The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-10-14


REyoIcryGs OvER rHE ARRIVAL OF THE OVERLAND
Mail AT ST. LOUIS The St. Louis Republican brings
rs further particulars of the arrival there Of the
hrst overland mail from California, with six pas.
sengers, one OF whom was Mr. Bailey, an agent Of
the Postofiice Department The Republican says J:
Mr. Bailey being called out by gentlemen who
had assembled at the Planters House on the occa-
| sion, gave brief but Interesting history OF his
trip. The great difficulty in the way was the want
OF water in some Of the deserts, but this was
remedied to very considerable extent by the fore.
sight OF the company, in seuding water forward
| tor the use OF the animals The company has more
than two hundred stations on the road Mr.. Bailey
believes that all the difficulties which attended
luis t,ip VIII Dc overcome in short time. and he
prociaims the whole enterprise "a perfect sue
| cess" The Indians gave them no trouble
| Mr. Butterf1ed, who has been laboriously en-.
gagged In giving fair start to the enterprise on
this end of the route we are glad to saw Il in ey
cellent health, and confident Of the success of the
| undertaking. ~
Inc republican also gives an account o. the re-
ception Of the mail, its escort to the postoice by
| procession of citizens headed by band of music
as we'll as the reception Of Mr.. Butterfeld. who
| brought the mail through from San Francisco an
achievement which that paper regards as far more
brilliant than the laying Of the Atlantic teegranb
cable. as IL passes over own soil, affordiue n
semi-weekly, soon to be converted into dajly.
communication between the extremes of the Re
public. 1t says:
NINE years ago, when the discovery Of gold In
california led 10 the immense emigration To that
State, it Yves regarded as an expeditions trim II
made from the Mississippi to the Pacific in eighty
| TO one hundred days. Thousands were occupied
much longer time, and hundreds perfshed on the
| wayside. The establishment of this mail route
and of the route from st. Joseph to Utah, and
thence to Sacramento. has che nged the who'll. cnr
rent OF things; aud it is now demonstrated, on a
hrst trial, and under adverse circumstances. that
Is practicable to carry mail and passengers from
ST. Louis to San Francisco in twenty. four days-
| ty days.
deserves great credit fer the encour-
agement which it has given to the successful pros.
| ecution of this great enterprise.
| Senator Gwinn, of California, now in Washing.
ton, has written letter to the President, suggest.
Ing that 5000 troops be stationed along the wagon
road route, so as to protect the mail from inter.
| ruptions by Indians.
CONFEDERATION OF RAG MoNEY-The receivers O.
the Exchange Bank at Bangor, Me, having closed
| up us DOCKS, on Saturday last made grand bor
fire of $4,000 of it's bills. The Courier says:
| The receivers have paid dollar for dollar of the
| public Indebtedness of the bank, which has been
presented within the time allowed By law. We
| understand there is a large amount of the bills
| (S25,O0O) still in circulation somewhere at the
West Al it had been sent in, q large dividend
| would have been paid on the whole; but that which
IS now oot Is OF course entirely worthless. The
concern is closed up; and the sooner the holders
burn the bills the less likely will they be to cheat
| their neighbors.
CONTEST WITH A BoAR.-The Abingdon, N. Y.
STANDARD relates that several days since as Walter
| Davis, young man, was endeavoring to drive
| savage boar into pen. the ferocious animal
| turned upon him and drove him into corner near
| high board fence. The boar Ieaped at him with
| the ferocty of a tiger, but was kept at bay by
Davis for some ten minutes, bnt finally, by tre
mendous leap. the savage animal came 30 near that
| the pole was useless. As he made spring, Davis
jumped over him, but in doing so, the boar drove
his tusk through thick kip boot, and almost
| completely through his foot, throwing him back
into the corner Before the beast could pursue
| The advantage he had gained, Davis IVES up and
| running for dear lie. The boar followed him to
| the door of tie yard, striking him above the
knee, cutting cash six inches long and an inch
deep at one end. The ferocious animal was subse
1uentiy secured in his pen.
