The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-12

ufAH ExPEDrTios-The following is a list of the
o'hcers attached to the headquarters Of the Com.
n'""a'ng 'ehersi OF the Utah Army, Brevet Major
General Persifer T. Smith:
Lieut., Richard G. Drnm sorr,h ax,;,arr
Lieut.. Francis Wheaton frst cavalry .ids deean.
ny; Don carlos Buel, jutsnt general; Col Daniel
y, iotnpsins, assistant tquarternaster-geheral: 1t
ooI' usorse Crosman, deputy quartsrmaster.
seneta; Lieut. Col Joseph Z. Johnson, acting in-
| spcc'or generA Surgeon J. r. Wright. medical di.
rector; Capt. NJ. d. l.. Simpson, commissary of sub.
sH'ebce; Capt. John Newton. chief engineer: Cant
James III simpson, chief Typographical engineer:
Sapt' Jesse r. Reno, and Lieut. Francis =. shunk
partment -
Con'mdadersQf BrigGdes-Br Brig Gen VIM. g.
iiarney; Capt A. Pleasonton, acting sdju'ant gen
ersI; Br Brig. Gen. A. ). Johnstop; Br. Maj Fitz
| 'ohh Porter, assistant adjutant general.
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TALE OF LovE-AS 0LD WIrE IN sgtRcH OF HER
foU>G Husg4SD.-About six months since an elder.
iy lady OF property. living ia BROOKLYN n Y who
bought her fashionable wares at a celebrated dry
good house in Broadway, New York, became ena.
morcd OF handsome young man who attends there
After many visits she decided to invite the Young
man to her magnificent house in the CITY of chur.
ches She told him she to see him on matters
OF the grsvest mpor rtance lie bushed and more out
OF curiosity than admiration he consented 10 visit
her. The young man was dazzled at the magnif.
eence of the house to which he had been In Yited
and was entirely lost in conec.uriue for what pur.
pose he had been brought thiiher. The lady, after
giving her guest some various refreshments pro-
ceeded to Barrate the fact of her long observation
OF his respectable conduct adding that she had in
quirel of his employers and found him to be a
highly moral and worthy young man-worthy of
better situation in society. She confessed that
she had become enamOred Of him, not Of course
for his physical beauty, but for his moral worth
aud finally wound up by offering him her hand 10
marriage.
The lady WAS on the shady side of i've and forty.
while the lover was not twenty-five sumu,ers old.
Tho latter in love, too with a handsome
young lady in the millinery department of the
same establishment where he WAS employed He
hafiy refused, notwithstanding that she had come
$4,000 which she cozld place iu his ha uds. After
several interviews, the widow gradually won the
young man to her We've: and finally he consented
TO aud did marry her. After the marriage she re-
flushed to make her real estate TO her hus-
band, and this jispleased him. About week age
the Benedict" thought he would take trip to
the country, to see few friends. His wife con-
5entcd; but in few days. he not returning, she
concluded her bird had flown. She started in
pursuit of him, and learned that the young lady
had accompanied him in his flight. The old lady
arrived In this city, and consulted with an expe-
rleBced detective. who put her, after some iuqui
Tles on the track Of the guilty pair, who had gone
further west. The wife says she is prepared
to give bin full control of all her property. if he
would return alone home Chicago DAILY Union
MECHANICS WAGES IN EDINRURG-Nr. Harrison
IN answer TO an application from the
statistical department of the Board of Trade, who
were anxious 20 obtain iufor nation from all parts
OF the county as to the rate of wages during the
last three years, he had collected the following
statistics az to tie dsiiy rats Of wages obtained by
mechanics In Edinburg: Hatters, IS 4d; brewers,
= Sd; cabinet makers IS Adj carvers, 3s lid; gill
ders. 3s sd: uphosters, IS to So Sd; plumbers 3.
33i to s a. gas filters, So I'd; barss uders, IS
+d book binders, 3s 0d; do females for folding and
sewing Is %; laborers 2s Sd; printers-compos
tors, Is 2d; pressmen, 4s %; coopers So cd: gun
powder makers, 3s gasmetre makers. 3s 4I9d to
IS 3D. masoHs, Is Id; jUiuers IS Cd to 35 Cd;
yers, As 3D. turner's, 3s lud; heshers 2s l0d Wages
for tbs week range, according to Skill from lis 6d
to 46s.-Scotch Paper.
