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Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19
rHE VIRGINIAN.
The Convention.
4. w. G. TERRY, EDITOR.

Since our last, affairs have taken new
turn in the Convention. That body is dai-
ly illustrating the truth that, we cannot
tell "what day may bring forth" Mem
beers who were deeply and unequivocally
pledged to their constituents, to support
the Mixed Basis, with facility equalled
only by their forgetfulness ofthose pledges,
have been amusing themselves and "sell-
ing their constituents, by performing
soinersaults which the yeriest Supple Jack
in the bazaar of toydom would blush TO
initiate. How or why .his is done, is
wholly incxplicable. We venture to say
there is not a member from Eastern Vir-
GINA, except the few who were elected as
| White Basis men, who is not aRconditfon-
aHy conlmittedto the Mixed Basis. They
have nc discretion in the matter they
have no authority TO parley on the subject;
but If they mean to reflect the will OF their
constituents, who instructed as they cleo
ted them, they have nothing to do but to
vote, straight out through all its phases
for the Mixed Basis. Until recently we
have, in common with the masses Of the
East regarded the decision of the Basis
question as "foregone conclusion, for 1t
had been settled by the people; and how
strangely unaccountable then, is the con-
duct of those Eastern representatives who
indicate willingness to surrender those
very rights which their constituents were
most scrupulous to protect, and which they
fondly thought they had most successfully
secured. Recently we discovered symp-
toms of detection, and we took occasion
to warn the public against the apprehended
infdelity of their agents, but the warning
we fear has come too late, even if a more
timely one would have been needed. The
Examiner, which has not until recently
taken its position in favour of the Mixed
Basis principle, very strongly intimates
that there are traitors" enough in the East,
to carry, by union with the serried hosts
of the West, whatever proposition that
section may propose. That paper is evil
IDENTIFY disposed to give up the struggle,
since it believes there is 10 reliance on its
friends But let US return to the action Of
the Convention.
On Monday Mr.. Martin Of Henry, from
rhom zee Aarejust receised a copy Of his
Mired Basis Speech, moved that a com
mittee of four from the East and four from
the West be elected By ballot, to whom
should be referred the duty of devising
some plan of compromise. The PROPOSE
ton was finally carried in this shape, and
Messrs. Martin of Henry, Chiffon Of Fau-
quicr, Wingfeld of Bedford and Finney Of
Accomac were elected on the part Of the
East. (though elected it is said by Western
votes) and from the West, Messrs. Sum
n1ers of Kanawha, Capcrton of Monroe,
Letcher Of Rockbridgc and Lucas of JEFF
son were chosen. The Convention adj
journcd and on Tuesday did nothing, but
again adjourned over to await the report
of the committee of cight,who at IL o'clock
"Wednesday made the following report,
which being read and ordered to be print
ed, the Convention again adjourned over
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19
SUDDEN INTERRUPTION OF A LApY's

SUDDEN INTERRUPTION OF A LADY s
TonEr.-A day or two since, lady hv-
ing on Biddle street between Tenth and
Eleventh, was engaged before her mirror
in going through her toilet exercises when
the glass suddenly reccded from her as
the entire front wall OF the building parted
company with its neighbors and with a ire
mcndous crash fell into the street. The
lady, in utter astonishmcnt at the sudden
ness OF the motion, was left standing in
dishabille, though, singularly enough, en-
iircly uninjured. nconscquenceofth re-
cent grading of the street the earth beneath
the wall had been partially removed, and
its sudden giving way was the cause ofthc
accident-iS Loais INT, 30th
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19
The Opposition and the wings.

