Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-04-18

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crested agd it r,estly hoped that citizens will
= me ont generally and III ne,t lively interest in
as promotion. Let the Hall be filled
The third lecture of the course on the Judgments
- God IN tie Earth will be delivered in the Meth
odist Protestant Church tomorrow afternoon, al 81
O'Clock.
Fall
r,Yrsrowv CELEBRATION INTERESTING REMlNls-
egxsEs-We ARE indebted to the Southern Literary
Me senge of this mouth for the very interesting
count of the celebration at Jamestown the 18th of
May 1907 Ii is collaed ON old pamphlet pub
Hsled in that year by Nm. +. McIangElin of petrs-
burg and j. o Conner, of Norfolk, which gives full
nartieulars of the absorbing ceremonies OF the day,
- and of the events which preceded them II was in
deed grand agar. For several day large crowd
of gentlemen aud ladies had been collecting Mt the
site of the old ruins, participate in the jubilee, and
GREAT was the enthusiasm and rejoicing that prevailed
After describing the gorgeous scenery around the
consecraed ground. and the picturesque appearance
ofthe many groups scattered along the shore OF the
river, the report thus proceeds;
On the 18th, the dawu WAS ushered IN by a cannon
second announced the first faint etchings OF the sun
-, the edge of the horizon. During the night, sew
oral vessels had arriv and the eye rested with pleas
ure on the spectacle of thirty-tWo sihl vt anchor IN
the cove, boats plying necessarily OH ana on non Tue
sborp pronps Of beautiful women every moment ma
li,,, tIr;r nopearance crowds Ockng in from every
mart of the nlic, country and the Powhaian evolv-
ing in Stint majesty his food, marg'ned Ms lar as Inc
@ COULD ,,arh with cultivated plantations and gay
villas. -,
Aho,t a o'ck the long deserted shores Of James
town witnessed a spectacle equally picturesque ana
imnressve 1t was no longer the moufhini image
md gloomy silence Of depopnlation. Ihirty-t"o
vessels praccG the ancient harbor; upwards OF tour
hnndred ladies enbrIlshed the scene, which became
a,a,r tnom4n, more aud more animated by the in-
croosny r0ncourse OF citizens, and upon which the
rsenrr 1T The military and band Of music. oil Capt
Tes,e and his company OF Artilleriss from Norfolk,
roner,ed no small lustre.
At ~ o'clock in consequence o! arrangements pre-
;onsly aprecd upon h, the Joint committees from
yornll Portsmouth, Petersburg and Williamsburg,
,raressiou marched to the ruiHs Of the old church
stacne and the uguhtious group OF tonbsoncs con-
t;guous to those ruins The order OF the p occasion
,e. 81. follows:
Bishou Madison, aud the Orators OF the day.
The deputicS from Norfolk. Portsmouth, Peters
lnro and WILLIAMSBURG
The Ladies'
! Band of Music
= Artillery
eipht men.
: CitIzrn. at large.
The exercises were opened hy prayer from the
,...r,ble Bisbou Of Virginia vino "ascented tomb
stone aad ia that affecting, pathetc manner which
characterized MI his rclg ou5 illusions, pou"ed outa
prarer strongly oppressive of the nMionn gratitude
Tor that pcc,lirr protection, which the Deity had been
biased to bcstJw the icchle but au >picons germ
planted two hundred wears ago in the wilderneSs--a
nr9<perois and aoarishing." The first orator Was
The late Jui.e Brscoe &. Baldwin, then student OF
William aad Mary COLLEGE, of whose effort, the Report
s,fs. ..Tlr orc,ssu demanded, not the ttgid exac
tjtude or the Chronn!og>r, hUt the animated and
glowing cloqucuce of the o,ator;' and Of this Mr.
Baldwin cerlninly gave .u excellent specimen He