Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-10-19

iis atoned Tor much time wasted and much
sophlstry misapped, to prove that the PEG
pie, though qualified to vote for all the higher
oihcers OF government, We're not To he trusted
with the election of those officers with whom
they We're to live, and BY whose good or III
conduct they could not fail tn be immediately
affected. Yet it is not to be denied that
very many of the most pure and mte-
gent members of the Convention were op-
posed TO the pan of giving to the counties
the election of Justices They feared its eff
Gets, mainly, perhaps, because they could not
precisely perceive what those effects would be.
Having no experience to guide them on this
mead, and accustomed always TO consider the
| present, or some very similar mode of appoint
Ing justices, as the only safe one, it is perhaps
not To be wondered at that many were appre-
hensive Of the consequences ofso total change
rs that now brought about in this particular
We hope, we believe, nay, we feel assured.
that the consequences will be most beneficial
to the peace and dignity of the state, and to
the prompt and impartial administration of
justice ; and il is under the conviction that
these benefits will result from this provision,
that we express our heartiest thanks to those
gentlemen of the Convention who abandoned
their own views on this subject to what APP
peared TO he the more prevailing, as well as
more popular sentiment, and we hail in this
mutual compromise of opinions the sure pledge
OF wise and beneficial results
| " Y. american.
On Wednesday, the Convention decided,
on motion of Mr. Edwards, that the sheriff.
clerk, and register of New York shall he elect
ed by the people, and be removable by the
governor for specific reasons and, ON molten
OF Mr. Itadchtl, that the mayor shall be cho-
sen by the Common Council. The term OF
justices Of the peace was fixed at three years.
AS to the proposed mode of appointing the
other officers In this city, our correspondent
writes :" The metropolitan Council of APP
pointment will assuretlly be stricken out (; but
whether Mr.. Radclif's or Mr.. Van Burcn's
plan, or new one, will be adopted, is uncer-
tain the decision will be made this day
(Thursday.) MIR. Radcliff's plan is to give the
appointment oiJustlces, police, marine and dis
| trict, with their clerks, To the Common Coun-
ell The other officers, not provided for in
the Constitution, 10 br appointed or chosen, as
the Legislature may direct. Mr. Van Buren,
proposes that all the officers in the city, not
provided for by the Constitution shall be APP
pointed by, and hold their places during the
pleasure of the Common Council. ID.
Gale al uoJae.--We have been favoured
with the following extract OF a letter dated
.'{oUHc, I'tlttHtDtT
F" On Saturday evening last, a Gale COM
menced from the 5. f.. and has continued till
tins morning, with dreadful violence, carrying
almost every thing before it, aud inj;;ring the
shipping, wharycs, &c. very much The wa
ter was, at one time, one foot higher than il
rose IN the gale of 1919. The floors of the
stores bordering on Water street, and above
Hunts store in Dauphin street, We're covered
with water. The ship Hope, lies high and
dry within so feet of Water street, and will
not, 1t Is thought, be got OF. Many small yes
seis are destroyed, and on shore. The u. S.
CATER Alabama, went past the city in the gale
last night dismasted and firing distress guns
likewise many other vessels went up, none of
which are yet heard from, bat being up the
liver, no serious fears are entertained for them.
| Fortunately no lives have been lost that we
have yet heard of"
Another letter mentions, that brig Ham
mond, OF New York, was ashore in the mud,
and would prOhaby be got off; brig Fame,
from do, had lest cable and nchur.
a letter from Judge Peters, at Blakely,
says
All the stores on the east side of Robinson
street, and north of Hide 81 Chase's, had a
bout two feet water on the lower floors; and
although there We're but few goods OH each low
er floor the damage cannot be estimated at
less than $ 1000. The ship Hope was in the
Bay, and drove up to Mobile, and is high and
dry at Judson's wharf; the cutter dismastcd
and gone up the river brig Hammond, ashore
at the head of Spanish River; the ship Wilt
am, believe, is safe, down the bay"