The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-28

we learn tnas the jury In the case oI WHieAA -
Winn, on trial at Lexington for the murder q
X ,bert ]. Moore, failed to agree and were On
siarged. We have received no farther particu-
lars.
TheNorfolk Argus, of Tuesday, has the follow
lag statement relative to the assassination OF Mr.
Augustus McAlpine, In Princess Anne county:
Mr. McA left the Court House for his residence on
horseback. at BALI past O'Clock Friday evening"
and on Saturday morning at about oc.oct his
from the Court House, bearipg evidsne. of most
deep wound. in the throat. breast, and abdemsn q
Of which. it is said. would each have proved
There was . wound through the heart, over which
hi: hand was resting when the body was found and
most brutal attsck-the determination Of the assas
sin evidently being to leave no breath OF lite 10 Ins
yietim Suspicion having fallen upon Mr. A WI -.
Court House, he was arrested on Saturday afternoon
and after examination before Justices Jonathan Hun
ter, Esq, and DR.. Walter s. Way, which continued
until O'Clock Sunday morning, the accused was dis
charged frsm custody. We learn that there are
circumstances calculated ethen the sus
picons excited but we orbear to give tbs particulars
at present. This commission of the murder was evil
d'nty very del;berate-the sole purpose having been
to kill for there marks of struggle. and the
pocket book Of the deceased, containing money and
papers was left undisturb sd. The excitement in the
here for the untImelv fate of the deceased who
only about twenty-five years OF age and also for bis
family, he leaves an estimaele lady and & two ch
formed that Mrs MICA who is in delicate health,
and who had been painfully impressed with the fear
that some accident had befallen her husband. was
overwhelmed by the mournful intelligence of his
cruel death, falling PROSTATE and apparently almost
eIess beneath the sadden and heartrending stroke.
The Abingdon Democrat, of Sept 23d, says:
The dysentery has been distressinely fatal In the
neighborhood of Hansonyille Russell county, with
in the last few weeks, and particularly among chill.
dren.z twenty-five children had died up to Tues
day evening last, within circle of two miles of
Hanson ville-the eldest not more than nine years
of age. In addition to these there has been con.
siderable mortality among older persons. The
neighboring town of Marion and other portions of
Smyth county, has likewise suffered dreadfuly.
The Agricultural Fair for Washington county
will commence at Abingdon on the 4th of October.
A Fair for Wythe county is to be held on the 1lth
of October.
Mr. Jacob Ham, an old resident of Hampton, died
in Norfolk last Sunday morning.
Kunkel's Troupe are performing to crowded
houses in Lynchburg.
They have distinguished stranger In Alex
andra, in the shape of large grizzly BEAR brought
to that place In a vessel.
A German, named Henry. was found dead In
Alexandria on Sunday. Verdict of the coroner's
jury-death by exposure.
Blue wings, sora, partridges hard and soft crabs,
perch and rockfsh, are abundant in the woods and
waters about Alex andria.
Chills and fevers prevail to considerable exten,
along the upper Potomac, and the streams running
into the river.
J. C. Pettus has been appointed Postmaster at
Charlottesville, Spottsylvania county, vice VIM
81. Kennedy resigned. The post Office at Bowyer's
Knob, Fayette county, is discontinued.
LATER FROM CH1NA.-The China Mail of June
% says:
The disturbance in Pwan yu, bordering Whampoa
river after considerable has been referred
to the Lterat and Elders of the district for adjust
water course for supplying the paddy-felds
But more serious affair occurred at Shih-lung,
large market town and sugar mart some ten fifteen
miles to the eastward of Whampoa, and which had
been plundersd by band of several thousand mall
contents under three leaders-Ho of Shun teh dis.
trict, and Yuen and Chan Of Tung kwan. They de-
est military officer In the station, wounded the dis.
tict magstrats burned many houses and PLACED the
bankerS and pawnbrokers' shops. Growing bolder
from success. they proceeded to invest the dssrc.
city Of Tun kwan nsar the Bosue, to the relief of
which 1,300 soldiers dispatched from Canton on
the 14th June. ltis also said that wi increasing
numbers they threaten to storm the BoRue forts
aud afterwards march upon Canton. But that of
course must be mere bravado.
The Hongkonx Register of Juns 9th, five days Ia.
ter, says that the foreign commuaity at Canton
ware greatly apprshensivs of an attack upon the
city by the insurgents mentioned above. Several
vessels of war wore lying abreast of the foreign
the foreign community in the event Of an attack but
the factories themselves and vast amounts of pro-
perty therein contained would be placed in imminent
jeopardy