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pie are too much occupied in obtaining, by
daily labor, the necessaries Of life, to nave
leisure to read and inform themselves ON
these important duties. The pulpit seems
to be the cheapest the wisest, the most ex
tensive and most salutary mode Of lnstruc
ton. The effects Of such meetings, con-
Quoted upon proper principles, muss be re-
garded by every wise legislator, by every
good man, as highly important to the mo-
rails, the manners and the happiness Of the
citizens. Without taking into view the rich
rewards held forth to the pious Christian in
future existence, the duties enioned by
the Christian system are equally calculated
to make the individual prosperous and hap
py in this world, and his country great,
powerful and respectable; for it enjoins the
practice OF those virtues without which Ii
bcrty cannot long endure, or nation pros
per. But alas so it is we have LETT the
Christian religion to shift for itself, without
any recognition except in the simple formula
observed in our courts, OF swearing witness
es on the Holy Evangelists, 9 mere relict Ct
antient custom. Indeed it has been held by
some Of our prominent politicians-but this
hereafter.
AURELIUS.
Fairfax, FEB. 1909.
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IS. An act farther to :,
system OF the United Siam s. anehaas
II. An act to extend ' -
n ns payment for the pubic ' i.. time d
States. ~ falts u
u rs. An act making a far,,.,
t t'oa iowa towards completing tt, e e.,
1or othcr purposes. ''a III
20. An act to extend to
more and William Whitcmo.Aa asG
tent right to a machine for ja
cotton and wool cards. N''aaa&sl
nitz. VI J&a
81. An act supplemental to !
tuled Gan act ter establi ,hjne,'~' q
IS with the Indian tribes.n u'3aasi
81. An act concerninq ior,,.,
ers. U p
So. An act to authorize Il. :.
turnpike road from Masop !, :. 0''l
Alexandria. ''osSR
"a. An act farther to an,nd5. /,
acts Tor the establishment and r,aI !
the treasury, war and navy den,SS ,.'
s.. An act making approprlal;a '1'
support Of the military establish ,,a
OF the navy Of the Z. States e., !
1909. "
80. An act supplementary to a,n
mend the charter 81 Georgetown,
81. An act authorizing the f,rb
mentatlon OF the marine corps.
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Translated far the North Anernn
From the Havanna Messenger extrsori

IdilSiateG jar me N9rth Ane1Gn |
From the HAVANA Messenger ezrat.I
~, CT the Sd February.
This day at 10 o'clock, arrived at |
port, the Polacrc n. S. of Victory ca,|
Revelo, from Malaga, which he lG|
5th December.
She brings accounts that at her l;p
ture, it was known there that the Bill
were bombarding Barcelona by sea and
Spaniards by land that general Pd|
had made a teigned retreat to indca
French to advance, and That generdBI
might take the opportunity of acting
that the Marquis Of Romano had snDl
ed The enemy, among whom it IS sad
Joseph, the pretender.
This vessel touched at AguadIa
Porto Rico, whence size sailed abat
days ago, and the news Of deci'iH5'
fought by the Marquis Of Roman
current there, as has been published VI
city: but the surrender of 1larJInil
the British admiral c cochran, was chl
known.
Others belonging to the same vessel
that general Blake was killedln the !
though the captain did not hear '''
cumstarce.
We are also assured, through BaHa
Of the surrender of St. Domingo |"
Spaniards but the details are not 'o.
to satisfy us, though we do not cease u.s. :, :
,licve the fact, as we formerly PuOI8AY
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Fairfax, Feb. 1909.
LIST OF ACTS
Passed at the second Session gf the tenth

