The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-27

A., i y ECDA 4 GEPIEN
ISTxRxATrovAL CRICKET MArcH. s. The
cricket match between thceleven players from
England and eleven American players. win
take place In New York, Thursday. On Sat.
urday the All England Eleven commenced a
game at Montreal with the lI-Canada Eleven
A dispatch says:
Canada went in first. and scored eighty flve
runs Dalyss nineteen being the only double
number in the list. PARIS slow bowling fonk
six wickete Jackson's fast, seven, and CafFy "a
medium pace five. In the Eleyenss eight flrSt
dinge Wisden not ont, four; and HAYWARD
not.ous. one About four Thousand persons
present, including General Williams and STAFF
The play will be resumed or Monday and An
ished on Tuesday. The Eleven are sanguiue
of success and will be ready TO play In New
York on Thursday.
TIE WEATHER IN NORTHERN NEW HAwp.
sHIRE-The Coos Republican. published at
Lancaster n H., says that there was a VERY
severe frost in all that vicinity last week. kill
ing all the crops, and oecasIoning total loss
Of those not matHred. On Thursday and Fri
day the White Mountains Were covered with
snow, apparently as fully as in January. and
the occupants of the Tip-Top and Summit
Houses descending Mount Washington on Fri.
day, found snow to the depth of six inches
with drifts of considerable magnitude
Throughout Thursday the air was pierciag
cold. like the latter part of November. The
old residents say that never since 1916 and II
has there been weather of equal severity at SO
early a period in the season. There has been
a frost in that locality every month during
the season--an uncommon instance of severity
On Wednesday of the same week quite a tor
nado passed over Lancaster, leaving MANY
traces Of it's progress. Several barns were
partially unroofed, and divers unfinished
structures lifted several feet from their posi-
tions. The gale was followed by n squali of
snow.
MYSTERIES OF THE BANK PARLoRs-The
New York Tribune says, the discount clerk of
one sfthe city banks recently resigned his Sit
uation. His resignation was accepted, his ac-
counts investigated and pronounced all right
and complimentary vote passed by the Board
for his attention to his duties, &c. He then
stated TO the Board that he had a commnnica-
tion TO make, as a caution to induce them to
watch his successor. He stated that. notwith-
standing his accounts were all correct ut the
time of resignation, he had, in fact been using
the Bills receivable of the Bank for years as
collateral for loans, and employing the funds
in the purchase of paper at usurious rates
BY this course he had accumulated sufficient
property to meet his moderate desires, and,
having no further use for the facilities he had
enjoyed, he had resigned
GREAT TELEGRAPH SCHEME.-Anothergr great
telegraph scheme has been broaehed. the au-
thor being Major Collins, u S. Agent at the
river Amoor. Taking Behring's Straits as the
point of submarine connection between the
two continents, Major Collins calculates the
distance from Moscow to ST. Louis at 1f.40
miles. The cost of construction for the whole
OF this distance, he estimates would be in
round hunters 81, ,500,000, nearly fifth of this
amount being set down under the head of con-
ungencles. The cost of maintenance and
working would be about S675,CeJ yearly, and
the annual receipts (minimuml !,52, coo leay-
ing q clear annual prDtit of
METHOD TO INCREASE THE SIZE OF FRUIT
A solution OF copperas applied to apples
&c., 1t is said by French author will canse
them to grow much larger than usual. 1t
should be employed three or four times during
the season, commencing when the fruit first
sets, and being repeated at periods before the
fruit begins maturing. Theapplcations should
be made after sunset-never in a sunshiny
day. Sulphate of iron, (eopperas) il is we'll
known. induces rapidity OF absorption The
use OF sulphate of iron has been prescribed as
specific against the black knot in plum trees
1t must be applied after the knot has been re-
moved by eXcsion.
FREE DRINKING FoUNTAINs.-A handsome
free drinking fountain was recently erected
in London, which bore the following inscrip-
ton: This toun tain of pure water was erect
ed by Robert Stafford, for the benefit Of his
friends and fellow Pensioners in Westmin-
ster. with an earnest desire Tor their temporaI
and eternal welfare" The fountain was
opened without any ceremony whatever. 1t
is placed in the centre of n poor and crowded
locality, and in the course of the first day
nearly 5000 persons slaked their thirst at its
stream.
VIRGINIA Posi- -OFFIcEs.-The Office at Yel-
low Sulphur Springs, Montgomery county, is
discontinued.
AppoiHtmsntS.-Willia A Talley postmas-
ter at Fredericks Hall, louisa county, vice jon
athau Talley, declined. Michael Lynn post
master at West Union, Doddridge county vice
George Kinney, resigned. George Kenney,
postmaster at Burton, Wetzel county, Va
vice l.. Hodge, resigned.
DUEL.-The Arizona correspondent of the
St Louis Republican says duel between
Judge Watts and Mr.. Otcro, the candidate for
Congress from New Mexico, had taken place
near Mesilla. Three shots with Colts navy
revolyers, at fifteen PAGES, We're exchanged
without effect when the parties Were with
drawn by their seconds. 1t was reported that
Mr.. O'ero had been reelected To Congress by
1,4i0 majority. Lieut.. Mowry has also been
returned 10 Congress, delegate from Arizona
REMARKABLE CASE OF HoNEsTY.-The New
York Tribune says that on Friday last r. gem
tleman lost package, containing The amount
OF Si,ttiJ, either in the cars or on the Jersey
City ferr-ybo The package was marked
" For deposit in - Bank" As soon as he
the package, but without success. After much
effort, and deep anxiety, he went to the Bank
and found that the amount had been duly de-
posted by some person unknown.
MYSTERIOUS DIsAPPEAgANcE-A man
named George Bonawell, master of the schoon-
er Promise from Accomac county, Va, dis
appeared, in Baltimore. Friday night, aud has
not since been heard from. He arrived in that
city Thursday, and had discharged the
cargo of his vessel. On Friday he was paid
over ssl00 by a firm in the city, and in the af-
ternoon he was seen in an intoxicated condi-
ton.
GREAT Lock GATE.-There has Just been
constructed for the Saut ST. Marie Canal a
gate which is believed to be the largest in the
world. 1t is eighty-two feet wide-the width
OF the canal-thirty-one feet six inches deep
and thirty two inches thick. The timber used
In its sconstruetion, cut into inch boards, would
measure about one hundred and twenty thou
sand feet
IRON FOR THE CAPIToL DoME.-The amount t
OF iron thus far used on the dome of the Iew
Capitol at Washington is about 2,50o,00 lbs
10 complete the first section will require 5JU.-
coo additional, making total of 3 00U, ,olto. The
total weight of iron for the whole dome will
be about l5,o00,od0 pounds. This great weight
will only be about fifty pounds to the square
inch. in the thickness of the walls.
EFFECT OF THE AURORA BoREALIs-A
young lady, aged about sixteen, of considera-
BILE intelligence and prepossessing appearance
is now residing with the Sheriff of Ottowa
county, III, preparatory to her removal to the
lunatic asylum. She became insane from
viewing the aurora borealis, short time ago
which she was induced TO believe betokened
the approaching end of the world.
HoRRID SUPERsTITIoN-A Mrs Prescott
Lawrence, of Winhall VT, died few dsvs
since OF consumption, and as number of the