The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-12
THE DISPATCH.
SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE u ,sss

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SATURDAY MORNING ................ JUNE ia, 1855
Prince Albert on rHr Usrrrp srarrs.-At the
last anniversary OF the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery OF Boston, 1t will be remembered Prince
| Albert OF England was made an honorary member
ofthe association, as an acknowledgment of pres-
cut mado them by His Royal Highness, Of copy of
Hiehmores History Of the Royal Artillery Com
pany Of Lesdon. The Prince Consort, on being
onciaiiy sdvised of the fact, reeprocated the
tesy In the following letter to Col Wilder, Com
mauder OF the A. and I'll. Society:
| WINDSOR CASTLE, Jan. %, 1858.
Sr:-I am commanded by his royal highness
the prince consort, TO acknowledge the receipt of
your letter of the Goth Of December 1857, with the
accompanying copy OF the proceedings of the zfeth
anniversary meeting Of the Boston Artillery Com
pany, together with dipl oma by which In accor-
| dance with resolution passed upanimousiy at
| that meeting, his royal bighness has been consti
iuIeo an honorary member OF Your ancient corps
| His royal highness desires to assure you of
the deep sense which he entertans OF this proof of
/ the good will borne by the Artillery Company of
Boston towards the parent association nor can he
be otherwise than much gratifed at the 6atter-
ing manner In which yCu nave determined by the
honor conferred on him, to give expression TO this
feeling.
His royal highness would further beg Won 70 be
assured that the kind feeling which has nromnted
tuio stcp Du your part 10 IuiIT rHCtDrOCate1 nv
your brethren on this side of the Atlantic and he
confidently trusts that the mutual connection low
estabished between the two COMPANIES NAV he
! one amongst many links that shall ever remain
unbroken, TO bind our kindred nations 20 each 9th
or il constant interchange of good offices and in
| a community of interest.
| am further desired by his royal highness to re-
quest that you will yoarself sir accept the expres
| sion of his best thanks for the kind manner in
which you have communicated the resolution of
the Boston Artillery Company, and have the hon
or to remain, sir, your most humble and sbedient
| servant GREY, Major Geuerai.
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Bos
ton.
THE ATLANTIC TELgGRAPu MIR. A Halle Wash
ington, D. C, predicts the failure of the Atlantic
| ocean telegraph. In a letter to the Tribune be
saws:
Strange as II may seem, all the experiments vet
made by Mr.. Whitehouse and his assistant eIectri
claus, on the result of which they have congratu
lated The Company and the scientific world that
the electric part of the work is accomplished have
lett out of the accoHnt half the entire circuit
1t seems from recent experiments, that two and
three words a minute can be forced through tSe
i"entire cable" and upon this result we are as
sured that the electric problem is solved. Such
scientific stupidity is really an outrage upon the
! Company. to say nothing of the press and the
world. These experimenters will learn when too
late,that it Is one thing to send dispatch through
the "entire cable" with its two ends brought to-
gether, and quite another thing when it's two ends
| are 1000 miles apart and the electric wave has TO
travel the whole length of the cable and return
through the water, which all electricians should
know forms the home stretch of submarine cables
with single conducting wires; and as water is not
so good conductor as copper by % per cent, it
Will be equivalent to adding about 5000 miles to
their present cable before their experiments are
| worth the zinc tn y consume.
| From the extreme difficulty In sending reliable
signals through what will be, when laid down
less than half the actual circuit,l am compelled
reluctantly to record its inevitable failure in ad
vance.
SNAKE SToRY-We saw yesterday afternoon, a
| black snake which had been killed by a colored
man, who captured it near the sulphur spring,
measuring feet inches in length and inches
| around the largest part Of the body 1t was sup
posed to have been of the constrictor' species as
| it attacked flee dog belonging to the negro, and
was only prevented from crushing him, by the
timely assistance of bis master when il uncoiled
| itself and attempted to glide away IL was how.
ever Intercepted, aud killed after des perate com
bat,in which the negro received a severe bite upon
she arm, which from its swollen al pearance. was
considered dangerous at first, but the swelling
having subsidei by proper applications no i'll ef
fects are expected to result.-Fste1sburg Va De
3l0cTdt.
