Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-03-27

DMm ltiC HBsannGOslOs
We congratulate the friends Of this i'm
provement on the final passage of the bill
State subscription Of three
fifths of an additional capital of 100000.
1t was passed by the Senate on Thursday
evening by the strong vote of 81 tot 6.
1t will now behoove all who are intere :
ted in the success of the work to make the
necessary efforts to raise the private sub
scrption which viii secure the benefits of
this appropriation. We must be permit
ted to tell its friends in the country that, in
every county except Pittsylvania, they
have fallen far below the proper mark in
their subscriptions. Men of substance,
whose landed property will be improved
In value to an extent with which the cost
often or twenty shares would bear no COM
parison, have been content to take single
shares. The great county of Halifax alone
could well afford to raise the whole $780,
900 to be subscribed. Richmond we hope
will subscribe $4,000 in order to secure
the heavy rail as far as the Junction. We
cannot believe that the road will be per-
mittcd to fail Of completion, for the want of
a very moderate degree Of energy on the
part Of its benefciaries.-R. Times.
A NUT FOR GRAMMARIANs.-We find
the following nut for grammarians to crack,
IN late number Of that spicy little daily,
the Boston Transcript. The SUBJECTS that
much Irrigated one of the conlugation of
the compound verb, to Be being. The
Transcript calls the discussion "a converse
ton between young lady who writes for
the magazines, and an old gentleman who
thinks he can speak English
Old Gent.-Are there any houses build
ing in your villagel
Young Lady.-No, sir. There is a new
house being bull for Mr.. Smith, but it is
the carpenters who are building.
O.G.-True; Isitcorrected. To bebuild-
ing is certainly a different thing from to be
being built; and how long has Mr.. Smith S
house been being built.
Y. L.-(Looks puzzled moment and
then answers rather abruptly Nearly a
year.
o. Glow much longer do you think
1t VIII be beng built!
Y.L.-(Explosively;) | don't know.
0. G-I shouldt think Mr.. Smith would
be annoyed by its being so long being
built; for the house he now occupies being
old, he must leave it, and the new one be-
ing only being built, instead Of being built
as he expected, he cannot
(Thc Young lady leaves the room very
suddenly
A GENTLE HINT-A sportsman, who,
during the shooting season, had gone to
pass week with a friend in the country,
on the strength of u general invitation, soon
found, by general hint, that he would
have done better to wait for special one
Il saw some beautiful scenery" was the
visitors first remark, "as | came to-day bv
the upper road" "You will see still fner,''
was the reply, "as you go back tomorrow
by the lower one"
A windy orator in the New York Leg
islature, after lengthy effort, stopped fol
drink of water
81 rise, said Bloss, "to point of order
Every body started, wondering what
the point of order was.
"What is itl' asked the speaker.
81 think, sir" said Bloss, "it is out of or.
der for windmill to go by water"
A lady was travelling in a stage coach
with troublesome dog. A gentleman
complained Of the annoyance.
"Dear me sir" exclaimed the lady, 81
wonder you complain Of my dog; every
body admires it; it a real Peruvian"
"Idon'tcomplain Of your Peruvian dog
said the gentleman, "but | wish he would
give us less Of his Peruvian bark.
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a number OF very respectable colored
men, with their families, residing mostly
in the southern section of Baltimore, have
been making arrangements to leave that
city and cast their future lot in the republic
OF Liberia. The party is said to number
nearly one hundred souls, and they design
embarking inthe first packet, carrying with
them large supply of useful utensils and
other desirable articles.
A New STATE IN New YoRK.-There
are movements now making in this part of
the State Of New York, toward creating a
new State Of this city, Kings Co., Queens
&c. Suffolk, Richmond, and some other
counties on the river. We have here with
in sight of the City Hall about million of
human beings, and the population is rapid
ly increasing with every thing in men and
that NJ
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V YANKEE.-The best definition of the
ankee we have ever seen, is the one at
tributed to can Eastern lecturer" who said
that it would not be very violent stretch
of the imagination to believe thata thought
full Massachusetts or Connecticut baby,
SIX months old, sits in its mothers lap, eve
ing its own cradle, to see ifit could not in
vent better, or at least suggest some i'm
provemcnts.
JENNY LIND AND BARNUM-A French
paper in New Orlsans, J. Ertrocte, saws that
after Jenny Lind has concluded her Ameri-
can engagement with Barnum, sheis going
to engage him and exhibit him in Europe.
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The members of Congress elect from N.
York, are politically divided, so that if the
Presidential election 81 ould go to the House
of Representatives, her vote would be neu-
tralized.
1t is said that the great secret of the sue
cess ofMrs. Miller, the celebrated tobacco
INST, is because she had so much capital 10
back her.