The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-23
VIRGINIA.

effigy was then buried and Mr.. Currey paid the
expenses. which Qhe Gazette ssyO was spent In
whiskey, on which the shooters got drunk The
editor intnates that this was laying out money to
very bad purpose, since there were several
church members iat the crowd. We do not know
what led to the commission of this act unless 1t was
that Mr. Morris is an active promoter of Know
E,thinesm. Nothing daunted, however, he perpe-
trates long chapter of chronicles upon the event,
the twenty.seventh verse of which IL as follows:
Then sang Daniels friends this song, Jonathan
and his men met to slay Daniel, but they became
sLelced themselves.
REwARD.-The Governor has offered reward
OF $50 for the apprehension OF David B. Keith,
who escaped from the jail of this county on the
night of the 9th of December last
LONG TRArN.-A train of forty loaded cars
passed over the South Side Railroad to Petersburg
last Tuesday. The train had on, among other
things, ten thousand bushels of wheat; was drawn
by one engine, and is said to have been altogether
the most lengthy proceeding of the kind that ever
entered the Cockade City.
ACCEPTS THE OFFER.-Our readers will recollect
that we published few days since, from the Prun-
tytown Gazette, an offer, over the signature of
"Upshur to bet from 81 900 to S5 600 against the
election of Mr.. Wise. In the last number of the
same paper, somebody who signs himself zone Of
the true blue," says he will cover SO 500 as wager
on the election of Mr.. Wise as Governor of Virgi-
mia In the spring of 1855, and dares "Upshur" to
make known through the same medium the time
and place for a meeting.
MR. WISE has been compelled to decline speak.
Ing at Salem, Roanoke county, at present, for the
reason that he cannot speak SO often. He will,
however, visit that place before the canvas is
over.
ARREST OF MURDERRR.-A correspondent of
the Petersburg Express, writing from Cabin Point,
Surry, states that the man Hamlin, who stabbed
VIM Hughes, at that place, on the I'd of Dscen.
ber, has been arrested and lodged in jail. When
discovered and pursued, he ran very swiftly to a
creek, lesped in and attempted to swim across but
was overtaken. The correspondent says:
tits not thought in this neighborhood that the ac
cused will be convicted of murder in the first dee
gree. There are two or three very plausible rea.
sons for this belief. Firstly, the deceased fingered
several days after receiving the fatal stab Second.
ly, Hamlin and his antagonist were engaged in q
light, and both very much under the influence of
liquor at the time of the occurrence. And lastly
Hughes, the deceased, had most shockingly viola.
ted the sanctity of Hamlin's family which doubt
gave rise to the affray that terminated 80 fatally.
STATHAM NorEs.-Charles w Statham gives no.
tice in the Lynchburg papers to all who hold the
notes of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, Wash
ington, d. c., which have his name attached as
President, that they must present them for redemp
ton before the 1st day of March next, as he will
not pay any more after that time
The STRAIGHT LINE RAILRoAD-The distance
from Charlottesville to Richmond by the proposed
straight line railroad has been ascertained to be
only &c Is miles-less by thirty miles than the
present railroad.
GooD BUnNEss-The Chrstiansburg Herald of
last week stated that the Bank at that place had dis
counted within the two weeks preceding, $35,OOO.
DEATH OF A Observation-Disclosures T. Caru-
theirs, a native of Rockbridge county, Va, died In
Holly Springs, Miss, on the 3lst of December. He
held the Office of clerk of the Circuit Court of Mis-
sissppi for fourteen years, when he was compelled
by failing health to decline reelection.
AccIDENT.-Hiram Slack, resident of Kanawha
county. and an engineer by profession fell through
the hatch of the steamer Mediator, at Cincinnati,
lately, when he was carried to the house of friend
In Newport, Ky, where he died.
RATIFICATION MEETING-The Democrats of Ia.
nawha held ratification meeting in Charlestown
on the 9Th inst. The house was we'll filled. Mr.
McComas was the only speaker-and he occupied
almost the entire afternoon.
AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK-M. G. Harman has
been elected President of this Institution at Staun-
ton. The amount of deposits paid out by the bank
during the year 1854, was $44 900; amount received
- Ill Al,
inst. at $l2l SO.
INcREAsING BUsINEss-The business of the Ex-
change Bank in Weston has increased to such an
extent as to render the appointment of an addition
al clerk necessary.
New COURT HousEs-Three new court houses
Wayne, Mason and Jackson
PROF WAsHINGroN.-The second lecture of
Prof Henry A. Washington before the Library
Association at Petersburg on Saturday evening
last, was attended by large and appreciative
audience
RICHARD K. GARRETT, whose death, In York
county, we have heretofore noticed formerly rep.
resented the York district In the Senate of Virgil
nia
DECL!NEs-We see Dy the south Side Democrat
that Mr.. Thomas Wallace declines being candi-
date for reelection to the House of Delegates OF
Virginia, from Petersburg, at the ensuing election
REvIvAL.-An interesting revival is progressing
In the Methodist church at Weston, Lewis county,
PREsENrmENr.-The grand jury of Petersburg
have made presentment against John w. Rice,
for forgery in having on the 4th of December last
by a fraudulent promisory note, drawn from the
Branch of the Exchange Bank at Petersburg, the
sum of $500. The note being payable at 60 days,
and John w Rice, with the name Of J. Ravenscroft
Jones forged thereon by said John w. Rice, a. en-
dorser.
OYsTERs.-On Tuesday last about L, 900 bushels
OF Virginia oysters arrived at Boston.
Bishop Early presided at the late Methodist con.
ferences In Texas He left the 7th Inst, for his
home in Virginia.
ANoTHxR GoNE.-Stephen Durham, soldier OF
the revolution, died in South Coventry, Conn, on
the 18th inst. at'the age Of SO.