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Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-07-25

AT THE Grave-We take the following pas
sage from Thaclscrey's lectures. The speaker
contrasts the views of death of Steele, Addison,
and Swift
Can there be three more characteristic moods
of minds and men2 "Fools, do you know any
thing of this mystery" says Swift, stamping
on Il grave and Carrying his scorn for mankind
actually beyond it. miserable, purbIind
wretches, how dare you 10 pretend TO conpro-
bend the lnscrutable, and how can your dim
eyes pierce the unfathomablo depths of yonder
boundless heaven?"
Addison, in much kindlier language and
gentler voice, utters much the same sentiment
and speaks Of the rivalry of wits aud the con-
tests OF holy men with the same skeptic placid
ity. Look what little vain dust We are" he
suys smiling over the tombstones,and catching,
as is his won't quite divine efful sence as be
looks heavenward; he speaks in words of insp
ration almost of "the great day. when we shall
all of us be contemporaries, and make our APP
pearances together.
The third, whose theme is Death, too, and
who will speak his word of moral MS Heaven
teaches him, leads you up to his fathers coffin,
and shows you his beautiful mother weeping,
and himself an unconscious little boy wonder
ing at her side. His own natural tears flow as
he takes your hand, and confdingly asks your
sympathy. "See how good and innocent and
beautiful women are he says; chow tender
little children! Let US love these and one an.
other. brotherhood knows we have need of
love and pardon. So it is each man looks with
his own eyes speaks with his own voice, an Il
prays his own prayer
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correspondence Of the vIrginIan.

