Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-08
fllY 4AD STATE AFFAIRS,

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HasIInro % He American iafts 81 The eaah5y Of iaafifA, W
-. fss4lss4z.o On tbr sfsa day Of ssptember. ~. Cob
ean8tai Turner Va. called 70 tie chair. aud Andre" aiy0-
RIA aas appointed Secretary
~ ssnnde &. sfsales thsi aarrrd tie following resolutions,
uHaa nore unanimously adopted
Vybsra,, H4 pfoposcdt5 hold convention Of the American
party Of Virginia Ia the city ef Ly"rhba's On tue is'h 0i
Oat51sr ucNs
Therefore. rrz5i.td that se approve Of the time aud place
for holding til praaaasd eauyention. and thai David 3 1is,''-
CT. Halert NJ Cla1s. Charlie I. Martini beaan.in } Campbell,
t=,F = Penn. alael Doolay. 4. a Moir. Ialkcn q kneke'
Stati,s. Jr, Rafas Turner. eernian y Garter Peer A..
To- AnFfew \. IfIr3oa and John y theatiiam be affettcd
1sfaeaia- FL, aftead -atd convention
t,sraf That tbe plitf5rula a principle recently adopted by
,t4 r4H,icida4a Convention afaets VII lhe unaaiuens end
heart arpro,aloftac Amerfa8tof th raaait Of patrick.
Rs5,ra4 THAI fse American Fsiy. uadi4nayed by the de
fat Il has suffered ia she raeeuf election ii this STATE, feel i'm
usnad by Liea considerations II patriotism and love # coun'
try and an earnest desire to rid oas country Of the alarming
r,isvita which n too rapidly Increasing foreign influence
thrraiaisr &C. very existence ta 10 strrFeea OF ur'i our heiov-
,ltannty is rd # every vesfse Of f1reiai influence
i6s9lrod. That wtdlo the principle Of religious liberation Is
oue iaaf SO hcl1saered and dear. aud while we would pro
s.rt4 no man Or sei Of mon. fnr his or their religious opinions,
We vet believe tie Roman Catholics to be a polluted religious
association, acknowledging the iopeo # Rome as the supreme
lead of the Church, political and religious, md we viii vote
for no man Tor any office in the gift Of the people who d1es not
acknowledge lis obligation 10 support the Constitution as
paramount 30 ali others, civil, political or religious
hsse1esd Thai the American Party Of the county Of Patrick
do hereby abolish all test aaths obligations and secret meeting,
aud that hereafter ali It's meetings and deliberations will lie
held in public. aud that all Mo s%ynpathize with that farty in
the great object 1t has in view. be invited to cooperate with it
Rtsoined. That the proceedings of this meeting he published
in The National American. and that the Richmond Wig and
Lypehlnrg virginlan be requested to copy.
On motion II Mr# \. N. Lybrook, Samuel q. Staples was
added 10 the list Of delegates appointed u attend the proposed
convention.
CRAWFORD TURNER, President
\ LYBRooKs ttrretGrg.
WYuAS has been d%cighting the boys, confouudiug the dar-
kex. and astonishing everybody at Dudley Hall for several
day. After witnessing SOM 81 lis wonderful feats, ore is al
most induced to believe that 10 call him 3! Wizard" is not a
misaomor Its. Al least, fortunate for Nynan. that he did not
live in the times when the aW ful sin of witchcraft was eapially
punished. If he had, the result would inevitably lave been
that his handsome little person would have been deposited in a
sack, the mouth tied as tight as the famous Gordon knot, and
the whole tumbled into the nearest rivera prodicanent from
which Ill his immense powers Of magic, leperdcInain, hocus-
loois. .lishtcfllnd. ventrloquis, &c.. might have failed 70
Itssne Lin.
W9faE CIEeult oouRr-fhe Circuit Court for tbs conn
T. commenced its Fail term on Monday last, judge Fulton
presiding. The criminal docket is larger than ithas been for
many year., and presents almost every variety of offence
The first ease called was tAaf oftlc Commonwealth IS. Ora
hun, charged with the murder ofW. II. Spider. On tie mo-
ton # the Commonwealth the ease waa laid over until next
Monday, In order 10 procure the attendance .fDr. %sffibbhnF,
oi the Weston luaatic Asylum. who had declined toobey Tie
summons cf the Court, on the ground that the Supcrintendents
Of the Iunatic As2lnlns were exempt by law from attendance
GA Courts ot tins Commonwealth, when held more than 80
otesifon theifresReetive Asyians. The Judge wasof opin-
'n thai ms exemption oAt'n'led o'ly TO e''il eases aud issned
an attachment 10 compel tieatiend'nce of tic witness On Mon
day net
Martin, charga with sloottng Edwards, Was acquitted, and
buhi9 "7 .Rtieh'fh 10 the pfnIcniilN Ter one year Tor
horse stealing. THIS morning. clifford aud Crawford, two
ta gents, wire placed upon it3ai on The charge II burglary -
BESIDES the-a there are several other criminal prosecutions
poudiua. The Court III probably Doe il session three weeks.
I'd Graph.
PROGRESS OF THE WORE Is THE Blue RIDGE ruSSTIs-
In the month Of september, sIxtvninG feet in Length were cx-
cayatel In :he maia tunnel, flrtv five feet in the castern-end
aud twentr-rtur in tho vtetrrn-eud. Since the commence
mem of The work. there have been excavatel in both ends of
III tunnel three thousand three hundred and ninety three feet
leatf54,.,l oi,bt hundred and ci,htv- tlroe feet in leprtb. Il,
eot entirely through the mountain.
The work on the western side. cnt the mast month. is the
hardest that has been met with aince NE beginning Of the tun-
The nrooNsynls Tunnel. as it progresses. proves more and
more dangerous: heavy falls ofrock continue in advance Of
the arch. Five hundred aud seventy feet have been arehcd
without accident; two hundred and ninety three feet remain to
be arehed which includes the most dangerous part C the work
-L1Ggsouian.