Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1831-04-04

however Thatby
OF parties entered OF record at the Of appeal any
o either of the Court of the counties abose may
The ryder read twice ordered ensrossed-aud
The bill aud ryder passrd-ayes sc, noes II
On motion Of Mr. Chichester the House adjourned.
The Br. man Of war Druid, ut Rio Janeiro lately
captured Bahia, slave schooner. with So slaves
They bad nearly finished searching her. when by
chance officer put his sword The 6ung hole Of
Of the water tuns and was answered by a cry
within. The cask wac broken open, and out crept
three fine coast of Nina blacks. The slave dealers at
Rio greatly app'auded the captains device, which
had been effected in - hours chase.
Ex,rae, Of letter dated
"BArAvIA. Nov 90, 1880. You will doubtless
have heard that Dcpb Neg,ro. has been sen, prso-
boyna."
These were iasurgent native chiefs, who had
caused the Dutch much trouble.
From the A,ls.sas Advocate
BUEL.-A meeting took place in the st ate Of Goa
hula. (Texasl on Saturday morning the sth Feb. he
tween Major F. Pop of this town & Mr. C F.M. N =
land, of Batesvlc At the first ERE Major pop. vas
severely wounded. Mr. hollands shot taking efi,ct IN
the superior part the hip bono Of his antagonist An
extract Of letter to the editor states:-"they both
behaved with the greatest courtesy and bravery up
on the field, and what viii be gratifying to the friends
| OF each they parted reconciled. The distance at
which tire gentlemen fought was twenty feet"
The Secretary the State of Pennsylvania has is.
sued proposals for loan Of 81 483I6I
at any time after the year 1856. and bear an inter
est not exceeding FIVE per cent.
RAPID TaAvrLLI sG.--The North America steam
boat made a trip few days ago, from banv 10 New
York, IN ten hours and half.
| The silver spoons, &c. belonging to the Steam
boat North America found on Saturday, in
the very spot where they snugly slowed away
| for safe keeping
SrURIous WIsE.-A citizen. of New York has
stated in tho Albany Argus, for the information of
merchants IN the interior OF the state that
There arein New York several distlicries which
are engaged at present extensively III brewing SOU
nous vine: and marking the casks the same man.
ner as the Custom House. excepting the Surveyor
name, for which they have substituted several 9th
cr<; for instance j. Jackson, T. Undcrh,ll, Archi-
bald Mitchell, &c purporting to be imported into
the city of New York and Marked accordin!y."
UNFORTUNATE OccuRREScE-Thc Genius Of
Liberty published al Gnlontown, Pa. mentions tha,
for some time past, man named William Slndford
has been confined in tine jail of that place who is IN
state of arrangement. On Monday week last
the town constable lodged person named John Up.
dcgraf IN the jail, III state Of Intoyica ton on
sdav, between aud two o'clock, he was killed
by Sandford, with billet Of wood; his Jaw bone was
broken in three places, and his skull broken aud
mashed in d shocking manner. II was with
considerable difficulty that Sanford The pcrpe,rator
OF this decd OF death. could BE- secured. He was
armed with billet of wood, and large butcher
knife, aud rushed on the who attempted 10 enter
the room. After scufiing, he was disarmcd
and secured II is supposed that Updesraff had as
sisted in ibera,ing him, by drawing the staple from
the floor, 10 which he was chIlncd.
From the Seneca Falls Journei
Mosr DISTRESSING CASYALvy-Ye sterday morn
ing, March 22, the dwelling house of Mr. Charles
Glenn, of the town Of Tyre, in this county, was
destroyed by fe and his wife and two children per-
ished in the fumes. YTu circumstances we learn
arc ihe-c-Mr Glenn had left home in the morning.
and man was engaged in drying fax by the fire,
which accidentally took fire and irnme lately filed
the room with flames. Mrs G.. seizah one child aud
ian up stairs for another but such the rspd pro-
gress of tho fire, that she was unable retreat, and
was soon enreoped with her children the dey6ur-
ing flames. II bong log house, it ID probable
there was but one way 10 communicate with the cham
Der, or sho might have escaped.
This ~ the second disaster have heard Of this
spring, occasioned By the drying of INK in houses
The Washington, PA Reporter mentions the
death by suicide, Of Mr. Daniel Allison of Cunton
Township. He rose from his bed early, put on a
part of his clothing, took HE rifle and stepped few
PAGES from his own door, set the gun but on the
ground placed the side of his hoad the top OF the
barrel and drew the trigger with his toes The per
son who had been sleeping with him heard the report
OF the rife and sprung from his bed, made to the
door, and found Mr. Allison q corpse-,ha handker-
Chief which he had worn his mead during the night
was set on fire from the powder burning from tn.
point Of the rifle. The bail lodged in hs head The
deceased was about 80 years of age upward TN
married, and wealthy-of unmpeachabie character
for sobrlety and moral department.
LEXINGTON, Ken March II
MAMMOTH Ox.-On Thursday oC las, week an
Ok fiee years old, and weighing 1000 pounds, was
exhibited In Frankfort by Mr.. Bcnjamn Houker, of
This county, lie is nov OH his way to New Orleans
for sale lie was raised by Mayor Hector r. Lewis,
Of Fayette. Gas.
The fine steer, Guyanhhc, fatted by rarmar Denny,
Esq. was weighed on Wednesday last, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania. His weigs,, on foot, was twenty two
hundred and twelve pounds.
HORRIBLE REyELATIoss.-The following blood
chilling article Is copied from the Journal Of Com
merce. We have been appraised for some weeks of
these shocking revelations Of Gibbs but understan-
ding that 1t was the desire Of tho marstratet TO whom
thaf oh