The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-10-19
I III E DISPATCH.
5EspAY MORNING ...- ,crnapu 70 !,
A Theatrical Yxoitemsnt.

I
a Theatrical wxottsmsnt.
Play goers hero will remember drama nroa,cad
at tho theatre. hare last season, entitled apeau.
champ, or the Kentucky Tragedy" John, Savage
OF washington, recently wrote tragedy entitled
sSbii," for Mas Avona Jones, the plot of which
/" nearly Analogous with that OF tho play arst nam
ed. The young tragedienne essaysd to play Il In
Louisville, Kentucky, and created gu excitement
| OF which Q correspondent OF the Washington Union
gives the following account:
| We have had quite q theatrical excitement here
oaused by the new play of .Sybii,e brought ont nv
Miss Asonis Jones, aud written, l believe, BY Mf.
,. 9ons savage. nov OF Washington. There 10 doubt.
les: an analogy between the Incidents of this p,ay
| ana the assassination {in 1s251 of Col Solomon p
| shsrpe by Joroboam o. Eeauchamp to ayenge a
oui wrong done Beauchamps wife before be
| married her But this is only the foundation of
the most thrilling drama of our dsy and tims
| 80 happens, however, that the surviving rela.
| iatlves Of Col. Sharpe personal friends of the
editor OF the Journal here No sooner did he com.
phment the play as to be performed that night,
than there was a sensation. Governor Morehesd
I te'egrsphed from Frankfort, to "stop the renre
sentation," and Col Sharpe, jr, telegrapbed that
ne would At once leave for Louisville TO avert this
stain on tho honor Of his family This was on
Thursday, and as 1t currently reported that
there would be an armed demon stration OF opposi
100 TO the play. Miss Jones substituted the 'rido
OF Lammermuor. Tho house had bean crowdad
but nai OF the audience had no desire to vitneas
Lucia, and retired.
That night, on dit, there was oaosea lie Ty.n,r.
Prenticesac as Mediator, Col. Sharpe demand
ing that the play should be suppres.ed and NJ.
Melinda Jones. in her way, pleading her danah-
ter's right to play a drama based upon a histori
cal event Moreover, she said that it should be
performed on Saturday night, and she was as good
as her word. OF course tho announcement eres
ted a sensation "
Such packed house was never seen here. and
tnsre rnust nave been some spprehensions behind
the scenes for the stage manager looked as tbous oh
bis last hour had come, aud the poor fellow who
personated "Col. Sharpe seemed weak in'the hnsa.
with fear. Miss Ayo1ia performed her mart
fauitiessiy as II unconscious that there was sin.
gle spectator The play isrspiete with dramatic
effect. and was well &C; ted yet .here was daad Al
lence until Sgba presented pistol at Oil Sb1rn.
her sedncer when there arose a veil of "k M bin,,
"shoot him!" and from thenceiorth there uas M
sympathy for Sharpe. w
OF course the plsv was tins hroucht h.eo-. A..
public and has filled the house night after niebt
Every incident OF the event upon which Il is based
mas neen recalled, an edition of the confession of
! Seraooam " beauchamp (executed for killing
Sharpe) has been cold, and wherever Miss Jonas
goes heucefortb, the public will insist unon saa
ing her in Sybili
THE NEW YORK COURIER" ON rHs New Yoyx
'sTRIBUNs."-Does the 'Eveuing Post, concur with
the Courier and siEnquirer" in preferrjn1 the
election to Congress, of Lecompton Democrat to
that o! John b. Hsskin; If that be its taste, IL,
etrnted
it should initiate the frankness of the Courier
and Enquirer" as well as iis eccentricity Neac
York Tribune
Eccentricity Well, upon our honor that in good
victor Hugo has somewhere said that the true art
OF wrltLS Is 20 extract strong sensation from the
subject ieas. likely to produce it, II you want to
terr'fy a man select sheep as bugbear. Marian
| de Lorme will teach him O respecs for female
virtne, and Tribculet, the court fool, veueratiou
| for parental feeling. The ''rribune" is an apt
| scholar. 1t has surpassed i.s master It has
out-Huioed Hugo. druakard hiccupins
cut sermon against im:emperance-Haly
the slave dealer lecturng on humanity-ths
Gracchi complaining of sedtion, Turpiu of
highway me Jonathan lid of receivers Of stolen
goods, Fourier of free lovers, any or all would be
nothing to the figure here cut by the 'Tsibune" in
imputing ''cccentrictty." Our rotchesy neighbor
| has genius for the whims AID ali the world
knows it. 1t was born original. Il has spent i,s
lifetime in distiIiing moonbesms from cucumbers
shearing pigs for their wool, milking he goats in
serves. teaching cows to dance, pou1hiDg with
foxes on sandy shore, fayiDg cells at the wrong
end setting carts before horses, pitching ners to
catch the wind cutting blocks with razor making
chalk cheese, washing black anoors white and
| guarding the moon from wolves. There is not
daft scheme IL has not In its day, tried its hand at
hardly a 60atdde or a whim-wham that has not
sometime or other, foated out of the wa.ery VEN
tricles of its brain. And our mad.cap friend
talks of she eecentrici,y of the Courier and En-
9ulrei We were prepared for almost anything
| from the Tribune, bat really we hardly expected
this.-N. T. Courier and Enquirer.
