Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-05
WEEKLY SUMMARY.


s'onai Distr'ct, to supply the vacancy
occasioned by the resignation of Judge
Barbour.-sK. Compiler.
Ohio Eiectse.n. The result i. NOT va, a..
certa,ned-but the probability is, that Near.
thur is elected governor, by a small maie,ity
COT from 2eto 30O0) The returns from a.
counties are said tdgive him 4l256, and Lu.
cas- 39S49-the counties yet to be heard from
gave the Adams ticket in 1928 majority of
from 1900 to 200O.-[lbid.]
Mr.. RANDOLPH in Russia. The New.York
Journal OF Commerce contains an account
OF the arrival OF MIR. r. in Russia: and none
OF MS enemies would have expected moro
eccentric conduct than is related Of him.
and yet it is said all is not told. He is not
one of those who alter ON wing their coun.
try. He is not the man to have one set If
manners Tor America, and another for Eu-
roPe-one tor Congress, and another for
; Conrt.--lN, Eng. Palladnm.l
On Thursday week the triumph of i.ibcr.
ty IN t'rnnce was celebrated in the city OF
Washington.
Mr.. Monroe has arrived in New York,
where he intends to pass the winter.
Mr.. Adams has formally accepted the no.
mination as candidate for the House of Re.
representatives. Of the U. 3. from Plymouth D.
The match race between Goliah, by A.
merican Eclipse. and Bonncts of Blue, by
Sir Charles, for s. 900 aside, half forfeit, is
closed-to be run over the Union Course.
. Long Island, on the Cd Tuesday Of May ne It
Thay are.b both splendid animals.
= Anti Skeietans. The Philadelphia Gazette
says, the following is the weight of ten res.
pectahe ship masters baInnging tn that CITY.
recently weighed there :-327, 25O, 1913, 2S}
257' 2o2, 2i7, 245, 239, 237-262O-Av.
erage 262 lbs.
At Lewisburg, Va. on the 23d ult a most
uncommon fall of hail occurred, with severe
thunder and lightning. The hail was abun.
dant, and enabled the citizens to make hail
storm in earnest.
On Monday evenin last a genie
man was robbed at the Theatre, New
York, Of his pocket-hook, con,sining
about $4,000 He almost deserves his
misfortune for his FLY, in carrying
such sum to such place.
Christian Wenich. The last Pitts
burg (Pa.) Gazette, states: G. Wei
rich, the mail robber, was tried and
convicted, during the last week, before
judge Wilkins, upon two indictments,
charging him with ahst'acting letters
containing money from the mail In
one Case he was sentenced to eleven
years, and In the other case to ten
years confinement in the Western PEN
itentiary of that state.
Liberal Donation. Ii is stated in
the Cincinnati American that Arthur
Tappan, esq. of New York, las made
a donation of twenty thousand dollars,
to the Lane Seminary. presbyterian
Institution in Cincinnati.
Munifcent Donation. = Mr.. Thomas
Lee has addressed Letter to the Trus-
tees of the Massachusetts General Hos
pilal, informing them that he has been
authorized by Mr.. Joseph Lee, heir to
the estate of the late Mr.. F,ancis Lee,
of this city, to place in their hands, pro.
perty to the amount of twenty thousand
dollars, for the use of' the Mclean
Asylum for the Insane" subject how
ever to deduction OF $3.50 annually
from the income Of the four ensuing
years, to he paid to DR.. RUFUS Wyman,
the Physician and Superintendent, and
In the event Of his death, to his heirs
A Paris paper states, that General
Lafayette has received more than $500
private letters, and upwards of $4,000
letters on public business, most of them
from officers and soldiers EN- retraitr.
which remain unanswered. To an
swer the letters as they arrive daily,
would, i, is said, require ten or twelve
secretaries.
H1micide-.We learn that most
wamton and uuprovoked homicide was
perpetrated a few days ago, in Halifax
county, by Philip Bass, on the body of
his overseer.
On Saturday evening, in an aAfray
which arose from slight mIs,nder-
standing between two families, Mr.
Parker, of Wilton, N. II. received
blow ON his head from Nj. Johnson,o f
Milford, which occasioned the death
of Parker OIL the next morning.
Columbia, Oct 9.-On Tuesday last
"a large company of trappers, and'tra-
ders from the Rocky M ,untains, passed
through this place, with turs and mules
valued at one hundred and Fifty thon-
sand dollars The cavalcade extend
ed considerable distance. The gen,
tlemen who fitted out this expedition
are Messrs. Smith, Jackson and Sab
lite, and we are much graified that
they are likely to be SD well rewarded
for their hazardous enterprise.
A considerable lumber Of large and
substantial wagons, laden with the fruits
eftheir tolls, accompanied them, exclu
siye of their pack horses and mules, of
which there were a great number.
We should Judge there were about if
ty individuals. These hardy and sun
burnt MouRtaineers, who had been go
bong excluded from the pleasures ofciv-
i)ized society, exhibited great demon
STATIONS Of satisfaction at their near
annrn,ch A. tbo,, Go ~, ,l;co and bo,nao