Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-11-10

, Yard and put on bsaf,i in les. than two week
| after she anchored there. and in is workinr
Gays, tue whole equipment was accom- ,isie Il
we ave happy To learn, that Captain Downe,
nss pes,owea me highest COMMUNICATION on la,
furnished the ship, &, ON tie several mechanira
| departments i'll the ward
WINE we are by no means disposed TO detrac
from tue merits OF tue Commissioners OF the
| Navy Board, we think il " ell 10 mention fo,
| me information of those who have beeu disDo.
! sea To aScribe TO their good management The
| sole credit, of the dispatch with which this
| niea'e ia, been rcfitted. that when the letter
! OF instructions from The Navy Board .or he r
| repairs, was received here, two Of her new
mds'S were IN, and the other, with many more
| aiucies, IN considerable torwatdnes> rI
| - Neneiais SWIFT and BERNARD, and Captain
! IoossiN, arr To the latter, came passengers in
tns Steam Boat Nirs inia Yesterday from BAL
timOre, ana we're !andedat Old Point Comfort
where The Y. States tortificatioasare construct.
NJ WS. tam ). r. NICHOLSON OF the Navyl
Mrs. MAYO and the lady and child of Genera
SCOTT, also came passengers in the Virginia.
General Scott, we understand, left his family
al baltimore to proceed TO the seat OF govern
men" 6prN,~c o ~ [D.
we have the satisfaction TO state, that the
i!ireciors will. al an early day of the next week
give instructions for letting the water iato the
biShiat S,Canip Canal the navigation of which
la. been stopped hy its being drained since
J"IN last, tor The purpose OF widening and
deepening, in order 10 adapt il 10 vessels of
greater ntthen, TO be employed IN tLe trans
pof'aii"n TO Tins place, OF the rich products of
tue Roanoke country and those Gifts tributary
streams. We congratulate eur fellow citizens
upon the great Improvement which has been
accomplished IN this important channel of in.
terror commerce., the hPneticial effects of
winch, we are convinced will he sensbly felt
iinmeuiaie'y- ai'd in a very short time, will
give TO every department. of business in our
place, renewed vgOur and elasticity
iI,t tint, n
Mr.. Ddrid Houston, lot MaSSa chusetts who ar.
rived with his family, few days since, from
ihiiaueiphia where he has been employed on
Tue great Scbuyikl Ill Canal that he has been en-
eareu, as PriEcipal Architect, by the Roanoke
Company ot \. Carolina, 10 const true the Locks
aud Canal round the Great Falls of the Roam.
oke 10 Rock Landing. That he NAV com.
nience thiS Work immediately, with Spirita and
facIiitIeS commensurate with its Importance
MIR. Houston has now on the way from New
YORK and Philadelphia, in the schooner Alex.
ander and soop Norfolk, fifty workmen, iu-
Guiding stone mas ois, blackSm,ths carneuters
ana other essential mechanics, with the imple
mentS of their business. He only awaits
therefore the arrival at this place of these YES
seis, to proceed 10 the Roanoke and enter upon
the duties OF his appointment
This really looks like doing something to.
wards the accomplishment of an object which
= justly regarded by all 'ihe inha btants of
lower Virginia and Carolina, as of paramount
Importance 10 any that can lay claim to their
consideration. GH
TOBACCO.
Apuhlic sale of Roanoke Tobacco, was made
Yesterday Al tiie ware house on Town Point
Eighty hogsheads, part inspected in North Ca
roiina, and part at the ware house ofthis place,
were sold at fourteen to sixteen dollars and
quarter per Hundred. GIb
SIMON SNYDER, esq. is elected
inemDer OF The senate of Peunsy lvania.
Alter serving that state as governor for
~ Z a.,
taSe OF It's citizens, he is still willing 20
serve III unfortunate station. tina, he NAV
continue 10 be useful. What an immense
difference exists between men in power.
Zen men like SImonSny der, In this state.
would give very different political cast
ana ehect te public measures and ap
pointmenss. ". Y. Nat. 4 duocate.
The schooner Governor Shelby. of
New York has arrived al Panama, in the
remarkable short passage of nine DAYS
from Lima.
Dispatches TO our government were
brought from Lima by the Governor Shell
by, "hIch were transmitted 10 Chagrcs,
aud received at Baltimore by the Ann. ar
rived from the latter port.
The above dispatches are from the A.
merlcan squadron now stationed in the
South Seas.
The arrival Of the Governor Shelby al
Panama was announced hv a sujnip
which was returned from Tie fort.
A gentleman from Newburoll states that the
flie III several OF the mountainous tracts i'm
That neIgiibonihOod still RACES and has desoI,
TED MANY thousand acres. Tie drowned
lands, as they are called, are on fire. and iris
supposed that the ravageS of the element IN those
grounds have extended 10 three or four hun.
dred acres. Ii passes through the peat ferma-
tons beneath the soil TO The depth OF four or
HVe ieet bursting out at different points and
rendering passage over The surface extremely
unsafe-a bullock had fallen through the crust
and persisted. 'Ehe turnpike which crosses
part OF those lands is reported TO have one or
Two miles of its distance undermined. Our in
iormant further states, that the streams and
KRIS on which are numerous mills had so en-.
trcly failed, that the grinding of grain through
aihiSe extent of country, was almost at an
end.
agricultural Societyof FyedericBsbu,G.
The Members of this Association met,
according 10 adjournment, at the Farm
ers Hotel, on Wednesday, October %.
and proceeded 10 the organization ofthe
Society, by the adoption OF d Constiiu-
taon, election of Officers, &c. By the
Constitution, two General Meetings must
he held annually, viz. on the SECOND Sd
iardays III May and November. II also
provides for premiums to be hereafter
awarded TO distinguished improvements
III agriculture, and IS, ia most things. 81.
mllarto The Constitution Of The Rich
mond agricultural Society. The Socie-
" Is styled, The Virginia Agricultural
Society OF fredericksburg" The follow
Ing gentlemen are officers for the first
year:
James NJ. Garucft prnsidsrt