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Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

doe not appear 10 have been regarded ~ the Span
ia Ga,ernmeut with that favor which - protector
la4l'ltss expected
\ heavy smuggling operation was prevented on the
occasion Of the srrIs At New York of the steamship
Washington. Il aBpears that the custom house Off
Ger : attention va difeelcdto a box which he had
examined and passed from the fact that on kicking
against 1t there was rafting inside which the ap7a-
rent contents were not capable VI producing Sec
ond examination vas resolved upon, and The box was
opened at the wrong end, developing fslse bottom
and tie secretion osome forty thousand dollars worth
Of diamonds The box was Of course, conveyed TO
the "a tom house.
The Richmond Wing urges the importance of Sc
eeing the best in the different counties to rep
resent the people in the next Legislature of our State
and especially with reference their views on the
Public Lands question Ii is willing 10 give up par
" in the ensuing election for the sake Of having "A
majority in the Legislature willing to obtain for vr-
GINA her equitable proportion of the public domain
be applied to the wants Of education and internal
improvements. Would that this desirable result
could be accomplished
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
Horr;b.s We l. .

Tn. New York GrbIn' E''r- al'ea',s wv
ture Of the scene at the wreck vt the brig htlih+
line on Sunday morning last, on the Jersey coast
near Sandy Hook. The vessel was IN distress
aud vas run ashore to save the lives of the cap
tain md crew. She was approaching the
beach. where a crowd Of wreckers and others
were gathered to witness the catastrophe. ne
faces If the crew could be seen, pale aud CHASTITY
anil, IA. she struck. every man cried poh heiP
Us - But they chung 10 the icy rigging as the
vessel was dashed over. She lay about eighty
vafl- hon shore. The main sail was han SET
nnd 10 -ix men on board got under the lee OF H.
aud were for "A time. sheltered from the storm
They mast have been frozen until they were too
weak for exertion. ~ they did not launch their
hoat. The mortar was placed ON shore and hve
line. shot from il IN uccessIon, all Of winch lodg
ed in The rigging of the vessel, but the feeble and
worn out sailors were unable to reach 1t. Soon
the mainsail gave way. and being then exposed
to ih4 fall furry of the storm with the sta sweep
ing the deck. some If the doomed men took to
the rigging. while others went into the cabin
Too feehe To help themse Ives the few above. look
ed mrloriugly ashore One attempted l" save
himself by throwing overheard the top of the
galley md jumping after 1t, but after struggling
brayey for fifteen minutes, was drowned by get
lin. under the shore ice. Thu three mrn who
went into the cabin not seen again. The
two remaining men above ir"ze to death in the
rigging. On Monday the brig broke in two, and
the fragments drove ashore. She was n Yankee
craft. but was owned in New York. whittier she
wa~ bound with u cargo Of oswood from the West
Indies
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
American. M English Guest Dinucrs,

ment of plain private American citizens destitute
Of official rank being iavited to dine with the Queen
We told that this is the result OF the advice
of the Ministry. America is first power in II .
world. 1t is her policy-the very principle OF
her constitutional, have no artificial distinctions
of rank The Queen invites to dinner the major
domo or gold stuck Of any little German princi
patty cx comiate from n desire to be on friendly
terms with all powers. Now,as the United States
have no gold sticks or hereditary grand washer
women. their citizens have hitherto been by Ell
qnctte excluded from the circle Of royal civiliti
Seeing the mountain couldn't go to Mahometthe
prophet has gone to the mountain: palmefson has
'swali, wed formulas" aud Queen Victoria plays
the hostess to plain Uncle Sam.-Londoa Heek
IN Dis q CHI, Dee. y.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
Apucn Jlr0 a'irgintau.
Monday Marains. February =. 1874.

The House Committee the Pe,tofice on
Tuesday decided 10 report in favor of Dr. Raines ;
line Of steamers between New York and the West
Indies and Brazil. touching at Savannah, Geor-
gia. Para is the terminus in Brazil. The steam
ers are to touch at ST. Thomas. Barbados and
Demerara and ~ech way at Savannah. for the
receipt aud delivery of mails, under penalty OF
50 900 for each trip. 1t is said that our COM
merou with the regions developed by this line is,
for 1856 $4,000. 900. or one sixth Of the entire
American commerce. The establishment Of this
line would aifrd Congress opportunity of
making some better compensation to the South,
than il proposes. for the heavy Collins approprl.
atoms, that have enured so largely 10 the benefit
OF the North. There is good reason why
Norfolk should not be made the point of arrival
and departure for these steamers, and IT is not
unlikely that if the Virginia delegation could
once'cet a practical idea in their heads. they
could effect the arrangement. Some years ago
shere were some able papers from Lieut.. Maury
bearing on tbiSsuhjeet. They would afford in
structive reading to any Virginia representative |
who might conceive the novel thought Of achiov-
ing something Substantially good for his State
from the action of Congress. What does Mr.. |
Leicher think oft?
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

