The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-04-28
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THURSDAY hoRNING,...........s APRIL -. 1859.
Nor 70 N ErraArrsp We yssterdsy visitea ths
eeaooner John H. Trovis, Capt. Henry Il. Toliv.
is wnien y nov unloading st cowieys wharf, and
which is not without features OF insorest 70 81,
people. IL appears that Capt, +. rcceutIy sads
avoysge 10 frovideace, Rhode fsland. for = c.rvc
OF zoe, and encountered aback spirits and 1hits,s
=. amos, every eonceivable shape aud sine On
ooeto OF ms vessel, among ether hands, is negro
named sam, from Dorchester county, Nd. where
ms master resides, and soon after their arrival az
pros,dencc, number OF phiianshr ropis,s 10 that
s.sy necame aware Ct the fact and at once pres
Ea.eu pans % release the hereditary bondsman."
70, snis purpose, they employed . number OF
naItssArsed free negroes to watch "Samivel's'
movements, and they we're not long In fading
opportunity to communicate with him. He dc.
sired TO see the sights and started eft on STROLL
Was socn Reset BY number OF darkies Who cars
ried him BY force to some locality remote from
tie waarf--perhaps Ia tho very temple OF Justice
where the law Of Rhode Island declaring him a
free man was expounded and explained 10 him.
He was then asked what be intended doing when
he replied that he was going back TO she vessel
that he was free as he wanted to be, his master
having instructed him to runaway whenever
he wished to leave his service. Falling in this
wise to accomplish their object, one or two
ptous whites passed the hat round, realizing
between fifty aud sixty dollars by the oper.
alton sam was then requested to take the
Pile, remain in thcir midst, laugh and grow fat;
bot Il would not do-he stubborniy declined their
aid and sympathies, when they immediately chang
ed their tactics, denounced him with bitter cures
and threatening to give hundred and fifty lashes
for the contempt manifested for their love. Sam
conceived that matters were culninating, and
avsiiins himself OF the earliest opportunity to
make good his retreat reached the vessel In safety
though hotiy pursued Here he ansourced to
Capt. T. tho straits through which he had passed.
and imnediateiy prepared to defend bis castle,
the galley. with broad.axe Capt. 7. also pre-.
pared for war, aud the scoundrels becoming in i.
timdated, reiinquished their game, satisfied that
every effort to save Sam WAS vain.
Sam 10 between forty and fifty years old, con.
verses rather inteliigentiy, and is withai trump
OF dsrkie. He declares that neither the offer of
freedom nor the money had temptation for him
after he had looked upon the miserable condition
Of the negroes there The whole circumstance is
a signal rebuke of abolition fanatcism m.-Forts~
mouth (Fa) Transcript
MAILING LETTERS AT TIE CARs.-Ths privilege al
lowed Of mailing letters at the cars has been
so much abused at many points upon the lines Of
railroad, that the Postof1ce Department has found
it necessary to issue circular to route agents
the subject Hereafter they are to receive only
such letters as they have good reason to believe
written after the usual hours for closing the
mail at the local postefcs, and also such as could
not, with ordinary diligence, have been mailed al
the postoffice In time for the outgoing mail. The
Constitution says:
The mailing OF letters in any considerable mum.
ber by route agents necessarily occupies the time
which they should devote to the careful distribu.
tion and delivery of way matter, and is likely te
interfere with the more perfect discharge of theii
duties. Another important consideration is the
effect 1t has upon the income of local offices il
diminishing the missions of those offices where
the letters should properly bs mailed. There il
r,l.Irx 81
THUNDER FOR AN OPERA -Meyerbeer's new opera
Gle Pardon de Ploermel," could not be producad
in Paris as early as the composer desired, for wan
of good musical thunder. The public had becom.
extremely impatient meanwhile. The piece bad
long been promised, but Meyerbeer trembled abon,
the bad thunder. letter from Paris says:
"He wandered about the town in search of pro.
per noises, and the means of making them. Al
last, one morning, in passing before house in
course of demolition, the magic sound arrested his
footsteps. He observed men rolling s.ones and
rubbish through long wooden trough, in order &c
guard against accidents. Hs hestened to the the
atre summoned carpenters, ordered great wooden
funnel, aud sent through it quantity of stones
lead or iron. Grapesho. would be the thing
But said the manager, 'the Government forbids
military stores of all kinde; powder can only be
burnt by permission Meyerbeer seized PEN
War. An immediate reply contained for my dear
Meyerbeer' the assurance that, If he would only
hurry the Pardon of PloermeI, the stores of ali
vincennes should be at his disposal. The piece
was produced instantly. The thunder roared as
no other operate thunder was ever heard to roar
At the end of the second act, the Emperor sum-
moned the composer to the imperial box, and load.
ed him. with thanks and compliments, while
rounds of applause from every quarter of th Q
house rivalled the effect of twenty peals of this
fhrice hanny thunder'
FLOOD IN TIE LOWER MIssIssIppI-Late advices
received by steamer at Cincinnati represent the
rise of the waters in the lower Mississippi az of
an alarming character. The numerous crevaeses
have resulted in the overflow of large tracts of
the lower country, and the destruction of stock,
crops and Improvements to an almost incalculabie
amount. From Memphis down, the river is de-
scrihed as spreading on either hand like sea- and
the marks of desolation are everywhere visible
Scores of plantations and villages are either over
flowed or rendered almost uuinhabitable by the
mould with which the surrounding mojsture has
covered every dwelling. The houses which are
built on pillars, thus suffering the water to run
freely beneath, still occupied. Fiat boats are
usually moored to such habitations, which serve
the double purpose of stables for the cattle and
quarters for the negroes who guard them At
Vicksburg the water 10 sixteen inches higher than
during the food Of last year, 30 that the steamers
tie mp "cheek by jowl" with the houses, some
of the awnings of which they have knocked down.
1t will be remembered that Vicksburg stands upon
q very high bank
ADVANCEMENT IN ScIENoE.-The striking ad.
vapcemeDt in material science 10 well demonstra.
ted by the "History of British Patented Inven
tions" in the Astor library, New York. II ap
pears from the very elaborate work, that from
1910 to 1900, period of ninety years, there we're
only two hundred and sixty.seven patents taken
ont; from 100 to 1s0o whole century, only two
thousand and sixty; but from 1900 to 1851, the
number increased ten fold over the preceding
century, viz: eleven thousand; and from 1851 to
1855 there were nine thousand. or q still vastly
celebrated ratio of gain. The same is true of In
ventions In America.
A FINALE TRAvELLKR.-Mrs. Louisa Hay Kerr,