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I DAILY, SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY,
x. No. OW>4 Mnin Street, Richmond, Va.
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l„ Clubs at extremely low rates.
The logic of facts in relation to the
financial measures of our republican Ad
ministration, is effectually silencing the
sophistry of our Democratic contempora
ries. In spite of the senseless clamor
against Air. Boutwell, that he had failed to
introduce even the "entering wedge of a
five per cent, loan," we rind that wedge
has not only been entered, but driven
home ; and from the comments of the I/in
ilon Economist, the great Kttropean au
thority in financial matters, it appears not
only possible, but probable, that the specu
lations which we recently made in the col
umns of the State Journal, as to the
negotiation, at an early day, of the four
and one-half, and even the four per cent.
new bonds, will be realized. Nothing can
prevent it but the transfer of tile national
administration* to Democratic hands, and
the inauguration of that policy of hato and
their agitation which is its only platform.
[From the London Economist, Aug. 19.
It must be admitted, however, that the chances
•in' once more In Mr. BontwelPa favor, that he
may succeed in completing the conversion of
.'40,000,000 (> per cent, bonds into o per cent lionds,
and' that a farther -operation of the same sort
may soon be possible. The diminuatiim of the
~ic")tiiy of the American ibht is c<rtainlit telling
anatltjcyni\w market, and probably the worst
effect of the French competition has been felt.
There is some likelihood that France will endea
vor to keep out of 1 lie money market as long as
iwssible, so that she may issue the next large
loan required at a lower rate. Anil if France
can borrow once more at r> per cent., or less,
America will have abettor chance than she has
lately had, or has at present, of doing the same.
' There is no doubt too that apart from the cir
cumstance of the higher rate ot interest current
in America, that country ought to borrow at a
much cheaper rate than France. She has barely
one-half the debt, a much smaller total burden
of taxation, and greatly larger resources. Pro
bably it will not bo easy, for a good while at
least, to convert any material amount of the debt
into bonds bearing less than live per cent, inter
est, but the saving of one ]ier cent, ou the pre
sent annual interest should still bean object of
importance to American Finance Ministers.
In contrast with the financial measures
so successfully inaugurated and prosecuted
liy the Republican party, read the f'ollow
iig comment upon tho Now Departure in
finance announced by the Ohio Democracy,
and let prudent business men, and toiling
mechanics choose between the two parties,
which compare as Hyperion to Satyr.
II may not be generally known that the patent
buck-action three per coin, repudiation currency
scheme of Gen. Ewing and the Ohio Democracy
was borrowed from the St. Louis Labor Reform
convention. The Labor Reformers, as well as
the Ohio Democracy, appear to Ire utterly igno-
Tant of the connect.on between large proiits and
a high rote of interest, men paying a large per
centage for tho use of their money because they
can get—or think they can get—corresponding
large returns. Witness the following from tho
Anthracite Monitor, organ of the Pennsylvania
Coal Miners' Union : "An exchange alludes to
the feet that much English and German money
is now being put away iv American Investments
for a dark and rainy day, and adds thai all this
shows good sense and .judgment. Does it show
good sense nnd judgment for us to maintain a
rate of interest that will attract so much foreign
capital, invite extravagance, and llnally burden
us with a debt we never can pay ?" When Amer
ican profits fall to the level of European proiits
die rate of interest will sink permanently to tan)
Kuropean level—and American wages, too.
Anecdotes of Thomas Jefferson.
Near Washington lived a friend with whom
Mr. Jefferson frequently stopped when en
route to Monticello, and on one of these
occasions a servant rushed in to say a negro
man was bleeding to death from a cut with
ituaxe. The distance to a physician being
considerable, Mr. Jefferson proposed that
lie should sew up the wound, which was
in the calf of the fellow's leg, and did so
successfully, remarking at the time that it
.seemed strange that the thick flesh cover
ings and defences of the bones in the human
limbs were on the back of those members,
while the danger of fracture came generally
from the front. This being mentioned as
tin instance of Mr. Jefferson's acuteness of
perception to tho physician, who had ar
rived late upon the scene, that worthy man,
partly from disgust at having been robbed
of his patient, and partly from being a most
bitter political opponent of the President,
broke out, raising his hands with horror:
"Well, what is the world coming to? Here
this fellow Jefferson, after turning upside
down every thing on the earth, is now
quarrelling with God Almighty himself!"
Instance number two is told of an equally
devoted party friend of Mr. Jefferson's,
who was exulting that even in dying ou the
Fourth of July his hero reflected new
iustre on the sublime principles of the party.
Some one here brought the news that John
Adams, the leader of the Federalist or op
posing party, had died on the same day.
For a time the- ardent Jeflcrsonian would
not believe it, but being at last satisfied of
the fact' exclaimed in a passsion, "It was
a mean Yankee trick.!"— Mr*. Randolph's
Domestic Life of Jifferson.
