The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-08-29


some time, the principal contributor to the
editorial columns of the paper, which have
borne the impress of his scholarship and ex-
tensive information. The Republic Is to be
conducted on the plan laid down for it when it
recently took :" new latitude and departure"
]. e. it will be an independent paper, maintain
ing certain general principles of Republican
ism--State rights, restriction Of Federal pow
er within the Constitution, and advocatingthe
acquisition By purchase, of such territory as
the growing wants of the Republic may re-
quire, without any Federal restriction upon
the right of property therein, and the I'M
qualified right of citizens therein to form
| State Governments, and demand ADMISSION
as equal sovereign members of the confede-
racy. These main features, together with the
| political and other news of the day, and
and Washington dts, constitute the plan
of the Republic set forth in the prospectus 50
Messrs. w. NJ. B. & Co. The Republic how
ever ceases to be daily paper, and will here
after only be Issued weekly.
We wish our friend and his partners all sue
cess
HEREDITARY SuIcIpE.-Mr Voolfolk, late the
sheriff of Tioga county, New York, committed
suicide few days since, by hanging But few
days before this his father hung himself but three
years ago his grandfather ended his own life in the
same way. 1t is strange illustration of 'heredi-
tary taint of that and the power of association
combined The Albany Register says they were
all wealthy men, in the most happy circumstances
and had gained their means by frugal industry and
| slow accretion, and were universally beloved for
uprightness, kindness and honorable bearing
MAGNIFICENT BRIBE.-Accounts from Buenos
Ayres state that the amount paid to Com. Coe and
his squadron by the city of Buenos Ayres to aban
don Urquss and terminate the blockade of the city,
was half million of dollars. That is delightful
| way of ending One side gets peace by pay
ing sum, which keeping up the war might exhaust,
and the other gets the money and avoids the strug
| gle, the expense and gunpowder and bullets that
would have been vented upon them.
| FISHING AT MoBILE.-The terrors of the plague
in its incipiency at Mobile, do seem to deprive
the Mobans of their love for sport. A correspon-
dent of the New Orleans Picayune gives the follow
ing specimen of the precarious nature of some
fishing sport there recently:
They are just now coming into our bay freely
Last week some OF the writer's friends hauled the
the seine at Alabama City, and what think you they
caught The first draft 100 cats, and the second
about fifty cats and innumerable kittens. After that
| the sport was guy up" On Sunday last, however,
all was changed; tor on the same ground we caught
in three hauls car load of trout founders sheep
head, reddish and croakefs, besides crabs innumera
| BILE and fair sprinkling of shrimp. Now Is the
time tor anglers the tinny tribe taking the hook
| freely.
/ A negro girl, a nurse in the family of Mr.. Bear,
of Sharpsburg, Nd, gave little child--one of
pair of twins-so much laudanum few days since,
that it died. She had remarked before, that lone
child was enough to nurse at time and she would
certainly kill the other" She was free girl, and
| i. to be tried for numbering the child.
| The Petersburg papers of Saturday, announce
| the DEATH In New osloans, Thomas NJ Lee son
of Mr.. Allen P. Lee of Petersburg He died of the
prevailing epidemic. Mr.. L. q salesman in
one of the principal mercantile houses of this place
for several years.
New CeLLEGE-The Winchester Republican
says the Odd Fellows are taking measures to es
tablish Female College, to be called Martha
Washington College, at Abingdon, in this State
|
| Last week Miss Laura A. Sealand, of Bangor
| Maine a girl of irreproachable character, commit
led suicide by taking arsenic. Suicide Is growing
neutrality-suspicious. among the young women of New
England.
A man named VIM. Symerson, of Theresa, New
York. was killed few days since by falling, when
intoxicated, down ledge of rocks, which was
| A., 1o, IL
CHARLEsToN.-Wea are glad TO see by the Charles
ton Is. c. papers, that there promises to be fine
fall business in that city. Itdeserves to go ahead
1t is one of the most enterprizing of the Atlantic
cities.
, TExAs.-The Railroad spirit is quite enthusiastic
in Texas. Many Railroad schemes are started
The last we notice is one from Columbia to Whar-
ton, which is warmly espoused by the people inter-
| ested.
We notice that Gas company is about to be
organised in Charleston s. c. The object is stated
to be the prevention of imposition on the part Of
the existing company.
We are obliged to our friend of the Baltimore
Clipper for calling attention to the delay in the
arrival OF the Dispatch in Baltimore
Anegro man named Andrew, belonging TO w. L.
;, Haight, was drowned at Savannah on the 24th in
, | slant
: The TEXAS COTTON CRoP, according to latest
n accounts, promised very finely.
valuable negro man, belonging to the estate
OF Walter B. c. Nottingham of Upper Marlboro
& Md, on Tuesday last had his hand caught in a
: threshing machine, and was SO severely injured.
that became necessary to amputate his arm above
q the elbow
RALEIGH, N. Give are glad to learn from the
Raleigh Star, that the City of the Oaks is rapid.
o y improving and that mechanics and artisans have
TT plenty OF work and good wages
Mrs. Fisher, residing on Wide Water street,
norfolk, was severely burned on Wednesday eve
hing by the upsetting Of lamp, filed with eihe-
l. real oil, which caught fire, and communicated to
her dress. She is said to be dangerously injured
THREE MEN MURDERED.-We learn that q man,
: named William Cooley, residing in the northern
e part OF Peru, stabbed three men Sunday even.
| ing last with a bowieknife We have not been
able to learn the particulars of this triple murder
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