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Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21
Temperance Meeting.

A meeting of the friends of Temperance, lin the
County OF Mercer, was held al the church,
in said county, on the 18th of July 1854 for the
purpose Of sending delegates TO the State Con-
vention, to be held in the city of Lynehburg on
the 18th of August next
John NJ. Brians, Sr. Esq, was called to the
Chair, and opie Static appointed Secretary.
Alex Mahood, Esq, offered the following res
olutions, prefaced by an appropriate address.
/. ReSotDed, That we cordially approve of the
proposed Convention, to be held in the city of
Lynchburg in August next, for the purpose of
considering the present attitude and necessities
of the Temperance cause, and to concert mea-
sures for promoting that cause.
2. ReSotued That the Chairman appoint ten
suitable delegates to attend said Convention and
represent the county of Mercer therein.
3. ReSofced That copy of these proceedings
be signed by the Chairman and Secretary, and
published in the Lynchburg papers.
The Chairman reported the following delegates
A. Manhood, u. w. Davidson, j. Stafford VIM
Holroyd, r. G.. Clendennon, Jno. NJ. Brians ir.
VIM. Stafford }. IL. Justice, VIM. Oliver and j.
S. Grigsby.
On motion the Chairman and Secretary were
added to the delegation.
JNO. NJ. BRIANS, SIR. Chrmn.
OPIE STATE. Spcrv
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washington House.

We take from the Petersburg Express the
following very tlattering notice of this House,
under the management ofour friends, w. w.
Leftwich & Bro. The fact is, that few places
South of New York can boast of more neat or
derby and better conducted Hotels than those
in this city:
The house has been very much enlarged, and
newly fitted up. tits pleasantly located, hand
somey furnished, aud the table the best / have
ever sat down to in Lynchburg. OF servants
there are an abundance, and SO very attentive
that your every want is supplied without the
asking. The proprietors are gentlemamly, pleas
ant men, and give their personal attention to ev-
cry branch of the establishment. | can assure
my Petersburg aequaintances and all others that
they will fnl here every comfort convenience
and luxury to be found at any hotel in this re-
gion of Virginia. speak complimentary,
know, b it is all true and the public should
know it,"
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The Langhorne Mills for Sala

nWIN Ia The firm state at my kenlih IN
~ the premises. Nedne .tlny 26Ih .Iu, - on
offer for Sale that well keown MILLING PRnprsiaon,
situated within the corporation OF ynelbp,, H.
dutely upon tn Junes River X kanawha Cr,o3 'p"e-
contiguousto the depot If the Virginia and Tenn. 1''
Rail Road The ab,ye property Contains QUO an5 &C. zee
lights of AZ acre of land upon which i i ~ i've
large Manufacturing Mill, with SIX Run Of Bun H.,
rapnb;e of grinding 25o barrels of -four per nv my
Machinery Is e Cast hon, # The most apnroyJ lug
terms, and every hns about the premises is In lbs nay
perfect order. Attached to the Touring m rs ana w.
Com and Plaster Mills both hnvirg large rp.,a, "'
Upon the premises there j. good Miller. H
Cooper's Shop and all hecc~-nfy uuthouses ~
Ample arrangements huve been made Tor The s,;
M; II The necessary labor employ ed; an abp.d
supply of barrels aud barrel aIe ia proyidcd Sn.h ".
the situainn of he prop rty, that purchaser womb
be sufiert.do days de oy in putting the mills in ons'
ration.
TEaMs-One-fourth the rnrchas. money n,y.ho
within months; one-fonith al 10 years. will N .nnsI
ity, and The remainder Mt 10 years without pero
rity, and lien lelaiHed upon the properly In "a.
the deferred payments. The intrre.t IN tile lef
ted payments tn be made quarterly.
For further part crlars apply no. s. Langlorpp A,
the mills, the undersigned al Glover Dale Burtenr
july l8 dts HENRY 2. .SNGHORNE
Richmond Wing and Peter burg Intel isencer cory IA
and charge as ttlce.
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THE FAMINE IN PALESTINE. Rev. S. NJ.
Island in n communication to the New York
Commercial says
1t affords me much pleasure to hand you the
fourth list of donations for our unfortunate breth-
rem who are furnishing in Palestine; by the pc
rusal of which you will readily perceive that the
stream of benevolence is now flowing through
every channel to supply the wants of those who
are suffering on those shores, every footsteps OF
which is associated with holiness. God grant
that the 'material aid forwarded with gener-
Gus hand may arrest the famine,and stay the pes
thence which is now decmatng the pilgrims,
who, for the sake Gifts SOIL have left home and
temporal success.
Rev. Abraham Rice of Baltimore ever active
in the cause of benevolence, RENTS second
donation of $3.50 from the Israelites of that city,
and the letter he sends is the best evidence of the
feelings that prompt his acts.
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WILL BE PUBLISHED, ON LIST AUGUST
THE CABIN BOYS STORY.

