The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-11-02


there OF welldressed negro, having "a con,nanv
with MIN genteei appearing. but simple acting
aud evidently weak-minded white girl. FROM the
ss'sSuoseqaentiy gathered, 1t seems that both re-
sided az MORROW, and that the negro had induced
the girl to run away with him, aud she had left
her fathers home TO follow the fortunes of her
ebony afmirer.
The couple arrived at london on the evening
train, aud rode up IN an omnibus to the hotel but
on arriving there, the landlord took the rrl into
the house. but refused to permit the negro 10 s,ay
and therefore turned him out. By this time
| considerable crowd bad gathered about and tha
negro. fearing personal violence, took himself OF
to another part of the town
The girl seemed infatuated with her negro To-
yer. and expressed wish to cling to him but the
negro. fearing he might be mobhed IL he nersistaS
| in taking the girl with him. advised her to stay AT
the hotel, which she did through the night The
pair had not yet been married, but IL was their in.
tentisn to call In the aid of Justice at London,
when the "consummatien so deyoutly to he wish
cd" was interferred with by the peope of the town
The girl was to be sent back to her friends yester
| day' she Is represented to us comely in ap-
pearance genteelly dressed, and though not intel
ngent, exhibited fair qualities Of mind yet not of
| the strongest charaeter-C Cincinnati Gazette Oct
| 29A ~
NAvAL.-The U. S. steamship saranac. Can,ain
| Kelly, arrived at the Naval Anchorage Yesterday
morning, in distress. The Saranac left PhiladeI.
phla on the 10th inst, to join the Pacific Squadron
but on Saturday, Sunday and Monday Las. when
| about 1900 miles East of Cape Henry she encoun
tered succession'of gales and bad weather during
| which she lost flying jb boom and lib boom
"renched cap off the bowsprits carried away slide
spars, badly injured the frame work of machinery
and ppt the machinery ont Of order During the
gale five or six of the were badly crippled
On the 10Th concluded to put back to this port
where she arrived as above stated Capt. Kelly has
been sick most of the time. The U. S. Sloop of
| War Cyane, Capt Rof of the Home SQUADRON ar
| rived in Hampton Roads yesterday.
[Nm1;It, Ia, Herald Saturday
CHURCH ACTION ON THE FINANCIAL KEvuLsIoN. The
synod of New York. which includes l6O ola
School Presbyterian ministers, and as many elders
from nearly the same number Of churches and
territorial limits include Long leland, New York
city and the lower counties of the State as far nm
as Poughkeepsie, has addressed q letter TO the
churches under its care, relating to the nresant
financial revusion, and the breaking up of 30 MANY
Christian missions in India by violence The SYNOD
nave recommended to their churches the obser
vance OF Thursday, November 5th as a day of fast
ing, humiliation and prayer, to supplicate deliver
ance from this heavy calamity, or such wise i'm
provement of it as shall render it blessing rather
than q curse.
A BANK WIPED oUr.-The assets of the Island
City Bank, which went into the hands ofa Receiver
some time SINCE on examination found to con-
sist of 81 800 in coppers, and five nkstands! The
capital ofthe bank 5000 900. At its last week
ly return, September 19th, the condition of the
bank, as sworn TO by its officers, follows -
Capital S3J0,0O1 loans f:ji46j3, specie 80 cents
circulation S99,996 deposits 3l27 S6S. The officers
OF the bank were, James OBrien, President; Viii
liam Stebbins, Cashier.
SOUTHERN AID SocIETY--The Southern Aid So-
cety held its annual meeting Thursday night in
DR.. Adams church, New York Rev. Mr. Mitchell
Of Virginia, and Dr. Todd of pittsfed, Mass, ad
dressed the audience which was a very small one
report read by the General Agent from
which it appears that the Society was organized in
1888, and since then S3l, ,i27 has been paid out hv
it for the conversion of the Southern slaves The
10 ct Iaaru o,,l ~. =,
bursements $l0,l31. Mr. Mitchell said thar the So
cety was sending the Gospel to over three millions
OF negroes not 10y sending tracts agents among
them TO awaken distrust alarm, but by filling
the pulpits with Cody men. Twenty-seven minis
ters had been sent by this mission last wear
Ia the slaves The black congregations were in
creasinS all through the South The Methodist
Episcopal Church South had devoted S45OQG to
MISSIONS nearly ali of which was expended among
the slaves
SnAyING SoTEs WITHOUT ANY CApIrAI-In course
of the trial in the Supreme Court yesterday of the
case OF Luke Green against Peleg u. Gardiner MIR
Thomas 4. Doyle testified, that W bile he was cashier
OF the Urocers and Producers Bank. one OF the dl.
