The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-05-13

Capt VIM. A. Wright. a we'll known citizen OF
Tappahannock county, Va, died on the 9Th inst.
The legislature Of Oregon at its last session, di-
.orced 81 couples.
N. W Kitton, Democratic candidate, has been
elected Mayor Of st. paul's, NJ. T.
Gov Robinson is making speeches in Kansas
against the Leaveuworth Constitution.
RI Rev. Geo. W. Freeman, Episcopal Bishop Of
Arkansas, died on the 29th ult.
The National Theatre, at Chicago, opened on
Saturday, with Maggie Mitchell as the star.
The season is open at Niagara Falls The Cata-
ract and the International have begun operations.
The ocean mail service bill before Congress ap-
propriates 81 ,26S, $50
The Prince of Wales has returned to England
from his tour in Ireland
The Catholic Provincial Council at Cincinnati
closed its deliberations on Sunday.
Robt. f. Nutte, for 30 years an active fireman
of Philadelphia, died on the 1lth inst.
An Episcopal church was dedicated at Elizabeth
City, North Carolina, on Sunday last, Bishop At
kinson officiating.
subscription of 100000 to the capital stock of the
Wilmington, Charlotte Rutherford Il. X. Co.
The Bank of the State of North Carolina and
Bank of Cape Fear have agreed to resume specie
payment on the first day Of June next.
Iredel county, N. C, was visited by hail storm
considerably.
Giovanni Lane, the Italian murderer ola French
courtezan, was hanged at Newgate London on
the 10Th of April.
Il. III. Stanton, chief officer of the American
barque Petesa, died of smallpox at Portsmouth,
England, on the oath ult
Luther J. Wolf, son of ex Gov Wolf of Pa. wa,
killed at Easton, Pa, on the 10th inst by falling
from hotel window.
of he u
pauy for April were S9l, sO4.6l, an increase over
April, 1857, Of $l0,65l,4l.
chaplain at State prison was asked bv a
friend how his Pensioners were All under sscea.
viction,' was the reply.
Mr., Mccormick, of Chicago, is now making
$500 of his celebrated reapers, to fill orders for
the coming harvest.
There is a monster grapevine at Motento, Cali
fornia that yielded last summer 700 bushels of
grapes, weighing $4,000 pounds.
Meadows, convicted of forgery at Lewisburg,
Va, has been sentenced to three years in the pen
itentary.
The proposed celebration. on the completion of
the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, will
take place OH Thursday, Sd OF June.
The heavy rail on the Richmond, fredericksburg
and Potomac Railroad is laid to within one mile
Of Fredericksburg, Va.
Rev. Ethan Osborne died in Fairfield, Cumber-
land county, New York, on the LIST inst, aged 100
years.
Eighteen residents of Mianitown, Ohio. have
been fined $40 for attempting to lynch B. Cole
man, by hanging him.
We learn from the Harrisburg Telegraph. that
there are hopes entertained of Charles Fenuo uoff-
mans recovery from insanity.
john Aiard, of Paducah. KY, has been mule
ted in $1,000 damages for not marrying a Miss
Smith
The Canandaigua and Elmira railroad is to be
sold at public auction, in Canandaigua. N Y on
the oath ofJune.
The admirers of orsni are to honor his memory
at Cincinnati, on Friday night next, with torch
hight procession.
large number of factory operatives are on a
strike at Oineyvile, X. J., for restoration of
wages TO the rates paid before the panic
The specie reserve of the Philadelphia banks
circulation 10 slightly under two millions and
half.
w. A. Coleman, OF Chesterfield county, Virginia
charged with placing an obstruction on the Rich
mond and Petersburg Railroad, has been aequit-
ted.
The Rev. Theodore Parker has been engaged to
deliver the Grafton before one of the societies at
Bowdoin College commencement and Oliver Wen.
dali Holmes Is expected to deliver the poem.
Sir Philip Champion. Surgeon General Of ireland,
and father OF the late British Minister In Wa,hine.
ton, was dangerously Ill, In Dublin, on the 24th
ult
SAINT Biewitt, boy, convicted la Staunton, Va,
OF abstracting money from letters, has been sen
fenced to 10 years in the penitentiary.