The New York Albion, the British organ in
this country, does not relish the suggestion tina,
Forney shall be sent as Minister to England to
salye his wounded sensbties, nnd discharge the
debt due him by the President elect. 1t says:
Mr.. Buchanans right hand man is smarting bitter
ly under his defeat and some of the journals that
back him up are bent upon procuring him compen-
sation A seat in the Cabinet Post Master Gen
eral is Of the consoaory ideas suggested another
is foreign mission. The former does not concern
us; the latter may, possibly Imagine this indivd-
nal sent to represent his country the court of Queen
Victoria. We cannot undertake to say that he would
not be received. Il might not be according to dpo-
matte etiquette TO take cpgn-auco at local tran
ton, such as that which made Mr. Forney notorious
But the antecedens of newly appointed Minister are
generally wellsted. and, after the process in such
case had been completed will venture to say that
the cold shoulder would be universally shown him
and that his intercourse with the nation 10 which he
was accredited would not go oni the streiest red
tape requirements. II Mr. Forney be really sent a
broad, it must be to such court the Russian
or Neapolitan, where truthulness would be quite n
superiority; or the Chinese, where the reputation
all "outside barbarians' is alike Indifferent to the
brother of the Sun and the Moon.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

When the Indian Appropriation bill was un.
der discussion in the Senate. on Tuesday, Mr..
Crittenden remarked that our whole Indian poll
cy had proved failure and sufficiently ndca
ted that Congress had mistaken the true means
for attaining the benefcent ends it had proposed
i he expense attending our intercourse with the
Indians had reached frightful amount-being
greater than that of the whole General Govern.
ment in the early days of the Republic; and Mr..
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
Memphis and Charleslon Railroad

The Corinthian Pillar Of January 9th says 4" Mr..
Arms, the chief engineer and superintendent of the
Memphis Charleston Railroad, who has been in our
town this week, informs us that the connection will
certainly be made by the middle of March or the first
OF April. This is much than Vas anticipated
by many, but Mr.. Arms speaks with full knowledge
of the subject and knows what be says to be beyond
all contingencies
We hope the Tennessee and Virginia compa-
ny will press on their work with all possible en-
ergy. and open the communication with the Ms
sssippi at an early day.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET Jan. 81
Beef Cattle-O1erngs about 800 head, and sales at
9 0OaSll 30 per loo lbs. Sheep-Onernlgs 1000
head sales at 50aS5 SO per head. Cows and
Calyes-O ieringe l56 and sales at 80 to SO per
head. Ilogs--oIerings 100 head, and sales At IS
to 50 90 per 90 lbs.
NEW YORK CATTLE MARKET January Is
Beeyes-Onerngs 5000 head, sales at 8iS II per 100
lbs. Sheep-OAerings : 800 head, market depscss-
ed and all qualities have considerably declined say
IS cents per head. Swine-Ofcrng3 1000 head,
and all qualities Slightly advanced, sales at 50aS3
NEW ORLEANS MARKET, Jan. 27-Cotton--
Sales of 1000 bales at unchanged rates other ar
tices also uncl tnged.
CHARLESTON MARKET, Jan. 27.--Cotton-Sac3
to-day of l3oo: market depressed and prices weak.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
The San Francisco Herald of the 9th January,
in an article urging the Importance of strict
adherence to the principle of the Kansas Nebras-
ka net saws:

we have no hesitation in asserting the probable
y that before the lapse of six years the Senate of the
United States will be called upon for the practical
assertion of the principle Of that law by the admission
OF slave state the Pacific coast, north of 80 de-
grees and thirty minutes. Will the senators from
California be prepared To advocate with zeal aud
energy the right OF the people of such state to de-
eide upon their own institutions, without reference o
geographical lines ? This is question for which
every asprant for senatorial honors should have M
unhesitaiing answer and we confidently trust that
those only who give prompt and decided affirmative
will be deemed TO be entitled TO any consideration Mt
the hands of the democratic caucus
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

In the recent Presidential election in Missis
sippi, the Americans cast two hflhs of all the
votes poIled, but succeeded in eectiug only one
out Oft the five members OF Congress, Mr.. Lake,
of the Fourth District. The Mississippi Lcgs
latuie is Democratic, and one OF It's first acts up
on assembling this winter says the Louisville
Journal. was to 'gerrymander' the State, So as
If possible 10 overpower the American vote in the
Fourth District They have taken strong De
mocratic county from another district and added
it to Lakes to make it Democratic They thus
seek to she the voice OF two flths of all the vo-
tiers of the State, because these two ffths are IA
tive-b born Americans and dare TO vote for the es-
tabishment of American principles. These are
the same gentry who bawlcd their throats sore
short time ago over the proscrptiveness of
Know Nothingism.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
The guy..tl.ntiuu Committee.

