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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-06-05

Counterfeit new cents are already In circulation
In New York, intended, no doubt to mix with the
genuine in large quantities 1t is said thew wi
easily deceive persons at casual glance, blu,
being pewter, like all that kind of cois have q
greasy feel and slumpy sound that any boy will
recognize.
negro boy belonging to John Wright, was kill.
ed by lightning on the 28th ult., near Goldsboro
N G. '''''
Mr. s Yost, formerly of the Staunton. VIRGIN,
Ia, Vodicator, but more recently of the Lexington
MO-, Expositor has Withdrawn from the last nam.
60 paper, to assume the duties of an office In New
Mexico.
John Bradshaw, charged with killing Thomas
Mason, in Fayetteville, North Carolina, has been
70 arrested in Columbus, Mas. He was at liberty
away
The suit brought by Joseph L Bryan us Rober,
Howard. for setting fire to the woods, damages
laid at $1,000, has been decided in Bruns~ ick
county, North Carolina, in favor of the defendant
At her benefit In Boston on Monday night, Mrs
Julia bennette Barrow. received $500. attached &c
bouquet. That's floral ovation" worth hav'
Ing
A Jew named Jackson, of Westf cid. Mass wal
robbed and murdered Monday by man named
Jones, who had only been out Of the State prison
three months.
From Granada West Indies. We learn that The
first batch of coolies had arrived from Caicutts
and been allotted TO the piantatons 80 bad EN-
barked at Calcutta, and 81 died on the passage.
The Galveston Civilian, of the 25th ult, sayi
that lately refreshing rains have visited every
part of the State except the counties of Gonzales
and Guadalupe where draught still prevails The
wheat crop will bee1cellent, and the other crops
promise an abundant harvest.
The freight train which left Philadelphia early
Tuesday morning for New York was plunged into
RsDcocss creek by the drawbridge at that place
being left open. The train was going slow ct the
time, and the engineers and others on the train
Jumped ca 10 time to save themselves
At the charter election 10 Canandsieua. N Y.
Tuesday, the whole American ticket was elected
over democrats and republicans.
Hon John Appleton. officiates o. Acting Secrs.
tary q State. during the absences OF, susral Cass
On visit 10 the West
O., A negro man named Edmund, belonging to Mr.
olmon D Armstrong, Of Fauquisr Va was XIII I'd
" AonoAy pigns n negro dance near Warren
son, BY blow from siick Two negroes have
'een arrested a. suspected parties,
On Monday the way mail be,vsen w,.b,,e,o,
ZIG nicomona was Transferred from The Orsnss
ma AiexAndfs and Central Railroad. ~ ~. Nh
"ono. FIedsiiehsburg and Potomac line 70 $40 -'''1-
The price Of leaf tobacco has .av.,..s
%3@svnls market fully one dollar ~, hnnS,ns "
49, ~ aning the past week. ~ ohsns. 49,, ~
~ "saeas svw ehtaiasd 'sss'
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DERCIVAL & GRANT,
L ARCHlTECrs AND civil ENGINEERS

OFFICE, sODDIN's HALL, RICHMOND VA,
Respectfully offer their services to the public With
thorough Professional training and q combined
Practical experience Of more than so years, they
hope give satisfaction to those who may favor them
with orders.
In the A re Q U ra l. n Q; will fur
nish DESIGNS for Churches, Public Buildings.
Town Houses, stores, vil1as, and alterations OF
old buildings and also for Ornamental Grounds,
with full WorSins Drawings, Specifications and Su-
psrintendecoe.
In the EneincerinS Department, will attend
to the branches connected with Railroads, Sew.
srase and drainage Of Farm Lands with all necessa
ssry Plans and Estimates.
variety of complete sets Of Plans for Churches
villas Farm Cottages, eridges, 30, can be seen q
their office. my 22-2m
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NEW PHisE OF MoRMAsIsM.-lt 10 stated that
new doctrine has sprung no among the Mormons
furnishing proxies to supply the place Ct husbands
to wives Of missionaries ab'ent on foreign service
90 that "the duty Of raising up kingdom to til q
Lord" may not fail of performance duri ,g the r
absence.
