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Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-02-18

y have to announce that my Distribution Enterprise can
not take place on he 22d of February. The unusual han
of the winter has prevented from seeing aud settling
my agents. A. them shall upou anoad
day not later than about the st of August lch M
da"nE will certainly take place, the tickets called
the money refunded and should sale Of ticket, Justify III
IN doing H. shall Xix upon earlier day,
nave the drawing take place at the earliest possible time
JESSE 7. HOPKINS,
e l5dNctlst Hmm, Va
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AMUSEMENT.
DUDLEY HALL.
CELEBRATION
OF THE 22ND OF FEBR UARY.

The MISlCAL ASSOCIATION of Lynchburg Will give a
CONCERT
ON the evcung of the 22d inst ut DIZZY HALL the pro-
reeds will lac bestowed in aid Aouut
Committee Of Ladies for the purchase of
WASil1NGTON'S HOME AND GRAVE.
Performance to commence at half past o'eiuck.
Admission 30
Tickets may had all the Stores of The city
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iee5 fufeattFt Medicine, try Ayers fw PItS-th"v
ar HelL1 lrNing-C Concord Nrrcarg. ) G. Ifr > I,n
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

How jim WIcKER's HEAD Cor BALD.
jim Wicker was comical looking fel-
low, with very young face, but by rea-
son Of having no hair, he looked very old
from his eyebrows all the way round to
the back of his neck. Ha was very SEN
sitive about the defect, and was somewhat
celebrated, from fight he had with a
travelling agriculturalist, who, upon being
asked by Jim, what would cause the hair
to grow upon his shining psll, was advised
to cover the top of his head with guano,
and plant it down in crab grass But
Jim wouldn't quarrel with Captain Wild,
for that gentleman was not only the host
Of the Fairy Queen, but also had the key
of all the refreshments in his possession !;
so without hesitation he enlightened his
auditory after this fashion:
"You see the har always did keep ra-
ther scarce bout my scalp, and l was al
ways rubbing in one thing and another to
fotch it out, for | was sartin the roets
wasn't dead, though thar was little to be
seen above the ground. I'd heard Of bar S
grease, and bought gallon in bottles, but
L believe it was nothing but hogs lard and
mutton taller; SO l thought would have
the genuine article, and got old Dan to
go out and kill something for my especial
benefit. Dan told me it was in the spring,
and that the bar was in bad health and
out of season but believed he YVES try
ing to quiz me, and wouldn't take 10 for
an answer. A short hunt fetched crit
ter at bay, and Dan, by shot in the vi
tails, saved the varmnt;' but the bar was
in bad condition, for ho looked as seedy
as an old Canada thistle, and he had hard
ly lie enough in him to keep his jints from
squeakipg, but what he did have got and
used and strangers, said jim, looking
sorrowfully round on the company, in two
days, what little hair L had commenced
falling off, and in a week was as bald as
3 gun barrel Dan was right; the var
mint was shedding himself, and had no.
thing in him but har shedding lie, and the
consequence is, l can't in the dark tell
my head from dried gourd, if l depend
on fcclin f"
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

A letter from Sebastopol says that the
new French floating batteries are entirely
built of iron, and covered with shell of
the same metal, under which the chimney
is lowered and concealed during an action
Trials have been made against this she'll
with Ga Founders, but they only produced
slight dent, the projectiles themselves
rcbounding far away When shut, the
batteries lock like a tortoise, being broad
est in front The front battery is armed
with thirty guns of the heaviest calibre.
The portfolios are in their turns closed
by lids that open of themselves the mo-
ment the gun is fired, and then shutting
instantly A small orifce in the lid epa-
bles the gunner to take aim.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

OccuPATIoN.-What glorious thing
it is for the human heart /? Those who
work hard seldom yield themselves entire
ly up to fancied or real sorrow. When
grief sits down, folds its hands, and mourn
fully feeds upon its own tears, weaving
the dim shadows, that q little exertisn
might sweep away into funeral pail, the
strong spirit is shorn of its might, and sor-
rows become our master. When troubles
flow upon you dark and heavy, toll not
with the waves ,wrestle not with the torrent;
rather seek, by occupation, to divert tn.
dark waters that threaten to overwheln
you into thousand channels which the
duties of life always present. Before you
dream of it, thoss waters will fertilizs the
present and give berth to fresh flowers
that may brighten the future flowers that
will become pure and holy in the sunshine
which penetrates to the path of duty in
spite of every obstacle. Grief, after all,
is but selfish feeling, and most selfish is
the man who yields himself to the indul-
gence of any passion which brings no joy
to his fellow man.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

