Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-03

iitonlsts are IN Jury aoob' IL
On the Isl inst, the funded debt OF Pennsylvania
amounted to s39, s66s75 and the unfunded TO $780,
$50 There remains in the State treasury aud the
sinking fund the of S195, 257, which is appiica-
bic TO the farther cancellation of state stocks, &c
The Ohio river Mt Maysyille, ny, completely
blocked up with ice the evening of the 18th inst
and persons crossing The ice during the morn
ing Below that point the river was clear OF OBJ
struction The Mississippi was clear OF ice at II.
! Louis on Friday night At Louisville by, ON the
same day the river was closed at Twelve Mile Island,
though navigation open by the canal
Attbe fire Mt Somcryilles Book Bndery in New
York last week, the entire edition Of n new work,
aAeross ths Atlantic, by Jno. II. Thompson, editor
of the Southern Literary Messenger, WAS destroyed:
as were also 1000 copies of splendid Holiday book
"rhe Court OF Napoleon
The Committee on the judiciary in the Lower
House of Congress investigating case OF alleged
corruption and mafeasnnce Of Judge in Texas, and
very effort will be made for his impeach-
meut. The accused Is Judge Watlous of Galveston.
The prosecution has been going ON for two years and
is carried forward by parties who manifest very
cordial desire to disrobe the Judge.
The editor of the Arkansas Traveller offered to bet
his establishment valued at 50 ooo and doaen clean
shirts that Fillmore would be next Presidentand
then added ave viii also go whole wardrobe
that we can whip the individual who wins our money
and shirts
a writer in Providence paper, speaking of the
hunger and nakelness in Kansas, says that If women
arc turned of doors in that Territory with no
more clothes on than his wife and daughters wear to
parties, ii is an insullerablc outrage
~. I - W.. IT,
passed resolution authorizing the Governor to pro-
sword and cane the 10 be presented 10
Captain Horace b. Sawyer, of the United States Ma
W, in consideration OF the entertained by the
Legislature of his valuable services aud good conduct
on board the United States lrigate Constitution at
the capture of the Cyone and Levant on the goth o.
February, 1870 and during the chase and escape Of
said irigae from squadron OF three British ships.
Judge w. H. Battle, in letter TO the National IN
tAigeneer denies That "tho Supreme Court of North
Carolina has confirmed the decision of Judge Manly
that members of the Uniycrsast Church are ncom-
petcn to testify in courts of justice according the
laws of that State" lie says the Supreme Court in an
opinion delivered by himself on the in question,
affirmed the judgement given in the court below by
Judge Manly, but it WAS upon point which render
ed unnecessary review OF his decision upon the com
potency of the witness The question upon the
probate of script which the Judge permitted to be
established Photograph will, after he had rejected
one of the subscribing witnesses rs Incompetent on
the ground OF his being a Uni, crsast. The SUI
prcme Court held this To be proper, aud concluded
thus "This renders the question To the eompo-
tency of one Of tho subscribing witnesses unnecessn-
~, aud makes it improper for TO express opn-
ion upon H.
child was recently born in Shrewsbury, Mnssa-
chusetts, without eyes He WAS healthy. aud well de-
veoped in other respects.
On Monday, December 10th, will commence before
the Supreme Court in session in Boston, the trial OF
three husbands now confined in Suffolk county ail
for the murder of their wives follows David Mer-
rll, for the murder of hil wife Calhnrlne in Novem-
her 1883 (over year since) at East Boston. Wins
low Eddy for numbering his vile Jane. james Fox
for killing his wife by striking, boating and kicking
On Monday evening last, about o'clock, n most
horrible murder WAS committed at the boarding house
OF Mrs. Chhnrnc Foley, on Mulberry street in this
city There appears to have been something like an
Irish row kicked up among the buarders of Mrs. Fo
ley during which James trdou stabbed to the heart
Morris Carroll with bowie knife. lie then started
for the door, whore he was intercepted by Thomas
Kahn, whom he also stabbed 10 the heart They both
died almost instantly Rardon Is still at large, but
the officers think he has not lott town lIafslQrq
W1g.
The Legislature of South Carolina, which has Just
adjourned, passed act to amend the State Consti-
tuition in such manner to require Us every natu-
rallied citizen two years residence in the State after
being nnuralcd as condition precedent to the ex-
ercise of the Right of Suffrage.
The newspapers report that the Presidential Elec-
oftho State of Wisconsin, having been precluded
from arriving at the State Capital on the 4th inst by
sudden aud furious storm, decided, when they did
arrive on the following day not 10 rote at al; so that
the vote of the State is lost to Fremont and Dayton
IN official circular from the T. 5. Patent Office con-
corning the culture of the Chinese sugar cane says
that an agent of the Patent Office while travelling in
Europe in the year 1884, collie ting agricultural in
formation and seeds for the Office, saw this plant
growing at Nerneres in France, and being struck with
its resemblance to Indian corn inferred that it would
flourish in any region where that plant would lie
procured 200 pounds of the seed which were dstr-
bucd in small packages 10y the Patent Office among
the members of Congress, with view OF experiment
ing with it in all parts oftho Union.
The Nashville Union, in its speculaons upon Mr..
Buchanan's cabinet, expresses the opinion that Mr. b.
will give the South four OF the positions and the North
three, and adds
Looking to the relative condition of parties in the
different States, to men, TO public sentiment far
aseertained, and from our opinion of Mr. Buchanan
conclude that the following States will be select
ed from viz Michigan, Connecticut Penns ylvania
Tor lndiana) Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia. and Lou
isiana. Kentucky, being represented in the present
Cabinet, by Mr.. Guthrie, and having the Vice
President, we leave out of the list.
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