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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-03

BISHOP DoGGETT.-B Bishop Doggett preach
Ell on Sunday the 30th ultimo, morning and
evening, at Trinity church in Baltimore.
This was an occasion of more than ordinary
interest. 1t will be recollected that Trinity
church recently united with the Baltimore
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South. 1t is one of the most beau
litul and comfortable churches in our city,
situated on the corner of Madison avenue
and Preston street. There is not to be found
in Baltimore more eligible location for a
house of worship, nor more united, pub
lie spirited, and generous people than those
who compose the congregation at Trinity
The Bishops visit, after this formal and
public recognition of the congregation as
member of the great family Of South
ern Methodism, was most opportune. His
sermons on the occasion were finished COM
positions, massive in intellectual vigor,
chastc and beautiful in conception, full OF
evangelical doctrine, and delivered with an
junction. and pathos which thrilled the hearts
Of his large and delighted auditory. We
have heard Bishop Doggett often, but never
with more heartfelt pleasure than on Sun
day last at Trinity. The General Confer
ence has done the Church and the world a
great service in giving this gifted son OF
Virginia to the Episcopacy. We pay him
re fulsome compliment when we pronounce
Bishop Doggett the Richard Watson of
America" He, with his honored col
leagues, is doing the work Of an Evangelist.
Since May last he has attended thirteen
district conferences, two camp-meetings, and
IN few days starts for his annual confer
snce among the Choctaws in the Indian
Ierritory.-Baltinsore Episcopal Methodist.
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A SINGULAR INTENTIONAL Mr.. Frank
Wesley, of Newark, has invented a patent
safety coffin. He claims that any one who
happens to be buried therein alive could
make his way out of both tho coffin and the
grave on the return of his vital powers.
Accordingly, he proposes to allow himself
to be buried tomorrow in the usual way,
and to remain in that condition for the
space of two hours. At the expiration of
that interval he proposes to resurrect him
self, and to come forth unaided and unin-
jured. He has invited the State, county,
and city officials to be present, and also the
ubiquitous reporter, all of whom have pro-
missed to witness his obsequies with inte-
restand pleasure.-Neoo York letter-PhiIa-
delphia Telegraph.
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AN EAGLE KILLS A CHILD.-A Tippah
county (Miss.) school-teacher writes to the
Winona Democrat as follows:
ga sad casualty occurred at my school q
few days ago. The eagles have been very
troublesome in the neighborhood for some
time past, carrying off pigs, lambs, SC. No
one thought that they would attempt to
prey upon children; but on Thursday, at
recess, the little boys were out some dis
lance from the house, playing marbles,
when their sport was disturbed by large
eagle swooping down and picking up little
Jennie Kenney, a boy of eight years, and
flying away with him. The children cried
out and when I got out of the house the
eagle was 80 high that could just hear the
child screaming. The alarm was given,
and from screaming and shouting in the
air, &c., the eagle was induced to drop his
victim but his talons had been buried in
him so deeply, and the fall was 30 great,
that he was killed; or either would have
been fatal.'
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GREAT DISCOVERY - WONDERFUL M
PRoyEMENT.-For months past we have
longed to lay before the public the feet that
q most wonderful discovery had been made
in the art of telegraphing by two of our fell
low-citizens, George NJ. Dugan, Booker
Ford, and Colonel Coleman of Memphis; and
shall now proceed to record what we have
seen in operation at the telegraph Office in
this place for weeks past. The discovery
made does away with ali the jars and fluids
heretofore used in telegraph Offices, and
current of electricity sufficiently strong for
all purposes is drawn from mother earth by
means of one sheet of copper and one sheet
of zinc, which are buried to the depth of
two feet, and having about four inches o.
earth between them. To the copper plate,
wires are attached, and the current
thus procured seems inexhaustible. The
operators at the telegraph Office here
long since dispensed with fluids OF
all kinds, and every message sent
from Bolivar now is recorded by
On instrument which receives its power
from the buried battery, and which consists
of nothing but one sheet of copper and one
of zinc. The inventors have applied for
patent, and it is hoped that their prayer
will be speedily answered, as this discovery
of theirs is destined to work most Won
derful change in the art Of telegraphing.
Hereafter we shall endeavor to give full
and complete account of this truly great
discovery, and are proud to say that to
Hardeman county belongs the credit. Those
who doubt the truth of what we have rela-
ted can go to the depot and see for them
selves, as the new battery is in full and
constant operation, and has never failed to
do all, and even more, than the old costly
Jars and fluids can do. This invention will
save thousands of dollars to the telegraph
companies, and is destined to become uni
versally adopted on account of its cheap
ness and durability.-Bolivar ( Tenn.) Bul-
| letin
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Tax ON Newspapers

