The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-07-27
RICHM MOHD, VA
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THURSDAY MORNING. JULY q. 1851.
HE SAN JUAN AFFArR There is doubt express
cd In reference to the reported bombardment ol
san Juan. Some believe the report to be exagge
rated. Nevertheless 1t comes well authenticated
having been brought direct by the Prometheus, and
furnished to the press by her officers
The Philadelphia Ledger thus alludes to the of
fair:
Wnat VIII be the upshot OF this business we do
not see. San Juan, or Greytown. is within the
!u,lsdlction ofno particular State It ia kind OF
ancepenaent colony. settled by English and Ameri-
cans and holding what territory they claim from a
grant by the Mosquito King. The authorities oil
~ ,ne soWn have been long while in dispute with the
.raneit company over the Nicaragua route, grow
ing OUT OF business arrangements, and both parties
nave probably been giving provocations to each
other. The cause of Mr. Borlands interference
was 70 resist the authorities attempt tn arrest the
captain OF one of the Nicaragua Company's steam.
ers who shot native in the river, it is said in self
The authorities insisted upon the delivery of the
captain Into their hands to be tried for murder Mr.
Bcrland denied their authority. and when he went
ashore they mobbed and otherwise insulted him.
They have paid rather dearly for their temeliiy.
VIRGINIA SILK IN LoNDoN-A medal awarded
by the London Worlds Fair to John w. Gill, of
Wheeling, Va, for his domestic silk, has been re.
ceived by that gentleman. The letter accompany
ing it says:
"The coarser staple products of the United States
were expected but it caused no little surprise to
see silks coming from the wild West that riyalled
the finest fabrics from the looms of London and
Lyons But the result of the great exhibition OF
1851 did much to illustrate the truth that the dig
nifty OF labor Ia the true stimulus of art and real
progress to the child of liberty"
READY-MADE GRAvEs.-The unusual demand
upon the labors of the grave-diggers in Philadel
phia has led them to adopt the practice of keeping
ready-made graves for SALE They dig large grave,
twelve feet in depth, each of which is occupied by
five tenants; all, of course of the poorer classes
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PLENTY OF TINA novel case came before the
US. Commissioner in Philadelphia on Tuesday
VIM. Taylor, an old counterfeiter, short time ago
was sentenced to Moyamensing prison. and being
an expert workman was placed in the tinnery de
partment. Whilst in prison he made Counterfeit
ten cent pieces, and had them circulated through
confederates.
At fire in Seekonk, Mass, on Wednesday night
Mr.. Ingraham lost all his books, papers and &C.
counts together with the goods in his store amount
ing in the aggregate to about $50, 900, and upon
which there was no insurance.
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA.-The President and
Trustees of the University of Alabama have ex
pressed an opinion in favor of modifying the system
OF education in that institution conform as near
as circumstances will allow, to the arrangement in
the University of Virginia
Gen. James Watson Webb sailed last Saturday
in the Baltic for Europe, probably on a second
mission about the Guyandott coal land speculation.
This, however, is bad time to go to England to
solicit subscript ions to stocks of corporations in
the United States
Mutvt1vhv uperu troupe, performing at Castle
Garden, New York, is generally regarded as fai
lure. The ladies ofthe company are only third or
fourth rate, and but for the tenor, Beraldi, aud
the baIytone, GRAHAM, the performances would
be miserable.
CHILD MURDERED BY ITS FATHER.-Martin
Coughlan residing on the Liberty road, near Balti
more, on Sunday last beat his little daughter Mar
tha with heavy hickory stick in such a manner
that she died twelve hours afterward. The inhu.
man monster was committed to prison in Baltimore
to await trial.
Mr. Cain Wells, an old citizen of Greenville dis
trct, 8. Co. few days ago called to one of his ne
groes to load his gun. He then went to his sons
shoe shop, where placing the gun to his head ne
blew out his brains. He was not expected to live,
at last accounts.
DRowNED.-Charles II. Brown, aged about 18
years, was drowned in Chester river, near Queens
town, whittier he had gone to enjoy sail, on Sun
day last. His father is a member OF the firm Of
Brown e. Scringer, of Baltimore.
In Havana, on the 9th inst. young lady named
Rosano Montalvo Romero, who was about eighteen
years of age, the daughter of one of the most res
pectable families in Cuba, and who was highly
educated and extremely beautiful girl, was burned
to death while attempting to fila spirit lamp.
Charles Greenhill was murdered on the night of
the 18Th inst in New Orleans by John Kinds, a
boarding house keeper. Kinds was arrested
Salvi, the singer, who was reported dead, was,
we learn by last advices from Mexico in good
health.
Thorndike Rand, who was detected in embez-
cling the funds of the Suffolk Bank in Boston, some
three years since, and who contrived to escape,
died recently in Surinam.
The people of Trenton, Tenn, have voted in favor
of corporate subscription of $25, 600 to the Mem
phs and Ohio Railroad.
Rev. ]. w. Mcfarland, of the Methodist Church
died in Memphis on the nth instant, of typhoid
fever. .s'..l@.
John G. Fisher, one of the firm OF Bininger Co.,
ofNew York. died Of cholera at Montreal last Sstur
day.
The Angel Gabriel held forth in the park, In New
York, hast Sunday. There was no disturbance.
SECOND THonGHrs BEsr.--A brace of Canadians
who had lived together fourteen years recently De-
lo