The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-23

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h., ,rsa... 1ornH At sr. Louis.--Ths telegram
~ p..,sI..,' tue terrible explosion Of bo,s-
18TH inst. The concussiou shoot ~. -. % sae
sera' squares, and was heard ali ov.- g. - ,''
''rh :. part OF the city. The De,noera, 49,.
hnt,s, % southern and western wall. ~
timber Az ,r eowL cut and ponderuus ma
tn. air An snns,iI thrown sixty feet npwari into
nserc M ne MAYOR. Fire Inspector. and ! H.. tne
move the min, srsan zed band lab rsTs to- sa
mhan,g mhng cr dead. who were thus dr.aa, dman oelng.
tha hms some twenty aborers wers an, II as9. Z.
slncentiy 81 u1haraie t. give sny cs ~ rass escaped
ten ms, he experienced The ods ny
the heated sss Il bact %aad "a sa1lamsd from
draaaSo scalded and mangled in tha inres M
house on Usal,on n,ry ,hsy We're borne iato wsps
ionrth was taken still living into NV pile
aa ahanke, l on Main street, where he shor,Ja
niy 10 tenement near Another viii 70 HI Ms "a;
MsU sao open youag man. to Bide street Anat
broken back. to the no ,pital An si1hth nparsnti!
IN IN ro",n OF th. Mechanics Exchs1ge nj ,; ced
the ora dMninE with injuries received upsn
fatally %oundsd wsre borne 70 their a; cts WON f.
mbss, h fie work of exhuming was piaeressn- IA
me oodi"s OF three more victims were vs;biA q. ~. VI
were being extricsted as rapidly as possible ana
Tbs MONUMENT IN IHDEpg EVIDENCE Sou.sr gu
| monument to Washington will ultimately be ersc,
| Ell 10 Independence Square, seems to he al
isct WIN the exception of South Carolina. ali
tue original states have come into the proiect -
The cost of the work will be Sl25 oOO which oil,
be divided praporti0uatey among the States snh !.
scribing, iD proportion to their federal ponnIa,;o
| rs liked by the census of 1850. The allotment of
expense will be as follows "
New Hampshire. $1,000; Massachusetts,, II 600.
Rhode Island. 1000; Connecticut, 4 ZOO; New Yort
$4,000; New Jersey, 5000; PenDsylvania 25 O5n.
DeIaware, 900, Maryland, 6,Oo0 Virginia. I2 Oor:
North Carolina, S,O0o Georgia, 5000; South Caro-,
lima, 6,000
The Senate of the latter State has passed. bv a
handsome majority, the bill to contribute her
share as one of the original thirteen States TO the
| fnnd for erecting the monument. In the House
OF Representatives in that State. the matter has
been indefinitely postponed; but it will doubt.
| less he again taken up and acted upon favorabiy.
philadelphia North American
FRAUDS ON THE PENSION OrFICE The Commission.
er of Pensions has received information from his
special agent now in Tennessee, of the arrest of
Willis Arnold of Henderson county, and of
Henry Wright, Of Lexington, in that State, for
frauds committed by them under the bounty land
laws. The parties were taken before Judge Hum
phreys at Nashville. and the former held to bs IL
in the sum of $40 600 for his appearance at the
term of the Federal Court to be held at jackson
ia April next The latter, after his arrest, became,
| dergoins preliminary medical examinatio
| COMMISSIONERS TO MExIco.-A special dispatch in
the Boston Herald, dated Washington, December
| Is, says:
| movement is to be made in both branches of
Congress to authorize the President to send a
| Commissioner to negotiate treaty with the Lib.
| erals In Mexico. The Hon. Caleb Cushing has
been fixed upon for this highly important mis-,
| sion.
| THE Dod BUSINESS IN NEW YoRK.-New York is
certainly great city. They have nova .dog
boarding house. aud one is advertised at the co, i.
Rer of Broadway and Forty ffth street. The keeper
will board dogs At 81 per week, and train for 81 so
i Then they have sporting depot, where the pro.
prietor employs men expressly ts catch rats for the
ring aud dogs Not less than three thousand
| have besn obtained from the Astor three thousand
| from the St. Nicholas, &c.
