The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-12-05
VIRGINIA ANNUAL CONFERENCE.
THIRD pAY.

Chambers, G w Motley, G Winfree, w Il Barnes,
: :, larson, 1 Hoyle, w Rowzie, D p Wills, j
3 Scott, B G spilIer, Il Wood, N Bishop, j [
GIisrke, Harrison, A. Riddick, w A Smith,
= , Southail. Adams, E Gibbs, Brannin n
q Dance. w Nordeet John w Howard, Thomas
! Gasn, w Blount Lewis Skidmore, B r Duval,
severaly passed their annual examination of char.
scter. 7
= D Covington, J Edwards, Oscar Littleton,
= " Spencer, w G Williams and Waggoner
were severally elected to Elders orders
Shane was continued a. Deacon
ueo w Motley, Trustee OF the Superanuated
ffeachers Fund, made report, which was receiy.
and the funds in hands ordered to be paid 10 the
Joint Board OF Finance -
Ihe Conference passed rising vote of thanks
70 tue Rev GeoW Motley for his diligence In buiid.
ing farsonages, and recommended his course as
worthy of being followed
ReyJ Carson was continued a. supernumerary.
Skldmore was continued - a supernumerary.
Duval presented his report a. agent of R n
College, which was referred to Committee on Edu-
cation. 80
ARREsT OF THE CELEBRATED CAPT. VALENCIA
The New Orleans press record the arrest of the
noted DON Carlos Valencia, alias De Castro charg
ged with breaking open trunk aud taking there
from $25. The Bee says:
He commenced his career az barber at Vera
Cruz, but his restless nature would not allow him
long to remain in this servile condition and we
hear OF our quondam scraper in New York. where
he was received with open arms by the aristocracv
he having made pretensions Of belonging to noble
family. He was soon, however exposed, aud de.
tected In various swinding and forging transactions
and was compelled 10 fly from that city save him
SELF Since that time he has been in most of our
Southern and Western cities, and has carried on his
peculiar operations wherever he has BEEN He ar
rived n this city about two weeks ago, and brought
with him from Kentucky, where he has been sum-
mering, highly respectable and beautiful Young
lady, whom he had persuaded to become his wife,
and had enticed away from her home. The prison.
er is OF very prepossessing appearance and con-
versatlon, and Ia not above twenty six years Of age
He is it is said master of no less than four Ian
guages, and Is also excellent musician and pain
ter.
HENRIETTA SoNTAG-The N. o. Picayune COM
menting upon the statement that. has been going
the rounds of the press to the effect that Count
Rossi instead of remaining In Mexico to superin.
tend the work of disintering his wife's remains,
abruptedly left the country, while the body was
disentombed by irresponsible hands, conveyed to
Vera Cruz in common carriers cart, and there
treated with the utmost disrespect-says:
We have abstained altogether from alluding to
the reports as to the cause Of the death of Sontag
which were rife at the time in Mexico, and that
not long in spreading throughout this country
The very day on which we received the news Of
the sad event, we also received through the post
Office an anonymous note, suggesting the most bor
rible suspicious; of which communication we took
no notice at the time. On the subsequent arrival
here from Mexico OF several gentlemen who were
In position to form an opinion as to the circum.
stances we made inquiries which resulted in i'm.
pressing upon our minds the sickening fear that
there might be some foundation for the suggestions
of our anonymous correspondent We learned
too, from them, that all the facts connected with
the death of Sontag, and with the equally inexpi.
cable demise of poor Pozzolini, who dropped dead
from his chair whilst apparently In the most robust
health, were sedulousiy hushed up by the suthori-
ties, and were not allowed to be published or COM
mented on by the press of the city of Mexico, and
that it was not permitted to hold post m0rtea ex
animation In either case. These circumstances,
together with some others we might mention, COM
bine, we think, to give deep and momentous in
terest to the question, the discussion of which
have heretofore eschewed, what was the canse of
the deaths of young PoZzolni and Henrietta Son.
tagl
An affray recently occurred In Fort Adams
Miss, between Samuel Bell and T. o. Sargent. in
which the latter was shot through the right thigh,
and is not expected to recover.
BANrsHED-Senor Gagiges editor of the Iris,
published in Mexico, and a number of other per.
sons have been banished by order of the govern
ment for political offences.
PAINE AROUND AGAIN.-Mr. Paine, of Worces-
ter Mass, the great unshot is out again with a
"new and wonderful invention" OF an electric
motive power.
We learn from the Sur1ter (Ala) Republican,
that Elisha Owens, of that county, killed man
named Henry Turner, few days since, by shoot
Ing him.
q. w. Hopkins, said to be man of brilliant
talents was found dead in his room at Fond du
Lac, wisconsin, from over dose Of morphine.
Joseph White has been arrested In New Or
leans, ON a charge of having murdered Levi Bar
row. in Liberty county, Texas, some ten months
| ago.
are supported at an expense of about 500 900 per
annum.