Litchfield enquirer., 1830-01-07

! animation 1t was proved that one 0t the leNd. ere had induced the others Co join tn by tell tux them that be had Nsslsted to stow away one hundred and Atty thousand dollars: "Col. or was given tO hts story by there being 100 small kegs Of plcklcd oysters on bOaru' N seems that they had secured the t0recas'le where the crew was, and that they intended AC(rr taking possession Of the vessel tN tOrce the crew to take them l0 St, Domingo or Nrw.YOrk.
 This plot originated on board the brig Ajax' iN tho har6Or OC Norfolk, from which many 0r these blacks were taken. The same thmS was undertaken, we have been int"rmed' on hoard that vessel on her passage out here' oNt was discovered by Onr Of tue slaves who was hithtul to It's Mastrr, in tune to save the nVeS Wr the whites by securing the leaders' BW 1t Is with painful anxiety we learn' that the slaves also disclosed their knowledge of a | like transaction which was to be attempted on board the schr. Transport not yet arrived, aud in which there were eight or ten lady passengers. We were told by one oF the passengers that if the attempt had been made, 1 us was contemplated, one night so"ner, all on board the Lafayette must have been killed. l Much praise is due to the passengers, partlcu' larIy Mr. Balls, owing to whose intrepidIty, prnrrally, the life of the captain was saved, and the InWtinpHrs forced to retrcAt. None OF them were killed, but some Of them severely 'i wounded.
 P. $. Since tho above was put in type, WI have been informed that the U. s. District
 Attorney has had the persons who brought
 the slaves here, an6 about one hundred of
 the slaves, arrested, to be dealt with accord tug to l"w.-Nesc- Orleans paper.
 ! al.. Un Monday, Mr. Dickinson presented a me- . mOra from the State of New-Jerscy, pray ing that Congress might not interfere, or pass
 any law that might interrupt tho regular
 transmission of the United States mail on
 Sundays.
 ln tue House of Representatives, the reso.
 tuition for appointing n Select Committee tO
 inquire into the expediency of establishing Il branch Of the United States Mint in the Got region of North Car0lina, which was reccnt!y proposed by Mr. Carson, and rejected, was
 rccvnsidered and adopted. and Select Com.
 mittee of five app0iated. Several private
 bills were passed, and others carried through
 their appropriate stages, aNer which n long
 discussion ensued in Committee of the
 Whole, Mr. Buchanan in the chair, on the subject of the bill to establish n uniform rule . for the computation Of the mileage of mem. f hers oc Congress. Mr. WickliEc brought for ward the question aud argued at length upor /: it. He was followed by Mir. Haynes, Mr D Davis of South Carolina, Mr. Sterigere, Mir
 Burges, Mir. Strong, NIr. Johnson of Ken . lucky, Mr. Coulter, Mir. 'Semmes, and Mr . Taylor, who sevOrally spoke upon the ques n ton. Various amendments were propOscC V in the Committee, and cOnCurred tn by tn, ', Housc.
 !, A bill was presented, from the Judiciary CananettH rs.eRivAd tie ,AFRi nA n HNf 9f . we understand them, meet very fairly the ne |. crsslty which invites legislation on the subiec 0 ot the organization of the Judiciary. e Ihe blll proposes that the Supreme Cuur snall hereafter consist of Chief Justice ant g eight Associate Judges, (nstead of six, as al presently That the Seventh Judicial Circuit f soa!l hereafter consist Of the Districts of Ohio
 lndlana, Illinois, and Missouri, that the Dis.
 tricts of Kentucky and Tennessee shall con.
 slitute the Eight Circuit and the District of
 Mississippi, the Eastern District of Louisiana,
 anu the Southern District of Alabama, shall
 constitute the Ninth Circuit; that, in accord. ance with this arrangement, there shall be appointed Seventh Associate Judge, to re. side in the Eighth Circuit, and to attend that CWcult until otherwise allotted; and an Eighth Justice, to leside in the Ri th Circuit, until otherwise allotted; that these Judges shall attend and compose a part of the Su- Preme Court.
 The details of the bill of course accord
 with tho new arrangement of Circuits, Sc. We are very much gratiRed to iind by the journal of the House Of Representatives of
 the United States, that the following resolu.
 ton has been introduced to that body, and
 we cannot hut indulge the hope that {, will
 be adopted by Congress as the law of the ma.
 liua.
 !" On motion of Mr. Cahoon. ii was
 ResotUed, That the Committee on ,h. Milf. tIa be instructed to inquire into the eNprdi. ency of so altering the Militia laws as [" ex. empt from military duty in time of peace. all persons under 2l and over S years of age"
 We hardly know more interesting subiec, to the nation at large than this. The law re-. 1 quiring the enrolment of minors. between IA and sl years of age. is very oppressive to that I class Of inhabitants, and very often highly pernicious in it's effect upon their morals and character. 1t is oppressive because it takes them away from their regular pursuits, and Oblges them to lose several days in the year, ln an employment useless to them. and equal " so to the country. The portion of their life alluded to, is in all respects of the most