The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-07-26
..arurn srAnnlre CAsK IN PkrrRsauRe.

a.orHkR SrApBlsa CASE IN PETERSBURG.
On Friday man named Eggeston Damas
s,abbed his wife, in his ewn hou Sc, on Plumb
street, Petersburg. An examination was had
before the Mayor on Saturday, from which il
would appear that there had been hard words
between Dumas and bis wife. The prisoner
stated that the affair began with his wife throw
ing knife at him, which wounded him near
the eye. He readily admitted that he had
stabbed her, and made no resistance to being
arrested. The wound was under the left
breast, three or four inches deep, and cousid.
cred to be very dangerous one. In order TO
afford time TO ascertain the result, the case
was continued until Monday, the LIST OF Au"
gust, and the prisoner remanded to jail. we
learn these facts from the Express OF Monday
morning.
TROUBLE AMONG THE SPIRIr RAPPERs.-The N
Y Tribune announces that the Spirtuaiists ION the
Rochester Platform,) are to hold a convention at
Pennington, Ill., on the Goth of August 1t seems
that there are dissensons among these apostles of
bumbug, which mus, be settled by convention
They like politicians, have their platforms and their
strifes Some hold that the Spirits who communi
cate by means OF grape" are all evil spirits; some
that only the good have free use of their shadowy
knuckIes and others that all soru-''bacL spirits
and white-bue spirits and gray" have an equal
right TO spin their yarns to mortals.
A Mr.. Everett writes to the Spiritual Telegraph
that Spirits make themselves Visible to the bodily
eye In Dover, Athens county, Ohio, and also play
music cure diseases, and talk in plain audible Eng
lish. What queer century we live in Mr. Eve.
rett continues: - e
'In conversation with the spirits upon the subject
of theology, they instruct that the first and the
last, the fundamental doctrine Is the belief In the
existence the worship and love of God and of love
u one another, and to all mankind, without re-
stricton and that salvation 10 the total renuncia-
ton OF error and wrong, and the reception of
truth, love, justice and wisdom that to be right
eous We must think and do righteousy that The
Bible is not precisely the book that many have sup
posed it to be, but that from the beginning to the
end it is mostly compendium or history of the
mnistration OF angels, or those who were once in
habitants of this earth
The Tribune accuses the Spirits of stealing bad
poetry already in print, "a worse offence, we think
if possible, than writing iD and rapping 1t out as
their own composition; also of passing off their
own doggerel as proceeding from the spirits of
Byron, Coleridge, Shelly, &c. Greeley says some
of these compositions would put the teeth of a
mill saw on edge We don't doubtit.
The whole theory of these rapperf is SO directly
In the teeth of common sense that it might well
set on edge, knock out altogether the teeth
of every tking. We rather think frum the tone of
Greeley article, that he has sold out most of his
spiritual" stock before the market got Qtll lower
Doubtless he will shortly invest in some fresh
humbug. We beg in to consider him more knave
than fool, dropping he does ism after ism as they
begin to dwindle and grow unpopular. He cares
not so long as the excitement causes his paper to
SELL but drops his friends with little ceremony as
rats desert sinking ship. An, Greeley, beware of
ingrattude. Hang on to the lantern;jawed fanatics
whom you have helped to create. ...t
- The exports of cotton and rice from Charles
ton from September LIST, 1852, to July 2lst, 1858,
were az follows:
Sea Island, bales ----.------...--.-19s05
Upland 40, fol
Total bales 556
Rice, terces. -.ll9,0Sl
This shows a slight falling of from .ne exports
for the corresponding part of the previous year.
which were as follows:
sea island oaiss. .--.---..----..--st94i
Uplan0 -449,024
Total bales. 47o, 965
Rice, tierces. 1913 1896
There were on hand in Charleston, on the 2lst
923 bales Sea Island, Is, 92s Upland end GAL terces
Rice, sgainst IA bales Sea Island l,036 Upland
an \ 400 fierces Rice an the same day last veay