A Semi Nautical Romance of intense interest hv
the Author of. the pirate Doctor" the Law.
yer's Story" the "Old Doctor" &C., &C.
NHE success hitherto enjoN&d by the author Of the
l. above opuur works is sufficient Z 4aranie- OF
the favor with which any productions coming irum bis
pea will be received by the public Tie Cabin Bows
Story is ramantc ariutive. illustrating the holrors
of the 81 i've Trade. carried the Coast Of Africa
The author ha served IN The nayland the dissertations
and characters are painte tom personal acquafanc
til them The is full of exciting ntere, ard al.
venture the celebi ated worn of Defoe, Robinson Cru
soc, 'and has the advantage that 81 riuus hcton
inasmuch il is unded on facts OF e'ery auy occur
The h,toB of Ii heroine OF thr Story, Zuteka
the Circas sian Slave, purchased al ConsantinoI edu
Gated md married he reckless yet chlvalfic Seymour
the mmandcr ol the Ahatross. is simply narration
of fact painted from the lite, and ali tie ma crous
ch ract.s portrayed throughout tho .tory Nigdy
and graz ideally avn.
The publishers have already received ord,rs flr the
nhnle OF the edition it originally their intention to
publish; consequently, they have been obliged arg to
Increase it; and lhe} respectfully request that al orders
may be sert in Immediately.
They confidently expect that the work will CT ate
much interest ork fiction that has OF late ar'
ated rom the press as ,ythstanding, sfc the
pub ieation of "Uucle Toms CABIN, works relating
slavery in An erica PRO and con- have been
none have appeared having relation to the systtm OF
pur hasing slaves the African Coast. written by one
who has in ,ssed it in al Is hdeols defoimy, The
work is written in clrsie md Jure language aud he
welcome and instruct addition the tamiy tmry.
The work wi ! form iIul octave volume Of 400
pn- handsomely illustrated with fine engravings,
e,rgumly bound in cloth. Price, in cloth dollar
in paper. rs at which ps will be sen, by
the publishers to any patf the country free OF postage.
fsS For SAFE wholesale and retail by the publishers
ELLSWORTH & STREET,
No.22 BEEKMAN STREET, New YORK,
And by NIL the Booksellers throughout the Uiiied
States and British Provinces July 81 81
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MOTIF DEFALCATIoNs.-The following comes
to us in dispatch from Boston:
Edward Crane, President of the Vermont Cen
trail Railroad, resigned his office to-day. Pre-
vious to his resignation it discovered that he
had over-issued eight thousand shares of the
Vermont Central Railroad. The affair caused
considerable excitement in our money market as
tits the second like offence by him, within a
month. In the first case a complaint was made
to the Grand Jury, but that body took no action
in the matter.
Crane used the over-ssue of shares to raise
money upon, pledging them as collateral, to p.
Lattimer, who, surprising them of course to be
bona fde has sold them in the market.
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Colonel George C. Washington


