The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-14
VIRGINIA.

N'. - 'a0nsc' hiegines, prsgressing In Alexaa
andria, and excites considerable interest
NEW PArEn.-Messrs. Clark and Axtord rrorc..
to publish weekly paper, Il Front ROYAL. war;
county, Va, TO be called tho Front Royal Ca
zette. Aa
SAD AccrDRNr.-Mr wm DIls and wife. Of Ple,.
SAINTS county, whilst riding in buggy recenslv. me.
with serious accident. The horse took fri,ht .,d
ran Off throwing them out Of the buggy. the dre,.
o. Mrs. Dils caughtin the wheel and she was dr,,
goa some distance, bruising and ipjuring her verv
seriously.
Hon. SHELTON r. LrAxR.-The por,.ro,,,.
transcript "a nuetral paper) advocates the nom
non OF Hon. s. F. Lsaks for tho Governorship of
Va. y
BARN BuRNT.-The barn of Mr.. Robert Watk;n.
at"Westrook, /" Charles City County, was set 6re
10 oy lightning on the 9th inst, and destroyed.
MOUNT vEnSoN ASSOCIATIONS "A patriotic l.dv
OF Norfolk Is handing around circular Il th.t -,
soliciting subscriptions towards the purchase If
Mount Vernon Her success has been ouite an
couraging. - =.
LOST ovERBoARD.-We learn from the Norfolk
beacon that man named VIM. ]. Riseins one of
the crew Of the schooner Brilliant was ,o.t o,.r.
board during blow on Wednesday morp;no off
FONT Lookout, while in the act of lasbing ,be
boat. 'A'
Posr OFFICE MArrKns.-The Office =, n..,,...
Sihe' haroy county, has been discontinued. James
Carter has been appointed postmaster al Stony Hin
hichmond county, vice T N. Balderson resigned.
George Saunders, postmaster at Bunker Hill, Bed.
lord county, vice G. L. Fuqua, resigned.
Pur IN FoR CoAL.-The steamship Tennessee.
Capt Parrish, from Charleston for Baltimore, put
in'o norfolk ON Thursday for . supply of coal.
me Beacon says she Is a handsome craft and no
doubt an excellent seaboaf, but her interior ac-
commodatons cannot compare with those of the
Roanoke and jamestown.
NAVIGATION OF THE DAN Mr. Marshall Parks
writes to the editor of the Milton Spectator that
since the subscribers to the Steamboat Company
have concluded not to contribute to the enterprize
Hwiil be out of his power to do anything with the
matter for the present, or until he gets the con.
currence OF the Legislature to the privileges grant
ca nim by the Roanoke Navigation Company, He
states however, that he has recently examined the
entire river and is fully convinced that the Dan Is
susceptible of steam navigation to limited extent
In Its present condition. H
ToBAcco-A small lot of tobacco, made in Henry
county, by Mr.. w. C. Terry, was sold in Danyille
recently at $3.50 per hundred 1t was bought bv
DR.. E. d. Withers. ~
Joseph Grahams barn. on Greenbrier river. Mon.
roe county, was burned to the ground on the night
of the 27th ut. h -
During the prevalence of high wind recently.
four hundred trees were blown down on the farm
OF George Londermilk, on Dropping Lick, Monroe
county. t
The corner stone for a new Lutheran Church
was laid in Dayton, Rockingham county, q few days
ago.
Mr.. BAIL E. CAN'T, of Fairfax, who was bitten
oy snake, whilst bathing near the Little Falls, has
recovered from the effects of the poison.
The Winchester Republican states that three pan.
Tiers were killed recently BY Joseph Vance, in
Frederick county, Va, between the Paddy and Ca.
pom mountains
Apolitical association has been formed in Clarke
county, under the impregnable name of Iron Heads
whose object 1t is to defend the Federal Constitr.
ton, maintain the rights of the States protect civil
and religious liberty, and preserve our glorious
Union. They solemnly pledge themselves to sup
port the Constitution, and extend . cordial wei.
come to the oppressed of all the civilized nations
of the earth.
The Southside Democrat stated few days since
that james Boyd had stabbed Warner P. Jones, in
Lynchburg. The Democrat of Saturday states, on
the authority of private letter. that the name of
the person who stabbed Mr. Jones was John Rum.
bough. R. has escaped, and Mr.. Jones is not ex-
pested to recover.
The City Council of Wheeling has set apart
Thursday next as day of humiliation and prayer.
The reports OF the arrest of Arrison, for the mur
der of the Asons in Cincinnati arose from the ar.
rest of DIR. Ward. The circumstances were as
follows
While riding In hack from eokuk to Carthage,
the conversation turned upon tho Torpedo" affair,
and he stated the fact The driver of the hack
Arrison. ON his return to Keokuk, started two men
in pursuit OF the Doctor. When they found him,
he was arrested, tied, and taken to Hamilton. He
did not know what the charge against him until
his arrival at Hamilton, when be had no difficulty
In proving himself not to be Arrison. The men who
arrested him showed no papers, and treated the
Doctor very roughly.
The second trial of Francis Dick, for murder, in
Dayton, Ohio, has resulted in q verdict of guilty
of murder In the first degree.
A girl named Ellen Curtis, residing 10 family
on West Saratoga street, Baltimore, was badly and
perhaps fatally burned BY an explosion Of cam.
phene lamp on Wednesday night last. She was
attempting to hll lighted lamp. under the impress
ION that she was filing II with incombuaible OIL.
Adolphus swaneger shot hisson Charles, Ia New
Albany, Ind, few days ago, killing him instantly
The difficulty 10 said to have been caused BY Inn
proper advances made by the young man towards
bis step.mother.
Col. Loring, who was recently killed BY Dr.. Ora.
ham, in New York, was . native Of Wilmington,
N. c., and removed many years ago to st. Angus.
tine.
Judge Morton has retired from The editorship Of
the National Democrat. New York. Its TO be con-
tinucd under the directions ofC. C Burr, Esq
The ST. Nicholas Tavsrn, corner Of Seventh and
Pine stress, Philadephia. was Destroyed BY ere on