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SUSPENSION OF A WELL-KNoWN HOUSE.
The suspension IN yesterday of Messrs.
HARRISON, GoDD1N & APPERsoN caused
universal regret in commercial circles.
Messrs. GoDD1N s. APpERsoN, the mem
bers of the firm in this city, have earned a
reputation as men of integrity and bust
ness capacity, which will not be impaired
by their present temporary embarrassment.
Their suspension is caused by the general
depreciation of the assets of the firm con-
sequent upon our political troubles, and
their inability to collect the very large
amount of solvent debts due them. The
real estate, stocks, bonds, &c., of the firm,
which, even in a tolerable state Of com
mercial prosperity, would far exceed their
liabilities, cannot now be made available
to meet them, and hence the suspension
of a house which has always commanded
the general esteem and confidence, and in
misfortune will have a sympathy as gene
raj and heartfelt.
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ENGLAND AND ABYss1NIA.-We have
had for some time a sort of impression that
u friend Mr.. JOHN mitchell does not
like the British Government This i'm
preston has grown into uncomfortable sus-
picion and jealousy; for we do not like to
be excelIed in our hatred Of that Govern
mont!
In his last paper (the Irish Citizen, OIL
New York, } he gives some account Of the
intermeddling of British emissaries with
Abyssinian affairs; how PLowDEN, the
British Consul, through his ~oficiousness,
was murdered by the people and how
CAMERON followed him, and conspired with
native chiefs to overthrow the Govern.
ment, and was therefore imprisoned by
King THEODORE, who consoled him (CAME.
ROM with the company of sundry other
Englishmen who were sent to procure his
release and how said King gave notice
that he would hold them until the British
Government gave guarantees against flu
ture interference in the domestic concerns
of his kingdom. We entirely concur with
Mr.. Mitchell, that so far the King was
right; but what about his demanding
Queen VICTORIA in marriage? That, we
knew, would damn the King with our
friend but he gets over this by simply
denying the statement as a falsehood. The
whole affair, he contends, is a treacherous
and feloneous attempt to take possession
of the lands and harbors of other people
a sort of greed and covetousness for which
England is famous.
Mr.. Mitchell concludes by wishing
4" King THEODORE all success and pros
perity." 1t is plain that he does not like
the British Government and we suspect
few people here like him the less for it
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LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAvIs.-There is
about to be published a Life Of
Mr.. DAVIS, President of the late Con
federacy, by Mr.. FRANK FL. ALFRIEND,
of this city. 1t is far advanced towards
completion by the National Publishing
House of this city. Mr.. ALFR1END was
editor of the Southern Literary Messenger,
and was connected with the Richmond
press during the war. He is a practiced
writer, an intelligent, we'll informed, and
capable gentleman. He has had very fine
opportunities for gathering proper details
upon which to base his work, and will, We
Ire sure, make very good use of them.
The book will contain some 500 or 600
'ages, and embrace q complete and au-
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Radical Insults.

