The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-17
fIetfer tro,n E.etersbure.
[Corrspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch
!. PETERSBURG, September 16, 1871.

correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.]
PETERsBURG, September 16, 1874,
"A meeting Of the School Board was held
Yesterday afternoon, at which superintend-
ent of public schools was elected. Mr.. A.
II. LeaYenworth and Professors 81. Owens,
the late incumbent, were put in nomination,
and Mr. Leavenworth! was elected by vote
or five to three! Mr.. Kevan, who was not
present; sepbwofd' that he would have voted
for Mr.. Owens had he attended, because the
election had been postponed 50 late as not
to allow Mr.. URensaan opportunity to seek
some other eDgag enient.i The superintend-
ent who hasf been chosen is comparatively a
Young man, but possesses valuable expert
ence and is popular and energetic. His ia.
Their was celebrated minister and founder
Of the Leaven worth Female College. His
administration of the duties Of the office
will begin at ONCE. ~ ~ ~
Constable G. Neal, of Lunenburg county,
brought to the city Ia custody to-day, very
black, old, and repulsive negro, named
George Cheatham, who is charged with
having committed an outrage, on the 29th Of
August, on. the person Of Rosina Cocksey, q
coored girl. The crime is said to have been
accomplished under many aggravating cir
cumstances of brutality. The negro was
committed to the city Jail for safe keeping,
the county Jail of Lunenburg having been
recently destroyed BY fire.
The rain has been falling off and on all
day. and as | write is coming down in u
soiendid torrent, which is life to the grow
ing crops.
There is to beb picnic tomorrow at Lees
Grove, in Prince George county.
60, . ,o Moth 1icf' nh rnt a
Ettricks still continues with gratifying re-
suits. Rev. w. w. Duncan conducts the
exercises nightly. :,'t.
The Porter mass-meeting last night ar-
pears not to have been assuccess. have
not seen anybody who attended. Porter
hangs fire as a sc moderate" candidate, and
the negroes adhere to the, candidate OF the
spoils and the custom.house. as matter OF
course. BY the bye, neither Porter nor any
of his clansmen went up 10 the Nominating
Convention at .Farmville to-day, and it is IN.
ferred that bis candidacy, ifhe persists in it,
will be strictly on the independent order.
Another independent Congressional aspirnnt
has been in the city for day or,two in the,
person, of Mr.. T.. e. Chambliss, the farm
ers' candidates." who expresses himself as
confident of triumphant election. .!Ettti
All the Gu stom.house Radicals have gone
I'D the road to attend StowelPs convention,
which met to-day at FarmVille.
The. nomination Of Rush. Burgess as the
Radical candidate for Congress in the Third
District excites amusement in this city,
where Rush used to follow the profession of
butcher. He was for q time also our mill.
tary mayor. He is regarded as too light
metal for Congressional service, not to speak
of other respects in which his record is yul-
nerable. '9@ .As'
The list of the teachers just elected for
duty in the public schools will be published
tomorrow, but it is too long to be copied,
and would not interest your readers.
y r. st4. = ROBIN ADAIR.