The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-10-16

The Bank Of Virginia yesterday fell Into line
which completes the list and places our state on
par with all others. New York has saccumped
TO the requirements OF the times, and The last nm
broken link was severed on our streets ycsteraay
morning. In the announcement that View YORK anu
Virginia had, IA Il were, spontaneously snspenae'
i fts effects ery Of the most gratifying nature,
for II has at placed our stock IN position ~
/ heyon1 A point which we had Gas compared with
4 ether s,arls1 the right to expect. On Tuesday
II Virginia stock sold at 54tSa56 In New York, ana
Il .. "wednesday. sales were made at 81, and on yes
terday at silS -.
/ Bank Suspensions.
o,r correspondents inform us of the suspension
/ ., tbe Branches Of the Bank of Virginia and Ex-
/ change Bank at Petersburg, the Branches Of the
varme,s' and Exchange Banks at Lynohburg, and
the Cape Fear Branch and Commercial Banks at
! Wilmington. N. &.
CoxrRApIcTrp.--A telegraphic dispatch from
Washington contradicts the statement of CORES
pendent Of New York paper, that the Govern
ment of Nicaragua has been recognized. and the
details Of the treaty with that Republic adopted at
cabinet meeting. The question is still under
consideration. Irissarri, the Nicaragua Minister,
| has left for New York.
PREssYrERiAsrsa {N. 81 IN MIssouRI.--The Synod
/ of the New School Presbyterian Church In Mis-
souri, met at st. Louis last week, when the question
Of slavery, in its relation TO tho Action of the Gen
eral Assembly at Cleveland last May, was discussed.
| The following resolutions were adopted.
| ResoIred, That this synod does withdraw from the
assembly, and will not send up its records.
| Ressred, That we cannot 20 with the Richmond
convention. but will remain an independent synod
until the providence of God shall seem to make
clear our way of duty.
RAILROAD IRoS.-The Barque windward, Capt.
Wiley, with CSC tons railroad iron, the brig Ala
| mode, Capt Croker, with 122 tons, and the ship
Sunderland, Capt Curry, with SIS tons for the Fast
Tennessee aud Virginia Railroad, have all arrived
at City Point, and are now discharging their car
goes.
| FREianTs.-Freights continue dull in New York.
| Among the charters last week ship from
City Point to Sydney, n. S. W., 1000 bbls. -four
! Al so; and schooner from Attakapas to Rich
fhond, sugar and molasses, SIS 80 per hid. and per
| lilo gallons
| Cow. STEwART.-It was reported in Philadelphia
on Tuesday that Com. Stewart, Us. n, had died at
Bordeutown, N. j., but the report was incorrect
| He has been sick, but his health is now improv-
| ing.
| SPECIE AT ST. LOUISA number of Santa Fe ira
ders arrived at st. Louis the 18th, with upwards
of $4,000 in specie, for the purpose of settling
| oldaccounts and purchasing new goods.
REpoRPEp DEATH OF Con-. STEwART.--Tt was report
ed in Philadelphia Tuesday night that Com.
Stewart, U. S. NJ died that day, at his residence
near Bordentown, N. j.
FROM PoRr Au PRINcE.-Advices from Port au
Prince to the 18th ut. state that the market was
wall oil Intt nf
provisions but the sales very few and the col
lection of debts next to impossible Business
completely at stand at all the Hayten ports. and
the paper currency of the country had further de-
| preciated. The crops, however, promised an abun
dant yield, particularly the sugar crop. The late
high price of this article has it is said, produced
sugar-planting mania throughout the West India
| Islands Intelligence had been received from Domi-
MICA to the effect that the partisans of the EXPIRE
| sident Santana had completely hemmed in the
| Baez party in the capital, Santo Domingo. The
| projected expedition of the Haytens against the
| Domincans had been postponed.
| TIE ATLANTIC CABLE.-The London Observer SAYS:
sit is now understood to be determined definitely
not to renew the attempt to lay the Atlantic cable
| this year. The cable is to be forthwith shipped
| from the holds of the Agamemnon and Niagara
| and slowed away for the winter in the Govern
| ment dockyard at Keyham. There it is to be we'll
tarred and attended to- to prevent it from rustng
| In the meantime one thousand more miles of the
| cable are to be manufactured, which, with the
quantity in hand will make three thousand miles
next year. The cost of the unsuccessful expert
| ment is estimated at about f30,000."
| ACCIDENT TO Col FAuNTLHRoY-By the late Cali
f,rnia mail, we have information that Col. Faunt-
| leroy, U. s. Army, had his shoulder broken by the
upsetting of stage. The colonel was under or
ders at the time from Lower California to field of
active duty with his regiment. first Dragons in
Oregon Winchester lugjffidn.
| RPYrcr Exn,T
| the wife Of respectable citizen of Mount Pleas
ant township, WestmoreIsrd county, Pa, commit
| ted suicide on the morning of the 9TH inst, by
| hanging herself in room adjoining her bedroom
Cause, said to be insanity, from religious excite
| ment.
! MELANCHOLY AccIDENT.-On Wednesday night of
last week, rs Mr.. Mark II. Eckert, his wife and two
| children, were driving along a creek, near Port
| Carbon, Pa, the embankment gave way, precipita-
| ting the horse, carriage and its inmates into the
water. The horse was killed, and little boy, five
| years old, drowned, Mr.. and Mrs Eckert and
the other child escaping with difficulty.
DREADFUL CAsUAITY-The Marlboro CsdD Atvo-
cate records the death of Miss Margaret Coffren,
daughter of Mr.. Francis Coffren, of Nottingham
district, from her dress accidentally taking fire.
She was in the 10Th year of her age.
A SENSIBLE PopuLAToN.-The Salem (Mass) Re-
gister reports that the recent experience at the
Salem savings banks is directly contrary to that of
similar institutions IN other parts Instead OF be
ing withdrawn, the deposits have considerably in
creased during the panic.
THOMAS N. WEIGH, Esq, State Senator from the
Madison District, will deliver the Annual Address
Lefore the Rappahannock Agricultural Society, at
the Fair to be held in fredericksburg, commencing
on the Sd of November next.
R,Ts-Iast Wednesday the crew of the bark
Fleet Eagle lying at Central Wharf, Boston, Mass.
smoked the vessel for the purpose of clearing out
the rats, and after the operation was performed.
$50 of the defunct vermn were found.
| SAILING OF THE ARABrA.--The steamer Arabia
with 1o2 passengers and 81 400 in specie sailed from
| New York for Liverpool Wednesday.
BALTIMORE THKATRICALs.-Mr. John Il. Owens is
| playing at the Baltimore Museum. The Ravels are
at the Holiday street theatre, and Mr.. j. Il. Muir
| doch and Geo. Boniface at the Front street.
|
| HEAVY RoBBERY.-A Hungarian Jew, from Blu
| charest in Wallachia, has charged townsnlan of
| his, who arrived at New York in the same steamer,
with robbng him of &940 in Bank of England
| notes.
| AppoISTMENT.-.Iehn Stewart has been appoint-
| ed postmaster at Rusk, Richie county, Va, vice
| Chas T. Lewis, resigned.
| The Charlottesville Jeffersonisn advocates the
passage of law that no bank in this State shall
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