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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

RICHMOND AND IT'S MERcHANTs.-We are
glad to see that some Of the Richmond mer-
chants are beginning to make efforts to Sc
cure the trade of this section, which has
been going to Baltimore and Philadelphia
for the last few years.
The trade of Greenbrier, Monroe, and
Pocahontas counties is considerable, and
increasing at a rapid rate, and the city Sc
curing this trade should use every effort to
keep it. The Baltimore merchants have
had their 6. drummers " travelling through
these counties, and have thereby secured
the greater portion of our trade. Adver--
tise and send out your "drummers, y and
Richmond and its merchants will receive a
liberal share of this custom. The most of
our merchants sympathized with the mer-
chants and citizens of Richmond in all their
suferings Of the late war, and we feel sure
that with proper management the entire
trade of this section could be thrown into
the city of Richmond.
AS to the wheat market of Richmond be-
ing the best, there can be no doubt. Last
year we had small surplus of wheat, and
sent it to commission house there, who
made us returns from five to seven and a
half cents more on the bushel than we could
have obtained in Baltimore. Those of Our
farmers sending of their wheat should at
least try the Richmond markets and the
Richmond notwithstanding Journal.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

aaparasang aii ls large pcrtisns from the
AYoppiiigs or waste, Ehas lichi is cit to 10
into the InanHfsctafeof plug tQbaccc ,hisH
file rernaintey 70 be put up wissaeut farther
manipulation and lshelled as Nary scrap to-
bacco. This pleases all around,
md settles all MISUNDERSTANDING.
Fees FOR .ParEHrs. THE new law regu.
lating the issuing Of patents prescribes the
following fees. On filing each original ap-
:pDcafionl for a patent, SIS !; Of, issuing each
original patent. $40; on filing each caveat,
$10;. ON every application for The reissue OF
patent, 800; on fling each disclaimer, $10;s
on every applicationtfo r the extension Of a
patent, $50 !; on, the granting of every ex.
tension Of o patent, $50 : on an appeal for.
the first time from the primary examiners
to the examiners chief, $40 !; on everyap-
peal from the examiners in chief to the
Commissioner, 800; for certified copies of
patents and other papers, ten, cents per
hundred words; for recording every as
signment, agreement, power Of attorney, or
other paper, Of three hundred words or
under, 81; Of over three hundred and un-d
der one.sfheusand words, 81; of over one
thousand words, S3,; for copies of draw
iugs, the reasonable cost Of making them. q 1
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

SCRAP TOBACCO MANuPAcTUEE.-Mr. Kim.
hall. chief of the tobacco division Of internal
revenue Office, has just returned from New
York, where ie has been spending week
In consultation with tobacco manufact tIers
concerning the manufacture of tobacco nom
screps, and has succeeded In Arranging
things satisfactorily to the revenue once "
well as to the anufacturess, They pleege
Themselves not to use any screening or SUI
ing process In manufa eturing scraps bllfsoo
mack IL substantially In the conditi on OF or
fdinary waste made by plug tobacco faeto-
1ies. They are allowed to use o rake Tor
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12
= u ,aPEUaAE soGEgEs.
BUY YOUR DRESS GOoDsia
PRICES LOWER THAN LEVER

NOW IS THE TIME!
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

81 The Colored Shiloh Baptist Association of
Virginia convened with the Deleyan Bap-
fist Church In this place on yesterday. Rev.
10. @. GorpreW moderator, and Ballard II.
Edwards clerk. At IL O'clock Rev. John
Jasper preached the introd uctory discourse.
from these words: !" For the kingdom OF
Heaven Is as man travelling in fur couli-
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

BAD FOR TIE H4zERs-A BIG Boz TOGO,
TO WEST PoINT.-AndreW c.. Walker, SON
of our: countryman John c. Walker, Esq,
has received the appointment to which this
congressional district was entitled at West
Point Military Academy. A good appoint
ment. He is about eighteen years Of age,
is six feet two and q half inches high, stout
and sound. This Rockingham boy, weighs
pose he would be rather an ugly customer
for. those to trifle with who are engaged in
the agreeable pastime Of putting the newly
appointed cadets " through. "-Har77son-
burg Commonwealth. " II
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

