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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-08-26

THE HON. LEWIS MCKENZIE had tumor
cut from his forehead on Sunday by DR..
Lewis. The operation was entirely sue
cesSlul.-AleIanGrid Sentinel.
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Arrest Of the Postmaster at STAN
ardsyille.

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATOH.1
GoRDoNsy1LLE, Aug. %, 1S71.-J. n. Hall,
postmaster at Stanardsville, was arrested by
the special agent of the Post-Office Depart
ment to-day, and was taken to Lynchburg.
He is charged with using cancelled United
States postage stamps.
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EIRGINIA.-At Cobb's Creek, Matthews
county, j. D. Matthews is appointed post
master, vice Jas. Williams, resigned.
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Weather Probabilities.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The barometer
will probably rise from Lake Superior to
Maine, but will continue low south Of that
region, with local storms tonight and on
Saturday from Iowa and Arkansas to New
jersey, and of special severity in the Chic
Valley. Southeastern Pennsylvania, and
New Jersey. The Florida cyclone will
probably move over Southern Georgia,
with increasing easterly winds on the South
Atlantic coast.
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A very heavy rain-storm passed over O
portion at Bedford county on wednesday
night last, which did much damage TO the
crops on the creeks. The mill dam Of Mrs
Radford, on Elk creek, near Forest depot
was carried away hy the flood, but the mil
escaped injury. The creek, it is reported
rose sixteen feet in less than one hour
Lmchburg Nears.
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~ y n A r d LIN Z,

~ sHsdH
Thel British and North American Royal Nail
Steamship between New York and Liverpool,
calling al Cork harbsr.
RATES Of PASSAGE
BY the Wednesday steamers, not carrying steer.
age: -
First Cabin. slto, gold Second Cabin. $50, gold
nTsun tSAets.. .pzoV, KolQ
BY the Tuesday and Saturday steamers:
First Cabin. $50, gold Storage $50, currency
Return Tickets &ls0, gold
steerage tickets from Liverpool and Queenstown,
and all parts Of europe, at lowest rates.
Through bills of lading from Virginia to Liv-
erpo0l, Belfast, Glasgow Havre, Antwerp, and
other ports On the Continent, and for Mediterra-
ranGan ports will be Issued BY the VIRGINIA
aud FOREIGN THhOUIh LINE, they having
made the necessary arrangements with the Old
dominion steamship Company TO New York, aud
With the Cunard Line thence to Liverpool, &c.
For rates, &C., apply to the Agents Of the Old
Dominion Steamship Company.
CHAS. G. FRANCKLYN,
General Agnt Cunard Line.
j. ID. KELLEY, JR., General Ag't Va and For-
eign Through Line. - s.#Us ass hN
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TIE CoRN.-Our country friends give us
the gratifying information that the tie rains
have improved the corn wonderfully, and
full average crop. and in many instances
largely above an average, will be harvested.
The ground is in fine condition for plough
ing, and the farmers generally are now
busily engaged in preparing their land for
notwithstanding. -Lynchburg Nc1cs.
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IBY ASSOCIATED PRESS.]

Another Failure-Yacht Race Challenge.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-McDonald &
Whitney. leading Stockholders in San
Francisco, reported as having failed, were
largely short on yellow Jacket" which
has advanced heavily this week.
Commander Douglass. of the yacht
"Sappho," challenges any yacht in America
for n race of thirty miles for cup valued
at 81 900. .a..- "a
The Tyne" Crew-Renforth's Inquest
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25.-The "Tyne "
crew will row at Halifax with Kelly at the
stroke oar.ss
At Renforth's inquest it was testified to
that he had had five fits, and that when first
attacked in the boat he said, "Oh, hurry,
l have had something given me-" The doc
tors are making an examination. ~ !.
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Domestic darkets-IBY TELxaRAPn.J

