The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-23
RIoHMoND VA. UEsDAY. AUGUST 'ss, lA5s

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- JokHs FOs rMnsgoxs on MAIrA.n-<The
Of Malta. Is wi ~ : gu0d many ssh- |
efss VIII srjcy tn follo~ ~tne good Joke. which
e told By the senecA Ads xsiser. and Is aai6 70
have occurred in one Of % intsrior rillsSrs
of Ohio: A
A worthy member Of the MAshodIsf t,hnre,.
slightly touched with 1fiilslSsYn. had never
rend n his Bible, nor In the A wet,o,3era ~
the SONS ef Maita, " and Ind no Ilea that such
p se ofgans-asisa sa- was r. his town
q Y o'clock precisely. in resaiia, usking them
look for all the world as ii iusf arssen from
s. inmber. wv ith the drapery of thslr couch
around tnem the Sons issued freA their
councti-room, the procession moved Aowly
along, and in their route passing by lacod
house, the strains OF music nndstbe
sound OF feet awuke him from his dreami- |
LIVING LEV ms curtain aside he snw the ghosay
OF Judgment was at hand. Calling to his wissI
ana children, he exclaimed: aTheret there.
the Gay OF Judgment is come! The spirits of
.ne uead Methodist graye-y yard are going 10
Join the spirits in the Lutheran graveyard.
and noss Of yoa are ready buf ms, told you ii ,
would be SO ~
The KING OF PRussIA.-As her relations
with Ans tria and Germany grow daily NOR.
and more complicareti, Prussia begins TO find
II important to putth supreme authority of
the state upon some basis moro durable and
9 soIId than regency. Almost the whole royal
sisfcrf of King Frederick Wiiiianl IN. are are.
heMa Aske1a hsc<t~9t Ems 10 consult upon tise
dsspcsut Of the cfown. The Empress Dowa-
ger OF Russia, the Grand Duchess OF Meek
,e ours. the princess Frederic Of the Neither
lands. the Prfrra tp.;.
Charles OF Prussia, made mp the family party
fhe King S physicians declare that though his
Dia]esty looks stcuter and better than before
ms Journey to Italy. his Inalady has made ter
ripie progress Paralysis of several limbs is
constantly looked for, and the celebrated occu-
list, Dr. Graefe. has announced that there is
reason to fear that the King will shortly be-
come quite blind. II is question, therefore
oi lmnedlate significance in the aspect OF Eu-
ropenn affairs, whether the Sovereignty OF
Prussia shall pass OF once into the Keeping Of
I he Prince Regent, or be transferred from him
TO his son Frederick William, the son in Jaw
OF Victoria.
IETKREsTTxG SuIT.-The suit of the Frank
lin Bank of Washington VS.. David McC Cartney
has excited considerable in terest at ST. CIairs-
VILE, as involving considerable sum Of mo-
ney. Mr.. Mccartney was formerly contrac-
tor on the Hempfeld Railroad. The case, hav-
Ing been on trial for several days. closed yes-s
terday morni g. The bank sued Mccartney
on bill of Exchange for ~ie,0c1, loaned in
1856 The defendant plead that the bank had
no legal existence; that the bank in charging
MN ons-half per cent exchanges on his failure
TO pay, had received usurious interest; that
the charge OF interest for the three days grace
was also usury; and further that the bank re-
fused to sell his collateral securities. After
the protracted trial and able arguments of
Judge Kenran & Son for plaintiffs and Messrs
Davenport Mckennan for defendant, the
case went to the jury under very clear charge
hn iI,Yv rof., y
with verdict for the full amount of debt and
interest
DEFENCE OF ANTwKRP.--The belgian cor
respondence says The works set forth in the
new bill for the fortifications of Antwerp are
estimated at 4s,ers7, 900 francs. To make up this
sum twenty millions will be taken from the
loan; IL, 900 fr. will be furnished by the or
binary resources, and ten millions will be paid
by the city of Anwerp. The system of defence
which differs from that proposed some time
since, will be line of fortificaiions round the
city much more extensive than the present one.
