Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-08-28

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officer who is attempting to rsvish kiss from, the
! TAR Secretary, seated little way to her right
whose youth and charms would seem TO be an in
disputa5le warrant for such bodn s-s though sb.
Furnishes II by puncturing his audscou hand with
the sharp point of Ter pen. Ga the left of the
Moderator is seated lady of a remarkably mo-
dest demesnor, and by her dress supp osed TO be OF
high quality, who appears TO be blushiny a, the
scene we have just described. Behind the chair
OF the Moderator stands tall hard favored female
stricken In years and coaisely habited, but with a
cast oil countenance expressive of great furttude
and resolution. Through this sroupe is seen the
round black face, thick lip., and fiat nose, with
| heir accompanying vacant good .nstured SMILEY Of
| iefnaie domestic no 10 handing china inkstand
! towards the table, upon pretty little cocQuelico
waiter. The front OF the picture shews an elderly
"a'Ion IN snuh colored silk gown and black
scarf and bonnet, who has just risen from an old
issnioned mahogany chair, aud bending over the
'"oie' seems TO be writing a large scroll con-
tanning the following patriotic and spirited resolu-
ton.
we The Ladies OF Eienton do hereby solemn
! ~ engage not TO CONFORM 10 that pernicious GUS
tom OF drinking Tea, or thai the aforesaid La
ut.s, VIII not promote the manufacture from Eng
land until such time that all Acts which tend 20
ehsiave this our native country, shall be repesled
On the right OF the picture, three ladies, whose
! appearance b-speaks them among the " beauty s.
fashion, of Edepton, are seen emptyins the con.
tents oil their tea-canstes into couple Of hate OF
The oides cut, which are held by ely, Shrinking
ola codser In brown coat and red peuiwig, per-
hsps charged toy these patriotic danes with the
oilice oil con-igning the h,ted emblem of British
tyranny TO the bottom OF the Albemarle, or to
| the flames. In the back ground a merry old Joan
cioaked, AID hooded, is seen already in possession
OF succedaneum Tor the nterdicted article, which
she 1t qua;fing from ample china runch bowl
with an expression of great satsinc tion, while
her neighbor with the long-earneJ cap and syr-
SeY hat. and half beseec,ing iaif
physiogn my, is extending hand to dis-ngage
IL from her Unsuitable lips. In the foreground are
TWO PROSTATE tea canisters, dishonored by a dog
wh'ch Is licking the cheek Of an infant at play on
e carpet as II In token OF appreciation at seeing
me child upset waiter of tea china
The picture is marked ''pste w and must have
| oeen one oil series of the same description The
J ohcer who. discovered it Immediately purchased
" rom The member OF soas, whose property it was,
| ana presented 1t TO Commodore Rodgers, who we
understand intends to present to the Governor OF
North Carolina destiny which it well merits
however humble its pretentsions may be as a work
F, OF art. Ihr,rGdk geroIJ
HE Quarantine Regulations of New York are
justly complained OF by writer in one of the
papers OF that city, and he adduces the following
as some OF the absuIdities of the system Qua,an.
tine laws wisely framed and judiciously adminis-
tered may be very necessary; but there is such a
'hing as rendering the system excessively oppres-
l -''S "'N SANch iiuituiUus, ny NDe want OF q
proper discrimination IN selecting suitable object
tor their operation
| Ih1 New York writer remsrks:-A vessel ar
| rlves at Baltimore from a West India Island, dis
charges her cargo there, and takes in another con-
sstine OF Flour and Bricks and arrives a, This
| port-irom Baltimore, which is perfectly healthy
end with healthy crew-the vessel is detained
at Staten Island till November, or permitted 10
go TO sea- the Flour i. lsken 10 Brooklyn Zone OF
OF me hottest places In the sate) be purified Sc
the Bricks!!! ordered above the State Prison!
"A vessel In ballast stops a day al ST Thomas
81. Croix, or some other Island equally healthy.
goes To Turks Island and takes in cargo of Salt
and arrives hers-this weasel is also detained al
Staten Island till November, and the Salt is sen,
up in lighters to Brooklyn for 20 days purifica-
iion.
a vessel arrives at ossisntn on board which,
some one has died, perhaps OF consumpt;on no
matter what her whole cargo must be landed
and stored al Staten Island for one month and
perhaps longer, which amounts 10 a prohibition
Of sale
ihe cargo OF a vessel from on interdicted port =.
| no matter whether healthy OF not, must be sen,
| uom tie SiarantIns ground TO Brooklyn, there 10
lie twenty days Tor publication before il is allow,
| ed 10 be landed IN this city, and consequently
! we ma dum, Tobacco, Pimsnto and many other
articles which are prevenlives of disease kept out
the city tor tear OF introducing i'll and any one
who will take the trouble TO visit Brooklyn. will
frequently find. pig lead and pig iron quietly ri
ding cut the twenty days publication on the
wharves of that village.
Let any one reflect the enormous expenses
to which these Quixotic regulations subject all
kinds OF merchandize,-,he detention, and loss of
sale! - Reflect on the folly of allowing our CHI
zens by thousands, during the hottest season, 10
NIX with passengers from sickly ports at Staten
Asiano: while thcsc passengers are nteidcted from
coming TO this CITY, and hey will exclaim-A B.
way with these silly laws, which would disgrace
the reason that Providence has given the Hotten-
tot and Savage, and introduce others of which the
citizens OF this commercial metropolis need not be
ashamed