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ENG Y-VlRGINlA.--Ata Circuit Court CONTINUED
and held buckingham County, At the Cou1 House. On sa'u
day September lUh, 1853, ,,,r, ~, r..,.
ruNslo ''Au"NS'N' W" - = Plaintiff:
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.., .,-,,z dsnosei Of the stock, tools and fixtures
VIC nd mandatory 10 MS brollcT Is H.
Recommending hum to INC patron
w. W; fricnis and tne public generally JANE" BoshIh
Tie having purchased Of M lanes hoher an 1he
i "a 6yures Carriage anu dlhess mahulaeIoly
nHrrs his the public for The manufacture ana
lea ;n" - carrses and harness OF every Description
I'M "a. on hand and well selected assortment OF Cara
rv nuchise the manufacturers al the Nor1h, LOT
cash. which WI '' '''1 . n II. BOSIIER.
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nOCTOK HIGGlNROTaAM mas remover ms o"ee . ="
~ 4 street near tho Exchange HOTEL in the same house occ
Eacho Collector AZ nisn lie may DC
at the South west corner 7th and Franklin streets
Ian 2 H
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- GEO, ~ SWAMI, $50 ..,
,rropSry ar = V am SOLICITOR In CNANCERY,
~ .bn several State and Federal Courts held al
r Jnrssno and in the Circuit and Probate OF
tue nesn"Iis as ioD oT forfeited the Auditors Office
Ke1ss I" stephen Eggeson, E1 Henry v'ns E'!
mue Marx, Esq ea'h'ei D1'N Nov. 26--cly
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On the 3d day Of February, 1852 fUry acre Land
warrant No al 069, issued in favor OF Sarah Dunham
.o David Durham, deceased, Private in Captain Wilson's
Nir:nia 'ita, 1912; said assigned for
ny the said Sarah Durham 10 Henry Stern OF Buck
Couny virginia. said Stern New York and PHI
anu willie In the last named city said lost
oc noce given TO Urewarn all persons from trading for
S IL is the intention OF the undersigned make applica
Nartant ne INV S2TEnN
kklnsham County. Ian. 7-cw6w
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COMMISSIONER BoYD'S OFFICE,
noynroS Ton - 1874

The ,ar,rs interested foregoing decree are hereby nonhea
bst have appointed Friday 81 March next for carrying ING sara
decree iGto effect when they will appear before INC VIII"
dence' papers &c necessary ~ " ALFRED BOYD, Com'r.
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RR. WIN. H. MILNOR, Practitioner tot The ias twenty
IL years. the cities OF New York aud Pladepha hegs leave
tender the Richmond his services IN az me @
hs profession Dr. Minor may found duEng the day al m
a Reading Room building corner Of Main and Governor
Streets and at night residence Virginia House, Grace street
NV 7-3m
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OAK AIDE A G Il ID f NJ Y,
ENESRHEI. EniiNTY VA

GA = IL 4 ID r. A q II u r. NJ
LUNENBUEG COUNTY, VA.
rUNIIIS Institutions miles SouWrs Of Iunenburs
House. in the midst Of moral and highly Intelligent
places religious worship will again be opened
Monday February next aid continue I'LL The " OF July
following =. -
The addition boarding department, OF cree.
completed by tile opening Of the sessio at which time
as many enty bOartrrs can be accommodated
OF studies preparatory TOT College or the ordinary
uusulus The discipline mild ana conciaory Appeals
will the feelings rather than the use OF the rod Circulars
position member maintains 10 his respective
cassep together with his department in School, will be Issued TO
rents and guardians quarterly
In the languages and Mathematics, the
r,ber assisted by hIr William r. Cartel graduate Of
Sydney College, CT experience teaching, aud
known the proper qualifications ee.iai 20 the instruction
Of youth. -, er -, -,
would his life been de.
has patronage the hands public
and he pledges himself 10 continue his unling efforts Tor the pro
noton and advancement of those entrusted 10 his
r rhM% in the Languages and mathematics sis ca
Do do English Branches, l9W
Rnarl Guiding bedding, washing all! ehL. ~ w
40 for isss than session, ad deduction for ao'
ssncr except in cases oil protrac.l sickness.
Se'ee Sf r. NJ. WILLIAMS.
Address Lunt.hu's E II, vi. Noy s-cwtlsLEeo.
FEMALE TEACHER WANTED.
Southern Lady. we'll qualified instruction. 10 Music
"a French and tho English branches CAP obtain az sxcScn
situation with good saIaly BY applying 10 Dr. Thomas d. war
rrn of Elcnlon, -. T., or the subscriber ..,-,-
richmond, Va, Jaa. 23--t2w IT. CHRISTIAN
Whr please copy in country paper two weeks ahh ppah
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w NJ. A. cay,
,.,. (LArR OF VIRGINIA.
1 al a. ioRNEf AT LAW, ST. LOUIS. MO-,
10 professional business generally in the State OIL
iEr s-lion JW. peterborough LexingonVa Charles
Huhehourg, Va Edward r. Chambers, Esq, Boydtoa
ATaine, Esq Petersburg, Val Hon. Edward bates, ST
Dec. 23-If
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IN AND TAVERN STAND Ar NEW KEN