The Sunday law question is likely to give
the New Jersey politicians, like those of
Ohio, a great deal of trouble. The Ger
mans of two or three of the wards of
Newark have resolved to ask a written de
claration from the candidates for tho office
of Governor, that they will not assist any
agitation to force the existing but disre
garded Sunday law, but bind themselves,
on the contrary, to approve any act of the
Legislature which is calculated te abolish
this law, which is at variance with the right
of free thought and faith. The t mount of
dodging and squirming this course will oc
casion among the political leaders may be
imagined when it is remembered that New
ark has a German population of ,'I0,00!) or
snore.
A contract for making a new telescope for
the National Observatory is now being car
ried out by a firm in the city of Boston. It
must be ready, according to the terms of
the contract, in about two years hence. It
will be twenty-six inches in diameter, and
the plan, as furnished the contractor, is
pronounced by scientific gentlemen to be an
excellent one, and it is expected that the
telescope when finished will be the finest
/me in the world.
The horticultural school for woman, es
tablished about a year ago, in Massachu
setts, has proved a success in the education
of young ladies for the carrying on or su
perintendence of garden farms or greei.-
Itouscs. The Boston Traveler says that
during the year the eight young ladies of
the class have spent from six to eight hours
daily in the garden or green-house, doing all I
tbe work except the heaviest and coarsest,
and as the fruit of their toil have supplied
the laroihes of a dozen or more amply with
vegetables. Each has given fror% thirty to
forty mjnutes daily to recitations in bota-,
ny, etc. Now one of the young ladies is
about to start a green-house and garden at
Jamaica Plain, anil another at some other
point near Boston.
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A Pleasant Affair. —The duty of report
ing the different fruits on exhibition at
Assembly Hall, yesterday, prevented us
from hearing and reporting the address of
the Mayor, welcoming the delegates to
Richmond, and the reply of Hon. Marshall
Wilder.
However objectionable I lis Honor, the
Mayor, may be to us politically, we have a
profound respect for the happy manner in
which he performs the duties of his posi
tion, under circumstances like those of yes
terday. We, however, congratulate our
selves and friends, when we remember that
it might have been worse, and certainly no
better with the material to select from.
Wo supply the omission we were com
pelled to make yesterday.
RECEPTION AT THE CAI'ITOL.
At half-past twelve the members of the
Society marched in procession to tho Capi
tol, headed by Mr. Allan, of the Virginia
Horticultural and Pomological Society, and
Colonel W r ilder, of Massachusetts. Ar
riving there, they were received iv the lfall
of the House of Delegates by His Honor
Mayor Keiley, who spoke as follows:
ADDRESS OF MAYOR KEILEY.
authorities and people of Richmond; am
embrace the occasion, also, to congratula
my fellow-citizens on tho presence amo
them of so large and intelligent a body o
gentlemen from all parts of our commo
country, engaged in a duty so benefice
that their deliberations will provoke hosti
criticism in no quarter.
The Union of science with labor is anion
the most characteristic peculiarities of o
age. The time was when philosop
marched along the highway of the cart
wrapped in lordly pride, which disdained a
association with labor, and if it deigned
cast a look across the hedge, that divid
it from the field and the garden, it was
vent its scorn on the dusty hand and It
intelligent brain there engaged. From tl
two great evils resulted. First, agricultu
and every other form of fruitful labor los
the important aid of philosophy, a
secondly, philosophy itself lost the powi
ful stimuiiis which profit lends to ever
development of human etfort. *
Almost within our memories all this ha.
been changed ; the white hand lias claspet
the brown, the teeming brain has graspet
the plow, the pruning-hook and the sickle,
and those great agencies for the betterment
of our race whom Cod hath joined are no
longer by man to be sundered. And with
wltat splendid results on every hand!
Surely if he may be claimed to be a bene
factor of his race who makes two blades of
grass grow where only one grew before,
your praise should bo a thousand fold
greater who have taken the bitter fruit of
a thorny tree in the wilds of Eastern Eu
rope, unfitted for food for man or beast, and
therefrom have developed the most delicious
fruit of our day in more than five hundred
varieties. [Applause.] And lastly, gen
tlemen, I welcome you with peculiar plea
sure, as this is your first assembling in a
Southern city. Let me indulge tho hope
that you have not only brought hither your
persons and the superb results of your
skill, but that you have come among us
bringing your hearts likewise. [Creat ap-
Wheu the late unhappy strify was ended,
the first act of reconstruction was passed
by nature. Our brother-blood was still
boiling in hostile veins ; tho clenched hand
was still unrclaxed, and the passions of
war were still rife when from a thousand
skies and hill-sides and athwart a thousand
plains came the generous sunlight, the gen
tle rain, and the tempering winds, tilling up
the gaping ritle-pits. battering down the
sharp esearpements of frowning forts, blot
ting out with waving grain the fierce scar
of shot and shell, crowning battlements
with fragrant llowers, and weaving a beau
tiful carpet of green over the scenes and
sites of war's worst devastations. [Ap
plause.] May it be your happy fortune and
high privilege, gentlemen, you who labor
with nature in so many pleasant and profit
able fields, to lend her a helping hand and
COL. wildek's SPEEH.