When the war ended by the defeat OF
the southern armies and the overthrow OF
the Southern Confederacy, the people of
the South succumbed as gracefully and as
earnestly as ever a people did to disaster.
They frankly acknowledged that by the
result the United States was their country,
It's Government their Government, and
that it was their duty, as far as ~they.could,
not only to become good citizens, but to
aid in promoting the success of the Co.
vernment whenever they had the power
to do so. From that moment they not
only ceased to be %"rebels," as they were
called, but became loyal citizens.
It has suited the purpose of a party in
this country, however, in an outrageous
manner and with oil the oppression of a
heartless and cowardly tyranny of num-
bers, still to treat these frank and sincere
southern people as though they were dis.
loyal and conspiring to overthrow the
Government. Not that they believe any
such thing, but because the atfectation OF
distrust affords q pretext to pursue apo
icy of disfranchisement of white people
par; pasSu with the enfranchisement Of
negroes that more efItctually secures the
ascendancy of negroes, through whose pre-
dominance that party basely conspires to
perpetuate its power.
The foul imputations upon the good
faith of the South, then, is d part Of the
party warfare of Radicalism !: even the ne
groes, who were well-bred and polite, being
taught to utter these aspersions like par
rots. Yesterday HUNNIcUTT, the traitorto
his W race and the traitor. to his W
opinions and principles, freely dispensed
the Radical slang Of tho day in a speech
which exhausted nearly the whole days
sitting of the Convention. In the course
of this speech he pronounced Mr.. R. NJ.
#. HUNTER q " traitor" and was instantly
and energetically pronounced a ~"liar,"
by Mr.. HUNTER, Of King George. 1t
is not to be expected that gentlemen
will tamely sit under the voice of such
slanderers. A man even so depraved
as HUNNICUTT could hardly be allowed this
license in the ancient Hall of Legislation.
He might be d~isregarded elsewhere; but,
however he has crawlcd into it, the place
gives some Importance to his utterances,
and it was not at all surprising that Mr..
HUNTER took q turn upon him.
The fact is, the Radicals are continuing
the war by cherishing and inlaming all
the feelings it engendered and if violence
is not occasionally provoked by their inso-
lent calumnies, it will not be because it is
not the natural result of them.
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conoress and the Federal Executive must
nourish, cherish, feed, and snei1er snen'
Their State governments have become Inc
merest enti,ies-hardly considered and
never thought Of except so far as they
E,rded some offces,ssat stinted compen-
satiop. to the great multitude who have
from the beginning sought to live, as BEAU
HICKMAN says, "by their wits"
But that source of life, and heat, and
thrift toour down-eastern friends having at
last itself gotten into trouble, out Of which
it cannot well see its way, they are driven
themselves to the most painful vicissitudes.
The interests Of the whole nation having
been Frustrated by measures to preserve
power in the hands of the great party
whose genius is peculiarly New England
and Puritan, there is no way open to the
restoration of those northern properties,
which are involved in the common mis-
fortune, but in an abandonment OF those
measures and in the death and decomposi-
ton of that New England party for whose
benefit they were conceived and enacted
The strait to which the enterprises and
industries of the northern people have
been brought by northern partisanry, and
the insatiate desire of Office and Govern.
ment jobs, is instructive. The conse.
uuence-the national troubles-the op.
preston of national industry-are legitl'
mate results of the vicious policies, and
the heartless %usurpations and corruptions
Of the dominant party at Washington. Az
long as they triumph the nation must be
borne down, and the people must mourn
over their misfOrtunes.
There is little comfort for these poor
ship-builders, with their idle yards and their
grass-grown, walks in Washington. They
must tarry awhile in purgatory.
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Ship. Builders and the Government.

The ship-builders "down East" are
distressed and dolorous. Their business
is hurt, their feelings are consequently
hurt, and they fall into the tone which
belongs either to Piety or Suffering. The
former, however, pours out the sentiments
of penitance for errors and sins-a sort OF
confession TO which people down East are
not much given; they confine their lamen-
tations rather to the sins of others. But
the other style of regretful vocalization
m naturally, and is poured forth with
a sincerity that no man can question
They are hurt in their coming and going,
in their receipts and disbursements, and
in their large preparations and exceedingly
limited operations Hence their "dieS
irae' of many yards lie idle, and grass
"grows where formerly was the busiest
"tread of workmen." In contemplating
this picture and it's attendant miSeries. we
must remember the community which sets
up this wall. If we do this, and consider
all its peculiarities, we can plainly under
stand that DANTE's Inferno, and all the
pictures and descriptions classical of the
regions of the damned, fail utterly in
rising to the high-water mark of the SUBJ
lime torments of these owners of ship
yards that are vacant and paths that are
grown in grass.
One would think that these miserable
persons would take comfort from the
greater Affections of the hapless southern
ers; but they can have no such philosophy
in their emergency. We deplore the
situation Of these unfortunate down-east-
ers, and lament that it is not in their power
to be comforted by the contemplation of
our distress. If they could only do so, it
would be converting southern affection to
some benefit, and that would be consoling
even to US.
But no-they will not be comforted until
that Central Government, to which they
have been born and bred to look for every
thing, clucks to them like a matronly hen
and taxes them under her wings. In the
process of Capitalization Of all power in the
Washington Government, the people of
New England especially have been led to
consider that it was established for their
protection and benefit in their daily pur-
suits and adventures. In ship building,
n fishing, in manufacturing, and every
hing, the idea has been with them that !,
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IF "Please instruct me by telegraph
doesn't mean "Please instruct me at
once" it means nothing. Yet Senator
HowARD's charge against Mr.. JOHNSON is
only that he quotes a telegram in these
words, "Please instruct me at once by
telegraph" instead of in these, "Please
instruct me by telegraph" So old SMITHE-
REENs, upon reading that "the vital spark
was extinct" wondered why the paper
didn't say whether the man was dead or
not.r
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DIED,