The metropolitan organ exhorted the
Democracy on Saturday evening with
great earncstncss to Stand by their prn-
ciples." 1t maniicsts some apprehension
that the Wings are claimingtoo much cred
it for President Fillmore, and that his adj
herencc to the Compromise is making too
many Administration men. This, it saws,
willnevcr answer. The men disciplined
IN the old trials" must rally and come to
tho rescue. The cold doctrines" must be
maintained. Things will never go right
again until Cas-, and Woodbury., and
Stevenson, are reinstated in power-to say
nothing Of b. +. Butler and the Van Bu-
rcns, or Of Blair and Amos Kendall The
Union really dreams of restoration. Il
believes in second spring. Now and
then it cntertains a vision of Senator Doug
las and Young America, but in the main it
looks back upon the Jackson asccndancy,
and sighs for the good old times when the
party was strong in the guidance ofan in
vincible leader, and animated withthc In
spiration ola disciplined obedience.
We apprehend that the Democratic par
~ cannot recover from their present dis
trac;cd and paralyzcd condition seasona
bly, for the mex; Presidential election. The
Wings are in possession Of the Admins
tration. and the Democratic party in their
principles as Mr.. Rhctt says, have gone
over to Mr.. Clay and the Wings. This
makes Whiggcry strong ifnot invincible.
1t is something to have the places, but
when you add to them the possession of
all the popular principles, how are the
. Wings to be defeatedl The Wing Admin
istratior susiains the Compromise.
When they see disunion conventions
held at Syracuse and Charleston, and Sc
diton stimulating treason at the two ex-
tremres ofthe country; when they see a
Senator the United States, sworn to sup
port the Constitution, openly and violently
seeking ats overthrow, and foreign lin
Grants tfaversing the northern States to
STIR up the people to rcsis, an article their
constitution. ii must be that the wise ard
prudent and patriotic of all parties will
come up to the support ofthe Administra
ton. Indeed. j, is remarkable fact that
no man has yet bcennaincd as u Prcsidcn
tial candidate upon either side, who is no,
known to have been in favor of the Com
promise, and to have laborcd to bring about
the adjustment to which the people look
confidently for ultimate repose. 1t prob
able, therefore, that on this isst,e-that of
the Compromise and the Union-both cam
didatcs will stand upon the same ground.
There win remain then to the Democrats
such advantage as they may derive from
the advocacy Of free trade and from the
hostility to river and harbor improvements.
Ifthey pushthcscprctty diligenty,th may
manage to lose Pennsylvania and every
northwestern State; while the only hope
they can have for any success IN that quar-
ter will be byadopting the views on these
enHects laid down by President Fillmore
u his annual message.
These arc the questions on which the
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

POETRY IN Dry GooDs.-The Mer
chants Magazine gives the following cpl
taph on linen-draper, as proof that tho
yard-stick may possibly SAVIOR of Parnassu'
after all:
''Cottons and Cambrcs. all adieu,
And muslins, too, farewell,
Plain, striped and figured, old and new
Threc-quartcrs, yard. orcll.
BY yard and nail I've measured yc,
As customers inclined;
The clnrchyard now has measured me,
And nails my coffin bind.
So now, my kind and worthy friends,
Who dealt with me below,
I'm gone to measure Times long ends
You'll follow me, know"
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

FREDERIcKsBURG PLANK RoAD.-We
learn that on the 10th instant, iwenty-one
miles of this road above Charlottesville
were let out to various contractors. No
bid was put in for the first section Of ten
miles, which offered terms satisfactory 10
the Board of Dilectors-Frrd. Herald.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19
The New Orleans Delta saws:

A Buckeye presented himself to one Of
our booksellers yesterday, who had adj
vertised for person to canvass for a pop
ular work.
"Havc you had any experience in the
business q asked the Bibliopolist.
Il reckon" said he ofthe Pork Empori-
um.
"What house have you done business
for r.
"For Stag and Shay, and Duflicld. 1
canvassed Hams for them going close on
three years"
"Oh, l sec,' said the bookseller, "you
are familiar with the works Of Bacon, but
you will not exactly suit my purpose
good mornmgr'
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

being hcrselfbesiegcd BY her ueighbor to
rrturn.-R. JFhig.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

