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Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-05-13


IN Saturday morning, llth inst at half past 10 O'clock
~ we will sell at aucon at Exchange Corner, a general
assortment OF Dry Goods, Groceries Hardware Jewrlry
itchcs, &c &c, To which viii be- added invoice Of
Ready Made Clothes, consisting Cloth Frock Goats
Cashmarct do, Linen Sack do, Cottonade do do silk
Vests Black Worsicd do, Nes,ngs, Nett under SHIFTS
Drawers Cotton shirts, Sc &c, winch will sell with
out reserve ior cash. MOSBY X HOI.COMBE,
May 9-lt Auctionc,rs
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JOHNSON Il VOOLFOLK,
B o o X "A N D 10 3 PR IN r

Market street, Lynchburg, Va,
XTOU1D ESPECTFU1LY inform their friend. and
w the public that they have established in this place.
erfensirc and complete JOB PRINTING; OFF7CE, all
ne,o nateyai, selected from The New York Founs, with
the sole view oil meeting the business of this
ny Their office being thoroughly supplied with PLAIN
and FANCY TYPE many OF which NEW STYLE,
enables them to execute PRINTING OF EVERY VARI-
Ely, Plain and Fancy, Large Small in the neaest
ner bile terms and the shortest possible delay.
COLORED AND BRONZE PRINTING
done AT the lowest and in the nenest Misunderstanding
paid particular attention the selection of their Inks
Tor tins branch Of the art.
Having had considerable experience at the Job Case and
having in their office all necessary materathey fattcr
themselves that they execute printing equal the
Nmthe,n Cities. All they ask Is trial
85A orders conded TO u.s. shall meet It'll unerring
tention and punc,uality.
Office UP STAIRS in Sc hoolfelds building, immc
ly opposite the Market.
JNO. {. JOHNSON,
RIO. N. VOOLFOLK
Feb iS-Gmir
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CORRESPONDENCE
GE NTI. EMEN::

May Oll' tCoo
GENTLEMEN:
.. An editorial appeared in the Lvnchburg Re
ing oibcan of the 25lh ut headed "Mr. Richard Powell
and his quibbng'' That article is before me, and
has received calm careful and dispassionae consider
alton. NV first impulse 10 reply to it through the
public journals and give complete and entire efutaon
10 all lis statements and arguments but, feeling that 1t
is matter which does not, and cannot concern the
public, and thinking it in bad taste to obrude upon the
public affair which is purely and entirely pes nal |
have concluded to address myself directly Ia you.
From careful examination OF the article aforesaid,
am satisfied thai in It's general scope. and in several par
iiculars, it is personally offensive to and indirectly,
if directly, charges with want Of integrity, and
with shonor lmpeed, therefore, by sense Of self
respect desire TO know If you whether, in the article
referred you intended To any personal offence
to lmpeach my integrity and honor either directly or in
directly? This Communication has been slightly delay ed
in consequence of protracted election, aud Of the
cessary absence of my friend a distant Court. My
friend, Mr.. William VI. Cahell. will hand You this COM
munlcaon, and fully authorized represent me in The
premises.
Your ob't serv't
RICHARD POWELL.
Editors ofHe Republican,
LyNcHBuRG, May 9th, 1850.
SIR:
Your letter of this date in reference to recent edi-
toal in he "Lynchbng Republican," under the caption
of"Mr. Richard Powell and his quibbling i" has been
received through the hands Of your friend Mr.. Cahell
and in reply 10 It, we have u say that The aforesaid ed
torlal of which You conf Lin intended full and
free commentary upon your course as public man and
politician, and had no reference whatever 10 you
private man CITIZEN; and it appears TO rs passing
strange, indeed that you should have become Satisfied"
that any such reference made intended, after hav
ing given a calm, careful, and dspasonaie consldera
tom to the following clause which appeared in the LAT
ter part of the aforesaid article and which plainly
expressive of feelings and pnp in the premises
Ue cndearored in last article and hare tndearor
cd IN this 10 oJserse o,rardS Nh PoceH due courtesy,
and 10 deaf Nth him fairly. as The facts Of the
rnted" We repeat inability to understand how in
the face of this passage you should have 10 the
conclusion in question. But let this pass.
In thus disclaimngany personal anson to you,whic,
we think WAS sufficiently done in the article eIfwe do
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DISAPPOINTMENT.

