The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-25
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Alexandria canal, water wac et into that thorouRh
iare yesterday, In good time for the resumption o
transpor,a,ion on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
which has just undergone repairing. .
WARRINGTON AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD
This railroad from Alexandria to Washington which
will make q continuous railroad route between
Richmond aud Washington when II 10 hnished
will be completed in short time. The rails ars
laid for Considerable distance.
NEW CHURCH The coIored people of the Bsp
tIst denomioa alton In Alexandra, have erected
commodious brick church, on the site Of the ole
church ON Alfred street sse rtiHs .7..
APPOINTMENT The Post Master General be,
appointed Mr.. Josiah Davis, j, Of this place. al
additional route sgent on the Manassas Gap Rail.
road route, at q salary OF 5000 year. ..z-
SANIrARY.-Ths authorities OF Alexsndris ere
turning their attention TO the sanitary condition O
the city, and the streets have been spriBkled witt
lime. ~
DKArHs QUIET The Norfolk Argus Of We'd
ne sdsy says: Yesterday the slow and regular
strokes of the old clock far up on Freemason
street. were distinctly beard at our ofce, not far
from the river. and Ia tho very heart of the busi
ness part of the city. Tbs measured notes sound
ed strangely and sadly, aud fell upon the ear like
the melancholy toll of funeral knelL Tbs was
well calculated TO force deep sieh from The hesrt.
for Il sas bat another evidences OF the work OF
death sLst Is going On Ia oar midst The song OF
the stevedore 10 bushed the hammer oil the srti-
san lies useless upon the work bench; the roar
and clsnk OF machiaery are not heard; the engine
TRES are exlinguished the noise and bustie OF
business have given place TO almost q death-like
silence in many parts of the city.
SALES oF WESTERN LAND.-The Winchester
Virginian notices the following sale of land -
210 acres inferior in Frederick at 81 per acre,
Smith, purchaser sso % acres rocky and billy In
the same county, at % per acre also ~ 1-2 acres
near Winchester, al Sl4 25 per acre, and 200
in the same county, at $36 per acre. In Fayette
county, the Charlottesville Jeifersonian learns that
Dr.. Stockton has sold 10000 acres of land to DR..
Salisbury of the North, for 1000
The CAopG- The Williamsburg Gazette of
Thursday, says: "From all the surrounding coun.
tics wo hear constant and daily increasing COM
plaiufs of the shortness of the wheat crops With.
il the last few weeks farmers have been thresh.
ing, and we may say that In no instance has the
yield made Reasonable approximation to previous
calculation The falling OFT cannot be less than 80
per cent Our oat crops turned out well, and the
promise 10 good for corn; otherwise, with their
scsnty crops OF wheat and the prospect of small
prices, agricultural interest might be reduced
to straitened circumstances.
SALE.-Thomas B. P. Ingram. one of the present
landlords at C8pon Springs, has become proprie-
tor OF one half of the Mountsin House, including
furniture, &c, at the price of $17,750.
PATENTS TO VIRGINIAss -Thirty-six patents
were issued from the Uni ed States Patent Office
for the week ending August 2lst, 1855. Among
them one TO Daniel s. James, OF New Market Va :,
House, Va 4, aud J. W. Mcintyre, of Dinwiddie
county, Va.,-For Improvement in corn and cob
mills.
FATAL AFFRAYs-The Lynchburg Republican
learns Of The death of man named Thompson
by the hard OF one named Lester, In Bedford, last
week, aud also OF the murder of man named
Woodson by negro, owned by MIR. Bedford, named
Jones. Ii also hears that man named Granville
Tucker fatally inj Ired a man named Got, In al
ntf ay In the same county.
THE FEVER AT PoRTsMoUTH.-The Lynchburg
Virginisn has the following from what Ii con
siders "reliable source"- something hard TO nuu
IN the present distress Ia Portsmouth: 'Up to
Saturday last there had been received into the U
S Naval Hospital two hundred yellow fever pa
tients OF which pumber ITO we're citizens OF Ports
Naval service. About so deaths had occurred, aud
many of them under treatment would certainl y
die. Many were received in dying condition,
and others 81 tar gone as to render treatment hope
less. The fever is believed to be of type far more
malignant th that generally met with In the Wett
Indies and Cult of Mexico.
RELIGIOUS INTRLLIGRNcE.-The new Methods:
church on Princess street, Alexandria, will be ded
icaied Tomorrow Rev w. B. Edwards, of Bal,i-
more, preaching the opening sermon
The Baptist Columbian Association held Its Gosh
annual meeting Thursday morning, In Alexano ria,
Rev w. F. Broadus preaching the Introductory
sermon.
The Albemarle Baptist Association met at Mount
Shiloh, Nelson, on the l4tb, Rev. John T. Messey
preaching the opening sermon. resolution was
adopted approving the course OF the Nelson county
sgisr ates In refusing 10 grant liquor licenses.
great revival 10 going on at Mount Morish
church, (Baptist) Ia Amherst There have been
over 80 converts, among them some prominent
citizens.
Rev. DR.. Doggett, of Richmond preached atihe
Methodist church. Alexandria, Thursday hight.
There is a great revival going on there.
The Methodist Camp Meeting at Union Camp
Ground, Fairfax county, commenced on Thursday
Rev T. v. Moore, OF Richmond, preached at the
Presb yteriau church 10 Christiansburg, Montgom.
cry, on Friday night last.
Baptist protrscted meeting Is going on at Five
Forks, In Montgomery county.
FRvKR REFUGREs.-There are about sixty refu'
gees from the fever infected cities of Virginia,
stopping at one hotel In Charlottesville.
FRosT.-Oa Sunday morning there was heavy
frost at Blscksburg, Montgomery.
SPRING DISCOVERED Jeremiah Kyle, ESQ.,, has
discovered very bold alum spring on his land
near the yellow sulphur springs, Montgomery.
TRAvEL TO THE SPRINGs-The Chris,iansburg
(Montgomery) Star says that the epidemic Ia th g
east has caused tremendous rush TO the moun'
tsios this summer. There are not less than 200
persons at the Allegheny, Montgomery White and
Yellow Springs Ia this county. The passenger
trains are crowded daily.
ST JOHNS HARBoR.-I Ii 10 said that Merlin rock,
In the harbor of ST. Johns, Newfoundland Is fast
disappearing under the hands of Messrs. Huested
& Kroehl, two New York gentlemen, who have
contracted n ramOva IL tha denth of twenty