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Newspaper
Richmond Mail
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1854
Page
2
The Richmond Mail announces growing daily circulation both in city and country areas and highlights a large semi weekly country edition that benefits advertisers. The issue is dated Friday morning June 30, 1854.
William M. Semple announces sale of his interest to Rose and Pleasants Smith of the Penny Post. The two papers Mail and Post will merge under new management to issue a first class daily paper with popular support. Semple thanks supporters and wishes prosperity to the new proprietors in Ricauoxo June 30th 1854.
The Great White Sulphur Convention gains momentum as Augusta and Richmond plan fifty delegates each and towns across the state prepare to back the Covington and Ohio Railroad project. Leaders urge carefully chosen delegates to balance commercial interests with facts, numbers, and persuasive rhetoric. The gathering will mix grave deliberation with resort pleasures at the mountain retreat.
Col. Fremont publishes a long letter in the Nacional Intelligencer detailing his exploration of the Central Pacific Railroad route to the Pacific. He breaks the route into three parts: Missouri frontier to Sierra Blanca base about 700 miles. Sierra Blanca to first Mormon settlement about 450 miles. and the mountainous terrain to Sierra Nevada about 400 miles.
Lynchburg forms the James River and Southwestern Agricultural Society and adopts a constitution. The Hon. Wm. C. Preston of South Carolina arrived in Wytheville last Wednesday.
The Board of Trustees report details a new Richmond Female Institute on Tenth Street costing 55 000 dollars for land, fixtures, furniture, and equipment. The building will house 300 pupils with 90 boarders and should finish by October 5 enabling classes that month. Trustees favor later expansion and foresee a fair dividend from stock as a Southern enterprise.
The Mobile Advertiser urges Southern Whigs to stay united on national principles. The Hon. Wm. C. Rives will speak at Christiansburg on July 4 and Newbern on July 5 about extending the Orange and Alexandria Railroad to Lynchburg via Charlottesville, then west to Abingdon and Wythe Smyth and Washington counties.
Syracuse dispatch adds details to the Aspinwall case. Bingham, newly married to Emily Thorn, is pursued by her father Charles Thorn. Susan, remaining with Woodward, hides in a pantry as tensions rise on the steamer Pan ama voyage. A pistol malfunction and a staged intervention prevent a larger clash. Bingham is wounded but alive as the North Star sails.
An old letter to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland prescribes a cholera prevention of powdered charcoal mixed in coffee and a treatment using a charcoal laudanum and brandy remedy, noting dramatic recoveries. It also quotes Mills on political economy, criticizing life focused on dollar pursuit and noting alcoholic brandies in France rising to 198f.
The University of Virginia hosts Festival Week closing ceremonies with John Mitchel in attendance. Merritt of Brunswick spoke to the Washington Society on politics versus literature, urging study over war. Mitchel’s 11 o'clock address impressed a dense hall, to be published as a pamphlet. Mr Gordon of Essex delivered the Jefferson Society oration on territorial extension and free government, defending the South and urging responsibility. Diplomas are awarded Monday, with several faculty changes and graduates listed, including Holcombe becoming full Professor.
A brief note mentions sixteen graduates in the School of Medicine and references John Mitchel planning a return to New York via Staunton Winchester Harper's Ferry and Baltimore. This compact item reads like a clipped social or scholarly update from a historical page.
Rev. Wm. V. Bowers, highly esteemed pastor, resigns from St. Martyns Parish Hanover to take effect July 1. His intended destination remains unannounced.
The meeting at Metropolitan Hall appointed delegates to attend the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs convention on August 24. The chair and secretary were chosen, with authority given to fill vacancies. Also reported, Albert Piedsoe named Professor of Mathematics at the University of Virginia to replace the late Dr Courtenay. Piedsoe a Kentucky native and former Mississippi professor with military academy credentials.
A woman sought a divorce over drunkenness and ill treatment. Her attorney, a temperance advocate, promised swift action and hoped to finalize by September at the latest, though she urged to marry in July. The exchange reveals the tension between rapid婚 plans and legal proceedings.
A sermon extracts a biblical scene where Jesus asks for a drink from the Samaritan woman. The preacher contrasts humble outreach with prideful social distance, urging believers to cross thresholds and seek connection in people’s homes to share God’s word. The line about hospitality is framed as the sure path into a person’s heart.
A mixed snippet lists a home remedy for Diamycea using strawberry leaves and hot water with guidance to chew leaves if water is unavailable, claiming immediate relief. It also contains quips, legal questions, railroad news, a shooting report, fashion notes, editorial suggestions, women’s rights commentary, cattle prices, Georgia crops, a political decline, cholera gossip, and an advertisement for Canners's Spanish Mixture promoting liver restoration and vigor.
Mr and Mrs Allison who were injured by the mysterious box explosion at Merine Hospital have died. Allison had a deathbed statement that may aid locating the guilty party. Reported link to a prior murder by a man named Conwell, whom Allison knew. The boy who delivered the box identified a man whose description matches Conwell.
Fire on Arch street above Thirteenth damaged homes of Heberton Newkirk Henry Conrad and Frederick F Kneans. Two firefighters were overcome by heat one not expected to recover and another severely burned. Thermometer at 97 degrees amid a violent afternoon thunderstorm.
The Arabia departed Liverpool today for New York carrying 180 passengers and 228000 dollars in specie. Among the travelers are John Van Burén, Monsieur and Madame Jullien, Mr. Jullien Jr, Herr Koenig, the orchestra’s remainder led by Mons Roger and family, the French Consul in New Orleans bearing despatches, and Madame Dillon wife of the French Consul in San Francisco.
A true bill was returned by the grand jury of the Quarter Sessions this morning against William McCabe recently of Toronto Canada now in county prison for fraudulent insolvency. Merchants claim losses totaling 30000 for goods sold in April last year. Additional charges are said to be pending.
The examination of witnesses before the United States Court Grand Jury here regarding the Cuba expedition was unsatisfactory. Witnesses were excused from answering main questions to avoid self incrimination.
June 28 report from Burravo says a Great Western Canada Railroad train derailed after a trackman displaced rails at Princeton. All cars and locomotives were smashed. one man was killed instantly and several injured.
Two sons of John Bass of Scituate were drowned when their boat capsized while lobster fishing in Boston harbor on June 27. The incident occurred as they worked offshore with no survivors reported. Authorities investigated the accident and offered condolences to the Bass family.
Markets report limited activity with unchanged cotton and weak coffee in New York. Rio coffee sold around 10 1/2 to 11 1/2 cents, sugars steady, molasses dull, and rice ranging 4 1/4 to 4 1/3 cents. Wheat and flour down, corn steady to firmer, oats scarce, whiskey lower. Baltimore notes subdued flour and light wheat. red wheat about 1.70 to 1.75 per bushel, corn 83 to 85 cents, Rio coffee small lots around 9 1/2 to 10 1/2 cents per pound.
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