Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-11-13

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l5,lO2 1860
1856 Clay MAJORITY 1886
y The returns of the votes IN these counties are
not received but will not vary the above result much.
Extract Of q letter from Boston, Nov. 9Th. 1890.
The ship Fame, Captain Turner, arrived yester-
day from 81. Petersburg. In which came The Hon.
john RASpoLPH's black man JUBA, who has charge
oil several packages and trunks, the property Of Mr..
Randolph. Ii is sand Juta will proceed to the Seat
of Government Immediately.
We find the following in the Gcorgia Courier:
IL Mr. Adams is elected 10 Congress from the Ply
mouth District, no one would be so capable Of filing
the Speakers Chair in the House of Representatives
AS the nation does not wish a mere party man in that
office, and If Mr. Calhoun's opinion of Mr.. Adams is
true, that 1t there is an honest politician in the coun-
try, that man Is hr. Adams, we shall look for a sacr,-
ice OF party predictions, and the elevation of this
distinguished Statesman to a station, which long ex-
perience qualihes him SO eminently 20 fill.
MIR RANDOLPH.-It is officially announced in
the Telegraph, of Friday. that Mr. Randolph, in
con. cquence IF a rapid and threatening decline of his
health, has Left ST. Petersburgh. He arrived in Lon
don on the e9th of September, on his way to the
south of France, where with the appreciation of the
PRESIDENT, he intends to spend the ensuing winter,
and TO return to St. Petersburgh in the spring ifthe
state oil his health will admit oft. We dn not hold
Gonerai Jackson's administra ion responsible for the
Ill heaitn OF MIR. Rand"lph; altogether Mr.. Adams
wa 81 held, III a similar case-that of the late Ru-
fus King. Deka,,are .Lo,y
Mr.. FoRsYru AND Mr.. WIRr-Both of these
gentlemen Were lately invited 20 deliver addresses on
CLASSIC ground, in New Jersey; the former before the
Wing and Cliosophic Society" of Nassau Hall. al
The annual commencement in September; and Mr..
WIT. before the "Pci;hessopian Society ofRu,rer's
college. A writer IN a Philadelphia literary, who
was an eye witness of Mir. Fcrsyth's perform
ance, speaks Of it as almost an entire failure:
Much iDterest-he says-was excited. and
many came from a distance to hear HIM Extra
VACANT 'anticlpations, rs to what his matter and
manner would probably be, were undoubtedly form.
ed; but even moderate expectations were rather dis
appointed, and the laurels which the honorable mem.
Der of Congress won on that day will not much en-
cuniber his brow y" Mr.. Wirt's address ON the of
other hand, is described as every WY worthy Of hs
exalted reputation. ID.
The Harrisburg Cronicle Observation-Disclosures
morning last, ono hundred and twenty-three wagons
were counted IN and about the market square. and
on Saturday last, one hundred and thirty se were
al lader with produce for this market"
1.-The Canal IS IN fine navigable order from Clsrk's
Ferry, through Harrisburg to Middletown, and bus,-
ness brisk The Union Canal is also In good order,
and a number Of boats, loaded with merchandise, are
daily expected by our forwarding and commission
Merchants.
AT an Annucl Mecting of the Subscribers to the
richmond Lancasirian School, held at the School
-AOooS WI ~ W ON o. NOVEMBER. lSSO.
line meeting being organized the following annual
report OF the board oftrustees of the institution, was
which report being read, was on motion
being seconded, received and ordered to he recorded.
Inc committee s1pointed by the Board ofTrustees
ofthe LancastrianS School for the purpose of making a
report on the progress and condition of The School. to
De laid before the annual meeting of subscribers and
the Common Hall ofthe city of Richmond on Satur-
Gay the 9Th OF November, l83O-beg leave to report,
that tho whole number Of attending scholars at this
Is 23O-of which number, as the committee are
informed, about 30 are females; that the cost of the
institution. since October 3lst, 1920, ACCORDING
10 the Ireasurer's account herewith offered, has
been S2O65 so 100 showing an increase of exnendi.
turc over that of the year 1920, which has resulted
from various repairs to the building occupied by the
School, from some improvements ofa permanent cha
tacter which were deemed necessary and proper by
the trustees, and which were effected under their SUI
Perintendance on terms advantageous to the inslitu
lion, and from other contingent expenses. The OK.
ertlons of The male teacher to improve the discipline
1.-THE department of the School under his superin,en.
dance, and to regulate the discordant materials Of
which 1t Is composed, have been constant. and
as the committee are encouraged to hope, in
some degreee successful. The Mcnitorial System
however good in theory, is liable to a considerable
diilcsity, arising from the pauci,y of proper
monitors TO act as instructors of boys less advanced
than Themselves; this has been deeply felt, as tho
committee learn from sources to be relied on. in IN.
Lancastrlan Institutions located in the northern and
eastern CITES and mas more than once occupied the at
eeh'Ion VI InIs Ooard. hlle this difficulty is admitted
oy all, II must be apparent, that to render the eyer
tions OF q single instructor available, the greatest or.
der and regularity should be enforced amonu his M
tho sudden introduction, however, of any system
OF more rigid discipline than has hitherto prevsiled,
would doubtless prove detrimental, and perhaps de-
tn the interests Of the institution. Time
must be allowed for the change, however salutary il
may be; and while all must be impressed with the ab.
solute necessity Of order in CONDUCTING the businos,
OF the School ii is a matter of grave Importance
that 1t should be obtained by slow degrees. and not
by any sudden and what might be deemed fbov.
ever unjusty) tyrannicaI exertion Of sutbority-Tha,
this may ultimate ely be the case is certainly most
earnestly to be desired; and the zeal and abilities of
the tutor leave little doubt ofits final accomplish
ment.
The choice in 1899 of Miss Rebecca Bennett AZ
the instfuctress in the female department, hiss prov
cd extremely judIcious, and her performance Of the
arduous duty entrusted to her, has given entire sat
'sisctlon. Having the interes Of the institution
greatly at heart, and anxious to avail herself of the
improvements which experience has introduced into
those oil a similar nature in the northern and cas-.
Tern cities, Mss Bennett, at the request Of the Board
OF trustees, visited hose seminaries during the pact
summer, and as the Committee have every reason
IN nnLLuNn AAL