The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-05
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HAMrros, VA. June 3 1858.
a Tanrsfas Mo4 a9wg Sssioas-The baptist .s"v
raj Association Of Virginia convened for IT'S .hiI
ami anniversary, In the Baptist meeting "0uS''"'
The body was ca.lled TO order by the President,
Rev. j. b. Jeter, II. D., who read the 2ath snsp'es
OF Luke. After singing. Rev. Dr. Hooper. on so'In
Carolina, lead In PRAYER. The President ana rev.
A. NJ Poindexter made remarks, nfgnk s"1 ~ 49,
walton of an spirit OF pety during the SEES
sion The names OF delegates being handed w.
and reported by the clerk, were referred to the
Committee on Delegations. About 2oo were re-
ported; the following are from Richmond rev
Messrs Jeter. Taylor. poindexter, Seely, Manly.
Dickinson, Burrows. Watkins, Porter, sharef anu
Willis and Messrs. q. J. Summer. r, II. Crump,
Geo. Minor, J p. Taylor. jr, C. Watenaii II. b.
Burrows J. h Wood, II. K Eliyson. j NJ MURRAY.
r. ". Gibbs, VIM, Forbes W. A. ArAistead, DR..
Gwathmey, J G. spotts and j. h. Cottreli.
The Association proceeded to the election OF
President Rev DR. Jeter returned thanks to the
BODY for having elected him for four successive
wears and declined a re election. On the second
ballot, Rev. Thos. Hume, of Portsmouth, Was
elected, receiving 1l6 votes out OF ls2 cast
recess then taken. to hear the Introduce
nv sermon, which was preached by Rev A. ~
poiniexter. to a crowded house, from Corinth l.
ans Nv 25 "For he must reign TIL he hath put
all enemies under his feet" 4hshs. --1as Reign
Of CHRIST Rev. n Manly, Jr., concluded the SER
vices with PRAYER; and after singing the M.
siouary Hymn. the Association adjourned 10 meet
10 the afteroon at 81 O'Clock.
INTERESTING From Observation-Disclosures from
Lsguayra to the 1lth.ult have been received IN
Boston. There were at the time he left, one En-
giish and two French men-ofwar at Laguayra and
they had sent message TO the government to de
deliver to them j. NJ. Monagas. (the late presi
dentl within the space Of forty eight hours, OF
| they should blockade the port. NThe Traveller
| says
They received an answer from Gen. Castro to the
effect that the government did not want forty
| eight hours, but sent the descison of the anti
Monagas party Immediately. which was that on nj
| account would they give up Monsgas to any per-
son. lie was Venezuelan aud neither the French
| nor English had any right to interfere.
MFR. Ames. the American minister at Caracas
has taken bold stand against the French and
British ministers, and declared outright that he
would not countensnce any such proceedings on
their part.
The reason the French Minister interests him.
self so much to get Monsgas away from Venezuela
and out of danger ia that he has received the snug
sum of about $4,000 and. IL is reported is on
terms of peculiar intimacy with the late presi-
dents daughter.
YACHT RACE AT New Y0RK--The yacht race at
N. Y, took place Thursday and attracted
large concourse of spectators The Edgar round
ed the lower stake first-returniDg, the Julia, OF
II
the second class, second. aud the Edgar of the
third class, third. The latter will probably take
the first prize, and the other two the prizes of
their respective classes. The wind was light and
the race lasted over six hours.
WAR BILL-The act of Sd March, 1889. which
Mr.. Douglas has moved ia the Senate to revive
with notifications, puts at the disposal OF the
President, to be used when necessary to resist the
claims of Great Britain, the naval and military
forces and the militia of the United States. and
authorizes him to call into service $4,000 volun-
1t also puts at hisdisposal ten millions of
dollars, with the right to borrow the same: also,
if he deems il necessary, to send a special Ambas
sador TO Great Britain. The act to continue in
force for sixty days after the meeting of the next
Congress.
The bill confers these powers in precisely the
same language the act of 1889, except that it
strikes out the word boundary and inserts wis
itation aud right of search" with few other
verbal alterations. comforting the same power in
fact President Buchanan as was conferred on
President Van Buren,.
THE TORNADO IN ILLINOIS WAS quite as fatal as sta
ted by telegraph. There were Is persons killed at
Ellisonville. The following the names of the
killed John Hand and two children, Mrs. Nc
Williams and four children, W. +. Thompson, wife
and child Mrs BraZelton and two children, Levina
Lacy, Hiram johnson and wife, and four others
whose names are not known. The track of the
tornado was quarter of mile in width, and it
lasted fifteen minutes. The funeral of the killed
is represented to have been very large, and the
ceremonies imposing.