Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-10-10
PARAGRAPHS.

says: We learn thai Monday last another
lot Of woollen cloths TO a considerable amount
Was hbeed al the Philadelphia custom house-
We have leafed some particulars IN relation 10 the
mattel, but as 50 much has been said upon the stb-
Jeet IN the newspapers aud The proper authorities
will no doubt nele oui justice to all the patles-we
luibelr.
Arson.-Ata lato session Of the Court, for High
Land County OHIO, Asa Plummer, an old man az ed
about ~ years was tried on an indictment charging
Inn with setting fire To the barn OF Mr.. |. Peyey
oil that county few weeks ago. lie found Gull.
~ OF the crime, and sentenced to ten wears impris
onmen' and hard labor IN the State penitentiafy
Mr.. James NJ. Fauen Of Kinds county Miss wa.
shot in his own house about the 1st Of last mop,b
by lad named King, Of Madison county, who wa.
accompanied 10 the scene OF slaugh tei by his Tho,
rs alder and abellor They were both arrested NJ
Jackson, having visited there obtain the advice f
] counsel.
A WinifdH-The Quincy (Mass) Patriot states
that "a young man, uamcd Lewis Brigham in
Marlborough about ten days since, in digging for
woodchucks, uneafthed metal kettle CONTAINING
near three pecks by measure, Of old com OF var.
Gus denominations, about QUE third Of which was
gold and the remainder silver The vessel was 90
completely deeomposed as to be of no strength and
barely to retain its form. The exact amount of the
money has not been asccra,ncd"
Singutdr-A BRUSH Captain al the battle of the
Nile, giving an order from the quarter deck oil his
vessel when shot struck HIM IN the head, deprving
him simultaneously of sense and speech. Living
however, he was tab en- home and remained in he
Greenwich hospital fifteen months. At,he end ofthat
| ps,od, during which he had exhibited no signs of
Intelligence, an operation was performed on HIM by
askiiiiul surgeon. that IN moment restored him
to his faculties. lie Immediately rose in his bed
and completed The order
A meeting in reference to the Centenary of Me,b
odsm was held in Washington on the 30ih ultimo
II Wesley Chapel, which was most hume rou sly at
tended The National Intelligencer state. that the
proceedings were of the most interesting character
The venerable Stephen Il. Roszel addressed the
meeting stating that he had been a minister Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church 70, flty-one years.
Ills "reminiscences OF early Methodsm were yery an
prop''ate and interchangeable. Roszel was succeed
ed IN his address by the Rev. q. 6. Cookman who
spoke in his usual lelicitous manner. After those
addresses had been delivered subscriptions exceed
ing $4,000 were made for the Centenary Fund
One lady contributed adonaou Of 300 OF land
situated IN Texas, supposed to be worth SIS per acre
We learn from the Natchez Free Trader that
four gentlemen OF the city of Vcksbufg have sub
scubed tcenty thousand dollars TO the Methodist
centenary iund,-Jude Lane giving six thousand of
that sum.
British Emigrdnts 10 TeraS.-lt appears by a let
ter from Gen. Henderson to Messrs. Adainson &
Co, in the London Morning Chronicle of Sep.
tember ? that the latter gentleman intends sending
out a large number of BRUSH emgrants to Texas
n H's'Ic"h' hdneu neouofe l.. Whiting, has
been committed TO prison in Boston, Tor breaking
open the trunk of DIR. John Dennson, lately from
Mexico and stealing therelfom English treasury bill.
TO the amount OF 900 dollars, gold chronometer
watch, etc. DIR. Dennison, who had lust arrived in
Boston with Whiting, had advanced him 900 dollars
Tor deiraying his expenses from Louisville 10 that
place. An accomphce named Morris, turned States
evidence. The bills were recovered.
A number Of the citizens of Cincinnati have undo,
consideration the proper means be adopted for the
purchase of the statute of Nydia, The blind girl o.
Pompeii, which has just been completed BY a youth
full artist Of that ciy. 1t is be placed in the West
ern Museum. The movement is honorable TO III,
liberay and taste of the nhab auts Of the :. Queer
city OF the West"
Singadr.-Thc New Orleans Bee Tells a curious
story ola negro in New Orleans, a woman and .
slave, IN whom The process of absorption of the color
has been going on for several wears. The removal
oil the co'orlng matter is however imperfect, and r
regular takes place IN patches, giving to portions
OF her arms aud legs pure white appearance
"hch contrast uDnaturally and disagreeably with the
Jev hue OF the surrounding surface. She will never
become eunely whlte--but the case is curious as
beng illustrative Of the mode in which nature per
forms this singular ireak-viz: by absorption of The
black pigment from which the skin OF the negro de-
rlves its color.
n disgrace 10 has dncestry.-A grandson of the
patriot and statesman, Governor Hancock was
brought up to the Boston Police Court on las, week
as a common dtunkard. lie had on a tatered f,ocL
out al the elbows, and rusty with age coarse frow
sers' d'fy ana ragged old pumps, broken that hi,