FIRE IN CINoINNATI.-Ou Saturday night fire
occurred in the building on Sycamore street, oc-
| cupied by Breed. Barstow Co., stove factu.
rers, ard Crane, Breed & Co, manufacturers of
metallic burial The loss of the forme, is from
$4,000 to IS 000. They are insured for 81 0Oo The
loss Of the latter is $4,000, aud they are insured
for So 000 The stores of George Shiito and George
! Iienshaw were considerably damaged.
| LARGE SAILS OF PROPERTY The Catoctip iron
works. together with 7 900 acres of land thereto
belonging, in Frederick county. Md have been
sold TO John kunkel Esq for S51 000 In the ga ME
c.,rnty. the "Home Fxrm." of 280 acres belonx ing
TO tn. late James Kinua. has heen soId to Captain
| d. Keller and George w. Summers, at $55 per
| acre.
| RAILROAD ENGINEsRs.-The engineers on the sew.
! sral railroads in Illinois have held q convention
| aud resolved to memoriaiZe the Legislature for
the enactment Of general Law for their better
protectou, thereby securing to the public a CON-
petent set of engineers, who shall have passed ar
examination aud received certificate as the ma,
| rine engineers now do.
| SHOCKING ACCIDENT AS John Metholm was feed
ing circular saw in a Chicago planning and shin
| gle mill, on Friday, by some accident sudden
| obstruction of the machinery. the flew ont of
! its bearings and struck the deceased on ono side
| cutting him disgeuay in two, and coming out
| lear the opposite shoulder.
HoGs-Three droves from Tennessee pasaed
| through this place last week, numbering 1850
| bead. One went to BennettsviIle, S. c., the other
| two to Hillsboro and Wadesboro, n. c. Seven
cents. gross, was asked hat not obtained here. We
| notice that some sales have been made in South
Carolina at 81. Pork sells from wagons at 613 to
| I nett. engagements have been made for bacon.
ing pork at ce,,ss, nett.-Caarl0tte NJ O. Demo"
| cTat.
| THE SUIT OF PAssMoRE WILLIAMSON AGAINST
JUDGE LEwIs.-We see by the Philadelphia papere
| that the suit of Williamson against the late Chief
Justice Lewis, arising out judicial pfoceedirg in
the case of Col. Wheeler's slaves, has at length,
| boen decided in favor Of the defendant.
| FIRE AT UNIoNTowN, ALABaMA.-The Masonic
Male Acadmy, at Upiontowp, Ala, with the lodge
room above with all its contents, WAS destroyed
| by fire on the 25th ult. The jewell, regala, fur-
nitsre, paintings, papers, &C., were lost. The
Masonic Fraternity are therefore out of pocket bs
tween six and seven thousand dollars.
| IMMENSE SHEEP MOVEMENT The Santa Fe IN NJ
Gazette states that 1850 sheep are about to be
Asken from Beruailio and Valentia counties, iD
that territory, overland to California There is also
| a drove Of 10000 from Ohio, now at Saata fs,
bound for the same destination.
| The Pccolomini fever seems to have caught the
| Bostoniaus. The young men are paying for the
privilege of going on superuumeraries, to
be near the prima donna. Evidently the fools are
| all not dead in Boston
| VIRGINIA LIBsaALITY WoRrHr OF IMITATION
| The Vice Regent for Virginia has received one
hundred dollars from Col. William Harding. OF
Northumberland county, Va, as his individual
contribution to the Mount Vernon fund.
| The Paris correspondent state. positively that
the Car of Russia, with full military household,
will visit Napoleon in the spring, and will extend
his visit to England.
Senator Psarca, of Maryland has been elected
President of the Burns celebration in Washington
Judge David Thscker, we'll known Indiana poll.
| tican and editor, died recently.
Itis stated that colored students are now attend.
ing the exercises of the Yale medical school.
The famous SLAYER Echo is advertised for sale by
the U. 8. marshal of South Carolina.
There were but fifty.two deaths in Boston last
week--a very small comparative mortality.
The testimony in the New Haven Conn. divorce
case closed on saturday night.
Rev. Mr.. Dillon, Catholic priest, died at Peoria,
ILL.,, last week.