The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-15
VIRGINIA.

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The AcourTrAL or Cm1srrAx.-rha editor n
fefersours ExPress learns that the scouYt.I a
y. d. Christan wss received with demonsr.tio,.
OF JOY oy the inhabitants Of Liberty Bonfres ana
iiiuminafions were gotten up, and band of musc
aided the people in giving expression to their feel
ines OF qualification. Col Smith, Of tho Mjlit.rv
Institute, was burnt h efisy II 4 ssid but hi.
ceremony had better been omiaeed n h aprey,l
Ing fashion among the people Of the free states
which the South has heretofore condemned almos,
universally. estl sss ns.s<,
Cor. Dx RUssr, who has for sixteen years held
the situation Of Chief of the Engineer Dep.rtmen.
at Fort Monroe, has (we .learn from the Norfolk
Heraldl received orders detaching him from tina,
post and assigning him to the post at San Francisco,
where he to superintend the erection Of fortitica
tons for the defence Of that harbor Col. De Rus.
sy, we learn, viii be succeeded at Fort Monroe BY
| Col. John L. Smith, Of the Engineer Corps. s
Runaway WrrE.-A man named Coble ar
rived in Wheeling last week, from Newark, N. J..
In search of his truant wife, who was living IN
Wheeling with shoemaker calling himself Walter
Hudson, but whose real name is Josiah Bullifant.
The Intelligencer says. n =
| The woman left her liege lord and two children
in Newark, and, the husband says for causes unac.
countable to him, and made off with Bullifant who
had before deserted his own wife The woman is
saa % be quite good looking while her seducer Is
quite otherw1se. and no seems able to discover
why she left a respectable good looking husband
| iof such an uninviting looking man Ng
Her husband says his object is to prove her
gol1 IN order to get divorce. Bullifant was
| ton. o. - ",
MURDER CAsE.-George Francis, charged with
numbering Adam Knaur, in Wheeling, waived an
examination before the court last Monday, and was
committed for final trial at the next term of the
Circuit Court. His wife, charged with being an
accessory before the fact was examined and renap.
ded to prison. fg,s-i5fs
Six NEGRoEs, who were drowned in Shenandoah
river on the Sd inst were subsequently, recognized
Three of them belonged to Mr.. James Larue. of
Clarke county, two to Mrs. Elvira Fisher, of Eau.
quier, and one to DR.. Enos Hood, of Fauquier
Box RENr.-The postmaster at Norfolk has mott .
ned box holders that he will, after the LIST proximo
raise the price 100 per cent-that whereas he has
charged sl per annum, he will after that
| time charge $2
SPANISH VIsIToRs- Commander Juan de Dios
Ram Izguierdo, and Lieut. Josquim Jose Navarro,
| of the Spanish Navy, who arrived in Norfolk few
days since from Havana visited the Navy Yard and
| the u s. ship Pennsylvania on Tuesday, and were
rec eived with the usual honors and salute
WONDERFUL CHIcKEN.-A chicken with four
legs is exhibition In Petersburg If 1t lives says
the Southside Democrat as we have every reason
to believe it will, we understand it Is designed to
exhibit 1t at the ensuing fair, and we hope the in
tenon of the owner to make public this four ooter
will not be DETECTED.
NEW CorroN.-A bale of new cotton, from North,
ampton county, N. c., was sold in Norfolk, on
Tuesday, for ten cents per lb
gencer announces the death of Mr.. Thomas M. AL.
exander, lawyer of that city. M
DRowNED.-A negro, employed in livery stable
in Wheeling, rode into the river horseback, last
Friday night, for the purpose of washing the ami
NAL, when he was thrown from his seat and
drowned.
THE FEDERAL CouRr, recently In session at
Wheeling, adjourned on Saturday. Owing to the |
impassable condition OF the river the next appoint
msnt at Kanawha, cannot be filled.
THE PREMDENr AT CAPoN.-The Charlestown |
Spirit alluding to the Presidents visit at Capon |
Springs, says:
his plain and unostentatious, though dignifed man.
ner, his agreeable and interesting powers of con-
versation, no less than his manly appearance As /
this is his first visit to the Valley, we hope he may
be able as he expressed himself highly desirous of /
doing, of extending his visit through most of our
Valley the next season.
NEWSPAPER CHANGE.-Messrs William Lucas,
jr., and Simpson X. Donavin, have purchased of
Mr. Beller, the entire establishment of the Charles
town Spirit of Jefferson, and will assume the con-
troll of the paper forthwith.
NEW CARs-Two new and handsome cars have
just been placed on the track OF the Richmond and
Petersburg Railroad.
DIR. F. J. Metteaur, at present Professor of Che. |
mistry, in Hampden Sidney College in this State,
has been elected to the chair of Chemistry and Ma
tural Philosophy in the University of Mississippi
ERRoRt CoaREcrED.-An erroneous statement
which is going the roundsiof thej papers, to the
effect that negro named Sprigg was murdered
near the Black Heath Pits few days ago, was acci
denially copied in the Dispatch yesterday. The |
fact Is, we learn, that sprigg himself stabbed q
negro named William, who subsequently, died.
OvraBoAHp.- Norfolk Argus states that on |
Monday evening last while Mr.. Sullivan, steward |
ot the revenue cutter Crawford, was aiding by |
kindly Offices the Iocomosion ofthe sailing master Of
the preble, (the latter being somewhat oblivious
from the effects of liquor, and was holding him
firmly 10 prevent his falling into theIrver the SAIL
ine nas.er became enraged, drew a knife and pis
soI and used very violent and Objectionable lam
euage to s., who being active and athletic man,
dealt him powerful blow on the head that sent
him overheard, where he was unceremoniousiy
left. He was rescued however, by the men attach
ed TO the vessels at the wharf. The sase wastried
before the Mayor the next morning and disrnissed.
DEP AxruHx or THE SANTA ANNA.-Ihe Mexi
can war steamer Santa Anna cleared at New York
on Tuesday for Vera Cruz.
AcaurrrEp.-Captain Samuel Montgomery, pro
secuted at Lexington, Kentucky, for nanslaughter
for the deaths caused by the explosion Of the steam
ar Reindeer, has been acquitted.
DxArH-Mr. E. r. Templeman, N esteemed
citizen of Natchez, Miss, died ON the 9th ult.-
We notice this fact for the Information Of bis
friepda In Richmond 5z iN5