Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-05-21


qucnty TO valuable rice mill and other buildings
The lost is estimated al one hundred thousand dol.
lars.
The operation Of Ltholomy was successfully
performed on F,iday last by Doctor Edward il
Carmichael oi Fredericksburg. Two large stones,
one of them lnfscr than hen egg, removed
from the bladder Of man who had been sufferer
TWEEN y yeafs, and no Is indebted 10 tho skill OF
Doctor Carmichool Tor complete relief flom tbs
drcndfu m4aJy.
Doctor Carmichael operated successfully for the
removal of large olypus from the womb H. week
before last [Cuipepes Messenger
Mr. IIcory plcc is preparing a balloon at
Brooklyn New York IN which ho proposes To
90 up accompanied by lady. lis balloon Is
Of muslin, covered with India rubber. He in.
tends To take wrh him u concaye mirror 10 iilumi-
nate the balloon after the shall have set the
earth.
Mr. J. +. &. Finley, writing from Liberia TO
Rev. Dr. Wilson, Of Cincinnati, snys, 1.-The Colony
Of Liberia has done at least as much towards ubol
ishing the slave trade on the coast the whole
United States" The Rev. John Seycs, writing
also from Liberia, says, 81 see no d unkards, no
intoxicated persons nor have yet, though have
toxieatIng liquors IA use among them" The nile
man first named (Nr. F.nl,yJ says, "For luxur-
tnce Of Vegetation, and the with Which the soil
may he cultivated, the country which have travel
led through, more than 80 miles is not surpassed
is ~ to allied, Wy any other
W. relate the following circumstance wthon'
fear OF being accused Of merely telling snake sto
~, know ing the facis from the most unqnesonablc
authority. A few days since, but few miles
distance in Jersey, large hawk, seemingly in
great hunger, was discovered lowering over the
barn yard OF u cottage eagerly watching his oppar-
tuny to pouncc upon the poultry below. After
repeating his visits for few days he was fired
a. but bong missed did not afterwards make his
appearance In The course of few days the gentle
man who made tho shot wns walking over the
NEG hbosrlrg grounds, when he discovered dead
ho wk apparently but shortItlme deprived oil life
Upon examination, the cause Of the hawks death
was discovered to have been the swallowing Of u
living rutilesnakc, which had eaten out of the ston
ach of the Bird ind nearly through the skln,or near
the craw. The snake was about eleven inches
long The hawk was no doubt the same that eagerly
watched the poultry but fearing to return and be
coming famished for want OF food, was obliged to
eat his snakoshp he stomach OF tho hawk con
tanned no food was stufrd, and graces the
private collection of a naturalist. " Y Gd<.
Mr. Pcdicarls, the Greek, who is lcc,u'ng at
Baltimore, states the following rcma,k able facts in
viadcatlon of modern Greece
No sooner had circumstances, growing out of
the lllgeren state of all the rest of Europe,
pcledth the Turkish Government TO grant TO their
subjects, the Greeks, exclusive commercial privlle
ecs, than their vessels whitencd the Black Sea
ard the Mediterranean within eight years they &c
cumuotcd millions Of wealth, and possessed -four
hundred large vessels which, though constructed
wiihont mathematical knowledge, were models of
form and beauty, giving evidence of the same in
note of beauty and constructive talent, in the
living Christian Greeks, which presided over tho
creation Of the anclen temples md statues OF the
Heather Gods No sooner had the reforming spir-
ii OF Sultan Mahomoud given scope to education,
than college arose in the island Of Sico, which at
the expiration OF hve years. was furnished with all
the means for high instruction and numbered eight
hundred students. No sooner was the standard of
Independence raised, than five hundred young schol-
nrs, many OF them having hurried back from the
Universities of Germany formed themselves INTO
sacred baualion, ard doing battle against IN over
widening force, with h rolsm unsurpassed at Mara
thon or Thermopylr, ftll every man of them, in
single hit These are manifestations of noble
spirit and lofty capacity, which give the lie TO host
of shallow tourists who have dAused false mpres
Sous as to Il qualities and capacities of the mod
ern Greek nation"
A Compa, ison.-In the late London Quarterly,
there Is an Article Gu the Table Talk ofColerdge
which preserves many of his occasional sayings
and remarks all indicative OF Il profound and brill
ant mind such rs the world but rarely The
following rcld i've 10 the future prospects of Amer
ca, is II just comparison upon the Subject, and pla
ccs the bsllous caricaurcs Of cockney travellers in
lheir proper hsai.-N. Y. Com. ADJ.
BASIL Halt The possible destiny of the United
States of Amcrlca--as Nation of a hundred mil
lions of fteenlcn stretching from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, living under the laws of Alfred, and speak
cg the language of Shakespeare and Mon-is an
august conception. Why should we not wish 10
see II rcalizedl America would then be Eng land
viewed through solar microscope Great Britain
in stste Of glorious magr ifcation How deeply
be lamenlcd is the spirit ofhostlty and sncering
which some OF the popular books OF travels have
shown in eating Of the Americans They hate us,
10 doubt, just brothers hate but they respect
the opinion Of an EnglIshman concerning themselves
ten times as much as that Of native Of any other
country on carth.-A very lutte humoutng of the
prejudlccs, and some courtesy of language the
pat of EngIiShnen, would work wonders even as
it is, with the public mind of the Americans.
Caplain Basil Halls book is certainly very en-.
,ertaining and instructive but, in my Judgment
his sentiments upon many points, aud more espc-
clio y his mode of expression, are unwisc and I'M
Chart Die. After all are of the things shown
up with much bitterness by him, meie ional
fobles parallels to which every People ha> and must
Of necessity havc2