At the close of the remarks of the Mayor,
Col. Wilder replied as follows :
Air. Mayor —In behalf of the American
Pomological Society and in my own behalf
I return you my grateful acknowledgments
for your gracious welcome antl for the most
eloquent words in which you have addressed
us. lam happy to be here. We are hap
py to be here in the capital of the Old Do
minion, a State so distinguished for the pro
duction of illustrious men —of Washington,
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison and
Tyler —all of whom have filled the highest
station in the gift of the people ; John Mar
shall, Patrick Henry, Henry Clay, names
tliat will ever coastitttte a galaxy of talent
to fill the brightest page iv the annals of
American history. We come from differ
ent and widely distant sections of ourcoun-
I came from tho cold and sterile soil of
New England, where we have not the lux
uriant soil of tho West, nor the warm,
genial and sunny clime of the South ; buL
sir, we have hearts as warm as yours; and
although granite ami ice enters largely into
our exports, they are no evidence of the
hardness of our hearts, or the coldness of
our affections. I assure you, sir, we are
most happy to be here, and to meet our
Southern brethren on Southern soil, to con
cert measures for the promotion of the ob
ject of our Society—the extension of fruit
culture throughout the length and breadth
of our land. With the natural advantages
which the South possesses, and especially
your own Virginia, upon whom the North
depends so largely for her early fruits, the
time is not far distant when fruit culture
will constitute a source oi revenue scarcely
I second to any other product of the soil.
Our Society is now in session, our time is
very preciuus, and with the hope that you
and your board will honor 08 with your
presence at our meetings, I beg you will
, allow us to retire.
Immediately after this, Mr. Getty, of
Massachusetts, proposed (while the Mayor
of Richmond and Colonel P. Wilder were
parting) three cheers for Massachusetts
RICHMOND, VA., THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1871. VOL. 111. NO. 251.
and Virginia—shaking hands—upon which
Mr. Wilder responded upon the broad
platform of good-fellowship and good citi
zenship. This was received with tremen
dous applause, when the delegates dis
persed to examine the various curiosities
and attractions Of tltc capital.
Buildings. —-We have by very great labor
on our part, during the past few weeks,
I collected and published a great deal of in
formation regarding the growth and pros
perity of our city, and especially as to the
new buildings in course of erection. The
collection of facts regarding any one
building involves an amount of research,
which but few persons who have read our
paragraphs upon the building operations
all around us, can or do appreciate. Under
the circumstances, we cordially endorse the
suggestion of the Whig, made in the fol
lowing language : "It is difficult to keep
up a record of all the building improve
ments recently commenced in Itichmond.
We wish that the city engineer would urge
the City Council to institute the system of
building permits in vogue in the Northern
cities, so that we could obtain periodical
official statements of the building enter
prises projected here. It ought to be
done."
A Story With a Moral. —A certain rail
road official in Virginia, was once aslied to
extend a courtesy to one similarly con
nected with another road, whereupon he re
luctantly consented. Application was af
terwards niado to another official of the
same road, who, knowing he could not re
fuse, unhesitatingly and politely replied it
would give him great pleasure to comply.
The gentleman afterwards told us it was
delightful to come in contact with those
who never done things by halves. This
little affair repealed jtself yesterday, and
we must bo pardoned for calling attention
to it in the kindest spirit possible.
A number of the delegates attending the
meeting of the Pomological societies, were
invited to take a trip to Batch Cap. Many
of them were compelled to walk to Rock
etts, while those who rode, did so at their
own expense. The expense of procuring
them seats on the street-cars would have
been small, and would have added a grace
to the occasion, of which it was deprived,
for want of this or a similar provision for
their accommodation. Let us endeavor to
be hospitable not by halves or quarters,
but by the whole. Our friends in the
North do things differently when occasion
offers, ami we should be no less polite than
A Dangerous and Cruel Habit. —There
is a little curly-headed white boy, living on
Eighth street, a few doors above Broad,
whose parents own two tlogs, one of them
a large and vicious one, and on neither of
which has been paid the city tax, whom we
have seen on several different occasions
hissing these dogs upon small colored boys.
It is with great difficulty these boys can
keep the dogs from biting and injuring them.
This is not all. Last night we saw a color
ed man attempt to protect the colored boy,
by driving oft' the dugs, when a white per
son interfered and took sides with the white
boy.
Fearful riots have grown out of smaller
occurrences than this, and we advise the
parents of this little boy to at once correct
this cruel habit of their child, or remove
these dogs that will yet get some one into
trouble.
Our Pavement Nuisances. —The Evening
News of yesterday informs us that a lady
was knocked down and run over by a
wagon running down one of our pavements
upon which young America was riding.
We have so often called the attention of
the police to these boys and their wagons,
and to their consort nuisances—baby car
riages, that we aro tired and sick of doing
so. W r e cannot believe that Justice White,
for whom we have always professed so
much respect, has any control of this mat
ter, or we would expect better results than
have come to our notice. If Justice White
can do anything to abate them, we appeal to
him personally, and believe he will give us
a fair hearing. Give them half the pave
ment, "Jestis," but not the whole of it.
