The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-15

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WEST HANOVER PREsBYrEEY-This body met
IN Cumberland county. on the 9Th inst The Farm.
nle journal has the following notice of its proceed
ings:
Among the items of general interest was \ refer.
ence TO Committee, to enquire into the exped;en-
Sy OF dividing the Presbytery, now extending from
tains to Nottoway and Powhatan &C. y and the COM
mlaee Is further charged with the duty of defning
the 9 boundaries of the two proposed Presbyteries
Inc next meeting OF the Presbytery will be held
OF August next 81 : ~, - 80 -
TERRIBLE AccIDENT.-Mr. George Cover, over.
seer on the farm of the late Judge Thomas Buchs.
man, ten miles from Hagerstown, Md, was terribly
wounded on Saturday by the breaking Of the wheel
OF fhreshing machine. The pieces struck him
WIN great violence, fracturing his skull and the
upper and lower jaw bones. knocking out his teeth
ana destroying his eyes. He died on Sunday. 1t
appears the strap few off the jack wheel, and the
norses starting at furious speed, Mr. Cover placed
an axe handle between the wheel and the floor. in
order to stop them, which caused the accident He
leaves wife and nine children. .ti tc#
1ne alexandria Gazette learns that an Engineer
mas oeen directed to proceed forthwith to locate the
alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad
from Aiexandria to the west bank of the Shepan''
doah river The President of the road has submitted
communication to the City Councils of Washing
ton asking the corporation to subscribe $500 900 to-
wards branch railroad to Washington
BALTIMORE AND ONO RArLRoAD-The revenue
of this road for the month of March was as follows
Main item, $356, ,ss045; Washington Branch. s32
41701; total, $685., ,29755. This shows that the re-
ceipts on the main item in March over February
were 3d., 1855; and the Washington Branch
s7,l95.27 t.l!t
There are said to be some 1900 of the Jewish
faith in the United States. Their churches number
81 Probably 5000 Jews are to be found in the CITY
OF New York. We seldom find one in our prisons
or penitentiaries. They are not frequently found
In our hospitals. and never in our poorhouses.
There were dispatched from the Chincha Islands
during the month of Februsry, sixty.two vessels,
registering 36,537 tons leaving on the Ist ultimo
lat vessels loading, about to load at those ID.
lands. f 1sa ss
THANKs.-We are indebted to John Higgins. of
Adams & Co.'s Express, for papers in advance of
the mail T'42 a et= s-t
We learn from the Norfolk News that Augustus
Diggs, passenger on board the sloop Defiance, was
drowned last Saturday at New Point
FATAL AccIDENT.-Mr. Marshal Road, depot
master at Biddeford, Maine, was crushed to death
between two cars on the 18th inst, while he was
shackling them. He leaves family.
Mn CzoL e. u
ton for New Orleans, biged the northern edge of
Bahama Banks, on the 9th March, Also, another |
ship, bound from Boston tor New Orleans, name |
unknown. The crews were taken to Nassau
DEPARTURE OF THE CANADA.-The steamship |
Canada sailed from Boston for Liverpool Wednes |
day, with 28 passengers for Halifax 80 for Liver
pool, and 1871, 600 in specie. t
AFREE GosPEL.-The Louisville Examiner tails |
a story of q church member who had always been /
more remarkable for opening his mouth to say /
amen than opening his purse. He had, on one oc- /
casion, taken his usual place near the preachers
stand aud was making his response with great ad-
miration. After burst Of burning eloquence from
the preacher, he clasped his hands, and cried out
in kind of ecstacy, "Yes, thank God! have been
me twenty-five cents' 7"Bless your stingy soull''
was the preachers emphatic reply. a5aFaaZ 81
ExBIsHoP IVES New WoRK is announced from /
the press of Mr. Donahoe, the publisher OF the Bos-
ton Pilot, to be issued In week or two simultane
ously with its publication in London Its title is,
"The Trials of Mind In its Progress to Catholicism,
in Letter to his Old Friends, by L. Silliman Ives
LII. d. late Bishop" &c. twill contain more than |
two hundred pages. 9 ~ ~
Cassandra NJ Davis, who wandered off in an un-
sound state Of mind, was found on Tuesday morn
ing the 28th ult, secresed in straw stack upon
the farm of Mr.. Joseph Helm. She was exposed
for nine days and nights to the bitter incemency OF
the weather without food of any kind, and when
found, was alive and ablet to walk.-Loadoun Dem
ocyat. tf
Work SusPENDED-The Parkersburg Gazette
says that ell the work on the Cincinnafi and Msret
ia Railroad, west of Marietta, has been suspenoeo
and the hands discharged for want OF funds 70 30
ahead n L. Wilson, Esq, the fnancfer OF tne
company, left on the steamer few days since ior
England, for the purpose of negotiating bonds &c
poo~., .cv nv 4 FIx-A domestic, newly en- |
saoed uresented to his master one morning, pair |
Of boots, the leg of one Of which was mucn longer
than the other. s...f -.
II really don't know, sir but what 6otners me
the most Is that the pair down stairs are in the same
fix" .ss
meeting of the cisizens OF Winchester was held
ON Eriday last at which resolutions were passed IN
favor of corporate and Individual subscriptions 70
the Alexandra, Loudoun and Hsmpshtre Rail
road. ss ss8ssf
By the late advices from China, we learn that
Commodore Perry, with quite respectable force
az eleven vessels some two thousand men, and one
hundred and twenty i've guns, had departed on his
second visit to Japan.
E Bauder has been appointed Postmaster at Port
Royal Caroline county, Va, in placsof r. H. Pen.
dle.on, resigned.
Quaker said to gunner, sFriend, counsel no
bloodshed; but II i be Thy design to hit the luls
man 10 tho blue jacket, point thine engine three
inches lower.s - ~ q IS
Mr.. MeaEher. the Iriah Refugee, has written
letter 70 busy body who attempted % draw him
into slavery" avowal, saying tnst when he be:
comes according 70 hb decarafion ofiDtentions and
American citizen, be will Be preparea g sRsek .n