Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1830-07-31


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- sATgRDAY MORNING, JULY 81, 1880.
81 % News from England, week later than our
previous advces will be found in the preceding COL
umns. George w still lived, and the French cx-
pedition hadnot landed. The reader will however.
find much of interest in the selections we oive-to
make room for which we have had to defer some no.
itical articles, original and selected. i3Ja5
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES ALoIEns.-Capt.a Slliman,
10 days from Guadalupe, informs that n ahp had
Just arrived there which LEFT Havre on the 18th June
The master stated, that telegraphc communication
was received the day he sailed that French expe
ditlon bad succeeded in landing 900 men little
to the northward ofAlgiers. This is later from ua
vre than the advices from England Cow Any - Z
+ The N. Y, Journal of Conmsrce, remarkino on
the above report says: The London nelligencer of
June 9Th alndng to the same report which was pub
shed IN some OF the morning pa per this morning re
cesed from Havre via Guadalupe, SAYS "The report
ofthe arrival of the French fleet off Algiers and the
ldlsembarcaton of 5000 men, copied in the Lon
don papers last week from the French journals was
lncorreci; and refers for proof to the following
TELEcRAPHIc DISPATCH. ~ :
"Touon, June @, five O'Clock, p. M.-The corvette
the Dilligente, arrived at Touon on the 9th left the
Bay OF Palma, (6lajorca.) on the Cd AT the moment
OF It's departure the fleet was detained by contrary
winds All the ships had joined, and the whole were
in the best possible order -[MoNrTEuR. -, q.
The same report was rumored at Marseilles on The
9Th; and was founded on the alleged arrival of
steam vessel at Toulon the night of the 4,Il-four
days before the above teegraphc despatch was ssu-
cd. The report may therefore be unhesitatingly
Icontradicted. - frdl 1. -slr9 g-ra7. ~ % =
Execution. slave Daniel was hanged yester
day. pursuant to his sentence for the murder of James
Drummond He acknowledged his guilt. 's19a
The Salem .Wurder.--On Friday, the Grand jury
returned bills OF indictment against John Francis
Knapp, JosephI Knapp, Jr and George Crownin.
shield, for the murder of Mr. White. The first and
second counts Of the first indictment. charge J. F.
Knapp with having committed the murder and the o.
theirs with having hired and melted him thereto
The third count charges, that the murder was
committed by Richard Crownnshield aided by J. f.
Knapp, and melted by the others. The second in
dictmeni charges the murder to have been commit
ted by Richard Crowninshield melted by the others
Upon the indictments against Selman and Chace the
Attorney General entered noHe prosq,a They were
therefore liberated. and discharged.
II seems to be understood that j. J. Knapp Jr will
not be called a witness. -. ". ..
the prisoners pleaded not guilty. "H
Elias Warner, for perjury, in trying to cheat his
creditors, has been sentenced to the State Prison.
N York, for five years. w. had an interview with
his heart-broken wife Monday morAine: il was a f.
fecting in the extremes they anxious 10 be alone
for some time, but this could not be granted IL was
with difficulty they could be separated : Since the
sentence has been pronounced she obstnately refl-
ses all kind of sustenance. On arriving within the
precincts of the Prison, Warner saw his artner and
associate Phelps to whom his msfortunes it is said
may be attributed. wheeling a barrow. Neither
spoke, but Phelps cast bitter smile of recognition
sudden .frown rested or the countenance of War
ner, and he hastily passed on.--[ Patriot ,a...s
Sea Serpent at The Shoals.-The Portsmouth Jour
nal, of Saturday last, says-The Sea Serpent is said
IN Inn Hnnn tttn II
of Shoals, during the present week. Capt. Perkins
Of the schr. Alert, very respectable man, and his
crew, state that he came up towards their vessel
within twenty feet, and then passed round her bow
so that they had fair view of his snakes hip--they
saw about 60 feet of his length. -rr -
Another vessel lying at anchor, saw him at some
distance lying on the top of the waterthe skipper
with one other person the only Of the thai
would go, took the boat and rowed alongside of him
near us TO he able to break his back with oar
if they had dared. They think him 100 feet or more
in length. .- r -.--,-.... .,l-a.,r-s (
Both of these crews agree with former accounts as
10 the general appearance of the monster. ..rs
We also Informed by n gentleman who had
just returned from the Shoals that the serpent
/ ed between the cable and the bows of schooner
i belonging to Mr.. Caswcll, while lying at anchor
and that some of the crew stood at the stern OF
the vessel and looked down upon him: they describe
him about the size of lime cash in the middle
and smaller towards each end; smooth snake
without lunches, the appearance of them being oc.
casioncd by his motion. .af.s r-
i DEATH OF GEN. SUcRE.- Letters received by
the Montilla, state, that Gen. AHToNIo JOSE DE
SUcRE had been assassinated while on his way 10
Paste II this be true, it is much to be lamene cd.
Next to Bolivar, Gen Sucre is tho greatest benefac.
| tor Of South America. .a.r. I'll.
II was also reported that two other Generals had
fallen victims to sssassination but this the letters
sage, was without foundation We would gladly hope
that tho same might prove true in regard to the no
bic minded Sucro Jour. Com
II is stated in Quebec paper oftbo 18th, that up
wards ofsevonteen thousand emgrants have already
arrived at that port from Europe.
! From U,e NJ y. Commercial AdUertiser of .Tulv 81
There were upwards Of two hundred deaths IN this
city the past week. or this number more than ono
i hnnhrn1 children nndnr Rrn unnrn nf nrn 81