The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-03-10
the boundary line between Tennessee and Vir.

the boundary line between Tennessee and yir
| ginia va
1.-THE resolutions disapprove and reject III
line between Virginia and Tennessee. as ru,
, and reported by Leonidas Baugh and Jane. 6
nlack as Commissioners on the part of Vir
{ g,nia, ana authorizes the Governor to settl
win them for their services in running tn
llhe, and to appoiht one or more Commission
: eTs 10 run the line again, and to allow there
3 io1 tne compression provided by law.]
Inc resolutions were incurred in after som,
slight amendments, which were ordered to b.
reported to the Senate.
BiH HPnssed.-To amend the charter of. ant
authorize subscription on behalf of the State
Turnpike Company.
| The Speciai License Bill came up at I o.cl.k
Mr. DUCKwALL moved the following amend
,hent to come in before the enacting clause a,
the end of the bill
Be 1t enocted, That the sales of all goods. wares
& sna &merchand re directly imported into tbl: State
chant within this State. be- ard they are herehy
Stsnpt from all taxation whatever levied by the
Auditor shall prescr he tbs form ana mode IN WHY
.ne Commiss oners of the Revenue shall asce rtaln
sncn goods wares and merchandise as are hereby
~ It further enacted, that the Governor Of this
ooIhhlonwealth 20, he DIRECTED to communicate this
act / the LEGISLATORS of the siavehodlns States
,nroush their respective Executives, and that he
nc further directed to appoint a Commissioner to
pointed Ser ss~shsdex s,,ts. s. he
s,n,9ect OF encouraeing direct trade tetween the
curing the comme rcial and industrial na:ependence
,i ni tnc south, which commissioned snail report at
tne next session of the Genera Assembly of this
State and that until thirty days after such rep
sna.i have been 80 made, the operation of ali the
| ing, snail be suspended.
Mr.. WATSON, of A, moved to amend the
amendment by adding as follows:
on the sales of all such goods as are described
under lhe provisions hereof. between the ist .u,y.
Nol, and the LIST January, 1852 there shall not te
assessed more than per cent on the sales OF
| those articles within the preceding six months.
ana under the assessment Of everv Six months
| tneIeaiter @ there shall not he assessed more tn IN
| Two per cent above the former as essment until
the tax upon specisl licenses shall reach the mar
Inuni of ten per cent. ~ ~
III the Governor shall consider it best for the in
tcreSt of the State ne may. by proclam alton sus
pend the assessment OF anv tax upon special
licenses under this act until the lst January iS'
The provisions Of this act shall not he enforced
pnti at least SIX of the Southern states of this
cd. shall enact similar laws providing for the as
| sessment OF tax upon special licenses at least
rs hnai TO .ne AMOUNT fr heen named upon all artl
wnsther manufactured by them or not.
Jui', 1861. ''' '"e A''
After some debate, the amendment and tho
drawn.
The principle of taxation, as reported in the
DILL Deihg BASED npon he amount of sales Mr.
lOML1N as serted the impossi ibility of accur rate
ly discriminating thereby, and offered seyera'
amendme nts designed to change the tax from
sales to purchasers. The amendments were
conCurred in.
On motion ofMr NEWTON, the further con-
slderation of the subject was passed by tli
50 O'CLOCK, ana the House ordered the vote to be
taken upon it at o'clock
"A REMARKABLE LUNATIC.-The Cleveland
Herald of March 5th, SAYS:
Among the inmates of the Northern Ohio
L"hatic Asylum Is person named Wheedon
once nightly respectable citizen in good cir.
cumsiancS, and said to have Eeen a member of
the former coal firm of l. G. Pendleton E g.,
lie mas been In the asylum for some time For
some time past he has mantle ted a stronrdis
position TO escape and the utmost care and vi
giiance nave been exercised to frus strate his de.