NM w. BLANVON, DENTISTS
NJ I sell the sdvantag the Baltimore college
surgery offer my professional services 10 the citi
aud the adjoining counties. am prepared TO
ldohs Oh the teeth the perfect manner
= = SH 1l tom one 10 entire set.
any cal',by addressing Farmville, Prince Edward
March l-rlY
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COMPREHENSIVE NOTICED
Undersigned have This associated themselves for the pur
s q coEu commission business, dndcr the firm OF
TIWEATT b. AIR,
eS? solicit consgnnen,s Of Wheat, Tobacco, Coro, and
Produce.
e Ioa experience Of 10 senior partner aud the energy
aon business Of bot6 ey hope TO give satisfaction 10
ulH Ilends who may DO disposed 70 make their cossn
HENRY THWEATT,
-cT3S ALBERT BLAIR.
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Il.
owner OF William e. Van H0esehs Patent Lever Railway
"A Press prosecute all persons for Of building
vending the above named machines for viola
exclusive right under said letters the assignee
aud thereof and shall hud them answerabe for all the
unless the right for said machine pnfchas
ed of mo- or JOHN HARRIS COX, agent JOHN cox,
Dec 2S-3mis Portland, Maine.
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The parties hereby notified that The
23d day Of February for their attendance at my once a.
yer Cou House where they will attend by 10 O'clock A. NJ with
all necessary evidence enable perform The dHles required
by said decree VIM w. ~i>o'oN >o"'" -
nnndnt
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26

FANNY FERN ON BABIEs.-Fanny was
one of the committee on Babies, at the
late National exhibition of young stock
at Springfield. She could not attend,
but sent the following charming letter:
Mr.. Isaac Paist-Sir, In thanking
you for the compliment you pay me, by
constituting me one of the Committee
to award the premiums at the conven-
ton, l would also express my deep re-
gret that my present engagements will
not admit of my leaving New York
Nothing would delight me more than to
visit your beautiful city, which have
so long wished to see, and the added
temptation you hold out, in the shape
of babies, is irresistible. God bless
their little sWeetnesses, but how could |
choose; | who love everything in the
shape of child, who believe that they
are all that is left to us of Eden, who
never come into their presence without
feeling such as devout Catholic must
have when he crosses himself before
the image of the Virgin Mary-how
could / choose? | should turn from
black eyes t, blue, from blue to gray.
from gray to hazel. l would be led
captive by dimple, fasinated by ring
let, enchanted by rosy cheek or a
snowy shoulder. Ny dear sir, would
be as bewildered as bee in a ten acre
lot of full blown roses. Please accept
my best wishes for the success of your
novel, beautiful and admirable enter
prise. May the anathema of no disap-
pointed mother haunt the sleeping or
the waking hours of the Awarding
Committee. Yours, very truly,
FANNY FERN.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26
D. Rodney King, Esq, Philadelphia

