The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-03-02
FURTHER FROM KASsAs-No Cosv1RMArror
OF SHERRARDs DEATH.-A despatch from Louis.
VILE, Ky, dated the 27th, says:

FURTHER FROM KAssAs-No Cosrrpx.rro,
| OF SHERRARD's DEATH.-A despatch from Louis
ville, Ky, dated the 27th, says:
We have further advices from Kansas 10 rel.,
fion 70 the attack upon Gov Geary. Il appear
that Sherrard was . candidate for sheriff Of Dou
lass county but that the adroitness of Gov. Ges
rvs private secretary prevented him from secur
log the Office Sherrard was. in consequence
much xcited and the next time be met the secre
70 70 the ground. No steps being taken to resen
tni' insult, Sherrard soon after approached the
ooVernor himself. aud shook his est In his face
ana denounced him with oaths
iuefe Is no confirmation of the rumor Of Sher
iaru having been shot, but the settlers were abou,
70 take immediate measures to ipfiict punishment
na""id 5, 'ne Legislature take sides with Sberrard
- 10 Ie@rea mere will be renewal Of hosii!ites be.
t"een pro alavery and free. State parties.
dispatch to tbs New York Tribune, dated Le
compton, February Is, gives q fuller account of th
Anfsy 1heasn 1t looks very much like it had bee n
manufactured for the occasion.
AmsAtins of Geary's f.ien6s ra. b.,a A. III. c.,;
to- to su'ta his course and express
otths recent outrage to him. shsrrard And his
came armed to break it up. When the re.oIutIon
were reaa herrard declared that epy cus votin, n,
th"m was la: and 90 wafd. The excitenes, o.. ~
intense. shsEard drew pistol and hrsd, wouadins
man named Shepherd Misce,laneouss sh ,otinx To. n
besan and vas cortl,ued for some time. Mr. Shrrrs -
wat tEot through the head By a yyupz m,p nau ed
Jones, who came f-om PennsYlvania with the Cos
ernor shepherd has two bu lsts In hi. he ad--tw o
otnefs are slight wounded TIL, sherrard men see
ipg they would be overpowsred, offered 70 violene,
after rheuard fell
Young Jones was arrested by bogus Sheriff, .ns
sftsr the meeting was thus broken mp, Gov 6eary
called out the troops to prevent his bsiug lynched
the Cove also organized a COMPANY TO dafspd
but disbapded at dusk last night. More VIC.
walls.
The Legislature has passed Territorial Election
law. "a based on III. census which provided for the
Constltutlonal convention. Only those who NAV be
In the Territory IN April and whose mama, shall bs
registered. are TO vote at the next October elecuon
TEs Governor has sent In no more vetoes.
THE THEORY OF GAS BILLS An fnyestipa.
fioa ia going on in New York into the fairs of
the Manhattan gas company, the charge having
been brought asainst it. that when the price of
gas was recently reduced. it detenorated the
qlali'y of the article manufactured and increased
the pressure on the gasometres that the loss to
the consumer was In reality Increased. Some of
the evidence given ia instructive to those burning
gas:
Woicott Gibbs. Professor Of Chemistry and
Physics in the Free Academy, was the first wi
ness. He said that there was great difference in
Illuminating power of infammable gas; the
number of feet of g1s consumed is by no means
criterion of the amount of light producsd there IL
worth of bis money 10 light. except the honor and
honesty of the producer where the gas is charged
by the cubic FOOT one kind of gas might Yield but
one half as much light another Prof Gibbs.
was of opinion that the only way in which fhs
public might be secured against imposition " "a
the appointment of an inspector of metres aud also
An inspector of gas; then the quality of the gas
and the correctness " ita which it was registered
would be known to a certainty; witness finds that
the gas made at present Is good as that which
he analysed a year sgo; the pressure is greater
now than witness has ever known it to be: the
better the quality of the gas is, the less pressure
1t sneeded aud inferior kind of gsss is of ess specific
gravity than that OF better quality, and is also
more affected by pressure: wltness has examine ed
gas a. the Free Academy. and at his residence In
Lexington avenue. and found that the pressure
has rec, nty greatly increased; the gas flares up
out OF the burner more strongly than 1t used to;
the impression Of the witness was that the cost of
gas " IS greater in this city than 10 Lopdon.
John Furman was the next witness Is q Gas
Economist" his duties are to insp. CT eas.lamps
&c is employed to Famine the gas metres and
burners of the New York University as we'll a.
several other Institutions; all ths gas introduced
into the University, passes through one large me-
tire; there are also several small metres used to
register the amount of gas consumed by the diffsr
ent occurants; witness finds that the amount of
gas registered In the small metres is about ones
third greater than that in the large one; the COM
pauy make out their bills by the large metre; and
the University collects from their tenants by the
small ones; either the large metre or the small
ones are out Of order; witness did not know which
but thought 1t was the large one, because it ap-
peared to be old; witness thinks that if the con-
snmers understood how to regulate the copsump-
tion of their gas, they would have no cause of
complaint; the whole cause Of the complaint of
the Increase of gas bills arises from the
pressure.