The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-30

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| A STRIKING CoErnAsr.-The slight notice the At
lantic Telegraph receives In the London press,s In
striking contrast to the interest it has awakened
among the journals of this country. Here the
facilities it gives for Information eagerly sought
to be used for the benefit of newspaper readers,
| and TO Keep up the interest in the journals. In
| England, even In the Times" two three lines
dispose Of the telegraphic Information from valen-
tia Bay, and all the telegraphic dispatches in the
paper seldom cover over three inches of spases.-
In the United States, journal that does not have
half column of teegraphic intelligence daily 10
| Of no account newspaper
INpRovEMrNr or NAvIGA1IoS.-The citizens of
Morgantown, Monongalia county, Va, have voted
| q subscription of $40 600 to the slackwater i'm
provement of the Monongahela river. Besides this
sum, $500 has been raised in the same place by
| private subscription.
| TIE RATE OF TRANSMISSION OVER THE CABLE
The New York Tribune states that the instruments
now in use at Trinity Bay and valentia records
| words at the rate of two per minute, or one hun
dred and twenty per hour. Improvements will
doubtless be made upon this; but at this rate the
cable can transmit more than two thousand eight
! hundred words per day.
| MYSTERIOUS AFrAIR.--There is some excitement
10 Brunswick county, Virginia, relative to the dis
appearance of Charles Williams, a young man who
went to Sussex on the 2Sth of Juue to be married,
and has not been heard from. The Petersburg
Democrat, however, says he has been heard from,
and is now in that city or Richmond.
| FATAL AFFRAYs IN yfRGINIA-In Dinwiddie co..
Virginia, on the 26th inst, Morgan Burns, shot
and killed by W. W. Bate, of Sussex, in a difficult
ty arising out of an unsettled debt. The deceased
| had grasped gun, for the purpose of shooting
| Bate, when he was shot. On Tuesday last, at
Grayson c. H., Spencer Isom was stabbed and
killed by Daniel Davis, In a fight. The perpetrs-
tor of the deed surrendered himself to the police.
FRASER RIvER.-The news from Fraser river is
interesting. Another shipment of $4,000 in geld
from the new diggings had reached San Francisco.
The tide Of emigration to the northward had, how
ever, been partially checked by the discoursging
reports circulated by the disappointed gold hui
ters. During the fortnight preceding the 5th inst,
LOO persons had taken passage for Victoria while
two thousand had returned from the same point.
DEArH.-J. N. Reynolds, for the last twenty
years an active politician of New York, died at St.
Catharine Springs, Csnsda, on the 25th inst He
was intimate friend of the great sHarry OF
the West" and was famous for his stump speeches
in his favor during '40-'44. He was nearly sixty
years of age As an original advocate of Symms's
famous Theory of hollow earth and active friend
of the South Sea Exploring Expedition, he was
first Familiarity known to the public.
TIE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND TIE UNI
TED STATES GovERNMgST.-Lord Derby, in answer
to the representations of the Directors of the At
lantic Telegraph Company, has signifed the will
linguess Of the British Cover nment to amend the
charter Of the company as to place its organza-
ization &C., upon footing Of absolute equality
regards the British and American Government
So states the New York Herald, though the tale is
very Improbable.
MARINE INrELLIGEscF.-By the Canada we learn
that the ship Minehaha, Capt. Beauchamp, from
New York, February 22i, had arrived at Melbourne
previous to June 14th and that the ship Telegraph,
Capt. Giles, from Richmond, Virginia, had cleared
on the 10th of june for Guam"
Mr.. VERNON IN THE FoREsre.-A letter from David
" Whiting, Esq., postmaster at Santa Fe, New
Mexico, states that he has collectsd-in that far
OF town-the sum of $50, for the Mount Vernon
cause. The association to have its "knights'
everywhere, aud very energetic enes, too, if we
take Mr.. Whiting as q sample.
GRAIN MovEMESrs.--Over Is 900 bushels of wheat
were shipped from Bristol, Tenn, to eastern mar
kets, over the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad last
week, Of which 5000 bushels arrived In Bristol il
wagons. About 900 bushels Of corn were re-
ceived In Norfolk, Va, Friday, over the Norfolk
and Petersburg Railroad.
SALE OF srsrNas.-Thc Holstou (va-) Springs have
been sold to Rev. Vim. d. Jones, of RogersviIle.
Tenn, and Mr.. Bailey, of Columbus, Miss, who
intend establishing q female institute there.
NEWSPAPER soLp.-Ths Lynchburg Vs.) RepubH
can has been sold by Henry D. Flood to Robert II.
Giass who will be its sole editor and proprietor.
ACCIDENTS. Fleisher, merchant OF Richmond,
Va, was run over by . stage in Broadway, N. Y.
Friday, while attempting to cross the street, and
had bis leg fractured.
MORE RIcH DIGdIsGs IN NORTH CARoIINA-rhe ss.
lisbury, North Carolina, Watchman, says that
gold mine has been discovered in that vicinity.
which, worked by four hands, yielded twenty-five
pounds Of pure gold in ten daya
Willow FsvsR on REVENUE Currsss-A letter
from on board the u s. cutter Cass, lying at South
West Pass, below New Orleans, says two Of the
crew have died Of yellow fever, and seven are nov
down with IT. II. ID. Bremond had been H. but hsG
recovered. u. VIC. McGregor, of the u 9. cutter
Robert Mccelland, lying at the same place. died Of
the fever on the 18th instant,
MAakiAoE.-Iion fsyetts McMuilsn, Governor
2. "asninston Territory, who recently obtained
d'voree from bis wife residing 10 Virginia, was
married IN Olympia, on the 18th uit to Misu MARY
wood, Of Tharston county, W.T..
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90 wednesday last, on board the peup.vlvap,s
snhe On his way from Richmond, Vs., to Philadel
pnis' lie was about 20 years Of sgs, and l. said 10
'sss hAd relations IN the latter city.
DsaAsks soa Al AssAuIf -TEs Raleigh IN. Cli
Sss1asia states that che civil suis entered By
- na'ssen, Russian, sgaiast 7. and n Lison Of
49, s''y' =. esmagss tor eovhiding him. has been
compromised ~ III paymsns Of Il zoo = -
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