
whose business is connected with the building
OF houses will find employment in Charlotte du-
ring the coming Spring and Summer. A large
Female College, Bank, Town Hail. Passenger
Depot. and other public buildings, besides dozen
more of private dwelling houses, are in contem-
plation. and will certainly be built during the
Spring and Summer. Come, therefore, all you
mechanics who desire employment and swish to
be we'll paid for your labor, Come and come
ouicklv
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

SEABoARp AND ROANOKE RAiLRoAD.-The annual
meeting of the Stockholders OF this Company was held
at their Office in Portsmouth Thursday The follow
ing gentlemen were elected Directors for the ensuing
wear: Dr. WILLIAM COLLINS President Andrew Joyner.
81. N. Falls, James barnes. Moncure Robinson. A.
Mehaey and Francis Mallory the last named gentleman
coming into the board temporarily
We learn that the receipts for the hsci year, were
some $4,000, showing considerable increase of pas
sengers and freights in that tins.-NoiJok Herald.
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Steamer Star of the West.

CHARLESTON, Feb. 2s-The steamer Star of the
West from San Juan and Nicaragua, put in here yes.
terday of coal She via Havana and is bound
Tor New York She left San Juan the 18th, and brings
California dates the first of February. She has one
hundred sixty passengers. Her news is anticipated
bv the arrival at New Orleans and of the Cres
cent City at New York. The of the West connec-
ted with the Pacific at San Juan del Sud- with four hun
dred passengers. Nothing important from San Juan.
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Arrival of,i,e pa,npero.

New ORLEANS, Feb IS.
The steamer Pampero has arrived here from San Juan
1t was healthy when she departed.
The steamer Co umlus, from Panama tor San Fran
cisco, with the passengers of the Winfield Scott sprung
leak in the bay o Tehuantspec- The passengers
consequence detained several days without pro
Visions
Forty of them died from ard most of the others
sick. The sse finally reached Acapulco aud thea
left for San Francisco.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

hoBBERr-Afrse woman named susannah fIarrs
yeerday arragned before the Mayor the Instance os
"n''e man named Marcellus Archer. who charged her
with stealing the of s25 from his pockets on th 9th
ut, while he septin house occupied by the mother nc
the woman Archer stated that when he laid down the
money was in his pockets but when ne woke up it was
gone. No evidence, however adduced to show that
the woman stole it; the Mayor dismissed the war.
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CONGRESS-MONDAY.


SENATE.-The Senate were engaged in dis
cussing the civil and diplomatic bill until about
hve O'Clock, when they adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATIvEs.-O motion Of
MIR. Dockery, a esoution was next agreed to-,
calling on the President for the correspondence
of this government with that of Spain relative to
prisoners taken by the latter in hostile attempts
from the shores ofthe United States upon the is
land of Cuba.
The bill tor the relief ofFrances E. Baden was
next passed. and also the bill granting pre-emp-
ton rights to settlers ON the reserved alter
nate sections of the public domain trayersed by
railroads.
The House then went into Committee OF the
Whole on the state of the Union, Mr.. Hall in
the chair;) wherein the deficiency bill, as amen
ded by the Senate, considered. At late
hour this bill was reported back to the House,
the amendments thereto being disposed of.
Mr.. Venable reported from the Committee on
the Judiciary on the charges against John c..
Watrous. United States district judge for the dis
trict of Texas; which said report was laid on the
table. and ordered to be printed.
The rules were again suspended and the
House went into Committee of the Whole
on the state of the Union; wherein the Senate s
amendments to the army appropriation bill were
considered until a lato hour.-Un
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

HONESTY TURNED UP.-Itis said Professor Anderson
PRESENT. Richmond has received ettertr Louis
Napoeon Emperor OF the French inclosing check for
t10, which he borrowed some years since from the
Professor in London. accompanied with present OF a
diamond ring, and invitation To visit Paris ms VIII
hecheerug to all who the Emperor creditors
in ;lie times that tried his soul.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

ASLEEP IN THE STREET.-Whilst passing through
Broad street Monday night the atchmen stumbled over
the body of miserab nebrate who had taken nm hill
lodgings the pavement. He was carried to the sbo
koe Hill station house. and yesterday brought before the
Mayor when he gave his name Howard Gentry. I'm
der promseo seek less public lodgings in future he was
DISCHARGED
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

No 70 Main street,
AS received per ships Chaos X oscius and CIV Man
Il nerlng, direct from the manufacturers in England
very large and choice stock of China and Earbenyars
before the recent great advance in the prices
OF these goods in England
He Is also receiving from various American manufac.
tories, he largest of Glassware he has ever
heretofore offered to the trade.
The merchants of Virginia and North Carolina ara re
specially invited to examine his goods and prices
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02
MARINE INTELLIGENCE
PORT OF RICHMOND.

