The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-02
kICHMOND, VA:
.Ar0RDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 2, 1854.
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at'ention OF the press throughout the country.-
ihe eyes OF the Union are upon Virginia. Let her
not osappoint public expectation, but press onward
70 'ne grand contamination of one of the most noble
scnene' OF Improvement ever proposed
CITf ExcrTKMRNrs."-The local editor of the
0ou'nsioe Democrat, (whom we take to be disin-
'e'es'ea observer3 reports q personal difficulty
~nicn look place in Petersburg, between Mr.
Vi ofolcnheid, OF the Express, and Mr.. Beache, of
TUG in.elngencer, occasioned by the publication OF
an artcie In the latter relative to the Express
mr.. Y. charged Mr.. B. with being Its author This
tne iaffer denied, upon which C. proceeded to ad
minister cudgelling to. Mr. B., who (says the
DemocraD ran off shouting murder
DEATH BY DROWNING Petersburg on Wed
nesday night, Allan Rae, mate of the schooner Cla.
ra Bell, fell from the wharf near his vessel and was
drowned. He was a native of Baltimore, where
ne leaves wife and child. 1t appears from the
reports in the Petersburg papers that he was some
what intoxicated at the time of his fatal fall having
been spending social evening with his friends
The LATE SroRM.-The local editor of the Pc
tersburg Express has been shown tobacco plant
that had received the petings of the storm in Dim
destroyed. Onegentleman lost about 20, 600 plants,
which were all IN fine condition before the storm.
SENT ON.-We learn from the Portsn outh
Globe, that Thomas H. II. Cooke, charged with
killing Mr.. John Tirney on Friday night last was
examined on Tuesday, and sent on for further ex.
animation at the aext session of the Norfolk County
Court.
Tna
young lady accidentally fell from one of the navy
yard wharfs, few days ago, much to the conster-
nation of the by&anders Two gentlemen, how.
ever, Immediately plunged in and succeeded in
holding her up until farther assistance arrived
The only evil result of the adventure is that one of
the gentlemen has been troubled with pain in the
region Of the heartever since.
INcENDIARY ATTEMPT-The agricultural imple.
ment mandatory, owned by Seth March, in Nor.
folk, was set on fire. last Tuesday night and dam
aged to the amount Of $780,
FIRE CoMAANY.-The citizens of Farmville have
organized fire company. About forty members
have enrolled their names.
SENTENcED.-The Lynchburg Virginian states
that the negro man who, a few weeks ago, was
lodged in jail for an attempt at rape the person
of Miss White, of Liberty, Bedford county, was
sentenced, Monday last, the 2sth, by the County
Court Of Bedford county, to ten years imprison-
ment in the Pententiary. The trial it is sad lasted
not more than Is minutes.
Posi-, OFFICE ORDER.-The Charlottesville JEFF
fersonan states that there many letters han
ded in to the mail agents the Central railroad,
that the Post Master General has ordered them to
leave all such letters at the next postolce to be
mailed the neat day.
AccIDENTs.-Wiam lie Teller, son of Mr.. Jno.
LIE Teller, of Charlottesville. had one of his fingers
shot off and his hand otherwise injured, by the
premature discharge of his gun, which he was load
Ing to shoot bats. j. T. Timberlake, son of Mr.. J.
h. Undertake, of Char. e, was unfortu-
nate as to cut off the end of his thumb and two fin.
gers OF his left hand while chopping with hatchet
FIRE.-The Jeffersonian informs as that the barn
of Mr.. Edgar w. Garth, of Albemarie, was destroy.
ed by fire one night last week The incend.ry, a
negro, has been arrested and lodged in Jail.
VIRG1N1ANs ABRoAD.-Mr Peter Carr. formerly
of Albemarle, has been elected State Senator in
Pike county district, Missouri He is an anti Ben.
ton, Democrat. Mr.. Dabney Garth, another Albe.
marie Democrat, has been elected to the Legisa
ture, for Randolph county, Missouri.
REvIvALs.-The Charlottesville Jeffersonian no.
tees revivals among the Baptists at Mechanics vile
Louisa county, at Liberty Mills, Orange county,
and at Pine Grove near Charlottesville also among
the Methodists in Orange, and at the Mount Moriah
church, in Albemarle. protracted meeting has
recently been held among the Disciples at Louisa
Court House, and several prominent citizens have
Joined that church.
RoBBERY-Mons. D'Afonce, of Charlottesv;l
was recently robbed Of his pocket book, containing
$50, while present at the Opera In New York
city.
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES The Lynchburg Re-
publican is pouring hot shot into an institution
which it says exists among certain lawyers Of that
city, under the name of commercial agencies. and
promises, unless there is reform, to "give chan
ter of secrets which cannot fail to interest the pub
lie and blast certain men who had better abandon
profession they disgrace"
STRUCK by LIGHTNING The barn owned by
Maj. VIM. Leckey, on Timber Ridge, Rockbridge
county, was struck by lightning last Sunday and
consumed
REv G w. CARTER, presiding elder of the Alex
andria circuit Of the NJ. E Church, South, has been
compelled to relinquish his duties in the pulpit by
reason of III health. He will, 1t lie stated, take
charge of a female institution at Petersburg
THE LATE FRANCIS w. RoysTER-The Penny
Post has an obituary notice OF Francis w. Royster,
Sr, who died at his residencein Goochland, on the
2s,h u in the 10th year of his age. In his youth,
when our Navy was in its infancy, and when Perry,
Somers, Warrington, McDonough, &c, had just re-
ceivcd their warrants, he conceived violent pas
sion for the service warrant was provided for
him ith little difficulty, and he was ON the point
Of starting for the sea when his mother, (at that
time his only parenp was taken with the sickness
which brought her to the grave. On her dea'h.bed
she requested that he would stay at home and take
care Of an orphan sister. That request was to him
law. lie instantly resigned his commission, and
sacrificed all the long cherished aspirstions Of his
youth, to what be considered sacred duty. He
remained at home, and although at the call Of his
country In 1914, he went with the aoochisnd troops
to Nor folk, and there did aliths service he could
passion for seclusion gre upon him 70 such
degree that Ia the end he became almost hermit
Ha xvs IL in6sYrnnd