RUSSIAN OBsrINAcY.-The Gar Al
exander, in free conversation, last July,
with an American Senator, Gen. James,
of Rhode Island, (says the Washington
correspondent of the Charleston Courier
said that the Allies might take Sebasto-
pei but they would find it pile Of ruins;
and that every other place in the Empire
would be as well as that had been and
that even if he evacuated the Crimea, the
war weuld tacn be but just begun. He
further said that he was waging war at a
disadvantage in the Crimea, where the
Allies had the benefit of their navy, and
ready mcans of concentration of their
troops, supplies, &C.; and that foreseoing
the duration q n, war, he had taken no
measures fo. L l"t.nce of the Crilrea,
which were il .iblc with the defence
of the heart OF ,L@ Russian Empire, from
which he had drawn no resources. He
was prepared for resistance to the utmost,
against any invasion by land Of his from
tiers.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04
George LII.

FROM THACKERAY's LECTURE IN NEW YORK
Frederick, Prince of Wales, father of
George III, was hated by his sire, and
never spoken of by his son. The latter,
dull lad, was brought up in dull man
ner by dull people. He believed in no
one and suspected every body While still
young, he became enanoured Of the Prin
cess Charlotte of Mecklenberg Strelitz,
through reading a letter of hers, contain
ing string of commonplaces on peace
and war. The King was at first slightly
disappointed with the looks of his Queen,
but he was faithful and true to her as she
was to him. They passed their time very
monotonously, giving dancing parties of
dozen couples, in which the King danced
three hours to one tune; else attending
his Court, or, more commonly reading Og-
denis Sermons to his wife. ooh Ar
cadia :" exclaimed the lecturer, at this
insipid routine which never varied. The
smallest jokes would set the King laugh
ing, his memory was good on such sub
jeets as the pedigree and anteccdepts of
his nobles-"and nice antecedents he must
have known"-the number of buckles and
buttons worn by soldiers in various armies;
IN tact, he had mind to grasp little
things. He believed, conscientiously in
his divine right, cas- though, any man had
divine right to do wrong He was hon
est, slow and obstinate he would fire.
quently 60 unattended into thevillage cot
tages, chatting with the old crones, asking
the rent of the houses with no object in
view, or turning the meat, suspended by a
string before the fire, in the absence of
the housewife, and leaving FIVE pounds "to
buy meat-jack." He was emphatically
undignifed. The Queen was strong mind
ed, not at all weak, and would not permit
such failing in any of her Court ladies.
'ln fact she hated weakness with ran
cor, virtue sometimes has.''
OF all his large family, the two the
King most loved, were the Duke of York
and tho Princess Amelia. The former
could not undergo the tediousness of the
Palace, and passed little time with his
doting parent. Not so the lovely young
Princess, beloved by all who knew her
Her death produced an awful effect upon
the King. He became insane, sightless,
deaf, wandering about the Palace, forsa-
ken and alone. Only occasionally lucid
interval interviewed. 1t was during one of
these, the Queen found him in room
singing psalm !; then witless of her pres
ence he knelt down and prayed aloud, for
her, Tor the nation, for his family stop
ping-he burst into tears, and reason had
fownl
How can we repeat the last sentence of
Mr.: Thackeray's lecture with that soul
thrilling effect they told upon his hearers.
"Bro thers- speaking the same moth
sr-tengue; Oemrades-ensmies no more. y
look and be silent before this agony ;athis
poor old Observation-Disclosures
him weeping for his departed daughter,
Lear raying over Cordelia.n
The house was full to its limits.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

AGE OF FoREsT TREEs.---A short time
since it was announced that there was IL
this Golden State one of the worlds wen
ders. 1t was the Arbor Vitae, or big tree
Of Calaveras, which was 90 feet in civeum-
ference, and according to the highest esti-
mate, 5000 years old sltheus II it was
contended by some that its age did not
measure more than half that number of
years. This great specimen of the forest
has since proved to bs the Sesquoia, a
genus separated from the Taxodium, of
which our common redwood constitutes
the type. 1t is well known that our great
"Forest Mother" or the "Forest Father"
which has fallen many years since, does
not constitute either the largest or Oldest
of the woody tribe belonging to the conf
erous family. In other countries trees OK
csed thom in both The Baobab, of Sen
ogal, Adam Sonia Digitata, is aseertained
to be $3.50 years old, and 1874 feet ia cir
cumferencs; and n. De Candolle has de-
termined mary years since that the cele-
brated Taxodium, of Chapultepec, Mexico,
which is III feet in circumference, ey-
ceeds in age the Baobab of Senegal.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

