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HoNGKoNG MENACED.

1t appears from a statement in the
Friend of China that information had been
received at Hongkong that an attack upon
the Colony by large fleet, in conjunction
with imperialist emisSaries, had been plan
ned. The details of the plot are, that the
town was to be set on fire at various places
no difficult matter, considering the par
tial success of the plot to poison all the
European residents-and in the confusion
the Colony would fall an easy prey to the
braves" The colonistS were at last dates
in great alarm, and the local authorities
were rather severely censured.
, 1857-04-24

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CANTON AT LAST DATES.

We have no news whatever, says the
Friend Of China of tie 22d January, from
Canton beyond runners brought by the
Chinese, who report the city still in flames,
and that over 1000 houses have been des-
troyed
, 1857-04-24
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY FRIDAY APRIL a. 1851

on all hands, that commercial interests are
not properly cared for in these waters, and
American property has been unustiGably
sacrificed Its stated that after the bur
uiDgS at Whampoa the braves" Turned up
the graves on Danes Island, of the Amcri-
can Seamcn killed. at the barrier dccapitatcd,
their purified trunks, took the blank Wis
ages to Canton, and there received the
customary reward Together with the
head OF the Spanish Consul, and the other
of the Thistle victims, they may now be
seen bleaching on the city wall.
THE WHOLESALE POISONING At HoNcEoNG.
The Intelligence only partially conveyed
hence says the FHcaA Of China, by the
mail steamer Madras on the 18th instant
Of the wholesale attempt, few hours
before that vessel left, to poison the com
munity of Hongkong, will have caused, in
the bosom of many absent friends, much
sickcning anxiety regarding the result. for
arsenic, the weapon employed, docs not in
all cases display its effect till after several
days; and such was its operation here
those with whom there was the most delay
being, it is understood, the greatest suffer
crS. 1t is believed that more than one
death has resulted from this diaJienc.
For some reason Of State, the intent of
which is beyond our comprehension, II
determination is apparent to burke prompt
inquiry Fortunately for justice, however,
the circumstantial evidence is sufficient to
procure convictions, and it is only to be
regretted that the poisoning crew have not
at once been strung up in front of the shop
where the scheme was concocted-a meas
ure strongly urged upon Sir John Bowring
but without success. Nor will his Excel
lency even now declare martial law,
though the necessity for it is so imminent
He will not direct the registration Of the
Chinese TO be proceeded with in the man
ner repeatedly pointed out by practical
men and approved by all. In fact he will
do nothing calculated to be effeclual for
the public safety, and there are not wanting
those who declare his apathy to proceed
from feeling Of il-will to that community
by whom he knows he is held in light
esteem
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11
MICE IRL LIS. >

To my mind there is nothing in all the world
lovable as a 'nice girl" don't mean a pret-
ty girl, or a dashing girl, or an elegan. girl,
but "nice girl :" one of those lively, good
tempered, goodhearled, sweet-iaced, amiabe,
neat, natiy, domestic creatures, whom we meet
in the sphere of Home" diiIusing around the
domestic hearth the influence of her goodness
like the essence of sweet flowers.
What we all know by "nice girl is not
the angushing beauty, who dawdles on a sofa
and talks of the last new novel, or the last new
opera or the great giraife-looking girl, who
creates an eifec, bysweeping majestically through
a drawing room. The mice girl" does not
even dance well, or play well, and she does not
know a bit how TO use her eyes or coquette
with fan. She never angushes, she is too
active for that she is not given to novel-read
ing, for she is always too busy. And as to
the opera, when she goes there she does not
think it necessary to show her bare shoulders
but sits generally away in the back of the box,
unheeded and unnoticed. 1t is not in such
scenes that we discover the mice girl" 1t is
at "Home." Who is il that rises first in the
morning and gets the breakfast ready before the
family comes down. Who is it that makes
papa's toast, and carries up mammals tea, and
puts buttons on the boys shirts, and waters the
flowers, and feeds the chickens, and makes ev-
erything bright and comfortable in the parlor
Is it the sofa beauty, or the giraffe, or the ele-
giant creature BY no means. 1t is the mice
girl" Her unaided toilet has been performed
4, .Lo shor,ast nnssihle sDace of time vet how
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11

