Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-04-10


days The jury was duly charged by the court
aud retired.
In nbont an hour the bell rung, announcing
that they had decided upon their verdict: aud the
/ people who had manifested the most intense in q
terest crowding the court room during the whole
trial rushed from all quarters OF the town, 81"
that the court ,om would scarcely hold them
When the foreman Of the jury rose 10 hand in
the verdict the most GREATNESS silence prevail
ed; and when be responded TO the clerk, Not
guilty the words were caught up.and such shout
ing chipping laughing and shaking Of hands
never Witnessed in that digniiied bal # justice.
Although lnte NJ niehi.the Young men from Bell
VILE could not wait for the morning, or the cars,
but footed it home To tell the news. Wien the
Indies arrived the next day they were received
with every demonstration of approval by the in
habitants of tue village.
A correspondent Of the Charleston News wri-
ting from Washington, states that Il project is
on foot Ia start "Southern State Rights Pho.
Slavery Journal Mt London" Mr.. slocom. of
Mississippi hns initiated this singular enterprise.
The Editor to be is Professor Alexander Dimi-
try at present the translator in the State Depart
neui. n native of Louisiana, IA man of rare accom-
plishnents and mn unsurpassed linguist 1t Is to
be delivered free of all Other expense TO the Am.
oriean subscriber at 80 per anpum, and is To be
Published weekly.
IRIsm BUiIs.-A Dublin student, being asked
what was meant by 'posthumous works" an
swered-'Such works n. man writes after he is
dead" An Irish lieutenant, stationed abroad be-
ing informed by letter that his widowed mother
had married IA second time. expressed his alarm
aboai his right of primogenturc, by hoping that
she wouldn't have n son older than himself But
the best bull we ever heard of was shown in
Paddy's description of the animal of That name.
This is the way you know him. When you sec
II group of cows lying down in the field, and one
of I'm is a standing-that's n bull
One Of Dwight's New York correspondents
describing the appearance of the platform on the
occasion of one of lbalhcrg's conceis, says: "In
the centre sat four prilna donnas. Parodi, Angrl,
Patti and Johnnnsen, each arraved in differ
ent syle-Parod, like angel all in white; An
gri magnificent as a dnhlia. in dark red, Patti,
like fresh, pretty buitercur. in yellow brocade;
and Iohannsen, like II moss rnse, in delicate pink.
Quite howerbed,
young minister in highly elaborate ser
mon which he preached while supplying an nb-
sent minister's pulpit. said several times, when
giving some new exposition OF IA passage: "1he
critics aud commentators do not agree with me,
here" Next morning as he was running on with
his performances, poor woman came 10 see hiin
with something in her apron. She said her hus
baud had heard his sermon, and thought it was IA
not agree NTH HIM here" he had sent him some
OF the best jersey blues
The remains of Hugh s. Lagarc, Esqr. of
South Carolina the able advocate, profound seho-
lar, distinguished jurst and patriot statesman
now rcpose at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Boston,
without tablet to mark the spot. he editor
Of the Charestowu Courier, after interesting him.
self 10 discover their resting plnee. (about which
there seems to hnvo been some doubt,) has open
ed list at his office for subscriptions from all
who desire to contribute 10 the erection of nit
able monument over the grave of the llustlious
Caronan.
singular legal question has recently been de-
cided in the English Court of Common Pleas i o
garding the authority of lawyer to enter into Il
compromise OF his clients case without his con.
sent. Que Of the most eminent English counsel
held the opinion that he WAS not only justified in
doing this, but that he might so act in spite Of
his clients objection. Mr.. Justice Crowder.w Who
give Judgment in the case, decided that, within
the compass of his ordinary functions. namely.
the general name cement OF cause, the choice
Of Arguments aud the line of conduct to be pur.
sued, the lawyer is vested by his client with an
absolute discretion, of which he can only be do
prived bv disms-ng him FROM the But
compromises and settlements. though matters of
fire. qurnt occurrence in lawsuits do not. in the
opinion of the Court. come within the ordinary
functions of counsel. but are, on the contrary
Transaction requiring "A special authority.
When somebody suggested to Col Benton the
nge of Gen. Cass as possible difficulty in the
way of his acceptance appointment, lie an
swered that, ''whrn Young man, he thought
himself old enough for any office, and that,
lie old man he thought himself young e.
nough,' concluding with an emphatic ejaculation
which does not belong to history.
Tho I.ondon Times saws: .'in round numbers
out OF eighty thousand men whom We sent 10 the
Crimca. we lost thirty thousand during the war"
| The British government purchased, for lS56,
four hundred and seventy five thousand gallons
of arden: spirits for tho Of the navy. The
expectation of beer and ule from England, in
/ January last was l35430 barrels. An extraord-
/ mary increase of the consumption of those nrti-
] cle4 in Pari, has been remarked within the two
or three years past
COOP RULES FOR ALL.-Profanr swearing is
nhominahle. Vulgar language is DISCUS ing
! Loud laughing is impolte. lnqui~itiveness is
offensive Tattlng i, mean. Telling lies con
! tcmptib'e. Sandorngis desili>h. Ignorance is
! di,grncefo and luzness j. shameful. Avoid all
! the above vices, and min AT usefulness. This is
! the rond in which to become respectable. Walk
| in it. Never be ashamed of homes, ,abor. Pride
! is "a curSe-a hateful Vice. Never act the hypo-
critic. Keep good company. So. ak the truth
/ MT all times N.vtr be discouraged, but pcrse-
we're, and mountains will become mole hills
Views or,he French prc'- Concrr ,i"g General
Sn--.
From the Joarnnl of de- Dehats nj March al
The foreign European journals, in making the
announcement of the choice made by President
| Buchanan of Mr.. Cass for III, post of Secretary
of State, agree in representing tho new Prime
NJ inister as being an implacohle nemy IF Eng