Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-04-19
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| follow the example OF their neighbors Of Nor.
iolk. IN rendering public dinner 10 Thomas
Newton. esq. their legal representative IN the
present Congress, but who has been deprived
OF his seat by party vote. on the unprinepled
mas'm, that " all's fair in politics
Mr.. Oliver Fisher. a respectable merchant in
Boston, put an end to his existence n lev DAYS
since.
IN organ has been purchased for. and nut up
IN the Episcopal Church nj Winchester, Vn. IL
IS sad To bs splendid instrnmeut-..cost.
$1,000.
Shad were plentiful in Winchester on the
2Iih nli. and were retailing at II ID cts.
The corner stone of the Associated Methods
Church al Alexandria was laid in solemn form
on the 2Jlh ult. by the masonic iraternlty n
large number OF whom from the vicinity ai,en
ded,& TONED IN procession. The brethren after.
wards proceeded to M0unt Vernon, where an
appropriate address was delivered by 5. n
jerks. esq, ofBaston, from the Tomb Of Wash
ington.
The Lead Mines in Missouri. ii said, cover
an area OF 8, l5O square miles, aud have mo.
duced this year more than tea Thousand ions OF
metal.
The Grand Jury OF Franklin county. Ken
lucky, al a recent court, brought IN 40 less
'hsn sixty six indictments Tor various offences
aoou' one hall OF which number were for gam
bling. These indictments were found chiefly
against the itnerants OF the profession, who are
IN the habit of resorting 10 the capital drank
iort,) during the session OF the Legislature for
me purpose oil preying upon the people brought
together on that occasion. Several bills were
found against J. Bradley and Francis Head. for
keeping faro banks. They pleaded guilty To
In1tc paph nj a,,g,
to pay fine of S5hO, together with the costs,
which they ponied up, and were, for tue time,
permit led TO depart.
Among other curiosties in the New England
caravan, now exhibiting al flagg Alley, Bos.
ton, there is to De seen mammoth horse, 10
hands nigh and weighing 1900 lbs
The Philadelphia Bulletin acknowledges the
receipt OF list OF 50 subscribers from Arksn.
Sas territory, accompanied with the cash lis
d'sagreeable 10 doubt the word of our brethren
OF the type, but really in this Ca .e, we must be
permitted 10 doubt, without giving offence.
such things are as rare ms green cheese
We learn from the last Keniuckian, that on
Monday night week, the Commonwealth
Branch Bank at Harrodsburgh was entered. and
ne pdote Of The funds doien-ihe amount not
stated.
| bit, from London. three fRe serpents. the Dia.
mond Snake OF great beauty the Bon Con
sirlctor, and Anaconda. of large size, all In fine
health and spirits they nave taken lodgings al
Peale's Museum. where they invite their friends
TO call and see them.
| The New Orleans Advertiser of the 10Th ult
excuses the rigorous measures which have been
recently adopted by the Leg islature OF Louisi-
ana, by stating, that negro man named Iac
! lately executed IN the Parish OF Baton Rouge
! for the cold-booded murder his master j Ohm
Witten, confessed, on his way to the gibbet
that a plan had been arranged among
them TO murder all the whites.
A crop of 3 bids. of Tobacco, belonging to
! Mr.. Thomas Withers, of Dinwiddie county
was sold at auction. Shockoe Warehouse, in
Richmond. on the OH inst. at the following
prices one at $40 70 one nj $40 80, one
AT So 80: one at 81 % aud one at 50 %
Average, IS 90,
! An action for assault and battery was tried
at Trenton, N. J. about the LIST Of this month,
| in the u. S. Circuit Cour., CusiHldu VS.. Udd-
del, in which the plaintiff recovered $500 da.
images.
Mr.. Saladar, late Columbian Minister 10 the
U. States died recently at Paris, after an III
ness Of a few days.
A letter TO The editor Of the Norfolk Herald,
from friend IN lIertlord IN, G. thus speaks
Of THE vile ihcendiary, who lately employed
negro to set fire to the Clerks Office oil that
county in which ali the RECORDS were consu.
med " The wretch, Allen, IS IN our Jail in
irons. with the i'll fated negro man on whom he
prevailed TO execute his wicked plans Behold
! what man may come TO by a series OF bad
actt,, no.,
driving about here in ii, thousand dollar CARR.
agr, aud had considerable visible property; but
II is asceriained that he was acting on false
capital. He is now degraded bankrupt, una
nacled in q dungeon and charged with the per.
petratien OF Il crime Of the deepest dye
The ST. Louis Times of March %, savs-We
learn from various sources that the Fox and
Sac Indians have become DESTROYS of selling
their country 10 the United States. II lies
west o. and is bounded east the whole extent
by the Mississippi, south by the State of Mis-
sour aud a more beautiful ard valuable
country for agricultural purposes is perhaps
no where to he found in the West. The prai.
ries are generally small, the fores, extensive,
the streams of water numerous and pure, and
the soil deep and rich : and in point o mineral
wealth, the country is represented 10 be great
| " superior to that lately purchased Of the Win
nebagoes and other Indians.
The copy right Of Lord Byron's minor poems
was recently sold by auction, in London aud
Murray became the purchaser for 300 gum
| cas-.
The New Orleans Courier announces the ar
rival of the steamboat Tams, with "A cargo
/ from Carthage, Tenn. situated on the Cumber
land river, about 100 miles from Nashville.
The Talma is the first steam boat that has pene-
trated so far into the interior Of Tennessee.
! Among the works about to be issued from
the British press, are the following Max
wei, or Tale of the Middle Ranks, by Iheo.
dore Hook The Barony, Romance, by Miss
Porter; Travels in Russia, and a Residence in
Odessa, in the yrars 1927, 8, and 9, by +.
Morton, NJ. b.; The Book OF the Seasons,
poetica miscellany. a new Quarterly Journal
is on The eve OF issuing. nnder the title of E1.
cerpeta Historical, or Illustrations of English