The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-02-22
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

Robert Is BoIiinR, Jas. b. Bingham, Robert 4.
Norrei, Lewis A. Boggs, esqrs, Committee.
THE PARAGUAY EXPEDITION.
BY the arrival Of the bark O. J. Hayes at New
York, We have adyces from Buenos Ayres to Dec
rs, anticipating the news expected in detail via
England by the Prince Albert. The Comm.rciaI
Times says:
'0n Sunday last the American fcigste Sabine
arrived from New York a. Monteyde0. where she
was sa!uted with Il guns as ths bearer Of the
fag Of Vice Admiral Shubrick. Commissioner
JGjge BowlB has also arrived out by her.
shortly after leaving New York the Sabine ex.
peFienced a very severe hurricane, and was in
great danger, being on her beam ends from three
TO four hours; lost all her starboard boats. car.
rled away tiier, split sails, &c, and was obliged
TO put into bermuda 70 reft, whence she made the
voyage down in tbs very short space of thirty
eight days.
The steamer Harriet Lane has also arrived at
NOnieEido. and the remainder OF the squadron fs
daily expected; the vessels which had conle up
here have also been ordered down to the rendez
voUs. Nothing will be done until the entire
squadron is collected, when justice Rowln will
proceed i'll the Fulton to AscunsiOn, to eudeavor
10 come to some psaceabie arrangement There
seems TO he some doubt whether he will be per-
nlitted svau to enter the Parsgusyan territory,
tn which case the only alternative il war. Guns
poHdsT. shot, chain cables, &c, have been sent
forward lately in lsrge quantities TO Parsguay,r
THz FlGHT IN THE INDIANA SsNATz-The prelude
to, and in part the occasion Of the fl iEht on the
moor Of the lGdisua Senate, was the uss Of the
following Language by the Hon. Mr.. Hefreu:
! MT Presi ,ent, /, in common with othe;s, often
nay shinys Shen excited tnst regret J, perhaps,
/ nave used language not becoming thi, body ~
! the Senate uake sn apology, but TO the senator
| from Hancock make lone. / repeat evcry WORD
! and say that the man, be he whom he NAV fhs;
| VIII denoerately take the insults which / have
crsmm5d Gown his lying throat. il q miserable OF
der, order iow-!lved order, craven hearted cuw
srdiy dog erie OF rder order and nothIng hs
| Las read IrUm that paper, can set to notice nim
after SO completely swallowing every epIthst
| have applied 10 him He is ungorihy an honorable
han's iurlher notice. until lorder. order he FRO
perly Tesehts "a, insults hesped upon his cow ard
| head: and unit he does 1t as gentleman cannot
further notice the vile wretch.'
The "bruise" is thus described in the Cincinnati
| Commercial;
Senator Gcoding resd the foregoing extract from,
the sentnet aud having finished directed bmself Il
Iiedren who had placed bnl elf Immediately befor,
dUodIpe, as soon as the latter com mt ced 1eadiTD
and asked him whether ne had actually used thi,
language, 1t beir his intention to denyit Heffran
replied that he had aDd tn he would not retracI one
syllable, but was the contrary, read 10 renee,
| il. 1hereupon Goodibg cried cut. that he Lnrlet
back the SAINT epithets As coon as he mad uttered
| HeffTen stInCk him blow. Goodinx eudeavored Il
strike back pushed effren toward III,
clerk and hey fl ter fled for some time bot were II
naly sepay yeIed by other Senatcrs hife they wer,
stru2 g,ing hruther OF GoodRg eau to his ain snc
| Ht
rem had been separated from GoodIpg, he turned t
his n,salnnt. coilared him, lerked him into ee
nator Btnuests lap and commenced poundins
| away, when another brother of Goddi0g struck
| him from tehind with heavy cane and inflict,d
severe cash upon tn, hind part of Heffreu's head
Having accomplished this gallant feat. he Iapidly
worked himself outside OF the bar, hurried dow
stars without even picking up his hat, and raI
| from the state Heuse to unknown parts Heffren
aft having received the blow, trisd to get at The
third enemy but being unable to do so. he jursh
| ed bowie knife amid furious vociferstioLs Pend
Ing tie .cuais pistol WA: :. psrceyed about God
Previous 10 III meeting OF the Senate it wa,
whispered about that collision was 10 take place
and that all patties had prepared f~r Ii.
'Iha fight produced an imnense excitement -
| The Senate adjourned by acclamation. amid the
| greatest possible confusion. The members of the
6ouse and others rushed in, and chaotic disorder
continued Tor some time
SCENE IN TIE WISCONSIN LsaIsLArURg-The Madi
| son correspondent Of the Milwaukee News thu;
| writes:
This afternoon after the Assembly had adjourn
cd old In iian came into the hall and looked
around, nodded to the members, shook hands with
the reporters aud clerks, and wandered up to the
Speakers stand. Taking up the gaVel he look cd
at il carefully, struck blow with il the Speak
er's desk and listened. The echo evidently pleas
ed him, for he struck two or three more blows
then commenced reg slar war da nee, keeping time
TO bis step with the new war club The members
cheereS, and for ten minutes the old fellow kept
up his aborigipsi exercise and only stopped when
100 AiEtN 10 kcep paotIue'
DIsTREssrya CONDITION OF LEaIsLArURE.- The
Springfield correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
ssyp that the honcrs of seat in the Illinois lie
gisstpre have grown 90 be exceedingly irksome
TO majority Of the members. They are now
working for a dollar a day, and boarding them
selves at sl4 a weeks disFroportion between
wages and expenditure that will not long be en-.
dnred. few are sick physically, and all are
homesick. Close rooms, poor board, whiskey and
had cir have done the work for their bodies and
disappointed hopes Of greatness to be here acheg-
ed have had their proper mental effect. There Is
not man within the bar OF either House who Ia
not ready to forswear legislative honors forever.
"FREE" Micro LRE.--An ipfirm old negro nam.
ed Boyd was found at Cleveland, on the 14th,
roasting over blazing lime kiln. Circumstances
indicate that party OF negroes among whom he
lived, murdered him to get him out of the way
The Piaindesler says these people had become sick
Of bim, as he had no money, and was too inhrm
10 steal, and so they took him while he was helps
iessly drunk, gave him q few knocks on the head,
and threw bim on the kiln.
NAVAL IsTELLi6EscE.-The u. s. steam frigste
Minnesota, Capt. Dupont, sailed from Hong Kong,
Dec. stb, for Boston, via intermediate ports. The
United States steamer Mississippi, Capt Nichol.
son, sailed from Hong Kong, Dec. 1lth, for Manila,
and the ssloop ofwar Germantown, Commander
Page, sailed December 14th, also for Manila The
frigste Cumberland. and sloops OF war Marion and
Vincsnnes, were On the coast Of Africa at last
dates.
TIE SLAVE AgDucrIoS.--Ws have already men,
TONED that slave Of Dr. Nc Cormick, u. s. army.
bad been abducted, ont subsequently, arrested 10
San Francisco. Later accounts state that the doc
tor gave the slave his choice, either of slavery or
freedom, and that he accepted the latter and left
his master.
Jame. Hart, noted pugiIist, died Ia posten
lsst Friday.