-
NEW YORK. Aug. 3s.-Cotton quiet: sales, 500
bales uplanss. isc Orleans, lssc. Flour-Soath.
ern, shade hrmer common 20 fatr extra, IS. SOD
S8.9o good TO choice, es.sslSa. Whskey, 6I@0,Sc.
Whcat-Wtnter end western, 9i.as1sLAs. Corn
active. 6esG67c: kics quiet Fork steady. Lard
frmer. 4ss 1900 - - - s l<S -
I BALTIMORE, Aug. IS Flour quiet. Wheat arm
Un a 90 COIN rpa sopthsrn 1srs4ss
mixed western, s7e2Sss:.f Oass firm, .Ss0.sc. Rye
rib sides, &C. c.esr gio sSc sugar cured hams. Is
@iee. Pork steady, si.e9slA So. LsId, laDiesc.
Virginia's, old, bss bid; ass, O. bid; coupons,
old, est bid; new, 70 bid, u asked. North Carroll
mas, new, Is bid sl,s.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. ee.-FloHr steady winter GU.
peffne, @4s9S4. 10. Corn higher. VI hiskey quiet
ut Soc. shoulders, eie.; clear sides, 7iG9sc. To-
bicco active and frms
LOUISVILLE, Aug. 2s.--Aess PORK held at Sl2.so.
Shoulders, eAc.; clear sides, TIC. Whiskey, Vsc.
Tobacco very active, frm, and unchanged; sales,
II hogsheads. ~ 3 3e@
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SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT KING COLLEGE,
On Saturday last the ceiling ofthe new hall
OF the Anthennn Society, ut King College,
fell in, doing considerable damage to the
furniture of the hall aud someto the building
itself. Itappears that the joists were in two
sections, meeting and resting on cross
beam In the middle. This cross beam, by q
strange fatuity which amounts to guilt, was
made Of t,ro pieces, being spltced near one
end. The wonder is that It ever remained
up day. The joists tell with their inner
ends to the floor, SO that the end which
rested on the walls of the building were
tilted m 40 as to displace somewhat the
roof. Mcsss. Chandler, Harr, and Rhea
had spent the forenoon In the hall, and had
not been out m hour when the accident
occurred. The AthenDns had recently
fitted mp the hall, and had held but one
meeting in it.-Brtstol Ne1cs.
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nsr al, each tra,n, so report ito Che l,resi.
dent all the incidents Of the trip over the
road and back, the practice OF delaying at
stations and other points, by train officers,
for conversation, and the making up of
time thus lost by running at break.neek
speed. wouId be broken up, and great
source Of loss and damage done away swish.
This machine is simple, not at All comphea-
,,,arbinnry. and costs but q nominal
amomnt, We have no hesitation In OK
pressing the helief that when Its merits be-
come known IL will be universally adopted.
Montgomery Messenger. ss
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EOK NEW YORK. ~ fHEN
It OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP $500
COMPANY.
The side-yheel Steamships w YAEOkE, BhAO
RELJn SARATOdA, NIAGARA, ALSEs
hkRLE, ald HATTERAS, leave New YORK for
Sorsoia, City FONT and Richmond, every TUES.
CAY, THURSDAY, and SATURDAY ct 2o'clock
y, m, Leave Richmond every TUEaDAY, FRI
DAY, and SUNDAY, ut high tide.
These ships are entirely new. They have elegant
saloons and staterooms. The fare, accommodate
Go1B, and attention, are unsurpassed
Close connections made with steamers for Al
southern aud European ports,
insurance effected, when ordered, At A QUAR
TER OF ONE FEB CENT, .. the ofaces OF thi
COMPANY. ..r..
JOHN W. WYATT, Agent
my1s No. 8 Governor street,
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DHILADELPHIA, RICH sxMN
e aOHD AND NORFOLK SA&
SHIP LINE-FOR PHILADELPHIA TWICE A
WMEK.-S.camers NORFOLK, SALyOR, aud j.
dephfa every WEDNESDAY and sATUKDAY,
and Richmond every MONDAY and THURSDAY
alternately. Freight received daily Except Sun.
iays), cheaper than by any ether route, for all
parts 0. Pennsylvania ana New jersey :. also for
New Orleans ofG southern Msil steamship Line
nom Phiiaheiphia. Freight taken Tor NORFOLK at
Passage 70 fhiladelphia, including meals and
stateroom, eS.
No, 242s Dock street, Richmond.
L WIN. T. CLYDE d CO., Agents,
No. n North Whsrves, And
Re Is No. II South Wharves, Philaaelphle,
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PPLE BRANDY AND WHITE
n WHISKEY + III PEaCHES; -
HENNESsY BRANDY, very old 49,
G. ,ARET, MADEIRA, and Sherry WINES
OLD MOUNTAIN WHISkEYs.
auasm GEO. A. i UNDLEY d co.
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A GOOD CHEW. -PILKINTONS
"a FINE-CUT CHEWING TOBACCO, In ten
pound buckets; a choice article; for sale by
AMI @t( 8. Il. DOVE.
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WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO, dc.