IL. Ed0or :-Huving spent several weeks
Iamong the hospiiable people OF Montgomery
county. rusticatng in Inc mountains. enjoying
The exharating atmosphere of the venerable
Alleghanies, have concluded to send you a
few lines descriptive Of my tour.
We spent snort time at Forest Springs.
located about six miles north from ChrIsians
burg. These Springs are owned by Gardner,
Foulfz & Edmundson They are about ma
king preparation for the accommodation Of the
public At present they are not prepared-bnl
| by next season they will be. The water l.
chaly beate-coniainng large proportion OF
iron, with sulphate Of Magnesia and other me.
dicinal properties. About six miles northeast
from these Springs there are three strong Sui
pbur Springs. but the owner is not prepared 10
accommodate boarders. No doubt these Springs
could be purchased at moderate price.
In company with Dr.. K -- we visited a
Sulphur Spring on one Of his farms, 3 miles
v est Of Chrlstiansbnrg. This water was re
Gently discovered. We drank freely of it du.
ring the morning, and by the hour of dinner
our appetites became very sharp indeed Du.
ring our stay with DR.. K in Christians
burg, we had the pleasure of seeing two relics
of revolutionary times, 10 1t a MS letter OF
Patrick Henry. addressed 10 Col Fleming,
nm officer in the revolutionary war, and grand
father Of Mrs. K; and letter from Benz
Harrison, father Of Gen. VIM. Henry Harri
son.
In company with friend from Blecksburg,
we visited the Brush Mountain coal mines.
Six or eight tunnels have been cut in these
mines. At ore ofthem we saw a large bed OF
beautiful mibituminous coal, containing 20,
900 or more bushels. These mountains con
ain an inexhaustable quantity OF coal and will,
no douL become the genuine black diamond of
Montg'ry. These mines are owned by com
pany of gentlemen OF Montgomery, cnterpri
zing and energet g. They will do lucrative
business when the rail road, which they have
in contemplation, shall be completed. They
propose to construct branch road from the
mines TO the Va. & Tenn road, distance of
about ten miles. The State will take 9 S Of
the stock VIII not the melchants and others
of Lynchburg subscribe half of the balance :?
But few ye.rs would elapse before they
would become fully indemnifed by the differ
ence IN the price of the coal, the natural ell
feet Of increased facility in getting it.
Coal | understand now sells for 30 to SO cts
per bushel in Lynchburg. If this road is
made it can be furnished for 90 cts. Suppose
100000 bus. TO be sold annually; saving OF
ten cents to the bushel would be 0,000-
which is the interest on 100000
For the road 0 miles; cost 100000
State takes three ffhs 1872, 900
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BYRoNs MAID OF ATHENS. The officers
of the Cumberland make large and most vel
come addition tothe small society OF Americans
resident in Athens At brilliant entertain
ment. which they gave on board the vesse on
Wednesday evening. the 18th uIt.. there were
present not only the American ladies' and gen
tlemen now in Athens or at the Plraeus. but
one whose fame has been carried by one oi the
greatest bards Of our century To the remotest
corners the civilized world-Byron s Maid
OF = hens" She is now the wife OF an English
gentleman, and rejolces in the name oil Blocke;
her hair is still of the hue of the ravens wing,
but years have robbed her of most of those
charms, which captivated heyonng Poet. Those
charms however, cannothaye exceeded,h they
have equalled, those of the lovely daughter OF
the maid of Athens" young lady of about
eighteen, who, as w,l as her father, mother
aud brother, was present at this entertainment
aud whose surprising loveliness could subdue
a far more susceptible heart than that of Byron.
Another Greek lady in the party the wife OF
an American resident in this city, is a woman
of uncommon beauty, and her charms at the
present day certainly would be pronounced far
superior TO those more famous of Mrs. Blacke,
by who, side she sat. The object of Byrons
admiration was dressed in the French style;
and wore double band Of gold ornaments
around her hair-Cor. ". Y Times
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tRIGHTFUL CATAsTRoPHE.-The New York
papers furnish as with some additional ine-
gence, received by telegraph, Of the frighful
Academic which We had brief telegraphic &C.
count yesterday which occurred on Tuesday
at the Falls sol Niagara. The first dispatch dated
at the Falls, at ocock in The morning, says:
Three men belonging to a scow which came
down the river last nightgot into skif along
side the and it is supposed fell asleep, when
the boat got separated from the scow, and was
hurried on by the current with fearful rapidly
toward tie falls This happened about 81
o'clock last evening. Two of the men, one
named Andrew Hanaman the other stranger,
we're hurled at once over the foanling sheet;
the third, Joseph Able, caught hold of stump
In his fearful passage and has chung to it ever
since.
The excitement here is intense. We have no
life boat. and common boats swampcd as
soon as they touch the rapids. A life boat has
been sent for from Buffalo. Parties on the shore
have succeeded in floating box Of refreshments
to the poor fellow" no can be plainly seen from
the shore.
Citizens and visitors throng the banks of the
river TO witness the efforts making for the res
cue.
A second dispatch dated at 10 o'clock NJ.
says:
The man is still in the rapids. apparently
dropping.
The life boat was sent on from Buffalo, but,
sad to say. proved too light, swapping immedi
ately it was launched, and was lost over the
RaPlds. Unfortunately, but one boat was sent.
The situation OF the unfortunate man grows
more and more critical, and it is questionable
whether he can sustain himself until another
boat arrives.
A third Dispatch dated at 81 P. NJ. says:
The man went over the Falls at o'clock.
a raft had been floated him which he was on,
when they foated another life boat to him. ard
as he was getting readyto jump into it, the
boat struck the raft and swept him of into
the rapids. He attempted to swim for small
island, but failed to reach it, He raised himself
up TO his full height gave shrek, waved his
arms wildly and disappeared
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a JAIL IN INpIA.-Bayord Taylor, cores
pondent of the New Pork Tribune, visited the
Agara Jail, Northern India, and, among 9th.
er things. gives this account OF the "exerci.
ses:"
Here were hundreds of men seated at their
looms weaving carpets, singing the mutiph
cation table in laundering chorus. "71cclce
times hoelec," sang the monitor, in a shrll So
10; +" One hundred and .tortyjoar,' burst out
the chorus, in all sorts Of voices. We went
into the blacksmith shops where the prison
ers, by refinement OF punshmcnt,w were made
to forge their letters themselves letered-
"Setea times Sirtecn, sang the solo,as he rails
ed his hammer" One huadred and ttoclUe,' W as
roared in answe r,drowning the clang and bang
Of the iron. In the women's department there
was shrill tempest of vulgar fractions; the
cooks recircd astronomical facts while mix.
ing their rice. Even the hardest cases, con-
fined in solitary cells, were going through
their ga b abs, through hole in the door to
a monitor standing outside.
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Tile Cincinnati Forgeyg Case.

