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Show ICichnioml Suit Compromised. The attorneys for Mr. Thomas Taylor Tay-lor and Dr. Samuel Smith, tlic parties par-ties claiming the Richmond mine, appeared before Chief Justice McKean, Mc-Kean, yestenlay, and stated that the suits had been compromised and the question as to the ownership of the property amicably arranged. Mr. Royle, on the part of Smith, said that his client had no desire to prosecute the two men arrested at the mine, on Thursday, and he would therefore ask the court to be as lenient with them as he could reasonably reason-ably be. Judge McKean said that he did not wish it understood that he issued warrants for tho arrest of parties merely to compromise civil suits; it placed him in a wrong position before the public, a point on which he is very sensitive; but on the statement of Mr. Royle he would merely require the prisoners to enter into their own recognizances of $0,000 each to appear ap-pear at the September term of the court. The course of the gentlemen in compromising their difficulty was a sensible one; and it is a pity that more cases of tlic kind arc not simi-! simi-! Uirly arranged. A line Lnxiy of ore has recently been struck in the Richmond Rich-mond mine, and work on it, which tho legal proceedings interrupted, will now be vigorously pushed. . |