The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-23

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: TMposruRzs --The order Of the Postmaster Gen
raj to the postrnasters th-oughout the country q
rectng them 70 retain ail letters received at the
Offices addressed to fictitious names, has fallen lii
q wet blanket apon clsss of sharpers WHO hss
grown rich In psacttsing on the credulity Of Cd
public. There are half dozen or more OF hi
Class located in Albany. vhnse profits have bee
+ seriously affected by the order Of the Postmaste
, General One hiss grown 70 opulence by adversi'
ing that ne 10 the manufacturer Of "oye powders,
which possess the power Of charming TO you
embraces the proudest beanties and the most IL
traetabie Of the sterBer sexl" These powders ar
sent by mail at three dollars box They caDno
cost the manufacturers much more than three cent
EACH He assures the gullibie that the use OF on
box Ia generally sufficient; second 10 almost Ger
tain to captivate the ooidest hut in rare instance
q third must be resorted to- That however, wa
never known to fail The victim receives tb,
hrst AID second boxes In fefuru for his six dol
lars; bnt he never gets a return for his third in
| Vestment He might write fifty times after tha
to the love powder man, but he will receive an
swer.
Another sharper advertises that he IL the ma
nfacturer If bogus coin, which will pass for good
even at the mint--s description of coin that viii
successfully stand all chemical tests and defy tie
shrewde bank detectives. The rogue who woxit
deal safely in bogus mouey sends ave dotlary II
purchase seme.s He receives in return ten dollars
| 10 good coin manufactured at the mint. The
| sharper Is now cut fve dollars, but his victim
nnding that the ten dollars sont him pass readily
at profit to him Of fifty per cent. concludes to &c
| TO work on larger scale. He sends fifty dollars
and expects one hundred Of the perfect sbogus' In
return; but he hears more from the coiu
operator, who BY giving ten dollars for five dol
lars gains fifty dollars This fellow, 1t will be per-
eeived, is completely secure from criminal prose.
cution. He does not deal in bogus coin at ALL and
bis victims dare not complain, because In doing 40
| they would be compelled to admit to the world
that they were anxious to operate in counterfeit
money. l,-w
? Another advertises that for the moderate sum o,
nifty dollars he will impart any lawyer a secre.
1 that will, beyond all chances, enable him to win
every suit in which he may be engaged. wbetbe
OF law or love. The charm consists In the posse .
sion of the eyes Of a very rare Egyptian fowl,
| which none can procure but the advertiser
| Strange as IL may seem this fellow hiss caught
some flats and pocketed their money. When ask ed
what return he proposed to make to one of his vic.
TINS he replied that he would go into State street
| purchase spriDg chicken, cook aud eat the meat
extract the eyes and send them to the wistful law
yer, and If they could see further than his victim
| eyes, of which he had no doubt he might win the
| suiti
These sharpers bear fictitious names, and hence
| all communications to them retained. They
VIII be sent TO the dead letter office.
It may not be amiss to say that the general or
der affects few in this city and elsewhere, whose
business Is deemed by the public comparatively
| legitimate, but who for reasoDs best known tC
| themselves, have thought proper to conduct 1t un
| a.
with regard TO them is very easily remedied They
have only to abandon their aliases and their letters
cannot be withheld-Albany Argus Of The sh.
| HARD TINES IN KANsAs.-The Kansas Herald O.
Freedom gives a discouraging view of the time.
In Kansas. 1t says: --.-a
| We pity the man who is compelled to raise mo
| ney now in Kansas. We were told by money
| lender the other day, that he was receiving from
10 TO 20 per cent. per month for the use of money
and had been paid at the rate of 90 25, and so pei
| cent. per mopth to discount notes The loves
| rates, on good security, for the use Of mone,
seem to range between three and five per cent Del
month. Business in nearly all our Kansas town
| Is nearly suspended. Men with twenty or twenty
| five thousand dollars cannot sell property at an,
| price to realize even few hundred dollars. Rea
| estate can be bought at ruinous rates, person
| feeling compelled to sell to realize ready money
| perhaps to save their credit Hardly any branch
| OF business is sustaining itself
| THE FLooD AT CAIRO 1t appears, the damag,
done by the flood at Cairo, H., is far less than
| first reported. The Mayor of that place writes Il
| the Chicago Times:
sCaiT0 is far Fl being destroyed. A considerabl,
portion OF our town is inundated, but no house @
any considerable size has yet been destroyed or il
expected to be. The loss principally is in fences
| outhouses, goods, furniture, &c. Principal busi
ness houses still above the water and will continue
| so. The loss as yet ID incOnsiderable, and viii
is0on be pr Jared" s. e -.r.s
| HEAVY RoBBgRY--The room OF Mr. John McCul
| iouch, at the City Hotel, In jefferson City, Mo.