BANKS IN CozSEcrCUT.-There are seventy,six
banks in Connecticut, with an aggregate capital
Of s2o,elS,723. To insure their better regulation
the Governor in his message, sent in last week re-
commends-
First That the banks be prohibited from paying
interest on deposits. Second. That they be pro-
hibited from making loans on call. Third That
their ciI cuatiop be limited to amount not ex-
ceedng seveDty-fye per cent. their capital
stock. Fourth. That they he required to make
mOnthly returns OF their condition to the bank
commissioners Fifth. That they be required to
keep on hand an amount Of specie equal to ten per
cent on ths total amount of their indeb ted ness
| and if during any month their average amount
shall not be equal IT, this requirement, all dis
counts shall cease until they shall be restored to
such a condition.
THLEsRApHIc LINES OF The WoRLD-At the Ame
rican Scientific Association on Tuesday, Prof Hen
~ presented an extract Of letter from Lawrence
Turnbull, n. D.. on the Telegraph and Telegraph
ic Lines Of the World.
"The most recent estimate of the lines In the
United States, in 1854, was Al 1872 miles; estima
| ting the increase at the rate of 1900 miles per
| aunum, which is below the average, the actual
number of miles of telegraph in the United States
at the present time is at least 1892 miles. Thi.
| is the whole number of miles trayersed, but not
| the air line distances as may be seen by examn
| ing my report published IN my work on the tele-
| graph iD 1858. The number Of mles in Europe is
z 900; in India, 10000; South America, 1000, and
Submarine lines Of Europe and America, 200Q
| miles
THE WHIsKEY REMEDY OVEBDoSE A letter Of the
18th lust from the village of Longview, Arkansas
says:
"A poor man died here to-day from the bite of a
| rattesnake. lie was bitten yesterday about noon
aud died this morning about O'Clock. Three
| piuts of whiskey were given him when bitten, and
| | ain of opinion that il was the whskey, instead
| Of the snake, that killed him"
| CoPPLR IN TIE WEsT-The steamer City of Cleve.
| land has arrived at Detroit, Mich, from Superior.
Wisconsin, with 43,l6l lbs copper ore in barrels,
| 563t lbs. in masses, and 20 tons pig iron. The
| Mineral Rock brought l33 masses aud 507 bbis
| copper-in all, 30 tons The Manhattan, l25 tons
of copper and IS bbls tish. The schO Fitch, l03
| tons copper. The schooner Seaman, 26,Ioo lbs.
| copper and ITO tons iron.
| WcRsE THAN THE MARsHALsEA.-Notice was re,
Gently served upon Thomas Clark, of London,
| that the walls of building owned by him had
| been condemned, and would be pulled down. 1t
| was found that Mr.. Clark had been 10 prison for
more than forty years, for contempt OF court!-
| Dickens Crcumocution Office was no creature OF
| the fancy.
| To BE PUT DowN.-Prussa is about to make n
! third attempt TO put down gambling throughout
| the Germanic Confederation, having given notice
of a motion in the Frankfort Diet for the compul-
| sorry closing of the various Casinos kursaus, &c.
| which iufest the bank of the Rhine. Ii Is very
questionable, however, whether her efforts VIII be
| successful.
GROWING FAT ON TR0UBLE.-The French Emperor
has no clean aud hungry look but grows stout
upon the fears and an1ieties which are 40 plentl-
fully attributed TO him. No "fat and greaey citl-
zen1 tbriyes better in the flesh than Us Majesty
| Napoleon III, whose figure on horsebaHk has as
| sumed rotundity OF proportions altogether In
compatible with any pretension to the graSeiai OF
| elegant.
| yrss.L SEIZED FoR DEBr The brig Ellen Reed
| from Liverpool for Philadelphia, 50 days ont, put
| into Bermuda on the Oath, where she was seized
for debt by the agent of the firm Of Messrs Joseph
| Yates 4 Co. Of Baltimore, against Messrs. Outer
bridge, Harvey & Co, Of Philadelphia. she re-
mains 10 the custody Of the Marshall there await
| ing judicial prOceedugs.
| SINGULAR ACCIDENTAL Belhrook, Illinois, a
| little son of MIR. Etcheger was throwing Parched
corn into his open mouth, when agrain lodged
in his windpipe, and causing hi, death In few
| moments.
| A CRoAkxR.-The Buffalo (S. ~ Express, In com
mcntfug upon the religious revival now in progress
| through the country, suggests that this awaken
| ing 10 merely the prenonition of great calami
| ties to come and predicts that the coming season
| will be one Of une1smpled sickness and fatality
| SINGULAR DIVORCE TaIAL.-In the Supreme Court
at Salem the jury engaged in the trial ola ioe
| tor airnrra hrnnah hr II m Little. Of NeWhurY