rcctors of that Bank, deceased, was in the
habit of buying paper of the bill brokers. giving
his tef therefor payable some day. aheai, and
before it came due would get the same discounted
to pay his check. Sharper practice than this was
never sworn to in a court of law. Men frequently
transact large business without capital; but We
never before heard of man shaving notes without
money.-Iitri4caceJ jour.
A TpouBLEsONE Gas LEAK-While boring an ar
tesian well in the basement of a paper mill near
Watertown, n. Y and when depth of sixty feet
had been reached, the drill working badly, light
brought TO discover the when an iutapI-
Unable gas issued from the hole. and ignitng. shn,
mp flame which reached the floor overhead. Two
streams OF water were turned on from hydrants,
but could not check the flames until the whole
force OF fume was let into the building and saved
it. The gas, however, kept burning until plug
made by winding blanket around hanGspke
was thrust into the hole.
PoIsoxoUs SHAVING SoAr-A Scotch paDer has
the following statement -'0n the 18th August
Rev. John Lockhart, of Kilmsurs, died suddeul,
at his mansion. tappcars that he had cut his flce
while shaving, and that some poisonous substance
supposed to have been in the soap passed through
his whole body, from the effects Of which he
died"
Costly Notwithstanding to the accounts pub
li3hed in the Gaceta of Salvador, the engineers of
the Honduras Railroad Company busly en-
gagged in their surveys and hy the estimate already
made by some OF those gentlemen, il appears that
the work will cost $25,1Uj, 900, instead of ten a.
| estimated by Mr.. Squer.
AccIDENT-Proiessor William B, Rogers of Bos
ton. formerly OF the University of Virginia recent
| ly met with a serious accident whilst travelling in
| one of the trains of the West Counties railway.
| England. As the train was passing, some mscre-
i aut threw stone at IT. which unfortunately Strk-
| ing Mr.. Rogers on the face broke his jaw-bone.
| "
| INTERESTING PROM IIAvANA.-It is said that the
money crisis in the city of Havana had caused 60
| Vernment to issue n decree ordering an esamina
tion to be made as to the solvency and capital OF
all the newly formed joint stock speculation CON
| Germs on the island. Sugar had declined in price
| and trade generally was dull. There were no
| freights Tor American vessels in port The reports
| of the sugar crop were favorable. Col. Blythe
| the United States consul general had returned 10
| nis post.
| THE GRAssH0PPgR PLAGUE OF MIyyEsorA-The
| Galena Advertiser says that two gentlemen are in
that city solieisiDg subscriptions for the relief of
| the sufferers by the grasshopper plague which
| desclated many of the settlements in northern
Minnesota last summer. They represented thai
| many families there in a suffering condition
| and lily prepared TO stand the winter.
RAILROAD AccIpENT-The Charlottesville. Va, Ad-
vccate, states that the down train the Central
| Raj road on the oath inst, ran over COW on the
high emblnkment over Ivy Creek throwing the
mail and baggage car off the track. The same train
ran over hand car at Beaver Dam depot; both ac-
| cidents being caused by the absence of pilot
| from the engine drawing the train.
| THAHKsGWING.-Cioy. Grimes, of Iowa has ap
| pointed November 10Th as a day of general thanks
| giving in that state. New York, Massachusetts,
| RhOde Island, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania. Ma
| ryland North Carolina and Connecticut, have ap-
| pointed the same day The Governors of Maine and
| Mississippi appointed the 18th.
| THE SHOE BUSINESS IN NATIcK-Som. of our shoe
manufacturers have again commenced to give out
stock, but We presume that but few, If any, will
| give employment TO great number, for at least
two months. Large numbers of our young men
| cnntinne TO leave town daily, for their homes in
Maine and New lampshire-Ndntick O5Sereer.
| |
| ToTtL ABsTINEScE WITH IA EENGEANCg-On Satur-
day of last week, the temperance folks of MiIlwood