The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-29

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the vote is taken in each Of those States for
delegates, that the first question is shall those
eigat States remain in the Union, or shall they
together 60 out2
d. Let there be Convention or Congress of
tnese eight States let each appoint delega-
tion equal TO Its present representation in
gates.
8. Let the Convention in each State delegate
10 us represen tatlveS to this Southern Con-
gress all the powers that the Convention itself
mas, which will be sovereign and supreme over
this question.
6. When this Southern Congress meets. it
VIII nave full power TO settle this ques ton for
| those eight States and let majority Of the
oefegates IN this Congress have power TO bind
all by their action
z. Let the first question before this Congress
be, shall those eight States remain in the
mon, or shall they go out together and form
| a southern Confederacyl
.. IN the event they so out Of the Union,
! this congress will have power TO organize ut
| least temporary Confederation and in the
event they determine to remain In the Union,
then propose that
9. They (this Congress) shall agree upon
| some efficient plan of retaliatory legislation
| TO be recommended to the several Legislatures
OF those States and that such retaliatory
| legislation should be the most stringent and
efficient that can be devised.
COUNTY MEETINGS IN NORTH CAROLINA
| At meeting of citizens of the counties of
L
| l4th instant, resolutions were adopted for
| tne formation of military companies. and
urging the secession OF North Carolina if
| Alabama and Mississippi shall ioin South
| carolina IN seeding from the Federal Union.
One OF the speakers advocated an alliance of
the southern Contederacy-when it shall be
| formed-with France After the meeting ad-
Journed, mum ber of volun teers were enlisted.
| CONCLUSION OF A POISONING TRIAL-The
trial of Mrs. Sarah Ann Healey and r. S.
Richardson, at Portsmouth, N. H., on an in
| dictmeat for murder in the first degree in
| having poisoned Stephen Healey, husband OF
| the first named, at Auburn, on the 9th OF
March, was brought to a close on Saturday
| night, the jury returning verdict of acq uit-
| tai in Mrs. Healey's case, and guilty of mur-
| der in the second degree against Richardson.
| Richardson was sentenced to thirty years i'm
prisonment. The Manchester American re.
| marks as follows upon the trial.
| "The point on which the trial turned was.
we apprehend, piece of evidence in trod uced
| as retuting testimony, by the Government,
| Friday night. 1t purported to be letter ad-
| dressed by richardson to one Carlos Seavey,
| requesting him to come into Court ard swear
| that at the time he (Seavey) worked for Hea-
| ley in so, he furnished HeaIey with some
| strychnine, and urging him to be the witness
| friend, for he needed a friend and could only
| be saved by this course, provided Mrs Lang.
| maid did not own mp. Seavey did moi appear
| TO testify, but this document was found upon
| his person, and although without signature
| was evidently in Richardson's handwriting
| 1t took the accused and theig counsel COM
| pletply by surprise.
| "The verdict gives Richardson a nome in the
| State Prison for life. The fact of Mrs HeaIey
| being woman in feeble health may have
| worked upon the sympathies of the jury, and
| contribu ted IL a measure to her acduittal.-
! again, there was no evidence that she had
| purchased stryChnine on or near the time Of
| the death of her husband, although she had
| threatened to put him out of the way, at diff
| ferent times, if he did not stop drinking.
| THE trial has been conducted with a great
| deal of ability on both sides In some respects
| ii is the most important murder trial ever
| held in this country, and it is similar in i'm
portance TO the great Palmer case, tried in
| England. Ii is the first strychnine case in
! New England or at least the first in which
| the testimony OF chemical experts has been de-
| pended upon"