New YORK, September 1.-The Herald
states editorially to-day that it has been
served with notice of tax due on it's bust
ness, and that unless paid the usual remedy
will be enforced. The Herald says it is not
informed under what law this tax on the
press is made, and thinks it forced and
absurd construction of the act by ignorant
assessors. The whole tenor of the revenue
laws with regard to the press shows that
Congress did not intend to tax newspapers.
Incomes from the newspaper business pay
the same tax as other incomes, but the bust
ness itself is not taxed. 1t will resist the
construction put on the law by the asses
sors, and believes the press generally will
do the same.
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This attachment upon the property of
our railroad amounts to nothing, as the debt
will soon be paid off and the property re-
lieved. Railroads are like Individuals
they can't pay all their old debts at once
in times like these. The road is now doing
better than it has done for years.-Lynch-
burg Republican.
A spark from passing tug at Cleveland,
Ohio, ignited the refuse oil upon the river
on Saturday morning, and it blazed up
furiously. 1t burned for half an hour, and
it was with great difficulty that the fire was
prevented from communicating with build
ings on the rivers banks.
"Patent fighting BOOSTERS, the most ANU
sing toy ever placed before the public" is
the name of piece of mechanism lately
devised for the cultivation Of the youthful
mind, and now announced for sale by toy
dealers. Comment would be superhuous.
Robert Allen and Matthew Riley, while
engaged in tearing down Boal-street Ter
race, in Cincinnati, on Saturday, were in
stantly killed by the building falling upon
them.
A malarious fever of malignant type is
prevalent at York, Penn, and large num-
Der of persons, one account says hundreds,
are down with it. The physicians do not
know to what cause to assign the sickness.
Most extraordinary rises occur in Cali
fornia rivers. One hundred and fifty feet
is not uncommon. One year every bridge
in the State was swept away, though the
arches of many rose seventy-hve feet.
Ex-Governor Thomas H. Seymour, Of Con-
necticut, is quite i'll. His disease, at first
taking the shape of nervous fever, has
now assumed typhoid character.
ROCHESTER,, N. Y, August 3l.-Gideon
Granger (the son Of Hon. Francis Granger,
who died at Canandaigua on the 2Sth in
stant,) died this morning at the same place.
The Paris corr espondent Of the irish
Citizen says that Adah Isaacs Menken came
to her death "from excessive abuse of al
cohol."
A. D. Banks, formerly one of the editors
of the Cincinnati Enquirer, is now Lou
isiana sugar-planter.
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L1GHrN1SG.-Whena boy, we saw house
that had been struck by lightning. 1t had
on it one of the most improved rods, which,
it was believed, was not touched by the
electric fluid. The lightning passed through
the roof to the cellar; on its passage 1t ran
down bed post two ladies were lying on
feathers on the same bedstead; neither OF
them were hurt. Since that time we have
known number of houses to be struck on
which were improved rods, indeed, we be-
lieye more houses are struck with rods at
tached, in proportion, than those without
.-ScoltSUlle Register.
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METHODIST CHURCH MATTERs.-Orders
have been issued from military headquar-
tiers in Richmond directing that Methodist
churches in Virginia, hereafter and until
the legal right TO ownership of which shall
have been definitely determined, shall be
occupied on alternate Sundays by the con-
cregations of the Methodist Episcopal
church South and the Methodist Episcopal
Church, -forney.
We have so often referred to the pretend
"a right of the northern Methodists to the
churches in Virginia that we need add
nothing just now TO what we have hereto
lore said on the subject. They may stea]
The houses, but these will be Of no service
them, for they cannot steal the people te
I'll them.
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"a Reader" Connecticut complains that
Tnen the irish Citizen has to speak of the
southern people during the war it calls
them Confederates," not "rebels." just
50; They were Confederates, and they were
Lot rebels y; and we put no confidence in
mere nlcknames of an abusive sort. They
prove nothing. Moreover, as this present
eaitor happened to be one of those Confede-
rates himself, he will never write or print
Vne syllable of blame or reproach against
mem or their cause. Their cause is lost,
'nef Confederacy is no more, and that
ought to be enough for you.-Irish Citizen
J0ha Mitchell.
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The Two YOUNG LADIES KILLED BY
LIGHTNING IN NEW JERsEY.-Two daugh-
tiers of Hon. Thomas B. Jones, Associate
Judge of Ocean county, were instantly
killed by stroke of lightning. They were
standing on the front piazza of their resi-
dence during the thunderstorm watching
