Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1842-06-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The best Of fine boots, imported from France,
under nominal duty only, are selling in Bati-
more at 80, 50 per pair. At the same time, France
taxes our tobacco about 900 per cent, and this ID
what some oil our wise ones call Stree trade"
The wbig Young Mems State Central Commit
tee of New York. have called State Convention
at Auburn, the 27th July, TO organize for the fall
election. The great issue involved in the contes:
will be the question OF Internal Improvements.
The British are building large war steamer, at
Kingston, U. c., 10 carry two long s2s, and four
81 Founders.
The Pitisburg American says that the six States
OF Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio Kentucky and
Missouri, will seed to the seaboard, this season,
produce Of their own growing to the amount OF
s35,000,000.
SnO.O in June.-On the s,h inst. snow was falling
all day at Bennington, VT and ice was formed of
considerable" thickness.
COL Prince, of Sandwich, U. C. lately obtained a
verdict for sIpence, damages, in q SANDER suit
against the editor OF a newspaper
The Tennessee banks are said TO be hesitating
between resumption, and awaiting the issue of a
SeiTe faeias. In such case, she that doubts, is
damn'd."
Some OF the papers intimate that besides other
curiOsities, the Exploring Squadron brought home
materials for some half dozen Courts Martial.
The Baltimore Daily Wing only nine days DID,
is to be enlarged on Monday.
II is stated in one OF the Baltimore papers. tina,
the general slaughter Of dogs, in Phila. has caused
a material reduction in the price Of siusoges.
/ The Hudson river steamboats, run agrouad almos,
J every day upon n sandbar, formerly known az
"Marcy's farm"
! The Boston Notion is soon TO appear containing
two entire Novels, besides sundry tales sketches
| and other varieties.
The Wings Of Ohio have adopted as their motto
/ - 81
and protective tariff"
i A wretch in North Carolina, recently shot a
white woman, with entire dslberntion, while she
was in the act OF picking up a few apples and
pums in his orchard, which had fallen from The
trees
Conc 4 nEAD-Some splendid Steam Engine.
have been manufactured a, Columbia, S. c.
A party consisting Of SC men, IA women and 80
children, left the western boundary OF Mo, or
the 10th OF May, for Oregon.
2O5 men and boys, enlisted At Buffalo ". Y
lie Naval service, have been dispatched TO Boston
per Rail Road and Steamers.
A Convention q Delegates Of the new School
Presbyterian Church assemblies at Cincinnati, TO.
day.
Some OF the fines, Stores in Mobile ave closed
many Of which can be rented, by only paying III,
taxes on them.
All the poems which have recently come from
the mill Of the muses., IN commemoration Of IN
antics Of Gov Dorr, are TO be issued in one vo.um,
entitled "DoRR-grel Poetry"
Slamm proposes 10 issue new paper in Ne'
York, to be called the Plebean"-SeuIIion woul
be more appropriate.
James Barton, orc Of the class which goes i
strong Tor the broadest liberty, has been held 10 bs
in Phlladelphia, for having one wife too many.
\ DIN Broadhead, who was implicated IN th
charge Of oorfuptng some Of the L0coiOco Mem
bers Of the Pa. Legislature, last winter, Is anon
the missing.
An Ohio paper says that "Tyler meeting" WI
: actually held at Cleveland, last week, az who
{ nins persons we're present. We doubt it'll
number must have been exaggerated.
!, The Phuadsl phia Sentinel contains the call Of
meeting Of the "lncouuptible Democrats Of th-
city. II none but such attend, we reckon III
meeting will be thin one.
The Western Raj Road is pouring LOTS Of N
fashona bles. from down east, into Saratoga.
Loeoloco Rsfrsnehmsni-A few years ago. IN
contractors paid the City Of New York, ss, 30
per annum Tor the iDiiegs Of cIeaoiag TIC street
last year the Locos paid $4,000 70 favorites,
, have u done.
AN UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT A.
q CALDWELLISM.- Stafford, a merchant
New York, on Friday, received note, signed ~
ward y Moore, representing that the writer he
r seven hundred barrels Of Flour, which would nj
4 rive m New York m week, and asking an ad
b vance Of few hundred dollars AZ The time Of i
81 delivery, as The writer wished funds N meet an en-
gagement in Boston. Mr. S answered the note, IN
r. Ell NJ the hotel dWecied. Next day forged not
y lp 500 was presented at the Merohants' Bsnl
q pufporung 70 We signed by Mr. Stafford, but file
up ~ the same writing with the letter above quoted
{ The teller hositated, and Mr. Moore withdrew
hst financial operation was stopped.