South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1861-02-01
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Land warrants ale quoted at Washingt@
us selling by dealers at 65 cents per acls
and buying at 90, per l60's and S0,s.ssS
The cost Of the Gyimean war is cstimaesd
TO have been $3.50 Doc. .000.......A young
man named Orondough vas committed to
the jail of Amhersts county this State, on
Monday week, chafRed wiih the murder of
bis mother, on the th ult. The parties
lived on the Bsues Ridge mountain. and
the mother bayiug boen missed since the
7th nit, suspicious we're aroused, The
Lynchburg Republican says: Arhsge
number of persons assembled together and
proceeding to the house. demanded to know
CT the young man swEere she was? Hie
reply was4t6at heidi not know; she might
be 10 he'll i They shea told aahiaI tesj9e
swsiis6 tlfem' IS s-a,seaFc6 which stheyPr6boss
ed 10 make. , This be at first declined. but
after much threatening consented to GO,
and after long search the mother was
found behind a log, some half mile distant
from the house, dead, Her neck was bro
ken. and her body. in different places, eS-
hibited evidence that she had been beaten
to death with some blunt instrument. The
party Immediately arrested young Oron-
dough and took him before magistrate,
who fully committed him for t,ial.. ......The
Milwaukee (WiscorsinO Sentinel says that
the wool crop Of that State for 1860 is cs-
timated at l,250,cC0 pounds, against
yield of 100000 pounds in 1859, indi-
eating 40 increase Of 70 per cent. in one
ycar......A few days since man in Mont
comery, Alabama, sent negro boy with
note to one of the policemen of the city,
ordering him to give the boy thirty nine
lashes, we'll laid on. The cunning negro
smelt rat, au induced another boy to de-
liver the note, who was considerably sur
prised when the officer tied him up, and In
troduced him to the ''ca'.". "......ln oil things
preserve integrity, and the consciousness
IF thine own uPrightuess will alleviate the
toll of business, soften the hardness Of i'll
success and disappoir'ncn's, auS give thee
an humble confidence before Gcd, when the
inera,itude of man, or the iniqnlty of the
times, may rob thee of other reward ~.
Hon. IL. 4. Wise. of Princess Anne
county, is a candidate for the State Con-
venti6p .... In Portland, Oregon, man
lived with bis wife several years, aud they
had several chiidren. At last she got tirs.
ed of him, and proposed that they should
get a divorce. He said he had no objec-
ton if she would support him. She a.
greed to do SO, and they were divorced =
She is now married to another man and sup>
ports her former husband by retaining him.
in the family asa servant. Twelve million
dollafF worth ofSlave3 were sold BY gir-
einia siiif ito the southern States last year.:.:.,
The Asia last week brought out million
ada a half specie, making up about ten
millions received from Europe since the
paric set in. The Richmond Enquirer
in, an article entitled Compromise and
Ul!imn,um," says: Virginia CANNOT, and
nW not agree to any such compromise as
the Crittenden amendment" The Virgin
ia Legislature says the State will take MIR.
Crit,cndeu's proposition "as the basis OF a
settlement. .PRErrY 'ToUGn' VINE.
Some queer fellow, who has tried 'em,
says: There are two sorts of wine in
Stuttcard to drink one is like swallow
ing an angry cat; the other like pulling
the animal back again 10y the tall.
Mississippi goes cut Of the Union with
more convenience than South Carolina -
She has no port of entry, and cannot come
into collision with the Government 10 the
matter of revenue collection aud az to the
other point Of difficulty, the post>oince sys-
tenn, her Convention has provided that no
change shall be made, and permits the u
nited States to pay the expenses of its main
teuarcc. 1T is stated that Ex-President
Pierce has sold out all his bank stocks and
stocks of every description. and converted
the proceeds into specie, which he has d.
posited specially in asbank in Concord, n.
+. Mrs. Martha Washburn, Of Stafford.
c., s. years old, has woven nearly l,0o0
yards Of rag carpetiog within the past two
wears. .... He is strong man who can hold
down his opinion. ~. ...'Work, said | {; earn
your own pork, and see how sweet it will
be: work, and see how we'll you will be
work, and see how cheerful you will be
work, and see howindcpendant you will DC
work, and see how happy your family will
be; work. and see how religious you viii
be, for before you know where you are, in,
stead of repiuipg at Providence. you viii
fna yourself offering 22 thanks for 2il ths
5s!.!..l.I !; \. 9 e i,.!' 'si
require Eve hundred years to complete It,
800. An Alton OIl.) miser named McLane
in purchasing lsndanum with which to com
e.;A:la srSt hn ,inn Eillnd lis Hifn