couple of children playing in the rain.
The daughters, aged respectively twelve
and seventeen years, were standing with
their arms entwined about each others
necks, and their heads in close contact.
About ten feet from them were a couple OF
buttonwood trees, and back of them an
open window. In the parlor, and near the
window, brother was lying upon the sofa.
About half-past o'clock the storm was
terrific, and the thunder almost deafening.
A bolt of lightning struck the top of one of
the buttonwood trees, and running down
short distance, glanced off and struck the
young ladies, instantly killing them. Con-
tinung in its course, it passed into the
parlor and struck mirror, shatter!ng 1t
and knocking out large piece from the
corner, discoloring the gilded frame, and
then striking the young man who lay upon
the sofa. The fluid seemed to first touch
his breast and then glide down his body,
since his arms and breast were badly
burned, and an abrased line down his left
leg distinctly marked its course. The bolt
passed from the body of the young man into
the sofa, down back leg, which it shat
tered into pieces, knocking the castor out,
and then passing through the floor into the
cellar, demolishing basket of eggs, and
expanding itself in the ground.
The bolt struck the young ladies upon the
temples, causing instantaneous and uncon-
scious death. The only marks of its dread
full stroke were a slight abrasion of the
skin of the forehead and burning the hair.
Within short distance from where they
stood sat cousin, who was stunned by the
conclusion, but received no other injury.
The fluid, in running down the buttonwood
tree, ploughed grooves in its bark about an
inch deep, and withered the upper boughs.
PHILADELPHIA telegraph.
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LETTER FROM GENERAL BLArR.-t0lone
7. 4. -ALSton, atlanta, Co.: Dear Sir
Your note in regard to the misrepresenta,
lions of the carpet-bag editor at Atlanta ii
receiyed. This is the business for which
he is paid, and by which ne gets his living
would not advise you or any other gentle
man to notice him in any manner, excep,
- correct through the press any falsehood
which you may consider injurious to ou,
cause.
/ have never made any such statement al
beattributes tome. Onthe contrary, am foi
tina, policy which alone can give peace te
the country and although General Grant
saws "let US have peace" he seeks tc
achieve it only through the military powe,
and actual war on the principles Of the
Government.
Yours truly, FRANK I. BLAIR.
Fort .Smmders, Wyoming Territory, Au,
rust IS, 1868.
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ing; sales, 100 bales; middlings, 2711ko. /;
receipts, So bales. b s2sase Is sg1
SAVANNAH, September 2. Stock Of cotton
by actual count. on the LIST Of September
was Uplands, 636 bales; See Islands, GO
bales, Receipts for the year, 4s9 r517 bales
uplands and 1871 bales Sea Islands. Elk
ports for the year, 4s9, 401 bales upisnds
and 1882 bales Sea Islands.
Cotton quiet with small sales; middlings,
&c.; receipts, 329 bales. q
MOBILE, September 2.-Cotton--Nothiag
done and quotations nominal receipts, AZ
bales; exports, IL bales. t ~
New ORLEANS, September Cotton
easy middiings, &C.; sales, 48S bales ;
receipts, 10 bales. .@
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The wife of Philadelphia policeman on
Saturday threw her grand-chlld, three
months old, out of second-story window,
fracturing its skull. The woman has been
an inmate of an insane hospital for q year
or more, and was released under the belief
that she was fully cured of her insanity.
Before she was sent there she threw two
of her own children out Of windows OF her
house, but neither of them were seriously
injured.
A darby farmer in the neighborhood of
st. Joseph was recently asked what he
thought Of railroads. He replied Foah
God, massa, doesn't like 'em. Pse been
in dis country long time, but we nebber
had SIGH lots of grasshoppers before desc
railroads WIZ built. My corn am all done
been gone clear eat up by 'em. lse down
on railroads"
We advise the Radicals not to make con-
tracts for the Irish vote, either with spout
ers or intriguers. All indications show that
the great power of Irish citizenship on this
continent Except Orangemen and the like
will roll itself up in solid mass for Sey-
mour and Blair.-lriSh Citizen.
Catlin, the American artist, whose gal
lery of Indian portraits attracted SO much
attention thirty years ago, now resides in
Brussels, and, regret to learn, is sub
iected to an old age of poverty. SO writes
Thurlow Weed. ...a- go
A Frenchman in New York claims to
have invented flying machine which can
be propelled rapidly and safely against any
current of air. He asks for funds to enable
him to build working model.
It is reported that an alliance has been
formed between the United States, Russia,
and England, with view to complete, If
possible. the discovery Of the North Pole.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-03

