The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-30

THE DAILY DISPATCH:
,.x Tb. circulation of the DAILY D1sPATcB
.Isseds considerably that of the Da!lypapers Of
| gishmond eomolned'
RICHM0ED, Va;
THURSDAY MORNING, ........AUGUsT so. 1855
| I.rrR FROM HAyANA.-The steamship Grepads
| arrived at New York, Monday, from New Orleans
via Havana with dates from tee latter port to the
| 93d No tidnss of Santa Anna had been received
| there. The cholera fs reported as spreading In
| Usyaua. Several regiments OF soldiers have beer
sen, TO the country 10 avoid the disease The only
municipal regulation that has been adopted, 10 an
| order forbidding the keeping OF swine within The
| limits of the city Several persons having beer
1 poisoned from verdigr!s in the Ice cream shops
| an order has been issued forbidding the use o
| copper utensils 10 all public eating houses.
| letter states tina, British vessel Of war was a
| Vera Cruz for the purpose OF taking Santa Annt
| away and tha, a Spanish steamer had been sent te
| bis assistance.
| FROM JAMAICA Files of Kingston papers, witt
dates to the l3gh inst have been received. Sc
rious STRAY had taken place in Kingston, between
the black troops, and some of the citzens but tn,
| fighting was not very serious. The quarrel origi
mated 10 some Misunderstanding between one Of the
| soldiers and the market people. Several OF tht
.
| the sffsir has created little feeling, and the
| editor calls upon the government to remove the
| troGIs from the ely
| The pineapple crop Was very abundant.
Cosnrrros OF THE KINNEY EXPEDITION
et,er writer by the last steamer IRON Nicaragua
! says Col Kinney is at San Juan, with about ~
| meu half of them sick, and the rest Lying around
l,oss -, drunk, ragged, and In a most wretched
| condition Walker is laying off at Resj1 He and
Munos don't agree. His prospects are represented
| az very shabby
| SwEABoRG.-Ths place. which the last foreign
news informs the allied feet In the Baltic were
about to lombard, is a strongly fortified mari
| time town of Russia Finland. sisusted In the Gal
| Finland, on seven iaandS connected by ponoons
| mounting 800 cannon, and garrsoned by fifteen
thousand men. This fortress hiss frequently been
| called the Northern Gibraiter, account of its
extraordinary strength, vast docks, military work;
and batteries. ii is Immediately south east Of Hell
| singtors, an important commercial city and cspi
tol of Finland. Helsingfors mas strongly fortified
| and commodious harbor, extensive linen and can.
| vas manufactures, and Ito commerce is consdera.
BILE II is also the great recruiting station of Rus
| sis, who draws her seaman principally from Fin
| land.
| LATER FROM Aux CAVES -Advices from Aux
Cayesto the 12:h inst, report money, coffee ano
| logwood scarce The new coffee crop, 1t is sal ]
| will be very small American provisions were IL
such abundance In ali parts of ihe island that the
prices obtained scarcely paid the freight and du.
| ties, par ticularly fish OF every kind.
CHARGED WITH MAIL RoBBERY.-The Cincin-
natl Inquirer announces the arrest In that city or
| Friday, of D. s. Gibbs, postmaster at Gardner
Ohio, and J. c. Tilton, late assistant postmaster
| South Olive, Ohio, on the charge of robbing the u
| s. mall.
| STuPENDoUs UNDERTAKING The remainder
of the sub-msri inc telegraph cable required to com.
nj atp nn pipnti m ioia
and Sardinia. has just been shipped from the man.
uisctOry at Greenwich. Il Is 1872 miles In length
containing six conducting wires, and weighing
1850 tons. 1t will be laid from the southernnos
point OF Sardinia to the coast of Africa, Al
giers, and Is regarded by the parties connected
with the undertaking as the commencement of g
line to India and Australia, via Malta.
THE SHIP CANAL, UNITING THE ATLANTIC AMI
PACIFIc.-The cost of uniting the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, by ship canal, through the AtratO
route recently surveyed, is estimated at $50 COO,
600. This route enters the Atrato river on the AT
lantic side about one hundred and fifty miles be-
low AspiHWaH.
CHOLERA AT MALAGA.-Advices from Malaga tc
| the Let Inst state that the cholera was raains
| there. One account gives the number of death q,
| between two and three hundred per day Bust
| ness was at a complete stand aud many of the
| merchants had left the place The sickness woulc
| be additional In retarding shipmen is
which would not be earlier than September TO-
| Boston AdU.
| CAL1FoRNIA-We are informed saye the Stock
| ton Argus, by our farming fFends that In this, a
well as Ia Tuolumue, Calsveras and Msripos
| counties, the grain crops fail one half compared
with the amount raised last year. In other parts
! the State harvest has commenced, and the Weld Il
| large.
ELEMENTS CT MoRmoNIsM.-Of 1926 Mormon
emgrants for the Salt Lake, shipped from Liver
| pool from the 9th of November 1854, to the 26
| of April, 1855 there 223l English, 400 Danes
| 40l Scotch, 2S7 Welsh, IS French, II Swedes s.
| N0rweaiaus, % Irish, Is Swiss, IA Piedmonsese
| l3 Germans, and l Prussian.
| KANsAs-ANoTHER MOVEMENT ON THE PART oil
| THE NEW ENGLAND CLERGV.-The Boston paper
| publish plan for taking up stock in the kansa
Emigrsnt Aid Society Ia the name of the clereymel
| of New gland. THE statement announces tha
the subscription OF stock In the pame of these rev
| erend gentlemen, now exceed one hundred shares
| and the general donations iu urtherance Of ih'
| same object amount TO S248. The plan Is on,
which has for Its object the defeat of the Missoul
squat ers n their efforts to make Kansas slave In
| stead of free soil.
SINGULAR EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE.-We see |
stated that by the marriage at Mecclesfield on tn
| 18th OF July, of Mr.. Orobin OlIenshsw aged 6S Il
| Miss Sarah Ollenshaw, aged 2s the bride becam
the Vile OF her own uncle, sister iu.law to he
| aunt, aunt 10 her brothers and sisters and step
mother to her cousins; and by another marrisg
| she became the mother -in-law OF her own sister,
| The LAST OF BuRGoYNE's ARMY.-Alexapde
+; McCTacken, Scotchman by birth, and who cam
to this country during the revolution with Burgoype
and taken prisoner with his army. died at Col
| chester, Connecticut, on the 23d instant, In th
9th year of his age.
| PRETTY NEARLY THE SAME.-Simpkins says hi
wife don't literally wear the breeches, but she d
| fgurativey. The SIX dollars poor s laid aside t,
pay for new pair of pants, Mrs. s. invested Ia
"duck of bonnet"
! KENTUCKY ELEcrIoN.-The official msjority 70
| Morehead Know Nothing candidate for Goyerno
OF the State, Is four thousand four hundred an
4 three.
USEFUL DoG.-A large Newfoundland dog yisi.
| our effice every Wednesday morning. say the A,
lenta, Ca, Discipline, tor his Masters paper. Hi
first was the day alter the publication OF our fir