CINCINNATI, July !e.-Findlay, who abscon.
ded after having been convicted on charge
OF forgery, delivered himself into custody last
night, and to-day motion was made for a new
trial but the court adj urned without hearing
the motion and the prisoner was remand ed to
jail until the September term.
kissane, who has been granted new trial
on one Of the indictments against him, and
who was delivered up by his bail has been
u"ao'e thus lar TO give new security.
agricultural acknowledgements R. Bote
Ter Esq. has accepted an invitation TO deliver
The annual address before the Agricultural So
clete tf Virginia.
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Gihraliar; and all olher vessels except French,
Russian Spanish a.d Italian. were 10 be ox
oluded from The Mediterranean. It is quito
probable that the evideLt unwillngness after
wards, on the par Of Napoleon, to comply
with the wishes Of his Imperial brother. dis
solved their mutual agreement and fastened
the downfall Of the former. by arroying against
him the gigantic power Of Russia in conjunc-
ton with that OF England.
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protestant and Roman Cath o lie
lNhllnnlAnS

The census of1S50, shows the following as
the number and capacity of the churches in
the United States:
Methodist, churches I2, l67; wor-
shippers 4,2O9 233
b"p'lst,churches ;worshippers 3,130 SIS
Presbyterian and he four related
churches, viz: Dutch Reformed,
Congregational, Lutheran, and
German Reformed, churches
SIP; worshippers 3,7O5,211
Epscopalians, churches l422;wor.
shippers, 625,213
Total Protestant churches 30,4S2;
woIsiipPers 1l,67O,635
Roman Catholic churches 1ll2;
worshppers, 2O,95O
Excess of Protestant Churches 90, $40
Excess oiProtestant worshippers 1l,O49,685
From the foregoing it appears that there are
twenty-ninc thousand more Protestant church
es, and eleven million more Protestant wor.
shippers than of Roman Catholic; numerical
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THE LATEST NEWS,
The EurOpa's News.

The English Ministry being violently, anil
about equally divided on the Turkish ques,;oa
was the cause of Lord Aberdeen's r,tiro,a''
being rumored.
The London Morning Herald, of the CA,
added, that "ihe disagreement which almos,
amounted 10 break up of the Cabinet -
been patched up, and things go on as usn.I
now An agreement likely 10 be blasted =,
any moment.
X. Hobbs, IN three minutes, picked the nra.
MUM lock which had been awarded M
of de10 from the Society of Arts, Mr.. CbnI,b
the celebrated ocksmith, presidsng Hobb.
opened it in the presence of the Society. viii,
a needle and a thin strip of steel.
ln the Court Of Exchcqner, Cobb. vers,o
Fremont, The rule had been made absolute
awarding the Cal fornia interest oil 25 per can,
insteyd of the Washington rate of 6 per cen,
Queen Victoria would visi, Dublin On T,os
day the 3 July and remain until the 10Th
Daniel O'Connell has been elected mem.
Der of PARLIAMENT for Tarlee.
FRANCE.
vi the several arrests at the Opera Comiouo
in Paris on the night of the 9Th, of persons wno
were found 10 have weapons secreted unon
them, The official police records merely saw
atthere We're ten or twelve members of oli
secret societies who were disturbing oder in
the crowd. The arrests were magnifeJ by
the sock brokers into an attempt on he En-.
pero-s's life, and affected the Bourse. Some
maintain that the Emperor was really menaced
The French government has drawn una
note In reply to Nesserode's Russian note. Il
bears the signature Drouy del Huys-s firm
and temperate. 1t asserts that France has
equal clalmssto assert the protectorate over the
Latin church In The East as Russia has over
the Greek church, and hopes that Russia will
adjust us claims withou; trespassing on the
rights of Turkey
The note is ably drawn up.
Cardinal b ighmole died suddenly, and was
succeeded by Sighnor Medicia
The Archbishops of Bordeaux and Tours
had received their Cardinal sha,s
The Nedpolitans are mach afraid that war
IN the East will awaken u new revolution in
Italy.
The Emperor OF Austria has abolished tie
'xes paid by the clergy in those parts of his
domnons where the majority of the nhabi.
tants belong TO the Greek Chulch
The Countess Blanche Teleky has been
sentenced to ten years Imprisonment for com.
mnnicaing with the patriots abroad Her
governoss was also in prison, and her female
attendants ad been sentenced to thirteen
months imprisonment as accomplices
Constanfnople letters state that riots had
occurred at Smyrno, owing to the arrest of an
enissary OF Kossuh's. Ia retaliation Austrian
officers were assassinated. The Austrian Con-
sulate was protected by volunteer corps of
Austrians.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-07-25