A STRONG MINDED WoMAN:-A lady
writes as follows to the Water Cure
Journal. She is advertising for hus-
band:
81 am just twenty, but will not mar
ry before l am two years older. l am
a graduate of the Marietta Seminary.
l can do, and love to do, all manner Of
house-work, from making pies and bread
to washing shirts; l can do all kinds Of
sewing, from embroidery to linsey panta-
looms; l can skate, ride, dance, sing,
play on the piano or spinning wheel, OF
any thing that may reasonably be ex-
pected from my sex. If required, ]
can act the part of Ounce in the socie,
ty of the upper ten,' or the part of a
woman among women. As for riding,
here allow me to make a banter: any
man may bring two horses, give me my
choice and ten feet, and then, if he over
takes me in one mile am his; if moi
the horse is mine. Beware!
81 am believer in Hydropathy, ant
use no tea or coffee, neither do l weal
corsets; but am willing my husband
shall do either if he desires. 1 believe
in 'women's rights, but believe have
no right to meddle with politics or man:
business in general-neither have mer
the right to meddle with ours. As fol-
appearance, am neither tall nor short,
large nor small, but l am Just as l was
made. 1 have never attempted to alter
my shape or color, as / am perfectly
satisfied with the same. By fops l am
styled handsome; by the young men on
whom l please to smile l am styled the
height of perfection; by those l frown
upon, the Devils imp by the wise
and sober 1 am called wild and foolish;
by my female acquaintance Molly,
and by my uncle 1 am called Tom
eff marry, it will be man that
uses no spirits, tobacco or profanity
He may be young or old, handsome or
homely, rich or poor, but not in the ex-
treme. He must have a good common
education, at least. He must be indus
trious; he must be capable of so bear
ing himself in any society, that he will
be beloved by all; his disposition after
acquaintance must please me in every
respect. He after marriage must allow
me to follow the dictates of my own
conscience, providing 1 do not trample
on his rights, and he must follow it."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26

THE MECHANIc.-An undue quaint.
ty of snobbishness exhibited by several
individuals-strangers we are glad tc
say-at one of our hotels recently,
probably was the cause of "scissoring'
the article appended. 1t is not rare
thing to hear in certain circles, the me-
chanic disparagingly spoken Of Here
where majority depend upon daily
labor for subsistence, 1t is not of so fire.
quent occurrence, as in places of larger
growth and greater wealth, but the prin-
ciple is the same, and may be met with,
on a greater or smaller scale, "the
world over"
Mechanics are the palace builders o.
the world. Not stick was hewn, moi
stone was shaped, in all the lordly
dwellings of the rich, that does not owe
its beauty and fitness to mechanics
skill. The spires that raise their giddy
heights among the clouds, depend upon
the mechanics art for their strength
and symmetry; the thousands of noble
ships that cover the seas of the world
the magnificent steamers that plough the
Northern Lakes and Western Rivers
the swift locomotives that traverse
the States with the rapidity of lightning
are all the construction of that noblest
of human beings-the mechanic.
''Not an edifce for devotion, for bust
ness, for comfort, but bears the impress
of their handywork. How exalting il
their calling--how noble their pursui
how sublime their avocationl VII
dares 10 sneer at such fraternity o.
noble, high minded meng Who dares t.
cast odium on such an eminent and pat
riotic race? Their path is one of tru,
glory, ambition, and honor, and it il
their own fault if it does not lead then
to the highest post of fame and re
nown."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26

The Bitter BITTEE.-During a re-
cent trip Of one of our popular steamers
from this port to New Orleans, several
little fancy games with cards occurred,
one of which we deem worthy of no.
tice. 1t was evening, and rather pro-
miscuous company were gathered
around a card table in ''Social Hall. I"
near the clerks Office. Several games
of poker, euchre, &C., had come off,
and the players were about leaving the
table, when a very genteely dressed in
dividuaI, who appeared to be too nearly
intoxicated to know exactly what he was
doing, offered to bet any person present
S25 that he could cut Jack the first
time. A verdant specimen of the ma
tives of Arkansas took him up, and the
stakes were deposited in the hands of an
accomplice of the challenger, but whom
of course he never had seen before. -
The cards were then shuffied and the
latter parsonage took out Jack-knile
and cut the whole pack in two in the
middle. He claimed that he had thus
won the bet, by cutting Jack the first
time The stakeholder decided that
he had won the bet fairly, and handed
him over the money. None of the by
standers mterfered to prevent such a
barefaced robbery, not liking to get into
'muss' for so green a fellow. The
clerk was busy in the Office at the time,
but saw the whole proceeding, and re
solved on retaliation.
He went quietly to the bar and re-
quested the bsr-keeper to remove the
Jacks from a pack of cards and do them
up again so as not to be noticed, and if
he sent for a pack to send him that one.
He then went into the Office to his writ
ing again for few minutes, or until the
contention about the previous bet should
calm down little, and then, as if Just
noticing the affair went out and inquired
what was the meaning of so much talk
about cutting a Jack. The winner in
formed him that he had just won S25
on the bet that he could cut a Jack the
first time. The clerk told him that that
was a piece of luck which did not hap
pen often; that he was somewhat con-
versant with cards himself, and would
bet him fifty dollars he could not cut
Jack the first time again. The black
leg thinking he had got another victim
eagerly took the bet, and the clerk took
care that the stakes were not in the
hands of an accomplice of his oppo-
nent.
Then-ostensibly to prevent fraud
by stocking of cards-he sent to the bar
for a new pack. When they were
brought he was requested to shuttle
them, which he did, and then handed
them to his opponent, who, as in the
first case, took Jackknife and cut
them in two. On being asked what he
did that for, he replied that the bet was
that he could cut a Jack the first time,
and he rather thought he had not only
cut one Jack, but four.
The clerk told him that that was a
very unusual method Of cutting Jacks,
but that at all events he would like to
see those Jacks before he paid the bet
The feelings of the gentleman can be
imagined when he dealt off the last card
without coming to Jack, and found thai
he was sold. The clerk handed over
S25 to the Arkansas Traveller" with
little good advice, and put the other
S25 in his own pocket for his fee.-iS
Louis Hatelligencer.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26
Number 48.

