The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-08-06

JST 6. 1853.
coNrtixKsr 70 fHE NATIONAL Guiap I'VE learn
thst wealthy and respectable merchant OF this
city but Who iss native of Virginia, Il getting MP
q his sole expense. handsomely printed and
hound book which will comprise the whole Of ths
proceedings incident TO the late removal VI ex,
President Mpuroe's remains from New York to vir
ysuia is will also embrace history OF the Ma
tonai Guard Of this city aud brief bographicsl
sketehes ofCol Durgee and Of its psincpai officers
the design OF the msrchant In getting up this ex
gensive book, which will make from 200 to $40
pages, is TO pay compliment to the Nations
tiusrd. TO each OF the officers and men of which he
'ntends to present copy neatly bound He also
expects to present copies to the leading civil au.
'horities Q: the cities Of New York and Richmond
IN L. Herald.
An OksANIc DFrIcULfY.-A parish In the west o.
England. after much effort, lately purchased a
seitacting organ, warranted to play twenty tunes
tnd larger congregation than usual met to In
iugurate It, The first psalm had been successful.
~ brought to an end, when, after short pause the
organ choose to commence psalm tune number
TWO In vain the officiating person endeavored to
sop IT. 10 vain the church wardens left their own
psws to sffe the noise; still the organ as though
snconfrollabiy pleased with its own execution
kept on with the new air. What was to be douel
The service was suspended, in the hope that the
musical stranger might be content when the
second tuue was played out. Vain expectatiou,-
Il commenced number three, aud nothing remain.
ID bat to carry the instrument into the church
yard, and there to cover it with the vestry
carpet to choke its voice, for on and on IL went
tiil the number of twenty had been playe ed
out, much to the ediication Of the less attentive
art of the congregation, who could hear only half
smothered melodies.-L0ndon Times.
POVERTY AND SufcIDE.-Mrs Mary A. Chalau. a
ms cd Uo fyo 30 aotI
led suicide on Monday night, in New York. under
very sad circumstances. She married an Italian
named Charles Cbaan short time ago lie was
a carpenter by trade, but could get no work and
vas suffering. On Monday he looked all day for
employment in vain. and on returning at night &c
hrs apartments, in the sixth story of tue above
house, informed his wife that he was going to sea
for awhile. He was informed by his wife tina.
there was nothing to eat. He replied by saying
'Mary, will go to sea, and you return to your
parents until better times" As Chalau put biz
hand on the door to go out, his wife spraug out o
a window, ard breaking her back on q shutter iu
tho descent, fell dead on the pavement.
INTEMpERASoEI IN ENGLAND FROM statistics care
fully collected in England, 1t appears that 10 that
country three hundred and ffty-seven intempe
persons die for every one hundred and ten OF TEN.
crate habits. At twenty years Of age, an inteu.
perate man may expect to live fifteen and a hall
years longer, while temperate man of the came
sge may expect to live Grtyf, ,ur years longer. Al
thirty, an incorporate man will probably live
fourteen years longer, temperate man thirty
Years longer. At forty, an intemperate man will
ordinarily live twelve years longer, while tempe
rate man will live twenty nine years longer.
STAMPEDE TOWARDS SwgDEsBoRGIa aNIsM The New
Orleans Bulletin saws that there has been, within
q few months past, quite a stampede ip the aerma
towards Swedenborgianism. One Of the most pop
ular OF the German preachers Rev. j. NJ. Hofer
nas gone over to the mystic faith of the grea; Swe
dish philosopher, and taken with him not few o
his brethren aud friends, and now holds forth to
them at private houses on the Sabbath.
DESCENT ON FARO BANK On Saturday after
noon, the Mayor of Pittsburg, Pa. with posse oil
of Market street and the Diamond, in that city
aud succeeded in capturing the table and impIe
inents Of the craft, together with about $40 in
stakes. Fifteen persons, said by the Dispatch t.
be s'ex-Msysrs, expolice officers, ex dKnitares
aud gentlemen Of quality, were also arrested, and
taken to the Mayors office, where they were fined
under the gambling act, paid up aud cleared out
The proprietor of the establishment, who was ab
ser. at the time of the seizure. after wards ar
rested and hound over for trial.
