The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-07

last the mourning and final No. of the
Southern Opinion was issued by Edward A
Pollard, brother of the deceased editor OF
the paper. As the interest felt by the pub
lie in the sad tragedy Of which Mr.. Pol
lard's death was the den0uentent is yet un-
abated, and as there exists great anxiety to
hear al the particulars, and all that may
be said by interested parties, we publish
below several extracts from the mourning
| sheet:
NEW THEORY.
| Mr.. Pollard has adopted the theory that
there was band of men in Richmond con-
federated for the a7owed purpose of taking
the life of his brother. Of this band he
alleges that Mr.. Grant was the representa-
tive. He says:
"The lapse of time between the publica-
ton of the article and the revenge of the
assassin was either plotted to disarm GUS
| picion and make more sure Of his unsiIs-
pecting victim, or possibly it might have
been consumed by the horrible diligence of
the assassin and mis- confederates selecting
with dastardly pains the place and oppor-
tunity for their dcvilish deed of blood
] Since that deed was plished-since
| the ears of the poor victim have been sealed
| with blood, and are deaf to warning in the
grave-the report has been freely circu-
| lated in Richmond that many persons knew
| of the lurking and lying in wait of James
Grant, and that the police of the city had
| for days been on the track of the murderer.
Strange, indeed, through what mysteries
and to what ends ran the ramifcations of a
conspiracy Of murder so nice in its adjust
ments, so hideously perfect in all its parts,
so curious in its condolences, go, in fact,
suggestive of public anticipation of the
event."
Again, it is remarked that cit has been
| suggested that from ell the circumstances
demonstrated around the murder, and im-
| mediately at it's time, there were many
| persons who were in the confidence of the
| assassin, and the fact that he committed
| the crime in n room he had no right 10 en-
| ter, and which he was never known to oc
cupy before; the accumulation OF arms,
| (the double barrelled gun, the six-shooter,
| the two pistols,) all of which he could not
| himself have carried into the room unob
served the hippant address to Bob the
countersign 'all right the fact that con-
| riers were seen running to groups Of men
| evidently waiting in differents parts of the
| city-onc of these horrid messengers ex
claiming 10 a group he approached at full
run, cay, God, he's got him. las If Il
brute had been killed by keen sports
| man } and the yet more horrible circum-
stance that certain person is said to have
| boasted that he lOa,ied the gun that killed
Pollard all these reports, now freely cir
| culated through the streets Of Richmond,
point certainly to an extensive and intricate
conspiracy"
i NEW Wr,f> ESS.
The Opi7,ion says: alt is uor known
that al the time OF me ueafcnlIg and in
visible explosion lady, passing on the
street, had happened to have her eyes
turned upward, saw n cleft of red fire
| breaking suddenly from n window raised
not more than two or three inches, heard
at the same moment loud report, and, al
most fainting, sick, giddy, yet saw clearly
the assassin rising from his knees, partly
concealed by q crimson curtain that hung
from the window ~
| PREMONITIoNS Or DEATH.
1t will be remembered that on the day
after the death of Il. Rive5 Pollard an ar
ticle from the Dublin University Jiagazjne
was republished in the bispatct under the
aption, "a Supernatural Vision OF Death" !"
| Of this Mr.. Pollard remarks that it is
! indeed among the strangest Condolences
| that at the time OF the death Of Henry
Rives Pollard an article should have ap-
| peared in another continent, far across the
seas, reviving memory that has tong been
| kept as q sad. mysterious tradition IN the
| tdlniiyOf the deceased. All that the writer
can say of explanation is that some parts
of the article, written he knows not by
whom, three thousand miles across the At
lantic, have mistaken some details of time
and place, which he has corrected in re-
producing it,
In this connection we print the following
from the Natire lirgtaian:
1t is somewhat remarkable that night
| or so before Mr.. Pollard received his death
that he awoke Mr.. Hanna and told him that
he had an awful dream, and had awoke
with the distinct report OF firearms; that
he had drcamt that he and Alr. Hanna were
walking together, and that one or the ether
had been shot. 1ir. Hanna asserts this as
positive fact, and that he told Mr.. Pollard
not to worry him about such foollshne5e,
but TO 60 to Sleep
"It has been noticed of some families
that they have an organic likeness running
| through them-a certain thread OF what We
may call, in our ignorance, ldlosyn-
cracy.' All the members OF the Pollard
family have often been remarked for very
peculiar nervous organization. The writer
has often been sensible OF it but public
curiosity viii spare details, and we give,
| -,.bn 4
an addition to the chapter of wonders
which Divine Power anu Mercy has veiled
and placed on the uncertain but reverent
! border between the known and the un-
known in the transitory life Of man."
| "The night before the death of Rives Pol
lard he was walking out TO his house IN the
country, stumbling through the dark, when
his companion strangely happened 10 re-
mark that it was wonder that he tthe de-
ceased) did not fear that some Of his enc
mics would fall upon him in the night that
it would be so easy to kill him from IN am
bush, aided by darkness, oa the way from
his office to his home. lie replied
have no fear of that have never thought
OF it il is nonsense The relation of the
conversation, viewed as to the time and
manner of his death, is really so singular as
to excite the interest of those who calculate
mysterious condolences, and perhaps to
prompt some skeptical inquiry; but there
is living witness to it. That he should
have thus spoken Of assassination in his
last night on earth, and that few hours
later he should have fallen in the broad
sunlight under the stroke of an assassin,
delivered from refuge even safer and viler
than that which the darkness afforded, Is
indeed & remarkable occurrence, and yet
one that will be testified to when the law