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rO-P akTNhhohiP MOTTO E..ThN'
~ subscribers have this Day. formed Q eo.partnsr-
for the purpose Of conducting the wholesale and re-
tail Cloth busin sss, at No. 100 Main street. Having
made extensive arrangements to manu- fsoture North
under the personal supervision of the senior partner
hstter ourselves to be enabled to turn out work
second to no establishment Nor h or South In point
price style ard quality, and pledge ourselves to scS
on az reasonable terms &c any house in This market
L. NORRIS,
June LIST 1857. r ELLIS
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RECEIPTS
By the Canal, River and Railroads,

For the two week endngs May 80, 1857.
BY THE CANAL 1916 bushels Wheat; 60 bbls Flour i;
4sl hhds Tobscco; s. bales Hay p tors Copper
Der, Mdzs &c Mdze Guano, Goal, Lime Plss.
ter, 30. Making down ssd up tonnsse 6, 1SS, 6ll
lbs 4,I5s bushels Wheat; so5 bbis Flour; e9
do; S5i tons Middiing., (offal:) S9a tons Coal and
Coke; balance Wood Stone Lumber Mdss &e,
Merchandise. Groceries, Gusno, Lime, Plaster
Coal, &c. Making down and up tonnage 6, cal O4S
BY THE PETERSBURG ROAD 92I hhds Tobacco; 1923
bales Cotton; liz Liquor Barrels; l,l66 lbs. B..
con; 2 800 lbs Iron and Ca.tipgs; 80 $40 lbs
Rags; ii bbls Turpeatins; 4 us lbs MiscaIlene.
Gus; Cosl = tons So hhds Tobacco; 10 bales
Cotton; s. do; Rags Ii,css Machinery; box
Liquor Bbbls 5 Cuitivators; 2 bundles Castines;
4 7.9 feet Lumber; lot Furniture; box Tobsc-
co Samples; 100 tons Coal
Stems Stem Sc bu.h West; lbs B.s.w.a nhGs
Empty Bbi' u pkgs Eupt. Bags; sdo. Butter;
Rsg, 6 do Leather; - lbs Wool; c,r Slaves;
CarooyE Wagon; 50 ba.h Corn; 4.s tons Coal;
10 tons Stone; 1903 kegs Nails
By THE CEsTRAL Roadside hhds, $50 pckss Fc.
bseco; 1876 bushels Corn; 1540 do Wheat; 242 Do
Oats; 2SU do Meal; l7O do Rye; 1850 bbis Flour;
do Rags IL bundles Iron; 81 sh.e D: 50 Calves: 2O
Hogs; Is firkins. 10 boxes Butter; 10 bhls 20
boxes Esss; hrkins Lard; ls pckgs, 50 bales
mdse
BY The FsEpRIcKsBusG ROAD 2os bids, IS pks,
Tobacco; 64n4 bushels Corn; 676 do Data; 500 do
Bran; 500 do Peas; I2a do Fy-; $50 do Meal; $50
cords w God; IS, 900 feet Lumber; loads Farni-
ture; As Lamb; 10 boxes Chickens; boxes Eggs;
DO Butter, q pctes suodries
BY LOWER JANIS RIVER $40 csses Licorice; 100
Railroad Wheels; so bsxes Tin; $50 bbls Sugar;
50 hhds Bacon; 10 box.s Cheese; $50 boxes Can.
dles; so KEGS Nails; 800 kegs Lead; 80 hhds Ale;
100 bags Cotfee 100 boxes Fruit; 4H0 bbls Potatoes,
$50 bbls Liquor; 10 bur dies Gas Tubes; 400 boxes
$40 bales $40 pigs Sundriss. Total smount OF
freight %, 500. Duricg tie two weeks, Now
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore steamers with
as,orted cargoes m6ss.
