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[ ^jrliiiwtrf dispatch. vTl KPAV JtTLV 14, 1866. hntoo'i Xe??r?|M?f?-Th* List of 6|%hW Letter*. r> . postmaster of t!iis city, I)r. Ai.ex. I !',t <n*nry. ?*? month since issued a' V Jo the newspapers of this city, re- ' ,.ioh of them to furnish him | >:a'e:ncTit of its daily circulation .i\ery of the Kichmond post- , "', t?e month from that date, in or- j ; he might award the advertising ( : -t of letters to the paper having . Vc^t circulation within that de. v-.. f'he region supplied with let- ? m tiie Kichmond post.ortice. | . ; jv tie question was settled l?y f ji>t to the '11>.??(.)?that pa- ! r ? : _ Jo the sworn statements ot I .. i }jr<r tlnfr (\\ lii? !i were the I having the largest circu. f J: .i. s from the tables thus J ?. ! :;..?t !ne largest circulation ot ' ? ,.;t a:.y one day was two thou- I i ,, v, :j hundred and fort v.two- its! .* !?>t!..?u>,ind five hundred and > . Its average daily eireula-j ::.d s \ luindreil and thirt".! . Ti.e }y<i>iuKiT's taMe showed a, : '.w t!. ttsand seven hundred j thirty ;:ve, a:.d ainiriimnm daily circ u. ? i; tu.? f!,< on:* 1 one hundred and , j?:..ti\e. It> daily average for the! two th oisand three hundred and I ty.one: falling behind tho Time# two j |:i,i ami tiny.six. J h.e.'.tuond l>L<]?itch was Hot an ftp-J . ' attse it knew from aceideritai! irate information that the eireula-, ?;< 7 hies at the beginning of the ' e\< rded its own enough to settle ! :i against it, hut not enough p, j i* *> ij * r any advantage a> a niedium i ,'ve*i>;tig iti this city. The reader : r'-tie rnher tliat this issue is tnerelv ?egard to tlio circulation within the e delivery. Intending the com. further out, ami including the

'.??? kt w j "?iji\oIy that the cireu- , ? the DDpatcU is con>iderablv! that of the Indeed, its untry and cit> circulation, wo i 1 v., is largei than that of any r in this city, j ? . v ? r* t!:o necessity which has :;t tho tables of our coteuipora- . ? i very limited exhibits b?r , ? r;: journals?exhibits which must ? !i U' v.pupcr tuon outside this im. . i . : i I oppressed land?wecontess - a' a/c;:i nt at n 1'aot which appears their fa< e, that tho circulation of ?ht j< urn ils in ipiestion is foiling < 'T. ? . ly oin ul.iti'-ri of tho Tonx- has ?le- . i-iiico the ht ginning of tho month . V"/ ?/? '/ jlfty.hr,>, and that of L r hi'r thr>< hiitidrt'l owl thirty. . I nd-ding with thorn for this ? i f tho times, wo console ourselves : : e t.o : that tho Do patch A?rs' sUmllly i 11 c'ren/'/h'oH during the month; 1 add, infill sincerity, that had its .a at the beginning of the month .-r:. what it was at the end, and its in. : boon the same, we should not vy have been an applicant, but we .1 1. ive received the award of the li^t, 'ad in those polite terms of the post, .o. r, which, we are sure, imparted suclt .re to our n i? ml of the Times, With facts and this consolation, we siy ? . a!i frankness and pleasantness of ' that we had rather the Dispatch, rig as it is, should be a daily rising ? ,ili tht> t th> ll.it than that it should ? . fi>< ilif in the ?' sad times irlth it. With -. b vgtis i> wc now elearlv and indisputa. . ' a1.*', this is the last contest for this little :ge of championship of circulation in it the Dispatch will not be victor. It ? olily rising to its old position, when irculatioti was such that your tircnty. . hundred would have been positively : id'tlmis! We shall pass it in a short and then good-bye friends und neigh. Ks<nnin<r includes the Dispatch v ? others as nut competing for the list ? uise ( f their "small circulation." We .??!ire the Examiner that if ihv^Dispntch's < ulation is "small," so is the circulation <: v..i tuiinrr ; ait>l we further assure it t a tho daily issue of the Dispatch is in- <:? i-itig, while we see by its ow n statement ' ?' tii.it of the Examiner is seriously <le. \ir! There are no newspapers which ? \'a greater enterprise than those of y, which, from the melancholy and ?' ' (1 condition of the country, are poorly rewarded. ! ? t us hope twelve months hence will !: '? about a great improvement in these ?xi.dits. While it is but natural that we ;1! Eg if?and entirely reasonable, from "' *? :.t appearances, that we should firmly ?that the Dispatch will be the favor. 1 :n ist widely-circulated of Virginia I ; >,??? trust that our contemporaries : y ' in a far more prosperous condition ' th? y are in now, the more especially t: it would show the increased prosper, of the country and its ability to bestow rewards upon a degree of enterprise v ? !i merit s greater success. With this frank and we hope agreeablo '!.*? nation on our lelations, let us say, in t! ?? words ot the ehieken-cock as he walk. ? ? 'ii ng the jackasses, "Gentlemen,don't hi .sire; d on one another's toes" ! 1 vanillic lor \ IrgllllftVt 1 wo >oiu,g tanners in Albemarle have * 'ished on a farm of three hundred "'-?I thirty.three acres the following re- ' -lh: In the tirst part of the year two freed1 '' wt re hired, but their laziness and un"A ? -guess to perforin their duties caused " ? y ung farmers to discharge them after * tew weeks trial; and since that time ih> v l.avy performed all the farm labor ' * Ives, except occasionally in harvest hue of day laborers for a few days. Ttjc 1?,vs r;se p,v early dawn; one milks '?c cows, the other feeds and curries the attends to the hogs and cattle ; and afl'r *n early breakfast perform earnestly % -d hid ust rioutly whatever work is neces?'ary to he done; their fields have been *?11 r*hedand ploughed, and the result is *'** crops realized and prospective. They have M<tj?od from fifteen to twenty acres of lu'/st excellent wheat ; are now engaged Jn raping seventy acres of oats; have sixty acres of corn in first-rate order; have a!*, leaped several acres of hay ; haw one acre in Irish potatoes; over one acre of garden vegetables; and have also a plenty of chickens, ducks, and turkeys, with all t)|f! luxuries and comforts to be found on a well-cultivatcd farm. The

