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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-20

alleged. about tie neglect of 3hersell W her
husband, &C., she sought the advice Ut.
Beecher as her pastor, and be. gave aayi y
which, after Subsequent explanation ny
was sorry for, and hence wrote the spolo.
getic letter. :, -....,.s...
The New York Sun of Friday says :.
GA gentleman OF. the highest fepute 10
Brooklyn, and 10 fact throughout new i %
State, said authenticated last evening tnat
Theodore Tilton's document Wouid iui'
plicate two ladies' besides his own VIE IN M sne
scandal" ~ ~
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BIsaARcK.-Itis said that Bismarck, " on
certain occasion, being asked to explain his
extraordinary luck at whist, he replied,
$ hen get an opportunity invariably
look into the hand OF my opponent. '--
Washington Chronicle.
AN IsDIAs.-Bannack Jim stepped into
the cigar store at Boise, ldaho,a few days
ago, and asked to borrow q pencil. As an
dams are not generally good writers, he was
asked why he wanted 1t. :" Oh, me PLAY
poker-me want TO mark 'em cards"
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NEW GOODS FOR THE SEASON.

HUDGINS, GORDON & co.
June 22d) are opening
CHOICE DRESS GOoDS-yery cheap;
BoRDEnEp LAwNs-new and cheap;
LINEN FABRICS Of all kinds for ladies dress salts
Beautiful PERCALES 1T Is;
More SASH RIBBONS at 75c.;
SPANISH LACES, for scarfs and sacques;
GENTLEMES's and LADIES' USDERwEAh;
THREAD and RALBRIGGAS HOSIERY for ladiesand
men;
FANS In variety. )e -
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A Louisville reporter believes there is
something in dreams. On the night before
the present Chicago fire he dreamed that ne
stood near the Times building, in Chicago,
and saw MIR. Storey, who was on the roof,
take a faithful mule by the tail and 3hurl 1t TO
the sidewalk, many feet below, where 1t died
in greet agony. When the kilograms about
the great ire began to come in he instantly
recalled his remarkab dream.
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ENcAApMENT OF A VIRGINIA REGIMENT
Colonel Clarence Peters, commander of the
Sixth Regiment, NJ. N. g., has received a
letter from Colonel John A. Sloan, of the
First Virginia Regiment, stating that his
command will go into ,encampment some
time in August ut Jordan's Alum Springs,
and inviting Colonel Peters to accompany
the regiment and be,their guest during their
stay Baltimore San.
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IFrom the Lynchburg Republican, sth.J

RESULTED FATALLy.-A note from our re-
liable Appomattox correspondent says:
& Mr.. Thomas W. Agee. who was acct.
dentally, or rather uninsentionally, stabbed,
few days ago, by Mr. Samuel b. Hurt, died
Of lock.jaw this morning at 81 O'Clock. Mr..
Hurt, as am informed, intends immediately
to surrender himself to the proper authority
that his case may undergo the necessary ju.
dicial investigation"
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MARRIAGES.

Married at the residence Of the BRIDES mother,
July 18th, By Rev. j. l.. Burrows, ID. D., JOHN ).
WIfHRUW, of Lewisburg, W. Va, aud MAMIE,
dauthter of the late Rev. Ii. W. Watkins. No
cards.
Lewlsburg papers please copy.
Married July I'd, at Mr.. Fred. Laughts, Miss
LOUISA LLOYD and Mr.. GEORGE PRlLOP. No
cards.
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g. PosrAL.-William D. Xix is appointed
postmaster at Walkers Church, Appomat-
tox county, va, uice Samuel D. Sears, re-
signed,
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ROOTS, SHOES, &c.

TUST RECEIVED, a supply ofHSa1
u LADIES' and GENTS TRUNKS. R&v
Also, q lot of very fine SATCHELS forV
ladies and gents. My stock of LADIES.
CENTS MISSES, and HILDRES'S SHOES Is
very complete. A call soicitedat 900 Main street,
between Ninth and Tenth.
~ II JOhN =. fA6E.
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TO TRAVELLERS AND CIrIzENs.
fully Is, 1874.

