The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-11
VIRGINIA.

VIRGINIA.
MIDLOTHIAN Prrs- These pIss In Chesterfield,
are again 10 operation, the shafts having been re-
paired and coal Il being taken out.
BRooxE Counrr Petitions are being circulated
Ia Brooke county, for the establishment of common
schools there.
FAnM SoLD-John J. Jackson has sold bis farm
o' goo acres. near Parkersburg, Va, to J. w. & r.
4. Horner, for s3o,750.
fArkNTs TO VncINrANs.-The following ps
sents have been Issued In Washington:
apparatus for feeding paper to hand printing
PEesses Ebenezer Mathers and VIM. d. Seigfried,
improvement in cultivators: Francis L. Smith,
son. meckienburg county, Va.
ADDREss.-Mr. R. A. Pryor, of the Enquirer. was
TO have addressed the Democracy Of Fredericks.
burg last night.
lNsPEcTIoNs OF FLouR IN FRRDKaIcxsBuRG.-
Inc inspection of -four In Fredericksbure. for the
three months ending March 3la, amounted 70 s.
4l2 barrels.
POTOMAC FISH TRADE.-The shad and herring
a.neries In the Potomac are being highly profitable.
ABOUT sixteen hundred shad were taken near the
Long Bridge at Alexandria, Monday.
FiRE.-A atable, barn, four valuable horaes q
carnage, and number of farming utensils, be.
longing 20 Mr.. John Bruce, were DESTROYED bv Gre
az Winchester, Va, Sunday night.
.. .oTAHLEs buRNr:-Two stables, the property of
Mrs ONeale and Robt. G. Violet Of fisrsndr,o ~
were burned Saturday night: - =
GouNTRRFRIr.-Count s5 notes are in cir
c9iauon, purportne to be from the Merch ants, And
mecnanics' Bank, Wheeling Letter A. No. IoI
sh1s =. sonh GIN, PRESIDENT, s. Brady, Cashier pay:
koBBERx.-The residence of MIR. Gotleib An.
plch, In Alexandria, was entered Monday ana
$300 stolen therefronl -
@ IASDIDArEs.-Dr. G. Anderson and Mr.. Thomas
.. Joanson are the candidates of the American
pany In RUSSELL for a ssat in the House of Dele
James w. Sheffey IL the X. N. candidate TO re-
present Smythe county, opposed to Thos. L. Pres
,OaDrNATIoN.-Bshop johns officiated at the or
oination OF Deacons in the Episcopal church, AL
exandria, on Sunday last.
CoTToN FAcToRy.-Mr James Fitzpatrick IL
ABOUT establishing cotton factory in Alexandra
FIaEs IN THE WooDs.-FIres occurred last week
IN the woods OF DR.. A. B. Hooe and Mr.. B. r.
Gfymes, Ia King George county Va, which did
considerable damage Mr. Gryrnes lost upwards
OF nifty cords OF wood, besides a quantity of fem
RETURN OF A VIRGINIA AarIsp.-Maior Barbee,
tne rage county artist. who has been pursuing tho
sft OF q sculptor, In Florence, has returned homo
for few months.
Posi- OFFICE APPorNTMFNr.-The POST
deneral has appointed Enoch Toothman I'd l4lal.
resigned.
FiaHT BETWEEN MoRmoNs AND U. 8. Taoors -
The news that Col. Steptoe had been appointed
Governor of Utah in place of Brigham Young, was
received at Salt Lake City on the 9th of February.
The Mormons were taken by surprise, but no op.
position was manifested to the new Governor
On the 18th of January, quite serious collision
took place between the U. s. soldiers and the citi-
gems, at drinking shop In Salt Lake City. Fire
arms were freely used, and seven or eight persons
were shot, but fortunately none of them were Kill.
led. Two of the sold iers were severely wounded,
and for time 1t was thought they could not recov.
er. The Mormons ordered out the Legion, threat
ening to destroy the whole battalion of United
States troops In the city, uuder Col Steptoe. The
three companies of U. States troops were quickly
paraded under arms-they strengthened their po.
sition, and waited for the assault of the Legion,
which was every moment expected. This state of
quasi warfare lasted for three days. when calmer
council prevailed and hostilities ceascd. As the
affair grew out of a drunken it an order was is
sale of ardent spirits In the city.
SUIT TO RECOVER ON A STOLEN NoTE-In the
Circuit Court of Washington on Saturday, last the
case of Pairo & Nourse, Exchange brokers, Us..
George F. Rider and Chas White, one of some
Importance to the public, was decided 10 favor of
the plaintiffs.
In this case the defendants had left their note with
a clerk, to be delivered by him to another person
under certain contingencies, and by some surrsf-
titious mears the person procured the same, and
sold 1t to Messrs. Pairo & Nourse, the defendan
never receiving any valuable consideration there
for. As the note was negotiable the law was very
plain in the case, and the defendants were obliged
to lose the amount which was 5000.
BOUNTY LAND.-Commissione Waldo, of th
PensionlOice, gives the following as his consruc.
ton of the law In regard to bounty land claimants
II am, therefore, of opinion that no person can be
beneficiary under the first section of the act of
March 3, 1855, who has not performed fourteen
days service at the seat Of the ,oar In which he
shall claim to have served.
CRYSTAL PALACE. - There being still some
goods left In the New York Crystal Palace, the
Collector of Customs there has given notice, that
If not withdrawn before the first of June, be shall
sell them at public auction a. unclaimed goods.
THE FIRsr LocoMoTIvE.-Th first locomotive
ever built In the State of Alabama has Just been
finished at Montgomery.
CANE PAPER. Paper Is being made from the
Mississippi cane BRAKE at about twothirds the cost
of rag paper.
EVEN SAILrNa.-The ships Fleet Wing. Captain
Wood, and the Meteor, Captain Pike, left Calcutta
In company December %, and entered Boston to.
gether on Thursday. remarkable case of even
sailing.
On MAsuFAcroRY An oil mandatory has
been established In st. Louis, which turns out 45O
gallons day.
RoBBTNG A Posr OFFICE.-Ferdinand Kahn wal
arrested In Baltimore, Sunday, charged with sur
reptitiousiy obtaining letters from the New Yorh
Post Office.
TEXAS NEws.-We take the following itema
from the Columbia (Texas) Democrat.
The crops have been much delayed by the frosts,
especially corn and cotton.
Moasses Il selling at 25 cents Ia Galveston.
The number of cattle which have died on tnc
prairies this spring Il immense.
Busineaa In the State n generally dull.