The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-11

charged 50 cent? pei square Of ten nssio The ffs
fnseftion, and Is cents for esch confinnsneey
wheat is attributed 10 the fact that msmun pftess
have ruled the market this year usfiI Iafaty esus
| ing the wheat in the country to Be- hsld bsck
October. 1853. 1854.
whea. shipped, 5l,5la bu.has. 1s,ass scsh1s.
Flour 9.090 bbls. 1892 bbIs
Man'd Tobacco 1,3050s7 lbs. s5097l lba.
| Leaf Tobacco 442,36I 6HW "1
DEcEAuD.-wsresres to learn fhat NJ. Johs L.
ChinD. well known and useful citizen. disd = his
residence in Stafford county on Monday evsolog
last, after protracted illness ,as
THANKservrSe.-TheMsy Mayor of Portsmouth has
set apart the 23d of November a. day Of Thanks-
giving. s,., ,vssf
EFFECTS OF LIGHrsING.-The Norfolk Bascon
relates the following So ~
friend tells Us that soon after the late thunder
storm, he went out in the woods near his house im
Nansemond, and while examining tree tbeS had
been struck by the lightning, discovered aock Of
patridges, ten in number, dead at It's foot.
Broke JArL-Three men from Marion county,
confined in the jail at Pruntytown, escaped recent
y BY burning through the door 20 a. to reach and
draw the bolt. Their names are Shaw, Pence and
Thompson. The sheriff awoke in time to save ths
jail from destruction BY fre =
IsJuNcrroN CAsE.-Thecasso Of the cl1cfW WhDeI.
ing ve. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, had
not been concluded on Tuesday. st
THE MoRMoNs s.-MovEMxNr OF THE U. SrATKs
TRoors, &c.-On August 3lst, Col E. J. Steptoe
arrived in Great Salt Lake City, en- route for Cali.
fornia, having under his command about IT'S sol.
diers, $50 employees, 100 wagons and carriages,
and about 1000 head of horses and mules-all IN
fine spiries and condition. They take winter quar-.
ters In that city. 1t appears, however, from the
following statement that the officers have been re.
fused admittance to the Mormon Female Society:
The command. as a general thing, has been we'll
received by the Mormone. A great iealousy, how
ever. seemed to exist towards the officers respect.
ing the wives, daughters snd concubines Of tho
Saints few days after the arrival Of the troops,
the people were advised and commanded IN the
Deseret News, the organ of Governor Young, NOT
allow their families to associate with the sraDgers
Except the epauletted Gentiles became baptized
they could not expect to move in female socieAy.
Neither is Mormon corn to be allowed to the Gen.
tiles, for on the following Sunday Orson Hyde CALL
ed upon the congregation assembled In the taber.
nacle to "raise the price Of grain the strangers,
to which the congregation replied "Amen." In
consequence VI uUVcy Ill tue uOFo68 tnot can
be spared were to be sent out to Craze instead of
being stable fed.
1t is said that many families have seeded from
| the church and gone to the States. and that hum
dred would follow them If they were able. Ths
system of concubinsge has become repulsive to
| many, who knew nothing of the peculiar institu-
| ton" when they left their homes. As there is no
limit to the Presidents wives, and as he 10 building
| a new and magnificent harem, no beautiful young
woman is safe from his elances, SO devoted b the
Prophet Governor to "raising up pure and per.
feet generation to the Lord" sie iis3s -
| An American named Ausley has been arrested
in Paris under the extradition treaty charged with
| forgeries upon bank in New Orleans.
| Mr.. VIM. H. Harrison, who was beaten by tie
rioters in Williamsburg, N, Y, on election day,
died ON Wednesday of bis injuries. Mr.. John n.
Smith, whose skull was fractured while endeayor.
ing to extricate Harrison from the mob, i, not ex.
pected to live.
John B. Holmes has been committed for exami-
nation in New York. on charge of killing David
Gourley, policeman. Holmes is In feeble health.
In the case of Capt James Smith, on trialin New
York on charge of traficking in slaves, the tes-
timony for the prosecution was closed ON wednes.
day, and the testimony ed for the prisoner
ae OF the principal features of the defence shat
the accused Is not citizen of the United States,
and therefore not amenable to the act Of Coneress
| under which he was indicted. A els&
THE Rock ISLAND RAILROAD ACCIDENT The
first reports of the number killed by this calamity
od he foIlo IL IT,
of the dead, from late number Of the Chicago
Journal:
P, Cure Chicago; Catharine Laughlin and Laura
L. Laughlin, child rem of VIM. C. Laughlin; Marga-
| ret c. Lauehlin (wie,) John Branor, Clinton Co,
Ill John q. Carpenter, Poughkeepsie, N. "; Mrs.
Cox, Washington Co., lows; Auguste +. Cox, child
| of Mrs Cox. t6 5fs.ffs.
Quite large number of persons were injured.
seme badly. The above list, however, comprises
all the names of the dead up to the 4th of Novem.
Der.
The steamer Pennsylyanla has been re6tted to
run between PhiladeIphia and Richmond. She h
now capacious vessel. The cost of reftsing has
been sa, 600
Samuel D. Lecompte OF Maryland, has been
appointed by the President, Chief of the Territory
of Kansas.
Mr.. Shields Husfey, volunteer In the Palrnetto
regiment during the Mexican war, died In Column
bia, 8. c., on Sunday last
Edward Grow, alias CROWN, has been committed
for trial in New Orleans, on charge Of killing .
man named Scanlan. E,ses Af
bridge on the Baltimore and Suequehanna
Railroad, five miles south of York, was destroyed
by fire on Wednesday last. o.
The editor of the Charleston Courier pronounces
the play of Camille inspid and trashy compound
of sickly sentimentality
A HUNGRY MAs.-The Albany Knickorbocter
thus describes the eating performances Of dis
charged convict from the penisentiary: 81 s
"He entered the house Of Mr.. McCluskey asd
called for supper. He eat down to q table loedfd
with all kinds of refreshments, and a. be gszed
around him smile seemed to Pity upon HE han
CRY phix. Before he arose, he drank four cups o
coffee, ate one entire loaf Of bread, halt pound
OF butter, six pigs feet onetongue, eight crulieys
one large dish OF cabbage, &c. He then rose, wil1
| great eese. and refused TO paY Tor what Ia ~