The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-10-10
VIRGINIA INTELLIGENCE.

| FIRST MuRDER-The recent murder OF DR.
| Wm NJ Richardson, by Clayton Caldwell, at Sa
| lem, was tho first murder ever committed in tha
county The Register says that the effects Axss
appalling, and the remains OF DR. r. were FOLLOWED
| to the grave by horror stricken community
| The murdered man leaves wife and largo famil,
| of children.
MILITARY APPoINrMENTs.-The Governor o
the State has appointed Thos H. Ellis to be Colo
mel OF the 4fh Regiment of Artillery in the Militis
Oh virginia vice Cassell deceased Robt NJ MIN
mo 10 De LieutenantColone of the same regiment
vice Ellis promoted. Robt. w. Bowden to be Majo
| OF the same regiment, vice Nhnmo, promoted
THE FEvER.-We learn from the Norfolk CORES
| pondent of the Petersburg Intelligeneer that Mr.
John Drury, Deputy Sheriff of Norfolk county, has
recovered John Gibbons, nurse from New York
| and the last patient in the Howard Hospital. wa
buried on Saturday. Mr.. John Collins, Oldest sol
| of Capt. John G. Collins is down with the fever.
ATTEMPT TO RELEASE PRISONER FROM GArI.
An attempt was made last week to break lnft
| the jail at Chesterfield Court House for the pur
pose of releasing the negro Joe, who is under sen
tence OF death Some persons residing at the no
tel heard the noise at the jail and went out to see
what was the cause, when the burglar fed.
LEAVING FOR THE WEsT-Within the past two
weeks hundred families, from different parts o.
Virginia, have passed through Charleston, ka
nawha, en- route for the West In the same length
of time twelve families returned through the town
Oh tnelr N:lf nome 10 NOrtH having HNct
in Indiana two years, and accumulated but $500 in
that time.
MANASSAS ROAD-The revenue of the freight on
the Manassas Gap Railroad during the months OF
August and September 1855, exceeds that of the
same months for last year by about e5 per cent,
nearly double the proceeds of those months fol
lo54. The ship Lawrence Brown, from Cardiff
arrived at Alexandria Monday with 800 tons OF
iron for the road.
RI-IT 1Srr 1,oa
great revival of religion among the Methodist per
sulsiOn in Alexandria In the Methodist Protes-
tant church there have been fftyone accessions to
the membership, the fruit of the revival services
are now suspended there. In the NJ. E. Church,
South there have been sixtythree conversions ana
a large accession to the membership. In the NJ l..
Church attached to the Baltimore Conference there
have been tifty-tivc conversions and upwards oi
forty acce6Slons.
SALE OF TELEGRAPH LINE.-The Sheriff oi
KanaWha county, at the last Court, sold the line OF
telegraph from Kanawha Salines to Point Pleasant
for eighty dollars.
MAIL RoBBER CoNvIcTED-In the U s. Court.
Hon. John w. Brockenbrough, presiding, at Staun-
ton Va, John NJ. Meek was convicted on Saturday
last of robbing the United States mail and senten-
ced to the penitenitlary for ten years. Meek was
at the time of the commission of the crime enga
in carrying the mail in Augusta co., Va, and open
ed one of the mail bags and rifcd the letters of
their contents
VIRGINIA PoST OFFICE AFFAIRs-The Post
master General has issued the following orders:
Samuel o. Smith, postmaster, Barrys Bridge,
Lunenburg county, vice Robert w. Land resigned.
Samuel Glover, postmaster, Glover Hill Appomat-
tox county, vice l.. b. Land, resigned Sampson
z. Bagley, postmaster, Broad Run Station. Far-
quier county, vice George b. Cochran, resigned
VIM. Harris, postmaster, Jefferson, Powhatan coun-
ty vice Henry Tyler.
The pOstOtfice at MOranton, Morgan county, is
discontinued.