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Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-03-22
BRAVO

Our "csnnonads has had the effect Of inducing the Wing
not only TO take the back track and sustain more
the Nashville Convention but also fire into the Matt na
Integencs the big organ of Taylosm, and rebuke its
mscheyou, in holding the South aons responsible
for the agitation Of hc evil Of the day. II is well known
that the true dsunioniss the North and from thence
proceeded aegression which have led the present
dssensons- yet the Inegencer has filled its columns
with attempts TO show that the South IL entirely In the
wrong that she has really nothing complain of and has
no sincere thought of resisting aggression This presenta
ton of the South submissonsts has had the effect
of producing false Impressions the North and of defeat
ing fair and equitable adjustment Of the veSed question:
We are glad therefore the Wing bold enough 10
buke its mammoth Associate
We ;hi. occasion repeat tina. we have
showed any backing OUT on this queson-we have
advocated ohov Nashville Convention than that recon-
msnded by tho Virginia resolutions BY such Convention
we have been and ready stand fall We regro tina;
the Wing cannot say as much
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FORTUNE AND LOVE.
BY ELIZA COOK.

Let me live without Fortune, ii Providence will II,
For Joy can be found where small treasure is shed
Those who bear a full cup are fearful 10 spill II,
And oftentimes walk with the narrowes tread
care NOT though Fate may deny me profuson
Ii earth will but show some rays from above;
Tell me nor that Gods light is dreamy Illusion
could live wi,nou, Fortune out not without love
Oh tits pleasant know there are beings about us
Who tune the exquisite strings 10 our heart
TO feel that they would not be happy without US
And that we in ta-ir loneliness sigh when We part.
OH there's something divine in the thought that we cherrh
a star-beam within ina, shines from above
To know that If all the world gives should pe-'sh
The greatest OF Fortune sill! dweisia ou. cT-!
On tia glory feel that ws live for some othe:,
That self is not ali We depend on below
That affection yet links 10 sisters and bro...eTs
Whose faith will De constant, come wea or come ~o
Though the vulture of trouble may harass our BOSOM
Meier fear while spirit Is fed by the dove:
Let the desert of Life give Eternity's blossom,
And we'll live without Fortune while favored by Love
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LEI.isI.4TURl: OF ,.RGISIA.
SArraDAy, MARCH l6--ArTEsSooS SEssio:.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.


The following engrossod bills read third limo and
passed:
To incorporate the Washington AMI Petersburg Telegraph
Company and prescribing regulations for such companies
Enorces fine $40 for eiure dispatch or neglect 10 Tor
ward dspatches)
To provide for constructing graded rosd IN Scot, eoun-
~. (AppropIiates S5.6009
Gviag further ,imy to the Dunaps Turnpike Company
construct their roac.
To revive the road laws Of Brooke and extend them 10
Hancock county.
Incorporating TIE Rockingham Turnpike Company. Gap
propratss s60,o00)
Incorporating the PAN. Creek Iron Mining and Manuiac
turing Company
To incorporate the James River pape. Company.
To amend the 10 incorporate the Amhe-s, Copper Min
ing and Smelling Company.
To incorporate the Hos:on Manufacturing Company In
The county of Smyh.
To extend the limits of the town q Salem. and for other
purposes
Incorporating the Wcodbins Cemetery Company in the
county OF Rockingham.
To authorize sale of the lots and toll houses of the Tar
River and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company.
The bill authorize the survey OF Broad Bay and Leg
horn Bay Princess Anne county laid the table,
The bill for relief Of Samuel R. Haley Halifax county,
xyas reiesctei-ayes 81 noes ~
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MoSDAY, MARCH ls l550-AFrERSooS Session.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

bill concerning Emroy Y Henry College Geleases the
personal security the loan from the Literary Fund, and
requires lieu thereof that the College snail educate sixteen
TO incorporate Boydton Petersburg Plank Road Com
pany ION the and three films princple authorizes
subscripon Of $4,000 by tho State )-passod Ayes 10
Noes rs.
REAssEssnEST OF THE LANDS or THE STATE, &c.
A bill pending for re-assessmcnt Of the lands, &c,
Throughout, the Commonwealth, passed. AYES 81 Noes l.
bill amend the concerning the 2ls, judicial Circuit
changes the day Of of the original term TO
the 9th October,) passed
MIR. MAYO made motion that the House take up the
bill for amending the charter of the City of Richmond Re-
jected.
afterwards adjourned
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POLITICAL.
HOUSEHOLD DlRGE.

