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Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-05-07
r,~.sa SnIe of Town Property.

of t. deed of trust, executed on the 18th
&c February, 1852. by Elisha Snead, ree under
III will proceed on the premises, on Friday the
signea s, 70 sell at Public Auction. a certain 20 VI
p1.g r C OF GROUND, with the buildings and apPur.
Fan s;tuated on the north east side OF third street,
tena".oaa ONE.FOURTH OF AN ACRE. in the city
vnchbure tit being the same property purchased
Of ID Snead, of jesse T. Duiguid and wife, and con-
oy - y deed, GATED the Goth July 1850. and recorded
Tho Clerks Office Of the Hastings Court ct Lynch
~ :" The titIe Is believed to be good-but the under
o"sd will convey such only as is vested in him, as
T Is under the deed aforesaid.
Term, made known on the day OF sale.
ie JOHN JOHNSON, Trustee.
r.oree to the above sale, provided it is made upon a
Iii of 4 and 6 months.
cfe'' Al. wITTEMORE,
May, 1853 By W Il. Roane ms A"g'
agree to the above sale, upon the terms proposed by
g yyb;,,,emore. ELISHA SNEAD.
VI, A 1854. ma 5.tds-
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MAMMOTH LOTTERY FOR MAY, 1859,
8l,S35.S21

CAPITAL PRIZE $o0,O0O!
GRAND CONSOLIDATED LOTTERY OF MARYLAND.
Glass M.
To be drawn in Baltimore, SATURDAY, May 18th.
70 Numbers-IS Drawn Ballots.
Magnificent Scheme.
l prize $50 300 ia $4,000
10000 is $4,000
10000 Ia 10000
1888 is 27,7A
800 lowest 3 Nos) 500n 100000
4l,856 1885, 1874.
Tickets $32; Halves, GIG; Quarters, $8; Eighths, "a.
The above scheme is one of great magnitude and beau.
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900, four of BIO 600, and EIGHT HUNDRED PRIZES OF
$500. We would particularly advise every one to have
a chance in this scheme, in which we winIsell on cert.
fcates packages of
26 Whole Ticket, for $460, 90; DC Quarter Tickets
$lI5 90; 26 Halves, $3.50 90; 26 Eigbths, 857 so.
Orders from all parts Of the country will meet with
most prompt and confidential attention if addressed Z"
MARION IL co, Baltimore, Md.
The Small Fry Lottery
Draws every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR
DAY-Capitsls I'll Prize of $4,000; l of $4,000; ]
of 1000; 3 Of 81 900. &c. &c. Whole tickets only 81.
A certificate of a full Package of Whole Tickets In
this famous little scheme will cost but SIS; Halves 81,
so; Quarters % rs, and a single Package may draw
the four highest Prizes in the Lottery!
p EP'orders solicited through the Post Office.
We sell tickets In oil Lotteries advertised BY other
vendors. ut the same price rs advertised by them.
To get the big Prizes be sure TO address your orders
TO the old established house Of MARION & CO..
Corner OF Gsy and Fayette stroet.
az 30-codlm Baltimore, Md.
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STEHEOSCOPlC OF solid Daguer-
~ reOtypes.-The Pabhc are respectfully invitwl
to call and examine specimens Of this new and besuti.
full style of Photography, together with a large collier
'ion Of other specimens taken by Gibbs"
Truly a Southern Artist--a native virginian.
EV-GaIlery next door 10 the Va. Bank.
PETER e. GIBBS, Prepoietor.
April o5-ts
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NEW York May G..
FLo~uR-Steady.
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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-05-11
A Singular Bird.

