The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-12-19

In the South there are 5o.05l rice plantations
which yield an annual revenue of S4.00oo0e
The Empress Eugenie is having yacht built at
iiavre ON a scale of unusual magnifcence.
Hon. Levi Thaxter, prominent citizen OF wor.
cester, Mass. is dead.
VIM. y. Leak, ESQ, is an independent democrat
ic candidate for Governor of North Caroins.
One hundred millions of gold annually cross the
Isthmus of Panama
Ex-secreiary Guthrie declines running for United
states Senator in Kentucky.
Washington letters say the removal of Mr. Dal-
las is regarded as fixed fact.
Mr.. James Dening died suddenly at Harrisburg.
Pa, on Wednesday.
During the present year 4iaO32 e5f feet of Ium-
Der have arrived at Chicago
matthew Kerr. Esq, old and respected cit
izen OF Wrightvilie, Pa, died ON Saturday last.
The grasshoppers still Troublesome in va
Ilous parts OF Texas, especially in the neighbor-
Senator Green, Of Wisconsin who made an able
argument in reply to Senator Douglas on the Kan
sas question, Is native of Fauquer county, Va
The word telegram. for telegraphic dispatches.
IS hereafter to be placed in the dictionaries pub
lished in England.
There arrived at Boston on Tuesday ao.2 .2t4 bssh-
els corn, ,lss bbls. of four and 150o bushels
. wheat.
bill has passed the legislature of Georgia
changing the constitution so as to make the ses-
sions annual instead of biennial, as now
seizure was made in New Orleans on the sth
instant, OF l54 loaves of bread, for being short
weight.
James Gallagher, indicted for the murder If
Hugh Kelly, at Brooklyn, N. p has been found
guilty, with recommendation to mercy
The post office in Dghton, Mass, was broken in
10 ana robbed OF about 100 letters and $40 worth
OF postage stamps on the night of the 7th inst
Tho barn of saml Wildesen. near Finksburg.
all M NJ H..
day Eight.
Navigation has not yet been fully resumed on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and probably will not
this season.
Mr.. William W. Clapp sr. formerly editor of
the Boston Evening Gazette, celebrated his golden
, wedding Tuesday evening.
In Mr.. Everetts agricultural address, at Buffalo.
there is said to be sentence of 5S lines without a
single period.
Madame de Wilhorst, of New York. is in Paris,
where she was to have debut Nov 2Sth, at the
Theatre Italian, in Don Pasquale.
Thirteen thousand five hundred copies of Mr..
Thackeray's 'Vrgin.ans" were sold the first day It
was issued.
The Citizen, which John Mitchell started in New
York in 1854, and left. after editing it one year in
the hands of John McCleuahan, stopped last week
The number of workmen in the Brooklyn navy
yard has been reduced from 1900, which was
about the force in October, to less than 200.
VI SOyer proposes TO alne lUD people in each
funnel of the Levisthan, Immediately after the
launch.
Miss L. L. Williams, who is STYLED the "Welsl,
Nightingale" is giving series of inimitable en-
tertainments in Baltimore.
The President is now considering his list of for
egn appointments to send TO the Senate. The Mis-
| siens to England. France and Spain are nes likely
to be settled at present.
The new Congress. it is said. presents the fact
that among the northern democrats there'are but
ten who have ever before sat in Congress.
A colored girl belonging to Mrs. Late, of Frede
rick, Md, who was kidnapped over year ago, has
been discovered on plantation in Louisiana. her
kidnapper having sold her to planter
MIR. Whitaker, Of Vicksburg, Miss. who lost
three children by the Rainbow casastrophe has of
fered reward of 900 for the recovery of their
bodies.
Mr.. James Thompson, living near New Market
Dorchester county. Md. had his arm SO shattered
by the accidental discharge of his gun on Saturday
| as to render immediate amputation necessary.
A giraffe, belonging to the menagerie of Herr
Driesbach Co., and said to be the only animal Of
the kind in America, died in Cincinnati on Satur
day. 1t was valued at 5000.
boy named Lewis Jacobs, IL years of age, was
| drowned last Saturday evening, in the Mononga
| hela river, by falling overheard from boat, be
longing to the steamer Potomac, at Pittsburg, Pa
| The value of the buildings erected in Carbon
dale, Illinois, during the past season, Is estimated
Il
course of erection
In the celebrated Marvine case in New York
Judgment was on Tuesday entered up agai lst Fer
| nando Wood for Sll7S0. The fees of the referees
in the case are 1880. 1t is supposed that Mayor
Wood will carry the case TO the Court of Appeals
The BANK OF FRANCE.--The New York Post has
the following statement directly from promi.
nent merchant, who arrived by the Vanderbilt the
other day:
"About the middle of November he informs US
he presented to the Bank of France cheek for $780,
600 francs and asked for gold. They told him they
could not give him so much gold, but would pay his
check in bills. He took the bills and then present
ed them for payment. They told him they did not
pay any one person more than 10000 francs 49,
00o) in one day. aud declined paying him more
than portion of his demand. Bei1g pressed for
time, hesucceeded in getting his gold that day,
only by Sending different persons, each with bills
ts the amount Of 10000 francs.
nv SrN = 80 .