The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-31

| IRAdLhE ON SttIsS lsLASp-A STARTLING traeod,
took place oh staten Island last Tuesday morninc
ths particulars oi which are given by the n r
| Herald, az follows
MISS Emma Brewly. residing In BROOKLYN. and a
sf- John u. Souler of New York hay. - -. a.
tiinate terms for the past two wear. s;. ~. III ~
wishes OF the young lady's parents wbo r.,,.a,aJ
~ forbade her lover their house; but he rsrs;s,ed
l,tiS dreaming that his acts would subsequently =
call his loved one TO the final Judgment s.at
From the statement Of the father n .n,e'a. =, ~,
/ tie lady had rejected lover, who exasperatsd =,
the conduct OF his successful rival detarmin.J ,n
e'tn'i thu ms own life or theirs With this ds,er
/ hihatIon, on Tuesday morning alout n o,cIocL Ia
repaired To Staten Island where he Iaarnnd ~,
the lovers were soi0urning for the pur,ose of a :,
eertaiuIng the iadys true state of feein, f,r him,
/ nut Judge OF his jealousy and surprise when on
Eeae hlIs Fort Washington he discovered hi. fair
"uet ftposing In the sweet sleep of innocene. in,
ner ioV"fs arms. Driven to fury by this SIGHT he
/ dreN pistol for The purpose Of ending his liz,
~heh the swapping Of the trigger awoke Mr.
ruler, who, perceiving his purpose struck the mis-
to iroi" the young mans ha.ld. who still iufuria.
tea hurriedly picked it up and fired Mt the -le.p
! iofh before him, the bali euterinx her heart and
! causing instant death. The murderer Immediately v
escaped, before Mr.. Souler who was awe-stricke a n
/ at the act, could give an alarm SayaraI narson.
On the report of the pistol hastened TO the
spot ana after conveying tho Iifeess BODY of tn,
9ale lto the fort started in pursuit of the ulur-
derer, who, unfortunately eluied his nursucrs Iy
jumping on the boat which was lust STARTING from,
1ie dock, and escaped to New York
IhE MASONIC STATUE OF WAsmsGToH-We recent
| 'yc"pied from an exchange paper paragraph sta
| ting that Masoni; statue Of Washington in the
studio of Hiram Powers, at Florence was intended
for Richmond, Va. This was erroneous, as will h,
seen by the following, from the fredericksburg Re
| cOrder:
Instead of Richmond being the destination Of
thls statue, IT is designed to place it i'm this
city. four years ago, Lodge No of Free and
Accepted Masons in this place determined to erect
t .is status 10 the memory of their deceased bro
thor, Heorge Washington, who on the 9th of No.
Vember 1852, entered as an apprentice in thar
Fellowship here on the 81 of March I753 was adj
ihitten 70 the degree of Fellow Craft, and on the
4th OF August of the same year was made Master
Nason. This Lodge engaged Mr. Powers to exc
cute thls monument and letters have recently bee
received from him, stating that the statue was
IeafiS complete, and prints of it would soon he
forwarded TO the Lodge. The statue, said to b. Al
HdmIrabie likeness is life size and represents the
Father Of his Country arrayed in full ragalia of y
Master Mason. handsome temple 10 he cractsd
mere g IN winch to place the statue. and when the
"hoie ~ completed, will form Of the greatest
ornaments and attractions of our CITY.
DHTHs Rr hGHTSIxG-We have from almost
every section of the country, accounts Of deaths
from lightning. The Pittsburg Gazette saws:
In our neighboring county of Washington. the
record OF destroying lightning which has come To
our notice IL quite remarkable. One single shower
"hich passed to the south of US last Monday week
was accompanied with lightning, which killed MIR
Matthew Taylor, OF South Strobans townabin onI
Mr.. MMilen and Gardner Leonard of Vest 3IeY
andria' same county. single stroke from tn,
same cloud killed 10 out of flock of 90 sheen in
teclI township, same county. Others not less nll-
merous and almost as fatal, occurred in Greane
county and up the Monongahela
THE COrroN CROP OF 1857 -'58-The Mobile Regis
ter says:
we sincerely believe, from careful examina-
zion ot the reports from all the cotton growing
sections, that the present growing crop will not ex.
coed 100000 or ), 900 bales"
Our own information, says the Savannah Repnb-
hcan warrants the belief that the estimate of the
Register is not far from the mark
LlREL-We learn that Judah Pierce, of this city.
has prosecuted the proprietors of the New York
Tribune. Tor libel. The offence consisted in the
publication of the notice of his recent arrest to-
Sethcr with a pretended history of tho case and
the pretrnses used by Mr.. Pierce to procure the
goods We have already announced that Mr. Pierce
mas instituted suit against Messrs. Yelverton.