! scEooL TEACHER AssAsASArED.-A very deliber-
| ate murder was committed at Independence Mo-
| on the 10Th uit A young man by the name of
Cooper waylaid and killed another by the name of
Littlepage, school teacher. 1t seems that Cooper
| had made some statements about Littlepage which
were not true. whereupon Lttlepage waited on him
and got him to sign retraction. The next day he
hid himself near where Littepsge had TO pass aud
| shot him with a double barrel shot gun. Nineteen
| buck-shot hit him in the breast. he staggered
about twenty steps and fell dead. Cooper then got
| his horse and said he was going to Brenham to
| give himself up He was afterwards seen in Bren.
ham. The neghbors mustered and started In pur-
| suit of MIN.
FEMALE HORRIBLY MANGLED.-The wife of Chas
| Grocer was horribly mapgled in q grist mill on
Thursday last. During the absence of her hus-
band from the mill, she was informed that the
miller was suddenly PROSTATE dby sickness, that
the mill was ia operation with quantity of wheat
in the hopper, and no person to take charge of it,
| She Immediately repaired to the mill, and while
| adjusting the machinery her dress was caught in
the wheel, and in an instant her head was drawn
between two cog wheels, tearing her hair and
portion of the scalp Off In endeavoring to ex-
trcate herself. her right foot and left hand we're
| smashed and her arm above the elbow horribly
mangled When extrica.ed she presented hor-
| rible appearance, and, although still alive this
| morning. no hopes are entertained of her recovery
| At the time Of the cad occurrence her husband
| was several miles away from home on business
Albany (N ~ Journal.
| TREMENDOUS PILES OF GoLD-The bullion in the
| Bank of France now stands at about 1920 600 O0O-
| far higher sum than was ever before held by that
| establishment, apd more than 50 600 600 in excess
of the largest total ever collected in the Bank of
| England. At the commencement of the present
year the Bank of France held less than $4,000 OOO
| and the influx in nine months has therefore been
! S!0000,000. At the Bank of England the total at
the beginning of the year was $50 500 00O and it is
now more than $95 600, 900. The highest sum it
ever possessed was Sill 100000, in July, 1852.
THREE LIVES Losr.-On Monday afternoon, three
| men, named Thomas McGrade, William Butler and
| Michael Roach, were at work sinking q well at
Willow Springs station town of Palos, on the Chi.
| cago Alton and st. Louis Railroad. They were
| one after another, overpowered by the deadly at
| mosphere at the bottom of the shaft, one being
lowered successfully to the relief of the preceding
| one, aud each falling lifeless.
| ANOTHER REFUGEE.-George d. d'Arnsberg, Adjutant
| Of General Dembinski. during the Hungarian rev.
| olution has arrived in New York. 1t will be re-
| membered that he at first condemned by an
Austrian court martial to be hanged, but his pen>
imprisonment in irons in the fortress Of Kufsfsip.
On the 1st of August last, the Emperor having re-
mitted the balance of his sentence, George Arms
| berg went to Hanover, whence he sailed for this
| country to join the other Hungarian emigrants
who have settled in America.
| COULDN'T HELP IT.-After q marriage ceremony
| had been performed in one Of the churches in
Ajrien, Michigan, the bride. when receiving the
congratulations of her friends, shed tears accord
ing to the established ridiculous custom at the
| sight OF which the groom followed suit with a
copious now of the briny huid After his friends
succeeded in calming him. be said he couldn't help
| it, for he felt as bad about it as she did.
| QUITE LIKELY-A correspondent, who has been
reading "Spurgeon's Gems" is much struck with
the originality of the idea there expressed, ''that
We should all probably like to have free passes to
the palace of Heaven" lie at the same time sug.
gests that the holders OF those "passes" would pro-
| badly be dead heads"
INDIAN BEATS PALE FacE-A correspondent of
the Boston Post writes that the match between