housework to done by * negro Woman and one girl, while the sinter* of the young farmers keep the house In order aud perform many things heretofore left to slaves. The mother of the boys is one who knows the true meaning of Old Virginia hospitality, and every visitor is welcomed and ! treated as in .lays of yore, before the Tan-1 kees tried their hands in improving the condition of the colored race. Before the war it required from flvo to seven hands to manage and work the above farm, now so well conducted by two young men who served their native State faithfully in the ! late effort to gain our independence. W\SHI\nTO\ ITEMN. ENDORSEMENTS roK OFFICE-SEEKERS?OOOD NEWS. Secretary McCulloch a few days since informed an applieant for office that Sena, tor Cowan's endorsement would be all that was necessary. In another instance, he advised an applicant to get a letter asking the offieo from a certain Democratic member of Congress, who was one of the most virulent opponents of Mr. Lincoln in 1864. .N* ic York Tribune. HIE RILL TO AMEND TOE NATIONAL RANK!No LAW is set down for consideration in the House on Friday, It is a very stringent measure, and is likely to meet with some opposition. Consolidation is tho order of the day with the present Congress. THE NATIONAL Bl'REAl* OP IXSl'RANCK. The House Judiciary Committee have just agreed to report a bill to establish a National Bureau of Insurance in the Treasury Department. It is something on tho plan of the national banking system. DAVIS AND THE ASSASSINATION PLOT. It was rumored about the capitol to-day that a majority of tho House Judiciary Committee have decided to believe some of the evidence taken bv them that Jetr. Davis was engaged in the assassination plot, and to report tho same, with their endorsement, to the House. The Reception the South will Meet with in Philadelphia. We published yesterday what Mr. Ratmond had to say concerning tho admission of southern delegates into the Philadelphia Convention ; remarking that he had no authority for his statement. We publish this morning Mr. Raymond's avowal in the Radical caucus that he has 110 idea of going into the Convention himself. His infamy is almost as complete as Forney's and we might as well pass over bis remarks about the composition of the National Convention without further notice. The World of Thursday, however, has so well-timed and well-worded an invitation to our people, given by that paper as an offset to Raymond's article, that we reproduce it. 11 is as follows: '? 1 he Convention will be a body in which the Southern people will be truly represented. They need have no hesitation in sending delegates, nor any fear of the ( ongressional test oath. They will meet friendly delegations from "the North ( strong enough in numbers and influence to secure a respectful hearing for whatever the South may have to sav. If a few Re. publicans of the Raymond pattern choose to bolt from the Convention, their presence will he little missed. Either with them or without them the Convention will bo held; and the southern delegates mav be assured of the fair play in it which is" denied them by the Rump Congress. Union means the union of the North with the ! South. That southern delegates come to meet the North with a view to joint political action is a good enough proof of their Unionism; as, on the other hand, the willingness of the northern delegates to meet the South with a view to act together in politics proves them to be good I nionists. Union means union icith the South; and the Times might as well at. tempt to stop Niagara with bullritshes as to prevent tlie South coining to the Con. vent ion, and their friends in the North up. pearing there in great force to welcome them."

A SiiKKcstloii to the t'ouuultteeft which are to meet oil Monday. The Now York World makes the following recommendations to the Southern people : 44 If, as now appears probable,the southern States shall conclude to send delegates to the Philadelphia Convention, can they do no better than to send their entire congressional delegations straight through, including senators and representatives ? These will constitute half the delegates called for in the circular. The other half can be made up from other prominent and representative men. 41 One of the principal benefits which ' the country will derive from that convention, if judiciously managed, will be the knowledge it will gain, in an authentic and indisputable shape, of the temper of the Southern people and the elements which they will contribute to the Federal legislation and legislature. The most authentic [ showing which can be given will be that which comes f rom the men whom the southern States have sent to represent them in i Congress, and whom the Radicals have shut out of Congress. They will he the best and most qualified representatives and exponents of all that the country most needs and desires to know." The World had lost sight for the moment of the fact that Underwood is one of our Senators. With this exception, the suggestion is at least worthy of consideration. The Missouri Test Oath?Arrest op Nuns at Cape Girardeau for Failure to Take the Oath?They are Help to Bail. We learn that considerable excitement was brought about at Cape Girardeau by the repetition of an arrest of some of the Sisters of Charity, or nuns, attached as teachers to the convent, or a Catholic academy, at that point, for their not taking the oath prescribed by the new Constitution. The excitement is reported as to j have been so great against this outrage, perpetrated in the name of 44 law " against a highly meritorious, benevolent, and religious order?Christian, self-sacrificing women at that?that those who had them i in charge as malefactors were compelled to desist in the discharge of a 44 Radical j duty" at war with every delicate and decorous instinct we habitually practice towards the sex. The matter was compro. j inised by these 44 offenders against the new Constitution" giving bond for their appearance at the 44 next Circuit Court of Cape Girardeau county"?for their appearance to answer to the criminality of the offence of acting in the capacity of) teachers without taking the Convention oath. Is there any other State in this ? country, even under Radical rule, the law of which subjects religious women aud men to the indignities of an arrest and imprisonment in the discharge of their re- j ligiousaud business avocations? Webe-i lieve not; and yet we learn from Mr. j Drake, as the avowed exponent of Radical intent in this State, that not one iota of j this obnoxious lavr in to be repealed; that the safety of the Radical party admits of no such reform!?City of Kansas Conmer. tied Advertiser, June 7. Second Class.?Eight hundred po weight is the fashionable quota of bag at Newport. Anything under tlu second class. An Improved Shakrpertan Readiko for July.?44 Oh that this too, too solid flesh widdn't melt!"

