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Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-04-23
NOBLE
LOUISA, April 10
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TUE SPRING OF LIFE is PAST.
The spring of Life is past,
with ali its budding hopes and tear5,
And the Autumn time is coming
With its weight Of future years;
Orr hearts are timmed with care,
And Youths free dreams OF gladness
All perish darkly here,
For earth Is filled with sadness.
While bliss was blooming near US,
In the hearts first bloom Of Spring,
While many hopes could cheer US,
Like seemed glorious thing:
Life foam upon the river,
When the breeze goes ripping DER,
These hopes have fled forever,
To come 10 US no more.
IT'S sad, yet sweet 10 listen
To the soft winds gentle swell,
And think we hear the music
Our childhood loved 80 well:
To gaze out on the even,
And the boundless fields oil air,
And feel again our boyish wish
To roam, like angels, there.
There are many dreams of gadness
That cling around the past,
And from that tomb of feeling
Old thoughts come thronging fast;
The forms we loved 80 dearly,
In the happy days now gone,
The beautiful and lovely,
So fair 10 look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens,
Who seemed so formed for bliss,
Too glorious and TOO heavenly,
For such a world as this;
Whose soft, dark eyes seem swimming
In a sea of liquid light,
And whose locks of gold were streaming
Ger brows so sunny bright.
Whose smiles were like the sunshine,
In the spring time Of the year,
Like the chaDgeful CLEANS OF April,
They followed every tear;
They have passed, like hope, away,
All their loveliness has fed;
Oh many heart is mourning
That they are with the dead.
Like the brightes, buds of Summer,
They have fallen from The stem,
Yet, oh il is lovely death
To fade from earth like them;
And ye, the thought is saddening
To muse on such as they,
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing fast away
That the fair ones whom We love,
Like the tendrils of yine
Grow closely TO each loving heart,
Then perish on ils shrine.
AndIwe can but think Of these,
In the soft and gentle Spring,
When the trees are waving Ger US,
And flowers are blossoming;
For we know the Winters coming
With his cold and stormy sky,
And the glorious beauty round us
Is budding but to DIE!
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Mr.. BUCHANAN AND THE PRESIDENCY.-The
Democratic State Central Committee of pennsy vania
Issued address the people Of the United States deny
Ing the assertion of the opponents Of The Hon James Buch
anan that he is without popularity home and unable
his State in the OF his nomination for the
Presidency,
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THE FRESHET IN THE POTOMAC

HARPER's FBxRy, APRIl 2O-The waters NJ this nont
have commenced TO subsde and further DANGER is
hended 10 the bridge the Potomac An immense
of damage has been done along the Potomac and
Shenandoah rivers. In the vicinity Winchester several
gris mills have been flooded Both the rail road und rbn
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal have been much injured
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TIE Utah IIrnGES


WAsHINoroN, APRIL 20-It is said that President Fill
has ordered the Utah Judges that territory
and exercise the powers given them by law.
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LEGISLATIVE ROW.-Ou Thursday last, in the
Ohio House OF Representatives disrepuabe
red between two of the MEMBERS essrs Weller and Becke
who after making free Of very choice language
sorted 10 sanoooxes which each hurled violently the head
OF tho otheI until the intervention OF the
compelled them TO suspend hostile operations
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DIR. HULSEMANN GOING HOME.-The furniture O.
Chevaler Husemann The Austrian Charge dAaires Is ad
vertised o, public snle 10 the Washington papers, From
TINS we Judge That his mission this country about to be
brought close
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DEDICATIoN.-The new Odd Fellows Hal, ., Nom,
Scion, Rockingham county Va, dedicated on the 18th
inst Addresses were delivered the occasion by Dr.
-
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Tor the EnGxire,

The wi III Of the time and honored proverbs. owe
day confirmed hs the actions al politicians End this
THAT birds al feather.
$3.50 laE.
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pIcHMOND ENQUIRER.
THOMAS JEFFERSON.

