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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-30

CRuELTY.-Patrick H. Gentry came be-
fore the Mayor yesterday to answer the charge O
violently assaulting and beating Elisabeth Gentrv
but the fair complainant failed to appear the ex
animation was postponed till this mornin d. and th
accused admitted to bail for his appearance.
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JOB PRINTING
lEATLY Exc CUTED AT THIS OFFICE
LOST OR STOLEN.

7 OST.-On Saturday evening, between
IL the Old Market and Union Hill, a green Merino
SHAWL. The finder will be literally rewarded by
leaving it with VALENTINE HECKLER Old Mar
ket. ia 30-It*
OST.-Between Parker, Bayly 81 him
IL mos and the Exchange Hotel on Sunday nj e ut
or Mondsy morning. GOLD RING, with an opal
set. The finder will be handsomely rewarded by
leaving the same at the Dspatch office. or
ia S0-2t* PARKER, BAYLY IL NIMMO'9.
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Mr.. BALDwIN'S LECTUREs--PosTPoSE
MENT AND CHANGE OF PLACE.-t will be
seen by reference to our advertising columns
that, in consequence of the Lectures to be
delivered at the Athenaum, by Reverend MIR.
Moore and John Il. Thompson, Esq, on Tues
day and Thursday nights, the Lectures OF
Mr.. Baldwin have been postponed. The first
will be delivered on Friday night next. The
place has also been changed from the African
Church to the Metropolitan Hail.
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LEV 0PHC1Ax MoxIcUM
THlnD AHnUAL 6vArxstaT 81 fhs r.
IuAL 1yyLDins rurD ARD Loar ComS4ry.
80 "a ~ Ia'siasion Hess fsts,.
Disbnrsrsseufs :, 's'vifsssV IS
s . q "a ssars.. .gls.x4os
bAPehscss - Sc -
- 17.oez u
Balances December slst, 1854. .......... 49, :.
Cash ON hand ............. 80 q ~ "
Front and los seet 80. fN
Amount dus the Company from ssU y
member for install msuts Fiass
:, snd interest. Dee. 5ist. is4.... eSsa as
Debts due By the Comrany...... lis
- esss n
Whole number Of shsres Coz.
Cash valne Of Stock. e2s 1880
Cash vsiue Of unrsdesmed Sharss a4s % ,ea
The Company has no properly other e.. a.
Loans wan 10
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STATE or VIRGINIA.
Cr-0 or n rrnx srur 10 VIII.

This day Joel B. Brsss, President. ana W.,
berry 6iGeloE. Secretary Of the Mutual Bu,lSsso-
Fand and Lean Company II the city Of IieSmonnyg
ary Public In and for the city Aforesaid IA 70
oath that the statement Of the seeouat ~
ont By the ssid We odberry B. Biseov' - Msds
q said Company 10 true to the best Of their inor.
Given under my hand. this 7ssh dsy Of J.nn..-
1856 ABEL II. MIyc Mseesfy,
ja 30-1t "'f.
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~ GENTLEMAN end Als VITA wish e
IA ct Sitting Hoom and qe1 Ncea, viii neams
u J Paysss AalIy Ali.sss :. H fssa oa'ss
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Tested to the world. The poor Of England
should learn from the late scene 1t Ports.
mouth, to avoid wan, except when their
country is invaded. Let them retuse to be
made hounds Cor royal and nobls sportsman
10 hunt with. - ia
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bIhe London Times goes on its good
work of giving Lord Raglan fits. The great
Thunderer don't seem to mind its numerous
sssailants. who from the big bull dogs Of the
London press down to the petty squeak Of
the provincial fee, are after it in full cry
The Thunderer has demolished Titans IN his
time. and Is not disturbed by the yelps of 4
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-01-30

Lingard's History of England, abridged,
with continuation from 1853 to 1864, by
JAMES BURKE, prefxed by memoir of DIR
Lingard, and illustrated by marginal notes.
This is very valuable book, just issued
from thepress of John Murphy & Co., Balti
more and for sale by ]. w. Randolph. The
gtea' work Of DIR. Lingard is regarded as one
e .. inc mos. valuable contributions to histo.
ricai knowledge extant. 1t is written with
great force and clearness, and tho sanas VIII
bodied in 1t were obtained with the most e 40
tient and laborious research int l uo; pa,
documents Its voluminousness depr;v ,gl o. y
great BODY Of readers Of the opportunity ' Of
is a desideratum. This abridgment Nv M !.
