The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-04

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Financial ana Commercial.
No quotations ii virginia stocks. and NO %.
licye NO sales at the Board by Brokers IN ~"
York, this week. .u.aa.v
The New York Journal of Commerce OF A0n'.s
afternoon, says: a.na
The market n unchanged, witha good demand
for money, and liberal supply onei'ns W. p'''-'
securities. -. ..a sr;us. ,on
and at higher rates, put ~ '''' 10y
''I Ee.nsr r.chsnge is nominay the same, with
. ,nndsrsse business doing. Bulls on London luss
- inai with iosE obtained for leading sgnatutes IN
. small way.
n~r,x.I CURRENCY leading -four deal
ers In the Corn Exchange. New fork; nmsS
sr,.ed TO transact all their business In decimal
currency, and all the nonr and grain quotauon' :
~ Monday appear In decimals This is scnsio's
movement and we trust viii be generally ioiow =.
In other branches of trade. The division OF sne
dollar into egths and sixteenths Is tfouo'e'''
and leads often to confusion.
The New York Herald Of Monday notices an
advance on the prices of stocks, and asc'ioes -
part to what styles tho adjustment OF the tramp
ton enlistment. difficulty. Iisays:
The dispatch of Mr.. Marcy to Mr.. Daias, on inc
dismissal of Champion, has completely re'nssss si
nnhIic confidence. and destroyed all those ABSURD
fa.rs which few days since were so generally en-
tertained There Is very little donot now
Int that the British government wouia nase re-
called Champion had all the evidence IN tne case
been laid before Lord Clarendon. Ihere Is no
doubt lint that Mr. Champion deceived ms own go
yernment This will be shown by the documents
accompanying Mr.. Marey's dispatch 10 hG Daiias
~ "a Mr. Champion will not be received with
much favor upon his return to London. 30 far as
our local affairs are concerned everything pears
satisfactory aspect The money market Is abund-
sntIy supplied with capital The rates OF interest
are tending downward, the specie reserve OF the
hank, increasing, confidence rapidly returning,
aud the harvest approaching.
The receipts of the Erie railroad for the month
of Nav are enormous On the evening OF the SUN
they amounted to S65s 600 This Is st the rate OF
$4,000, per day. Add one day to the ABOVE,
and we have an aggregate of receipts TOR the
month of S6s3,000.
Th. monthly statement of the Treasury shows
that there wasin the several repositories of the
government the amount of $26 DDS, $50 90, subject
to the draft of the Treasurer on the 10th May
we notice that If this amount there was In Rich.
,nond s39.l35 SO; in Norfolk, S6.l6 %; Charles
ton, S. G.. Sl77,059 95; in New Orleans SI44,ooo /;
Savannah. Sl23 l29 70; Mobile. $l06, los 81. By
way of contrast to these sums in the principal
southern cities, from which so the chief exports,
we state the amount in New York, viz S9,433,-
500 rs.
By TeIegraph.s
BALTIMORE, June s-Flom declined since steam.
er's news Sales of 600 bbls Howard Street at Sel2
Wheat and Corn dull and unchanged.
Ngw York, June s -Flour declined. State S5t0
As IS; Ohio SIS 900 Sc 10; Southern So 1910 70 Oh;
Frsncy Extra do. Sc $50 S670 Wheat dropping
Red Sl.68. Corn firm at 3d.
Richmond Hlarkets, June 3.
There is nothing doing in FLOUR; and no remsrk
to make, except that there was pretty gooo BIO"
ON the Basin bank to-day. 80
In WHEAT there Is very little doing. with light
arrivals add no change in prices The Gallego Mills
out of the market after to-day 80 now mere -
no. mill buying wheat, and will not be until the
new crop.
There is no change in any branch of produce, and
nothing ofinteresr to notice in the market
FIRE oNTHE Observation-Disclosures fires have
preyailed recently on the mountains In the yicinl-
ty of Pottsville, Pa. and considerable amount
OF timber and other property has been destroyed.
Last Sunday week several persons who had left
Port Carbon to proceed to Tuscarora were com.
peIIed by the violence of the flames on either
side of the road, TO return, and a young man who
had started for Pottsville from Middleport was
forced to go back with his clothes badly scorched
Several coal breakers were on fire, but, with one
exception, were all saved.
RATHER SEvERE-The absence of Edward Ev-
erett Rufus ChsAte and Robert c. Winthrop, from
the indignation" meeting at Faneuil Hall having
been made the subject of severe comment on the
part of certain factions persons, the Boston Cou-
rier, while disclaimng any intention to offer any
apology in behalf of the absentees, deems it duty
to say "tbat the character of the preliminary
meeting of Friday evening, and of those who &C.
cuped the platform on that occasion and spoke,
were sufficient to justify any rational man for alb
senting himself from the subsequent meeting"
BLOODY AFFRAY-In Helena, Arkansas, Satur-
day week. bloody ARRAY took place. Mr.. Hind.
man. q prominent American politician, and Mr..
Claiborne editor of the States Right Democrat,
were passing up the street, when they were at
tackled by DIR. Merritt and his brotherin-law, Mr..
Rice. A general firing of reviewers took place,
Merritt and Claiborne being MORALLY wounded.
A young woman, named Caiharine Flynn. at.
tempted to Shuttle off her mortal COIL" in New
York, in consequence of her paramour getting
married to another woman. She swallowed
strong dose of laudanum, and administered like
dose to her infant Both, however, were saved
by the prompt Intervention of the doctors. Mrs
Rosanna Cole, another unfortunate one, living at
III Avenue b, swallowed two shiings worth OF
the same drug. The doctors in her case were OF
no use She died ON Saturday morning. leaving
behind her note saying that she had grown tired
OF the world, and wanted to get out OF It.
A NEW PLAGUE-The Mayville (New York.
Sentinel says:
"A new plague has come among us to annoy
our farmers and destroy their crops. Our fields
are overruu by an innumerable host of mice, which
have during the winter done much damage to the
young fruit trees and shrubs, and, we learn are
working among the spring grain. farmer as.
sured us, a few days ago, that they had cut off
nearly all the wheat stalks adjacent to the fences
on his farm, and appeared to be making gradual
inroads towards the centre of the fields. 1t is
feared that they will work among the young corn
SO soon as it makes its appearance above ground"
EXTRAORDINARY MoRTALITY.-Cattle and hor-
ses are said to be dying by hundreds on the Amer
lean bottom in Illinois, either from some virulent
disease which has become epidemic, or from some
poisonous herbs growing there. The symptoms
In all cases have been similar
k UNION TEAAISHIP COM
E&1 pany-fOr Philadelphia, via
NE.tsd4IN City Point and Norfolk
Steamer CITY OF RICHMOND
Capt. Z. Mitchell; Steamer PENNSYLVANIA, Capt
David Teal; Steamer VIRGINIA, Captain B. Rooms.
One of these superior Steamers will leave Rich.
inond, until further notice. every Wednesday.
touching City Point and Norfolk to receive freisht
and passengers. Returning, leave philadelphia every
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
These Steamers are now in fine order increased ar.
communications for the comfort of passengers having