Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1838-09-21
DOW ES'EsC.


The following Memorial 10 the Legislature OF tins
State has been drawn up by the Committee appointed
for that purpose the Railroad meeting lately held IN
this place Il will be placed III the hands OF the people
of this county for their signatures IN DAY or Two
To ihe Honorable assembly Of Vrgtna.
We the people Of South western Virginia, IN Inc e1'
preston of our wishes and claims, respectfully me.
moraze your honorable body 10 cause to be
on State account Railroad connecting ths country
9Th IN. Central and Eastern parts of common State
not TO incorporate Joint Stock Company authorized
vet not empowered TO make road but to create the
came by the energies oil the State
We most respectfully ask this Railroad IN behalf Of
a. mighty resources demanded enlightened le-
qsla,ion and repaid enterprise Our section OF country
has capabilities Of stock and produce and mines that no
other spot the globe concentrnles-a country WINCH
with your permission, will! pour into the lap OF Virginia
commerce annual millions, paying nu;nentt 10 our sea.
ports attracting direct foreign trade that Will send
now expa,rated wealth through the channels OF home
employmen section which is the back country, the
riches, the lite OF virginia seapors, with which we
ask you 10 connect US.
We ask il for ports; for the agricultural Popuia
ton for the aboTer in profession and shop, ano n'ne
and 6sd and for the manufacturing interest that waits
but your word to thousand sites we ask II IN the
name Of every tlheabe in the Commonwealth I" en-
hance the value Of property ill the tax per centage
snfe and to soil with population 10 DIVIDE
tax I'LL il is and then 10 form fund Tor Cn
vrr,a Education aud Improvement.
We urge it your attention that Georgia has brought
road from the Atlantic coast through her State to
KnoxVii!e-That South Carolina has her like load 10
knoxrille-kentucky comes down to knoXvie-L"u.
isana and Mississippi and Alabama construct the line
Of communication from the Gulf to knoyvilie-and
Tennessee brings oil these TO the borders OF Virginia.
On the opposite latitude, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Long Island New Jersey bring the current from the e1
IRENE Northeast: Pennsy lvania, Mary land, and the
District O! Columbia pass il aong reaches Richmond
in Virginia and the hand thence DIVORCES along
tho mdlands but waits HE other TO meet and receive
through valleys The millions that Tennessee has ac
cumudtpd at line and 10 transmit In exchange the
mighty Northern tide.
We ask this Railroad for the United States great mail
route and for the cheapest speeches, and safest connex
ion between the East, the centre aud the Southwest =
key link the bond Of Internal improvement that CIR
Giles our Union, the ces,us Of beauty and power. We
ask accompany sister States IN their career OF In
terna light taxation, better and more pro-
ducve labor and the happiness OF individual czens,
and in their general prosperity and greatness
We respectfully that the prac,cablhy and profit
sbeness Of the must be palmer now Than
when the Honorable Legislature twice pledged itself Tor
two fths of the stock ot the RVad-tha IN ms as else
where and in Ohio and Pennsylvania, where alter years
Of abotve tagging they forced TO abandon II for
Slate improvements, hch from that moment sPrang on
ward 10 certain success, the Joint Stock System was
unequirocay proven to be Impossible, and we there.
fore cw c.k that the vital importance Of this route may
be met bv a Railroad constructed entirely on ) Gia
account. We also consider II the true policy that The
State tko!oughfarcs should avoid private monopoly,
weakness ana ltS anu sEoulu
the people large and therefore respectfully sug.
rest that the James River and Kanawha improvement,
90 called be purchased by the State though aware
that the expression Of this opinion by bringing bidder
into the market, enhances the price Of the stock
You. memoalists ask this Railroad, because II Is near
or perfect thoiougare than any other that man has
devised, and McAdamized Turnpike must be ess;-
because Railroads form the other links the great routes
from North and East und Southwest, and by Railway
alone should Railways be cOnneced-because il alone
will draw immense travel and its tribute through
country and enable the State 10 cheaper liz utmost
the Transportation of agricultural and mineral pruduc
TONS and Of animals; principle OF regulation in tolls
which would urge your honorable body and which
would time expense and interest and give the early
advantage Of market in good marketable condilon;be
cause in the official reports OF Engineers 10 the Assem-
bly, on the very line Railroad is proved five
advantageous present roads aud three times ad
vantageous McAdamized Road; hecsuse shrewdness
and information have invested in Railroads. and in
vesting daily immense amounts in dozen Of S oes
and in England, where the roads already MlcAda
mzed and experience has beled that confidence
nor does point to single instance Of the opposite sort
where Turnpike has superseded Railway; and finally
because we do wish the peoples money md hopes
invested where they may bring FIVE per cent instead Of
where they will bring fourteen.
And your memoialists as in duty bound, will
pray, &c
THE WEATurR.-The mean temperature for the
months Of June July and August, from meteorological
table kept by Daniel Ruffner Esq near this place, lob
servaton made o'clock of each day0 appears as1ol
lows June, 81; July, 81 9; August, So Being much
warmer for the successive months iha" has ever been
mark able for un almost uninterrupted drought From
which the crop will be much short Of early
autcipations ID.
D1srRycTIvE FiRE.-On Thursday night the 30th
olt the valuable steam and grist MILL owned by
Judge Summers and Lyle MILAN, about twenty miles
below this place. consumed by fire. The mill
discovered TO be fire about o'clock night,
and had then far progressed be beyond control
Ma al,atal
hours the whole fabric, together with large quantity
of grain, in ashes We learn that there had been
no FIRE about the mill for several days before the Golfers
being under repair al The time The manner in which
the fire originated is unknown.-kaRaleha Banner.
WASHINGTON CRisrSAL CouRr- FRIDAY. SEPT a.
John B. Henderson, the orger who has Of late excit
ed so much feeling in this community was brought into
Court this morning. and being placed al the bar, he
auestsd Col. VIM. l. Brent 10 ask the Court /, allow
him the Of pen ink and paper as he was DESTROYS Of
addressing note to Col Brent which had been refused
him in prison. pom which Mr.. Brent asked the Court
10 permit Henderson to take seat within the bar,
table, for the purpose Of Writing what he expressed
wish to do The Court hereupon granted its permission
20 Henderson no in few minutes handed 10 MIR Brent
letter. IN which understand the prisoner vndicaied
that gentleman from The late base charge made against
him, (of aiding Henderson, escape from pfison decar
ing it 10 be plot got up TO nure the high standing Of
Mr. Brent at the Bar, and dsnouncing the whole matter
false, and at the time defending himself against
the suspicious entertained by MIR Brent and The Public
90 to bis (Hendersons having planned The conspiracy
Soon Afterwards, upon the clerks calling upon Hen.
derson for the purpose Of arragning him. Mr. Brent ap
peared his counsel and demurred TO the seven indct
nens aganst his client, and to assigned by
The Court for the argument Of the demurrers
Much curiosity manifested in TO take look
II the prisoner whose arragnment to-day altogether
unexpected John B. Henderson ia a remarkably hand
ome man, about thirty years Of oge His countenancs
good and indicates any thing rather than propensity