DARTIGAs, FIGAROs,
CHALMErTE, CLUBS &
NUN PLUS lIITRAS,
LA ESCEPCIONS,
LA CAUBAS,
CARULIEAS, s...
And many other fine brands, which sell at as
low prices. Call and see me.
S. A. WIkSTGCK,
No. II 18th street,
auu i'm Under Exch lngc Hotel
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14
THE EPIDEMIC OF CRIME.

1t is fact abundantly evidenced by the
history of nations, that at certain periods
crime becomes fearful epidemic The
moral world grows frightfully diseased,
and the plague continues, until like the
ravages of physical disease, it decreases
from sheer lack of materials. Our moral
atmosphere then, purged of the offensive
malaria, becomes healthy and cleared,
and society regains its proper tone. The
rights of meum and tenn are again held in
respect until the incipient germs of ras-
cality, nurtured and fostered by pride and
vanity, grow into proportion beyond the
influence of restraint, and the nation is
again overwhelmed by the loathsome
disease.
One would suppose that the fearful war
through which We had passed had thinned
out the wicked of both sections; that
where death had held high carnival he
must, in the nature of things, have gath
cred in the majority of those whose disre-
gard for law and the rights of their fellow
beings had placed them without the social
pale; but it seems, alas that the good
alone have been taken from us, while the
bad remain to curse the earth.
The usual remedies for this fearful dis
ease have failed to effect the required and
the expected good. Some of the most
maIiono nt 90 cnS ~ ic tr,,a have fo,,oI =.
lief by looking through the hangman's
moose, and the world has been cleared of
their infectious carcasses; but the dull
''thud' of the criminals descent scarce
dies upon the ear before new, aggravated
and multiplied cases are developed. In
deed one is almost forced to believe that
if the hempen dose were administered to
all who really need it, there wouldn't be
found enough of the sound ones to pre-
scribe for the diseased.
1t would be most interesting study
for the orthologist to account for the
prevalence of this moral leprosy A
treatise upon the subject would certainly
attract attention, even though it failed to
allay the violence of the epidemic.
We have been led to these remarks by
the astonishing number of murders, rob-
berries, assassinations, forgeries, cruelties,
and the thousand lesser crimes which we
daily read of in our papers. Each one
we open stares at us with its list of crimes
in glaring capitals, and the heart sickens
with disgust as the eye scans the horrible
record. Nor is this epidemic confined to
any locality. 1t has poisoned the whole
moral atmosphere from place to place
Here in our very midst do we daily have
a thrill of horror. The Fair-Crittenden
murder was fearful But the case of the
poor little orphan who was SO cruelty
tortured seems more atrocious; in fact
the number is too great to recount. Vio-
lence stalks forth, crushing as it pro-
ceeds in horrid triumph.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14
WORDS FIFTY SPOKEN,

among the very many excellent artlcIes
which appeared in the Tri- Weekly Louis
iar1ian Senator Pinchback's paper yes
terday morning we copy the following,
and commend it to the careful attention
of every Republican:
DANGER AHEAD.
We deeply regret the necessity which
causes us to indite these remarks. We sin
cerely hoped and confidently believed that
within the ranks OF Louisiana Republicans
there were none so needless of the great
principles underlying and forming the
foundation OF our party that they would
blazon on their banners ''rule or ruin "
1t did not seem possible TO us that any
man, or set of men, claiming affinity with
our party, could, after the sad experiences
of the past few years. risk dissensiOn that
might throw us helpless and bound into the
hands of the Democracy. Yet such is the
tenor of the distressing intelligence which
comes to us from the country parishes. We
are 10th to believe that serious results will
follow what we complain of, but we regret
that so reckless a spirit could manifest
itself. The facts are simply these:
The State Central Committee, as we con-
tend without authority, appointed parish
committees in number of instances. This
usurpatlOn of power has borne fruit in the
avowed intention of these illegally cousti-
tuted bodies to select delegates to the Au-
gust Convention. The great mass of Re
publican voters may thus be left to the
mercy of few men who do not, in any de-
gree, represent them. In fact, the matt er
resolves itself purely and simply to this:
The State Central Committee usurps the
power to appoint parish committees and
the parish committees usurp from the pee
pie the right to choose their representatives;
the State Committee further usurps the
right of the Convention to judge of the
qualification of its own members, and the
result is SHOULD the Republicans of Louis
lana submit to such a wholesale filching
from them of their just privileges), that the
State Convention becomes the creation and
the creature of few individuals who may
happen for the time being to compose the
State Central Committee. Is this Repub-
lcanism! Is this equality of representa-
ton! Is there any semblance of justice.
right or ordinary fair play in such course!
We emphatically say, no! And ii we do not
w0fully err in our estimate of the temper
and spirit of the component elements of our
party. a rebuke will be administered TO
those who thus attempt to break down, or
to pass over, well tried and well established
precedent, that Will be long remembered,
If 1t fail to cause them to be more consider
ate of their fellows in the future.
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the suppression of public and individual
rights. which the Picayue supports in
the assumed interest of one-third of the
people, actually dwindles down and be-.
comes concession to a few rowdies and
fanatics. If the spirit which demanded
the suppression of the Orange procession
had been pandered to, New York would
have taken another step in the road to
anarchy and disorder, for the roughs
would have used their power to suppress
other meetings of the people.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14
THE RIGHT OF ASSEMBLY.

