The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-04
RITOF THE PRESS.

| or else "a MANY of the six States last men,
| TONED as will make up fourteen votes ln short,
| conceding the whole South, ana ILLINOIS ana Cah-
forpis 10 the Democracy, they must cdfry fourteen
sddi,onsl eector iAl votes out oil he whole array
| of the other Northern States, to gain the day.
| psnnsvlvapjs alone united to the South and Call
1 Iornia will ensure the victory.
| The ERgnifer quotes from the R5W orleans
Delta TO show that the Creoles OF Louisiana pre-
fer the rule OF the Democratic perry to the triumph
| of the proscripiionists, aud ''ril coslesce with
| their POLITICAL antagonists sooner than march un.
der ito banner on which are Inscribed the formu
| las Of ancient bigoted puritanism "
The mig comments upon the address OF the
| Massachusetts State Know Nothing Convention,
and sees in 1t nothing but deliberate purpose on
the part of the Massachusetts Know nothings TO
keep up incesssnt agitation on the slavery ques i
ton, and TO make perpetual war on the constitu-
tionsl rights Of tie South.
Water melons are selling ia New Orleans at IS
per hundred.
The bsuks of Savannah, Ca, have commenced
closing at o'clock T. NJ.
Mules are selling 10 Omahs, Nebraska Territory,
| at the rate OF $3.50 span.
The trial OF Parks, the murderer who was hung,
will cCst Summit county, Ohio, nearly five thou-
| sand dollars.
Iii. certain that by the 4th OF July, The western
division of the Ohio and Mssisslppi railroad will
be finished.
The Kansas river Is now uavissble by steamers
| as far as Fort Riley. Three steamers have mad j
| that distance.
| Jacob L. Winter is ing the New Orleans Cres'
cent for $50 900 damages for defamation while he
vas running for cdce there.
| Mr. OVERLY the temperance candidate for Gov
srnor of Alabama, Il as ithdrawI 10 favor OF Judge
| Andrews, the Know Nothing candidate.
Thare has been an almost total failure of the
peach crop 10 Southern Ohio by OF the late
trosts.
| The robes worn by Archbishop Hughes at the
late dedication of ST. Pauls Cathedral, Pittsburg
| cost So 600.
| The Georgetown, D. C Advocate says that Ii g
earthquake felt 10 Baltimore was also felt in that
| place.
for two years. In Mississippi, for stealing thirty
| cents worth OF goods.
Reports from the Salt Lake represent the Nor
| mons In a prosperous state; this people now mum
| Der lo 600.
! REMOVAL. Mr.. j. B. Peasants of Virginia was
| on Saturday removed from the office of the Third
| Auditor OF the Treasury, Washington.
At military funerals In California, 1t ia said to be
the practice. after buryiDg the dead, to have the
band go to the residence of the deceased and sere
made the widow
Benjamin Hoffman, formerly one of the pro
pretoTs of The Albany Evening Journal died on
Friday, after long suffering from pulmonary di-
sease.
colored volunteer company, called the Attuck
Blues, made their first parade In Cincinnati, Ohio,
on Wednesday last. They said to be well drill
ed well uniformed and well oticered. They were
preceded by colored brass band.
DEATH OF A PIONEER Judge Musgrove Evans,
a native of Philadelphia and of the pioneers Of
Texas died The 7th ult 1t is said he originated
the frst Temperance society In the United States.
Hon. Bale PEYroN-- This gentleman, who
some years ago was prominent member OF Con-
gress from Tennessee. has been elected by the K
Ms. city attorney of San Francisco.
Seven of the canal depredators In Clay county,
Illinois, have been arrested and held to bail in one
thousand dollars each, to answer charge OF "ison
and malicious tresPass-
The landlords of Chicago raaaling their
guests with green corn. By the Illinois Central
road they enabled TO get early vegetables OF all
sorts from the sunny South.
FIRE IN WARRINGTON C1TY.-The National In :
telligencer says: The large dwelling house well
known as the residence of the former British
Minister, Mr.. Fox on the lower approach TO
Georgetown, beyond the Circle, was destroyed By
FIRE Sunday morning. The building belonged to
the estate of the late Gen Gratiot.
SEVEN YEARS MAIL.-The Mobile Tribune of the
2slh ult, says that 10 November of 1848 gentle
man In Baldwin mailed letter to a grocery house
in that city. 1t wss never received or heard OF
until last week, when it came exactly TO lite desti.
nation, after an absence of nearly seven years
1t would be pleasant to hear that letter give &C
count of Its travels during this long period.
DISEASE AMONG CArTLE-A very fatal disease
cslled the charbon Is killing the cattle In large mum
bers in the vicinity of Matsgords, Texas wri>
ter 10 the Tribune mentions that the same disease
was equally destructive about Bayou Sara, n 1886,
and that no cure has been fonnd for 1t. He
tons farmers against letting their dogs and hos 8
teed upon the flesh of such animals as have died
with ii, as it acts an almost instantaneous
poison.
TREASURE TRovE.-Tha Lafayette Qnd) Jour
nal relates the following singular Circumstance -
Day before yesterday a well dressed man called
at John DutiePs at the battle ground, and securing
the loan of a shovel went off toward Davis's Fer
ry. In about two hours he returned, bearing a
bag containing ST., 200 in Mexican dollars He gave
no explanation OF his conduct, except that he dug
up the money"
REMARKABLE LONGEVITY There are five bro.
theirs now living, named Squier. three OF whom
side In Vermont snd two in Massachusetts. The
youngest eighty three and the eldest ninety.six
years of age Their united ages are about four
hundred aud fifty, all of them in the fulness Of
manhood. over six feet in heighth and up to six
feet Tour inches. their physical proportions well
developed All OF them have been prominent
Tor wealth and influence.
A RErRNTANT SUIcIpE.-The Oxford (Obio)
CITIZEN gives the details of the suicide of Issac
l.indley, young man of good character and re.
spectacle connections In that town. He had been
engaged IN speculations In hogs, and had lost
money. His debts troubled him SO much that he
procured srychnine, and swallowed enough to
end his days. After he had taken the dose. and
when 1t was rackne his frame, hs repented of his
rash act, aud begged his friends to procure ply
sicsn and save him II possible. But before help
could be procured he was a corpse.
IHE Coal FIELDS OF THE ONO VALLEY.-A
recent bumber of the Cincinnati Railroad Record
contains some interesting Information in regard to
Inc great coal fields of the West. The Ohio Val
ley is alluded 10 particularly, and comprehends
western Pennsylvania, Western Virginia, and all
Oh Oaio, Indiana, and Illinois. up the narrow rim
oi The lakes and the States Of Kentucky and Ten
nessee. The valley embraces area of 233 000
square miles. OF this 1t is computed that SO 600
.quare miles are underlsid with strata of coal
This 10 distributed as follows Western Virginia
- O0O Ohio 10000 Indiana - 600: Illinois IS 900:
kentucky $500; Tennessee S 000
INGENIOUS RAsCALIry.-A wine merchant in
us recently received a note as follows:
sir-For some lime you have been robbed, ct
retail; we have now resolved to rob you by whole
SAFE. hereby notify you that, II snorrow night
shood you not adopt measures to prevent II, your
eeiar viii be entirely drained
Sacre Y cried the merchant, aud he loaded ii
pistols aud at the appointed night descended into
The cellar, and seated himself between two wine
casks Everything In the cellar remained safe, but
on returning home 10 the morning, he found every
room 10 bis house rifsd, aud all his plate, money
ana clothes purloined. The thieves had persuade d
him 10 take care Of his celler while they should