The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-27


! at the port of New York from the 30th of MARCH,
| when the commission of the present incumbent
Will expire.
During the year 1855 FIVE hundred and two bull.
| dings we're erected in Dubuque Iowa.
The State debt of New Jersey is something less
| than $500 900.
Gen. Bernard Pratte has been nominated for
mayor of st. Louis by the democrats.
DIR. L. Harper has been appointed State eeolo.
| ogist of Mississippi.
There are 500 men at work in the Philadelphia
| Navy Yard.
| Hon. T. Butler King is In New Orleans looking
after the interests of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
| The sloop of war John Adams sailed from
Valparaiso, February IL, for Africa and Caliao.
Ex-President Pierce and lady. passed through
Baltimore Wednesday, en- route for Philadelphia.
Capt. David Bush, one of the old citizens of VII.
| mington, Del is dead.
| Connecticut holds her election for Governor,
| Congress, &c, on Monday, April 6.
| Counterfait $40 bills on the Bank of Cape Fear
| are In circulation.
| Chief Engineer George Sewel has been ordered
to New York as inspector of ocean mail steamers.
Benjamin Brandeth the arstocrat of pilldom,
has given $500 to the Dudley Observatory at Al
bany.
In Winchester Centre, Conn there has not been
a death in one and half years. The village is
surrounded by $50 smoking coal pits.
Samuel Crawford, presiden. of Terre Haute
| and Richmond, Ind railroad, died suddenly last
| week.
Rev Mr. Addison, of Fredericksburg Va, has
| accepted call to st. James church, Zanesville,
Ohio.
The was gale at Philadelphia, Wednesday
morning, sufficiently strong to blow down two
brick buildings.
James NJ. Wilton, Esq, superintendent of the
| Boston, Concord and Montreal railroad, died sud-
denly ON Sunday.
new farce has been produced at Wallack
| Theatre, New York, entitled Romance in High
Life" 1t is founded on a recent local event.
Calvin Terry has been arrested at Wilmington
N c.. for the murder, four years ago, of Captain
Wilkinson, of the steamer Southerner.
Thomas Carlyle succeeds the late Lord Files
mere as Stanhope trustee for the formation of
galleryof portraits Of persons eminent in British
history.
A letter from Paris states that the whole of tbs
|, stock of the General Omnibus Company of New
York, one million of dollars, has been subscribed
More than 100 New Workers have left Wash
, | ington since the announcement of the New Yora
appointments.
} Snow fe Il a. Cleveland and Chattanooga, Tenn.
and at Dalton, Ga on the 18th inst, to the deptt
| of three or four inches.
Counterfeit fifty dollar bill, on the Marine ant
Fire Insurance Bank of Savannah are in circula
. ton In East Tennessee.
1n tn6 Town OF CCesLef, W., q IeW nfylt5 ago,
child was frozen to death in its cradle, where i
had been placed to sleep.
One hundred and fifty acres of land at Spuyte,
, Devil Greek, Y, were sold on last Friday fo
$3.50 per acre
The trial of Doddridge Lee for the murder o
David Hume, of Aiexandria, Va, is progressing IL
Washington.
Pantaloons costing $50 pair are among tn
: Spring fashions announced for gentlemen in New
| York.
Brevet Major Sterne III Fowler, captain 5tl
: infantry, has resigned his commission, to tax,
effect on the 1st of April next.
James Lyons, Esq.,is announced in the Enquirer
!, as candidate for the post OF Attorney General
Virginia.
w. ]. May formerly an editor of Cleveland
, Ohio, died At Tehau ntepec recently where he " .
acting q clerk for the stage company.
The boot and shoemakers of of Savannah recent
ly held 3 meeting and determined TO raise thei
prices.
Abner Reese, Wn Patton and Henry Shut q
were drowned In the Susquehanna River, Pa las
week, by the upsstting of boat
The water on the Mississippi is, at the presen
time, feet below high ws1er mark last year a
the same date, it was 3feet below
General Shields has been elected president o
the Minneapolis and Cedar Valley Railroad Com'
pany.
Several hundred citizens of Augusta co, va.
have signed petition to Hon. A. II H. Stuart fc
become candidate for the State Senate.
Id. Thompson of Philadelphia. was escorted
out of town by the citizens of Charlotte, N. G
Sunday, for tampering with slaves.
House carpenters in New York are on . strike
Their present pay Is from OIL 25 to 81 371. They
| want 81 SO.
On the frs. Thursday In August an election
will be held In North Carolina for Members q
| Congress-,
i Awestern editor announces the arrival Of . l2.h
responsibility af his house, and makes the follow.
ing appeal thereafter: More subscribers wanted
at this Office"
/ A stock company has deem formed of persons
residing In Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, wht
have constructed . steam wagon 70 be rum or
common roada.
Il John 8. BaFbour, Esq, whose sickness ct Cui-
pepper Courthouse was lately reported, has recov'
cred, and ia attending 10 the dutles Of bis Office
as Presdenfof the Orange and Alexandria rail-