Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1865-1869, 1865-07-31
NEWS AND MISCELLANY.

The new hotel Dleu, in Paris, will cost five mil
lion dollars.
The people of Colorado are about 20 make
another attempt at State government
Memphis city warrants are selling at 10 cents
discount
The King OF Greece has ordered monument to
be erected to Byron at hissolonghi.
Three fatal duels have occurred in Paris from
racing disputes.
Canrobert has been appointed 10 the command
of the army of Paris.
German was boiled to death in sugar vat m
Philadelphia last week
Many Of the inhabitqnts of Southwestern Mis-
souri, are living on berries, bark and roots.
Madame lie Vert with her two daughters, is
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel New York.
George D. Prentice reports an income for lS6+ OF
slOl65,
Major General Milroy sent in his resignation to
the President last Friday.
The gold and silver coinage Of the San Fran
cisco Mint during the year just ended equals sl9'
100000
The Mormon destroying angels" havesmur-
Cgred smother family for attempting 10 leave
Zion. =
General joseph C. Swift late II the United
States Army, died u Geneva y. Y, on the I'D
inst.
General Sclenc X Is said 10 he 2 candidate for
United States Senator IN Ohio, against senator
Sherman
Cen Grant, family an staf re- led Saratoga
on the 2lth inst. On the same day Gen. Sherman
lett Cincinnati for Larcaste ter, Ohio.
l.. A Baucrton, litor Of the Vicksbug Herold.
dec ~ tuar city on the 18th instant ilom the
efle. of gurghot wound received accidentally,
tie N. - be.cre, in pistol gallery
Hon. Horace Maynard was unanimously nomi-
mated for Congress in the Knoxville Tennl Dis
riat on the 9th inst, and made speech accept
ing the nomination,
Hor Robert Dale owen is to have two years FOR
TIi.ur his life IF President Lincoln, ana ms
r.bf=fsrs pay him 50 900 when lie begins his
and $4,000 when he ends H.
mere is a great rush o! business men to Allan
IA, Georgia. Rents have reached almost tabu-
lous figures and buildings are going up on every
vacant lot,
canine. Youngest daughter of P. T. Barlum,
was very seriously injured by being thrown from
her horse while riding in Fairfield, Connecticut
! on the 9lst. Saturday her symptoms were more
favorable.
Colonel Wm. Wallace Wood, Of Mississippi our
former fellOw-citizen and long time Gewspape7
cotempOrary says a New Orleans piper, has
been in our city some days, on route Tor Brazil,
as the SIC 'ial chief agent and commissioner OF
several hundred fswiij-~ who contemplate emf
grafton and colonization
John Perdue, of indianapolis, who has an in
come Of SlO7 600 the La gest in that city) iormeH7
taught school for q living al so per month, and
was once warned out of q township because he
was so poor that il was feared he might become q
town charge.
The Eg0cha. Of Madrid, complains Of the recent
emigration from Cuba 10 the United states, and Is
alarmed al the proportion il assumes IL states
that during the last six months fifteen millions Oh
reals nearly two millions Of dollars have left the
island 10 he invested in cotton Lands III FLORIDA
South and North CaTUesna.
Judge Woodward. of Cincinnati, has decided
the matter in dispute about the guardianship OF
Blind Tom, the musical prodigy, and handed him
over 10 the care OF James y. Bethune, the original
| owner OF the negro,
Bennett Of the New York Herald. has given
s65O 900 for the lot Of ground lately covered b.
Bsrnums Museum. The Lot measures 90 feet by
100 and the f,e simple was in Mrs. II. W. Sdr-
geant OF NeWburgh We believe to whom the
purchaser paws $3.50 600 in twelve years time.
Mr. Barnum however. had q lease with nearly
twelve years 70 run, and tor this he received =2O
COO or nearly One-hdlt the whole value OF tue
property.
The Brownsville correspondent OF the New Or
leans Times. states that intelligence has been re-
ceyed at that post of the capture OF zen. Kirby
Smith and his entire party He was intercepted by
the Governor of Saidllo, :. Sesca, ON the 4th OF
July. at Piedra- Neuas, Mexico, about 30 miles
below Eagle Pass, and compelled % surrender. The
yictors cot four pieces OF artillery, nine hundred
new rife. and a train of - wagons loaded with
ammunition and provisions The officers and men
were paroied
The news from the Plains IS decidedly warlikc.
\ dispatch from Fort Laramie, dated July ,, says
that an army of allied Indian tribes numbering
more than thousand men, recently made des-
perate attack on Platte Bridge Station on the tele-
graph road. The post garrison. consisting of less
than $50 men, resisted successfully for three days
and at length compelled the sayagcs 10 retreat.
Terrible outragcs have been committed by these
Indians, who, it is alleged have resolved never TO
bury the hatchct until the whites have been driven