The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-06-07

ELECTION IN MAshIs9foN.--The muh'eiP"' '
ton at Washington takes place to-day. The csnor
dates for Mayor are James q. Berrett, Democrat
Richard wallaeh, independent. and Jno Pnrdy, IN
dependent company Of 80 armed troopers " 70
he kept In readiness all day. should their s'
Besides these, there arc 700 Specialize needed po'
iicemen. The papers there are full Of 'orebod'ags
| of b,ooaywork, Notwithstanding the preparations
made 10 prevent IL.
NcvI.-A Geographic dispatch was received at
the Gosrort Navy Yard, Thursday afternoon. to get
the U q sloop of-war Saratoga, ready for sea in'
mediate,y, aud her officers directed to report
on the 18th inst She will only have to be paint
ed and get her stores on board.
CoSyrcrrp OF CouSrEkTEirISG.-La Atkins
| and VIM Price, convicted Of passing counterfeit
| money at Goals Mouth, in Kanawha county, Va,
| have been each sen tencei TO three years 10 the
| peui,entiary. They had upwards OF 800 in coun-
| ,erfeit money in their possessionf and but about
| az in good money, The counterfeit money was in
2os and los on the Bank ofthe Valley Of Virginia,
and 20 on the Rank of Charleston Sonth Carolina,
several counterfeit quarter eagles, and one 20 cent
| piece, bogus, large"
FersHEr IN MoSoSaaLn Co, VA freshet In
| Nonongaia co, Va, last week, did considerable
| damage. The mills Of Samuel johnson ana
| Thomas Wilson, were swept away. and the brioge
over Buffalo creek at Evansville and Pharoah Run
at Riversville destroyed
| Too GRr.r.-The damages done in the vicinity Of
Frederick sbnrg Va By the late bail storm did not
exceed 30 900 bushels of wheat not 800 900" as
| typographical error had it,
| CONVICTION AND ONO RAILRosD-on Monday last
caravan Of laborers, horses and carts, passed
| through Bristol Tenn, route for the Coviugton
| and Ohio rar5sd They had just finished on the
| Eas. Tennessee aud Virginia railroad.
Terrible Tornado i'm IItinois-a Village
| DestrOyed-Ninteen Persons Killed.
The telegraph has noticed the destruction of the
village of Ellison, Ill, on Monday evening last
| Fourteen persons were Instantly killed and ten
| more mortally wounded. Of the latter, two died
that evening and three the next, making nineteen
deaths in all. The village was one of the oldest
in the State and contained about 20 buildin gs.-
The Chicago Journal says:
As the afternoon waued, heavy bank of clouds
of inky blackness seemed to rest upen the very
surface of the prairie. The tornado struck the
village about half past five o'clock. and during its
continuance rain fell. The houses were frame
structures. There was large tavern stand and
three stores, those of Samuel Johnson. Joseph
huUWef anu duOlbcT. luz dpNSdtduCSo l the uN6lt-
ings and structures Of various kinds, after the
passage of the whiriwind is described by an eye
witness "a5 If one should tear to pieces and
scatter lumber yard"
Among the dead are Mr.. John Hand, his son.
about ten years of age, and a babe, the latter of
whom is supposed to have been drowned. The
whole family appear to have been whired with
the fragments OF their dwellings, quite up into the
air and deposited a considerable distance from
where the house stood near a slough. Mr.. Hand
carried about fifteen rods aud III his terrible
flight received frightful wound in his side from
timber. lie survived until the next morning =
Mrs. Hand hRi her infant in her arms when she
struck the ground but the conclusion compelled
her TO let go her hold upon it, aud it was tossed
some distance into the slough. where she heard its
cry, but owing 10 her severe injuries was unable
to attempt its rescue. There she remained all
night, her person partly in the water, and in the
course of its dreary watches the dead body of her
infant drfted to the shore, and she had it in
her arms when discovered in the morning
Another family named McWiliams suffered ter
ribly. Miss Mary Ann McWiliams, about twenty
two; her sister. Harriet, aged about sixteen, and
her brother, Thomas, about fourteen are among
the dead and the poor old mother, eighty years Of
age-the only remaining member of the family. eX
cept some older children who were living at dis
tance-was very badly injured. The boy Thomas
was not at first conscious of having received any
hurt and rescued tue body Of his older sister from
tue ruins soon after the catastrophe. but he
badly injured internally that he died the next
morning.
W. L. Thon pson, his wife and child. Mrs Bra
geten and her two children. a SOD and a daughter
Martin Wentworth, Levina Lacy. Hiram Johnston
and child, and two others, name unknown, make
mp the list of the fourteen instantly killed.
AS near as can be ascertained in the confusion
which prevailed, about fifty persons were very
seriously iDjured-amons them, Samuel Johnston,
mt reliant, who has one leg and three r!bs brok, d.
Mrs. Grmand. both arms broken. Mrs. Sher-
wood, cut AMI bruised badly--a splinter driven
through her thigh Mrs. Fintiy, Mrs. Thompson
and Patrick Shaw-a stranger who picked up
10 the road after the storm was over were badly
Injured.
The only physicians of the place were Drs Haw-
| ley and Yoke. The former was severely injured.
and the latter was badly hurt Both were thus
| incapaciiated from rendering any assistance to
their .unfor tunate fellow citizens and, the
est paint available, medical aid was only procur ed
| from Monmouth.
| AS the fret shock of the calamity had
| passed. a special messenger-Mr. McWlliams. a
| brother of the young lady and the boy who were
| kled-was dispatched to Monmouth for assist
| evening The sad news spread rapidly, and the
| hole town was soon astir.
As evidence of the fearful force of the tornado,
it is mentioned that fragments of the bodies of the
victims were scattered in all directions. An iron
| safe, weighing nine hundred pounds, was taken
from johnson store and carried thirty feet. One
| COW was taken up and carried several rods snd
killed by the fall. Her body lay at distance from
| jury upon her. Horses cattle and dogs wer taken
up by the wind, carried in the air. dashed to the
| earth. and killed by the fall.
| CoNGRESs-1n the Senate on Saturday. Mr. Big,
Ter introduced resolution for prolonging the SEES
| sion of Congress until the 2-t inst
MIR. Houston announced the decease of his col
| league J. p. Henderson, of Texas, and delivered
an appropriate tribute of respect TO his memory,
which was closed by Offering appropriate resolu-
| tions for the occasion.
Eulogies on the character of the deceased were
| delivered by Messrs. Davis Crittenden. Reid,
Hayne, and Seward.
After Mr.. Seward concluded. the resolutions
were adopted and Messrs. Bayard Cameron. CLAY.
Wade. Hammond, and Seward were constituted
committee o arrange the funeral obsequies.
Ca motion OF Mr.. Clay, the Senate auL urned
In the House of Representatives, on emotion of
Mr.. Stephens, the Senate bin for the admission of
the State OF Oregon into the Union was referred
TO the Committee on Territories.
Mr. Edie moved e suspension of the rules in or
der TO proceed to the consideration of the bill TO
extend for seven years, the patent of Ed NJ Chat
fee, for bis india rubber Improvement; negatiyed
yeas 80, Days10.
The report in the case of Judge Watrous was
postponed until to-day.
Resolutions of respect to the memory of Sepa-
tor Henderson Of Texas, We're received from the
Senate.
Mr.. Bryan delivered eulogy, and offered a Sc.
at O'Clock p. ~ SUNDAY.
Mr.. Quitman seconded the resolutions and mada
few remarks.
The resolutions were adopted, and the House ad
journed