Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1848-11-02


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The aggregate vote )! -2Si greater than was cast
for Governor IN IS47, when Skunk had above ]OU ma
MY over all the candidates The returns have been
compared Wtt The general returns received At he office
Of lie 'S1-c7,tary If tie Commonwealth in HARRISBURG
and Is tinu9h the special returns when opened in The
pTeSe"ce o! the Leg Ja9uary will not vary
three Votes from The above result
The Legislature # South Carolina during its last ses
sion vrdet'r the r senaton Of sword Gen James
Shields tr gaanry he Displayed in fighting the BAT
Hes OF his conntry The sword has been manufactured
by Messts. Gregg, Hayden s Co. of Charleston and
very elegalt it is, and be presented to the gal-
LIANT General by the Governor.
The ship Birmingham arrived at Savannah on the
i3ih with two comr1aes u. 5. Artillery from New
York
Company X. second L. S. Artillery has arrived at
- Augustine.
II is a remarkable and noteworthy fact that the Wing
candidates fer President isve uniformity run ahead f
ne State candidates. General Hauson's te.was far
n advance of the Wing vote in the previous State cleo
uurs, Mr.. Clay ahead of his party almost every
where in Sl4. Is it not fair presume that General
Taylor Will do The Same in We pber ?-He has Gle
of strength beyond his party and his personal
popularity will command many votes which have not
been given to the State Congressional canddates-Pro-
ridenee Journal
Scientific Prophscy.-About nineteen Years ago Mr..
Han. OF Wilton, Conn, then remarkably good student
III his Collegiate course, was suddenly deprived Of his
feaS1n and his memory. In these circumstances, his
father, Rv. Mr. Hal sent him Hirttrd; but finding
relief. he him to DR.. Chaplin of Cambridge
Mass: The DR.. said there relief for him at that
ime,but Al the Of thirty seven, there would
be change that he brain was too mnch expanded for the
rraHiun, and there would at that age be a Contraction
winch would enable it to act BEAUTIFULLY.
His anxious father and family saw their hores per
enPtonly deferred for nineteen years That time has
recently EXPIRED and TO their great joy he prophecy is
fulfilled The man began 10 inquire for his books, if
he had Just laid hem down. and resumed his mathema
icat studies where he left them.
There his mind uf this long blank of
his life or of thing which has occurred in it, and he
dld no know that he was almost forty years Of ape.
The circumstance Of greatest interest is. that whereas
he went mo this state If arrangement in deep rig
anxiety. he out Of 1t with bright christian hope,
which had been obtained without the knowledge of his
friends short time before ~ I. Journal Cont.
The Fourth Mta,hg-The ship Suviah, which sail
ed from the BalIze The 9Th inst far New York. hav
ng board the Alb Regiment Of Infantry, from Pa>ca
noula, under the command ofBrevet MAJOR B. Alvord.
encountered severe storm III the Gulf and having lost
her udder compelled 10 put back to reft. She
rived at this port The 10th inst. The storm, in its
fury. lasted from the 9Th 10 the 10Th. Ga The Sth It.
Christopher r. Perry, of the 18th Infantry, died board
in the height of the Storm He glllant officer and
4 Of The late Oliver II Perry, from Newport r.
4. r.
board.
Arrangements are now making to have the regiment
sent to the North by the Crescent City, which
leaves to
Ihe officers with the regiment Bevet Ma
b. Award. commanding reTima mt: Assistant Surgeon
keeney Isl i4iears. q. G. Augur. II NJ. Judah, T. J.
VI nlgomery and d. +. Jones Brevet LIST Lieuls. Nc
Conne A. c.. and w II. Scott; % Leuts F.. Russell,
l.. c. HUT. Edward Underwood, Acting Adjutant J.
~ Collins and G. W. How ard.
n 0. Picaynne, Oct H.
E-aluable Papers 4 Washin gton letter in thr n Y.
Journa! OF Commerce says
Under the late acts Of Congress the Jefferson and
MAIDS papers have been offered t, the Secretary Of
Srat; aiid they be published by the government
The jefferson papers voumnous Besides terrific
rla and political d>quSt0ns and correspondence lh9y
embrace treaties on moral and religious topics-an par
'lcuLrly, comment on the life and character Of S.
Paui.
Mr. LETTERS was, perhaps, careful Of papers |
than any han that ever lived except The late John Q
Adams Mt Jeh-rsJa kept copies uf every paper that
lie ever wIote even Un The most tHflng subject lie
invented COPYING press and had several made in /
rance One That nc msch used is exiant ard IN
the haEdS Of gentleman III Richmond. EaulIiy care
iu he was in preserving every paper that he ever re-
crived. Ills papers and those OF Mr. Madison are in ad-
mirat,e ulder
The Madison papers lately purchased and SION to be
Published, by far The valuable Of any which the
g'-sernme4't have yet obtained obtain They are
rpere with vaiaie reformation concerning the origin
and principles d government. and will show. if in
deed any further evidence is wanting of he flcthat
sMr. Nladisn chiefly indebted for the adopiin Of
orH A%ppy frame Of government
lie Hamilton papers, also authorized to be purchased,
nave not YET been placed the disposal Of The Secretary
Of State
The papers. left rs the lac Ex-President Monre.
have bHen collected and prepared for The press and their
Publication will, doubt. be eneunra Ied BIZ The gov
t'"a-+A' They are said TO be very vasahe and in
's'lg They embrace treatise the elenpatary pr:n
tPles Il soveha written by Mr Monroe in sciirt
Inert art not hong prin Ills DEATH and an aes Id 20
'afs'y OF his pnblic-iie ~ 10 the year 1903.
Fl ObCrratmyf Princeton College is advocated b
ase New jersey Pip.rs-
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