The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-05


=. baD ..h = Nnws ron rHE ABoLrrrossrs.
III -. rom Richmond TO the New York Her
WI u. s.ates, that IL has been decided on bv the
~ sInia authorities to hand over Cook-Johp
-. iirufenant--to be tried by the federal
;e,,. - ~ .ne Harper's Ferry district. The OBJ
49, ~ ~ mus ms Is to have Seward, Greeley, San
nnfn, ~ Wiison. Hale, Forbes Gerrit Smith, and
81 ~ o1ners VINO were implicated in the conspi.
sscya,o ssy, or VINO are known to have been in The
nesses and placed on the stand 10 tell ali thew
khSw his. ~ the matter. They are outside the ju-
q NV OF the Virginia State courts but not
Oh the federal courts
"A MIsTAKE.-The report thai tho Iohn IT
rna2l killed at Harper's Ferry, was raised in
sIrginia, Is incorrect His parents moved
a,un and Ibis ,nis county to OHIO, many years ago,
anu prooabiy the first time this Young man
was ever in the State was abonf two wears
ago Ihen he came here and was working ON
a q ia,In near TINS place when ne got into diff
Icua.y IIa' y, with and stabbed man named Fry
!, ne hea from justice and the next we heard of
MN ne was figuring with the Free. State men
IN kansas.-Ia. Spirit If Democracy.
WRITING HlsToRY.-The Rev. DR.. A.
Peabody, editor of the North American Pa'
view, makes the following statement in his
article on Plutarch's Lives "a DrofnundIv
learned Jurist undertook, some fifty yearsago
10 %r.s the history OF the United States, and
OF the projec ted work, which it was found he |
had commenced in the Garden of Eden and |
was arrested in his last illness in narrative
9i the discovery of America.
FRUIT TRADE OF BosToN.-The foreign fruit
trade OF Boston is an item of commerce of no
!hcohsioerabie importance. The following are
.he receipts for the year ending Sept. l. 1859:
Lemons, boxes, 5S, ,595; oranges, bozes 1l67ii |
hgs, packages, 43S; raisins boxes i6s. .657: raj
SINS, packages, l0ioo. The list only includes
, ,ue great staple articles the imports of other
Kinds OF foreign fruit are quite extensive. and
the market value of these products would
reach large sum-
"A BRIEF HoNEYMooN.-WmA A. Wadsworth
died at Akron, Ohio, on the 10Th Of Octo-
Der. Ihe Beacon says:-"October 9th he was
married to Lydia A. Markillie. and the parties
Wens 10 fenhsyivania on a wedding tour On
the Iollowlng Wednesday, October 10Th they
returned TO Hudson, Mr. Wadsworth being
scarcely able to ride in his carriage; and on
w Wednesday, October 10th, thirteen days after
MS marriage, he was a corpsen
LARGE CARGO AND QUICK DIsPATCu-Tbe
ship Ocean Monarch, Capt. Page. arrived in
this port on the 9th ms tant from New York
commenced loading on the ;3th instant and
was Cleared this morning for Liverpool, with
cargo of 1913 bales cotton weighing B I4o-
5U9 lbs, and valued at {S3S7 :}65, this being the
largest cargo ever cleared from any port, with
the exception of the same vessels cargo clear
ed in January last, of 1869 baies.-N. o. Pea
yune.
U. s. TROOPS FOR THE WEsT.-Col Magru
der's mounted battery of seventy four men and
iofty or fifty horses left Governors Island
and took passage Wednesday morning by The
ERIE Railroad TO St. Louis, route for For.
LeaVenworih. The officers of the battery are
Col Magruder, commanding Capt. Duryee
anu Lieutenants Turner and Beckwith.
THE LAST MAN."-Twelve wears ago a
u ran bnr
n sporting tour, in one of their conviyial
moods, buried bottle of liquor the last sur
ViVor to exhume 1T and drink 10 the health OF
his dead comrades. On Friday OF last week
the plan received it's completion at the hands
OF the last survivor.
Snow STORMS IN OCTOBER the wear
1886 there was a fall OF snow on the night of
October II, followed by rain and hail on the
18TH. This is two weeks earlier than the
snow storm OF Wednesday last at the North
The latter was, it is stated, the heaviest snow
storm they have had in October for half
century, at least, and seems to announce an
early. ii not q hard winter.
FoR THE GIRLs.-The mode of arranging the
hair for Young ladies in Paris styled PIs1o4ro.
trice, is now slightly modified. The hair is
parted down the middle of the forehead, ar
ranged in rich bandeaus, and then wound
round the head in a double plat, forming u
Giadem; on the back of the head is placed a
large velvet bow, with long ends.
SINGULAR.-A Canadian paper states that
during the past six weeks, the waters OF Lake
Ontario have fallen not less than Is inches
During the same time, a good deal of rain has
fallen and the waters of the rivers and lakes
20 The west have risen considerably. The solu-
ton OF this phenomenon would be very inter-
esting.
A LlBERAToR OF HORSES, MULES, ETc.-The
Cleveland Plaindealer says that General
land at Matthews livery stable, and pointed
out to passers by the ''points'' in fine deep
stallion which he said he had liberated in
Missouri, and which he at length sold for $50.
THE VorE OF NEW YoRK-The returns of
the names OF voters registered in New York
city foot up 1O}, i50-337IS more votes than
were cast at The last State election, and about
$4,000 more than were given atthe municipal
election of 1857, which was the highest vote
ever cast in that city.
A GREAT OPERA HoUsE.-They are erect
ing at Rio de Janeiro an opera house which
surpasses the celebrated theatres of the lvric
drama at Milan and Naples and is four times
the size of the Royal Italian Opera House,
Convent Garden, London. The government
in Brazil suStains the opera
ELECTION OF COUNTY CLERK.-The cleo
tion in Frederick county, Va, Thursday
last, for clerk of the County Court, to fill
-
Riley. resulted in the choice of j. g. Riley,
Dem, son of the deceased, by 2l0 majority
COUNTERFEIT MoNEY.--Two strange young
men. giving their names as George w. Moore
and John II. Robinson, succeeded in putting
into circulation a large amount of counterfeit
bills on the Bank of Commerce of Fredericks-
burg, Va, in Kent county, Md, last week, and
were arrested for it.
A DEAD SHoT.-In New York Il woman
named Margaret Donald obtained glass of
liquor at one of the Ninth Ward porter houses,
which proved to contain more than the usual
proportions of strychnine. A spasm ensued
shorty afterward; she fell from her bed TO the
floor and expired III agony.
VIRG1NIANs AHEAD.-Ies. H. WILLIAMS, SON
of Capt. 5. g. Williams, of Shenandoah C. un-
ty Va, has been elected to the Legislature OF
Iowa by the people of Dubuque MIR. w. Is
about % years of age, and has been living in
the State OF his adoption but short time.
A CIRCAssIAN IN CLOvER.--The Russian
Car it is stated, has given the great Cireas
siar chief Schamyl, a handsome palace 10 live
in allows him eight thousand dollars year,
and three Circassan wives.
DRowNED.-Gdeon X. Hitchcock and Henry
Conneily were drowned in Lake Superior on
the 25th uit., by the upsetting of a boat, i'll
which they were going from Ontonagon TO
Iron Ridge, Wis.
ORR NATIONAL MARINE-The entire arlna-