The Washington correspondent of the \. Y.
Times. thus refers to his testimony before the
Investigating Committee of the House of Repre-
sentatiyeS:
Il swear positively that had no legal knowl.
edge of II criminal act or bargain, although
cherrfally designated witnesses who could and
dd'estify positively 10 such nets. For exam
pie, gave the commtte" the nnme of a witness
who desired the passage of "a bill last winter. au-
thrizng the purchase of IA book of which he was
the proprietor. and who obliged to agree to
pay fifteen thousand dollars as the condition of
its passage. gave them, also, the name of II
witness who knew of this transaction who was
priyy TO the arrangement, and who knew what
members of Congress were to receive Il portion
of the sum thus stipulated to be paid. put
them, also, in the way of obtaining possession of
the or,tten order of the book upon the Clerk of
the House. directing him to pay the sum OF Sl5,'
900 to the person who it was agreed should re-
ceiye it for distribution. This evidence is now
in possession of the committee
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
.yOnGN CLARK,
COM MIS- SION M Z & c II a N T.

OFFICE II MCCoRKLE Co, MAIN TREEr. LYSoHBURG VA
NNTl continue give his personal attention tho sale
w Of Country Produce descriptions, particularly
the article of Tobacco, Atlcs himself that It'll
OF ID in the business, tho interest OF Planters
Farmers viii suicr b. being placed his hands ea
sonabe advances made Tobacco and other produce when
in hand. JOHN CLARK.
q l9codScts
htEaiD sGUgsE.-A. rs. RICK Efs O6e RS the
- trade ecommodatng the following catalogue OF
Field Seed, which he fresh prine quality.
ORCHARD GRASS Sled
HERDS GRASS SEED.
RANDALL or BLUE GRASS SEED,
GREEN SWARD SEED,
RESCUE GRASS SEED,
CLOVER SEED,
TIMOTHY SEED.
EVER GREEN SEED
LUtERNE SEED,
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02
Aggregate Uina0. IN and business results OF
Kniirond. in tisc 4. states.

Railroads IN ,hc states.
ron" ''e .''''o'u ",'o'ul
we INV oo'o'' ns ''' ""!y eocui'o"' we nav"
r''h 'n'' u'''e '''''"' p'S' 'o AT, 's,''"ote VI
,'e "ts''b"'' '','"' " '"'''''"s :" "'e W" We
NV ,n''' "'' N'''' III ''y'i" '"oy
oe 'aN', as "as's nP'n ",'tn !" '.n''e our 'st'
oal's "l mos" results, ~, - mo ireasury he-
Poft on INC f'nahees '"r ,oo' u ine secretary
nhhe5 MS es,''i'",e Oh '"' Isl January '0'o'
10y ""'"b w " '"'A'1 =" ~ 100 pc" 'q""' ~
,''' "'i,'''" VI ''',''"B NV -, =" ,''' "" '""
,t ,',', .a1 ~ t
-, h,,, a,i.lo,,,l, hao, n.ona,aJ .;,h s,,.'a
1 l,aII - g ao Z ,,. H. II, r
."'' "''' '"'"ao'' ''''"0o' ''"y w ''""" ''o"'
"a ii; :. , =,
:; ., - 49, VS. A'''''' f''"'7
=. -, "6s s''''
aole h"'aoer OIL h'1es compete 800
,.,a, ,, -, :; '''""''"''' .-oo 900, ~"
TT ;oI P''' ~ "o0 o"o
FIoating debt IN ooo 600
rast when co,nn,ee1 900 ooo' Goo
unexpended cost ls5 900 ooo
Actual cost 9O5 900 600
Receipts, 10000. 900
Expenses, 5s,000,O00
Net profits, 53,o0O,0Oo
Whole number OF passengers, 1I,000,0oo
Tons freight carried, 21,ooo,o0o
From this statement we make the following
differences:
l. The increase of miles of running road in
1886 was about % per cent, and at this ratio it
will require but three years more to complete all
tho unfinished roads in the country
= The aperog, Of actual cost of American
railroads is S:,7 900 per mile All of this, how.
Eyer. over SD 900 per mile has been caused by
u few long lines whose iermini nre in cities
Som. nf these have cost S6OOOO md S7OOOO
Der mile.
3 Tho acbt does not bear 80 large n propor-
ti,n Ia the COST ns some sunnose. being but nbout
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

