The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-21

81. hkLIofous The sixty. nrst session Of tho Gen.
Srn Assembly Of the Presbytesian Church 0)Id
i ~ commenced tn the linton Churct, In at
NJ ,asy The attendance was quite large.
- ORR has b.en selected rs lie next pfsts III
'neeuns. The Episcopal Convention of Penn,vI.
'Aoa adjourned sine die Friday vj,hout comiae IN
10y action upon the proposed division of the do
.,s ne committee on the subject was continued
commission Of Bishops 10 to as.embIe IL Phi..
ae'pnia to day, to consider . memorial proposing
seVera. changes Ia the Protestant Episcopal ltbur.
~. ana to act upon other subjects. q
~, AN sstemps was made Tbursday to rob Mr.
hhigsias. OF MARYLAND, near Bladensburg By 9 reb.
ger, who snapped pistol At him The robber rot
beating for bis pains and got In JAIL.
THE SLAVE CAsR-The eff ,rt made m ;,a,,, q
NJ Booth. OF the Milwaukee Free Democrat. for
perjury, for making oath some time since before
Justice Smith. that he had been falls civ imprisoned
,nsougn me agency Of Judge Miller and District
Attorney Sharpssein met with failure: the grand
jury throwing out the bill by vote of ITO 8. :
THE CASE or JOSEPH HAS, TIL. case of u
sepb HISS. arrested for debt, was brouebt before
the supreme Court of Boston Fridsy. And ON y,o-
.ion on the piaintihs counsel, the writ of habess
CORPUS was dism'ssed This proceeding Is said TO
would require sworn affidavit that the whole case
was genuine. and not trumped up for purnoses
other than the collection of Q debt = =
iSJuNcrIoN Sur OF Mrss BUsKLKY The csse
oi MISS Bunkify, the escapedI Emmitt .burg nun,
sts,n,, Mesrs. Dewitt d Davenport, publishers of
rev iork, praying an Injunction to restrain the
oe,endsnts from publishing certain book. was de-
cided Friday. The Judge refused to Grant : nsr.
manent Injunction, but continued IL Temporarily.
P4o-sLAvERY LEAGUE IN Missouri AND KAssAs
late OF the Psrk.ville Lumnary the Free Soil psne,
destroyed By Missouri mob publishes Ion ietter
.av an th louis SDsmoeIss Of Friday in which be
sSn.<ed asecret association sworn to turn ont and
nsn. VINE called upon, to maintain the pro-slsyery
one member even at the price Of disnnion slit ~
seeTstly to destroy the business charsctsr ~ III
Northern men; all the Benton and Whis presses to
hanias city and the presses Of swrence are
cannon being taken to demoliih them At disfanes:
be- srysn @ not to stop I'll every sesoe
says ne mas teieGrsphed to Governor Price Of Mis-,
sos, and to President Pierce for protec.on but has
destruction Of the Lumipsry estabIishmsnt and
promises more dsvslopmsLtI = : :.
FIRE AT DUsDAs. CANADA WI SRA FIRE occurred
q Dundas Canada West, on Wednesday last, which
destroyed the paper mills of Means Anderson aud
Mehenry, aud the Cove Touring mills A large
quantity OF grain and several hundt cd cords Of wood
incurred " "
Tue KlsSEY HABEAs CoRpus CASE The hearing
OF the Kinney habeas corpus before the United
states Circuit Court phia has been post
poned by requsst of the Defendants council fiji To.
day, in order to give time for obtaining documents
uar term.
ATTEMPT Tc MUaDER 4 WIrEEss--An attempt
was made at Lafayette, Indiana, on Saturday, the
i?sh, to murder an old man named Farenbaueh ar d
MS SON. to prevent their testfying In murder case
While the murderers were at the front door. F g
daughter looked out of the back window, and,
bringing some canal bostmen to the spot, drove
them Off
sUrcIDE.-On Mondsy last, President Grass, of
New Orleans, killed himself by discharging pistol
loaded with buck shot into his mouth.
Cor THROUGH A fugitive slave arrived In Bos~
ton, from the South, Wednesday. aud reward OF
$500 was telegraphed to this city for his arrest His
triende, however, got him through to Ca.
NADIA
The GuNNIsoN MAssAcRE.-The Indians ar
rested tor the murder of Capt Gunpison and his
party, were lately tried at Great Salt Lake Civ,
convicted OF mansiaughter, and sentenced to three
years imprisonment, but subsequently, broke Jail
and escaped -.
Eight employees on the Western Railroad have
been arrested at Springfield Massachusetts, for rob.
log freight cars. i,