The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-21


-dfugson sbrmsriy dentist Or Richmond, was trssd
In Norfolk Thursday, for violent assault on his
brother Inst summer. Great difficulty Was expe.
rlencedin gettinga jury, which Was at iast com
posed Of 1--WE citizens Of Norfolk end seven of Ports
mouth. The prisoner spoke in his own defence
about half an hour, and the case was given to the
jury, who, after absence Of fifteen minutes, re
turned verdict OF guilty, assessing DIR. As pun
ishment at t,co years imprisonment "a the peEsn
ti,py t - Is a b.
DxArH OF Gan. JAMES IIAarLroS.-The telegraph
has announced that among the passengers drown
ed on the steamer opelousas, in the Gull, was Gen
James Hamilton, former Governor of South Caro-
lima, and for many years member OF Congress from
that State. lie had lost large fortune in CON-
merce and sought the richer lands Of Texas to re-
pair his losses. In default of any heightened at
count of his public life, in the Charleston papers
received last night take the following from the
New York Express:
Gen. Hamilton came before the country conspic-
uously In tho famous Gen. Jackson campeign,-in
whose election he took the liveliest interest,-but
in 1892 he went of in the opposition with John G.
Calhoun,-and in 1892 80. headed, as Governor OF
Souin Carolina the resistance of that State against
the Federal Government. Gen Jackson launched
against him his famous prociamation written by
Edward LiyingtOn, then his Secretary of State. The
f6ueTdi put flflI III tiiht piper
large Sou.lern Nulify ing and Secession Party
against Gen. jackson, of with Mr.. Calhoun was
the head, but in which were Hsyne and Preston,
Of S. c., Troup, of Georgia, Poinde1ter, OF Miss,
and great many other able men.
Gen. Hamilton, Gen. IIayne. aud others, got mp
In South Carolina, the famous State Commercial
Convention, and ordinance, which nuhifet the then
Tariff acts of Congress. Gen. Hamilton himsei
imported several boxes of sugar, and refusing to
Ray the duties, (storing them in warehouses; pre-
pared TO make against Gen. Jackson as tue
Executive of the Federal Law. Gen Hamilton put
| all South Carolina in arms, and marched no smaii
portion Of it to the city Of Charleston Gen. JACK
son sent on Gen Scott and the then COL Bank mead
with the Artillery to head the army, and stationed
fleet in Charleston fIarb0r
| Meanwhile Mr.. Webster supported ten. jack
sons Force Bill and the Proclamation, and Mr.. Clay
brought in his Compromise Bill, aud SO modlned
the Tariff that South Carolina withdrew her NULL
flying Observation-Disclosures peace was restoreu
for the nonce.
Gen. Hamilton in private life an excellent,
amiabIe man. and cherished by all who came IA
contact with him. Much Of the latter part OF his
life has been spent in Texas, where he haa large
interest in Lands and Texas Bonds
MORE FuLIgusryRs-The Mobile (Ala.) Register.
of Sunday says that, In addition to the 400 hlibus
ters who sailed with Walker from that port abont
$50 have gone from other ports oil the ohited
States sailing vessels, thus making the total oe
tween seven ANA eight hundred men, well pro
visoncd and prepared to meet the hardahips OF the
expedition.
MoPE Work FOR NsCRAxICs.-Ordcrs have been
issued to the Gosport Navy Yard. by the Depart
ment, for the immediate preparation of the brig
Perry. for the Brazil station, and of the sloop of
war Marion for the coast of Africa.
LABOR COMING SourH-About fifty 1rishmen
passed through Columbus, Ga, on the 18th inst,
Oh their way to Geldsyille, Ala for the purpose of
working the gold mines in that region. They
were brought from the North where they had been
starved out and forced to come South.
ToBaCcO-The Gainesville (Tenn.) Chronicle
says that crop Of tobacco sold there last week at
s. per cwt and several tobacconists have closed
contracts for the weed at IS $3.50 per cwt.
Senator Yulee and Ex-Governor Broome, Of Flor
ida, were in Savannah, Ga, on the 18th inst.
hessrs. Broughton, Nesbit & Barnes, of the Fede
raj Union, have been elected printers to the Goor
gia Legislature.
Rev. A. +. Harris. Of the North Carolina Confer
ence died in Davidson CO., n. c., on the 18th inst
Christian Bookter, old citizen OF Columbia,
5. c., died on the 18th inst.
There was snow in New York Thursday evening,
and at Buffalo.