The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-04-24

A new species of manufacture has just been
created in France-the fabrication of paste.board
from the pulp of beet root ..a--
The engine house of the Lake Shore Railroad at
Milwaukee, Wis, was burned Monday, and four
locomotives badly damaged. Loss Sis, 900.
A few days since little son of Mr.. Bower was
drowned in Memphis, Tenn, by falling into the
immersion pool of the the Baptist Church
A gentleman given to satisfies. estimates that
$4,000 worth of cigars are smoked in Boston, ev-
cry day.
Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe attended recep-
ton given by DIR. Baily, the abolition editor in
Washington, Saturday night
At Turks Island up to April 5th, over 100000
bushels of salt had been raked.
A cargo of Spanish jacks has arrived at Charles
ton from Spain. -,
A public reception will be accorded to Mr. Buch.
anan by the citizens of Philadelphia his return
from Europe. 5-.s.'tf ss7
Messrs. Hanland, Renthe e. Co., of Montreal,
Canada, have failed. Their liabilities are set down
at 81, 200, 900.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania adjourned sine
die on Tuesday.
Ex-president Tyler is about to deliver q lecture
at Petersburg on the Dead of his Cabinet'-Web
ster, Calhoun, Upsher, Gilmer, and Legare.
Col Schouler has retired from the editorial con-
duct of the Cincinnati Gazette.
First Lieut.. John c. Booth, 4th artillery, u. s. A /,
has resigned to take effect on the LIST of May prox.
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Congress entered upon the twenty-frst week of
the session Monday.
D. Lapalt late city attorney of New Orleans,
has been ascertained to be defaulter to the city
in the sum of $500, ,0O0
Fine leaf tobacco is selling at Louisville, KY,
at the high price of SIS 25 per hundred
Gen. Robert G. Ewing is the American nominee
for Governor of Missouri 1861 f
In the year 1855 one hundred and thirteen In.
sane persons were at the hospital at Hopkiuson-
VILE Eight were discharged as recovered Sew.
enteen died. tfGs
Mrs. Sarah T. Greenwood, daughter of Gen. Jno
Iwlggs OF revolutionary memory, died at Angus.
"a, Ca, Saturday.
The workmen have commenced laying the track
upon the North Western Virginia Railroad
Otto Dressed the pianist and composer of Ros.
ton, has been awarded the first prize $4,000 offered
by the Musical Review for the best song &
The German settlement of 5000 acres, known ss
the .Ebenezer Settlement" near Buffalo. Is to be
sold, the members intending to remove 10 Iowa
Green peas were for sale in the Boston market
last week at Ssp per bushei.
Hon George VAIL NJ c., from New Jersey, de.
clines are-eiection sszsses
Hon James Buchanan Macauiay has been an.
pointed Qaeens counselof Upper Canada.
Charles List, Esq well known as LAWYER
and editor, died at Maiden, Mass. on Wednesday
Levi y. Merriam, Boston alderman, Is dead
The new Ohio State Auditor has forbidden his
clerks the use OF ardent spirits, pain Of losing
THAR places.
/ There ID man in the New Jersey Peuisentiary.
who has twenty-three wives, two OF whom be mar.
ried within two hours Of each other
The North Alabamian contrAdicts the report
that 4 man was iatey, hung in Walker county, In
ante Of reprieve from Gov. Winston, and says
taat nobody has been hung ia thar county Tor
twenty years past.
The yellow fever has appeared on hoard Of q
90 ssel from Brazil arrived ~ \ Nw Ys*k.
8 4 Know Something Convention Is called 10 meet
al BuiIJo. 6s5the alih June
4. the Blue. Ridge ,aountains, Va alondsy, snow
.sil " The deptR Of ten inches.