The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-27

Nj, Thu KSDAY, AUGU
TIVE EXPLOSION At HAIIYtx.--The Acadian n.
corder gives some particulars of the recent exnIo
sion Of the Merchants Powder Magazine at Hali
fax. ". =.
All along Water and Granville streets, the et,sot.
OF the explosion were visible in shattered build
ings ''N
The force with which stone were driven aeaips,
the stores near the waters edge, actually started
the bungs from the hogsheads. The Naval Hos.
pital is considerably injured. Strange to saw one
OF the largest stones which reached Mr. Benton
house. was driven through the trunk of one of the
large trees north of the premises.
fine new building. near the magazine wharf.
| intended for steam mill, was completely swept
| away, as also wharf in connection. The Stookes'
property and one adjoining brick
standing. Mr.. Hayes property windows broken.
mouse terribly shaken, and interior greatly dam
/ aged Messrs. Williams Starts mills and wharf
| property injured, extent unknown, machinery dis
| arranged. &c.
| The houses up the hill to Alderman Jennings,
ana all In the neighborhood more or less shaken
The officers quarters sustained complete riddIinr
There Is not whole sash or window in that fine
| building. stone weighing near three hundred
| weight was driven through the rooi and carried
| away several feet of the woodwork inside I'm.
mensc stones were imbedded in the earth
The Admiralty fell in for considerable share Of
damage. gfhe old pile rocksd:ke cradle. Several
houses in Brunswick and Gottingen streets had n
good shaking: The residence of j. H. Anderson
met similar fate. One the ceilings in the bousc
| Of W. Murdock, Easq., was thrown down nv tb,.
concussion Her Majesty's ships Indus and pyra.
mus, and the shipping in the port were very sep.
siDIy moved by the shock. 1t is quite possible the
Cunard steamer, which left short tinc bef,ra will
bear the tidings to England of having experienced
the shock OF an earthquake off Scotia
REcRrITs PoR New MEXICO, Erc--Capt. Thomas
Duncan, of the mounted rifles, u S A fwho bos
Just been relieved from service on the hoard 10
preechloading rifles now in session Mt West Point
Is TO proceed at once TO Carlisle Barracks PA and
from thence to conduct to New Mexico considers
Die number of recruits for his reqncnt-from 100
to l50-nOw at that point. large BODY of recruits
for the third infantry also now about TO leave
fort Columbus Governors Island,) New York un-
aer command OF Col. Chandler, L. S. Army Their
destination is also New Mexico
These two bodies of recruits will meet at Fort
ieavenworth, from whence they will proceed to-
gethsr on their destination. under the command of
the senior officer. The Hon. Abraham Eencher of
North Carolina, the recently appointed Governor
OF the Territory of New Mexico, will proceed ont
to his post, accompanied by his family under the
escort of these troops. There will also be some
f'f;een or twenty officers with the command going
out to join the regiments in the territory Not a
few Of them design taking their families with
them.-Sdr.
IMPORTANT DECISION IN THE PATENT OrFIcg.-Tbe
question If the Commissioner of Patents is author
ized to refund money in the case of man who
harlnS hied caYaet an paid so demand a return
u Sio, and III the case of others who having also
hied caveats and paid $40 additional, making a to-
tai of $50. demand the return of S20 having come
before the Secretary of the Interior il was by him
referred to the Attorney General for decision The
latter holds in the first instance that there is no
provision allowing the caveator to withdraw anv
portion of the so; and in the second place that
without confirming to the statute. in making an
application it cannot be said that one has legally
been made, and consequently it ID impossible to
a nn mill ftA,, haF.,n =,
that as a cayeat is not application for patent
in any possible sense of the term, it is clear that
the Commissioner cannot refund any portion of
the cayeat fee.
