The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-11-19

NORFOLK asp poRrssourH.-1The Howsss ~ ~
sociation of Norfolk has otsirially ammo 80,
there has but ono caHe 81 fever oecusI - 's.
since the Goth of oesober among person. ~
not in the city prior TO that GATE ~. .s. -
,s ,., rn. association state positively that the
60 !. noyv At an end On Thanksgiving Day.
p.,f,r ssinusrerode ofiiciated in Christ Church
| D.. n y wins In Cumberland street Methodist
| 1,bureb assisted by Rev DR. Armstrong, OF the
Presbyterian Church Rev. Jeremiah Heidren IN
rreenason st. Baptist Church: Rev. Mr. ohecfe
| in the Catholic Church Rev. Mr.. Cooper, OF New
York. also oiiciated at the Cumberland street AT
a meeting of the Common Council, Friday, John
| n Whitehead was elected President and VIM L.
Harrison Vice President; X. II. Chamberlain ana
Miles Davis were elected to the Select Couneu, 70
supply vacancies, and G. f. Anderson and Daniel
G Cberrv To the Common Council Two valuable
negro men owned by Benz. T. Bockorer, escaped
Thursday morning, it is supposed on Sesse'
bound North. st
The Portsmouth Transcript positively denies the
existence Of any fever in that city. Tho Common
Council of Portsmouth have requested the Mayor
to call a meeting of the citizens to consult on the
propriety of some manifestation of gratitude to
those who aided them during tho late epidemic
Wash. Reid and Samuel HART were elected to the
Council to fill vacancies.
NEW TyIyGRAPHIc ERa-The New York Her.
aid of Saturday morning, announces the 1oriha'oi'
of mammoth Telegraph Company, which propos-
es to lease all the old telegraph lines Tor buid ne"
ones) so as to bring under the control OF one con-
Germ the network of wires leading to New 1orS
from every prominent business place in the Union,
The Company is composed of well known capi-
talists and business men. The company has al
ready secured David E. Hughes electromagnetic
telegraph patent for which it has paid from SlOO,
COO to 100000. The Company has also leased all
the direct lines of telegraph between Nc" fork
and Nova Scotia-the management OF which II VIII
assume in January, and new lines South and West
will be constructed in the spring.
THE LOANS OF THE RoTHSCHILDS.-The loans
negotiated by the Rsthschilds since the beginning
of the European war are enormous. They reach
the enormous amount of five hundred and fifteen
millions VITO England, se0,o00,0o0 to Turkey,
$40, 900; to Austria s120O000O0; first loan to
Russia s130OO0,00O to Sardinia Sl0.000Oo; TO
England in exchequer bills S35, G0o,G00; and Sc
cond loan just being perfected, SlO0,o000oo.
PROTEST AGAINST GEN. QUTMANS DEsERTIoS
OF THE CUBAN Cause.-The Eco de Cuba OF New
York, publishes the solemn protest of the Havana
Club against Gen. Quitmans "unlooked-for and
uniustifiable' desertion of tho Cuban cause, in
which the Club says that from liberator of Cuba
he becomes her tyrant and cxeeutoner, by having
created and upheld hopes which he has now de-
ceived.'
CoNvICTED-We learn by correspondent that
in the case of Matthews, who on trial in
Prince George Circuit Court, for whipping slave
to DEATH the jury Friday brought in a verdict
| ining the prisoner cent. Judge Nash, who
presided sentenced Matthews to one year imprson
ment in the pententiary
IMPORTANT FROM RIO JASErRo.--The following
is despatch received in Baltimore from a New
York house on Thursday:
Dates from Rio Janeiro to the 10th October
Coffee 5IJ0S to 5I500 Vessels leaving in ballast
on account of high prices Stock only 80 600 bags.
Flour nominally 30H0C0, for Richmond City Mills;
large arrivals
Another despatch from New York house on
the same day says
We have advices from Rio to October 10TH
Coffee for the United States quoted at 5000 to
5000
Shipments to United States in Sept, $4,000 bags.
Do. do. Oct, 1900 I"
Loading for do................. $1,000 r"
Stock at Rio Oct 10th. $4,000 "
ELECTION OF PRoFEssoR-The Trustees of
Franklin college, Georgia, a. their meeting on the
It'll inst elected Chas S. Venable Professor of Nat
ural Philosophy and Chemistry, in place of Prof
John LIE Conte resigned Mr.. Venable is at pre-
sent one of the Professors in Hampden Sidney col.
lege in this State