The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-09-13
Operations Of the Lady swfndler.

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ladie. at New York on the pretence of taking
| them TO the South a. teachers OF music:
IL. y. Leslie, the man who succeeded in de-
| luding fifteen yenng ladies into IN acceptance
of a false offer of employment as teachers in
| southern families, was last evening brought
from Washington by officer Schlemm, under a
| requisitisn from Governor Packer, and placed
IN a cell in the Central Station. House NTnuv
papers were found in his possession evidence
ing numerous coincidence" speculations in
/ tions Of the young ladies, upon the charca of
s"lndiing whom he was arraigned before the
Court tc-day, true bill having been found
against him by the Grand Jury.
lie acknowledges having been instirated to
thls fraud by man with whom he recently
occupied aroom in boarding house on South
ishth street. This man is New Yorker and
e NJ, s'tes lhat he Will divulge the conneo ton
nero between them. He says that the money
extorted from the deluded misses was obtain
sentation -
Upon an examination of his papers. we
anu tnat MS nefarious operations have been
praetieed In New York, Baltimore, Washing
ton, and In several cities of the South He
frequently held ont inducements by advertis-
ing IN the papers, and obtained considerable
money On the 18th of July he advertised in
washington for fifty young men, who could
receive permanent situations at salary of
| IIoin 81 to 50 day, by advancing him SO, and
addressing MIN at Eiiicottss Mills. Quite q
number OF answers to this advertisement We're
found upon him. During May he was in Bal
| timore
About this time he was connected with
mammoth scheme, by which he issued numer-
Gus certIiicates at Sl0.5U piece emitting per-
sons TO life membership in the Mount Ver-
non ASSOCIATION, and an engraving of the
nome and grave of Washington, the proceeds
to be diverted to the repairs of the ward and
house of the Father of his Country He rep.
resented himself as an agent Of the Associa.
tion.
N ha MAJ he fol
ed about the hotels in Montgomery, Alabama:
''For the North Parties wishing to visit the
North and see all the fine mountain scenery
will do well 10 secure the services of an expe.
rienced guide, who has visited all the water
ing places and is we'll acq TAINTED with all the
best hotels, and can come with the best of re-
ferences az to honesty and sobriety. He can
be found at the Exchange Hotel for short
time June II, 1859" Several answers to this
announcement were found among his budget
Of letters.
The following letter, signed Stephen A.
| Douglas, was also found in his possession. 1t
| was addressed to Capt. Meigs, Superintendent
Of Capitol Extension:
| "WAsHINGroN, Feb. g, 1s59.-The bearer of
! this. Mr.. Leslie, has been unfortunate, and de-
| sires 10 obtain EN- ployment for week or two
| If no longer, to obtain means to go home.
! should be very grateful to you if you will give
! him employm if only for q short time un-
| til he can obtain the means of support, of OBJ
| tanning place, or enabling him to get home
| Trusting that you may be able to do some
| thing for him, l remain, very truly, your
| friend"
Mr. Leslie states that he was engaged upon
this recommendation until May.
SENTENCE OF A SEA CAPTAIN TO DEATH
In the Circuit Court at Portland, on Thurs
day. Judge Clifford delivered the opinion of
the Court, in the case of Capt. Jno. A. Holmes
who had been convicted of the willful murder
Of a seaman named George w. Chadwick, on
the high seas, and whose counsel raised objec-
tions on several points of law as laid down at
the trial. The opinion oyerruled all of the ex-
ceptions, and denied the motion for 4 new
trial. Before sentence was passed Captain
| Holmes addressed the Court, in his own de-
| fence-one, he said, that will accompany him
to the Bar of God. The substance of his re.
| marks was as follows:
do most deeply regret that o mysterious
| providence should have permitted my name
| to be associated with an act which has dc.
| prived fellow being Of his life, and the
| thought that have been in any way connect
ed with 1t, fills me with the deepest anguish.