Coastwise Vessels. —The number of coast
wise vessels entered at the port of Rich
mond during the month of August was
07; aggregate tonnage, II,WHO; number
of men, 1,401; of these vessels 20 were
propellers; 31 sidewheels ; 14 schooners ;
2 brigs. The number of coastwise vessels
cleared was ,V 2 ; of which number 20 were
propellers; 31 sidewheels; I brig; ton
nage, 3(),357 ; number of men, 1,328.
Anal hi i- I'ashna.stir Ai rested. —By refer
ence to a special dispatch in our telegraphic
columns to-day, it will be seen that the in
defatigable special agent of tho postoflice
department, Captain Frey, has "snatched"
another dishonest postmaster. Let the
work go on till all the rascals are caged.
County Court. —Isaac Williamson was
tried before Judge Minor yesterday, for
killing Boiling Johnson on" the loth of
July last, with Jhe particulars of which
our readers are familiar. After hearing
the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of
not guilty.
Bankrupts. —Since our lasl report, the
following cases have been filed in the office
of the register in bankruptcy: VV. J. Cou
sin, Richmond city; John W. Munn,
Louisa county; A. I>. Prentice, Peters
hmg.
Hustings Court.—h Judge Guigon's
court yesterday the following cases were
disposed of:
Maurice Branch, charged with rape, tried
and acquitted.
Maurice Branch, same offence hoUepros
equi entered by tho prosecuting attorney.
Robert J. Smith, for feloniously shooting
and wounding one Simon Cooper. Jury
sworn anil evidence partly through. Case
continued until to-morrow.
(Radio See his Old Friends. —A number
of gentlemen are here attending the great
fruit exhibition from the State of New York.
Among them, we have no doubt, are ac
quaintances of our very elegant Governor,
who, on yesterday, manifested his delight
at meeting his old friends by appointing
John T. Hall notary public for Norfolk and
Georgo Wise notary public for Alexandria.
Sale of the Stale's Interest in the Peters
burg Railroail. —In pursuance of the act of
the' (ieneral Assembly passed March 28th,
1871, authorizing the sale of the State's
interest in the Richmond and Petersburg
railroad to Henry K. Ellyson, Joseph It.
Anderson, and others, the Board of Public
Works yesterday transferred said stock to
said parties. '1 he amount realized was
$578,400, which reduces the debt of the
Commonwealth that amount.
Distilleries. —Ten fruit distilleries are
now in operation in this district.
Local Notes.
well known in
Mr. John H.
— I tie banquet to the delegates 10 tne
American l'omological Society will be given
at Assembly Hall Friday night.
—The Democrats will nominate candi
dates to Represent Richmond in the House
of Delegates, on Monday, the 25th inst.
—Henry Young, Kx<\., of New York
city, has donated $30,000 in Virginia and
Georgia bonds, to found a professorship of
the Inteqiretation of the New Testament
in the Farmville seminary.
—(hying to the absence of the chairman of
the committee to whom was referred the
question of providinf new quarters for Jus
tice White's court, the Council could take
no action thereon at its last meeting.
—The repairs on the Second Baptist
church are well nigh complete. Workmen
are engaged in erecting scaffolding around
the steeple of the Methodist church, corner
of Broad and Tenth, in order to make
much needed repairs.
—A number of our restaurants are ex
pecting a supply of oysters Saturday, and
are busy cleaning up for their reception and
preparation. Scammel, on Ninth street,
near Broad, has recently fitted up and im-
Democratic Recruits. —The Whig has
cheering news from Chesterfield: that a
number of Republicans have determined
not to support tho ticket, and that they
have professed their determination to sup
port the Conservative ticket.
This cheering news, of course, comes
from a Democratic source, and is entitled
to no more consideration than such state
ments generally are; but, if true, we do
not hesitate to declare the belief that the
professed Republican, who, under any cir
cumstances, would support the mongrel
ticket, is happily gotten rid of.
The Republican party has had . many
such deadweights to carry before, and can
more easily afford to get rid of them than
it can to carry them.
Democracy is entirely welcome to all
such recruits, for it is possible, in a mo
ment of necessity, we might have been
compelled to put them on guard, when we
should have found they were unworthy the
trust, only after they had betrayed us into
the hands of the enemy. When we really
need such "unreliables" in the Republican
party we propose to hire or purchase them
for the occasion, and when we shall have
used them, return them where they pro
perly belong.
Coiu'ert at Assembly Hall. —Monday and
Tuesday next we are promised an enter
tainment at Assembly Hall of rare excel
lence, and which promises to bring to
gether the elite and music-loving portion of
the city.
We could not abstain from speaking in high
terms of it if there was no one else to figure
on the occasion than the accomplished and
talented Carncross, who, years ago, in
Philadelphia, acquired a reputation which
tlrew around him a host of admirers, among
them ourselves. He lacked nothing then,
as an accomplished artist; but if he did,
years of training and experience have per
fected his rare talent as a tenor singer.
With Mr. Carncross will appear Miss
Susan Galton, whose name appropriately
heads the list, is a cantatrice who has
achieved an eminent position. She is, we
believe, a niece of Louisa Pyne, and re
ceived a thorough musical education in
Paris and Ijondon before making her debid.
