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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-26

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BY taylor 6 WILLARD.
HOUSEHOLD FITRNITJJRE Ar

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BY TAYLOR wILLizns.
HOU8EHOLD FURNITURE, &c, AT
!, = 1gcIion-on WEDNESDAY. zth sept,
oaassnn, on nrosd, between 9Th and 7h - viii So
entire stock Of Household and kitchen far.
itefe, eousistir Of fhe usual vnriefv
y nquest Of randall Gsrrrin. Eco.
AAs-cssf. TAYLOR WILLIAMS,
ADDITIONAL. s'''hssn'
MICH C0ws.-Wiii siso Be mia sh,.. ,s,r cu
wv Tss, iaissd IN and near the city. = -.
Is q =, ~ above. r. u w. A.ets.
A UCTION SALE AT THE VIRGINIA
-. - sW AZ ~ MoNUMENT.-Ths under.
10 o'clock A. sell ct publ auction st tbs Wan.
ingfon Monument, al the TOOLS, FIxTUEES. -.
:. To. ;:'Gss%sn. q
biocks, FsIls. Rope. old Iron, he.
Also, the Once and Sheds. to DO removed Oh the
square IN ten days from is s. T TsEPs ss;a
TAYLOR L WILLIAMS. Auc'tr. ss2l-saO
THREE MOST DESIRABLE RESI-
= - DENCES ON LEIGH STREET. AT AUG
TiioN-on TUESDAY. Sd October, at O'Clock, r.
upon the premises, will be sold those three brick
"a .nd 81 ots on the north side Of Leigh between
hsye:, Mr. VIM. r. Drinkard and Mr.. Jas A. Fore.
Eacn house contains airy rooms, besides closets,
ter, 3c, alin perfect order having been built with
m afew years past, with view to durability and
comfort rather than to cost. To those seeking to
the retired yet accessible location a. well a. the
complete and admirable arrangements OF these b. n
ss, certainty present unusual inducements whilsi
90 or the lots front % feet EACH and the Other
rsst all running hack 40 feet to an allev in rear
n;EEa;Ms-One-third cash, balance at and yesrl
of trust. TAYIOR 4 NITIIAHS
80 ~ ..s Aucts.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-26

EXCELSIOR WORKS. CORNER 7rH
~ AND MAIN STREETS, RICHMOND. VA.-The pro.
prize tor OF the above works Is now prepared to Plaro
and Saw LUMBER, of various kinds in the beststyls
and on the most reasonable terms.
he has on hand quantity of Dressed FLOORING,
of various qualities
PANNEL STUFF, both ofNorthern and Virginia
fine ready dressed which he offers at low price.
sASHES, DOORS and BLINDS kept on hand and
made to order at prices that cannot fail to awe sats
faction.
Orders solicited and will be thankfully received
mylS VIM RORREa
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-09-26

pERCUSSION CAPS-50,000 best qua
l. lity received and for sale by
OWEN B. HILL, Druggist
Sc 26 Market Z ace, franklin st
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16
Improvement in Steam Navigation.


Considerable interest has been excited in Ed
ingburgh by the successful trial of the steam
vessel lately launched at Granton for the deep
sea fishing, as demonstrating the practicability
of new principle of steam propulsion, su-
perseding both the screw and the paddle, and
as likely TO effect, in some degree, revolution
in the art of steam navigation. The vessel is
100 feet long with engines of 80 horse power
Externally there is nothing to distinguish il
from sailing-vessel, except the presence, on
each side OF the hull of a curved pipe 10 inches
in diameter, termed nozzle, communicating
with water-tght iron case inside. In the
bottom of the vessel are apertnres admitting
zontal wheel fixed on crank shaft attached by
piston rods to the engine, and, on the steam
being applied, the water wheel revolves with
velocity, and the water is discharged by the
nozzIes on each side of the vessel These
form the only propelling power, and the inven-
tion is remarkable for lis simplicity and effect
the vessel, which according to the angle of de-
preston or elevation, turns IN any direction, OF
stops altogether, even with the engines working
at full power. Although capacity rather than
speed was studied in the construction of the
vessel, it easily attained eleven knots an hour.
Economy of fuel, freedom from vibration,
light draught and high rate Of speed are
among the advantages of the invention. The
vessel is being schooner-rigged, and, when fit
ted with boats and fishing gear it will proceed
TO the Firth of Fourth, and by lowering the
boats and crews, will be able to conduct the
fishing operations with safety and celerity.-
Messrs. Ruthyen, Of Edinburgh, are the in
ventors, and the vessel is the first of the fleet
of the Deep Sea Fishing Association of Scot
land
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16

