Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-07-18

4 'Ufct Sutlt III the candidates ndu Will
drawn their DANES from nomination, as, with
the present number, no one can be expected
To receive majority of the votes of the Elec-
tors. Raleigh Reg.
THE SUSQUEHANNA CANAL.
The survey authorised by the legislature of
| maryland al the last session, to ascertain the
practicability of this important enterprise, is
| progressing, we gratified to state, with all
the rapidity that Zeal and industry can effect
Ii Is a work ofvast extent, and will require a
patient and laborous pursuit, which we are
| confident it will receive from those to whom
Ut is entrusted. Upon the result of this sur
vey must depend the great question upon
which is suspended the fate of this city and
It's future prosperity. We feel satisfied, there
fore, that no your, pains, or expense will be
spared to obtain all the information requisite
To the formation of a correct opinion in a
matter of so much Importance.
We are pleased To learn that the Secretary
OF war, upon the application of the Com
mssoners, has directed captain BAcHE of the
Engineer Corps, with three Lieutenants, TO
| assist the Commissioners in the surveys and
leveillng, and To remain, If necessary, for two
months. The experience and talents of these
gentlemen will give weight and inspire conf.
dence-and the promptness with which their
eyinces the liberal and enlarged views of that
distinguished statesman, and entities him to
our grateful thanks for so essential service
Tie survey tn ascertain the level from Con
ewago Falls TO Baltimore is now making un
der The direction of Mr.. PoPPLEroN, with
Mr.. SNAIL as assistant-and, it is supposed,
will be completed by the 25th inst Much
will depend upon this first survey as to the
route of the caDal-for the height which Con-
ewago may prove to be above tide water at
Baltimore must controul the direction Of the
canal either easf,oardIy or 'Cesi,rardLy.
Bali. Amer.
II North CHroIintdn is received il should
nave beep sent IN the war Office paper in this
city called the Patriot, as it endeavors TO
shcw that North Carolina will support MIR.
Calhoun. We know to the contrary, and
moreover feel perfectly satisfied that the
warmest friend of Mr.. Calhoun entertains no
hope of an election, but the object 10 pushing
HIM IS To divide the democratic party and
break down and destroy its influence, and
weight, and pave the way for MIR. Adams. In
North Carolina, Mr.. Macon was started by
them to make division A similar attempt
was made in this state equally without effect
The bold and ardent young gentlemen con
nected with the war Office candidate will fud
themselves quite out Of sight in the contest :;
they may look big and buster, they will effect
nothing. M Y. Nat. .4dv.
HIhhsboRoUGH, Ohio, July 5.-John Reese,
who was some time since committed TO the
Jail of Ross county, on a charge of robbing
the Mail, was on Tuesday last brought before
the District Judge on "A writ of HaJeas Cor
pus, and discharged from the custody of the
officer. IG1z.
| PENSACOLA, June 1i.-Messrs. Blair and
Floyd, two of the commission for the adjust
ment of land titles in East Florida arrived in
this place yesterday, and they proceed again
tomorrow, by water, to Saint Marks-from
which place they will go to ST. Augustine over
land. Col. Hamilton, the third commissioner
is now in East Florida, and these gentlemen.
being on their way, it is quite probable that
the claims in East Florida will ha ve been adj
iusedi before those of the West can be acted
on, our third cOnmissoner-ifthere be one
not having arrived.
Col. Humphreys, the Indian agent, proceeds
to st. Marks by the same conference.-the
goes there, as we believe, with a view 10 pre-
pare for the proposed treaty with the Semi
noIes.
Road 10 81. .4ugusiine.-Ita appears that Col.
Walton and the gentlemen who accompanied
him, reached ST. Augustine on the fifteenth
day after their departure from this place.
They found the water courses all full, as was
to have been looked for, at the season of the
year-they travelled under this disadvantage,
and yet accomplished the lourney in 1 5 days,
thereby establishing, concIusiveIy the practi.
cabillty Of the interior route. Florididn.
.,
From ChiR.-We have beer oblisinely fur.
nisbed with letter from Valparaiso, dated
April 9, with two newspapers. One Of the
papers is filled with a new constitution of Chi
H., in forty one articles, signed at Santiago,
March 81, 10y Juan Egana, plenipotentary for
Santiago, Manuel NOvOa, for Conception, and
Manuel Antonio, Gonzalez, for CoquimbO.--
) By this Constitution the government or ex-
ecutive power is vested in a single Supreme
Chief Of the State" whose person is inyiulabe
but his Ministers responsible. There is also
4 Senate, whose powers are 10 general the
: same as by the constitution of 1918, with
however, certain special notifications. The
judiciary is made independent Ofihe executive
This constitution we believe entrely super.
cedes that of the a5d of October last, a copy
of which, in pamphlet Of 73 pages, we lately
received, bat which we have not yet had lei.
sure to read
The other paper is a Gazette Extraordinary
printed at AuzcO, Feb iG, containing sevcra
Spanish official dispatches relating the defea
of the army OF Lima, near Arequipa, by IN,
royal troops, on the 9th and atst Of JanuM,
last, general accounts Of which reached u
some time since. These letters are too lonl
to be published by us entire, but we shai
u hereafter give some farther notice Of ihei
contents. Boston d. .AdU.
= DuriHg the exhibition Of Gre works Ut Salem @
z the 4' OF july rocket gsnciug from it, iute nde
i direction, set fire chest containing three hundrs
rockets. Several persons we're shoe kingly tvouri,