DAYS WITHOUT NIGHrs.-Dr. Baird,
in lecture recently. gave some interest
ing facts. There is nothing that strikes
stranger more forcibly, if he visits
Sweden at the season of the year when
the days are the longest, than the abb
senee of the night. DR.. Baird had no
conception Of it before his arrival. He
arrived at Stockholm from Gottenburg,
400 miles distant, in the morning. and
in the afternoon went to see some
friends-had not taken note Of time
and returned about midnight; it was as
light as it is here half an hour before
sundown. You could see distinctly
But all was quiet in the street; it SEEM
ed as if the inhabitants were gone
away, or were dead. No signs of life
stores closed.
The sun goes down at Stockholm lit
tie before 10 O'Clock. There is great
illumination all night; as the sun passes
round the earth towards the north pole,
the refraction of its rays is such that
you see to read at midnight. DIR. Baird
read letter in the forest near Stock
holm at midnight, without artificial
light. There is mountain at the Both
MIA, where, on the 21st of June, the
sun does not go down at all. Travel
ers 90 there to see it. A steamboat
goes up from Stockholm for the purpose
of carrying those who are curious to
witness the phenomenon. 1t occurs on
ly one night. The sun goes down to the
horizon, you can see the whole face Of
it, and in FIVE minutes it begins to rise.
At the North Cape, latitude 70 de-
grees, the sun does not set in several
days. In June it would be about 25
degrees above the horizon at midnight.
The way the people know it is mid
night, they see the sun rise. The
changes in these high latitudes from
summer to winter are so great that we
can have no conception of them at all.
In the winter time the sun disappears
and is not seen for weeks. Then it
comes and shows its face. Afterwards,
it remains ten, fifteen, or twenty min
utes, and then decends, and finally it
does not set at all, but makes circle
round the heavens. DR.. Baird was
asked how they managed in regard to
hired persons, and what they considered
day. He could not say, but supposed
they worked by the hour, and twelve
hours would be considered a days
work.
Birds and animals take their accus-
toned rest at the usual hours. The
Doctor did not know how they learnt
the time, but they had, and go to rest
whether the sun goes down or not
The hens take to the tree about seven
o'clock, P. NJ, and stay there until the
sun is well up in the morning, and the
people get into the habit of rising late
too. The first morning DIR. Baird
awoke in Stockholm he was surprised
to find the sun shining into his ROOM
He looked at his watch, and found it
was only three O'Clock; the next time
he awoke it was FIVE O'Clock, but there
was nobody in the street. The Swedes
in the cities are not very Industrious,
owing probably to the climate.
Lou. Jour.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26

