Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1852-05-13
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ihi'lng VIOLENTLY. he was picked up anu car
ried to the nearest house by some persons who
we're in the vicinity at the time a physician
was Immediately cent for. " ho upon examina-
ton pronounced the injuries but slight. giving
no cause for alarm. though the distinguished
patien, suffered considerably.
BosroN May Z.
An ASSOCIATION was formed here last night,
having for its object the election of Dsnldl
Webster to the Presidency. 1t embraces ma.
nv Of the most influential citizens, and j. I.
Stephenson. ESQ., is the President. The Com
mon Council last evening appointed jo'nt
committee To wait npon Mr.. Webster ana in
wife him 10 speak in Fnneul Hall.
Washintou. MAY 7th--Mr. Clay feels the
genial influence OF the bamy breczes Of May,
A few days since he expressed TO his phvSl-
cian apprehension that as his debility m
creased hr might not be able TO rally strength
10 throw off the the accumulated phlcsm, aud
thus die ri sirangnla,ion. DIR. Hall assured
him that his decline oud he gradual that
he would pass away without himself or friends
prrcei,ing his dissolution, This assurance was
most gratifying to him. WELCOME death. said
| ne, but do not desire exciting one.
New York, May 8. p MA fire broke out
this morning in Catherine near Chester street.
Several wooden buildings. all of which we're
occupied 10y separate families. were consumed.
Sc eral lives lost. Eight dead bodies have
already been gotten from The ruins aud taken
to the station house. Four of the victims be-
lonsed to one fumily-a mother. two daugh-
tiers and son. Margaret Logan, capmakcr,
and others, were much injured.
The steamer Franklin sailed for Havre to.
specie.
Assault upon Member Of the LEGISLATURE.
We regret To learn. says the Richmond Dis
patch. that Mr. Nc Donald the member of the
House of Delegates from Mononghalia, was
assaulted Saturday night as is supposed by
Persons who took offence at the remarks Of Mr.
Med in the House on S uurday. upon the mob
at the Governors house. He was on his way
to the w ashington Hotel, when he was struck
in the side and breast by one or two out of
some ten or dozen persons that met and sur
rounded him. If there be no mistake as to the
motive. the outrage is deeply to be deplored.
and it is much to be regretted that the persons
who committed the assault could not be de-
iecIed and held to answer in proper manner
for their infamous conduct.
Ogdcnsburg, n Y. May 7th.-At Pierpont
on the WATERFOWL and Rome Railroad, four
Indies who were amusing themselves in hand
car. We're killed by being run upon by the
freight train. Several others were injured
Misses Peaz, of Pierpont. and Mann and
Wright, of Oswego. We're among the killed
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rods from the body, and the bodies of others
were much mutlated.
| Charleston, Nav IA fire broke out this
morning in the hold OF the ship Prentice. which
was loaded with cotton aud nearly ready to
sail. Tho fire ragged with such force that it wa,
fnnnd necessary to scnttle. her. The amount
of damage is supposed to he very great. She
is fully insured.
Boston, May 7th.-A panic occurred in the
Vermont Central Railroad stock yesterday
and it has fallen % per cent.
| The House refused to reconsider the pas
sage of the Maine liquor law by vote of SO IL
PIT
The Chinese migration to California is al
ready immense and constantly increasing. II
January last ten ships with emigrants sailed
from Kong Kong. The civil war in China is
driving away great numbers of the people. not
only to California but to the South Sea.
| Both Houses of the Legislature of MARYLAND
have adopted a resolution to close the present
session on the 18th Of the present month.
The H use of Representatives,. on Thurs
day, adopted resolution OF Mr.. Clingnan, re-
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instructions to let the public printing to the
lowest bidder after 10 days notice. This is a
fatal blow to the Union" and to the Demo
| cratic party, if what the Editor of that paper
told Mr.. Borland be true-that the one would
be disbandcd and the other ruined, in few
weeks. withou, the aid of the public printing
Matthew St. Clair Clarke, formerly Clerk Of
the House of Representatives, died in Wash
ingten Thursday last
Mrs. Virginia Carey. sister Of the late Gov
Thomas NJ Randolph. died in Alexandria on
the 81 instant.
News has reached Dublin that Thos. Fran.
CTS Meagher. the Irish political convict, had es
capped from Van Dieman's Land. The inrelli-
gence has reached his friends from private
source.
The election of delegates to the Baltimore
Convention by the Democratic Convention oil
Delaware, resulted in the choice of those ia
| vorabe to General Cas.-he receiving three
hundred and ten, and Mr.. Douglass thirty -four
votes.
The notorious DR.. HAYNES, the bgamist. has
been tired at Paducah. Ky, found guilty. and
sentenced to the peniten,iary for FIVE years and
six months. The telegraph has been extern
slvrly used in thisproceediug. A despatch caus
ed the mans arrest; the witnesses were sum
moned by a despatch; and his extravaganl de
claratiors to obtain continuance were expos
ed by dispatches.
A communication has been published. sign
ed ny Drs Ridley. two distinguished pracl-
TONERS Of Cincinnati. and number of others,
cautloning The public against the Central Rail.
road to Philadelphia or Baltimore They SAL
the treatment received over 2S miles of land
travel, was outrageous.
The Washington Telegraph Of Saturday
says--"Ihe first Strawberries We have heard
ofths season were this morning presented to
Mr.. Clay by Mr.. Slater Of Alexandria. The
beautiful couch recently sent to him from Phil
adrlphia was the gift of some Wings Of Rap
pahannock county. Va.
The rusl, of Immigrants to California con-
tlnues unahated. and every avenue Of travel to-
ward the Pacific continues crowded with those