DIED,
In the town Of Manchester, Va, OF "Wednesday
evening, January 8, at hslt-past O'clock. Captain
W. O.. c. OVERTON, at the age OF ffty-nine
years. 80,
His funeral will take place from Manchestel
Methodist church THIS MORNIhG at II O'Clock:
His friends and relatives are respectfully invited
to attend.
Lynchburg papers please copy.
At the residence of Mr.. John Messler, on the 9Th
of January, Mrs. ADELAIDE PIsMONT, Censor.
of the late William Fremont, deceased, In the
forty seventh year Of her age.
Der funeral will take place from st. Petsr's
Cathedral on SATURDAY MOkFlNG at O'Clock
The friends of the two families are invited to at
tend.
On Tuesday, the 7h day, of January, 1858, IN
Hanover county, at the residence OF her husbana,
LOUISA BOWLES formerly Louisa Talley), the
beloved wife of Benjamin Bowles, alter a l1nger'
ing illness, which che bore with Christian fortl-
tude, leaving a husband and four children &c
mourn their irreparable loas,o aged iorty-e1gh'
years, one month, and twenty-five days.
In Baltimore. on the 7h instant, HARLEs L.
BOEHME, aged ninety-three years.
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RADICAL BAD FAITH.-The New York
Times, abiding to the recent movements
in Congress still further to reconstruct
reconstruction, says:
"The movement, by whomsoever di-
rected or sustained, is a movement to
postpone the restoration of the southern
States and to render it more hazardous
and uncertain. To support it is to break
faith with the people Of the South, and to
intensity the causes of peril and suffering
which now afflict the country"
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AauaXSeH1eNtS

