The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-12-08

SERious AYrRAr At BELKsAp, THxas-The Dallas
Texas Herald has the following letter dated Bslk
nap, Nov s, giving an ac,ount Of q serious affra,
at that place:
oneof the greatest outrages that has ever die,
grnced this State or the army, occurred this after.
hoon at this place. In difficnity which cccurret
between acitizsD, Mr. George Pettyiohn. and ,
| soldier, the soldier was shot. The latter was In
Ken up to the garrison and placed In the hosuital
| and Mr. Pettyjohn delivered himself M 10 ths
sherin. whilst accompanying the Sheriff ND te
the Justices Office, party of soldiers conplste,
| armed, belonging to Company B. of the Second
| Cavalry. who had just arrived from Fort Mason
aud to which the soldier belonged. came over to
the town and commenced firing upon Mr.. r.
who. ia attempting to escape, ran into Mr. Fsber'a
hotel
| The soldiers some twenty in number. headed bv
sergeant named RosendoIph, followed M. firing
,ndiserimnateiy at every one they saw running,
and the surrounded the hotel aud fred In 10 IL
they were stopped by Major Thomas who camo
down In haste. accompanied by several of bis o,li.
GERS and guard Of soldiers. Mr. F. was literally
shot 10 pieces, tbough, at the present time he is
nor oead Those OF the soldiers engaged in the
outrage were arrested by Company D. under com.
nand of Capt Palmer
There was difference of opinion as to who WAS
in the wrong when the soldier was shot The sol.
a'e,s urge tnat he was favorite Of the company,
apd thar they understand he was imposed upon. -
rms, am satisfied, is not The soldier 1AIex.
| ander) was drinking, to be sure, but must have
oeen guilty of some outrageous conduct, to baye
induced sober man. as was Pettyjohn at the time,
| to have shot him.
Both the wounded men are doing we'll. and will
| very likely recover. MIR. Pettyiobn received two
snoss IN each arm. onen the right chest (this one
ransing round,) one in the face, and q esh wound
IN the lett shonlder. He has also wound behind
the right ear, but whether it was produced bv a
shof or piece of glass is not known Alexander
received wound from six-shooter. the bali
passlSg through his mouth and out at the back of
| the neck. A "a
AN AMERICAN LAKE CAPTAIN SHor By Usr-vn
STATES MARsaAL.-lienry Jones, captain OF the
brig Concord, was shot in the head With a revoI.
yer at about l O'Clock the morning of the 2atb
uitlmo, on board his vessel, lying near Port Sar
MIA, Canada, by William H. Tyler. United States
Deputy Marshal, OF this city. He belonged to De-
| troit, Michigan, to the papers of which citv 70
are indebted for the following particulars:
"The briggs crew were summoned to attend an
inqnest held On the body Of their captain at
for' huron short time after his death, which
occurred in about an hour after he was sbot -
Inelr statements are substantially as f,llows.-
Ihe brig wss mo0red to the Canada sbore hv
| t~o lines, which held her fast aground. And
were secured, one to pile driven in the beach.
and another to a stack of lumber An an,bo,
was also out, which was hove short When
the tug came within hailing distance the can
tain Inquired what she wanted and WAS an,
sWered that they wanted to tie up to his brig
liz was a clear night but not sufficiently lipht
| to enable person to see clearly The cantain
answered that he would be glad to let them tie nm
TO his vessel, bur could not, as q ting had or1v
snort time previous made fast to her and pulled
away from their moorings. The tug still advanced
until she was alongside, when TYLER jumned unon
the rail and exhibited his writ at the same time
NAT some person on shore-supposed by the crew
to have been put ashore for that purpose from the
tug-cus one of the lines with an axe and then
ran away. Two men got aboard with TYLER. one
of whom went forward with the tugs Ilre and
made it fast. Capt Jones seized an axe and started
forward to cut the line, as he had previously
Threatened to do, and. when opposite TYLER was
shot down by him. They state that, after shoot
ing the captain, the officer cooked his pistol and
asked IL there were any more who were disposed
to dlsobey the laws, adding that he had five more
balls left. The crew lodged benin the most con.
yenient shelter and made no rash demonstrations
They deny entirely the assertion that any violence
was offered by the captain, further than what was
manifested in bis intention OF cutting the rope
II is not claimed by the officer that the crew of.
Tered any unlawful demonstrations. Measures are
being prosecuted in Canada to REQUIRE the custo.
dy OF the officer, for trial in Canadian Court"
FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS IN FIFTEEN MINUTES
The PREss DID lr.-The sum of fifteen hundred
dollars was made a few days since at Lyuchburp
Va, in fifteen minutes by New York gentleman:
and the lick BY which it was done should be
known by business men in our section generally
The circumstances were these. He was passep.
ger en- route to the South by the line Of the Ten.
| nessee and Virginia railroad. There was slight
detention OF the train at Lypchburg, and to see
what was TO be seen in the line Of business he
stepped into store, inquired the price of dried
peaches, was Informed, asked how many bushels
they could furnish, was told, gave check for the
amount, made arrangements with the selling par.
! ty to ship to New York, returned to his seat in
che cars, was gone Lot longer than fifteen mi-
nu:es, took cut his pencil, made an estimate of his
purchase, calculated the expense of shipment in
surance ard all and remar led to friend sitting by
Fom " hem We learned the facts, that he had made
| just fifteen hundred dollars clear of everything
| "a good fifteen minutes work, and share
| business man, say we, and 90 respond all But
the lick by which il was done-that's what we are
after Well, that man kept posted on the prices
current, atevery town he inquired fer the latest
papers, patronised the press kept posted on the
rates OF freight from point to point, would invest
dollar or each day for teIegraphc intelligence
from New York, aud studied his business through
~ and made the newspaper his text book. The
| Garale OF this transaction Is and should be- that
all business men, the producer, sellor and buyer
should patronse the press and patronise its liberal
ly, that they gather from its columns the latest
quotations, the supply and demand of any article
upon the market, the rates of freight from point
TO point-that they invest for telegraphic inforua
ton, that they bo active, investigate and pry into
their line trade, auc by doing they will put
money into their pockets, and put it in honestly
Had the Lynchburg merchant kept posted on the
demand and prices Of dried peaches in the New
York merketa, as did the railroad traveller he
might have made the fifteen hundrek k-Ctataaooqa
Tsasn.) AdrertiSer.