The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-09-19

.S 70 Know that civil war is raging and tbe JTnon
po.n: and 20 proclaim the conviction that the
son esIofstion OF Mr. Fillmore to the Presidency will
furnish the best, il not the only means of restar;ng
peace. ' "a isas'iins
9 Resotred, That we cordially approve .ie nom.
NATION OF A. j. Doneison for the Vice Precedence
es;.Ss..ms nun as national conservative patriot
,atniuiiy devoted to the Constitution and the
Union. = 'A'aon 'Aia e anu tne
~ Resotred That the spontaneous rising of tia
NnIss throughout the country, aud their prompt
rAy TO tue support Of the highest national inter.
e.s, ana the spirit here displayed, sufficiently
AI.est the Importance of preserving and reinviao-
ranns their party organization: that NATIONAL
WHIG COMMITTEE composed of one member from
eaen State, be appointed by the President with
authority to call any future Convention and gene
raiiy promote the effective organization of the
party throughout the United States
Resotred, That these resolutions be published
and respectfully submitted by this Convention as
an address to the people of the United States.
Ihe resolutions were received with unbounded
enthusiasm, and adopted unanimously.
The Convention adjourned at o'clock this al.
ternoon
A mass ratification meeting was held tonight in
Monument Square, which was decorated in . u,osx
easily manner. The crowd is immense, and the
utmost enthusiasrn is manifested by all classes at
the result of the Convention and in favor of the
candidates.
UNIVERSITY or vIRGINIA-The Faculty of tbi.
institution have appointed the following State
students. Hardy, Hampshire and
Morgan-M MeNemar, of Hardy. AZ Rock.
bridge, Bath and Highland-Jeremiah E. Arbo-
CAST Of Highland "a barbour, Upshur, Lewis,
Giimer and Kandolph-Alvin Bastable, of Up
shur. % Harrison, Richie, Doddridge, Pleasants
and WOod-Wilson Queen, of Harrison. So Pres.
ton. Monongalia and Taylor-Edgar Asbury, of
Taylor.
Appointments from the State at LARGE
5 Mecklenburg and Charlotte-Edgar Harper,
OF Alexandra. 80 Loudoun-Julius Z Newman,
OF Clarke. Isle of Wight, Nansemond and Sur.
ry-Gerge Parker, of Portsmouth. 81 Russell,
Scott and Lee-Thompson b Maury, of Freder.
ickburg. 90 King 6 Queen, King William and
Essex--- Packard, of Fairfax 25 Ohio,
Brooke and Hancock-Amos Conley, of Preston
~ Greenbrier, Fayette. Nicholas, Raleigh, Brax-
ton and Pocahontas-J Estell Waddeii of Augusta.
30 Campbell and Appomattox-James Hammer,
of Bedford. 4s We.zel, Marshall, Marion and
Taylor-John Wingfield of Fauquer 20 Giles,
Mercer, Monroe and Tazewel-John Rust, of
Warren. 40 Smyth, Wythe and Washington-
John Harrison. of Louisa.
THE Masonic FRaTERNITY.-The Nations
Governing Bodies" of Freemasonry have been in
session at Hartford. Conn for several days past
In the grand chapter the following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing three years: G. G
IL z, Charles Gilman, of Nd d G. G. Fl p, Philip
Tucker, of VT; G. G K Amos Adams, of La; G. G
5, John L Lewis, Jr, OF Y; G G, Jr. Edward
Raymond, of Mass; G G Recorder Benjamin
French, of D c. G G c Fl. J Hartsock. OF Iowa.
G r A C, Henry C Deming, of Conn On Thurs
day, about two hundred of the members had a ban
quet at the United States Hotel Mayor Deming
presiding. Thomas S Gourdn of South Carolina
responded to the following least:
The American Unon-Who will dare to say
that the cement of Freemasonry has not made its
wa Is and bulwarks strorgerr
Loud and reiterated cheers prolonged and echoed
from every part of the hall
ARRIVAL AND RECEPTION OF Mr. PEABODY
Mr.. Peabody, the eminent American Banker of
London, arrived in New York by the steamship
Atlantic. He was met on his arrival there by a
Committee of Merchants consisting of Messrs.
Tieston, Colt, Souther, Sherman, and r. Bell, and
escorted to the St. Nicholas Hotel where suite of
rooms had been engaged. During Monday the
distinguished stranger was visited by large pun
ber of his friends, and was waited on by Com
mittee of Merchants from Boston, consisting of
Messrs. Lawrence, Whitney, Blake, Daniels, Sut
ton, and Abbott who rendered him All invitation
to that city Subsequently be received deputa-
tions from Danvers, Massachusetts, his native
town. There were two distinct deputatiops repre-
ting North Danvers and South Danvers, the old
town having been divided within few years by
an act of the Massachusetts Legislature. Mr. Pea
body was eloquently addressed in words of well
come, by these, his townsmen, and responded in
a manner which showed that his heart was deeply
touched by these tributes of esteem and respect
The n. Y. Post says:
MIR Peabody will remain at the ST. Nicholaa until
Thursday when be will make short visit to Newport
to meet some of his relatives. While there hs will
be the guest of Mr. VIM. s. Wetmore. From New
port he will return to this city, and towards the last
of the present mouth public dinner will be given in
his honor by the merchants of New York, literary
men aud Others, at which Mr.. George Bancroft the
historian, will preside.
Mr.. Peabody will then visit Bosto on, when another
reception and public dinner await him. Hon. Ed
ward Everett will preside st the latter He viii visit
his native town about the middle Of October and
will be enthusiastically received by his grateful fell
low-townsmsn who have been greatly benefited by
his liberahty
JUDGE TERRY's RELEASE from confinement by
the San Francisco Vigilance Committee was hail
ed by various public manifestations of approval,
though in the Committee il was the cause of much
dissatisfaction and the feelings of the members had
to be calmed down by soothing speeches. He
went from the Committees Io1ms TO the United
States ship John Adams, where he was handsome
ly receiver, and on leaving for Sacramento a
salute was tired by order of Capt Boutwell, The
Sacramento State Journal says that Judge Terry
was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the
people of Sacramento, and escorted in procession
with music and banners from the wharf to the Or
leans hotel, where apartments were prepared tor
him. Several ef The hotels were illuminated and
the public manifestations generally were anything
but approbatory ofthe subversion of law at San
Francisco. The Vigilance Committee was denOun
ced in the speeches made as high handed mob or
ganiZatiop and their place OF meeting was called
"a modern Battle, where they ignored the great
est bulwark of human liberty. the habeas corpus
The meeting closed with cheers for the command
ers of the sloop-of.war John Adams, and the reve
nue. cutter W. l. Marcy.
HEAVY FORGERIEs.-Don Fincente Hernandez
de Ayaler, purporting to be Minister tPlenipoten
tiary from the Republics of FeuzueIa and Grana
da, was arrested in Mobile, Alabama, on the l2th
instant, for forging draft of Sc 900 He is an &C
complshed swldler, and once played strong
game as a Cuban refugee at the Virginia Springs
LosT-The new telegraph cable 100 miles
long, which was being laid between Sardinia ant
the coast of Africa lost in storm, making the
secand cahIn lnsE this affamnt eatahlish com