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

Vile Messenger, is announced as candidate for
Congress, for the district in Pennsylvania lately
represented by Mr.. Farrely Three persons were
lately found guilty at the of quarter sessions
OF LehiSh county, Of a libel against II. King in
these words: Mr.. King " is proud upstart Yankee
lawyer from Connecticut, and man that has TAX en-
iees' In certain suit in this county, from both
sides, plaintiff and defendant. contrary to his oath
as an attorney" At the request of KS counsel,
The Judge imposed slight fines only on the defen-
dants.- Messrs ]. & W. I.ippncott & Co. of Phil
adelphia lately called meeting of their creditors
together, to explain the of their temporary
suspension OF payment. The Expose of their af-
FAIRS was so satisfactory TO the creditors and hon
oraoie to themselves, that there was not dissent
Ing voice TO the extension asked for by the House.
MARX Richards has offered reward of $500 for
thc detection OF the person who raised the report of
ms iailuie and inability TO pay his notes. MIR.
Meredith has submitted resolution to the Legis-
iatuIe to enquire into the proprety of making i'm
mediate provision tor the total abolition of slavery
within that commonwealth: committee was APP
pointed. (The number of slaves in Pennsylvania
we think is little more than 200 y The Councils
OF Pittsburg have authorised the mayor to borrow
S20,O0 towards supplying the city with water
lhe Philaaelphia +. Journal reilerates the COM
PLANT about the scarcity of seamen, experinced in
fhiladeiphia, as well az in Baltimore, New York
boston, &c. This decrease is ascrbed TO the dim-
mutton OF our commerce for the last ID OF 20 years
besides the uniform loss in the number of this class
oil men from excessive mortality in foreign
sicSiy ports, or at sea, arising from the want Of
| good medical attendance and medicines; from ship
wrecks; from entering into the service OF foreign
nations; or from the want of protection in their
perlous employment in the service Of our merchant
vessels More especially merchants have been in
the practice OF taking few apprentices and
Milling up their crews with grown up men: thus the
supply OF recruits is not kept up to the demand
ience the Journal approves very much of Gen.
Smiths resolution in the Senate of the u. S. to
enquire into the expectancy of compelling mer-
chants TO keep apprentices each of their vessels
IN proportion TO their tonnage in order to increase
the number OF this useful class OF citizens. Tho
mas Kennedy and wife were drowned on the Slh
instant In attempting TO cross Conodoguine creek
on the ice near 10 Carlisle Judge Chapman $ trial
has terminated before the Senate of Pennsylvania.
he was acquitted ON all the charges On the Sd
art. considered the most important pa voted not
guilty and guilty: and this was the greatest
number OF votes against him on any charge The
Susquehanna and Delaware canal and rail road
bill was contested in its passage through the H. of
X. on the ground of its interference with the
rights OF the Lehigh canal and navigation COM
pany. The motion to amend the bill so as to avoid
this interference failed, yeas 80, nays 49, and the
bill then passed. A resolution is reported by the
ors message as relates TO revision of the crini-
nal code, to select three commissioners, of legal
qualifications who shall revise the penal code and
report to the next Legislature - The g Clay Fac
tory OF Pannsylv ania,' owned by Mr.. J. g. Nones
In North 9Th street near the mill dam, was totally
CONSUMED by fire with all its contents on the night
OF the 18Th This valuable establishment (ssvs
the r. Journa) was for the manufacturing of blue
and yefloto nankeens, under the patronage and
patent OF the General Government (Ho,p?
The loss estimated at between and 5000 dollars;
and S5oO dollars insured at N York - The Lead
mines near Perkiomen creek in Montgomery coun-
ty are said to be extensive, and to furnish ore of
the best kind. Two gentlemen from England have
purchased the land land intend TO commence min
ing immediately The 9Th Annual Repor, of the
pennsylvania Deal and Dumb Institution 10 the
Legislature states so pupils, 40 males, So females:
oil those, oil are from Pennsylvania, 80 of which
are maintained by the state, by their parents, ~
from the private funds OF the Institution: there are
from N jersey. 3 of whom are paid for by that
state; 3 from Virginia, Sc. During the past year
" pupils discharged, and 20 new ones admitted:
the expenses 69Ol dollars; goods made by pupils
sold Tor 500 dollars The institution is kent in an
elegant building ON Broad St. Philadelphia. There
are said TO be about 5000 deaf 1nutes in the H. s
OF which 500 are'in Penn, and 25 is the ratio of
annual increase. In one family, some of which 90
TO this school, six children and one grandch;ld:
In two others, five each, are deaf Mr.. Powell
has reported 10 the Legislature bill to establish
bank at Erie and another 10 es,abli III the Manufsc
'urer Bank al Philadelphia. - 1t subsequently, ap-
pears that the Pennsylvan canal bill passed the
Senate ~ to Ia; and that when it was returned TO
The H. OF II the Senste's amendments were i'm
mediateiy concurred in, by vote of 65 to IS: so
that 1t only wants the signature of the Governor
to become a law The Philadelphia Aurora as
serts That on the 23d some of the Lottery brokers
OF that city had received by express from N. York
the numbers drawn in the II Y. Literary LOTTERY
that they however denied having received them
and continued in the course of the day 10 swindle
the public by selling out tickets that they knew 10
be blanks.
DELAwARE.-The Legislature has adjourned
after session OF five weeks and four diys.-A
meeting is called at the Town Hall of Wilmington
on LIST March, OF the friends of Thomas Jefferson.
for the purpose OF adopting measures expressive
OF their attachment TO that illustrious statesman
and patriot. and of their sympathy and concern
IN the adversely which has oyertaken him in the
evening OF his long life, devoted TO the happiness
and liberty Of his fellow citizens"
MARYLAND. I'm the Legislature the bill to
take the sense Of the people on the proprietv of
calling convention has been negatiyed ~ TO 80
MIR. Tackle, from tie Committee on Lotteries has
made the following Report in the House of DELI
gates OF Maryland "The aggregate amount of
lotteries drawn in Baltimore in 1926 is one million
torty-two thousand three hundred and thirty dol
lars; that il appears from the document in he Ex-
eculive Department, that in addition 10 this sgpre
gate, the State Lottery No. 8, was also dawn on
the irst OF March, 1925, amounting to 100 900
dollars. That Cohen's Consolidated Lottery,
NO. 3, to DO drawn on the 18th Of February next,
amounts TO 3O5,OOO dollars; and that the eighth
class OF Canhed's Lottery, to bo drawn also in
February, amounts to $4,000 dollars, making to-
geiher gross aggregate OF S2,8l4, 1880. The Re