boys-jusi as much as do the meetings on Sun
day and funerals through the week. In it and
about il the rustics unbend They swap cattle
and horses before the door, and sprawl over
the counter inside TO figure up their profits or
losses in the way of trade. All the local news
center there, as in a focus. The country store
keeper could well afford to publish bulletin
every day, and he would not fail either, to
find his account in it, as the saying is. He
collects continually the fund of gossip and
scandal, of quarrels and morse traders, of
deaths, births, and marriages, and of losses,
gains, misiortunes, and family feuds. He
calls every other man by his Christian name,
and can tell you the age and circumstances of
of nearly all of them from 0ne end Of the town
to the other.
If you happen TO be driving through one of
these back towns any day, it will pay you
well 10 buy half peck Of oats for your ami
NAL to eat under the shed, while you 90 into
the store yourself and look around and study
character. A new phase Of life will present
itself to you. You will see what, perhaps,
you never saw before, and learn some things
That you had not been told enjoyed a real ex-
isience. The siore-keeper will treat you with
all possible civility; the men standing and sit
ting around will question you perseveringly
of your name and occupation and all the boys
that roost on the boxes, kegs, and barrel, will
stare and whisper, and snicker, till you will
declare to yourself that no man has really
completed his education unless he has been
cut for time and studied human nature in a
country store.-Llfe Illustrated.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11

woman's voice, from the opposite side of the
lake, in tasteful execution of popular air from
La Somnambula as we listened surprised and
almos, entranced by the unexpected melody,
tremendous, wild and grotesque accompaniment
broke out from the depths of the woods; never
before was any ladys voice mingled with such
orchestral music, as that volunteered m this oc-
cason by the owls of Lake Saranac. The
loyer notes were rendered with astonishing
power never did musical critic in the city hear
such quavers as resounded from side to side Of
this lake in the woods, and never was prima
donna better sustained. The performance
brought down the house, i. e. "Sam Downing"
(his guide) and ourself. The prima donna
soon appeared in her canoe, in response TO our
vociferous applause, but the other members of
the company declined TO come out, but evident
ly gratifed with their reception, continued the
performance with great vigor until morning
The lady proved to be one of Mr. Martins
guests, who with her husband and son had es-
capped from New York to pass week or two
on the lake.
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n ENERAL INSURANCE AGENCY.
VI Omae W WiiJisiOD's Stone Block.

me snbsefber has tie agency Of the W. MurUAL FIRE
INsbhANCE COMPAAY with Capital exceeding 81 800
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INSURANCE COMPANY, 'or any term and TO any amount
not exceeding $4,000 at risk. j.. III. FESSENDEN
pIatteboro, January 9th, 1887. 2
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VOL. XXIV.
P 0 Z Y h Y.
THE COMET.