Farther about Mia iwa the Aal> ride?Her Experience In the floathern Army and Maeeachneette Prl?one. Prom th? WorcMter (Mim.) Palladium, Juiy 11. The telegraph reported from New York on Saturday the suicide of a young female of the name of Eleanor A. Jones, who shot herself in the head the night before on the doorsteps of a doctor with whom, the report says, she had been living in criminal intimacy. In the 41 sensational novels" which in the future will have their place in connection with the gioat p-bellion Miss Jones will probably bean important character. Her family?not of the name, of Jones?lived in or near Boston. But in the second year of the war she made her appearance in the Army of the Rappahannock, associating with the officers, who provided her with a horse and all accoutrements, and professing an ardent interest in the Union cause. They gave her the title of 11 Major Jones," and of course she became possessed of the plans and purposes of the army. At length the War Department became satisfied that she visited the camp on the Rappahannock^ the j agent of certain rebel females, of whom ' Washington was pretty full in all the | early period of the war, and that Jones communicated to them all the inform^ tion sho picked up in the army, aA1 by them it was at once dispatched to the rebel government at Richmond. She was arrested, and sent, by order of the Secretary of War, to Massachusetts, to he confined in such house of correction as Governor Andrew might designate. The Governor designated the prison at Fitchburg, and sho was committed there. But confinement there being irksome to her, she wrote to Governor Andrew, and prevailed on him to obtain from Government permission for her transfer to the House of Correction at Barnstable ; and accordingly she was thus transferred. The next heard of her was, that she had been released from imprisonment, and was travelling to New York in company with a distinguished politician of that city whose proclivities during the war were all toward the rebels. It was surmised at the time that the Jones girl was in possession of certain secrets in relation to northern sympathizers in the rebellion, which they might ho anxious to suppress or control. Sho was probably about twenty-three years old ; of rather prepossessing appearance; talked fluently; i and wrote letters in a good style. Her vocation, as a servant of the rebels, closed | with the war; and her career in life terj minuted, as it was easy to predict it would I close, in moral obliquity and shame.

IIorrirlk Affray in Mis-souiu?A Would-be Murderer Kicked to Death.? Last evening the city about Market square was thrown into great excitement consequent upon the killing of a man named James Clark by Benjamin Ullinan. The facts which led to this result, as near as we could learn them, are as follows : Some two months ago Clark came to this city and attended a horse-race, at which he wagered twenty-five dollars with Mr. Ullman. The latter won it. A few days ago Clark again came to the city, and while here told several parties that he in. tended to have his money back or kill Mr. Ullman. Yesterday he'came in and .stopped at the Atlantic Hotel, where he repeated to several parties his former declaration about the money. About 0 o'clock P. M. he found his way to Market square, and seeing Ullman engaged in conversation with Luke Honhum and other parties in front of the Charter Oak saloon, stepped up to them, shook hands, and invited the party in to take a drink ; after which he asked Mr. Ullman to give back the money he had won of him. The latter supposed lie was jesting, and treated the matter in that way. Just then Mr. Ullman was called by one of his workmen to come to the market-house, ami turned to go out of the saloon. Clark immediately stepped behind him, held a revolver within a loot of the former's head, and fired, the hall passing through a portion of Mr. Ullman's neck and lodging, it is supposed, in the jaw hone. Mr. Ullman wheeled about, the blood spirting in every direction, when Clark, with pistol already cocked, was about to tire a second time, when lie was seized by Mr. Ullman, knocked down, and stamped in the face, crushing in the whole side of his head. The whole tragedy was over in an instant. From the time the party had drank together in an apparently friendly manner, three minutes had n<?t elapsed until Clark fired his revolver, and in two minutes afterwards he was a dead man, and a more horrible sight we have never witnessed. llis head seemed literally crushed to a jelly, and death must have been almost instantaneous. Mr. Ullman was at once taken to his residence, where several physicians were summoned, who dressed the wound, but were unable to extract the hall. Although the wound is regarded as very serious, being a man of powerful con. stitution it is thought he may recover. A more honest,whole-souled, generous-heart-ed man than Ben. Ullman never lived in any community, and hosts of friends will earnestly hope for his recovery. That he was fully justified in slaying tiie man who attempted in so cowardly a manner to take his life is the opinion of all who witnessed the ufluir. A jury of inquest was summoned, before which the facts above related were brought out. Clark was buried last evening, lie is said to be from Independence, Iowa, where he has several children living, he being a widower. He was between forty and fifty years of age, and it was said he had been engaged in selling patent rights of some kind.?St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald, July 1th. Row Between* the Poi.ice and Negroes in New York.?Last evening two colored men became engaged in a tight in Thompson street, and officer Briede, who was in the immediate vicinity, attempted to separate the contestants. The men turned upon him, and the colored inmates of all the houses in the vicinity thronged to the scene, and all attacked the officer with whatever missiles happened to be at hand. Officer Cotton, of the same precinct, came up and found his colleague in the midst of a yelling crowd seemingly intent on murdering him. Striking right and left, officer Cotton forced his way to the side of the assailed officer, and was in turn attacked by the crowd. Information of the afiair soon reached the station-house, and a section of men was at once sent to the scene on the double-quick. Oil arriving, they found both officers lying upon the walk surrounded by a crowd who seemed bent upon their death, the unfortunate men being beaten with every imaginable missile. The mob was speedily scattered, and three of the ringleaders arrested; they, together with the injured officers, wore taken to the station-house. Briede is badly bruised about the head and body. Cotton is also badly hurt about the body and head, and had his right arm dislocated.?Nero York Tribune, 12th. A Johnson Organ in Richmond.?It is almost needless to say that there is not one teord of truth in this (the New York TVibune's) paragraph. It is false throughout. We are not endeavoring to make the Examiner "the organ of the Johnson party of Virginia." Nor is, or was ever, Mr. Payne. 14 the business manager of the Examiner Ho has not one dollar's interest in this paper, and has never been connected with the Examiner in any other capacity than as travelling agent and canvasser.?Examiner. Sad Death op a Little Girl?A Warn, no.?Yesterday afternoon two small chilren of Mrs. Alice Jordan were playing up tairs on the bed, when one, a little boy ix years old, pushed the youngest, a little irl aged five years, off the bed. In fall, ng, her head struck the floor, which aused concussion of the brain, and she lied this morning.? Washing/Ion Star, 12 th.