.H,1,ScsD.Y MORNING, APRIL 81, 1852
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FIFTEENTH DISTRICT

Assistant Electoral HAMMOND Of Marion.
County EieciorsW Znn Of Preston, David Golf of
Randolph. Samuel Elicit OF Barbour, F II Perpont of
Marion H Dering of Munnngaia John ireland of Tyler,
Joseph Moore OF Wctze Jones Of Marshall James
PAUL of Ohio, Or John II Bscoand OF Brooke, Robert
Brown of Hancock.
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The Wilmington a. CO. Commercial (Whis,) is entitled TO
high praise for its frankness. Hear it:
at will be quito safe for politicians, think in making
the Presidential nominations in Convention TO North
Carolina down gone case for the Wings, unless Fill
more is til: nominee for President and Graham for Vice
President The substitution Of some other name for Gra
ham, if il made clear that The of the party
qured IT. might not derat the ticket though ii would put ii
in peril. Bnt without Fillmore, there is prospect OF sue
cess herewith him, confident the Stale WILDE
ried by The Wings"
Nobody believes that Fillmore will get the nomination.
Scotis the man. and North Carolina may DO pu down
"gone case"
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Hoe Stands the Game of Morals

The Dispatch, Heaven forgive that poor little
paper! did religiously observe the last sabbath!
Do not, reader, look us in the face with an en-
curing eye, as il YOU doubted US. 1t is even
so! But as strange as this may seem, another
fact is equally strange: and that is, that print
ing.presses were heard to disturb the quiet oil
their neighborhoods after the hour of tweice
o'clock Saturday night-when the Lords
Day" had already commenced. What music
that must have been to the ears of the pious
We learn that the carriers, who are also hu-
man, and have souls to be saved--souls to be
converted or abandoned to infdeIify, were some
of them involved in the crime of sabbath-break-
ing by distributing their papers on Sunday
morning. Is not this illustrating the Irish
mans attempt TO lengthen his blanket by cut
ting off piece from one end and sewing it on
the other? What is gained The attempt
to complete papers on Saturday night, most
assuredly must often involve this kind Of vio-
lation of the sabbath, aud in all seriousness, in
all kindness of spirit, if we know our heart,
we submit it TO our brother editors whether, if
tht sdUUatH Is ~ W 'ioluteu, IL 10 HUI Deltoi
that it be violated to some better advantage
than that whole day should be allowed to
elapse between the printing and the date of "A
paper? We submit it to them whether daily
newspaper had not better be kept open for
Monday mornings postscript! So far as this
paperis concerned, the amount of its edition
would always require an Infringement of the
Sabbath, were We TO attempt TO print it off
Saturday night; for we could not get the forms
to press in time to print il off before II clock.
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To the Public.