NEW SUPPLIES-FASCY GOODS.
r. II. PRICE C co.
are receiving daily
LACE and MUSLIN BUFFLtSGs,
GRAPE LISSE Muslin RUFFLtSGS new,
LIGHT and BLACK KID GLOVES,
COLORED and WHITE Isle GLOVES,
BUCK GAUNTLETS, for travelling,
WASH NETS. BoBBISETs,
VICTORIA LAWN. LACE STRIPED LAWN,
PLAIN ORGANIZES, STRIPED ORGASDIES,
MOSQUITO NETTING.
LABiEs' SILK TIES, FANS, CoRsETs,
GAUZE UNDERSuIRTS, &C.. &c. jylS
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PROPOSALS.

cPECIAL NOTICE. - Sealed proposals
- will he received st the AudireFs office, Ia RAJ
Of the market OF the city OF Manehessfs "T nr
TUESDAY the 2Isr Instant. at II O'CLOCK "a, 10 ~
The stone dam on the canal, In said cily ssm uag'
10 be Ye feet we. bj scslntlins TWO lsa aP ss.
well braced In and ouI tw0tnc plinS. W.T. var
further particulars apply TO w. l.. Ao opa;; T.,
Dunlop i M,,Caaee1S niiu. The rigns Is ssser'ea "
Sy order IL The G committee on Water: rx
ty1A-es Clerk City Council. Manehe...r:- --
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DEATHS

Died, In this city, on the evening Of the 18th In.
New Kent county, thirty eight years of age.
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snBARRELS BRIDGEWATER. FAM
t1UILYFEoUR.n barrels Lily white ifa.niiy
Flour. barrels No. I siackerel. az M s..s. DAN.
DRIO aE s G0,'ss s27 Broad ssreeh ynh al
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5ExCUK.Is,n.
FARE: ONLY THREE DoLL4r.,

1 AhnEE DOLLlrss
TAKE NOTICE.
Toayoh disappointment parties had ,o,
their tickets the evening before, ne res,. s,sfs
limited number only Will be sold. pssiaTstss
Parties desiring to do so eau 10 orr nm.
On The same train, have tyee hDurs for bnninlsnys
Baltimore, and return to Ricsanond The .,ns
Fare: Washington to Baltimore and
sI.75-thas making round trip To- B.ltI,n,,s tar
SCHEDULE.
Leave Richmond at. ........,, 100
Arrive at Washington at ...........Ii-,S A. y.
Leave Washington at..............,a ,eTS 4. y
For firth ~ ipformat ion and 0s30 IN
general ticket-ofice OF The Richmond, Srpe . ne
burg and Potomac railr' adj. Eighth AMI D..
streets. from 4. N: to 7. H., and from 4s,0 y
excursion. u tas
jy 1921 WILLIsM D. GILEEsoy
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"Nidrawoc" will please address bis com
munications to The Dispatch. "Tother fel
low" is absent from home sometimes.
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10
DR.. Tying on Methodism.

The other day the corner stone of a new
Methodist church was laid in New York city,
and among. the speakers was the prominent
liberal Episcopalian, Rev. Mr. Ting. We
quote from the NJ Y Herald, as follows
Rev. s. III. Tying, Jr., delivered humorous
address: II came her representing the
Church of the Holy Trinity, and simply as a
Protestant EpiscOpalian, he said, among other
things, and if you are ready to receive the
hand of fellowship from that church am here
to extend it. good many years ago | re-
ceived little of the Methodist spirit, and it
has been working in me ever SINCE This spirit
works not towards the few, but towards the
many, and it was we'll expressed by Wesley
when he said, not I'VE go to those who need
US, but, We 20 to those who need US most
l remember good story" 1.-THE reverend speak
er told it with the greatest gusto) about
horse which was lost 10 this State and which
was found at last by an idiot, The idiot de-
clared he would find the horse if the owner
would tell him where he saw it last. When
he brought the horse back he was asked how
he had discovered it, and he replied, "Well,
you see, went to the place where you told me
you saw it last and when got there | said to
myself, =" 1t you were q horse now where
would you go2" cloud laughter.) Then |
went whittier the spirit moved me and found
the horse. (l4aughter.) And this is the true
spirit Of evangelical work. 1t is a mistake to
think that outward forms attract congrega.
ton. The only thing that attracts men to the
Gospel is the true spirit, the manly heart
overlooking with the love of Jesus Christ. If
church is full Of such manly men and of
Christian men, then it always attracts the
| people, 1t may not become congregation of
big men, but will probably be only one of the
people; and by the people do not mean the
thieves and rascals, but the men of trade, Of
shops, Of honest toll, for of such men the
Church of Christ was composed at first, and
for such men was it first created. If any
Church is true to the people it is the MethO
dist Church"
Rev. DR.. Tying then told another funny story
which created much laughter 80 man il
Jersey had four oxen. One he called the
Baptist OK, the other the Presbyterian, thu
third the Methodist, and the fourth the EpiscO
palian. He said he wanted them all tn,
Methodist OK was fiery, the Presbyterian
steady, the Episcopalian magnificent, and tn
Baptist OK was very peculiar in this if h.
saw water, he was sure to 90 to it. daughter.
wish it to be distinctly understood that in tn
work of evangelization all the sects are needed
If there be too much spirit in the Methods
Church, let Bishop James send some of hi
oxen into the Episcopal Church to set it o
fire. (Laughter.) I'd like to have some regu
lar roarers, sweaters, fighters, tearers-nOne c
your very eloquent men, who use long word;
for | heard one such last summer, and h
preached me observation-disclosures | shoul
like to set these men to work daughter
DIR. Tying concluded with the words =" Go
bless the Methodist Church, Amen u and th
word amen" was re-echoed by scores G
y fervent voices.
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10
A Popular Story Spoiled.
.ScRIBSRR,

