The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-12-14
wAs,usaroN, Dec. II, 1866.

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/, WASHINGTON, Dec. II, 1855
In ,o.v rocksws though Mr. Banks has got to the
k,heth 6lhtHe4her yet his friends say that ie win
F6{ elccsch And that they win vote Tor no other,
[.ls%s;aiss kfat Il Has been aGdsssseod ali along,
|9d Is 10 even now that there arc certain votes he
cd Md get Il his elecsion thereby could be deemed
sure, bat regard Il very certain that he i now
reeiving votes that he could not receive, were MS
|'sleciion to be secured by them. .
b Il Is not unlikely that the friends of Mr. Fuller
and Of Mr. Pennington viii endeavor to make rally
around these eentlement; but regard their chan.
ces Of success as better than that of Dir. Banks
to say the least IL
The statement In relation TO Mr. Pennington,
tina. he had voted for q bin repeating the fugitive
slave act is an error lie voted to take up that bill
- Mr.. Banks voted to take up the Kansas Nebras-
ka BILL and may. at the same time, have been not
more fsvorably disposed toward it.
Virginia has been again honored in the Senate
by the appointment of one of her Senators chr.
fiunteD as Chairman of the Committee Of Fl
nance, and the other Ctr. Mason) as Chairman of
the Committee of Foreign Relations
In the House. the seat of Mr. Whitfield will be
contested by Mr.. Reeder; that of Mr.. Chapman, of
Nebraska by some one else and that of Mr.. Har-
ris of Baltimore, by Mr.. Vansant the late member
In the Senate, there will be some singular con-
tests Mr.. Trumbul Of Illinois, was elected by
the Legislature but comes without the certhcate OF
the Governor. because of the existence of law in
filed State Office, until the expiration of year
after,his leaving it, Mr.. Trumbull Judge
of State Court, ran for Congress- and was elect
cd and then elected to the u. s. Senate by the
Legislature. His name Is now daily called in the
House of Representatives and in the Senate! And
this is not all-the Governor who withholds the
certificate of the State from him, though equally
int lligiblr from the same cause was himself COM
petitor with Mr. Trumbull for the office of SENATOR
But if Mr. TrumbulIs election should prove null
and void and the inelligibity of the Governor shall
thus be determined them according to the terms Of
the law, Ger Shields who stood next on the list
must be declared elected
| have heard il crcdibly stated that Senator
Douglas had declared the law in question of no
avail do not feel sure OF this the Senate is to
judge of the qualifications of its own members but
of course by the laws of the State whence they
come
Another case is that of Mr. Harlan, of Iowa
The two houses of the Legislature had met in joint
meeting to elect Senator, and failing to elect one
adjourned until the next morning. On retiring to
the Senate chamber that body remembered that
the next day was Saturday, and it accordingly adj
ourned until Monday. On Saturday the House
met, and failing to find the Senate, proceeded to
elect Senator He is now here, but the protest
of the Senate is here also. "A. Ii. u
FATAL RESULT OF THE BOSTON C0WHIDING
AFFAIR.-The Boston papers of Tuesday even
ing state that William Sumner, one of the victims
of the late disgraeefu cowhdng affair in that city,
died on Tuesday morning, having been gradually
failing in health since the attack made on him.
The deceased was young man about - years of
age, OF highly respectable connexions, being
cousin of Senator Sumner, and his brother mem
Der of q well known firm of ship chambers on Com
mercal wharf
Edward o. Coburn and Frank Dalton have both
been ro- arrested. The Telegraph recurring to the
circumstances OF the murder, tor such it seems TO
be- says: ri
On the afternoon of the day on which that as
sault was made. friend and companion of Mr..
Porter, young man of 10, Mr.. William Summer,
of Milton who had been induced by the advances
of the ladies to indulge in sundry tiirtatons with
them in confectionery saloons and the street,
sought out in a saloon in West street. and under
the pretence that the lady of of these parties
very much desired to see him, was induced to visit,
in a carriage, Mr. Goburn's house Shawmut
avenue.
When there, he was dragged to the cellar and
there most wantonly struck and kicked, and other
wise maltreated, against the protestations and
screams of the ladies, by the enragcd husbands
who supposed that their honor had been compro-
missed by the conduct of Mr. Sumner, and his friend
Mr. Porter: He was then brought up TO a door,
and told he could go, by scaling the fence of the
yard; but while upon it, he was again pounded and
bruised by the two parties mentioned.
The Transcript says:
We hear that the two young sisters, the wives of
the prisoners who are reputed to have been the
original cause of their troubles, were both prone
nading the streets rs usual yesterday, and pass
ing the l1th ward room, at the Franklin school
house, on Washington ST., were hOoted at by the
crowd around the polls, as evidence of the pub
lie indignation they have excited by their ridicu
lous folly, to the mildest term.
The people OF Hampshire will vote on the LIST of
January, on proposition to vote 100000 to the
Alex andra and Hampshire railroad, or any other
from Winchester to the COalfeds.
EXECUTION POsTPONED.-The execution of
Eben Lipscomb for the murder of his wife, which
was to have taken place in Monongalia county, on
Friday. the 9th, has been postponed by order of
Gov. johnson until March 9TH 1856
FENISOS-The Central Railroad on Saturday
last, conveyed to Richmond IL deer and 10 saddles
of fresh venison which were killed by hunters in
the vicinity of Goshen the present terminus of the
Central Railroad.
drove Of hogs was butchered in Charlottesville
on Monday, and sold at So % per cwt.