A Negro Riot in Washington.- Yesterday afternoon a gang of vagrant negroes passed about from house to house in the second precinct, taking what they wanted and beating any one who remonstrated with them. They entered the store of Mrs. Margaret Murphy, a very old woman, on Tenth street, and after getting something to eat and drink, refused to pay her, and being about to leave her, she seized one by the leg. The scamp turned and kicked the old woman from the shop into the street. She called her son, who went to her aid, but finding them too numerous, he ran to the stationhouse, and Sergeant Johnson went with him to arrest the negroes. The Sergeant went into the crowd and arrested the leaders of the gang. The negroes turned upon him, but the Sergeant used his billy freely, and the negroes seeing they had to fight to escape, commenced a general attack upon him, knocked him down several times, and some of them were laid out by his billy. He called an Irishman to his aid, who responded promptly, but receiving a very hard blow from one of the negroes, he left, and went to where a number of Irish laborers were employed on the street. In a moment the laborers, about twenty in number, knocked their picks from the handles, and arming themselves with those and with spades, came running to the Sergeant's aid. In the mean time, officer Poole had arrived, and aided the Sergeant in securing the leading negroes. The crowd of negroes had increased to fifty or sixty, and the Sergeant, seeing the laborers coming, had to hurry his prisoners and use his best endeavors to prevent a collision that would have resulted in loss of life to both white and colored. Fortunately, he got his prisoners to the station before the laborers reached them, and then, by a prudent appeal to the crowd around, quieted the men of both parties

Still Another Startlino Develop, ment.?Wo hoar that among tho facts , brought to light by the blowing up of that burglarious concern the Merchants National Bank of this city, is that of a surreptitious and fraudulent issue of the stock of the Alexandria and Washington Railroad Company to the extent of some three hundred thousand dollars. It is stated that the president and secretary of tke company signed the certificates in blanh, to be issued legitimately by the convc. nient Huyck, the treasurer, and that the latter filled them tip for enormous amounts, put his own required signature to them, and so disposed of them as that they could be used to enable the L. I*. Bayne & Co. concern to raise money on them in Now York, where one house is said to hold one hundred and fifty thousand dollars of them, on which they advanced one hundred thousand dollars. Of course the road is responsible for every dollar of this fraudulently issued stock, as it bears the undisputed signatures of it s president, secretary, and treasurer.? Hasltimjton i>tar, 12th. Troi hi.f: iv the Radical Camp.?-At no time siuco the commencement of the J session has there been manifested so much agitation in Congressional circles us was ! apparent to-day. The Radical caucus la*t j night appears to have greatly intensified | the uneasiness of the Congressional party j leaders. They wore anxious faces, and were evidently troubled about what to do. The mutterings of the storm of popular indignation against the majority in Congress have occa.-Joued many of the eonspi. J rators to quail and hesitate. They begin . to apprehend that they have rushed their I revolutionary schemes forward with too great rapidity. In substituting universal negro suffrage without the consent of tho ! States for the Union platform upon which all their victories were gained, they find themselves without followers. The people have given unmistakable evidences that j they will follow the Union banner even into the Philadelphia Convention. These portentous signs of the times have pro. j duccd great commotion in the Radical j camp.? Xntional lutdl'uji/icer, 13th. National Union Execctive Committee. At an adjourned meeting held last evening for the purpose of consolidating the two Johnson Union Clubs, the following [gentlemen were selected as the National | Union Executive Committee: Hon. A. j W. Randall, chairman ; Hon. (). II. Brownj iog, lb>n. Montgomery Blair, C. Wendell, j Esq., Charles Knap, Esq., A. E. Perry, ! Esq., Samuel Fowler, Esq.; Hon. Charles ; Mason, corresponding secretary. Virginia Post-Offices.?At Central i Point, Caroline county, appoint John W. [ Gouldiu postmaster in place of C. A. Gatewood, who declines to give bond. Reopen Stephenson's Depot, Frederick 'county, and appoint John W. Simpson ' postmaster. Reopen Mount Athos, Campbell county, and appoint Miss Alice V. Smith post mi s!tress.

j The Niagara of the West?A World's Wonder?The Great Shoshone Falls.? \ This majestic masterpiece of Nature's engineering lies a few miles olF from the overland stage route running northwesterly between Salt Lake and Boise cities, and i half-way (or about two hundred miles) from those said capitals of Idaho and Utah. The river, about two hundred yards in width, coming slowly from the southeast, i overtowered by perpendicular walls of ba1 saltic rock over eiglft hundred feet high, , suddenly expands into a basin of twice its j width, and there is divided into a half. : dozen streams by dark-looking rocks which ' raise their gloomy crests above the spark-' I ling surf of the maddened waters. Every i stream rushes over a fall of thirty feet, and every fall is of a different shape, seeming fanciful and fluctuating, yet physically fixed, as they have ever been while ! ; centuries, like shadows, have flown over i them. The river, resuming its course, is again divided, and takes a second tumble j of sixty feet still further, but this time bv ! ! only three different streams. Three falls j are the result, one on each side, unbroken and falling in solid sheets; the central one being formed by seven fan-shape steppes ! of rock. From the one of these benches j to the other, underneath, the water falls in i a smooth, transparent sheet, forming a cas. cade unsurpassed in the world, and con. i i trusting strangely, by its dark, transparent' I color, with the rustling, roaring, foaming streams surrounding it both above and at the side*. The river becomes once more ' smooth and dark in color. Its banks suddenly jut out from both sides, narrowing; ; the channel to four hundred feet; ami through this gap the confined mass of wa- , ter precipitates itself in one whole volume,1 without break or hindrance, into an omi-! nous abyss almost three hundred feet iu depth. No pen can describe this scene. A Tribute to the Women of the South. The New York Newsy replying to one of Forney's editorial attacks upon our ladies,1 makes the following remarks: 44 It never has been the liabit of the women of the South to attend political raect- , ings, and we have never heard that they did so during the war. But the other i charges brought against them are true?to ! their immortal honor be it said. The fervent love of country, the devotion to principle, the unaffected piety, the generous self-sacrifice, the calm courage, the wo- | manly tenderness, the unflinching fortti tnde they exhibited whenever circum- ; stances provoked their exercise, which this man Forney imputes as crimes to the wo-* ' men of the South, will form their crown of glory in the ages to come. And long after Forney shall have gone down ' To the vll? dnst from which h? sprang, Unwspt, unhonored, and unsung,' poetry and art shall combine to do honor to the memory of that splendid sisterhood?the 4 Women of the South/*'