VISITING THE OLD PLANTATION "A negro belong
| Ing to gentleman of Cass county in this State
runaway about two years ago, and nothing had
| been heard of him since. few days ago he came
to. his masters house, much to the Iatter's sur.
| prae looking fat and sleek. lie was warmly vel
coined, and ordered to the field to take up a.de
hoe" He went. but not to work. Took the shade
and quietly looked on. He was ordered to work
Thercupon he said he had not come back to work
was a freeman-had been to Canada Ohio &c
and wanted to bny himself if "a thousand dollars
conld do so. His sinsoleuce curbed by the lash
which he resisted cutting with knife one of the
negroes who was tying him, lie is now In jai-
lt was thought that his intention was to seduce
other negroes off with him.-ClSsrtHe. Ga .Yao-
ddTd, Sd inst.
ILLINOIS ADMINISTRATIONS STATE CONVENTION The
State Convention of the Administration Democra.
cy OF Illinois assembled at Springfield the 9th
instant. Two hundred and sixty three delegates.
representing forty-eight counties, were in alton
dance John Dougberty was nnmiusted State
Treasurer. and Ex-Gov. Rey mold SUI eriptendent
of Public Instruction.
Resolutions were adopted affirming the adbe-
renee to the Cincinnati PLATFORM reaffi ming the
principle Of non-in neryention in the Territories:
opposing the concentration Of power in the hands
| OF the central Government: deprecating slavery
agitation; condemning Senator Douglas. and char
scterIzDg his course in opposition to the Admin.
istratiou as overwaening conceit deDou scipg the
priL Lciples Of the Republican" party aa tending to
| dissolution OF the Union. and denouncng the
| late outvages by the British cruisers on American
| vesse's in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere
CHIcAGo-The New York Express informs u.s.
that within a short space Of time in the city of
/
Justices of the Peace have been sent to BrideyelJ
for conspiracy to tort money con. able has been
similarly punished for tue saMe crime; an editor
who by the way, was treasurer of Sunday
| School-has been sent to Alton, to work for the
government, for rohbing the post Office: an a.tor-
ney has been indicted for bribery in the trial OF
| the same case; and the trial of a county Supervi
| sor Is just closed for crime worse thap
either of the former yet, in justice to the latter
We will say that he was discharged.
! FORCE OF LIGHTNiNG.-It has been proved on one
occasion, says the Scientific American. that flash
| OF lightning must have struck the church-St
| GeoIge's, Leicester. England-with force equal
| 10 more than 12O00 horse power A single horse
power Is equal 10 raising 35 600 pounds one foot
| high in one minute The force OF the lightning
therefore, WAS equal to 3s4 0O0 600 pounds raised
one foot high in one minute. This is equal to
| the power of twelve of our largest steamers, hav
ing "A engines of 500 horse power each.
| MURDERER SENTENCED Richard n. Pearse was
tried last week. at Whitewater, Wisconsin, for the
| murder of VIM III. Hamilton, convicted Of mur-
der IN the second degree, and on the Sd inst.
fenced to Imprisonment, at hard labor for life. in
the State penieItiary, and that on the Eth, 18th
| and 18th OF January every year, the imprison-
| ment should be solitary.
, DESTRUCTIVE FIRk-Early on Sunday morning
| the Erie Railroad Company's station and freight
honse, at Hankins, n Y, took fire and we're total
ly destroyed, with their contents consisting of a
iaEge Quantity Of leather -four, aud other freight
Abont 1900 cords of wood, and several thousand
| feet of lumber were also consumed
NEWS IS LoNDoS.-The steamship Arabia which
arrived at Liverpool on the 25i ut., brought news
of the British outrage committed on the schooner
Mobile of Key West. The fact was duly tele-
| eraphed to London, but had not been further no.
| tced when the Kangaroo sailed
FOURTH OF JuLY 0vERBo.RD-Tbe Common Coun-
ell of Providence, r. L. have concluded 10 make no
appropria ion for the Fourth of July this year. on
the theory that patriotism does not fiud It's best
expression in gunpowder, aud that the country is
not to be saved by fireworks and illumination.
CONVERT GEORGE d. Prentice. the editor Of
the Louisville Journal, has enrolled himself AS
1 . &C.,