The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-06-13

A meeting OF negroes at Pittsylvania Court
house was addressed on Monday last by ReN.
Mr.. Ivey, white, and by two negroes Inc
white man and one OF the negroes made con
seryatiye speeches. The other negro Lewis
Scott made an inflammatory speech urging
the Importance of the negroes having homes
provided for them. The negroes intended to
have them and did not intend 10 be pushed
into the western wilds but intended 10 have
them where they We're raised He SAID he
was employed 20 canvass the district ana IN
tended TO do il faithfully. So we learn from
the Danville Times.
Milwaukee has n romantic sensation. A
beautiful young Scotch girl, with her 1atner
and two sisters, arrived in that city one day
last week, bound for home, in Minnesota. Inc
father sailed out TO see the city, fell IN with
Young fellow -countryman in business tnere,
took him TO the hotel in the evening, ana IN
troduced him to his daughters; young man
fell violently in love with the lassie, and us
she was to start for Minnesota in the morn
ing, Immediately proposed, was accepted, ana
the next day the happy couple started for the
East OH their wedding tour, while the rest OF
the family journeyed westward
An Illinois farmer recently went to Indiana,
commenced proceedings for a divorce, and, re-
turning home, lived with his wife as usual In
due time he received a copy of the decree In
divorce, which he put in his pocket for future
use. But the wife soon heard OF IL from an
other source, and, leaving him, procured q
copy of the Indiana record, and sued her hus-
band for alimony
A gentleman in Montgomery Ala, after a
careful examination of the State census for
1866, concludes that the number OF persons
who will register as voters Will be about one
hundred and eighty thousand, divided almost
equally between whites and blacks, the latter,
if anything, being in majority.
The last that was seen of ex-Vice President
breckenridge, of the defunct Confederacy, he
was taking sherry cobblers at one OF the
tables of the American restaurant In the
Paris Exhibition with a couple OF agents OF
northern sewing machine coiuPaules.-F"
aeV'S ChrOnicte.
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, Washington dis
match saws expresses himself dissatisfied with
MIR, Stanbery' first opinion on reconstruction,
and 81 Us if the next opinion is what the lndl-
cations are that IL will be, there ought 10 %
SUMMER session of Congress
George A. Martin, of Troy on the Hudson,
has demonstrated that paper makes the pest
material for shell boats by constructing one
thirty feet long which weighs only 1orty
pounds and is in every respect superior "
boats made of wood.
Shooting at antelope from car WINDOW
while travelling at the rate OF nlty miles n'l
hour! That's the entertainment 10 Which tne
senatorial excursionists were inylted, ana
which they have been enjoying out West, ac-
cordiug TO o letter in the New York Times.
The Supreme Court Of New York State has
decided that the police commissioners OF New
York city have not the right to exercise the
power i'm regard to licensing liquor dealers
which the recent act Of the Legislature at
tempted TO confer upon them
One of the Indians who recently paid visit
10 the end of the Union Pacific Railroad track,
where the construction locomotive had just
arrived. was SO astonished at the whistle for
Hbrakes down" that he exclaimed, Him
heap big warrior Heap O. holler
General Lorenzo Thomas reports all Fede.
raj cemeteries in Virginia to be in excellent
condition, tastefully ornamented, and con-
structed with commendable economy in the
matter of expense.
Fred. Douglass will speak In indianapolis on
the 2lst Tn. President was not allowed 10
CAV anything to the Indianapolitans, but tins
h n no IN Of another color.
Tn New York, the other day, gang OF
bnrplars were thirty six hours In bonded
w 1rshouse, and carried OF $1,000 worth Of
goods.
The Kanakas are going to build instrument
10 Captain Cook, whom their ancestors cooked
and ate.
Humphrey Marshall 10 candidate for INT
Legislature Of Kentucky