Burleigh," in one of his recent letters to
the Boston Journal, states that Frank Pierce,
in 1854, in the anticipation of a possible nomi-
nation for the Vice Presidency, went early in
the morning of the day the Il ,tiOnal convention
was in session, out to the Mount Auburn
Cemetery, and passed the day in meditationS
emOng tie tOmbs; that after his nomination
was telegraphed to Boston, his friends hasten
ed out to his retreat to communicate the news
and found him reclining in deep meditation
at the moment in the lot of the Webster
family. This anecdOte is now travelling the
rounds of the country newspaper press with
great rapidity, and is accepted as one of those
evidences of eccentric character which stamp
the individual as person of extraordinary
qualities of mind. The story is, however,
slightly at variance with the facts in the case.
Mr.. Pierce was not in the Webster lot drawing
inspiration from the contemplation of the il,
lustriOuS dead !; he was not in Mount Auburn
on the morning of that, to him, memorable
day, He went from his home in Concord tc
Boston during the forenoon, and when the
telegram announcing his nomination was re-
ceiVed in Boston he was with few intimate
friends in Bliss K Brothers wine store. or
Congress street, about half a dozen doors from
State street, discussing the probabilities of thC
convention with scarcely remote thought tha
President. When the news arrived the writel
was sitting in cigar store, in Exchange street
on the opposite side of State street, smoking {
| cigar with friend. A gentleman stepped i,
and made the inquiry: "Who do you suppos
has received the nomination p Half a dozer
names were given in quick succession, bu
neither of these was the lucky party. "Then
who is it?'' Frank PIERCE was the re
spnnse I" left him about five minutes ago i
Bliss's wine store, where he has lust received
the news" We started Immediately to tn
store to congratulate the nominee hut he ha
left before we reached the place. On makine
inquiry where he would likely be found, MI
Bliss replied "Why, gentlemen, he left her
not over five minutes ago, and made bee lin
Ia very difficult matter, by the way, on tn
streets of Boston, for the Lowell depot,
take the first train home" Now, if Fran
Pierce was among the tombs Ut Mount Auhur
that day, it must have been after he left Cor
gress street, and only by mistaking a Can
bridge omnibus for the Concord train but tn
origin of the story is due more probable to II
prolific brain OF " Burleigh" than to any e
J centricities on the part of Mr. Pierce
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10
Persecution as a Propagating Agent.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the
Church, and persecution has always been the
most potent means of propagating a religion,
system, or society. There is nothing to which
men cling so tenaciously as that which is ban.
ned. A Papal bull has popularized heresy,
and Puritanic persecution increased the spread
of heterodOxy. Oppression, too, has kept
alive cause that would have become extinct
had its adherents been cOncilated. There was
no peace in Warsaw until Russia liberalized her
Polish policy, and Austria by adopting the
counsels of Won Beust and Andrassy has de-
stroyed the Magyar dream of an independent
Hungary, and deprived Kossuth and his fe-
low revoutionists of their occupation. Karl
Marx and the lnternatiOnale are only to be
feared on the Continent, because they are per-
secuted and oppressed. Not even the disre
gard of the rights of free speech, shown by the
New York Police Commissioners in prOhibi
ting a gathering of Communists, nor the bru
tality Of their underlings in clubbing little
squad Of hair Drained but harmless fanatics
carrying the red flag, nor tbs voluntary mar
tyrdom OF that amateur sans cutOtte, MIR. John
Swinton, could make the society popular in
tolerant America. It died few weeks ago OF
"pining atrophy." The philosophy of TheO-
dOre Parker wOuld not now be the theology OF
New England had he received kinder treat
ment and less hard blows from the Boston
clergy; nor would the Old Catholics of Ger
many be so numerous had Dollinger and 10y
son not been driven outside Of the Church
Professor Swing, the WeNern Bescher, who
was technically acquitted few days ago by
the Chicago Presbytery of heresy in having
committed the grave crime of praising from
the pulpit the life and morals of John Stuar
| Mill, the positivist, is much more dangerou
as propagandist of liberal belief or unbelief
L kIn hat hn has ON
loose entirely from his old moorings and Fathe
Terry, the Catholic priest of Chicago who ha
been expelled from his parish by Bishop Foley
for making the assertion that science was al
fact and Genesis all fiction, and that the storie
of Eden and of mans creation are only granC
poems may become second Pere Hyacinthe
There are many people who have little deub
that ex-Bishop Cummins will be moderl
Cranmer, and the creator of new episcopacy
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10