box, and the dripping stranger pulled away at
the door, which a man was holding together
by the strap. The outsider was too strong
for the insider, however, and pulling the door
open, jammed in, and passed roughly along
over boots and CATERS, to the front of the
stage. Here he deposited his carpet bag up
on the feet of lady passenger, and crowded
about one-third of his huge person upon BIZ
Of spare space on the opposite seat, and faced
the audience tl tt a aaii naa
"a pretty idee, to keep man standing out
in the rain and mud, wasn't it = exclaimed
the angry,intruder. aaase aav aiai
The ladies looked at each other and smiled,
while the men laughed outright.
Maybe I've been amongst civilized people
some time in my life, said the now fairly
81 riled stranger, even ef they didn't have
painted stages and painted people in 'em."
This drew deprecating glance from the
ladies, while the gentlemen looked as if they
wouldn't mind pitching the fellow out. si
Wee-e-e-ep came from the carpet bag.
Hello what's that q asked a little man
with big hair and thin voice fr.
A pig in the carpet bag = shouted anoth-
er.
We-e-ete-oo -ooh-ooh- h-ooh-we-e-e-e- F:
from the carpet bag. -H -.at..
Throw it out 7 cried the man with the
thin voice.
'There aint any pig there! roared the
shaggy coat 'Them's my close, and moth N
else'
sWee-e-e-e =
The deuce there aint,' from the little man.
Pitch them out with live pork ""
Let 'em try it, roared the shaggy man.
sWho's agoin' to do itl'
N' Gentlemen, we can't stand this any longer
-go out with your hog, you brute !! cried
the little man, assuming immense indigna-
ton
Stop the stage and let me out = cried one
of the ladies'
tell you aint got no pig in that bag
growled the shaggy man I'll bet ten
dollars on it, The critter is somewhar else
in some Of the seats, maybe
'Wee-e-e-e! =
Here the alarm of the ladies began to be in
tense. Several insisted on getting out, and
one improvised very good feint at a faint.
. Sit STILL" said the little man I'll 90 out
and see the driver This nuisance is not to
be borne any longer.
The stage was stopped, and the little man
got out, and did see the driver-enough, at
any rate, to hand up his sixpence-and then
walked away.
Who is that fellow = growled the shaggy
coat I've mind to get out and thrash him.
The idce Of my having a pig in my carpet
bag
That man 2 answered the person addressed
that is Signor Blitz, the ventriloquist and
magician. Spirit Of the Times.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16
a Pig in a Carpet-Bag,

Some people have got to carrying dogs, bum
dies, chests of tools, loaded market baskets,
and such like truck, inside omnibuses, we pre-
sumo no regular patron Of the Kipp & Brown,
the Murphy, or any other line, would be much
surprised to hear Of a pig being transported in
a carpetbag, and that carpet-bag bundled into
Broadway omnibus, besides. A pretty
strong proof that such thing could be done,
was witnessed in Broadway omnibus few
days since.
The day was rainy, and everybody out of
doors in bad humor, of course-particularly
such as, after waiting under dilapidated
awning, or in a dripping doorway, for half an
hour, rush out into the rain and mud and run
the risk of their lives to get a bus, to be told
by twelve Inside that it's all FULL AS a
general thing, persons thus blufIed off, cypher
their way back to the pavement the best way
they can, and wait for another chance; but
there are some who will not stand it, and
force their way into the vehicle, no matter
how many object,
One Of these won't be refused persons paid
literally for his boorishness, as the story Will
show. An omnibus filled with its compile
ment of twelve, was hailed by big man in a
wet shaggy coat, and carrying large carpet
bag. The driver stopped of course. Who
ever heard of driver fancying his stage
full
All full!' 60 on, driverr There's
no room here, sir = ...l..
And dozen other exclamations came from
the insiders; but the driver sat still on his
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16

The qnantily stored at Rouses Point, Ogdens-
burg, Rochester, Cleveland, Chicago, Detr oft,
and other flour marts on Lakes Ontario, Erie,
and Michigan, is said 10 be immense. When
the public have fully learned (as they are fast
doing) 10 substitute other articles for cOnsump-
.tion, how do the spectators expect 10 get rid
of the article will il not turn out to be a
drug on their hands, especially fheld until
after the approaching vegetable season has
commenced They should recollect, also, that
there are plenty of good fish in the sea yet. :
Poor people are not obliged 10 buy their $l2
-four, any more than our forefathers were TO
use that tea which Mr. Bull wanted them TO
drink, with very nobby tax in il for sweet
ening. So take care gentlemen boston
Journal. e1rsa 7H .gl- Poor Man.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16
No Sabbath.

