Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-06-01
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Singular request. La Fay
cite has requested the Seectmen Of Charles
on, Massachusetts, TO send him a hogshead of
enrth, from the battle ground on Bunker HILL
which is to be placed over his body after his
decease, and ii is now ready TO be shipped ac-
companed by certificate of the oldest soldiers
IN that town.
American Quorterly.-The contents
of the Tenth Number of the American Quarter.
" Review have been committed TO the press.
aud the number will be published al the stated
period, the Isl June. The title Of the articles
are-1 Discoveries IN Central Africa .. Nil.
toms Letters; 3. Astronomy Of Lapiace D.
thnts Geography and History Of the Westsrn
States: 5. Chancery Lar; o. Horne 1ooke ];
T., History of Pennsyironia 8. Female Biogra-
ply 9. Hosack's Memoir OF De VII Clinton i;
10 Russia.
IcIdS.-A gentleman who has re-
Gently returned from Texas, states that the
country is fast filling with Americans, and that
several sections of il have been we'll settled
The state of society is almost entirely pastoral,
and an individuals wealth is rated by the nnn'-
Der of his horses. mules and horned cattle
Four Lawyers are already settled at San Felip
pc, Austin principal establishment, and Courts
are regularly held there. Several iugitives
from the United States have been given up 10
our authorities and transgiessors against their
own laws are richly punished.
GoM.-It is stated in the Cheraw
Is. c. 4" Radical" that at boat launch at that
place, on the 22d instant, solid lump OF n. l.
Gold, moulded somewhat in the shape OF a
man, III an erect posture, was eIhlhited on the
deck Of the said boat, TO the wishiul eyes OF a
large number of spectators. The rich mass is
said TO weigh one hundred aud thirty eight
pounds, worth about thirty five thousand dol
lars, The whole was taken from mine IN
Montgomery county, and the owner was seve-
raj years in gathering The small pieces OF which
the mass is composed.
American Tract Society. An
nual meeting took place on Wednesday, 18th
inst. in the Wall street Church, New York. II
appeared from the Report, that the receipts oil
the Society the FIRST year after It's ESTABLISH
ment, were $4,000 the second year, S3O,-
600; the third year $45, 000 the fourth year
S60,o00 and its issues were, the first year, L.
100000 Of Tracts; the second year 3,OOO,OoO;
the third year 5000, 900; and the fourth year
100000.
Speed.-When rail road shall be
made from the Delaware TO the waters Of the
Chesapeake, and another from Baltimore TO.
Washington, both which will probably be &C
complished in less than two years, the journey
from Philadelphia to Washington may be ac-
complished in one day, by day light-or, say,
in ii or 10 hours. We have been nearly SO
long engaged in being dragged through the
mud from Baltimore to Washington. Niles.
Literary-The New York CONNER
cial Advertiser announces new work by Mr..
Paulding, entiiIed Tales Of The Good Ueman, ~
remarkable for happy vein Of satire aud pleas
antry.
The Catholic QueStiOq,. lit is fifty
years since the Catholic Question was frst ag
tated in the English House of Commons. II
was brought forward by the late MIR. Fox, on
the 9Th of March, I779, and was passed by
large majority on the 18th of March, 1929, be
ing precisely half century
Catholic Emancipation.-The bells
OF Christ Church, and the State House, Phila-
deiphia, we're rung in testimony of Joy at the
recent triumph Of religious liberty in Eng
land
Large Newspaper. A new Catholic
paper Is published IN London, entitled the Nefo
Magma Charta, which is about four times the
size of our largest American papers.
Multitude of COunseltors.--It is sup
posed that the next Legislature Of Massachu-
sets will Consist of seven hundred members
q number two unwieidy for any useful purpo'
ses.
Typographical.-A Western paper
SAYS, nose note attached TO a communi
cation in our last was accidentally cut off BY our
Quito an accident,