The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-05
THE DAILY DISPATCH.


The DAILY DISPATCH.
Thar.aay clsrnins, June 5, 1855.
virginia Baptist Association.
Our correspondent from Lynchburg sends us an
account Of the closing session of the Baptist Gen
erai A sociation Of Virginia at Lynehburg. Rev
MI kyland made report from the education
board of the condition OF Richmond College /,
has spsnt ON improvements this year s25. 600. It's
endowment fund amounts to S7a, 900, which Is in
vested in State stock debt; due ON the building
$4,000 which will be iiquidated by sinking fund
in six years. The board recommends an applica
tioE to the Legislature for permission to have a
Theological chair in the institution The Board
of Education now has 25 young men at the college
whom 1t gratuitousiy educates, all of them have
the ministry In view, and about l2 of the other
students. About s7o0 is needed beyond the pres.
ent fund to bear the expenses of the beneiciaries
The report was adopted.
On motion of Rev. Mr. Burrows the Board AZ
Education was directed to receive all worthy ap-
plicaDts for their assistance. ri
Hollins Institute, Richmond Female Institute.
ard Chesapeake Female Institute. were recommend
ed to the favor and patronage of the churches
On motion of Rev Mr.. Ryland, II was resolved
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cause of education.
The report of the committee on Colportage was
read by MIR. G. j. Sumner. Seven Colporteurs
have been laboring during the year with gratifying
the work with renewed viger.
resolution to the effect that each church should
contribute 81 at least for each white member to
the cause of State Missions, was lost.
The propositions to raise and spend $4,000 this
year. for State Missions, the oral instruction of CO.
lored people and the effort to build new house of
worship in Wheeling, were discussed
Thanks were voted to the citizens of Lynch
burg, the railroad companies, &c.
Rev. Mr.. Broadus was appointed to preach on
Education at the next Association.
Monday night, Rev. Il. Hume administered the
ordinance of baptism to Borton Bean, of Lynch.
burg, deaf mute. Professor Turner. of the
Staanton Asylum, who is himself a deaf mute
made brief address in the sign language, which
was interpreted by DIR. Burrows These exercises
were witnessed with deep interest by large con
gregation. AT the same hour Rev. G. Tyree preach
ed at the I'd Presbyterian church. .sE
Rev. DIR Jeter preached the valedictory. He
made feeling allusion to the growth of the Assoca
tion from a mere handful when he first knew it,
TO its present numerical and moral strength
Other remarks were then made. Prayer was of.
fered hymn was sung, and amid glow of fra
ternal feeling the Association adjourned to meet in
Richmond, in June 1857.
DEATH OF AN OLD AND REMARKABLE MAN
There died at Philadelphia on Monday one of
those worthies whose memory connects us with
the past-John Heating, of an Irish family, some
time settled in France. He a major in the
French army when Napoleon Bonaparte was cap
tain Stationed in the West Indies at the time of
the French Revolution, be was the only officer in
his regiment elected by his to serve the re-
public. He replied that having entered the army
to serve the monarchy, he declined to serve under
the republic" He resigned his commission and
settled in Philadelphia, where few men have lived
more universally respected or died more truly la
mented at the mature age f94. Mr.. Keating was
the earliest manufacturer of cotton at the town of
Manayunk, in Pennsylvania.
THE TEXAS DEBT-The u. S. Government
Monday, paid So 500, 600 of the Texas claims, and
will pay nearly as much more in the next two or
three days. The principal creditors are:
Messrs. Corcoran & Riggs and W. w Corcoran,
Washington, $63O,0o0; J. & r. Milbank & Co, New
York $780, 000 Wickersham & Son, Philadelphia
$3.50, 900; Riggs & Co, Washington, $500. .0OO
Chubb Brothers, do, 100000; Drexel & Co., PhiIa.
delphia, $l5o,0o0; H. Blood, Nashville, S12oOO0
Reid, Spragce & Co. New York 500, 900; Fred
Dawson's Claim, Baltimore, $500, 900; Schotts do
Philadelphia, S5c0, 600; Assignees of u. s. Bank,
Philadelphia, $730,000: Holford Estate, English,
1915, 900; Swenson Swisner. Austin, 1926, 900; G.
b. Lamar, New York, 100000
SALE OF TRANSIT STEAMERs-At a meeting of
the Nicaragua Transit company in New York
Monday, a resolution was adopted authorizing the
sale of the conpanys two steamships-the North
ern Light and Star of the West-to g. Vanderbilt
for 100000, or 100000 each. Either of these
steamships is worth more than the whole sum
named for both.
OPERATIONS OF THE PHILADELPHIA MINT
The statement ofth operations of the Mint in Phil
phia for the month of May shows that the total
gold deposits and purchases were 81, ,053, ,0O0-to-
gcther, 81 595 900. Gold coinage during the month,
Il.
569; silver coinage. including all the several de-
nominations except dollars, $575, 900 The copper
coinage was $50, SEQ pieces. The whole number
of pieces coined during the month is 946 250, of
the value of $1,437 oa7 The Mint is doing very
light business just now.
SPLENDID WITNESS DIR. Bunting, who went to
Boston, and represented himself to be principal
witness of the Brooks and Sumner affair, says
that Summers skull was 'laid bare with wounds
from three to five inches deep. Bunting ought to
speak at all the Indignation meetings
A NICE LITTLE BUsINEss-The annual earn,
ngs of the several lines of railroads that connect
at Chicago, Illinois, with New York city exceeds
s25, 100000 This fact, taken in connection with
the vast amount of produce and merchandise
transported between the two ports by water car
riage, conveys some idea of the resources of the
Great w est.
CONDENSED EGG.-A process has been devised
by kessrs. Thurgar, of the Albion Mills, Norwich,
for drying eggs that they will keep good for any
length of time. This is effected by evaporation
The yolk and white of the egg are exposed to
slow heat and the moisture is thus driven off,
The whole is then reduced to powder and packed
in tins. The material is not necessarily kept air
tight. but may be freely exposed 10 the air. The
powder is used in the ordinary way as eggs are,
being mixed with little water, and is thus an ex-
celent substitute for milk long voy ages besides
capable of being used for all cooking purposes in
the same way as the fresh egg The powder viii
keep any length of time without fear of deteriora-
tion.-Lond0a Paper.
AMERICAN ARTISTS IN FLORENCE AND ROME
Rev. John u. Edwards, writing to the Richmond
Christian Advocate, says era wford is still engaged
on the equestrian statue of Washington. for the
Virginia monument Hart Is at work on the sta
tue of Henry Clay for the ladies of Richmond. -
Barbee is at work on his 'Coquette," and has inst
modelled beautiful ''Fisher Girl" Rogers is en-
gagged on statuary for Boston. Powers & Chap
man are busily engaged on the work they have in
hand. 4s
: AMusEMEHTsIThe Pyne g. Harrison opera
troupe is performing in Montreal, Canada. Miss
Kate Denim and her sister Susan have parted
company ard the latter is starring IL with Mr. e.
JsArnold Miss Estelle Potter is playing in San