The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-16
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RICHM0ED, VA,
MONDAY MORNING. NG,...........".JULY 16, 1855
EAnrYouAKg SHOCKS AND CHoLERA.-A leite
| from Rome SAYS: "A few days after the eruptio,
OF Vesuvius shocks of an earth ttquake were felt il
this neiphborhood and 10 several other parts of th
| peninsula We bear slso that the cholera b pre-
vailing more or less throughout the country. A
the las, reports there 2l4 cases IN Venice ant
at Florence there have been from TO 10 case
daily for come weeks"
CANADIAN LINE OF OCEAN STEAMERS. w,
have information from Quebec, by telegraph OF
/ Saturday which induces us to believe that Nj essrs
Edmonsfone, Allan d. Co 8 tender for line o
steamers between Liverpool and the ST. Lawrence
has been accepted by the Observation-Disclosures
Herald
To BE TRIKp-The revolving Foreign Legion a
Melville. Ireland, have been guelled hy de,ach
ment OF forty men from the 18th regiment The
Halifax papers ssy that forty of them were caught
put 10 irons and will be tried by court mar,
iial.
VALUABLE RELIc.-Two links of the mann.
moth chain which was stretched across the Hud
son at West Point at the time of the American Rev.
olution, have been recently rssed from the bed oil
the river by the gentleman who is now endeavor
log with q company to secure the entire chain So
far some nine links have been obtained. They
measure some three feet, and weigh about Atty
pounds each.
RUSSIAN EpIrons From work called "Note
of Nine Years Residence In Ruesia, we take the
following: On the St. Petersburg promenade, the
celebrities of Russian literature likewiss walk
abroad their LILLE hour. The stout hard faced
mau, carrying thick, knotty cudgel, 10 the editor
OF the Northern Bee. He IL earicatured In statue
under the form Of bear That smart military
looking man, wearing moustache, 10 the editor OF
the Contemporary, bulky monthly. Another edi-
tor il that mild eentlemanly looking man, with bis
head thrown back, and face looking upward, and
who keeps his hands always behind him. Yonder,
the tall. ovsrgrown Count, Ia loose hanging gar
ments. is the lively editor of The "Tsrantass."
MISSIONARY OPERATroNs-The Conn, e,icut Mis-
sionsry Society reports through Rev Horace
Hooker receipts for the last year of S74l3 and ex
pendtures $3.50; As missionaries have been sup
ported, and the society makes the announcement
mo more waste places 10 Connecticut"
MORE THAN Hrs ALLOWANCE The Mayor OF
Boston has received letter from Mrs M C Hun
ter OF Louisville Ky, beseechipg him TO look after
her daughter who had married George Wentworth.
proprietor of the Ladies' Enterprise at Boston II
appears that Wentworth is charged with desertipg
bis wife n Philadelphia and going off with another
woman. Mrs. Hunter had also heard tn at previous
to his marriage. Wentworth had wife and chill
dren In Louisville. Ky.
REPAYING AN OLD DEBT.-In A. D. 1916, after
King Philips war, DIR Increase Mather of Boston
Mass, "did by his letters procure a whole ship.
load Of provisions from the charity OF Is friends in
Dublin, ireland " So that when Boston sent, by
R Forbes Esq, ship-load of provisions to
ireland, few years ago. 1t was but the payment,
without Interest, OF debt contracted a century
and three quarters before
ADEsoLATED HAmLEr-A tragedy of singularly
extended action has occurred la the north OF Scot
land. fishing boat was overturned off Mabrav
Head, and the thirteen occupants went down In
deep water and were lost. They were all youths.
and as the village to which they belonged numbered
not more than sixteen or twenty scatterpd bouses
there was scarcely family which was not dsrkened
6y the sudden presence of death. person who
passed through the village reports that the iamep.
tatons OF the stricken people could be heard on the
road AO
IN MIcARAeuAIThe 1n - NewburyPort Herald states
iaSlng been released from all raint the gov.
ernment, Is about to sail for Central America to
join Walker Kinney, it states, will have united
with b i'm by this time. Mr. Fsbens it adds will be
accompanied by strong party, so that the joint
strength.
Gov. REEpER AND SrRINGFELLow-Ac cores
pondent, 10 whom the st Louis Democrat places
the utmost reliance says that Stringfeow did not,
in the late difficulty between Reeder and himself,
strike him a blow, but struck at him. Governor R
then drew pistol, and threatened death If StrDg-
fellow approached nearer, whereupon the latter
retired.
A FEARFUL FALL.-Last Friday afternoon, as
To- H..tr slv
s.eeple OF a church at Hamilton Ohio, he
stepped on a loose board. which tipped and threw
him to the ground, height OF l40 teet 10 his de-
scent he struck the root of the building, breaking
his back and neck aud his liieless body was pick ed
up about twenty feet from the building very much
mutilated.
The people of Currtuck county, N. c., have
voted $4,000 towards the construction OF Canal
uniting the waters of the Currituck Sound and
Elizabeth river.
MAMMOTH CHoNUs.-An idea may be formed of
the magnitude of the musical assembly which YVES
to have taken place at Lille on the l7th and 18Th
OF June, when it is considered that Ia the choral
part alone the lumber OF performers was to exceed
5 600.
WINDFALL.-Henry Wiesenfals, an o. S. Ma
rine at Warrington, has been discharged to enable
him to visit Prussia to obtain possession of hand-
fome legacy.
MINISTER TO ENGLANp.-The Pittsburg Unicn
mentions with commentator the name OF ex.Gov
Bleier as proper person to fill the vacancy In the
misei ion to the Court of st. James, which will be
occasioned by the return of Mr. Buchanan.
Joseph Bassett, a revolutionary pensioner, aged
93 years, died at Hyenns, Mass, on the 7th. He
was the father of "a children
young man was rescued frou drowning at
Rondout, N. last week, by an E0giish bull dog
N. 7. Tucker, the editor who killed his son
Vincent, at Brooklyn, In August last, escaped from
the State lunatic asylum at Utica, N. Y, on We'd
nesday last.
Cherries are selling 10 San Francisco at "a a
quart.
ATuRkIsH DocuMENT.-The bark vests arrived
at Boston, Mas on Tuesday, with full cargo from
Smyrna, Turkey. pass, in the Turkish language
on sheet Of paper as large q good sized wspa.
Per, which was given to ensure the vesssis passage
ri ia ypa exh ted