signs, but not always with success Refore
being placed in his sleeping room at night he
mas been always stripped and carefully exam
ihed 10 prevent the secreting of any instru-
ment and all his clothes but his shirt. nanta
Icons, and stockings taken aWay In spite of
these precautions, he has succeeded three
times within 4 few days in escaping from his
r0Cm
About two weeks since he took set of false |
teeth ont of his Inouth, and by constant work
contrived with them to saw a hole through tho
iloor OF his chamber, making Il hole sufficient |
10 ADMIT OF his dropping through into another |
part of the house. aud thus escaping. IIa was
traced and caught ill the house of Mr. Pendle- |
ton, on Euclid street. A few days since he So
creted PIN, and with that exceedingly unlike |
u III
MS door, and escaped into the hail. where he |
was fortunately arrested. He then stated that |
a pm was of more value than ten thousand |
ooIlars when he wished to escape from room. |
Last saturday night he was carefully exam
Inedas usual, before being placed ia his room
nut succeeded III secreting small brass ring
sriit at one part, in his hair On being locked |
up for the night he set to work and with tho
ring he cut through he sash and shutter SO "a
to enable him to remove them from the win
ooW he 'nen TOOK the coverlid off the bed |
ana tore 1t into strips, with which he made a |
rope reaching nearly to the ground 3 distance
OF some twenty-five or thirty feet Some of |
the cotton batting with which the coyerlid
was " added, he placed i'll his stockings 10 pro-
!ec' ms 1eet' as ne had no shoes. Then cress-
ing himself i'll shirt, troWsers and stockings
ne slid down the rope and escaped.
striking across the country 10 the Eight
mile Aock ne men took the towpath of the
canal aud walked down to University Heights |
wnere he arrived yesterday afternoon The
officers OF The asylum on his track came on
MN yesterday Sunday afternoon. He was
very quiet when aTreSted and smoke freely of |
his escape, and made no resistance To being !
taken back to the asylum. We question weth
pr this series of extraordinary escapes can hs
we'll matched.
COMMERCE AND EXTENT OF THE LAkEs-
An Albany correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser gives the followipgin
eresting items:
81 have been looking over the ann uaI report
of the superintendent of the Sau. Ste. Marie
snip canal Ihls canal was built by New Yorl, |
md New England capitalists. BY i, the larg
st class OF lake steamers are enabled To mass
rom the lower lakes into Lake SuDer;or and
% the copper mines thereof. This canal is
1854 feet H. length-the fall TO be overcome is
eventeen ieet-there are TWO lit locks, each
hree hundred and fifty feet in length. sixty
'ne teet wide 1T the bottom and seventy fee,
vide at the top. Congress granted the com.
'any III Io52, III aid OF this work, 10000 aces
u the public lands. The receipts of the com.
'any for 1859 were ST. 400, AID the expenul- |
ures $500.
Lake Superior, thus opened to the nayiga.
lou of the largest class of steamers, is the |
most extensive body OF fresh water vet known
IN Inc glOOe, ana Its shores are rich in mex. |
mines OF copper ore, and the best and
trongest iron yet discovered. There have
'assed downward from this lake the past wear
o"oc Ions OF IRON ore and 300 tons Of copper .
re. The total valuation OF all the propertv |
'assing through the canal Including prnyi.
IONS. DC, for The miners and others is in |
ound numbers, Sl0,G0U,00O. The day is close !
hand when this great northern part of the
tate Of Michigan will be organized into >
eParate Stale, and probably under the name
f'Supericr.' Even now, the people in this
rgion talk of the feasibility Of ship canal
ONE three hundred and fifty miles in length
connect Lake Superior with Hudson's Ray
imagine yourself one of pleasure parfv
tarting from New York for a summers trin l
4 staunch steamer, via the Gulf Of ST. Law. | =.
ence, the Canadian canals, the great lakes '
nd this canal to the Arctic ocean. You can
eep the idea to cool Oft with when the heat. | I
next summer invade the sancsunu Wild "A I
,!s may now seem, the child is now Old ..
nough to read your paper WAC will yet take
lis very trip" i,
HORRIBLE TRAaKDY.-A Husband Cut, hi,
'Vs's Throat.--The wife of an Irishman l.
amed Patrick McHugh, yesterday was visit | =
& sick female friend in the second story of