aY R. II. sToDnARD.
I've los, ms little Ma? at last,
She persisted in the spring,
When earliest flowers began TO bud,
And earliest birds to sing:
laid her in country grave,
4 rural soft retreat,
4 marble tablet DER her head,
And viole,s al her feet.
Iwould that sho were back again,
In all her childish bloom;
NY ioy and hope have followed her
NV heart is in her tomb.
know that she is gone away.
know that she is He'd;
miss her everywhere, and sc,
/ cannot make her dead
Iwake the children up 81 dawn,
And say Simple prayer,
And draw them round the morning meal,
Bmt one is wanting there!
see little chair apart,
A little pinafure,
And Memory fills the vacancy,
As time will-neyefmore!
sii within my room and write
The lone and weary hours,
And miss the little maid again
Among the window flowers,
And miss her with her toys beside
Ny desk in silen, play;
And then turn and look Tor her,
But she has flown away
drop INV idle pen and bark,
And catch the faintest sound:
She must be playing hide-and seek
In shady hooks around;
She'll come ami climb my chair again.
And peep my shoulder DER;
hea. a s:ifled lsugh-bu, no,
She come,h nevsrmofs.
I waited only yestcrnight,
The evening service read,
And fingered for my IDOLS kiss
Before she went 10 bed;
Forgetting she had gone before,
In slumbers soft and sweet,
A monument above her head,
And violets al her feet!
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THE TAYLOR PLATFORM.

m tho question of Southern rights have CONSCIENTIOUS
10 ndeayored to forget ali party considerations and 10 up
hd the friends and denounce the assniants OF the eoS
,u,ion whatever their party relations HAD Heh' ia!'oi
tho Wanted "Southern President done his duty 10 the oo
eru,ion and the Unonhad he Jackson like, planted NE
c, on the true ground informed the country upon Whit
bsis hc would stand, and rebuked the tactloniss WHO
would destroy the South with the exercise OF his
ono powers-had he done this and not played the too
the designing who seek 10 agate the question ior par
49, oe6sh purposes he might easily have given tone 10
rhl, sentiment and contributed essentially 10 alE ana
adjustment Of the vexed question. Had he done SO
lv and manfulv liz would have received our cordial CO.
o,ora,on and support But he could not, without exposing
hio ,ya. poius cheating either the North the South
whom his non communication in the last canvass had equally
bumbugged and calling down upon his head the ex-
cr,,ions of either one the other side. Clogged
b tho pledges and policy of his friends his sole resource
,,s continuation Of the old game Of non-commtalism
and action and by deeng the explosion which must
follow al avowa OF opinions seek TO save himself even ~
the perl Of increasing The agitation and dissol'ng the
Union Such are the mighty fruits Of the election OF "a
Southern PRESIDENT The Regencys plan the very thing
h;h tho true soers should desire In practice ii will
nure 10 their benefit in every respect 1t s in word to
admit California under her irregular action and gross viola
on If right as free State and 10 leave the other terrific
RIGS without government and subject 10 the very same IN
euences which deprived the South of their in Caor
mia The fear OF the application Of the Wmot Provso by
Congress- and the doubts the course OF the Executive
on this point would deter the STAKEHOLDER from rsSng MS
propery there and in refusing territorial governments Win
ont the proviso Congress virtually enact in favor OF Inc non
a yehodes entirely Such is the head and front Of Taylor
ism in this matter and ask attention 10 the following
son which we find in the Washington Republic and which
that paper could have given al length without meaning
10 endorse We ask attention TO The language we nave
put in Rallies The docneis entirely unsound-out II VIII
he used with great force exclude the South roma r
enoymen, of the territories Will Virginia endorse these
chilling revelations Of Tayorsm, put forth in the Repub
lie Were the Regencys policy 10 be enforced the South
would be utterly degraded and her safety and honor gone for
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From the Albany Erenine Journal
cCSERAI TAyIORiS PLATFORM

The Boston Atlas, grathed to know concurs with
us in the opinion that Gen. TAYLcHs PLATFORM for Caor
mia and New Mexico the only wise and practical
"As we have said, opposed 10 sectional wranging
We are tired oft We seek for peace We desire il. The
country desires it, And satisfied that the only true
basis for fair adjustment Of present difficulties is the
Dian proposed BY General Taylor His plan simple and
effective The people Of the North will sustain it, and in
sustainiu il, will sustain him. The people of the South
and West we believe will sustain it, and sustain the Pes-
dent and regret that members ofCongress-hose who
desire peace and quie-do adopt the Presidents
plan, and end the strife
And what is General Tayors scheme2 l. is simply this
That California shall into the Union free State,
ust as she is u. the people have made her. With free
constitution THEN regards the Territories he says let
them Aliens until they ask in State. In the
mean time II. laes Of Nerico, rhch prohibited ,arery
main in free Slavery matter Of local law and cannot
exist therein un;i the Mexican law is Sc; aside, c xoud
be bv framing Territorial G9rsrnmens THIS :s in sub
stance he President pan-a plan which Mr.. Calhoun and
other psr.osisrs declared 10 be obnoxious TO
them than even Hlo Proyso ITSELF but which, svertnc
less tne people everywhere believe 10 be Just and
fair 10 all parts OF country The North know will
DC satisfied and the South and West will be satisfied we-
her the dsunionss be not aud this plan has not
received even passing motto. OF approval from hardly
Of the great men OF Tie Senate
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nEMocRArlc MEETING 1N STAFFORD