- " w. eAN%NAS'
The Comet He is on his way,
And singing as he flies;
The whizzing planets shrink before
The spectre Of the skies
All! well may regal orbs burn blue,
And satellites turn pale,
Ten million cubic miles of head,
Ten billion lea gues of tail
On, by whistling spheres of light,
He flashes and he flames;
He turns not to the left or right,
He asks them not their names;
One spurn from his demoniac heel, -
Away, away they fly,
Where darkness might be bottled up
And sold for "Tyrian dye"
And what would happen to the land,
And how would look the sea-
If in the bearded DEVILS path
Our earth should chance to be
Full hot and high the sea would boil,
Full red the forests CLEAN;
Methought l saw and heard it all
In dyspeptic dream.
saw tutor take his tube
The Comets course to spy;
heard scream-the gathered rays
Had stewed the tutors eye;
saw fort-the soldiers all
Were armed with goggles green;
Pop crack'd the guns! whiz few the balls!
Bang went the magazine.
saw poet dip scroll
Each moment in tub,
read upon the warping back,
"The dream of Beelzebub;''
He could not see his verses burn,
Although his brain was fried,
And ever and anon he bent
To wet them as they dried.
saw the scalding pitch roll down
The cracking, sweating pines,
And streams of smoke, like water -spouts
Burst through the rumbling mines;
asked the fremen why they made
Such noise about the town.
They answered not, but all the while
The brakes went up and down.
saw roasting pullet sit
Upon baking egg;
l saw cripple scorch his hand
Extingushing his leg;
l saw nine geese upon the wing
Towards the frozen pole,
And every mothers gOsling fell
Crisped to a cracking coal.
saw an OK that browsed the grass
Writhe in the blisterng rays,
The heritage in his shrinking jaws
Was all fiery blaze;
saw huge fishes boiled to rags,
Bob through the bubbling brine;
And thoughts of supper crossed my soul;
had been rash at mine.
Strange sights! strange sounds! o fearful drea
Its memory haunts me still,
The steaming sea, the crimson glare,
That,, had oh alal
Stranger! if through thy reelng brain
Such midnight visions sweep,
Spare, spare, o spare thine evening meal,
And sweet shall be thy sleep.
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Music IN THE WLDERNEss.-The editor Of
the Fitchburg Rereihe has vacated his sanctum
for an excursion to Lake Saranac, and has To-
Gated himself in the lodge of "Bil Martin"
from which he writes-''passing up the Lake
on the evening of our arrival, the stiffness was
suddenly broken by the clear sllvery tones Of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11

"Madam," said old Bogen TO his boarding
house keeper, sin primitive countries beef is
ofen the legal tender; but, madam, said he,
emphatcally thrusting his fork into the steak,
all The laws in Chrislendom could not make
this beef tender.''
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1857-07-11

"A penny for your thoughts" said gentle
man to a pert beauty.
"They are not worth a farthing sir" she.
replied, 81 was thinking Of you" t
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Chasing the rail-car is very Improbable
kind Of exercise. Patrick got out TO get some
refreshments The train went off without him.
"Sihop, there 20 he shouted after. "Sthop
yer ould stame waqin, ye'ye got Passnger
aboard that's left behind !"
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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-05
GUIDE FOR TRAVELERS AND OTHERS
Railroad Line

RICHMOND, FREDERIcKsBusG AND PoroMAc
KAtLRoAD, going North, leaves twice every day
tSundaJ evenings excepted at O'Clock g. m and
ct u clock m for the Potomac River, where a
steamer Is taken for Washington thence by Railroad
TO Baltimore, ac.
VIRGINIA CENTRAL, going North, leaves this sity
twice dsiy, tSundsy evenings pted at O'clock
.. m and a O'Clock p. m for Gordonsvile where
they connect with the trains of the OrsnRe and Al
exsndria Railroad, for Alexandra Washin ston Bal.
Hmore, &c.
RICHMOND AND DANvILLE-Leaves Richmond At
O'Clock a. m and connects with the Southsds Road
1t the junction, at II O'Clock m. Sundays excepted
RICHMOND AND PETERsBURG-Leaves this CITY
twice every day, Sundays excepted at 81 O'Clock a.
M, and O'Clock p. N. An accommodation train
leaves here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at
For Norfolk, DC.
BY the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad to Port
VIM c. Smith. The cars leave the Depot every Mon.
day, Wednesday and Friday MORNINGS at 81 O'Clock.
The steamer CURTIS fECK. Capt. John Davis
leaves her wharf at Rockets every Saturday, Tues
day and Thursday mornings. at 81 O'Clock g. m, for
Norfolk and Portsmouth, touching at all the regular
landings on the River.
For New York. &c.
The steamship JAMESTOWN. Captain Parrish,
leaves every Tuesday evening at O'Clock, for New
York, touching Al City Point snd Norfolk to receive
passengers, &c. leaving Norfolk next morning. at ii
O'Clock.
For philadelphia, &c.
BY the steamships PENNSYLVANIA VIRGINIA
and CITY OF RICHMOND. One of these steamers
leave every Monday and Thursday, stopping at City
Point and Norfolk to receive freight and passenger
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-05

