The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1867-09-04

A dispatch from Boston says: "The re-
ported failure of Silas S. Drew Co., dry
goods dealers, with liabilities of quarter
of million of dollars, creates quite q
sensation in business circles. One New
York firm is said to be in for s35 900, and
Boston firms, it is said, suffer to the amount
! Of 100000. The assets are estimated at
about the latter sum. There is good
deal of feeling about the matter among
the victims.
Five Spaniards, giving their names as
! cirque Fernandez, Manuel Brodrick, Ma
mel Montez, Placido Gracio, and Manuel
Puris, were arrested in New York on
Sunday on the supposition of their being
the men who committed the robbery OF
/ 5000, 900 in gold in Mexico. About SIC, 900
worth of gold, or what is supposed to be
gold, in bars, was found in their pos
session.
Mr.. Lorenzo Sibert has left with us q
specimen Of the black oxide Of manganese
| found upon the "Lock Willow Farm" the
property Of J. B. Evans, Esq, of this
place, situated near Churchville, in this
county. This specimen contains, in the
opinion of Mr.. Sibert, from IS to so pei
cent.-Staunton Spectator.
The Australian Minister Of Justice has
/ just decided on singular measure
Hcnceforward a certain number Of copies
Of the official journals published in the
empire will be distributed gratuitously to
the criminals confined in the different
prisons.
We have been shown specimens of Goa
found within the past two weeks by Henry
G. Burnside, in this county, short dis
lance from Peterstown, which is said to be
of very rich character.-Gi Count,
Gazette.
Colonel T. J. Boyd, Of Wytheville
writes card to say that the negro soldiers
recently at his hotel in Wythcville did not
object to going to the kitchen when re-
quested so to do, but behaved themselves
well in all respects, and went away salts
fed.
General Grant has requested to be
relieved from attendance at Cabinet meet
ings except when military matters are
under discussion, as he does not think /
proper for military officer to take part il
political discussions.
Attorney General Stanbery is expected
in Washington about the 9th instant. liz
has been at Capon Springs, Va, for seve
raj weeks past, has had his health much
improved, and he is looking very well.
Some straw at Warsaw, Indiana, few
days ago, wound around tho cylinder of
threshng machine, and by the motion O.
the machinery was set on fire. a barn anc
much property was consumed.
Senator Cameron, of pennsylvania, hac
a lengthy interview with General Gran
Saturday, during which the latter is re-
ported to have expressed decidedly Radl
cal sentiments.
1t is said that company Of Germans is
organizing in San Francisco to induce emf
grafton from the Old World to Sitka
They intend to establish agencies for thI!
purpose in the large German cities.
A six years old boy at Trenton, N. J..
who was locked up in a dark closet las
week by his teacher, became insane from
fright. continued to scream at intervals ioI
two or three days, and finally died.
Paris University dates back to the yea
1872, Oxford to $50, Cambridge to ITO
Glasgow to 1850, Edinburgh to 1880, Dub
lin to 1901.
A Confederate soldier was arrested il
Tennessee the other day on the prctex
that he had violated his parole by using
threatening language to somebody
The public debt statement for Angus
will be made public on Wednesday, ant
will show but slight reduction in The
aggregate national debt during that month
The only survivor of the crew of tht
little ship John 7. Ford, which was lost il
the English channel, is Armstrong, TIKI
sailor taken on board at Halifax.
Jesse D. Bright is named for the speak
ership Of the Kentucky House of Repre-
sentatiyes.
There are no fewer than three hundred
and forty-one manufacturers of false tcetl
in Paris.