The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-02-19

THE 0urnAoEs AT THE FgEJEK IsIAsDs.-l
correspondent Of the New York Herald writin
rom the Feejee Islands, thus speaks of some o
tne eutrages for which the United States ship Joh,
Adams recently destroyed several towns:
News reached us Of the ship Oneo, Of Nantucket
neing wrecked At Turtle Island, and twenty-eigh
peIsons PEI, on board Of her killed. The Charles Dog
asti trading in the group, was boarded by the ma
tves and nine killed The captain and two hand,
OF tne ship Amiable Josephine were murdered al
one OF the adjacent Islands The captain of q
schooner ss from Tahiti and his mate were killed
Inc nrig Juno arriving at these islands, and the
captain coming on shore in his boat, was secured,
Win the boats crew. and in danger of being killed
When we called a meeting and ransorned him at a
nign rate but, unfortunately, previous to our ar.
,.' ..fs' al tne spot nine were Killed The Black
oiru was forci5ly taken, and her crew thrown
overheard and killed, struggling in the water
one OF our boats, on trading cruise to the other
ISLANDS, rad three of the hands killed and the
iourth taken on shore and put to slow and cruel
a ',ading vessel belonging TO an American,
put INTO harbor for water at one of the islands
ana while there was attacked, his wife murdered
and the brains of his infant child knocked out on
stone before his eyes, and he was only spared to
repair their muskets, being a handy man In that
way. Another of our community was killed, and
the stumps of his arms and legs stuck in the sand
and fred at
A boat containing four of our number anchored at
one OF the windward islands at dark. and was at
tackled by the natives Three were killed and the
fourth shot in the leg and carried on the shore with
his companions The next day he was obliged to
witness the horrible feast they were making upon
the bodies of his comrades, and to listen to the
praises bestowed on the flesh of his friends The
following day they cut off one of his legs and
compelled him to sit and see it devoured; and on
the third day they finished hin.
THE CINCINNATI SLAVE CAsE-LUCY STONE
AT THE BAR.-The trial at Cincinnati of the fugi
tive slaves, Zone of whom murdered her child has
not yet been finally concluded the decision having
been postponed until the 10Th of March. On Wed.
nesday last there was a strange interlude which
created no little exd ement 1t appears that the
celebrated Lucy Stone, now Mrs Blackwell one
OF those modern female reformers who are contipu.
any interfering with other peoples business came
into the U. s. District Court Room, and thrust her.
self INTO the proceedings. in order to instigate and
justify the guilty mothers further immolation of
the rest of her children and of herself Colonel
Chambers one of the counsel for the claimants of
the fugtives, In his speech to the Court, alluded
several times to Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell who
had been present the day previous but was not
then in the Court room. He alluded also to an in
terview Mrs. Blackwell had had with the slave
mother IN the course of which, said the Colonel
sne asked the deputy U. s. Marshal, Mr. Brown,
the priyi ese of giving her knife, that she might
slavery. D"'A ~
Miss Stone, or Mrs Blackwell as she now is an
pee GU a. this Junctufe, and addressed the crowd
a short time, after the Court adjourned. She in.
dulged IN good many epithets against slayehold
ers, ceiling the prisoner a Roman mother &c
AT the end of her TRADE, some Kissed and some
apPianded; after which Mrs. Lucy Stone Black
well, Esq, left the Court room
KANSAS AFFAIRs-The Leavenworth Herald
of the 9Th inst, says: A pro-slavery meeting was
held there on the I'd inst at which it was deter.
mined to offset the influence of the free state agents
sent abroad. by despatching George W. Mclean
to the Southern States to give the people there the
proslavery aspect of the case, and to urge South
erners to emigrate to the Territory, and aid in res
cuing the control of affairs from the hands of the
Abolitionists of Lawrence - Robinson Lane
Brown, &c, who are doing everything possible to
bring a civil war. They apprehend that many
Free-State men will refuse to follow them into re.
bellion against the federal authority and the laws
of the Territory & -s-3f
The Herald of Freedom says that Messrs Rob
inson and Lane have adopted precautionary mea-
sures and organised regiment; that the forts are
guarded day and night, and that munitions of war
were being collected IN readiness for instant SER
vice. an attack being expected. H ~
The Topeka Herald appeals to the friends of the
North and East to hold themselves in readiness to
march at moments notice. 1t says that the strug-
gle begins to show itself in earnest, and invekes
the people of Kansas to die in preference to sur
rendering.
The Presidents special Kansas message has
reached Leavenworth but not Lawrence.
A TERRIBLE WARNIsG.-In noticing the death
of James G. Forsyth the fugitive from Justice in
Europe the New York Courier says:
tNot many men have started in life with fairer
prospects than he. Well descended, educated and
honored--a member of our State Constitutional
Convention in 1876, afterwards the candidate of
the Wing party for the high Office of Secretary OF
State--he had every inducement to keep true to
the line of integrity But he gave way to pa sion
far Gaming bacQma iny0iyad 70
tTicate himself by raising money with the forged
signature of his father, and his father-inlaw Ex-
posed, he fled, and was a wanderer over the earth,
until life became an intolerablc burden. He has
died, ere he has seen forty years, blasted, ruined
man." = s-, .f.
MONSTER Snow PLow.-The Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy Railroad Company have re-
Gently constructed a snow pow at their machine
shops in Aurora, which probably surpasses any
thing of the kind in the United States. It's length
is 60 feet breadth IL feet height Is feet and weighs
over 26 tons. The expense of its construction was
between $500 and $1,000. This huge structure
of course is not attached to locomotive but rests
upon two sets of trucks, and is impelled by or
more locomotives from behind
INTo GREELEY-A gentleman who recently
happened to travel on the same car with Horace
Greeley, tells the following:
s'Mr Greeley was trying to read newspaper by
the dim religious light of a car lamp. In order
so before the lamp trimmer came along and turned
it down The moment his back was turned,
Greeley turned it up again. The Knight of
the Dark Lantern presently came along again,
and partly shut off the light by which the phil
osopher was reading. Greeley demonstrated
The official thrust his lantern in his face, surveyed
him with contemptuous afr a moment, and coolly
replied Old fellow, you talk too much"
Wal
TAKINaIT CooILY.-Many years ago, as Judge
Tompkns, afterwards Governor Tompkins, Of
New York, was sentencing nan to be executed
for murder, In Orange county, and while he was
in pathetic terms admonishing him TO repentance
and preparation, the criminal looking up to the
gallery of the church in which the court was held
exclaimed in a loud and clear voice, "keep order
there, will you-I cannot hear what the Judge
says TO me-
END OF a CELEBRATED PEDEsTRtAN-Wel learn
from 81 Eicnraguense, the paper published at Gran
ada in Nicaragua, that the celebrated Ellsworth,
the great walker, was recently killed in an affray
In that city. He was q member of Capt O'Nels
company, and In q quarrel with another member
named Williams, he received fatal stab with a
knife. Ellsworth was well known for his matches
to walk against time, in many other cities of the
Union.
INTERESTING TO RowDfEs-Daniel 3. Armel,
of Grcenahurg Pa, who was recently attacked by