The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-13

DeTStary-yohn CAmpdeld, charged with bur.
s.p"sly entering Mrs Rogers boarding bouse,
on the morning of the 18th inst, was examined be-
lore the Mayor and sent on to an examining court.
to be held on the second Monday in December -
MT r. W. Cleft stated that between the hours Of q
aha clock he saw the accused come into his room
ana wnen opposite his bed stop and look at him
Mr C after asking who's there" five or six times
and receiving no answer, gave the alarm and aror,
ed the boarders, at which time the accused ran
aown Ine steps The Watchmen Immediately af-
terfound him behind the front door and took him to
the cage where he was examined and na;r of min,
pers and slung shot found in his pockets which he
said was given to kim, when he left the Penitentia
ry by Red Boot Smith. Campfeld halls from Ken.
lucky and says his proper name is John Piper
Though young man he appears to be an accom-.
phshed rogue and judging by the weapon with
winch ne was armed, would not hesitate to commit
any other crime.
FtShttng james Neal and Joseph Morris were
arraigned before the Mayor yesterday charged with
day afternoon. The evidence proved Neal To. be
the aggressor, and he was held to bail to keep the
peace, but Morris was discharged
Gen. s. F. Cary-This distinguished temperance
lecturer delivered an address ON Saturday eyerIing
last, at Metropolitan Hall. His theme was Pro
hibitory Law" The audience was a small one
not exceeding probably an hundred persons, the
evening being inclement and the notice of the
meeting brief Not daunted however the gentle
man addressed those present with much energy
He stated that he had recently trayersed the
State of Maine He had not seen a drunken man
nor an open groggery. He did not believe there
was one of the latter in the State If there ia
more liquor sold now in that State than there was
before the Law, why, he asked do the dealers wish
it repealed In Portland, he and another gentle.
man spent day in trying to find place where
liquor was sold, but without success. They went
to the JAIL one of the finest buildings he ever saw
Every cell was open and empty but one That
one, the keeper, ON opening it, said contained an
occupant confined on account of unrlly and disor-
derly conduct. 1t turned out to be liquor in demi
johns, &c, that had been seized by the authorities
AT the late election in Maine, he said the Liouor
Law candidate would have been elected but that
the constitution requires majority over all other
candidates. He had received five thousand votes
more than any other Liquor Law candidate had
ever received. If the next Legislature in Maine
repeals the Law it will be re-enacted with greater
strngency in its provisions 1t is he said so deeply
seated in the affections of the people that to
overthrow it entirely difficult as to take the
everlasting hills of that State, and cast them into
the sea. Prohibitory Law, he said, now exists in
ten States. The subject is agtated in England
and since leaving here he had received from a
gentleman, acting in behalf OF committee of tie
british Parliament an urgent application to come
to England and present the claims of Prohibition
before Parliament.
He denied that the Maine Law was sumptaayu
law that it impertinently sent its officers into the
dwellings of gentlemen, and upset the very CO.
loSHc the cudlnUcTS OF lnC1r QauRlters.-
The Maine Law prevented no mans drinking what
he pleased. In Cincinnati whence he came they
had 35O0 groggereS and consequently they had
riots, crimes OF every description. and Oyerfiownp
prisons and alms-houses. People asked if they
didn't have police2-they had pOlice-but he de-
ned Gen. Scott, with the standing army of tho u
States and KOssuth, with his Hungarians to boot
to keep city quiet with thirty-fve hundred grog
geries In it. You might as well spread the itch
among the people, aud then establish police to
keep them from scratching.
Gen. Cary addressed audience, we under
stand, at Centenary Church, Sabbath afternoon on
the subjec. of total abstinence from Intoxicating
liquor as Bible doctrine
The Steamship Janes,oon Lewis Parrish, master,
left New Z fork Saturday evening, at o'clock, with
two hundred passengers-l05 cabin and 95 steer
age, and very heavy freight for Norfolk and
Richmond She arrived at Norfolk at o'clock
Sunday evening" only 81 hours from New York, :,
but was detained in the river all night Sunday
night in the fog and rain. The jamestown will
leave here this evening at o'clock, and CITY
Point next morning at o'clock, for New York
touching at Norfolk. '..s a- t..t rr
The Mechanics Institute will close its second an
nuai exhibition to night, when the list of premiums
awarded will be read to the audience any of o,1r
readers have not yet visited the hail. over the first
market, they should do SO today by all means for
there are hundreds of articles to be SEEN an exam
nation of any one of which is worth vastly more
than the price of admission. The ladies' in partic
this is their last chance of doing SO. e--!
The little stranger, whose mysterious arrival ON
Shockoe Hill a short time since, furnished such a
sumptuous repast for gossips and scandal mon
gers, is said to be thriving rapidly, and now bids
fair to become valuable citizen, in time to come
14umse'neats. the theatre an attractive bill is
presented for play goers.-The panorama of the
Arctic Expedition at Odd Fellows Hall is drawing
large crowds to see it--sandfords Opera Troupe
Is favorite cardasith the publc-And Col Woods
bearded woman, and other remarkable specimens
of humanity, will prove interesting to the lovers of
nature.
Ihdnkseicing.-As the 18th inst has been re-
commended by the Governor of Virginia as day
of Thanksgiving throughout the State, it is hoped
and expected that business of all kinds will be sps
pended in this city.
Nlped in the Hsel-A negro fellow was taken to
the Belivue Hospital, on Church Hill, Yesterday
morning. to be operated upon by Dr. Bolton, for a
gun shot wound. Last Saturday night, he was de-
tected on a gentlemans farm, in Henrico in the
act OF stealing and while running to make his es-
cape, was fred upon and badly wounded in the
right foot.
Accident-Last Saturday night one of the negro
men at the Petersburg Railroad bridge, had his
right arm fractured while working a crank. DIR
Gibson was afterwards called In and rendered the
necessary surgical aid.
Improuiag.-Henry Lecock was steadily inproy-
ing yesterday and talked as nationally as he ever
did in his life. His physicians entertain hopes of
his recovery, notwithstanding the fact that the
blade of an axe has been driven into his skull and
a large portion of his brains been taken ont
CAPTAIN NICHoLAs.-The following interesting
account OF the narrow escape of the IT, S. Ship Ger
mantown," Commander Nicholas, (recently of the
Michigan from shipwreck the Island of Made-
ra in March, 1885, given at the time by the Nor
folk Beacon:
n s Shin Germapto,n Wa u,aa~,..a f., .
letter. written by officer board the u s. sloop of
war John Adams, that the Germantown flag ship of
the African squadron while lying in Funcl,si roads
from her anchor in consequence of the shackle pins
of her chain cables having worked from the cable
by which she riding. aud also from the cable of
the second anchor which she let Co. and drited about
twice three times her length off the rocks on the
Eastern side of the town, where she remained ridns