The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-12

Az (,pp IpeA.--au,ong amusenenta the latest
novelty we notice 10 the eccentric target at MT
John Travis pistol gallery, on 81 Charles aree.;
A shot skiifui enough TO strike the "bulia eye,
hind the scsnes. and the uninitiated sporssmsn =,
amazed at beholdiug the target slowly open sanc.
the centre disclosing the figure OF beauti,ul sr
Ing girl, who stands before him tor an ,n ,s, and
tse attitude Of cutting an extra pigeon If The iron
IL then hidden from view by the closing o. nssr.
slsb Whenever we saw this occur, app pnoa
ed to Us precisely a. II the lady knew 49, Nd 6red
shot was made and wished 10 know ""' """ A'1-
the pissol.-N. o Delta -
Loc.rros or HxII-A curious sermon wss ae-
,,vsred : snnd.v or two ego at the Rsman Cstno
lie Church of the Anuuncistion, at ManhattanvMie,
New York. bv the Rev Mr.. WAlworth son oil Ex-
Chancellor Walworth, of Saratoga The topic OF
his discourse was the location ana .or men =.
He'll He undertook to demonstrate that Hell was
situated 10 the Inside of this earth. commencing
about twenty one miles from the surface, where
granite begins to melt He also an1rmeo tns'
heat was the predominant characteristic OF tn,s
abode of the damned aud illustrated the propos
ton By reference to the uniformly high tempera-
ture OF everything which had reached us from
that quarter Of our elebe
LrBKRrAs CoLoSizArIoN-The Fhiadeiphia
North American says, on the nrst on May tnS ne1t
expedition, with emigrants Tor Liberia, VIII ssli
from Baltimore and Norfolk. but in consequence OF
the exhausted condition of the treasury OF the Col"
onization Society, the passage VIII not De free-
Each ennis rant will be charged sixty dollars, for
which he will beconveyed to Liberia and support
ed there for six months
ALoAs-The Joint Committee on Railways and
Canals in the Massachusetts Legislature, have
unanimously reported bill providing for a loan
OF the credit of the State, to the amount of one
million of dollars, to the Vermont and Massachu.
setts railroad.
HEAvr Loss.-A FIRE at shelbyville, Tenn, has
destroyed the dwelling Of Rev. A. II. Dashiell. ID.
d. pastor of the Presbyterian church In that place,
whose library, all lost, one Of the finest 10 the
State. His manuscripts, also burned, included SIX
hundred sermons and lectures, which he had pre-
pared for the press and designed publishing.
APPOINTMENTS AT wAsHrNGroS-R Z. Whit
lock appointed to Sl400 clerkship In Sixth Audi
tors Office, pice R. w. Warden, removed.
Fred. L. Grammer of Md, appointed to $1,000
clerkship Ia same Office. -..
Henry Kendig of New York, appointed to $1,000
clerkship In Pension office.
Constant Norton appointed Collector OF Customs
for Edgartown, Mass.
SENTENCED Young Leet, convicted In Trum.
bull county Ohio, ofcausing the death of his sister
with strychnine he had prepared for poisoning his
father has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
fifteen years.
Prospect, Me- late msster of the brig r. Patterson,
committed suicide on board the r. p, at Palermo,
(Sicily) by shooting himself with pistol. Cause,
bad voyage.
PUMP MANUFAcT0RY BURNED.-Ihe pump man
ufactory of Mr.. George w. Brooke, and three dwell
ling houses, in Philadelphia, were destroyed by
fire Monday morning.
CANDIDATE FOR CoEGREss.-Wiis G. Hughes,
Of Union county, Ky, runs on the Know Nothing
ticket for Congress, in opposition to Lynn Boyd
STEAMBOAT SUsK.-The steamer W. N. Sher-
man, with 500 bales of cotton, sunk in the Talla
hatchee river, Miss, on the 4th inst.
wag seeing a lady at party with very low
necked dress and bare arns,expressed his admira
ton by saying that she out-strpped the whole par
ty