The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-27

natl Commercial of Thursday. has tho n.r.i,,,,.x
oil tho poisoning case mentioned by tslerrapb from
that city. ltsays:
Yesterday afternoon, between the hours Of tx,
and four, a couple Of boys, apparently from IA :,
10 years of age. were observed sanntar;, :. 80, -,
eye street densely populated t;srmsn ni;pIa
mood, scattering small lOzengss upon the sidewalk
about the size Of peppermint drops In anoth.,
part oi the street. a rather robust looking mar
utssSsd ..ss IN black coat, white pants, white hat
essonaily distributing similar descrintion NJ L.
zenge only in larger quantities. As il uq,al il.
hefnan localities quito a number of chdran rar1
playing upon the street, and they greedily seize,
the tempting candies thus gratuitousIy thrown in
their way. occasionally the man would o;va !.
package to persons he met, but in these jnsfants.
the parties declined tasting suspectip4 somatbina
wrong Not so however, with the unsuspectin
Children who greodiy devoured the to them dsin
" walls. and in short time afterwards they wer,
taken with violent vomiting. The neighborhno.
became speedily alarmed. and Drs. Smith Davi.
ana fries, were summoned, who speedily detected
the action OF POISON, and upon a chemist in tn,
neighborhood Mr.. Eckel, analyzing a Iozenps il
was found to DO composed Of equal parts of arseni
sugar and flour. In the track which the man O,
rather monsts had taken as many az 500 Of these
death dealing drops were found in one pile au1 i,
another spot one-fourth pound of arsenic vas t,e,
Ia couple Of parcels
The heIghborhoud became fsarfuIy excited foI
at least twenty children had more or less partake1
OF the insidious poison The first victim was fin,
little boy Damod John Shultz, aged nino wears
whose parents reside in Buckeye street, near Pop
lar. He expired at six o'clock in the evening"
We were present when the Coroner held his inuuest
and more melancholy sight it has seldom been
our Iot to witness The mother Of the dead chill
nan lew days previous been confined, and, in the
same room, her eldest boy lay stiff and rigi
corpse, while the new born infant sought in vail
for nourishm, mt from the maternal breast, the
i0uht OF which sudden grief and agony had dried
rh AZ hn1 II,
poisoned drops, and lay sick in the sams room. bu,
they were pronounced out of danger
immediately upon the other side Of the street
another promising child, named Henry Schwartz
ABOUT eleven O'Clock last night is said to have
broathed his last, and at the time We visited the
poisoned district some tour or five other children
male ana female, were supposed to be in a YER,
critical condition. We hear also that several simi
lar eases had occurred on Fifteenth, between Race
ana flin streets; but We were unable to CLEAN par
ticuars.
lt ID with heartfelt pain that we are compelled
to record crime which makes us blush for our
common nature. Such fend as the perpetrator OF
the above atrocities, might well cause us to rather
claim kindred with the brute and forswear our rela
tionship with the human species. 1t is to be hoped
that no pains will be spared in hunting the VAN
pire to his lair
The Cincinnati papers of Friday, contain an OK
PLANTATION Of the "fendish attempt" which relieves
the occurrence Of its horrors we'll part of ito
interest. The Gazette says;
The manner in which tho children were poisoned
mas been discovered, and the discovery proves sat
isfactorily that no crimindity existed in the mat
ter upon the part OF any enc. drunken, half vag-
sbond German who has recsved the sobriquet OF
Kat Peter, from his making rat poison and who
II Ia the habit of selling this poison in the shape
of small cakes or waters, to stable Keepers butch
"rs and others. was in coffee house near Buckeye
street, day before yests-dsy, where he became 30
much Intoxicated that he was elected from the
mr. IN tIEAa la. bal hi,
oont"inng thuso waters, and as he went staggering
along he dropped a number of them upon the pave
III mt, which the children thereabouts picked ul
at md gave to others.
