Lynchburg Virginian

On Friday evening last, at about 10 o'clock, the bell of a gentleman's house in the city rung, and on the servant's opening the door, he found a basket on the steps, containing a fine healthy male infant, dressed in the neatest manner; the basket was new, and contained three fine worked caps, several towels, blankets, &c. The little stranger was comfortably wrapped up, and appeared smiling and lively. The person on leaving the basket and ringing the bell, fled, and no traces of him have yet been discovered. The parents, whoever they may be, appeared to have clothed it in a costly manner. The gentleman with whom it was left has placed it in the Alms House, where it is doing well. [N. Y. Daily Adv.]