The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-09-09

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snIous AcupsST .--In the town Of Tilssnbsrg
near Toronto, Canada, on the "a instant, On acci.
dent occurred Of moss aisrming nature. po-
lisicai meeting had assembled Ia the Town Hail.
The Toronto Leader says:
Just a. Mr.. Foley vas about retiring, after &C.
eupying the attention Of the audience for several
hours, the noor in the upper part OF the room sud
denly gave way, carrying with IL about one hun.
dred and fifty people. The hoor underneath proved
itself unequal TO Withstand 20 great and 20 sudden
. weight, and that, too, instantly gase way, pre-
cipitatipg the unfrtunate sufferers Into the room
below, making q total fal; Of come twenty-four
feet. The scene that ensued Il 10 impossible to de-
scribe. A mass Of human beings In Imminent dan
ger OF smothering, and for = NV moments incspa-
Bile Of receiving any sssistauce. lay 10 darkness,
grosnIDg under bruises and broken limbs, and oil
that had not become iusensible from the fall mady
endeavoring to exsricafc themselyee.
The news Of the calamity spread like wildnre.
and 10 Q few minutes wives and sisters were fran
tjcally calling on husbands and brothers who were
known to be among the sufferers. Aid was rot
long in arriving, aud the whole community turn
ed ont with speed and . zeal worthy all commen
dation. The result Of these lahore of mercy was
the early extricaton Of all the sufferers, many Of
whom we're taken out with no other injuries than
severe fright, and few upimportsnt bruises
Others, however, perhaps to the number OF nearly
thirty. were very severely contused-some, In
Decd it 10 feared fatally 1t is our painful duty to
add that. 10 the case Of one person, when taken
out, life found to be quite extinct. The person
whose earthly career has been TINS suddenly
closed was Mr.. Hopkins, carpenter.
Mp. suMSEa's HEaLTH-What Is a Nora The
Paris correspondent of the New York Times, writ
ing on the 10th August, says:
MIR. Sumner left town yesterday for season at
AK les Bains, 10 Savoy. The cauterzston of the
spine has done him good, and after season at Ak
he will return to Paris again and to the mo1ds
Perhaps your readers do not known the character
Of this remedy. moxa 10 thus made AMI applied
1t IL composed ordinarily o cardsd cotton. rolled
into . cone. the base of which may have an inch
diameter, and slightly pressed by and contained
In piece of muslin, or other cloth. The cotton is
saturated 10 some aicohoIized substance such a.
csmphor or nitro. 1t 10 then placed on the skin OF
the patient, over the diseased part; the cotton IL
lighted, and as the fame reaches the bottom Of
the cone, it is blown into the skin by means of q
blow.pipe. The skin around is protected by wet
cloth. The greatest pain is experienced when the
flame first reaches the skin. Soon the cuticle be-
gins to crack; the skin contracts into burrows.
turns browB, then fries, aud finishes by becoming
black and carbonized, like other burnt substances.
These "moxas' must be repeated oftep, and over
the whole course of the spine, IL the disease be
there, 10 order to produce a permanent effect.
REMARKABLs EvEsr-Eigbt sisters, the youngest
more than sixty years Of age, worshippsd together
in the South Church, on last Sabbath, fur the first
time in many years Here they sat together in
their childhood and youth; here their father ven
cradle citizen who died many years ago, was one of
the pillars Of the church; and here, or rather In
the old house which stood near, they were baptized
in their infancy by the Rev. Dr. Hopkins of revoiu
tionary fame. The sisters have been long separa-
ted, in distant parts of the country. one of them
having been resident o; Virginia, and it was
memorable circumstance to meet once more togeth.
er ln the pew which they formerly occupied. An.
Ia "a IN (on
ing was that they listened to discourse from
their old pastor, Rev. DR., Emerson, who is now
In the eiehty-frst year of his age, and the fifty.
fourth Of lis pastorate.-iSalem, M s., Register
THE JgNA JUBILEE.-German papers by the Afri-
CO contain reports of the proceedings in jena on
he 18th and 10th of August, the first two days of
the celebration of the third centennial
OF the University. The town was literally crowd
ed with the alumni OF old Jena, and was decked in
holiday attire, every house being tasteully decora
ted with garlands,approprate devices ahdembIems
flag. and transpareDcies while here aFs1 there the
eye rested upon the names of eminent Germans of
the last three centuries-from Luther and Melanc
thon to Schiller and Goethe, and Luken and Hum
boidt. At last accounts, Humboldt hal not made
bis appearance, but was remem bered in q toast by
Beckh, of Berlin. Ernst Moritz Arndt was like
wise absent.