EXPORTS COASfWI8E-per Steamers
70 NJ W YosK - 80 hhds. 40s4 pkes Tobacco; 81 pkss
Smoking 10; So Hides 1900 bbls Flour; 6easss
Licories; bags Apples; 81 empty BbIs; 81 pkss
euldries
70 PHILAD. LpHIA- 1865 pkss Tobacco; I0i bales
Yarn; 70 bags Feathers; IL hide skins; 476 bills
Flour; l07 bales, Is bags Rsgri 1T bars. II kegs
Iron; 70 bags Seed; Is rolls Leather; 81 empty
Hhds; 4i6 do Bbis; 7bsss Fruit; pa Spades; 10
70 BAIrIMons. hhds. Ss,s pigs Tobacco; 10 bbls
SMOKING do; II crates skins; hhds Bacon; n
bales Yam; 500 bars, So bundles Iron; ii bags
Feathers; IS bales C,tten; Al do Osnehurgs; do
Mats; 60 bbls Whisksy; II rolls Leather, 9jea-
psrs; 40 buadlss. Rags; l52 empty Bbls; bags
Almonsst ~ bags Wheat; cases Cigars; l5hhds
FOREIGN
70 BE- EMEN. per ship Helene.--Si3 hhds Tobacco;
650 d, Stems Dbl Flour
70 BALIyAx. per schr Uncle Tom-5ss bills Flour
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VIOLIN PLAYERS 10 Vienna are in the his hit now
OF using liquid eolophonium instead of the solid re-
SIM which vosus in the other parts of the world
The liquid mixture 10 applied with a cameps hsir
brufh 10 said to last during hundred hours play
ing and neither to Bure the strings Of the iustru
ment NOR the bow. The strings 1t 10 affirmed, too
give cut clearer tone than when the solid resin il
rsed.
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The sEpucEs OF uiss ST. DIN We have al.
ready published tho particulars of The slopement of
N. Y. with married man q amed Hsienbeck. We
6aa in the Auburn American the following account
of an interview between the villain and desc ted
wife from which the inference Is plain there il NO
Judge Lynch in Csyuga county and that the people
of Auburn are ignorant ofths virtue which, in some
Ice alit,es, 10 attributable to tar and feathers:
We learn from gentleman bsIon ging to the Nor.
thorn Hotel in this city, thst HalIenbeck-ths sedu
car of Miss Stedman- there Monday, the
18th ult, sod that an interview took place between
him and his sserted wife she 10 described a.
autitul and inter resting Of unimpe achsble
character Hearing that her a,bsnd there, she
c me with her litt. child in her TO persuade
her wandering husband to return to his wife and
fsniy The scene il represented as one calculated
to draw tears from with a heart Of marble as
the heartess seducer called to ooDfront his vr
tcous and injured wife and forsaken Chi d.
| The step.mother OF the seduced girl had likewise
heard that ths destroyer of their honor and peace
was there, and she also appeared to him Co upbraid
him but toward all he manifested brutal insensi.
biiity, while the bysanders were afscted to tsars
| 1t was a scene to melt tho hardest heart 80 the
mother stood With her child In her arms and Offer
prayer God to turn the art of her unfathful
ashland and the unnatural father of her ehidre n
again to the family which he hsd cruelty deserted
De maintained sto i'd Indifference treating her
ON him with violence only to be found il SAVAGE
At s he told her she could not say under the same
| roof with him. but at length consented that sh e
might remain for the night
When he was shown to her room. she rose up al
most insane with agony and her eyes streaming with
teas and extended her arms to meet him, when he
turned upon her with sour and angry look, and
| babe her in surly Tone Sit down sit down p
The wretched wife, bursting into fit of uncontrolla'
BILE grief inquired, "What have ever done that yc
should treat me and my dear little chi dren this
Manner His only reply was Il don't love you,
and can't be happy with you; you must fo'get me,
and YOU can fiad some else to love you" This
brusish proposition threw her into a fit Of wild and
almost maDiacal agony. He refused to receive her
ar treat her wfe, but threw hinself with his
clothes on across the foot of the bed, and In the
midst of her sroans cries and tesrs, fell asleep ana
slept soundly till morning, when he took the and
left he. at the hotel The landlord kindly convey ed
her and her child to Port Rrvnn IN h.r friends
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II A.HUV AL.--Dr. PLUMB hns Iemoved
H his office to the third house, South OF Trinity
Church, South sids and about one hundred yards be-
all syphlitic and sonorrheal com yaints and bayns
bad much practice in ths line fatts himself he
rive very general satishssioa. A call from
bose interested 10 solicited.
DR. p. also makes and vends one Of Abe best rssto-
ratives. Chemical Extract Of French Flowers) for
constitutional weakness, offered to t.,e public
DR.: P. may be consulted sonfae1tislly By letter,
to o. der, In almost any dire alton.
