The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-17
Correspondence OF the Dispatch.

4'oyJ0W ana portsmouth Sufferers OutrG4e, &c
BALTIMORE, Aug. Is.
A meeting is to be held Tomorrow In the Mer.
chsnts Exchange to procure subscriptions for the
sufferers In Norfolk and Portsmouth,.
Last night at fire on the agricultural grounds a
party of about SO men lay Ia wait for the New
Market Company near Lanvae factory, and SPRING.
Ing upon them, drove of the members and taking
away the reel, broke 1t all to pieces and stretched
the hose on the railroad track to be cut This state
OF things will never stop until the Fire Department
10 districted.
The Georgia, to-day, brought GA passengers
aoout oo OF whom are from the ports of Norfolk
and Portsmouth. The steamer Princess Anne
employed by the Bay Line Company, did not take
the freight of the Georgia. stating that if he could
not carry passengers he would not carry the
freight
MORE SLAVERY AGrTATIoN.-The Methodist Pro.
testsn' Church of North Illinois, propose to hold
a"convent1onal mass meeting" In Centre Grove
Bureau county, Illinois, on he 17,h inst to agree
upon some plan for separating said church from
Its connection with slavery. 9TH ministers and
members are invited to be- present.
VESSEL SUNK-The schooner Judjs Ward. OF
fremont, Me-, from an Eastern port for Richmond
va, with cargo OF plaster, sprung leak on Sun,
day last about 10 miles east OF Block Island The
leak continuing to increase, she bore away for
Newport l., and at O'Clock on Monday morn.
Ing when about five mies south of tbs Light shio
on Brenton's Reet she sunk. The captain and
crew took to the boat, and arrived a. Newport at
M. Vessel and cargo a total loss,
YELLOW FEVER AT PoRr.Au- PR1NcE;-The b,io
Roillpg Wave has arrived al New York and re.
ports the death of her captain and three nj her
crew from yellow fever at Port an Prince. The
lg'.oSaa Jex mas also los. two of her crew thor
from the same disease
=, The report that General Simpson has resigned
sns command OF thearmy before Sebastopol, was
IL ID
dlnge is to go out, and that old Lord Seatou will
oms from Ireland to preside at the Horse Guards.
Inc Grand Duke Nicholas, brother of the En-.
peror Alexander Is about to marry the Princess of
Oldenburg -
:. The "Monocacy" Touring mills near Frederick,
md were destroyed by fire Wednesday.
Ine rumor OF the drowning OF FIVE men at Eiag-
ara was unfounded. "e
Ins salary OF the principal of the free high
scnocI ~ Sommerviie, Massachusetts has been IN.
creased TO 81, 200, and the masters of sramma,
schools to $780,
shark ovet seven feet 10 length VI az caught With
hook and line on Long Island, N. Y, last Satur-
day.
Mrs. Margaret Csmnron, aged 1O2 years, and
Mrs steward aged l0l, years, both died Ia Bur-
hagton, N. j., last week.
VIM. II. Charming, unitarian clergyman, OF Bos.
ton, has been preaching at Liverpool, and has set.
ueo tnere for two years at o. 500 per year.
Yellow fever has appeared at the New Orleans
quarantine station, and DR.. Wilkinson, health OF :
Ger, and three others are down with 1t.
John I. Watson, D. D.. formerly assistant minister
az Tnnity Church, in Boston, has been appointed
cnspain In the 9. Navy, and ordered to the navy
at rortsmou.h N Fl.
he recruits for the foreign legion sailed from Hall
vessel. -
Trumoau the new free soil Senator from Illinois.
as saia Pnoc that he will not vote fer The resto.
ration OF Ihs Missouri line
brimheid, Mass last week.
eiace tns Louisville riot the city engineer and four
osbais, .. unsiis have resigned their respective