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CORRESPONDENTS OF the RICHMOND DAILY DISPATCH.
APPoMarrox Co., Va, Oct. 5, 1851.
The Circuit Court Of this county was in session
last week-Juige Leigh presiding. Mr. Avis wa,
hned S2D for selling liquer to slaves; but through
considerations of mercy. the fine remitted
A case was tried in which tobacco dealer o.
Farmville had purchased the crop of a farmer here
at s. for lugs, and sll50 for leaf hanging in the
mouse. to be delivered on call. Before called for
the tobacco advanced in price. and the farmer sold
It, alleging that iie had contracted with the Farm
vile dealer with the understanding that the prices
liked were understood to be those which ruled the
market put proved not to be. The dealer sued and
| recovered 500 damages on the transaction.
There was frost here "Wednesday and Thursday
nights.
DIR. Davis, dentist, Of Amherst, while in this
county on visit was thrown from his buggy. but
not seriously injared. A servant in the vehicle
mad his leg broken, and the buggy smashed
! up. EDWIN.
SHOCKING TRAeEpY.-A shocking tragedy occur.
red Sunday morning in Upper Merton township
Montgomery county, Pa, about one mile west Of
Norristown. The scene of it was a house occupied
by a man named Thomas Kilby, his wife Mary
kihy and their three young children The Phia-
delphia Bulletin says:
At an early hour in the morning Kilby went to
| the house of some Deighbors aud aroused them,
| telling them that his wife had been murdered by
three negroes lie also went himself in search of a
constable 10 arrest the alleged murtlerars The
nelshbors hurried to the house, and there shock
| ing sight presented itself The body of Mrs Eilby
was found lying on the, bed, with the head nearly
severed from the body, from blow with an axe
| There were two beds upon the bedstead both of
which were completely saturated with the blood
| o. the murdered woman.
kilby declared that three negroes had come to the
house, forced their way in. and had committed the
dreadful deed but the suspici of the neighbors
FpI sod nd
he prevaricated and contradicted himself and
hnaliy admitted that he himself had slain his wife
| IN order to prevent the negroes from doing it. A
coroner inquest was held, ald after full exam-
nation, kiby was arrested ndlodged in the prison
at NOrrstown.
The murdered woman had an infant child sleep
| ing in her arms when she was slain. When the
body discovered the infant was still clingiue
to its mothers breast, its hair and clothing clotted
with blood The hair had to be cut of to re lease it.
| The other two children crying for their mo-
ther Beside the fatal wound described above there
were two others. one of which extended from the
| temple down the side ofthe face. The body of the
| murdered woman was inferred in the Episcopal
burying ground at Norristown.
| MASSACRE OF OVERLAND EMIGRASTs The overland
immigration is arriving in great numbers in Carson
Naliey bringing III large drUyes of cattle. Several
| parties had been attacked by the Indians or rene
| gade whites who stole their stock aud killed scve
raj persons The following are the names of those
hitltu SO itiriltd JOfln Evfriart. John StpeU
and John Lawboy. We learn of the massacre of il
whole train. consisting of six men and three chill
dren One woman was shot through and scaIped,
and LETT for dead but found still alive by those
who came up first She is not expected to live -
The stock was recovered from the Indians. in doing
| which only one Indian killed The only name
recolected among the killed those Of lIollo-
way and his b.ather-in law. The three children
were murdered by those heuds before the face OF
their parents, and horribly mutated.
FROM AUsrR.HA.-Australiau papers by the star
of the West, contain some interesting advices
The shipments dnring the first six months of the
present year show decrease of l7l9j ounces a,
compared with those tor the corresponding period
of 1896. In Melbourne the demand for labor wa,
slack. The new Crown Lands bill engaged the at
tentlon of the Legislature The bill cutting of
state and to religion has passed IA second reading
me war OF the Europeans on the Chinese at Buck
land, had been brought to AN end An lpplisI
naval officer had annexed the Cocos Islands To- III,
{urens domain in her Maiesty's NAME The tenn
perance cause was progressing in Melbourne. Fluui
had fallen in price in Melbourne. hut was advance,
ut Sydn"y at last dates. Guld sold for fj lis upl
ounce, which was the highest price.
LYNCmSG IN TExAs.-The san Antonio Texan. -
the 18th ult says
We have just received intelligence that n ma,
named VIM. ANDERSON hung last week nta
| the line between AtaScOSt and LIveotk count 10,
near where he lived. lie Was taken from his be-
III the night, oy some eight or ten persons, leayu
hrhind his wife and two children The wife viii
her children wandered to q distant ncirhbor an,
gave the Information. The cause for the haDpiu,
We have no: learned He lived quite distanc
from any neighb0r.
BANK MEETING IN PHILADELPHIA Democrat
held Il meeting in Independence Square PhladeI
phia, Monday evening" in opposition to the propose,
leGaization of the bank suspension. Grorge NJ
Nharton presided aud there was a pretty Iarpt
attendance. Resolutions were offered setting f,rf
that the present financial endorsements were
stimulated by improper expansion incidental Il
banking upon an unsOund foundation, and fayornp
the policy of metallic currency aIone attributing
the present sOuudness of Government affairs to its
specie transaction and contendng that the affairs
Of the State and city should he similarly admins
tered, the Treasury ofeach being disconnected from
the banks; that a ltgaliZatiOn of the present sus-
pension by the banks of specie payments would
violate principles of public and private morality.
and that the Legislature should leave the banks 10
the operation of the existing laws. Also express
ing opposition to the issue OF bills of smaller de-
nomination than at present.
A voluntary set Of resolutions were attempted to
be offered but eyerrued by the parties in
power. One of these asked the Bank Directors to
resume specie payments, or render II statement OF
their accounts to the people within thirty days;
and contained pledge to vote for for the
coming Legisa ure who is not opposed to the pre-
sent system of banking. The refusal to have these
resolutions read caused much disturbance. Gene
raj Cadwalader, G.. VI. Wharton and others, spoke
expressing the opinions that the bank expansion
would end in bankruptcy, and that their contrac-
tiOns closes the workshops.