The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-28
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POST OFFIcR MArrKRs.-The Postmaster Gen.
'rai has made the following appointments

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Ellsworth Hovson, Ii appointed postmaster vice
John Webster, deceased.
The following post offices have been diseon-
tinued:
Underwood, Clarke county; Sarietfa. Marion
county; White Oak, Richie county; Wallace, Har.
rison county; Union Furnace, Patrick county;
anorntons Mills Rsppahannock county; Sugar
hnn, Wetzel county; Sardis, Harrison county; Rus.
sells Mills, Harrison county; Midland, Charlotte
county Hammacks, Jackson county; Goodwyns.
vile, Dinwiddie coanty Biugamou, Marion county;
n, nnadnozine, Amelia county; Athens, Caroline CO.;
nestiahd, Essex county. 1t II understood that In
every case, Except the rst) the postmasters have
Ialied TO render their quarterly returns agreeably
positive Instructions and that this practice of the
department will hereafter be enforced with more
vigor than ever
APPOINTMENT OF SUPERINTRNpKNr.-The Pc
tersourg Express states that the Board of Direc-
tors oil the Petersburg and Roanoke Railroad have
rendered the post of Superintendent to Mr. Thomas
Sharp, formerly of the Richmond and Fredericks.
burg, but more recently of the Lynchburg and
Tennessee Rosd. Mr. Sharp has accepted, and
will at once enter upon the duties of his office. His
salary has been fixed at 81, 500 year
THE WATER QUEsrIoN.-The sense of the peo.
pie of Petersburg was taken last Monday on the
proposition to purchase the mill site of Messrs
which to supply the city with water The vote
stood-for the purchase %; against 1t 453
DEATH OF AN OFFICER Lieut. George w
Campbell, of New York, an officer in the o. s. Ma.
rine Corps, died last Friday night at the Naval
Hospital, Norfolk, whittier he had been conveyed
from the U. 8. ship Columbia. His disease is said
to have been typhoid fever.
FREDERICKSBURG FISH INspEcToRs-We stated
several days ago that Gov. johnson had appointed
Joseph B. Anderson as Fish inspector for the town
of Fredericksburg. It appears from a statemen
in the Recorder, that Charles Cash, who has filled
the office for number of years, holds a commits
sion from the Governor for the same Office
APPo1NTMENT.-The South Side Democrat
learns that Jas M. McCulloch has been appointed
by the directors temporary President of the
Greensville railroad rice H. D. Bird, resigned.
Hon T. II. BAYLY, representative of the Acco-
mac Congressional district, Is in Petersburg. He
isjust recovering from severe indisposition.
DEATH OF USEFUL MAN.-Henry Fitzbureh,
senior, died In Ravenswood, Jackson county, last
Saturday week. He native of Fauquier
county, was the founder of the town of Ravens
wood, end for number of years a very active and
useful citizen of Jackson county.
French writer, in the Courier des Unis thus
sums up the four greatest excitements of New York
city since his residence on our side of the water:
Fanny Ellster-Jenny Lnd-Louis Kossuth-
Bill Poole
So that to ensure the greatest enthusiasm of the
metropolis of the new world you must either
Dance in a state of semi-nudty
Sing with the reputation of spotless virgin;
Discourse with stormy emphasis upon private
interests diseu uised as public ones
Or, die gambling rowdy, by rowdy gamblers
hand"
CHIcAGo.-A correspondent of the Missouri Re-
publican states that the city of Chicago derives it's
name from small river flowing through 1t, which
was called by the Indians, "Ske kaw.ko," which
means polecst or skunk. The Chcagonians
therefore, should call the place by ts original name
SkunktOaOn or PolecdtiRa.
WooL-The farmers of the country continue TO
hold back the wool of their last shearing, owing
to the low prices that have prevailed. The conse-
quence Is that the New York Market is i'll supplied
with domestic grown WOOL and the reduced stocks
are beginning to tell on price. When the interior
navigation opens better supply is expected.
Mr.. SAMUEL ADAMS, one of the oldest inhabi.
tants of Boston, died at his residence In that city
on the 2lst instant, at the advanced age of ninety
three years.
PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE.-It is rumored that Mr..
Edwards and John Ross Dix, an erratic English
man who writes very good poetry, have purchased
oHc NAIL lutcfcol III magazine, Tor Sl2,-
900. Park Goodwin, will, it is said resign the edi-
torial chair to G. w. Curtis, the Howadji.
RESIGNATION OF THE FRENCH CONSUL GENE
the French Consul General at the
Island OF Hayti, who has the credit of having
thwarted all the operations of Green and Walsh
and the Cazeneaus in st. Domingo, has resigned
and returned to France.
On Friday evening last, Mr. Wilson, the new u
5. Senator from Massachusetts. commenced TO
deliver anti-slavery lectures In the fremont Tenn
pie In Boston. After he had spoken about l5 min
utes, he was attacked by apoplexy and had to
stop.
The ash tree 300 years old, under which Sir Wal
ter Scott used to cook the proceeds of his fishing
excursions on the Tweed has been cut down to
make room for railway. Mammon sees only so
much lumber in any tree.
SALE OF THE MAIN L1NE-It is stated that a
company has been formed who offer about three
quarters of million of dollars for the Penn
sylvania public impr ovements than has been offer
ed by the Pennsylvan ia Railroad company.
A COOP PRICE FOR HoRsE.-The colt Morgan
Hill, Bridgeport, Vermont five years old, was sold
last week In New York, by James NJ Hill, to Mr. B.
Fields, of California, for $4 900.
M. Varnavas Papgalos, the oldest of the patriots
who struggled for the independence of Greece, and
one of those who sacrificed large fortune to the
cause, died lately at Athens at the extraordinary
age of Ill years.
DIsTREssING.-On last Friday night week the
dwelling of Mr.. Keller, In Rye township Perry co.
Pa was destroyed by fire, and mournful to relate
his three children persisted in the flames
The United States Neil steamer Hermann, Can't
Higgins, lett York on Saturday for Southanp
ton and Bremen, with eighty Eve passengers, and
$lll 900 In specie.
Brevet Second Lieutenant Thomas H Ruger, Of
tho corps of engineers U. S. A., has resigned, to
take effect on the lst proximo
fire occurred at Kiitannipg Pa, last week by
which the iron foundry of Mr.. Ephraim Burlington
was entirely destroyed.
The naval rendezvous is to be re.opened In Nor.
iok this week, under Lieutenants Sinclair and
Cooper.
Cyrus M. Burleigh, one of the family of Quaker
poets and relormers, died lately at Sunnyside, Pa
aged IS years.
John Melvin, convicted of the murder of his
wife, at New Orleans, has been sentenced to be
hung
Atornado passed over Danville, Ky, on the 18th
instant. Fifteen houses were blown down, and
$4,000 worth of damage done.
APPROPRIATE NAME Most of the marriage Ger
emonies In Appleton, Wisconsin, are reformed by
the Rev Mr.. Yocum
The father of Matt Ward has lost his suit against
the city OF Louisville, for injury done to his house
by the mob,