Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-06-30
CITY AND STATE DEPARTMENT.

W AIT f9h THE WAGox.H-i.ike a clan of
thunder IRON clear sky, The news of the new
mai arrangement of Post Master General
'ahipoeii mas come upon US. The man in the
A'apiah Nlghfs' who went to sleep in penury
ana insecurity. and awoke amid prinoelv gran
"'at ana III the possession of imperial greatness
""s not more tn" subject If stunning surprise,
'naa we are. And Ike him. we cannot realize
Tie metenorphoses that has taken place in our
condition. Serely Ills but a dream-a mental
haliaclnation-a phantom that has risen M TO
haunt Us with it, horrid presence. Or else il is
"ui II cruel joke our Petersburg contemporaries
are playing off at our expenses ruse de guerrs
"f theirs 10 get NJ some excitement. and vufy the
dull monotony Of the times. If a. it Is refined
species of cruelty for which we promise 10 visit
UPON ihem our Just indignation, and pay them of
with usnry.
Bat II true, it is an arrangement in which all
the progressive tend ances of the are have
been disregarded,and the genius oi the times out
RACED, We have retrograded 4 life time in the
scale OF human progress. Just think of it In
this day of gas lights, telegraphs and railroads.
we are made 10 90 back to the primitive customs
Of our fathers r'rpm having our mails whirled
must now drag their SLOW length along" to Us at
the speed of four miles an hour. We must discard
steam cars, and with philosophy that puts even
old fogyism 70 the blush, adopt horse carts We
abandon the rail road and determine to ,rait for
the ragon. And sorrowfal wait it be will
The editor, eagerly desiring the arrival of his
mails. that he may speedily lay before his readers
the latest news must quietly set him down and
-icaH for Tie icagon. The merchant and spec
ulator, anxious to receive their vitality important
daily correspondence, must make virtue of ne
cessty and-'cait for The ,cagon. The politi-
clan inpatient to obtain the current news of the
political world that he may better conceive and
consummnte his tricks and straagems, must sulki-
~ resume his thrice read sheet, -,cait for the
,ragon. The lover, all a fire, aud signing and
dying to hear from the object of his DEVOTION
must continue to sigh like furnace and
--eajt for the t1g0a. In fine. we must all
accustom ourselves to waiting for the wagon, un-
til this abominabe, h0rrifying, excyucating ar
rangement is changed, which will, we predict. he
done in short time. and to facilitate which event
aud to visit upon them Just punishment, we
should like II see those who are mt fault in
the matter confined on the bottom of the mail
cartS, and, there at u Gilpin speed over ntolera-
BILE roads, made to ,cait the motions of the
ragoH.
EXCURSION.-Ihe children of the Sunday
School connected with the q Presbyterian
Church, made aH excursion yesterday to Tyre
anna,the residence of Jno. X. Tyree, Esq, where
they spent the day in the usual manner of enjoy.
ing such occasions.
The NORFOLK ELreTroN.-Spcahing of the
recent municipal election in Norfolk, the Beacon
of that city says:
The locofoco papers making great hur-
rah over majority of % for Mayor, whilo the
American candidate for Assessor got majority
Of aoout 3l1 votes; City collector about 250
aud tin Americans have2J eat of25 Couucilmen.
DIVIDEND. The Board Of Directors of the Viz.
gina Central Railroad company, have declared a
dividend of six per cent. on the stock held under
the acts of 1896, 1898, lsi, 1918 and 1919 and
80, and the commonwealth subscription under the
| aetof 1851, payable in the bonds Of the Com
panv, bearing interest from the first of July,
so.
NJ lNlEL Ell1p bANh. he MDntecpll9 BANK,
of Nhnrlo ttesvle, has declared n diyidrn of five
u, cent on til" capital stock for tn last six
mrnths.
SErrLED.-'The case Of Hugh John Crawford
vs.. John McDoweS executor" which has been
much litigated in Augusta county, was settled
last week by the parties out of court, through
the medition of friends
GRAsSHoPPERS are doing great damage to the
clover and timothy fields in Rockingham county.
1t is a wonder that all the plaques sent upon
Egypt have not visited it for the great preva-
lence in it of that crying sill Democracy
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS John Rudd, who has
been for two years and a half on the coast of At
riea in command Of the flagship Constitution has
returned to his home in Frederick sburg.
ADDRESs.-IEon. Thos. Stanhope Flournov, of
Halifax, addressed large number of citizens
Thursday nightia the African Church, at the
urgent request Of many of his friends in Rich
mond.
ARRIVALS at the WASHINGTON HOUSE
uPrn O'CLOCK YESTERDAY
WIN. w. LEE WITCH .-.-....... Proprietor.
II Davis, Richmond; l. } Early, lady aud