The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-07-22

TIN FIVE PoINTs.-The following paragraph from
the Now York Express gives an idea of the fearful
accretiOnof vice and squsllor in the.held of labor
occupied by the Five Points Mission:
In attending to his duties recently Mr.. Pea-e
found dying woman i'll a foul apartment in Cow
Bay, occupied, also, by eight other women and one
man, all drunken und debase and infamous i'll the
last extreme. N the upper end of the same pesti-
lent court or close were found, in fifteen rooms,
twenty-three families, making an aggregate of one
hundred and seventy nine persons, or twelve to a
room In hvo OF these fifteen rooms, intoxicating
liquors were kept for sale! lndescribabIe filth
priyations, disease and indeceRcy reigned through
them all Yet seventeen children from these
rooms attend the schools of the House of Industry
In eleven other rooms were eighteen families and
in nearly half of these. rooms ardent spirits are
sold. In one of the garrets lived two negroes with
eleven abandoned white women. In twelve other
rooms were found twenty-four families, consisting
oi one hundred and twenty-four persons. Here
were two blind women, two just past the peril of
childbirth, and seSenty-One were children onlv
eight Of whom attended any school.
Mon LAW IN IowA.-We have lately recorded sey
eral executions 10y mob law in Clinton county, Iowa
Gov. Crimes in letter to the sheriff of that coun-
ty, says:
am resolved that, ftr as in me lies this law
less violence which, under the plea of administer
ing justice 10 horse thieves sets at defiance the ALL
thories of the State and destroys all respect for
the laws, both human and divine, shall be checked
| shall have no hesitation, therefore, when officially
advised Of the exgency, TO call out the entire mill
tary power of the State if necessary, to crush out
this spirit of rebellion which has shown itself in
your county. l shall direct all the military COM
panies in the State to hold themselves in readiness
for duty.
ALARMING AoClpENT.--AtS s o'clock Sunday night
rs one of the Hoboken IN. " ferry boats was CO.
ming into the slip on the Jersey side the bridge
gave Wy, inmersing over fifty persons. Fortu-
nately the engine Of the boat being reversed at
the time, and heavy surf being thrown towards
the hunken bridge, the passengers with the excep
ton OF one woman, named Bridget Reilly, were all
washed up out Of danger Several persons were
severely wounded, while others lost their watches,
purses aud hats and other articles of cloth ns A
young girl named MeCabe had her dress nearly all
torn OH her back by persons who caught hold of
her to save themselves. Dan. Kelly, the bridge
man hai ms right ankle severely bruised in saving
a lady from falling into the water. and several
others were injured about the face and hands The
body OF Mrs. Reilly WAS recovered abont ten
o'clock.
THE RESULT OF THIS ELECTION IN FRAscK.-The Paris
correspondent of the Liverpool Post says:
THE result OF the election throughout France
does not vary trom the statement in my last letter
The Republican party had mistake in their favor
In Paris which brings their vote up that of the
Government. II stands, therefore, as a fact that
notwithstanding its immense advances, the Govern
ment vote in Paris a tie with the opposition
vote. The Emperor is dissatisfied with this result
more particularly the analysis Of the vote shows
that the districts of the workmen voted largely
against him. lie supposed that he had firmly Sc
cured the sympathy Of this class and he now finds
himself Obliged to recOmmence his measures Of
security, aud for eonciiating their esteem The
number of opposition votes east in the whole Of
France, is about one million. Nine-tenths Of these
votes were cast in the cities aud large towns of the
country. From all quarters ii is alleged that IL the
opposition had had time to organize, the vote
would have been doubled or trebed."
ANOTHER COMET DIscoygRgD--0n the night Of the
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