South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-03-25
RoMNEY, MARCH %, 1881.


h ELECTION OF U. S. SENATOR.
WILLIAM II. RoANE, Esq, was G.
,cted, by the Legislature Of Virginia
Ia Tuesday the 18th inst, a Senator, tc
Il the vacancy occasioned by the res.
|enation of Judge Parker. There were
|lree republican candidates started, viz
Er. RoANE, Judge WILLIAM DANIEL,
lad JOHN w. JONES. On the first bal
II the vote stood--RoANE 60, DANIEL
b, JoNEs 30, scattering l0--no cleo
lDn, and on the second, Mr.. RoANE
|bs elected by go, to 81 for Judge
|ANIEL.
EBy "An Act" ofthe same body, pub
|Ehed under our Legislative head, the
Eader will observe that the Elections
\ members of Congress and Assem-
|y will hereafter take place, through
|st the State, on the fourth Thursday
| April. A bill has also passed the
gislatura fixing the LIST day ofJanua-
flor the commencement the session.
i% The depra*ed wretches who
|immitted the infamous outrage on a
II at Harrisburg, Pa, have all been ar
|ited, we learn, & committed to prison.
u THE SPECIE CIRCULAR.
|R9,lao madness of party, one would
oppose, would have been gratified ere
h by the ravages which this circular
s already committed on the trade and
| Edit of the country. Not SO, we
|ar; and it is, therefore, observes the
|gltimore Chronicle of the 10th inst,
|th no expectation of the gratifica-
Ia Of their wishes, that we state, on
authority of a letter from Washing
that THIRTY Senators have signed
Recommendation to the President in
or of an immediate repeal ofthe sDe-
Il circular, and that KING, of Alabama,
d several other Senators, have said to
"a. VAN buren, that the whole west
ID oppose him if he does not act
lrnptly on this subject.
g
| ss7 1t is stated that the Hon. BALE
|mroN, as he declines reelection to
|ngress, will be run for thu Office OF
Evernor of Tennessee
|y@= Capt. ALBURTIs, editor of the
arlestown Republican, one of the
rTHFUL, hasreceived an appointment
President Van Buren's Army.
sss= We learn that the Chesapeake
Id Ohio Canal is now navigable from
|illiamsport to the District OF Column
and boats are briskly plying be-
| Zen those places.
IHsnois-MternaI improvement.
rhe internal improvement bill, we
/ I'm from the Washington Globe, which
|oropriates about $4,000, 000,000 for
purpose of constructing Railroads
,ough the State of Illinois, passed the
nate ofathat State on the 2lst Febru-
ult. by a vote Of 25 to 10, and the
|buse of Representatives on the day
|llowing by vote of6o to %; and at
/ last adyices only wanted the appro-
a of the Council of Revision to be-
fne law. The most important I'M
|5vements contemplated by the act, are
[,ail-road from the termination Of the
b,nois and Michigan canal, on the Hi
his river, to the mouth ofthe Ohio rlv-
n and similar work from Quincy,on
Mississippi river, to point on the
tsabash river, connecting with the
abash and Erie canal, which is now
Fastructing by the state of Indiana.
ME PROGRESS TO A MONARCHY.
Ia contemporary says at the late in
Equation, the band played the royal
F.Iof "wha'l be King but Charlie. :"
/ 5the opening ofthe next Congress-, IT
La be time TO salute the ears of the
.ople's representatives with God
ire the King
I;Ssg= We observe the statement IN an
ticle in the Washington Globe, that
esident Jackson, on squaring his &C
sants in that City, had scarcely as
.,cb p,ooev7 left of his EIGHT wears