Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-05-25

Houses, and particularly in the Senate. AS il
now stands, II has some good features, ant.
lew Objectionable ones. Ii augments he du
lies on many articles but not IL such 40
amount as to make them prohibitory, or
oppressive in their operation. The objection To
the principle of the bill in the Southern
country and in some oft commercial die
tricts, will still have their original force bu,
those which are founded on approximations of
it's practical operation will not, we think, oe
realized.
AS the duties are not so FAR increased as 10
amount To prohibition, the Eject of the bill
will be, after this year. to add to the revenue an
amount, variously stated, of from one to four
millions Of dollars We do not much want the
revenue, but by this addition, the government
viii be able SD much more rapidly to reduce
the national debt, and thus to prepare the
nation more firmly 10 bear up against adverse
circumstances, should il have again to en-
counter them, as it has done heretofore.
by the passage of this act, we shall be
greatly disappointed if one important good
has not been accomplished, viz. the satisfying
the petitions aud wishes of large portion of
our fellow-cltizens, who have been induced
by reasoning which we never could follow, TO
believe that such a measure az the adoption of
a new Tariff was inseparably connected with
our natlsua independence 1t may be fairly
presumed, now, that the Tariff is settled for
many years, and il is subject of congratu
iation, that being settled, the revision has APP
preached so nearly to the beau ideal of a
{" judicious" one. [.Nat. Int.
The late terrible Steam boat Accident has
attracted universal attention, and as universal
execratlon of the use ofhigh pressure engines.
Ii Is proposed that the State Legislatures shall
prohibit the use Ofthem and, ifpubc 0pin
ION do not effect that object, we have no
doubt legislation will BY reference 10 the
Proceedings of the House of Representatives,
yesterday, il will be seen that the attention of
the Legislature of the United States has been
drawn 10 the subject. [H.
Mr.. John Randolph, of Roanoke, sailed from
New York for Liverpool, on Sunday morning
last, in the packet-ship Nestor. He reached
New York ON Sunday morning. Had he ia
ken the other line, instead of the one he did,
he might have been by this time on his jour
ney to that bourne whence no traveller
returns" Ii is impossible to read the account
of the hOIrid disaster which occurred, that
very evening To the Steam Boat i'm the Cti-
Zens' Line, without shudderng Ut the thought
how nearly the fate Of the miserable victims
of that tragedy may have been that of ones
self, or Of near ard dear friends and connec-
tons. ID.
Ii IS understood that the report of Alexan-
der Hamilton, one of the Commissioners APP
pointed to ascertain claims and titles to Ia nd
in East Florida, transmitted by the President
To the House of Representatives, affords con-
elusive evidence of the limited powers of the
Spanish Governors and if sustained will save
to the United States as much land as will be
suiiicIeot to pay the S 100000 paid for the
tioridas. This subject is now before the Ju-
dietary Committee, of which Mr. Webster is
chairman. Nat. Jour.