Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-02-13
con ss--IsT SESSION
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1852.

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The Chair laid before the Senate u communication from
the War Department enclosing estimates for for
cations in the buy Of San Francisco Also report trans
ni,,ing 81 copies OF the Army Register
Mr.. Seward presented petitions from Journeymcn segar
makers asking Of duty upon imported segars
Mr. Jones presented the petition Of Hungarian efu
gees asking tina, Congress would grant them land in
way that it was given to their brethren who are now
esttled in Iowa.
copies OF the report explorations made in the valley of the
Salt lake by Captain Sansbury which concurred in
The bill authorizing the District Judges Of the United
States in those districts where there are 40 ports OF entry
regulate the certificates of vessels propelled In whole
part by steam, taken up und, after amendment
ihoTizng the District JUDGES 10 appoint inspectors OF boil
gro and machincty the DILL debated and passed.
The joint resolutions oil Mr.. Clarke, rea.ming the doc
tine of non-nleryenion taken up and Mr. Clarke
addressed the Senate in support Of them. His positions
defended by copous from the writings OF
Washington Jefferson Jackson Polk Webster and others
After executive session. the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
After the journal had been read Mr. Grey of Kentucky
addressed the House with reference to charges brought
against relative Of his oy Mr. Bayy OF Virginia during tho
debate the Mexican indemnity BILL which he felt satisfied
,ha gentleman would withdraw he acquainted with
the facts of the Gaze under
In supposng that the receipt for Mexican payment
given previous TO the arrival of MIR. Shannon in Mexico.
from Kentucky should proceed and also from
Mr. Greer should be read at The time inmating that
he should delain tie House by reply.
Mr. Jones' OF Tennessee moved that the gentleman from
Kentucky be allowed TO proceed.
And on motion OF Mr.. Mason of Kentucky, the rules
suspended MT. proceeded, al conaderaole
length TO conlroye! the arguments made use Mr. Bay
~ and ais" TO aninivert hs speech reported In the
Baltimore Sum- urt which, he said, had been copied into
Alter i, had conclrded AR Or South Carolina moved
that Mr.. Eart DC ed from acting ON the committee or
u,ss'r affairs, In sequence OF i'll .ealth which
lie application being made with the consent o.
Nj Pecsee 9: New Hampshire n,ved ,ha, The rules bt
suspended enabe him 10 resolution requesting
the Secretary of the Navy The House win nfor
nsuon relative TO The number OF seamshps EMPLOYED in
nf tho thp fpfr
been paid advanced for that services whether they
have been built according 10 contract and whether they
10 all respects fitted TO BE- converted into war steamers
the hrs Glass; and So what expense would be necessa
~ 10 incur.
Mr. explained his object was TO obtain that infor
nation which the House ought undoubtedly to possess.
he correctly informed the appropriated already
10 900; aod that which Congress is puy un
der the present contract about millions There
were applications for other lines brought forward during the
last session, which would bring tho appropriations
nearly six millions. and ten millions annually.
There IL before Congress memorial from c. Vanderbilt
stating that he has semmonthly line OF steamships be
New York and San Francisco; that hc line
right OF transporting passengers and offering to transport
tho United States mail direct between New York and Sar
Francisco twice in each month for annual compensation
of $3.50 0O0 and weekly for that sum- Crhs memo
rial Will be found In another column)
Mr. WEIGH of Ohio moved to suspend the rules TO enable
him 10 bring In resolution instructinp the committee
and means to report in favor OF tariff
Iron, and other manufactures will them apains
competition. The motion was negativcd-cyes 60 nays
About hour spent 10 adopting resolution which
introduced by Dir. Lane and passed. but subsequent,
recnsidersd requesting the President station The ree
Of mounted rifemen In Oregon and between Co
lur,bia and Calornis; apon which decision
rived at when The House adjourned Among tho op,use
Of measure who considered it improper inerfenc,
with the duties and responsibilities of the President,
NJ Bsyiy of Virginia and Howard of Texas.
Al half past three the House adjourned.
The eccentric Thomas F. Marshall, made parting speech
In the Kentucky Legislature just before its final adjourn
m@nt. He described himself having been ia young eaR
launched into The upper air from tho Ashland district HI
had represented il in Congress- and enjoyed it's confidence
But while he spreading his wings in the blue ether
bis glory and bathing his punage the sum- his wings
been cropped by gerrymanderng Legislature and he like
Lucier had fallen from his dazzling height yard
(meanng present gsature) and every dunghil
fowl Growing and Tapping his puny wings him..
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romantic incident connected with tho unfortunate
beautiful Countess de Bocarme, has just boon made public
You may recolec The Count de Bocarme the Counesss
husband executed about since in Belgium to
the murder oil his and the conduct OF his lady
that trying OCCASION together with her beauty made 81
strong impression upon Of young Englishman
residing Paris that induced offer his hand; the
offer declined for The that che had determined
again marry. The young lover had just died, and
beouea her fortune of six hundred thousand francs