THE HOLT PROPERTY.-The vast amount
of property in England belonging to heirs
living in Surry county and in other parts
of Virginia is, we are informed by the at
torney who represents the interests of the
parties concerned, in fair way to be re-
covered. The evidence of identity is be-
coming daily stronger, and we trust that
the proper representatives, supposed to re-
side in Surry, may at no remote day come
into full possession of this princely estate
NOrf0lk ,TOurnul
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Ritlln1ond 1ispattt1,
THURSDAY. " SEPTEMBER .E'I' EN- s. 1858.
@, nrERs' AND SAILORS CONVENTION

s,r nrERs' AND SAILORS CoNvBSTIoN.-
nns,cr mass convention Of soldiers and
t,;Iors Radicals is to come Oft in phila'
S S',as;o october lst and I'd. Arrangements
ae,i n,ode to extend special invitation to al,
' Ms loading soldiers and sailors Of the wal
Wv Gorernor Curtin was requested to invite
hnbolf of the committee the loyal Go.
gu ."n-s who were mis- contemporaries, and
ot,,sT Geary was requested to invite ali
w. laval Republican Governors now acting
This is a movement to infuence the Penn
-,ro,;a elections. 1t indicates that the
p,i;csls ore alarmed.
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LOCKOUT MouNTAIN.-We received intel
licence last night from gentleman running
on the Chattanooga railroad that an I'M
mense segment of Lookout mountain was
detached from near the top and rolled down
toward the Tennessee with terrific noise.
He assures us that one solid piece alone must
have weighed five hundred tons. 1t ID
thought that some internal forces are at
work disintegrating the mountain. The
people in the neighborhood are apprehen-
ssiye of some impending disaster, and are
all tlocking into Chattanooga.-NaShutIte
Press and Times, Aatgust rs.
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THE RUSSIAN Fur CoMPANY-SENAToR
Cole AT HoME.-San Francisco, September
1.-The Commissioner of the Russian Anne
rican Fur Company has purchased the ship
Winged Arrow, and will send her to Sitka
tomorrow, in order to take on board and
transfer to st. Petersburg about three hun
dred employees and troops of the company
which will close up the business of the Rus
sian company in Alaska.
Senator Cole arrived in this city from
Washington Saturday.
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Foreign Markets.

LONDON, September 2.-Noon.-Consols,
"a. United States bonds, 7l5s. Sugar
quiet. r..
FRANKFORT, September 2.-United States
bonds, 1913. qssa.s I'd .a :ss@
LIVERPOOL, September 2.-Noon.-Cot-
ton firm; estimated sales, $4,000 bales.
Flour frmer.s Other articles unchanged.
Afternoon. Sos. Sd. Rosin quiet.
Turpentine, 26s. Sd.
LIVERPOOL, September 2.-Bvening.-
Cotton closed steady and unchanged. Bread
stuffs dull. +s.
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Frauds ON the Post.office-Arrests.