Mr.. WEDsTEn.-A large number Of ci,-
zens of New York, some 5000 or more
without distinction ofparty, having invited
Mr.. Webster to address the people Of that
City, on the great topics ofthe day, and cs-
pecially in behalf the Union, that gentle
man returned the following reply:
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GFsTLEnEN: have received your communion
ton By the hands of Mr.. Williams and acknowl.
edge myself overwhelmed by this new proof of re-
gard from the city of New York. Nm iHviiation 10
visit that city. from many thousands of "iiiends
of The Tnion, without distinction ~ party" as much
SURPRISES my merit il exceeds my expectaiion--
have read the names, and, you suggest may be
probable, rIuny Of them known to me, aud
know them TO be men Of high honor and character,
of business and industry Of great stakes in the coI-
nv, md active supporters md props Of all the in
situations Of benevoence ard charity, morality and
religion, literature and science, which adorn the
great commercial metropolis Of the United States.
Gcntlomen, have wish to appear in public for
purposes Of ceremony or entertainment; nor Gun ]
say that feel the necessity Of any occasion nj pres
cnt to express my sentiments in regard 10 public
AFFAIR.". All that think and all ilsat feel. on the
great topics Of the hour, j. concealed from, nobody
But, Notwithstanding all ths, and notwithstanding
that my public duties likely demand my ntten-
ton rather imperaively tof some weeks 10 come,
yet cannot persuade mysclfto say tia. may not,
20 distant time, make effort my iieHda
in New York.
One thing, prnslernen. iz certain that 4 address
you any time you viii hcur charge Of tone nor
any salteriug voice, il support ofihat cauze which
il dear to your hearts and to uiae.
With grateful aud profound fegard. ! remain,
gentlemen your friend and obliged humble scrsnnt.
DANIEL WEBSTER.
To Messrs GgoReg GntswoHi-p ind others.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

The city of Wheeling and county of Ohio
have, by large majority, voted Tor sub
scription OF Sl50,000 TO the stock Of the
ITcmpfeld Railroad, which is to run from
the City of Wheeling by the way of Wash
ington, Pa to Grecnsborough in the
county of Westmoreland, where it will
connect with the Central Pennsylvania
Railroad, leading direct to the city of Phil
adelphia.
It's now necessary to raise $4,000 by
private subscription.-Rich. Eng.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

MAY DAY in Cleveland and all along
the Lake shore was distinguished for its
snow squalls" and wind '.gusts.'' Com
siderable damage was done to the shipping
on LAX Eric, and the water in Bufalo
harbor was piled up SO high as to overflow
the banks Of the canal East and West,
North and South, MAY Day came In with
bhghuag irosts, snow squalls.and general
arrangement of the elemen,s-Cin. Ca
eefse.
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

The Washington correspondent ofthc
Baltimore Sun,in the following paragraph,
discloscs the fact that the President of the
United States will return to the seat of
Government from New York by way of
Nireinia:
"Thc new steam fiigate .Sasqaezanna,
about to sail for the China seas, will, in a
few days, make an experimental trip from
Norfolk, where she Is now anchored, TO
New York. She will be there about the
time ofibc Presidents return from Lake
Erie. | understand that it is President
Fillmore's intdntion, together with the Sc
creiary of the Navy and other Cabinet
Ministers, to return in that fine vessel 10
James river, probably ashigh as City Point,
and thence they viii proceed, by way Of
Richmond, to this city,
Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-05-19