The action of James Lick, OF San Francisco
deciding the whole of his property to the public
excites much comment in that city. He do
mates $7OO,OO0 to the construction of the lar
gest and best telescope in the world for the
Observatory at Lake Tahoe; $420. 900 for
public monuments; $l5O,0OO for public baths
Home; $4,000 to the Society for the Protec-
ton of Animals; $4,000 to the Ladies' Pro,
lection Relief Society; $4,000 to the Mechan-
les Library; $4,000 to the Protestant Orphan
Asylum; $25, 5000 to the City San Jose for an
orphan asylum; $l5O,0O0 for the erection of a
bronze monument to the author of the "Star-
spangled Banner" in Golden Gate Park $50,
600 for the endowment of school of mechani
cal arts in California and the residue, in excess
of 81, $50, 900, to the Pioneers Society. He
makes ample provision for his relatives, and
reserves homestead and $25, ,000 per snnum
for himself.
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10

A Boston correspondent of the Springfield
Republican says Gen. Butler has sent word to
his friends in Essex County that he has no or
ganic disease, and dees not mean to die or
resign yet awhile. The correspondent thinks
that a European trip would secure his re-
election, since there is no prospect of q union
of his opponents upon a strong man, and gives
these reasons for his belief: "If he could go
to Europe, take Sanborn with him, and hold
his tongue for six months, it would do him
more good politically than he could have got
from SaRbOrn's campaign fund or the tactics
of Simmons at the Custom-house. But proba.
bly, he will nOt be wise enough to keep still.
He has been much annoyed by the complete
failure of his plans this Spring. Noae of his
traps would spring at the right moment, while
several times he has been badly caught him
SELF The veto was sad blow to him, and
coming. as it did, soon after the election OF
Washburn to the Senate, and the loss Of his
Putnam will case, which be had hoped TO carry,
| il has given him a great shock But the worst
of all his annoyances has be 30 the SanbOrn.
Richardson disgrace, which everybody instinc
tivey fathers upon Butler. The whole Sanboru
business has been met with such popular dis
gust that Butler and Butlerism are under O
heavier cloud in Massachusetts now than al
any other previous time. Gradually this hal
forced itself upon Buffers perception, and b,
has given away under it, as Boutwell, did un
der the Simmons and Richardson avalanch,
month or two earlier. Half the illness of boil
has been mental-the result Of vexatlon an'
disappointment"
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10
stand that was available in the whole house
being used in their display.

stand that was available in the whole house
being used in their display.
SOMETHING MORE ABOUT THE DRESSES, &c.
The day before the wedding it was found
necessary to enlarge the list of guests, and
some important omissions were rectifed. Still
there is much said about invitations being sent
to friends in other cities, and so many army
and navy people besides the diplomatic corps
being left out This dissatisfaction, however,
always occurs when the invitations are not
general. No one likes to be slighted, and as
this was to be an especially pretty and elegant
wedding, the desire to be present was natural.
[ must enlarge a little upon the brides trouss
eau, as only gave general idea OF its sump-
tuOusness. must also correct my statement
about Mrs. Grants dress. A week ago she
told me she would wear lavender colored silk,
but when l saw her the day of the wedding
she was dressed in the handsomest black tulle
over black silk that l ever beheld. Lilac rib
bons and large purple pansies trimmed the
skirt, while the waist glistened with jet. One
of the seven black silks of the trousseau was
embroidered and trimmed with jet fringe. One
polonaise was OF black guipure lace, and is to
be worn with black and gold reversible sash.
A white silk brocaded in colors was made with
court train over q petticoat of white silk
| trimmed with phsses and puffs of white tulle
Three dresses arrived from Paris the day be-
fore the wedding. They may have been pres
ents from friends abroad, for is there corner
! of the globe that there are not ofice-holder
| who feel indebted to the President for thei
positions, and took this opportunity to testif,
| their gratitudeS
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10
Little Miseries.