DEMOCRATIC MEETING IN STAFFORD.
Stao. Court House the lih March, being Court day.
on motion ri James VI. Taiaerro Pete. D. c. Hedgnan
called tho chair and W. " l. Benson appointed Sc
cretary.
The Object Of the meeting was explained by James "
Taiaerro whe.eupon Captain VIM. Ii. Brown nonina-
ted by J. Ramey candidate represent this county
the next General Assembly OF Vginia-and upon the
lion o! James NJ Taliafeo, committee appointed
consisting of the following gentlemen James W. Iaaerro
James Morton and Joshua Ramey TO inform Capt Brown
his nomination. who being present. accepted the nomination
in brief ind pertinent address.
On motion oil Joshua Ra;ney, il Resolved, That the
proceedings Of this meeting nc published in the Democratic
Recorder and Richmond Enquircr-when
On motion Of James NJ Taliafeuo the meeting adjourned
PETER D. G. HEDGMAN, Chairman.
W. ". L. BEssos, s,scfassy.
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To the Editor, ofG

o ING Editors Of the Eno,,;.
EAsrv1LLE EASTERN SHORE VrRoISIA M.scy + Iosr.
Messrs Editors: In looking over the recent ioou
Senate perceive thai an honorable Senator from % III
has commented upon supposed concert ofacon b",.n
the lion and the lamb, erpreSSres OF the senior
from Kentucky and Missouri ''a'''.
Our friend from Alabama has not carefully read ,ba
scripture from which he, doubtless procured his $50 e
will pardon for giving him the exact reading as f ~
The m0f and the lamb shaii ieed to9e ter ana ta,o,
cat straw.
In my subsequent thoughts have been reminded ., -
readings OF fsop whose wisdom may be profitable -
rulers and To their masersthe sovereign peopeir ,h
times of trial Of patriotic worth IT. my friends " ,,s
bala suggests the lion and the lamb no longer %
have become one, il is fair 10 suppose that The wr, "
has merged in the sirongerthc lamb no lan,, pa1'
speaks acts appropratcs: but the lion does All b" "S'
thi- merger OF great men, il is duiy 10 enori-
the condition OF the nation ana what is thc pl, sent
III our beloved country towards her seryantsl FoI ~
there be cause for supposing she may b. III. th va
lamb licking the hands OF those who may become H.,
sroyers. But ii the nation survive (as / do M, dn.
will its present commissions and the Senatorial l.
should assert his identity and independence i, may h. -
rious speculate how he will fare when he claims H.
OF the spoils. Lei him that the lion snail Not say -
~ the lion in l:s0p said about division ~
take possession of my night, which dcyo. "a ~.
virtue Of my nral descent from The ROYAL family =.
That claim bv Il think no sonabe demand con.,.
ing that all the engagements y0u have with the enanr
chiefly my courage and conuc and you very Well sn-
that too expensive IL be carried on withou, NAV
suppiestGt shall take. by virtue of nv preroyn To-
which make no question du,itu and conhding na,s
will pay all the Difference tina, can desire Now az tor y.
remaining part the necessity n present adrs is 50 r..
urgent, our stocks - low, and credit IMPAIRED s.,
weakened that must mss: OF yd granting tia, wi,hos
any hesitation.
After ALL Messrs. Editors fear there verv nlan MOI
wolves than lions amongst onr public men.
hope that all such shall be atterwari, found 10 hs
had only the outer ha5ments Of the lion 10 cover the
satiablencss and rapacity Of the wolf may be doomed 10
better portion VI the spols than "straw."
NORTHAMPTON
NorE.-Alrhough the Senator from Alabama did no, Sc
city whether 70 Kentucky Missouri the lion belonged
cannot toub, the Senator from Kentucky was intended
the lion
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--<tSS---
RRInGING TILE. POTOMAC

Yesterday the House passed bill appropratng twoiths
$4,000 for the construction of bridge from Loudoun
county 10 tho Point of Rocks 1t sustained by Mr..
Schooey The bill also passed the Senate yesterday That
body regularly keeps up with the House, and has little
mr. noihing hefore
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TUESDAY, MAacx ie, 1850.