AeRIcULrURAL Soo1ErIEs.-We copy
the following appropriate remarks from
the Cincinnati Commercial:
"The Agricultural Societies are a
feature worthy of special attention in
the record Of our country's progress
The Agricultural interest is the great
interest of the land-the broad basis
upon which our general prosperity rests
secure. Each intelligently managed
Agricultural Association is a promoter
of industrial farming education, in
which beauty rises side by side with
utility, and the acquisition of learning
is pleasant relaxation from the stern
tolls of unromantic, every day farm life
1t is cheering to see the masses of the
Agricultural population. deeply inter
ested as they are at this season in the
improvement of affairs pertaining to
themselves, in amusements which they
understand and appreciate to the full
ness, in exhibitions of the products of
their fields, dairies and meadows-the
examination Of utensils adapted to their
uses, having all the modern improve
ments-in the comparison of stock,
poultry. and every thing peculiarly, or
indirectly theirs.
By this festal intercourse, and general
comparison Of facts, variously embodied
and all useful, the farmer is vastly bene-
fitted. He gains in self-respect as fast
as in knowledge, and increases his esti-
mate of the uses of beauty as he dis
coveres what symmetry and harmony
There is in objects most perfectly utilita-
rian. The most inveterate old fogy
farmer. when enticed to Fair, cannot
help acquiring new ideas, and having
the crust of his dullness pretty effectual-
ly broken-the cold, clayey soil of his
brain sub-soiled hopefully. And such
mental soils yield well, when thus sub
soiled by strange facts, and sown with
new applications of truth.
The Agriculturalists, mingling in fes-
tai multitudes, learning something from
each other, finding themselves and their
business the great centers of attraction,
learn to credit themselves with a due
proportion of honor and dignity, and to
''stand erect in the likeness of their
God"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26
THE pRUNKARp,s WIFE.

Weary and sad 1 am sitting alone,
With dying babe and cold hearth
stone;
And list to the sound of the drifting
snow;
Oh! how unlike to long ago!
Those golden dreams have passed away,
That filed my heart on its marriage day
And the trembling tear-drop's silent
flow,
Are the tribute pearls of long ago!
Oh! the hidden power of the sparkling
wine,
Can Danish love from its holiest shrine;
And place in its stead wreath of woe,
In the faded hopes of long ago!
The crowning Joy of woman's life,
Is breathed in the blissful name of wife
And the deepest pang that her heart can
know,
Is the blighted love of long agol-EvA.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26

limited States. Our country has be-
come a Botany Bay, into which Europe
annually discharges her criminals Of
every DESCRIPTION.
Ihave no prejudices against the honest
foreigners who come here to seek an
asylum from the tyranny of rulers
abroad. All my sympathies are with
them, and when they become naturali-
zed l will defend them, as American
citizens, in all their rights, as fully as
those born on the soil. l would incul-
cate and practice religious liberation, in
its broadest sense, but l would see to il
that no men of any sect, whose creed
teaches them to deny religious federation
to me and my countrymen, should ever
hold Office here, or power of any kind
to prosecute us for our religious opin-
ions. No man who acknowledges ale
glance to any foreign potentate or
power, or who holds himself under obi
cations to obey the edicts of any such
potentate or power, shall be by my vote
placed in any post or Office under the
American government. Iwould defend
the rights of men of all religions to the
full extent to which those righs are
guaranteed by the American COnstitu-
ton. But while I would advise every
American citizen to defend the religious
rights of all others, even at the hazard
of his life, would at the same time ad-
wise him to peril his life not less freely
in defence of his own.
do not undertake to enter into the
subject how far foreigners, who are not
naturalized in this country, should be
permitted to hold office. You will find
that you can lay down no general rule
upon this subject, to which there will
not necessarily be exceptions. 1t is
sufficient for my purpose, standing, as L
do, without the power, and without the
wish to have the power, to confer offices
upon others, to say, that in my judg-
ment, a native American citizen, under
equal circumstances of qualifications
and merit, is better entitled to the
honors and offices of the country than a
foreigner, whether naturalized or not.
/ And now, seeking no Office from you
or your friends or anybody else, have
the honor to subscribe myself, very sin
cerely and respectfully,
Your friend,
JOHN NJ. CLAYTON.
D. Rodney King, Esq, Philadelphia.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-10-26

An INEVITABLE CoNCLusIoN.-The
GAINESVILLE Courier relates the following
incident:
"Gov. Medill has been down to old
Fairfield, stumping the country and
rallying the faithful. On the evening OF
Tuesday, he was sitting with b friends,
awaiting the returns from the various
townships, and anticipating a good old
majority of 1900 in his stronghold
Township after township came in, and
the old fashioned majorities were swept
away. when the rider from Greenfield
gallopped up the street and announced
an overwhelming change. The Gov.
looked at his friends, then at his crow
ing adversaries, and slowly announced
the sad feelings of his heart: If we
are beat, and it looks as if we scere,
we're beat for the next ten years.
Then picking up his hat, he nournfully
wandered up stairs and went to bed"