Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-01-08
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Gen Cas- introduced into the Senate on
Tuesday last joint rcsoiuiioa rcsiirming the
Monroe doct Inc, and declaring thai tbe United
States would consider os an inf iendly ad aud
to be resisted by Us. any at, mpt lay forogh
powers 10 get possession ofCuba. either peace
ally or forcibly. Il was real and ordered 10
be printed
1t is said that's i00 was paid The late J.Fen
nimore Cooper, by Graham's Magazine. far
the I,let of the Gulf" and 8 / 900 for ten ma.
val biographies. besides s 200 for twelve
Other articles. It Il also said that during the
last three years Sarrin's Magazine ha. pad
$4,000 for literary articles. Godey's Indy
Book has oiso expended very large sums in the
same way
Tho Washington correspondent Of tho Jour
nal Of Commerce writing on the I'd inst, says:
llisnow believed HAT Gen. 4 rista will be sus-
tanned in the Presidency of Mexico, md that
The Central Government vii survive oil the
petty disturbances and revolutionary move
mens in The provinces. The prospect OF Gen
Santa Anna's rcstorafionto power Is now very
small \ month ago II was believed here that
Arsla would certainly be overthrow.
Atrhe late session Of the North Crrolina
Legislature, no less thun twenty Plank
Road charters were passed. gratifying t, SIT
mony 10 the usefulness and .populariry of n
system Of Improvement which originated, so
FAR US North Carolina Is concerned, in Fayetle.
vile.
A law wa also passed providing that when
man dies intesiale, leaving widow and no
child or children. the widow Is 10 have one half
his personal estate. II the husband mike Il
Nill, aud the widow dissent lbercfrom, she Is
10 receive onethird Us heretofore.
Tie Alexandra Gazette says the dead BODY
of Mrs Ruth Scott OF Foirlax county was
found on the Middle Turnpike Road. near
Shutters Hill. on Sunday morning. An ina.e.f
was held ,y Coroner Ncole, and The verdict
of the jury was, that The "dccea-ed came 10
her death hy exposure to the severity of the
weather, on the night Of the Isl inst"
Mr. Robert J. Walker Is now in Waslin,.
lion CITY, hul is sail to he snFr,ing under Sc
we're indisroion. It's stated thal he aud others
Will o'irr project 10 Congress for building a
railroad TO the Pacific from the Northern Lakes
asking from the Government no money. but n
liberal grant Of public lands
TnE CALoRro SUR, recently constructed bv
MIR Ericsson AT New York made "A Trip down
the bay on Tuesday last Tho experiment
was em'oently successful. the speed of the shf
being l2 knots per hour, wiud and tide Ser
wing.
The Baltimore Patriot states thull,ttcrs hav,
been received from Gov Johnson of Virginia
and Gov. Lowe, Of Maryland sighif. ing rhei
) intention to attend the celebration of rae opcn
ing al the Baltimore and Oaio Raillood, on III,
l0h instant
Col. Edward Coles. in long letter publish
ed in the National Iuteihgeneer, denies ,ha
Nathan Dane Was the author of fhe Gmop,
Ordinance of 1884, aud claims that to Mr.. JEFF
ferson should lac awarded the paternity Of lha
mea >urc
The President of The United States has nom.
mated Hon George E. Badger, of North Caro-
lna' Tor the vacant Judgeship on the Bench Of
the Supreme Court.
SIN f BuLwER LyrToN, whose name /.
quite as familiar to the reading public of thi.
country as that of Europe is now a member
OF Parhmont-and is taking prominent part
IL the deliberations Of that assembly.
The legislature Of Illinois, which meets il
January, will have an L. S Senator to elect If
place ofthe little giant" Douglass. whose
term of Office expires with this session.
The IMMIGRATION during 1852 into New
York, exclusive of California, has been 80
335, of which about / II ,53S was Irish, and l S
| 126 vas German.
The Charleston Mercury publishes CORES
pondence between President Polk and Mr.
Francis W. Pickens. of South Carolina, b,