There is in the garden at Regents
Park, London, plain-looking somber
bird, native of New Holland, called
the brush-turkey, whose habits of rear
ing its brood are among the most re.
markablc in the history of animal in
stincts. The bird is a thorough chem
ist, and constructs for itself patent in
cubator, on chemical principles, by which
it matches is eggs in scientific manner,
without the tedious sitting to which 9TH
er birds submit This bird at present
occupies part of the great aviary on the
south side of the gardens, on the right
after entering the gate from the road
1t is not a very striking bird in its ap-
pearance. The upper surface of the
adult male, its wings and tail, is of
blackish brown, but on the under sur
face the feathers are blackish brown at
the base, going into silver.gray at the
end The skin Of the head and neck is
of deep pink, verging on red, and thin
ly sprinkled with short dingy hair. The
waffle is of a bright yellow shading off
into red. In size tits nearly that of
turkey In general habits this bird is
nothing remarkable 1t is in the repro.
Juctio4 of the species that ;ts ano,naIous
nrocoedinos are manifested 7, ;s, bo.
! Iieyer in fermentation and co.oncra,;oo
for whom tbe breed;ng season ors;vos
nnmbcr nf tho birds enter into nartner
shin and collect n buge bean Of vocota.
ble matter which is sIlowed 70 fsr4on,
iii II forms hot bcd Several wocLs
are m PATIENTLY cmnlovcd in fornin" his
IoaI Lu, uIon dno: sor,nod IL doos IT,
~ ~ e. several veors no,v mater ho;no
aadod 81 tLe Ton .s ,l,0, E ,,nnosth E s"ts
oottdpo,;. ttp ~ t;~S~ ."s" .oio ,'
- t:n vi. ''.N' "'o o",S
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The good Effects of Gardening.

Gardening is civilizing and i'm
proving occupation in itself; it inhu.
ences are all beneficial it usually
makes people more industrious, and
more amiable. Persuade a careless,
lndolent man to take an interest in his
garden, and his reformation has begun.
Let an idle woman honestly watch over
her own fower-beds, and she will ma
turally become more active. There is
always work to be done in a garden,
some little job to be added to yester-
days task without which it is incom-
plete books may be closed with a
mark where one left off, needlework
may be thrown aside and resumed
again a sketch may be left half finish
ed, a piece of music half practiccd !;
even attention to household matters
may relax in some measure for while;
but regularity and method are constant
y required, are absolutely indispensa-
bic, to the well-being Of a garden.
The occupation itself is so engaging,
that one commences readily, and the
interest increases so naturally, that no
great share Of perseverance is needed
to continue the employment, and thus
labor becomes a pleasure, and the
dangerous habit of idleness is checked.
Of all faults Of character, there is not
one, perhaps, depending so entirely
upon habit as Incidence F.; and nowhere
can one learn lesson of order and di-
ligencc more prettily and more pleas
antly than from a flower garden.
"But another common instance of
the good effect of gardening may be
mentioned it naturally inclines one to
be open-handed. The bountiful re-
turns which are bestowed, year after
year, upon our feeble labors, shame us
into liberality. Among all the miscrs
who have lived on Garth, probably few
have been gardeners. Some cross
grained churl may set out, perhaps,
with a determination to be niggardly
with the fruits and flowers of his por-
ton but gradually his feelings soften,
his views change, and before he has
housed the fruits of many summers, he
sees that these good things are but the
free gifts Of Providence to himself, and
he learns at last that it is a pleasure,
as well as duty, to give. This head
of cabbage shall be sent to a poor
neighbor that basket of refreshing
fruit is reserved for the sick he has
pretty nosegays for his female friends;
he has apples or peaches for little peo-
pie; nay, perhaps in the course Of
years he at length achieves the high.
est act of generosity-he bestows on
some friendly rival portion of his rar,
est seed, shoot fiom his most pre-
cious root Such deeds are done by
gardeners. Hiss Cooper's "Rural
Hours"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-05-11
The Pyramids of Egypt.