Miss Josephine Schimpf is said to possess
a rich and cultured contralto. Mr. James
(i rant reappears in Richmond, after an ab
sence of several years, greatly improved in
voice. Mr. James Arnold, late of the
Richings troupe, will be pleasantly remem
bered by many of his former admirers.
Tho sale of reserved seats commenced
this morning at Messrs. West & Johnston's
bookstore, The price of admission is $1.
No extra charge for reserved seats.
School Trustees. —The State Board of
Education has appointed the following dis
trict trustees: Captain John A. Hams,
vice 11. 0. Hawthorne, Columbian Grove
district, Lunenburg; Ray T. Bailey, vice
D. McC. Chichester, (appointed county
superintendent), Falls Church district,
Fairfax county.
Whiskey. —The quantity of whiskey rec
tified in the Third District of Virginia,
during tho month of August, was 20,947
gallons.
Police Court — Hon. J. J. White, Jus
tice—Thursday, Sept. 7. —Tho following
cases were disposed: of:
James Evans, colored, charged with being
disorderly and creating a disturbance in the
streets. Fined $2.
Thomas aud Ann Nicholson, charged
with threatening, cursing and abusing Mar
garet Kelly. Difficulty settled by the par
ties and the case dismissed.
Margaret Kelly, charged with creating a
disturbance in the street. Discharged.
David Broaddus and William Davis,
colored, charged with creating a disturb
ance on the street. Broaddus fined $1 and
Davis discharged.
Caroline Lewis, colored, charged with
creating a disturbance on the street, and
also with carrying concealed weapons.
Fineds2.
Chelsea Johnson, colored, charged with
stealing lumber from Jolmston & Estes.
Found guilty, and sentenced to ten days'
confinement in tho city jail.
John Wesley, colored, cltarged with
stealing forty dollars in money and valuable
papers from Henry H. Iloye. Found
guilty of pettit larceny, and sentenced to
confinement in the city jail for nine months,
and chain-gang for six months.
John Wesley, colored, cliarged with
stealing a lot of butter from Carolbte
Brooks. Found guilty and sentenced to
confinement in the city jail for three
months.
Nelly Baker, Georgianna Johnson, Mar
tha Willis, and Henrietta Jones, colored,
charged with stealing three skirts and sun
dry other articles of wearing apparel from
G.Cnscr. Baker discharged. Johnson, Noil
lis, andMoues found guilty, and sentenced
to confinement in the city jail for the term
of ten days each.
Mechanics' Trades Union Meeting.
There will be a meeting of the members
of the Mechanics' Trades Union to-night
at Schott's Monticello Hall. It is desirable
that every member should be present as
officers for the ensuing year are to be
elected.
Twice Convicted. —John Wesley, colored,
was convicted upon two seperate charges
of theft, in Justice White's court this
morning. For the first offence he was ser
ienced to nine months confinement in the
city jail, and for the second three months
in the same institution.
The Pomological Exhibition.—We have
already given our readers some idea of the
fruits, 4c., on exhibition at Assembly
Hall. From even our full report it is im
possible to form a correct idea of the beau
ty nnd excellence of the fruits gathered to
gether in Richmond from all sections of the
Union.
Tho "Hands Off" cards which adorn
each table are exceedingly annoying to
those whose hearts crave for those things
upon which the eye rests. The rich, ripe,
and lucious fruits which adorn and beauti
fy the California and Kansas tables fre
quently tempted us to go beyond the
bounds of reasons and to feast to our fill,
in spite of the admonitions of tbe notices
to "Hands Off." We dare say many of
our readers will agree with us, that if Eve
was tempted by such fruits as is here ex
hibited, she was not much to blame as one
would imagine.
At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the
hall was thrown open for the reception of
visitors, who, in a short time, began to till
tip tho aisles, wandering from table to ta
ble, admiring the different fruits with which
they were ladened. The Kansas and Cali
fornia tables, occupying, as they do, that
portion of the hall nearest the entrance,
soon became the centre of attraction.
These two States have certainly exhibited
the most beautiful fruits, but whether they
are the best or not, we have been unable to
judge, because we are not permitted to
taste.
Those who attended the exhibition last
night, went home better satisfied with tho
country in which they lived, because they
saw evidence of the goodness of the great
Creator, who had so kindly given them a
land so fruitful.
This morning at 9 o'clock the hall was
again opened to the public, and, although
the crowd of visitors was not so great as
we expected, those who were present man
ifest great satisfaction with the arrange
ments and article exhibited.
The public exhibitions will be held until
Saturday, during day and night, at the con
clusion of which wo hope the contributors
will agreo to sell tho fruit now on exhibi
tion. Persons who have not yet availed
themselves of the opportunity of seeing tho
products of the far West, of the South,
East and North, are advised to do so at an
early day, as much of the fruit is losing its
beauty by decay.