ifiss Jeannette Lesley Douglass, formerly of New York, and recently of this city, well known for her philanthropic efforts daring the war, and especially for her kindness to the sick and wounded Union and rebel soldiers, has had a fortune of one hundred thousand dollars in gold left to her by a relative in Scotland. /^General Sterling Price excused himself from fighting with the Mexican patriots on the ground that if the Liberals caught him they would send him either to the infernal regions or to the United States, and he would as soon go to one place as to the I other.?Greeley. Secretary Welles is out in a letter strongly in favor of the Philadelphia Convention. The National Intelligencer says it is a model as a condensed argument in behalf of the policy of the President in contravention of the destructive course of Congress. Japan must be a good place to go to. It is said that you can buy a first-class house there for thirty dollars, and live comfortably in it for two cents a day. Servants charge fifty cents a month, and horse and groom may he had for the same time for one dollar and fifty cents. If you don't like it when you get there, you can kill yourself with a cheese knife, and no questions will be asked. A writer in tho Danville Times recommends Hon. W. M. Tredway as a delegate to the Philadelphia Convention. Both the Danville papers are in favor of Southern representation. A disease peculiar to spring chickens prevails to an alarming extent, and fowls are brought to market that are quite unfit for wholesome food.?Alexandria Gazette. We suppose this disease will be set dowr as chickenosis instead of trichinosis.?Star

HOTELS AND BOARDING-HOUSES. Boarding.?mrs. br. royster, No 104 Mayo street, can accommodate several gentlemen with BOARD, with or witnont lodging, on reasonable terms. Jy It? lw COUNTRY RETREAT.-A few families ran obtain BOARD at very reasons* hle terms in Major T. WILsON'8 family, Fincastie, Botetourt county, Va. A SULPHUR 8PR1S0 within a pleasant walk of the town. Apply soon by letter to Major T. WILSON. Jy 12?3t* OARDIN(b AND LODGING.?A few ladies and gentlemen can bo accommodated with PLEASANT ROOMS and BOARD in a sms'i private family on the most reasonable terms. Applv on Fourth street, No. 311, between Broad ana Marshall. DAY BOARDERS can also he accommodated, and two or three UNFURNISHED ROOMS for rent. Je 18?ta RANGE HOIJSeT~ AT ORANGE AND ALEXANDRIA RAILROAD DEPOT, LYNCHBURG, VA., HOUSTON RUCKER. Proprietor. This well-known and popular hotel, having been I REFURNISHED AND KKF1TTED IN SUPEKP STYLE, OFFERS SUPERIOR ACCOMMODATION'S j to the TRAVELLING PUBLIC. AS THIS HoUSK 1 is the ONLY REGULAR and CONVENIENT i HOTEL FOR MEALS UPON THE CHANGING of i CARS, passengers will hare THIRTY MINUTES ! for BREAKFAST and THIRTY MINUTES for SUPPER; and the PROPRIETOR ASSURES his I GUESTS that the FARE ahall not be SURPASSED. Je 1? Boarding.?Mrs. duvall, Main, between Sixth and Seventh streets, has some i very comfortable unoccupied rooms for boarders and can take a few more DAY BOARDERS. ! f* 13~tH B' OARDING.?Miss BIDGOOD, south side Main street, second door above Seventh, j can t ike a few mure BOARDERS, with or without lodging. de 30?ta DISSOLUTIONS. LITION OF CO-PARTNER-SH1P.?The firm of LEE A COX is this day dissolved by mutual consent. A. S. LEE will settle up the business of the I concern. LEE Si COX. Richmond, July 12, 18M. Marine foundry" WATER STREET, Bei.owthk York River hbpoT. Having secured the services of Mr. WILLIAM L. COX to superintend the business, I will continue the IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY BUSINESS, and will manufacture to order PL"W CASTINGS, hollow ware, wagon boxes, andirons, Ar., Ac. Particular attention paid to JOB WORK, which will be executed In the best manner and at the shortest notice. [jy 12?3m] A. 8. LEE. npHE CONCERN OF BELL, SJIEP1 HERD A CO. was dissolved by limitation on the 1st day of July, Mr. A. J. BELL withdrawing. The stvle'of the concern in Itituro will be A. L. SHEPHERD A CO. The new concern have this day associated with them Mr. A. G. TALMAN, formerly with George W. Atkinson, and lately of Talman A Harris, who will give strict personal attention to the sale of TOBACCO, WHEAT, Ac., and who respectfully solicits consignments of all country produce froth the friends and patrons of the two fate concerns. A. L. SHEPHERD A CO., Jy i corner of Eleventh and Canai streets. TMIE CO-PARTNERSHIP heretofore existing between BROADDUS A TALIAFERRO is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business carried on by the above firm will be continued by me. STAlkS, HAN D-RAIL1NG8, Ac., fabricated at short notice. All orders left at my shop, on Franklin street, opposite Metropolitan Hall, will meet with prompt attention, ap23?ts M. W. BROADDUS. NO T I C E.?In Chesterfield Countv Court. May 14, 1S6?: Ordered, That R. ?. Walker. William 1. Clopton, and William B. Wuuldridge be appointed to supeintend and conduct elections or company officers, in the district* heretofore established, in the One Hundred and Ninety-seventh regiment of Virginia militia, to proceed and report under an act of the General Assembly passed March 2, 1S8?.