HELP ONE ANoTHER.---Sir Walter SCOTT
wrote "The race of mankind would per
ish did they cease to aid each other. From
the time that the mother binds the child's
head, till the moment that some kind as
sistant wipes the death damp from the
brow of the dying, We cannot exist with
out mutual help. All, therefore, that
need aid. have right to ask it of their
fellow mortals and no one who has it in
his power to grant, can refuse without in
curing guilt"
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

INTERNAL IMPRovEMENTs.-For the year
ending Sept Both, 1855, the loss of property
on the Western rivers, was S2,000,000 1t is
this that SO deeply interests the West in river
and harhor improvements. A total loss of
100000 in property with great number Of
lives, each year, will not long be endured with
out creating formidable party there, in favor
OF protecting the commerce of the West. Il
is now so dangerous to convey goods down the
streams to New Orleans, that the trade has
been turned from its natural course, up across
the northern States and New York, Phila
delphia and Portland are receiving as much
benefit from the settlement of the northwest as
New Orleans. The latter, if the rivers were
properly cleared, and attention paid to health
would become the greatest city in America
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04
An Extraordinary Genius.

A tall-slab-sided specimen of Jersey
man, who hailed from some benighted re-
gion of the sandy State, came to the city
on Friday, says the Philadelphia Sunday
Dispatch, and by psrseveringly going
around tasting specimens, he managed to
get himself pretty well spirit-loggsd Jer-
sey finally got under such a head of
steam that he collapsed, and fetched up
ingloriously, shortly after night, upon a
cellar door. After reposing upon hislis-
nsous bed for brief season, and giving
occasion meanwhile for much speculation
among the boys, who are usually on hand
upon such occasions, ''star" passed
along that way and carried the PROSTATE
ystary of bad whisky off to the station
house. The next morning, Jersey had
become sufficiently sobered to have a hear
ing, and he was taken before an alder
man, who enjoys reputation for official
dignity, magistsrial importance, pomposi-
ty, and highfalutiness generally.
The prisoner was as taciturn as his
judge was wordy, and an amusing dialogue
teok place between the parties. After
the officer had get through with his evil
-dence, in which the fact of drunkenness
was very clearly set forth, the aldsrnan
commenced:
"Ahcm! Well, sir, and so you have
been getting intoxicated, sir, and forget
ting the decencies of life and your social
obligations Have you no appreciation
of the social obligations of good ci.izens:"
'Nary 'prcciation!'' responded the de-
fendant, ssntentiously
eff you have no respect for your obi
cations to society, sir, have you no knowl
edge Of the requirements Of the law"
Mary knowledge" responded Jersey,
stolidly.
"Don't you know, sir, that there is a
'straining law in Pennsylvania Do you
never see newspaper in your part Of the
world, sir -
'N.ry newspaper !"
"Well, ignorance of the law excuseth
ne man." continued the magistrate, be-
coming somewhat riled at the manner of
the offender. s'Have you ever made that
discovery ~
"Nary discovery :" replied Jersey, in
the usual tone.
The Squire was getting his back up.
''Do you know anything but you eternal
'mary,' sir -
"Nsry anything quietly replied the
man of few words.
"Have you money to pay year ine -
thundered tho alderman.
'Nary redn' responded Jersey.
"Take him below" growled the man
of law "the fellow has neither money
nor wit.''
"Nary!" was the remark, as the Off
Ger started to escort his charge Moyamen-
sing ward
The last we heard of the genius was
reply he made to the knight of the billy.
'Look-a-here, stranger" said the lat
ter, "a. general thing, do you confne
your remarks to one word' Don't you
know anything but narye"
"Nsry - was the reply.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04
ROMANCE IN LIFE. we heard the mar.

