Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1839-07-04
PARAGRAPHS.

! Hcary and dFcM Casttag.-The Richmond
! Compiler SAYS Ca Thursday last large shaft Tor
water wheel was cast at The Foundry owned by the
! Tfedeear Company which IS located near the Rol.
ling Mill. 1t weighed near tons was % feet long
II inches centre, inches journals. IL "a inches
core in the centre, and inches the journals
1t was done in most successful and perfect man
ncr. II was among the hteest castings Of the kind
ever made in this cprnuy and cast to the order 81
the Manchester Cotton Manufacturing Company,
who are about 10 make addition Of another large
factor, To then establishment. The Pfedegar Com
pany deserves great credit lof undertaking I'll the
order which it "as supposed could not be filed ex-
cept at the North. The preparation lor HE casting
was expensive, and vii make II Il losing Job for the
COMPANY. Bot by doing lhey show their capacl-
~, and being prepared, they fill future orders
with despatch. The casting IA a beautiful piece OF
work. monument al the capacity Of the Iredegar
Foundry, aud tie skill OF lis wotkmen.
Lapnch--Was launched from the ship yard in
Ctbana, Va One biig OF 265 tons. built by Sills
Gfeeman of Westerly Il. l.. and owned by hlm,
Charles =. Williams, Esq, aud Captain PendIeton
of Sionlngon, Conn. She has locust top. and IS
altogether superior vessel IN point of strength
terials aud workmanship. THUS is the second vessel
launched from tins yard, by Northern workmen.
The Presby'eriaa Case.-ln reply to questions re-
afve 10 the great Presbyterian Case the Philadel-
rhia Religious Telegraph SAYS "The suit has not
hccn sirca uP, nor lrHdrnea. 1t is still peading.-
The order Tor a new tral Is absolute. But Judge
Gibson was understood to say from the bench thai
this case should moi again have the cocdence as il
had in the toun at N's P,iaS IN March it may
be year OF two before The Court will come 10 it on
the docket"
4 Family concern - Governor Porter of Pcnnsyl-
wanna has appointed his brother James NJ. Porter
President Judge Of the Tenth Judicial District Of
that state, very recently vacated by the Hon. Cal.
vim Blythe The Governor takes OF his family
1t appears to be pretty well established that 1t
Moore. OF the L. 5. Navy has accepted the command
OF the Texas Navy, and tina, lie will carry with him
twenty or thirty oil young officers. 1t is said in
tic boston Atlas that Com. Thomas Ap. G.. Jones
volunteered lor this command and that 1t. Moore a
eed Ia serve under him, but that the services of
Com were not accepted on account OF his advanced
age.
We have frequently noticed the war carried on by
/ The editor of the Nlcksbnrg Sentinel against the
| Commercial and Rail Road Bank OF that city. Ne
/ epihet was too infamous To be applied to It or It's
officers, and the lrirnmatory articles have done
much 10 create disttust towards it, A perusa of an
advertisement "hch appears IN the Nicksburg Wing,
removes any astonishment we had felt From this
we mud that tue property Of the editor OF the Senti
I mel IS 10 be sold 10 satisfy debt due the Bank
The editors dcnunciatlons lose all their force
II hey ever had any, aud marvel rot at their bit
tetness.
/ Ictieis from Florida mention the death Of Can
tain Mitchell, ofthe LIST Regiment of |. 5. Infantry
The New Iofk journal Of Commerce says: II
has been ascertalncd that Mr. Stcnbergcus clerl
/ (Mf. Mtilef) has gone TO Canada. If he took an,
money with him, OF if any thing is wrong his ac
counts IT is not yet ascefained."
TIE General Synod of the Reformed Dutcl
! Church. al their late session in Philadelphia pas
sed resolutions with great unanlmity, in favor o
The Colonzition Society.
Charles +. Mecer, of Va, has served in Congress
'af eiesen consecutive sesslons-hayng been frs
elected IN lsl7. Should lac serve out the term OF tn
nextcongress, 10 which he has recently bren elected
he will have represented the Loudoun county dis
iflet twenty Tour years. Joseph Lewis, who immetil
Mey preceded hin, represented the district fourteen
years, and since the establishment of the governor
there have only been five persons elected in the dis
ifict Tins would show that the people o. that par
OF Vitg'niaate not fond Of change.
! The Nicksbutg Wing admits that nearly ever,
man IN Mississippi has, at least co suts to his bac K
and says he knows sumo who have more than tw,
suits, and, notwithstanding, they make a verv shah
by appearance.
patUabie Emigrants-The St Louis Bullet
states that a Company Of Germans amounting /
, ; .0o have recently settled in Perry county, Nc
They are Of the Lutheran persuasion in religion
nave library OF 10000 volumes, and intend TO es
labilsh a college,
e ihe state OF OHIO continues TO increase rapid
~ population The Cincinnati Gazette says
The other day published the census Of Ham
y "'on county, showing great an increase tina
/ o"e supposed the enumeration of 1885 mus
= nave oeen very enormously taken. But we obsery
,ilal the result is similar in ohe, counties In Shel
C " county IN 1885 The number was 1853 In 1885
u Is iouhd to be 249S. This is a heavy gain for $
= shoft period And something like il we ma
a sci do"h as The aggregate increase of the whoi
II state" " ' "'o'
The St LOUIS Gazette says" We arc iulotme