The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-05

20 arrest the attention. and awaken, In favor OF the
- tho mind Of every virgnan. When had
d. hooor of occupying the place of Governor of
tho state | urged tho early contamination OF this
great work upon the Legislature, recommending
the substitution Of lock and dams, on the James
and kanaw ha rivers, in place Of n continuous Ca
nal along the banks: and still think. looking TO
the comparative costs If the two modes of improve
sicnt that had the lock and dam system been
adopted the Canal for the tu4ermediate space,
would long since have been completed. However,
il is idle TO talk of the past, have deal with
the future; and trust that your patriotic exer
tious will cause that present to give you fayora
BILE audience, aud that future to he crowned with
glory. The map which accompanied your pamph-
let furnishes, as traced oct by yourself, unan
swerabe ex position of the whole subject.
/ am, dear sir, respectfully and truly yours,
JOHN TYLER.
HARD TINES AT THE wEsr.-Farther Particulars.
From every section Of the West and Northwest
we have complaints Of "hard times" The Mil.
waukie Wisconsin says
Throughout the pineries of Wisconsin they are
iischsrging their hands. Lumber has not been in
90 large supply aud dull of sale siuce 1850
improvements in cities add villages have. in a
measure been suspended, and hence the glut in the
market. The same Is true Of the pineries of
Michigan. and hundreds Of men thus thrown
nut of employment at the commencement of win
ter.
The st. Paul (Minnesota) papers have the follow
ing:
House rent has taken pitch downward
Honses formerly renting for $l2 per month, are at
tsinable at and Sl0. More houses are vacant
than ever before; there over two hundred
low unOccupied, and no demand tor them. de-
crease of fifty per cent. ut least in house rent
must take place. 1t Ia evident from the fact that
many families leaving for the South and East are
positively offering their houses and furniture TO
,thers for the taking care of them until their
return. In curtailing their expenditures, many
amilies now do without hired help The wages of
servant girls and cooks in this city have hitherto
,een very high-g. 10 and Sl2 month were given.
Nfany of that class will now be thrown out of
places aud add to the distress.
The st. Paul Advertiser says at the present time
here is not less than 100000 of overdue and pro-
'ested paper deposited by Eastern creditors IN the
,anks of that city that the indebtedness in St
'aul to banks alone, due or to become due in the
next six months, is s750,900 more: while the
iastern Indebtedness of the merchants and others
20 mature in the same period is ST. 100000 That
the city owes s. 5O0,000 of which 81 100000 is
lac to the East Other towns in the territory are
'imilarly involved.
The Chicago Democrat says
The cattle received and packed at this point will
re less than one-half. Some packers have made
bets that the number packed here will not exceed
1000 or $4,000 head. On account of the present
prices Offering, ii number of the cattle own
and drovers driving back their stock to the
:orntields to let them fatten till next spring while
he yards here full of cattle which cannot find
purchasers except at ruinous rates.
MYSTERIOUS ArFAIR.-On the Goth ult Miss Vir-
,inia Mastin, while walking near her fathers resi-
lence In Greenbrer county, Va. adjoining the
hhite Sulphur Springs discovered the dead body
f man lying in the woods, the head being sew
red from the trunk and not to be found. Assis-
lance was procured, and upon investigation Sl62-
70 in gold found upon his body, with watch
md four pistol balls. Under the man emp
y pistol, with the cap hursted The flesh had been
much torn by wild animals. The following descrip-
ion of the deceased from the evidence at the in
Iuest may aid in his Identification:
We found on him n good suit Of clothes, consisting
IF a black cloth sack coat summer plaided vest,
ummer pantaloons. plaided goods. new pair OF
puots, two or three handkerchief, ard low
crowned hat black ribband around it; also, found
pocket book containing small pieces of silver,
liver watch and chain, tobacco, knife, and bis
:ut. also scarf Judging from his hair, believe it
20 be that of a white man, black hair, mixed with
sray-middle size man.