Burke is book of some seven hundred ma
ges, and is spoken Of very highly by compe
tent critics. 1t is gotten up in handsom,
style, well worthy of the library.
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he is regarded with precisely the kind of in.
terest that an angler feels in the worm which
he puts upon his hook.
Poor Hodge is simply the bait with which
bis Grace or his Lordship goes fishing for
glory. If he perishes, why his commander
feels the loss as sensibly as he would that Of
any other worm, and there are plenty more
worms in the dirt to supply his place. An
1rishman writing home to his mother. from
the Crimea, Whose letter win appear in our
Paper to.day) sensibly says: Oh. an, trotb,
and its yourself would drop saucepansfp, .,
tears for the poor fellow that left the svae,
little home, and the cow-not to say anytb;no
about You and Kitty; and all to seek for oaey
lfIwas down with You once more, it would
take power Of talking about honor to coax
me away" Precious little honor does tn
private get in any of the wars! He digs, b
sleeps on the ground, he mans the batteries
he carries the musket, he fires upon the enc
my, he grapples with him in the hand to han,
encounter, he bleeds and dies, and is tram
pied in the mud by the feet of his own com
rades, while not : laurel leaf falls upon hi
grave; but oil the chsplets, and all the emo
luments are hesped upon the men of rank
who in ease and comparative safety direc
the operations after some principles which
they have leArnsdi In books, or perhaps, like
Lord Raglan. have derived from their OWL
wise and original understandings. So rare
Is It that these porcelain specimens of hu
mainly are exposed to the hsrdships and per.
ils Of tho rank and file, that when such case
occurs e Is trumpsted abroad Is the most
amazing example Of military merit ever man.
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1t is earnestly hoped that every member
will return his Mushet Immediately to the under.
signed to enable him to carry the plans desired
Dy the Company VIII. Fl. Fry, Orderly.
la SQ-2t
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NaMn FRESH MILK.-A regular
supply of pure FRESH MILK will be
dbl at Mr.. GRAYiS stand. Shockoe Hill
Q Market. EVERY MORNING, at an early
hour. js 3O-2t.@
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Jrsr So,-Somebody, We don't know who.
gives to the boys the following well timed
and sensible advice:
Young men! keep your eye peeled when
you are after the women! Is the pretty dress
or form attractive? Or pretty face ever'
flounces, boy, are Of no consequence. a
pretty face will grow old. Paint will wash
Oh. The sweet smile of the first will giyo
way 10 the scowl Of the tcrmagant The neat
form will be awkwardly done up in dilapiIa.
ted calico. Another and far different being
will take the lovely goddess, who smiles sweet
and eats sour candy. Keep your eye peeled
boy. when you are after the women. Ii the
little dear is cross. aud scolds at her mother
III the back room. you may be sure that you
viii get particular fits all round tho house
If She apologises for washing dishes, will need
girl TO fan her after marriage. II she blush
s. when accidentally caught at the wash tub.
with her sleeves roled.up and her clothes wei
saturated with suds. be sure sir, that she IS
trying to maintain fair standing in the ranks
Of the Goldfish aristocracy, has little good
breeding and little sense. Ii you marry
girl who knows nothing but woman slaughter
upon the piano, you have got the pooro5. /.
piece of music ever got ap. Find one whose
mind is right, then pitch in" Don. be
hanging around like sheep-thief. as Though
you were ashamed TO be seen in the day y-time.
but walk right up Ike horse to his oats. and
Ask for the article like a man.
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CCuRTsHIP AMONG THE ARAUCAN1ANS.

couprsuIp AMONG THE ARAUcANIANs.-
Va have been greatly amused IN reading
how the proud Araucanan Indians OF Chlh
do M their wooing and marriage; and quote
tha following for our readers special gratltca-
ton-not that it affords useful hint for hache-
lors. but as showing the manner IN which "true
Affection is sometimes demonstrated:
Generally when a young man makes up his
mind to marry, he first goes to his various
friends for assistance in carrying out his pro-
iect II he be poor, each one of them, accord
ing 10 his means, offers to make contribu
lion toward the expenses: One gives fat
OK; another a horse; third a pair of silver
spurs. A moonless night is selected, and a
rendezvous named At the appointed hour
the lover and his friends, all well mounted,
congreeated AS agreed Cautiously and in
silence they approach, and surround the resi-
deuce Of the bride. Half a dozen of the most
smooth spoken in the company enter and seek
out lhe Qirps father, to whom they explain
The object Of their coming--set forth the merits
Of the aspirant-the convenience Of the match
&c.. and ask his consent, which is usually
granted with readiness, for, perhaps. he con-
siders his daughter an encumbrance. and
calculates upon what she will bring. Mean.