SPECIMENS OF BLACK REPUBLICAN AND WESTERN
RHEroEic.-Mr. Winter Davis, in his letter to :he
students at the University of Virginia, thus scars
| into the regions Of boundless space:
such fever in youth portends madness in man.
hood. 1t is temper alien TO the genius of our re-
| public, whose life is freedom of thought freeiv
| spoken; temper which tends to civil strife. the
shock of extremes, softened by no conciIiatory
counsele. the tyraDn;cal domination OF local ma
1 fnrifi s1f fhaa =, a.
the collision Of thoss msiorites in arms when the
kindly memories of she past are only little moro
obiterated by Injurious recri,nnatons."
1t is like the orator who exclaimed: proceed to
the confines of civilization Western border:
seek the woodman in the almost inaccessible reces
SEES OF the primitive forest. Transport the evidence
of the toll of the hardy pioneer in his exertions TO
make home for future generations. Place me,
OH plree me upon these evidences, and transport
me forth into the fresh morning breezes where
nought alarms or makes afraid !"
In this specimen, the orator was Wnter-Davis-
ing, the we'll known sentiment, Garry me out on
| tsoo ctLpS."-A. 7. Eueatag Post.
TRIAL OF ENGINES AND RIor.-Eleyeu companies
participated in a flremen's muster and trial at
Chicopee, Mass, the 14;h inst. Two silver and
| one heavy plated trumpets were offered ~ prizes
for the best players. They We're won by Niagara
| Company, of Worcester, Niagara Company, Of
| Springfield, and Ocean Company, of Springfield
| A fight occurred between the Ocean Company, of
|
| New Haven. The fight lasted an hour and was
qnite bloody. The police were unable to make any
| arrests. Trumpets were broken in giving blows.
| and some severe wounds were received on both
| sides.
| A PoLYGLoTT CREw.-rhe American ship Eala.
1aozoo, Capt. Taylor, now at City Point With salt
and iron from LiverF ooi, Is a genuine floating won
der and illustrates the idea of Babel az astounding
ly as would human menagAiie Of all the tame and
~iid oipeds In e2istepce. Ths captain is q Quaker
from Pennsylvania; his wife il Irishwoman; n; sbs
| nrst mate is an 1Iisbman, the second yjrcinjsp
| the cook a Chinese, the stewsrdsss a CORNWALL
grP (marred to the cook y two of the sailors are
| Malays, two negroes. one Manilla man and two
| more Swedes.-Ptersbarg ErpTess
| EMIGRATION 70 K.NsAs-The Kansas Citv Jour
na' of the lst inst, notices heavy arrivals of imni
grants to that territory, from the East, and adds:
Our city Is every day crowded with detachmonts
or this immense emigration and there Is one feature
among this moving multitude that We cannot fail
TO admire-it is an emigration Of fathers mothers
sons and daughters, with all their household ef
fects and their stock aud implements of agriculture
to provide for their maintenance through the crl.
| tiyation and bounties of the SOIL
SEyERE PUSIsHMESr-A correspondent of the
| Petersburg Express says that Wiley Riddick of
Gaes county, N. G., has been indicted for removing
his negro Willis, charged with rape, (and since
condemned to be hung) out of the State. He will
be tried at the next court The penalty annexed
|
that State, is fine, imprisonment and pillory,--a
rather severe punishment.
SUDDEN DgATH.-Ed ward Smith, a plasterer from
| Philadelphia, aged %, was found dead in room In
house In Chesterfield county, Va, on SATURDAY..
| He engaged with his father plastering the
house and retired to the apartment laboring under
a coDgestve chill. His father went to look after
him and found him dead.
SHOCKING DEArH.-Mr Seymour A. Gillett, far
field on Friday last, horribly mangied to death by
. cross bull. His clothing was found IN tat.ered
fragments over the field He had defended him
self to the last with club that was found near