The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-31

g edjouru IVES csrrie1s 81 - e1foape1 he Con.
vension With very apprupt1ues vsledicsory.
The Convsnsion wss reall1 80 II H. moss mar
fnnnious bodies 4 ever saw. Ths litals apparent
divlsion IN he councils was the result Of peculiar
notions Of some two or three senilsmsn.s Their
po~isions. am sure, resulted from anxiety for the
great improvement, rather thss from any clear mo-
lions they had of any practicable mode Of scttliDg
the difficulties they lear BY any mutual compromises
The determination Of the Convention not to re
commend another Conventiou was wise,- be-
cause now 10 not the time TO settle dificuties--
The more they are agitated now the more difficult
they viii be to settle hereafter II was for this that
the Convention said not word shout the gauge.l
FUNERAL OF THE vICTIMs OF THE TOR
NADO, 10 -
coDtain full details Of the Tornado on sunday and OF
the funeral ceremonies yesterday.
Business was in i great degree suspended, and the
Ills were all toied for several hours In the middle
Of the Day AZ an early honr in the afternoon the
Fl s. Presbyterian Church, whore the funeral
vices OF most OF the deceased were held was dense
II crowded. The bodies of the dead were placed
conducted BY several clersymen. The spaciou, yard
was aiso crowded with spectators. who were unable
At the opening of the services tho Rev. Mr. Nor
rison, who oficiated At the Inflated church at the
time Of the catastroPhe. made few remarks. He
fe he had been requested to preach, but it was
generally known among the CATION that there
that we're ssemblsd Upon the next Sunday il was
expected that the pastor, recently invited would be
Installed. There were not than s. persons pre-
sent in the house at any time Sunday during the
sermon, which had been commenced at later ne
ri ID than usual and the services being held in
church. Z
When the storm came mp. the main door of the
basement room was blown open, and elder rose
aud closed it. Agan the door forced open and
again closed; third time the violence Of the wind
blew the door open, not withdrawing the elder was
was lied with particles of sand-the speaker had his
eyes hiieo with fine dust. This caused some stir in
the assembly, and most of the persons to their
feet some jumping ont of the windows near where
Mr.. Morrison said he had not time to recover from
the effects of the gust of wind that struck i'm with
particular fury, before q cracking sound rsvsrberated
over head and in q moment & Rhine after the tenn
pest blew opeo the door WITH such violence filling
the room with sand, the whole walls had fall en- in
immediately about the pulpit, where he was stand
ing, the plastering broken, and to his right
several old ladies' escaped uuhurt
Mr.. Morrison expressed himself having been
greatly shocked BY the suddenness of the calamity
and when he finally recovered from the blindness
caused by the ascending dust, de-, most terrible
sight preaen ted itself be fore him. He two men
already dead, the head of another greatly mangled,
od the Of aeath and
her body bent of the seats and her face
most horribly distorted From different parts of the
building he could hear the groaDs of the dying and
the stifled screams of the crushed
OF those injured only one, Mrs Marshall hiss yet
expired. Miss Duff Is in q very precarious cond
ton. Mrs. Marshall, wife of VIM. Marshall, is not
expected to recover.
Captain Greenlow, of the steamer Memphis which
boat was badly damaged. thus describes tornado
He on his boat. the forecastle, when the frat
blast of the hurricane struck her. He the block
of houses OF Mr. Beatty crumbie to the ground, and
hAfn ia mi MT IN hoso
the storm was upon him. He casped his arms around
a stauncheon to hold himself, and in an instant he
heard rushing sound his head and noise like
the cracks of an immense wagon whip, and raw the
greater portion of his cabin and the entire Texas
railing fly over his head and alight in the river fifty
or seventy yards ahead of him. A moment after the
ponderous hall of the boat received q tremendous
blow as it and whsked from its mooriugs over
to reef of rocks in about the spacs of time it
duires tn draw hrea