II is with deep feeling of pain and modification
that nav. ,,, ,ay..s.y to appear before you to a.
swer and relate the foul falsehoods publisne in yes
terday's Dispatch, protesting to emanate from one
Josspeh Farrar and fearing that many persons NAV
not know who this peaceloying Mr.. Joseph Farrar s
would simply state that he il the Mr. Farrar brick.
layer, the field bully, never much renowned as
a peace maker, and to persons who know the man.
think Is pardly necessary for to say one word
justify myself but for fear that false impression
may be made the minds OF persons not acquainted
with this pugnaeious individual (who DISPLAYED SO
| much courage at the Slash Cottage barbecue when
the rnn him all over the place. to undertake to
hold any one up for eoward) | would simply
| state the truth, and what did occur ON Ihursda
evening 18th inst, as | was returning home from
work There was number of boys on the hill
throwing stones at each other. sent my oldest son
over to try and lad out their names, AMI disperse
them he could while he in the act of doing this
the valiant gentleman came running up and caught
my youngest SON and threw him down, and struck
him across the back with a stick he had in his hand
my Oldest seeeng this, up to protect his brother
from this mans volence he struck him also with the
same stick, cutting his mouth very severity Seeing
this from my yard, Immediately ran over to where
they were engaged aud showed them apart he then
struck violent blow with the stick he still had in
his possession, across .ny head; l. them in sefde.
fence, stuck him with my fist; he Immediately
struck me again across the left ARM then took a
small stick from boy and struck him, breaking it
in pieces in my hand: | then closed with him and
| threw him down. and would have given him in The
excitement of the moment that chastiseIneut he so
richly merted, if my son had not interfered between
and the young of Mr.. Barriers, he speaks OF
taking his stick from him prevent his doing
any farther injury with it with this, let this pot
valiant individual alone to display his courage again
at some future time with big tick among a parcel
of little children. My position as a member of the
Church, supposehe thought, would shield him from
harm, as he commented 80 freely on that and am
truly sorry that should have had cause to en-
gage In such scene and with such person as he
is. And here respectfully take leave Of him. never
intending to take any further notice of anything he
may say publish leaving it entirely with the pub
lie to take it for what they think it worth; and in
conclusion, the only harm wish him is, that he NAV
one day again occupy the position he now speaks of
in such terms of derision, viz Methodist class
leader. DRURY TUCKER,
ie IL Union HILL
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GAs-MErERs.-This exceedingly curious
little instrument is almost in universal use
wherever gas is used for light. Those used
made in Philadelphia. The experience of
many years has proved the regularity and &C.
curacv of this beautiful! little invention, and a
very little attention only will be necessary to
enable every consumer TO read his own meter,
and to keep it in working order. The word
meter means measure, and the instrument is
used solely for the purpose of knowing the
quantity of gas consumed. The circular part
contains drum wheel, divided into sections
Of perfectly ascertaiised capacity, the lower
half of which is immersed in water.
The mode in which the gas enters and leaves
this machine gives rotary motion to the
wheel, and every revolution of the wheel passes
quantity of gas, of course just equal to the
capacity of the wheel, or as much as the Sec
ton of the wheel will hold. The axle of
this wheel is connected with other wheels.
some of which can be seen in the meter, by
which the pointers are moved over the diais
in front of the meter, and the revolutions of the
wheel are marked in square feet of gas. The
right-hand dial numbers ire hundreds, and
one revelation of the pointer denotes one hun
dred feet. The pointer on The middle dial
moves TO the left, and marks thousands, so that
when the pointer on the right-hand dial makes
one revolution the pointer on the middle dial
moves to the figure one. So, while the poiu-
ter Oh the centre dial is going around once.
the pointer on the left dial moves from ten to
the figure one, and thus marks ten thousand
feet.
TO read a meter, therefore, commence with
the left hand dial, and set down with pencil
the number last passed over by the pointer OH
each dial, and udd two cyphers, and YOU have
the amount reg istered. Ii will be observed that
the pointers or dials cannot be altered, either
by the consumer or agent of the company,
without violence to the meter. Sometimes the
lights in a house all 60 out suddenly. This
may be caused by too much or too little wa
ter on the meter. In such a case, take out a
screw tap at the bottom of the square part of
the meter-or The dry-well screw, as il is call
ed-and let out The water that will run out,
there will be gentle whstliBg noise, show
ing flow of gas after it, and the lights will
burn at once.
II, when the dry.well screw is removed, Meth.
er wafer nor gas flows, it is probable that more
water is wanted in the meter. Then taken ont
the screw-tap at the square part of the meter,
and pour in water until the lights will burn.
If toe much be put in, il can be drawn off at
the dry-well. quart or two will usually be
enough: sometimes tumbler full will do. Care
should be taken not TO bring light within six
feet Of the meter when the dry.well or screw
tap al the bottom Of the meter is out. and TO re-.
place the screw-taps carefully when the waiter
in the meter is regulaied.-Nep Haven Jour.
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RICHMOND, Feb. Ii, 1852

RICHMOND, Feb. IA, 1852
To the Daily Dispatch:
My attention was yesterday, for the first time,
called to report in your paper of the 10th January
last OF proceeding in the Mayors Court by which
German girl named Eve Wettniann was arraigued
In part upon my testimony. think the report very
unjust to me in hs-that it is calculated to create
the impression that was so malicious and inhuman
as first to turn away poor orphan girl from my SER
vice without paying her her wages and then to at
tempt to destroy her character because she demand
ed them Now the fact was, that paid her her full
wages, aud even more and can prove it, did not
prove before the Mayor. because it was fact not
involved In the issue which he then trying Her
prest mt employer, Littlebury Rock, residing on
Church Hill and the girl herself have circulsted re-
ports calculated to injure me; and take this public
manner Of saying, that they are entirely false, and
that can prove them to be So
Without imputing to you any design to do me in
justice, and without wishing picate the girl al.
nded to- In any way, feel it due to myself to re.
quest you to insert this note in your paper
Yours, very respectfully,
fe lit A. D. VICTOR,
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Changes in The Richmond Press,