LITTLE LECTURE FOR LITTLE FOLKS A da
guerreau artist came to our little village few days
since, aud hung out his sign in the most coEspicu,
Ou: place. OF course he was the general topic for
he time being. The burden of conversation in the
village was Are you going to have your deguer-
reotype taken!' Have you had III" When are
you going TO sit for miniaturei' etc:
In consequence, all the little folks were On tiptoe
TO have their pictures taken.
One sensible mother made 1t the opportunity of
mpressing her chdrens minds with 8 lessen of
life long importance, by saying II shall be glad to
get your dasuerrotypes, my dears, but wish for
another picture taken by myself, one for which
you are unc0rsciouy sitting evey dsy 1t is your
picture in my heart Now you wish me to curl
your hair and put on your most becoming holiday
attire and you will no doubt look your best when
you sit for the artist TO take your miniature No
frowns on your brow, TO pout your lip, no angry
glsDee in your eye, no discomfort upon your coun.
tenance, l dare say
And do you with that a shadow q daguerreotyps
that may be easily lost, broken. or iu many ways
destroyed, do you wish that that shall be more
lively than the picture that your mother Ill wear
in her breast so long her life shall lastY Your
daily life eDgraves ndestructble picture; then
be careful that no shadow of rddeuess neglect or
dis0bedence dim its future or mar its features
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-05

DY THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA
ID PROCLA LAMATi ATiON.--loformaIion havins
been received by the Executive, that William Cole
gate and Eli Satterield charged in the couny Of
Marion, " it'll killing one Josias c. Miller and that
the ssid Eli Satterfeld has fed from justice and s
now going at large: Therefore. l do hereby offsr
Reward of One Hundred Dollars to any person or
persons who shall arrest the said Eli sattersd and
deliver him into the Ja' of Mari n county; and do
moreover require sl officers of this Com alth,
civil and military and request the people gueraly 70
tn sir best exertons procure the Of the
said Satts rfeld that he may be brought TO Justice
~-"~o Given under my hand a. Governor and
Z SEAL the Lesser Seal Of the Commonwealth,
t~.~) at Richmond, this Zd day of April, In the
year 1857. HENRY A. WISE.
By the Governor.
GEoRGE w MUNEoRD. see OF Commonwealth.
satterfsd is about 20 years of age, stands about
feet high long limb ed. soops q little, long sht
nv l. w3W
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LEXINGTON, Va, May LIST, 1857.

LEXINGTON, Va. May 1st 1857.
1s.ny oue In your city, suffering with that most
rretched of conpiaints-dyspepsiaf IL 80, Just
throw up all business engagements. and start at
.,c. for this beautiful town via Goshen, /" on the
,irein's Central Railroad aud my word for IL
uwil have il more. There is no doubt of it.
the remedy il one Of that class which ei,ber
,gs or cures and "a 1t ordinarily does the the
l,t,er the prospect is worth the risk The staging
f-or, that land Of fatness (Which is located
,hr,v.tye mites west of Stauuton,) TO this place.
i; onIv nineteen miles; but IL is over such q road
,hs, IL /, does not bump your brains out against
he top of the cosch or shake your head entirely
or your shoulders, you will arrive here well
nan
Shonld this be your good fortune, (and there Is
ten TO one In favor of it, you will at once be
.truck" with the size beauty ard freshness of our
uue town. L,itI,, we ~iiug to confess but
larser by far than stranger imagnes We have
a population Gncludipg the students In the two
colleges Of 1000 4 large proportion of which live
In baildugs which, both tor quality and architect
usl style would do credit TO the court end of your
big Richmond And then there Is fresh ness
snd beauty about the whole place and its sur-
rounding scenery that m akes one feel positively
sood aud pleasant. In 4 future note may advert
T ore particularly to some of these things, espe.
CIay the Colleges.
~ rirst impression from the general appearance
nf tntugs about me on my late arrival here, after
an a5sence of several months in your digsings,
was Ihst tDe spflhS was pTopsOiy more advanced
hsre than with you, although we ordinarily
sb ut four weeks behind you. | believe, however,
thst you are still little ahead
But you are not advap'sged; for, on account of
our tardiness. it Is believed that there will be
pretty good, if not = full crop of peaches while
sppe. plums, &c, are not considered TO be dams
aged st all That's refreshing isn't iti
The wheat done finely up to about the Is. of
February but since then il has been much injured
~ the weather, and the crop will be materially
sho-teued
Corn, however, is just being planted In this
county and With fine prospect of success as
oue could wish in the beginning of the season.
Tobacco pAnts-alas I'VE do give them OUT
for this time
Altoeetber. however, we shall do pretty wei in
the farming department up here this year, if the
comet, or some other thing with a tail to il, does
not upset our calculations before the year ia out -
And with this assurance, close for the present.
Yours, TODD,
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-05-05

