Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-06-05
KING GEORGE.

III lne ns, Cdpt. tetsr SauDQer5, ttne MOST popuia
man in their ranks,) who brought out just few
days before the election with the hope suppose, Of
taking the Democracy by surprise but We have seen
too mny Of Sans tricks TO be taken in in that way.
Try your hand again, Samuel.
Yours, &c, D..
CIT AMI - q NEWS.
| VIEGISIA BAPTIST AssocIarIoS.-Th General
| Association OF the Baptist denomination of Virginia.
convened in Richmond yesterday. The iniroducto.
~ Sermon praached ut the First Baptist Church
last night, by the Rev. Thomas G. Keen OF Peters
burg An unusually large number OF delegates and
visitors ara present.
We observe that the proprietors OF the Netropo',-
TAM in New York. contradict the statement that they
have raised hbr prices, ana announce thar they will
continue to keep ih"ir spacious and excellent hotel at
their usual price of s2,5U per diem.
AucrIosEERs 1T will BIZ seza by advertisements
in tn-day's paper, that the firm of Pulliam & Davis
ha. been dissolved by mutual consent and that these
gentlemen nave established separate houses for con.
! ducng the business which they have heretofore
been engaged in. Messrs. Hector Davis and ID. VI
| Puiam 81 Co, have been engaged several years in
| the auction and commission business, Tor the sale
of negroes in this city Their wide spread populsrl
ty strict attention ~ business and energy, suti-
cieu guarantees that they wi continue receive,
they viii, assuredly merit, extensive patronage from
| their friends and the public generally.
SAD OcccRRExcE.-Mr. WIN. Maghee, a delegate
trtshe 70 rsiFr ,ds TBS Rsssii::!9l Convention was
the cars at Liberty, Bedford county, Va. The Pc.
ersburg delegation to Petersburg with the
| body OF their deceased comrade.
! Mr.. Maghee was IN the act OF getting on the ears
from the hotel platform at Liberty, while the train
was in motion, but his eight being somewhat deec.
| tive, il 10 supposed he missed his footing, which
caused him to fall between the cars and the platform
| III. was veg badly crushed and lived but fifteen
minutes a:,er the melancholy casualty.
FOURTH OF .TULY.-rhe citizens of Petersburg held
a meeting Tuesday 10 make arrangements for the
proper celebration OF the coming 4;h of July. John
| T. Clements elected orator for the OCCASION
and Lieutenant Thomas VI. Traylor AZ reader of the
Declaration of Independence. The Mayor appointed
a numerous committee Of arrangements.
DEATH or LIEUT.. ALLMANp.-The death of Lieut.
Amand before anununced,i occurred on Sunday last,
of apoplrxy, while on bonri the ). frlgate Com
berlald, at the Charleston Navy Yard. lie was EN-
gagged in conver.iDg with brother officer at the tine
and fell senseles. expiring in few minutes. Lieut..
Amaud WAS about thirty years Of age native OF
Virginia. and resident of Norfolk lie entered the ser.
vice In 1871 and vi the fifteen has been nearly ;hir-
teen years at sea- He WAS unmarried.
HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.-A few nights ago three
villains named Harrison, Cundf and Hull, went to
a house occupied by Mrs. Shirley OH Mixes Run in
a rape on her daughter. and, after breaking up the
furniture aud tearing down the house, lett Cundif
has been lodged in Jail, and Harrison arrested AT
Grafton, on tho Baltimore aud Ohio RriIroad, on Tues
day last. Hull is still at large Piedmont (P0I
Ind, pendeh
LICENSE GRANTED -Washington county Court
was in session this week. vote was taken on the
license question Monday, by iu bench OF magis.
trates, aud resulted in majority of in favor
of license Accordingly all who applied got license
to retail spirits.
Is PRIs"S.-A. l.. Baker, convicted of forgery in
RomGey, Hampshire county, Va. and sentenced to
the States prison for two years, was brought 10
Richmond last week by the sheriff Of Hampshire.
MIR. Mieson, and lodged in the Penitentiary pursu-
ant 10 the sentence passed ON him by the court.