Whle the bridegroom MAS sought out tue res
ting place Of his fair one. and sne, as in duty
bound. screams for protection. Immediately
8 stremendous row commences. The women
spring up en- masse. and arming themselves
with clubs; stones. and missiles of all kinds,
rush to the defence of the distressed maiden.
The friends interpose, to give the lover fair
play, with soothings and gentle violence en-
deavoring 10 disarm the fierce viragoes; but
they are not to be appeased. and happy the
man that escapes without broken pate, or
some other bleeding memento of the fight.
1t is a point of honor with the bride to resist
and struggle however willing she may be,
until the impatient bridegroom, brooking no
delay siezes her by the hair or by the heels as
may be most convenient. and drags her along
the ground towards the open door. Once
fairly outside he springs TO the saddle. ssi!l
firmly grasping his screaming captive. whom
be pulls up over the horses back; and yelling
forth a whocp of triumph. he starts off a. full
gslop. The friends sally out. still pursued
BY the wrathfu imprecations Of the outraged
mstrous and follow fast in the track OF the
iugitives, Gaining the woods. the lover
dsshes into the tangled thickets Sometimes
the parents of The girl are really opposed to
ihe match. In which case the neighbors are
immediately summoned bv blowing the horn,
aud chase is given; but if the fugitive once
succeeds in gaining the thicket in safety, the
marriage cannot afterwards be annulled.
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"GooD BYE. How many emotions cluster
around that word How ful! of sadness. and
now full Of sorrow. to us. il sounds 1t is
With US; a consecrated word We heard it
once within the year, as we hope never 70
hearNagain. twas in the chamber Of death,
aai the siill hour Of nights noon. The cur
ans TO the windows were all closed, the lights
were all shaded. we stood in the dim and
Solenia twilight, with others around the bed
o The dying. The damps of death were on
ner pale young brow, and GOODNESS was on her
Ups. rs we kissed her the last time while living
,'Good bye. my daughter" We whispered
and GOOD bye. sther.'' came family from
Der dying lips We know not if she ever
spoke more. but Good bye was the last we
ever heard of her sweet voice. We hear that
soTrowfu word often and often, as we sit alone.
oasy with the memories of the past. We
near II IN the silence of the night. in the hours
whervoas wskefulness, as we lie upon our bed
,anking of the loved and lost TO US. We
"'~ II IN our dreams. when her sweet face
zones back 20 us. We hear it when we sit
:, ys'ds her grave in the cemetry where she
'seps' alone. with no kindred as vet BY hel
sue She was the hope of our life, the prop
Ss can on when age should come upon US, and
should be running TO its dregs. The
anu The prop is gone, and we care not
sooa We go down to sleep beside our
~" ,l"ns beneath the shadows Of the trees in
e"y OF the dead.-Al5any Register.
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Number 81.
EDUCATIONAL DEPARfMENr.
J HCxrY. w. d. HrSKIE s Miss II. P. HiSxlEr
EItser.
Something About Flies.

We have long been in doubt about the &C.
curacy of the explanation usually given in
reference TO the power that tiy has 20 walk
upon the ceiling.
Such men Sir Joseph Banks. Sir Everard
Home. and Derham have asserted as proved
eonelusively that the sole cause of fy's
ability to walk on the ceiling. is a vacuum
which IS produced by suckers attached 10 tie
foot. When these suckers are expanded, va
Gums are formed. and consequently the FOO.
is kept to the ceiling by atmospheric pressure.
and when the suckers are contracted, the foot
is left free to rise
Ii this explanation is correct. it seems 70
follow. as snecsssary consequence. that fy
can walk more easily on smooth surface than
rough one.
I Here let us ask whether these suckers a..
ternaely expand and contract when tiv
walks with its feet downwardss Ii so, a tiy
when on the table is pressed to it by force
which is more than double It's own weight
Some time ago. when experimenting with
A. under an exhausted receiver, we observ-
ed tha. the fly was still able TO stick 10 tie
dome of the receiver ard even TO walk This
fact does not add any force to the atmospher-
icpresSure theory. but rather initiates il, al.
though it cannot be said to be positive refu-
tation, because what is called an exhausted
air although in an exceedingly attenuated
form.