Life would be miserable if men and women
had Ho grievance. Itis highly probable, indeed,
that large number, if they could find moth,
ing to grUmble at, would die of simple enHui.
1t is positive enjoyment to many people to
have good grewl; they take intense delight
IN PersUading themselves and these by whom
they are surrounded that they are martyrs on
a small scale. They do not act thus always
with the mere intention of iavoking pity on
their behalf; perhaps if the truth were to be
made kRown, they are intensely angry with
the being who has the audacity to pity them
They are actHated by q somewhat vague feel
ing of discomfort. They feel that, somehow or
other, things are not exactly as they ought to
be. They may have plenty to eat and drink
they may have good clothes on their backs,
and sufficient money to provide them with all
healthful luxuries they may have friends who
love them, and comfortable homes, and yet
will they feel dissatisfied and seize an oppOr-
tunitg of making their dissatisfaction felt.
They may be good hearted people in the main
they may give money to feed the hungry and
clOthe the naked; their eyes may water at the
sight of suffering, and yet, unaccOuntable as il
may appear, they will take positive pleasure
in making these with whom their daily lives
are spent temporarily unhappy.
Human nature is made up of such palpable
contradictions there is so much instructive
good in every one of us-that there is ne res
son to be surprised at this. Such being thu
constitution of many mems minds, it viii
readily be conceived that even when peopl,
are exceptionally prosperous they make poin
OF positive glOating over trivial trials, making
out, indeed. that they have as large a share o
che bitters of life as any of their fellows.
Indeed we may 90 step further, and sa
that those who have most trials talk least abou
them Those whose lives are one continue
grind, who have to struggle hard to keep tn
wolf from the door, have 10 fact, little time fo
grumblng. They have generally to be conte1
with things as they are. 1t would be founC
were inquiry made, that the honest hard
workers are so busily engaged in thankin
J Providence for such small mercies as ar
vouchsafed them, tat they forget to murmu
except at odd moments, on account of thoi
which are denied.
Smyrna times., 1874-06-10
Saving Sunken Ships.

If you heard that a great ship of two or
three thousand tons burden had gone to the
bottom Of the sea several miles from the Shore
you would think it impossible that she could
be recovered and brought to the surface again.
Out of sight, filed with water, and torn by
rocks, she would be considered lost forever by
inexperienced people, old as well as young.
But hopeless as her case seems to you, a
wrecker might decide that it would be quite
possible to save her. Several of the Hudson
river and Sound steamers, which some of US
often travel on, have once disappeared beneath
the waves, though they are now as strong, as
busy and as fast as ever. The Albany steam
er Dean Richmond, familiar to many of you,
was sunk in the Hudson two or three years
ago, and was lifted by the Coast Wrecking
Company within thirty days after the disaster
and brought to New York under her own
steam. So, too, the steamer City of Norwich
was capsized in the Long Island Sound, and
went down bottom up, apparently total
wreck. ln three or four months she was lifted
and again in service. But much greater
achievement than either of these was the res
cue of the ship Aquila from the bottom of San
Francisco harbOr by the Coast Wrecking Com
pany in 1864. She was large, three -masted
vessel and sailed from New York, having on
board, in detached parts, the United States
monitor Comanche, which weighed sixteen
hundred and fifty tons. In four months ship
and monitor were raised-damaged OF course,
but still fl for work. Very likely you imagine
that this must have required the labor oi
many hundred men. But so complete is the
machinery used by the wreckers that only
twenty five of them were needed in the task.
In the fresh water of the lakes vessels may be
submerged for years without falling to pieces
For example, the steamer Lac Ia Belle lay
deep in the st. Claire river for three years
and was then raised in fourteen days by the
company before mentioned. Does not thi
read like wonder story rather than a recort
. of factsP Yet it is all true. And there ar,
other things in the wrecker's experience ye
more strange The fine steamer Thomas A
Scott went down in Lake Huron year or tw
ago, and was hidden in ten fathoms Of water
Twelve hundred tons of cargo held her cossl
I to the bottom. But the wreckers came prompt
ly, and on the fifth day of their work she wa
ahoat.