The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-09
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MR. ALLsop, Of England, for whose apprebens,o,
the British government has offered f2oo ON A.
count OF alleged completely In the pIot araIns
Louis Napoleon, was q member of the Iondo,
Stock Exchange, man OF cultivated intellect a M
benevolent disposition, but of extreme oninon, {,
religion and politics. He numbered amongst nj,
friends Coieridge, Charles Lamb, Landor. and 9TH
ers, and his country residence was an omen bous,
for politicsi notabiiities.
TIE pEsocRaTIc MxErrsa in New York. m Tbur,
day night, to sustain the presidentin In his Kansa,
policy, is reported to have been very large one
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Hon. r. MeIano, of Maryland, aud John Van Bu
ren The latter made telling speech.
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THE TROUBLES IN SAN DOMINGO are not vet owe,
President Baez still continues shut up in the city
of San Domingo by Santana. Recently, some o.
his generals got drubbing from the revolution
lists. whosr confident Of success. The latter have
raised feet Of Ave vessels, and are ready to &c
to to meet Baez's ships, when naval battle i,
expected.
New RELIGIOUS PAPER.-The Baltimore Annual
Conference of the NJ. +. Church, have under cor,
sideration proposition to establish a weekly reli
gious journal in the city of Baltimore, under tn.
patronage of the Conference. The scheme meets
with considerable opposition.
HoS. EDWARD EvsRkrr delivered his lecture or
Charity, before a crowded audience, in the Mary
land institute, Baltimore, last Friday night. Al
the close, resolutions of thanks were adopted BY
scclamation, and an immense bouquet Of flowers
the gift of the ladies, was presented to the orator
DEATH OF AN OLD TURFMAS.-Col. Richard Fl
Long, an old turfn,an, we'll known Throughout
the South and West, and for many years past
proprietor of the Bascombe Cou rse, Mobile, dice
on the LIST inst.
The FIRST MONDAY IN MAr.-The Southern Com
mercial Convention at Knoxville, last summer
appointed Montgomery, Ala as the place, and th,
first Monday in May next as the time, for the mex
session of tho Southern Commercial Convention
SAD AccIDENr.-on the 2sd ult., daughter o
Mr. John East, of East Pelican Parish, La. wal
killed by the accidental discharge of gun, in tn,
hands of Mr.. Lawrence Brown, a cousin of Mis-
East, The contents of the gun entered her head
CorToN IN TExAs.--There are upwards of twent,
one thousand bales of cotton now in Galveston
Texas. which is eighteen thousand more than wa
on hand last year at this time. The total receipts
are in excess of those of last year q, $50 bales
The crop of Texas, it is estimated, will reach 500
600 bales.
SouTH CAROLINA MoSEY.--We learn from tn,
Augusta (Ga papers, that the Banks of that city
have agreed TO take the bills of the nonspeoe pay
ing banks of South Carolina at half per cent dis
count. The bills of the Bank of Hamburg, ant
those of the specie paying banks Of South Carolina
will be taken at par.
BURNING OF THE STEAMER PELICAN-The disaster
to the Steamer Pelican, on the Arkansas River
~
o. Picayuue gives the following additional facts -
She had on board about twenty passengers, ant
9s4 bales of cotton. The boat was consumer /,
about twenty minutes, the passengers and crew
barely escaping with their lives, and losing al
their baggage. The fire originated immediatel,
under the ladies' cabin. The boat and cargo are
total loss. We are informed that the boat wal
insured IN New Albany, in three Offices, for $12,
900. There no loss Of life.
DEATH OF AN 0LD FERRYMAS.--The Concordis
0a) Intelligencer, thus records the death of Nose
the ferryman Of that place:
''Monday, the anniversary of the birth of Wash
ington, died. in sight and on the shore Of Jordan,
at the Natchez Landing, which he has rowec
across. at least million of times, Old Nose aget
somewhat less than Metbuselah Mt his death. Eli,
day of glory was before the steam ferries were
established; and his voice was somewhat
like parsons on the Hudson river, which could
be heard seven miles when engaged in secret pray
er."
UNsEAsoSABLE PARAaRAPH.-To us, of Virginia
the following paragraph from the Columbia (Tey
as) Democrat is at this time, taDtalizing to pain
fui degree:
The spring seems to have opened with us In all
its loveliness, The last few days have been lust
such sunny, soft, balmy, musical days as are found
where else but in Texas Everything begins to
bear the impress of "the dropping Of the velvet
foot of spring"
BREACH OF PRoMIsE.-At Chardon, Ohio, they had
breach of marriage contract case before the
court recently. Susannah Garris sued John Sum.
ner for the offence and proved that the ''eourtin
began when che was seventeen" that it continued
regularly fourteen years, interspersed with three
several appointments ofthe happy day and the usu-
aI country preparations for such event white
dresses, new bonnets, quilts, dried apples, embrol-
dered csmisss, &c. The defendant at last repaired
TO the State Of New York and married a wife. Then
Susan, who had grown wiser, and found that she
was getting toward the "shady side Of forty" got
rled aud sued. The jury gave her $4,000.
ABOLITION on THE DEcLINE.-Fred. Douglass CON-
plains bitterly that the friends of the abolition of
slavery are falling away from the cause, some for
one reason and some for another, and good many
because 'its principles required them to treat the
colored man an equal brother in all the reIa-
tons of life" There's the rub; ths aboitionists
never were the true friends of the c,lored race,
and after preaching equality and freedom 40 long
to them, they shrink with loathng from the pract
cal illustration of their own doctrines, and would
almost come in contact with Satan him.
self as "nigger."
ALLEGED MAIL RoBBER ARREsrED.--We Iearn from,
the Columbus Gazette that Mr.. Prentiss, agent OF
the Postoffice Department, succeedcd on Wcdnes
master at Rockford Tuscarawas county, Ohio, ,charg
ed with robbing the mail and forging Dr. Walker
is an old man, sixty.five years of age, and has .
large family married and settled around him, and
has hitherto been highly respected.