MA, what is sh!'
why, my dear? why do you ask -
Because asked sister Jane. yesterday what
made her new dress stick out so, and she said,
hush ,"
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

A biography of Robesperre in an Irish paper
concludes thus: This extraordinary Lam left no
children behind him except a brother who was
killed at the same time"
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

At the recent municipal election in Wheeling
Va. the Wing and American ticket triumph
antly elected. Not single democratic nonine
but one was elected
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

Cass also spoke brief, on the subject ofour Indian
relations, which he thought constituted diff
cult moral problem for the solution Of the Amer
lean people. The indians repugnanoe 10 al
manual labor seemed 10 interpose an insuPerabIe
obstacle TO his civilization.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

During the recent session of the |. S Agri-
cultural Society. at Washington city. Mr.. ID.
Jay Brown,of the Agricultural Bureau OF the Pa
tent Office. gave the result of his experience and
Investigations in regard to the culture in the L.
S. of the Chinese sugar cane
Sugar he said. could sometimes be made from
the dried stalks, but it expensive. 1t con
tans saccharine matter as far north as the milky
state can be lad; in Massachusetts, il has shown
twenty three per cent. of sugar; in Washing
ton fourteen per cent. 1t requires dry soil
and hot sun. 1t should no, be planted
Indian corn by several days. 1t will mature in
less than a hundred days FROM tie time Of sowing
the seed For sugar il lonri>hes best poor
soil. but, for fattening animals, tich soil. For
sugar it should be harvested. or ,alher cut, late
in the season, bat for seed should be cut, aud
therefore planted earlier.
As fodder crop, Mr.. Is considered it a4 max
ing revolution in cattle food all through the
Union. The seed can be produced at the price
of oats, at the rate 81 fifty sixty bushels to the
acre. and can be converted into bread choco.
late. fed to fowls. dc. 1t will give fifteen hun
dreds gallons of vinegar to the aolc. The most
northerly point of its growth is Minnesota. 1t
the seed be cut of, it will sprout ngain and bear
double, as last year in South Carolina.
The Tariff bill, modified. reported by Camp
bell of Ohio, on Tuesday, embraces the following
features
Schedules five. ten and fifteen per cent of tho
act of $40, with few exceptions, are absorbed
by the free list.
The forty per cent schedule, principally eli
ces. is also, with the exception Of a few items,
carried to the free list. which reduces the rcyo.
nues about six millions Of dollars.
The hundred per cent. schedule spirits" Is
brought down one half.
Sugar molasses, lead, salt wool aud hemp are
put at ten per cent. reducing the revenue about
seven millions of dollars.
lron cotton, woollcn and silk manufactures
are retained as now.
&. The old twenty,twenty five and thirty per cent
scedules are rot materially changed but some il
ems in them carried to the FREQ list.
The direct reduction Of the revenues annual
ly, will be about sl3 0O0. 900
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

\ young lady in Albany having been insulted,
II few nights since, by man who proposed to
meet her on Monday evening at the reservoir. in
Eagle street, her brother dressed himself in her
attire, met the rascal, and cowhided him in pet
ticoats.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

Nso'''ns "a 'hF ~'OcShoidcrs of
4 the Nht hutE Hoe and Fro Insurance Company
held at the biiee OF the Company the Citizens Saving.
Bank budding on Monday the 2nd of February, at 81 clock
L. NJ. b. order of the Board Of Dire tors.
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

ENoR gH1Isf:.-A superior Eaon.r servant. Ap
ply TO JNo. :. LANGHoRNE.
feb dts
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

"Why, Tom, how are you, my good fellow!
where have you been tor a week back" ''Why,
I'm better; have been TO DIR. Sticken's for a
strengthening plaster; but how did you know
had ,reak back!"
Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-02

sss' OE LETTERS remaining. ia the Post
Diicc. February est. 1@j5.
r. Person. calling far Letters i'll this I.iAi
" ilI please say iisey are advertised.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02
Along the River.

