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A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.
THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRIOUS
AMERICANS
Daguereotypes by Brady--Engraved by
D'Avignon.

EDITED BY ASSOCIATION OF LITERARY MEN
FINDER this title will be published during the
~ year 1850, twenty -four Portraits and Biographi-
cal Sketches OF American citizens who have become
ustrous in the service Of the country. Every por-
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Tho aeveranant n ths United states Of

The GoveFamont ~ The United states 0I
Amerjoa, A. d., 1881.
1xs EsecMtjvs.
MilLARD FtLLMoRE, OF N. ", President
WsLLrAS X. kuHe, Of Ala, Prest ofthe Senate.
7ks Cabinet
DANIEL WESSTaR, of Mass. Sec Of State.
THOMAS CoRwIN, of Ohio Sec of the Treas.
CHARLxs M. CcnRAp, Of La. Sec. of War.
WMLIAN A. GRAHAM, Of N, G Sec. of the Navy
A. II. H. STUART, of Va Sec Of Interior.
NATHAN A. HALL, of N. Y. p. M. General.
JOHN j. CRIrrENDEN, Of Ky. Att. General.
The judiciary.
SUPREME COURT or THE UNITED STATES.
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JsHn MoLEAx, Of Ohio Associate.
JAnEs M. WAYsE, Of Georgia
JOHN CArRoS, Of Tennessee
JoHN McKrNLEv, Of Kentucky
PErER v. DANIEL, Of Virginia
SAMUEL NELsoH, OF New York
LEVI WOODBURY., of Hamp
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SPRING MILLINERY
NTILL be opened at Mrs. S. PARKER'S on
w saturday, 18th instant, at 10 o'clock
PARKER'S new Fancy store,
March 12-3t under National hotel.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-19

The subjoined letter from the President,
acknowledging aninvita'ionto visit Boston,
was read before the Common Council OF
that city, to whom it was addressed, on
the 18th instant. After regretting that it
was inconsistent with what he considered
his public duty tovisit the city at this time
he concludes as follows:
MY personal acquaintance in your city i. but
slight, but slight it has been it has left many pleas
rccoliections. | should have been extremely
happy to have extended it at this time | have
long entertained high respect for the intelligence
and patriotism OF the great mass OF your citizens,
and recent events have not impaired that re-
spcct.
You have been. and trust ever will he law
loving and law abiding people. know that your
devotion TO this great principle has had severe
test in your efforts to execute the law for the
return Of fugitive slaves.
Slavery in any form is repugnant to your feelings
and education. and the fugitive naturally and inev
tably excitcs your deepest sympathies.
Nothing but stern sense OF duty, founded upon
| rational, solemn conviction that constitutional
and legal obligation must be obeyed, at any and
every sacrifice, could have insured the execution Of
law IA case like this but for myself never doubt
ed that the law would ultimately triumph. Good
faith is the foundation of morality and social Sc
| curity.
| The free States have pledged themsclvc. hv tho
F., constitution to the performance of tbi. du,v Tho
| L., S., "a :, -, =,
its Performance.
| There was then no alternative BOT to brea, our
G,;th fn,fn;, mi ,,.a,l ar 49, J -. ~
the constitution Of our country in the dust and
run inc hazard OF a civil war, else to admit the
obligation like honest truc be,rtoJ mon and ~ a.
| all IN an, ,,,,. =, n ~, an" u uo
|
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-19

We are informed that few days since
lady, having every mark of respectable
gentility about her, entered the dry goods
store of Mr.. Stewart, in Broadway, and
purchased shawl valued at four hundred
dollars, offering a 81 900 bill on the Bank
of America in payment. The clerk being
suspicious of the bill, sent it over to the
cashier of the bank, who pronounced tgen.
uinc. The change was thercupon given
her, and she took the purchased shawl and
had proceeded as far as the door, when
she stepped back, and remarked that she
thought she had better not take ii until she
had consulted her husband The 81 200
bill was handed to her and she returned
the shawl and the change she adreceived
and left the store. In the course of an
hour she returned, saying she had conclu-
dcd to take it, and laying down $1,000
note, received again the change, took the
Cashmere on her arm and Disappeared
After The lady had gone, it was discovered
that she had changed the bill, and in place
of the genuine note had put off upon the
clerk counterfeit bill on the same bank,
leaving Mr.. Stewart minus a valuable
shawl and six hundred dollars in cash. The
lady would make an invaluable partner
for Wall street 6nancier.-N Y. Dan
B00E.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-19

