Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-09-07
rrevys ard Miscellaneous Items.

IuE President ui The tfnffPu STATUS hffoiHFA=
MED by Mrs. Pierce. returned 10 Washington %
saturday. improved IN health from their britf
visit 10 Nilgna.
The Albany journal mentions the fact TINT n
mill in fhut otyis grinding wheat raised the pres
ent season in Tennessee.
A letter from Vienna Of tie 9th ut. says: An
American circular despatch 70 all the European
Cabinets on the subject Of Sound Dues has been
received leren caused great sensation Ihe
Government Of the United States express Their
determination to relieve their ships aud onrPoe-
from the further payment Of these dues, levied
IN defiance of all justice and international laws,
and invite all the commercial and maritime States
n follow their good example.
The American state Convention Of New York,
after threc days SESSION. finished its labors ON
Friday afternoon. The platform was agreed
mon that dan after considerable trouble; bat
H. final adoption wa not only unanimous. bat
received with enthusiasm. Il declares that all
actionhl doctrines thnt against the sens" Of
any portion Of the Asriem Union should be
absolutely excluded from their creed. Erastas
/ Brooks. Of New York CITY, and Mr.. Scrogg., Il
Buffalo. were chosen delegates at large to the
National Presidential Convention.
A, the Woman's Rights Convention AT sargio.
GA a few days since, while Mrs. Lucy Stone
Blackwell was speaking, some faeetious oppo-
nent of Lucy's theory asked her "who would
take cnre of the babies when mothers went IL
Congrossl" II VIII reply 10 that everlasting
query" rejoined Lucy, by asking who takes
care of them when their mothers come to Sarato.
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An English paper states that Capt. John y.
Forster, X. n. died recently at Chnmherwel.
England from excessive of ardent spirits
las the ooroner's jury declared; the doceased's
allowance daily having been six quarts i'nr
r L 4 IL
sherry and table beer. Captain Forsters valet
depossd that he left at his bed side every night
bottle of rum bottle of brandy, bottle of sber
~. and bottle of porter -
The American meeting in Nashville on the
10Th ultmo, was attended by un immense con
course Of citizens. Speeches were made by john
Bell, NJ. p Gentry, Colonel Ready. NJ. c, Ma
or Donelson, Mr.. Underwood, of Kentucky aad
other gentlemen of eminenee.
a young woman, who pretends 10 hayea Iii
vine mission, has Just been locked up in the Or
leans prison. She nsks to be SEM Ia the Grimca.
pretending that she could take Sehastopol in IL
very short time. She speaks on the subject IN
a most calm aud deliberate manner. All she
ask. for to accomplish her gorous mission is IN
escort of n SERGEANT. corporal and ten men
She is at present committed inglorously
yaguhond.
Two white deer arrived in Cincinnati ON Tue
dpy, from ST. Louis. They were caughi in the
Rocky Mountains. They are perfectly while
not eoored hair Is Ia be seen on the body ii
either. One is roe aud the other is Il buck
The head of the latter j. adorned with very
respectable pnir OF antlrrs. which are covered
with smooth velvet coating. rs pure and UNI
spotted as the body Of the animal which wear
them. The deer were purchased for 50 ,0Oa, and
are to be exhibited.
III. =. I nj p..4.tl;l.... H.
Great Salt LIKE City, June 30th. The el4s.=
hopper plague still continued. On the i2th oi
June they commenced au exodus, and passed
through the air for three day in countless ho-t.
and were drowned in the lake, the shorr- 1t
which were soon 50 covered with them thai m.
offensive cflaYia was produced. In a few jny=
/ new armies poured IN from the deserts beyond
the mountains. and speedily dcvonred the lttl,,
vegetation left, including the third crop Which
had just been sown aud was bnrelY maI M
its appearance The drought had been eNces=
slye, and the cattle were driven ia the mountains
for grass. The writer savs.-"A nope for crops
of grain or grass is blighted, ond famine price,
may be expected 10 prevail.
Majors DelaGeld and Moldocai aud Capt. Nc.
/ Cicllm, |. s Army officers, loft st. Petersburg
for Berlin on the Eth of August.
Archbishop Hughes left Boston ON Wednesday
/ in the steamer America for ilalifax, where he il
/ 10 NtuclalP al u Cbulfu btdifhtlou.
The British Parliament WINS proroguod ON the
18th ut, the Queens speech having been deity
ed by proxy. The speech congratulatoa the
country on the increasing strength of the union
| between Franco and England and the accession
of Sardinia Ia the alliance. Regrets are express
ed that the Vienna Conference failed TO accom-.
plsh the result so desired. These endoavors
having failed no other course is left but to prose
cute the war with all possible vgor, and rely
upon the patriotism of the people aud the gal
lantry Of the army and the navy TO carry it on.
The Parliament stands prorogued until the I'D
of October.
\ correspondent of the New York Times. writ
ing from Peru, gives n narrative of II difficulty
between our government and the Peruvian an.
thoriies, which settled only hy the fcrtihl,
Interference of our Minister, Mr.. Clay. aud Tin
United Sthtes irigate Independence, which hal,
pened to be at that port. Capt. Adams, of tht
American ship John Cummings, had shot one nj
his mates for mutiny-for which the Peruvian.
authorities had him arrested aud tried found him
guilty and sentenced him 10 death Mr. Clay
denied that they had any jurisdiction over the
case, and under threat OF foroibly reseuing Cap
tain Adams and his ship, succeeded ia efectinp
their.reease.
Mr.. a. IL. HALsTEAp, son of FIX Chancellor
Halstead of Newark, n j., arrived in San
| Francisco in the latter end of july from fnu,
months Imprisonment in Colima, in Mexico He
relates fully the treatment he received at II,
| hands of the Mexican authorities from the tim,
of his landing ut Manzanill, in the America,
schooner Flying Dart TO the period of discharg,
through the exertion, of Gen. Gadsden. III,
United States Minister II appears tlvt Mr.
lialstead was induced to 90 to Colima for the pur
pose OF purchasing coru. without passport, il
order that the officials night have "A pretext fnt
seizing him, and thus confscate tho Dart. which
they wanted, aud Of which they supposed him /,
be the commander. However, by his vigilanct
and activity they were disappointed, and Mr.