The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-20
y,s1r or CAPITALISTS TO RIcHMoNp-A

VISIT OF CAPITALISTS TO RICHMOND-A
WEALTHY PAKrr.-A large company of
Northern capitalists, on tour through
Virginia, arrived in this city on Saturday
afternoon BY the Central railroad, and were
accommodated at the Exchange Hotel.
The gentlemen constituting the party are
from Philadelphia and vicinity, and il may
be safely stated that they represent not
less than fifteen millions of capital, large
proportion of which they are dcsirous of
investing gadvantageously in Virginia. Four
of these gentlemen are members of the
"Cambria Company" one of the most
wealthy of Pennsy ivania iron manufactu-
ring corporations, who have already be-
come the purchasers of large tract Of
mineral land in Pulaski county, and have
recently invested two millions on the New
river, above Central Depot. General Ro-
bert Patterson is the owner Of twelve cot
ton mills, and employs about five thousand
operatives. Joseph Harrison, Jr., is well
known iron manufacturer, having large
contract for supplying Russia with locomo-
tives. Enoch Lewis and II. II. Houston
are railroad presidents others are wealthy
merchants, coal dealers, miners, 'manufac-
turers, and agriculturists, whose names
we regret we have not space to publish.
From our conversation with the gentle
men of the party we are convinced that
they are no mere adventurers, but practi-
cal, working, business men, who have
money, and are looking for the best way to
make it yield proftably. Virginia, they
are convinced, presents the proper field ;
and they seem determined to visit every
locality which seems to offer favorable op-
portunites for such investment.
The party left Philadelphia last Monday,
and have spent week in rambles through
the grand undeveloped region of South
western Virginia, travelling from Alexan-
dria to Lynchburg, and thence to Bristol,
a special train being placed at their dis
posal by President Barbour, of the Orange
and Alexandria railroad. A number of
prominent Virginians accompanied the ex-
cursionists, among whom we mention
Colonel Slaughter, of Culpeper Hart, of
Alexandria Colonel Owens, Major Gait,
Captain David Graham, and Major Good
win, of Lynchburg, and other gentlemen
connected with Virginia railroads. The
intercourse between the northern and
southern men of the party is represented
to have been of the most interesting cha
racter, politics having been seldom alluded
to, and harsh words having been heard
from the representatives Of neither politl-
cal party.
The party expect to remain in our city
until tomorrow, and desire to investigate
fully the water-power, coal mines, ETC., In
the vicinity of Richmond. We trust that
our citizens will reciprocate the kind feel
ings which many of them do not hesitate
to express, and will afford them every ia
cility for the accomplishment of an object
which is even more interesting and I'M
portant to us than to them.
HAYWARD, THE WoULD-BE INCENDIARY-
VINO HE Is.-We have reluctantly within
the last week or so given this specimen OF
humanity more space in our paper than we
should have given him, thereby giving him,
we suspect, that degree Of notoriety the
desire for which prompted him perhaps as
much as anything else to make that incen-
diary speech at the African church. We
are glad to be able to show now who he Is.
After this is done, we will bid him farewell,
with the hope that he will never again
bring his dirty self within the bounds OF
Richmond. The following is clipped from
communication to the National Inteti-
gencer, of Washington:
"Jedekiah Il. Hayward is from the
town of Hopkinton, n. II. The year be-
fore the opening of the war he was men,
Der of Dartmouth College, and was held in
utter contempt by his entire class. lie was
elected a member of one of the secret coll
lcge societies before his true character was
known to the association, and when it was
made known to them he was expelled. lie
then, in utter disregard of the obligations
which he solemnly assumed in becoming a
member of the society, divulged all its Sc
crets, and this, superadded to the depravi-
ties for which he was expelled, awakened
the indignation of the whole body of stu
dents outside the society to such a degree
that he skulked about the country, not
daring to remain during the senior year at
college, and did not graduate with his
classmates. During his college life he at
tempted to teach school, but getting into
a fight with one of his scholars, was so Sc
verely handled as to put stop to his Ia
bors as teacher of youths. Since he was
driven from college by his outraged fellow
StuOcUIS uC Has UCCH ioaihiS III
places-at one time in Plymouth, Mass,
and at another in New York city, turning
up as philanthropist in negro assem-
blage, and at last as a criminal before the
city authorities in Richmond. We have
no unkind words to use against this violent
and bad man, and will only say that when
such men of madness are thrown upon the
surface of southern society to shape and
control its destinies, calm and good men
NAV well be alarmed for the country, es-
pecially in such times Of iDflamed passions
as these which are passing. The people
who know Hayward, and especially the
students of Dartmouth College during his
notorious connection with that institution,
will more than corroborate all we have
suggested of him, and appreciate the idea
of heralding him as philanthropist."
A Tour OF INsPECTIoN.-Colonel Z. S
Darlington, president, and Messrs. Fra nix.
lin Stearns, Ii. C. Cabell, and J. D. lar-
vey, of the directory of the James River
and Kanawha Canal Company, left Rich
mond on Saturday morning in the Liiipu.
tian steamer for a trip to Maidcn's Advcn,
ture dam, in Goochland county about
thirty miles from this city. The object OF
the visit is the inspection of the dam NJ