Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-06-23
CGTx AND STATE VS..

COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES OF RICHMOND Col
| iE6h.-On Friday evening, tn. 10Th, at 81 CLOCK.
At me "=Goui Baptist Church. fDs. i!dwei's,j tho
address before the two Literary Societies. by Beverly
Il. - ll:ord Jr., of Richm6ii.
On Monday evening following. the 29th inst, al
Inc 'sns hour and place. the Alumni address, e.
KEY. Wm. d. Thomas, of Caroline.
VI tuesday evening, 30h inst. at the same hour
and place, ora'ions By Graduating Class: Degrees
conferred; and Baccalaursa;e Address by the Pr:si
don't of tho College.
DhsTkucTivE FREsHsr. A NEST destructive
''e':.nt vs''ed Shapherdsown Jeffsrsoc county. Va
on wednesday last. The streets were ilnpas biz
from water. ind thu citizens could not venture Out
thar houses until late ut night. The Register Gays:
lrihcess ana Mlii Streets was the theatre Of most
devastating scenes. The water rushed yvcferprsly
down nose thpr"Ightares with great violence tear
ing up me streets III the most dsp"rabls manner and
sweeping everything before it, The dreadful apec.
tace winch those streets present beggars Nil descrip.
'ion. hey ere perfectly impossible, and fear will
remain 40 tor some tins.
Considerable damage WAS done bv the frsshst and
immense losaes sustained. Mr. Geo. r. Stanley :
factory presents sorry sight the water wheel aud
portion O. a :c:nds.ion 1T The building are washed
away besides other injury. Mr.. David Biilmyer .us-
tains considerable io,s: the wster having rnered
the lower floor of his Mill To tbs depth of som- four
feel, aud completely damaged Soma 400 bushels of
ofs. 'lr john ID. Stanley suffers considerable lose;
the wafer came with such violence rs TO carry array
the runk that conveyed the water his Mill that
grinding Is t!as impossible for some time. Mr. Il.
ID. Shepherd jr., IS also sufferer by damage done
to his saw.mill. The corporation su.ts:,.s &. IA
nense aud almost irreprrable loss. Neither of the
mills in :run will be able to Commence ope atoms
Tor considerable time IA the Wa:ercour-e ea,is.
| ~ OTe.aowed.
| On Thursday morning We took stroll through the
Injured districts and the sights nat greeted Ives
~s-c strange az! wondrous pitiiul." That portion
of the town looked like place that had beeu cssrt
nrQ hpr and had
come back TO gaze with wonder and a.,onishment
upon the ruins.
We understand that an immense amount 81. dam.
aye was done in the surrounding country. Farmers
having had their lsnees, gate. and bridges swep,
away and fields of corn and wheat laid on he ground
BY the powerful and destructive element,
BARN BcRST.-AIr Beverly ). Scott residing
about five miles from F"rmve, Va on Bush river,
had Of his barns, together with i've oe.hesds OF
tobacco and other valuable articles entirely consumed
by fire nn Sunday nigh' Last Hi. loss is estimated
al about S2,50O-no insurance.
AN AGREEABLE SuRPRIsE.-We learn from the
Central Presbyterian, that the paste. Of the Second
Presbyterian Church Of this city, on enteriuy his
pulpit on last Sabbath morning, l4h, found on the
pulpit cushion purse containing between four and
FIVE hundred dollars in gold, accompanied with l...
ter on behalf of the donors, expressing their earnest
desire that tn. pastoral relations between them might
De continued unbroken through life.
THE CRoPs IN VIRGIsIA.-The Brentsv:lle Prince
William Journal says 1--WE are pleased 10 learn
from the Farmers in vicinity that the Dat crop
promises to be larger than usual. We have had
showers Of rain almost every day this wsek which
with the warm sunshine tends to the above results
The Rockingham Register says I've are graft.
fed to learn that the prospect for good wheat crop
in Shenandoah. is vsry 1aitering. Although there
are good many fields which will yield little or moth.
ing, vet generally they look we!l-so;n. OF Hhieh will
yield excellent crops,
The fairfax News says 1.-THE information gath
cred It's week, from gentlemen attending Court, in
reference TO the Wheat crop OF this county, ssqunliy
unprons!ng Was represented by weeks
since The farmers are encouutering formidable foes
to their SUCCESS
Mr. JoES 4. BELvIS has been appointed Direc.
tor Of tho State Prison, vice Major Ru. VI. N;mmo,
promoted 10 storekeeper Of same institution.
RICHARD kIDDER MEADE, Jr, aon of the Hon K.
h. MEADE, vi Petersburg, stood second in the gradu:
ating elias. ut West Point this yea. His successful
competitor for tha first honor ron Of Hon
JOHN G.. PALrREY Of Massachusetts. Mr. MEADE
contended with unequal advantages. He is much
younger, and had less of previous preparation, than
his rival, who graduated Harvard College in 1853.
Tint ho run 80 glorious rsre, under the crcun.
stances, implies the highest compliment his talent
aud his diigenco.-l"IHe South"
DIVISION Of PArRoSAGg.-Amcns tho tab!es re-
Gently complied from tho Blue Books i, the follow.
ing, showing the amount OF Federal patronage, IA.
ceyed BY this North and South, ftes and slave States