The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-16

sia) Argus, Of the 10th instant, gives the follow
lns details Of au attempted massacre Of Who'll.
family:
About nine o'clock On Sunday night last, the ssh
ins.sos, Two negro msp--one the property Of Nj
ttsr.ins, ths other Of nrs. Keston- entered the
ooess OF Mrs. Margaret Sadier, about twelve
milss northeast Of EAinbridge, by breaking down
| sne door, and commenced 40 attack on Mrs. Sad
| isrs oIdese daushtsrs aged shout eightssn years,
Gu.nng pef on the arm and brsaat, and bruis
| rS ner nead, bus NOT wo0nciDg her nostally.-
on: OF them next seized gun from ne rack
| ana attempted TO discharge it 1t Mr..
| sAdier, bus finding IL empty, commsnced
Ss,.e SSs..se nsr ovsr the head viii i., bending the
| were %: blows They alse at her With boards
.n'cn they had torn fra. sus door, sud cut her
ofsaatuiiy With knives. She survived only about
Two Two nours. Thss second oldest daughter made good
snd bruised-one Of them, boy about eleven
years oid, 70 terribly mangled and cannot live,
aus o.nsf 70 an infant only three years old. which
Will probably recover ~
arrested, and are safely lodged 10 Jail at this
place. Mrs. Sa6ler was q respectable, but Door.
woman, who lost her husband, Mr. Moses Ssdlsr
aooota year ago. Her daughters too, are above
TaE hSNsrr divorces CAsE-This caae ia attn
pending at New Haven, and continues TO excite
much interest 10 Connecticut A corrsspondent
OF tue New York Times writes:
At times the counsel get terribly befogged IN the
s'tempt 70 get ae the meaning of DR.. Bennett,s
TESTIMONY. He - certainiy rsmar ksbIe vitness
The conduct of his examination reminds one f,r.
chilly OF navigating steamboat on the Mississippi
Ills constantly such phrases as "Stop himin-st}o
on?-"Start him "-"Hoid upl"-.Slowsr pr
The doctors infrmity prevents him from hesrine
anything less than shout, and bis friend. Cover
nor Duttou, who is venerable white haired ren.
tiemsn, has q hard time Of It.. The Governor sits
IN the witnesss chair, at the right hand of Ben.
nett, and the latter stands while giving his evi.
dence Once to-day Judge Backman reused the
doctor by asking "what it was he didn't recol.
lecf," the doctor replying tartly that be didn't
,recoliect anything that he didn't know
Whereupon Mr.. Blackmah appealed to the con Z
against the doctors insolence During the whole
proceedings Mrs. Bennett has occupied a seat nsrt
her counsel, between him and the witners boy.
Ihe previous history Of the parties is interest
Ing. Or. Bennett has been resident of New Ha,
ven Tor some eight years. lie is among the BIS in
the tsfy directory as George Bennett, pill maker.
No z Dow street." Poor when he married. ten
years ago, be has acquired considerable fortune
IN his business, estimated all the way from 400 !.
ooo tthe lowest fgure) up to- $4,000, and even
twice that. He owns suodry pieces of property ia
New Haven, appears in the tax list as having S12.
900 at interest. v
Mrs. Gsnnett isresting temporarily with friends
In the city. She has three children-ope An in
| fanf, y months old, born suce the commencement
OF these proceedings for divorce The lady is from
"tecPeCtaoto family OF moderate circumstance.
At Birmingham, q town few miles from New
HaVen. DR.. Bennett testines as to the manner
In which he met her. Miss Allis was in the habit
OF calling at neghb0rs house while en-.
gagged in millinery shop here. There the Doc
tor met her, was struck by her appearance, and
thought II would "pay," as he expressed it, to 90
over to Birmingham to see her. He won't and the
young las{ became Mrs. Bennett.
TIE FnfIBusrER SCHOONER AND HER CzEw.-A
| telegraphic dispatch in the Washington Union of
yesterday, pretty clearly shows the character of
tae crew of the schooner "susan," which ran off
from Mobile. II says:
New ORLEANs, Dec. Is, 1858.
Lieut.. Geo. r. White, who was carried off on
board the schooner Susan from Mobile, arrived
here this day, by the bark Oregon, from Barba-
| does, having been put on board that vessel on
Thursday last, two days out from Mobile Point
| He reports that on finding the schooner under
way, he ordered the captain to come to anchor;
which order was refused, and the vessel proceeded
| to sea. She was commanded by Capt Maury, and
bad on board Frank Anderson, Col. Bruneau, Col.
Mcdonald, Msjor Ellis, Col. Ruder, Captain West,
| aud other officers, and about two hundred and
| nifty men, armed with reyovsrs, side earns and
| rifles. They deciored that they were going to
| Greytown, in Nicaragua Lieut.. White will be dis
| patched to Mobile Tomorrow, and will probably
be called thence to Washington to report in person
| to the government.