THEArRE.-That charming coincidence, Maggie
Mitchell, more generally known among infatuated
| young men "our Maggie" appears tonight in
| two of her best peces-.::Quecn of the Abruzzi'
| md Ladies' stratagem." Her spirited acting has
aptivated our theatre goers these two years, and
i.otce of it will hardly add to the crowd which will
ne assembled in the "Marshsll'' tonight.
RELIC OF The CENTRAL AMERICA-LRst week a
lead body picked up on the Atlantic beach, a
little the north of Cape Hatteras, having belt
! around it containing gold dust. No doubt it was
he corpse of OF the passengers of the Inflated
| 'entral America. Other dead bodies have been
seen floating in the neighborhoOd.
ACQUITTED-Two negroes, Lydia aud her son Hen
ierson, charged with having attempted to poison
he family of W. n. Hern, in Lewisburg, Va, by
putting corrosive sublimate in their drinking wa
ter, have been acquitted.
CONVENTION OF TOBACCO MASUFAcTURERs-The to-
bacco manufacturers of Lynchburg, Va, held q
meeting Monday evening and appointed twelve
delegates to represent them in a convention OF
the taade to be held the city of Richmond on the
first Thursday in December. The meeting adopts
ID resolution inviting the tobacco manufacturers
Of North Carolina to participate in the delibcra
tions Of the convention.
SLAVE CAsg.-Thr-e slaves of Thornton Withers,
Of ST. Louis, in company with their master, passing
through Cincinnati route TO Parkersburg, Va.
were arrested Tuesday afternoon writ of habeas
corpus to procure their liberation. The case was
partially heard that afternoon before Judge Carter
DISGUISED MURDERERs At WoRK.-Onc Nan Killed
md Sreral HoHHded.-Shortly before O'Clock
last night party OF men with their faces black
ened and otherwise disguised entered Il oarding
house kept by John Culberts, at the corner of st
Thomas and Thalia streets, and without word of
warning commenced an indiscriminate attack on
all the inmates of the house, with knives and sluug
shots. The boarders in the house were chiefly
irish draymen, and, as they allege, were wholly
unprepared for so extraordinary a display of viz
ence and are entirely ignorant of the there
IL We regret TO be compelled to add that the re
suit Of the attack the fatal wouuding, of John
.igan, drayman, 50 years of age, and the severe
wounding Of Culberts the keeper of the house and
John Braunegsu. Thomas Kelley, Thomas Biggey,
and Thomas Devine, were also wounded, but not
very seriously.
After the attack ever. the assailing party
quietly dispersed aud effected their escape though
il is said they were subsequently chased by Ser
geant Dryden. with small force of watchnen.-
Egan was fund lying on st. Thomas strset just
after the murderous gang had disappeared, and
was ut once removed TO the Charity Hospital. but
Ills injuries were of SO character that he
died in fow minutes after he Was admitted
About the same time, Brannegan WAS also convey
ed to the Hospital. lie had been knocked down
and terribly beaten with slung shots, and had re-
ceived a deep stab in the fieshy portion of his
thigh. Ills statement is, that he aud his friends
were quietly sitting together, short time after
having partakep of their evening meal, when the
unknown and disguised assailants entered, and
commenced the attack without speaking single
word-N o. PicIyune, OFT 26h
FROM KAssas.-The Lecompton Democrat of 23d
October. publi-hes n second proclamation from
Gov. Walker and Secretary stanton, in which they
reject the returns from Melee county on the same
ground as those of oxford Precinct, in johnson
county, namely, that they were stimulated and
fctiti US" The proclamation states that not only
there an absence of the poIlbook, and of the
oath taken by the Judges, required by the law to
be submitted, but that the returns did not state
for whom the votes alleged to have been cast
given. The proclamation takes occasion to deny
very explicitly the statement that either In this
or in the other have the Governor and Secre-
hsy NIL
right to do and say they reject the returns in
consequence of fatal defects in form.
FRAUDULENT ScaEME.-The Cincinnati papers |
n0se a sMindng sehene IN In that r.Iacl