Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-04-16

miles, rs hailed with peculiar pleasure by a
Philadelphian.
There are twelve arks more TO be expected
down hereafter. Am. ID. .9dr.
PLArrsBURGm, IN. w March s3.-On
Thursday the 18th March inst. Dir. John
Thompson, was killed i'm Chesterfield by a
large tree falling on him in The wdods-not-
withstanding the tree was large, the man re-
tanned his senses while laying under it, and
talked tcith has companion icho cut The tree
tt0iee m tico and rolled the log of. Mr.. Thomp-
son survived about FIVE or six hours after talk
cnup.
Extract Of q letter from, an officer on board The
y. S. schooner .Vonsuch, 10 a friend in this
city.
A duel took place on the 18th February at
Fort MahOn, between midshipman W0rthing-
ton and Gueard, in consequence of misun-
derstandlng Occasi0ned by midshpman Pur-
veyance, all Of the U. S. Frigate Constitution,
IN which Mr. Worthington was shot dead the
ilrst fire, and the latterescaped without injury"
.Ns,o Brunswick Times.
JACOB RUsE, who was lately committed to
the jailof LOudoun county, for the murder
of his son, youth Of 10, WAS tried at the SUI
perlOr Court, for the 10th Judicial District,
held at Leesburg, and convicted of murder in
the second degree. He was sentenced to g
years confinement in the penitentiary. 1t ap-
pears, that he had been prosecuted at form
erterm for breaking his wife's leg.
Ha'per's Ferry F. Press.
Large quantities of Flour, Whiskey, Lum-
Der, SIC. &c. have reached this city within the
last three days FROM the fertile and productive
n pfru hxy
hannah River. The Philadelphia Press of
Saturday announces the arrival at the wharves
OF that city of the first lot of Coal, by means
OF the Schuylkill navigation. The quantity
is between four and five thousand bushels and
Twelve arks more were soon expected through
the same channel. We hope many months
will not clapse before we shall have it i'm our
power TO announce the arrival here of this ar
ticle from the Inexhaustible mines located on
the banks fthe Susquehannah. Indeed were
1t for no other object than the safe and CHEAP
transportation of coal and iron to this city, the
money about To be expended with view to
Che improvement of the bed of the river would
beWcll laid out. Although among the many
local advantages our favored CITY pos
scSscs these have been overlooked or dsre-
garded they are the fruitful sources of real
and solid wealth, which will recommend them
selves to attention. on the first achievement Of
any of the laudable schemes, which are now
~ contemplation to improve or open uhe wa
Ter communication with the interior of Penn
syi'ania. Baltimore Amor.
The spirit of enterprise, so properly and
handsomely noticed in the above article, is not
confined To the very important internal inn
provement, there alluded TO- A regular line
OF Packets 10 Liverpool is about to be cstah
iished and the advantages, which our city
maniiestly possesses, will he improved by the
enIivenInS influence of foreign commerce. as
well as by The enterprise, which is directed To
clearing the bed of noble river, which, nature
seems to have made tributary to our benefit
on the condition that we do. our duty in i'm
provingit [BaN fairiot.