Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1830-08-12

ed a, Btooki,n, and after gciiing Something 10
drink, aG-'sd note Of sou in payment. The
tavern keeper pronounced the bill a forgery,
and II "a. handed about f. N one to snoiher,
nniil !; was HseeEsaHtd 10 be . good note.
The circumstance Of 80 large bill being III the
possession ofihese coioufed people, made some
talk. aud man 10 Brookyn who had read the
advertisement OF money stolen, got an oiicer,
aud traced the four blacks 10 Jericho. One OF
the cooured women becoming alarmed, threw
The $500 note Out OF the wind0w n was, now
ever found, aud the party was arrested aud
brought 10 this city. On investigation, IT turn
ed out 10 he Firms 500 bill la a state Of IN
ioGication he bad given some bills TO white
female IN this city, who, being ignorant OF the
amount of them. seni note OF 500 10 gro
Ger. 10 pay debi oftwelve shilings, aud the
balance was squsndered without knowing how.
One other hundred was sent 10 q lottery oihcr,
and paid sui for tickets, also without knowing
what WIS the amount Of the bill aud the 5000
was handed by the white womsu 30 a coloured
woman, in whose house they were, for some
lime triIling demand, being ignorant oil the a.
mount Of the bill and when The coloured wo,
man was told, al Brooklyn, The amount, she
supposed the bill whioh,had been given 10 her, To
br counterfeit. In this singular manner was
this money handed about. by persons unable 10
read from one to another, until IL was finally
taken from them, aud restored to Finn, lis
owner.
II thus appears that the Clergyman's loss was
10 Finn n matter Of gam, and that the suspi-
cion excited by his offering > 1000 bill Tor a
glass Of grog, and which led TO his arrest Tor a
supposed felony, was the means OF recovering
$500 OF his own money, which be had lost he
knew not how.
Devil F,h-A very large individual OF this
species the Devil Fish, (Rsja Giorna,) was
taken in Delaware Bay, near the Ligh thouse,
on Cape NAV, on slurday afternoon last. Il
was harpooned near the shore, but broke loose
however, having returned TO shallow water, II
was a second time harpooned. aud secured. II
was about nine feet in breadth, aud about
twelve feet in length from head to tail, weight
supposed considerably to exceed ton.
The National Gazette states that the Rev
C. Stewart whose work on the Sandwich Is
lands is SO generally known and esteemed, is
about TO prepare volume for the public,
wherein M will give full account Of the re-
cent most extensive voyage OF the ship Of war
Vmcennss, Capt. Finch, in which he sailed
Chaplain.
The materials for the present work III is adj
ded) are more ample aud curious than those of
the former; and Mr.. Stewart is every way
competent to the task oil digesnng them into an
instructive aud entertaining hook. The Vim
cenuss. with be. very intelligent and popular
commander, sailed f,om Valparaiso. ms soon as
his instructions we're received from the Navy
Department, for the Marqnesas, where the na-
tives were found uearly IN the same state as
they were when Commodore Porter visited
them-wagIug ieroc'ous was With their neigh
bors.
The Nmccnnes proceeded TO the Island OF
Otaheito aud thence TO the Sandw ich Islands.
The Engl,sh missionaries are said 10 have been
compa, atissy unsuccessful among the Otahel.
tains but the Americans TO have produced
grent aud most beneficial revolution ~ the NOR.
u Is and habits OF the people Of tho SANDWICH
Islands. Here. Captain Finch found American
property tn the amount of seven millions OF
dollars IL deposit and a6uaI, BE received,
and entertained lhs KING on board OF his ship
and carried him To such places within his own
dominions A. he wished TO visit The gende-
men savages-t Messicurs les Sauyages)--s
attued arGordlug 10 the latest London fashions,
and The fades wore bishops sleeves aud other
modsh articles OF dress. TO confirm the
friendly dispositions of the ruler and his
subjects, towards the United States, was a pro-
per policy.
The Vlpccnngs then went 10 Canton, and in
returning home touched at the Cape oi Good
Hope and 81 Helenn. Captain Finch saw the
tenement in which Napoleon expired (Planta-
ton House y il is interior 10 our common farm
houses and thu room where the mighty con-
queror breathed his last is now a COW stable the
entrance 10 which is Distracted by "A dung
heap. We could wish that the authorities U.
ST. Helena had exerted some maguanimity
even as to the dwelling.