The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-11

IL, L Y ESDA I, AUGUST
ARREST OF ALLEGED CouSTEKFElrERs-Three men
who registered their names at the Louisville hotel
| ID VIM. Hughes, I. j. Arbuckle and A. j. Dearth
were arrested at Louisville KY last FRIDAY on the
| charge Of being counterfeters. About $500 in
| counterfeit paper money was found In their bag
gage together with 800 in bogus Mexican dollars
! and American halves and quarters, and some sJT5
| ia bogus one dollar gold pieces The countarfait
| paper money consisted of ffties on the Union
| Bank OF Louisiana, twenties on the state Rank of
1 Loulslana, twenties on the State Rank of Indiana
! swentes the Farmers and Droyers, panl, 80
Waynesburg, Pa, tens the IIatters' Rant of
| Connecticut, tens on the Northwestern Rank oF
Virginia, fives on the Mercantile Bank of Hartford
! ans various raised notes on Tennessee banks tn
bogus coin was well executed, but il could raaJ;,
! he detected by its light weight The one doIIar
/ pieces were unfinished. Artuckle claims IN L
owner of island 81, in the Mississippi The paro
examined saturday, and committed in defanIt NJ
| $500 bail eG ch. "
TILE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN NATIONS
copy the following paragraph from the Nationa,
| lntelligencer, of yesterday
| Our Governmental affairs with the Gorsi,,, ,r.
| are in a state of unwonted. if not unprecedentad
| tranquifity-the only unsettled matters wa h
| leve being the claim Of indemnity against New
Granads for damages suffered by certain Ameri
| cats in the riots at Panama in 1855. In ra0ard t
his affair it is stated that the negotiation does not
| promise an early conclusion, though in what the
ali
! diplomacy always required time but, however for
NAL and deliberate it has ever been DISTINGUISHED
! by honor and good faith.
| POSTAGE STAMPS Nor REpgEMEp-The frat assis.
tant Postmaster General II. King, writes july 25.
| that
"There is no provision whatever in the F. O. act
authorizing the of stamps currency; nor is
there for that reason any provision for their re-
| demption by the Department. where by such use
hpVa nIafa I'M
| vidual hands. If pc SONS receive them remit
| tance+, they must rely for reimbursement the
| sale of them"
! REFLECTIONS on METnusgIAH--How MANY men
there who have taken into their minds the
full meaning of those nine hundred and sixty nine
years which measure the life Of the oldest nhabi-
tant" Figures of arithmetic are empty symbols.
we measure time by deeds One summers life in
! busy fruitful land seems longer to mans heart
than centuries at the frozen pole. Yet though his
| tory records nothing of the abors of Methuselah
we know that his hours did not slumber nor sleep
| They were the ssme winged messengers that out
run Cashless debtors and cut short lovers dreams
| They were the same swift-stepping elves o faded
| beauty whose fUrked feet trod thy dimples into
wrinkles The Time that waited so long on Methu.
| Seah. was tho same stridiug skeleton that swings
. pitiless scythe In the pages of the New England
Primer. His fields were moved less frequently than
now, but they yielded heavier crops "Por there
were giants in those days.
We have measured the age Of Methuselah only
ny the dial. Let us take the coil of the Iie the
nine hundred sixty and nine years of his pilgrimage
and roll it out from this present past which
history has lighted. 1t stretches back beyond the
landing of the Pilgrims beyond brightness of the
reformation. into the dim twilight of the middle
| ages back beyond the new birth of a continent:
beyond Aglncourt, and Greasy and Hastings. and
over the graycs OF twenty-five generations 10 the
very childhood If the English people! William the
C3nquH + he should rise at this day to confound
the ambitious names which claim to have com.
hp Nv l,,,,. .I,,,l
years. than Methuselah when he died,
BARON ROTHscHnD.-Thia eminent jew seenls to
| nave hard time OF his Parliamentary career His
resignation. we take it, is species of appeal to his
electors OF London against the Jewish disabilities
ana Is responded to with promptitude and firmnes.
ne VIII be returned probably with great unani-
NIFTY, which will 20 far toward. settling the aues
tlon. The voice of London is too much Of rower
IN England to be neglected and the bigots in mere
matters OF form, however antiquate and cherished
VIII nave to give way in the end.
