The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-11-22
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siasI sisonI ra5 ss1,skETs s,s Nov. l5th.-wheas white
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commercial paragraph We vcntare % sav ,n.t
, a1s9 ataaee was created IN Lynchburg by that az
ol's'.'ng lhseAlgenee It must certainly have been
very paelhc despatch from Europe that brought
'ae price OF wheat down so cents in the bushei in
one day-and astilimore remarkable turn IN tie
tide of affairs that depreciatedthe value Of ,yh;ta
wheat to figure five cents below red. We shon,s
perhaps have considered this telegraphic error
and not for a moment have supposed that there
was any design in misquosing our market but far
another paragraph in the same paper, which reads
thus.
It will be seen that wheat has fallen TO 81 10 for
red 81 for White. Two weeks agoit was sellinr
for one dollar and sixty-fve cents Look out
sqralls.
From MExrco.-By the arrival of the steamship
Texas, the New Orleans Picayune has advices from
Vera Cruz to the l1th instant and from the City Of
Mexico to the 4th. What may be considered, per
haps the chiefi.em of news refers to the announce
ment that great fears entertained of great por-
ton of the country being afflicted by famine
The harvest in Durango and other departments of
the interior it would appear ifithas not altogether
failed, has afforded such extremely scanty returns
that the papers are amenting most bitterly the ca
lamities which cannot but follow the unfortunate
failure. The Siglo XIX, of the 3D. instant, has an
article in reference to the subject concluding as
.llows:
: SIN Mexico the effect of the famine is being OBJ
served As we learn from Toluca the price of In
dian corn has risen throughout the valley, and the
Introduction OF provisions into that capital is much
less business exhibiting very little animation than
on ordinary market days every week 1t appears
that the people afraid to go to the city for fear
OF the conscription If this Is SO, the remedy is SO
much the simpler that the drawing is completed,
and thatthere ia decree exempting the indigenous
class from service in the army"
The rest ofthe intelligence is ofthe ordinary char
acter. The Indians are committing terrible rava-
ges and with even something more than impunity.
The mail and large company were lately attack
ed by them, and some ten or twelve persons were
killed others carried off, the rest scattered in flight
and the mules and all other property plundered.
Robberies by others are also as frequent as ever,
and even more atr0clous. g.
Santa Anna is endeavoring to push the project
for arailroad from Vera Cruz, through the city of
Mexico, to some port In the Pacific.
Many curious things occurred in the New Orleans
cemeteries on All Saints Day, ifthe papers do not
romance From the True Delta we extract the
following specimens:
TOUCHING INcIDENT-An official, on All Saints
Day arrayed himself in his best apparel and, at the
request OF his wife, called carriage to visir the
cemeteries The husband, be it promised, knew
that his beloved, ere he married her, was widow,
but he knew not that she had been the widow OF
three successive husbands As soon as they enter
ed the gate OF the said city of silence, shade OF
melancholy passed over the ladys face, and cling
ing to her husbands arm, she went to tomb at
which she knelt and prayed for the repose OF her
dear dead husbands SOUL Tears flowed, and
plentiiuly; but the living husband though he felt
little mortified at the strong affection which his
wife showed for her first love, now sleeping his
eternalsleep still iorgave the outburs and hurried
her from the spot Soon, however, she knet before
another tomb, and again uttered a touching orison
for the repose of the soul OF "her dear dead hus
band whose holy dust there found resting place.
The husband thought that this was a little more
than he had bargained for, but he said nothing,
though grave his reflections, ,as he again LED o
wife IRON spot which awakened such sad remem-
brances. He had not got tar when his wife again
turned aside, knelt, again prayed before, for
the repose of "her dear dead husbands souli" The
husband could stand it no longer, and uttering an
inexcusable and unhusbandly oath, said: 'D--n it,
Madam how many husbands, in the Lords name,
have you buried"
Ere the accusing spirit had flown to heavens
ehancery with the oath the thoughts of the wife
were recalled the things OF s'the earth earthly,
and she answered. as only an experienced and pro.
yoked woman could answer. "Three, sir, only, and
that it would seem by your outrageous conduct, is
one too few"