The Richmond Enquirer is trying to
break up the, Conservative party in Viz
ginia. It's success will be about equal to
the success of the frog that tried to'make
himself as big as an ox.-Marion Herald.
It is estimated on most reliable data that
the quantity OF leaf tobacco sold in this mar
ket within the present year, up to the 1st of
August, is equal to the amount sold here
during the whole of the past year, 1869.
Danuille Register. aaa re. - ~
The venerable Rt. Rev. Bishop John
Johns preached an interesting and instruct
i've sermon in the Episcopal church in this
place last Monday morning, after which he
administered the rite Of confirmation on
three persons. Rev. George w. Dame, of
DanYille, was present and assisted in the
services of the day. Chatham Tribune.
The address of the Conservative State
Central Committee to 'tthe people Of Vir-
ginia " Is calm and unimpassioned recital
of the political condition of the State, with
timely suggestions for the approaching
which merit the attention of all
looking to the success of Conservative prin.
ciples. We fully agree with the address in
most of it's reasoning, and may take Occa-
sion to refer to it hereafter. The document
itself will be found in another column
Leesburg Mirror. ss--@..-~s. ~ .
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1870-08-12

RAINS AND CROPS IN FAUQUIER.-We
have had some very heavy rains during the
past few days, which had decided effect
on the hot weather. ".-"@ -. .-
Crops, we understand, since the late
rains are looking well throughout the ,coun-
try, and the prospects of our farmers are
good drrenton Sentinel. -.H
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

The COUNTY ATToRNEYsHIP.-The Septem-
Der (criminaD Term of the Superior Court clos
ed Monday evening, having transacted con-
siderable amount of business. At the crimi-
nal term held in May last, Nathan Webb, Esq
having resigned the position of County Attor-
ney, the Court appointed 7. II. Haskell, ESQ,
as Attorney for the State pro tenn. And it is
no more than just to say that he has discharg.
ed his onerous duties for two terms in an able,
fearless and impartial manner. At the coming
in of the Grand Jury to report the indict-
ments at the last term, the appointment by the
Governor Of Gen. Chas. p. Mattocks being con-
frmed by the Executive. Council, his commits
sion was forwarded to him. But as Mr.. Has
kell had attended to the cases as presented to
the Grand Jury, Gen. Mattocks declined to
De qualified under his commission, and so Mr.,
hakell has continued his faithful SERVICE
Al the next January term Gen. Mattocks will
assume the duties of the Office by virtue of his
eiectlon Dy the people, and we doubt not that
ne will discharge them in a manner equal to
that in which any former County ATTORNEY
has acted, md we have had MANY excellent
officers in that position in former years among
whom have been Augustine Haiues Henry
Carter, Horatio j., Swasey, Samuel j. Ander.
son, Moses M. Butler, and Nathan Webb.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

DRoUTH AND FREsHEs.-The last days of
that cannot be paralleled in our history-for
drouth in large part of the northeastern
States that has no local precedent, and in
Maryland and Virginia a series of freshets
the like of which has not been known for at
least two generations. Last week the wrech-
ed spectacle was presented in New England
Of hundreds of mills and manufactures lying
idle for want of water-of the agricultural in
terest damaged to like extent from the same
cause, and civic and domestic interests suffer-
ing perhaps more than either, in consequence
of the extreme shortness of the crops, the re-
suit of the remarkable drouth. Looking to
the south we see streams overlooking their
banks, sweeping away homes, mills, store
houses and manufactures, and depriving hun
dreds of heads of families of the means by
which bread has been gained, and reducing
them to great privaton and suffering, not on
]y now but for coming months. 1t is a singu-
lar conjunction of circumstances, and it is
hard to decide which section of country will
be most injured by them. But fortunately
the law of compensation comes in here. The
suffering communities ale comparatively small
in extent, while we have large reserve of
country that has been abundantly blessed,
and can supply much Of the material loss that
is being felt.
The distributiorfof this reserve supply Of
food and material will call for an increase of
labor; SO that the present gloomy outlook of
affairs will soon be removed. The terrible
loss of life by the floods is calamity that can
not be softened, and is the worst feature of
the history; but the material losses can and
will be made up very readily. and the coun-
try, as whole, will forget the disasters and
their origin.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

