The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1822-11-22

which | do not think will be long, as ,n.
in Il very bad state of health, and h,Pe
been this great while. ana married tn NJ.
Jacob Miracle, for whom YOU can epoDir\
J our ailtctOnate mother. y
MARY MIRACLE.t
To Peter Lalc. Kentucky"
Tripping Cropping and Branding.-
We regret TO observe, that this remnant or
barbarisn is permitted To disgrace the cri.
minal codes oil some OF our sister states
and that notwithstanding the very general
indignation expressed against a recent cx.
hibit'on in Rhode Island, there appears 10
exist disposition on the part of the I,,pis-
lainrc oil that state, 10 extend instead Of a.
polishing mode of punishment not only
repuGnant 10 our natural feelings, hnt TO
every principal of sound peIicy. In The
Rhode Island American of the Ist inst
observe the following paragraph -
Ashur Robbins, Elisha X. Potter and
the Attorney General, have been appoiot-
ed a committee, lat the present session Of
the General Assembly, to revise the cri.
innai code OF tins state, with view, il IS
understood, Of multiplying the cases in
which the punishments Of Whipping, Crop
Il ping, and Branding, may be iaaitted.n
knowing, rs we do, that the affairs of
Rhode Island are regulated according 10 a
Charter from an English monarch, we
might be apt TO suppose that the practice
alluded 10, assimiated to that which OBJ
tans in Great Britain. The fact, however
Is, that the punshments in question no Ios-
ger exist III that country, and that even Ito
last obnoxious practice ofWLtoryjng often
ders, has, within these few years, been ex-
plunged from lis criminal code Upon
what principle, therefore, it is attempted
moi only to perpeluate a barb, rous prac-
tlce, but to extend its application among
| free people, appears to us, at this time Of
day, utterly inexplicabIe.
Ne J. Com. adv.
-.-sAe-~
Tobneco.-'The" American Farmer" tell,
! us that some tobacco made by Judge Dor.
| sey, of Maryland, last year, sold in Europe
| for So per numbered, and some VIII CHI gr, W
! III Montgomery county, and sold in Bati-
more for $751; brought in Holland the C.
noftnous sum of upwards oil goo per huns
drod.
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We regret to learn the death of Major
M'GLAssIN lately appointed United States
factor III the Arkansas Territory, in tie
| place of Matthew Lyon deceased.
Hash. Ca.
-..eee.-
| WAsHtNGToN, Nov. IS.-The returns
which have reached us, enabled us to an.
nounoe the following gentlemen as elected
lmember of the next Congress:
From .NeV York, STErHEN VANRE
sELAEE, WM. w. Van WICK, JAMES
STRONG, CHARLES a. FoJrE. LEMuEL
JENKiNs, and HECToR CRAIG Noe II
these, except the two gentlemen first nam.
ed, are members of the present Congress,
though Mr.. Strong, was formerly men,
Der.
In .hassachusetts, HENRY w. DWIGHT
is reelected by a majority of several hun
dred votes over his opponent Nr. Jd,ris
1t Is already ascertaned that, in three dis
tacts at least, Of this state (Salem and the
two Districts of Worcester) there has been
no clectio1-no one of the candidates ha-
wing received majority of the whole
humber Of votes, which is necessary in
massachusetts to make an election.
MI CHARLES PISKNEY, son oC the late
William Piukney, Esq. of Baltimore,) Sc
cretary to the Legation of the Unite Stat,s
!ln Russia, has reached the Seat of Govern
ment with dispatches from our Minister at
ST. Petersburg. [B.
Mr.. CoNsTASTIA, Charge des Affairs
from the King of Portugal and Agar'es
has arrived in this city. ID.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office, Mr.. M'LEAN, has arrived in Wash
Ington, and eotered upon the duties OF hS
Office. h.
The Southern Patriot remarks, with
much quaintncss, and with good deal OF
truth, as regards the character, if not the
benefit, of the discussion-that, among the
advantages to be derived from the present
early investigation of the merits of the can
didates for the Presidency, is, that " they
g are mutually and thoroughly revied 50
" that this (which he considers) necessary
part of the process in making Presldent,
will he over [perhapsl before the time Oh
election arrives" nm, 10.
The Champions of the Turf, Sir CharS
tnd Eclipse, have reached this city, aud Ia
ken up their quarters near the neiehborlnS
course. TO-
Inter Oceanic Communications
short article which we inserted in Septeln,
Der, relative to the topography and ge9e[n
character of one of the routes over the lsI4.
mus ofPanama, has drawn from one Oh 'lIc