An Atrocious and Cold-Blooded Murder
in Hanover.— A mile this side of Cold Har
bor, in Hanover county, lived two men who
married sisters, named respectively Stew
ard and Wade. For about six mouths
Steward and his wife have been separated,
she living with her brother-in-law, Wade.
Steward becoming jealous of AVado de
clared his intention to kill him. Yesterday
morning his hellish purposes were accom
plished, resulting in the instant death of
Wade. Wade was at work in his po
tatoe field when Steward approaching,
shot him through the heart with
a load of buck-shot without a moment's
warning. Mr. Wade leaves a wife and six
little children, while Steward's wife has two.
A coffin for the body of Wade was fur
nished this morning by one of our city
undertakers.
We have not learned whether Steward
was arrested or not.
Hotel Chartered. —The Secretary of the
Commonwealth has received a copy of the
charter granted by Judge Blow iucorporat
the Atlantic Hotel Company of Norfolk.
The president of the same is W. N, H.
Smith, Esq., and the stockholders and
directors embrace leading citizens of Nor
folk. Capital stock, $37,500.
Mass Meeting To-night. —We are re
quested to announce that there will bo a
mass meeting of residents and tax-payers
of Broad street held at Hauck's Saloon, on
West Broad street, at 8 o'clock.
The want of gas and water on West
Broad, is beginning to be so severely felt,
as to induce a concert of action among
those interested, to see what can be done
towards obtaining a supply. As many as
can are requested to Vie present promptly
at the hour named.
Unmailable Letters Remaining in the
Rkhmond Post-office, September 7th, 1871.
Mrs. 0. P. Randal, Colorado ; Mrs. 11. L.
King, Washington, D. C.; Baughman
Bro's & Co., Richmond, Va.; W. G. Car
ter, Monumental Hotel, Richmond, Va.;
Nathaniel Bow, Richmond, Va.
Convicts. —The sheriff of Norfolk county
arjived this morning with the following
named convicts for the penitentiary: Chas.
Hedgepeth, whito, for one year for petit
larceny, being the second offense ; William
Barnes, colored, for three years for stealing
oysters.
Fresh Jteading. —Fresh reading just re
ceived this evening from our friends just
below this office. Among the most read
able, we notice Harpers' aud Leslie's
superb illustrated weeklies; tho Chimney
Corner, with supplement and beautiful
chromo; Harper's Bazar, profusely illus
trated with fashion plates ; Once a Week ;
Appleton's Journal, and Scientific Ameri
can, besides a host of comic papers —such
as Budget of Fun, Comic Monthly, Comic
News, New Varieties, Day's Doings, &.C.
The visitors to the Pomological Exhibition,
who are in want of something to read,
either in the book or paper line, should call
at once on our friends—Messrs. Johnston
& Selden, at No. 918 Main street.
Clearances for August. —Ten vessels
cleared at the custom-house in this city
during tho month of August for various
foreign parts. Of these, seven were barks
and three brigs. The cargoes of these
vessels consisted of 10,235 barrels of flour,
valued at $127,900 ; 2,328,500 pounds leaf
tobacco, valued at $238,435; 315 sacks
quercitron bark for tanning, valued at
(893.
•g-The Stock el' Liquors and Teas offered by
W. D. BLAIR k CO., 8:17 Main street, is unsur
passed. That "B Select" Whiskey at *2.50 par
gallon, is a very superior article.
fcjß'llilliard Temple —Redlord and Ires, car.
uer of Main and Eleventh streets, koap the most
fashionable Billiard Saloon iv Richmond. Their
tables are all new, and everything connected
is lirsi-claas. Players
with the
are informed that whistling is positively prohib
tied. _
»{)- Thompson* Pomade Optime, as a dress
ing for the Hair, Is all that is required; purely
vegetable and highly jMuluintd, it softens, im
proves anil beautifies the Hair, strengthens the
roots, and gives It a rich glossy appearance —
For sale by all druggists. Price, 33 and 73 cents
per bottle.
KjTJouveu'* Inodorous kitl (ilote Cleaner
By Us aid gloves can be quickly and repeatedly
cleaned and niiule equal to new ; even when hail
ly soiled they can bo readily restored. It iv easy
of application ami is perferfectly free from any
dor For ealo by druggists aud raucy goods
dealers. Price, 25 cents a bottle.
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
ARREST OF ANOTHER
[special to the state JotaXAl..]
Danville, Va., September 7.—Captain
John Frcy arrested on the 4th instant, Miss
Catharine Nowlin, assistant postmaster at
Patrick Court-house, charged with using
cancelled stamps. She made a confession.
HABEAS CORPUS REFUSED!
HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES!
nsti'sf Time on lleeord!
ALIFOLNIA ELECTIONB !
THE GEORGIA INDUSTRIAL FAIR !
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS!
The Cholera in Europe !
The Georain Industrial Fair.
Savannah, Oa., September 7.—Arrange
ments for the first annual fair cf the Indus
trial Association of Georgia are being made
on the most -extensive scale. Twenty
thousand dollars are offered on premiums.
The indications are that it will be one of the
most successful expositions ever held in the
South. Competition for premiums is open
to Georgia and the world. Arrangements
for the accommodation of visitors and ex
hibitors will be complete in every particu
lar. A cordial invitation is extended to all
sections.