WoMAN SUFFRAGE CELEBRATIoN.-Pau-
lima W. Davis, chairman of the committee on
arrangements for the celebration of the TWEEN
tieth anniversary OF the inaugurattBs of the
woman suffrage movement in this country, at
Apollo Hall, in the city Of New York, on the
goth and 21st of October, 1870, has issued the
following circular:
The movement in England, rs in America,
may be dated from the first National Conven-
The July following that convention, favora-
BILE criticism of its proceedings and an able
digest of the whole question appeared in the
Westminster Review, written by Mrs. John
Stuart Mill, which awakened attention in
both hemispheres. In the call for that con-
vention, the following subjects for discussion
were presented. Woman's right to education,
literary, scientific and artistic Her avoca-
tions, industrial, commercial aud professional;
Her interests, pecuniary, civil and political;
in word her rights as an individual, and her
functions as a citizen.
1t is hoped that the Old and the New
World will both be largely represented by the
earlier advocates Of this reform, who will
bring with them reports of progress and plans
respondence will alse add interest to the
meetings. We specially invite the presence
oftbose just awakening to an interest in this
great movement, that from knowledge of
the past they may draw fresh inspiration for
the work of the future and fraternize gener-
alton now rapidly passing away.
AS those who inaugurated a reform, so mo-
mentous and far reaching in its consequences,
held themselves above all party considerations
and personal antagonisms, and as this gather
ing is to be in no way connected with either
OF our leading Woman Suffrage organizations,
we hope that the friends of real progress
every where will come together and untedly
celebrate this twentieth anniversary Of great
national movement for freedom.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05
Bear i'm Mind.

When disease has undermined the health, and the
physical system has become FRUSTRATED, stimulant
that will not only strengthen but remove the cause
should be Immediately resorted to. Mental distress
is also fruitful source Of the breaking down of the
constitution, and the ravages Of this enemy to health
are truly alarming, For all such malades Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters have been found UNSURPASSED
By acting directly upon the digestive organs thew
remove the heavy dssgreeable feeling after eating
SO OFT, complaint OF by persons of delicate tenn
permanent. AS soon as digestion is restored, the pa
tient rnds his strength Increasing and his general
health improved.
Thousands of persons certify that 1t may be relied
on in all eases OF weakness debility atten-
dant upon sedentary habits. The generality of Bit
tiers ale so to The that they OBJ
jectionab to a weak stomach. This is not the case
with II ostetter's Bitters, which will be found mild
and extremely pleasant. Balsamic plants. banks
and roots contribute their restorative juices to rem
der it soothing and Strengthening. Its basis is the
only pure stmu,apt which has ever been produced,
containing no MsiI OIL or any other deleerious ele.
ment. The most careful and skilful chemists have
analysed the b tiers, and pronounce them harmless.
This is. scientific testimony; but the testimony of
hundreds OF thousands who have experienced the
preventive and curative effects OF the GREAT VEG
ETABLE TONIC and Alternative of modern times
il still more conclusive. In Fever and Ague Dys-
pepsia, BiliOusness, Nervous Complaints, Chronic
Complaints and general debility it lie as nearly inia-
Iible as ything in this fallible world can be-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

HEAD QUARTERS,
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC, J
ADJT. GENLs OFFICE,
Washington, May "a, 1870.
General Orders No. 2.
The following letter from the Quarter Master Gen
formation Of the Grand Army of the Republic.
WAR DEPARTMENT,
QUARTERMa sTER GENER Ais OFFICE,
Washington, d. c., May %, 1870.
DIR. VIM. I COLLINS,
Adjt Gen. Grand Army OF the Republic.
You are respectfully informed that the desire OF
the @. M General, that a record shall be prepared
OF the graves OF the deceased Union Soldiers inter-
red in civic throughout the United States.
1t is believed that much and valuable information
can be Obtained from individual members OF your
association, and you a,e therefore respectfully
quested 10 take sue steps to assist this office in the
undertaking as you may deem advisabl
All officers of the Army serving in the @. M. De-
partment have been instructed to receive such in
formation and forward it this office tor compila-
ton. Respectfully your obedent servant.
NC MEIGS, @. M Gen., U. s. A.
In compliance with the foregoing request of IL e
O. M. General, and in aid OF the publication OF this
official record OF the last resting places OF our late
comrades in arms, it is hereby directed that each
Post OF the Grand Army OF Re Republic, upon re-
cept OF this order. appoint committee whose duty
it shall BIS to prepare record OF the graves OF all
Union Soldiers and Sailors who served duiiog the
late war, and whose remains have been inferred in
civil cenearies in the vicinity of the location Of the
several Posts.
This record should give the name OF the cemetery
where located, the County and State the OF the
Soldier Sailor in full. date OF enlistment, the
Company and Regiment, or Ship in which he served
date DEATH if killed in hattie the name OF battle
it death occurred in hos ital the name of hospital
also give the OF DEATH from wounds disease
contracted in the service.
By Command Of
JOHN A LOGAN, Com. in Chief.
"OFEICIAL."
w L. COLLINS, Adjt. Gepl.
Persons having Soldier or Sailor friends buried in
cemeteries in, and in the vicinity OF Portland, will
please forward the above information on or before
the 10Th of October. 1870, to
SAMUEL B. GRAVES, Adjt.,
Bosworih Post, No. 2,
sep22tOct15 ssn Portland, Maine.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