The following graphic description was
taken from work lately issued in Eng
land by Rev. John Aiton,D. d., entitled
The lands of the Messiah, Mohammed.
and the Pope" Mr.. Alton, after twice
fainting during the ascent, with the help
of his Arab guides, reached the fearful
summit of the pyramid, six hundred fee
above the level of the surrounding plain
and surveyed the magnificent prospect
which there met his wondering and ad-
miring gaze -
"When l reached the top, found my
self on broad area of about ten yards
every way, of massive stone blocks brok-
en- and displaced. Exhausted and over
heated, | laid me down painting like a
greyhound after severe chase. bath.
ed my temples, and drank a deep, cool
draught of Nile water. After inhaling
for few minutes the fresh elastic breeze
blowing up the river, felt that | was
myself again. | rose and gazed with a.
vidity in fixed silence, north and south,
east and west. And now | found it very
exhilerating to the spirit, when thus
standing Oh small unprotected pave
ment so many hundred feet above the
earth, and so many thousand miles from
home, to be alone, surrounded only by
three wild and ferocious-like savages =
The Arabs knew as well as / did that
my life and property were in their pow
er but they were kind, and proud of the
confidence had in them. They tapped
me gently on the back, pa.ted my head,
kissed my hand, and then, with low,
laughing, sinister growl, they asked me
for buckshish, which l firmly refused
they then laughed, and sung, and chatted
as before. In calmly looking around me
one idea filled and fixed my mind, which
l. expressed at the time in one word
magnihcence and then | amplified this
idea by exclaiming, "How great and mar,
yelous are all thy works, 0 Lord, God
Almighty p How magnificent my pres
ent position in Africa, in the land of f.
gypt, and a thousand miles from the
most southern point of Europe How
magnificent the pedestal on which
stand, here on the summit of the highest
structure in existence that has beer
reared by the hand of man, which, a,
measured by HerOdoius, the most an
clent and accurate classical historian, il
eight hundred feet in hight, nearly twice
that of st. Peters at Rome, and nearl,
on a level with Arthurs Seat. on pyr
amid whose base is said to cover tbir
teen acres, equal to the area of Lincoln'
lnH Fields, London; whose four side
measure thousand yards at the bottom
whose bulk is said TO contain eighty -fiv,
millions of cubic feet, whose weight i
said to be six millions of tons, whose c
rec'ion 1t is said would occupy thre
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would enable me TO fire a pistol with eff.
feet in one of the vaults. This is we'll
worth while, inasmuch as the sound OF
the explosion was louder than the roar
of cannon. In fact il almost rent the
drum of my cars. and rolled on like
thunder through the interior Of the
pyramid, multiplied and magnifed as it
was by thousand echoes. The sound
seemed to sink. and mount from cavity
to cavity, to rebound and to divide. and
at length to die in good old age The
fash and the smoke produced too mo-
mentary feeling of terror. Having per-
formed this marvellous feat, was in no
wise ambitious to qualify myself further
for giving description of the interior;
for even if had gone into all the apart.
ments, it is doubtful if I or any but SCI.
entities would have known much more of
these places within than before | entered
it. But l felt it to be something to say
of truth that had been on the top
and in the inside of the pyramids.
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NExIco--HER DEsrINy.-The 20

MExIco--lIER DEsTINy.-The 20
ltical and financial condition of Mexico
at the present time is attracting the
attention of political economists who
see therein was results unfolding them
selves. She has a foreign debt pend
ing of about S53, 10000 and do
mestic debt of $76,179,406, making
a round aggregate of some $130,000,
900. to struggle against, without the
ability of paying. That her resources
for liquidating are diminishing is fact,
shown by the decrease of her revenue,
from $20,000,000 before her indepen-
dence to $10,000,000, under General
Arista How can this immense debt
be met, each year adding to its mag
nitude ? Certainly not from revenue,
as shown certainly not from taxation,
for the people are poor. and have ccr-
tain insurrectionary feelings that will
not bear tampering with. To add to
the weight of Mexican tribulation,
Santa Anna has has returned, with all
his hostile feeling toward the United
States, and every disposition to annoy
us. His policy is not yet revealed,
but, to judge from his past conduct,
we have but little to hope from it. lie
certainly will not be able to free Mex
leo from the burden that oppresses her
Nothing but trouble can result from
his return. Mexican writer's are seek.
ing for an answer to the problem of
what they are to do, and are looking,
some of them hopefully, toward annex
alton with this country as the solution;
others, with dismal looks, openly admit
the chances Of such a result. one writ
er saying, that if the remedy is not
found in a spirit of unity-which he
admits does not exist-"the United
States will obtain the object of their
intrigues, and Mexico will at length
be blotted out from the catalogue of
nations" What that obliteration
means we leave for others to infer
Boston Post.
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JUsTUS COBB, Publisher,
BY whom all kinds of Book and JOB Print
ing will be done on favorable terms
Law of NeWspapers.

l. Subscribers who do not give express no.
tice to the contrary, are considered as wishing
to continue their subscription.
ii. If subscribers order the discontinuance
Of their papers, the publisher may continue to
send them till all that is due be paid.
Ill IL subscribers neglect or refuse to take
their papers from the office to which they are
directed, they are held responsible till they
have settled their bills and ordered their pa
pers discontinued
". If subscribers move to other places
without informing the publisher, and the pa
per is sent to the former direction, they are
held responsible.
V. The courts have decided that refusing
to take paper from the office, or removing
and leaving it uncalled for, is prima fice evil
dence of intentional fraud.
VI. A Postmaster neglecting to inform a
publisher when his paper is not taken from
the office, makes himself liable for his sub
cription price.
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The Life Gauge.

