Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1823-06-13

place have been exaggerated, or the ma,n.
and feelings nf the people have underrnn,
change rapid indeed.
Neither the Hornet nor Enterprize IN
arrived. u
The troops here are in constant motio,
the shot are pi'Ing on all the batteries. =,
every preparation for defence appears IN
making nothing is To be heard but the SIM,
of drum and trumphet.
Constitution or .Huerfe" is the c,x,,;
motto-how long it will be 50 remains ,n
proved.
The sch'r Pilot, Lieut.. Strbbling, is At MI
Island with the Sea Gull" y
BLOODY BUSINESS.
SHAwNEErowN, QIi.) May l7.-LastTuel
DAY Week. party of eighteen or twenty NJ
oui from Golconda To arrest the .Sturdip1DL&
who live about 6 miles above that place N. Il
the Ohio river, and are supposed to carry MI
The counterlciiiDg business, being epgr,yer n
and having the necessary implements, &c
we nave not learnt how the ARRAY CONNIE,
ced, or who fired first, but presume il bep,l
on the attempt of the Goconda party to coil
the house 10 make the arrest A MIR. Sn,alN
who was at the house Of Siurdivant. ~
shot through the body, and died in a few
ho'rs alter. He is supposed to have been a
agent oil the counterleters, employed in mi,
'inS OH Their paper Roswell Sturdivani they
principal engraver, was Shot through The nam
OF ms meek, and Is supposed 10 be dahgerouslv,
wounded. Mr.. ROndeau, who was of ths.
Golconda party, in endeavoring 10 prevent
disturbance, and To induce the assaed 10 suhl
NIT without resistance, was shot through IN i
shouldtrs-the wound very dangerous Onq&
other, we believe. was also wounded but we
do not know To which party he belonged.-i
The party finally succeeded i'll taking them
PRISONERS, and they are now consned in iall
together, with such assailants as were con.
cerned in the killing and wounding The!
| SherIii has communicated the facts 10 theI
Judge of the Circuit, with the view TO holding
a special court for the trial of the prisoners
but none has yet been ordered, and we under
stand II is matter of doubt whether the sta i.
tnte gives authority To hold one.
Since the above was i'm type, we have pro
! cured more correct account Ii was a ,lay
or two after Small was killed. that the other
attack was made. The first party, not con-
ceirInS themselves strong enough, returned
In GoIcouda, and day or two after. about
10 persons assembled, and proceeded IN 10
The neSilborhOud Ofthe counterfeiters on board
the steam boat Cincinnati, suri oundrd the
house, and, after a considerable struggle, in
winch S!urdirant and another of his party,
and MIR. ROndeau, of the other party, were
arresting Roswell Sturdivant and his father
and two others, and conveyed them to Jail,
wh" are the Only persons that are confined
our Information no, being correct, which
stated HAT some of The ASSISTANTS were also in
Jail.
On the 9Th ult Col. Alexander Hamilton
resigned the office of Attorney of The II. S.
Tor TIE territory of Florida, and George Muir
ray, Esq 1t appears is now acting IN that ca
racily Col. Hamilton has been put, or has
put himself, in nomination for member Of
Congress, but II would seem he is TO have an
i opponent IN the political field. At a meeting
of the citizens held at ST. Augustine on the
5Oth of April, Waters Smith, Esq. in the chair,
IT was resolved as fit and proper to re elect
the Hon. Joseph Hernandez, the late delegate
from Florida IN Congress. A committee Of
up" ards OF forty were appointed, to promote
the election of Mr.. Hernandez and among
tue number we discover our old friend John
Rodman, Esq IN. Y En-. Post.
libel was filed in the Superior Court for
Florida on the 10Th Of May 10y George Muir
ray Esq Attorney of the u States against
the srhr. American Lady, of Edenton, N. C..
Tor importing into that territory two casks Of
distilled spirits, commonly called Spanish rum
or aguadinie-W aters Smith, marshal ID.
POWDER-MILL BLOWN UP.
Extract of letter, dated, Newburgh, June
8, 1923: "Ou Sunday evening, 25th uIf. we
were much alarmed by the blowing up ofthe
POWDER Mill in this vicinity, owned BY MIR.
| hogers, about two miles west of the village.
| III went oil with tremendous shock and il is
said by some that the fragments have been
seen at more than mile distant from the
Mill. was standing at the door of the brick
meeting house when | heard the report it
made the ground npOn which stood shake
under me, and the windows of the meeting
house shook in their frames. So great was
the report, that ii was heard distinctly across
the river IN Duchess county There are
great many windows broken in IFS vicinity
There was IN the Mill at the time, about 1850
lbs. powder"
| We are never weary of admitting the extent
OF our country, its bUundess resources. lis ca
pacitles for Improvement, its Infinite variety
OF climate, soil, and circumstance, A writer
IN the Charleston City Gazette, of the date of
May "a, says that whilst snow was yet falling
on Cape Cod, Indian corn was six feet high
at Charleston, aud that some days previously,
he had seen full grown ears Of corn in the mar
ket
As TO the capacity Of our country for i'm
' ""' my VIC "Ht tAPtCt, iOOhi"b
back to what has happened Ii has become,
by means Of The steam-hoat, the most noble
0i the triumphs Of human art, q mere step
from Charleston to New York from Boston
to Charleston, OF from either of them to- Flo
rida, &c. Our thoughts have been turned to
this subject, by observing, from An advertise
meni IN the Norfolk papers, that steam
packet regularly passes from that place. on
stated days, three times a month to New
York. When we consider chat this is a sea
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