The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-05

there is no sickness on the west side, where III,
work ID only interrupted by % many funerals.
The Jeffsrso1ian adds. that up to Tuesday tws
other persons had died, three sick, but conva
lescent and no new cases had occurred. Fathel
Downey, the Catholic Priest, has exerted himsel
bo.h as temporal and spiritual adviser, and i
constant to his minstrations to the sick. He en-
deavors to make his people more cleanly in theil
persons and houses, and reasons with them agains
the use of whiskey, which poisons and destroy,
their bodies, teaching them cleanliness and temper
ance as well a. godliness
REVIVAL We learn from the Charlottesyill.
Jeffersonian, that series of religious meetings
continuing for ten days. and ending on Sunday, the
23rd ult, was held In the Jonesborough Baptis
Church, By Rev. s. B. Rice, during which time
some 30 persons professed conversion, 81 of whom
were immersed, and among the number were ter
promising young men.
AGRIcuLrURAL.-Last week, Edmund Rufin
sen. visited Prince Edward, by invitation of the
Bush and Briery Club. On Friday he dined with
the Club at the residence of F. p Wood. of Poplar
Hin, and gave the guests a conversational lecture
on the subject of draining. Oa Saturday, Mr.. R..
by invitation, visited Farmville, and addressed q
large company of farmers on the subject of Putre
scent Manures.
HER ROYAL MAJEsTY.-Our readers will recol
lect that we published recently document signed
by John s. Johnson and forty two chiefs and
sachems of the Six Nations" addressed to their
" Great Mother" Queen Victoria. The Boston Pos,
r he hot 10 a.
priateness in calling Victoria "Great Mother, just
at this time, of which the fortywo chiefs and MIR.
johnson were, probably, not aware.
THE NAsHvILLE FIRE The Nashville Gazette
estimates the less by the recent fire in that city
$4,000 1t broke out in the drug store of Dr. James
on Market street, in the block of buildings owned
by John M. HILL The Gazette says:
Immediately after the alarm, an explosion took
place in the second story caused by the ignition OF
Reg OF powder, which blew the roof offthe house
ana scattered the burning timbers over the entire
olock. This, together with other combustible mat
Ter IN the drug sore soon rendered the entire bull
oing burning mass. The fire then spread to an
o-ner large block on the opposite side of an alley,
occupied by J. J. Brand, as Coffee House, aud ex-
tended back to the entire length of the building,
consuming the back portion OF the building, and the
rool and third story of the front part.
Dr. James was taken from the house badly burnt
and 1t was supposed he would not recover. He had
been partially deranged for some time, and it was
thought that by some means he set fire to the keg OF
powder or some other explosive matter
The Nashville Wing, of July 9th, learns from
the physician in attendance upon Dr. Jane, that
there is strong hope of his recovery. 1t is stated
that he was the victim Of an appetite for opium and
other stimulants and while under their influence
has been frequently heard to say that he was pur-
sued by an army, which he was fighting of. On
one occasion he is said to have applied to the ailer
to protect him from his imaginary enemies He
had remarked, short time previous to this unfor.
tunate occurrence, to fhe young man who assisted
him at the store that he nightly besieged by an
army fboys, and that he intended to blow them up
The explosion was very violent, and the noise was
heard for miles around.
MURDER "A respectable gentleman named vii.
liam Lanphier, residing on Charles street. Bati-
more, was assaulted by some unknown assassin on
Tuesday night, and so dreadfully injured that he
has since died. The Baltimore Patriot says:
He was standing in front OF his door in conver
sation with another gentleman, when riotous de-
monstration was heard iu Guilford Alley la
order to ascertain the cause they stepped to the
corner, and the gentleman in his company almost
Instantly again returned to the steps OF his resi-
dence He had scarcely become seated when he
saw his friend, Mr. Lanphier, fall and the assassin
run down Charles street and up Lee. Having Sc.
cured assistance, the wounded man was conveyed
into his residence, where it was found that his skull
was crushed in to a frighttul extent.
Hedied on Thursday morning young man
named Edwin Thomas, who is the supposed perpe-
traitor of the outrage, has escaped.
FATAL REsuLT-Elizabeth Brooks, the young
girl who was SO terribly burned by an explosion
of camphene, in West Lexington street, Baltimore
died last Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON ITRMs.-Hon. Mr.. Blunt, of South
Carolina, has been appointed Governor of Nebras-
ka, and it is said that he will accept.
Washington correspondents entertain no doubt
that the President will veto the River and Harbor
Bill.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT are under frequent
obligations to John Higgins, the attentive messenger
of Adams g. Co.'s Express, for Northern papers in
advance of the mail.
The New York Times states that the Catholic
Bishops in the United States are divided in opinion
son, and have appealed to Rome.
HRALTH OF CHARLEsToN.-During the week
ending on Saturday last there were only eleven
deaths in Charleston-four of which were of white
adults, one of whom died of old age.
MORTALITY IN CrNcINNATI.--The total number
Of deaths in Cincinnati during the month of July
was 5l6 of which 100 were from cholera and
240 were children.
A HARD CAsE.-speaking of the recent failure
of the Franklin Fire and Marine Insurance Co, Ia
Saratoga, N Y, the Worcester (Mass.) Transcript
says, policies to the amount of $4,000 are due t.
the sufferers by the late fire, Of June 14th, none o
which have been paid.
THE NEW Texas CoTToN.-A merchant informl
the Orleans Pcayune that the new Texas cotton
concerning which tclegraphic dispatch was sent
all over the country was of inferior quality, evi
IDENTIFY picked before being fully natured: The
bales, Instead OF being Of the regular weight are
only bags of $50 pounds, and he complains that
planters should thus as In the instance alluded to
have their names "posted off in the newspapers,
Misunderstanding their own interests, and doing