Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-07-24

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to pass through the water at greater velocity, with
similar in proportion to her tonnage ordinary
vessels now require to make ten knots an hour
RICHMOND AND DASvILLE RoAD.-By reference to the
advertisement in our columns will be that 900
mortg ged bonds Of the Richmond aud Dauve Railroad
Company offered for sale The bonds are made
redeemabe in years the interest payable y
at the Office of the Company in Richmond. From the
aforesaid Advertisement also learn the further fact
that "ths amount being tanned the road will be COM
peted" TO this place in IL months We trust that cap-
tsss who feel interest in tho speedy completion of
this great improvement will feel themselves called upon
TO extend TO the Company the mster aid requisite
insure its construction The investment is safe aud
the time in which the bonds redeemed limited to
reasonable compass."- DanviHs Register.
LOOK nina Yankee Aboitions engaged
lima, discovered few days since tamperug with
in Charlotte. lie politely requested by portion OF
the citizens to leave forthwith Several oblque illusions
to Of tar aud fellhers male in his presence are
thought have accelerated his movements as he was oil
| IN quick tne.-H
| BAPTIST MINISTER ExPELLED.-Rev. F. N. Haygood,
pastor OF the baptist Church in Marietta Ga
y expelled from the Church because he would neither ms.
sert deny tina, God forekneV oil things. In his de
fence the reverend gentleman contende there was
passage oi Scripture which taught this doctrine, and
consequently he had no opinion on the subject-B
DIGGISG UP THE EARTH.-The counties of Tallapooa
Chambers, Randolph and Berton arc in q ferment in
consequence Of discoveries Of copper silver and gold
the metals in the order of their in
! the pubic estimation. Near Duuleyvie, Tallnpoosa
county, several pits are beirg dug ard We learn from
perfectly reliable that extensive evidences OF mu.
ing operations carried on long, long ago." been
discovered. From the OF the pits just mentioned
have some small specimens &copper. In the same
neghbohood il Is raid that gold mine has been dscov
cred, the earth from which yields 50 per diem the
hands, by tho banning process. Il belongs gentle
man Damcd Morgan goes into the business with Cali
| ornis experience
We also saw few days SINCE Lafayette, some quite
minute specimens Of silver taken from locality
Midtown, Chambers county. The most promising depos.
il have heard Of is lands owned by Jas H. Fore
man, Esq near Oak Bowery in Chambers county. This
is vein of copper, which undergoing testing by Hesrs
Miner ind aralsOn gentlemen who have obtained large
mining privileges in the county mentioned They pro-
pose TO test thoroughly the mine Oak Bowery,
| being undoubtedly the richest IL they succeed well
there, they will Of course extend their operations.
gomery Nail July 9th.
| HARVARD CoLLEGE-Si1ty. -four graduates Of Harvard
College died during tho past academcal year. The
Alumni Of the Institution numbers 6l2, having
ceived go acccssons within the last three years, while
| III have fallen in the same time The number Of surv
yOrs is 2,273.
The majority of the attacks Of the cholera in New York
said to take place in the afternoons and evenings;
ct which indicates that exposure to the SUM- and perhaps
! imprudent dinners are predisgosing causes.
TIE Of three thousand dollars Il Is stated has been
appropriated 10y the Connecticut Legislature TO aid in
the erection, al iirookling. Of monument to General
Israel Putnam, provided equal sum DO raised by sub
| scrptoD.
correspondent ot TIE Louisville journal that
ties are actually engaged 10 that STATE, drumming up
ctuiis for the expedition against Cuba.
Rec ~ the PRfCE oP RsGLIsH NEwsPAPERs.-In con
sequence Of the great riss IN the price fpopcr In England
seriously diminishing, G altogether destroying tue
profits OF some Of the provincial journals OF the
journals there lave resolved increase their rates Of sale
and Hbscripton In Glasgow movement ia now going
to taae tbs price OF oil ls papers cents OH copy
In England Tho Birmingham journal has jlst taken the
lead with simular increase.
Snow hRcH.-The Newspaper called the estate Of
NHiue" published Portland that the great
now TO be found at Tuckermaus Hlvine" about three
miles from the Glen House. IL consists Of arch of pure
snow spanning the brook that tumbes over the rocks
from the SUBMITS Of the mountains, Tho rayne il the
receptacle Of all the that blows from the top oil
Mount Washington and there be doubt that dur
ing the winter il accumuates TO the deph Of several hun
dred feet As the brook begins 10 In the spring /,
its way through under the SNOW which gradually
mets away at the npproch Of summer making the cavity
larger aud larger On the lGh Of July this ravne VS..
visited by several gentlemen Of them being engi
neer, by whom the arch measured IL was found u
be 1870 feet long 81 wide and 10 feet high on tho inside
and 2GG feet long aud 30 feet wide tho outside The
forming the arch is twenty feet thick The gentle
men wAkcn through the arch IN the bed Of the brook
aud ate their dinner At tho foot Of tie cataract which fall
thousand feet down tho ds Of the mountains The arch
IL on the southeast eide Of the mountan and ia exposed
TO the u the during most OF the day. List yea
1t remained until August lG;h, when warm rain of &c.
yeral day. continuance melted Il away.