The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1809-05-17
CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS.

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The followingis complete list Of the Re-
personalities from Virginia, in the Eleventh
Congrcss.--Therc are sixteen members
elected, friends of the administration, TWO
Randolphites, and four. Federalists. In the
Tenth Congress, there were four Randol-
phites, one Fedcralist, and seventeen Sup
porters of the Administration. So after all
the vaunting and boasting OF the Opposition,
the Friends Of Government have lost but one
member, and have gained great accession
OF talents -.
RehnSdicass-John w. Eppes, Wilson c.
Nicholas, John Clopton, Thomas GhoIson,
Jun. William A. Burwell, Walter Jones,
John Smith, Thomas Newton, Jun. Burwcll
Bassctt, Peterson GOODWIN, John q. jackson,
John Love, Matthew Clay, John. Dawson,
John Randolph, Edwin 0ray--all reelected.
John Roane, vice James M. Garnet DAM
icl Shcffey,s vice Abraham Trigg.
FederaHsts---Joseph Lewis, Jun, reelected
James Stephenson, vice John Morrow John
breckenridge, vice Alexander Wilson Jacob
Swoope, vice David Holmes.
This gentleman is set down TO- federal ac-
count i'm federal papers--so spas Gopernonr
Huntington, " Ohio
4 appears by aAls Of Bsrmuda .pspessv vl;ch ws
yesssfday received h0 Gfricnd that there isa dis
Puss beawsen the ocyctDos ma Council. In the ai.
dressf The Genera Assembly of ofIermvda 10 the Gov.
srnopr, We fnd the following passage.
~ NJ s. Royal Gazette
"We are truly sensible Of the real distress and 4.
larn in which the greater part ofthe community and
more particularly thcpoorcr cAsses thereof the
present moment involved for the want Of ood and this
H.
ed that it might have been prevented, had yonr Ex.
ceency not extended your favour to certain indvid-
uals by allowing them to export contrary 10 your own
Embargo or Prohibitory Proclamations, consdcra-
bic quantity of provisions, while there was prospect
Of an approaching famine. As no calamity can cx.
ceed that Of starvation certainly desrous and
ready to adopt any and every measure ef relief within
our power"
A paper printed at Carthage, Tennessee,
asserts that large bed of ore had been dis
covered in Overton county in that state, and
not more than SIS miles from Carthage, which
appears rich with silver-it adds that several
dollars had been made there il without the
authority Of the United States, of which there
is. every presumption, the coinage is contrary
to law. Such discovery would scarcely be
considered as " vaiuabie." Gold and silver
mines have hitherto promoted in q very i'm
considerable degree the real prosperity of
any nations who owned them. They have
generally produced an opposite effect. The
Able Raynal, we believe, who Justly remarks
that during the ancient ages, the silver mines
of Spain, then the richest known to the civili-
zed world occasioned the Spaniards to fall a
prey to the Carthaginians-the Carthaginians
soon after fell a prey to the Romans--and
that in modern times, the rich mines Of Pc
ru have reduced the natives under the yoke Of
Spain, and contributed to reduce Spain to the
iowert political dcgcneracy. If such be the
effects of these discoveries, may these splcn-
did pests remain forever concealed within
the caverns of the United Statcs!
There is woman residing in Vienna 20
years Land 90 years married,wh at eleven
births had thirty-two children, Of whom TWEEN.
ty-eight are now. living.
TN Y. Weekly Muserm.1