The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-02

prevailing there and at Gosport, and to take the
brought to this city They have determined to
piace competent medical officer on board each of
me NORFOLK boats, 20 that no persona sick ehaIl be
ecelved on 6ocrd, and to guard against the debark
ing OF any who may be taken alex on the massage
ih1s 10 done with view to avoid the delav of hoet.
measure '"oA .
Mrs. Cbas Howard, the actress, Is In this CITY a,
present, en- route for New York, from whence abe
goes to London.
Correspondence OF the Dispatch
Pdssm0re Williamson in Prison State Debt Our
Markets s-Death Of Miss Porter
PHILADELPHIA, July 81.
Passmore williamson, who was committed to
the county prison for contempt of court 10. it IL
SAID living In style of elegance at Moysmensing,
that borders on the princely. carpetsd cell. q
luxurious bed, library at his disposal, meals
made up of every delicacy furnished from the
outside, troops Of friends to console with him, and
10 snort everything but the privilege of walking
The August interest on the Pennsylvania State
debt, will be paid promptly Tomorrow the State
Treasurer having deposited funds for the purpose
IN the diraro BANK. There 10 still a respectable
surplus remaining in the State Treasury. 4-
Our domestic markets are well supplied But
ter, however, continues high, selling at 35 cents
per pound for prime article, and eggs at 18 "a
cents per dozen. Vegetables are abunnapf fine
potatoes selling at 45s5O cents per basket or l2 Q
cents per half peck; corn rs cents per basket or
10a14 cents per dozen; peas 14al6 cents per half
peck; curumbers 2Oa25 cents per basket; turnips
45s50 cents.
The packet ship Tonawonda, belonging TO the
Messrs. Cope Brothers line of Liverpool packets,
arrived up at her wharf yesterday, with upwards
Of 300 passengers on board. go .e.-s -
Miss Porter, who died at Cape Island on Satur.
day, wss eighteen years of age A few days pre-.
vious she accompanied her father Judge Porter,
and sick sister to the island, and on Fridsy ap-
pssred among the bathers In the full vigor OF liIe
While In the surf after reaching her hotel,
she was attacked with cramp, and died on Satur
day. The deceased was much beloved among a
large circle of friends and sequaintances Her re-
mains have been taken 10 EasIon, Pa.
Mr.. John Peake. bricklsyer, died at Fort Miffain
Yesterday, after short illness, from dysentery.-
His family who reside In Race street, only heard
of his sickness yesterday afternoon, and while
making preparations to visit him, they were stars
tled and shocked by seeing his hfeless remains
brought into the house.
Steamer Isa6sl-City Fathers on Bust-Nsv
Busld'nss-Sickmess-Storm; &c, &c.
NEW YoBK, July 81.
The steamship Isabel, Captain Rollins, from
Charleston, arrived at this port last evening She
passed the steamers Knoxville and Nashville on
the 29th, So miles north of Hateras. The Isabel
comes here for repairs, and will not resume her
trips until October.
Forty .seven topers were brought before the ma
gssrates at the various police courts yesterday
This is an Increase of fully twenty-five per cent.
over the average number daily arrested.
The ceremony of laying the corner stone of a
building to be erected on the corner of Harri-
son street and Tompkins place. for the Middle Re-
form Protestant Dutch Church, took place yester-
day afternoon.
Some of the City Fathers of this city, have gone
on excursion to Boston, city where they do
not allow the ardent to be sold or given away, ex
cept as medicine The fathers" provide for this
difficulty by taking with them, it is said twenty five
baskets OF champagne, quarter pipe of brandy,
ten boxes OF caret and other liquors, all In the
"original packages" This will save them from
the danger of an arrest, to which they would be
otherwise exposed soon as they set foot Ia Mas
sachusetts f- p. ---.t.-
Contracts are making for the erection of many
new buildings In the upper part of the city, In all
of September, October and November. This
branch of business has been at a stand still for
nearly year past Its resumption now, will give
employment to hundreds of mechanics and la.
borers. ...s-.
Moses Maynard, E.q a we'll known Whig poll
| tician, formerly member of the Board of Alder
| men, and President of the Long Island Railroad
| Company, died this morning, at his residence Ia
Gramercy Park.
Cholera morbu the doctors say s unusually prev.
alant in this city at presents also, intermittent fe
vers Some few cases of cholera occurred las,
| week but the general health In good. ..;
| The mammoth tree from California, ON exhibition
the Cryst.l Palace in this city, is to be shipped in
the course OF few days 70 London, TO be placed In
| t1e Crystal Palace at Svdeuham
Another heavy thunder storm passed over this city
yeste day afternoon, and for several hours rain fell
| veIy coPiousy. ne iact Is plain tnat the crops
Especially wheat) in the western section Of thi
state are In Imminent danger from the wet weather
which prevails t 4.
| There is less sickness at the Marine Hospital al
the present time, than for many seasons previous -
The whole number of patie nts now in the Hospita
does not amount to one hundred.
The public mind has been good deal excited
Throughout the morning by the report that large
| defalcaton had been discovered at the Mechanics
Bank in this city, and that the Cashier had fed from
the city, The story originated in the appropriation
to his own use, by the officer in question, of sundry
| items of commission on exchange. and interest OF
temporary loans, to which he dream cd hi mself en-
titled, amounting far know, to S80G0 and Il
certain other items. said to have been expended fo
| the use OF the Bank, but in a manner not yet ex
planned TO the subtraction Of the osrd of Directors