1t will be seen in another part of our paper,
that this gentleman breathed his last yesterday
morning. TO us. who knew of his protracted and
painful illness, it comes without surprise. For
weeks, his nearest friends have been without
hopes of his recovery. 1t is with real sadness
that we think of his loss TO the extended circ G
of which he was most accomplished ornament;
and this sadness is heightened by the painful fact
that almost all of that distinguished class. known
rs gentlemen of the old school have passed away.
Colonel Washington one of them. The not
unmportant part he has takenin public life, was
always sustained by IA happy blending of firm.
ness and high sense of public duty, with the
most graceful courtesy and urbanity; while his
private relations were characterized by n cheer
tulness and gentleness of manner which made
his most hospitable mansion the scene of the hap.
piest hours to all his friends. With his cotem-
poraries he was universal lavorite, and afrong
them are numbered many of the most dstn-
guished men of the nation. To young men
he was peculiarly attractive, for while they never
forgot the respect TO which his age and elevated
character entitled him they were without the
slightest restraint in his society.
lie has gone after long and useful life, in
which he has done much to honor and nothing 10
shake the name of his great relatye.-Jtash.
Sentinel.
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We copy the following communication from
the Cincinnati Gazette. An Exchange believes
that at the rate invention is going on we may look
for the disco ery ola multiplication table some
of these days. After what Mr.. Easton has done
it would not be wonderful.
NEW DISCOVERY IN AsTRoNoMY.-If the sun
OF II O'Clock at noon strikes line at Washing
ton city half an hour than it does line at
IL O'Clock at Cincinnati, then the distance that
the sun travels westward is every one thou, and.
miles per hour, which, 10 complete the circle,
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SNAKE FAsCINAToN.-The St. Louis Hefaid
of July l2th,telswith apparent faith in its truth,
a ease where child became fascinated with "a
black snake. This child the Herald states, had
for long time been pnng away without any
known disease. She could not be prevailed up
on to eat anything in her fathers house, but
would take piece of bread and go to the bank Of
creek. Her father followed her secre ly, and
a large black snake make its appearance, and
would express anger by kissing when the child
took bite of the bread. The next day the faith
or shot the snake, as 1T made its appearance. The
child swooned, but on recovering from that state
was seized with spasms, and oontortions resem-
bling the snakes, and died ut the same moment
Of the death of the snake.
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The Havana Diaro of the 18th, repeats state
ment made by the Paris correspondent of a Lon
don paper. that France is determined to project
Spain in the possession Of Cuba, and lakes pleas
ure TO add that England shares the feelings of
her ally upon this subject. 1t then quotes sew
eral paragraphs sustaining this position from the
London Post, Lord Palmerston's supposed or
gan. 1t concludes, with much self-congratula-
ton. that justice has jealous defenders IN the an
eient allies of Spain, and denies the assertion OF
American papers that there is any misunde stand
ing GOODNESS between that Power and France
and ENGLAND.
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TAKE NOTICE
ID . \ Q II Ill n C S y

EOHN w. SMITH having heen by common coansent,
- President of the "Do Nothmg Socity' To- the past
ght months. takes pleasure in announcing 10 his friends
with Nests. W. w. LeiIwch g. Bro, of the Washing
ton HoaSe, has taken charge Of the b where he
wi be pleased To Them and b, the aid of their pat
ronage he hopes be able Do Sonnet ing" piofa-
Bile TO imsefand pleasant them. assuring them that
the Bar shnI always be supplied with the best Llno
Cigars and Tobacco thut country affords and served
in stylcealn To any. 1 iv 20-dhcts
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ANOTHER RAILROAD PROJECT. -The York
Tribune has the following paragraph
Gen. VIM. Ayress from the seat Of govern
ment of Pennsylvania, il now in this city, on the
subject of continuous Railroad from the city
of New York by way of Easton, Allentown, Ham
burg to Harrisburg. This is very important
project to New York. direct communication
from this city to Harrisburg, and then connect
ing with the Cumberland Valley and Hagers-
town roads, leading on by way Of Martinsburg,
Winchester. Stanton Knoxville, &c, TO New
Orleans would bring important increase of
trade to our city. At Harrisburg the road would
connect with the great Central Road to Penn.
sylvania,t to Cleveland and Cincinnati. h would al
connect with baltimore, with the Lancaster
aud Columbia, and the Sunbury and Erie roads.
1t requires but glance at the map TO see the
advantage of this road
ITO form continuous line Of railroad commit
nicaton from New York city TO the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad there are but two things wan
ting-one from Hamburg to Harrisburg, dis
tance of fifty miles, the other from Hagerstown
to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, distance of
fourteen miles. This would complete n line of
OF railroad communication, upon which the Cum.
berland coal could be brought direct from the
mines, without transhipping, to the city of New
York. The connection with thu Central Penn
sylvania Railroad at Harrisburg would form a
continuous line of railroad from the Huntington
and Bedford coal region on Broadtop.to New York,
securing coal interest to New York of great
Importance.
Whatthnk the Richmond Dispatch and Pen
ny Post ofAhs scheme VIII they unite in op-
position to the connection with the Virginia and
Tennessee Road!-And as it would tap heCentral
road at Staunton; would not break of guage at
Covington, which produce seeking it from the
Covington and Ohio Railroad would encounter.
be powerful consideration to be urged bv them
in opposition to its expedency This New York
scheme would certainly encounter break of
gaage in its connection with the Virginia and
Tennessee Road, and would moreover be a
longer line to N. York than by Alexandria and
Baltimore. We therefore believe the scheme
will never exist save on paper; but certainly to
prevent it for time, as well as all kindred
schemes, would it not be the bitter policy for the
friends of Richmond and our other eastern cities
to unite in favor of constructing the desired link
wanting from Charlottesville to this place in
the great line of Northern and Southern travel :
Either this or o line down the valley must and
will be made. Is ii not better for all parties in
Virginia that it should be the shortest most di-
rect, and, with break of guage at this city, the
line least calculated to attract tonnage from our
own cities to more northern markets.
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makes twenty four thousand miles around the
world Admitting the sun makes circle 1t i
defined to be twelve thousand miles from the
earth. Al distance. east west can be meas
ured by the speed of the sun. ] made tbs
great discovery this afternoon, and claim to be
the first one that ever suggested the idea.
Respectfully yours, ELpHALET EAsToS.
July ~. 1854
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The Boston Railroad Fraud Probable suspen-

