Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-07-10
To Tia Seeresaru of E,ar.

SIR-I enlisted in this county with Captain
wilkins, in the year I777-served during the
war-was in the battle of Brandywine, German
town and Springfield, i'm Jersey--served on
Ssllivan's expedition against the indiaus-was
in the battles of the GreenSpriugs, and at the
taking of Cornwallis-served in South Carolina,
under General Green, and was honora bly, dis
charged, aud returned to Bedford county,
where have resided ever since.
by Industry l have acquired eighty-seven
acres of tolersble iasd, and can juss get along
on it, and have eievea cbiidrenliVing. would
he assisted ny my half pay, but cannot de-
clare, on oath, that stand in need or the assis.
tance OF my country for support, according to
! the construction which understand you give
CHRISTOPHER HEIGHT.
ST. Clair township, BedfordI
county, 5th June, 1915. )
PHILADELPHIA, June IS--We are much in.
debted 10 Mr.. David Mcclure, for very inn
portant discovery, which he has lately made in
| the geographical science. W have long been
ihnch IN want of blank maps tor those who
WISH 10 acquire correct aad rational know
ledge of geography. Many plans have been
! proposed, bat we feel constrained to give his
| the decided preference. In mis- circular we
are informed that those maps are drawn by a
4 machine. his seems impossible; for every
parallel and meridian requires Il different rad-
us, AMI different position; and how amachine
can draw lines IN two directions at once, is
altogether unaccountable. The Maps however
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| great accuracy, and at the same time their
| cheapness, induce us TO believe, and almost
| AGAINST our Judgment. that machine must
| indeed have drawn them. The writer has
witnessed with peculiar pleasure the facility
with which boys draw maps in this way, and
the great progress they make in geographical
, knowledge.
Wishing to promote every thing that advan.
| ces the education of youth, and at the same
time DESTROYS that the ingenious inventor may
nave that patronage which he justly merits,
the writer invites his fellow laborers TO trial
of the plan. a TEACHER
N. b. Some Of our most respectable teach
ers have adopted the plan, and highly approve
oft.
We have lately received from his hly valued
trend in England, a copy of the Extraordinary
rcd Book, containing list of all places, pen
sions, and sinecures, in Great Britain. Ex-
tracts from this truly eloquent picture of OPP
preston, taxation, and corruption, shall he
| occasionally given in our columns for the editi-
| Gallon and wonder of our readers.
AS we cnrsoriy turned over the alphabetical
enumeration of pensioners. &c. the following
caught onr attention, and as il really produced
upon us the effect of an admirable burlesque,
we cannot refrain affor6ing Others an equal
| opportunity 10 laugh.
:" Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of,
| Marquis of Douro, Field Mar Shall and Colonel
OF The Regiment of Horse guards, Ambassador
| extraordinary and Plenipotentiary 10 the
Gonrt OF France, and a Privy Counsellor 10
ireland Prince OF W aterioo, and Field Mar
shall In the Netherlands, Duke of Ciudad Rod
riSo, Granace of the highest class, and "a Cap
tam General in Spain. Duke OF Vilionia, and
marshal General in Portugal, K. G.. G.. C. B.
Il. q. +. Il. S. F. Il. NJ. u. f. Sc. X. b E. r,
=. n L. ). Is. w. X. +. X. c. x. X. +. and ID
| c. L." TFranLlin Gaz
Letters from London, state that his excellen
cy DE WITT CLINTON, l.. l.. ID. Governor
OF New York, was elected foreign member ej
the L'nnedn Society of London, at meeting
OF that lnstitutnton held on the 5 in of May last
ana under circumstances the most honorable to
MIN ana 10 our country. Itappears there were
| thfee vacancies of foreign mem Sership caused
by deaths during the past year, and the gentle
| men elected to those departments were Cover
nor clinton, Cuvier, and Baron Humboldt
Letters by the same ship also inform us, that
! Doctor DAVID HOSACK, Fellow of the Lin.
mean and Wernerian Societies. has at a late
! meeting of the horticultural Society of London
Deen elected an honorary member OF that distin.
guished body. DIR. HOSACK mas also recent.
! ~ Oeen elected enc o the twelve honorary mem
6ers OF the Medical and Chirureical Society OF
London. ". Z. Nat. Adv.
ihe foHoping singular, occurrence is from the
p" AbeiLle du Nord," or the l7lh august.
an occurrence has happened III The neigh
borhood OF Frankfort, which is looked upon as
an example of divine jnstice. A woman believ
ing her husband killed in 1906, at the battle OF
Jena, married again Without scruplc The man
cured by the French and entered the service
in one of the Prassam regiments which France
raised at the period. After serving for more
than three years in Spain he suddenly return.
cd TO Prussia, and vTent to look for his wife
| ihe latter was afraid to acknowledge that she
| mad got another in Iii, place, and suffered him
to go to bed but imm ediateIy induced the new
husband torid her of this returning importu.
maize lhe unhappy man was strangled and
put INTO sack, and they set off to carry him
away and throw hins into the Oder. But the
! weight of the body burst the sack, and one foot
! came tAronsh. lie woman FASTENED TO sew up
the torn place, but did not perceive at the same
time she sewed the clothes of her accompiice
| Being arrived at the bank of the river the lat.
| ter proceeded TO pier and endeavored TO
throw over the body of his victim. He was
| dragged IN with him, and was drowning, when
| the woman, forgetting how important il was TO
| her to hold her tongue, set up a terrible cry.
Some peasants ran mp; the two criminals were
| arrested, aud they confessed their crime with
all its particulars.
Mr. BETTY has received from America, the
offer OF an uhpre cedeBted sum to visit the The
! aires of New York, Philadelphia, &c. upon a
| twelve months tour. Previous to his depar-
lure from England, he visits the Bath stage for
Tour nights. Bath Eng Herald.
In debate in May last, in the British House
| OF Commons, on the resumption of cash paw.
mepts by the Bank of En- gland, the Chancellor
or the EAchequer gave as a reason for the non
| resumption or cash payments, that an expert.
'ueni had been made by the government, who
put tuo millions and huff OF gold coin IN circu-
atlon in October, and that neariythe whoIe of il
he'd UaaiShed.
tits curious fact, says London paper, thai
the body of the celebrated LAURENCE STERNE
which was inferred in the church yard of St
Georges. was taken up shortly after his burial
and devoted 10 the purposes of the surgical pro-
feSSon.
CARNoT lives at Magdeburgin very seclnd.
| ed manner. He sees little society and selects
the most private places for his walks. They
speak OF an important work in which he il en-
| Jagged. and which he las nearly concluded