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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-04

DIVING FOR L0NG-LosT TREASURE
There is a diving enterprise going on in
hope of finding very long-lost treasure in
East river opposite New York. This trea-
sure was on board the British frigate Hus-
sar, sunk in East river during the Revolu-
tionary war. On board of that vessel were
the guineas for paying the British army.
On the 25th of November, 1880, the officers
of the Hussar, fearing the French fleet then
off our coast, attempted to run into East
river for security. In this the vessel ron
upon Pot Rock or He'll Gate, in that river,
and received so much damage that, although
she got off, she sunk in seventy feet of
water opposite what is now Twenty-seventh
street. She sank SO rapidly that the officers
narrowly escaped with their lives, leaving
even their swords and jewelled snuff-boxes
behind them. On the lower deck were
eighty American prisoners, manacled, and
they went down with the ship. The
treasure on the frigate at the time amounted
to 100000 in gold, packed in iron boxes
bound with copper.
In 1894 the British Government sent over
two briggs, with men and implements, to raise
the frigate; but after two seasons of fruitless
effort, gave up the job. In 1919 second
attempt was made to raise the vessel with
the most powerful means then known, but
our Government drove off the operators
and claimed the vessel and treasure as
prize of war.
A company Of Americans was subse-
quently chartered, which has worked at in
tervals, spending in the aggregate $50, 900
up to last year. This company have now
contracted with the owners of an improved
diving bell at salvage Of thirty per cent. on
the treasure recovered. The diver can stay
down in this bell from four to FIVE hours.
The results thus far are the recovery OF
some swords some silver and gold snuff
boxes, jewelled; a lignum vitae box contain
ing l25 guineas 2G cannon; 1000 balls !;
bullets; muskets buckets bearing the
name of Hussar bottles of porter gun
hints; and several skeletons with manacles
on the wrists. At the last exploration
the divers reported that they had struck
wood. The company is hopeful! The
bringing up Of the guineas would produce
quite sensation. But the sea is reluct-
ant to surrender the treasure that has fallen
to its caves through the calamities of man,
who, poor creature, has spent more in re-
covering what is lost than what he has reac-
Quired will reimburse.
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The Boston Daily Advertiser misrepre.
sents the Dispatch, which has never advo.
Gated Reputation in any form. On the con-
trary, it has invariably maintained that
no nation could afford to repudiate its debts
1t has, however, frequently said, and now
repeats the assertion, that the northern
people will surely repudiate their national
debt. 1t is not our debt, because it was
contracted whilst we, according to Mr.
STEVENS and the reconstruction laws, were
out of the Union. If repudiated at all, ii
must be by the northern people, notwith-
standing what the Advertiser says. The
Democrats. if in minority, can't repu-
date it.
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Lynchburg, August LIST, 1868.

