The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-11-29
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SIAssrNG. learn from the buchanan Re.
coioer that Mr.. VIM. White, of that place. was
s'aooed recently by white man named Fariss, and
dangerously wounded. difficulty had arisen be-
tween Mr. VIM Rock and Fariss, when White ap.
preached to assist Rock, and was stabbed az above
stated Mr.. White was better at last accounts.
'nough not out of danger. Fariss is in Jail
ImPuDENT RoBBERY-On Monday afternoon,
Gays the Peterburg Express) as a young lady o!
Richmond, Miss Julia V. Wilson. was going over
to the depot across Pocahontas, she had her purse
in her hard, when it was suddenly snatched from
her fingers by a mulatto boy who made off at tre
mendous pace to parts unknown. The suddenness
OF the act startled the young lady that her pre-
sence of mind left her. till it too late TO catch
the rogue who had thus suddenly adopted game
that is very frequent in large Cities in the North
especially
NAvIGABLE.-The Rsppahannock Canal is again
open for the passage of boats, having been closed
Tor some months on account of the work doing q,
the dam ofthe Fredericksburg Water Power Com.
pany.
ROBBERY AND ARREsr.-The house of John John.
son. near Parkersburg, was broken into and robbed
were arrested at Coove, Ohio, with the stolen
property in their possession.
INSURANCE CAsE-The case of Davis vs.. the
Protection Insurance Company of Hartford, was
tried in Portsmouth last week. but the jury failed
to agree. Mr. Davis, whose store and goods, in
Norfolk, were destroyed by fire last spring, had
sued the company, whose agent refused, for Ger.
tain reasons, to pay the insurance
THE SEIZURE OF THE AMERICAN ScHoosERs AT
BARACoA-(under circumstances hitherto nara.
ted is represented to have been suggested by the
discovery ol letter written in cypher by ili
buster in New York TO one at Baracoa, which was
opened by the Spanish oiticials, as the Cuban to
whom the ieurr was addressed was a suspected
party, who had been pardoned, for having been
engaged in the Lopez expedition This letter
stated that these schooners were freighted with
munitions of war, and hence the search and
seizure.
One OF the schooners, the Charles T. Smythe, as
already stated, has been released-but the John G.
White, will probably be contiscated. Two of her
passengers, Mr.. Lacoste, aud Mr. John II. Felix
were in prison, at last dates. The friends of the
latter in New York, say
Upon the beach were found thirteen boxes con.
tdliug arms, pOWuer &C, Dut nOthlDg was found,
on board the Charles T. Smythe The vessel was
detained seven days In charge of brutal soldery,
who kept the crew under the strictest surveillance
and was finally permitted to depart on the oath OF
every man belonging to her. from the captain to the
cook, thatthe boxes in question were not landed
by them, and that they knew nothing whatever
OF the matter. The John e. White was next
seized, her cargo broken open, and several boxes
o' ammunition found in her hold Captain Nc
Culloch was compelled to make declaration, in
which he swore that these belonged to the passen-
ger, Lacoste, and to Felix, and that he knew no
thing of their contents, which were represented to
him to be jewelry and dry goods, but that his
owners knew al about it. The owners here de-
clare, however, that they entirely ignorant of
the whole transaction.
Upon this evidence Felix and Lacoste were
thrown into prison. The schooner had guard
placed on board of her, and has been taken toge.
ther with the crew and all The parties implicated to
st. Jago de Cuba, there TO await and abide the
decree of the Spanish tribunal
Mr. Felix is native of Brooklyn, and is bro
ther.in law to the Rev Francis Peck, an Episcopal
clergyman there-N Y Erpress