ASC"1 " A0tGBS M0IAos
A London dispatch says the manifesto on
the situation, purporting to come from Napo.
leon is undoubtedly bogus.
James Silcox, q years of age, was drowned
in the canal at Lowell, on Tuesday.
Mrs. Emeline M. Tappan, wife of Hon. Ma
son w. Tappan of New Hampshire, died at
her home in Bradford. Sunday morning last,
of consumption, at the age of about fifty-two
years.
Collector Casey of New Orleans, at Wash.
ington says the prevalence of yellow fever
there, though not yet very serious, will proba-
bly, delay the opening of the busy season
about month. He reports the political pros
poets good, and thinks the republicans will
carry three or four out of the five districts.
The Boston Herald thinks "pay or die is the
motto OF certain physician in that city, from
the fact that young man who had got cut in
quarrel and went to the doctor to have the
wound dressed, which operation occupied
about ten minutes, was charged So for the SER
vice, and being unable to pay the sum then
had the bandage forcibly removed by the doc
tor who sent him away as be had come bleed
ing.
Mr.. Lendall Fl. Ewell, well known Brook
lyn druggist was taken into the Kings County
Hotel on Saturday night, while laboring under
unusual mental excitement. and died there
Sunday morning. Coroner Jones held an in
quest on the body Sunday afternoon, when
it was ascertained that Mr.. Elwell, while in a
depressed itate Of mind, had injudicious re-
course to excessive stimulation and opiates.
He was q native of Massachusetts, where his
relatives all reside. wot
Henry Coulter of Pittsburg. Pa. declines
Walter Browns challenge to row single scull
race at Springfield, Mass, but offers to row
Brown for $1,000 at Pittsburg.
The election in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland,
has resulted in the defeat of the anti confeder-
alton candidate for colonial secretary.
A despatch states that the water at Har-
per's Ferry has again risen and is much high
er than it has been heretofore during the pre-
cent freshet.
The U. s. treasury department will redeem
in stamps of equal value all two cent receipts
stamps no longer required by the internal
revenue.
The Russian legation Washington Tuesday,
received telegram from st. Petersburg, say
ing very positively that the object for which
Russia is arming in such haste is not to move
against Turkey butte have her troops in readi-
ness in case of difficulty which is apprehended
with other European powers.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

DIVORCE ExTRAoRD1NARY,-An extraord-
uary divorce trial has been in progress at In
dianapolis, Ind, for week, and was terminal
ed on Monday, 3rd inst. by a decree of divorce
to the wife, the question of alimony and juris-
diction Of the child being reserved for decision.
The plaintiffs Annie X. Lawton, daughter
of Horatio King, of Washington City. d. c.,
who was assistant Postmaster General during
Mr.. Lincoln's administration. She charges
her husband with cruel treatment and failure
to provide. She also sues for almony. The
defendant Andrew LAYTON, Chief Engineer in
the United States Navy, of the flag ship
Hartford, filed a cross-petition charging the
plaintiff with desertion, and he asks the court
to decree him divorce and the custody of the
little daughter of the parties, six years old.
He also charges that the plaintiff is only tenn
Of securing divorce. The parties we're I ali
present in court. Most Of the evidence was in
the shape of dispositions from different points
Zerland.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