How little the Picoyane knows of the
law, and how fully it comprehends the
great problem of human freedom was told
to the public in it's columns yesterday.
In the first place it distinctly affirmed the
right and duty of the government to sup
press all public assemblages or process
sions that might in any wise endanger the
public peace, meaning by this that the
Orangemen of New York could have been
rightfully and legally deprived of the
privilege of parading ON Wednesday, not
because they threatened to create a riot,
but because third party insolentIy as
sumed the right to assail and slaughter
them if they did assemble and march in
procession. If there is one principle in
our laws and institutions more pronounced
than another, it is that one which allows
the people to assemble and discuss what
ever question they may feel an interest in.
If party of men can be deprived of this
right because another party opposes it and
threatens to disturb it, then we shall soon
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14

be without public meetings, for all that
will be necessary to do to suppress, will
be to threaten to attack them and the
auth orities, instead of upholding the
right of complaint, will interfere to pre-
vent remonstrance by arresting the peace
full Protestants at the suggestion of the
rowdy aggressors. Is this not a plain
reversal of the laws and customs of the
land? Is it not a disgraceful surrender
of the right in favor of the wrong? This
was the sort of inconclusive and destruc-
tive law which was proclaimed in this city
in 1866, when the Times and Picdytne de-
clared that the people, meaning Monro's
policemen, had a right to shoot down un-
offending people who presumed to
assemble in this city for the purpose, as
they intended, of making constitution
for the State. That was peaceful meet
ing, without authority, incapable of doing
any harm, depending upon the United
States Congress and upon the people of
the State to give vitality to its
actions, and yet the same sentiment
which prevailed in the Picdyme yes
terday to invest the government of New
York with power to suppress Pro-
testant procession existed and prevailed
here in 1866 to excite the multitude to at
tack a body of men assembled in legal
way to follow purpose which did not
interfere with their neighbors. And the
same spirit which dictated the lawless as
sault on the Orange procession in New
York melted the lawless attack upon the
convention in New Orleans. Men who
pretended to understand the relation of
law to wrong in 1866, made the same mis-
take then that they do now, by following
their prejudices and assailing the inno-
cent instead of the guilty. If the Orange
men are to be prevented from marching
through the streets of New York, how
long will Republicans be tolerated by the
rowdies of Tammany Hall? And as the
Picaytne has already championed the
wrong which Superintendent Kelso at
tempted to commit in ordering the Orange
men to suppress their procession, it will
certainly apply its legal ability to the task
of demonstrating that, because the Re
publicans were in danger of being beset
and maltreated by a body of rowdy DEM
ocrats, the police authorities should have
arrested the peaceful people and stopped
their procession, instead of suppressing
the rowdies and indicating the right of
public assemblage.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14