HON. n. TALLMADGE "A meeting of the cri
zens Of Fond du Lac was held on the 2Sth ult.,
at which resolutions were adopted inviting the
Hon. N. P. Tallmadge to address them on the
subject of the spiritual manifestations He ac-
ceped the invitation and agreed to make his
address on the 18th instant We suppose the
honorable ex-senator may be row cosldered
firy on the stump in the field as lecturer on
sprituasm.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-07-25
100000
$4,000
$4,000
Lynchburg Cor.
Citizens
$4,000
$4,000
$4,000

$30,O0O is "a per cent on $SS,000.
This is on Coal exclusively. The Corpora.
lion and Citizens will own two ffihs of the
stock which will yield them per contage also
At So perton therairoad viii get $40, 900 annu.
ally which is the interest nS333, 33 / more than
the railroad will cost. This branch will divert
travel and produce from counties West Of us,
which would seek another outlet by the Cen
trail railroad should the branch not be construct
ed.
In company with two others visited the
great Salt Pond, in Giles county. After few
hours ride we reached the highest altitude of
the Salt Pond mountain. Having heard much
of the beauty and the sublimity of the prospee,
presented to the eye, from this mountain elc
walton, We Were prepared to see much of both ;
but our anticipations were far more than real.
lied In standing upon that mountain top we
We're overwhelmed with the grandeur of the
scene. Far on either side we saw mountain
range after range piled one upon the other.
like Pelion upon Ossa; and as far as the eve
| could reach the splendid landscape spread be.
fore us. But the most beautiful and novel sight
WAS the placid and quiet lake slumbering in the
eternal embrace of the vernal clad and rock
bound mountains, some FIVE hundred yards dis
liant. There, far away from the busy, busting
world, quietly rests this lovely mountain lake
Upon its smooth surface gently sweeps the soft
and refreshing breeze, and ever and anon the
caroling birds swiftly pass over its bright wa
tiers.
Nature is here unmolesteJ and reigns Sill
preme Doubtless, in times passed, the In
dian was monarch in these mountain wilds
but he, "who saw God, in the clouds and heard
him in the Winds" has been driven far west
ward by the irresistible tide of civilization, and
will never more be privileged to pose his ar
row upon the hills and valleys lis fathers trod.
y X X
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Among the passengers by the steamship
Franklin, arrived at N. York ARE Hon. Neil S.
Brown, late Minister to Russia; the Princess
Mural of Florida; the Countess de Gogue, and
Mrs. Commodore Hull.
Hon Daniel Jenifer,o f Charles county Mary.
land, announces hmselfas an independent car,
dldate tor Congress in the sixth district.
The medical graduates in the United States
IN 1888, are said to number $50.
"fhe lady who was nearly killed by the
accidental discharge of her duty is SLOWLY
recovering. "-Erchange paper.
The ladies at Saratoga wear their 81 on
dcrs bare to the lower edge of decorum."
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-07-25

THE New MAIL ROUTE To THE PAcIFIc.-
The contract entered INTO by the United States
Postmaster General with Col. Ramsay & Co.
for the transportation Of mails between New
Orleans and San Francisco, went into opera
ton last Monday. BY this new arrangement,
which gains some 1000 miles Of ocean route,
the express mail leaving New Orleans on the
lst and 14th Of each month will arrive at Vera
Cruz so as to be conveyed thence on the 4th and
18th. 1t is expected thus, when the line is in
good working order, 10 reduce the distance of
time between New Orleans and San Francis
co to twelve days. General Santa Anna is
most iavorably disposed towards the project
and the atca1des or magistrates along the line
have been directed to afford the contractors and
their servants every facility.
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Authorship Ofthe Bible.

