The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-02-14


GosPoRT NAVY YARD.-Ths Norfolk Argus
says the Roanoke and Colorado, tho two largest
class steam frgates getting ready for going to
or into commission fast - circumstances will
allow Their machinery has besn tried under
moderate pressure of steam and worked as hand
somely as . Geneva watch.
The Roanoke il taking on her hsavy battery, and
could be soon got in condition TO try the waters
beyond the capes.
The Columbia and Rartan frigates. have their
mss.s in. are moored in the stream, and are
waiting rigging orders. They are seniors IA the
service; but Young America ID the shape OF pro-
pellers. outranks them and wiIlbe called on to 60
to sea first
The Princeton is in aboyance. She il steam
frigate with some historical souvenirs about her
of melancholy character, which have put her in
bad repute and she is not sought after BY ardent
captains and lieutenauts anxious to go to sea.
The Powhatau, that gallant representative
steamer of the Japan Expedition, is in the Dry
Dock. undergoing thorough repairs to her hull
Her machinery is nearly completed and in place
The Dale and Marion, brigs, are getting ready
to go into commission. Their nasts set; aud
painter, joiner and rigger
The store ship Relief is having copper put oa
her bows, with some other not very important re-
pairs, and will leave soon for New York city.
bus are still the same unsightly, unseemly, black
old hulks they have a long time been, and arrest
the remarks Of the visitor at their same old moor
Dss just above the Dry Dock.
The Pennsylvania, as heretofore, is the Receiv
Ing, and the old United States the head quarters of
the officers of the Ordinary as formerly.
The Hetzel. surveying steamer, is lying up in
winter quarters
The Perry brig is lying up In Ordinary"
| SHOCKING DEATH.-The Petersburg Express
of yesterday notices the accidental death of Robt
Jackson CT Mecklcnburg county, Virginia, while
on his way to that city with hogshead of tobacco
It says:
Upon arriving at the bridge over Old town Run
it was so dark that he was unable to see his way
clearly over it, and part ofthe railing being Off
rendered the passage very precarions under the
circumstances. In going over the wagon slipped
off at the unprotected side, throwing Mr.. Jackson
into the water below, and the hogshead of tobacco
upon him. The height Of the bridge here is about
5 feet, and the depth of water about 1s inches
The weight of the hogshead of course, kept the
unfortunate man down, despite his struggles for
relief He managed to raise his head above water
snce or twice, and several persons in the vicinity
say that about one hour after sundown, when it
was very dark. they heard the cry of "help!"a and
MURDER several times.l proceeding from that
quarter. The drowned man had a companion,
who, upon finding that hes could not rescue him,
the hogshead being deeply imbedded in the sand,
upon the arm OF the former, cut the horses from
the traces and FASTENED 10 town for assistance.
But all was too late.
LARGE CARso.-The sbip Titan, Captain Sears,
owned by Messrs. D. G. y W. Bacon, of Boston,
2OO7 tons register, was CLEARED at New Orleans on
Saturday last by Messrs Baxter, Lowell g. Co,
with two millions eight hnndred and sixty pounds
Of cotton, the largest cargo ever taken from that
port
POPULATION OF MISSOURI census of the
State of Missouri which has just been taken
shows total of 9l2 206, divided as follows Free
whites el9 593; free blacks 2,652 slaves 80 600
Increase of white population in six years 224 453
or over % per cent: increase of slaves ,823 or
fraction over two per cent. Two counties return
no slaves tw enty counties report only 900; tae
highest reaching only g. and the lowest having g..
CAPITAL OF NEBRAsKi OF LOCATION
The House of Repre- sentafives of the Nebraska
Legislature, on the 15th ult, by vote of % to 12
passed a bill to remove the territorial capital to
Douglas city, town In Lancaster county, on Sa-
Kansas line, and thirty west of the Missouri-the
bill having before passed the Council by . vote Of
9to A. It's supposed that Governor lizard would
veto the bill.
PUBLIC LECTURES The following gentlemen
have consented to lecture before the Young Mems
Christian Associatonsof Frederick sburg, Virginia:
Rev John G McCabe ID D, Baltimore; Rev D S
Dosgett, D D, Washington City; Baldwin
Esq, Of Richmond; p H Conrad, Esq, Martins
burg; Rev Moses D Hoge. D D, Richmond; Prot
Sehele De Vere University of Va.
ICEBERGs OFF CAPE CoD.-Captain Saunders
of brig Amazon, which arrived here yesterday
from Surinam reports being off Race Point, Cape
Cod, where he encountered field ice in such quan.
titles that he was obliged to run fourteen miles tc
the eastward to get clear Of He also states tha
the ice appeared to him from two to twenty feet hgt
Saturday, at M off Highland Light, by Mr.
E. G. Martin, pilot, and we unders and that be
tells about the same story.-Boston TrarelIer, 9th
USE oFTURPENTiNE IN THE ARTS The usea ol
rosin and turpentine seem to increase with every
development of inventive talent. In painting, in
printing, in soap making, and especially in light.
ing, its seems to be almost universal I; forms
an important element IN many chemical opera
tions and it is estimated in late communication
three hundred thousand dollars worth is consumed
Annually in the American India rubber manufac
tories
SALE OF IMPROPER MEDIcISEs.-A bill ia before
the Pennsylvania Legislature to prevent the sale
of improper medicines 1t provides that no drug
gist any other person shall sell give away any
medicines or medical compounds to any person un
less the name thereof is written or printed egibly
10 English upon the bottle or covering of the med
icine or, if 1t be compound, its component part
shall be stated. This Is not to apply TO medicines
sold or delivered on the authority of written pre-
| scription from q physician to his patients AM
violation of this act is to be punished by the mpo
| sition of fine Of fifty dollars.
PosToFFICE AFFAIRS Postmaster Genera
Campbell has ordered the following in Virginia:
Route 1881. Richmond TO Tappah hannock, tn,
office of Bes,Iand is to be embraced, between Mil
Ter and the latter named point. Route S 0l3. Los
River to Bakers Run exteod this route to com
| mence At Woodstock, embracing Columbia Fur
mace,
| Appoin :nents james D. Boone postmaster q
Bakers Run, Hardy county, vice Sam1 L. Boone
| resigned; john 8. Kaggs postmaster at Turke,
Cove. Lee county, vice William Richmond, re-
signed John w. Tracey postmaster At Rocky
Gap, Tazswell county. vice James r. Wilton, re
signed.
Charles s. Ge,z, has been engaged to supply tn,
decorative pauting u the building now in process
| of erection for the Inauguration Ball At Washing
ton.
Second assistant engineer virginius Freeman
| u. s. Navy, Of Norfolk, has been ordered to Il
coast survey steamer Hetzel, now repairing .
| that place.
1t is stated that Miss Herop the actress, ia net
ting o. 000 per week by her present engagement
| In New York.
A white shad, the first of the season, sold a
Wilmington, n c., on Tuesday, at %.
Thos Clark of Mason co., Ky, emancipated b,