The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-11
LOCAL MATTnRa.

Yes1& HreiHe.--1n this enlightened day.
Wnen most ladies are mere ornaments, to grace
RarIofs and ball rooms, besutify churches, en-
iiyen fashionable resorts, display dry goods,
patrontze mflliners, have hysterics and head
acnes, read novels and doggerel rhymes, join
IN hop OF waits, boast Of their noble blood,
comb their glossy ringIets, help themselves to
= oIInk OF watsr, or 20 unattendedin In the dark
ron one room TO another, it 10 gratifying to
nnd 1 tnat all the sex have not degenernted to
tasnlonabie shadows, and that there are yet
neroines, equal to those Of revolutionary
uMes, wnen the women melted their spoons
ana dishes to make bullets, and transformed
tneii lanneis into cartridge bags to enable the
voices OF royalty's cannon. "A case in point
nus just Deen reported to US from q neiRhbor.
Tag county, and we lay It before our readers.
-. IN the county Of King William, widow
iarm. managing their own AFFAIRS without the
Mio OF the sterner sex. Some few weeks since
the widow received sum of money due her
anu sne TACT being made known, she was ad-
vseu 70 deposit 1t, for safe keeping in one OF
.he banks OF this city. Never dreaming of in.
terruptlon, the two went on with their duties
- usoai, and, though unprotected, took no ex-
hr r'a. pains to make their castle secure
" night or day. At q late hour one night.
wnen the servants were all wrapped in sleep
ana not a sound was to be heard in any fiirer'
.lon the daughter suddenly awoke. and open-
powerfu, 1i ys., nsn discovered, at her bedside,
taklng hold Of her, his eyes glaring like hall.
OF nre, his teeth clenched as if meditatinc
some terrible deed, and his right hand out
ssretcned rs If about to seize her by the
throat. What to do, the younr craature
Knew not. II she cried for helm no ear ,~as
nlgh to hear her; if she implored mercy her
appeals would fall still-bor ON the heart Of
the assassin robber; if she remained ouiat
Geatn, or worse fate, might be her portion
OontIoiing ner voice as best she could and
summoning all her energies to her Aid She
sprang up In the bed, gave the ruflian a heavy
nioW IN the eyes with her hand and demand
ing 70 know what he was doing in her cham.
Der, called upon her mother to hand her The
pistoi from under the pillow, that she mieht
XII! the intruder Seeing that she was firm
and resolute, and expecting in the neYt min
ute TO feel a leaden bali DANCING a nell,
through his head, the ruffian boIted At tbs to-,
OF his speed, stumbled over char in the na
lor as he ran, rolled himself out of thr second
story window, and made good his escane with.
out the ladies being able to recognize him
though they saw that he was white and :
man of great physical frame,
An examination of the premises after tho
robber had fed, showed that he effected an on.
trance into the dining room, by means of a
long plank which he placed on the windo1v
slli-that he passed through that room and
another, up flight of steps, through the mar.
lor and into the chamber of the ladies' whero
he was discovered and frightened by a lovely
damsel OF eighteen summers That his object
was theft and perhaps murder. there can he
no doubt, and but for the coolness and resoln
tion OF the young lady, he would have sue.
ceeded.