~
The bill TO provide Tor TIE Of the Gooney
Gap Road was laid the table.
On motion Of Dir ROGERS, the Senate took up the reso
LUTON authorizing the Board Of Public Works appoint
clerk Mr. r. moved amend il BY allowing the Secretary
OF the Commonwealth employ clerk for three months
ut compensation Of $50 per month After having been
discussed by Mes.rs. ROGERS. STANARD and DE
NEALE in favor and Mess.s. AMBL Err and SHACkEL-
FORD in opposition, il again laid on the table
The bill concerning the Codo OF Virginia laid the
table
FILLS rAssEn.
The bills concerning the Blue Ridge Turnpike Company
To incorporate the Kempsville Turnpike Company;
To provide for the completion Of the Southwestern Turn
pike from Salem TO Buchanan;
Concerning the School Fund Of Niiddlesex county;
Concerning the office CT Sheriff in he county Of Tazewe
The bill Incorporating the Paint Creek Coal and Iron
Mining and Manufacturing Company passed
The sill authorizing the States subscription 10 the capital
stock OF the Potomac Bridge Company advocated
by Messrs. ROGERS and pENEALE. and Was passed
the bill amending the charter of the City of Norfolk
psssed.
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MoSpAY, MARCH l5, 1850,
CsrN- TT

The bilrf from the House were referred.
The standing committees reported sundry bills
Mr.. COWEN reported sundry enrolled bills
The bill for the relief of VIM. 0. Jordan, came mp.
The SPEAKER tIr Denns calling Mr. Rogers to-, 70 the
AMBER, THOMPSON and SHACkELFOaD, and fur
ther advocated by Messrs IsBELL DENEALE and STAN
ARD, and II was rejected.
PASSED.
Incorporating tie Rockingham Turnpike Company;
Concerning the Wa.eaon aud Eappahannock Turnpike
Concerning the Tasewell Court House and Fancy Gap
Turnpike Road
Changing the terminus the Pon, Peasan, and Ripley
Turnpike Road;
Concerning the Berryv.le and Charles,own Turnpike
COMPANY;
OF the H rrdy and Winchester Turnpike company.
The oi! Tor constructing graded road in Scott county,
The bill 10 incorporate the Norfolk Manufacturing Com
pany passed.
The bill exenptins Lockkeepers the Dismal Swamp
Canal from serving ug!as was passed.
The bill concerning Wan \ Dea;Tck of Goochland was
Mr. woOoS moved 10 reconsider The Pilot bill.
This motion opposed by Messrs. SHACkELFORD,
ROGER and STANAaD, and advocated by MessTs.
CaUMp and DENEALE and WAS reJec'ed-ayes 10, noes
The bill prescribing the weight Of rail !lrosds here
after be l4id-was indefinitely postponed
The oil giving further II ne the Dunape Creek Turn
pike Company % consrruc, their road, passed.
The SPEAKER laid before the Senate communication
from I'd Auditor. Laid on the table and ordered TO be
the reoor, OF the Library Committee was adopted.
The SPEAKER laid before the Senate communication
from S,rue Reeve, Esq. accompanying donation OF
books behalf American Tract Society, which we're
distributed among the members.
Mr. T0MLlN brought message that the House OF
Delegates ready proceed the election OF Brigadie
General for the 27,h Bgtde and that COL Alfred Beckey
was alons in nonin aiion.
The Senate proceeded vote sn Col Beck!ey received
unanim vote.
The resolution, in relation Guaranteed BJnds The
Central Railroad were agreed TO-
On motion OF NJ TURNER, the vote rejecting the III
for the relief OF VIM. Q. Jordan rsconsideyed
Mr. DENNIS moved that the bill be an,e.led SO TO
rem, of 5000 instead OF sio0 proposed by the
BILL which was agreed 10.
The bill amended again rsleced-ayes II, H.
The bill for the relief Of William Ga,re free of
lor was laid on the tabls.
Also bill constituting portion % tAs ehern River
lawful fence; also the bill incorporate the Marion
Bridge Company, also the bill incorporate the James
River Paper Company also the bill establishing Branch
Bank al Fairmont.
Tho resolution ins,rucns the Board Of Public Works 10
appoint another Engineer the Blue Rdse Road taken
up and postponed 10 second Monday OF December
ton OF Mr.. SHACKELFORD.
Mr.. JONES moved TO reconsider the vote rejecting the
bill for The relief of Vim 0. Jordan,
Mr.. SHACKELFORD moved an indefinite pos,ponenlent
Of the subject, which carried in the affirmative
On motion Of Mr. CARRINGTON, the Senate adjourned.
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appointment By The Gorernor Of Fuginia.
Edwin c. Larned OF Chicago Illinois, TO be Commits
sioner take Acknowledgements and proof Of deeds &c
Al the end Of last week had the pleasure OF seeing
Senator Mason who short visit TO Richmond.
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NORTH CAROLINA-Robi. Strange and G. J. McRse
were appointed delegates the Nashville Convention at
District meeting held in Wilmington on Monday last.
Washington telegraph., 1850-01-23
Money for Labor.