The above sale is ppsiponed Of the weather,
unit, TUESDAY morning, the lith inst, half past IL
O'Clock, a same place; To which will be added
10 boxes Hydraulic pressed Wax Candles,
5bpNes superior Starch,
3 half Pipes Otard, Dupuy & Co.'S Brandy,
Teas, Segars Sc Sc.
MOSBY Il IIDICOMBE,
May 13-1t Auct'rs and Com. Merchants.
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WILLIAM T. SMITH.
Commission Merchput

INNCuBURG MARKETS, MAYu
fronsons.- Bacon. 5iao, Beef. s. To 81; Com Meal
Coo 62l cents.
tfow-$, to 80
firan.-Corn. SIS Ia 90 cts Oats IS 40 cents
tlorer Seed 81 10 81
Uhiskeg, -Mountan -l.onghorne & Hunts 26
cents.
Beeurdr 49, \ Ia % cents.
BHiicr-ll 10 10 cts Tor NJ |.
Braniq-Apple, nnnf oIlerlnt Peach none u n,f M
Bal Iron iS5a>sorcd aud $50 80 when drawn Ia
orlcr.
to3ee-Ro l2i 10 | / cents; I.uguira i2i to IA; Mo
cha 20.
Country Linens Tow ~; Flax 1 cents
Cotton idns-Snlrs l9n2O cents
Feathers 30 10 81 ets-Scafce
Flar Secd Sales 90 10 % cents
Fish -llcfr'ngs. No. |. 81 so; Shad. old 81 SC
new Z SD
Tnlior cents
I'M 81 80 per hbl
Uoot To 90 els, in demand.
" col RoHs-no snes.
Ginseng % 10 26 cents
Iienp-We quote 2 10 So In demand.
innseed oil=75 rcnts-iu demand
Idrd-51 tn t. Dull
Iatnsses West India 35 To 10 ctspcr gallon \
o. ~ to - cents
Plasier- Lump. t5i 10 S.; Ground. a6l a.
sugars New oreansO to7 ,onts Porto Rico los
cents Clarified 1 nnII
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Negro Man at Auction.

WEwiIi sell ON Thursday morning nexf, at II o'clock
about forty Of age n credit Of four months
Tor negotiable paper. with good eadof-er.
AkERs, billiard & JOHNSON
May i3-2t .g,ef,on.srs
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TIE IRVING DINNER.

RIc.'p POWELL, Esq.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-05-13
DECATUR.

p. She papers that have published my first com
municaliun, will please note the above correction. ID.
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IYNcnBuEe, May 7th. 1850.

RicH'n POWELL, Esq
The southern press., 1850-11-01

A MODEL MAYoR.-The Pittsburgh Post of
Thursday A meeting of the sfriends of
Mayor Barker" was held in the Diamond on
Tuesday night. His Honor was present, and
made speech in his usual style sand a little
more So" He raked the Councilmen, and de-
nounced them as thieves, &c. He spake of ine-
quality of taxation, and referred to specific items
of taxation in the fifth Ward gentleman
who heard this part Of his speech, deliberately
went to the collector yesterday morning, ex-
amined the books, and found that there was not
one word of truth in the statement made by
Barker.
His Honor paid some attention to the editors
and reporters Of the city. Just to let our read
ers at distance know what sort of a man got
1900 votes at the last Municipal election in this
city, we will make a single quotation from his
speech, substituting "John Doe" for a real narne
John Doe, John Doe John Doe stand up
here you Cd id rascal. You told lies on
the Mayor; you are rotton with disease you stole
thousand dollars" ~
We believe in the let alone policy in regard
to this man Barker. We will not denounce
him. We give specimen of his language,
&c, and leave our citizens TO Judge for them
selves
Several watchmen have been arresed and COM
mitted by the Mayor; but afterwards released
by Judge Mcclure. We find it impossible to
keep the run of these arrests; three are so many
that but little attention is paid to them. @ :
The Despatch says that Barker has forfeited
his recognizance to keep the peace, so that poor
Gutzman is in for it. Barker is a Wing.
The southern press., 1850-11-01

