Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-10-12

were to happen at the same place in fee, or, in
fire hundred uears.
On the 9Th of December, 1925, the sun will SET /,
about IL dgits cclipsed Richmond ~ which time
aud place, the single circumstance of l-3 minutes
OF degree in the moons latitude would make this |
eclipse centra-and as the moons apparent diane |
ter viii then be something less than that Of the sun, il
would also b" annular.
lwould No ask dis Delaware writer whether the
eclipse OF 1871 Cor any other of It's hay
ing been annular NJ Richmond prevents the noon's
having proper latitude make this eclipse So a
that piace-and whether Sir Isaac Newton, or his
successor, James Ferguson, has given periodical
return OF 10 or 80 years for annulur ccipscs:
am gentlemen, your most obi scrv'i.
BENIN B3NNEKER, Jr
FLORIDA.
!" Many presses, many minds" Never might
this saying be made with more truth, than
since the late transactions at Pensacola. Some
OF the newspapers advocate Gen. Jackson
upon grounds, which are really calculated tu
startle every friend of our free Institutions
They tell us that Florida is entirely under The
Spanish law-that she does not come at all
within the purvcw Of the constitution of the
U. >. They would have US believe, that Gen
). maydo any thing whicha Spanish Capt Ge-
neral might have done without the least re-
straInt from the very constitution, To which
Congress themselves owe all their powers.
They maintain the bold opinion that he may
regulate religion, put down the press, deprive
our citizens of the right of the habeas corpus,
and overlap all those barriers which the CON
stitution has set up for the security OF the cit-
zen for this, in fact, is the sum total of their
doctrines MARK too not the Spanish laws
modified and ameliorated as they have bccn
by the Constitution of the Cortes but ac-
cording to the decision of Gen. Jackson's court
in the case of Vidalys. Inncrarity, the old Spa
nlsh law, with all the unchecked and arbitrary
authorities, which it conferred upon the Cap
tain General
III these doctrines be true, a man had as well
be an nhabltant of Havana as of Pensacola
for any benefit which our constitution mayrcn-
der him. Besides, of what avail would he the
act of Congress How would the authority
OF the President be exercised, so as to protect
the inhabitants In their religion, liberty, and
property?
We should like to know, indeed how far
these doctrines extend Can Congress make
such arbitrary laws as they please for the ter
I1toIy of the U. States ? for the district OF
Columbia, over which they are vested with
the power of exclusive legislation Is the con
stitution, quod all these, a dead letter? DO
the privileges of free religion, of a free press
&c nc. depend upon the breath OF Congrcss
Besides judicial tribunal, with select Judges
, and the jury system, the citizens of St. Angus
} a free country. At public meeting on the
9Th Sept. resolutions were adopted for raising
funds to establish Protestant Church, and a
Public Hbray.-A Committee was also APP
pointed, of Messrs. Du Bose, Mitchell and
D Braxton, to report the best practicable plan
Of public schools for the inhabitants of Florida
They have also the Press among them. "Sucf
5 arc the energies of Liberty. She strikes the
B rock with her wand and instantly the living
waters begin to flow"
A writer in the Baltimore Federal Gazette
after some structures upon Gen. Jacksons con
o duet towards Col. Cailava, makes the follow
ing commentary upon the report touchin,
Judge Fromcntin:
g avail myself, also, of this opportunity tC
say, that the statements wholly Incorrect tina
Judge FrOmentin has apOlogiled for issun;
the Habeas Corpus, or acknowledged, tina
he had not the right, or that Inc was not bO un
to issue IT. This has been asserted Nv severa
papcrs--but have the most satisfactory in
o formation, that it is without foundation
is device of some Of the o!Ticious and mi.
guided friends of Governor Jackson; ca
9 scarcely believe that he would have authOri2
IT, ed it-for, although it cannot be denied tina
he is habituaIIy inclined TO exert authority M
to delegated to him-yet he does it openly, an
:, boldly endeavors TO Justify it,"
MURDER "A murder was committed q
b Tuesday afternoon last, in Manchester, .upc
Mr.. Joseph SOwdeD, a young man Of niue
a. responsibility, and highly esteemed by Il
d. people Of Manchester, and I'll his acquainta
ist ces
The circumstances, as far rs we can len
l,c them, are these Mr.. s. and several gent
er men were standing on the side OF the st re,
ng when waggoner apparently intoxcat'
passed along with gun, swearing he won
NV shoot any person who might interrupt him.
nv One ofthe gentlemen observed to him, tn
IA no Pcrson would interrupt him, asd TIA.