The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-31
The DAILY DISPATCH
"Wednesday Morning. December n 1Sse

weancsaay Morning. December 81 rSsG
THE STEAMER HsRMAYn.-The .,ssm.h;r
hermann, Capt. Hiegins, ia now in her os,h A.
from Southampton, and some little An xietv I. fsi
oy reason of her lengthy passage. She left sou,h,
ampton on the Sd instant The Cunard s,a.m.,
America sailed from Liverpool on the 9Th and .n
connfered gale off Cape Clear. which corn,e,,od
her TO put back. The Hermann n,oh.h,r -.
"enseu 'ue same gale; and If she returned to
aou'nAAp'oh OF any other port to repair, the mex,
s'e""'s' "ol Europe will likely bring us news to
.oA' eneeI lhe President of the company, Mr.
a~"u' ~ Oh the opinion that she has returned. I,
, fu'nored that the wife of Capt. Higgins re-
''''ea letter from him-wrtten prior 10 his de-
p@f'ure from Southampton-in which he state,
nA' ne did not expect to make the passage in les,
.nah twenty days. The Hermann has between
h'e ana SIX hundred tons of freight. The follow.
ing is liss of her passengers:
| hermann Dil Hermann Mohring John ! Wevl
Mr L. Pitt. Mr. E Pitt, Mr. Kim, Mrs M Bsum
nrs Weyi, Mr. and Mrs Grant III Inman
| Captain Fisk, Mrs Fisk, Mr. Winkeimsnn NJ.
| Lofeers and child, NJ Horhange Mr. Lovist M,
| hsroeck, Mr. killihen. Rev Tariahine, Rev Spe
randis Rev Ciaccio, Mr. Gerson Mr. Trumpy. Miss
~ ,so,e s 1ersen; Miss Judith Salm, Miss Lambelet
M Mathieu, Gust Mathey, Edward UImsn lame,
barnes and wife. Mr. and Mrs Hancock and child
Mr. and Mrs Robertson, Mrs A SchIuter. r wal
ker, John Fowler, L Robertson, John Howard
M mr and Mrs Tassinar Mr. Schaung Mr. Portrien
| Mr. Richards Mr. Graham Mr. M RulIwinkla n
MeIIdel, Mrs l. Mendel, Mr. Brumund II Lamev.
er, Mr. Weidinger, Mr. w ScheIenberg. MFR Fl
Danhards. Mrs G Lowenthal, Mrs d Lowenthal.
Mrs Lowenthal. Mr. HeinzeImayer. Mr. P Kus,
| sci, Mr. Kussei Mrs S Kussel Miss M Kussel Mr.
j Wi'tie, Mr. G Kelner Mrs Feder. Mrs Ma
tnew 10 FEEDER, Mrs Yictorine FEEDER, Ms FEEDER, NJ
| IL Schluter.
| HARD TINES FOR RAILROADS traveller
from Prairie du Chen toMilwauke furnishes the
Sentinel of the latter city with an account of the
| travel on the railroad between the two places
| II says:
His party left Prairie du Chen one morning.
| two weeks ago, end arrived the same night at
boscobe "a mics this side, being the first station
on the railroad. The snow drifts were deep, and
| no trains could get away. Getting fair start on
| the shoveled track, after two or three days' de-
lay, the train brought up in deep drift some six
| miles this side of Boscobel, and then commenced
| the work in earnest
The trains would plunge into the drifts the
| snow being sometimes high as the tops of the
| cars, and coming TO dead halt wait till the sho
| vellers-passengers and all amusing themselves
| that way-could clear the wheels and then run
ming back, would dash in again. So they srug
| gled; but three days and nights passed in
| making dozen miles progress. Provisions
| were al gone; only scanty supplies could be OBJ
| tanned from the few farm houses accessible
| Parties were detailed to cut and bring wood for
| the engines, and they kept up steam with Difficult
ty in the four locomotives At length after almost
despairing of being thawed out till spring one of
the wor king parties returned to the train at abou,
O'Clock one morning, with the joyful report of
having heard the whistle of engines coming from
the eastward, and the excitement was intense till
Just about daylight, the relief train from Madison
with four engines, which had been working seye.
raj days from the eastward, broke through the
drIf md an l,1I4
to Muscoda
After cleaning out the provisions at Muscoda
W hich were scanty enough for famished people,
the train, with four Of the engines, worked through
with considerable speed. The track was then
clear to this city, but Mr. Merrell was Obliged to
stay day two in Madison and me antime the
rain storm had packed the snow so as 10 dam up
the drains, and the water stood deep on the track
in many places; and in this condition of things the
mercury fell below zero, and congeaed the water
to ice which seemed to be hard as iron so that
nothing but the slow work of the pick axe could
Clear the track for the wheels, and the train was
two days in getting to this city.
DREADFUL TYPHooN-L0Ss Of a thousand
Li1tS The North China Herald, of September
10Th, which came to hand by the last steamer,
contains the following account of q terrible ty-
phoon and its appalling consequences:
The Captain of a large junk from Bangkok has
communicated the following note on the disasters
occasoned by typhoon encountered on the 18th
of August approaching the Chusan Islands
from south. I'VE formed of fleet of 90
iunks bound 10 various po ts from Shanghai to
Tieutsing. On the twelfth day of the moon the
wind blew furiously from the Northwest and sud
denly chopped round from the SOUTH seventeen
vessels foundered, ,and.the remaining tve were
disnasted. We lost also both our double rudders
About one thousand men perished in that storm
In eonse quence of assistance Literally afforded by
a steamer, we were saved from drom ming and
starving"
FIFTY MILES TO HEAR BENTON The Rock
land (Me) Democrat says Col Hall, of Camden,
and three gentlemen from Rockland, went TO Bath
to hear and see Col. Benton. They had the plea
sure of an introduction TO the Colonel, spent an
hour In his room, and received call of like length
from him al their rooms. When they in.
formed Col Benton that they had travelled fifty
miles TO hear him speak, he remarked that lit was
the greatest compliment ever paid him" Zone
man" be said. "in Massa chusetts, had rode l20
miles by railway to see him, but that was nothing
in comparison fifty miles over our billy country
in q common carriage.
SAD AFFLICTIOS The family of Mr.. Samuel
Vauderslice who resided on Stone street, Camden,
New Jersey, has been singular!y afflicted within
q week past. On Sunday last two little children
died VI ithin an hour of each other, and were bu-
rted in the same coffin. On Tuesday the body OF
Mr. Vanderslce was brought home a corpse, nav
ing fallen down flight of stairs at his place OF
business by which his skull was SO badly fractured
that he died in few moments afterwards
AN EQUESTRIAN "DRED" IN LoNDoN.-Com,
plying with the popular humor, Mr. Cooke, of AS:
leys Amphheatre, has brought out a "Dred" Of
his own IN which several of Mrs Stoves heroes
ride on horseback, as indicated in the novel, where
as in non-euuestrian establishments both oppres
sors and oppressed forced, contrary to history
4 hY.a aopinr frnp