The Times Of Saturday morning contained
the salutatofy Of the new editors, who may
now be considered as fairly installed. The
paper gives indications of spirit from which it
is fair TO infer that it will lose none of the cha
racter which il acquired under the direction Of
Mr.. Darlington.
In the Wing of yesterday, Mr.. E. w. John
ston gave notice that he had retired from the
editorial management of that paper. Mr.. John
iston is man of fine genius and extensive ac-
quiresnents. He returns, we learn ffom him
SELF TO the city of Washington.
A card from the propfietors of the Wing, an
nounces to the public, that it will again be
conducted by Mr.. Alexander Moseley, SO long
connected with il, and so widely as well as
fayoTably known as an editor.
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Curious MoNomANIA.-The Paducah (ky) Jour
nal gives an account of a most curious case Of mad
ness in which respectable citizen, and member of
church. said have been guilty of various thefts
He was accused and denied the charge but his house
being searched, it found that quantities of books
hardware, etc, were secreted, and he then confess
ed that the desire to steal strong that he could
not resist it, and he should be guilty of the same
again. if set at liberty He was bailed by twenty
five citizens, and has left the town.
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Emigration Of Freneh Msekanies e a.
Yn;ssd Sknfes.

United Se0tes.
A meeting Of the ASSOCIATED WcTkmen"
took place in Psris On the 23d Of January, Y
spite Of the vigilance Of the police. Thirty
Eve persons, representing as many different a.
sociations, held conferences upon the sup,ec'
of emigra.ing to the United States. Inc pf'n-
c;pal sneaker, whose name il not given, was
a cabinet.maker whose productions had carried
the prize at the Wold's Fair.
This man alluded to the operations which
had lately been carried into effect at Lyons and
Limoges, BY means Of which the operative so.
cieties had been dissolved, under, as he said,
the false pretext that they were secret socie'
ties, dangerous 10 the State, in disguise. The
same thing would, beyond all doubt, be shortly
represented at Paris. All the workshops would
be closed, and the workmen would be COM
PEELED to return 10 their former condition.
Emigration presented the only hope OF re-
naming what they were, Associates"
Hitherto, the French workmen had sent the
products of their art to the New World. II
was now time to transport the producers who
created them to the same region. There, on
the SPOT, were the articles which they wanted
and which now, they were obliged to import
to France. New York and New Orleans would
soon cease to depend on Paris. when the pro
ducers of Partisan manufactures became resi-
dents of those American cities. He ended by
proposing to form a Committee of Emigra
ton.
This proposition was put to the vote, ant
unanimously carried. This is not the frs
time, in the History of France, that unwist
legislation has driven forth hundreds of me
chanics, to lay the foundation Of the manufac
| turing greatness of other nations. The reyo
cation of the edict of Nantes, filled the British
| Isles with hardy and Industrious race o
| workmen, who soon taught their new fellow
subjects those arts which they had learned a
| home, and the benefits of which the mother
| country alone had hitherto reached.
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THE WING AND OURSELVES.

Tits proper to state that the gentleman, who
was at the time acting editor of the Wing, in
the absence MIR. Johnston, mot Captain Ell.
liott,l has informed US that the article from the
Religious Herald was handed to him for peru
sal. Not dreaming that it contained u bitter
and unprovoked assault upon US, he handed il
back to the foreman, who had presented it, tell.
ing him that he had no objection to its insertion
We acquit that gentleman of all blame in the
premises.
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SoIREEs MYsrERICUsES.-We advise those who
wished to be amused and instructed to go this even
ing to Odd Fellows Hail. and witness Whitney's ex
per;ments Among outher strange doings, Mr.. w
will give gold dollars TO those who can take them
out OF open box and silver dollars to those who
can pick them OFT the floor and pocket them.
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WEsTHAM PLANK RoAD.-Ths road is now near.
y completed to the limits of the city. To those
fond of luxurious riding this road especially com.
mends ITSELF 1t may be travelled over in twenty
minutes, and no turnpike in the vicinity, at any sea-
son OF the year. can at all compare with it for de.
hghtful smoothness. Invads, or those persons suf
feing from sickness, will find upon trial, that this
road furnishes very pleasant and healthy drive.
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The SHORTEST PASSAGE YET THE packet
ship Racer Captain Steele, from New York. ar.
rived at the bar below Liverpool on the 25th ult
making the passage in less than fourteen days She
was tsesre days from land to land, and was detsin
cd in the channel ten hours by fog.
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Virginia legislature


