Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-19

ate.-Ihe Senate yesterday adopted resolution
IL meet at . o'clock A. VI. to morrow.
joint resolution To increase the pay OF all the
laharers in the Executive aud the Legislative
department was passed.
The hill To extend the time for the creditors OF
Texas to present their claims was passed and is
law.
The bill to survey the southern boundary of
kansas was passed. aud is law.
The bill for the Settlement If the claims OF of
herrs of the revolutionary army. and the widow
and orphans of those who died in the service, was
postponed until next session.
The light house appropriation bill was passed.
and is a law.
The Senate amendment striking out the House
amendment, which strikes from the Legislative
appropriation bill the appropriation of 100000
tor The Kansas Legislature was receded fromand
the bill passed with the S2D,0O0 left out.
HousE,-The mail steamship bill was amend
cd So Us To give notice of the termination of ad-
diiional compensation tho Collins line. and was
passed-and is II law
The Senate bill amending the act requiring for
algn regulations of commerce to be laid before
Congress annually, was passed
bill granting bounty lands TO the officers and
crews of privateers, commissioned by the United
States, was passed.
joint resolution for the settlement of the
claims of +. NJ Strader and +. NJ. Johnson,mail
contractors was passed.
Also, bills for the relief of Mary Reeside, DIR
james Morrow and j. w. Nye.
The Senate bill to protect the citizens of tho
United States in the discovery of Guano Islands,
passed
A bill for the Improvement of the Patupsco
River, Maryland, was passed over the veto of tho
President.
The House receded from its Kansas amrnd-
ments to the Legislative Executive aud judicial
bllls,wh the exception OF thu, striking out 800
900 payable for the Kansas Legislature, which
1t insisted upon by ten majority.
The bill for steam revenue cutter at New
York. was passed.
The Senate bin extending the copy right to
dramatic authors. was passed.
SECOND DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, Aug. T.-The Senate passed
the Oeeen Mail appropriation bill with the House
proyiso, terminating the extra allowance to the
Collins line.
The committee Of conference on the Army ap-
preparation bill reported as unable to agree-he
House committee insisting ola lis amendments.
prohibiting any portion of the army 10 be used III
enforcing the laws of the Kansas Legislature.
Both Houses adj ourned Mt ID O'Clock Sunday
morning until o'clock to morrow morning.
Several general appropriation bills are pending
ON dtsagreeing to amendments
WuIRLwINp IN YARMOUTH HARpoR.-Se
rem Persons Dromned-A dispatch published
yesterday stated that the IL, at Yarmouth.
was struck by "a whirlwind mud sunk drowning
seven persons. The portland Advertiser OF
Thursday has the following particulars of the sad
occurrence
party consisting of Mr.. John Brown. wife
and two children, aud daughter of Adam Baker
started in II sail boat in the morning for pleas
ure excursion among the Islands. Everything
passed quiet until the boat on its way home
when rain came on. aud the women aud chill
dren went into the cuddy of the boat. Suddenly
II whirlwind struck the boat powerfully that
pothlng could withstand it-and she sank storm
first, every person in the cuddy was drowned
/ hose upon deck were saved 10y getting upon the
bow Of the boat which still remained above the
water, until assistance arrived. There were boats
M sight when the calamity occurred, so that asss-
tance speedily rendered and tho boat flowed
ashore about half past nine.
Our correspondent says that the whole town
was thrown into distress by this sudden and aw
full dispensation of Providence. 1t is certainly
remarkable crcumstance-in the river, within u
short distance of where the boat capsized, it
had been for hours before and since the acct dent
almost perfect calm.
The following are the names of those drown
ed Mrs. Alvira Brown. aged 40 years; Lydia
Brown, nged "a years; James Brown aged IL
years; Mrs. Liranda J. Winslow aged % years;
Fila NJ. Winslow, aged 4 years; Irwin F. Wins
low, aged p years; Emma Baker, aged - years.
From the Cincinnati Gazette August ~
The KANSAS PRISONERS LETTER FROM
JUDE MCLEAN. Editors Gazette: Your note
in the paper of this morning, in relation to the
Kansas prisoners, though not intended, is calcu-
lated to mislead the public. The application for
hdbeds corpus was made, and after full exam
nation of the case, finding that the indictment
for treason charged The offence within the con
stituton. and that the defendants were arrested
under warrant Issued by the court on the in
dictmcnt | refused the application for the writ,
as there was no ground from the face of the pa
pers to hold the detention as illegal; and that
was the only ground on which the prisoners, on
the habeas corpus, could be released.
Tho counsel asked leave to withdraw the pa
pers, with the view of amending the return, and
| granted them to him.
! acted upon certified copies of the indictment
and the warrant under which the prisoners were
held JoriN Mclean.
FATAL SICKNESS. We learn. says the Char
lottesvlle (Nn) Advocate, that there is great
deal Of sickness in the Northern part of this coun.
ty Our informant says that the dysentery is
nearly as fatal in proportion To the population in
Shltietfs Hollow was the yellow fever in Nor
folk and Port smouth last summer Our town
md immediate neighborhood have been quite
healthy.
TREATY RATIFIED ApPRoPRIATIoNs.-W
ington, Aug. I7.-Thc Senate thi. morning rat
flied "A treaty with the Creek and Seminole Ind
ans. involving appropriation of than
$1,000, 600.
The sum of S50O,0OO appropriated to the
erection of the New York post office.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BALIzE, HONDURAS
New Orleans, Aug. 1.-THE British schooner