WI RIGET'S Els
- VIRGINIA. HALL,
Ninth street between Main and pranki,n.
"RlGHT u Co......... ......--'A
Grand Inauguration, with the largest ana mos ne
POWERFUL COMPANY hhilsis
New candidates for puolle lapof: rono,
We have the best Danseuses, Vocal!sts, CONS
diennes, and Ethiopian DelineatoTs, ever Assem-
bled under one management.
Last week of the
JAY-PkNEED-kNGRS.
SCENES FROM THE BLACK Cionk.
Polite aud attentive waiter boys. NO minors al
m'tted.
Strict order will be observed:
Doors open at q quarter to 7 O'CLOCK nirtn /"
commence at a quarter to s O'CLOCK: u
The choicest Wines, Liquors, and cigars Ivy
on hand. "'-"
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rAEDOZO, ALSOP & FOURQU>
hEAN are buying at auction, and from every
SILKS, DRESS GOODS, SHAWLs, EMBROIDE.
SIES, LACEs, HOSIERY, GLOVES, CARPETS.
and HoUsEKEEPIHG GOODS in every variety
CLOTHS, CAssIMEREs, and CLOAKINGs, &C.;
which they Offer at extremely low prices. No.
9s BROAD STREET, between Ninth and Tenth.
and Swiss NJ uslins, white and light Kid Gloves
for parties, at very low prices, chiefly from auc-
ton.
CARDOZO, ALSoP & F0URQURgAN.
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CoRREcr1oN.-In the proceedings o.
Wednesday night we reported Mr.. PARR as
having said "By c." etc. MIR. PARR
is not a swearing man, and said in the re-
marks referred to, "My C, l like
members on the left as well as On the
right" etc. This alters the moral tenor
of the remark somewhat.
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A. M. CARRIER, Esq, has ceased to be a
proprietor ofthe Valley Virginian, and has
become its sole responsible editor, Mr..
CRocKwELL being sole proprietor. The
Virginian will continue to be a live paper.
1t is one of the best in the State.
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FoRNEY crows over a Radical victory in
Knoxville, Tenn.-a victory of negroes
over white men. The DISTINGUISHING laws
of Tennessee are as great a disgrace to the
country as FoRNEY is to mankind.
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VIRGINIA CENTRAL LAND
7 AGENCY AND DOMESTIC IMMIGRATION
AND WHITE LAB0R SUPPLY OFFICE, RICH-
MoND VAL have very recently perfected the
scale a business that will henceforth receive my
undivided attention, combining the sale Of lands,
supply of white labor. male and female, and ten.
anus, "a lar as they can possibly be obtained, from
the States and cities OF the North.
My partner; Colonel x. j. Page, is in charge of
In Philadelphia aud Baltimore I haze associates
OF this highest respectability and responsibility.
Carolina 1 am associated with d. w. COURTS.
ESQ.,, OF Reidsyille, for many years State Treasurer
The facilities this agency offers for the sale OF
lands are not surpassed in the South. In regard
to mines Of all kinds, / have made contracts with
parties in the cities north Of this who make that
branch OF the business q specially both In this
country and Europe. securing to me the widest
possible nd ! he f s,S OF. Of operations ), and in this city
mineralogist and assayer Colonel WILLIAM GIL.
HAM 70. tn promp. analysis OF all minerals that
mines before they are offered for sale.
& WHITE LABOR
branch or the business Will be under the manage.
ment OF Thoroughly competent gentlemen. I'LL
further notice is given, our efforts will ba directed
10 supply Ing this city with factory hands, porters,
and domssstics, male ana female. These will be
mainly German and Irish. The most ample and
satisfactory arrangements have been made for
heir cheap transportation from New York and
tAitauelpnla 70 THIS city. by the lst OF January i
hope to be able to supply farm hands and small
tenants.
Parties In want Of white labor OF eithe sex are
requested 10 communicate their wants in writing,
New York and Philadelphia.
TERMS: For selling lands, FIVE per cent. com.
mission on all sales actually made, bat no charge
whatever unless & sale is effected. For mines. an
addl'iohal contingent foe, the subject Of contact
Ia each case, and payable out Of proceeds OF sale.
FOR iaborers: q fee OF IS for each one supplied oy
contract, payable when the laborsr is delivered:
and when the isborer Is unable TO pay his or her
delphla and 80 from New York-to bs repaid 10 me
by the employer when he receives the laborar. IA
40 inuch advanced on The contract for wages.
no 2o~-dT&F-w3m Post. ofica hoy ia
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thentic biography of MIR. DAVIS through
the whole period of his life. 1t will, no
doubt, be a valuable addition to the per-
sonal and political history of these signin-
cant times. - :.
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ia 7-dlw&w,m
COLONEL JOHN D. MUNFoRD

IULONEL JOHN D. MUNFORD
~ viii read before tho Young Mems Chyiss;sn
Association, ats o'clock en- FSIDAY EVEEIsG
NbAf, tthe First Baptist church, his exauisite
posm' entitled The Music of the sea a.
ing OF this poem. recently read bsfose a largo
audience IN the eood old city OF Williamsburg,
says: /, For hal an hour LIE kept his audience In
osauNlul sloontion, uninterrupted except by oc-
easionai bursts of applause and murmurlngs Of
attractive sentiment or sxprsssion was uttered.
Tickets, FIFTY CENTS TO be had at the door
Of the church and OF the book and drug stores.
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Co3fectjOne7'Ges.

DREMIUM CANDIES.-We claim to
Z manufacture the BEST CANDIES made in the
United States for WHOLESALE We
other for Wholesale. Our No. l Is all alike, and
warranted. We have numerous premiums, award
ed before the war by the Mechanics Institute Fairs
when there were numerous competitors-not hon.
orable mention for northern candies, French so
called. We sell them as low as the Yankee can.
dies, and warrant them much better
LOUIS j. BOSSIEUX,
las No. 1912 Main street.
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MEETINGS.