Senate.
The bilIsfor ,he arrsst Of I judgment debtor,
when IS fails % answer in,esrogsiories, or files
answers which are evasive, and il appears ne
is about to quitthe State, was rend third time
and passed.
The bin from the House, allowing tee
for Summoning and Examing Court, or Court
of Over and Terminer, was rejected.
A bill for the assessment Of taxes on per-
sonal properly, and increasing the taxes on
licenses for the year 1852, was reported and
ordered TO be printed. coo
citizens of Alexandria, asking for certain
| amendments to the charter of that t0wn-also,
| a petition against the amendments voted Tor.
And petition asking for the incorporation OF
| the Potomac Insurance Company.
House of Delegates.
A bill providing for the election, qualiiica-
ton, powers, duties and compensation OF JUS,
tees of the Peace, Clerks of Circuit and
| County Courts. Attorneys for the Common
v ealth Sheriffs, Commissioners OF the Rev.
enue, Surveyors, Constables, and Oyerseers OF
| the Poor, was reported, read the first time, and
| 1000 extra copies ordered to be printed.
| On motion of Mr.. Anderson, a resolution al.
lowing the use of the Hall of the House Of
/ Delegates for the annual meeting OF the vir'
ginia Colonization Society on Friday night
| next, was passed.
/ A committee of five were appointed, on mo-
ton of Mr.. Keyser, to visit and examine the
condition of the scales to weigh live stock II
the city of Richmond.
| A bill, providing for the discharge of Execu'
tive Functions in certain cases, was passed
| And
A bill was reported, authorizing the people
Of Fredericksburg to elect Mayor and othe
city officers.
Mr.. Craig asked the House to take up the bill
authorizing the Banks of the Commonwealth
to issue small notes, TO which the House
agreed-ayes, GO, noes, SIS. The bill was OIL
its second reading, and MIR. Craig moved tt
strike out the section requiring the notes to b.
redeemed at either the mother or branch bank
and spoke at some length in favor of his amend
ment and the proposition contained in the bill
MIR. Wallace, of Petersburg. followed in oppo
siton, and Mr. Early and Dir. Habbard in ia
vor. Finally the bill was laid on the table.
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The citizens of Loudoun and Fauq uier
Counties, Va.,have recently held a meeting 10
consider the most practicable means of con-
structing Railroad from Middleburg to some
point on the Manassas Gap Road. The length
Of the contemplated road viii be about nine
miles.
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Political Refugees an Great Britain.

The Washington correspondent of the Bal.
timore Sun, says:
| can assure you, from what deem authori.
ty, that Great Britain has declined surrender.
ing the political refugees or exles now enioy.
ing her hospitality, and that she will not drive
them from her soil. [, was a very pretty
thought IN Robert J. Walker TO call England
"the breakwater of despotsm.p
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DIED.

On the 9th instant at his late residence in the
county of Caroline, JAMES THOMAS, Sr., at the
advanced age of nearly 81 years. For almost halt
century, he has been consistent member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church His sterling integri
ty, his simplicity of christian character his gene
rous, yet unostentatious benevolence, commended
his religion 70 all who knew him.
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Mr. Buchanan

The Washington correspondent of the Bal.
timore Sun, says: &
The Hon. james Buchanan arrived here
yesterday from Virginia. 1t is now asserted
mat the Virginia delegates to the Baltimore
Convention will be instructed for Mr. Bucnan.
an; but believe they will go there unin.
structed,
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Academia fine pair Of horses, owned by Mr..
THos. J. TABs, of Gloucester, rsnawsy yesterday
afternoon, on Franklin street. and as they turned in
to sixth street. the driver, colorei boy named Hon.
ry belonging to Mr.. HuBARD, the artist was thrown
out and so severely injured that his life 10 in pre-
carious condition One of the buggy wheels came
of and this frisl "a the horses. The drivers
skull was fracture be fall