ROMANCE IN LIFE. I'VE heard the par.
tlculars yesterday of one Of those strange
episodes in life, by which the old adage q
truth is stranger than felton, was fully
illustrated. About six years since, a LADY
named Mrs. Martha Wood, accompanied
by her son, his wife aud couple Of chill
dren, arrived in this city from New Bed
ford, Mass. She stated that she was a
widow of twenty -four years standing,
her husband having been the mate Of a
whaler, which had been lost at sea. Ths
family had resided fer the greater portion
OF the time on Liberty street, Mr. Wood.
the son, working at hi, trade, which is that
of cooper
esterday morning grey-hesded and
tsll-wofn man called at the residence OF
the family, and, seeing Mr. Weed, inquir-
ed for the widow, who, being called into
the room, while gazing intently at the
stranger, whose eyes we're fixed mourn
fully upon her, requested to know his bus
mess.
"Do you not know me, Martha - said
he, and as the sound of his vsice, like the
memory of an olden melsdy, met her ear,
she gave vent to q hysterical cry, and fsin-
ted IN the arms which were opened to re-
ceive hsr.
The tale is soon told the ship in which
he had made his last voyage from New
Bedford had been cast away in the South
Sea Islands, and he was ono of the few
who escaped E watery grave After en-
during almost unkeard of privstions, he
succeeded, after 80 years absence, ia
reaching his native city. From brother
Of his wife he learned their present loca-
ton, and returned hero to find her whom
he had left young and blsomin. bride,
far advanced in the evening Of life, while
the infant, upon whose lips, when last he
saw him, he had imprinted fathers kiss,
was now stalwart man and the head Of
family. How many hopes and fears must
have agitated the heart of the old mariner
as he again set feet, after his long pilgrim
age, upon his native soil = Gin. Enquirer.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04


DIyoRcE. If divorce were as free as mar
riage there would be at least as MANY hastv
and unwise divorces as there are hasty and
unwise marriages. Nothing can prevent the
foolish from committing folly. All that the
law can do is. Ito render the inevitable folly OF
fools ass little hurtful to society, as possible
and among the expedients which the ages have
evolved for that purpose, is the perpetuity o.
the marriage tie. "Ye foolish weddsd two,
says Carlysls, ''who bava quarrele1, between
whom the Evl Spirit has stirred up ancient
strife and bitterness, SO that lncompatibility
seems almost nigh. We are nevertheless the two
who, by long habit, were it nothing more dc
best of all Others suit each other it is expe
dient for your own two foolish selves. to ssv
nothing of the infants, pedigrees, and public
in general, that ye agree again, that ye put
away the Evil Spirit, and wisely on both
hands struggle for the guidance Of Good
Spirit No, say the free -divorcists yop
should rush from each Others detested pres.
ence, aud wreck u household that had till lately
been happy home. 81 am for permancnce
adds Carlysle, in ell things at the earlieet
possible moment, and to the latest 4ossibIe
And so arc We. Life illustrated,
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

SONG OF FALL.
BY R.P sHIr1ARrp


The curious winds come searching through the street
With bodings bitter,
Whrling around the quick pedestrians feet
Whole heaps oflitter.
The charcoalman has donned his thicker coat
And gloves ofleather, T
And chilly strains, that trembling gush, dsnot.
Hes meath the weather.
The shopkeepers withdraw their fragile stock
or lace and musIins,
Unable these to stand the stalwart shock
0fautumn's hustlings.
Delaires and thibets float upon tho air
In tempting manner
And Bay State paids floating every where,
Like many banner -.
And winter furs come unpercsiysd-
Of itch and sable
And spOsa and the girls, thdir cloaks achieved,
Are comfortable. o--st -.-.v
And little Billy takes his wiater boots.
From where he's thrown them s
Alas J he tries and finds that neither suits,
- For he's outgrown them. 41r
The vine looks sckly on tho treilis hizhz-,s 2
The leaves all curling, 5sstl. Il, ,.,-a -
And every breeze that hastsns rydely BY =.
s. Sets them to whifiihg III 9l''ss
Tho old spout hanging by single nafi
Doth sigh and mutter E 49,
As if in meek remonstrance with the gale,
That threats doth utter.
The summer birds haze left their breezy haunt
Among our branches
And moved upon their regular annual Jaunt
To warmer ranches.
Huge heaps of coal dene the sidewalk WAY.
And we, confound em,
Must o'er their slippery heights a path essay,
Or travel round 'em.
And many bills thrust in their leech like length.
With items fearful
Testing the purse whose corresponding strength
Is never near full,
And white hats fade like fakes of Hing snow
In springs warm weather,
And fashions votaries tako another bow
Or higher feather.
The biting airs the shrinking lesh appal
By sharp incison,
And every thing proclaims the approach of fall
Except provisions.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