Walker Co, for malicious prosecution, laying his
damages at t$2O00O.-Syrdctss Standard.
MYSTERIOUS CAsE.-Some excitement exists in
New York relative to the mysterious death Of Mr.
Augustus Van Lew. man of respectable position
IN society whose body found lying on the side
Y.
night. The deceased person bore evident marks
OF violence, while the condition of his clothing
showed clearly that he had been robbed of his gold
watch and some forty dollars, The physician who
made the post mOrtem examination is of opiniop
that the wounds inflicted by design, though
the police believe that the unfortunate man re-.
ceived them while in fit, and WAS subsequently
robbed by thieves.
The STRAW BoSSKT business aprsars to have
been Oyerdone III Massachusetts, and hence there
are great complaints of dull times in the trade
In Franklin alone seven millions of straw bonnetA
have been manufactured enough for one quarter of
the heads, great and small old and Young, III the
United States. Many people have the idea that
fdsiouabies in our large cities control the stye of
bonnets i'll other words, that the fashionable buy
er, and not the manufacturer decide the STYLES of
bonnets to be made. This is not 80 The manu-
facturers control this matter completely Last fail
there was an association of bonnet.nlakers organ
lied in Massachusetts, for the purpose of making
style uniform, and il is said they have entirely sue
ceeded in their purpose.
Short Time in the factories is being adopted in all
parts Of New England. 1t is the English system Of
conducting manufacturing business. thus to lessen
the production of the goods, and is thought to be
the only successful mode of operating A total sus
pension, when the market is overstocked with
goods, Is moro expensive in large establishments
with great amount of machinery, than working
part Of the time.
The trade in palm oil is. all things considered
one Of the mercantile maryels of our age 1t suits
certain parties to picture the negro as leading a
useless, lazy, unproductiye life Africa. Nothing
can be further from the truth. Take for instance,
the old seats Of the slave trade in the Blight of Be-
nln and its neglIberhOod They are nowaIiye with
honest industry and lawful commerce. In 1856 the
exports Of palm oil alone from eight settlements
were Is, ,lti tons, worth fS62,32S.
SuITDE-A young girl named Mary Brady COM
mitted suicide in Baltimore last Thursday by taking
strychnne. She had been betrayed under pro
mise OF marriage, never intended TO be consunima.
ted which fact weighing heavily upon her mind
induced her to destroy herself rather than live snd
be the subject of remark.
DEATH or PRISTER.-Mr. George McCiregor, who
had been connected with the printing business in
Baltimore for number of years died suddenly in
that city on the 2Sth inst. lie was a man of exem-
pary character.
GsNAoN-The Washington Star alleges that the
telegraphlc account published as having come by
the steamer Illinois from Nicaragua, that the
Chammorist party there had sent urgent requests
for the return of Walker to that country, was
made out of whole CLOTH" evidently for the bene-
t1t of the sunken fortunes of t1libusterism.
His WAY or LOOKING AT IT.-siagistrate-"wha
has brought you hesr:' Prisoner. Two Police
men, your honor" ''1hen l suppose liquor had
nothing to do with ti" "Yes, sir, they were both
drunk"
FROM MExIco-Late advices from Mexico, receiv-
ed at New Orleans, says that Comonfort is
doubtedly elected President. The yellow fever IL
prevailing at Vera Cruz The Mexican papers
full of surmises In reference 10 the Spanish ques
ton.
REGION 0P ExTREMEs.-A letter from Littleton,
y. IL. states that 1.-The thermometer ranges in the
middle Of the day, from 90 10 81 in the shade In
the winter they go in the opposite extreme, from
20 TO II below zero.
little fellow, from 10 years old having per
torated the knees Of his trousers was intensely de-
lighted with patch his mother had. applied. He
would sit and gaze on IL in state of remarkable
admiration, and in one of these moods suddenly
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. must put one on t'other
knee and two behind, like Eddy smiths"