Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-05-14


II Ae@ Haven, was elected Speaker Of the House
bs the following vote:
Hoauman (Whg) 1876
u. +. Cleveland tNan) 81
Scattering 3
The JOINT committee appointed TO canvass tie re
turn # votes for Stair ofllccis reported lhat the
whole number Of VOTES returned Tor Governor Is
50lol; Of which ". ". Ellsworth has ellis.
kaoDG lsl>ND.-1hc Legislature Of this State
convened al Newport on "Wednesday. George Cur
is W WAS elected Speaker ol the House without
opposition. The official returns of votes for Cover
nor give Nm Sprague W. 39eI; Francis ". b.
3s,oi. The average WIZ majority for Senators is
- md traction. Wing majority JOINT ballot
adding tie It, Governor, ho prcsidcs over the Sc
nate, - Last YEN, sass the Providence journal,
thee was moJonty 81 IL die other way.
At Lew,stown, y \ on the frontier, the novels Of
#aai. hnryM ha'c hcen made a bonfire OF, on ac-
Unit oi hls toast Al Iatoato-"Capr Dew aud his
bIale comrades who cut on the Cmolhe."
By paragraph in the Montreal Herald, we learn
tn t.lr BRUSH s3d regiment has been semitic klpa
slon. suspicion that the Patriots aided by move
ments IN the United Sialos, wcrc about To make a
moYe there
The Legislature or Michigan have passed law
directing the Banks Of thai state to resume specie
payments on the sixteenth Of next month.
: LonlpA WAR.-A letter from Florida dated tie
! 3lst ii March says -" We aie apparently no near
er the termination tins contest than we were two
years 40, There seems 10 be portion OF Indians
ol the Territory, ealled the Mlca,uckics who never
will weld ana whose numbers aud dcprcdaroas will
" eop''u'u az Inc last ol ihrm are destroyed.
a. h''''S a. can eshlh2te' We have no" Killed or
.D'"' QUE nun li' OF ,''' n"'on' ana nave
hafe twelve more 10 endure, and really there Is moro
ground to suppose hal tins number will actually
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Darn on rHr mn ENGiNtEE or TIE GRfkr
"tsrfGN'-I lac Coroner ON HE ith INST. heli an
inquest IN New oth, on the body OF George
iearnc, met hnemeero the steamboat Great Nes-
tern. Ihe day Ilc1 hcl afrfd, while tic steam WAS
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/ '''o''''0' WIN wv ''o'' '"''''ou'' eleuih-
Al the aic duurf gwen al NcW York IN honol oil
tic @'tal OF the steam ships from England, among
olbefmr'cfunE "reminiscences OF the lapi advance
Of mWo'ru eat IA thai city, Philip Hone, Esq,
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We regret 10 learn, says the Alexandria Gazette,
that generally, TINS season thns fan the Fisheries on
the lotomlc have been very unsuccessful.
Fife al J,cksbug.-rhls lll-latcd city was visited
by another couhaglalian ON the oOth ult-1he flc
broke onl about 2oeloch IN the afternoon, IN the sta
6leot NeNSt7 Ayre Swain, nthc lsl East street,
IN the Mouth Western extremity of the town. Near
y The whole square vas destroy ed-consumlng
property to the amount OF S5o,0Oo-no insurance.
ne dwelling OF Nm. H. SIMS, Esq, the store aud
dwelling OF McSsrS. AYfe x Swain, and the boar
ding House OF Ms tteIwell, with all the ou.hous-
u.s. WIZ destroyed
DsCRNcfrrL 0uTRA0E-The Wheeling Ga
aeite narrates the following most dsgraoelul occur
renee -" The steamers Ontario aud Pioneer IN
coming mp the rlver about $50 miles this side oil
Cincinnati, the former, IN attempting pass the
latter, as we learn nm into her, without dong any
material injury. short time afterwards, in attempt
my again 10 pass, the pilot OF the Pioneer, IN ofde
10 return the compliment, ran into the Ontario, str
hing hel near the Stern, MASKING IN her guards, and
killing one person, n gH oil about - years oi agr,
aud dangerously Woundlng two olhcts, laiy and
ehid. Tie pilot, We understand, IS uamed George
Bell
F5rttD N,b,r1J JEqt5r75-tPhc pi,h,,,nn5 Tn.
onIrcr sa,s.-Wc understand ,h,, Ir -. Ia.
been discovered in Spny cel,t,,y nc., Calm pint
from 4oto so nilcel from TN, CIV. II v,sfa,s ol,a
time beloved that they were extinct in il,tpatt oftlq
county. A CORRESPONDENT SAYS" we saw tho
, dams 10y had formed Of the branches of t,ecs
llfowr t,russ, and we brouebt home scyrr,l ottl,
L.. gI wood nbble1 by then, 1,, ,l,, n,,,,s 4.
i. possible they may also be found in some Of the
a. s1uIug counties VIRGINIA, slouId lac l1pnl