, 1860-02-25


a number Of Washington citizens contcm-
plate visiting Baltimore, ~ be present ut the
Ereat Methodist Episcopal reunion. Hon.
Judge Mclean, OF the Supreme Court, is to
preside
-Juhn Mead, ESP, Of White PIains cut down
an apple tree few DAYS since and on splitting
it found about five inches IRON the heart Of It
three CROSSES, d large cne in the centre and d
smaller one On either side. while the three let
ters, Ills. handsomely carved, embraced the
width OF the crossss. The whole shows as
clearly Us fdunc bur yesterday.
~ Frenc'. periodical states that a Prcfect
Of CoEsica, Mcnsieur Gu.heya, harsng lately ex-
u'n'red the registers Of the town Of ClIri, has
Christopher Columbus, making him cousc-
lutn,ly Il couutrynlan ui Napoleon. Hitherto
Genoa, Saronia, Neryi and Zuccarc!lo, have all
laid CLAIM to tho grcas navigator i'll this respect.
--- 4 ssoue has been taken from the n,onu-
ment Of the Emperor Napoleon l., in st. Helena,
aud presented TO the American Consul there,
By order Of tie Emperor ef tLc French, 10 be
placed in the monument Vi Washington. The
stone is two feet loul, and one foot bruAsl, AMI
is suitably inscribed. 1t WIS enveIored in the
flags of ll,e two couutries, md packed for trans
portatlon.
- There arc now four hu1dreI and fty.eight
Peers, spiritual mud temporal, on tue roll Of tue
House vi Lords of t:rcat britain. Ills Royal
uigbness, the l'sinee of Wales, heads the list,
aud Henry, Lord Taunton. is the last. The
Countess Of Newbu:sh is now the Oldest ncn,-
ber Of the titled aristocracv. having. Just en-
tered her ninety -niusl year 1t is sall that her
sight and uen,ory ure Tut little impaired.
- The Iynchbury Ittgiaiaa of Saturday last
announces that its edition Of that morning is
printed by the application Of water rs the mo-
tive power Of he press 4 small water wheel.
usint, only IN inch stream Of water, driveA the
press ut almost any rate Of speed required. The
water is conveyed By small pipe from the
reservoir, and the wheel being eucased in
woudeu boz saAas to prevent any splash, the
waste wafer - arricd oil to the SEVER iu the
street.
Among; the Leads Of the &;overnmcnt at
Washington there are four Bs- Buchanan,
Drec.iuriJgc, Brown and black. The Govern
.ncnt is 4 regular H-hi,e, but full of drones.
There are two C's-Cass and Cobb-aCd one
(swo C) Toucsy, beside
- Tie 'lack-nai!ins Of Northern merchants
appears to hc the best business going ut the
South. The new G1m Of Wu. r. Gilman l. Co.
Of Richmond, Va, sends circulars to the North,
sayD: that fur fifty dollars each ttey will insert
in their Southern business directory the names
Of merchants friendly to the South. Five hun
dred or Il thousand fools among the Northern
merchants will give this firm Il handsome ill.,
Of which there is plenty in Virginia
-The New York correspondent Of the Mobile
Esgister thus speaks of a noted character: !:
''.Among the passengers in the Quaker City,
from ilayana tO day, WAS Madame .tunse Lon
nan, wife Of nr. Lohman, Of this city. .irs.
Lohtnau IS perhaps better known as Madame
Keste1i. the friend Of little babies. the Mrs. Her
cd Of America! l;y the way, She ls rich. She
owns blocks and acres ol loi*, and stocks Of a}l
kinds. Her income from books and other sour
Ges IL s-l,Vv PET aon""'. one nus tn1ee Sn'i-
dFen wao Wail lhheslt aoont s'"uoo WIEN Aau.
anne heste'4 taihs up neF toes; II y ply that
Madame NesEe!l could nos make up nef m'nd 10
retire rom active business anu live upon her
spleno'a property.
It is stated tha. four English miners from
Mansfield and Newcastle, England, hare recent
ly found and opened d coal held on Ubcd's river,
Tennessee, consisting Of one thousand acres Of
q solid coal bed, four feet thick, OF the best ar
tic!e OF bituminous coal, containing an extra
quan,um Of eas and petroleum, the best thrv
harc found in the United States. II is on the
margin Of the river, aud easy of access to Nash
places with ire-proof tile rock, suitab1e Tor ma
king coke ovens, parape. walls, payiu: streets,
covering houses, and the like, aud may be Oh
tanned Of any thickness from, one inch 10 six,
squaring right OF ltscti, II desised-
Some men are engaged in digging in Taun-
ton Mass, under the direction Of spirits in search
Of treasures, alleged 10 have been buried in that
place By one John bernard, a pirate and high
wayman. One Of the d'gEers asserts That he
sctual.y saw the ghost ol tue deceased plsase
near The place "ncrc 1hese opefations are no"
going On, and both appear to be ial 10 the fA'th
that something 'aln4gsc w'il reward 9ociI to.t- M
Hundreds Of people hase already listed the
spot, and the iabors OF these simPletons are
watched WITH interest OF eFeo' numbers.
OR1c1S or Lynch LAw.-Co}. Charles Lynch,
brother Of the founder. OF j.ynchbarg, Va.
was an officer OF The American Revolution. HIS
residence was on the S,aunton, III the south
western part of Campbell; county, now tue seat
Of his grandson, Charles Henry Lynch 1t
that time this country was very thiniy settled.
and infested by T. 2ewless band Of territorial
desperadoes. The necessity Of the case iuvoly-
ed desf crate measures, and Col. Lynch, then. a
leadioe Wing, npprehended and had them pun
ished without any supertluous legal ceremony.
Hence the origin Of the term Lynch Law"
This practice Of lynching coatiauel for many
years atter the WAT, aud WAS applied TO many
cases Of mere suspicion Of guilt, which ceul1
not be. regularly proreu, "In l79aa," says
Wits Lie Of 1Ienrr, "1here were MANY suits
on the south side Of James River for indictius