Ohise hours from A. NJ. till r. II. ynnkli.
st-s nesr tbs Exchange Hotsl, Richmond city,
Va no ~
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THE FusITrvE SLAVE CASE IN oHIo-A te'
lssrapbic dispatch from Cincinnati, dated June "a,
says:
Th. uri, of habeas corpus issued by Judge Lea
Wit was obeyed, and the prisoners have been
bronsht to this city for trial. The examination
Commenced yesterday. but the ease was adjourned
until . week from to-day. in order to allow time
for the production of adavits by either party. /,
IA probabe that the prisoners will be discharged
by Judge Leavitt, but this will not prevent their
Indictment by the Grand Jury of Clark county
and their arrest again for trial
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RUN OVER AND KILLED On Friday last, Jas.
Russell, shoe maker, residing in Greensborough.
North Carolina, sat down on the track of the rail-
road went to sleep, and the cars passed over him,
iDjuring him fatally. He was intoxicated at the
time
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GREAT BARGAINS IN DRY GOODS
NJ are now being sold ct Levy's store, Lawn ana
Bsrsee Robes 1t cost; Hoop Skirts OF every dsscrp
ton sold very low; summer Mousins Berases aad
~ 1 81 "n IxuU i n0;iaf iSa vs:Iy iSw
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THE DAILY nlSPATa n,
Fri day sierrsns, Jasc s, 1857.


TIE FRICTION RIOT william Farrell, who
received ball In the head on Monday, died this
morning.
George w. MeElfrssh b Jet lvss, and 10 In charge
Of Dr. May, who thinks he may survive, should IL
prove that the ball which struck the back OF bis head
bounced out instead Of entering He II but ls yesrs
OF ego.
Col. Wilson b not yet dead, asrsp ,rtsd about town.
and 10 I'M fair way Of recovery.
The bssy Of Colonel Deems has been taken 70 Cum
berland, Md
q @. Hinma. was shot, standing In his own door,
three door below the corner erocery-wound not &C.
we're, ~
Amous the victims BY the riots prior to the calling
ont Of the military John Conner residing on Fourth
strset was dangerously wounded BY shot. He 10
The brs.s swivel taken by the Marpes f'om the
PIus Uelies and Whit oh the sympathzsrs OF ths lat
ter have persstently insisted we ual"aded had 10
charge drsws from It about Eve O'Clock yesterday AZ
ternoon at the City Hall BY direction OF tbs Chief OF
Police II was composed Of eight pavement stones
a large number of rias balls buck shot, swan shot.
Ss, weighing altogether bet~een tan and twelve
pounds! - Washington Star Wednesday
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Mr.. DEXTER DWIGHT committed suicide bv
drowning, at Oleyville, R. l.. on Saturday. He
was fifty years old.
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STkAM IKUN WORKS, 356 Main st.
- near seventh The subscriber IL now pre-.
psred, With ipcrsa.ed faeilitss to manufacture all
kinds of IRON WORK, such 40 IRON RAILING
VERANDAHG. STEPS, VAULTS and CELLAR
DOORS GRATINGs. 30, 30. CRATE and
TENDERS and all Kind of House Work, and Job
bling done reasonable terms.
~ Particular attention given to the enclosing of
CEMETERY lots, Railing. &C.. for the country, 90
made Co be easily put up. A call solicited.
nlb I4.--6m GEO. 8 LOWNES
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FIRE IN PETER.BURe.-On Wednesday. the
Leavenworth Female Seminary. in Petersburg,
was damaged TO the extent of $500 or $4,000 BY
ere Partially insured in the Mutual Office
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I'm IMPORTANT n OTIC g TO
I'LL HAT RO0T AND CATER WEAR
"a ROnTs AND sHOEs-second sap.


ply-New Sly les-L Low Prises-psr steamers
and otherwise We have received the hapdso.
~ NEST stock Of Spring and Summer Shoes We
ever had the pleasure of Offering to our friends and
custe mers, among which will be found Boots, Shoes
Caters, 8iippsrs, &C. &c of the latest styles
fastured expressly for Us and warranted to fit and
wear we'll. Those in wont Of anything in the Shoe
llns land from IS to Is per cent? will please call
Ut once, ct MARCUS HARRIE5
js2 No. 1873 Broad street.
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8 Sc5 prizes amounting to........."..........$
Whole Tickets $40; halves 5; quarters $50.
PLAN or THE LOTTERY.


Tho Numbers from TO SC, 900, corresponding Will
those Numbers on the Ticket. printed ON separate
slips of paper encircled with small tin tubes
placed in cne Who'll
The first 257 prizes similarly printed and snei,eed
are placed in another wheel.