The Prussians are concentrating at Toul for
movement on Lyons and energetic measures
are accordingly being taken to defend that city.
Paris letters say that the Prussians threaten
the Point du Jour. The bombardment of the
city from the west is imminent. The books of
the great libraries have been removed to cell
lars All windows have been filled with bags
Of earth, and Waterman have been stationed on
Notre Dame to look out for fires.
The Parisians have ordered that no Prussiau
prisoners are to be taken because they help to
consume the store of food in Paris. The Prus.
sian commanders have also been directed to
take no prisoners. All the villages aronpd
Metz have been destroyed by the late cannon.
ade.
The old Republican party of France are re-
ported hostile to plebiscite and will not vote.
The rural vote is nearly all in and unanimous
in favor of the government. Favre is said to
be awaiting an answer to his second letter ad-
dressed to the King OF Prussia, before deciding
how to act.
The Prussiars ale at Nantes Sur Marine in
force. They ave also approached Rollebois.
The commanders Of ports Montrane and
D Ivy, on the south side of Paris, reported
that on the 2sth ult, large masses Of Prussians
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

"E. F. H." in two-column leader to the
Springfield Republican, describes the islands
OF Casco Bay in charming style. The writer
has collected all the local traditions, and with
mingled fact and fancy makes an uncommon
~ attractive sketch. She says, for one thing,
that there is but one copy of Mrs. Stoves
"Pearl of Orr's Island" on the island whence
the story takes its name. The letter con-
cludes as follows:
Altogether, a summers cruise among tho
"Happy Islands" of Casco bay is someibino
to- put down among the bright memories of
life. Nowhere can more attractive bits Of
scenery be found, and the salt ocean breezes
mingled with the scent of myrads of spruce
and pine trees is the most exhilarating OF ton
les. The beautiful bay is, indeed,,a genuine
"resting place" and either in camping in the
shaded nook of some dimpling cove or over
looking the lbroad ocean { from the
quiet retreat of one of the island hotels
a sense of heathful peace and refreshment
can hardly fail to bless the world-worn and
weary.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

GEN. BUTLER must have some mysterious
power over the minds of the people of bis dis
irict, or they would hardly have listened with
patience to the cnconiums upon imperialism
win which he favored them the other day
de declared that for twenty years the French
people nave enjoyed the best government DOS
sible. He added: pO'
after a democracy, pure aesno,;.,n ;.
the best government The ,rro ,pO''' a:. 70
crimes If you please, of one man nye =, ssms'
tesinaal In their bearing upon So ,n; um.,
of people. The citizens of no eountrv si hons
enjoyed greater protection of life, liberty snS
property, than has the French nation " Tnr
nearly twenty years past. A man there need
only to conduct himself SO as not to injure his
neighbor and let politics alone, and for him
the government was-nearly perfect. know
we are accustomed to decry Napoleon, and
some men do all the more now that he is
deposed and poweress. But il is not to be
denied, In justice, that he has given to agri-
cultural France the very best government she
eyer ei, mad, whatever may have been the action
y, us government upon the people of Paris,
=. W whatever the theoretical objections to him
10 "S"'per or personal ruler. Can gov.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05

ILLNESS OF GEN. LEA despatch from
Lexington, Va, Monday, says:
On the evening of September 28th, Gen.
Lee, after presiding over an unusually LARGE
meeting of the faculty OF Washington Colleee'
attended a protracted and exciting meeting in
the vestry OF the Episcopal Church, and on his
return to his residence tainted from extraordi.
nary fatigue. and was placed in bed, where he
has since remained under the advice of his phy.
siciar. He has had no symptoms of appoplexy
or paralysis-only a torpor. He has had fail
use Of his bodily powers, and speaks as coca.
sion requires. his physicians confidently ex.
pect his recovery in a day or so. At noon to.
day he was cheerful, and his family and phy
sicians are confident of his speedy restoration.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05
Miss Anna B. starbird of this city,

Miss Anna B. Starbird of this city, now in
Florence, recently sang at concert At the
Baths of Antignano given by the pupils of the
celebrated teacher Vannuccini, and was en-
Enthusiastically cheered. We translate the fol-
lowing in regard to her from the musical Jour-
nal, the IL Co,riere di Frenzs (Florence Cour-
ier):
The air from Lucia was the piece selected for
Signorina, Auna B. Starbird. Although suf-
iering from indisposition-and who is not this
n nor weather, she sang in beautiful and linn
p p,% voice. which, # lacking volume consequeat
t heard the sympathetic timbre and dificult ex.
.ension. Agility, dramatic accent and septi-
h hsns are ner special gifts, hence we can call
ner an artist already developed.