We were not aware until a few days ago,
that any one else doubted the correction Of
Sir Joseph Banks explanation. A Mr. Black
well, who also tried the experiment alluded to
above, found that fly when enfeehed by
cold or any other cause. could. with difficulty.
walk up the side of glass which it could be-
fore ascend with perfect ease. He also o6
served that flies We're unable to stand back
downwards on highly polished sufaces. but
could do wnen the surfaces were little
Solled.
From these observations and others that ho
made, Mr. Black well came 10 the conclusion
that the apparatus by which flies effect their
hold. is que mechanical analogous 70 ths
puivilh or fine hair brushes which other insects
use as holders supporters.
This opinion of M Black well is quite sim
liar to one given by Dr.. Power in 1861 in bis
work on Experimental Philosophy. We give
his iansuase a. qu,,ed 10y an Ea-,us.. "...4r
several years ago
The fly is provided with six legs. and
walks on four. The two formest she uses as
hands To wipe her mon.', anI ansn anl .sa
up what she eats, her other four feet are cloven
and armed with little claws, by which She
tastens on rugosities and asperities of all bod
les, like ca,amount. She is also furnished
with kad Of fuzzy substance ike li.e
sponges with which nature hath lined the
soles Of her feet, which substance is also re.
pleated with white Vicious liquid squeezed
out at pleasure to glew herself to the sur.
face" wnu
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o1-p InR DEPARTMENT.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.

Whene'er the happiest time is come
That 20 tie year belongs,
or rrlands bright with harvest gold,
And meadows full OF songs
when fields Of yet unripen corn,
And daily garnering stores,
Remind the thrifty husbandnan
OF anpler threshing floors
How pleasant from the din and dust
OF the thoroughtare aloof.
Seems the old fashioned HOMESTEAD,
With steep and rnossy root
When home the .oodnan plods with axe
Upon his shoulders swung,
And, in the knotted apple-tree
Are soy, ne and sickle hung;
When lieht the swallows twitter
'Neath the safters Of the shed,
And the table on tho ivied porch
With decent care is spread
The heart is light and freer
Than beats in popular town
In the old fashioned homestead;
Wish gables sharp and brown!
when the flowers Of summer perish
In the cold and bitter rain,
And the little birds with weary wings
Have gone across the main;
when eurls the blue smoke upward-
In towards the bluer sky,
And cold along the naked hills,
And white the snow drifts lie
IN tales Of love and glory,
l. forgot the cloud and storm,
In the cid fashioned Homestead,
With hearth-stone large and warm.
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with the subject OF the statute. Blackstone,
in his Commentaries, Book 4. c. lS.) saws:
Indeed if we consider all human punish
ments in large and extended view, we shall
find them all rather calculated 10 prevent fu-
ture crimes than 10 Ipate the past. since, as
was observed in a former chapter. all punish
ments inflicted bv temporal laws may be
classed under three heads such as TO tend 10
the amendment of the offender himself. or 10
deter others bv his exam pie; all oil which con
duce to one and the same end, of preventing
future crimes, whether that be effected by
amendment, disability or example. When
this prime pie IS applied. 1t cannot be doubt
ed that such provisions of the law are prop
erly connected with the subject. as declare
that intoxicating liquor, kept for Illegal sale. is
a nuisance, and direct that search may be
made for it. that ii may be seized. with the
vessels containing it. and destroyed; and also
the sections which declare that the artihces
and tricks used to evade the law are crimina-
bic and pu nishable; and also those which de-
clare that the contrivance by which such eva
sion Is brought abou, is nuisance, and direct
the proceedings which shall be had in each
case Ii Is not enough that The act should
prohbi. the keeping OF intoxi eating liquor for
Illegal sale, bat peralty must be attached 10
the prohibition, aud court des suated to take
jurisdiction of the case.
Il the next place. we maintain that the pro-
vision of our Constitution which requires that
every act shall embrace but one subject, and
matters properly connected therewith. was
not so much intended 10 introduce new rule
in legislation, as 70 correct the abuse Of an old
one. |. never was appropriate that an act
should embrace more than one subject, and
matters properly connec ed herewith; and
whenmore subjects than one were embraced
in an act, it was always an abuse OF legislative
power. 1t was grouping different subjects to-
getEer 10 compel some members 10 vote for
measures which were odIous 10 them, IN or
der 10 carry through their avorite measures,
or 70 pass through, unnouced, some measure
which WAS foreign to the real subject OF the
act These were the abuses which the con
stisutional provision in question was Intended
% remedy. The history Of the times and
contempo1aneous exposition alike show this;
and these are proper sources OF exposition.