DR. Dawson has been sentenced at Nash-
vile, Tennessee, TO two years imprisonment in the
penitenary, fer robbng the mail
Hon John H Savage has been nominated for re-
election to Congress from Tennessee.
There were 80 deaths In New Orleans for the
week ending April Goth.
The Columbis, South Carolina, papers record the
death Of Charles Mott and William G. Hunt, two
old citizens of that place.
Rev. John G.. BIddle, principal of the Winehes-
ter, Tennessee, Female Academy, died on the 23d
ult
Hon. d. G. Glenn, tho Attorney General of Mis-
sissippi, declines reelection. He has held the
Office for Q light years.
There Is jewsharp In the Antiquarian Hall. At
Worcester Mass. two feet In length, and weighing
more than . hundred pounds.
The first shipment of -four from Memphis.
Tenn, to Charleston, S. c., was made on the 29th
ult.
Bishop Price, of the NJ. e. church, Georgia, Is
to preach the annual sermon at the next COM
memo -ment of Greensborough, Ga, Female Coll
lege, May 2lst.
A lncky individual In Norfolk, Va, drew prize
Of sc 500 from Northern lottery during the month
of March.
The trial of Mrs. gham for the murder Of
Doctor Burdsll, commenced in New York yes.
terday.
There were 1893 deaths In Ph hiladelphia this week;
tf scarlet fever Iii consumption 81.
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ANorHER BLOODY TRAGEDY.-Two Shoekins
anrdeT' tor Money.-The Pittsburs papers Of sa
surosy contain the particulars of another shocking
tragedy committed in the borough of McKsesport
fennsyivania. The victims were An old and de-
crepid couple, brother and sister, between sixty
ana seventy years of age, by the names of George
and Elizabeth Wilson.
Tne oid couple lived IN . small cabin on the main
fosa leadins to Elizabethtown and had by econ nv
sno succee eded In sccumu ating some mnney
wneIeoy tnoy might support themselves in their dc.
II appears that day or two previous there came
70 otns cabin large aud masculine LOOKING female
VINO cravsd shslter for charity sake. The ,on was
isey granted, and during the first day of tbs stran.
st the house, she made particular inquiries
efsctors " - o0A
-. Abouss O'Clock last Friday morning a neighbors
istie eri proeeeded to paw her accustomed visit to
the old couple at the cabin She opened the door
aud entered; but instead of being received with a
We some and q smile a. was usual horrid spectacle
wes presented to her gaze The brother had been
ssooeo 20 the heart and the bnife which had nftct
ed the deadly wound lay q short distance from ,he
corpse, all covered with blood. By the side Of the
brother lay the sister, mutilated In manner shock
70 the senses ana sickening to the he of huma
nity; ner head was bruised and beaten SO horribly
tnas ~ would have been impossible to recognize It
apart from the rest Of the body the represents
tlon OF anything human. poker besmearsd with
olood was lying the hearth, and 1t s supposed to
nave been tbs used in performing this act
OF barbarous bu.chery
The woman spoken Of who clsims to be parrisd
to man named Fife. has been arrested on suspicion
as was her pretended husband, and a man named
Mon Stewart Blood was found upon Fife's cloth
Ing, and It 10 stated in slcript that Charlotte
ed the whole affair." duplicating the men arrested and
sWs others-her BROTHER of them.