| Before God, and this Court, and all the world,
! most soIemnly dee lare that am wholly inno-
| cent and unconscious of having committed
the crime, of which now stand convicted
have not now, nor ever have had, any
knowledge whatever of the act imputed to me;
| nor can charge myselfiu any way with the
| slightest res possibility i'll connecto with t.
| No man who now hears me, can regard the
| crime of murder with greater abhorrence than
| do and ever have done. / am not now, nor
! was ever, the man 10 commit such an act;
| and if did not feel sure that ere long it viii
| be so understood, and that the true conviction
| Will come home to the mind of every reasona-
bic man, and OF the certainty that soon, {al-
1 though l may not witness it, / shall be re-
garded rs unfortunate man, but not gnit. q
! man, should be deprived of great consola-
! ton.
! tbp usip nf tho fNnv tI,a
final sentence of the Court was passed, which
orders the prisoner to be taken to the place of
| e lecution on the 25th day of November next,
| and on that day, between the hours of Ii and
l O'Clock, TO be hanged by the neck, until dead.
THE NEW STEAM GuN-BoAT SEMINOLE
| The new steam gun-boat Seminole, one of the
! last seyen steam vessels ordered by Congress-
| was launched at Pensacola Navy-Yard on the
| 24th of last J une. Her model was drawn by
| navai-cOnstructor Porter, and approved,
without alteration, by the Navy Department.
| The seminole is sou tons burthen, bark -Tigged,
| minus royals, measures 2i9 feet in length, and
| 81 feet in width. She is like all gum boats,
principally intended for carrying very heavy
| metal into shallow water, aud combines
! strength and solidity with roonliness, and yet
! comparatively small proportions. One of her
| guns will weigh no less than 5000 pounds,
! and is of the most destructive sort. Besides
this formidable piece Of ordnance, two thirty
. two Founders, throwing shot with precision,
| will be on board, thus rendering her, manned
by Il well-drilled crew a most powerful an
| tagonist to ship or fort. Her machinery con-
1 sists OF two hack-acting horizontal steepIe en-
! gines Of 80 horse power, with cylinders
fifty inches In diameter and thirty inch stroke.
| The pistonS are connected 10 cross heads by
! wo rods. She will have one of Purson's pa
| te ut surface condenserr, one air and one water
pu mp, worked by projecting arms forged on
the lower piston-rods. The boilers will be
| Martins patent, one of them measuring TWEEN
ty-oue feet six inches in length, containing six
| furnaces, and the other, eighteen feet one inch
| in length, with five furnaces. They are nine
| feet eight inches high, and nine feet three
| inches deep. Her propeller will be of brass, a
| TWO bladed true screw nine feet six inches in
diameter, and seventeen feet pitch. The total
weight OF the machinery Will be three hun
| dred and one TONS and the consumption OF
coal about twenty-five tons per day. She is
expected TO make ten knots under team alone
and twelve or thirteen with steam and canvass
CRICKRT-Eag!dnd rersas America--Rut
little has been said lately of the great cricket
! match which will be commenced at Hoboken
on the 27th instant, between the eleven Eng
| land and twenty two America. The England
eleven are now probably on their way to this
country. They were to sail on the 9TH. They
will proceed to Canada, where they will play
| two ma tches prior to playing the above match
on the new ground of the st. Georges, which
! is finished the turf being all laid down. 1t is
much larger than the "old play ground and
has been enclosed at the expense of the club
| The eleven who are now on their way are the
| best that England can produce, and are chosen
\ from the two greatciubs, namely: "The Fiay-
| ere,n and sUnited Eleven" We published the
/ names of these gen tlemen some two months ago.
! The names, including that OF the umpire, are
| as follows :--George Parr, Cafyn Lockyer.
4 (iruney, wisden, John Willywhitc, Julius
! Cesar. Sacksou, Carpenter, Diver. Daft and
haywood.
) The names of the twenty-five of America
n ylnf. utt hf,xsy yAx-nt- ia,