The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-22

"' ~" $50 'foe'n Nreefs, Baltimore; between
two rival aihshing clubs, composed mostly of youths
Az one party was passing quietly along headed BY
drum and fife, they were indiscriminately attack
ed by rival gang who it appears were secreted in
the several alleys in the vicinity The attack was
made with stones, bludgeons, pistols, &c. Tbere
were no less than forty or fifty shota fred but no
mention is made of any one having been injured.
BEHAN, THE MURpERER 1T Ia stated that Bebsn.
the murderer of the Wickham family on Long IL.
land, has become very unruly in prison-so much
90 that he has to be tied down to the floor The
Sheriff of the County has received intimation to
the effect that some Of the prisoners countrymen
are making preparations to rescue Behan, and be-
lieving 1t to be true, arrangements have been made
to Illustrate any such attempt.
FATAL AccIDENr.-M. Wakelee, Of Derby, Conn.,,
a fireman the Nangatuck Railroad, was killed
last Monday morning near Seymour. He was oil.
ing the locomotive and fell npon it, when the pin o.
the end of the piston entered his bowels and tore
out his intestines. He survived only a few min
utes.
MUsIcAL.-Some of the very pious people OF N.
York find great deal of fault with Barnum for
having allowed sacred concert to be given within
the holy walls of the Crystal Palace, last Sunday
evening. Barnum says he never contemplated
giving more than one'concert tha. such concerts
are no new thing, buthaye. the appreciation Of the
refined and good of all nations; and that too many
of the peopleof N. York were under much worse
influences that evening, than those inspired by mu.
eic and art Very. likely.
HEAVY Loss.-Israel Stein, pedlar, residing at
Albany, crossing Schoharie creek near the village
of Schoharie, N. Y, in May last lost his jewelry
box in the stream and has not yet been able to find
it. The box contained about SO 500 worth of pro
perty, besides large sum in promissory notes.
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ARRIVED HoME-The United States Deputy
Marshal, John II. Riley, and his assistants, have
arrived at Boston, from their Southern tour. The
Boston Post aludes to the kindness and hospitality
extended to them here, in appropriate terms.
FATAL REsULr-Mr Nelson Crow, proprietor
of the Howard House, Baltimore, died on Tuesday
from injuries received on the Susquehanna Rail-
road few days since.
PERHAM's "GIFT" ENTERPRISE IN TROUBLE
The Committee of Distribution of the Perham Gift
Enterprise, in New York, have had a quarrel re-
specting the division among themselves the gifts
remaining over. One of them made a complaint at
the Police Office and the whole party except Per
ham, who was absent, have been arrested and held
to bail in 50 900 each for trial.
SINGULAR ACADEMIA lad named Gully was
walking last Sunday evening near an iron fence in
Holland street, Baltimore, when boy in the street
made gesture as if about to throw a stone at him
lrip rlitrfo
spears of the fence, and terrible wound was the
consequence.
Richard M. Eskridge, of Sumter county, Ala,
has been sentenced to eleven years imprisonment
in the penitentiary crime, mayhem on slave It
appears that Eslridge was intoxicated, and about
to whip the slave she retreated, with in her
hand he seized his gun and shot her in the leg
just below the knee, rendering amputation neces
sary.
The court then charged the jury that if they be.
ieved from the evidence, that the defendant inten
ded, unlawfuly and maliciousy, to disable the leg
of the slave he was guilty OF the CHARGE that the
master had not absolute dominion over the slave,
and to authorize resort to such extreme force, he
must show that he has acted in selfdefence that
the slave in state of rebellion and the means
used were absolutely necessary to reduce her to
subjecton.
After retirement of some S or 10 minutes, the
Jury returned a verdict of guilty.
DURABLE BUILDING MATERIAL-Limestone is
composed of carbonc acid, pure lime, and small
amount OF silica; It is OF various colors from pure
white to jet black, and is a stone very easily
wrought, softer than any other building stone, un
less it be soapstone, and very readily receives
high polish, which tor long time resists the action
of the air and water In fact it is of the most
durable of materials since most of the very ancient
buildings of the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians,
which still exist, are constructed oft.
DEATH PENALTY FOR DEsERTIoN-A private sol.
dier was shot at Fort Henry, Kingston, C. w, on
Monday last, for deserton. We were not aware
that even in the English service the article of war,
Furnishing desertion with death, was enforced dur
ing peace In our army, tiogging is the extreme
penalty Of the crime Of desertion, except during
actual war, and even then is often superseded by
confinement.
1t is said that the empress at the Tuilleries in
interview with several Americans, among them Mr..
Mason, u. S. minister, remarked that If she were
queen of Spain she would 'go to the last extremity
in resistance to the United States" This gossip is
one of the sources of the report that France will
lend her forces to back Spain in case of a war on
account of Cuba. The conversation OF ladies upon
public affairs is not usually of very great impor-
tance; and if Eugenie did use the expression, it
proves nothing more, we apprehend, than that she
has Spanish blood in her veins and is disposed, as
women sometimes are, to resist before an attack is
made.-Boston Post.
cester (England) paper, we clip the following:
On Wednesday last Mr. Richard Greaves farm
er, near Northwood-heath gate, parish of Kings
Norton, turned sixteen cows into one of his Inea.
dows, where quantity Of saffron grows. All the
animals were Immediately taken Ill, and eleven
died in the course of the same day.
SUICIDE AT THE OPRRA.-A letter writer from
Paris, (France,l says: The audience at the Grand
Opera, ON Monday evening, 5th inst, were thrown
into an alarm by the report OF hre-arm in one of
the boxes. Strange enough, Prussian officer, aud
not Frenchman had taken public and theatrical
departure from the world BY placing pistol to his
head and blowing out his brains.
SNoBBERY-Some one having read an article on
suobbery in the Journal of Commerce, sends the
following communication to the editors of that pa
per:
Messrs Editors-You seem to have forgotten
your Classics. In the article on Heraldry, in yes
terday's Journal you suggest a coat of arms for a
retired to5acconist The celebrated Sheridan was
applied to by one of Plum" tobacconist Of his day
for a motto for his panel, and the wit gave him a.
appropriate, "Quid Rdes"-AaSlice, What are
you laughing atfl--Joe Miller. p 172.
Quid Is a iulcrum on which a great number OF
levers, for the purpose of helping the removal OF