Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-12

description written by that accomplish
ed and amiable gentleman, of Mauch
Chunk and its mineral treasures. He
visited the place last spring, and OBJ
served and inquired with his character
istic intelligence and particularly.
The Professor remarks that there can
be now no hesitation in saying that the
mines Of the Lehigh Company are in
exhaustible; he goes so far to assure
the world that "the SUI aud the Penn
sylvania anthracite mines will burn out
together" The following notice of an
important part Of her population may
not, however, be quite as ! welcome.-
The Pennsylvania Germans are very
industrious and thrifty farmers but.
with some honorable exceptions, they
in general undervalue education and
knowledge, and are quite satisfied to
60 on as their fathers went before them.
and they almost Systematically shut
their eyes against the lights of the
age; but they are truly stable popu-
lation." They have accomplished
much nevertheless, and were the very
sort OF farmers to give to the State that
Productiveness and soIidity Of which il
bossts--Ndtionai Gazette.
Claims on Franee.--We have seen +,
number of st ate,nents, all corroborating the
opinion that the present Government of
France Is, disposed to concede to us onr
claims for spoil atoms committed on our com.
merce, under the operation of the Berlin. Mil.
an and other DEGREES promulgated e. enforc.
ca under the authority of Bonaparte, before
The restoration Of the Bourbons. The follow.
ing confederation Of this agreeable news
I GO as IL does from an opposition journal
.ne NORFOLK Herald will be read with saiisfac
lion oy those who have an interest there
The letter is from Respectable so,,rns -,
Washington. ~
I'VE are hourly looking for dispatches
from the u. States minister at Paris g;v;no
intelligence of an adjustment of the negot;s.
lions Tor spoliations on our commerce during
ihe late war between France and the states
oil Europe. There may be some disappoint
ment IN these agreeable anticipations; kings
and courts are not always INTELLIGENT and
Just; but know favourable result is conf.
IDENTIFY looked for.
Georgia and the Cherokees. Georo;a
Legislature Is in session, and Gov. GiImer
has sent an interesting essage to the two
houses Inc most important part of which re-
lates to the Cherokees and to the gold
mines.
a mass OF rock. weighing $50 tons, was
lately thrown off at single blast at a auary
between Wilmington andPhiladelphia.
Many cases of the Small Pox have occur.
rcd at Louisville, Ky.
In actions for SANDER in Franklin Co., In.
diana, Miss Catharine Biblee recovered 3 lOOu
OF Mark Harper; and Miss Elizabeth DOYLE
one cent Of VIM Walker.
Rhode Lsiaad.-Some difficulty has occur.
red III Rhode Island, between the Treasurer
and State Legislature The Treasurer size.
ports, 1t seems, have not been made accord
Ing to law, as interpreted by the Legislature,
and that body have, in consequence, refused
to accept them.
South cnroiinn.- eorgo Nj Duffie, William
ID. Martin, James Blair, and Robe.t w Ha,n.
we'll, reelected to Congress, without opnosi.
Hon. Thomas X mitchell, tormerly a mem.
Der, and now the Anti Convention candidate,
mas been elected by majority OF about
SoO over John Cambell, the present mem.
ber.. ,,-, ID' : -
The New York Daily Advertiser contains
quarter of a column OF brief notices of da.
ring robberies, &c. Two men, intoxicated
were stripped Of their clothing, last week
on Sunday night 45 persons were arrested
some OF whom were committed for assaults
theits, &c. On Saturday night, MIR. Under.
mrs store was entered by false key and
$loOO worth of silks stolen a fine horse was
stolen same night from a stable a man was
robbed OF S25U at Robinson 8 house, Wash.
ington street; man was robbed by a black
man, on the Jamaica turnpike, of 2 OF
$500, &c.
AT Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Oct. 8, a Wv.
apdot Indian was executed for the murder of
another Wyandot, night of 9TH. He was
condemned by the voice of the nation SEN
!! tence was pronounced, 9TH, and next day, in
presence OF large concourse of whites and
Indians, he was shot (kneeling by his grave
by SIX men appointed for that purpose
Ihree Christian men and three pagans
We're chosen as exec utioners.
On the 18th ul;. the mail was taken from,
the mail carrier, boy about I3 years old. be.
tween Springfield and Lewiston, Illinois
The r"bber rode large horse, was thick. set
and appeared to be about 30 years old.
More than four thousand copies of the fru-
gal Housewife have been sold; and the de-
mand tor 1t has increased SO much, that the
publishers bave been induced to stereo
type it,
fhilo p. Mills was robbed on board the
steamer Oliver Ellsworth, between New Lon
don and New York, night of 22d inst. of a
hne gold watch, gold safety chain, and $3.50
OF Phenix Bank bills, Hartford.
"A Legislative committee of Rhode Island
nave rsoently 9hy authority.'' DESTROYED
POI ,?oo, IN bills of the Farmers Exchange
Bank. go .IiggIS
The N. Y. Journal mentions two porce.
lain shives, brought from Vera Cruz, taken
from ships block, which ara quite unipiur-
ed, though the block was worn ont The
enamel was no where broken by the rope or
pin, and the material would not weld to
steel
The Arkansas Gazette states, that Col.
Butler, the Charge des Affairs of the United
States to Mexico, who had been specially au-
thoriized to treat with that Government for
the purchase OF Texas, had been unable to
conclude treaty, on account of the ZEAL
ousy entertained towards the u. States. bv
the present predominant party under Vice
President Bustamente.
A lad driving stage on the route from
Baltimote to Wheeling, having been repri-
manded by certain passengers for upsettinp
them once or twice, dryly remarked, that he