South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1836-11-26

seconded, and it is stated that he is de-
faulter to the amount OF nearly hundred
thousand dollars. He had speculated ex-
tensively in Eastern lands.
~ 1t is stated that the choir OF
signers attached to the Rev. Mr.. Young's
Church at Boston, are all bind, pupils OF
the Blind Institution of that city.
~ The Boston Gazette says, a
gentleman Of intelligence, recently from
Buffalo, states, "on the best authority"
that The assets of Rathbun will not pay
over fifty cents on his confidential paper.
Rathbun is now in prison, and the ella
mour of popular indignation appears to
be gaining ground against him. +
o. Col. Arthur Smith ". B., is
elected delegate from the county of Isle
of Wight, without opposition, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation of
Col. w. Fl. Woodley, appointed Proctor
VI Tile ~ HlVGIslty'
~ There have been near three
millions of the stock of the Cincinnati
aud Charleston Railroad subscribed in
the State of South Carolina, of which
81 500, 600 was subscribed in Charles
ton.
~ John C.. Calhoun is spoken Of
in the Charleston papers as proper per
son for President of the Charleston and
Cincinnati Rail Road.
The Bank of the United States has
offered to purchase the stock owned
by the General Government in the
bank, a. $111 AZ per share. This
the Washington Globe, and its kindred
prints, call downright impudence on
the part of the Bank. They think the
government, ought to have more. Hard
ly a year has passed since the same
prints selemaly predicted that when
the Bank came to wind up its con Germs,
its stock would not be worth so dollars
per share |
A SINGULAR FAcT.-1t is a singn-
lar fact that the two leading biogra-
pliers Of Gen. Harrison, are both Van
Buren, men. That by Dawson was
written fifteen or sixteen years ago.
That by Judge He'll, Of Cincinnati, has
beea very recently written, and with
view 10 prepare the Van Buren, party
of Ohio to receive Harrison as the
Jackson candidate for the Presidency!
When the Wings Of Ohio took up Har-
rison, Hall passed over to Van, and
was rewarded by being made Cashier
Of the Pet Bank in Cincinnati. That
Gred him Notwithstanding he had
written a book TO prove Harrison's
claims. When lately in Philadelphia,
he was invited by some Wings to visit
the Tippecanoe Club, they nothing
doubling that he was Harrison wan,
who had written book 10 establish
Harrison's claims. Hall was under
the necessity Of stating how the case
stood with him, when the honest Wing
10 whose house he was, end who had
been talking to Hall all the time as a
Harrison man, was struck speeches.
with surprise.-N. Y. Gag.
The following beautiful and just trib-
ute to the intelligence, enterprise and
public spirit Of the North, was paid by
MIR, Senator PRESTON, of South CARROLL
aa in a speech recently delivered by him
at apublic meeting in Columbia, in that
State, in reference to the Charleston and
Cincinnati Rail road. II is honorable
alike TO the speaker and those whom he
describes;
Mr.. PREsToN, in his speech con-
corning the Rail road ,on Monday last.
drew very striking contrast between
the difference of character Of the peo-
pie of the Northern and OF the South
ern parts of the Union, and the con-
sequently opposite condition of the
they inhabit.
He said that no Southern man can
journey las he had lately done) thro'
the Northern States, and witness the
prosperity, the industry, the public
spirit, which they exhibit. the sednlous
cultivation of all those arts by which
life is rendered comfortable and res
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