The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1860-01-13
SECOND DAY.


The Convention met pursuant to adjourn
ment, at tue B.pe3 Armory, IN Richmond on
Tuesday night, and adopted the resolution
offered at the morning session, for the ap-
pon tment Of committee to prepare bust
ness.
a large number of officers reported them
selves, aud were registered by the Secretary
as members the Convention.
capt. George s. Patton offered resolu-
ton directing the committee on business to
enquire into the expectancy OF organizing,
armiug and eqpipping d corps OF minute
ulen, IN different sections OF the State, as a
separate and distinct organization.
The President announced the following
committee on business: Gen Scott, .4th Brig. /;
Gen. H4rman, 18th do; Col. A. H. Adams,
l2th CO.. ChambIiss, 18th do; Capt. Scott,
81 o Col. Stewart, 9th do; Col. Male, list
do Col. Taylor, Sd do; Col. Ware, 10th 90;
Capt. Randolph, I'd do; Col. j. I. Preston,
l7lh do; Col. Page, l4th do; Captain Pat
ton, 2Zd do; Col. j. f. Preston, Goth DO;
Major Cecil, 26th do; Col. Darlington, 18th
do. Major Lamb, 9th do; Col. Wingheld,
SGh 90.
On motion, Col Talliaterro, and Colonels
Strange, Davis and Dimmock were added
to the Committee.
The Convention then adjourned until 3 O
clock Wednesday afternoon.
The Convention re-assembled in the after
noon and received a partial report from the
committee.
A molten today the report ON the table
gave rise to some discussion, land it was final
Iy rejected.
Otner propositions to delay immediate &C
ton were similarly disposed Of
The subject was then temporarily laid up
on the table, to enable Ad'jt. Gen Richard
son tO address the GonventiOp Wbin
Horrible Accident at Nashville, TeHn.--
About O'Clock last Saturday evening, SAYS
the Gazette, Mrs James Kerr and two child
rem, who reside on Summer street, between
Line and Crawford, were badly burnt by a
can Of vesper Oil taking fire.
1t appears that Mrs X had placed the
vesper gas lamp on the hearth, and was in
the act OF filing it, and While thus engaged
the oil took fire, in an instant her head and
body were enveloped in the flames which
proceeded from the intammable fluid. We
understand that she is so much injured as to
leave but little hopes for her recovery. Her
two children, who were standing near by at
the time of the accident, were also badly
burnt, but it is thought they will recover
with prompt treatment.
eat Steamship Roce.-An interesting &C.
count of the late close run of the steamships
Atlantic and North Star from New York to
Aspinwall appears in the newspapers. A
correspondent says:
The North Star arrived at her wharf in
Aspinwali on the afternoon Of the 9th ult.,
K md al X ne
sengers by each ship crossed the Isthmus
early the following mornig. The arrival of
the MOI tn Star in advance of the Atlantic
created the liveliest excitement. The differ
cuce in time from New York, a distance of
over $500 miles, was only about ten minutes.
On the evening OF the first day out the At
llntio passed the North Star land left her out
OF sis h long before midnight. Nothing was
seen of her until the fifth day, when the
Star hove in sight, off Cape Maysi, and pass.
ed the Atlantic about P. M. From thence
TO Aspinwall, about nine hundred miles, the
rNo ships did not lose sight of each other.
The North Star came in about eight miles
ahraI.
House and Negroes Burnt The Pulaski
(I5s. Times says, on Saturday, Oath u It,,
tue house ct John NeWson, free ne gro re-
s,diug ABOUT one mile from our village was
ccusIair4 by fire, and an Indian girl, some
s.--teeu ) ears old, and a child of Newson Two
or tLrlt years old persisted in the flames.
Portions ct N ir remains were dug from tn c
ruins of The house on the next morning
The rece PTS of the American Coloni
cation Society for the month ending the
goth ultimo, amounted to S3,7l4.
LII. D. d, Clark, of the 6th regiment
U. S. Infantry, died at Fort Yuma, Cali
fornia. on the ID ult.
During the year just passed, 62 MARI
age liceNses were granted by the Clerk
Of the county of Smythe, Va.
James H. Francis, Esq, has been APP
( pointed Postmaster at Marion, Smythe
county, Virginia, vice Colonel w. c.,
( Parks resigned
The wheat is looking badly in Smythe
county, Va. 1t has suffered much from
the late freeze.
Harry Lehr, formerly well known
! Ethiopian comedian, is engaged in the
mercantile business in Philadelphia.
The hotel at Newport, N, H.. and the
county building at Sheboygan, Wis,
were lately destroyed by fire.
The City Council of Augusta, Ca, last
| week, raised the tax on free persons of
color to twenty five dollars per head,
We learn from the Louisville Courier
that Mrs Amelia Schuster, German
actress, died in that city few days
! since,