The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-30
SPIRIT PRESS

that the North agreed to admit Missouri as slave
state into the Union upon condition that the line of
80 deg 30 N. n waste couhne slavery hereafter
and that the compact has been broken. The Whie
says tha, the North has right to keep Missouri
out OF the Union because she was a slave SAFE
and therefore gave nothing up.
The Enquirer publishes the Know Nothing plat
form and comments on each resolution. IL says
atthere are some very respectable trusms trite
and hackneyed by frequent repetition, indeed in
the platform. But they are out of plsce, vaguely
expressed, and utterly Insignificant where they
sssnd. They do not save the rest of the document;
they infuse no lie into the inert pile
The Penny Post has an article the 28th OF
June, the day "chosen by foreigners to celebrate
their victory over the children of soil, by firing
vos In the Capitol square On this day the battle
OF Fort Moultre was fought, and Sir Henry Clin-
ton was arrested while escaping from Philadel-
phia
female at Bridgeport, Conn last week attempt
ed to stab railroad conductor because he detained
her bundle for unpaid fare.
Mr.. Yassar, of Pougbkeepsip, N Y, has given to
the Baptiss there church with all the sppurenan.
ces, valued at S2tt000
Cornis selling In Alton, Illinois, at fifty cents per
| bushel
Four seizures of liquor, one of them one huns
dred gallons, were made at Worcester, Mass, on
| Monday.
The irst steamer through from Toronto, C. w :,
| to Oswego, n Y. was welcomed on her arrival
TUESDAY, Win Two hundred guns,
Curtis the celebrated plank walker, has effsred
to walk one hundred and Ive consecutive hours for
| wager OF SIS 600.
The Newbury. S. C, Agricultural society offers
premium OF S5 for the best pair of coons raised
| In the district"
Charles D. Fontsine. 10 announced by the Ponto-
| toe Examiner, the American candidate for Go
| vernon Of Mississippi
| Thirty German families have settled in Los An
ge!os, Caliiornis to commence the manufaeture OF
wi1e.
| The Morgantowp, Va, Mirror has changed its
name to the american Union - and will hereafter
advocate American principles.
The President has temporarily appointed Geo C.
Whiting, Chief Clerk of the Interior Department
as acting Commissioner, vice John Wilson, re.
moved.
There will be no city celebration on the 4th of
| July, In Worcester, Mass.
Rev Mr. Mabse, of the NJ. E. church, died sud
| denly of chole morbus, at Portsmouth, Ohio on
| Sunday.
Among the cadets appointed to the third class at
| Wrst Point, under the recent examination, is r.
| K. Msade, jr, OF Petersburg.
William Fl. Spur has been convicted at VIM
chester Va, of murder in the second degree for
killing Isaac w. Smith, and sentenced to the pen
| itentiary for 19 years.
WEALTHY CLOCK FIRM-The Bridgeport
(Ct } Standard says that the addition of the Ter
| ry g. Bsrnum' Clock Co TO the Jerome" Co of
New Haven, Increases the capital of the latter by
100000 making 1t $350010.
DELICIOUS BEVERAGE james Keenan, 10 an In
teresting letter about Japan says that "sace" the
principal drink of the country s supposed to con
sist of sour wh1skey tobacco juice and aquaiortis.
What mixture!
CALIFORNIA PUBLIC ScHooLs-Sau Francisco has
seven schools for white children and one for CT or.
ed and, during the last quarter, less an 2O75
| children have attended them, of whom l196 were
1 - 90
children, Of whom 38 were boys and 25 girls.
A VALUABLE D, Gan exciting case regarding
the identity of a dog, is going 10 Cincinnati,
Ohio. There are five lawyers employed, aud near
y fifty witnesses have been examined. The ami
NAL is valued at $25.
A HoRRIBLK DEATH.- On Monday afternoon, a
| son of Mr.. Simon Brown, sged H. fell from the
roof of paper mill into q vat of boiling water at
Maiden Bridge, N. Y, and was scalded 10 death.
EmGaArIoN TO SANTA FE.--We learn from the
Kansas City Enterprise that there were about one
hundred wagons loaded at that place last week for
Santa Fe snd other places, and that they would
tfrom that point during the present season,
thousand wagons at least There were landed at
the wharf, during the same week, four million
pounds of freight
INTHMPERANcE IN THE CRIMEA.-Some of the
letters from the seat OF war give frighful accounts
of intemperance in the Crimea. Ore from Miss
Nlshtine ale mentions the sceres of carnage, and
sdds,-'But to see the stretcher brought to the
gates every hour laden with men foamiDg 10 the
mouth and black In the face, not with the gore of
battIe, but with the horrible deiaceneue of a foe
more dreadful or deadly than the RusG1p or the
plague, oh! Il is terrible!'
PREACHERS OF THE OLDRN TrME-Instances are
cited of earnestness In preaching and OF persistent
almost incredible. Hooper, bishop of two dioces-
e. preached daily. Tobias Mathews, bishop of
Durhsm, eighty years old. preached daily. John
Wesley 10 said 10 have preached forty thousand
zines in hhy years.
THE NEw CRY OF LEAvENwoRTH.-Leaven-
worth City Kansas Territory, having become the
Starting pout of the Salt Lake traders, Is doing a
thriving business Such is the quantity OF goods
passing through the place. thst in the space OF one
week SIT 474 paid for freight on goods landed
there. At the last dates a train OF six hundred
wagons laden with government stores, was about
10 start for the Salt Lake, the draught cattle OF
wh ich train would number four thousand oxen,
besides several hundred horses Hnd mules. Sever
al of the Salt Lake trading firms have sent on
twelve hundred wagons, like number of team
sters, and over ten Thousand drought cattle.
MonK BANK RUsrIF1oATIoNs.-The following Is
from the CleveisId d Plsindealer of The 18th inst
I'VE learn by teiegraphc dispatches that the
Macon County Bank and the Adrian Insurance,
Michigan, have gone by the board. Brokers and
barker in ibis city put it down as worthless trash.
"The Warren County Bank, Pa Ii strongly uns
der suspicion -
A DI.HoNEsr PosTMAsTKR The deputy post
master al CoTB, ireland, nsmeo nuuleF, mas Oenn
arrested for exi ensive robbsries OF letters His
desk was searched by the police. Two letters
were found therein, directed as follows: "In care
of Mr. Delohery. Smyfsld Centre, Mass, Boston.
Americs, (paid;y" aud Mr.. George shsarer, Tre-
mont Livery Stables Galveston, Texas. America"
These letters were TO remain unopened uLtil the
arrival Of the post cffice solicitor. p
SHOOTING FOR SLAkDRR ed esdAy mornir &,
a married woman In Philadelphia, named Am
Haney, met q respectable brick layer named James
Hckinson In the street. and tsk ing pistol out OF
q basket asked II bis name was dickinson Upon
being replied to in the affirmative sne snn' nin ~
Tho hip. She appeared perfectly cool and alleged
that be had been sapderipg her. The wounded
man denied ever seeing her before. She was ar
rested. =se
ArrKMPr TO Blow A FAMILY UP.-fa Hewburn,
N c.. on Tuesday. Captain Thos. Wslisce OF ths'
place, found large keg Of powder aEd.r his house
with train lei through The grass exte. ding some
d xraurfeIera ere