The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-10-21

A striking illustration Of the value Of stump
speeches may be found in the election 70 Con
sress or General Strader, the new Democratic
member from Cincinnati. He made but one
speech during the whole canvass, aud here II
Is " Never mind the weather, boys, so the
wind don't blow!" His opponent, Mr.. Egg
sieston, made 4 hundred speeches, more OF
less, all elaborate and eloquent, but Strader
was top much for him.-NrD YORK Sun.
A California correspondent of the Cincin-
natl CommercidL who has been travelling on
the Central Pacific railroad, says ait costs
ten cents Il mile lin coin) to ride on it, and If
you tender your fare in greenbacks, ana insist
on their reception, the conductor halts ana
pushes YOU OFT the train. a lew days ago 4
passenger offered Il green back dollar for ride
of ten miles. He was promptly ditched."
Efforts are being made by young law stu.
dents in the Confederate service during the
war for admission 10 the bar OF the supreme
Court OF the Dis trict of Columbus. The court
in general term intends to abolish the test
oath qualification us applicable TO such, and
admit them on making 4 remuneration VI the
States rights doctrine.-Ddtd.
Colonel Thomas b. Florence, Democratic
candidate for Congress i'll the second Pennsyl-
yania district, will probably contest the clam
Of the Hon. Charles ONeili to his seat. In
that district alone nearly three thousand votes
of naturaliZed G.! tiZenS were rejected.
In some portions of Minnesota bank checks
for one and two dollars pass current, on &C
count of the scarcity of small notes.
FIN this State there is a law against using
checks for CURRENCY ----
DIR. Jones, the superintendent Of the mint
at Charlotte, thinks the gold mines OF North
Carolina are. now yielding about 100000 an
nually Gold is found in twenty-five counties
of the State, besides other valuable metals.
Every clerk in every department of the Go
yernment was on Monday the recipient OF
,I..~ a
gressonal Committee asking contributions 10
aid The Republican cause ,-
A company of regular infantry has been
dispatched to Phillippi, w. Va, in accord
ance with the request of the Governor OF that
State to aid in preventing an alleged Unreal
ened instruction. .-.-... 81 .-...-. 49,.
Ono of the best Democratic journals in the
Union, the Boston Post, remarks that the De.
mocrats enjoy one advantage from the present
aIsction returns-it costs them nothing Tor
powder.
MIR. Fawcett. Of Chicago, owner OF the stall
lion Bashaw, Jr., has authorized his eastern
agent to challenge any stallion on the conu-
nent 10 u race for from $4,000 to $4,000 size.
A locomotive boiler exploded in Cayuga, N.
". Monday, but did no injury, athousn
fonr persons were on the engine at the Time.
The boiler was blown into fragments. l.ze
conpt Walewski son of the first Napoleon,
s;oS q ,,oor man, and The expenses of his fune-
raj had to be betrayed out ofthe civil list.
The New York citizen newspaper "a weekly
has been purchased by Mr.: Peter Is. Sweeney
for seventy. five thousand dollars.
The latest theatrical sensation in LONDON i. Is
produced by running a pack Of fox-hounds LII
full cry across the stage.
The suit Of Kimberly Brothers Us. Ien
eral Butler is still before the court IN oai'i-
more. s.n
The Penfield paper mills, near aocness Sa
ny y. were to tally destroyed by fire on Sa-
sunday evening. Insurance, S., 900. I = H
+ Father O'Keefe, Catholic priest ut Clin-
tom, Mass, died suddenly yesterday morning.