They err who measure life by years,
With false or thoughtless tongue
Some hearts grow old before their time
Others are always young
'Tis not the number of the lines
On Life's fast filling page;
'Tis not the pulses added throbs
Which constitutes their age.
Some souls are serfs among the free,
While others nobly thrive
They stand just where their fathers stood
Dead, even while they live
Others, all spirit, heart and sense
Theirs the mysterious power
To live, in thrills of joy or wo,
A twelvemonth in an hour
Seize then, the minutes as they pass
The woof of Life is THouGuT
Warm up the coiors--let them glow,
By fire or fancy fraught.
Live to some purpose-makc thy Life
A gift of use to thee !
A joy, good, a golden hope,
A heavenly argosy
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Coal IN VERMoNT.-A vein of supe-
rior hard coal has recently been discov'
cred on the premises of Hiram Aims
worth. Esq, in Castletou-We are in.
formed by those who have examined
specimens, that it is of unusual solidity
and free from bitumen or other extrane-
Gus matter,-presenting the pure mate
rial in its most valuable shape Should
there prove to be n regular deposit OF
coal at this opening, equal in purity to
that already obtained, it presents anoth-
or source of wealth to the enterprise aud
capital of our citizens that should not
fail to be improved and added to the
resources already at command, and in a
successful course of developement, must
give to Western Vermont a degree of
prominence unattained by any other por-
tion of the State.
We hope ere long to give the Partic-
ulors of this discovery, when its extent
and value shall have been accurately dc.
termined Rutland HerdM
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IMPORTANT CAsE.-The Charleston
Mercury states that the United States
District Court in that city is about to
try the validity of the laws of South
Carolina requiring the imprisonment of
colored seamen. An action has been
brought against the Sheriff of Charles
ton, at the instance of the British Con
sui, to recover $4,000 damages for
the alleged false imprisonment of a
colored subject.
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u. The Rural New Yorker has a
correspondent who commends red cedar
for farm hedges, for the following quail.
ties 1t bears pruning we'll. 1t is not
subject to any disease. Thin, poor land
is as good for its growth, as better.
Drought does no. hurt it nor the coolest
weather. Grain grows freely near it.
II would furnish protection to our ex.
posed fields from the Winters wind. II
would yield pleasant shade for cattle
in Summon, and it would beautify tho
landscape
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Simplxins on his Badness.

From Putnam's Morthy, for March, 1858
Come listen, friends, the while spin
A ditty of my cares
How years, like greyhounds, swift and Il
Are hunting all my hairs.
/ could uncover once, It's known,
With quite an easy air
But now my head has somehow grown
A harder thing to bare.
Like Alexander's is my fate -
Nay worse, for, ere m down,
My hairs, not wise enough to wait,
Fall out about my crown.
| strive my stormy soul TO calm
With all the oils | sec;
Alas, not all Columbia's Balm
Brings any balm to me
Galvanic remedies in vain
I've used to case my care :
They gave me dreadful shocks Of pain,
But ne cr Il SHOCK OI nalr.
Tricophcrous and Macassar fail
Each nostrum only tends
To point anew that ancient tale,
The hair with many friends.
Though orthodoxy I've profcssed
Since could bend knee,
Yet now wish myself possessed
OF every hair see.
Nay, have stranger things than that
To make your eyes grow big
Though place-hunting Democrat
I'm turning to a wig.
On science once used to spout
With zeal aud satisfaction
But now my top piece makes me doubt
Capillary attraction.
Why, why resist, since time the foe
At all precautions mocks,
And, were Hobbs himself, would 60
And pick my strongest locks
Yea, what avails it TO retire,
And shrink from sight appalled,,
When, like lost child by the cricr,
Where'er go I'm bald
Be iles, although my head looks odd,
The songs of many skald arc
About scandinavian god
Who certainly was Balldur.
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b Y A U II II o Il l Z y
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
Passed during the Second Session o.
the IHirtysecond Congress.
TPuDLIc ACr-No. 81