Long TERN-A convict was discharged from
Sing Sing prison on the 5th inst, who had spent
thirty gears in the State prison. He was sent to
the old city prison in 1923 for the term Of fourteen
years. lie was one Of chain-gang sent to Sing
Sing in 1873, to build that prison At the expiration
OF his term he was out about three years then sent
Dack 1or ten years lie was out only three months;
was drutk all the time; then taken up and sent
for six years; that time expired on the fifth lie
has been good convict: has been punished only
once during the entire thirty years. he is now in
good health, Is fttysiX years old and is superior
mason and stone-cutter. He intends to devote the
balance of his life to himseif.-Syrucuse Journal
THB Rich MEN OF NEw BEDFoRD-The New Bod.
ford Standard of yesterday, publishes list of the
tax payers Of N-w Bedford, who pay a tax Of $50
vnd upwards. The list occupies three columns and
half. The total yalution of the CITY is E27 52g-
400. The increase for the past year has been in
total increase Of $5104o0. Number of polls this
year, 1870 increase 34t. The whole amount of
tax raised is S259,T51 81. The rate of taxation is
IS 30 on $1,000
THg PAFENT-oFFICg REPoRT-The patents last
year were 1auch greater in number than the pre-
vious year. There were 525 more applications I19
more caveats, and 41S more patents than in lS55-
The whole number of applications filed was 1860
and the patents issaed 2502. The receipts of the
office were sl92,5SS and the expenditures s199 93I
A SIGNIFICANT PAcT-The recent census of the
State of New York gives ,2S3 males and LIZA
t53 females. The wdowers number 35,3g7; the
widows 95, ,lS2. Nearly an equal number of males
and females but 81, 600 more widows than wiowers'
An exchange paper says: This great disparity
proves most concfusively and strikingiy after the
manner of the fable, that whatever amusement mar
riage may afford women it is death to the men,
INDIGO AND SALTPETRE.-The L.udon correspon-
dent of The New York Commercial says that in the
produce markets the articles most likely to be af
fected are indigo and saltpere. The salpetre suit
able for 2unpowder is manufactured exclusively in
the disturbed districts. The supply, therefore. is
certain to DE interrupted and the stock on hand
here is comparatively small prices are advancing.
A LEARNED PuyDIT The Congregatioraist no.
tices newspaper which gave an account of the
comforting of the degree of Doctor of Divinity upon
certain clergyman by an Eastern college, ami the
same paper publishes letter from this same cler-
gyman of fifty-one lines containing nine gross er-
rors in spelling, and more than twtuty, equally
gross, in punctuation.
MISTAKE OF GREEK-A conflict has taken place
between some of the inhabitants of Tore del Gre
co, in Italy, and the crew of the French brig Me
teore. The sailors We're occupied in making hy-
biographical observations, when they wore attack
cd by the Ncapolitans, who thought they Intended
Ia effect landing for revolutionary purposes. The
King ordered apologies to be made to the officers
Of the Meteore.
LIVING IN kANsAs.-Some may suppose that pro-
visions in Kansas do not cost much, hut such
would be mistaken were they to try living in that
Territory The ''Tecumsch Note Book printed
in the Territory gives the price of corn at g per
hushel, meal S2.25, potatoes 81 30, bacon 70 cts,
salt IS per sack molasses t1 D. beans - to 81 per
hushei 1t also gives the price of lumber at $50 to
30 per thousand. and other things in proportion
NAVIGATING TIE RIVER 81. JosErH--A steamboat,
50 feet long and 20 feet beam, made trip last
week from Niles, Mich, to soath Bend, Indiana
on tho So. Joseph River without meeting any i'm
pcdmrnt, although the stage of water was low.
LITTER from Akerman, in tho Russian part of
Bcssara'9. states that immense flights of IocuSts
hare committed great rayagcs in the neighhoring
districts. 1t adds that the military Governor of
the province had gone TO the rlaee to take meas
ures for the relief Of the population.
JOHN WILSON CROKER, long celebrated for his
"slashing articles" In the Quarterly, and the per
sor from whom D'Israeis character Of Rigbey in
Quarringbey ia drawn, was so i'll that he was not
expected to survive from day to dav ~ the latest
dates.
NEW DoDGE-The latest dodge to 'sraise the
wind" is for one to carry package containing use
less materials. sealed and marked ''Dy express"
and get the boarding house keeper TO pay the
charges, in the absence of the boarder it is direc
ted to. a
VERY Quick PAssAGE.--0n the 18th instant. Capt.
C. n. Cramer, in the schooner walrns, made the
passage from Chicago, Illinois, to Grand River, Mi
oh fafa Of tra1 nd We ptr