Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-07-10

That ltke tofRer) stated that nm
Dsincer in 1892, riced Midshprnan aIon He
Was tried for damages a civil action and verdict al
ven for the defendant therefore, argued Captain Read
am gultless
Much, you know is customary in these cases was
said in the defence about respect for the Honorable
Court gratitude for the kindness scwn by it to the ac
cused and good deal contained in this curious do
curnest about the with which public sympathy il
excited against Post Captain of the Navy But he
hoped he should the people satisfied he had done no.
tnng that should enttc HIM TO aniipadverson on their
part There was manifest anxiety to persuade the
court that the accused had demanded this trial on ac
count OF the newspaper attacks upon his characters bu
learned some days since from rst-ratc anhOrify that
this demand not made until after the Secretary Of
the Navy had informed Captain Read ti.a he must De mr.
ragHed oa charges touching his conduct in the Constc
lation.
When the reading of the defence was through with
Mr. Wilson Through his friend MIR Campbell To whom
alluded in former letter. addressed paper 10 the
Court requesting to be allowed prepare reply TO so
much Of the defence Of Captain Read involved his
character The Court was cleared and his request re-
on the ground that the character of Wilson had
not been assailed in unusual manner but another
proposal, contained in the Fica5oH was granted
hear This that the said paper (his protest
that language Of the defence in the particular above
named might be entered ON the record of proceedings
LYScHpuRo, July p
minute aad detaied of the ravages of the a.,
rious and destructive storm, with which we were visit
ed on Saturday afternoon last hurried notice of which
appeared in Monday paper Our Information from the
country is entirely partial and limited to admit of il
We have learned, however that its first taces are dis
on farms near the base OF the Peaks
ter IN Bedford ooanty, Nsome "a @T 20 miles West of
ths place. though in that immediate neiolbortood the
damage comparatively trivial Progressing eastward
sy with occasional deyiaons from direct line and oa
thering violence they rolled onward the clouds Dor
ed forth, from apparently Rexhaustibe maguz ncs show.
ers of Iastonesor properly speaking masses of
ice,strppng the orchards of their fruits and the gar
dens OF their Notwithstanding down the PROMISING
fields Of corn level with the earth the stalks mashed in.
10 aJely and the fodder into shreds-sweepn0 off
the wheat, rye and oats f the scytc Of the re9per
had passed over the fields and scattering abroad the
nearly npened grain If the processes of cutting and
tnrcshlng mad been siIn9ltaneous work la word
the entire strip OF country which within the track
of the sorIDsupposed to be mile and BALI in width
and probably hFOn fifty to sixty miles in length exb
bits most distressing Of desoatou and ruin The
sufferers in the country Of whom NC kaye heard arc
the following individuals:
In Bcdford-Wiam Radford John f. Hawkins
Mrs Margaret Burton, - Switzer, Edwin Moore
John Bullock, Beverly r. Scott, Paul a. Clay Capt
stuart Jonn llohson, William HObson -
Cfenshaw, Parson Wilkcrson, Owen WilkersoD DR. N
w Floyd AID Samuel AZ Scot
IN Ca5npbeN.--Mrs Martha WlddeU David O. Mnr
re John Murcll, ar, Maurice H. Garland Can't James
Meem, Alexander Iggaut Colin Buckner, Ammon
Hencock, William DAVIS it, Richard Chiffon Charlie
Norman, and Capt A. & Duke
In 4naherst-Jchu NJ Williams, Washington Apper
Dabney, Daniel ,. Werwick, Robest Warwick. Iesqe
Salmons, Alexander Munday Capt. John Waryick
James Lee, and James L. Lampkin.
Doubtless there are many oihens, whose names We
the above gentlemen the logs bss been partial on roo.
OF them entfeeyery sprig Of The veee tation both h
the gardens apd IN the fields, being utterly detroved
we have heard the lOss Of some estimated as os az
$500, and Of others high a. $1,000
We have not yet however, been able to ascertain NJ
what point The violence q the storm abaod nor indeed
have received any authentic account of lie prooyess
beyond Capt warwick ia Amherst But IL is rdmor.