Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1816-12-21

After the arguments of The counsel SIR. ms
tice SwbuoR charged the Jury. that il was the.
duty OF tue master of ship, to treat his pas
Sengcrs with attention Il politeness. The cart.
stood in the same relation TO the passengers as
a master OF Il hotei Or an inn did 10 his yueSts
Having the superiutendance OF his vessel. The
law had invested the captain with the ;;l-
thOrity necessary Tor preserving peace and
good order.
On this occasion, the captain not only filled
in treating the plaintiff with becoming de-
cOrum but cOuntenanced, and ACTUALLY had
some agency IN the injury charged in the de
claratiOn. The conduct Ot the defendants to-
ward, the plaintiff, was highly reprehensibl
After taking into consideration the wounded
feelings % tte plaintiff on tie one hand aud the
circumstances Ot the defendants on the other
II would be the duty OF the jury to render
such verdict as they considered Just and T.
quitabe.
The jury rendered verdict in favor Of the
plaintin, ior Si6.
Extract Of letter from, Joei Lighter. Esy. dafel
So,cisburg, Lancaster Co. re. Norca6e,, 80.
1916, t. The Ice. GIr. Scade5er, ., This ci-
My absence from home, and being otherwise
inuch engaged, prevented ne from writing
sooner. II l. with pleasure that undertake
90 give yOu all the satisfaction that AIM capa-
bic OF giving respecting the circumstances
connected with the discovery Of certain fossil
bones found on my land their dimensions 10
cdlitN manner in which they lay deposited
nature of the earth i'll " hicll found, sc.
Five or six wears since, | discovered upon
a bank OF limestone, Within five rods of the
Philadelphia and Lancaster turnpike road lin.
appearance OF handsome flag stones, standing
partly on their edge, ncliniug somewhat 10 the
north, with their ends =. T. and >. " at which
time, and since, we had occasionally taken Sc
veral OF them out; and as they proved to he
valuable for Sllls steps, flags, &c. and the de
mand considerable, concluded 10 have the
quarry completely opened, i'll doing which, il
was necessary TO begin at the foot OF the hill
or bank, and to dig on Il level until we could
reach the stone. This work commenced with
Il few hands in August last, and after having
penetrated tweuty-tOuF feet into the bank on
4 level, through arlch black earth, intermiNeii
with small piece OF limestone (perpeudicu-
lar depth about eight nine feetjwe came TO
a body OF clay, also intermiNed with small pie
ces OF limestone, materially different from the
earthly matter dug up on entering the bank
beng aHeiiOwis'I cast, eb0unding IN some parts
with calcar0us spar, and so extremely hard
that IL was with difficulty TO be entered with
pick or mattock. After having worked into
the body OF this stratum OF ciav limestone &c
about four feet and Il half from It's surface.
and within d few inches OF the rocks or dar
stones the object of our abur,) large BONG
was found, supposed 10 be part Of the upper
bone OF the fore leg of some large animal, the
lower partappeared to have been broken OH
! as nothing OF the Joint could be seen. The M
der part was to be seen in its full size but beinsy
much decayed, and the clay and small stonrS
| so very hard pressed i'll and about it, thar the
| greater portion oft could not ne KEPT Tore
| ther, leaving only small Spongy end to A.
aud tat also with clay, and the small pieces Of
limestone firmly united with il.
The length of the bone, as much as was 4
bic TO save of it, is fifteen inches ANA measures
| ten and Il alfinches around the smaller solid
| part; the circumference of the thick or upper
| part IS twenty-five inches, but the thickcSt
| part could not be preserved, being so much
| decayed, and probably there might have been
! 8 or 10 inches wanting.
| This bone was found living in n horizontal
! position, the thick end within three or four in
| chcs of the rocks termination, and appeared
| 10 have been thrown there promiscuOusiv. :s
well as the pieces of limestone around il which
J are evidently fragments Of larger ones
W thin three or four feet Of the same place
| IN a black earth or mon!d, appearances of other
| large homes presented themselves biit they
! were so much decomposed that they could not
| DE preserved entire, resembling pvlVersed
| chalk or slack ed .ime.
| have put up specimens of the different
! ear tiis as mentioned above, also Of The rocks
aud stones found near the spot where the
! bones were discovered and also piece OF
! the bone, which intend 10 forward to Won by
! the first safe opportunity.
| Since the discovery of these bones on nv
| land, lhave been informed that many wears
| since, an extraordinary large tooth (crinder
| was found in spring about tyNo miles from ms
| quarry, but am not able 10 learn what has be-
! come OF II y. \. Con-. ADFT.