WASHINGTON, Septemb Der 2.-Some twenty
parties throughout the United States con-
nected with the blank department Of the
post-ofice were indicted in Michigan. I'm
der this Indictment w. 0. Redding, blank
agent for the southern States; G. A. Ira
vers, of the Sixth Auditors office and
William Towers, chief clerk of the Superin-
tendent of Public Printing, have been ar
rested. The prisoners were discharged on
the ground that they could not be tried on
an Indictment found in Michigan for an
offence committed in Washington.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-09-03

The ARKANSAS TRoUELEs.-H. Louis,
September IA special to the Democrat
from Little Rock, Arkansas, says that
Governor Clayton has returned from Lewis,
burg, and reports the insurrection quoted
the court reinstated, and the trial resumed
The Governor addressed the insurgents, or
dering them to dispense, end the sheriff
arriving with posse three hundred strong
quiet was restored.
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sopth Carolina LEGISLATURE. dc

COLUMBIA, S. c., September Am angry
discussion took place in the Senate to-day
over the discrimination bill. The negroes
insist on their right to enter hotels, &c.
The Democratic Central Club has issued
circular denying that the Governors pro-
clamation about armed organizations has any
application to the Democratic party Of this
State.
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Outrages by the Negroes in Georgia

SAVANNAH, GA, September 2.-The ne
groes on the outskirts of the city are
causing trouble. They are armed, and
drilling nightly, and stop farmers on the
roads leading to the. city. The country
people have to travel IN p.rties of ten or
twenty when they come to market. A boy
who mysteriously disappeared is supposed
to have been murdered by the negroes.
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oLUMBER-DEALERs AND CARPENTERs.-
A letter from Thomas Harland, acting reve
nue. commissioner, says: +" The term I'M
manufactured lumber is held to include
all lumber in the rough as it comes from
the saw, such as sawed timber, boards,
shingles, laths, etc. But lumber planed,
tongued, grooved, or otherwise dressed, is
liable to the tax imposed on sales by the
act of March 81, 1863"
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MONTE MARIA ACADEMY
M OF THE VISITATION,
RICHMOND, VA. -. ~

The duties OF this institution, under the care or
the Ladies Of the Visitation. will be resumed on
the FIRST MONDAY OF SEPTEMBER.
boarding and day school for their daughters or
wards viii find here every advantage. Located In
the healtiest portion Of the city, In retired and
romantic situation, and with large grounds II
affords, In addition, every facility for acquiring
an education (moral and mentally OF high grade.
Large additions have been made to the building to
meet increasing applications for admission. Is.
To facilitate to persons reduced In circumstances
children, liberal deduction will be made by the
ladies for those placed under their charge during
the present year. Apply, for prospectus and terms,
ar, It'd
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The WICKEDEsT" HUMBUG.-We ven
ture to say that the Prince of Humbugs-
even Barnum-never got up so neat an adj
vertising dodge as that which has made no
torious the name of John Allen, Of Water
street.-Nep York Sun.
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SALE OF LAND IN VIRGINIA-The fine
estate Toddsbury, on North river, Glouces-
ter county, one of the best estates in East
ern Virginia, to Mordecai X. Smith, of Bal
timore, for s21 ,00O.-Baltimore San, I'd.
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MOTIVATION PoR CONGRESS. - Wilkes
jqrrs, Pa, September Hon. George W.
Woodward was unanimously renominated
for Congress by the Democratic Convention
This afternoon.
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F. WooDWARD's ORIGINAL

~ .Es- -eG' PATENT.
No IAR0R, NO WEARIt NO TEAR
THE F0fISTiIN CLOTHES WASHER AND
= ROLLER.
To 1t has been awarded the highest OF the hEki-
CAN INSTITUTE PREMipMS n seiii.aeattus
household wonder for washing ana cleamslng
coe from the coarsest to those OF most dencate
hinnHthe result being obtaned by the rapid circn-
lation OF hot suds through the CLONES: Suts any
stove. Sold only by SNYDER IMP
j, 900 Cary street, Richmond, Va
an 70 aOd1w&WSm
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The This concern is going
by the board at last, as it ought to CO.
,I0hn Mitchell.
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Mayor Hoffman Nominated for Go
vernon of New York

ALBANY, N. Y, September AT the
Democratic State Convention the name Of
Henry J. Murphy was withdrawn, and John
T. Hoffman was nominated for Governor on
the first ballot.