GENERAL LEE.-"A Veteran" writes
to the New York World, in reference to the
assertion that some one had portrait of
General Lee in his house, as follows;
81 have served my country well from the
18th day of April, 1861, 1.-THE day of. Presi,
dent Lincoln's call for $4,000 men, and
was mustered out Of service in August,
1865, and can say that l admire General
Lee as pure, good man. think he erred
in going into the cause he did. Had General
Lee remained with US, he would be to-day
where much inferior man is-that is,
at the head of our army. He is no cotton
speculator. He never had to resign from
the army under serious charges, or be dis
missed in disgrace. He can stand up with
an army of $4,000 men and fight on army OF
100000, and not lose one-half of his COM
mand. l would not feel ashamed to have
the portrait of General Lee hanging in my
parlor; Ior would any man who served in
the field, for among the soldiers Of our army
all spoke highly Of General Lee. Enemy
as he was, he was respected as one who was
our equal" .r-
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The defeat of Brown and Blodgett is
most substantial victory for the friends OF
Seymour and Blair. 1t will enable them
to carry the State with all ease and by a
very pronounced majority for that ticket.
There are q great many men IN Georgia
who have been following-some of THEN
afar off, it is true-the fortunes Of Brown,
because they had firm faith in his irwin
cibility. They did not believe he could be
beaten. His prestige with them was worth
all the arguments in the world. They be-
lieved in his luck, and his unerring in
stinct of always ranging himself with the
strongest side; and as he went they went
One of the first and most substantial re-
suits of his defeat will be the dissipation of
this idea-the breaking of this heretofore
potent spell. They will no longer believe
in his luck, and losing faith in that, they
will separate themselves from his fortunes.
This is one result of his defeat.-Macon
Journal and Messenger.
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SPEECH OF GENERAL BLAIR AT LEAVEN-
WORTH. -Leauennorth, Kansas, July 3l.-
General F. P. Blair addressed an immense
meeting this evening. His speech was prln-
cipally devoted to the action OF the fadicai
party in the reconstruction OF the South ana
the record of General Grant. lie charged
that the Republicans, having lost the con-
fidence of the whole people OF the country
had resorted to the support OF the blacks !;
that it was from no love Of the negro race
that they enfranchised them, but only as
scheme to maintain themselves in power.
He said he had nothing to say against
General Grant personally, that his military
services will ever be remembered with
pride: but that since he had entered the arena
of politics his acts, politically, were pro-
per matters for public criticism. He said
that General Grant had changed his views
on the subject of reconstruction inconslst-
emily, having ut the close Of the war urged
the immediate admission of the senators
and representatives from the southern
States, chosen then by the people Of
those States. But, he said, The secret
of the adherence Of Generals Grant,
Sheridan, md other regular officers, to
the Radical party is the tendency Of that
party, ,rLich has ouerthrown the prerogatiueS
of the Supreme Court and executive branch
of the Government, to,oard military despot-
ism, aohich, being necessarily based upon mill
tary po,cer, would giue consequence to pro
n,inent officers Of the army. He said his
tory shows that no party pursuing the
course and using the means adopted by the
Radicals can live and receive the support
of the people. He denied that the senti-
ments expressed in his letter or the New
York speech were revolutionary that the
people of the United States at the last cleo
tons had repudiated negro suffrage, upon
which vas based the whole reconstruction
scheme that to overthrow by proper con-
stitutional means the reconstruction acts is
but carrying out the will of the people.
He charged that the Radical party only
are revolutionary. In a reply to remark
from the crowd, he said the Radical party
have made copperheadism respectable.
General Blair spoke about thirty minutes,
his remarks being received with enthusl-
asm. At the close, music and brilliant
display of fireworks followed.
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PETERSBURG, August 3, 1868.

