The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-14

The LYScmSG CASE IN KEsrucKr.-Jossph Beard
taeeity marshal of Lexington. KY, who was killed
by Barker on Saturday morning as, at the time,
enfPaYaring 20 stop fight In the market house.
Barker who engaged in the row, III. he'd upon
Beard with knife, which entered his side. sever.
ing the lungs and entering the. heart, killing him
INSTANTLY. terrible excitement Immediately
ensued and the ci zeus assembled ia large mum
bers Barker taken to the watch house aud
thence 10 the jail He was. however, soon seized
ty the Indignant multitude nnd marched to the
cvnrt house yard. temporary scAilod WAS erect
ed from the court hanse winfow. and at 3 A. H.
Barker was swung off. The fret rope broke and
he tell to the ground, distance of thirty feet
brulsng his face considerably. lie recovered in a
iew minutes aud WAS again taken up 10 the wit
dow, another rope attached, and he was then made
IN jump ag ain from the window. His feiess BODY
was ief. dangling in the air throughout the day.
VIRGINIA Posr.OFFicEs.-The Postmaster General
orders the following:
Embellishments --Nottowsy Chapel. Southam pton
county, Va, George Moore postmaster: near the
route from Franklin Depot 10 uicksford. Hefn.
don, Fairfax county, Va. VI. W. HoIlingsworth
postmaster; to receive special supplies from Dranes-
vile.
Offices Discoltiaued--O Muige. Bedford conn
ty. Va; Chineotegue, Accomac county, Va.
Apf'3inaepfs II. B. 1iTey postmaster, MoutToss,
Westmoreiani couaty, Va, vice Geo W. Goldsby
resigned. Dauiel j 0vfrby postmaster, White
House, Meckleuburg, county Va, vice VIM FL
IT,
bath Alum, Bath county. Va, vice James Z. Wood
re-ig0ed. Albert G. Hedges postmaster. West
l. berty Ohio county, Va, vice Margaret Steele,
Resigned.
A SINGULAR C.IxcIDENcE Not the leas. of all
the meD oraOle incidents of the day is the fact
hat while two brothers were suspended from two
OF the most important diOceses in the Episcopal
Church in this country, in the to elect their
successors in Office, with years intervening, two
brothers succeeded and two brothers were defeated
The suspended brothers were the Rt. Rev. H. "
and I. onderdouk, two brothers who were con-
seerated respectively Bishops of Pennsylvania aud
New York, A. ID. 1927 and 1880 some thirty years
ago-ald are how consequently venerable with
the SHOWS Of maoy winters. The two successful
ctnGidaIes for their official position were the two
brothers, the Rev. Drs. AlGnzo and HoratJ Potter
The two defeated candidates for the same honor are
the two brothers, the Rev. DR.. Frauk Vinton, of
New York, aHd the Rev. DR.. Alex. II. Niutou
Rector Of st. Pari's, BOstoD.-f0rHa3td Mirror.
STEAM TUG DESTROYED Br FIRE-Fortyeight Mules
Bu9nt TO Dsdth.-On Saturday afternoon, the steam
tug Rappahanuock having iu tow twenty. five ca
nal boats for Fairmount, from Bordento@n. n. }
end fifty five mules on board took fire when in the
middle Of the Delaware. nearly opposite Red Bank,
below Philadelphia. The f:e first discovered
under the deck aud an attempt was made by the
crew t. extinguieh il, but in a few minutes the
fimes hurst gh the deck ard spread 80 rapidly
that all attempts to subdue the fire proved abOc
tive. Sven Of the mules broke loose aud swan
ashore, the rest we've burnt 10 uotiu
SUDDEN CHgcx TO PLEASURE PtRrY.-As the
steamer Ben L0dsr II pleasure excursion
ou Geneva Lake, the evening OF the Commence
uent exercises Of the I1bart Free College Of Gene
va, aud while the party Of between four and f'e
hnrdred gentlemen and ladies' were in the midst
of tIeir hiiarity,a young man named Joseph 4.
Clark, Of Rochester eli overheard aud vas drown
ed. He had been member of Geneva College,
AID present At commencement. From dancing and
laughter the marty Immediately rpiAIspl saI
ness, and the boat returned.
STEAM FIRE ESGINEs.-St Louis has now five
steam Fl re enriues and will shortly have two more
The last engine j. named Miss Juri No. D. aud
presented to the city Dg the underwriters, Oh
condition that ihe city should herself furnish two
which was acccded 10. With this ma
chine, steam was raised aud water thrown III the
short space OF four minutes after kindiiug tue
FIRE, through one hunirti feet Of hose, from AZ
Inch and quarter nozzle, two hundred aud nine
teen feet.
