South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-05-30

NJ Accounts from Memphis, Tonnes
see, represent the Cholera as prevailing
there with very malignan! type--and
from three TO five deaths daily occurring.
The population is about 2 900.
u About thirty buildings, valued at
10000, we're destroyed by fire in Boston.
on Monday the 18th ult.
g The citizens of the city ofN. York,
are talking of paving their streets with
wood. after the Prussian fashion.
~ 1t is stated that counterfeit FIVE
DOLLAR NorEs' Of the Washington city
BANK OF THE METROPOLIS, are in cir.
culation.-Letter B, dated March l,
1888, and payable to G. HILL.
CO The SCRIP issued by the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Canal Company, is re-
deemed With the interest. at the Wash
,ngton county Bank, in Williamsport, and
the Hagerstown Bank, on demand.
NJ The Baltimore farce has been
now fully played, and Van Buren, (as all
the world expected) has been announced
the candidate in conformity to the wishes
ofGen. Jackson for the next Presidency.
Now all the office holders, and all who
wish for office, will, as in duty bound re-
double their diligence to keep IN the
party, and UPON the party. But Virgin
ia it seems must succumb-yes, succumb
to the dictation of George Kremer and
a few other good Jackson men and Mr..
Rives may get into the Senate if he can
the high office of Vice President being
now placed beyond his reach. Is Vir-
ginia ready to play the satallite, and o"
hey the Kremers of Pennsylvania. and
the political managers Of New York. as
dictatorsl Is it possible that Virginia is
prepared for such state of serylllty p
1.-THE Jackson party accept the nomina-
ton of Johnson, they ought certainly to
make no further objection to Leigh. In
johnson they have Tariff. Internal I'm.
provement, Bank, & all the good fedora
tive principles Of the East and the West.
THOMAS F. PURCELL, Esq. Engineer.
in the service of the Chesapeake and O.
hio Canal Company, has arrived at this
place. (says the Cumberland Civilian OF
Tuesday last, and will proceed, we learn,
forthwith, in the examination and Local
ton of the route of the Canal from the
South Branch to Cumberland, including
the proposed dam at or near the South
Branch. 1t is probable that he will also
make an examination and early report on
the most advisable location OF dam near
Cumberland. And so soon as the Sec
\tions and masonry can be prepared, they
will be put under contract.
NJ The statement of a valuable
Diamond having been found in Prince
Edward county, this state, turns out to
be hoax.
~ ROBERT D. Hoy, convicted of
the murder of Mrs. Margaret Smoot, is
to be executed near Harrisonburg, on
Friday the Gath day of July next.
ALBANY in New York contains popu-
lNion ofthirty-fve thousand souls.
o. We very lately passed through
a part of Pennsylvania and conversed
with a number of the citizens on the
subject of the next Presidency; and we
aver. that we did not meet with sim
gle individual, who was in favor ofJudge
White for that high office. The people
of that state are NATIONALLY republican,
and must have national Wing, or they
will take Van Buren, with greater unani-
nifty than ever was known in the state
since the commencement of the national
Government. This we deliberately be-
lieye from all we could see and hear on
the subject AMONG THE PEOPLE, who, by
The by, settle all such questions Judge
WHrTE will not do.-There is ONE MAN
around whom thousands would rally at
any moment, and though they might not