The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-07

i coneruction Of the Covington aud Ohio Railroad.
The meeting appointed delegates to the Norfolk
Convention, and requested James Lyons, of Rich
mond, and Thomas Wallace, Of Petersburg, to act
a. aernates in the event OF the failure OF the dele
gates to attend
The editor of the Guyandotte Herald, aliuding
70 the meeting and its objects, says.
The right spirit prevailed. We know that the
people OF the three counties are able to keep this
State being tarnished What win the people of
i kentucky and Ohio say OF Virginia, If the news
should be published In short time that this great
workto which the faith of the State 10 pledged in
| tne most solemn form, has been abandoned. Lines
| o. Railroad have been projected In Kentucky and
ONO to connect with our great work, and some of
tnem are IN progress OF construcfion then let the
people section say to our sister States to 60
| On with these railroads, that we are determined
that the work shall not be suspended on the C. &
ORR. The sentiment inVirgnia is stronger in favor
ofthe G. & r R. to day than It has ever been and
we entertsn not the slightest doubt that at very
early day In the next session appropratonwill be
made to complete the work Without delay. There
still number of our most respectable contractors
work, and they propose to the people on the line,
that they will continue their contracts after the
| State appropriation has been expended, provided
they paid one half their estimates Surely the
people will meet SO generous proposition, In way
equally generous. 1t is now ascertained that the
money can be borrowed on the notes OF our respon.
sibe citizens and that payment win not be required
until the next Legislature shall have adjourned
win not the citizens of the three counties loan their
credit for the sum of $Ioo000a What better Sc
curity can they have than the faith of the State,
which has been pledged in the most solemn form to
| this work. We will at least go on and have the
road graded, and ready for the rail by the time the
next Legislature shall assemble.
THE ARcrIc's LIFE BoAT-On Saturday last the
life boat in which q persons were saxsd from the
| wreck of the steamship Arctic, was tested in
Philadelphia, at the request of Messrs. Collins of
New York. Fifty seven men got on board. and still
there was room for the oarsmen and twenty others.
The wind, at the time, was blowing "single-reef
topsail breeze The boat was pulled around
circuit of nearly half a mile, and rode up and
down the waves as gracefully as duck It was
generally conceded that seventy persons could
have been saved by this boat at the time the Arctic
was wrecked.
Loss OF THE ARcTIc-EFFEcr OF THE NEWS IN
PARIS "A letter from Paris says:
"The Americans in Paris have been terribly af-
icted at the loss of the Arctic. Our news of the
disaster came from Newfoundland, and was to the
rest lost we did not suppose for five days that
ray of hope existed for the rest. We now learn,
however, that the Canada, going into New York,
vaguely sgnalized to the Arabia that she had res
wreck. We cannot learn the fact for four days
more. Fully one hundred of the passengers either
went from Paris. were known at Parie, or leftfami
lies at Paris, and the distress and mpatience for
further tdings are very great"
A "LITrLE JoKE."-The source from whence
the false report of the capture of Sebastopol first
originated has been discovered. 1t was at first
| suspected that some unprincipled spectators in
Bucharest and Vienna had fabricated the news
but the following passage in a letter of the 25th,
received by the Ost DeutscAe Post from Constanti-
nople clears up the mystery:
At sunset report spread with the rapidty of
lightning through the city thata steamer had Just
brought the news of the taking of Sebas:opol by
the allies. Ithas, however, been discovered that
the author of this "litile joke" Is NJ. Sommariva,
the correspondent of Impartial de Snyrne The
effects of this silly fasehood we're, however, tre-
mendous.
ROYAL vIs1Ts.-It is stated that the tfnnpef6f and
Empress of France will visit England some time in
November, and that Queen Victoria and Prince AL
bert will return the visit in May next.
UsURY LAws.-The Chamber of Commerce OF
New York city have passed asbIll Representation
to the next Legislature on the subject of Usury.
Its provisions are as follows:
Sec l. No grant, transfer bond, note, bill of ex.
change, contract or agreement loan, forbear-
ance Of any money, goods things In action shall
be void by reason of any paying or receiving or
agreement to psy or allow such rate of interest
the parties may agree upon.
Sec g In all cases where the rate of interest Is
not specified, the inter shall continue to be at the
rate Of seven dollars upon one hundred dollars for
one year, and after that rate for greater or less
| sum or for larger or shorter time.
Sec No greater rate of interest than is specified
ia the second section of this act shall be charged
any judgment after the date of the rendition thereof
entered 10 any courts OF this State, although such
| judgement may have been forwarded upon wri.
| ting stipulating higher rate of interest.
| Sec. f. So much of interest, chapter fourth, and
part second of the Revised Statutes, and so much
of the laws of 1887 chapter 430 inconsistent
with the provisions OF this act are hereby re-
pealed.
| iNvAsIoN OF CUBA.-The New York Mirror Is
quite certain that Cuba is to be invaded. The edi-
tor says, in his paper of F riday laat--
| For several weeks we have been In possession of
positive Information that certain parties in this city
| men of intelligence and position-have gone to
Cuba for the purpose OF making necessary prepa-
rations to receive an expedition that 10 effectively
organized in this country, to saittor Cuba at day
| not very distant. The recent card published ia
kentucky by Mr.. Allen may have spoken the truth.
in regard to the disbandng the armed force there
assembled, but opine that 1t was merely intend
ed as blind to draw off attention which has been
directed to their movements.
| A POLICEMAN SrABBED.-On Fridsy night last, a
disturbance occurred In New York, and two police
officers arrested one of the parties engaged. He
was rescued by his friends, among whom was John
B. Holmes, a candidate for Alderman. Subsequent.
ly the officers attempted to arrest Holmes, who
stabbed one of them, named Guriey, inficting a
dangerous wound. Holmes then attacked the other
officer, who knocked him down with his club and
| arrested him.
ABscoNpEp-SamuelD D. scoyile, book keeper IN
the agency Of the Marine Bank at Macon, Ga, has
absconded with $4,000 of the funds of that insti
tuition. Two gentlemen Of Twiggs county, Ca,
are securities upon his bond for $1,000. II h sup
posed he isamaking bis way to a Tree State