The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-05-04

Kate Carrigan was the name of the poor
courtizan who, near Louisville, lately, was
strangled to death by falling from fence
upon which her bennet-string had caught.
Kate's history is the old, old story. She
was once an accomplished, a respectable
girl, the daughter of wealthy Virginia pa
rents, well-educated and refined. Having
been seduced, she drifted towards the
bad, and eventually became the lowest OF
the low. Her parents attempted many
times to reclaim her, but without effect,
and now the once ,petted child fills pau
per's grave. -
Vermont has strict prohibtory law ;
but some Of her people will have their
liquor. Distlleries are established, and
the man who wants rum takes a quantity
of molasses to the distiller, who converts
it, reservng certain proportion as toll.
This business is done openly, and there is
no law forbidding it.
Fifty thousand dollars is the fee claimed
by the counsel employed by the United
States to defend the Fenians on trial in
Canada last winter, and the question
arises as to how Mr.. Seward can pay it,
there being no provision for any such out
Law, and the Senate not being very apt to
grant an appropriation for the purpose.
Six new cars are being made for the
New York Central railroad, the seats to
run lengthways, as in the case of street
cars, and the cars to be so arranged that
they can be converted into state-rooms OF
sleeping-cars in few moments.
Hon. James Buchanan, ex-President
entered upon his seventy seventh year on
the 22d ultimo. He is in vigorous health,
and occasionally makes the trip from
Wheatland to Lancaster, three miles and
half, on foot.
Unless combatted by the most vigorous
opposition, there is great danger that the
Treasury may be overwhelmed by an ava,
lanche of claims for property captured by
the Union forces during the war before il
is ready to meet them.
The Turkish baths in Boston have be:
come very popular with the ladies'. The
processes seem to be very like those
formerly used by the old Thompsoniar
doctors.
The relations between Peru and Chill
are far from being cordial, and the terml
nation of the Spanish question is all that i:
necessary to lead to an open rupture.
The Asiatic cholera is carrying off many
victims in the principal cities of Nicara
qua. In Leon, one hundred deaths occur
red In one day.
Schuyler Colfax has outraged" the
feelings of his Radical friends in Boston by
driving out with ex-President Pierce.
The Pittsburg glass works are thirty-f
in number, with capital Of six million
eight hundred thousand dollars.
A breach-of-promise suit is pending il
Chicago, with damages laid at 100000
The plaintiff is Cincinnati lady.
The New Workers expect to dispose o
six hundred thousand tons of ice this sum
mer.
The Buffalo Board of Trade has givel
1000 bushels of corn to the southern sui
ferers.
A company, with s3,OOO,OOO capital,
proposing to organize coffee plantation
in Florida.
The cattle disease has made its appear
ance in the vicinity of Wolf boro', N. d.
Chicago and st. Louis have each had
case of Asiatic cholera.
The police force of London number
1888 men.
In Harrisburg, Pa, there are now NOR
than one hundred new houses in progress
Bishop Johns confirmed thirty-fve can
didstes In Portsmouth on Wednesday.
Edwin Forrest IL In Mobile,