Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-01-25
LYNCHBURG VIRGlNIAN.
News and Miscellany.

mined. II is probable TINT before this the final is
sue of an assault. by storm. ON Sebastopol has
been made, and the next arrival may acquaint us
with the result. If accomplished. or yet to be
undertaken, the world has never witnessed a
more terrific shock of arms.
Sir George Brown aud Sir De Lacy Evans,
who have been so conspicuous in commanding
divisions of the British army in the orilnea both
served in this county, and both were at the bat
tie of Bladensbnrg and the taking of Washing
ton. The former received two wounds at Bin
densburg, and the latter had two horses killed.
The latter, Sir De Lacy Evans also served at
New Orleans, and was there twice wounded.
\ Partisan letter writer SAYS thai the impress
sion is prevalent in the French capital that the
svmpathies of the United States,'in the present
war. are wholly with Russia; and this idea Is So
General in Germany, 1.-THE example of America"
isevpn made use of to change the opinions OF the
anti Russian party in that country.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the cclebra-
ted rnce horse Red Eye, one of Bostons fnvorito
sons while on the turf. ran forty three races, and
won thirty three Of them. In all his tour mule
races he was never beaten. While on the turf he
ran 265 mile,, and won 223 OF them
There is a Joint resolution pending IN the
Senate, introduced by Mr.. Chase, authorizing the
President OF the United States to contract
with Hiram Powers for work OF art suitable for
the ornament of the Capitol. and arpropratng
two thousand five hundred dollars Tor the com
pletion of that object.
The Free Suffrage Bill' was passed by the
Senate Of North Carolina, on Monday, after 1t
Ind been So amended as Ia provide tbatno unnat-
uralized foreigner shall vote for members OF the
Senate or House of Commons This Amendment
passed by vote of % TO %, and then the bill
pnssed by a vote of &c to II. The subject has
vet to be considered in the House of Commons.
The Senate have, by decided majority, re
fused 10 Increase the compensation OF members
of Congress The House will not, probably
strike ON that account. though, for obvious rea-
sous not more than one fourth of the present
members will return the next session.
bill is before the New York Legislature t"
anthorise such persons or societies asarc or may
be authorised to bind out 10y indenture any child
To be an apprentice clerk servant, 10 bind such
child as a child by adoption, instead of appren-
ticc or servant, and to change its name npd
such child shall thcreupou be entitled 10 the same
rights and subject TO the same duties III respect
10 its new parents. us If it were their natural
child
4 man named David Bates was convicted ut the
last term of the Indiana county courts, of biga-
N.Y. and sentenced to twenty-five months i'm
prisonment in the Western Pcntcntiary, To-
which place he brought the other day 1t
appears he was committed for the same offence
IN 1891, and had just got out. He returned to
the neghborhood of Blairsvic, and by dying his
whiskers and changing his name to David Beat
ty, again married 10 young widow by tho
very same Justice of the Peace who married him
before. One the witnesses ON the trial stated
that Bates had seren wives living, or even more.
Ii is firmly believed by the officers of the Co
lumba, at Aspinwall. that the L. :. sloopof war
Albany has foundered at sea. II is ascertanod
without doubt that the report Of her being at
Carthagcna entirely error She left IS
pnwall in the middle of October. and is suppos-
ed to have sunk during the severe gale the
coast of Jamaica, in which the British Admiral's
ship Boscawen near being lost.
Among the late arrivals of German emgrants
at st. Louis from New Orleans, was family con-
ssting of a man, wife, and seven children, who
obtained lodging at a house ON Carondolet ayo-
nue. They remained there up to Monday after
noon last at five O'Clock when the children be
came violently i'll, and by SIX O'clock, or within
an hour every solitary one Of the seven died.
The physician who attended them pronounced
their disease cholera.
a statue of Benjamin Franklin is TO be erect
ed in Boston. costing $4,000. Greenough, the
sculptor, is at the work, and il is expected that
he will have it completed by 1886. 1t is to be of
bronze and eight feet in height. 1t represents
Franklin in citizens dress, with cane in his
right hand his cooked hat under his left arm
The entire cost of the statue aud bas-reliofs will
be $4,000.
An individual was brought before the police
court in Cincinnati recently charged with assault
and battery. lie frankly admitted that he had
struck his antagonist bat said in cxtenuution that
the man had called him liar "and,n continued
he, 'may it please the Courtl born in Liv-
ingston, in the State of New York there, when
a man says you're liar you call him liar back,
aud there's All end of it; but, your honor, have
lived for fifteen years the Wabash, and there
when man calls you liar, you knock him down
at once. only obeyed my Wabash instructions.
Fined 81, and costs.
In order TO correct the prevailing impression,
seid to be erroneous, that there is an unusually
large number of clergymeu in the present Leg
isature of Massachusetts,, n member of that body
states that there are but five clergymen in the
Senate and seventeen ia the House of Represen-
tatives, making tieenty-tico in all. In some pre-
vious Legislatures, the same writer says, there
have been nearly or quite rs many as now.
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