member, the boilers split the party, and
gave the offices to the Democrats. But this
will not be allowed to happen again.
Every one who is of any political sagacity
not only predicts Governor Warmoth's re-
election, but will work hard for him in
1872.
One of our weeElies comes out rather
heavy on Governor Warmoth, but it is I'M
derstood here that the paper, although
nominally Republican paper, is really
owned by and run in the interest of the
Democrats.
This will show you why spirited little
paper called the Lafomche Times was
started as an organ for the Republican
party of the parish.
Its editor, John p. Hartman, is by birth
a Louisianian, and is well known in the
party, and is backed by the strongest men
in Lafourche. Although his printing con-
tract was taken away because he spoke
favorably of his ExcelIency Governor War
moth, yet he has lost nothing by it. On
the contrary, his circulation is doubled. and
his numerous friends have come forward
and placed him on a substantial basis,
where he need be under no obligations to
any set who pretend to act with the Re
publican party, but really who are working
for the Democrats.
The Times comes out last week in an
expose of the other organ, and it had such
an effect that the junior editor withdrew
from the paper on the day following.
In closing, allow me to assure you, and
the friends of the party. that Lafourche
will be found right in 1872. We shall be
in the Republican party, and we believe
that party will be more ably managed by
Henry Clay Warmoth than any other per-
son who is in the party to-day.
Yours, very truly,
FRANCIS G. HOWARD.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14
BAD LAW AND WORSE FIGURING,

The Picdyune is as wrong in its esti-
mate of the strength of the demonstra-
ton against the Orange procession in
New York on Wednesday, as it is in its
reading and application of the general
law concerning public assemblages. The
Irish only constitute about one-sixth of
the population of New York, instead of
one-third, and as large number of Pro-
testant Irishmen must be descended from
that faction, it will be observed that the
assumption of the Picayuae is extremely
gratuitous and unfounded, when it says
that the Orange procession should have
been suppressed out of regard for one
third of the population Of the city which
was hostile to it. And as if to alternate
the assertion of the Picay,u,e still further,
it will be well to bear in mind that of the
Fenian and Catholic Irish in New York,
probably two-thirds Of them were opposed
to the attack on the Orange procession
out of regard for the law, and respect
for the rights of other people. So that
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14
FROM LAFOURCHE PARISH.
Crops-Increased Production of Cane
Rice an Important Elemenf-PoIitical-
Lafourche All Right-Disco mfiture of
the Boilers.

THIBoDAUx, July 10, 1871.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN,:
AS have not noticed any one as a CORE
spondent to your paper from this parish, L
thought that an occasional letter from this
point might be of interest to your readers.
The crops, owing to the excessively heavy
rains, are backward, and until quite recent
ly the grass has had the better of the plant
ers; but the last few days of dry, clear
weather have enabled them to catch up
with their work, and now the cane fields
look as clean and thrifty as gardens. The
crop of cane in the parish is expected to be
greater than last year, as more has been
planted and greater care is taken to insure
a good yield.
The corn crop is favorable, although the
excessive rains have drowned out" the
prospects of very few. Rice looks well,
and especially is this true of the lower part
of the parish and old planters say the wet
spell has not hurt the rice crop in the least
By the way, it is singular that there are so
few cultivatOrs of rice. 1t is a standard
article, brings fair price, and can be raised
without a 1.-THE of the labor bestowed on
cane. The profits of rice planters, although
on a small scale, will compare favorably
with any other branch of agriculture in the
United States. The planters need better
,''rice understanding that will hull the
rice clean, and will not cost fortune to
put it up. VIII some of your merchants
who have such an article advertise it in the
REPUBLICAN!
The enterprise of Lafourche is steadily in
creasing. We have foundry, saw mill and
a machine shop that would be credit to
any place, besides many other minor manu-
featuring places, which give an air of genu-
inc industry to the place which is encourag
ing to the residents, and promises well for
the future. There is talk of branch of the
Mobile, Chattanooga and Texas Railroad
coming here, but it is uncertain. Perhaps
it might interfere with Monsieur Morgans
Railroad if it should come, and so we re-
main quiet.
The political lookout of Lafourche is
somewhat mixed up to the view of an out
slider, but those who have been here as
residents during the past four years, have
no hesitation in saying that the parish will
be unit for the Republican party at
the next election.
The gentlemen boilers of the last election
have already come to grief, and are pre-
pairing to vacate, at least one of them, as
you will see by the next issue of their
organ. In the last election, as you will re-
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-14

A search warrant, executed in the lodg-
ings of two women of loose life in Paris,
notorious for their intimate relations with
leading insurgents, led to the discovery of
thirty or forty hand grenades made in the
shape of an egg, filled with petroleum. oil
and fitted with seven nipples, on each enc
of which was a nitro-glycerine cap. They
were at once arrested. -Splinters of these
petroleum eggs" have been found in the
ruins of LIE Taps Rouge.