In Prize Essay on the Sabbath, written
by iourneymon printer in Scotland, occurs
the following passage
Yoke fellow think how the abstraction OF
the Sabbath would hopelessly enslave the
working classes with whom we are identi-
tilted. Think of labor thus going on in one
monotonous and continuous and eternal cycle
limbs forever on the rack, the fingers forever
playing, the eyebals forever strainng, the
brow forever sweating, the feet forever plod-
ding. the brain forever throbbing. the shoul-
ders forever dropping, the loins forever aching,
and the restless mind forever scheming
Think Of the beauty it would eface, of the
merryheartedness it would extinguish, of the
resources of nature it would exhaust, of the
giant strength it would tame, of the aspirations
it would crush, of the sickness it would breed
of the projects it would kill, of the groans it
would extort, of the lives it would immediate,
and of the cheerless graves it would prema-
turely Dig See them toiling and moiling,
sweating and fretting, grinding and hewing,
weaving and spinning, sowing and gathering,
moving and reaping, razing and building,
digging and planting, unloading and storing,
striving and struggling, in the garden and in
the field, in the granary and in the barn, in
the factory and in the mill, in the warehouse
and in the shop, on the mountain and in the
ditch, on the roadside and in the wood, in the
city and in the country, on the sea and on the
shore, in the days Of brightness and Of gloom
What sad picture the world would present
if we had no Sabbath =
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16
Flour Speculations Will they Continue

HWii the present high rates asked for flour
be sustained g This is question: which now
agitates the community, and is especially in
terestiug TO the laboring classes. AT the prices
now asked for barrel Of flour, pooT lsbOrer
recejvieg say a dollar day, with a family OF
half dozen ch;ldrea, finds himself minus al
least one-half Of his earnings for bread alone,
provided that he purchases the usual quantity.
The consequence is that peer mea are not able
TO use the article 10 any great extent, aud sab
stitute Indian, rye, potatoes, meat, fish, &c. -
The -dOur demand for home consumption, for
this reason, is daily decreasing, and the quota
tisns Of prices paid at New York, Feb. l.,
show that rapid declioe in price has already
commenced, while corn has advanced triGe.
The dour spectators had better take heed
lest they fall, and that, too, IN season! The
Turkish war, which they appear to have con
sidered God-send,' will hardly offset the
decrease ia the demand which is the necessary
result of the cause above named alone and
although corr may rise, that will rot help the
-four speculator if he has none TO sell. The
Louisville (Ky.) Courier of Saturday, affords
the following hint, which is also worthy Of
attentiOn:
The close of the Mississippi and other great
outlets beyond ST. Louis, has been one cause
of the enhanced rates Of grain and produce,
but when those outlets are once open, the i'm
mense stores Of the great West will be sent
forth ia such vast quantities, that the New
Orleans market will be at once glutted, and
cause reaction in favor Of the consumer.
The quantity of -four now in The hands OF
spectators in New England and New York,
must be immense. It is said that there are
l6O 900 barrels now held In Boston alone,
equal to nearly barrel TO every inhabitant,
man woman and child AT Concord, N. H.,
on the lst Of November, am credibly informed
that single firm held some $4,000 barrels,
which is now reduced 20 about 1000, which,
with that held in that city by other FIRMS
would also afford barrel to every inhabitant.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16
A Western Hand.

A correspondent tells good story, although
at somewhat too great length, "a common
faulty Of shiftless fellow, at one of the ports
on the river, TO go as hand on board one OF
his boats to New Orleans, for forty dollars
and found; giving him in advance five dollars
to supply an urgent necessity. The new hand
was to be on board in the morning, 'before
the first chicken crowed > but he never made
his appearance.
Long after, the captain discovered him at a
wood-station, jumped ashore, collared the dis
honest hand, and asked him the reason why
he had not kept the engagement.
What was the terms1' asked the fellow
with the utmost GOODNESS and Indifference
Forty dollars month, and found, replied
the captain; 'you knew the terms well
enough
Very we'll, replied the recusant, 'did you
find met
That was poser The captain hadn'
found him until now, although he had looked
for him at every port and stopping place, OF
all the rivers he had traversed.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16

