Virginia advocate. [volume] (Charlottesville, Va.) 1827-1860, 1830-11-19

226,254 SO, which Is profi,abIy invested
Tho Governor has visited the mast year. the
literary institutions of the state, and sneaks
iavourbly of their situation aud prosusct.
Inc annual appropriations for the education
OF The indig gent deaf and dumb, of $4,000. was
iast year set apart as specific fund for this
benevolent purpose.
Maine State House.-The pillars orthe
colorado of this new ediice at Augusta. eight
IN number, elegantly wrought of granite.
nave been raised They are ~ #. in length.
exclusive ct the base and capitals, IOl.2ft.
=" circumference al the bottom and at the
top, and weigh 10 tons each. Th, outside
OF the building will BIO finished before win.
ter
Rail Roads in .New JERSEY A hill to
incorporate the New Jersey Atlantic Rail
Road Company, has been reported by a
committee OF the state legslature--also, a
supplement tn the Delaware and R,ritan
canal act, authorizing Rail Road on its EN-.
banknients
| The New Orleans Bee states thai the brio
Vineyard, of Kennebunk,) which recen,ly
arrived at that place from Bordeaux, bore tie
tr''cotorea ing, pierced with fur halls II
W one OF these that served TO rally the Patri.
OTIS OF Bordeaux in the events of July last.
Twas carried by the brother of respectable
20 A'"" OftcduS, I'd WnOm the V is
consigned.
Ire Land.-lt is somewhat whimsical that
the names IT places in this land of ira as
Davies calls t., should he so appropriate 10 n
jpngnaciousjpeople. KIlgnblin. Killkanney.
hili'Dactionns, lniskil!ing, Kllmany. Kill.
more, and thousand others of like import.
are the names of towns. Knockmelsdowp.
hnockmaioch, knockmore, is the establish.
ca nomenclature for hills. Every hill, is in.
deed, knock, and every Church kill.
Hd'ne.-The Representatives, in the 2ed
Congress, from Maine, are--York District.
Rufus Mclntire; Cumberland. John Amber
son ;. Hancock and Washington, Leonard
Jarvis; kennebaC, George Evans: Oxford.
Corneilas Hollond; Somerset and Penobscot.
James Bates.
Mr. Cfay;-rhe Washington Telegraph.
/ i, Monday last, states that Mr.. Clay will in
All probability be elected to the Senate of the
U. States from Kentucky
TIE demand for newspapers since the rev.
CLINTON in France has greatly increased.
PERSONS who used tn consider tho introduce
ton of one or two columns of foreign news
rs much dead matter, now pour over every
item and detail of the transactions abroad
with as much avidty as the merchant exam.
ines The changcs in the markets
We observe in the Halifax Recorder
of October 23, a person advertises, AS
just received from liverpool, 600 pie.
ces al Sitiiie,t, assorted colots, which
w'li tie found egual to the American.
This Is novel style of putting of Eny-
lish manufactured goods.
II has ben propose in the French
Chamber OF Deputies to loan The cred
1t ut the State, tn the amount OF sixty
millions, fer the benefit of commerce..
A committee reported against the meas
nre, and II was not decided on. Mr..
Mangnin attacked Ministers with great
warmth.
In German N. Y. the names of Ma
sons "who have not renonncrd and de-
nrunced the Institution" have been ex-
cluded from The jury box!
Literary. The London Literary
Gazette states, thu Sir Walter Scott is
engaged nDnn romance, the name Of
which is IL be Robert of Paris. That
Cant. Wall has on the anvil Fragments
Ioi Voyages aud Travels in va,ious parts
IL the World--That the Edinburgh
Encyclopedia is at length completed,
and the editor aud proprietor have gone
TO lpggerheads about the preface.
The Duke of Wellington, on being
told Ivy friend that the Belgians had
beat the Dutch, hastily replied--"lf
the the Be!gians cannot beat the Dutch,
who the ID can they beat?"
!" have just heard, says Cnbbett, in
his last Register, "of the de!ea, Of the
Dutch 10y theBeI gians. hope in God
it is irne and tha, not one soltiicr who
fired on the Belgiaus, will return a.
live"
1t appea RS the Duke Of Wellington
- about to make another concession to
The people OF England, in attempting.
10 work a parliamentary reioIm-dis-
pensing with snne Of the rotten bor-
onghs, aud giving representatives to the
large new towns
A lady who keeps boarding house
IN New York brought suit against
person Tor slandering her character,
an. recovered verdict OF eight huD-
dred dollars
60 WestWard nends its nay" There are
between sixty and seventy families, now in
Boston, WIN contemplate removing soon to
" the rich regions of tho west" Many others
have lately gone.
Brighton Cattle Sio,o. The mich
cows were very fine. One of them,
belonging tt John Billiard of Framing
ham, z or 8 years old, gave 30 quarts
of milk day, in the best season.
The show of horses was meagre. The
working oxen gave great satissac-
ton. One pair drew two tons of stone
up the bill, and backed them up the
hill. showing that oxen, well broken,
can back as much weight as they can
draw.
Judge P. p Barbour, accompanied
by Robert Stanard, Esq District Ator-
ney, and Gen. John Pearam, Marshal.
of Eastern Virginia, arrived in Norfolk,
on the 3lst ult preparatory to opening