The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-29

The Russian Empire extends over ter
ritory which covers the ninth part of the
whole earth, and is as large as Europe.
Though considerable part of Russia be-
longs, geographically, to that continent,
and is usually counted among the Euro
pean Powers, it's whole state Of ciyiliza-
ton, traditions, etc., is now decidedly
more Asiatc than European. The great
majority of the Russian people are half
barbarians.
The King of the Feejee Islands has for
warded treaty to the President of the
United States which he hopes will be rati-
fed. 1t consists of a whales tooth at
tached to grass string, and enclosed in q
piece of bark. The Interpretation which
the King places upon this simple document
is that he mortgages his entire possessions
for the payment of certain indemnities due
to our Government for the lives of three
Americans whom the Kings subjects had
eaten.
Captain F. R. Windsor has just returned
from his plantation in Mississippi, and
represents affairs in that State as in most
distressing condition. Splendid lands, at
forced sales, bring comparatively nothing,
and the captain witnessed the sale, few
days before he left there, of four excellent
mules for Sl2.-Alecandr'iG Gazette.
The official vote of Iowa at the late cleo
ton has Just been declared. The majority
for Merrill (Republican) for Governor is
z6, 799 over Mason, his Democratic oppo-
nent and over all, '26,792. The total vote
"a Of for Governor is l52 SAB.
A dispatch to the New York Tribune
saws: "Mr. Elliot, chairman Of the Com
mittee on the Freedmen's Bureau, has
been instructed to prepare bill extending
the operations of the Bureau for a period
of one year from the lst of next july"
Twenty persons, residents of GAINESVILLE,
New York, have for some months past been
purloining coal to the extent of fifty tons
per month from trains on the Delaware
and Lackawanna railroad en- route to New
York. The offenders have been arrested.
A few days since two young men belong
ing to Peoria, New York, skated from that
point to Henry, and returned, a distance OF
ninety miles, making the same in five hours
and fifty minutes. Pretty good time, this.
The Scranton, Pa, papers announce
that portions of that city are visibly sink
ing into the depths of an old coal mine.
Considerable alarm is felt among the
inhabitants.
Judge Hindman is to be arraigned before
the Wheeling House of Delegates Tor al
lowing Colonel Samuel Price and others TO
practice in his court without having taken
the infamous attorney's-oath.
Major Davis, of Massachusetts, formerly
of General Buffers staff, committed sui
eide at Hong Kong, China, November "a,
1867, by shooting himself in the head
Cause-pecuniary embarrassment.
Tn the Massachusetts, Senate on Thurs.
day the bill to abolish the State constabu.
lary and repeal the prohibitory liquor law
was passed to third reading by vote
of 81 to Is.
Tt is stated that the Democrats of the
Ohio Legislature, in caucus at Columbus
on Thursday last decided not to press the
projected rearrangement OF the congress
sional districts of that State.
The last new feat for circus acroba'
consists in turning double somerset over
sixteen muskets with fixed bayonets, tne
guns being fred at the moment OF the leap
A meeting of the Lincoln Monument
Association was held at Springfield, Ill.
on Thursday, and it was resolved TO erec'
monument costing $500, 600.
The French Corps Legislatif have votee
3 nm 0OOf. in aid Of the distressed poor II
France. and 400, OOOf. for the relief OF the
Arab population Of Algeria.
The Philadelphia Masops are to take NV
wears to build q $3.50, 900 temple, Win
tower nearly 800 feet high.
The Paterson locomotive builders nave
an order from the Union Pacific railroad
for fifty locomotives.
The Halifax Chronicle says that IS sur !,
AZ the sun will set this evening, SO sure va,
this province seeede from the common !:
Among the one hundred and forty Z co..,
yicts in the State penitentiary OF sou.,
Carolina there are eight negro preachers
A California farmer has raised zo,ooH'
pounds of raisins. Il 81 .s5..; 4
Fresh shad are selling in Savannah, "a
at one dollar per pair.