Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-10-25
HILIyAx. N. g., YrIday Dot. Al. lasl.

HLLIyAx, N. g., Friday, Dot al, 1854.
Tho brlEantns Matblde arrived yesterday from Bsr.
muda reports that the Th, while on the passage
from Bermuda to Halifax ordered to heavs to BY
q steamer which aerWard proved to be the captured
steamer Roanoke netyfve passengers and the crew,
including ak women put on his vesse and ordered
to Bermuds, where be landed them on satarday' Inc
Roanoke was sfterward burned.
The fever at St. George was abatng: IL still ragged
badly at Hamilton.
TEE voFI IN HARYLAHD.
The following Ia the latest on the ve1ed question
whether the Ds State Constitution has been adopted or
lost:
BALfmoHl, Wednesday, Oct. 81, 1854.
Owing to delay in receiving the official returns Of the
Soldiers vote the Constitution, there has been
considerable uncertainty felt to the result which IL,
however, now removed by the arrival tonight Of the
Commissioner sent to collect the vote in Sheridans
army The new Constitution has been Clearly adopted
by msorty of not lees than 800. Several organizl-
tons, including the Regiment in Western Virginia,
and the Sd Cavalry at Fort Gaines Mobile Bay, t sx'
pected will considerably increase the majority.
TRoX MEXICO.
The following from Mexico 10 interesting. Matsme-
ros it seems positively in the hands of the French.
The subOined extract 10 taken from the Hmalds cor.
respondenoe
BRAzos SANTIAGO, Oct. 10, 1854.
L
ha, reached Us. IL Is said that MsA entered the town
without opposition on the 20 nit. An unconditional
| SUR OIL der was demanded and accedod 10.
The has been confirmed again and again during
the day. and e. ere appears 10 bs no douot now that
Natsmorcs is actual In possession of tAe French.
neral Meja 10 u military man Of considerable ex.
perienoe. He 10 Mexican, and commands division.
Il that theie twenty thousand b. les OF
cotton at hatsmoros.
From NEW ORLEANS.
In cur Evening edition Of yesterday We announced
that was stated in the papers Of the 22d that General
Walker had crossed the Miss ssippi with r,ops. The
following is all that We hud on the SUBJECT:
NIW ORLEANS, Dot a. 1854.
WAlKn'a DIVISION CROSS TIE nIssIssIPPi.
lis reuorted that Walkers rebel division has crossed
the Mississippi and Is on w way to reinforce Hood, or
/ 10 Cooperate with him In annoying Sherman.
The following sensational paragraph will hardly 60
down;
RIPcRIsD SHOOTING OF TWO HuEDRrD TEXANS.
Coupled with the report of the crossing Of the Missp
sippi by Walker Is q runor that two hundred Of the
Texas rebels shot for refusing 70 beyond the
Trans hss ssipp Department
Lieut.. COL Quincy, If the 81 NsW York veteran cav
airy, attacked and captured piece Of rebel artillery
posted on the banks ef tue A'ehafalaJaa few day.
snce and also captured quite large quantity of rebel
commissary aad artermaster stores including several
hundred pairs OF shoes.
TIE WILLOW TIvKR.
The deaths ct quarantine on board Of vessels sept
down from Agers opposite this city supposed to have
cases of yellow fever on board have been quite hume
rous No Lew cases have been reported in city, and
if there has been yellow fever here there ID no spprs-
hension OF an epidemic and alarm whatever il eI-
pressed People eat, drink, ride walk and transact
business usual, giving no more attention than usual
to sanitary matters.
POLITICAL MATHIS IN LoUIsIINk.
The senatorial imbrogho sl occupies the attention
and dsiurbs the harmony of the dominant party here
Who are vexed, angry aud disappointed o. the frusr
on of their schemes. Outsiders who have no pers6
nal interest in the matter, look quietly on, perfectly il
different as to who knocks The door OF the United
atas Senate claiming TO represent Louisiana and are
rather arathed than otherwise at the wranglpR now
hrsatenng end 10 the disruption aud annihiaIon OF
/ the free State reconstru ction party.
TIE vIRMoSr Raid.
The late Northern papers received are stu full Of de-
tails with regard to the Vermont raid Dix has given
an order TO pur the raiders and wherever found to
shoot or capture hsm 1t is feared tina. this MY lead
to complications with England, and Seward Is shall y
about the matter sanon threatens to resign If Seward
| baaks down.
The following the latest and the fullest account with
regard to the movements Of the raider:
BURLIEsroE, W., Oct 81, 1854.
| We have but little additional information from the
frontier The Canadian authorities are wide awake in
the matter and have thus far shown praisew dis.
position to &C operate with government The Gov.
ernor General Lord honck, ct ordered the shers
and blils Of Missquo, Ibervills and Housewife oou1
ties to use every eIsrtion 10 arrest the robbers.
Hon. B. 8. n. BondsIe, Canadian: Commissioner of
/ Customs, visited Montpelier on Wednesday with Hon
William Olapp, Collector Of the District and had q
highly satisfactory interview with Gov. Smith.
4 despatch from Colonel WilAmS Secretary of Civil
and Military Affairs says that telegram was received
last evening at 81. Adams from Judge Aids ats John
which says: ave have eleven men under arrest in ALL
and have recovered about $4,000"
Private despatchts State that fourteen persons have
been captured. hearing In the matter will take pace
before Jadge O. ]. ooursol at St. John, Tomorrow.
The raiders claim TO bslorg to the rsbel service and
have employed eminent lawyers of Montreal for their
i defence.
Hon. Andrew Tracy, of Woodstock; Hon. Lucius B.
Peck of Montpelier, and Hon. George T. Eimupds of
this village, will appear for the Uaited States The
hearing promises to be one of great interest The
prisoners claim their release tho grounds of the do
cieion In the famous Chesapeake case.
Morrison, one OF the men wounded at g.. Albans
died there this morning he was a brother Of e1
Or gre smAn George W. Morrison, of N lnohester N H
a II 10 claimed by some of the citizens of St. Adams
that among the raiders were some dsserers from Yer.
i mont regiments who were recoguz ID al SUCH .
Several persons have been arrested in 3d. Albans ss
accessories the but eli but two we're discharged
for want Of prosf The latter kept in custody, one
i as a witness against the other.
The report that the bsif Of Freleighsburg was NOR.
| tally wounded was incorrect. He was not hurt
One company of infantry and one OF cavalry have
been Orgsnz,d here The raising Of battery is also
contemplated.
The report Of the raid in the Troy Times is greatly
| exaggerated
IHE TORCH IN LIEU THE SWORD.
The New York Herald warns the people Of that and
other cities to be their guard against attempts TO
burn them. The warning will not avail. 1! would be
as impossible to defend themselves against such at
temps against the approach Of the psstsnce that
ualketh in darkness Neither the "guardians of Law
and ORDER nor the "feoK-citizens who have a auh