u
Tho weather is daily subject of trlte
remark, but for two or three days pAs. -
has been of an unusual character. s 1o
cession of thunder-clouds has Deen !ne ule-
tinguishing feature. The eartn Is ~"
thoroughly drehched, with no present pio-
spect Of cessation Of rain.
We would respectfully suggest 10 tne
farmers that there is no better time Ior
following their land for wheat than the
nresent. All green crops plowed under
now will be found vastly more useful
than if deferred till September. Clover
has come to maturity, and the natural
grasses are in that stage when they VIII
Speedily undergo decomposition. The field
nea alone is an exception. Not having yet
attained its growth, it will not be in con-
dition for turning in short of Six or seven
weeks to come.
Last night there was very near oelng
destructive fire. The house of Thomas K.
Adams, 5n Market SQUARE, was discovered
by the inmates to be filled with smoke about
half-past 10 o'clock, as they were retiring
to their chambers. 1t had evidently been
fired by on incendiary; and had the occur
renee taken place an hour or two later, not
only would there have been serious loss
of property, but probably of life also. As
it was, there was no way of escape except
through the windows of the upper story ;
from which the ladies of the family, not
without much hazard, let themselves down
to the street. A servant girl, about sixteen
years of age, was also in the house, and
escaped in the same manner. She was
afterwards arrested on suspicion OF her
guilt, and at her examination before the
Mayor to-day the evidence was so strong
as TO Justify him in committing her for
trial in the Hastings Court on the charge
of arson. 1t is said that she has since
made confession.
On the occasion of her trial the court
room was crowded with negroes and as
this is almost uniformly the case vixen any
thing of an exciting nature regarding one
of their own race is before the Mayor, he
announced his determination to put stop
to it. If suffered to continue, it need sur
prise no one that the courthouse should at
anv time be the scene Of violent out
break.
Mayor Burgess offers a reward of 81, 900
for the detection and conviction of the in
cendiary who lately set fire to the store of
Major Everts, by which that and the Iader
establishment were destroyed. The adver-
tisement will appear in the city papers to-
morrow.
At late hour Saturday night two young
men, in consequence of some disagreement,
adjourned their difficulty to the other side
Of the river, beyond the jurisdiction of our
civil authorities, where they engaged in
regular mill, fighting ten rounds. They
were accompanied by surgeon, who care
fully dressed their wounds !; after which
they made friends, and returned in more
placid humor than they went. S.
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ara sferrsa to properly -constructed yesselsf
! and transported, aavaluable fertilizing ma
5terial, to lands now lying waste in close
proximity to the city. Such q system would
remove traces Of moisture from the city, In
calculably improve its sanitary condition.
and if the sewage were transferred 10 the
lands, would immensely increase their pro-
duction. He estimates the improved value
Of c;tv lots from this system at sloo,ooo'-
ooo-a benefit separate and apart from those
Of a sanitary and agricultural nature.
General V. refers to the example OF Lon
don. where plan with these objects, as the
reader knows, has been put into operation
There the work was ~hastened because the
Thames passing by the Parliament house.
the abatement of the nuisance OF emptylng
the entire offal of London into that river De-
came a Government necessity. The Gene
raj speaks of the pressing demand for q
resort to measures for the same object in
New York. After referring to the com
mercial prosperity and grand situation OF
that city, he says
"Yet, although so well adapted by nature
for all the purposes of commercial entire
not, we have thus far failed to second the
efforts of nature, but, on the contrary, nave
impeded them. Our beautiful Park and
sculptured palaces of trade and industry
seem like the ribbons and gewgaws with
which depraved humanity seeks to hide the
corruption that rankles beneath. We are
neglectinc the essential elements of perma-
ient prosperity. Imperial Rome, in the
climax of her power, owed to the c9oacg her
municipal greatness, and Paris without her
wonderful and perfect system Of public
works, instead of being the gay and splen-
did capital of modern Europe, would be q
SPOT to be avoided. To her system of sub
terranean drainage and sewage she owes
much of her prominence. What the cities
of Europe have done in public improve
ments they learned the necessity of by bit
ter experience.
And what cities by the seq have found to
be necessity will be ultimately forced
upon all river cities of any magnitude.
Their health, river commerce, every loea
of cleanliness and decency, will demand
that rivers be relieved Of the filthy office
now imposed upon them. The rivers them
selves will teach men that they cannot
evade a trouble and nuisance in that man
ner. That is too easy q radiance to con-
form to the great law Of nature, which ex-
acts of man vigilance and industry even in
protecting himself from the dust that is
borne on the winds.
Nor should men feel it hardship that
they cannot be permitted to hide what is
offensive, and that if they attempt to do SO
it will rise and accuse them. For in making
aproper disposition of the sewage of cities,
that which is taken from the land will be
returned to it, and save it from the exhaus-
ton of taking off all its product to dis
lance and restoring to it nothing, which in
time will turn the best soil to blasted
desert.
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Mr.. 5oHs mitchell claims about 9 dozen
articles at the conclusion Of the coilect'on'
Mr.. DANIEL was one Of the most remark.
able men ever connected with the press oi
this country. He had q power and skill IN
the use of language that soon drew PuDio
attention upon him after he entered s'el.,l lh'0
the fraternity Of the press, and that atteh,
ton never was relaxed. His most IN marNea
essays-those which reflected the energy o'
his feelings and the causticity of his per
sonal opinions-were penned during the ne
war, when his very soul was aroused IN
the southern cause. The most striking Oh
these have been selected by the editor OF
this book.
For sale by J. WALL TURNER.
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CitY Sewerage.