California Elections.
San Francisco, Sept. 7. —Both parties
claim the city ana State. Tho vote is close
but not full. The Democrats elect the
mayor, supervisor, and treasurer, and tho
Tax-payers elect the balance of tho muni
cipal ticket. Only five per cent, of the ne
groes voted the Democratic ticket.
[Second Dispatch.]
San Francisco, Col., Sept. 7.—Booth
tep.) has carried the State Dy from 2,000
i 3,000 majority. His majority iv this
tor is nearly 1,000. The Tax-payers
cket is elected with one or two exceptions.
The Meeting of Emperor* at Salzburg.
Salzburg, Sept. 7.—The Emperor of
Austria with a brilliant suite was recoived
by Emperor William and Bismarck. The
two Emperors, after conversing lor a quar
ter of an hour, sat down to a grand ban
quet.
Habea* Corpus Refused.
New York, Sept. 7.—The habeas corpus
applied for by Rosenzweig, the abortionist,
has been refused.
Hurricane iv the West Indies.
Kingston, Jamaica*, Sept. 7.—A hurri
cane and earthquake has caused great dam
age on Turk's Island. Many vessels are
ashore.
Fastest Time an Record.
Milwaukie, Wis., September 7. —"Gold-
nith's Maid" has made the fastest mile in
te fastest three miles ever recorded,
imc—2:2oJ; 2:17; 2:20,.
From Loudon.
THE CHOLERA IN EUROPE.
London, September 7.—The cholera is
beginning to ahate in the Baltic Provinces
of Prussia. The eases heretofore reported
are said to be of a different type from tho
Asiatic. The disease throughout Germany
is decreasing.
From I'ari...
Paris, September 7. —It is intimated that
the relations between the Italian Minister
and Napoleon render his position here in
tolerable.
The Assembly has passed a bill imposing
the burdens of the war on the whole na
tion, and providing for the immediate dis
tribution of a hundred million Francs
among the sufferers from the Commune
riots.
Thiers and Bazaine has had an hour's in
terview.
Negotiations for German evacuation are
not going on smoothly.
Foreig-n Miscellany.
A large and orderly meeting has been
held at Glasgow to support the strike at
New Castle. Resolutions in favor of the
nine hour system were passed.
The German Bishops, in secret confer
ence at Fulda, have omitted high mass.
This is considered significant of earnest
business.
Queen Victoria is rapidly recovering from
her indisposition.
lion. Mr. Cowper has been arrested in
London on the charge of swindling.
The steamer "Leader," from Dantzig
for Queenstown, has been wrecked, and
her crew, twenty-five in number, lost.
The new United States steamer "Ju
niata" rescued twelve persons from a cap
sized boat in Schladt.
LAST NIGHTS
Ku-Klux Affairs In Mississippi— A Witness
Imprisoned fur Hi fusion to Answer ttues-
Jackson, Miss., September o.—At the
post term of the United States District
Court a large number of witnesses were
summoned, under the enforcement act, to
testify as to Ku-Klux organizations.—
Amongst them was Thos. Scanlan, of New
ton county, who testified that he knew of
no political organization—Ku-Klux or
otherwise —that was inimical to the laws of
the United States or State. He testified,
however, that he was a member of a secret
organization, having for its object the gootl
of the country, but refused to reveal its title
or practical pui-poses.
The refusal being deemed contempt by
the court and grand jury, Scanlan was, by
order of Judge Hill, of the Federal court,
consigned to jail, without benefit of bail,
till the meeting of the court on the first
Monday in November.
Scanlan is represented as a' merchant of
high standing, strictly peaceable and law
abiding, and universully respected in his
community. The order for ins imprison
ment has caused much feeling.
A terrible tragedy was enacted seven
miles below this place last night, by which
two officers of the present State administra
tion met their deaths at the hands of » des
perate negro. The officials were tlie bro
thers lleriu. They were trying to arrest
the negro, when both were s ithbed in the
nock and died almost instantly. 'Hie negro
has been arrested.
Official Paper for the Government.
RATES OF ADVERTISING.
ONE DOLLAR per eqruire of eiuht lines, r,.1i,l
nonpariel.
SPECIAL RATES made at counter, or liv
contract, with regular patron*.
From Washington.
KOI'IiLE BREWING WITH ManaUCO —
TWO AMERICAN VESSELS ATTACKED
BY MEXICANS, AND ONE CAPTI'REK. „_.
Washington, September 0. —Information
was received here to-day, by telegraph,
that the American bark "Harvest Home"
had been attacked by a force of Mexicans
oft the bar of Santa Anna, on the night of
the 27th of August, and her master obliged
to put to sea without, completing her cargo.
Another dispatch from Oa'vcston, Texas,
also dated to-day, mentions that the Ameri
can bark "Brothers," owned by a firm in
Norfolk, Virginia, and of which James B.