NATHAN H. COOBILL, Clerk. In Chesterfield County Clerk's office, I. Nuth.in H. Cogbill. Clerk, do hereby make the following statement troin the bent information that 1 can get relative tothe line between the Twenty-third regiment and the One Hundred and Ninety-seventh regiment of Virginia militia, to wit: Beginning at Falling creek where It empties into Jaiues river, thence up said creek to ooode'a Bridge road, ] thence up said road to James Gregory's, thence along and by Clay's meeting-house across 8wift creek at N'ewby's bridge, thence up said Newbridge road by second branch meeting-house, and across the Petersburg road to Newntng's creek, theure down said creek to Appomattox river, thence up the said river to Powhatan line, thence along said line to James river, thence down said J a rnes river to the beginning. Given uuder my hand this 23d dav of June, HM. NATHAN H. COOBILL, Clerk. In compliance with the above order, all persons living within the lines of the said One Hundred and Ninety-seventh regiment of Virginia militia subject t 'militia duty, and not included in the Mancheste district of said regiment, are required to assemble n front of the store of the Midlothian Coal Mining Company at 12 o'clock M. on SATURDAY, July 81. ISM, for the purposes indicated in the above order. And all Persons living in the Manchester district, and subject to militia duty, are required to assemble in front of the Town Hall of Manchester at 12 M. on FRIDAY, July 20, law. BOrNDARIKS Of THK MANCHESTER DISTRICT OK THK SAID O.VB HCNbHKD ANU NINETY -SKVKNTU KKOIMKNT. Beginning at Powhite creek where it empties Into Jaime river, up the ->aid creek to Hollman Duvsl's mill, th?nce along the road that leads from said mill to the Manchester turnpike, crossing said turnpike at the Warwick road, thence along said Warwick road by Iirander's saw-mill to Falling creek where it crosses the Richmond and Petersburg turnpike, thence down said Falling creek to Janes river, thence up said James river to the beginning. R. L. WALKER. ) WILLIAM I. CI.OPTON,> Commissioners. .W B- WOPLIHIIDGE, 1 jy 6?tllj No. 1317 Cary, between Thirteenth and Virginia streets, Richmond, Va. Post-oHlce box 6tf2. jv lo_t? P I ANOS! PIANOS!! DAVID n. CLARK, (formerly with M. Blair A Co.,) MERCHANDISE BROKER, ^Si t \ 111. f as n' 1% a I ii* ??. ft % % T1, t ?? e .ft a * - c i* ^ |||| | ^ ty | j| | ^ >OX 602. JOHN W. DAVIE8 A SONS, RICHMOND MUSICAL EXCHANGE, No. 1M Main strict, sole agents for STIEFF'8 PREMIUM PIANO-FOBTES. These Instruments have been before the public POR THE LA8T THIRTY YEARS, in competition with the beet makers of the country, and are now pronounced by ALL THE LEADING PROFESSORS AND AMATEURS the BEST PIANOS MANUFACTURED! Theee tnetrumente have all THE LATEST IM? PROVEMBNTS. and art WARRANTED FOR FIVE YEARS, with the privilege of exchange within twelve monthe If not entirely satisfactory to the purchsacr. We refer to the following pereona, who have STIEFF'S PIANOS now in us#: General R. I. Lib, Washington College, Lexlag< ton; D. B. Patrb A Bbo., Lynchburg; Rev. B. I. Pail.Lire, Virginia Female Inatitate, Miss Mabt Baldwia, Female School, and J.c. Cavil, Deaf. Dumb and Blind Institute, Staunton Professor I. A. An bold, Richmond. A sail from all in want of SUPERIOR PIANOS la solicited. Tarma liberal. '? *-*- SI BEAT REDUCTION IN THE ?uu>u ,?d .?-!?? VMl

TELEGRAPHIC NJswS. MORNING DISPATCHES. [The Radical CMfwwlwl CucmThad. fltcrnaa Denounce* lUyaoad ?Raymond Apoloflia-Ir. Howard fa Favor of a C'oap d'Etat. Washi.voto.v, July 12.?Thad. Stevens, in his speech in the Republican caucus, denounced Mr. Raymond in severe terms, do said he did not wish to know him per. I serially or politically, or any other man who endorsed the hermaphrodite* convention to I be held at Philadelphia. # This brought Mr. Raymond to his feet. In answer to inquiries as to the object ol the New York Times in endorsing the Convention, Mr. Raymond said that when he endorsed the call it was with the distinct understanding that none but Union men were to participate in the Convention. He had since been persuaded into different conclusions, and was ready to admit that he had done wrong. However, he would retrace his course, and henceforth there would be no more endorsements of the Philadelphia Convention by himself or the Times. A resolution was offered that no Union member of Congress would countenance the Philadelphia Convention. Tbo yeas and nays were demanded, and recorded, and the result was the unanimous passage of the resolution. Mr. Raymond did not

vote on 11. It was asserted by several gentlemen that Mr. Seward recently expressed the opinion that the President ought to and would call the southern members and senators elect together and recognize them \ as the Constitutional Congress. The question of adjournment then came up. Senator Lane, of Indiana, spoke warmly and excitedly. While he favored an early adjournment, he hoped some, thing would be done to prevent the threatened displacement of the Union officeholders, and the substitution of Copperheads in their places. Senators Conness and Wilson also spoke on this subject. The latter said he had tried hard to keep from believing that the President had gone I over to the Copperheads, but he was now I fully convinced his worst fears were realized. The speech of Senator Lane, of Indiana, was especially inflammatory, and de. nounced the President in the strongest terms. Several speakers declared that Raymond was an enemy, and had no right to sit in the caucus. A committee was appointed to consider the questions presented, and report at another meeting ot the caucus. Abolition of the Wissiou to Lisbon. Washington*, July 12.?It is proposed in the new diplomatic and consular appropriation bill to abolish the oftice of minister resident to Lisbon, Portugal. Fatal Duel. . Memphis, Tennessee, July 12.?Alonzo Greenhow and A. H. Taylor fought a duel on the Mississippi line to-day. The latter was killed at the first fire. A Heavy by Fire. Philadelphia, July 13.?The loss by the burning of Briggs's print and dye I works yesterday amounts to two millions of dollars. Several hundred hands were thrown out of employment. The Cholera In .\ew York. New Turk, July 13.?Three cases oi cholera yesterday, and five in Brooklynfour fatal. The yellow fever is reported in sorao of the ships in lower bay.

