The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-22

PHILADELPHIA, Dee. 20.
Yesterday morning The l.. s. Receiving shiI
Union was cut into by the ice Finding it inpos-
sible to stop the leak, the marines seamen and ap
prentices on board, about 80 in ali. were trans
ferred TO the PreDle. Her guns, furniture, sail!
and everything on board were taken eff, and it ii
hoped she can be raised and repaired. The L MOL
was built at Norfolk in le42, having been one Of
the steam vessels constructed for the purpose o.
testing the submerged wheel, patented by Lieut.
Hunter The principle proved 4 complete failure
and the Union like all the Others built on the sa lne
plan was condemned steamer, and theiI
boilers and machinery taken out
Early yesterday morning, 3 BOILER, attached to
kitchen range in the back base ment of the house
of Mr Pemharton Smith. No 81 North Sixteenth
81 rect, exi ioded with loud noise, crushing the
ash ami glass in the kitchen W Z low AID fore
The sash from the front windows and throwing
them upon the pavement. Portions of tie boile'
and range were thrown with great violence ab u
ne room one piece of the Grare striking the
cook, colored woman, named Henrietta Stan
bridge upon the neck, iuficsing quite severa
wound She was slso badly burned by her eothe
taking fire The flynn emters 40 set the turnl
lure on fire, but the flames and her burning
clothes extiugushed ny two police oil EN-
attracted the spo. oy the noise of the explosion
The accident owing, il is thought, to the free
eng of the supply pipe.
Sncg Mr.. Buchai an arrived in this city Oh
Tuesday evening, he has been waited upon by
several hundred persons. Yesterday mornlps
about eight O'Clock, he passed down Chesnut at,
and strange to say, he was not moi 5sted by any
OF the legion of applicants for Office under his rule
To-day MIR. Buchanan will visit his brother in TIL
Twenty third ward, and on Monday return. Ga
Tuesday or Wednesday, he will leave for Wheat!
and
The weather yesterday morning was the coolest
of the season. the Imometer at the Exec ange indi-
eating IL degrees shove :ro at o. O'Clock, and at
IL, l9. The Delaware ia front of the city was
Tiled with thin floating ice while some distance up
it was frozen across. he docks along Delaware
avenue were frozen tight, but the ice was not of
sufficient thckns IS to impede navigation.
The river Seiuy kill, above the dam, ia frozen
over tight the ice being over three inches il thick
ness
/; is stated by the Catholic Herald. that within
last Fl sc years the Right Rev Bishop has solem9ly
blessed and dedicated over fifty new churches with
III this diocese Next month the chug ches recently
erected, are to be blessed; one a Barliusviiie and
one at Bethlehem, Northampton county; at Ire
mont, Schuy ill county; Hazelton and GAINESVILLE
Luzerne county.
The Anti slavery Convention adjourned sine dis
yesterday.
The Convention was addressed by Miss Frances
Watkins, colored, from Baltimore; Mis-. Williams
coored; MIR, Purvis, Mr.. Douglass, and Dr. j J. G
Bias. The latter was quite severe on the Aool
toDstssa they were fuii of promises but slow IN
deeds. They thought of the slaves of the South,
and gave but little attention to the elevation Of the
colOred people of the North
The store of Mr.. w G. Wilmarth, at Eighth and
Arch streets, eutered at an early hour yester-
day morning. by means of false keys, and robbed
of furs, hats, &C., 10 the amount of about 81 GOO
DIR. Brown SeqnsTd has commenced q course OF
lectures at the Franklin Institute.
The number of deaths here this week is 222. Of
which Al were of scarlet fever.