The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-12-30

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Hermine Marie Charlotte, born May, 1864.
In the Circuit Court of Kinds county, Mis-
| sissippi, the Hon. John Watts, the presiding
Judge, decided that the stay laws enacted by
| tional. The question was regularly presented
| to the Court, on motion for judgment In a
cause founded on a promissory note on which
| the stay laws. ir.s.H s-.. .r -
An ARRAY took place on the Dayton and
| Western railroad ON Monday afternoon, be-
tween the conductor and some workmen VINO
had taken passage as '.dead heads. on the
road, in which two OF the workmen Were
killed and others wounded. The baggage
master of the train was also wounded
Brummel. in his decay, was wittier than in
his best DAYS He considered himself indie
pendent !" at Calais, because he had 'little to
depend upon; and a hungry friend observed
at his modest table that nothing was better ter
your pardon, cold beef is better than nothing"
ing in that city on the twenty first instant,
and resolved to send John Jones, one of their
number, as lobby member to Congress- This
action was taken at the suggestion, US it Is un-
that this class of citizens should bring all their
"moral pressure to bear on the present Con-
gress. t*~ .-
train of six hundred bales of cotton was
lately seized by the military authorities at
Corinth, Miss. Part of it belonged to Gene
raj Forrest, who was reported as having been
shot by the guard. Forrest is now partner
of a cotton firm in Memphis, and the state
ment of his being shot was probably a ruse to
cover q little more cotton thieving.
All the prisoners in the Jail at Cynthiana,
Kentucky, consisting of four white men and
two negroes, recently made their escape from
that institution, leaving behind them a writ
ten request to "clean up the prison by the
time they returned from their holiday excur-
sion"
The New Bedford Mercury says "nOthing is
wider from the truth than the charge that the
Repu blican party is more anxious for power
than it is to hasten the reconstruction of the
Union The Mercury will have its joke
Prentice.
Sumner called President Johnson's message
in relation to the South "a whitewashing
document Use ton of whitewash upon
SINNERS political character and the white
wash would turn black, not the character
white.-Prentiee.
to the penitentiary from Montgomery county,
Alabama, and seven from Tuscaloosa county.
At this rate, the peniteEtiary of that State will
be soon filled with this class of prisoners.
General Howard asks the modest sum of
eleven millions and three-quarters Il his bu-
reau and three millions Of 1t for teachers and
school-houses for the blacks.
The New York and Erie railway has Just ne
gotiated a loan of four million five hundred
thousand dollars, In England, for the compile
ton of its double track.
The owners of the ship Nora, of Boston,
valued at $50, 900, and destroyed by the Alaba-
ma, have petitiOned Congress to demand re-
dress of England.
The Methodist Church was founded in Anne
RIGA in October, 1866. Next year will witness
the centennial anniversary of American Me-
thodism.
A colony Of fifty families will embark from
Maine for Palestine in July next. They will
settle near Jaffa, where they have purchased
land.
Sout tn in the last few months, but, though q
General, he didn't get there during the war;
Prentice. ~ $685.. s#t. t5
The safe of the Pulaski county treasurer at
Winnemack, Ohio, was broken open on Sun
day night and robbed Of one thousand dollars.
It is said that nine-tenths Of the national
banks are in favor of removing the Currency
Bureau to New York.
The rebels are said to have fired stones from
their cannon in one of the battles ct the war.
They were load-stones, of course.
Such people as Wilson and Sumner and
Thad Stevens are flies In the Union cream pot.
Prentice. fsff 81
The Indiana Republican Convention will be
held on the ed, and the Democratic Conven-
ton ON March LIST.
SOME Americans have recently constructed a
telegraph across the Andes, to connect various
cities Of Columbia, South America.
The Dominican Republics in a sad condi-
ton. Completely desolated by the recent
Spanish invasion, the people are almost desti-
tute. 81 ss-s-.s Y -. M
The Mississippi Senate has adopted q resolu-
ton for the erection of q monument at Jack
SON in memory Of the rebel dead.
The Mississippi river lsvees are soon to DO
rebuilt by military authority. f ~
a marble statue Of Andrew Jackson is to be
erected at Nashville
The Indiana Legislature, before adiourning,
I1assed resolutions in favor. Of hanging JeR.
Davis. sse sfssys1Essfs IS ss.4
Maine Is expected to cut two hundred mil
Lion feet Of logs this season. 80 s
Hon. James A. Bayard sailed for Europe
ahoutA week since. ss4 5.ss.ze 2 4ez -
SPECIAL NOTICE.-I have this day
~ appointed Hr. :. b. SPENCE my agent for the
Y9S1Poec q e0nduettng the MERCHANT TAILOR
ptshr. An1 cLoxAlA0 BU6INR3S y The sttX OF
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powder, POWDER,-We ara ore
u pered e furnish the trade With snnsvfoe ar.
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