Pie wheels are thsn revolved, and q number &,
drawn from the wheel of Numbers, and at the SAINT
time Prize Is drawn from the other wheel. The
Number and Prize drawn out are opened and exhib
tied to the audience, and registered by the Connie
ne S,. nns1stins .n. u. .ta
Prizes are drawn out.
APPROPRIATION PRlzEs.-fhe two preceding anc
the two succeeding Numbers to those drawing the
rst u Prizes will be entitled to the 4s ApproIims
ton Prizes For example, if Ticket No. lls5 draws
the 100000 prize, those Tickets numbered 1928,
ll249 1921. 1882 will each be entitled to 1925 II
Ticket No $50 draws the 49, prizs, thoss Ticket
mum beIsd 54S $40 55l $50 will eaeh be entitled to
5000; and 80 on, according to the above scheme.
The 5000 prizes of 800 will DO determined By the
last figure of the number that draws the 900 prize
For example, If the number drawing the $50 o&
prize, ends with No l, then all the Tickets where
the ber ends In will be entitled to 500 the
number ends with No z, then all tina tickets where
the number ends In 2, will be entitled to 800 and
on to O.
Ing rates, which II tho risk:
csisidcsts Of Package Of 10 whole fisssts.....ss6
10 quarter " ...... 20
10 eighth ...... 10
In OapHaIns Tickets Or CERTIFICATES.
Enclose the money to our address for the Tickets
ordered receipt Of which they will be forwarded
By 6rpt mail. Purchasers can have siaksts endlns
In any fsnre they may designate.
Tie List of Drawn Numbers and Prizes will be
sent te purchasers inm edately after the drawing
ETT- Purchasers will please write their signatures
PLAIN, and give their Post Office, County and State
- Remember that every Prize 10 drawn and pay
able in full without deduction.
- All prizes of 81 900 and under, paid tnmedi
steIy after the drawns-othsr prizes st the us1A
time Of thirty days
All communications strictly confidential.
Address orders for Tickets or Certificates TO
D. SWAN r. CO., Atlanta, Ca
Or B. SWAN & CO,
Richmond Va
~ A list of the numbers that are drawn nom tn
wheel with the amount OF the prize that each 10
entitled to- will be published after every drawing
in the following papers: New Orleans Delta. Mobile
Register, Charleston Standard, Nashville Gazette,
Atlanta Intelligencer. New York Weekly Day Book,
Savannah Mornins News and Richmond Dispatch
my %
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uENRY ExALL. ARCHITECT,
III RICHMON VA.
fnPRnsITE TIE AMERICAN HOTELl


r B. tLoPTON, Civil Engineer.
FREDERICK KOCH, Architect,
Ia prepared TO furnish Designs with Plans and full
Working drawings for Buildings of every description
including Mills, Manufacturing Establishments and
Machinery of all kinds with Specification, EST
mates and Contracts complete, and to superintend
the construction of the same.
BE will pay particular attention to laying out and
improving SPRINGS PROPERTIES and other
WATERING PLACES, well a. Public or Private
Grounds
He 10 also prepared to survey and locate all kinds
of Roads and Canals and to survey Mines and Lands
Having had over twenty year' experience in his
business and with the best of Assistants ever
In one office Ia this State he feels confident that he
can give entire satisfaction to oil who may entrust
their work to his care. And while returning thanks
patronage upon him, he respectfully solieits con.
tnuence Of the from them and the public gene
| rally.
He respectfully refers to
VIM. H Mcfarland
VIM II. Haxall
Jas II. Gardner, >Richmond.
Bacon l. Bsskervill,
| Lewis Webb Son,
Lewis E. Hsrvie. }Amau.
VIM. J. Barksdale, Aon"'
" Mm n sts MsIs0n' eOoshl.nd.
VIM. 8. Tontaine, King William.
DR.. Price, Hanover
w. T. Suthsrlin, Danvills
Geo Boiling, Petersburg.
Jno Mcdaniel, Lypchburg.
Thos. J. Boyd Wythevills.
Geo. Curle, Lynchburg
| Andrew Beirne, Union
Proprietors of the Sweet Springs.
." " Montgomery White Sulphur
Springs.
II" q" Rockbrfdgs Alum Springs.
| Jas. D. Davidson, Lexington.
| Col. C. Crozet, State Engineer. my 2-ts .