sion Of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1.-THE issue of stock
at Boston by +. Crane, President of the Yer
mont Central Railroad has created much con-
sternaton on the stock board Crane was one
of the subscribers to the stock of the Sunbury
aud Erie, Railroad, and upon the faith of which
the city of Philadelphia issued bonds for the first
million of subscription, the ordinance authoriz-
ing the subscription requiring that similar
mount should first be obtained from private sub
scribers. The discovery of this fraud will UNI
doubleday suspend operations upon the road, as
the second subscription by the city cannot now
be paid.
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Great Bargains in Dry Goods /!
Keep C00l!.

I'VE best Wy tn keep cool tuis hot waa,Le i :,
2rt >1PHly Of thnSe linen Shirts AMI Drawers a.
D1Hie' and J"aes make. Also, IN Imnd, C.ator 81 ~
with Linen bosons. Jeans Dm ers hause UnAer,l,,r,s
p'Io" and other Coars Linen Six, aud Cotton, and
ChneSe lies, Nc, &c. CT tls Cashmere, an W.,
hgs and goods Ton summer wear. of the best max and
most fashionable AIDES, always ON hand which viii J
male up to order by Ambrose Page
wy S'na'' expenses VIII enable mr. to sell all the a.
hoye as ',w as Goods hat az Goods IAN bn anal,
any where. Try me WM'J rACEs
jun % dlmif -
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BLUE RIDGE RAILRoAD.--From the report of
the President of the Blue Ridge Railroad Com
pany in South Carolina, published in the Charles
tom Standard, it appears that contract for the
completion Of the road has been entered into with
Messrs. Arson Bangs q CO., at the expiration of
three years and half from the first of January
last. The estimated cost of the enterprise is six
million dollars.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

SHANoHAIs.-A gentleman owning plantation
on James river bought,three years ago three THIS
Shanghai chickens for S75. The year afterwards
he sold enough to repay him thrice his outlay
The third year (the present) he finds himself
owner Of $500 hens and from these he sells $50
worth of eggs per week and all the young ROSTERS
at 374 cents apiece ms soon as they get large e.
nough to eat. His aggregate receipt for eggs a
lone will be $500 per amnum.- Richmond En-
quirer.
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Rnlti,nnre CnttLe Market.

BALTIMORE, July I7.-The number of cattle
offered 1t the scales to-day was 600 beeves; of
which number 450 we're sold to city butchers and
packers at prices ranging from $3.50 to sl.75
per 100 pounds an the hoof, equal to 81 s9.25
nett. averaging Si37l gross. Number left over
fifty The balance tome hundred) were driven
off. Market dull. Hogs,sales at So 80 80 %;
sheep, sales at 81 81. But little demand for
sheep.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

FLOUR FOR THE ONO RrvER-lhe st. Louis
lntelligeneer says In the list of exports fur
nished by the secretary of the Merchants Ex-
change we see that 1929 barrels of -four
sent from this citysup the Ohio river during the
month of June. The entire exports for the same
time to all points only about 10000 barrels.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

THE WHEELING BRIDGE-The cables of the
Suspension Bridge said to be- anchored and
brought TO their appropriate places, ready to
receive the frame work or flooring of the struc
ture. 1t will again be soon in crossing order.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

