Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1826-03-02

station. He will repair TO the port early in April
with his family - Several alsrms of FIRE have
taken place in Charleston; the attempts seem to b.
the work of incendiaries.
GEoRoIA.-A Savannah paper says: Tn,
ship Birmingham. Captain Cobb. which clearee
at the Custom House, yesterday, has 4 cargo
on board Of 1865 bales of Cotton, weighin,
62S 900 pounds. This we believe Is the larees
cargo OF Cotton ever cleared at this port A per
son has been recently convicted Of a libel by III,
superior court Of Chatham county: he was sentenc
ed to pay fine of $50, give bond and security te
Keep the peace one year in the sum of $1,000, bt
imprisoned one day, and then be discharged on
paying the costs. Tire court overruled motion
Tor new trial. phe phraseology Of the late dis
r'ctins law gives rise to much cavl, and probably
TO some scheme for evading the intention Of the
majority OF the Legislature. They intended that
the people should vote only in the District in
winch they reside. for the candidate for Congress
only, residing in the same district. But the law
suns that each elec,or shall have the right to vote
tor one Representative in each Of the aforesaid
Congressional DISTRICTS" with proviso that no
person shall represent district who does not re-
sde la II, aud that efecor shall vote except in
ms own district. Thus, il is contended, the words
OF the law; defeat the intention of those who made
IT; and where only it is plain, that it violates, in
teiaton TO the residence required the Constitution
OF the u. s. Some Of the An,i-Clarkite papers
right which the law gives 10 him, for voting for a
candidate in each district-that is, for seven menu
bsrs OF Congress, as ~ done now, and it is sug-
gested, that at the election in October ticket will
PROBABLY be formed in accordance with this con-
struction OF the law, which will be generally cup
ported; thus, two sets OF members of Congress
may be presented TO the II, of II. and thew NAV
have to decide between them. "A writer in the
Savannah Republican states that Gov. Troup will
decline are-election. He then nomiaates General
Hudson as successor TO I. We supposed tina,
Mr. Forsyth would have been the man.
TENNEssEE.-A company OF abuu, thirty men
under The command OF Dr. Robinson, of Tcnnes-
see, passed through Natchez, on the oath Decem-
Ter, for Texas. They have gone TO survey and
explore grant made to gentleman ofTennessee
They were all hale fine looking young men-At
The lee session of the Legislature of the State of
Tennessee, IN act was passed for allowing any
person. to enter any vacant aud unapproprated land
lying East of the Congressional Reservation line.
and north OF Tennessee river, by paying one cent
per mere for every acre: Provided that no person
shall enter more than Elk hundred scres nor lees
than twenty-five. There is in that part of the
eiste great qusntity OF vacant land, some of il
adapted 10 cuitvation and the timber of other por-
,ions OF it being valuable. THIS presents a fine
opening for emigrants. who are not afraid of hard
work and epare living for time.
OHIo.-The Governor of Ohio has given Peter
damon bic choice. either TO be hung or be conin
IN the Penitentiary ten years. damon has chosen
the latter The Legislature has adjourned after a
eession of CT days; during which they passed 1875
acts, principally, OF a local description. They
have carved out additional military divisions, to
command which they elected Joseph Vance (mern-
Ter OF Congress,) Robert Bentley, Joseph Foos
And John Patterson. The legislature was compos-
sei OF "a farmers, 26 lawyers, 7merhanics, mer-
chahts,2 phyeieians, printers, miller, survey
or, and gentleman 80 from Pennsylvania, 81
Virginia, 81 from the N England States, Z New
York, N Jersey, &c Last year, for The FIRST time
there was one native Of Ohio; this year, =. The
stste was organized in f6o3.-The total amount and
valuation OF property, as agreed upon by the
hoard Of Equalization, gives l2,l43.3 acres;
whose value is $37,7i4, FPS; average value per
acre 81 49 cents and mills; and the total value
al town property S7.32l ,037.-At the letting of
Is miles of the Canal at Kendall on the 18th ult.
there were $500 applicants, IT'S of whom offered
tor the whole line to BE- let. TIE contract, were
taken at 900 less than the Engineer estimates
Such is the demand for tobacco seed that il has
readily sold alta dollar per gill; one man in Bel
mont county has sold in or weeks near s 500
worth; and some Of the pooden nutmeg gentry
have played the trick on the ignorant Of selling
them mullen seed, and even pulverized decoyed
ucod as tire genuine little pear tree "A man by
the name of Randall recently made his escape from
the Jail in Butler county, by assuming the dress OF
his wife, who had been permitted TO visit him. He
had been confined on the charge of having coun-
forfeited Spanish dollars.-An action for damages
was lately brought a, Beaver, against person for
Tending the plaintiff pig trough, which had split
in the bottom, and consequently leaked the slop,
and starved the pigs. The plaintiff claimed dam
ages, for the injury done 10 the pigs the ground
cha, the defendant knew Of the defect when he
ten, the trough, and did not inform him Of it. II
vas proved by the defendant, thatlt was a trough
taken up edrif in Big Beaver, and that it was split
in the bottom when he gotr in possession, which
he had caulked to prevent it from leaking and tina,
the plaintiff knew this fact when he borrowed it,
After the examination Of several witnesses, iudg-
rnent rendered for the plaintiff for 62 l-2 cent.
damages and costs Of suit; - The total number O
vessels, which arrived at Sandusky in 1925, wa.
236. In 1929 there were but l7S.
ALABAmA.-Seh Hunt, Esq. late Of New
York, is engaged in manufacturing salt in Alaba.
ma. BY the proceedings Of the legislature Of ,ha
state, we perceive that Mr.. Hunt has a ten years
lease Of the salt springs in Clarke and Monroe
counties, and Is to produce from and after the Isl
of January now last past, every year during thai
period, SIX hundred thousand bushels Of salt, which
is to be sold at price not exceeding seyenty-fve
cents forevery fifty pounds.-The Huntsville De-
tnocrat says, that previously TO the failure Of tn,
celebrated Eagle Bank (of Conneclicut,) tina
country had been inundated with the post notes O
the institutions: the time they had to run, and thu
Individual 10 whom payable, were left in blank, &c
ts filled up at the discretion Of the borrowers
These notes were pushed of in Alabama, by rep
reservations as TO the solvency of the bank, ant
the liability Of the endorsers in the event of an,
Unforeseen depreciation. When the bubble burst
the endorsers refused to pay, on the ground thai
the notes had not been presented at the bank ir
New Haven. 1900 miles of, before the expiration
II q t.. AfrhS ka, a.