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

Monday Morning., May u. 'So..

The DAILY DlSPAICH.
Monday Mernins, May u. I~s-.
The scarlet fever 10 prevailing TO coh''''
extent at Franklin, Tenn.
Hon Caleb Gushing arrived on the 20 =" r .I
waukie. and on the 4th started for %, o -.
FAT aatzel. a native of Norfolk, va, mas oeeh
appointed assistant postmaster al Ne" o',.""'
The Post-office at the Meadows O., nah' f'''A
county, Virginia has hecn o'e
The young lady who ours' IL
put together again
There were ia deaths IN NC" "''o"N'' Aoi 'A'
week ending the Alb tust.
CAIN wiiamson,a prominent lawyer oil ia,
d,sa a. Covington on the ON ins'.
T,. .bineh bag has appeared among the wheat
az .orn in Din niddie county, Va.
..w, bridge Is being erected across the Rapss-
..nrnck river at the Fauquer Springs, Va.
ri. stated that nephew of ex-President Tyler
ID a lieutenant In Walkers army
rh.re WAS front at La Grange, Georsis, tbs 9Th
instant.
Senator Rusk arrived at bis home in Nacogdocbes
Texas, on the Is uls., in excellent health.
J. Vaughn has been appointed agent for the
Black Feet Indians.
Judge w Brockenboroush declines beirg a
candidate for the Attorney Genera!ship of Va.
All the fisheries on the Potomac in the vicinity
of AQUA Creek, have ceased operations
Lewis Tengoborski, member Of the Russian
Council of Empire, Is dead
Judge Abraham T. Rose of Bridge Hampton, /.
died last Tuesday.
VIM. Pickman a wealthy merchant, aud Cap'.
Jas. w. Cheever, of Salem, Massachusetts, died
last week
Major Recton Superintendent of Indian Affairs
has arrived at Fort Smith, with 81 900 900 for the
Indian tribes In the West.
letter from Handsboro, Miss, dated the 29h
ut estimates the loss by the freshet In the vicin'
ity, at S3O000.
VIM Wilson, of Haywood county, N @, Is out
for Congress- in the sth District In opposition to
Mr. Clingmsn,
Miss NJ Calhoun. youngest daughter of Jno G
Calhoun died on the ID inst, In Abbeville district
sc.
Benjamin Johnson, brother of Hon w John.
son. Of Arkansas died the 26ih ult, at bis PLAN
tation in Desha county, of that State.
Morris Hart convicted Of horse stealing in Gray
son county, Va. has been sentenced to one year
Imprisonment in the penisentiary.
Edward Oakley was murdered in Person county,
N c., on the 18th ult, by Stephen Hughes, who
afterwards escaped.
Elk President Pierce and Mrs. Pierce and Mr..
8 ney Webster are in New York, where they will
remain for q day or two, and then proceed home
ward to New Hampshire.
An agricultural fair will be be held at Freder-
icksburg, Va, the Sd, Attn and 9Th of Novem-
Der next.
President Manages, of venezuels, has been re
elected for another term, with Senior Oriach, his
son-in- law as vice-president.
The Free Press says that snow fell to the depth
of six inches at Quitman Wood county, Texas on
the 18th inst
The Board of Directors of the Western Luna.
tic Asylum at StauDton. Va, have presented DR..
F. T Stribbling, the Superintendent, with sill
yer vase and salver in token of their appreciation
of bis services.
The County Court of Morgan county, Va. re
fused At the late term to grant license for the sale
of liquor
Jno. Stout was drowned on Monday last, while
attempting to cross river in Shenandoah county,
Va negro man hired by Jno. Wefiey, met the
same fate on the day before.
DR. Peter Dowdal An old physician of spost,
sylvania county, Va, died suddenly in Fauquior on
the Sd inst
Maj Ben Perley Poors, of Massachusetts,, re-
nornsd for his apple wheeibsrrow feat, was In
Fredericksburg, Va, last week.
William Gregg of South Caro- ina, last season. net
ted four thoussud dollars from Peaches sent to the
New York market, from thirty acres
James w Cheever. who commanded the pri-
vateer ship America in the last war with England
when he % years old, oed in Salem Mass,
Friday
E A. Williams, Esq. Of Clarksville Va, hss
been elected President Of the Exchange Bank a,
that place.
ItU
against the city of New York, for damage in falling
through sidewalk, where rotten plank had been
aid over an old well.
The Chevalier de SekI, of the functionaries
attached to tbs ministry of Commerce at Vienna,
blew out hi. brains a few days back, in conse-
quence of heavy losses by Bourse specuations.
The United States ship st Lawrence was at
Montevideo February 18th, and the Falmouth
was daily expected from Rio Janeiro.
Napoleon B. French, of Mercer county, has
been nominated for the Senate, in opposition to n
Harrison the Democratic candidate.
Ex.Lieut. Gov McComas, Of Va, partook of
complimentary supper given him by the Demos
cracy of Cabell county, the 22d ut prior to his
departure for the West.
There was issued several days ago to Mrs Mary
Elizabeth Bliss widow of Col W S Bliss and
daughter of Gen Taylor, warrant of 100 acres
of land, account of the services of her hus.
band
Mr. Hale, late teller of the Washington 0LD
Bank was committed to Jail last week, in Peoria,
Illinois, on charge of embezzling 81 600 He
conn itted suicide the following night by taking
opium
Jos G. Campbell, has been appointed IT, S.
Marshal for the Western District of Pennsylva.
MIA.
D s Palmer. we'll known to thestre eoers in
various parts Of the country died in Providence
last week, Of consumption.
Among the patents granted last week, was one
to Henry Lietz, of st. Marys Va for improve.
meat In close open stoves.
TIE FAMINE IN FINLA-D The latest accounts
from Russian Fiplsnd continue to give q most dis
tressiog picture of the famine raging In that coun
try. In the districts of Unleaborg, Wasa, and
Kurpio alone out OF a popu'a alton of 657 600 souls
no less than $50 900 have other means of subsis
tence than begging, eating the unpalatable bread
male from the bark of trees he mortality is con.
sequentIy very great, end il Ia daily on the in
crease, as the famine tyrus has broken out with
great magnity. The distress is such that children
have been seen who want Of other food have
actually eaten off their own fingers.
RAILROAD OPENING-The executive committee
OF the OHIO and Mississippi Railroad just opened
from Cincinnati to st Louis, have issued invita-
lions to 8 large number of persons TO participate
Id the celebration of the opening of the road on
the sd and An Of June next. The guests will be
passed tree over the various routes to Cincinnati
and st Louis, on any day before the excursion
after the 9Th day of May, aad on the return trip
on any day before the 10 h d'y of June At Gin.
cnnsii and st Louis they will be the guests OF the