Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1854-03-14
STATE NEWS.

MAIL RoGBERY.-Ia lhs Cl1rkstnrg Register, o
Thursday last we find tie following notice OF the late rob
berry Of The mail in Lewis couhty which We noticed few
days ago:
N. G. shrove tho m2il carrier between Buckhannon an
Weston young man about II years DID, was arrested II
The former place the night Of the 2Gh u on charge
robon@ the mail. II is stated th:t he was In the hao
opening the mall and helpns himself, while on the roa!
between h above nam9l Places lie was Gtousat ,,o. 10 In,
county, rhi lodged in jail j. b. Shrtyc, the ather o! III
Young man, and II. +. Wcslli the former postmaster
BucknEnor, also arrested ard gave bail lor l!cif ~
rearancc at the session of the Federal Conrt IN h
place, which bG!oro viii bo held the last Monday
March We understand that Mr. WcsIlaii Is charged VII
having furnished young Shreve with the key with which
opened tie mail.
MONUMENT TO w p. TUNsTALL-The DauvilIe Re
giscr that The citizens Of Ptlsyvania county pre-
the Court ivus Monday Of F.by Cout resolve
tu monument The memory Of The late w runGal
be located that place This citizens Of Danyc and II
vicinity also resolved Tie day. 10 erect similar on
on The Depot lot Of the Richmond and Danvis Road q
Danvlc
PRESIDENT OF TIE DANvILLE RoAD.-Th
Danyile Rtgissor says it Is authorised by some oil III
friend. Of Vincent! Wi!che Esq 10 say that nc Is eandi
date for the Office of President Of The Richmond md Dan
vile Rail Road Company; and that he occupies this position
l.: compliance with the wlehes Of numerous STOCK
holders Of the company, all parts Of the line.
Tho Register advocates The election OF COL To%n1s 10 FL
the vacancy created by the death Of w. P Tunsla Esq
| Lewis F. Haryie Esq Is also warmly recommended uy
his friends for the Presidency Of thc Danville Road. Tie
election will lake place whn the Stockholders meet IN
Richmond on the l3ih Of April.
HENRY TOBACCO.-Hlr. Marshall HalTs,on. of Henry
county, Virginia. sold the fine portion Of bis tobacco crop c
900 pounds few days ago, 10 D. f. Spencor manu-
! facurer for Si5 per hundred.
| THE LATE FRESnEr-Thc late heavy rains were
very destructive 10 tobacco plant hee along the c~ grounds
OF the Roanoke and o'He! South streams. Al 50 e
period OF !hc for burning beds and sowing Tobacco
Sce this IL very serious item In the losses 90 NAV oc.
much nconv enencc when the ie 10! planting sa
have arrived.
/ AGoOD MAN-alr Robert Johnson, the olieet patron
OF The Lynchburg Vginan died few days ago in Camp
bell county, at the ago Of 90. noahbor, who knew h!nl
il ely for 10 years never knew him give o4nco 10
human being lie, this tribute" Gays tie Virgn!an, suf
cr 20 preserve hs name from oblivion with those who oYo
gcctEess and aspire 10 Il spUtless memory"
ABADSAN-Thc las, Wheeling Argus reports the case
of fellow calling himself SoTonons arrested In Wheeling
for stealing night. gown from his wife and pa~nug il 10:
whkkey. The matter compromised by The wh!ssey
dealer giving up the gown 10 lis owner
ANOTHER.-Tho came paper notices tie arrest o. John
Dixon for glaias his sslc!s shawl aad ceiling II TO eer'
want Girl q, The Bsymer House. He was released upon con-
dpIon that he woulI Immediately leave the State.
LARGE SCHOOL.-The Wheeling Argus states :hat
$40 rs ward public .cil0c OF al CRY numbsrs over three
hundred scho!2Ta.
| FAIRMONT REPUBLICAN This Paper, & "h:g
JounnD published Marion County, Va, s shin plaster
ad.oea,o Speaking ni lhe smal no:r law, it says:
for ~. 20 get e!.ag ltri; opcations With
ou, tm and legislature II they dessred their su2?1ss
son should have given the people I eusnIy rather msn
legislation II adopted 10 supply the deficiency
suppress that which experience hae proved
be dispensed with"
The Republican romnds Of the argument Of the Coun.
,arfei,er who thought nc wbud suppy deficiency" which
he anciSd he In the money market, AMI a:ras'iwa
went 10 making unlawful money, when he was arrested
Iic penteaary inr his kind eforls u snpry
deficiency" The Republican says the smol mute law will
no, be respected" but will remain "a dead s!.e the
,,tulc book Perhaps ye; prepared believe
the people Of Virginia generally ic@iess set wh1lcve:
rnspsci may be entertained for laws CT the land by
editor CT The Republican.
MARION LAND.-ThO fdirmont Republican states lha,
Mr Marx Hayn,oad esteemed citizen OF Marion county
vreIo, sold few days slace to the Baltimore Gas Com.
pauy Ills farm 10, 5l25 per The Gas Company pur.
chased on account Of Tho coal beds the farm For Tho
same reason many of the farms In thu, county OF 81
nar value. The Republican asks '~ould Il not be wise
for some Of our merchants and others. 10 start
fac,urng enterprise here, wca coal is abundant and
cheap7 might not bs mado ptoabs selling goodsl
We ,hink So"
SuIN-pLASTERS.-T Shirpas,er nuisance has, after
so long time, been killed. and suppose buried deep
among the things that were that tho hand of resurrection
can nsver reach it, Tho presumption s at least fair
when YOU have read the bill and lhu, they have pre-
scrbed dose for "Shns" be administered the first Of
June next which in all sincerity think ought be su
acen but fearing that they might possibly recover another
and still more dose 10 made up in The shape OF ~
paen swcarng machine" it has been called which s 10
be administered fonr ysars afterwards We give below
copy of the bill ii passed. and II has The desired e
feet 10 rid OF this terrible pest and supply lis place with
good specie shall be highly graied- BEDFORD
tFa) Sentinel! c wig paper.
Two SHOCKING ACCiDENT5-On Friday ni9hr
Mr. Theodore Yahsinc employed in the ouring mill Of his
n1her. law, Mr. FoIme! miles east OF this city. md
known as Bcdiiions Mll caught large vertical
shalt rapid notion BY his clothes getting entanScd IN
the machinery, and carried AMI around ho SHAFT
striking many against tho surrounding tim5es and
machinery. Hc horribly mangled, HE left thigh and
ripht ankle being both oroEeH and his breast mashed IN
"a Saturday twelve O'clock death released hill from MS
On Saturday morning. Mr.. Thomas Young glass cutter
at Sweeney Soma Glass Works, whio n the act OF put
Ting the belt drum, caught by Tie bell ana nra"n
around the shalt with great velocity Inc snail haAo some
one hundred and sixty revolutions before inc engine coeu
be stopped. He had Two shirts, which WIN hs olei
clothing twisted tightly around his body that they
had 10 off beford tie could he oS;rlcatci Notwh
standing he almost literally ssiansd' not o9hc was
broken, and there is no appearance OF internal injury -
Al last accounts he recoverns- |Fhst'tng h'hi.
genctr. ,..
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
rConespondence of the Journal OF Commerce
PANS, Feb. 20, 1854.
Last week il was almost universally believed that the
Cars reply u the letter of the Emperor OF France hdo
coma by telegraph or That doubt OF negative ever eX
.ed On any other sppDostOn the Immediate insertion Oh