The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-16
RIcHM0HD, VA.
SATURDAY MORNING, JrrNr "a 1865
Go,,schalk,. the pianist, has gone to Can, NJ.

Edward Snowden, Esq has been elected treasu.
rer oi the corporation OF Alexandria, Va
Three improvements in sewing machines were
patented last week.
Mr.. Alexander Baker OF Washington, has taken
the Fsuquier Springs.
Mrs Ann Taylor relict of The late Col. John Tay.
ior, died at Washington, Wednesday.
Gen. Carey estimates the amount of liquor drunk
yearly 10 South Ca, olina at S4, ,562 500.
John Finlay, only IA years of age has been sem
fenced 10 Boston for forgery.
Rev. NJ D. HoRe will deliver an address at the
Gordonsville male school, on the 4th of July.
During the recent rise In tie Allegheny river, a
large quantity OF lumber was washed away.
lie Zoe. the famous ddnseuse appeared in
Boston last week In the opera of "Mas sahull.."
G. Sebrss. has been reelected President of
the Henderson, and Nashville Rallrosd.
Rev. Mr.. Black, Of Virginia. preached in Boston
last Sunday.
Niles L. w. Waite OF Richmond, 10 continuing
her poeticai readings in Norfolk.
Winchester. Va, is to be lighted with gas In
September next
The remains of James B. Whirina. assistant sur
geon S. N, were interred at Norfolk yesterday
Rev. Dr.. J D. Gibson, of Savannah, Ga., has &c.
cepted call to YorkviIle, s. G.
Four haadred and tw wel.y y.sevsn emigrants ar.
rived at Boston, Monday.
Roxoury, Mass. has appropriated $500 to celss
bTaiias the 4th of July.
Governor Wright, OF Indiana is in WashiDg-
ton.
It's Clay Monument. at Potisyille Pa, will be
inau. u.Ursted on the 4th of July
Elias Dudley. an Cid and wall known citizen OF
CIncillsti. died suddenly on Sunday.
Ek- Goserper Boutwell,, of Mass., has entered
him5oli o student Of law.
Iha uanSus nf Hn.fnu al aborns A..
1t oonlaas 100000 Inhabitants.
Judge Jawett has boen elected President Of the
SteuhsayiIie and Indiana Railroad.
Hoo. Pisrre Souis wss in Mobile, Tuesday, en-
route lor Washington city.
Ihags is the body Sf child beins exhibited in
Louisville, KY, With two heads and neck, and
tarea arms
TIE Democrats of Kentucky have nominated
Grant Gteen for Superintendent of Public Instruc.
tion he Is at present Secretary Of State
LoIa Gordon Boon was not married at Chs rlottes.
villa az stated. The announcement was q hoax op
Winchester paper.
Twelve hundred and fifty brick buildings, valued
at $4,000 co., have been erected In st. Louis, dur
ioGh past year.
Rev J. L. Burrows, of Richmond is to cficiate
at the laying of the corner stone for Baptist
church In Staunton, on the Goth.
w. Palmer, jr., Of Pittsburg, and graduate of
West Point has been appointed lieutenant In the
first artillery, U. S. Army.
Books for subscription are opened at Boston for
the exten sion of q line of atmospheric telegraph
from that city to Worcester.
Fl C.. Jackson has been elected town Sergeant of
Farmville and NJ. McGlasson Commissioner of
Revenue
Felix the American, condemned as illibuster,
at Havana has been sent to Ceu.a, coast of Africa
TO serve out bis term of imprisonment
w. A. B. Judkins has been appointed postmaster
at Moores' Ordinary, Prince Edward, Va, vice
Robert Bowman, deceased.
Senior Angel de Yturbide, secretary of the Me-.
lean Legation at Washington, was married to Mi .
Alice Green of that city on Saturday.
Much excitement has been caused In Tinicur,
Pa, by the sudden aud mysterious death of Mi 0
Elizabeth Hillpot of that place.
Letters received in Norfolk, state the total wret L
of the brig Louisa & Margaret of that port on II
18th ut., about l0I miles east of Curacao.
The Schooner Enterprise of Boston, Ia blow
last Saturday, lost Mr.. Chase, her mate, and one
sailor overheard.
Mr.. John Kelley, citizen of Claremont, N H.
committed suicide on the morning of the I1th inst
by hanging himself in his barn.
terrific blow occurred at SumtervIe. s. C. :, on
tbs 7th, tearing down several kitchens, damaging
dwellings and scattering fences to the winds
VIM Mcguire has been fined $500 In Carroll Par.
rish, Ls for cutting the levee on the Mississippi
river.
A ship carpenter at Charleston, s. c., Tuesday,
was badly bitten by shark while bathing in the
harbor.
The aggregate value of real and personal pre p
erty In The city of Sandusdy, of the lake potts
In Ohio amounts to 81, $50 600.
Captain Guthrie left Cincinnati on Tues day
for Fort Muuroe, Va with thrty.sight recruits for
the 9th infantry.
Professor Henry, secretary of the Smithsonian
Institute 10 to deliver The annual address before
the New Jersey Agricultural Society.
The receipt of cotton at Savannah, by the Geor-
eia Central Railroad for six months past was 295,
60e bales.
TN. Embrey. of Virginia, has been appointed
first class clerk In the sixth Auditors Office at
Washington Salary 81 200. He takes the place
of w Farley, removed.
Among the pictures In the Smithsonian Institute
at Washington, Is a copy of Raysdeal's celebrated
La Foret," painted by JOS Wallis of Petersburg,
Va.
The resignation of Hon. R M McLane. as COM
missioner to China has been formally accepted by
the President. DR.. Parker remains q. the head OF
the legation.
Afellow last week swindled number of citizens
of Washington with bogus subscription list, which
he said was TO procure band to serenade sue
cessful Alderman
RECEIPTS OF ToBAcco IN DANvILLK.-In tts
town of Danville, last week, there was received
344 600 pounds of tobacco and about the same
quantity the week before.
The Kennebec dam at Augusta, Maine, has par
italy washed away, and will In all probability,
throw Eve or six hundred persons out OF work, by
stopping the mills.
RErALrA7IoN.-In view of the recent Massa,
chusstts Nufcstion acts, 1t 10 suggested 10 . Mo-
bile paper that the brokers and bankers there re-
fuse to take Boston paper for collection.
DR. Howard P. Kennedy, son Of Hon. Thomas
Kennedy, and formerly a member OF the express
frm of Adams & Co, died at Haserstown, Nd,
Tuesday
New MArElrAL yoa PAPKR.-The Perth {Scot-
land) Courier states that gardener at keir House.
has patented an Invention for fhbricang paper ara
rope from the common Hollyhock.
STORE RoBBRp.-The dry good store of w. J.
Fryer e. Co., corner of Hamilton street and Broad
way, Albany, N. Y, was robbed of goods valued at
s3 600 Tuesday night.
CLRaGYMAN MURDERED The Alexandra Us.l
Republican says that on the 1st inst Rev: J ]
Wseme, residing near Grsy's creek was killed BY
a negro boy In Bis employment. who cut of bis
head with an axe.
EIiphalet Williams who was chairman OF the
goston board oi select men In 1e22, and led 10 the
csrenopial OF transferring the town records and
title dseds TO the new authorities, when It became