GREELY-PHeBIA.-According to manv
of our contemporaries, Horace Greedy has
been at the bottom of nearly every crime
of consequence or interest that has been
peipetrated, or pernicisus doctrine thar
has been exposed for the last three or fsur
weeks. Naturally alarmed at such de-
pravity on the part Of one of our principal
editors, we have made diligsnt inquiry as
to what the Philosopher will be up to in
the future-and have ascertained that h.
is at present
Plotting the death Of the President
Making arrangements for the massacre
of the Cabinet.
Trying to introduce Yellow Fever ints
the city.
Buying couple of powder mills on the
Brandywins creek, TO be blown up for his
amusement.
Filing very thin places in all the boil
ers OF North River steamboats,, and hiring
tho captains to race thsir boats.
Bulling the peanut market.
Endeavoring to increase the price OF
flour to fifteen dollars per barrel.
Buying up, with Solon Robin.ons assis-
taacs, all the beef cattle in the market, in
order to raise the price of steaks to cue
dollar per pound.
Ard going cut at nights poisoning IA
vorite dogs, and stonins the pet cats Of
old maids-sAoking in the faces of people
unprotected fsmales-throw-
ing vitrol sn peoples clothes, besides
performing variety Of other petty
in his leisure moments, such
as running pins through fies-pinchina
infants in their cradles; pulling door bells
and running away, merely to occupy him
in the absence Of opportunity for greater
Y Piiceyune
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04
Notice to Transfers.

THE undersigned has fitted up and opene d a
Il WAGON AND HAY YARD, opposite the
White Hall Livery Staole, on Broad street., Ne
vada, kept by Parsons & Cleveland This ward is
fitted up in the best manner for comfort and con-
venience for Teamsters fountain of good water
and large and commodious Stable in the ward.
on tho NEST reasonable terms.
Good Hay and Barley constantly on hand at low
prices. The yard is supplied with roomy gates,
sufficiently large to admit ofthe largest Hay teams
The Yard is large enough to accommodate Twenty
wagons at time. Gates locked every night after
the teamsters get through with their stock and two
good Dogs to watch the yard. consider all stock
put in my chnrge perfectly safe, but will not be re-
sponsibie for their loss
supply of Good Clean Straw for making Mat
resses, on hand: Mattresses kept on hand for sale
at very low prices.
] have Three separate Corrals for the con-
VeHience OF Ok Teams and Stock drovers.
dentiemen give me call and YOU will never
Sgret it. JAMES H0EI ~
Decemosr 7-on No 81 and 81 Broad street
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

AN AMPLE APoLocY.---A gentleman
was called upon to apologize for words ut
tered in wine. 81 beg PARDON" said he,
II did not mean to say what | did bat
I've had the misfortune to lose some Of
my front teeth, and words get out every
now and tLen without my knowledge. !"
He was going on, when friend pulled
him down by the coat-tail, saying, ''Dont
say one word more. Never was there 4
more perfect apology. If you add anoth-
er word, you'll spoil it completcly.n
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

CoNMoNPLACE WoMEN.-The follow
ing is one among the many fine gems Of
truth, that lie scattered over the surface
of nevspaperdom, and is too beautifully
true ever to be lost to the world:
"Heaven knows how many simple let
tsrs from simple minded wcmen, have
been kissed, cherished, and wept over by
men of lofty intellect. So it will always
be to the end Of time. 1t is a lesson
worth learning BY those young creatures,
who seek to allure by theic accomplish
msnts, or dazzle by their genius, that
though he may admire, ne man ever loves
woman for these things. He loves her
for what is essentially distinct from, though
not Incompatible with thsm-her woman s
nature and her woman's heart. This is
why we SO often see man of high genius
or intellectual pswers, pass by tho De
Staels and Corinnes, to take into his bo-
SOM somc wayside flower, who has nothing
on earth to make her worthy of him. ex-
cept that she is-what so few OF you 'fa-
male celebrities" are-a true woman"
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

You can go, says the Boston Post, in
to the North Bridgewater Museum for ten
cts; and see a spoon used by King Phillip,
and taken at his capture a pe.tle which
belonged to Massaoit; wine glass used
by Washington during brief stop at
Easton; two candlestieks, one of brass
and the other of China, brought over in
the May1ower; an apron worked in a
beautiful manner, two hundred wears ago,
by a girl of fourt cen years.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

There are not, in the unseen world,
voices more gentle and more true, that
may be more implicitly relied on, or that
are SO certain to give none but the ten
derest counsel, as the voices in which the
spirits OF the freside and the hearth ad-
dress themselves to human kind.n
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

Orr roR NlcARAGUA.---Ye estcrday, VIC
are informed, party of about twenty -fiv.
persons, mostly young men of the city,
left in the New Orleans mail boat for that
point, en- route to join their fortunes with
Col. Kinney in Nicaragua May they not
be disappointed in their high wrought Wis
ions of gold and glory in that fancied f.
Dorado. Mobile Advertiser, Nor. 10th.
The Nevada journal., 1856-01-04

The wisest period in mans life is be-
tween eighteen and twenty-five; after that
his knovingness so falls off, that by the
time he reaches fifty-fve or sixty, he
makes up his mind that he is fool