The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-09
Correspondence of the Dlspateh.
Nati9n0! C0nCeAtio@ -4nother Secret Society,"
CouHtertejtS Strawberries, &c
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Ndti9nG! CoaccHti0N - Another Secret Society,"
CouHtertets-S Strawberries, &c
PHILADELPHIA, June 7th
The American National Convention continues
10 hold sessions which, 1t Ia said are mare can .
cuses They met three times Yesterday The or
gsniZation for pertnanency will take place 10 dav
THIS afternoon at Il O'Clock, grand bacquet will be
held in Samson Street Hall The convention will
probably continue in session for some time Arr
raugements are being made for q grand national
d-monstTAuon-on account of the repeated vic,o..
rles OF the new party-which will take place pro.
baby, on next Wednesday.
Another new secret society, Il Is reported. has
organized in this city. The object Is neither poU
teal or religious. The purpose is simply TO OBJ
tain drink OF the ardent" In spite OF the law.
on Sunday. head quarters has been established
words have been devised
Counterfeit $40 notes on the Bank of North
America made their appearance yesterday They
were dated April 10Th, 1884, and signed J. Hockle
Cashier. and J. Richardson, President They
were offered at the brokers' office, and instantly
detected
There are one hundred and twenty canal boats
lying In the Schuykl waiting for the wafer TO
subside The river is higher now than 1t has been
at any former period during the present season
Strawberries are quite plentiful Ia our CITY mar
kets. Yesterday there were one hundred ard for
~ i've thousand quarts Ia market, the raising OF
ole Individual st the South.
A lecture Is to be delivered BY Mayor Conrad
this evening for the benz Ii; of the Penn Widow
and Single Women's Asylum.
LATER FROM CARACCAs.-The brig Cuba has ar
rived at New York wiki dates from Lseuayra TO
May %. All was quiet, but approximations were
entertained by the Government that an invasion OF
The province OF Marscaibo by New Grenada might
occur. Troops were stquently being pressed
into The service TO protect the province.
The country was In deplorable state of bank
ruptcy from the course of the late administration
The present ministry have determined to extricste
the country from its present difficulties
Charles Eames, the American Minister was pro-
ceeding satisfactorily with the duties of the lega.
ton. The duties were likely to be srduous thew
being the presentation of American claims for
spoiia:ious
Congress had Adjourned without adopting aay
important measures except confding to the Prssi.
den. dictatorla powers
Amer can produce abundant aud country
produce scarce. The Spanish vessels had arrived
In the month of May, with Il ,ur from Spain.
Flour had in consequence declined g. per barrel
Colonel Dias, Chief of the Venezuelan Navy
had come passenger, as Commits from the
Government TO settle The gusno question Of the
Ise OF Anes. An additional force to protect the
leland would leave on the Goth of May. Venezu-
ella claims the island by right of conquest the Yau.
kees having omitted 10 plant the standard of the
United States. Col. Diss proceeds TO Washington
with view of obtaining a recognition of the new
ly acquired territory.
CALIFORNIA IrEms-Wass Molitor l. Co. Of San
fraGcisco have commenced itsuing their fifty and
twenty dollar pieces at the OF S38 600 par day.
The coin ia above the u S. standard and is received
In trad throug hout the State.
The Grass Valley Gazette, states that two men,
members OF mining company, az Moore's Plat. OBJ
taioed possession OF the fuuds of the company,
amounting to $50 coo, and flsd. The plumber
mostly In dust, and comprised the entire winters
work.
Geo w. Haley formerly of baltimore, died in San
francisco 18th May, aged 81 years
bout 81 COO worth of gold dust has besn depo,
francisco TeOpeEeQ
coinage which wss only seven days previous to the
steamers sailing.
Cornelius Mason a butcher, In San Frsncisco, was
shot dead on is. h of May, by one William Wilson
when the latter was negigentiy handling loaded
pistol
VIM franklin was drowned In Stanislaus river, at
the ferry, the 4th of May
Jsnn Reed q compositor in the office of the Sac
ranento Journal. committed suicide in that city by
tasiDg s.rychnine. mania for gambling appears to
have ID to the commission of the deed
Two Indians had been hung by the pepulacs on the
south FORK of Cottonwood, ior the murder OF VIM.
Cochrsne and Jesse Brown white men They con
fessed Il having killed ten white men
Capt B,enhtm Msj Eaton, U s. c A Ponder
g,a.t msj MEG win and Judge MeFadden hsd arriv-
cd a. ssa francisco from Oregon.
The Nevada Democrat says that party OF miners
a. worn at LONE Hollow about two weeks sgo struck
on very rich quartz lead, FROM which they have
since been fixing out ON $500 TO s400 per day us
ing oaly baud mortar.
Gen. Wool was about to leave California for Ore
son - inspect the arsenals aud fortfc in that
q sarter
THE CUBAN ExPEDITIoE-Lnteye,ttHgR Revelations
Some Ltfarg- revelations .de Ia tho Nav
Ycrt Sun concerning certain leading American FL
libssterS''-rsve lations of gu ID character to
make great noise in certain cir-irs The pth of
th.se disclosures 10 that General Qutmsn. together
with suaary retired officers o. the United States
army, .Tosd TO get Up a 10 iIita'y forcs to protect
The landing of arms for the Cubsns, lar which it 10
slegef they received ten thousand doilsrs In hand
Two stsso. ers were clustered, In consi iofston OF
wtich o o coo were at once paid down IN thirty
dAs thereafter So 600 advanced. foil wed
by sidition 81 $50 0e9 when the captain ported
him elf reaey TO sal
The money paid, and just bsfore II Q ca! OF
saiiins the contracting parties informed both Csbas
and Wssais gtoR eutGoIires thus tnockins the II
fair IN the head The eua also mates slin,i n to
.dlsnisseA ehiefn who was 20 receive &I,0 600