The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-15

PrpI1c GuARp.-The State or Public
Guard had their first public parade yester-
dav. under The command Of Captain f. s.
Cav. They were all well uniformed in
grey and made q splendid appearance.
After marching to the Square they went
through the different cvolutions of COM
panv drill in a manner that reflected credit
mon the Guard and its officers. Loeb
mans band accompanied the Guard upon
its parade. Old Mr.. Hefiron was also along
with his fife, uniformed like the rest. He
is A fixture to the Public Guard, and while
he lives thcy cannot do without him. They
were reviewed upon the Square by Adju-
tant General Richardson. The company
is composed almost entirely OF young men,
many of whom served through the late war
with the old "Tenth Legion of the Army
of Northern Virgnia"-Pickett's division.
Its officers are Captain Z. S. Gay, who has
been with the Guard since its birth; First
Lieutenant +. B. Smith, an eX-cadct OF the
Virginia Military Institute; Second Lieu
tenant Poyner, young man OF fine mill
tarv attainments, and Orderly Sergeant +.
s. Cav. Jr., son of the captain, and, like
his father. every inch soldier. With a
BODY Of young men who have proven
themselves soldiers by deeds of bravery.
for its members, aud tried and experienced
soldiers for its officers, the Guard bids fair
to be, as it was in the good old days of the
lamcntcd General Dimmock, the pride and
one of the pet organizations of our good
old Commonwealth.
YoUyG GrARD.-Thc Young Guard will
meet at the City Hall this evening at elght
o'clock, for the purpose of clcctlng perma-
nent officers.
THE STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL AT BAL
TTMoRE--It will be remembered that some
time since quantity of flowers were sent
to Baltimore bv the ladies of Richmond TO
be used in the floral or strawberry festival.
and it will be gratifying to those, and to
all others who sent flowers, to know that
the noble, charitable, and unseltish women
of Baltimore appreciate those gifts and
place high value upon their floral offer
ings The following is an extract from a
letter written by one of the lady managers
of the Baltimore Strawberry Festival Tor
the Southern Poor:
81 must tell you, however, OF the beautl-
full flowers that were sent to the Festival
from Richmond and Norfolk. Such
wealth of roses | never imagined. Some
were already arranged in handsome bou-
uuets and wrcathS, and others just cut and
carefully packed in baskets. After they
were arranged on a table in the centre OF
the room YOU could scarcely dream OF
ANYTHING more beautiful, and the delicious
odor rose like grateful incense; the donors
seemed to have transmitted some OF their
feelings with their flowers.
"a number of beautiful bouquets from
North Carolina AMI from Church HI,
Richmond, came one day too late; and on
the evening of the day on which they were
received | accompanied some friends who
have charge of several graves OF Confede-
rate soldiers in our beautiful Grccnmount
Cemetery, and they decorated their last
resting-placcs with them. One grave, in
which rcpoSed the bodies OF three North
Carolina soldiers who fell together at Get
tysburg, was covered with floral tributes
from their own loved State. A careless
passcr-by would have little thought that
strangers hand had laid them there"
The people Of North Carolina will know
how to value the generous feeling that
prompted the action of the Baltimore
ladies. and it will cheer their hearts to
know that the children Of the "old North
State" who sleep on Maryland soil are
still cared for and remembered. from
the Potomac to the Gulf OF Mexico, the
whole southern people owe debt OF
gratitude to the ladies of Maryland that
words can never repay; and we can only
hope and pray that the constant affection,
regard, and tenderness which the women
of MARYLAND have shown to the poor south
ern soldier may earn for them, as 1t dc-
serves to do, rich and lasting reward OF
temporal and spiritual blessings.
THE THEATRE AND THE HoNORS TO THE
DEAD.-We learn that after much effort TO
reach the proper authority to grant the
use of the Richmond Theatre by the OAK
wood Memorial Association, for the pro-
motion of their noble objects, it was finally
asccrtained that the Association might
have the Theatre for forty dollars night
and all expenses. We could hardly credit
the story that anything would be charged,
save the mere expenses, for the use OF the
Theatre for the purpose indicated. Every
body and every company i'll the city has
contributed literally to this pious under
taking, and we could hardly believe that
the Theatre would be behind the general
Hberality and the general sympathy i'll this
matter. We trust, if the correspondence
is rightly represented, that there may be a
reconsideration of the terms, and that
others, showing more liberality and more
sympathy with the enterprise of the falr
ladies of Church Hill, may be offered.
PAINFUL ACCIDENT. On Wednesday
afternoon Captain George V. Clutter visit.
ed the lumber-yard of MesSrs. Glazebroob
s. Wilson for the purpose of inspecting
some lumber for building purposes. Whilst
upon a pile of lumber about eight feet
high, he sat upon projecting piece o.
scantlng, which gave away, and he fell tc
the ground, fracturing his left wrist.
+ SAD ACCIDENT-CHILD DROwNED.-les es
terday morning, whilst party of little
boys were playing around a well near
Hattorf's Garden, one of them, named
Henry Tapscott, son of Henry Tapscott
Esq, of this city, fell in, and was drowned
His hat was found floating on the water
and his body was fished from the bottom o
the well shortly after the accident.
Sun STRoKE.-A member of the Public