PUBLIC ACr-No. 81
AN ACT making appropriations for the
support OF the army for the year end
ing the thirtieth of June, one thousand
eight hundred and Fifty four
BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the United States
of America in Congress assembled That
the following sums be, and the same are
hereby, appropriated out of any money
in the treasury not otherwise appropria-
ted, for the support of the army for the
year ending the thirticth of june, one
thousand eight hundred and fifty four;
For pay of the army, one million eight
hundred and fourteen thousand seven
hundred and fifty nine dollars Provi-
ded, That the salary of the military
storekeepers of the orlnahcc department
in Oregon, California, aud New Mexico,
shall hereafter be one thousand two hun
dred and fifty dollars per annum
For the remounting of the four com
panies of light artillery, authorized by
the act of March third, eighteen hundred
and forty seven, eighteen thousand five
hundred dollars Provided, That the
same be expended at the discretion and
by direction of the President of the u
nited States
For the defence of San Francisco, Cal
ifornia, five hundred thousand dollars.
For continuing the defcnces at the fol
lowing forts, viz.
FLORIDA.
Fort Jefferson. at Garden KEYS or
Tortugas Islands, one hundred thousand
dollars;
Fort Taylor, Key West; seventy five
thousand dollars.
GEORGIA.
Fort Pulaski, including barracks and
quarters, twenty thousand dollars.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Fort Sumter. Charleston harbor, one
hundred and ten thousand dollars,
MARYLAND.
Fort Carroll, Sollers's Point, Balti
more harbor, fifty thousand dollars
DELAWARE.
Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Della
ware river, one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
MAINE.
Fort Knox, Pcnobscot river, fifty five
thousand dollars.
MASSACHUSETTS,.
Fort Warren. Boston harbor, forty
five thousand dollars
Fort Winthrop, Governors Island
Boston, twenty nine thousand Eve hun
dred and seventy three dollars.
For communication of officers subsis
tence, six hundred and fifteen Thousand
eight hundred aud forty seven dollars
For Communication Of forage for officers
horses, one hundred and four thousanc
nine hundred and twenty eight dollars
For payments in lieu of clothing 70
officers servants, thirty six thousan,
three hundred aud twenty dollars
For expenses of recruiting. forty thre
thousand two hundred dollars
For three months extra pay for mol
commissioned officers, musicians, and pri
Yates, on re-onlistment, ten thousan'
dollars;
For subsistence in kind, one millio
aud twenty eight thousand four hundre
and ninety seven dollars
For olotbing for the army, camp al
garrison equiPage, and borsc equipment
Three hundred and6fly two thousand on
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Hen LAw-The Bangor Whis-
high authority lays down the law, with
regard to hen trespasses, as follows :
The practical and approved hen law is
this
Ist. On the appearance of hens in the
garden give the owner notice. I'd. On
their second appearance kill them aud
throw the bodies over the fence of the
owner. Sd On all subsequent appear
ance of hens, through the season. e. to
the fourteenth of November, kill and
cat them
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1853-05-11

BEAR AND FoRBEAR.-"Bear and
forbear" should be the motto with
which every young couple start in life.
Each have their failings, their wants
and their trials. Upon neither should
the whole burden rest as they "twain
are made one fesh," so let them to-
gether be the Atlas to bear the house
hold on their shoulders. Let the wife
remember, when the husband enters
the house with "that troubled look,
that gloomy eye, that rigid lip, that
thoughtful brow,"-that quiet, unob-
trusiyc sympathy; that deep, gentle
and devoted love, it is her duty, and
should be her pleasure, to offer him.
But, on the other hand, let him not
repel her attentions let him not give
a harsh retort to a loving word of hers
-wrung, though it may be from the
very agony of his soul-she can not
know of all the agony: she only feels
that her heart is crushed. And hus-
bands, do not wonder and complain if
sometimes the brow of your wife is
shaded by -care-if sharp, quick words
issue from the lips which we admit
should never utter aught but gentle
ones. If we were "perfect even as
our Father in Heaven is perfect" re-
member she has her trials, too, and
this must be her apology.-Home Jour
nal.
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SPIRIT RAPPING MAohlNEs.-The
Journal of Commerce says manufac-
turing house in that city is engaged in
making "medium tables" for the peo-
pie who live by their wits. The table
is like an ordinary one, with a top
formed of a thick board f; but conceal
ed within cavity in the latter, is a
small apparatus, with kind of ham
mer, for producing the traps" The
hammer is so constructed with wire
running down through the table-lcg,
that the latter has only to bo in cen
tact with nail head, or something Of
the kind, in the floor, to enable the op-
orator to produce the raps by galyan-
ism.