Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-09-19
CONVICT NEGRO BOYS.
raLK or 4 LAW ALLOWING A SEN
TENCE TO THE REFoRMAToRy.
SUPERINTENDENT HELM WANTS IT.
lie Thinks the Next Legislature VIII
Pnss Law Permitting It-Sccrc-
RcsignatIons-CapIt Notes.

Judge w W. Moffctt. Of Salem :clc-
.-.rhcd Secretary Iawloss yesterday to
KNOW n negro minors could be sentenced
.. fhe Coiored Reform School Mr.. Law.
loss bad 10 advise that the boys could be
..a, by the cour, only TO JAIN or the peni-
.au.ry.
Governor Tyler can pardon negro con-
,.,. vno IS "a minor and have him turned
over ,o John Smyth. the colored man who
has charge OF the reformatory FOR negro
bows near Hanover Courthouse The boys
are pard3ned upon the condition that they
serve out the rest OF their term az the
r.formatory. Upon the advice OF Attor-
..-Gcncral Montague. Governor Tyler
..s recently had five ncgro convicts who
aorc minors turned over 10 Smyth.
Slrcrintcndent Helms. Of the peniten-
tary. stated yesterday that there was a
lrcat need OF "a law which would permit
judges to send negro minors 10 the re-
.ormatory directly. instead Of having TO
soutence them TO the penitcnuary to be
additionally pardoned and turned over
10 John Smyth.
Il think the next Legislature will pass
81 law to meet this end he said. 1T is
much needed. il is not right that boys,
white or black. should be sent here on
their first offence 60 be thrown with the
toughest criminal specimens. IL John
SMITH can make good negroes out OF
tbcu he oucht 90 be- allowed TO try. We
need good ones awful bad"
MIR LAWLESS'S VISITOR.
Secretary Lawless was at his Office for
some um, yesterday. He is still weak,
lui is rapidly growing stronger.
SIR. Lawiess has recently enjoyed q
visit from Mr.. Charles Rorschach, OF
switzerland, England. Ohio, and Kansas,
and possibly elsewhere. MIR. Rorschach
Was born In switzerland. but when he
became a man and went TO England, just
time TO enlist IN the First British
lales and be hurried off TO the Crimea
ta hsht the Russians. lie was at Inker-
mann. the storming OF the Redan and the
Malakoff and the fall OF SebastopOl. He
thinks Tennyson's poem chiefly responsi-
ble for the greatness Of the charge Of the
Light Brigade at Balaklaya. The day az
ter the fail Of SebostopOl Mr. Rorschach
was made clerk 10 an English diplomat
and started with him TO India. lie re-
manned in India six months, when he
came back 10 England Thence he drift
I'd 10 America. He was living in Ohio
when the war broke out, and enlisted in
The Federal army.
some of Mr.. ROrschach's civil war sto-
Ics are fine ones. He saw service chief
ir IN the West. and a large portion Of bis
time was consumed in fighting and run
Ilng from Forrest. Upon one occasion
after a fight in Mississippi Mr.. Rorschach
was one of big lot of prisoners taken
ly General Forrest The party was
drawn up on the side Of the road several
Gays later. A Confederate officer order
D." h..ra IL. IL.
General Forrest" MIR. Rorscbach says
one of the fncst-looklng men he ever saw
rode up and halted in front Of the party
~ prisoners. Mr.. Rorschach stepped to
The front, and, saluting. informed General
Forrest that the prisoners were about
starved, having had nothing to eat for
three days, and that they would be
obliged If he would order them fed.
why. Ill do II, Yank," replied Gene
raj Forrest. You fellows furnish us so
many supplies you deserve 20 be well
I'd by US"
Mr. Rorschach says they soon had
nty Of food.
Mr Rorschach has returned to Kansas,
.1 which State is his home.
CAPITOL NOTES.
Commissioner Of Agriculture Koiner
thinks this is the year for Virginia
a. IlltS- re mas received information fndt
the output of one orchard, in Albemarle.
has been sold for $1,000. That Of an
other. i'm Frederick county was sold for
the splendid sum of $1,000 The apple
crop was almost failure i'm every State,
save Virginia, while the French raised
shout all the apples grown I'm Europe.
AS result, prices are very high.
Captain John =. Stringer. OF Company
ID, The old Dominion Guard, has resigned.
The Adjutant-General has also received
he resignation of Ensign IL. 7, Gornto,
VI the First Division Of the Norfolk
Naval Battalion.
Mr.. j. w. Nicholson, United States
Inspector Of boilers for Norfolk has been
made chief engineer Of the Siren. the
sovernment converted yacht which Is
now used by the Virginia naval militia,
and which will carry them TO New York
To- take part I'm the reception TO Admiral
Dewey.
Hon. NJ. 4. Cooke, member Of the House
IF delegates from Norfolk, was at the
AUDITORS Office yesterday. Mr.. Cooke
IS not a candidate for reelection.