Lynchburg Virginian

More Trouble in Grayson.

The Richmond Times of Friday morning contains the following statement:

"The Clerk of Grayson county Court having on the 1st inst., (the first day of Judge Brown's term) tendered his resignation, and there being no applicant for the office, and it being publicly stated at the bar, that no one would accept said appointment, Judge B. found himself unable to proceed with business, and accordingly adjourned the Court until the first day of the next term.

Immediately upon the adjournment of the Court, a public meeting of the citizens of the county was held, when resolutions were adopted, expressive of the determination of the people to maintain the stand recently taken; exhorting the committees of vigilance to increased activity in ferreting out all persons tinctured with abolitionism in the county, and offering a reward of $100 for the apprehension and delivery of one Jonathan Roberts to any one of the committees of vigilance."

We have a letter from a credible correspondent in Carroll county, which gives to the affair a still more serious aspect.—Trusting that there may be some error about it, we have no comments to make, until the facts are known with certainty.—Our correspondent whose letter bears date the 13th inst., says:

"I learn from an authentic source that the Circuit Court that was to sit in Grayson county during last week, was dissolved by violence. The circumstances were these. After the execution of the negroes in that county, some time ago, who had been excited to rebellion, by a certain Methodist preacher, by the name of Bacon, of which you have heard, the citizens held a meeting and instituted a sort of inquisition to find out, if possible who were the accomplices of said Bacon. Suspicion soon rested on a man by the name of Cornut, and on being charged with being an accomplice, he acknowledged the fact, and declared his intention of persevering in the cause. Upon which he was severely lynched. Cornut then instituted suit against the parties, who afterwards held a meeting and passed resolution, notifying the court, and lawyers, not to undertake the case upon pain of a coat of tar and feathers. The Court however convened at the appointed time, and true to their promise, a band of armed men marched around the Courthouse, fired their guns by platoons, and dispersed the court in confusion. There was no blood shed. This county and the county of Wyth, have held meetings and passed resolutions, sustaining the movement of the citizens of Grayson."