The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1879-05-07


might hide his body. Nothing was
discovered. To-day the country south
and east was searched, but without results.
Intense excitement has been produced by
the affair throughout the whole community.
All is shrouded in mystery. The air is full
OF rumors, aud the latest is that be has
turned up in Richmond. l have no means
the fact is ascertained, will advise you.
Norfolk.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS OF sEABoARD AND RoA-
NOKE RAILR0AD-THB ATLANTIC, MISSISSIPPI
Pf AND OHIO RAILROAD CASE TO BE TAKEN
UP IN THE UNITED STATES CoURT-TIIE
FIRST SHIPMENT OF GREEN PEAs-RELI-
GIOUS.
Especial tclegrain 10 the Dispa'ch.l
PORTSMOUTH, VA, May 6.-The annual
meeting OF the stockholders Of the Seaboard
and Roanoke Railroad Company was held
today and was largely attended. The pre-
sldent submitted report OF the operations
OF the company for the fiscal year TIE
lnet revenue Of the company for the year
was S15O,321 SO, with two dividends OF Sc
per cent. each, leaving a surplus OF S70,-
45S.S0. .s....., -.. ..-.f. -
The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, John NJ. Robin"
son; Directors, Moncure Robinson, Nalbro
Frazier, Enoch Pratt, r. G. Hoffman, Rich
ard Dickson. D. A. Barnes.
Chicf-Justicc Waite and Circuit-Judge
Hugh L. Bond will arrive tomorrow morn-
ing, and will preside over the United States
Court. It is expected that the Atlantic,
Mississippi and Ohio railroad case will be
taken up tomorrow. 49, !.
The first shipment OF green peas the pre-
| sent season from this section was made to.
dav, and consisted OF fourteen boxes.
Bishop white preached at Punsotcague
YESTERDAY, and al Drummondtown, Acco-
mac county. The rite Of confirmation was
administered at both places.
TIC mississippi Valley Labor Convcn-
| ton.
| V!CKsBUEG, May Elm the Mississippi
Valley Labor Convention to-day the Com
mittee on Resolutions. submitted report
giving the result Of their inquiries into the
|
of the colored people, among which are the
following: The low price OF cotton and
partial failure OF the crop OF the first year !;
| the Vicious system Of credit fostered by laws
permitting laborerS and tenants TO mortgage
crops before they were grown, or even
planted: the apprehcnsions produced on
many coloTed people by insidious re-
ports circulated among them that their
civil and political rights are endan-
sered, or likely to be; the false rll-
mors diligently disseminated that by emf
grafton to Kansas they would obtain land,
mules, aud money from the Government
without cost 10 themselves; the corruption
OF their morals by tine wholesale and indiS-
criminate selling Of whi>key, by which
their labor was rendered insufficient and
the pleasant relations between landlords
and employees destroyed, &c. The commit
mittee express astonishment that the col
orcd people could be induced to- credit The
Idle stories circulated OF Il "promised
land" where their wants would be sup
piled and their independence secured with
out exertion on their part.
After setting forth the advantages to be
ca ned by industry and economy at home,
as well as the contrary results produced By
idleness and lack of vigilance, the committee
recommend the adoption OF resolutions to
the effect that the interests Of the planters
and laborers. landlords and tenants. are
identical, and urging the adoption Of some
contract system which will result in benefit
to all; affirming that the colored people
have been placed by the Federal Constitu-
ton and the laws Of the States on plain and
absolute legal equality with the white race,
and that the colored race shall be accorded
practical employment Of all rights, civil
and political; pledging the power and in
fiuence of the Convention to protect the
coIored race against all dangers in respect
| 10 a fair, expression OF their wills at the
polls, and aid them iu having the fullest
| freedom in the exercise OF the honest right
of 'citlzenship; misunderstanding the un-
restricted credit system prevailing in the
States represented in the Convention, and
urging the repeal OF all laws authorizing
| liens on crops for advances constituted OF
articles other than those OF prime necessity !;
calling upon the colored people present
| in the Convention to contradict the false
reports circulated upon the ignorant
and creduouS, and to report to the civil
authorities all persons disseminating such
reports; urging the colored people to pro-
ceed In their movements towards emigra-
ton as reasonable human beings by pro-
ylding themselves with means for transpor-
tation and settlement, and sustaining their
reputation for honesty and fair dealing by
adbering to their contracts for labor which
have already been made.
At the conclusion OF the reading aid
adoption. OF the resolutions, Ex-Governor
Foote offered resolution providing for the
carrying ont Of the objects sought to be at
tanned, and making provisions for local
committees to put into practical operation
the details of the plan for the protection of
the rights and interests proposed, &c.
After remarks by several gentlemen, the
Convention adjourned sine die. - ::
Tragedy Gu the HgGh Seas.
BosroN, May 6.-The captain of the
British bark Chelmsford, at Hiago, Japan,
from Nauritus, writes to her owner here
that on the 9Th Of February Chinese hand
killed the cook and one Of the crew "a Chi
=, ,,y;th Tho tnnnpts hafchaf and when