The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-04-30
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS

MONDAY MORNING. NG...........APRIL so. lass
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
| Tho Wais has a leader upon the anti-sbolitior
principles OF the Knew Nothing party. 1t quote,
nom the New York Tribune, in which philosophe,
freely calls the Know Nothings "a national niree,
catching party, and also from the Josrna, of Com
merce, frn friend of The South, which states .ba
the Know Nothings In the North are opposed to III.
repeaiot the Nebraska bill. 1t calls attention tc
tue latest trick of the Richmend Junto which Is .e
represent the X Ms as falling to pieces In thi,
State
1he EHqHsrer comments upon the late article In
tae London Times, advocating Know No,hinesm In
the United States, and says the object of the En-.
gsn aool'onisss aud enemies of this country is to
iaiuse aspirisof dsnniou In the United States and
saereoy to destroy the growing po wer of this great
country. With that view they encourage and fos
1sr tue abolition movements here and hug to their
oosoms the advent OF the Know Nothing party.
| ine Penny Post introduces the evidence of q
democrat, and neishbor of Mr. Flournoy, to prove
that Mr.. F. never made any speech rejecting On
slavery. The Democrat alluded TO asserts thar tie
charge that Mr.. F. attributed the degeneracy oil
| Virginia to slavery, is most impruden. and un,
founded.
AFFaAY IN MoBILE.-On Friday night. The Goth
Instant, Messrs A. McVickers and CharIss McKary
were stacked by rowdies at the Globe HOTEL iu
Mobile, Alabama, and the latter SO severely
stabbed as to render his recovery doubtful
man named Powers was shot In the head near
the Texas Hotel, on the same night; and another
man was shot on the plank road, nesr the city
Neither were fatally wounded
| VIAGiNIAN KILLED.-Capt Benjamin T. Head
anstive OF Orange county, was accidentally killed
in Mclean county, Kentucky on the 10th instant
by being run over by wagon. He was soldier
| of the war of 1912.
| KNOW EoTHINGs AND THE LAw-The Grand
Jury In Buncomhe county, NJ c., at the spring
term asked the Instruction of the court with rea.
ton to the propriety of presenting Know Nothings
as conspirators. Judge Saunders charged them to
the effect that Know Nothingscould not be present.
ed for banding together and administering oaths
but If they used shress to force citizen to vote
for or against any candidate for an office of trust
then they would become fit subjects for present.
| ment s1E .-.-
Acting upon this charge, the Grand Jury pre-
| sented several citizens as violaters of the law
STBAsGE MODE OF SuIc1pE.-En Hazleton
! keeper of public house In New York, committed
| suicide, Wednesday, by driving an awl into bis
| head with hammer.
| UPPKR TEN CoNcEar.-The concert given bv
the ladies of New York uppertendom ia the Puri-
tan Church on Thursday last for the benefit of the
nursers of the children of the poor, realized $4,000
The Tribune says the singing was good, but not sp
| plauded.
SUDDEN DEArH.-Mr. Benz. K. Lord, a dancing
master aged 81 years, died suddenly at the Globe
Hotel In Augusta Ga, on the 22d inst. He wal
from England and has mother residing 10 Ches-
ter county, there. -....-.-
| TRACK BuRNT.-One hundred and fifty yards o.
the railroad track between Augusta, Ga, and Co
lumbis. s. c., was burnt by forest fires on the Goth
Loss.-The loss by the burning of the soutt
Carolina Railroad Depot Ia Columbia, s. C !, IL
o,o0o, about half as much as st first estimated.
MINISTER KILLED Rev. Warren Kigore form
erly of Newberry District, S. c., was killed in
Sumter county, Ga, on the 2lst, by the accidental
discharge of bis gun while deer hunting.
| CoTroN BURNr.-On Tuesday last freight car
containing 40 bales of cotton was destroyed by fire
while In motion, on the Charlotte and South Caro-
| lima Railroad.
| STARvATIoN.-In Polk county, Georgia, there Il
such scarcity of proyisions, that many of th.
families In the neighborhood are almost starving.
STANDING BEFORE CHURCH DooRs-A meetip,
| af 1adi wa ali in Jor
and resolutions adopted, calling on Mayor Wooc
to prevent young men from standing at tho churcl
doors and starring at them as they come out aftel
| service.
HIGHWAY ROBBERY. james McGlinsey, of Au-
gusta, Ga, was knocked down with slung shot ir
| New York, on Monday last and robbed of Ss2.
| TEMPERANCE DxMoNsTRATIoN.-A grand de-
mons,rstion by the friends of the prohibsory IL
quor law, was had at the Metropolitan Theatre In
| New York, Thursday night. Revs w. H. Beecher,
| DIR. Tying, and DIR. C. Ii. Peck, were among the
notable speakers.
RAPID JUsTIcE.-On Tuesday last while the
| mail train on the Providence and Worcester Rail-
road going at the rate of Is miles hour pas.
ssngsr in one of the tried by justice and
fined IS for refusing to surrender bis ticket to the
conductor.
VIRGIEIAN DEAD Thomas Herd, q Virginian, but
for the last six years resident of st. Msry's Parish
La, died there on the goth inst aged 81 years.
TIVE POWDER MILL EXPLOSION AT DoYLEsTowE.
The Doylestown (Ps) Democrat, narrsting the ex-
plos.on OF the powder mill on Tohico creek, near
there by the firing of the chimney of the drying
room ON the 18th inst says
"only two or three persons were In the mill Of
the time; tkey heard the of the fire, and
out of the building intending to procure buckets
and ascend TO the roof with water to prevent the
shingles from taking Ere. After . msmeuts rsflsc.
ton they thought the undertaking hsxardou1pne,
and very p.udentiy abandoned IT, They made fb cir
r. T. 4. ~.