The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-23
STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.

STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
This body adjourned sine die on Saturday morn.
ing at o'clock. We copy from the Lynchburg
virgnan the resolutions adopted ON the last night
of the session
original report of the Business Committee, and Mr.
Naff offered the following substitute for the I'd
resolution ofthat report
Whereas The last Legislature of Va, though
asked by more than fifteen thousand of the voters
of this State to eubmt to the people the question
of prohibiting the sale barter of any Intoxicating
liquor, except for sacramental, medicinal and me-
chanical purposes, failed to permit the people to
vote on that question, and have thereby forced us
to appeal from that body to the people, there
fore,
Resolved, That this Convention urgently recon-.
mend to the friends OF prohibitory liquor law
throughout the State to organize in their respec.
tive counties for the purpose of carrying to the bal
lot box especially In the elections OF members OF
the General Assembly, their principles upon this
subject; and that, when necessary and expedient,
they nominate for Office and support by ali honor.
able means men reliable and favorable to prohi-
bitory law.
Resolved, That 1t Be recommended that candi.
dates for the Office of Justice of the Peace opposed
to licensing ordinaries and merchants to sell ardent
spirits, be nominated and supported in every coun-
ty corporation or election district in the State.
Resolved, That the Executive Committee be in
people on the subject of prohibitory Liquor Law.
at the next Spring election.
The vote being taken on this substitute, it was
adopted.
The question then required on the adoption of
the Report of the Business Committee as amended,
and 1t was decided In the affirmative.
The following resolutions were offered by various
members, and adopted: @
Resolved, That the Executive Committee be In
structed to call Convention of the friends OF tenn
perance OF the State, whenever the exigencies OF
the case demand it.
Resolved, That the friends of temperance In vir
ginia be urged to petition the Courts Of the Com
monw wealth to Withhold licenses to sell ardent spi
rits and that the Executive Committee be instruct
ed to form OF petition for distribution
and signatures
Resolved, That special committee of five be ap-
pointed to frame bill to present to the Legislature
ba Wing for ito object the entire prohibition of the
traffic In ardent spirits, and that that COMMITTEES re-
port to the next State Temperance Convention.
Messrs Geo. w. Purkins, ]. T. L. Preston, VIM.
H. Cook, T. J. Evans, and ]. B. ]. Logan where ap-
ton. 1t was
Resolved, That the powers and duties conferred
upon and required of the Executive Committee by
the last Convention, far a. they may be consist.
ent with the proceedings of this body be conferred
upon, ada required Of the Executive Committee ap-
motion was made and adopted, that the secre-
taries be appointed committee to have 600 CO.
pies OF the proceedings of this Convention printed,
the same to be paid for by the Executive Commit
tee.
The report of the committee appointed to pre-
pare resolut ons on the death OF Mr. Samuel Reeve,
was presented and adopted.
FATAL FALL-Joseph Coswell, native Of Ire.
land, while engaged on Sunday last In drunken
fight with James Cavens, at the residence OF the
former, No. 552, Washington street, New York, fell
upon the floor, producing conclusion Of the brain
of which he died Instantly. The coroner's jury
exonerated Cavens from blame.
THE OaArae MKLeN.-Considerabl editorial
compliment has been passing around Of late. rela.
live to the orange watermelon" the pecuiiarty o.
which 10 that the rind peels of like that of the
orange. The editor of the Augusta Chronicle,
however, says IL Is the greatest humbug In the
melon line extant They have been cultivated
In his vicinity for the last three years. and he
has yet to see the first one that b ft to eat
SUICIDE Henry Biumenbure, who had done
hi. country some service In the Florida war, com.
mitted suicide in New Orleans on the 18th, BY
shooting hinself In the abdomen. with a pistol,
while under the influence Of delirium tremena
The Reporter, published II Lagrange, Ga, comes
out in favor of adissolution Of the Whig party In
consequence Of recent abolition demonstrations
and favors the Know-Noahinga
SRcosDA DONNA MADAME Grisi, whose arrival
In New York was . signal for q demonstration ol
funk eyism gensrally, b accompanied BY an Irish
woman whose name l. Donavan, but who calls her
sell Signprina DouosaniI
Mr.. Edwin Crcsw we'll has retired from his con
nection With the Albany Argus and Transferred hi
] iuferese thaEein to nf. Gideon ]. Tucker.