THR EDITORIAL FRAoAs AT LopIsvIILz-The street
affray at Louisville, few days ago, between Mr
Prentice, ofthe Journal and Mr. Durrett of the Cou-
rer grew out Of the former charging Mr. Elliott
candidate for Congress, with drunkenness whereup-
on the Courier madea similar charge against Prer-
tce eJournal publishes the notes that passed be
tween the.psrtles. In the first, Prentice demands
the authorship of an article published in the Cou-
fler. Durrntt replies that he has not yet assumed
the editorshp of the paper and that therefore Prem
tIce had no right to ask him such a question:
Prentice replies, calling him = coward, and the
notes following merely repeat these questions and
charges. The last note from Prentice which was
entrusted TO Capt. Miller, and which he could not
find an opportunity of delivering, was as follows:
r. 7. DuHRErT, EsQ.-Sr: From your deportment
this afternoon, have no doubt you are coward--
nope you are not, but my hope is small. II yol.
are man, meet at halfpast four this evening al
thecorncr Of Third aud Jefferson.
Yours, &c, GEo D. PRENTICE
July u, 1857.
The account Of the afray is given ip the Journal
by W. Thomas, an eye witness, as follows:
81 happened to be in view of the doors Of George
D. ilinkle and Andrew Monroe when the fight com
menced between George u. Prentice aud r. T. Dur
rett. As Durrett ascended the steps Of Hinkle
there is basement under his office Prentice arose
from the doorstep of Monroe's office. where he wa.
sitting. was not near enough to hear what WAS
said. Durrett drew pistol from his pocket and
nred. Mr. Prentice then drew two pistols in sue
cession from his breast pocket. and fired each.
which seemed 10 be all the arms he had He then
stepped to honroes door. when another pistol was
handed him, and he fired twice more having fired
twice more, having fired twice previously. | think
Mr. Durrett fired three times: others say four.
A. Mr.. Durrett made the first fire he retreated
into the door of MIR. Hinklea office and after he got
into the door he fired twice his arm only extending
from the door, and it nearly closed After the firing
ceased and considerable crowd had collected
lol. Harrison and Col. Boone demanded that ;he
pslice should disperse the crowd. l said to them
that MIR. Prentice was desirous that Mr. Durrett
should come forth and show himself But they re-
piled that he was not in the house and was not OIL
the lot, and would not be ont TO see Mr. Prentice
twent to Mr. Prentice, in MoOre's office, and told
him, and he soon afterwards left
After the affray Durrett sent challenge to Prem
tce, which he declined as he is opposed to duel
ling. Fearing that Durrett might do some violence
to Prentice, the friends of the latter took legal
steps to prevent it, and the parties were both held
to bail to keep the peace for twelve months. Mr.
Prentice was slightly hurt dnring the affray by
ball in the arm, and gontleman standing near
was shot in the ankle.
HANGING BY THE DozES.-The Texas IndianoIian,
of the llth inst, contains the following items .
news:
"Rumors constantly reach us from the upper
country, that the vigilance committee are raking
the country fore and AFT and swinging every horse
thief and murderer they can find A gentleman
who came down the road n few days since, state,
that he saw dozen bodies suspended TO one tree
and on another, Ave. great many of the despe-
radOes have passed through this town. on their
way TO New Orleans-not considering it healthy
for them TO remain any longer. If the committee
continues the country will get rid of all the
scoundrels that have long infested her borders "
SHOCKING 0CCURRESCs-We take the following
from the Nashville (Tenn.) Gazette, Of the 10Th
inst
A man named Drury Vaughn, living at Iavergne,
Rutherford county. few days since killed his little
boy, aged four five years, by striking him on the
head with an iron poker, the sharp point penetra-
ting his brain some three or four inches. The child
died in few minutes after receiving the blow
The father was intoxicated at the time. and threw
the deadly missile at his daughter, Who aided by
her mother, was endeavorng TO prevent him from
taking his gun from the house-he saying he want
ed it to shoot one of his neighbors Vaughn was
arrested, and imprisoned at Murfreesboro.
SUPPOSED HosIcIpE.-0n Monday week, Mr.. Pat
rick Gallagher highly respected citizen of Mont.
gomery county, Va, was shot, and probably killed,
by q man nsmed Blackwell. Gallagher was the