Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-08-29
VOL. 5--NO. a..
DAILY VlRGfNIAN.

VAIL iaufiNIhNp
An NmAxnN.-Phebe Brown is five feet six.
inches in hcehi is about thirty, well proportion
cd round face aud rnddy =; has u dark penetrTiie
eve. which ihe moment it fixes upon your face
secs yonr character and that with precision
Her step is more manly than mans, and oan coy
~ forty miles day. Her common dress is
,naus hat, eoat with spencer over 1t, and
mems shoes. She il unmarried She can hit
one hundred wpighs in each hand, and carry four
teen score; can sew, knit and spin but hates them
all ard every accompaniment OF the female cha
raotcr. that Of modessy accepted. gentleman
ut Bath had recently treated her rudely.--
':She had a good mind to knock him DOWN
She assured me 'she never knew what fear was
She gives aifroni bu. offers to fight any man
who gives her one. II she has never fougH. per
haps it il owiag to the insuter benga oowerd
for the man of courage would dsdain to oftep All
insult to woman. Phoebe has strong sense
nm excellent Judgment. says smart things and
supports easy freedom in all companies
Her voice il mora than ma cuns-it is deep
toned. With the wind IN her favor she can send
it n lie: she hns neither beard nor prominence
of bre ast she undertakes any kind Of manual Ia
Tor, ~ holding plongh. driving team. thatch-
ing barn. using fail Sc.; but her chief voca
ton is breaking horses, for which she charges
gu uen each. She always rides without q
saddle, is thought To be the best judge OF ahorse
q IN the country, and Is frequently employee
10 purchase for others at the neighboring fhirs.
She is fond Of Milton. Pope and Shakespeare. also
Of music; il self taught, and performs on several
instrum ents, as the flute, VIOLIN and hnrpsichord.
aud supports the bnss violin in Molloch church.
She is II markswoman, and carries gun on her
shoulder She eats no beef or pork, and but lit
lie mutt on. Her chief food is milk, which is also-
her rin k, disearding wine, ale and spirits rs un.
wholsonle.-Engiish paper.
ELEv EN- COURSES or Sour AND GINGER
BREAD. "Immed dntely on entering, the guests
were dos red 10 seat themselves, the Commodore
with Captains Buchanan and Adams. occupying
the highest table on the right hand, and tho
gent and his associates the opposite on the left.
pair of chop sticks was placed Mt each corner
of every table; in the centre was an earthen pot
filled with saki (the intoxicating drink made by
the Low. Chewans,l surrounded with four acorn
cups, with olunsy spoons of the same material
aud four F., IA caps, On ench table dishes
to the nul nber of some twenty, of various sizes
and shape y. and the exact basis If some of which
no Americ an knoweth 10 TO this day, possibly it
was pig. OF the dishes, however, which we're
familiar TO Western apprehension, there were
sliced boi'ed eggs, which had been dyed crimson,
fish mnde into rolls and boiled in fat, pieces of
cold ha ked fish slices of hogs liver, suger candy,
cucumhers, mustard. salted radisah tops, and
frngme nts oi lenn pork, fried. Cups of tea were
first hand cd around; theHe were followed by
small cups Of suki, which had the taste, Of French
liqueur. Small bamboo sticks sharpened at one
ond, and which some Of the guests mistook for
toothpc k, were furnished to be used as forks,
in taking balls of meat and dough from the soup
which IN ad the first course. Soup constituted
also the ne xt seven courses of the twelve, where
of tho repast consisted The other four were
gingerb end, salad made of bean sprouts and
onion toUe,n basket of what appeared to be some
red fruit, hut proved to be balls composed Of t.
thin dough rnd covering sugary pulp, and u
4 dad ,f hnn
aud n sic nder white root with an aromatic taste.
Novel as was this bill of fare, the gentlemen of
the expedition endeayored. with trno courtesy, to
do honor to The repast, at the end of the twelfth
course rc specially took leave, though they were.
assured th ere were twelve more to come. The
number Of the courses indicated y desire to do
our countr ymen a double share of honor, iDas-
much as twelve is tho prescribed number for
royal ente tertainment."-D DR.. Hamk's Narrative
Of Japan Expedition
CIVILIZATION ON HEAruEN PoPULArIoN.-1np
l777. Capt ain Cook foand 200, 900 people inhab-
ting Tahiti. He declared his estimate to be
rather under than over the mark Thrse were
the days of wars. human sacrifices, inianticide,
and that ordinary reeklessness OF life which the
missionaries profess 10 have, generally speak
ing, cured Aged natives ut that time remem-
Der tho high priest Teearrnoor, who uttared. the
prophecy which the people caught up for its
strangeness at first, and repeat now for its
dread pathos. 1t is at this day sung in the
depth Of retreat, where tho missionaries cannot
overhear-
"1he palm tree shall grow,
The coral shall spread.
But shall cease
census taken just before the American Ex-
ploring Expedition there, showed the indig-
enous population to be 5000. The missionaries
called il 5000. In the Sandwich Islands, the
decline OF the population is suoh history can
scarcely parallel, and as every hearer at an Ex-
etor Hall May meeting should be informed Of
We are told, not only by native tradition. ont
by the early navigators Of the Pacific, that there
were human abodes wherever there was
good soil and water, and that the population OF
this group was not less than 100000. Now it is
under $4,000. Twenty FIVE years ago-within
Ihe period of strenuous missionary efort-it was
double this is,--Wesfmiaister Rfuieip.
100000 Tnp"iwld to purchase hi. season al,