ATTEMPT OF NEGROES TO GO TO MEXICO
1t was ascertained on Saturday evening, that
Philander, n negro belonging to Mr. John
Shearn, Talbot, belonging to J. w. Dancy and,
Wesley, belonging to Mrs. Hill, wife of w. }.
Hill, intended stealing horsesa at the camp-ground
on Sunday night, and starting for Mexico.
PhiIander was secured at DR.. Prim's on Satur-
day night by his master, 81 Messrs. J. Carter and
VIM Reynolds Talbot was secured at the
Camp p-Meeting on Sunday, and their arrange
ments were all broken up. Talbot ran away,
and was in Mexico more than two years, but
came home voluntarily last April He and Phil
ander are both in irons, and will be sent farther
into the interior. 1t is supposed that others
were concerned in the affair, but nothing positive
has been ascertained. 80
1t behoves the people of this part of the
country to be on their guard, as it is probable
that there are still evil-disposed white men in
the country who are endeavoring to eutice the
negroes to run away Teas Monument
The southern press., 1850-11-01

the movements Of her foes The outcty against
agitation" when through that agitation is the
only hope of forming a more perfect union
among ourselves is madness. Agitation is often
energy, vigor, life-its cessation the torpor OF
the repose that heralds death. We'll may the
timid men who make it such bugbear, remem-
Der the sentiment uttered by the wisest and
most conservative of modern statesmen, to
whose prophetic vision the future of the French
Revolution was revealed at its first outburst
@I lore agitation" said EDMUND BURKE, "iohen
there Is use for IL. The ringing Of the fre-beH
al midnight, sares the inhabitants Of a city from
being burned alipe in their beds :" ... .r
And such is the character of Southern "agi-
tation" noio--a summons to a sleeping people
to awake to danger-defensive not aggressive
the tolling of an alarm to extinguish, not create
4 confagration.
But it is always wiser to prevent catastrophe
than TO wait its approach--and the duty of the
whole Southern press now is to suppress nothing,
butexpose every movement at the North, that the
Southern people may see where they stand, and
prepare to grapple with the peril in the light
not grope in twilight to find their foe.
The prayer of the South, now, should be that
preferred by the Grecan warrior when the hos
tile divinity enwrapt the battlefield in unnatural
darkness at MONDAY: ...
"Dispel this cloud, the light of Heaven restore,
Give me to see-and Ajax asks no more.
If must perish, l thy will obey,
But let me perish in the face of day"
The southern press., 1850-11-01
From The Ya-0o Democrat.