SO as to allow the population of Antwerp,
which for some time past has been increasing
at the rate OF three thousand year. to live
more at their ease within the, ramparts. Be-
yond this line of enclosure, and at distance
OF D, ,7O3 metres from the centre of the present
city, there will be raised a system of detached
forts, forming the first line of defence of the
place.
CRoCKETT's LOG CANNON the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad, not far from Jackson, in Ten
nesscr says chan i,eiier, still r1,s tho
humble log cabin, eighteen by twenty feet in
size. built and occupied while he lived in the
district by the far-tamed David Crockett. Its
logs are fast decaying, and desolation sur
rounds ii, but no traveller passes il without
an eager desire to look upon the humble roof
that sheltered one OF the truest representatives
OF the American pioneer character-a hero and
an honest man. Near it is a railroad station,
called Crockett's station; around it, perhaps,
VIII rise town to bear and perpetuate name
as familiar to his countrymen as that of jack
son.
NOEL ESTIMATE OF PERSONAL WORTH
The Rev Mr. Ellis, in his recently published
account OF his visit to Madagascar, gives de-
scription of Il funeral he attended on the Is
land. M. DelastelIe, prominent merchant,
died, and three officers of the palace were sent
TO the family of the deceased TO express the
soyereign's sympathy with the afflicted widow
and relatives. The chief of the EN- bassy from
the capitol delivered an eulogium upon the
departed, in the course of which he said "that
the sovereign would have given two thousand
dollars--yea three Thousand, yea, five thous-
and dollars, rather than that he should have
died.
AK ORGAN IS A SHoEMAKER's SHoP.-At
the workshop of Mr.. Preston Richardson, a
worthy shoemaker. there has been for a number
of years small church organ, of fine tone
and considerable compass. Mr.. Richardson
is q great lover of music, and is wont TO vary
the monotony of his daily labor by occasion a.
ally evoking from his fayorite instrument
some ssmelodious measure" II is doubtful il
another Instance can be found where a me-
chanic has set up an organ alongside his work
beach, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. piece OF handi-
work and performs a gem from some oratorio
a popular melody, or the tune to some grand
psalm.-Rsading Pa.} Journal
THAT CABLE.-Freight room has just been
engaged, by Morgan's line of packets to Lon
don, for 10 miles (about 50 tons) of the Attain
tic Telegraph Cable, which was taken out OF
the steam frigate Niagara 1t did not pay to
cut it up into specimens, the sale having been
stopped by the suspension of communication
on the part of the cable which was submerged.
1 LARCENY OF THE IRON CROWN OF LON
BARDY.-It appears, according to correspon-
dent of the London Morning Star, that the
Iron Crown of Lombardy, tor which the peo-
pie feel n great yeneration, has been stolen
from the Cathedral of Monza Milan, its place
of deposit and cannot now be found, though
several Of the clergy have been arrested
SPECIE AT NEW ORLKAxs.-The following
amounts of specie have been received here
since Saturday last:-From Brazos st. Jago.
by the steamship Indianola, S5i5, ,2sS ~, and by
the steamship Arizona, saso. .966 20; from Tabas-
co, by the brig Minatitlan, S3i, us; by the
steamship Magnolia, from Galveston, &l.e33-
Total, $o47, ,st2 s3-N. o. PfeayuHe, f5fa.
SERIOUS AccrpEST.-WhiIe raising the stee-
pie tower Of a. new Episcopal Church, at
Mount Holly, N. j., on Thursday, OF last
week. the whole framework fell fnwArdly, with
a crash, carrying with il the front 81 the ouIid-
ing and crushing the joists. Samuel II. Toy
and Joseph kirkbride we're seriously injured
BY the falling timbers.
DrcLrrBp.-Dr w. l.. Breckenridge, who
was elected by the Old School General Assem-
bly of the Presbyterian Church, which met in
this city in May last. Professor OF Church,
Government and Pastoral Theology in the
Theological Seminary al DanviIle, KY, has
declined the appointment.
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