EVENING DISPATCHES. ConttrcAMional Proceedings. Washixotos, July 13.?Senate.?Mr.} Wilson offered a resolution calling on the President for information as to the shout.: ing of twenty-three Federal soldiers at Kingston, North Carolina, by orders of Generals Iloke and Pickett (Confederates) in 18C4. Mr. Johnson objected, and it goes over. A joint resolution giving the right of ! way to the Uuion Pacific railroad through i military reservations was passed. Mr. Williams entered a motion to rccon- J sider the vote which defeated the bill to rcanncx Alexandria county to the District of Columbia. Mr. Willey introduced a bill to admit representatives from each southern State, provided it ratifies the constitutional amendment recently passed. The bill was ordered to be printed. House.?Mr. Morrill reported a bill which is a partial revision of the Tariff bill imposing duties on cigars, cheroots, etc., of two dollars ami a half per pouud, and fifty per cent, ad valorem tax. Also, three cents per pound on cotton. The bill was laid over. The contested-seat case of Fuller vs. Dawson was decided to-day by the House sustaining Da^on without a division. The War In Month America?Rio Coffee Market. New York, July 13.?Rio Janeiro advices of 8th ultimo have been received. A groat battle had been fought, the Allies gaining a victory over the Paraguayans, who abandoned the Held, losing six thousand killed and wounded, six guns, and four flags. The loss of the Allies'was two thousaud. A commercial crisis prevails. The coffee market is completely paralyzed; good firsts nominally quoted at 710037300r.; stock, 130,000 bags. Exchange on London, 23S24. A Radical Plot to Carry the Mlaoorl Elect toon by Force. Washington',July 13.?Two gentlemen} from Missouri called on the President yes. terday and informed him of a deep-laid schemo ou the part of the Radicals to carry the Missouri elections by force of arms if necessary. Secret leagues were organized. Military stores and arras shipped to various portions of the State by General Fletcher for the purpose of influencing the elections. The President assured the gentlemen that as it was bis duty to protect all citizens in the enjoyment of their rights as such, it would only be necessary in case of such outrages for the citizens to apply to him. rhe Chelsre train lafisf to New Yom, July 13.?The latest Eu. ropean intelligence notes the progress of the cholera. It has returned its activity in the southwestern provinces of Russia and is widely prevalent In Holland. Seven nundrod and Iwenty-fbur casta and four inndred deaths have occurred at Leyden, I 'our hundred and thlrty-three deaths In Rotterdam, one hundred end sixty.nine in

Utrecht, two hundred and twenty In Del f ?nd one hundred and tbirty-flve In St. Graventage. The malady ia at Berlin Stettin, Frankfort-on-thc-Odcr, NewnUdt, and other Russian cities, and at Antwerp. There were eighty-four deaths In Franco. The epidemic has broken out in several places, and with great intensity at Amiens. There have been no cases in Paris. The Frcedmen In Virginia to b? Prsteet?C Washington-, July 13.?General Grant has ordered a force of cavalry to in, Hcnt to Loudoun county, Va. It is alleged there have been outrages on the frccdmen there, and that the civil law has failed to punish the guilty or protect the blacks. Mr. Raymond Denies the Radleal Re. port of his Remarks In I'nnena. Washington, July 15.?Hr. Raymond, of the New York Times, emphatically denies the truth of the report of his remarks in the Republican caucus as published. Rhode Island sends Delegates to Philadelphia. Providence, R. I., July 13.?A Demo, cratic State Convention has been called here to elect delegates to the Philadelphia National Convention. COMMERCIAL. REPORT OF TIIE TOBACCO MARKET. Tobacco Ezcuanue, Richmond, July 13. * No change to make in our yesterday's remarks. Below we give the transactions. Seventy-six hogsheads, tierces, and boxes opened; fifty-nine offered bids; rejected on five; fifty-four sold, as follows: 7 hogs, heads common working and shipping lug* from $5 to $6.75; 5 hogsheads good work, ing and shipping lugs from $7 to 88.75; 4 hogsheads common working and shipping leaf from $9 to $11.50; 12 hogshead* medium working and shipping leaf from $12.25 to $14.50; 11 hogsheads good working and shipping leaf from 815 to 818.50; 9 hogsheads good manufacturing lugs at 8:3.75; I ticrcc good manufacturing lugs at 86.75; common fancy wrappers at 847; 1 tierce good fancy wrappers at 802; 1 box good manufacturing lugs at 815; 1 box common fancy wrappers at $46; 1 box fiae faucy wruppcrs at $149. Markets by Telegraph. NEW TURK MARKETS, KRIDAT. New York, July 13?Noon.?Cotton ijuiet at 35638c. Cold, 152Sterling dull; sight, 11. New York, July 13.?Afternoon.?Cotton unchanged; sales, 1,100 bales. Flour dull and 10)515c. lower; southern heavysales, 300 barrels at $9.206816. Wheat dull; new No. 1 Milwaukie, $2.25682.31* Corn unchanged; sales at8613/<2S7c. l'"pk heavy ; mess, $32 3-5. Laid (juict at 1 21c. Whisky dull. Sugar and cotl'ee steady. Naval stores, declining tendency. Turpentine, 73. Rosin, $2.50688.50. New York, July 13.?Coupons of 1881, 109'J; coupons of 1862,1067a; coupon<uf 1865, 105^. Ten-forties, 99. GoId,J527g.