Samuel Reeyes,for many years tobacco mer
chant in Richmond, Va, died at Cape May on
the 18th inst, whittier he had gone for the benefit
of his health.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

Discovery OF LEAD.--A large mass of lead
ore,yiedng 40 or 50 per cent. of pure metal has
been found at the tunnel work on the Central rail
road below Clifton Forge, IN Allegheny or Bath
county.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

The Boston Advertiser learns that Prof. jew
EFT, the librarian of the Smithsonian Institute
has been peremptorily discharged from his of
flee by Prof. Henry, the Secretary of the Insti-
tution
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

Sales of celebrated trotting horses took place
in New York the .th inst. Taeoney was sold
for $1,000; Mac S4,l00, Frank Forester 3d.
$50
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

Mr.. BURNAP, u well known agricultural writer,
says that the fences in the United States cost
more than twenty times the specie that is in it.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-07-21

OGEAg MAIL STEAMERs.-Mr. Mace, from the
Select Committee ocean mail steamers, has
made an elaborate statement of the mail steamer
service the commencement of the service on
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A New York Correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, gives the following extract from
one of the leading journals of that city in regard
to Know kothingism" and Roman Catholicism.
II is added that il may be considered as some
thing semi-oilical ON the subject:
Frequent illusions are made, in various forms,
to the hostility between the Roman Catholics and
the Know Nothings; and simple Justice seems
10 demand that the real grounds of the dssensior
should be clearly understood. Newspapers o
various classes, including the Nations lnte-
gencer and others in different parts of the coun.
fry, have protested against the Know Nothings
rs fanatcal enemies Of the Roman Catholic reH-
gion. The Know Nothings, on the contrary,
have repeatedly disayowed this charge, insisting
that they do not oppose any religion practice
whatever. but, quite the opposite, were faithful
friends and protectors of religious freedom no
in the sense of Bishop Hughes hut in its real oil,
and common Specification. But, they say, wha
they oppose Is Roman Catholic politics which
often assumes the name of the Roman Catholic
religion, but is wholly distinct thing They
admit, recognise, and sustain the right in any
and all who choose 10 worship in the Romal
Catholic churches, to believe and profess wha
they please in religion; hut they will not ADM
nor submit to any one who attempts 20 put dow
by club law free debate or free preaching, ia the
house or the open air, allow foreign nAu
ence 10 interfere with elections, or 10 raise O
threaten mob law, or To threaten citizens Will
the consequences if they do not substitute III
canon law of Rome for the State laws Of the Tn
ion. Even though such subyersive attempts ma,
be made under the name of religion, their o,po
sers claim to be able to discriminate, and are ful
~ convinced that in opposing them they oppose
nothing religious, but what is purely political.
and Mt the same time wrong, anti American, ant
ntolerable,"
The lnielligenecrs correspondent adds tina
from this it would appear that the object of tn,
Know Nothings, 50 far as regards their action in
conne2ion with the Roman Catholic religion, IL
to prtrcnt it from being brought as an element
into the political questions Of the country, aud
thus assist in keeping religion and politics sepa-
rntcd
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LIZ BENEFICIAL RESULTS invariaLle follow the
dmnisleriug ul SrABLgR's ANnDYNE CHERRY ExPEc.
ToRANr in cases 1T Cough, Colds, b. on It's Asthma
Group, and Throat and Lung complain generally 1t
is not claimed tla il will IN all cases tut none
hnye 10 cur knpwl,ds here it failed to give re-
lief; While at the time, thousands OF Instances have
occurred where it, effects have been 50 rarke t. hat
they have been widely noticed und commended. The
ItRRPA CORDIAL ii i, candidly believed is unequal
in diseases al the bowels aud it, curative PROPERTY
have been wonderfully exp rieuced in many cases -
Therefore YOU advised make trial of these good
medicines, huul you your family require their aid
See advertisement in another column descriptive pam
phles be had gratis # the agents.-Prce for each
30 cents. six ,oiIles for - 80 (iy l51m)
Some things be done II, well as others p" and IA
mong them is covering the head irh handsome growth
ct hu by the USE of Euersons American Hair Resor-
tive. Price Si,00 IN large bottles Sold by
jy l9slw d. R LYMAN
A Glass Of Soda Water as cool MS iae favored
With thai Pine apple Syrup John T.. Wrght4 is very
pleasant this hot weather