The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-06-02
SPIRIT THE PRESS

~Acsofs dulnrte ana
Lynch, relative to the transmission of .,.c;. W..
quote:
"The Hhig disputes the AUTHORITY of the sa,r.
tary, to deposit specie here and in liz frantic ra,
threatens him with the penalties of felony If Sec,
retary Corwin had the power to lend Mr.. simeon
draper two millions of dollars as fund for purno.
ses OF private speculation, and half million TO
ahother political and personal friend in Ohio which
mat friend embezzled, fortiori has Secretary
1u,nrle authority to deposit government money
WIN the assistant treasurer at Richmond"
MOI desiring, however, to plead the practices of
wing ofhciais in extenuation OF the conduct of
democratic functionaries. the Enquirer quotes the
&C. OF Congress passed February q, 1853, making
II lawful 70 transmit parcels of coin from time to
She' TO the assistant treasurers repositories, and
otner officers of the United States under general
regulations, proposed by the Director of the Mint
and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury
Inc Hh'g alludes to the proposition of the Sen
ate, on motion Of Senator Gwin, that the two
Houses of Congress shall adjourn on the 3d os
July, and wonders if the Senate can be serious.
While the object is desirable, there is little proba
bility of its coming TO pass. The Wing is net SO
sure that anything they can do in the way of hard
work between this and the end of the session will
satisfy their constituents for what they consider 80
gross waste OF time, from the day of their assem-
bling down to the present time; but does not wish
to discourage them and therefore advises them to
go to work in right good earnest and adjourn as
soon possible
The Mail has several editorials in alluson to the
Boston Slave case. Seward, Greedy, Parker, and
all that gang of traitors, charged with the re-
sponsibity of Batchelders murder
The Penny Post devotes a leader to the Boston
riOf md 1hcop
ing the same point.
HONOR TO THE lRIsH.-It having been stated that
John c. Luer, leader of the abolition rowdes, In
Boston, was Irishman, Thomas Sweeney repu-
dates the assertion through the columns of the
Herald, and says
"Since the passage of that questionable enact
ment the fugitive slave law, it has been openly and
violently resisted and violated in this city and else
where, by the descendants of the Puritans only
but in no instance have Irish adopted citizens co.
operated with them. The citizens of Boston, of
Irish birth, have taken solemn oath to sustain the
constitution and laws Of this glorious Union-and
to their honor be it spoken, they never have, and
never will be found to act inconsistepty with the
proper observance of that solemn obligation"
Mrs. RoBINsoN.-The following incidents are re-
lated of the conduct of Mrs. Robinson, subsequent
to her conviction of murder at Troy:
''On the way to the Jail Mrs. Robinson laughed
and loked about the scene that she had just passed
through. During the whole day, though at times
much excited, she often conversed earnestly with
her counsel and the sheriff, and whenever Judge
Hogeboom INDUCED in keen stroke of satire or
sally OF wit, the prisoner was among the loudest
and heartiest OF those who laughed We heard
her laugh repeatedly.
Yesterday [Sunday] she was found dressed
throughout in a costume of spotless white arrang.
ed with scrupulous care and neatness. She walked
hnrr
say, with great energy and determination, though
not directing her remarks to any person" He
shall never pronounce sentence against me! No,
never p'
When Dr. Hegeman, the Deputy Sheriff. visited
her yesterday morning, she said to him. laughing
You'll have nice time putting the rope around
my neck, old boy p.
MURDER John Vogt, a German. residing in
Memphis was shot dead while sitting in his house
few days ago. by young man named Carter The
next day Carter was brought before an examining
court, when large crowd assembled under intense
excitement and cried out for the speedy destruc.
ton of the prisoner. The officers, however, sue
ceeded in quieting the multitude, and lodged the
prisoner in jail
THE LATE JUDAH ToURo.-The n O. Picayune
of the 26th ult says:
ave learn that the body of the lamented Judah
Touro will betaken on board the steamship Empire
City this morning, on its way to Newport where it
Is to be inferred, in accordance with the wishes of
the deceased. twill be accompanied by the Rev.
Mr.. Guheim and Mr.. kursheedt who is on his way
to Europe, to carry out the testament of Mr..
Touro"
WEST POINT CADETs-In the list of newly ap-
pointed Cadets to the U. S. Military Academy at
West Point, we observe the names of R F. Butham
John Campbell c ]. Morgan, Peter ]. Harston
and Isaac Wheeler, of Virginia. The appointments
take effect from the goth of June, 1854.
POTATOES IN CALIFoRsIA-The San Francisco
correspondent of the New York Journal of Com
merce under date of May l, says that one year
ago, potatoes were worth in that market Is cents
per pound, now only half cent per pound We
note sale of large lot at Santa Cruz for the
sum of fifty dollars The same lot, one year since
would have brought between forty and fifty thou
| sand dollars"
A DENIAL.-The Union contradicts the statement
that Mr.. Buchanan. U. s. consul to La Rochelle,
who sailed from New York Saturday, carried
out dispatches from our government to Europe. 1t
further says he had official letter, even to any
minister abroad.
The Emperor Nicholas has called his brother-in-
law, the King of Prussia, IAN Angel of Peace"
Punch says that an angel-after the Russian view
has. of course, two wings one OF infantry and one
of artillery!
The will of Mrs Jane Wilson, of Steubenville
Ohio, has been broken, thus giving her relatives
property to the amount of $2l4 600. She had be-
queathed it to the Foreign and Home Missionary
Societies OF the Presby yteTian Church. The Will
was contested on the ground that she was not OF
sound mind.
Letters from France say that the vines in Cham
payne have been much injured by the frost, and
that there will be but small quantity OF Wine
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