The rapidity of the growth of cities in
this country is forcing upon them with
equal speed the necessity for new systems
of sewerage, in order so to dispose of the
offal and recommendations accumulations of
large communities as best to promote their
comfort and health. New York, although
surrou nded by the salt tide, is beginning to
feel the necessity of new system for this
purpose. The comfort and health of that
large city now demand immediate attention
to this matter, and the Council of the city
appointed General E. G.. VEILE to look into
the subject, and suggest some plan. de
finds, from the imperfect system OF sewers,
that many localities are not drained, and
the drainage of some accumulate in others,
and that these inequalities are exhibited in
alargely increased per centage of mortality
in the badly drained districts. There are
more than 200 miles Of sewers in the city !;
nearly all Of which have been built with
out regard to system.
General VEILE states that one-ffth of the
city is rendered almost unfit for dwellings
by the presence Of water, with which the
ground is saturated, owing to bad sewerage.
In building on such ground the wor.smen
have TO employ Golfer dams and pumps to
get foundations. The value Of this land in
it's present state is put Mt $500, 200.
The General recommends the eonstruc-
ton along the exterior Of the city Of low
lying sewers y to receive the contents of late
raj sewers and convey them to points where
they could be discharged at ebb-tide, or
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-04
AGRICULTURAL.

A VIRGINIA INVENTION.-We have
N now on exhibition ut No. IA, on Fourteenth,
street opposite the Exchange Hotel, the new Al"
valuable machine known zs
ARNALL,S COOKIE, GARLICK. and SMUT
49, SEPARATOR,
the only machine known that can perfectly sepa-
rate cookie from wheat without regard To the ,Le
OF the cookie. In this machine the new principle
Of ADHESION, rs applied 10 machinery OF ms
class Is strikingly and successfully demonstrate
and we invite the millers, machinists, and busi-
ness men OF Richmond generally who feel Inter
ested in the agricultural development OF our State
TO call and see for themselves.
We are now offering for sale COUNTY and CITY
RIGHTS In the States OF Virginia and West Pir-
ginIa and win be glad TO see any gentlemen from
the country who may be visiting the city.
= Communications must he addressed TO- us a.
Charlottesville, Va, or to Captain I. c. Morton
EXCHANGE Hotel, Richmond. Va.
iy2-3m MINOR u PEIIoS.
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PROPOSALS.

DROPOSALS ASKED FOR.-SEALEp,
PROPOSALS will be received at the Once Oh
the Clerk OF Henrico County Court until me atn
DAY OF AUGUST at u o'clock Tor rebnildlhK tte
fallen abutment OF the bridge over Oimond'S creek,
on the Osborne Turnpike road the contractor 70
replace the woodwork and earth-work 40 beioIe
the destruction OF the bridge.
Propasais win be received ut the same time for
the construction Of culyert near the present ste
OF the bridge. -,
said Clerk by calling for report OF Commissioner.
In both cases the contractor VIII take INTO con-
alteration The value OF the old material.
Address JACOB s. ATLEEr
Commissioner OF Roads Of Heprico County;
july Is, 1868. )yR-ia
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10 rsarasia As Regonstrucsed-fnee
mo" s4I1s Eunrefaae. =.


