The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-26
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VIRGINIA NEWS.

VIRGINIA NEWS.
COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF VIRGISIA-The following
leading facts and figures, gathered from the an
nuaI report of the Colonization Society of vir-
ginia for 1857, will be perused with interest:
The Colonization Society is a response to re-
peated demands Of the General Assembly of Nir-
giuis for an asylum for free negroes. &C Thee
dem auds we're made IN 1902 1901 aud 1916. Up to
this date there had been no Colonization Society.
The American Colonization Society was organized
in January. 1917. in response to these demands
The Presidents Of that Society have been Judge
Washington. Charles Carroll Jas Madison, Henry
Clay, &c. The Virginia Societys Presidents have
been Judge Marshall, Governor Tyler and Gov.
Floyd.
The revenue of the Parent Society in 1857 wa.
s97 $50 IS, of which $4,000 the gift of sin.
gle planter in Mississippi. The revenue of the
Virginia Society, in 1857, was 5000. The emigra-
ton WAS SINE Her than usual, owing to the ruWors
about a famine in Liberia, which only a
scarcity, such as Is incident to all countries, and
which. in this case was occasioned by failure OF
the rice crop, and the withdrawal of many Libe-
rians from agriculture, at busy season, to repei
the aggressions of some hostile tribes, &c. The
number of emgrants iu 1857 were Al. of whom
I36 were from Virginia. The chief difficulty the
Society has TO encounter, is the unhealthness of
the tropics to emigrants from temperate Cline
This fact interdicts the land TO the white man as
home. But Africa Is the natural cradle of the me-
gro race, and the mortality has not exceeded that
attending the COLONIZATION pI THIS country NJ
jamestown and Plymouth.
The following Is list is of the officers Of
the Societysor 1855:
President-John rutherford.
Tice- Presideat-Govcrnor Wise. ". Ill. Nacfar-
land, Judge Moncure, James Bruce, Alexander
Stuart, Judge Caskie, Judge Tyler, WyDdham Ro-
bertson. John Ii. Cooke, &c.
Kunaqers-P. Y. Daniel, Jr, 7. r. Grattan, John
o. Stegar, John Howard, James Thomas, Jr., Dr.
W. IL Gwathney. G. W. Randolph, NJ. Gretter. r.
Whitfield, samIel Putney, DR.. Palmer. DR.. Parker,
James Dunlop, w. II. Haxall J. p Taylor, John
VI. Patton. Jr., Philip Price, Nicholas Nlils auu
Fleming James
tScretlry-Frederick Dransford
T}raSurcr-Thomas II. Ellis.
General SUpsriHteiaicnt-Rey. L. Slaughter.
Agsat for EHtigrdHtS-ReV. W IL. Starr.
LIBERAL DoyArIoN.--We learn from the Virgil
MAN that Mr. John Steele, of Alabama, has made
donation of As 900 to the Lynehburg College, one
fifth Of which is payable next month, and the ba-
lance In annual instruments Of $1,000.
FIRE IN LYNCHBURG.-Th residence of Alexan.
der Liggott, Esq, on Fourth street, Lynchburg,
was entirely consumed by fire on Tuesday night
last. The building was wooden structure, and
one of the oldest In that part of the town.
large portion of the furniture was saved.
SERIOUS REsULT-A young man, named William
IIaines, who was shot by Mitchell, from hoase
of ill-fame, in Wheeling, not long since, had his
injured foot amputated last Monday.
ANCIENT HoRNs.-A lshorer, while d:ching. near
Wayne sborough, Augusta county, dug up huge
pair of elk antlers. from soil which has been Ia
cultivation more than hundred years.
SERIOUS CHARGE.-Wm III. Read, of Madison C.
H., is under arrest, charged with burning, caus-
ing to be burned, last fall, his shop, which
there was an insurance of $1,000.
FArAL ADMINISTRATION Waymsn, OF Halifax
county, VAS thrown from horse near Madison
c. II on the 18th inst, while riding in a fox chase,
and SO badly injured that he died on the 18th.
MEAsLEs.--The Charlottesville Jeffersonian says
that this disease has prevailed extensively in that
vicinity, and that 100 students of the University
have recently experienced attacks from it.
AccIpENr.-A young man named Mcintosh was
seriously injured in Alexandria, Wednesday, by
the accidental fall Of the hammer of a pe-driver.
o. p. BELpwIS, Esq, of Richmond, is lecturing
in Danviile.
SAW MILL BuRNr-We learn from the Danville
News that Mr.. d. I. Bansh's circular saw mill,
near Rnggold, was burnt down on Friday night
last. No insurance.
Posr OFFICE MATTERS -Appointments-Edw
Lyell postmaster at Union Village, Northumiand
county, vice d. q. Cox, deceased. Henry Head
postmaster at Sheets Mill Hampshire county.
vice Jas, Parker, resigned John l.. Harrison
postmaster at Cool Well, Amherst county, vice c.
IL. Ryan, moved away. Andrew Fisher postmag-
ter Subjects Tavern, Powhatsn CO., vice VIM Suh-
lett. resigned
The postoflice at Miler's Mill, Bath county, is
On route 1882, Accomac C. III. to Locust Mount.
JamesG. Smith, contractor; Il third weekly trip is
ordered, making service three times a week
socialists IN NEw YoRR--On Sunday evening
last, the French and German Socialists had auo
Their demonstration at the Steuben Herse in New
YORK city. Speeches were made denuncatory of
Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of Asstria and the
Pore of Rome, intersporsed with cheers for 0rsini
and his associates. One of the speakers, In alud-
son, but denounced James Buchanan for not eman.
eipating the slaves, white ones AS we'll as black.
nr. G. c. Mcmahon was shot aud severely wound
ed by his nephew, William Boyd, in Memphis
Tenn, ON the 18th inst.
Rev. Smith c. Quillian, of the Georgia Copfar
ence, died at Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th inst.
The runaway ship Adiiatic, is advertised Mt se.
Tannah, for ''sae, freight or charter
Jno q Lake, the Wit and poet, is lecturipg in
Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs Matilda Jones appeared "for the first time
in several years." in New Orleans, on Sunday
night last, at the st. Charles theatre.
Green Martin, tried in Washington county, Ga.
Tor killing his slave. has been found guilty OF
murder In the first degree.
Mayor Tradewell, of Columbia, c.. has desig.
mated aud appointed Thursday, a5th inst, as dsy
OF Thanksgiving in that city.
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