The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-10
Correspondence Of the Dispatch.


1erGea- En.President Van Buren,, DC
NEW YORK. Julys. 1855
The Executive Committee of the Southern Aid
Society have made appropriations, payable as soon
az The state of the treasury will permit OF S40oto
the ID omestic Missionary Society OF Richmond Va,
500 to the New School Presbyterian Synod OF
Kentucky, $500 TO the New School Preseyterisn
synod of Mississippi. and $1,000 TO the Dome sdc
Missionary Board of the Old School Presbyterian
Church, 10 aid OF missionary operations under
their care In the Southern and Southwestern
States
port 10 California at present. either by sailing
sells or steamers. There are few or no first class
ships on the berths, and none in demand. The
last engagements were, ship Morning Star, $50
TONS Al s24 600 for the voy age out
10 pecuniury respect, the German SGngetest
recently held here decidedly successful The
Secretary states that the receipts amounted TO So
100 and the expenses s. 500: leaving a balance of
5000 The expenses OF the SGngerfest Of 1852 ex
cseded the receipts by 81 600.
The oeIebrstsd sauH box sent by the Emperor Ma
poleon to Mr. Depau. of this city which was seizs d
By the Sheriff for debt and told. has been returned
TO MIR. Depsu, as it was deemed impossible to keep
it legally from MIN.
Our boatmsn having beaten the Bostoniaus and
then bsen beaten BY the New Brunswickers, have
in harbor next month, for $1,000. The chsl-
lenge 10 accepted.
A further hearing of the case of c. E. Smith,
CHARGED with violating the prohibitory law, was
held yesterday before Judge Birdsel in the Ma
fine Court His Honor decided that complaints IN
der the new lew can only be tried at the Court OF
asssiG ms. and that other Judges and Justices can
only hold preliminary examinations, sending their
cases to the Sessions if they think proper. This is
equivalent to a formal qualification of the whole
Law, for the Recorder beipg the presiding fcer
the Sessions he has already decided that the law
applies not to foreign liquors, while sales of domes
tic liquors must be seen in order to make complaint
valid
Ex.Presldent Van Buren, and his son, Colonel Van
IiVeFnOaI in
They may therefore be reasonably expected in this
city by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Two men, whose names are John Minnie and Au
gustus johnson, were arrested yesterday, charged
with holding communication with vesse! at quar-
sutine, having the yellow fever on board ON the
27th ut. the vessel was the bsrque Fire Fly, from
Batavia via Havana
According the returns at the Chiefs Office. there
were about sixtyve drunken and disorderiy persons
arrested last night in the city.
Wilson, one of the young men who was stabbed by
two Italian organ grinders at 26a Baxter street. on
Saturday night last, died this morning.
The Luusntics had celebration on the Fourth on
BlackwelPs Island. An Grafton was delivered and
snstiopsi song, composed by lunatic was snng
Sales of $1,000 Virginia Skies on Friday, at 500
FRon THE Rocky MoUsTAINs-Ths Late Siour
Outrage. We find in the St. Louis Republican OF
the 30th nit the following additional intellsence OF
. recent murder perpetrated BY the Sioux Indian.
The Blackfset Indans have been annoying ID .
Grow Indians during the winter by stealins theil
horses. The latter tribe. however, avenged the 20.
selves by taking seventeen of their enemies scaips
curing the Wlutof. bhtc IN inc Gprng BaCkfOot
Indian came close TO Fort Ssrpy aud scaIped s0uas
Of bis own tribe, who had however been prisoner
Of the Crows for anumber of years
On the first of May seven men started from Fort
Union, at the mouth Of the Yellow Stone, to 10 to
Fort sarpy, distance Of over two hundred miles Ia
assist In bringing some boats. On the third dsy ont
they were met by party of over three hund ed
Sioux armed to the teeth, who made a hostile de
monrtration towards them One of their party, W no
could speak tina Sioux language, interfered. The
Sioux demanded their surrender, but some of the
parry were unwilling, when they were attacked,
and man named George Skies, a German. who h
from Quincy, Illinois, was wounded and another
one OF them shot at by Sioux chief but was not
injured. They then came to parley, and the In
dians stripped them of their guns and ammunition
and every particle of their clothes and left them
naked in the mountains They bent their course
towsr ds Fort Sarpy, which they reached few days
afterwards in their naked condition. having suffered
considerably with the cold and want of food This
only thing they had to eat young buffalo cslf
which one Of the party killed with a stone and with
sharp flint they opened vein and sucked its b God
Tires days after they arrived at Fort Sstpy. The
Sioux, some three hundred strong, surrounded the
fort but after distributing pTess nts and h.yina
talk, the Indians left. without Offering to attac
them.