The Richmond Dispatch has an article
upon the origin of Lynch Law" in which
it says:
ave have heard all our lives, that the origina
Judge Lynch was the person who gave name /,
Lynchburg. That gentleman soldier and
patriot of the Revolution. and established the tribu
nal which has since borne his name in the
times that tried mems souls Campbell count,
was at that time much infested with tories, camp
followers and maraudcrs Of every description and
being thinly settled possessed means nf bringing
these fellows TO justice under the law. Col Chas
Lynch, the gentleman to whom have alluded
was bold, strong-minded man. the very sort Of
person for such country and such crisis. There
being no civil authority. by the general consent OF
the quiet inhabitants he took the law into his own
hands, and was literally like Hoods Last Man y
"Judge himself. and jury ALL"
His decisions were generally, very correct in
decd in the distracted state of the country be could
hardly 20 amiss, and execution immediately follow
ed. His residence, we learn from the Vndcator
is still owned by his grandson, Cbas. II. Lynch
ESQ., member of the Convention, and venera.
BILE tree is still pointed gu, as the scene upon which
many n icon cxpiatcd his guilt.
So Tar as we know, the above is n cor
rect piece of history, except in one par,ic-
ular. The gentleman there alluded to was
not the founder of Lynchburg. The orig
inal patentee and proprietor of the lands,
upon which the town is situated was
Mr.. JOHN LYNCH, Sen, who died in this
place the 3lst day of October 1920, in
the eighty first year Of his age. lie was
related to Col. Chas. Lynch, and may have
had something of the spirit ofthc stern old
patriot and soldier-but ifso, it was held
in subsection by his religious faith. He
was consistent and Jealous member of
the society Of Friends.
The notice fhis life which we have be-
fore us, says OF HIM.
ale lived To those lands which he acquired
for little than the fees and expenses of loca-
ton, advance in value as to constitute immense
fortunes for all his descendants lie witnessed
the rise and progress of the town of Lvnchburg
from laying the first stone in fact from the
period when the site bowling Wilderness. 10
its present size and grandeur; and such was the
veneration which the inhabitants of the town enter
tanned for his character, that he might be regarded
standing amongst them very much in the light of
of the Patriarchs Of old. Few measures of a
general nature set foot without first consul
ting him, and he was always found a jealous pro-
motor of whatever tended to advance the general
good
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A Noble EntprnriSp.

We learn by letter from friend in the
neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, that
a subscription has been started in tina, sec
ton for the purpose of procuring two
blocks OF stone from the Natural Bridge,
one for the National Monument at Wash
n.gton and the other for the Washington
Monument at Richmond. We trust that
tins laudable enterprise may succeed
NO blocks IN those Monuments could he
more appropriate, or attract more general
intercstthan those from "Natures master
curiosity" 1t is not designed to make this
a neighborhood enterprise, but the whole
county are invited to participate in it,
Each ncishborhood should. and we believe
will have an interest in so noble and ap-
propr..ate an object.-Ler Ga-.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-06-19
a man Of l11l.

In the war OF the Revolution, Henry
Peyton. of Virginia, lost three sons. When
ihcintcllgence was brought to him tina,
his third and last son was slain, he walked
from the messenger agonized with grief
but snddcnly stitlirg his emotions, he turn.
edand said-"Sir, much as I deplore the
loss OF my poor boy. would to God had
another TO supply his place, though he like,
wise persisted in tic c,usc ,f his com
try"
That is the kind of stuff of which the
sirsinians Of the Revolution, men and wo-
men were made. That is the kind of sac.
rlfices they offered upon the altar of Lib
erty. That is the spirit of the land in which
George Washington was born, But little
more than mans life time has passed
since these events, and there are those vet
hving who witnessed them. That time
has made some alteration in Virginia; it ha,
witnessed the decline and the resurrection
OF her prosperity, but it has produced no
changes in the old Virginia love of Liberty
and ofthe country. The fame of patriot.
ism still burns as brightly as when it first
was kindled by the breath of Patrick Hen.
ry and guarded by the sword of Washing
ton.
When Virginia is invoked to throw n
way that Y mon which is the result of her
revolutionary struggles and the solitary cit.
saei Oh Liberty upon earth, she need only
point, without word, to the graves of bcr
warriors; to the blood which stained h.r
halls and cottages in the revolutionary er,.
to the ashes of her sons consumed IN he
furnace Of baulc. Can you expect that
she will do such dshonor to these valian,
and mighty dead, as to cast away the only
fruits their toll and the only trophies Of
their victory? 1t were an idle and worse
than idle expectation. Her proud lip curls
in scorn at the thought of such base de-
generacy. Her people are ready now, as
IN 1879. to give all their children to save
that Union which their ancestors built up
at such stupendous sacrifices, and when
the last has fallen. to say. Would to God
! had another to supply his place, though
he likewise persisted in the cause of his
couptry."--Rieh. Rep.