The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-01-26

THE RECENT STORM IN THE SOUTHWEST The Gal
weston Texas News, gives the following particu-
lars of the great storm in that vicinity on the 10th
inst
The early morning was cloudy and foggy, with
light s0utherly wind and occasional flashes OF
vivid sheet lightning. With no other warning
than a sudden gathering of the clouds and al
most midnight darkness, the wind veered round to
the west. and in an instant the gale struck the
city aud shipping butt end foremost" and the
rain fell in sheets and splashes. Several large
sells, moored at Lnfikins aud st. Cyr's wharves.
parted their cables and hawsers In II moment, and
went kitiBR into the bay. The large three-masted
schooner Charles, the barks GleBwOOd and and +.
Sherwood, the brig North, and the schooner Major
Bache, were mixed up very promiscuously Tor
about five minutes, running together and smash
ing each others spars and tmbers without let or
hindrance. The fog and rain were so dense that it
WAS impossible for any one on the vessels to see
where they were. or where they were going. The
Charles Kean drfted into the west end of the Gen.
trail wharf, which she struck with considerable
violence and then swung round and run her bow
into the stern Of the steamer Betty Powell: break
ihg good many tmbers of the POWELL. Just back
of larboard wheelhOuse, carrying away three or
four state rooms on the upper deck, and throwing
into the water some forty or fifty bales of cotton.
Another account Jays
All accounts at Galveston represent the country
AZ quite impossible for wagons and scarcely so
for stages, aud even for travellers on horseback
The Trinity has not been higher for four years be-
fore. The Brszos Is also very high, and planters
were improving the opportunity to get their crops
to market.
WASHINGTON ITEMs-It is confidently stated in
the diplomatic circles that n war between Mexico
and Spain is inevitable. The latest adyices from
Mr. Dodge, our Minister to Spain, state that it is
the generally received opinion Madrid that Spain
will shortly make demonstration on Mexico, En-.
gland and France to the contrary, n0twithstand-
ing, and that active preparations to that end are
now i'll progress. - 1ntimatioDs of Santa Annals
completely in the contemplated invasion are also
mooted. The government has sent stringent order 8
to the Captain General of Cuba to have the Spsn.
ish naval forces in America put at once in the hig
est state of efficiency.
The Senate Committee on the Pacific Railroad have
voted down the Southern route for the great high
way. The war between the advocates of the yari-
ous routes is as hot the heavy pecuniary inter
ests involved can make 1t.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations have
unanimously agreed to maintain the Neutrality
Laws intact. portion of them will report in IA
vor of constituting these laws as to cover the pur
suit of vi0latOrs on the high
The gross amount of expense incurred for the
public printing, binding engraving, &c. of the 33d
and 34th Congresses has inst been ascertained The
account stands rs follows:
Thirty third Congress 500 o0l
Total In four years 400 OO
The sum of $780, 900 is called for to make IN the
deficiencies in the appropriations for this branch
of the public work.
Amount Of balance in the United States
Treasury January. lS lS5s. ..........G 500 os9 20
amount Of receipts from LIST to 18TH. 1864 80
Drafts returned paid .......... ,sU3,s73 81
Drafts issued .....,.,. 9sl $50 As
Reduction s23t 7l6 s.