Congress.
1. An act to authorize the transportation
Of a certain message OF the President Of tx
United States, and documents accompany
ing the same.
2. An act authorising the President O
the United States to employ an additional
number of revenue cutters.
8. An act autnorislng the payment O
certain pensions by the secretary of war a
the seat Of govelnmenc.
4. An act for the relief of Andrew To-
seph Willard.
5. An act to revive and continue in force
for farther time the first section of til,
act, intituled " An act farther to prot@c
the commerce and seamen of yhe y. Stale
against the Barbary powers
6. An act Tor the relief of Aueustir
Serry.
Z. An act authorizing the proprietors O
squares and lots in the city OF Arlington
to have the same subdiyided, and adnittec
to record.
8. An act to enforce and make. more eff
fectual an act, entitled, 6 An act LAYING al
embargo on ali ships anil vessels in the port
and harbors OF the United States" and thu
several acts supplementary thereto.
9. An act supplementary to an act, enti
tied g An act for extending the terms o
credit on revenue bonds in certain cases anc
for other purposes.
10. An act for the relief of Edmund
Beaumont.
II. An act to alter the time for the mex
meeting Of Congress.
IL. An act for the employment Of ali adj
ditional naval force.
10. An act for dividing the Indiana ter
rltory into two separate governments.
Il. An act making appropriations to
complete the Qualifications commenced for
the security of the seaport towns and har-
bors of the United States, and to defray
the expenses Of deepening and extending to
the river Mississippi, the canal Of Caron-
delet.
Is. An act supplementary to the act, en-
titled 6 An act to amend the act entitled
=" An act establishing circuit courts and a
bridging the jurisdiction Of the district
courts of Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio"
16. An act to revive and continue for a
farther time the authority of the commits
sioners of Kaskaskia.
II. An act to incorporate company for
opening the canal in the city of Washing
tom.
IS. An act making appropriations for the
support of government, during the year
one thousand eight hundred and nine.
10. An act extending the right Of sui
frage in the Indiana territory, and for other
purposes.
90. An act freeing from postage all let
tiers and packets 70 Thomas Jefferson.
p. An act for the disposal OF certain
tracts of land in the Mississippi territory,
claimed under Spanish grants, reported by
the land commissioners as ante dated and
to confirm the claims of Abraham Ellis and
Daniel Harregal.
g. An act for the relief Of Daniel Cot
ton.
%. An act for the relief of certain Ali
bama and Wyandot Indians.
"a. An act to interdict the commercial
intercourse between the United States and
Great-Britain and France, & their Deepen
denotes and for other purposes.
IS. An act5making provision for the far
Their accommodation of the household of the
president OF the United States.
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BY THE LAST Mail
BALTIMORE, Aarct1
SPlNLSH NEWS,

We understand papers are in tow, !
Guatemala, the contents of which c.;
the accounts we have received, that, :.
raj and ardent spirit flows mongAS
iards.
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o. WING an otter 0


O. HAVING an otter on
ceeding to a Mercantile ISL 81
lilhn1cnt with peculiar @ "a. \
ges on my arrival at oa IL, :
tholomews, and from the 9c,'
couragemcnt of leveral h li.;1
I intend to trantact pa'D
there on Commimon.- i /
Jebd Riddle is fully aq 1.sCe
to act for me IN my abie n.s,
JOIN CIR !
MARCH 4.
The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1809-03-07