mo THE MUSICAL PUBL!C.a,
Having in view the cultivation OF tne sna da-
cal faste of the people OF Richmond, ano ~ mnsi.
vatopmsut OF The ia lent amongsths amalsns mad.
etans we have in ourIniGss, we, the unasisiHsna ors
rsnrssan ing the different religious denomlnss o. tms
IN ths city. 'rsou st all who feel an INTEREST III III ~ =
anbiect 10 meet for the purpose OF consoisat = y
and organiz.tion in the ballroom OF .ne 9PyyTT1
wood Hotel on oNp 6fS
January 10, at s o'clock.
JOHN TYLER,
JAMES GORDON,.
WiLLIAM e. TANNER,
WILLIAM B. MYERS,-
~ JAMES p. C0WARDlN,
JOHN W. CALDWELL,
p. q. KEACH,
,oo. JOHN F. G. POTTS.
DICHMOND CHAMBER OF COM.
h MEECE.-An adjourned meeting OF the s.och-
holders of the RICHMOND " I'm.
MRRCE will be held on FRIDAY hehElso, w
instant. st6 O'Clock, at the Tobacco Ax;nsnge. a
fnu attendance is REQ uested, as matters Oh impoi''
ance will be brought before the meeting.
la 9-2t r. y. E"onheN,s
rHE ANNUAL MEETING CT
stockholders Of the Merchants and flsnse,s
savings Bank will be held at their oIhCe on o
TukDsY III. nth instant at half.pasti ocloSh ,
M. Stockholders are requested 10 De Pfesenso VI
represented by proxy ,pNp1Ns cash,er.
ia It'd W.. d.
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Da'u Goods.

ATEW AED DESIRABLE GOODS.
~ BLEACHsD COTT0Na, best makes, all cheap,
viz
WAMsUTTA,
FRUIT UF THE LOOM,
A~NDROsC0GGIN,
JAMEs'S e MILLS.
1914 B~LEkCHED SHEETINGS,
BROWN SHIRTINGS and MEETINGS.
fresh supply of the BOULEVARD sklRTs,
A fuII supply of those unriyalled GLOVE
FITTING C0kSETS,
WHITE CAMBKICS, NAINSOCkS, and SOFT
CAMBHlCs,
SWISS MUSLIN and ORGANIZES,
lINBNS Of the best makes,
POINT LACE and VAL. TRIMMED HAND
KERCHiEFS,
POINT ACE COLLARS,
CAMBRIA BDGINGS, INsERTIEGS, and CAM
BIC BANDS, ETC, ETC.
ia SIT SAMUEL NJ. Prize. Agent.
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OF UNION BANK OF RICHMOND,
(SAvITGS LNsTlTUTION.)
OFFICE AT THE RATIONAL EXCHANGE BANK.
B%UGGCRIEED CAPITAL, $500. coo.
7HIS INSTITUTION ALLOWS SIX e Gent.
on DEPOSITS.
I. DAVENPORT, j., PrastdaEt.
JAMES MILLEg, Cashisr.
~---
DIRECTORS.
e, A. Paine, L.. D. Crenshsv, w. z. Quarles,
Hm. B. Lyons, Jr., z. x. Blsnhsn.
4. Bodeksr, b. y. Weizigsr, chip,
". A. Spot, &oaes SliysoA, J.B. Winston,
a. l.. Rustt, Jas. w. Archer, A. 4. hu,ohin-
&. T.. Taylor, J. 3osenbaun, son,
W. Z. B!nto-d, J. W. Hall, r. W. boswell,
J. 4. Belyin, ". r. Gray, W. Z. Tanner,
T. u. Dudley alfred Moses, J. Ii. NovIin.
The security offered to depositors 10 undouotsd,
and the institution should eolraend itself to all
=Iasses.
Ths attention OF Rll IN city ind country 10 called
70 this institution. Hors they viii and security,
sonyenience. and profit. Sums as small 10 one
dollar may be deposited, and Six per cent. interest
received on same.
OHic e hours from 8 A. n. to P. r.. on Saturday
rom . a. II. to- I. H., snd from I to . ?. II.
ie n-ddswts
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MARRIED.,

In Baltimore, on the 9Th instant, by the Rev;
Giobon, Captain A. J. GWYNN, OF the Maryland
regiment, Confederate States army, and Lo0lSE,
| eldest daughter OF Colonel B. 6. hesne, OF bala-
more. Md,
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DiUiGeMGS.

pr.yTEss NATIONAL BANK OF ~RICHMoSD,}
CHMOH January 8, 1858.
At A MEETING OF THE BOARD
n OF DIRECTORS held this day a dividend OF
six PEI cent. was declared, free OF tax, payaole on
aha q a al.er us - J. IT.. GODDIN, Cashier.