The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-25

teachers engaged at tho I.ancasterlsn scnool'l
cav thu fngscious roguos, and sent over 70
the isil to let the keeper know what was IN
progress Mr. Hall fastened with al speed 70
The rear Of the Jail, and passing into the room
nnder the "vork house y used as coal.ho
found there, In the act Of getting through ths
grating, the lock Of which had been Droksn'
4 man named Francis Osgood, lately con-
signed TO the jail fer committing highway
robbery on John Drisgers, an Alabama soidief'
and VIM. N Miller, the bogus volunteer Col'
onel, who succeeded in December isst insw
ding King & Lambeth, of this city, out Of
1900. by forgery and false Representations
OsQood, burly rufhan, surrendered ~ dis
erection. bat the doughty Colonel, evinced
desire 70 90 through at all hazards till oronYnt
Ia reason by the DR. presentation OF navy revolver
Being conducted 10 their cells, an examinauon
was held into the extent OF the injury IN.
Hicted on tho Jail by the birds VINO mao
loosed the bars OF their cage. II was Ioano
that the prisoners had cut through ono OF the
planks Of cell No. ;, and taken out piece
about ten BY twenty inches, which afforded
access to the vaulted compartments which
exists under the tier Of coils where the most
desperate male factors are confined, and which
calvert, or whatever name II may DO called
BY, was pursued till the lower wall OF the
main odifce was reached, when some exca-
walton became necessary after which the
without coming up to the surface of the rear
yard-ths furnaces that hea. the Jail being
below also and on lorsl with the culvert by
which egress was had into the Goa! cellar. VI
course, with 90 accomplished act to under
take the Job, the removal of the slight i'm.
pediment to an onward movement presented
by stout lock and grating, which covered tho
entrance to the eoal-house, was but the work
of few moments. That obstruction re-
moved, the prisoners found themselves In
the lot attached to the house used BY the
overseer of the city hands, and all Of them
soon scattered to the congenial cOmpanlonshlp
of men of tho same kidney as themselves.
As intimated previously, the exodus would
have been greater had not tho movements OF
he levanting felons attracted the observation
MI a lady employed at the echool-house on
EEaashall street, whose timely monition en-
abled the iailor to preserve the remainder Of
the rascsls entrusted to his care. We append
list of those who succeeded in getting of
viz: JAS Elmore and Tsswell Corr, Jointly
charged with robbing an Alabama soldier OF
money; Andrew Sullivan, lately convicted
Of shooting a soldier near the Central depot,
and sentenced to two years in the peniten.
tiary; Calvin Henry, indicted for stabb1ng
negro with An oyster knife; VIM Clarke; q
Yankee dessrtsr, lately convicted Of grand
larceny, and awaiting two years residence
in tue penitertiary; Joseph Wagner, charged
with shooting soldier, and awaiting trial; J.
Fritz K<eibeI. the murderer Of Philip Sau;ter,
whose arrest was lately chronicled; John Will.
Iiams, charged with robbing bonrder at tho
Columbian Hotel, and Joseph Keller, the pre-
cocious lad who robbed Doves apothscary
store-naking, in all, nire As unmitagable
scamps as could be picked up i'll days walk.
The plan Of escape was judcionaly conceived
and expeditously carried out In justice to
the jailor, we may state that on Friday last
all Of the cells land especially the one from
which the parties above named escaped) were
examined by workmen and reported ali right.
The escape, in this instance, was after the
prisoners had been served with breakfast, the
event being postponed. no doubt, in order to
allay the suspicious OF the lailor. We may
etate here that the hole in the cell made by
the prisoners could hardly have been detected
had not the attention OF the jallor been spe-
ciatly directed to that point So III regard to
the actual escape, for which the Jailor can
hardly BE- held accountable, as the all is motto.
rously unsafe, and will hardly retain any
party who has a wish to evsporate and a will
to dare the trial. As the jail ia at present con-
stituted, the only way to MAKE sure of the
continued presence Of any offender ID to chain
him At the present unc.ure we are in no
condition to undertake the building of new
editce for the 'ate keeping Of malefacsorA
was portrayed yesterday in swinging signs,
oseillsting steeples and chimneys, fugacious
tin roofs, severed limbs of trees, the outer ap.
pearance of the fair sex who ventured out,
and a general banging too of windows, doors,
SC The steeple Of the Broad Street NJ. f.
Church was denuded Of u considerable guam
tity Of its slaty covering. Three hundred feet
Of the flooring of the Petersburg railroad
bridge, with the track which rested on it, was
blown into the river. The mail train stopped
on the Manchester side last evening, and pas
sengers were carried to Richmond in carriages
across Mayo's bridge. The trains start from
the same place this morning
Fifty Of the lofty old pines forming part
of HOward's Grove were leveled to the
ground. In their fall they performed the Of
fee of aue.ioneer to from tour to six of the
houses lately tenanted by Col Armistead's
57th Virginia regiment
The extensive brick wall around Mrs. Catha-
rine Wallace's residence, on CANDLES Hill,
was blown down.
The brick wall of Dr. Beale's yard, on 9th
street, was blown down, rendering the side
walk impossible.
The whole of Col Bigger's garden fence
fronting on Broad street, was isveled to the
ground.
The tin roof of Mr.. John PuroeIls resi-
dence, on Clay street, was blown OH.
A ecafiold erected around Trinity Church,
on Broad, was blown do wn, mario " y missing
two ladies who were passing at the time.
The tin roof Of Greanor's factory, on 18th
street, was lifted from OFF its foundation and
hoated of
Several valuable sheds attached to Dunlop,
Moncurs & Co.'S mill, in Manchester, were
blown down.
The tin roof Of the extern sive warehouse of
Edmond & Davenport, on 18th street, curled
up like paper after being loosed from its
fastening and fell into the street
JaI Bird Recaptured-John Lawson,