HORRIBLE AFPan.-Abouta n week ago, q negress
named Sally, belonging to Mr.. Fremont, living at
the corner Of Nayades and Pleasant sreets, just
beyond the limits of the city, accused of hav.
ing set fire to the house; but there not proof
enough to convict her. Yesterday morning, the
house was again set on fire, and two beds were
burnt before the flames were extiuguished. Cir
fastening the crime on her. she was ar
rested and taken to the Fourth District lookup.
On the return of Mr.. Fremont, what was his hor-
ror to fud his child, boy FIVE years old, missing
and after a long search, to discover him drowned
in the well, Heis concluded, from all the circum-
stances. to have been thrown down by the negress.
". o. Rcaysn<.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE SLAvER.-Capt. Townsend
of the slave brig Putnam, who has been brought
to the New York quarantine to be sent to Charles
ton, is q resident Of Providence, X. l., where be
has family. He is said to be SO years of age;
TALL resolute-iooking man, with light hair, large
red whiskers, and s very intelligent aud of excel
lent address and manner. Bad luck in his legiti-
mate voyages, he says, forced him into the slave
trade. He Gays that the slaves on board of the
Putnam will return with reluctance to Africa, as
their condition was, and will be, much worse there
than in the United States or Cuba. He
brought 40 from Africa. but 160 died at sea.
HOME THRUsr.-The Washington correspon
dent of the Baltimore Sun makes the following
pertinent inquiry:
The heavy expenditure which must arise before
the final disposal of the African negroes rescued
from the SLAYER Echo will doubtless turn the
minds of our statesmeR to the whole subject of in
reference with the slave trade. Why should we
keep up squadron on the coast of Africa, at o
yearly expense of at least half a million Of dol
lars, when 20 great powers as Frauce aud England
are carrying on the slave trade under the name Of
sppren ticeshipi
FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENTS IN OHro-A train on
he Hamilton and Dayton Railroad ran into a
carriage containing DR.. p Fessenden, his wife and
two aieces, near Cincinnati. on the Tth inst Mr..
Fessenden was killed and the others were severely
injured
tempting to cross the track OF the Dayton and
Western Railroad, were run into by passing train
rbe younger brother was instantly killed. The
other escaped slightly injured.
TIE STONES OF THE EAST FOR ENGLISH RoADs.-Ths
frst mile of roadway from 6horeditch to Stoke New
ingtou has been KEEP: In substantial repair by sup
ply of what il termed the "best of all road mater
ias. the black porpyhry stone from China. brought
England rs ballast in the tea ships. and the nex
half mile has been recently repaved with broken
granite from Bombay.
sCaPrIsa" RIvIERE IN TROUBLE AaAIN.-The gal
liant Zouave is likely to get into fresh troubie nm
less he dessts writing phlippics to the city jour
aaIs, colling the people of Mobile towards, &c. 4
Mr. Luis Z. Grant, Writes to the Express from th,
Metropolitan Hotel. that being the friend OF Capt
Il. Maury, of Mobile, Capt. Riviere 10 anxious fol
satisfaction, he can be accommodated at the earli
est tconvenience provided the gallant Zouave selects
agentemaa to do whatever fighting may be neces
sary.
RoBngaY On Friday night last the railroad de
pot office at Carksburg, Va, vas broken open, tn,
key of the express safe taken from Its hiding place
and the safe opened aud robbed Of $40. The loss
il s said. will fall on Messrs. Baker Co., Agent
st harrisburg.
LATER FROM MFxIco--The steamship Gen. Rusl
has arrived ut New Orleans from Brownsyilie
with dates from Mexico to the 1st Instant. Thl
liberalsts captured 1ampico on the 25th Of Au
gust. Gen. Miramon was hotly pursued. Ger
vidaurri was concentrating ten thousand nlsn a