The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-12-15

TEN. AGAIN-TERRIFlC POWDER ExPLO-
SION IN ONTARIO; THE REPORT HEARD
FORTY MILES AwAY-FoREIGS AFFAIRS.
Washington.
THE PoETIrIcATIoN BnL--wHAT 0EE NAVY
HAs-ENGLIsH SETTLERS COMING TO vIR-
GINiA-THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS
Personal, &C.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, December lathe discus
sion OF the fortifcation bill shows that our
seaboard cities al at the mercy OF the war
ships OF even such second-rate powers as
Italy, Spain, and Brazil. Mr.. Cox, OF New
York, in his speech, gave discouraging
picture Of the deiencelessness Of our coast,
saying that monitors are not to be impro-
vised every day against the surprises OF
Mcrrmacs, and that "in the late war the
North won many q battle by reason
OF its superior engineering and inVen'
ton, despite the most conspicuous chivalTy
and self sacrificing personal bravery OF the
South" 1t came out in the discussion that
the Spanish navy Is much superior to ours
in the number and grade OF It's vessels, be-
| ing made up of 148 ships and 500 guns,
mostly rife and heavy Rodman smooth
bores. Six OF its ships are first-class iron.
clad frigates, and seven second-cass ar
mored ships, while our navy has only 50
| war.veSsels, including monitors and s
tugs. And yet during recent years we
have been more than once on the verge OF
a war with Spain.
TWO THOUSAND ENGLISH SETTLERS COMING.
Mr.. NJ. A. Hurst. an Englsbman, Is here,
and bis object in visiting this country is to
purchase land for two thousand English
families, who desire to settle permanently
in the United States. He has already pur-
chased $4,000 acres in West Virginia, and
large Virginia landowners ought TO COM
municatc with him. He has had interviews
| with Senator Hampton and others. and
states that an immense number OF English
tenants are throwing up their leases be-
cause they cannot compete with American
crain-produccrs. His views accord with
those OF Senator Johnston In his excellent
address delivered before the Agricultural
Society Of Virginia during your recent
State Fair.
THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Governor Mathews, OF West Virginia, and
Mcssrs. George l.. Peyton, the lessee, and
w. b. Caldwell, one Of the stockholders OF
the White Sulphur, are here, and say that
she sale OF the Springs, TO take place by
order OF the court March 3lst, will result
| hi; ,l,,r 81 archip Motor Eatla
Mr.. Peyton's chief OF staff, is here, and
goes to Charleston. S. c., rs clerk OF the
Charleston Hotel, OF that city, for the win.
ter. Colonel Stalnaker, OF Governor Ma
thews's staff, is with the party.
PERSONAL NEWS ITEMS.
General Gordon Is receiving great num-
Der OF letters from the South endorsing his
views, as given i'll brief in my dispatches
Mr.. Frank ii. Richardson, the accomplished
correspondent OF the Baltimore Sun and
clerk Of the Senate Committee on Printing
! has gotten out the Congressional Directory
: corrected to December 9th. Senator Dor
. Cameron wants to be chairman OF the Ma
tionul Republican Executive Committee
so does w. E. Cpunder. Mr.. Brown, the
sculptor. is not dead, as reported here yes
ter(lay. Senators Plumb, Baldwin, anc
Jones Of Florida. are in New York. Messrs
Bayard, Herman, Wallace, and Morrill,, Of
the Senate Finance Committee, favor Mr.
Bayard's resolution, aud Messrs. Allison
VOORHEES,, Jones OF Nevada. and Ferry are
against it. This gives Mr.. Beck the casting
vote.
ASSOCIATED Press Reports by telegraph 10 the Dis
patch.I
THE UTE TROUBLE TO BE INVESTIGATED.
WASHINGTON, December 13.--The House
Committee on Indian Affairs have adopted
Representative Belford's resolution calling
on the Secretary Of the Interior for the cor.
resDondence relative 10 the Ute troubles
also Representative Scales's resolution in
structing the Committee on Indian Affair:
10 investigate the cause OF the receHt Ute
outbreak; and Senate resolution to appoint
a commission with view 10 the removal Of
the Utes was also adopted, with some
amendments.
SANITARY SURVEY OF MEMPHIS.
WASHINGTON, December 13.-The com
mittee appointed to make sanitary survey
of Memphis, including house-to-house In.
spection, have made report OF their in
vestigations, and recommend that measures
be at once taken to secure proper super.
intendencc and care of the work to be done
that there shall be carried out methodicaI
and thorough system OF opening, yentia'
ting, and chilling all the houses IN the city;
that it is important that the city
: should have control OF the water-wor
so rs to insure change in the
present source OF supply and q sufficient
amount of water for sanitary purposes
that a large number of houses should be
torn down and burned; that system OF
sewerage should be introduced that would
discharge the sub-sol drainage into the Mis-
sissipri river. [rnis, it is estimated. viii
cost S225, 00Ol; that bayous, with sufi
cient strip OF ground on each side to insure
their control and freedom from pollution
should be made the property of the city fol
securing drainage, dc.
Trouble with Government Officers tn
1 Texas.
ST. LOUIS. December 13.-It will be re-
m gmtered that some two or three week: