The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-06

Correspondence Of the Dispatch
h""0eco Crops -Freshet In the Dan Bridges Siren,
cg-7hrec Negroes Drowned, &c

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Correspondence of the Dispatch
-''"'e" Crops -Freshet In the Daa-Bridgss Srep,
cg-TRree Negroes Drowned. &c
DANvIILE, June Sd, 1855.
DSaf Dispatch The prospect for sbund ant rops
| nss Deen much changed In few days by the raIns
Wnlcn commenced falling Thursday nigh. and cons
alnued Tor several days. Tae tobacco crop Ia this
| ,IsIon was very generally planted / presume
sal,Es mere had been very great complaint of
ianure OF the usual supply of plants
Dan River was quite high, and MANY BRIDGES
@soFs tns place on LIS tributaries have been swent
vi. IL 10 said that the bridge at Madison. N q
bean $500 slender, but very high structure, has
| oe9n washed away by the fresh.
| n am also informed, that boat BELONGING 70 II
~ YEA, Esq OF this town, on It's passage down
,hvsa iwer on Saturday. was wrecked, and that
was hgroes on board were drowned. The boat
.,s neayiiy loaded with hogsheads of tobacco
o oteas, ana was dashed In pieces The accident
Mill '''''o '"iS siae Oh mihon' at hines
AMI tCliiiea excitement has subsidized, and pleas.
~a'''' mas ensued' BROWN.
| SLAVE EXcTTEMENT-FAILURE.- the 18th of
way Frenchman passed through Columbus
onio' en- route for Frsnce-baving obtained pass
ports Tor himself and slaves. three In number
me virtuous Abolitionists of Columbus imme-
aisteiy had the slaves sieged, and taken before
'uose swan OF the Supreme Court, to get their
noeF'y' when there, they declined taking their
A0eiiy' ana insisted upon going with their master
ihucn 10 the discontinue of their disnterested
irlenosi who retired under the impression, that
nose negroes could not appreciate freedom, Il
they had 1t .r
SANS APPEARANCE IN PURL1c.-A public nee.a
log OF know hothings, was held at stuyyesant In
stitute, New York, Monday night to make an open
declaration of American principles The meeting
was not large. The addresses and resolutions
| passed embodied sentiments similar TO those of the
Barker Know Nothings An attempt was made
70 introduce the question of slavery which caussd
| soma disturbance, but the movement sipuslIV
Jailed, and the meeting finally adjourned. with
three times three cheers for the first fun lsuetL
V'ei0 Of Sam, and sroans for Seward and Greeley
John C. Morse, has been arrested In New York
Tor fatally poisoning Elizabeth Merrill, his step
daughter, aged years.
| SINGULAR FAcT.-It is singular fact tested In
Alexandria, Monday, that there is 40 provision In
the laws of Virginia. to punish any kind of Illegal
| or fraudulent voting, save "double voting"
| PRIaoNER ARR1vED.-The bark PROMPT. from
Monk Island, in the Caribbean Sea arrived at Nor
folk Oh Monday, with prisoner from jamaica
named Bullion, who attempted to kill Mr. Roberts
agent of the Mexican Gusno Con pany. He will
be tried by Judge Hayburton.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA The
steamer Prometheus has arrived At New Orleans
| with California dates TO the 10th ult one week
later. Ali the gambling saloons in San Francisco
have been closed.
Suffers claim of thirty three square leagues has
been confirmed by the land commission
There was prospect of an abundant crop
throughout the agricultural portions of the State
The failure of Meesrs Page g. Bacon Is q total
| one. Monetary affairs were slowly improving
| ANOTHER MOB The Kansas Hotel, at Kansas
| city, Mo, has been nobbed by party of fifty des-
peradoes. in fulflment of threat made some time
| ago, but they were deferred from proceeding to
extremities by the proprietor and his friends arm
| ing to defend it.
| held inquest Sunday evening upon the BODY of
Thomas Bay Russun,, who shot himself dead at the
house of Cinderella Marshall because Mary Ann
smith Of the coutezans there, refused to marry
| him Cinderella, the keeper of the house, stated
p on hm e5 & meals 'f n be had
he had $50 coo he must have lost it gambling
| He was about six feet high. very handsome, wore
| luxariant black moustache. The Herald furnishes
the following evidence of the girl Smith. which i.
all In addition to what was by US Yesterday
young woman to whom the deceased was much
attached, was then placed on the stand She is a
very handsome looking female about 25 years of age
of dark complexion having large and beautiful eyes.
luxurious black hair and fine set of teeth She was
richly dressed and rot seen at all agtated in the
delivery OF her testimony, although the eyes Of al
present were turned towards her.
! She depoRed that she knew the deceased; be paid
me- his addresses and three four times made
| offers of marriage; ! told him that he had wife
| and family living, and that could not marry him
| he said he divorced from his wife; on my refu-
| sing, he very often unaffected anger at the dissp
pontment he often said that without he was mar
Iria tn cnulI he aoka
| crazy man. and seemed muah excited at nv refusals
about four weeks ago, while he had an interview
with me he handled me rather roughly, and hurt my
finger he said should stay in the room no matter
whether liked him or not; ne seemed much excl
TED sna saa IN very emphatic manner that ne ws
| to live with him that day he locked the door
and kept me in the room during the entire alter
| noon.
The Coroner's Jury rendered verdict in accord.
ance with the facts. The body of the unfortunate
suicide was taken By his friends and decenty inter
| red.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT sUIcIDE-On Friday
evening last, George SchwisseI, who moved with
his father to Philadelphia, in hopes of making
ney cut his throat in that city. His friends attempt
| ed to bind the wound and he fled to graveyard,
where with handkerchief, he hung himself to
limb of tree He was cut down before stran gula-
ton ensued, and carried homo
CUSTOM HOUSE SEIzURE-Collec.or Peasley, of
Boston, Ffiday. caused three of embroideries
belonging to New York importer, valued at about
$685. to be seized, having been fraudulently
derlnyolced, the appraised valued here being about
$1,000.
RAILROAD CASUALTY The wife of Henry Men
els, of Waterford, instantly killed Saturday
evening, on the Rensselaer, and Saratoga Railway,
Albany, N. Y. She was driving cow from the
track at the time.
CoNvICTED--Samnel Bocock has been found
guilty in Lynchburg, of malicious shooting and
fenced to the Penitentiary at Richmond. for three
years
MOVEMENTS OF u. s. TRooPs.-F our companies
OF 8. troops left the Carlisle Pa, barrack Sstur
day, for Fort Pierre, on the Upper Mississippi
They will be directed against the Nebraska Indians
LAND Warrants were quoted in Washington
Monday scarce at 81 10.
MORTIMER THOMPSON, or "Doesticks," Is not dead,
as reported, but is alive and well.
The King of Bavaria arrived at Rome on the
9th April, under the incognito of Count of Augs
burg, and on the following day paid visit to the
Pope.
Brownow's Knoxville Wing nominates Jno Bell,
of Tennessee, for President.
Al II - D. LAT