Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-03-03
DAILY VIRGINIAN.
News aud Miscellany.

papers respecting the Ostond Conference. The
Senate is discussing in secret session the demand
OF Benton & Go. on Peru, for indemnity for losses
ON guano vessels sent out in 1881, under gnar-
antee of protection by State aud Navy Depart
ments. The amount claimed is two hundred and
fifty thousand aoars. 1t is proposed 10 request
the President to enforce the demand. Much
anxiety is caused by rumor Of Il veto from the
President ON the Steamer appropriation bill. The
The President is sad to have intimated that he
intended to veto tho bill. Also, veto of the
Texas Creditor bill is apprehcnded by some. In
that case the proposition is made to incorporate
both bills with the General Appropriation bill 1t
Is expected that the SENATE will add the Rallrond
Iron Duty bill to the Tariff amendment OF the
House.
TIM EXCITEMENT IN CuBA.-A According to
private letters received from llavena, says the
Baltimore American, the authorities have been
utterly deceived in relation to the runorcd oNpc-
dition from The United States. II is said, more
over, TINT the Captain General IL pursuing pol
icy of deep strategy, with the object of iniusng
into the public mind as we'll of Cubn as of the
United States, II conviction If his extraordinary
penetration. II is nl-o intmnted, that the ar-
rests which have been made. were determined
unon moro with II desire 10 inspire terror in the
minds of the people of Cuba than from any rcol
crnnalitv on the part of the persons seized.
Many Of those now III prison nrc gentlemen ol
the first rosition in society in Cuba, both M re
gnrds intelligence and wealth; and, If It be truo
TINT they were canspirng against the govern
mcnt, all must admit that III" revolutionary sen
tmcnt in Cuha has far deeper hold upon the
people than tho government there would have
supposed.
BlsIIoP j. o. ANDREWS has removed from
Oxford Georgia, to Summered, Alabama. The
address of Bishop Pierce is nlso changed from
Sparta. by the establishment of post office,
nearer his residence, called "culverton,' Han
| cock county, Georgia.
a CASE of unusunl public interest was heard
lnst week before the supreme Court OF the Uni
ted States; namely That OF Colonel j. {. Ere
mont, v. the United States appeal from the
Nerthern district of California. Colonel Ere
mont clnims u trnet of land, called "lns Maripo-
sas," in California. of ten Spanish leagues i'll
extent, (about $4,000 acres,) by purchase from
native Californian, Don laNn Il. AVarado, form
| erly for several years Governor of that country
Whom II Department oi Mexico.
"SAM" lH NEW loHk.--At the recent town
elections in the interior of New York, the Know
Nothings have almost without exception carried
the lay 1t is evident that Mr.. Stewards return
10 the senate was violation of the will Of the
people as in those towns represented by the re
GnAuut knOW Nullilnp members ol ilb l4'Blhhi-
turc, the party trinmPhs by large votes.
TROUBLE IN WAsuNGT0N. old aud new
Boards of the Washington National Monument
Association, met on Saturday nj II o'clock, IN
their Office, in the City Hail. when aftcr some
warm language, growing out of their conflicting
claims to retain their respective position, it wns
determined thnt the books and papers Of the As
socnon should remain in the hands OF the clerk,
! Qckrofi, who was continued IN office by the new
Board,) accessible To each Bonrd until the qucs-
tion shall be udieinlly decided, as To the valldl-
~ of the election on the 22d February, 1855.
SENTENCED TO BE HANGED IN LOUISIANA
Molanie, II slave girl belonging to Mile. Flores
tine Froux, and her brother, Mengo, belonging
| to Mime. Ellen knlair have been tried and con
| yctcd in the Parish of st. Charles. of the murder
of John Wesley Lathern, on the goth of Noyom-
! Der last, and have been sentenced to be hanged.
! Parker, the husband of Mcanie. who was tried
| with them acquitted. MIR. Lathrrn was to
| have been married on the 27th To Mechanics ms
| tross, md the alleged ground Of his being mur
| dcrcd was TINT she did not wish to be- removed to
! Mr., Iathern's place.
SENTENCED TO THE LEGISLATURE II. Grntz
Browne, Esq, editor of the st. Louis Democrat,
whose seat member of the Missouri House
of Representatives was contested hy Mr.. Good
| lett, las been sentenced I" serve out the remain
der Of the term. Editors ARE proyerbially nnfor-
tunnte
Corkr OF CLAiMs.-fhc National lutelIigcn-
Ger says "One of the most important bills which
hus passed Congress within our remembrance ro-
ccivoi the fnal sanction of the Legislative branch
Oh Friday. We refer 10 the bill to establish n
Cotri of Ciaims, to which we yentured not long
/ since 10 invoke the favor of the House Of Repre-
scptatiyc7, with which it then rested. This bill
was called mp at II favorable moment and, the
fricuds Of it wisely nbstaining from debate, it was
forthwith passed by iargo majority. The bill
gives Jurisdiction 10 tie Court To- hear and dc
terlnine all cIaim- founded upon amy law Of Con
gress. or upon any regulation of an Executive
Department, or upon any contract, express, or
implied, with the Government of the United states
and all claims refeued by either House OF Con
grcss. The testimony IN all cases Is to be re-
ported to Congress and all upon which fayora.
bic decisions are given are to be accompanied
with bill or bills to carry them into effect, and
with briefs from the solicitor of the Board and
from he claimant
MouNTAIN FORGERs.-A number of coiners of
false money and notes escaped in September last
from the fortress of Kmnnigstein. in Saxony,
and established themselves in Saxon Switzerland
on the summit of mountain 300 feet in hei ght,
called the Plaifensten. There they worked in
ccssantly in inbreatng false paper money III II
cavern some sixty or eighty feet from the sum
NIT of the rock. To this cavern access could only
be obtained by descending n rope-a perilous
operation ; but one man always lett on the
summit to keep watch and let down provisions.
| The notes which the gang forged, ana which
! purported to be of the Austrian and Hessan banks