1lHE Hampstead county court, at its recent
January session. have directed Bridge to be
erected across the south branch Of the Bois dare
creek, where the public ruad leading through M j.
Joshua Morrison's land crosses said creek aud
have appointed the undersigned commissioner
for that purpose. To that end I will receive
written sealed proposals to build such bridge at
that poin. until the 4th day of February next
SAID bridge to be of the following description TO
witt 6O feet long and IL feet wide, with two
trestles placed in the bed of the stream, twenty
two fert apart, placing the first as the bank
on the northeast side practicable; the mud
sills to be 26 feet long, sufficiently large to square
IL by Ia inches, hewed on the upper side and sunk
20 level with the lowest part of the bottom Of
the creek; the posts to be l6 feet long, l2 by I2
inches square. framed into the mudss with four
inch lemons the whole width of the posts, mortised
IL inches deep in the mudslls, and drawboreo
with two-inch pins, two pms in each tenon; two
capsills by IA inches square, framed into the
posts with lour-inch lemons, the width of the cap
sills, rnortised through the posts and shouldere
into the posts two inches, drawbored with two
inch pins, two in each tenon; four braces, by 10
inches square, one 10 each post extending six feet
on the mudsiIs aud feet on the posts; the top of
the capsils To be 10 feet 10 inches from the top
OF the mudsis; five string pieces, to extend from
outside to outside Of the capsills, by Ia inches
square, shouldered two inches to rest against the
inches square. five extending from each capsilI TO
the bank, should-red two inches at each end, to
rest against the capsills ana butment posts the
banks; the string pieces extending The banks
must have inclination OF one Coot only, and
butmeDts must be raised 10 sustain the string
pieces at the banks, made Of heWn timber, not
less than Got square, these butnents must be
secured by posts set in the ground at least four
feet well SECURED, not less than one foot square
above the gound, and four feet high; sideraing
TO extend tie whole length of the bridge, each
side, BY 6inches square, let into the top of the
posts of the trestes and at the ba AXIS the full size
of the raiigs; bridge to be covered with planks
3 inches vide and 2 inches thick. each plank
pinned at each end to the stringpeces with an
inch and lnlf pin; all the timber put such
bridge must be pJstoak whteoak, free from
scores, hacks, doat sap, and such bridge must be
completed iy raising causeway, mace of sound
timber, wei covered in with earth 81 as 10 con-
tinue tie Inclination OF the bridge, and make the
ascent and decent to and from the same gradual;
The butmens and causeway to be built and CON-
pi.ttd in a vorkmanlike manner, aud completed
in sixty days from the time his their bids may
be accepted Bids must be addressed to ME at
Washington, endorsed Proposals, and placed in
the ,ostoffice at that place.
THOMAS HUBBARD
jim. IA, 1850 2w
Washington telegraph., 1850-01-23
6.28l,75O
5,025,400

The receipts at the Treasury from sales of pub
lie lands during the last fiscal year were $l $685.
$50 55
1t is not probable that additional sales would
have been made to the full extent of the number
of acres loc ated under the military bounty land
warrants, but think it may he safely considered
that this source of revenue may be taken at nearly
1000 900 dollars. of which part is absorbed by
the land warrants; part, say $l,657 ,O5O, (that
being the amount paid and payable during the
present fiscal year, is applied to the payment of
interest On the loan and Treasury notes, under the
act of January %. l547; and the remainder is
pledged to the extinguishment of the debt created
under that act. estimate 100000 dollars per
annum and the revenue from lands as diverted
by the land warrants aud the extinguishmeDt OF
debt.
During the last fiscal year there were paid,
under sfipuatons in the treaty with Mexico, sums
amounting in all to ,629 l08.
Public debt to the amount oHS 79O, ,566 80 lin
eluding Treasury notes received for customs and
landJ was also paid off purchased out of the
general funds of the Treasury, and extinguished,
besides 3e2 500 dollars Of the stock and Treasury