Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-03-16
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Leather .St0ckng. -Sim'oh Nebdd'
.foL;o xe, !. represented as the prototype OF
C,oner's inniiabIe leather Stocking, has ~
,I;ei TO Congress for pen ion, anu ne nous"
lave DIRECTED hal bill be fepor ed l" MS ID
.ar ua is said TO he Qua of the most exiranr
.t;,arv and interesting men now living. he
.n,ered Kentucky in l77l. ard continued there
.hroorh all the sirug les;wiih the Indians, sus'
.;,;,o his position after Boon and his compan-
,,,,. ,ea ee,i The anecdotes relating 10 his
adva,,,res are said TO be almost incredible.
a., ope ucca ion, when watching the ifon'iers,
ba saved the infant settlements from the In
dians by running sixty miles IN one day and
o,ht aud spreading the alarm. kendali hrah
oil The whites aud with extraordinary skill and
r5nrage defeated the sasaaes lie ever heli
any military rank hut was always selected as
.eadpr in excursions aga u I've Indians A
me fine h. WIS taken prisoner, and the Indians
had nlaced fa..ots arIund him 10 burn him n
live when he WAS released b, the Intervention
,fa Frenchman. He afterwards saved the life
or his deliycrer IN 1873 his military ardour
.va. bv no means sulducd. and he rendered
himself Formidable TO the enemy during the
war by his ong rifle, thou III attached to 10 re-
eular corps he has always been strictly ten
perae, but il navy in pennry. extremely old,
and surrounded by large family.
Sbockiao "A most extraordinary
deyelopsment has been made in Ednbnr h, Of
she existence of house whereat passers by
were deceived md then muir Tered, in order %
sail m, bodies tn the SD egran' The two per.
sons a man aud his wife concerned in it, have
l,pen arrested AID tried, an | one Of them con-
fessed to a series Of murd .rs--of which, from
public policy, the number VAS not allowed to
be made public.
Thcolopical Scminory.-Tho Mrtho-
dist,Conference of T"nn. aud Mississippi. hav" re
solved to establish College at La Grange. in
Alabama. Toe constitution Of the College, and
an Address the subj ect are published i'll the
Tuscumbia Telegraph.
Erpl0riAg E1peditiop.--Ws regret
that this enterprise. {says the National Inteli-
genccr,) which has engaged SO mach Of the
public attention and interest. particu arY OF the
whole maritime community. should not have
been acted on. The bill passed tn Hpute of
Representatives by Il large majority; hut the
late period of the session IN wnlch tue Naval
Committee in The Senate rep rted The bill, plac
ed it beyond he action of that body in its regu-
lar order. !tihereforr remains. win, many O.
Their bills ofinportance, to- b. revived anI ar;od
on at the mex, session.
DueI prsrcnted.- nice little duel,
between Two midshipmpn, was prevented at
View York on Saturday afternoon last One Of
the middys and his second Was apprehended
while waiting fnr a ierry-boat to take them to
Uoboken, where the awful conIbat was TO hav"
taken place, and the other combatant and his
friend were arrested, when they re-crossed to
New York to ascertain why the others did nor
-omc Before the police one COME .sed a duel
was on foot, aud Mr.. Charles King, the New
York American, having been sent for by one Of
the party, took compassion on the young men
and became security for them to prevent their
going to prison
SaoW in Florida. The Tallahassee
lloridian oftle 18th ull. says Sunday morn
my the 10 h inst. the ctizans of this place were
surprised to fl III the ground covered to the depth
oitwo inches with snow. This is thu hrst oc-
currence OF the kind snce the settlement; Of
Middle Florida, aud as il might be the only |
nance our young men might nave for thirty |
years TO pelt each other with snow balls u |
may readily be supposed the opportunity was
not lost
An American NobGmdn.- the !
French Annua re" for 1923, the political his /
sory OF the United States Tor the previous year
gwen at some length. In abiding TO the re-
pom OF The then Secretary the Treasury, Mr. !
SrawioId, the writer styles him " lie Secretaile ,
d t'at de Ia Tresorie LoRp Crariord
Il Neio shiun.-The Fashionabes .
oi Boston (says Noah) have introduced, or are
"pout Introducing a new mode, which, hereai-
sei WIZ dispense with morning visits altogether
Is Known that a iady's reading room has been
established in that city, and library Of 5000
'oiunes added 10 il Tor the accommodation Of
'ne ia'r' 1t now suggested that all the visit
''g ladies' OF the city meet there every morning
on those days Sc, apart for calls This will pre-
t'ude the necessity of calling at each others .
houses, which CONSUMES much lime, and is fire..
qaen'iy left not completed from the impolne
snot'hess Oft winter days, AS compared with
., n long lists of visiting acquaintance during
'.''s age oil the world In the reading room
they can sit down, talk, chat interchange lit
ne agreeable scandal, jus, necessary to keep
We edge OF life on, ell themselves with new
e"s fresh ideas. and original anecdotes, all /
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