The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-23
vIRGINIA.

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.o'EL1 AssAuIrs - Alexander Robertson and g.
3. fleasants were fined $50 each IN peter,burs,
Friday. tor an assault on Robert Cousins.
AnsnrcAs NomisArross IN Psrsnssuac.-Tbe
american party 10 Petersburg have nomiunted the
following gentlemen for efice: House of Dele-
gates, Or. Thomas WIthers; Mayor, Samuel VII.
liams; Collector of Taxes, q. v. Rampant; Cham
oerlaiu, John R Ecklet; street Commissioner,
Charles T. Scott; Keeper Of Powder Magazine,
Alexander Moody; Clerk Of Lower Market, Ishau,
Alley; Clerk Of Upper Market, James E. Bursess
DELEoArzs.-Drs.P P. C. Spencer, J. F. Peebles,
and Joseph w. Smith have been appointed to re-.
tthe medical faculty Of Petersburg In the
Convention at Philade'phis.
WRATHRn IN vrRoINrA- Norfolk, Thursday.
the thermometer stood at 81; in Petersburg, FRI
day. at 80; in Halifax, Thursday, 90; in Lynchburg
Friday, 81.
SENATORIAL NoMINArroNs-Pete Saunders r.,
OF franklin county, Il the American nominee for
the State Senate from that District, and Peter C.
Bufiington the Democratic nominee for the SenAie,
OF the Point Pleasant, Msson county, Convention.
Col. John Dudley Davis K. NJ for the Legislature,
from Amherst county, against Col W. A. Richard
son, (Dem.)
10 LEAVE Town Dr.. G. Thompson went to
Ciarksvflle, Mecklenburg, and registered himself
~ OF the 8. Army The people believing him
to be qusck, and suspecting that he was the
Thompson who mv rdered Miss Agnes Pharr, gave
him notice to leav town 10 twelve hours, which
he did with gres'
DANyuLz.--Tho,n ps AtkinGon, Esq, is a
Candidate Tor the orally of the town of Dam
pille
CoppEn.-Copper has been discovered upon 100
farms In Franklin county.
DELHoATE.-Dr Moss smith has been chosen
to spresent the medical faculty of Danville In the
American Medical Association, VIII ich meets In
Philadelphia on the first of next month
SALE OF ToBAcoo.-A portion of the tobacco
crop OF Mr. Freswsll, of Henry county, was sold In
DanviAe last week at SIS per hundred.
FoR THE PENrTEsTIARY.-Ja Passens. and a
man named Workman, have been sentenced to the
penitentiary for eight aud three years each, from
Cabell and Wayne counties
FLouRINa MILL.-A Touring mill 10 being erect
ed bysMr. McNair, In Guyandotte.
TuRTLEs,-Two turtles weighing nineteen and
q half and twenty pounds, were caught In the Ban
mister river, Halifax, by Mr., 4qorefeld.
PANTHER Oh NO PANTHER The exciting cues.
tion with the people Of Halifax now il whether 1--WE
have panther among u.s." Some of the inhabi.
tauts declare that the animal seen in the county
was goat, some greyhound, and others contend
that it is a Tom-cat. Much feeling has been exhi
bised the subject and the old party political is
sues have been entirely lost sight of n the absorb
Ing question of "Panther or no Panther"
CaoP IN HALIFAx-The Peoples Advocate saws
that the whea. crop In Halifax, Notwithstanding the
severity of the winter, is most promising.
SUPPRESSION BRrDGE.-The suspension bridge al
Guyandotte Is again 10 process of construction
after some intermission by the contractors.
Hrs REsIpENcE.-The virginiau, who was rob.
bed of 81 200 in Philadelphia, Wednesday, was a
resident of Sparta, Caroline county. 81, ,040 of the
money was recovered.
he was named II. A Layton, and was nephew oi
Judge Layton of Delaware, on Friday last, purcba
sed the grocery establishment of Mr.. A. Warden
of Norfolk kept II two days and ran off with the
cash sales for that time, amounting to 800. He
also departed without paying his board bill at Mrs
Curriers' No traces of the fellow have been dis.
covered.
GREEN PEAS were served up at the hotels In
Portsmouth, Friday.
DED1cArIoN-Rev J. L. Burrows of Richmond
dictated at the dedication of the Fourth Baptis
Chapel In Portsmouth on Monday night last
THE CHALLENGE TO DANIEL WRBsrEx.-Ths
Savannah Journal and Courier has received let
or from Mr.. Thomas M. Norman, of Broughton
Island Georgia, in regard to the late development
that John Randolph, of Virginia, had challenged
Daniel Webster, in which he Gays:
The matter would not be worth noticing, were i,
Webster compliment, reads as though the writer
wished to leave an insidious impu.ation, where hc
could not make charge, against Mr.. Randolph.
1t Is now many years since Mr.. Randolph handed
me the correspondence and pledged me to silence
while the parties lived. l cannot however, be
greatly mistaken az to the main point.
Mr.. Webster made some gross threat against Mr.
Randolph, who was In Europe, but hearing of the
insult, be, In the old cavalier style, cropped his
hair, and swore it should not grow until he re.
ceived amend from Webster-nor did he baulk bis
word. The amend was made by Mr.. Webster, and
received by Mr. Randolph. No one can explain
the whole matter better than can Mr.. Benton-but
trust, If he should appear again as protector OF
the memory of one he professed so much to honor,
that he will do better than he did Ia the effsr with
Mr.. Clay. Dead John Randolph has been the
mark at which the coward spite has been directed,
of those who shrunk from his living presence. Ii
10 time that the ranking venom even of New Eng
landers, should have exhausted ITSELF Daniel
Webster Is not to be honored among honorable
men by false asperslons on Others"
EXECUTION OF A MURDERER Robert Swift con-
vlcted by Cecil County Court, for the murder OF
VIM. Killhour, 10 August, 1853, In Hartford county
Md was executed Friday, about mile and q hall
from Elkton, on the top of q hill He was
guarded to the spot by military, under Colonel
Howard. The effects of the confinement and re-
morse upon the prisoner were very evident At
the time of his conviction he weighed 200 pounds
but this was reduced to $50 pounds He mani.
tested composure, and ascended the scaffold with
firm STEP but evinced his contritions In number
of pious exciamatlons during the religious exer-
cises conducted by the Rev. Messrs Nay and
Torbert Ha then shook hands with all and pre-.
cisely at noon the Sheriff removed the key from
the DROP and the miserable man hung suspended.
He strugeIed hard for about seven minutes. The
dnesdful spectacle was beheld by some two thou
sand persons, including dozen women.
The condemned man confessed to the shooting OF
Killhour with a double -barreled gun, discharging
both barrels at the same moment. He said the
murder was not prenleditated, but having heard
that KilIhour charged him with stealing, and going
by his place the dog of Killhour rushed out ON him
when, supposing the animal had been set on him,
he Immediately fired, causing the death Of XIII
hour.
The trial of the case had been removed to Cecil