Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-09-17
News.
The valuable cabinet ofmany thousand spec


The valuable cabinet ofmany thousand spec
linens in comparative anatomy, mneraogy
and other sciences. collected in the course o
Years by that distinguished saeant Professo
Agas.iz. has Inexperienced for tho Universi',
at Cambridge. at the price, us is rumoreu, o
Sl2,500, the greater part OF which was oh
taineI by private subscription.
There is also a report. resting on good au
thoriiy, that Abbot Lawrence has announced
his porpose oi bestowing $50 ZOO to the Law
renee Scientific School at Cambridge, in ad.
dition 10 the same amount given by him TO that
institution some eight years ago. We under
stand that the present donation will be princi.
pally devoted to the purchase Of further sclen.
tifc apparatus, and OF additions 10 the cabinet
which has been bought of Agassiz.
A German writer says that "the people of
the United States can burst more steamboats,
md chew more tobacco than any other FIVE
nations of The globe" This man must have
travelled among us with his eyes open.
France. with 40, 100000 inhabitants, has a
public revenue of about Gas, 100000 sterling
England with $4,000 900 raises esq, 900 900
Ofihe English revenue. more than half goes 10
pay the interest of the national debt France
has public debt of about e220000,000 ;
while Great Britain (wi;hout the colonies, J
owes fs34,00o 900. Austria has sed
her Indebtedness since lS45 something like
Sl7o,o0o.oo0. The deficit in each year, since
the date above mentioned. is thus stated, viz
In lS4g, df7o6 033 F.; in lS47. cd,5l1 ,0GI; il
1sis. Gl2. io0.5So :; in 1919. sc5, iS6 1856; in
1880, df6 222 1868; in 1851 e5,324,733; and
IN 1852, making total in six years Of ec3i,
36l,260, or an average Of te5.7a3 $40 per an
num- There seems also every probability tina
the d ference between revenue and expchdi
ture will be equ ally disastrous in 1862.
The Vermont Standard the Temperament r
gan in the State, in summing up the results o
the election. comedies that majoiIy of tit,
House will be found in favor of tho repeal o
the Maine law. SILL it thinks the law will b,
safe in the hands of the Senate.
Some trouble has occurred in the process O
removing the wild tribes of Indians from Tex
as. Col. Carpenter, the Indian agent engaged
IN this business having had his life threatened
by a band ef wild Gherokees. applied TO For
Washta for assistance in removing them. and
Immediately detachment of ten men. undo,
command of Lieut.. Pierce. was sent. Thi.
party succeeded IN capturing and ir,ng all The
Indians, who Were to be gwen in charge Of the
u. 5. Marshal of Arkansas Seven of the In.
dams are murdered for " HON large reward
hal been offered by the rulers of the Chero.
kee nation.
Gcnin, the New York HITTER, devoted III,
profits of his sales at both his stores on Thurs
day, the 10Th inst, to the relief Of those VIII,
have been made ophans by the New Orleans
sickness. His stores on that day were omen n
6 O'Clock A. M. and continued open ill mid
night.
The keepers of the drinking saloons in New
York have Struck" and will this week raj,
the price of liquor from sxpcnce to a shillin,
aglass.
We see ii stated. in one OF the New Yorl
papers, that the Crystal Palace exhibition " il
close in December next.