GREAT SALE OF DOMESTIC GooDs.-A
large sale of i,406 cases of denims, stripes
and ticks offered at auction on Monday, at
n. y, from Columbian mills, by Messrs.
Haggcrty. Draper & Jones, went of in one
hourand twenty minutes, netting an amour,
of 100000. The denims sold low, as
was expected, at y a 81 cents averaging
under s cents--a full decline Of / a J cent.
The stripes and ticks sold bettcr-the for
MGR at e a Il; and the latter at CT u
cents. A few Brunswick Twecds at Z
cents, and Winlham shceting at Sc
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lV' 1t is said Printer in Norfolk has
invented q Press answering the description
Of the one for which Mr.. Geo. Bruce, the
Type-founder, Offered premium ofSl 900
sometime ago. The inventor it is said,
has gone to Washington to deposit bis
model in the Patent Office. The Press
will throw of 500 impressions an hoir
with the aid Of one person. and will npt
cost more than $500. IF this statement 10
true, about which We confess we hosc olr
doubts, tic invention will not only meet a
greas dcsldcratnm with Printers, Out WIZ
prove fortune to the successful inventor
We have always thought Prii'ang mater
ials were unnecessarily, ifnof eAn9rDAah''
ly, high.
DAsyrLLE MuSrcIraL LLEcrscS.-We
learn by a private letter nat the municipal
election which was hid in Danvillo las,
week. resulted in the lection ofali'thc old
officers and that DR. Thomas Y. Atkinson
was reelected Mayor. The prop osiiio'
Leor the town to subscribe for $4,000 II
the Richmond and Danvillc Railroad wa
carried, with only four discerning voices
n remarkable unanimiiy indeed
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OF THE
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Owners 81 Planning Machinery.
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WINE Subscriber returns his thanks to the
III public and the old customers OF SIMMs q SoNy
and informs them that THE GROCERY AND
WINE BUSINESS heretofore carried on by them,
is continued by EpwAaD S'MMs he has added a
full and fs:sh supply Of me ines: rEAS' BLACK
has aIso on hand full assortment Of the fines,
WINE, and will be sold at the lowest rites,
amongst which will be found 100 baskets Of the
choicest brands Of Champagne, Hook, and Clare
Wines, of the pursst kinda
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Msryland state Agricultural Society.
ArpPEALyro THE MEMpRRs or THE MAINLAND
~ SrArr AGRICULTURAL SocIErr.--We desire
thai Won should bear in mind, that on the x5d,
2lth, and 25th days of October, your Society WI!
hold its annual Exhibition and Far at the city Of
Bsieissera and we appeal 70 you, one and all, to
bring Tor exhibition thereat portions OF your Stock
tks predssets Of your orchards, and Of your gardens
DON presume that any animal, or product, you
NAV own 10 inferi,r to others that Will be mere,
and b thus ietssred from bringing them, as 1t Is
only by compari son that the relative merits OF any
th;n1 can / ) stermined The safer presumption
for You 10 arrive at, will be that what you have
Il - good, il not better than that OF others, and
that Il behooves YOU CALAMITY enter the list or
competition il defeated honoraby, and the high
character of the judges is a guarantee that you
can be defeated in no other way, you VIII ENJOY
the luxury of knowing that others were more en-
tied TO success than yourself.
And while we address you to bring such articles
"a ara properly in your department, we crave per-
mission to solicit your interest, to induce your
scives and daughters to bring whatever aPpertaihs
to tksir peculiar departments, as enbroidery' norse
hold ssas3aesss, the prsastfs Of the DAIRY ana %
IL positry ysrd prsserpess domestic ic.nes eovee
tiens, and above all things, to come s"emse'oes, as
,othosa womsa. and ths beautiful observations o. "er
tasts s~d genius, no displcy can Be perfect.
To the Manufacturers If .agricwttsrai Implements
~rd Tooi,. we would saw, that interest and patri-
otism both combine to enjoin upon you the pro-
priety OF making grand exhibition OF your ma
chinerv Of all kinds as from our present advlces,
ne are led to believe that the assemDiage OF iarm-
err and planters, and Of distinguished strangers
from most OF the States OF the Onion' WIN DC
crater than upon any former occasion here or
slsewhere. we therefore say to the agricultural
Imseperi makers and Meehanics Of the Uniied States:
make Il a matter of pride to display your machl-
nerv At our exhibition, and vie with each other IN