SAIL BoATs Sail boats are the best friends the
coroners have got. Within the last forty days WI
have chroniced the loss of the lives Of forty ladies'
mostly young girls. The last mail from Califorpis
fourteen lives by tho upsetting of q sail boat OF
Victoria Bay, while in the act of taking some pas
Singers from vessel just,arrived to Victoria. A
sudden squsil struck the boat, and the sad loss o
life was the COZ sequence. To manage q sail boa
properly requires more skill than to run steam
boat They are as tricky as a colt, and f,p ovel
with as much ease as an acrobat. Females shouIt
keep out of them They are as full of danger d,
q powder magazine located over a blacksmith
shop. .-Knickerbocser.
A GREAT NUISANCE An establishment in Gin
einnati, Ohio, purportng to be candle and OF
factory, has elected Investigations frpm the pscu
larry offensive odorS which il inhafes, and it hal
been discovered that the carton collected by thu
cffal contractor is there boiled down, the oil anG
lard extracted, and the remains used to fatten hog
f,r the market. 1t is described as being ever
worse than the switl milk business, aud the con
Germ is to be indicted. If are to eat Cincin
nati pork, the nuisance should be abated ia somt
way.
QUEEN VICTORIA AND Da. LIvINasroN.-Before DR.
livingston left England gu his return to Africa
he was honored with private interview by th,
Queen, who conTersed with him for half an houi
On the subject of bis travels. He 0H her Males
~ that he would now be able to saI the native,
that he had seen his chief his NOD ging done 81
having constantly surprised u 10 told he
that the natives were 10 the he pquiriDg
his chief was wealthy; and Il he assure'
Them she was very wealthy, they DCud ssk "hoy
may cow she bad got"-a question at which tn
Queen laughed heartily.
A Far FIsH.-The siskawit, q fish of Lake Supt
rior, is reported to be the latest fish that swim
either in fresh or salt water. The fishermen sa
that one Of these fish, when hung BY the tail il
the hot sun Vt summers day, will melt and en-
fireiy disappear, except the bone. In packiD
sboot fifty barrels, q few seasons ago, at Isle Roy
ale, one OF the fishermen made two aud baIf bar
reis OF from the heads aud leaf tat alone witho
hal tx4uS aalHt 80 NS..
Besides this leaf fat, the fat or oil is dissemate
III = layer OF fat aud layer Of leau throughou
the fisn. They are too fat to be eaten fresh, an,
are put up tor market like the lake white fish am
Mackinaw trout.
A REVOLUTIONARY GoosE-A correspondent o
the Cincinnati tQhiO) Gazette, writing from Hon
teIdop Co., N j :, says there is goose owned b,
dr. Sehomp, in that vicinity, which is now S3 year
old. When the news came to the people Of Re
diagtoD township, HunterdoD county. that the wa
wasjoyer, they Concluded to have = joilifcatiou
and an ancestor Of Mr. Schomp, killed three out
four geese, which he had at the time; aud the sur
vivor Is the one spoken of, and .'still lives.
The present Mr. Schomp has owned the goose fo
the last 90 years.
HoaicIDE.-On Thursday last, a free negro man
of Winchester. Va, PANIED William Toler, was Kill
I'd BY white man Damed Dennis Fenton, Will
the two were engaged iu attendance on a lhresbin
machine, the farm Of Isaac Tyson, Jr, Esq nea
DoIf f3fhic, Stdfkc co0Hty- Auc mtu W Hiidn, WA
clearing away straw, and wss told by Fenton to b
quicker. Not hasteniog his motion enough +
please the latter, without further prov0catien, b.
plunged a plchfork at the negro, striking him oI
the side Of the head, aud infcti0g wounds frou
which he died on Saturday.
RATS SINKING A ScHoesE..-Schooner Empire. 70
Wells.) Captain Chanbers, which arrived At Provi
d. ice, 29.h ult-, from Baltimore, with . cargo .
coal, WAS found to be leaking freely just befor
a n Rail- fha Sba fuEa nj
the marine railway for the purpose ofstoppiag th
leak, when, upon examinstion, it was discovers
that hole about two inchesdn length had bee
made by rata in. the run Of the vessel, betwes
wind aud water.
lsDEPESDESr TRAvELLEks.--The Brussels Ipd,
pendence says that three Englishmen having cros
ed from England 70 Holland 10 small boat, a
rived st Amsterdam gu the 10th vf June On lane
ing, they boisfsd the beat upon their shoulder
carried It with theu TO their hotel and the follow
ing mornii 6, took 1t back 70 ths Rhine, In ia
same fnalner, and started for Germany.