One OF THE INTERPRETATIONS. Joe Smith
the Mormon, being asked once what he
thought of the Scripture which required
him who had been smitten on one cheek, to
turn the other, replied as follows:
= A very remarkable PASSAGE he answered,
spoken Of Jesus himself, and strikingly illus
tratlve OF his thorough acquaintance with hui
mannature. A man may strike you at first
under mistake, or without intending anv
harm and you ought not TO strike immedi-
ately but turn the other cheek, and give him
an opportunity to explain, or, if he is in ear
nest, to repeat the offence. However, YOU
need not turn third time, but if a man strike
you twice, then into him like a thousand Of
brick. --. ... ,......-.. ..,..
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16

RATHER SENSIBLE Bellows is man of
sense ahd discernment. He thus speaks OF
the moral influence Of luXuries -
If you would give man Of rude manners
some refinement, place him where every OBJ
ject he sees checks his boorshness. If he
spit upon the floor, put carpet upon it, and
he will think twice before he does it, If he
whittle the seat, make it of rosewood and sat
in, and he will cease TO do it at all
There is great wisdom in the above Men
always rise with their condition. We have
known ruffian SO lifted up by clean shirt,
that he has passed among strangers for gen.
tleman.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16

TAKE YOURSELF A FARM When Nc
Kenzie was trying to revolutionize Canada by
melting rebellion, he and his coadjutors were
lavish of promises to all who would enlist for
the war and fight it ont. Every soldier was
to have good farm, and those who did extra
well two or three. After the bubble had
burst and Mckenzie and his ragged band were
at Buffalo, one Of the most forlorn of the latter
approached Mac, and den anded he should re-
deem. You know you promised me farm
if | would jine in, and now I've come for it.
'Yon have, ha = said Mac We'll, you cross
right over to Canada and take the first farm
you come to, if it's good one. Tell them
that | sent you. Troy Wing
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16

AUSTRALIA DESCRIBED. A gentleman, late
ly returned from Australia, speaks in glowing
terms Of the citizens of that place, their man
ners and customs. He says, Of all the infer
nal countries on the face of the earth, that
Australia is entitled for that bad eminence to
the preference. He remarks that on going
into the harbor of Melbourne, he felt the en-
tire force of Dante's description of the descent
into Hell-'leave Hope behind'-for he con-
sidered the chances small Of his ever return
ing. On more than one occasion he has seen
people lashed to trees, and the inhabitants of
the place popping away at them with their re-
volyers A favorite procedure with them is
to seize man and cause him to raise his arms
above his head-one Of the operators com
mences to search the unfortunate, while the
other playfulIy holds pistol in the vicinity of
his mouth, symbolizing the effect Of resistance
or noise. After some experience in being in
such place, the gentleman was induced to
ask his consignee whether or not that was the
bourne from which no traveller returns.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16


EFFECT OF OH ON WATER The following
is secret worth knowing In rough wealth
er they (the fishermen of the Bosphorus)
spread few drops of oil on the surface,
which permits them to see clearly at great
depth. was aware that oil would calm the
surface OF the sea, but until recently l did not
know that it rendered objects more distinct
beneath the surface. A trinket of value had
been dropped out Of the upper windows of our
palace into the Bosphorus, which at this place
was ten or twelve feet deep. 1t was SO small
that dragging for it would have been perfectly
useless, and it was accordingly given. up for
lost, when one of the servants proposed to
drop a little oil on the surface This was ac-
ceded to, with, however, but faint hopes Of
success. To our astonishment, the trinket
Immediately appeared in sight, and was event
ually recoverd.-Dr Decay J.'u
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-02-16
BATH, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY Is, 1854:

WoMEN's RleHrs., Kirwan, in his work
entitled Men and Things as | saw them in
Europe, gives the following account Of the
progress Of 'women's rights in Sardinia
They were tunnelling the Appennes for a
railway from TRin to Genoa, which, when
completed, will be.a great affair for Sardinia,
and armies of women were engaged in making
these tunnels With. a panner Of peculiar
construction, made to fit the back, they en-
tered the tunnel at one side, and emerged,
laden, on the other side; bent down like beasts
of burden, they followed each other in rows to
the end Of the embankm6nt, where each turned
round ; there a man drew pin, which let the
bottom out and the stone, gravel and clay
fell out Of the basket! And hundreds Of
women were working in this way at this
bestial employment Lime-kilns in great
numbers line the roads and the women were
quarrying the stones, carrying them to the
kilns, and sending away the lime
Washington sentinel., 1854-04-08
Dec 1876
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Washington sentinel., 1854-04-08
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