There are in all sIxtysix books.which com
prise he volume Of the Holy Writ, which are
attributed TO more than thirty different authors
or writers ofthe whole.
Half Of the New Testament was composed
by St. Paul, and the next largest writer is the
gentle and beloved ST John. With the single
exception Of Paul, neither history or tradition
has testified that these powerful thinkers and
writer's ever enjoyed the benefits Of education
or that they We're ever trained 10 scholarship
and learning: yet how ably have they written.
what eminent characters have been chronicle d
by them, and what great events fecolded-
both for time and eternity!
Jc emiah is sorrowful; Isaiah sublime Da-
vid poetcal; Daniel sagacious: Habakuk and
Hagai denunciatory; bat they all st EN- to have
exercised their natural wits,undcr the Influence
# divine direction ard inspiration. Moses
with his vast knowledge and profound intclIi
gence-the legislator, the reformer, the de-
the work, and John,wth
bis depth of feeling and exquisite tenderness
and simplicity completed it.
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Purified Man.-The morris OILY Yeo
man states that not long since, while some men
We're digging in a coal bank near the canal,
they exhumed the body of man in perfect
state of pctrlfaclion. From the corduroy cloth
III which the legs were encased, the cords and
seams of which perfectly defined, it is sup
posed to be the body Of one of the Irish aborers
engaged in the construction OF the canal The
limbs are nearly perfect, and are completely
transformed to stone.
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ACCIDENTAL DEATn.- Hendrick Nichols,
who resided near the Meadows, Bedford co
Va, came to his death few days since, by
the accidental discharge Of loaded gun which
he had in his hand
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Col f. w. Trapnall, tho Wing candidate
Drew county, on the 4th inst lie was on
the canvass with his opponent wien taken i'll.
The general court martial which assembled
at Fort Leavcnw ORTIZ on the 4th Of June last,
for the trail of Major Howe, have fully acquit-
ted the Major Of all the charges.
Thompson, the famous counterfecr, and
capped from Portsmouth (Ya.) Jail, is now con.
fined in Baltimore, awaiting requsilior from
the Governor Of Virginia.
Doctor Hines, recently convicted in Geor-
ga of opening letters taken from the the post
office, has been pordoned by the President
A HorEL COMPANY has been formed at
Savannah. Geo, with capital stock Of $780,
O0O for the purpose of building in that city
splendid first class hotel At the last meeting
Of the Company the Directors were authorized
to contract for the erection the building
The gentleman named in the subjoined com.
plimeniary notice of the ST. Louis Eoentng
Necs is from Piusylyanin county in this State
and brother Of tho former editor Of the Vim,
GILMAN:
Ordination.
The RI. Rev. Bishop HAWKS, ID. D., held
ordination in Christ Church, St Louis yester.
day, Sunday morning, at which time RoBEnT
EMMETT TERRY. formerly Attorney at Law,
at Fayetie, in this State and recently of the
Divinity School Of Trinity College Hartford,
Conn, was admitted to the Daconote. The
ceremony was interesting aud impressive.
The Rev. Mr.. Terry read service q preach
ed in Christ Church in the afternoon, and in
ST Paui's in the evening.
We should not do our own feelings justice
were we not to express our happiness at this
event. An acquaintance with Mr.. Terry, suf
ficlently long 10 ripen into friendship aud aiiec
ton, leads us to regard with deep interest his
entrance on the discharge of the duties Of
Minister of the GospoI-and TO hope and ex-
pect from his cultivated mind and faithful and
earnest heart, service becoming son of the
church, honorable to himself, gratifying to his
Bishop, useful to the souls of men. and accept.
able 10 God.
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TERRIBLE Explosion IN New YoRK.-On
Tuesday afternoon large steam boiler in the
extensive foundry Of John R Pratt,in Attorney
street, suddenly collapsed, blowing the rear
wall and roof ofthe building into Ridge street
besides frightfulIy aiding four of the employ.
ees IN the establishment and fracturing the
skull of grocer who was sitting upon his front
stoop in RIDGE street.
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nreponderance that III no doubt surprise ma
ny of our readers.
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OLD AND YoUNG-The Montreal Gazette
gives the following sing uar marrioge:-At Pa.
IRISH Church of Hambeton. by Rev John Yer
non, James Hobbins, E.q, of Clodesly Corbit
after courtship of four days, and Harriet
youngest daughter Of William Chambers, of
The New House, Iiinberton. The BRIDE
groom " as IN his ninety seventh year. and had
no time 10 loose; his fair bride, who has nearly
seen sixteen summers, had pity on him, and
took him ofl.hand, for better or for worse 4"
after he had settled upon her the whole of his
property, amounting to $4,000 year.
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The note is ably drawn up.
ITALY,

Cardinal B ighmole died sudde
succeeded by Sighnor Medicia.
The Archbishops of Bordeau,
had received their Cardinal shafts.
The Nedpolitans are mach afra
in the East will awaken u new r
Italy.
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Manifesto ofthe Cza,

The flllowing is said 10 be literal copy Of
the proclamation lately issued by The Russian
A nfnctnf