Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-08-13

Where late sereneiy smiled each softer grace.
When God resumes the precious soul he gave,
And beauty falls victim to the grave
Angels Of mercy calm the beating breast.
And point the way to everlasting rest.
schuylkill, 7th mo. 9th, 1880.
Sea Scrpdnt.-Tho waggish editor of the
Gloucester Telegraph talks as lightly of the
Sea Serpent, az though no had no foa-s o.
sharing the fate of Capt. Blaney Speaking
OF his anticipated visit, with great non cha
lance, he says:
Should he look in at Portsmouth ane
Newburyport, provided he has no bar TO i'm
pedo his progress, he may be induced tr
make short cut into our harbor. by passino
from Ipswich bay down " Gloucester Canal.
thereby bene6tting the Stockholders thereof
but should he prove so large as recently rep
resented, he will need setting poles, as die
some of our great grand fathers in older
time, to get him along by Dane. fudging,
as they termed it, whom they reached deer
water with their fiat boats We are inform
ed by an eye witness, that what the people
have tdtterty taken 10 be the sea serpent is
nothing more than a dozen horse mackerel
each having swallowed the tail of the other
and In this manner going ahead" which
accounts for the lunches upon his back, a.
was supposed by those who have seen the
phenomenon"
Heirs of Fulton.--We are glad to fine
IRON the Cincinnati Commercial Daily, thai
the suggestion made some time since, o.
placing box on board of every steamboat
for receiving contributions, for the benefit O
Fulton's heirs, is about to be generally ad opt
ed on the Western waters An ASSASSINATION
OF The Captains and officers of steamboats, nj
Pittsburgh, have resolved to use all .heir en-
beavers to favor this laudable plan.
1hraShing Machines. Monday last
several new machines for thrashing were G X
hibted In this town and vicinity-thete i,
very little doubt but most of the crops viii
this season be got out by machines. None
that we have seen, however, equals one thai
we find noticed in Culpeper, which, unde,
considerable disadvantages, actually got ont
Az bushels in one day, and could with ease
get out 500, as certified by gentlemen who
we've present. Warrenton Gazette, Juiy 81
Great Crop.--Mr. David M'Michen, a far
mer IN the vicinity of this place, cut this sea
son from IL acres of ground | 600 dozen o
wheat, being neatly fifty bushels to the acre
Wheeling paper
HeaUy Wheat The Hilsborough, I'm
e. Recorder says, " the wheat has been Gu
this season from field in the vicinity of tina
place which yielded 10 1-2 bushels per acre
and the grain taken indiscriminately from
the heap, on repeated trials, weighed 70 l..
pounds TO the bushel, after having been Ions
and thoroughly dried in the sun.
Murder.-O On the Goth ult, two men by tn
names of Mitchell and Tyrell, broke into TIN
cabin of Henry Clark, of Franklin township
Huntingdon county, Pa. and killed him on
employing club, and the other pine kno
In their murderous assault The decease,
had given no provocation, except that h,
had said some time pre- gious, " that he coult
whip a We'shman''
.Murder.-John Attack, has been appre
hended in Wilson county, and committed 70
trial In Lebanon, for the alleged murder o
his own daughter. From the evidence giver
before The jury of inquest, it appeared, tina
she was beaten and bruised so as 10 cause he
Death Nash Rep. July %
The population of Baltimore is so, 3d.
That of Winchester (Va) 3,612.
The London Weekly Despatch of Jun,
90, says" Madame Vestris takes her depar
lure for America in August, in expectation
OF reaping golden harvest by the exercise
OF her facinating talents in that country
Tier appearance among the Yankees vii
doubtless create great sensation"
We find it intimated in the London Nor
ming Chronicle, Of the 10th June, that tn,
Duke OF Clarence on ascending tho British
Throne, will assume the title of Henry tn,
Ninth
alabama Unipersity-The Trustees have
appointed Professor Wallis their agent tc
purchase in Europe or the United States
philosophical and chemical apparatus, fol
which $4,000 was appropriated by the board
Inc Presidents salary is to be 5000, ant
J. u. Birney Esq. has been appointed agen
to collect information respecting these learn
ed men who are supposed to be qualified ant
willing TO accept of the Office.
1t is stated that in G.. Britain and IRELAND
there are in connexion with the Sunda,
School Union, 1896 schools, 81, 747 teachers
and 100000 scholars, being an increase
lastyear of 567 schools and 40,9O0 scholars
The augusta (deorgia) Constitutionaiis
of the 9th of July, quotes with approbation
the following correct sentiment Of Vice Pre-
sldent Calhoun, given at a recent public eel
eoraton, and lntimates, in language not to be
misunderstood, that the people of Georqis
have no intention OF supporting the nullifier,
OF South Carolina In their extravapant pre-
tensions
Consolidation and Disunion The two
extremes OF our system they are both equal
Iy dangerous, and ought both to bo equally
the object Of our apprehension"
.hortality.-There died one hundred ana
ninety SIR persons in Philadelphia, during the
week ending the 24th July.
The Baltimore Gazette states that the
average receipts on the Rail Road is above
SiOOO per week, and that strangers passing
through that city postpone their departure
Ior Gay TO enjoy the pleasure of ride on the
Rail Road.
me marblehead Register states that a
large rat, caught by the nape of his neck in a
trap, on Thursday night, completely skinned
himself and absconded, leavin.l his whole
trap