EAST TENNESSEE AND Va. RAILRoAD.-On Thurs.
day evening last, says the Abingdon VrgtAian, two
splendid cnaches for the Tennessee, road passed
Bristol. The iron is now laid TO within 10 miles OF
Jonesburcush, and tbs regular passenger train will
commeuce its trips from Bristol to that point on
Monday.
SALE.-The house and lot at the corner of Union
street and Market alley, Alexandria. wa. sold AT auc.
tlon on the premises, Saturday morning, for 49,
to Henry Chatham.
RESrISG.-The Fish Wharf at Alexandria was rent
ed on Saturday at public renting to the American Coal
aud Iron Company for $500. from the LIST of June,
1891, until the lst OF Maicn, 1853.
REcovERISG.-Mr. Cotton. engineer, and Mr.. Wy.
bert. fireman, who severely injured last week on
the Orange Raroad slnwly ra""~erin ut % onsc
Courthouse where they have remained since the acc
dent under the care OF Dr. Taisfsrro.
DEATH OF VIRGlSIA LADY.-The Charleston
Courier announces the death Of Mrs Harriet Post,
cousort o! Rev. Reuben Post, ID. D., ofthat city She
was Virginian by birth, and a granddaughter Of
Richard Henry Lee OF the Revolution
CRICKET CLuB.-The Richmond Cricket Club was
organized on Saturday night, by the eection OF the
following officers President Hon. John NJ. Bolts !
Vice President James w. Lsween; Treasurer, Jas.
l.. Macdonald Secretary, Jno. Grnme, Jr.
RAILROAD EIrENsIoN.-A convention ia to be held
at Buckhanan, Va. on the 9Th August next. to take
measures to extend the Alexandra. L,udoun and
Hampshire Railroad TO the Ohio river.
L4your,HISG.-The crops in Greenbrier county,
Va, are said TO be in q langusbing condition.
| LoxGEvIrY-Mr Elizabeth Hodson, of Phsyl-
vaua county, died few days since, aged III years.
DEAD -Mrs. Ann L. Bennirg, daughter Of the
| late Samuel Glover, of Hanover county, Va, died
| lately in Columbia county, Ga.
PLEASANT NEws.-A along the line OF railroad lie
tween Petersburg and Lynchburg the crops snid
to he in excellent condition. The farmers in tx.
ceent spirits.
MARION HARLASD.-A forthcoming novel; from
the pen of"Msrion Harlapd," Mrs Terkhume, for
| bliSS NHRiHu vi is hu'
nounced in the New York papers.
MISUNDERSTANDING Earle, formerly of Bev.
erly, Taylor county, Va has received appointment
assistant TO Capt. Pope, TO bore Aresan wells in
Texas.
! KILLED BY LIaHTSINa.-G:ss Edwards a young
lady, killed by lightning on the 2Sih ult., near
Moniross, WestInorsand county, Va.
SALE Of RESIDENCE Judge Hopkins lately sold
| his residences IN Abingdon, Va, for 81 900 IL in.
cludes about u acres of ground.
| SAD ArFAIR.-Mr. Brooke Noland of Middleburg,
Loudouu committed suicide, in that place on Saturday
last by shooting himself with pistol in the stomach.
Correspond enoe Of the Baltimore Sun
WAsHISGToS, June 3.
Contents Of The Cannon Taken from the ELcLon Rot
srs-Ano,ter Dsah-Ihe rounded.
Chief Of Police Bagg ut yesterday afternoon unload
ed the brass six-puunder which the marines captured
from The roters. 1t WAS charged neary-to the muz.
zle with ball. tnusket cartridges paving stones shot
OF vs-ious kinds and one or two pocket handkerchiee
| as wadd'ng To all appearances the marines perform
ed towards the mob most merciful by taking
from them gun which, in all probability would have
bursted il DC firing and spread destruction all around
AN t1.e to rtare upon authority, that consider.
able majority OF the marines engaged in suppressing
| the riots on Monday were young native born men,
principally from Virginia aud Pennsylvania. The
| remainder were marines long in the service, who