The Time and Tide arrived yesterday morning,
heavily loaded with passengers. Left for below
at noon.
The Clarion which arrived from the Minnesota
River on Thursday night, went up again yester-
day, with large load of freight from Hastings
and this city, for the Minnesota Valley.
The splendid steamer Itasca, Capt. Whitten, ar
rived last week at the foot OF ths Lake, where
she sits gracefully on the water, waiting patiently
for the ice to leave, that she may land her large
load of passengers and freight at our levse. The
Itassa 10 tuiD-sstsr of the Key City, of the same
size and style Of finish. The Cincinnati Com.
mercial of the 9Th, thus descripes her;
The new and magnificent Itasca-the second
steamer completed out of five contracted for by
the Cincinnati Marine Railway and DRY Dock
Company, made successful trial trip and drop
ped down to the Broadway wharf on Saturday
evening. She was built under the personal SUPER
intSpdence Of Capt. Orrip Smith, President Of
the famous Minnesota Packet Company, tho most
extensive and complete organisation Of Inland
Steamers in the navigable world. Being from
the moulds Of the Key City. she is twin sister to
this tidy craft in every particular. The dimen-
sions of the Itasca :-22O feet on deck, IS #.
bspm, 33 feet floor, depth of hold feet, with ca
pacity fsr 500 tons freight. The machinery con-
sists of four tubHlar boilers, 38 inches in diane
ter, l6 feet long, with 5 inch tubes; two twenty
inch cylinders, feet stroke, working . twenty
eight feet wheel. with 10 feet buokets. In COM
plets running order, fuel &C., on board, she trims
on 26 INCHES water. It is useless to enter into
minute description Of the Itasca, as we haye here
tofore described the Key City, With spacious
lower decks and roomy guards, her cabins ara
beautiful in the extreme, with the very beat a.
commodations for passengers. The panel over
the Office il embelished with correct view of
Fort Smelling, while pretty landscape adorns the
ladies' cabin. The painting is one of Williams'
best efforts. The machinery is from the Niles
Works. In point of spsed, comfort and safety,
the Itasca is au fat, and her officers careful and
experienced in their respective depsrtmepts,-
Capt. David Written, cold ironsides," long
known as one of the most expert and efficient
commanders in the Cincinnati and New Orleans
trade, is in charge of the. Itasca-a valuable &C.
QUESTION.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02
Fair Play.

We call the attention of all administration men
everywhere, who believe or profess to believe
that the Free State men will have fair play q,
the slaction of delegates in Kansas to the Con.
stitutional Gerysntion, to read the followine
from letter to the 81. Louis Democrat, bearing
date Of ''Lecompton, K. T., Aprill."
"Ine time for taking the census for The Con.
stitatiopsl Convention expired TO-DAY. n. Pro.
Slavery man besps that they have large major.
ity.' There Is no doubt but that this census has
been taken in very fraudulent mapnsr. John
son county and other border copptiss IN the Ia.
dian reserves are reported to b dspseiy ponnist.
ed. All the pretended claim-taksre of The Shaw.
nee and Wsa land associations have been piseed
upon the census lists. It il reported to Be q
elsewhere. Less than half OF the actuaI Fres
State settlers have been tskeu.o
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02

- Boys, did you ever think that this great
world, with all its wealth and woe, with ali its
mines and mountains, its oceans, seas and rivers.
steamboats, and ships, railroads and steam print.
ing presses, magnetic telegraphs, &C., will soon
be given over to the hands Of the boys of the
present age3 Believe it, look abroad upon the
inheritance and get ready to enter upon your du-
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02

An In6del, boasting in published letter, that
he bad raised two acres of ssSunday corn" which
be iptspded to devote to the purchase of inidel
books edds that ssall the york done on it was
on Sunday. and it will yield seventy BUSHELS to
the acre 80 that don't see but that natpfe Or
Providenos has smiled upon my Sunday work,
however the priest of the bible may say that work
done on that day never prospers. To this the
editor Of an agricultural paper replies: elf the
author Of this shallow nonsense had read the BIZ
BILE half - much as he has the works of it's oppo-
nents, he would have known that the great Ku-
ler of the universe does not always square ac-
counts With mankind in the month Of October"
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02

Tm You've IDEA S1oogs WuL.-Thers m.
discussion at the Virginia Military Institutiou
on Saturday night week. The two scciat;ss com
bined to argue the question, ssWhsthsr ia Union
ought to have been dissolved had Fremont been
elected" After many excellent and instructive
speeshes, it Was decided in the afirmative v;th.
out disssuting Vots.-RjchweWd Exemi.er.
Minnesota weekly times., 1857-05-02

e Ths Senate Of Rhode Island has refused
to concur With the House in restoring capital
punishnsnt except for murder in the State Phi
eQu.