The MEETING--Well the Joint meeting of
Southern Rights men and of Submissionists has
passed, and we will give an account Of it which
all will acknowledge is candid and fair The
meeting was large, the discussion protracted,
and the strong resolutions of the committee
were lost by eight votes. This result is easily
accounted for The vote was taken mt a late
hour when many Of the advocates of Southern
rights from the country had left for home.
Some of them had been assured, to our certain
knowledge, that the probability was the discus
sion would continue so late that the meeting
would adjourn to future day, when the vote
would be taken Our mgjority here IN The very
stronghold Of the opposition ,cas erident and deci-
sire, until it was destroyed by the causes men
toned. We know, too, of several members of
the meeting who in the noise and confusion
did not vote understandimgly. Yet the insignif
cant majority Of eight alone, signazed the
struggle Of the submissionists here in their very
strong hold, and they retired from the hall in
haste without attempting to pass the resolutions
favorable to the odious compromise and then
the meeting adjourned without efiecting any
thing.
A large majority of the substantial men of
Yazoo, Wings and Democrats, are with us, true
as steel. In the ranks of Southern rights men,
we are proud to number such firm and unfnch-
! ing Wings as Harris, Cusack, Quackenboss, the
Pughs and others we might mention. One of
these gentlemen was president of the Rough
and Ready club during the late Presidential
contest, the late Wing candidate for Secretary
Of State, and another is one of the most popu-
lar club orators in the Wing ranks. But in the
present contest, Wings and Democrats in the
South, are casting party from them, and coming
up like patriots to the rescue
At o'clock meeting of Southern RIGHTS
men was held. We refer to their proceedings
in another column. They breathe the spirit that
animated the patriots Of the revolution The
Southern men of fYazoo send greeting to their
brethren throughout the South! These resolu-
tons speak their sentiments and with them they
will sink or swim. Let the Abotionists take
heed. The fire is kindled in the bosom of an
outraged people; and woe to those who brought
the country to its present distracted state,
The southern press., 1850-11-01

LARGEST MERCANTILE SHrr IN THE WORLD
The New York papers state that William H.
Webb g. Co, are about laying the keel of large
merchant ship for Messrs. n l.. & G.. Griswod
The vessel will be twenty-six hundred tons
burthen, two hundred and thirty feet in length,
forty-two feet beam, and twenty-five feet depth
of hold. She will be clipper built, and her
builder is confident of constructing vessel of
unequaIled heetness She is intended to run to
Canton, via California, and thence home, COM
pleting t circuit of the Globe in each voyare
The southern press., 1850-11-01

The Richmond Enquirer thinks 'Non-inter-
course tetween North and South will be better
than Disunion,' In what will it be better pray :?
1t just as if he should say the dinner bell is bet
ter than the dinner. For as sure as the bell an
nounces the approach of dinner, so sure will nom
intercourse announce the fact of disunion-
True ". C.. Somherner
The southern press., 1850-11-01
Correspondence of N. American & U. S. Gazette.

NEW YORK, OCT. 3U-IUt Pm
The Union Meeting this evening was a very
large one. Speeches were delivered by Messrs.
Gerard, O'Connor and Evarts, and received with
great cheering the latter is still speaking. Ogden
Hoffman and James T. Brady are present, and will
follow. The resolutions in favor OF the CoiApro-
mise measures, and sustaining the course of Sena-
tors Clay, Cass, Dickinson, Houston and Foote
unanimously adopted. Letters were read
from Mr.. Dickinson, who detained at home
by sickness, and from Mr. Webster, who regret
ted his inability to attend but both expressing
Il hearty concurrence in the movement, and hope
that all agitation relative to fugitive slaves would
be frowned down.
The southern press., 1850-11-01
The Nashville Convention.

