The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-09

Col Y N. Oliver, of Big Lick, Roanoke county,
vs., ded suddenly on Sunday night last.
Bishop Whelan. of Wheeling, Va, lie about to
sail for Europe.
The death of the Duchess de Raguse, widow Of
Marshal Msrmont, Of France, Is announced.
The city debt of Petersburg, Virginia. Is $780,.
000
Mr.. VIM. B. Waugh, a 81 900 clerk In the Indian
Office, has resigned
John w Minor. of St. Louis, Ia appointed mail
agent for Missouri and Ohio.
The Emperor Napoleon entered his fftieth year
% the goth ult., having been born April 90, 1903
Thomas Richardson, an old citizen of Phila-
delphia died Wednesday.
John Silvers, of Virginia, was dangerously in
ured by q fall on the schooner Mary Jane, on her
last trip to Baltimore.
Surgeon George BiacknalI has been ordered to
the Cumberland, now at the Boston Navy Yard,
Fleet Surgeon of the African Coast Squadron
The u 8 Brig-ofwar Perry Is now upon "tbe
ways" at the Gosport (Virginia) Navy Yard, ua.
dergoing through overhauling and repair.
A FIRE occurred in Selma, Ala, on Thursday
night Of last week, which consumed the moulding
and smith shops of the foundery.
Gray Little, one of the first settlers of Sumter
county, Alabama, and highly esteemed citizen,
died recently st Bladen Springs.
The Rev DR.. Skinner, Primus Of the Scottish
Episcopal church, died at Aberdeen, Scotland on
the 18th, aged 73.
Digger Indians are now employed as house SER
wants by many families in Sacramento City, Cal,
and are said to be very useful.
John F. A. Sanford. the well known nominal
plaintiff In the Dred Scott case, died in New York
on Tuesday.
Rev james A. Colling, prominent minister of
of ths Baltimore conference, died in Baltimore on
Thursday last
The Br ship Morning Light, arrived at New
Work TuaaSav frou brfpoip0 nine
hundred and ninety five steerage passengers
The steamer B Goddin, with large cargo for
Sioux city, sank on the 25th of April, near st
Charles Missouri.
The whole number of snow storms In Boston
the past Ii years was 43l; depth of snow during
the same period SO feet 81 inches
Mr. Barnum is holding forth In England, with
limited pecuniary results, In favor of the Maine
liquor law.
A Boston merchant who, during the war with
Russia, lost $50, 900 by specializing In hemp, has
just cleared S50, 900 on sugar investment
The christian" Spiritualists, of New York, af-
ter an existence of two or three years, has gone
to the tomb of all the Capslets.
The late Maine Legislature passed act re-
storing the old law requiring the publication Of
intentions of marriage
The London Times has two part Editors and
owners in the new Parliament Mr.. Walter, Its
chief and the Right Hon. Robert Lowe Of the
Board OF Trade.
The Duke of Wellington Is announced as Chair.
man of the next annual meeting tdnner) OF the
London Printers Pension Society.
A testimonial benefit to j. Lester. the actor in
New York. Wednesday night, yielded the benef-
ciary o., COO
Rev w. Fl. Christian, President of the Raleigh,
North Carolins, Female College has resigned to
take the position in the Petersburg Virginia,
Female College.
The officers and employees of the South Side
Railroad have presented VIM. Pannill, their late
President, with service of silver plate,
Alexander II. Evans who took out the ClaTens
don Dallas treaty to the Court of st. James, re-
turned In the Europa, bringing the treaty with
him.
DIR. Ezra Ferris, Baptist preacher and member
of the convention that framed the frst constitution
of Indiana, died at Lawrenceburg, Indiana, aged
81 years.