The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-23

The Poisonins Case-The negro kirl FAnnv
owned BY Mrs. Elisabeth Meredith, and hired
last Saturday to answer the charge Of poison-
ing with intent To kill, an infant only seven
months old, the child Of Mr. Luck. Az We
have heretofore stated, the prisoner was lefs
in charge Of the child during the absence Of
its mother, and whilst thus left, forced down
It's little throat a number OF pills made Of
" blister salve,'' which she found in one Of
Mrs Luck's drawers. Fortunately, Mrs
Luck returned to her infant In q short time
after the attempt had been made upon its iife,
and discovering that 1t had been pOisoned, ee-
cured the services of Drs. Workman and Cole.
man In time to save its life. After the arrest
her that she had been guilty Of an attempt
at murder. and that he had been sent down
to hang her, at the same time pulling out a
rope and pointing to beam from which she
a dog could have exhibited, she barred her neck
for the halter, and renarking that she had
done nothing, told him to hang her as soon as
he pleased The Mayor, after hearing the
prisoner for final trial at the next term Of the
Hastings Court, and recognized the witnesses
to appear and testify against her. ,s
When we heard from the child on Saturday
last 1t was in an improving condition, though
apparently suffering great pain internally,
and the physicians thought il would recover.
The attempt upon it's life is one of the most
diabolicaI that conil have tPen made, and will
hanging.
Spring Trade.-Our wholesale merchants
will soon be ready to offer to country dealers
foreign importations of every kind, and on
terms equally as good as similar articles can
be purchased in Boston. Will Virginia deal
ers pass by the doors Of their Ow n friends 10
give their trade to men who expend portion
OF their profits in the purchase Of Sharp's
rifles, to be used in numbering Virginians
Will the people purchase of dealers who thus
tiOns that must be asked and answered by
every individual. lis we'll known that nearly
all the shoes, American calicoes, cotton cloths,
hats, etc, purchased at the North, are manu-
factnred in New Epgland-the hot-bed of
aoOiltlonism-and are Southern merchants to
go amongst that horde of higher law fanatics
and purchase their goods and wares, to re-
sell them in our midst! There may be con-
servative anufacturers even among the
n orthern fanatics, and ifit can be shown that
they employ no fanatics, and exert their in
ftuence to have the Fugitive Slave Law en-.
forced, the people of Virginia might be willing
to deal with them until they could supply
fnelr wants at home; but any true Southern
man ought just as soon think OF filling his DO.
som with live centipedes and furnishing his
children rattlesnakes to play with, as Of buy
ing or using in the future any article, however
nfactured or purchased Of an abolitionist.--
Relieving that the people of Virginia and the
South Will encourage no merchant who con-
tinues to trade with the abolitionists, we have
thus early invited the attention OF the coun-
try trade to the wholesale houses in Rich
mOnd, where foreign and dOmes tic goods may
readily be had on fair terms.