The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-04-25
VIRGINIA,

Two BOYS DaowNEp.-We learn from the
Wheeling lntelligencer that on Wednesday morn
ing last three German boys named Charles way
man, aged II years, Augustus Hyer, aged II years
ana Ludwig Fritz, aged 13 years, employed in the
Soap and Candle Mandatory of Messrs. Warren
y sons In that city, went with horse wagon to
supply number of customers on the Hempneld
Railroad with soap and candles In attempting to
cross creek. two of the boys were drowned, and
the third, Fritz, was rescued by an Irish laborer
who plunged into the stream to his relief.
REccvERING.-Mr. Charles Fickieson, the Ger
man who cut his throat, in Wheeling, a few days
since, is in fair way to recover from his in
jures
AN orISIoN.-The Kanawha Republican ex-
presses the opinion that more substantial good
would result TO Virginia by the construction of the
Covington and Ohio Railroad than from the action
all the Southern Conventions that could assemble
in the next fifty years. That's practical idea, and
iii to be hoped that the boldness thereof will not
prevent our people from rejecting upon it.
PROPOSED RAILRoAD-The Warrenton Flag
contains an article on the proposed rail road from
Fredericksburg to Warrenton, and thinks the
scheme, the most certain plan for the improve
ment OF Fredericksburg, of any line yet projected
SENTENcED.-A. V. Porter has been convicted of
grand larceny in Hampshire county, and sentenc
ed to confinement in the penitentiary for two
years.
The CAMPAIGN OPENED.-The candidates for
local Offices in Petersburg have commenced har.
anguing the people, after the manner of the anxious
expectants in Richmond, preparatory to the com
ing elections.
CRY POINT, &c-The Local editor ofthe Peters
burg Express gives the following results of voy.
| age of discovery to City Point:
The fine schooner Yoyktoun, Capt ] A COLE
after a stormy passage from New York of
eleven days, is safely lying at the wharf at City
Point
The wheat on the road between City Point and
Petersburg s thriving; of the most forward
being little yellowed by the late rains
On the banks of the Appomattox, about two
miles from Its mouth we were pointed out the house
where the celebrated John Randolph was BORN
1t Is low built frame tenement in the very antique
style of the early settlers, many specimens of which
can be seen about the suburbs of Petersburg par
ticularly in Bandford
COPPER IN FLoYD-The Floyd Intelligencer al.
ludes to the recent discovery of extensive copper
indications IN that county event of great in
terest. That extensive bed the richest copper
ore exists upon the land Of Mr.. Toncray is a well
| ascertained fact. Mr.. Stuart, gentleman who has
had much experience in mining in the copper re-
gions of Tennessee, has purchased onehalf inter-
est in the copper upon Mr.. IT'S land and has offer.
ed him S25 900 for the half which has been retained
He refuses however to sell. Specimens of copper
ofunrivalled richness have also been discovered
| upon land in Floyd owned by Mr. Nat. Burwell, of
Roanoke. This tract has been leased by Mr.. Stuart
Others have leased land in the same county, and
will make experimental examinations during the
summer.
THE ScAMPs.-All the nozzles belonging to the
| Hope Engine Company, in Wheeling were stolen
last week. The Intelligencer thinks the scamps
who perpetrated the act deserve a scorching in
this world or elsewhere.
KANAGA, late mate of the steamer Thos Swami
| who was stabbed in Wheeling few weeks ago, has
recovered sufficiently to be out on the streets of
| Cincinnati.