Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-02-08
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The congregation of Rev Henry Ward Beech
er, in Brooklyn, New Y. have taken S30,O00
worh of stock in the Kansas Emigration Aid
Society at the suggestion oftheir pastor.
At last accounts the dollar notes issued by the
Domican government were selling at the low rate
Of a cent aud n half each, The Hayti paper dol
lar is worth about 81 cent.
A writer in the Louisville Courier proposes
that the Wings of Kentucky hold State Con
yenton on the 18th of April, the anniversary Of
the birthday of Henry Clay
Sarah Haycroft, keeper Of house ofIlfame in
St Louis, and who killed Il man in that city, has
been convicted Of murder in the first degree
Tho Americans Of Indianola, Texas. have in
srncted their delegates to the State Convention,
which is TO elect delegates to Philadep ha TO vote
for suoh men for delegates only as are favorable
t. Millard Fillmore for President, and Sam IIous.
ton for Vice President.
A professional beggar woman. who has lived in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for ten years past. has
accumulated property, for which she has refused
ten thousand dollars.
1t is said the average of cold for the month Of
January, 1856, in New York. was greater than
any has occurred for 20 years.
The Emperor Napoleon has sent to Mr.. John
s. G., Abbott, "A gald medal in return for n com
pliinentary copy ofhis life of Napoleon. In n
letter which accompanied the book Mr.. Abbott,
says although the work has been assailed by
n portion of the American press with the utmost
vrulencc, it is accepted by the great mass Of the
people with applause"
A Paris correspondent of the New York Com
mercial. saysthat the project of the French Amer
lean steamship company is now considered a
fixed fact. The French government has prom.
I'D for t,oo &
which it will pay literally and the line will be or
ganzed 10 leave semiweokly and alternately from
the ports of iIavre and Bordeaux f. the ports of
! New York and New Orleans. The steamers
are to be about the size Of the Fulton and Arago.
The freight business on on the Manassas Gap
railroad has increased to suoh an extent that the
company fnd it necessary to run freight train
daily.
James river is still closed with ice above San
dy Point, and there Is said to be little prospec,
of speedy resumption of navigation
Senetor Toombs. of Ga, was a spector during
the sitting of the Massachusetts, Legislature, Satur.
day.
John n. Lane worth $500. 600 and prom
nent merchant of Pttsburg, Pa, died on the 2Stl
ult.
James NJ. Bland. we'll known stage contrac-
tor formerly Wytheville died at Greensboroug
N. c. few days since
st. Petersburg letters say that Marshall Pask
iewich has bequethed his dying injunction to thu
Emperor to make peace.
"The man who davotes n whole life to accumu
! late wealth is donkey. The moment he obtain.
a competence he should quit trade, buy nea
little coop in the country for his hens and chick
ems and Immediately afterwards give himself NJ
to the cultivation # drum head cabbage and
higher grade Of morality. People who die in trad,
generally die indebted to the-gentlemah way
down below.
A Democratic meeting in Fayetteville, N. C
on the 2Sth, declared for Franklin Pierce for tn,
Presidency.
The Georgia Legislature have resolved to re
turn the Vermont resolutions on slavery to tn,
Governor Of that State.
Gen Wicklitre was inaugurated governor o
Louisiana on Monday last
No franking privileges exist in England f
ven the Queen has to pay her penny.
+. w. Symme. editor of the Pendleton Is. c.
| Messenger, died last week.
Mr.. Dallas prop oses to leave for London by
tina next Steamer.
Mount Nesuvius threatens another eruption