The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-03-16
SPIRIT OFTHEpRE ESS.

The Hhig places at the head Of its editorial CO.
iumns the ticket nominated at Winchester on We'd
nesday last, and pronounces 1t one that II can sus
tain cordially and enthusiastically. Tho writer in
vokes the Wings of the State to rally TO It's sup
port with indomnitable zeal, and with the quicken
ed spirit of the days of yore. In conclusion, the
WING calls upon its friends to fling their banner
proudly to the breeze, and let the welkin ring with
the names of FLouRNoY, BEALK and PATTON.
Inc Penny Post also endorses the nomination.
win enthusiasm. After giving brief sketch OF
the three men selected, ii thus proceeds #
:, when was there ever such ticket presented to
the people of Virginiai Men of the American par.
V-men who mean to vote withthe American par.
ty, though not members of it-men of Virginia OF
al parties I'VE present you with this ticket to day.
rms is the frst fruit of the union of those tens of
thousands OF Patriots In Virginia who have taken
up tue cry, americans shall rule America VIII
you STAND by your ticketf" II Is almost an insult
10 ask the question. We know you will.
In conclusion, the Post expresses its conviction
that Wise will be beaten by at least 900 votes,
and advises Its friends any man offer to bet that
Wise will be elected, to 60 their pile upon it,"
Inc Enquirer devotes leader to FIX Governor
smith The writer states that Mr.. Smith stands in
open and uncompromising hostility to the Demo.
cratic party-in open and uncompromsing hostility
to its organization, its principles and Its candi.
dates-repudiates the authority of its Conventions
-discredits and denounces its nominees. He Is
lighting insdiously but with none the less zeal and
effect, against the Democracy of Virginia, in this
crisis of their EXTREMIST need and peril The En-.
quirer thinks that If there Is a man In the Com.
monwealth of whom 1t may be said that he Is
bound by every obligation of party allegiance and
personal honor to support the nominees of the
staunton Convention, that man Is Ex-Governor
William Smith. To the strict organization and
rigid discipline of party is he indebted for every.
thing of distinction or political power he NAV
boast; and independently of this general obliga-
tion, the writer alleges that he was an aspirant tor
the nomination of the Staunton Convention The
Enquirer proceeds with its illustration OF "the
false and untenabls position which Governor
Smith occupies before the Democracy of Virginia"
and winds up as follows
successful resistance to the authority of tbe
party, will result In Its hopeless Decentralization
No man should be the better for betraying the De.
mocracy. Therefore, let a convention Of the
party in the Alexandria Congressional District
bring candidate in the field against Governor
Smith. If aWhig should chance to be elested, the
blame would attach to him who bids defiance TO
the principles, usages and authority of the Demo.
cratic party.
FROZEN TO DEArH-We learn that three out of
family of five persons living in johnson county,
Mo-, were frozen to death on the 29th ult. They
were living 10 a very open cabin in the prairie; the
snow dritted through the cracks of the cabin to
such an extent, that they determined to go to
neighbors, some two miles off; they started on,
but lost their way, and wandering about until the
woman and three children became exhausted the
man finally succeeded in getting to the house, and
got help, and returned for the others when they
came to them the children were already dead, and
the woman SO badly frozen, that If she gets we'll
she will lose both hands and feet BurEinot0n
(Ioaoa) Hdmkeye, March 6.
SEEDS AND STATIsTIcs,-Congress begins to be-
stow special care upon the agricultural interests of
the country. In the general appropriation bill we
find an item of forty thousand and seventy -eight
dollars to reimburse the Patent Office fund for the
amounts heretofore paid out for seeds and the col.
lection of agricultural statistics. 1t will be re
membered that the clerk in charge of the AgrcuI.
tural Bureau made visit last year to Europe to
replenish the stock OF seeds for distribution -
Seeds, we understand, have been distributed with
great liberality to every part of the country-Nat
Int
HAUNTED HousEs.-The Lynn Daily News saws
that there is good two story house on Sycamore
street, which has stood empty more than year.
Nobody will live in it because it is haunted. For
the same reason, says the Worcester Transcript,
there is house in Austin street. in that city, which
remains untenanted. Several attempts have been
made to reside in it, but all to no purpose the fam
lilies having moved into 1t one night only to move
ont again the next morning.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN TRoY.-Loss Sl1 ,0O0-
About half past o'clock this morning, fire was
discovered in rear of brick store No. $780, River
street, west side, occupied by Bussey & Magee,
stove dealers, &C.. and John M'kinney, silver
platter. The fire WAS undoubtedly the work of an
incendlary. Mkinney lost nearly all his stock
Bussey & Magee ditto. The drug store of R. l. &
G. Drake, adjoining north, was materially dam
aged, together with the stock Troy Budget Sa-
tHrdGy
MURDER ON SHIPBoARp-A cold blooded mur-
der took place on Saturday night, on board the
ship Lady Suffolk, Capt Snow, which left Boston
for Mobile One of the sailors named James Nc
Coy, got out of his berth to fight his pipe when
another of the sailors, named Tobias Johnson, got
up, and without any provocation whatever, plung-
ed sheath knife into McCoys right side, iphicting
mortal wound Mccoy expired in twenty min
utes after.-B0stOn Atlas, 18Th
The snow drifts down at Plymouth are eight or
ten feet deep. The Plymouth railroad train, how
ever came through on Monday morning Passen-
gers from this city for Duxbury, took the stage at
Kingston depot on Saturday evening, but the stage
stuck in the snow, and they had to walk and wade
about four miles. The descendants of the pill
grims had to break out their roads on Monday
Boston Post, March 13.
FIsHTAIL BuRNERs.--In the Eastern part of these
United States these articles are furnished by gas
filters. In Oregon, as the following paragraph
shows, nature provides them, Fish are caught in
Puget Sound, Oregon, which when dried, and lit by
the tail, burn like a candle
Four retailers of Orange county milk" were
arrested at New York on Saturday, upon the affi-
davt of person who saw them drive their carts
up to pump and fill their cans, at the same time
putting in white powder. Sixty infants died In
New York last week Of convulsions.
ScYTHE FACTORY BURNEp.-The scythe factory
at Winsted, CT, owned by the Winsted Manufac-
turing Company, and the store-house, together
with two or three small buildings adjoining, were
all destroyed by fire on Friday night The factory
was owned by stock company, and the loss 4
some $4,000 In stock and tools.
Scene in an apoih ecary shop after the passage OF
the Maine Liquor Law-two nice young men enter
Come, Jim, what will you take ?" "Well, |
guess I'll take pruss;c acid smash" Clerk to
second GENT What's yours1 r. "Il take bur
ming fluid cocktail" .
CALM DESPAIR An Indian hung himself at On
tonaeop, Lake Superior, last winter. He was at.
tacked with the small pox, when he drove the 9th
er indians from his camp, took his faithful dog and
hung him TO the limb OF tree and then suspende ed
himeelf to another.
MARYLAND MECHANICS INsrIruTE, BALTIMORE
-Ex President Tyler is 10 lecture before this In,
stitution the 20th of March, and Professor Henry
OF the Smithsonian, viii deliver the closing dis
course on the 9th.
Edwin Forrest the trsgedian, has lately had on