The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-10-05
Rirtlmono Qispatrh.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. oCr ,...

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The Vigilance Committee In Loui.;ara.
The New Orleans Picaynne says that the
Journals IN that district of Louisiana in which
'ne 'ig'iahce committees have been organ.
lied are almost entirely filled with a discus.
sion of their movements. We CLEAN some fur-
ther facts in regard to the disturbances which
have elected SO much attention The Att,L.-
pas Register, of the 2ith inst, saws:
| 1t was brought to the Covarn.
tnat three OF the victims of the Virilants h.d
oieu from the severity of the brutal whinnin~ -
.nine,ea upon them, that one had been Shot
and stabbed, that a number of dead bodies had
been found In the prairies, and that wonsn
and Children We're dying in the prairies whose
iathers, husbands and brothers have haer,
or'en from their homes by the Vigilants A
sad catalogue of crimes are these in1,aed ~ -,
perpetrated in civilized community. And
10 cap the climax of audacity, il is said thar
o"Sss ns. simon mas been notified not to attempt
10 hoid court In the parish of VermiIiion II
Is with much difficulty that we are able 10
creoit TINS last, Tor II seems to us incredible
that men OF the least intelligence can be SO
infatuated as to hope to trample the courts of
the State under foot unless they are prepared
To cap the climax of their lawless deeds bv the
crime OF treason, the highest crime known to
the laws OF any State and to attempt a rayolu
ton OF the government
The Planlers' Banner, of the same date.
| says:
| The Vigilance Committee have pnblieIv
| WhiPPeu nearly seventy citizens of their par
lshes, IN the neat OF such a passion as is exhib-
lieu only by wild and infuriated mob with
| ont Judge or jury, and have ordered them 10
leave the State in five days or suffer the pen
| atty of death by the hands of the same com
| pany. And we are credibly informed that a
| heavy vote of the committee but not a maiori
| ty, was givin in favor of hanging, instead of
whipping, the prescribed company.
| But this is not all. DIR. Wagner a citizen Of
the parish of Varmiilion, Is now in this place
| under the most painful and humiliating cir
| cumstances. He is known by several Of our
citizens who vouch for him as upright,
| honest man. He is q Justice of the Peace and
Coroner of his parish, and has never been con-
| nected with either the Vigilance Committees or
the organized opposers of these committees.
| BY request OF a citizen of his parish he
| copied, in a plain hand, the resolutions which
| we last week published in the Banner. and en-
deavored to execute the law as directed by the
District Attorney and his superior officers For
TINS he was forcIbly taken by fourteen men
from his boarding house, at night, carried
quarter of Il mile into the prairie tied and
| beaten numerically with the lashes and even
butts of their whips across the spine and ribs
breaking one of his ribs and endangering his
| life by heavy blows across the spine, and then
ordering him to leave the State in five days, or
suffer the death penalty at their hands.
At the general whipping of the opposers of
the Vigilance Committees in the parish of La
fayette it was reported that one of the party
to avoid being whipped, blew his own brains
out. Since that event it has been discovered
that the death wourd was moi sef-infiicted
but that he WIS shot by an enemy. Three
others have died from the effects of the whip
ping they received, and one was at the point OF
death at Opelousas a few days ago. Among
those who have died. was young man by the
name of Singleton, a clerk in store al Breaux
Bridge. He was known to be an estiInable
young man, and had nothing TO do with op-
| posing the Vigilants, he being a looker-on at
their proceedings.
The Baton Bouge Advocate of the oath ult..
, says:
Gov Wicklffe returned yesterday from the
scene OF lawlessness and anarchy which pre-
| walls In the southwestern parishes, and in
forms us that order had been estored, though
much excitement still existed. Gov. w went
as far Us Vermillionville and had an inter-
view with the prominent leaders of the Vigi-
lance Committee who gave their promises that
no further violence would be attempted by the
organization. How far these promises will be
kept, 1T Is difficult to say We have little faith
In them until the committee disbands, tchich
the leaders did not promise to do.
We learn that one of the victims of the
Queue de Tortue outrage died in Ponte Cou-
pee on Thursday, and that Mr.. Wagner, of
whom we spoke yesterday, had one of his ribs
broken and his body terribly lacerated by the
brutal ruffians into whose power he fell
| Ex-Governor MOnton and those men of re-
! spectablity and standing who lent their sane
| tion and influence to the horrible crueities
: perpetrated by the wretches under their COM
mand, ought to retire conscience-stricken
} from the gaze of that society whose laws they
| have SO atrociously outraged. They have
consorted with murderers, (unknowingly, no
| doubt,) and aided and abetted in a crime to
, | which murder Is comparatively Il Christian
| act. When we speak of murderers we do not
| speak unwarrantable, for we assured on
good authority that the scoundrel who was
implicated in the murder Of policeman Dunn,
some two years ago, in New Orleans-and for
| which his associate Costello suffered death
| is one OF the most active of the Figilants in
torturlng the "ontlaws" and "desperadoes'
with the lash. Even this wretch, the rope
for whose neck is now probably in the hands
of justice becomes the associate of educat ted
gentlemen in breaking the law and depressing
unofiending citizens -
THE INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MATCH
The long expected cricket match between the
All l-England Eleven and the twenty-five
players of the United States, was commenced
Monday morning, at the St. Georges Cricket
Ground, Hoboken, N. Y, in the presence of
thousands of spectators. The TWENTY-FIVE Of
the United States were first at the wickets-
The weather was very fine and the ground in
/ capital order The United States players first
2 innings We're only IS.
AT 3 O'Clock the All-England Eleven went
in, sending Hayward and Carpenter to bat
After long and steady play Carpenter was
caught out by Senior. Wisden took his place
and was quickly disposed of for 3. Parr sue
= ceeded him, and, with Hayward remained at
the bat. When the stumps were drawn, at S
O'Clock, the following was the score First In
nings-T. Maynard, not out, 81 r. Carpenter,
%; Wisden, 3; G.. Parr, not out, 5; byes S !;
wldes 6 no balls 2-i6 total So.
The United States players manifested much
a | nervousness during the larger portion of the
day, but improved somewhat at the close.
. THE UNITED STATES MINISTER GONE TO PE-
KIN.-By the following extract from private
letter written by w. l.. G.. Smith, Consul at
Shanghai, it appears that Mr.. Ward, the Ameri-
can Minister, has proceeded to Pekin. The
letter is of j date later than any newspaper
I'll OF hat