The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-03


Z, OCTOBER 3, 1854
VIRGINIA.
surcrDE.-The Paersburg Express learns tla
mr.! T. Harrison, Of BrunswicE, shot himself ias
wednesday. Cause mot stated. He has left 4
family.
cAMHLA URso.-This young lady, whose pow
:" q vionist are most extraordinary. having
oeen ieif, in Petersburg, together with her father
~ des itute circumstances. BY the pyima donna ab
sot1fa, see Of the influential citizens Of that place
propose gesing up concert in Ptenix Hall nex,
| ihursday night for her benei..
| iscENDfARIsM-In Aiexandria, on Friday nishl
| iast, an old frame building used - . stable and
ssorehonsc by Hume, MarshaH & King, wa
set on ire and destroyed, together with some 200
sacks Of salt stored therein. Fully injured.
HeMPFrELD RAuRoAD.--The work on the Hemp
neld Railroad has been suspended at many points,
owing to the present depression of railroad honda.
The Wheeling Inteligencer ,hinksthat two months
OF uninterrupted work along the whole line would
put the road Ia running order 49,. 81
FATAL AccIDENT-On Thursday morning last,
/ man, named Peter Hambsl, was run over by the
cars on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, near
Ritchietown. He was taken to Wheeling where he
died Is
REuvALs. The Salem Register states that saIu
tary revivas OF religion have been progressing re-
Gently In several Of the Methodist Churches in
Roanoke county. atSgs
SERVICE OF PLATE.-The Board of Aldermen of
Charlottea Vile ha va oufbor;,ad tho
service of plate not exceeding $3.50 In value to be
presented to Drury Wood, esq, who for the Inine
months preceding the month of August last, was
Mayor of the Corporation 81
RocKrNGHAM REGIsTER.-This valuable pepper
commences its thirty third year in new typoera-
phical suit, and with enlarged dimensions. When
the publication of the Register was commenced IL
was the smallest paper in the State, and had less
than hundred subscribers. Now it epioys libe.
raj patronage, and Ia of the largest papers in
the State.
The VALLEY DEMOCRAT, published at Harrison
burg, appears In hew type and In an enlarged form
This paper is conducted with ability, aud we hope
the proprieors will find their editorial road an easy
one to travel
Dr.. TIIos DUNN ENGLISH excepts to the descrip.
Springs, who speaks OF him as "a queer looking
little man with moustache," who was an actor in
his earlier days. The Doctor writes to the Kanawha
Republican thus
Now, it is possible that / may be queer locking,
though my wife informs me that she thinks other
wise; and am doubtless litle being only feet 10
inches in height: but can assure him that have
never been an actor either in my youth, manhood
or old age, and as am now venerable old cotper of
hIrtu ~ nryUkv4h hut tfCk L,
acquainted with my own history. 1t is true that
Shakespeare says
"Ali the worlds stage,
And all men and women merely players"
Ia that sense we ell act; but otherwise the onlv
stage upon whose boards have trod has been the.
stage coach. -
NEW ELEcTIoN-A new election for Sheriff of
Orange County, Va has been ordered This will
be the third election recently held in that county
for the same Ctice.
FAIn.-The fourth annual exhibition of the Valev
Agricultural Society will be held on the Socistyis
grounds, half a mile from Charlestowu on Thurs.
day and Friday, the nineteenth and twentieth of
October. The list OF premiums ia varied and COM
plete. ss-.
FAUoUIER CoURr.-Pierce, who shot his father.
at Paris, some weeks ago, was examined at this
Court, and sent ON for trial. His counsel made a
strenuous effort to represent his case as one of
mania potu, which would destroy his accoupta.
bility in the eye ofthe law.
Grayson, the free negro, committed for robbery.
tried and sentenced to the Penitentary for TWO
years.-Piedm0at Whig. q
IMPROVEMENT OF THE KANAwHA-Last week
Mr.. Ellis, the President of the James River and
kanawha Canal, Gen. Layne, the Superindent of
the James River and kanawhs improvements 10
the West, and Mr. Fisk, the Chief Engineer of the
Covington and Ohio Railroad, in COMPANY with
captains Paine and Farley, experienc d and intel
lieent river men, made q very thorough examina.
tion OF the existing works on the river, with view
OF reporting to the next meeting OF the stockhold
ers of the Company feasible plan for the tho
rough improvement in the navigation from the
Falls to the Ohio. We have NO doubt the report
Mr.. E!lis will make on the subject will be an able
one-the improvements recommended will be such
as are clearly pointed out by experience, and
adapted to the demands Of the business at present
done upon the kanawha river.-Kanaacha Repud-
liedn, Sept. 81.
The London Journals give copious details of the
grand review army at Boulogne, at which the EN-
peror Napoleon was present with Prince Albert
and of the departure of the latter for England
The reception of the Prince was most enthusiastic
and when he embarked from Boulogne the illumi-
nations, fireworks, and rejoicings were on very
grand scale. A farewell banquet given by the
Emperor, remarkable for it's taste and magnif
cepce At this banquet the Emperor, 10 proposing
the health of the Queen Of England, said" have
the honor TO propose toast, our most intimate
ally Her Gracious Majesty the Queen of England
Under the two fegs of France and England, which
are as the bow OF promise to liberty the yoke of
the Despot viii presently be broken" Prince Al
bert replied" The kind reception which have
found In your Empire will never fade from my me-
mory. reckoned confidently on your Imperial
Majesty, but the enthusiasm ofthe French people
my behalf has very much surpassed my most san.
guine expectations. Let us hope your August Ma.
jesy will crafty by visiting the shores OF
Albion, where the English people, am sure. will
Msjesty."
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