The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-10-07

CAtHotrc FusnALs.-Bishop 0'Conner, of Pitts
burg, with the view Of doing away with unneces.
sary expense and largo displays at Catholic fune-
rails, has issued the following regulations, to be
observed there hereafter. whenever the perform
ance Of the church service is desired:
l. The funeral, at which the friends of the de-
ceased, or OF the surviving relatives are expected
to be present, shall be confined to the procession
from the house to the church, and the obseouies
performed fn the church
2. No carriage shalt be permitted but those car
Tyng the psil-bearers and the immediate yelatfres
OF the deceased. The wearing OF mourning shall
be a test of their connection with the deceased
when more than two carriages are used
3. All others attending the funerai 20 on foot
rom the house to the church, and are considered
dismissed when the obsequies are reformed.
T.. The priest who Is to oficiate will receive the
corpse at the door OF the church, in accordance
With the requirements of the ritual. He should
be informed beforehand who has charge of the
innerai. Before receiving the corpse he will ask
.nls person publicly whether he engages to see
the rules here laid dewn faithfully followed, and
whether they have been followed up to that time
Unless an answer be given in the Affirmative or If
It be certain that they really have been disre-
garded, tho corpse will not be received into the
5. When more than two carriages are used the
person in charge of the funeral should bring a
list OF the same to the officiating priest and satisfy
MN that they are occupied by the persons above
entitle such carriages to admittance to the ceme.
terry. Without such Q document the gate.keeper
at the cemetery will not admit more than two car.
risses at any funeral.
VIRGINIA AppoINrMEsTs-to fu racancis, created
oy resignation. Richard ii. Rust postmaster at
Piedmont station, Fauquier county, vice Samuel
T. Ashley. Lewis Bolin postmaster at Eldorado,
Culpeper county, vice John T. Jones' Pembroke
s. Gaines postmaster at Gainesville, Prince VIII
liam county, vice James w. Gordon. John Mccoy
postmaster at Big Skin Creek, Lewis county, vice
9 J. Somerville. John Camper postmaster at Dug
Spnrr Carroll county, vice Nathan Thompson.
observation-disclosures at Christians Creek, An
gusta county, and Mountain Union, Botetourt CO.
MEXICAN GENERAL AT YANxEE TRAIsrSs.-
Gen Comonfcrt, ex-President OF Mexico, was
present at the encampment of the rst division of
the Massachusetts militia last week. He came on
the ground 10 baroucho drawn by fonr grays-
He was received with much honor, and was pre-.
sented to the Governor and other diguitaries pre-.
sent.
Row AT TIE NORTH CAROLINA UsIvERs1rY-A
correspondent of the Greenboro, N c., Times
writing from Chapel Hill, says:
We have intelligence Of terrible outbreak at
our University, in which the principal features
are, the burning of one of the teachers in effigy
assaulting the Faculty. burning the benches and
attacking private residence.
A POET AFRAID OF PHILoSoPHER.-A writer in
the New York Evening Post, who is narrating the
incidents Of trip to the Saranac Lakes tells the
brief story about Longfellow and Emeis
son:
:, This reminds me of joke that was current at
tne philosophers Camp about Emerson. This gen.
tleman was noted for being somewha. abstracted
and by no means certain shot. When the party
poet LonReilow was to join it, but be snbse0uentIy
paremptorily declined on hearing that Emerson had
take with him." :"
FROM New MExICo-A dispatch from Indepen.
dence, Mo, says the Santa Fe mail arrived on the
I'd, with dates of the 18th ult. Mr.. Craig the hay
contractor at Fort Massachusetts,, is supposed to
have been murdered by the Indians. There was
considerable political excitement at Santa Fe be.
tween the regular Democratic nomination and
what the Gazstte calls the Bob Tail Democracy
The Apache Indians was still troublesome. About
Fort Buchanan they had stolen lot of Government
stock. There is no news from Fort Defiance. 1t is
supposed that the expedition against the Navajo
Indians has been abandoned.