ARRIVED,
barque Parthian Smith, New York. mdse to D Chr.
rie ' ~ " - 0''i'
steamer City oil Richmond Mitchell, New York mdse
SAILED,
Brig Uranus, -, Rio Janeiro, flour
Steamer Belyidere, Clifford, Baltimore mdse TO JuJ
lam Il Watson
steamer Roanoke, Cavent% New York. mdse to Lud
lam & Watson ~ W "
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

VALUABLE HEN.-The Rochester Daily
Advertiser says that Mr. Recker who less than a
year ago purchased pnir of Cochin China Fowls
from the proceeds OF which since that time. he
has realized Sl33. The Chickens sold for $40
per pair, and the Eggs for 81 per dozen.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02
FOR LIBERIA.

NoRFoLK, Feb. 26.
The American Colonization Society will send
avessse f.om this port in May next for Liberia;
already one hundred and seventy egh: Hppca-
tons for passage have been made, including one
from Pennsy vania aud one from New York.
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

ly The funeral of Mrs SARAH ENDERs relct of the
e bhders VIII take place this afternoon at three
o'clock from her late residence. - WI
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

The LECTURE OF Mr.. MEAeHEA in the Afri-
can Church Friday night. will unquestienably
draw together large audience. As a foretaste
of what he has in store for his auditors, we may
he pardoned the liberty we take in giving the
following beautiful extract from his forthcoming
lecture on ''Grattan aud the Irish Volunteers"
"The Parliament of ireland is no more The
last of the volunteers has been borne to his grave
And SO, too, their successors and their betters-
the men of '9S-the mon who had keener sa-
gacity, sharper swords and better style of action
though less easy fortune than the soldiers of
OF Dungannon. The streets of Dublin are silent
now. The hoofs that paved the pavement on
that day vex the dull stones no more. The
beauty that shone the hues of the morning
through the vision of freedom, has vanished in
the night that came upon the and-the throbbing
heart has grown stiff beneath the shroud-tlle
white arms that bore these chains of crusted
gold have wihered like the leaves of the lily
have been strewn upon the earth, have become
the sport of the wind and the spoil of the worm
"In silent hall, into the desoate secluson of
which no busy or inquistive foot intrudes, and
where the DUST falling from the cornices might
steal anguid sound from the marble slab
beneath, so deep the repose that dwelIs there by
night and day-in this silent hall stands the statue
oflHenry Grattan-erected, as the inscription in
foreign tongue with plantive modesty relates
by country not ungrateful.'
''Ihus has passed away all that was perishabls
OF that day. Yes. all that was perishable-all
that had not been stepped in the living waters
and with their virtue made vital and invunerabe
Not so the lessons which made that day, more
than the pageantry that Illuminated it, the bright
est in annals"
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ODD-FELl4VWs, HALL
L NJ M e EXCITEME Mt!
Unparalleled Success.
PIX H SXNHs a ~ IN w W q my

PROFESSOR ANDERSON
W1LL continue his Grand Drawing Room Entertain
w ments on this and every evening during the week
Introducing new and original wonders each OCCASION
ana giving full and explicit expose of the Greatest
Humhug of the Day, called Spirit Wrappings
8zy Doors open at 7--Wonders to commence at 8 p
M precisely concluding TO- Carriages may be order
ed at quarter before TO- ~ ~
~ Admission 50 c's-chillren. when accomnan;ea
by thu If parents, % cts. NH .
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

THE LAW GREYs, Capt. France reached this
city last evening at half past O'clock in and extra
train from Petersburg. They were handsomely
received at tho Depot by the Young Guards,
Capt. Richardson, and escorted tot the City Hotel,
where suartershad been provided for them. The
regiment" will parade to day and escort the
Greys through the city. After the parade tho
military will repair to the hall over the Old
Market, where a sumptuous dinner will be sery-
ad
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02

The Secretary OF the Navy ends the passage
Of resolution directing the Department with
Captain Ericsson for the of one csloric
rgate Of two Thousand tons burden Both Mr. Ericsson
and Capt Sands speak in the highest terms Of the
Of the experiment just made with the ship Ericsson
Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-02
--<>s AND SHOE MANUFAC-
TURING.

TURING. HHl
IN To meet the wants OF my friends sndv ~
customers, generally, have concluded to
engage in the Manufacturing of BOOTS and SHORS.
and have engaged the services of Mr.. JAMES Boil.
TON to take charge of the same.
Mr.. Bolton is known to be a faithful workman, and
we'll qualified to have all kinds of work gotten up
suit such OF my customers may prefer to leave their
orders for Richmond made work
shall at all times have full and complete stock Of
BOOTS and SHOES made by the most approved man
ufacturers of Philadelphia and Eastern cities. most
pectfuly ask continuance of that patronage that has
been SO literally bestowed for both departments
of my Establishment, Corner of Fourth and Broad
streets.
fe Sim w. P. w. TAYLOR
GLOVER sEED.-2O0 bushels prime Clover
~ seed, landing and for sale by
NH BACON & BASKERVILLE.