Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1839-06-28
VIRGINIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.

The conversion oil The Public Arsenal at Lexington,
Va, into n Military Academy, and the substitution OF
school of Young pirrinans for garrison of hired sol
Jiers is perhaps the most ecitous improvement which
has characterized the legislation OF Virginia Tor many
wears We understand that the Board Of Visitors have
recently organized the institution by the adoption OF
rules and regulations for lis government, and taken
steps for increased accommodations Tor professors ana
sudens-and that the institution will go into operation
lime during the present year.
Al this institution will DO Taught Military Science
md Tactics, Civil and Military Engineering, the Mo-
dcrn Languages, and by happy and liberal connection
with Washington College, the whole range of the Sci.
ences necessary 10 q complete and perfect educaon.-
number of cadets equal to the number of Senators in
Virginia will be received into the institution, and edu.
Gated the public expense. Besides the cadets proper,
other young will be admitted at an expense OF about
Sl20 per year. including every thing except their cloth.
ing.
graduate of West Point, Professor of Mathematics
and Civil Engineering IN The College Of Hampden Sid
The Board of Visitors consists Of the Adutunl Gene
rnl Of The State Colonel Claude Crozet, Gen Peter c.
Johnson Gen. Thos H. Bolts Colonel Z. P. Dorman,
J. T. S Preston, ESQ, John F. Wylie ESQ DR.; Alfred
Lcyburn, James Mcdowell, Esq, and hugh Barclay,
Esq. :,
The Board Of Visitors, we understand will again as
semble at Lexington about The ,t Of September Of which
due notice will be given by the Proclamation oil The 20
vernon for The purpose oil receiving applications or ad
mission into the Institute
Characteristic student 10 be not lees Than lG nor more
uaan % years age able TO read and write and instruct
eel in the four grand rules OF arithmetic inciuons oeci
eIai and vulgar fractions
The expenditure of The school is the same as Tor The
~ esent Public Guard-so that no additional charge Will
es. made upon The treasury.
We we'll remember the exertions OF Col. DoTnan TO
Srec, this excellent improvement and VIC congratulate
H. citizens Of Rockbridge upon the organization OF
nine Institution Of Learning by which The moral and
Intellectual advancement oil portion of'the youth OF
ahe State will be promoted Washington C6Iegr WIN soon
be enabled 10 perform ior 'lg'nia what hest ioih'
does for the Union -
countries in The world in the midst OF moral AMI intel
ligcnl community nothing can prevent !. from ofGnn
inn most prominent and useful institution, provided
the fostering hand Of the Legislature shn be extended
'o''' % 90 y Richmond Wig.
We hive lately published several paragraphs relative
TO the trial of A. A. Sewers, in Staunton Augusta coun-
~ Va on the charge Of burning barn. &c
During the trial. Two most extraordinary circumstan
ces occurred. The jury were kept together during the
1,;al and on the morning after the evidence was all
90, ,b,ouph the astounding inie lgence announced
that in The preceding night one Of the jurors had gone
crazy and another had cot his throat! No cause is as
q, rned FIR these events and do not iner that the
evidence the trial, or any OF me circumstances con
ne tied with it, had any effect IN causing them The
urt suggested that Two other jurors should be select
ed and The trial proceed which concnrrFd IN by The
onposnp counse and the trial resulted as stated before
in verdict of acquil'al-.He1 Ga=.
TESTING THE ouEsTios-Mr Jacobs, Of Boston, whose
smnrisonment for violation of the fifteen gallon law was
the cause OF the great commoon IN that city last week.
has instituted action against the Justices oil The foce
Court, for false imprisonment, fixing the damages al
SIS O00 for the purpose of further testing The queslioh
of the right to Imprisonment in such cases
hloRE MORMON TRouBLEs.-The st LOUIS Evening
Gazette contains the following-lt seems that there
are in Illinois, scattered bands Of Mormons, some OF
which come in contact with their nelghoos nha occa
sion much difficulty We have heard from the neigh
borhood or Shelby county, that about week since
difference having arisen between the mormons ana
old residents the former applied 10 the Governor Tor nd
The Governor ordered out several companies, who went
% The scene of difficulty bu, discovering that they were
likely be overmatehed, returned Without ehecnng
their object"
KroKucK From The Chicago Democrat of June 9Th,
we extract the following:
KeoEuck killed By yoaag Birrk Haok-Fiom several
Of the Poltawatome Indians in this CITY. WHO re-
Gently passed the Sac country, we learn Inc ioo"hg
particulars During the absence OF nephew oi young
Black Hawk, keokuck got his wife drunk hno passed
The night with her. Being thus detected II Tell 10 BACK
Hawk the relative 10 avenge MS nephew SIN
iury which he took the earliest occasion TO do and sao
bed Keosuck at The entrance Of his nephew wigwan'
Keokuck it will be remembered, was always the ifeno
of The whites and opposed the celebrated Black HAWK or
Sac war and was promoted chief through the instrument
,aly Of The U. 8. Government He was about oo years
Of are and the time of his death, was inns sioe OF Inc
Dies oines river about l25 miles flour days journey The
Indians have p Yves, of the Mississippi Young Black
Hawk is chief Of the Sscs and, at Iast news was
at The head Of 1000 warriors marching fof TIE SIOUX
county He hasost OF his lnveterate hostility TO Inc
whites but the with which his late travel through
The u States with his father and the Prophet inspired
him. may keep him from any overt organizations Of H.