The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-06

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The are nearly We millions of sheep in the State
| of Ohio.
ply.
Oats are selling 10 Nashville, Tenn, at rs cents
per hundred.
aaron Pierce died in Paxton, Mass, 29th ult..
aged VI years, the oldest inhsbitant of the town
The widow of ex Governor Dewitt Clinton, of
| N. T., died at Poughkeepsie on the I'd inst.
Jonathan Kilham. of the rm Of Kilham Mesrs,
an oid cifizen of Boston, died Sunday.
Dr. Whitney. an eminent physician of Ded-
man, Mass, died there on Saturday last.
Joseph B. Clark, prominent citizen of Detroit,
died 10 that city last week.
Aprcject 10 on foot for the establishment of an
An'hMaine Law newspaper In Indianapolis.
According to the Boston Directory for 1855 there
are 10 the ciy 42o lawyers, ITO physicians End 98
c'efgymeo acting az pastors of religious societies
Secretary DobbIns 10 expec, ed to leave wash,no.
ton ior Virginia, for few days for the benes of his
health '
Harvest hands are receiving So per day In
Illinois, where the wheat crop is unusually
large.
Znphania Williams of Frankfort. XIV. recent
" student OF divinity, committed suicide there on
Friday.
The Wilmington North Carolina, Journal learns
that enlis imeu.s for the Crimea are going on In
and around that city,
DR. Meilleur, superintendent of education. of
Canada, has been appointed postmaster of Mon.
treal
The extensive variety works owned by the Mes
srs. Smith at Sumter Ala, were destroyed by fire.
on Friday last.
The castor oil factory Of L Latourette in st
Louis Mo, valued at Sl4 900, was DESTROYED by
IRE on the 9th ult.
Six negroes we're executed at Alexandra, La,
on The I'D uit, for being concerned In the murder
of their overseer.
The wheat crop In the Western part of North
Carolina will, says the Wilmington Herald exceed
that of any previous year.
Rev. Porter of South Carolina has accepted
call to the First Presbyterian church of Savan-
nah, Ga.
DR.. A Crudup OF Franklin, North Carolina
has been elected President of the Raleigh g. Gasr
ton Road.
The widow of the late Professor Ray, of Cincin-
natl, committed suicide there last week by Ieapipe
from third story window.
| The annual convention of the Swedenbore;sns r.
being held In Boston, having delegates from eight
States of the Union.
The health of the city of St. Louis is better this
year than 1t has been In seven years psst---the
deaths averaging sixty per day less than they did
| last year.
In New Orleans last week, another young niaa
was c0whided in the street by former paramount
whom he had forsaken to marry a respectable
| young lady
An affray occurred last week In wilkesboro
Wilkes county, NJ c.. between two gentlemen
named Stokes and Gordon, in VIII ich the latter was
| shot through the heart
| The bark Panama, Capt Graves, left Rio de ia.
| neiro 23d May, and arrived at New Orleans on 23I
inst, making the passage In 80 days, the shortes,
ever made. .
| There was terrible rain storm in Wellsnd coun
ty, Canada Vest, on Saturday and Sunday week
which swept away all the bridges on the Welianc
| and Oswego Greeks, and destroyed eight or ter
mill dame.
| PRINTERS STRIKF.-The printers of Rochester
| New York, have struck for higher wages CAUSING
| the temporary suspension of the Rochester Amer
can.
| THE CRYSTAL PALAcE.--The Secretary of tb,
| Treasury has authorized the Collector of the Por
to issue permits to the consuis of different nations
| for goods remaining In the Crystal Palace belong
| ing their citizens, when such goods are intendet
| for direct expectation.
| The American Agricultural gives an account O
fraudulent article manufactured In this country
and sold to farmers az Chilian Guano 1t Is pre-
pared go as to look and smell like Guano but il
comparatively worthless.
PELIssIER.-A Paris letter says: al believe ID Il
quite true that it was by order of Gen. Pelissier
mat the submarine telegraphic cable was cut H.
found that, instead of serving It was Injurious &c
be In hourly communication with the Tuilleries"
SUIT FOR SLANDER H Eggleston Esq, law
yer OF New Orleans, has been arrested and bailec
to answer the charge of defaming Judge Bucha nan
ot the Supreme Court there, through letter ia the
N o Bee.
RISE IN GuANo-The Baltimore Patriot learn
from re liable authority that Messrs Bsreda & Bro
have advanced the price of Peruvian Guano s:
per Ton. Ihey now charge S55, instead of $50, al
heretofore, tor amounts less than thirty tons.
RAILROADS IN lNDIANA.-Indiana has now &c
railroads with 1853 miles of track completed O.
60o miles In construction the whole at an es,i-
mate costing $50 ,255 362. These roads are rapidly
developing the resources Of the State, which will
soon rank as one OF the first agricultural and COM
mercial States Ia the Union.
SAN FRANCIsCo A WHALING PoRr A large por-
ton of the American whaling fleet, heretofore
rendezvouzing at the Sandwich Islands propose to
make San Francisco the harbor of their resort
Port charges have been reduced as an inducement.
and more than hundred sh ips are expected there
within the year They will be owned as well as
supplied there before long