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SUR DEcrpED-Tne Petersburg Express. OF

yestefuHy, say5'
The important suit brought against the soufh,
side Railroad by Messrs Samr w Venable ana
John A Hair, indemoifying them for three slaves
He'd by the explosion of . boiler Ia Decemoer'
1855 was decided yesterday, after severa osys
disagreement among the jurors Mr. .enAo.
aimed for bis loss Zone slave $500 ana 'se Puy
sician's account of 80 The jury re1urneu We.
Of the accident. , r
10 favor Of Mr. Hair, = verdict was returned OF
81, 100 for one slave. and $50 iof 'ue o'het' Win
interest from date, &c
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SWAN Il CO.'S LOTTERIES.
fHE MOST BRILLIAnT SCHEME EVER
DRAWN.
CAPITAL PRIZE 38O,OOO!!
TICKETS ONLY go

Owing to the great favor with which or Single
Number Lotteries have been received by the public
swAN 4 Co., viii have drawing sech sssuraa,
throughout the year
Ths following Scheme will be drawn in each
their Lotteries for June, 1887
GLASS 49,
70 BE- drawn In the city OF Atlanta Ga In publs on
Saturday, June 9th, 1857.
GLASS 40,
20 b drawn In the city Of Atlanta, Ga p publs or
Saturday, June 18Th, 1857.
CLASS Al,
70 b drawn In the city Of Atlanta Ga in public Oh
Saturday, June Doth, 1857,
CLASS A,
20 be drawn In the Civ of Atlanta Ga. in public on
Saturday, June 27th 1857.
on THE PLAN OF SINGLE NUMBER&.
1895 Prizes!
Noys atze One Pr11e to Eeery Ten Tickets.
kA9NIFICENT ECHEME!
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MARBLE WORK 8.
MILLER & VINCEN

MILLER & VINCENT,
Dealers In ITALIAN and AMERICAN MARBLE
FONTS, MONUMENTAL HEAD PIECES, &c.
nearly opposite I'd Baptist Church, on Main street
have hand as large and we'll finished assortment
of work be found in any establishment liz the
city.
Prices lower than tho same quality Of work san
be obtained In any of the Northern cities.
rph1
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MAD People DANCING. AZ Hanwsl Lunano
Asylum, near London, ball takes place every
Monday night which 10 thus described:
Shortly after six o'clock, the handsome asse %.
bly rooin brilliantly lit with gas, becomes .Ss
central point Of attraction 10 oil the in n.h
male and female, who are considered wen ~ *.
to indulge their inclinations for fesuvsy N hs,n
occasion of VISIT there were soo ~. vistors
dred patients present, together with lev sstra
and many of the attendants 10 raisc" irn.tics--
ave musicians Of whom wei re In msdiately
soon struck up . merry poika, s II the proeress
the room was alive with dancers. hing rrotesuue
Of this Amusement we coulo al sr.reutv dressed, Il
VI ouo' INV WIG s,nnossible to have guessed tnA'
s-ar. IN The midst Of company y. .s,
the mere sweepines Of the Psn ..a .r., nr.ssnted
the nriaon uniform OF sac oo'V =. ~. rsv.r ANA
. disadvan9 Isssumes at Bethlehem and appeared
more vAn V., note amid the general harmony OF
NE In the corners of the rooms, whist
.aesss1s--coussting, generally. OF the older IN
mmstes-wsre seen intent upon tneir game nc.
s' ,rouId have discredted any similar sane as
nn,hIv. vet not a patient was free from some
strange hallucination, or some morbid Impulse.
Among the merriest dancers In Sir Roger de
Coyerly was q man who believed himself to be our
saviour and who wore 10 his hair spike In imi
talon of the Gro wn Of thorns; and one of the
keenest whist players was an old lady, who, while
her partner was dealing privately assured US abe
had been dead these.three years, and desired - .
favor that We would use out influence with the
surgeon to persuade him to cut off her head. In
the midst of such strange decisions it was curious
to notice how nationally those who were their
dupes enjoy themselves; and 1t Is impossible to
deny that such reunions are eminently calculated
to hinder the mind from morbidly dwelling upon
its own unheslthy creations II ia found that the
too prolonged aud frequent repetition of the balls
somewhat diminishes their interest-an evil pro-
vided against at Hauwell by restricting the time
allotted to them At nine precisely, although ip
the midst of dance. shrill note is blown, ald
the entire assembly, like many Cinderel,as,
breaks up at once, AID the company hurry off to
their dormitories