rss,itasy Still Supreme.
r,, -. fsensacoIa (Floridal Commercial, Juiy
: CO caneral Meade General sprague' Cover
~ Reed and oil the rest of them, nave
AZ. .s1a tSe nnbTic that Florida is restored 70
.bs BENEFITS of civil government. Almost
hsfore the announcement was cold upon
80 49, Inns a case occurred In Tallahassee 10
show that the fact is the very reverse VI
what they are supposed to mean. ,o
A citizen of Georgia, confined IN Fioriun
bv military authority for an alleged clsii
offence. sued out writ of hdbeds coTPn''
and the case was argued before Judge NC
Donald. of the Middle Circuit, and SUD
rn;ttad for his decision-all under the IDEA
that Florida. being now fully reconstructed
"a iubilantly announced, the civil authorl-
ties have supplanted the military. In the
nro,;m;narv stages of the case Colonel
Flint. of the United States army, refused
to obey the writ, but, apparently under the
persuasion of the Governor, he afterwards
produced the prisoner; and for three OF
four DAYS, while the Investigation and argu-
ment were in progress, carried him prompt
" into eourt. The natural inference was
that all parties were ready 10 yea 10 Inc
restored majesty ol the ei'Ai ~,
But somehow the business did not WORK
to suit his Excellency and his military CO.
adiutor, On the day when a decision was
to be rendered, Colonel Flint had spirited
away the prisoner, and the Governor sent
a polite note to the Judge, while on the
bench, to inform him that his functions as
;ndge were at an end. A decision was rem.
dered, notwithstanding, ordering release OF
the prisoner; which, of course, will be In
effectual. ..-......, :,
And this is the sort of civil government
which reconstruction has given the people
of Florida One by which not only the
military may set at naught the laws OF the
land, but by which the State Executive can
invade the court house and drive the judi,
ciary from the bench while in the act Of
administering law. Such an outrage as TINS
in the better days of the Republic would
have raised cry of horror all over the
countrv. But now it is only an ordinary
incident of the times; and those of us who
noint TO it as evidence of the odious tyranny
which Expresses the South are only laughed
at for our pains. There are monsters II
the world who ht1g the chains that ensissTTee
them, and Florida is not free fTdth stch.
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The TRUE DooTRINE.-In a speech at
Hamilton, Ohio, made last week, Mr.. Val
landigham announced the Democratic doc
trine, that if Horatio Seymour is elected
President of the United States, he shall be
President; if General Grant is elected
President of the United States, he shall be
President. That's sound Democratic doc
trine-the doctrine of the fathers, and it is
ours to-day. But he counts out the negroes.
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How THE WHITES IN GEORGIA REGARD
THE ELECTION OF HILL AND MILLER.-Re-
de,nption Of Georgia ALL hail to the glo-
rious victory this day achieved over the
renepades and traitors Brown and Blodgett.
The representatives Of Georgia, by their
action in placing the seal Of condemnation
upon these apostates, have covered their
State and themselves all over with glory:
Fraud perjury, bribery, corruption, an and
rascality have met their just reward. The
heart of the great Democratic party of the
North will throb with joy as it reads the
action of Georgia's representatives, to-day.
Good men everywhere will applaud the re,
buke thus administered to corruption and
perfdy. They will feel that fraud is not
permitted to 60 unpublished, and that virtue
still hath reward. Aldnta Constitution.
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CEILING OFF, SELLING oFFll TO
~ CLOSE! TO CLOSE!

With the view of engaging In another business
Ihaye determ ined to close ont my ENTIRE STOCK
OF DRY GOODS, which Is very large, for short
time only, AT AND BELOW COST.
It would be useless to attempt TO enumerate any
particular goods or prices, and will only say that
the stock is complete In all branches, and every ar
ticle MUST be sold regardless OF cost; and what
ever remains unsold within u short time VIII be
disposed Of at auction.
THIS In chance rarely offered to consumers OIL
dry goods and will be to the interest Of al In want
20 call early at ISAAC HUTZLER'H
tes No. $40 Broad street, corner Of Sixth.
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=, vallandigham says in the Dayton (ohio)
Iedger "Governor Seymour is not bond
holder, nor did he receive the supper. Oh o.
s stands 1 upon the same paforn nan oad
and otherwise, that Mr.. Pendleton wou ao
have stood upon had the nomination 0eeA
conferred upon him." - ~
Ex-Governor SEYMOUR owns NO b s.
17tica, ". Y, July 81, 1s6s.--Dear SIR
yonr letter Of the 18th instant to Governor
seymour is received. BE directs me TO an n,
S swer ' your Undergraduates; and say NJ hi
does not own a United states bond, and
never did own one; and he never dealt III
bonds or banking Of any KIND.
Very respectfully, yours ETC.,
To II. R. Dunn, Esq, Bloomington, LII.
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COLONEL OWEN IN REPLY TO THE BRIs-
toll NEws.-1he above statement is infa-
mously false. l have never signed, sworn
to, or even seen, such petition, nor was any
such petition necessary, unless to relieve
from the test oath for / had not been dis
franchised had been pardoned; and to
have signed and sworn to this paper would
have been to take the test oath, which was
impossible. do not even know, except by
the graphic prints, that l have been re-
lieved from this oath but if it has been
done, will at once ascertain by whom and
upon whose application.
ROBERT L. OWEN.
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TOILET ARTICLES.

cUPERIoRENGL1sH TOOTH BRUSHES,
hair secure, made to order in London by one OF
the most celebrated manu- facturers. A large ana
varied assortment just received and for sale by
j. BLAIR, Druggist
,e,s s... s25 Broad street.