SAVAGE BsARs.-The Somerset, Me- Telegraph Re
! lates that Jas. Thompson, of Athens a few day-
since went To his pasture in pursuit of his cow
When in the thick bushes, he received a heavy blow
upon his shoulder, and claws wers inserted into
his coat and his coat wSs torn some what In few
moments the blow was repeated with greater yio-
lence, when he found that he was under the D.w of
a huge bear. lie had no weapon of defence not sn
much as jackknte, and considering discretion
the better part of Valor. he once decided tolmck
OUT. lie did 80, made Tor the open land which was
tortuntely close at hand. The bear refused to fol
low him into open day, aud SO both escaped
PosT-oPPIcF MtrTERs-A post-office is established
at Walker, Wood county, Virginia and TbonE.on
DeVaushan appointed postmaster. Situated be-
tween Petroleum and Daysville on the Northwest
ern Virginia Railroad. The name Of each Of the
following offices have been changed: Wind Lea
Hampshire county, Virginia. to Wardvie. At Paw
Paw, Morgan county. Va. VIM IIeironimous il ad-
pointed postmaster, vice Samuel A. Pancoast rt-
signed.
AMERICAN TRACT SOuETY-The BaptiSts of South
Carolina have just been in State Convention at
Greenwood ;. {. The recent action of the Amer
icAn Tract Society was considered and the result
was the appointment Of committee. on motion Of
Rev b. Manley. ID. y. The report recommends =
suspension Of all relations or official intercourse
with the American Tract Society until \ reversal
"t their obnoxious action. This report was adopt
ed.
SrtBBING.-On Sunday evening, in Baltimore a.
DIR. VIM II. Baxley was walking up Fayette street
he was Intercepted by named Peter SOBER
aud difficulty ensued, in which the latter receiv-
ed severe, though not fatal. stab in tho abdomen.
The doctor gave himself into custody. and was ad-
mtted to bail in the sum of 81 900 for his appear
ance on Thursday next.
The oldest minister now in this country, is the
Rev. La an Ainsworth, of .Iaffrey, n. II. He was
ordained on the 10th of December, 17S1 and has
preached in Jaffrey over three quarters of cen
tury. Last Sabbath was the one hundredth ami
versary of his birthday. In the afternoon he
walked to the meeting and was able to hear the
discourse preached by his colleague
DRowNED.-A man named Clark Kelley, and
boy named Wm. Swayne, both of Port IIanman
Teen county. Md, were drowned at Chesapeake
city ON the lst inst. Kelley was drowned in at
tempting to- the life of the boy who had fallen
overheard
SERIOUS sCHARGE.-Aiphonzo b. Downe, of North
vlIe, Michigan, was arrested in Detroit, last Sun
day week by the U. S. Marshal, aud committed to
jan ona charge preferred by Henry Hart IT, S
Mail agent, for stealing money from letters while
acting as Post-ofide clerk at Wayne p. o. in that
State.
PEARLS IN NiINNEsoTA.-The st. Paul Minnesota
papers say that gentleman in that city while
eating some fresh water oysters, found a pearl
as large as a pea, worth $2,500-or less, we sup
pose.
CosvICTEp-The Saginaw (liichigan) Times states
that the trial of stephen Sharpe for the murder of
his wife in Saginaw city on the I'd inst, was CON
ciuded on Thursday last. The jury returned
verdict OF murder in the second degree. He was
sentenced to ten years imprisonment at Jackson
sharpe Is now "a years Of age, and hardly sur
vive his sentence.
ANCIENT RELIC-The French papers note the dis
covery at Plombiers, Louis Nspoleon's residence
of All old Roman bath room, with its bronze tap
and pipe In such perfect preservation that when
the cock WAS turned the water came in immediate
ly. 1t is supposed 10 be about 400 years old.
Grasshoppers are said to exist in great numbers
iA the vicinity of Belyidere, n. j. Whole fields are
made a. desolate of herbage as if they had under
gone recent ploughing. Young clover, particu-
arly, seem to be tavOrite food and when hard
pressed they deyour mulions and alders, stripping
them clean.
'SoHE PUMKIN."-The Kingstree {S c. Star says
Mr. Robert Epps raised pumkin on his plantation
this year weighing l25 pounds. The seed was
sent to him from the Patent office