The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-11

THE ST. LOUIS CALAMrY.-The st. Louis Leader
alludiug to the examination of parties suspected
of setting fire to the St. Louis Hotel. says:
We have watched the testimony from day to day
and fully satisfied that Capt. Couzzens will not
make out testimony enough from the mass intro.
dnced upon which to hang probability of guilt !;
still it will require positive evidence from the un-
explained facts connected with the blood ON
Doaue's body. and the simultaneous appearance of
fire all over the building, to remove the impress
sion made upon our mind that foul work was done
that night at the Pacific Hotel.
TEIEvEs' INPLEMESTs-An account appeared in
the London papers some months ago of very
complete instrument found in the possession of .
thief in the metropolis for boring holes into iron
safes. Since that time 4 much more complete in
strument of the kind has been found in the pos
session Of a returned convict at Manchester. The
instrument found in London could simply drill O
small hole through the iron door of safe; that
seized In Manchester cuts out a piece of iron at
one operation through which mans hand may
be inserted. The invention and workmanship are
such as might have been turned ont only at one
of our first rate machine shops. The Instrument
has been tried by Messrs. Chubb the iron safe
makers, who fepnd that it would cnt piece ont
of a qnarter-inch iron door In four hundred reyo.
utions Of the lever by which it is worked, or in an
hour: and 1t had cut piece from plate half an
inch in thickness without being in the least iniur-
ed or rendered inefficient for further A sim
gnar fact in the is. that in the hiefs yalise,
IN winch the latter instrument was fognd, was al
so discovered cogwheel belonging to the instru.
meDt seized in London, and connecting the person
having the one machine with the owner of the
other. The person in whose Possession the ma
chino WAS found In Manchester escaped punish
ment because he was in dwelling-honse with 1t
when taken; had he been taken with II In the
streets he could have been reached by tho Law.
4 RAILWAY Train STOPPED By BRIGANDs.--We reatl
in the Courier d. Itale:-"Betx ~ cen Rome ard Fras-
cati is a railway about nine miles long. cobsid-
erable uumber of persons went the other day to a
fete at Franssat the ladies being dressed in their
richest garments, and wearing their costliest
jewelry. This was all known to the brigands.-
Accordingly. they seized the officers who occupied
the intermediate station in the midst of the desert
ed country. and proceeded to hoist the red flag as
a signal to stop. The engineer, fearing something
was on the line, brought the engine to q dead
stand when the robbers Instantly laid aold of the
travellers aud cody plundered them, doing them
however, no other injury. Up to this time we had
tncied that railways wsuid pat end to this sort
OF adventure; but the foregoing stroke, performed
at the very gates of Rome. shows that we were too
sanguine. Instead of robbng some ten or a doz-
en- passengers in diligence, the brigands now
take 100 in one haul. OF course. the more pro-
ductiye this peculiar branch Of industry becomes
in the Roman States the greater will be the num-
Der of those who follow It,"