MARINE INTELLIGENCE. MINIATURE ALMAXAC-Jclt 14. Sun rls.-e 4.43 j M.-on set* 4 41 sun set* 7.III High tide (P. M.II PORT OF RICHMOND. Ji tt ?, 14??. A&KITID. Steamer Albe-marte, Bourne, N*-w York, ra?rchandise and pa>?M-nger*, S. Ayre* A Co. Steamer Jogn-Syl v?-<t-r. P??t, Norfolk, nu-rchao-dbe uud passengers, A. R. Tatum. BAILID. Steamer Saratoga. King. New York, merchindise and passengers. <j. F. Watson. Steamer Valley City, Snv.ler, New York, merchandise and Piueeniers, W. P. Porter. Steamer Norfolk. Vance, Philadelphia, merchandise and passenger-. W. P Port- r Steamer George.una, Hill, Norfolk, merchandise and passengers, John II Freeman. Steamer Albemarle, Bourne, New York, merchandise and o<-e?enger?, S. Ajrres At Co Schooner Battle C'iH?iub?, Dr-nkwater, Providence. coal, Dover Coal 'ompauy. BELOW. The following vessels are report-d of Jam *? town, vir : Schooner John (i. Campbell, schooner Elite, schooner .Mary E. Co--e. Straining Triumph is reported o(T Jord?"'? point wnti four large schooners to tow, and expected up early this morning. VIRGINIA SPRINGS. Bath alum springs.?tihsiukIily improved and beautiful Watertng-piart win be opened for the reception of vi?itor? <>o the 15th Instant. It is situated In Bath coun'v, Vs.. st the eastern base of the Warm Spriiu Mountain, ;?n the main road leading fr.-m Mfilb. ro depot, - o a it *!? Centra! railroad, to the Warm, hot. and Healing Springs. .''ij H?n miles from Mlilboro' depot. Are fr- ra u ti *rt3' trn 'ro,n the Hot, and thirteen from the Healing Springs. Every effort will be made by the proprietor to promote the HEALTH AND COMFORT of his guests. A daily LINK OF sTaGE CiiAUIH* la now on the road from the depot to the wateringplaces above-mentioned. ? , batis OF #oaai> : By the day f j to By the week tS ?d Jo 4?ddtcflw*^ JOSEPH BAXTER. Proprietor. 1JOCK BRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS, lb VIRGIN'IA These M1NBKAL WATERS haTe an e-.tahllsl.ed reputation for very high curative virtue In all lbs Hn'nwing citts?es <.f di**as<>, anJ ?* being ?n ABSOLUTE SPECIFIC in several of them, vTi : SCROFULA, and ail the form? of O'iari-lolar Swellings and Cutaneous Eruptive l>'?e*?et ErysiPelas. Tetter, Sic.: CHRONIC DlAKKMUi * and DYSENTERY, DYSPEPSIA, BRONCHlTls.CHKO? NIC THRUSH, atfectiou of the KIDNEYS -r.J BLADDER, and PILES. Inallarnemic condition# of the svateiu and broken-down states the constitution, loss of appetite, and general uervot# prostration, their powers and virtue as ? r-sb-ra-tlye may be safely pronounced to be lYITHOt T A KNOWN RIVAL amongst the mineral waters of the World. They are especially Indicated in the whole clssa of ailments peculiar to the Female C??n?tJt(tflon. This WATERING PLACE is in the sanx- co;:n?r with (he celebrated " NATURAL BRIDGE of Virginia, and is one of that remarkable group of Mineral and Thennal Water, which have given celebrity to this mountainous region. It win be open fo the public on JIN E 1st. proprietor* will spare no reasonable eif-rt to hate thejplare comfortably kept. The BALL-KoilM will he .ui'PileJ wi'h ??"? , and the BILLIARD and BoWLlNG bAL'X?NS restored to complete order. . . Acer** from th?* it tf}* ^ if# mi* tmi milwar ffroui th* >'ortb# via Uj(toncujr and Orange and Alexandria ralliwad to Gordonsville , and (rom the South, sin Richmond or Lynch* burg,) to Goshen Depot, thence by co*tps?, over a smooth road, eight miles up the \a-.cy to the Springe. aATfc. or coast- : By the day ^ By the month P"?4TThe SPRINGS PAMPHLET, with analyst# and full description, sent by tnaii on appiuation to Prarsi.L, Lant* 4 Co., KnhmonU. or fo the undersigned. FRAZiER 4 RANDOLPH. Proprietors. The water la bottled, securely packed, and on aale at fir to per case of one doren half gai.oa bottle* by Prac-KLL, Lapd 4 Co., Richmond; A. BRrcgaa. Lynchburg ; Colsnax A Hi-ooaaa, Haitimore ; Hkokmax 4 Co., New York, and ether l.adlog druggista. A single box haa often seved the neceaalty of a visit to the Spring#. A liberal discount made to the Trade by ? ' PUKCSLL. LADD 4 CO., my 15?ta General Agent#. gRICKS! BRICKS!! BRICKS!!! We art now bun-lug, and In a few d#ys will open, one of the beet kilne of STOCK, ? P1V""'' ^COSHM wen which ha# been offered for sale Ihte eeaeon. Theee BRICKS will be eold on very reasonable terms by applying at oar yard, on TwealJ'fowth, between Main and Cary street#. .._r 1e n~t# TUB NIB 4 PL1A>ANT?ARDWARE, CUTljmv'TNP M8CRA.TC8' toannounce tohia 'oimer p*^uaand frte (be public geueraliy thai h* bae T^f^sin nr^i) it hla old fund. No. fi <bo^JJ,^TZv Mock Of AMlBIvA^* ?* tfaHnlV if hifK mail I hakuwakkaouM be offered at the low?et *?'*< Prfeuda for their favoetflk ??kSBOXi - ? ? i w ? elgu ol the < Ire alar Hew, No. UH Batiieirret P1UI,E.-K1VE aUARJ.8 VIR