The following two letters, one from ex-Gov-
ernor McDoSALD of Georgia, the other from Gen
DU PoNT of Florida, both announcing their in
tention to proceed to the Nashville Convention,
are worthy of the men, Of their States, and of
the time.
There is an extraordinary array of talent, char.
aeter and patriotism in the South now, devote l
to the great cause of principle and right
From the Egaula Spiri; Of the South.
THE NASHVILLE CONVENTION.
Mr.. BAKER-Dear Sir. Please publish the
enclosed letter from the Hon. c. J. Mcdonald,
giving the right construction to the resolution
under which the Nashville Convention adjourned.
Editors of Southern papers are requested to
copy.
Yours very respectfully,
REUBEN c. SHORTER, Sen.
EUFAuLA, 10th Oct, 1850.
MARIETTA, (Ga., y 10Th Oct, 1850
My DEAR Sir: have this moment received
yours Of the 9th, stating that 1t is believed by
some, that for certain reasons, Judge Sharkey
will not publish the notice for the re-assembing Of
the Nashville Convention, as required by the last
resolution of that body, and that if he should not
do it pery soon, 1t will be expected that Vice
President, will do it. The resolution you will re-
member makes il the duty of the President of the
Convention to publish the notice of the time of its
reassembage. | am not authorised to assume the
functions of that officer, until ! am assured, in
some way, of q vacancy, by the death or resgna-
ton of the President II would be indecate in
me to presume that the President will not perform
the duty required of him by the resolution, even
if felt authorized to act If he were to make
known to the public, that he considered his office
as terminated, l should consider it equivalent TO
resignation, and interpreting my duty for myself
should publish the notice required by the conven-
ton. This he has not done within my knowledge
But really, | do not consider the re-assembling o
the convention to depend on the publication of the
notice. The resolution, as adopted by the con-
vention, fixes the time and fact of its session. Ii
is as follows:
1" Resolved, That when this Convention ad ioun,
it aourn to meet at Nashville on the sixth Mon
day after the adjournment of the present session
of Congress"
The duty imposed on the President to publish
the notice, was doubtless intended to bring to the
mind of delegates the resolution of adjournment
Each delegate can compute the time for himself
and ascertain that the day for the re-assemblage
Of the convention is the IIth day of November
shall be at Nashville on that day unless prevent
eddy some cause unknown to me at the present time
and shall hope to meet full delegations from the
States interested in the matters TO be considered
by the convention.
The southern press., 1850-11-01

FAST SAILTNG.--The new steamship Pacific,
of Rowland g. Aspinwal's Chagres line, during
her recent trip from New York to New Orleans,
made the run to Havana in four days and twenty
hours. In one day she traversed distance Of
three hundred and sixty. miles--the greatest
distance thus far accomplished in twenty -four
hours by an ocean steamer The Pacific, of
Collins line, has made 666 miles in two days,
and the. Atlantic, of the same line, 323 in one
day-BaA Clipper.
The Pacific does not belong to Rowland &
Aspinwalls Chagrcs line, but is employed pro
tenn in Sloo, Law g. Co.'s New York, New
Orleans and Chagres line. And instead of ac-
complishing the greatest distance ever yet run
by an ocean steamer in twenty-four hours, she
is behind the Georgia forty miles That vessel,
belonging to the same line, ran four hundred
miles in twenty-four hours
The southern press., 1850-11-01

ToBAcco.-The Petersburg (Va.) Intclligen-
Ger of the 26th inst, says:
The old crop is nearly exhausted, having
been received and sold the receipts are now
very light. We have no change to note in prices
since our last report The demand continues
very active, and all which is offered, is taken at
full prices. Lngs range from &c. $l2 ship
ping leaf SSl2 a $l64'; manufacturing $l2 a
$40"
The southern press., 1850-11-01

a5S57 South Carolina is unquestonably in
favor Of disunon, and she would take immediate
measures for accomplishing it if she were sure
or even confident that two or three other States
would join her in her movements. 1t is to be
hoped, however, that, finding she cannot move
without moving alone, she will remain where
she is long enough to regain her lost senses
Louisville Journal.
Does the editor Of the journal regard the
Union as lunatic asylum? Or does the journal
imagine that the condition in which senses were
lost, is the best for reganinc them
The southern press., 1850-11-01
BosToN, Oct. 81, p. \

The Village Bank, at Danvers, Mass, was
broken into last night-the watchmen fred upon
the burglars and shot one of them dead, WHO
proved to be son of one of the Directors-resi-
dence next door to the Bank. The father, hear
ing the report, went to ascertain the cause, and
in his course, stumbled over the decd body of his
son.
The southern press., 1850-11-01

A RALLT.-The citizens of the town Of Dal-
las, in the county of CASTOR, N. c., are to assem-
BILE at an early day to express themselves in favor
of Southern Rights and consult upon the best
plan of resisting Northern despotism.-W VIZ
nnington Aurora, ..
The southern press., 1850-11-01

Cur AND THRpsT-The Albany Register oc-
casionally freshens the arid waste of its edito-
rial columns by quotations from the Tribune
". Y. Tribune ..
Certainly: We always know where to look
for green things. Register. .
The southern press., 1850-11-01