| was entered on Saturday, and robbed of land war
| rants and Virginia scrip, to the amount of ovel
$500 acres. OF the script there were something
over o60 acres. principally In eighty piecer
| originally issued TO John Carson, q lieutenant IL
the Revolutionary war.
CORONATION OF PAINTISG-Tbe coronation of IN,
| famous painting of the Virgin Mary, presented b,
| the late Duke of Genoa to the Rev Mr. Canvan, o
St Marys (Roman Catbolic) church, Hoboken, n
| Y, took place on Sunday. Rev Bishop Baiiy off
ciated. Many eminent personages were present.
among them the Chew. Bertinsth. charge daffair
of the King of Sardenia and Mr.. Valerie the Sar
dinian vice consul Several thousand persons
| witnessed the ceremony.
UNHAPPY MARRrAGEs-Ete Reason Of IT,. .Bulwe
| is separated from his wife, Gickeps~fron his rife
aud Cbas. Reade (of Peg Wofiington and Whit,
Lies notoriety) is living with another mans wife
From the days of the poet Job, whose wife was TN
original Mrs Caudle, down TO Socrates and Xantil
pc. and SO on down 10 Byron, and fiually to Dick
ems, matrimonial unhsppiness has ever attache,
| to literary men. .t-
JUDAS IscARIoF BuRNED IN EFTlaY,-The time hon
ored Mexican custom of burning Judas 10 effg.
was celebrated in San Francisco on Sunday
April 4th. The effigy was appropriately made uI
Judas being represented with two faces, as usual
The figure was suspended from a rope stretched
across jackson street The exhibition CONCLUDED
about noon, when Judas consigned to tn
flames.
The Two BRowNs- The Mississippi Democra
comes out with a IN emoir of Hon. Aaron V. Brown
| Postmaster General, and urges his nomination 70
| the next President. The Pauldng Clarion has
, article in favor of Hon. Albert G. Brown, Unite
States Senator from Mississippi, for the same o
| flee.
THREE CENTS DAMAGRs-Mr. Sandford has receiv,
the above sum for an article in the Dutchess, Ne
York, Democrat, denouncing ia very bitter an
personal terms his fourth of July oration in 1855
which was tinctured with alb ,lition ssBtimen
AS to be very offensive to his audience. The fri
verdict at previous trial, was $780, and the 8
cond three Genus.
MILL BURNT.-The extensive flour mill of Bill
Tbayer & Usher, in Trey, ~. Y, was destroyed /
fre the 10Th inst, with large quantity OF fol
: | and grain. The loss IL estimated at from thir
Thousand TO forty thousand dollars, on which the
was Insurance for twenty thousand dollar
PROPERTY IN BUsFALo-The as.essors' yaluatit
OF property In the city Of Buffalo tor the year 1S5
shows de crease of 81 81 ,06l compared with Ia
year.
NAvAL.-The u. 3. storeshfp Release, Ident Coz
manding VIM. A. Parker, left Boston on FridI
with stores for the American squadron on Il
coast Of Africa, touching st Madeira.
Radf0rd j. Crockett, for murder was hung
| Atlanta, Ga, on Friday last.
There we're So deaths in baltimore last week. 8
consumption. ta uf
The Kehtncky Synod (ncw schooD has voted
dissolve and form itseif iato an independent pre-
bytery.
Sir Archibald Alison, the historian, Is said
have Joined the corps ofieader writer's tor the Lo
don Herald.
I farodi has been singing in Puerto Principe, wit
the Corade-Stetti Opera Troupe. Five Of the trouI
mad died Of yellow lever.
Wm. Sanders, hand on board. the schoon,
Sally Ann, of Washington, N. G, was drowned
the Cape Fear River, GU Saturday afternoon.
The Navy Department. has gwen orders 10 disil
f,ct the steam frigate SusquehanRa, and to prepal
der for service.
The Hon. Thomas Scatchard, member OF Il