Thurston was the master, was captured
from him by an armed force of Mexicans
on the 27th of August, off Santa Anna ;
and that her captain was forced to abandon
her, and that twenty-four hours afterwards
he was picked up by the "Harvest Home,"
and arrived at (ialveston yesterday. Cap
tain Thurston will visit "Washington and
make a full statement of all the facts in the
case to the government authorities.
The President's return has been fixed for
the 10th of October.
From London.
A COAL MINE HORROR IN ENOLAND —
LAFAYETTE AN NIVERBARY —PRO-
GRAMME OF THE ENGLISH HEPUB-
in the seam of the mine at the time of the
catastrophe are cut off, and it is feared they
have been suffocated by the foul air. A
party sent down to ascertain the condition
of the men buried alive are still in the
mine, and have, it is thought, also per
* -*■ ■ a
lsnca.
The neighborhood of the disaster is
thronged with the relatives anil acquaint
ances of the supposed victims, and the
scenes are of the most heartrending descrip
tion. Details of the harrowing event are
awaited with anxiety.
The anniversary of J-afayette's birth-day
was celebrated to-day by the French socie-
The Republican Committee has issued its
programme. It embraces the application
of federation to the Kingdom ; the aboli
tion of titles and privileges ; the suppres
sion of monopolies ; the abolition of stand
ing armies and compulsory education ; pro
vision for laborers able to work, and sus
tenance for the incapacitated ; the national
ization of land ; popular legislation, and
the diffusion of Republicanism.
The mate of the ship Euterpe, charged
with scuttling the vessel, has been bailed in
tho sum of $3,000.
Dr. Mary Frances Seeley, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Dr. Sarah C. Steward, of Phila
delphia, have sailed for Calcutta as mission
aries, under the auspices of the Woman's
Union Mission Society, for heathen lands.
London, Sept. C—The number of killed
at the Wigau mine explosion is sixty-nine.
Tho scenes around the mouth of the mine
are most heart-rending.
The proprietors in Newcastle are sending
in every direction for workmen to take the
place of the strikers. The workmen are
arming. Some factories are enabled to re
sume work. Nearly 4,000 workmen havo
The remains of Kenlbrth, of the Tyno
crew, who died at St. John's, N. 8., have
arrived. Thousands followed tho coffin in
silence to the house of the witlow. The
funeral will take place Sunday.
From Prussia.
the conference at Salzburg will strengthen
the friendship between Germany and Aus-
Germany reminds the Cabinet at Bucha
rest that Romania is not a sovereign State,
and not entitled to correspond directly with
the European powers. The communication
has been referred to the Grand Turk.
From Turkey.
DEATH OF THE GRAND VI/.IEK.
Constantinople, September 8. —The Grand
Vizier of Turkey Ali Kabrosli Pacha, is
California Politics.
San Francisco, September 6. —-Indica-
tions "in California strongly favor the elec
tion of Booth, the Republican candidate for
Governor.
The Tax Payers' municipal ticket in San
Francisco, was largely ahead at 1 o'clock
P. M. The vote is light.
News by Latest Mull.
The cholera is coming nearer. A death
from the disease occurred in Liverpool yes
terday. -
Hon. John A. Poor died very suddenly
on the morning of the §th, in Portland,
Maine, aged 03.
The New England Agricultural Society
met at Lowell on Tuesday. Ten thousand
people were present.
Last year over 200,000 bushels of oys
ters, Go,0(10 bales of cotton, and 100,000
packages of truck were shipped from Nor
folk to Boston by the steamers of the Mer
chants' and Miners line.
A fire occurred in Norfolk at 2 o'clock
this morning, in the house on Main street
occupied by Smith & McCurdy. The fire
men got it under control and prevented a
disastrous conflagration. The damage sus
tained was mostly by water.
The citizens of Lynn, Massachusetts,
met on the oth in the vestibule of tho City
Hall, to take into consideration the recent
accident. Much feeling was manifested by
the audience, which contained a few ladies.
o'clock. The principal report ol the coimiiiit..-.
as adopted, will be presented. There wilialao
bean election of officers. A full attendance is
requerted. J. J. BOYDEN,
se 7—lt CorrosiHillding See'y.
k TTEMTION, AWiICKS UIARI) ! k
Members of this company are commanded \J
to meet at their drill-room, at I'nlon Eagle Ho- II
tel, ou Seventh street, FRIDAY evening, Sept. 8.
The Southern Association
ixaiaUTioa No 394 Ersmxa. Sarr. 6.
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DisTaist'Tius Wo. 6SI>. MuamnuTsarr. 7.
77 gn On II 31 66 27 *8 68 1
— Witness my hand, at Richmond, Va., this 7th
day of September lts7l.
CERTIFICATES OF RAFFLE can bo pnr
-1 rhMUrl from Captain W. I. PABNEY, at the
I Branch office. No. » Twelfth street, thrae doors
from Main. „____
I>VI'UA V TiiLen up tbla morning in my
J cornfield, three HORSES—one gray tfj-rr.
and two bays. The owner is n-questeil 10/iyy\
prove iireiieriv, pay charges, and take tlieiii
I away. V. A. SHULTZ,
•-e7_ii* Neai Harvietowii.
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