Contemporaneous exposition Justly ought
to have grea; weight with the Court. And 1t
fortunately happens that We have an exposi-
ton Of th:S provision Of the Constitution by
the first Legislature which assembled after lis
adoption, a very considerable part OF which
consisted Of the same persons who had been
members Of the convention which framed that
instrument; and we mention with pleasure,
as q matter which may justly strengthen our
confidence in the correctness of this position,
that two Of the learned members of this Court
were members Of the very Legislature, aud
took no second part in the important legisa-
ton thereof.
p. 4.
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PRoDUcTIoSs or THE UNITED STATES
Touching the absence of American Agricul
tural specimens in the present exhibition in
Paris. French writer saws:
The United States have exhibited no agri
cultural products, thinking, doubtless, that
they had nothing TO teach US. But see what
they could offer Us of cotton. corn and pork;
they produce annually 6o0.0oo,ooo OF kilos
III !bs) of cotton, worth 600. 600 900 of
francs; they harvest 2o0. 100000 Of hectoh-
tres (24 bushels) of Indisn corn. valued At
800, 900: of pork they cure 20 coo OOO-
71ese three articles alone are equal to all the
agricultural productions Of Frame and sur
pass thot Of England. Add tobacco. sugar.
rice, cheese and cattle, and we find the enor-
nous figure of six or seven billions. -No
country IN tie uorld produces 30 much And
this vast country has grown up within a,out
a century from little more than . million OF
inhabitants TO near thirty millions.
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FIRsT SECTTosAL PARrY-The Meas Of
Thursday leads about column and a hall
from tie Boston Post. a thorough going Pierce
and Nebraska organ. and genuine doughface,
in which the attempt was made to show thai
the first Northern sectional party" was or
gaulzed in 1894, and designed To build up a
New England nation" The Aeacs and Post
are both al fault. The frs, sectional party
was started by Mr.. Jefferson in 1875. and is
organization perfected in 1887. by the cels-
brated ordinance Of Mr.. Dane. That instru-
ment wickedly and perversely prohibited S2a-
rery foreeer in all the Northwest Territory.
1t was of course radically sectional and
the Republcsnism Of 1856 is Of the same
sort. Democracy, it appears FROM these prints,
is plei.ged TO tauor the extension Of ISlarerg.
Republicanism. be it RENE membered. is pledged
TO oppose ii-NiLpapk<e Seminal.
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A NATIos OF MErHoDrsrs.-The religious
missions of the Friendly Islands in the Pacif-
ic Ocean. has been SO successful that the en-
tire people have become nation OF Mesho-
dists; and the whole population from the king
(who is a local preacher j dowL to bis poorest
subject, attend the Wesleyan ministry. These
Islands sometimes go by the name Of Tou.-a.
They consist of 100, and lie between l3 de-
grees and 25 degrees south latitude. and 172
west and III degrees east Longitude. They
were discovered by the navigator Tasman, in
l643. but received their collective name Of
Friendly Islands from Capt. James Cooke.
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Conclusion neft lceek.

"ONLY Poo7 CHILDREN Fanny Fern. in
the Saturday Evening Post, writes as follows:
Here is primary school; what host of
Iittle ragged urchins are crowding IN, Now
they take their places in seats terfaced off one
tinctively visible. What pretty sight. and
how nature loves to compensate! sending
beauty to the hovel, deformiiy TO the hall
There's q boy, now, in that Jacket who is a
study for an artist See fis broad. ample
forehead mark how his dark eye glows;-
and that little girl at his side. whose chesnut
cufls droop so gracefully over her soft tringed
eyes and dimpled shoulders. And that
dream child in yonder corner, with blue vein
ed, transparent temples, whose spiritual eyes.
even now, can see that fadeess shore to which
bright angels beckon him. Deal gently with
him-fe is passing away! Here comes the
teacher, brisk, angular and sharp voiced.
Heaven pity the children! | already ex-
pefienced a mental sliver. Now she comes
up and says (apologeticalIy TO my new satin
cloak You see. madam, these are only poor
children" The toadying ea'urei Lucky
for her that | am not "a committee. Can t
Eer dull eyes recognize Gods image in lin
in wonder broad forehead? No poetry slum-
beriag in yonder sweet eyes? Did Franklin,
CLAY and Webster study their alphabet in silk
aud velvet? She ought to be promoted to the
di.niy OF toenail polsher to Q1een Victoria
Now sae hands ne book in which visitor s
names are inscribed; and requests me to wrlte
mine Certainly. Mrs. John Smith," there
!. Is. Hope She likes it as well Is | do,