The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-02

| Four North German vessels are III .san
| Francisco.
Dexter made half mile Saturday on the
Fleetwood Course, New York, In l:oa 10
road wagon.
General Candy has left San Francisco fol
| Portland to assume command OF tue De-
partmcnt of Columbia.
General ONel, Fenian, was sentenced tc
| the State prison in Windsor, Vermont, FOL
| two years, and to pay fine OF ten dollars
A large quantity of tobacco, to be eX:
hibited at the fair commencing III Cincinnati
next Wednesday, has arrived.
4 sewer in course Of construction In New
ark, Nd, caved in Saturday, burying three
IabOrers, Two of the men were rescued
alive.
At the Long Branch races on Saturday :
in the second heat, Lynchburg, alter leav-
ing the first quarter, stepped INTO con,
cealed hole and broke his shoulder-blade.
The Attorney-Generals name is Ak-er-
man, notwithstanding the decision OF the
learned pundits Of Pennsylvania avenue.-
Augusto (Ga.) Chronicle.
Some of the New York papers declare
that Jenny Lind'scousin, Bertha Lind, now
dancing at an opera-houSc in that city, is the
most beautiful woman that ever appeared
upon the American stage.
A FOOLS congress was recently held at
Memphis. The delegates amused them
selves by riding around Il circus ring and
punching long poles at iron rings.-C1n-
cinldti Commercial
-Four hundred additional men will be EN-.
ployed at the Brooklyn nayy-yard to-day
MIR. Grinnell to-day takes formal possession
OF the naval office.
An order was received at st. Louis sun
dav by 4 prominent mercantile hrm IRON
the French authorities TO purchase jO,OW
tons of hay for the French army.
The Baton Rouge Courier gives an ac-
count of the release by the United States
Commissioner last Tuesday OF three negro
children, who, it is alleged, have been held
in slavery in that parish since the war, anc
were kept in close surveillance, cruelty
| treated, dc.
special dispatch from Ottawa says hel
Majesty, by the advice of the Privy Coun
| ell, acting on the advice of the Dominion
| Government, has granted amnesty to al tht
! parties connected with the rebellion ct Ret
river.
It is reported that the Hibernlan Benevo
lent Society in New York Is making pre-
parations to prevent the proposed plc-nl'
| Of the Orangemen on the 9th oil Auguss
Three secret meetings have been held u
mature plans for this purpose.
Sunday morning. fire in the north sec
t;on of the Northern Railroad round-hous
at Concord. n. H., destroyed about one
third of the building. Three engines wer
badly damaged. Loss, $So,ooo covered D,
| insurance.
! An insurance company in PHILADELPHIA
refuses to pay insurance on property lie
.troyed bv fire on the 10th instant in tina
citv. taking the ground that the fire whlc
| DESTROYED the property was the result OF
riot, and the city is responsible for al &c
struction of property within its limits tha
is caused by riots. The riot was create
and conducted by the tiremen.
DR.. Deems, of New York city, has witt
| drawn his name from the executive CON
| mittee of the Evangelical Alliance beeaus
unwilling to be connected thus Win
hody whose doctrinal basis torblds sue
| men as Francis 4. King, OF BALTIMORE,
| Quaker. and yice-president OF the BLDG &c
cicty, to become member.
| In Washington city the schuetzen Verel
Carmania. Mt their last meeting, passed
resolution to devote twenty-five per cent
| nj the net proceeds Of their next Schuel
zcnfest, to be held early in September neN
To the relief Of the widows an0 orphans
German soldiers who may fall in the pent
| ing war. All the resident German societie
| have been invited to participate, in orde
to make this a great and successful affair.