GEN. PAEz.-The presen tation Of the decree of
the National Constituent Assembly of Venezuela
to General Yazo Antonio Paez, inviting him to re.
turn to that Republic, took place at the Metropo-
Titan Hotel. in New York, Tuesday morning, which
was splendialy decorated for the occasion Two
hundred of the elite Of the city, native and fo-
reign, we're present. Gen. Paez accepted the in
vitation, and will return with the Commissioners
to Venezuela
SLAVE EXCITEMENT IN CANADA-The greatest ex.
citement prevails in Chatham, C. W. in copse.
quence OF legal proceedings having been instituted
against a body of negroes for surrounding train
of cars on the Great Western Railway, and taking
forcibly therefrom negro servant belonging to
MIR. Merlin, planter, of st. Louis. Ten or twelve
negroes have been bound for trial at the next
assizss The negro was taken against his own
urgent entreaties.
NEW RIVER NAvIGATIoN-The New River Navi-
cation Company has commenced operations. A
number OF hands have been employed for several
days past in renewing the distractions 10 the
river above Capt. French's mill. What the pre-
else aim of the Company may be, or rather what
Is intended to be the precise character of the i'm
provement for the present. we are not prepared to
say-Psarfsburg (Va.) South Vest.
SHEEP KILLED BIZ LIoHrNING During a thunder
storm, near Charlotte, N. c., on Saturday the 25th
ult., the lightning struck a tree on the premises
of James Query, killing about fifteen sheep that
were huddled together underneath. The bones OF
many OF them were mashed to pieces.
FROM Msxtco.-The steamship General Rusk has
arrived at New Orleans with Mexican dates to 25th
brownsville. Gen. Vidaurri was Potosi on
the 18th. Miramon declined fighting. The lib
eralists were forming an ars'y at Vera Cruz.
q
get. South Boston. was burnt Monday night. Loss
$1,000. Several adjacent buildings were Injured
Four dwelling houses, paint shop, and a stable On
Bunker Hill street, Charlestown, Macs, were des-
troyed by fire that day. - Loss $4,000.
THE Cosr OF wAR.-The cost of thirteenth inch
SHE'LL it flies through the air. is from $40 to $l2
The estimate cost of firing thirty.six inch bomb
is nearly $3.50. These figures afford some idea OF
the Smelling out" to which warning governments
must submit.
on Factory BURST-The principal part of the
buildings for the manufacture of coal oil in Cleve-
port, Ky, were destroyed by fire on the 25th
inst.-Loss $4,000. The establishment had Just
resumed operations after a suspension of eight
months.
PoLIrICAL.-Col E. P. Jones has withdrawn from
the canvass for Congress in South Carolina the
successor of Mr. Orr leaving the contest to his two
competitors, Col. Vernon and Col. Ashmore.
suIcDE.-Mrs. Jane Hewlett, a resident Of
fredericksburg. Va. while suffering frcm disease
of long standing, committed suicide Sunday, by
taking two ounces of iaudauum.
WESTERN R. r. CoNvESTIos.-It is proposed to
hold general convention of managers OF Western
railroads In the city of Buffalo on tue 18th inst.
Forty-niue of the camels belonging to the United
States are now at Campo Verde, sixty miles from
San Antonio. Only one OF those imported has
died, while ten have been added by birth.
Negro Bill was executed at Gienvilie, Lewis Co.
Va. on the 1st inst. for the murder OF his mas
ter.
Col. Harvey George Of farewell Co, Va, has
soId 200 head Of cattle to j. Amiss, Of Backsburg,
Va at SO SO per head.
John c. Green, Of Cupeper @. II, Va, bad very
valuable negro man killed, one day last week, by
O mule.
The Ohio, at Wheeling, was never, in the memo
nv of "the oldest iphabitant,' lower than 1t is
now.
Morr,ssey and Hsenan, the Bepicia Boy, are 10