LAUNCH OF WAR STEAMER.-The Bunker
Hill Aurora says that the new steamship which
has been in progress at the Navy-yard for some
time past was launched on Saturday afternoon
in fine style. She is called the John Hancock
We propose that her name be changed to
Joanna Hancock,
The southern press., 1850-11-01

aa@ If South Carolina is so unreasonable
that she will give up neither her land nor ne
groes to the North, and Massachusetts insists
on taking both, we think a couple of such inhar-
monous States ought to be turned out of this
glorious Union.
The southern press., 1850-11-01
NEW OaLEANs. Oct. %.

The cotton markets. dull The sales to-day only
reached 300 bales; prices somewhat easier,
without a quotable decline.
Rio coffee has declined; sales at 10 III cts for
prime.
Bacon is scarce and selling at 6! cts.
We had very severe frost yesterday morning.
The southern press., 1850-11-01

LoNDoN.-The estimated population of Lon
don is 2,266,o75; namely, 1,O33,63O males, and
l,l73,445 females. In lS49 there were 70 662
births, and 5l,432 deaths This was at the rate
of eight births and six deaths every hour during
the year. --- =
The southern press., 1850-11-01

ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS REwARD.-Thc
Commissioners of Moyamensing (Phila) have
offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest of the
cowardly Williams who shot and desperately
wounded two police officers in that district, on
Monday night.
The southern press., 1850-11-01

" m II III nts.
BYMRs. N. p. LAsSELLE
Ii is her right to watch beside
The bed of sickness and of pain,
And when the heart almost despairs,
To whisper hopes of health again:
Her right, to make the hearth-stone glad,
With gentle words and cheerful smile
And when man is with care oppressd,
His wearied spirit to beguile
II is her right to train her sons
So they may Senate chambers grace
Thus, is she with more honor crown'd,
Than if herself had fIl'd the place
1t is her right to be admir'd
BY ev'ry generous, manly heart,
When, with true dignity and grace,
She acteth well woman's part.
She hath dearer right than this
To be in one true heart enshrined-
Who, though the world may all forsake,
Will cherish still, and still be kind.
And there is yet higher right,
Which, also, is to woman given:
'ris hers, to teach the infant mind
Those truths divine, which came from heaven
What would she more, than to perform,
On earth, life s holest, sweetest tasks?
When you perfect woman find,
No other rights than these, she asks.
Washington, October 30th, 1850.
The southern press., 1850-11-01
New ORUEANs. Oct. 30

The cotton market is very dull, owing to the ex-
reme difficulty in passing bills of exchange, the
sales to-day barely reached 500 bales.
Sterling exchange is quoted at "a per cent.
The southern press., 1850-11-01
From The Black River (s. C. } Watehman

THE Hon. II. w. BARNwELL.-The following
letter was received from the Hon. r. w. Barn
we'll, in reply to letter from the Secretary OF
'The Association of Caremont Election County,
for the Defence of Southern Rights, " conveying
to him the resolution passed at the last meeting of
that body, inviting him to address them on the
second Monday in November next. Ii will be
seen that Mr.. Barnwell's attendance on the Nash
vile Convention will prevent his acceptance of the
invitation:
The southern press., 1850-11-01

1t is estimated that not less than 1000 fugitive
slaves have arrived in Canada, since the COM
mencement of the agitation. The Sympathy shown
them formerly, has nearly died away. Most of
them are suffering for the necessaries of life.
The southern press., 1850-11-01

PuILApELPHIA, Oct 81 ,P.M
Governor Johnson, of Pennsylvania, has Off
cially announced that fifteen Democrats and ten
Wings had been elected to Congress at the recent
election in that State. He also procaims that the
18th of December should be observed as day of
Thanksgiving.
The persons charged with the recent mail rob
berry at Gray's ferry, near Philadelphia, have
been fully committed for trial--they having failed
to procure the requisite bail.