The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-11-24


turdsy evssiag, when twelve moves were maas on
each side Tto games nov etand ss follows:
N<,e ys,.. Philadelphia.
pavntgou. asa Pawn to kins's3
Pawn 10 aacen'a bish. Pawn to ansenst
oasea's knish. 10 Eins's knight to XMAS
K.ass kaixhtto kss Pawn % queens bishops
f s.snS 3 lipx,.s qa.sn's trish. to gun.
Pawn to eu'o'.roos's Pawn s 70 aa'n'. knights
asu.n'. bishop. y.~a xinssstalsl. takes pawn
k's. bishop to gums Queen's bishop to aassns
Queens knight takes Pawn tak.sknight
knight q.
II BIshcp takes knight bishop takea bishop
IS Dun to kings knight Queens bishop ss queens
Il oaeeu to kings bish. Queens bishop to kings ;
y Queen to kinssi King: bishop TO 3, auesS;n nss
IL Pawn to gu ms knigts Queens bishop to kings
Is Bishea to q'ns kngrs Pawn to kings ROOKIE
10 knsa. to kings bish. King to king. bishop
~ Knight to knights Queen to king's2
Fl oassns TooE 20 queen Kings TOOK TO rook's3
q Hsxn takes pam Pawn t Az. pawn PAWN.
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"A Queen to qusen'ss Queens r1ok to queens
X xoes ,s saesI si Ssn Rook take. rock
q Bishop to hing's5 King to knss
2s Rock TO au'n's night Pawn TO kina 9 bishops
% B s.h.Is, takes r0'k' hips taxes '''n''
20 King 20 Bishops King to bi hops
81 King to king's3 Pawn to queens TOOK
IL will be seen by the above formula that good
deal OF damage has been done on both sides, each
having lost several of their best pieces. New York
has lost its queen both of its bihops and knights
two sawns and a rock, while Philadelphia has lost
its queen, both its bishops and soights, Two
pawns and a rook, leaving each combatapt six
pawus aud rock with which TO defend his meJesiy
the king.
The Office Of the American Telegraph Company,
aud the office of Towards Express, In Philadel.
phia, present a strange aud interesting scene on
the evenings upon which the great chess contest
between Philadelphia and New York is in pro
gress. The centre of all the excitement is IN a
small apartment peepIinto which can be obtained
by the initiated bat the door Of which is strictly
barred except to the Philadelphia chess champions,
the New York umpire, and the secretary Of the
players. The Bulletin says:
Around small table, in this room, four young
gentlemen, with fine intellectual heads, sit At Il.
chess board. The pieces upon the board and the
moves are profoundly Greek to rs; but we uncon~
players, bo, with keen eyes and earnest gestures,
are discussing the move which shall next be made,
aud tracing with their fingers, upon the board, the
probable effect of the next step IN the game. Al
Ter seeming difference of opinion the conflicting
views are recopced, the four champions agree,
the move in made: and in an instant the magic
wires are conveying the intelligence not Only te
Now York, where the antagonist knights are ma
usuveriug their chess-Erep, but eli over the cou0
try, North, Son. h and West. New York generally
takes her fail fifteen minutes before che responds
over the wire to the move just made, and in the
meantime our Phiiadephia players auaIyse the
game and fo.tiiy themselves for contingencies.
Cue Of the Eiest curious features of the scene. is
the fact that everywhere, within sight or sound Of
the great centre whsre the game is managed are
persons with chess boards, eagerly following the
moves, and playing cut the game after each move,
and settiing it 10 their own satisfaction. Each of
these boards is the centre OF desperate kpo. Of
persons. aud in all we hear Kings" ''Bishops,"
"Roosa," and Paving talked about learnediy.-
Napoleon never managed q battle in which every
shot told instantly upon toe ninety nies distant,
nor were the knowledge OF his mar@uvrss COM
muDicated 10 points hundreds OF miles distant 10
y secoud oftiue. In those respects the telegraph
ic chess battle now in progresss between New York
and Philadelphia Is greater achievement than
Aus.erlitz or MareDgo, although it 10 not pr0ba-
bic that 1t will he attended with.as important rs
suits to theworid at large.
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SENTENCED to b uuxG.-Bray Saunders, who was
tried at the recent session of the Circuit Court for
southampton county, Va, and found guilty of
murder in the first degree, has been sentenced to
10 hung on Friday, the l4th January next.
SERIOUS AcGIDEsT.-Mr. c. Baker, brother and
sister, Of Orange county, Va, were returning from
home from q visit to their friends 10 Hanover. and
when within eight miles of hcDla on Saturday
last, the horses attached TO double buggy took
fright, ran away, and threw Mr. c. Baker aud his
L. =, 4, a
was otherwise injured. Mr.. Baker had oae OF his
eyes badly hurt, but not seriously They were
carried home Sunday.
sLzEr AND ssew-On Monday morning last, We
had light fall of sleet. The weather ID now COOL
aud bracias. The sslrda Mountains covered
with snow, which, with tho heavy ffos,s and cold
nights. make us feel that winter is upon US.
CTt>nr9le IS. O. Enterprise.
LAND SALg.-George Mattngiy, Esq, has jus.
purchastd the Mount Welby estate in Warrington
cosnty nearly opposite Alexandria, Va consisting
Of pa acres, delightfully."- situated, slipping from
the brow Of the ridge towards the Potomac. lie
paid for it abeut $1,000.
DISTRESSING DE,rH.-A little son Of Mr. George
Hosffer, aged about three years, on Monday af.er-
noon. drank, unobserved, boiling water from the
spont Of a teapot. The injuries were great that
he died last evening HIS parents resided on BIe-
neu strse:.-Ctacinnoit IIElss.
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There was another Snow in Alexandria Monday.
J. Il. Edgar, has been fined $40 in Portsmouth,
Va, for an assault on Whitmul Jones.
Wm. Collins hes been appointed Postmaster al.
Langley, Fairfax county, Va.
1t is sail that seventy or eighty children are
born every minute! FOuudings are then, We sup.
pose, minute guns ct sea-"
The. Rsppahannock Bank, at Tappahannock,
Essex County, Virginia, has been organized -
Mr. Calvert elected President, and Mr.. Spain ca. b..
fer.
~ RICHMOND THEATRE