LIBERIA AND The SLAVE TRADE-The Philadei
phit American denies GU the authority If letter
from coIored man in Liberia, formerly a resident
of Pennsylvania, that the Lbe!an government
has had anything to do with shipping negroes by
the French emigration scheme. Thpse on board
,he Regina Cell, he says. were captives taken in
war by the chez and sold to the French The Lii
be ian government is eXertiug all its influence to
prevent the operations Of the French scheme
"hich is only another form oI the slave trade.
MISPLACED observation-disclosures Banks Esq All
| eminent member of the bar at Fayetteville G..
is in the city. He CONES t. cary out the will OF
| the late Nffs. Perry. who appointed Mr. Banks TO
that her six slaves, Caroline Perry and her five
children, have thur fteeGofn aud Si0.0U0 as scUu
As the estate is settled. MIR Banks brings the freed
| here. aITanges with Judge Tilien to receive the
money when he shall seud it. and pay 1t over TO
! aud advise the new settlers here how to invest i.
--l7ereIaHd lO) HdiadedIrr.
| II0aPS.-The .: crInoliue has received a So
we're shuck i'll Vienna. Tue actresses Of the Carl
Theatre have been prohibited from wearing it, te-
| cause an actress who in the character OF AN or.
phau, was to have tainted away aud fallen to the
ground. fund il impossible to realize the latter
iJea with any thing ike nature. from being SO
! strongly cased IN her steel-b0uud fame WORK: 80
tGat ladies OF delicate sensitiiiIes must give up
| fIiutipg crinoliue.
TIE RERLiN FREE Lows DES--A letter from
| Anne Hunter. wife Of Merritt A. Hunter, founder
OF the Free love den in Ohio. has been published
| hiIs IL. gives her husband a very low character
add speaks in terms of ahhorrence of the place at
| Berlin. She has been deserted by her husband
and lives in Ashtabula county, Ohio.
| UTAH-The latest dispatch from St Lnus, says
Utah datos to the l9th, state that Gen Johnston
was met at Echo Cannon, fifty miles from Salt
Lake. A conference had taken place between
Lake, the result of which vas unknown. 4 L-av.
enw"rth correspondent mentions d report that the
Peace Commissioners had concluded u treaty Of
peace with the Mormons
The '.NIGGER QUEsrloN' has been raised in the
Court of Claims. Recently the new Solicitor re-
ceiVed letter from a we'll known ..darkey" com
planning that Que OF the neStoes employed by the
Judges was not sound on the nigger question -
Wash. Union
''floME. SWEET HOME A statement having
been made that Washington Irving aud not John
Howard Payne, was the author OF Home Sweet
Home. Mr. Irving has written letter ii. claiming
the authorship, to the honor of which he think.
Mr. Payne is undoubtedly entitled.
BENEVOLENT DoNArIoS.-Ezrl w. Fletcher. of
NUrthbiijge. Mass, iu his will begueaths $500 IL
he American Board of Commissioners uf Foreign
Missions; t. the American Home ms-onary. $500;
to the American Bible Society. 5000: to the Amer
Can Tract Society of New York $500; for "A library
III WhitnsvilIe, $500; and the residue his execu
tolls shall designate.
INSTRUMENTAL Music IN CHURCH The introdur.
ton If a'melodeon in tho Front street Methodist
Episcopal church, ia Trenton, N has caused
TIE Withdrawal OF some twelve persons. who al
iege themselves couscieutiously opposed to having
iGsl umeual music III the church.
ENGLISH ExpoRTs.-Thp total exports from
Great Britain Tor the first five months of the year
have been S2l6,000 Q00 s.0eing Il decrease Of s3I-
500 900, or about II per cent.
Hoes IN Observation-Disclosures from Is counties
in Kentucky make the aggregate humber of hogs
over six months old ~ 3T4, against 6S 1S4 in the
came counties last year, and AS 335 year before
last.
ARTISAN Wells There are about Que hundred
artesian wells in Iroquois county, Illinois. Their
average depth is about l25 teet, and their cost
about $500.
TWO WOMEN UNDER ARREST FOR POISONING 4
hAN-At Detroit, mother and daughter Chgis-
tine NeCarty and Aune Brown have been arrest
cd f'r po'oning pedar, uaned Johnston, " hose
parHmJuf Que OF them W :.
New York papers Of the Is: arrived in New Or
leans on the 9Th inst, by the rev mail route