nave immediate relation to the embargo,
bat other acts which have been. and are
under their consideration, affecting the
rights, interests, welfare, and even the
peace of the nation. Indeed, it would be
useful for the general good, if the state le-
gislatures were often tn cast a watchful eye
towards the general government, with a
view, candid,y to. consider, and Judioiously
discern, whether the powers. delegated to
the United States are not exceeded, or are
so exercised as not to interfere with or
those which are reserved by the
people FOR their own management. When
under the direction Of a wise and prudent
~d'scernment, a temperate caution-not an
oper-lealous disposition, such an examina-
ton Will always prove a wholesome mea-
sure.
On the present occasion, it will be upne-
|cessary for me to enter into any particular
statement of our private sufferings, or the
threatening ,aspect,of our public situation,
in relation to the unprecedented acts of our
general government, which are accumular-
ing upon us. The individual. feelings and
experience of the Members of this legislature
now convened from all parts of the state,
viii speak of the private distress which have
been produced by these acts ; and your ge-
neral information will give you gentlemen.
a correct view of the dangers which impend
"' FHS''S ~ UOOIty, IlHnlS. dlu ITO-
perry, arising from the same source. Des-
pairing of substantial relief from any other
qearter, the people are now looking with
anxious solicitude and hope. to the wisdom
and direction of the legislature of their own
choice /; and seem confident that some mode
may be devised to remove the pressure un-
DER which they are at present suffering-
10 your collected wisdom and prudence
they submit the task-ARd NAV it not be
loped, that, with our united efforts, under
a temperate, discreet and firm considera-
ton OF our situation and circumstances, we
may be able, by the influence of Divine aid,
"a fulfill the just and reasonable expectations
ot our fellow. citizens eWhenever our Ma
7ional Legislature is led to overleap the pre-
scrlbcd bonds of their constitutional pow
ers, on the state legislatures, in great emer.
gencles, devclves the arduous task-it is
lheir right--it becomes their dutv to inter
pose their protecting shield between, tit>
lights and liberties of the people, and
the assumed power of the general govern
ment.
Several communications will now be made
fnr your consideration-among which you
VII observe n correspondence between me
md the Secretary of War of the u. States
the particulars of this correspondence, with
its object and its result on my part, will
doubtless gain your most serious and snlems
attention.
In all our deliberations Oh this momentous
OCCASION, NAV the divine wisdom guide us
into the path of duty, and lead US to the hap
piest results for the general coed, the peace
and security of the people. r
J. TRUMBULL.
Extra-session, Feb. %, 1909.
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WAsHrncToN, Feb. II, 'o9,
SIR,

SIR,
have duly received the resolutions of the
republican citizens Of Annapolis and Anne Arrn.
del county of the 4th inst. which you were SO kind
as to forward to me.
mat the assressions and f1juriesof the belli-
gerent nations have been the real obstructiens
winch have interrupted our commerce., and now
threaten our peace, and that the .ernbsreo laws
were sanitary and iidiSpensably necessary to
meet those distractions, are truths as evident to
every candid man, Ms il is worthy of every good
ciuzen to declare his Reproduction of that system
u opposition which goes to an avowed and prac-
neal resistance of these laws. To such a resis.
taiice L trust that the patriotism of Our faithful
citizens, IN no section of the union, will give anv
counteHance. Where the law OF the majority
ceases TO be acknowledged, there government.
unds, the law of tie strongest takes its place
and lite and property are his who can take them.
receive with particular pleasure and thankful
ness the testimony of the republican citizens o,
Annapolis & Anne Arundel in favor ofthe course
% proceedings during my administration Of the
public affairs. And ican truly say, in their words
shat they have teen conducted with the pure
+ gayd &hi dcTouoi to the interests Of the peo.
PIE, ana the national safety and homer And :
ray on, with my Acknowledgements for these
fiVCrabie sentiments, to accept the assurances OF
my high respec. and consideration.
III: JEFFERSON.
JOHN CAssAwAY, ESQ.
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5st NEw-YoRK, Feb 81, noon.
~ SPdLv

The following we have just r~eceived-it
comes by the ship Monk, arrived at Boston.
EsctrQct q q letter frona Richnrd S. A
leg, Esq. dassd So Larar, Dec. 6, 1so8,
10 aSea{eHaGa in thia Gig.
"Vyhilst writing, i have received 2 letter
from Mr. ERv1NG. informing me of a De-
ctDED VICTORY obtained by the Spanish o.
yer the French armies. Heliad only a mo-
ine't to iatorm me of the event., without par
ticuiars."
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SENATE. March I.

The Senate took into consideration the bill
from the House of Representatives, making
appropriations for the support of tie mill
tary establishment and Of the navy of he u.
). for the year 1869.
On motion to strike out the following
words in the 6h section" For the fortif'
cations of ports ard harbors, in addition to
the sums heretofore app opriated for that
purpose, one million Of dollars"
1t was determined in the affirmative
yeas %, Nays Gas follows.
fEAS'-Mess's Anderson, Bavard, Brad
;ey; Condit. Fra Kiln, Good,ieh, Gregg.
Hil!house, H~owlald, Kitcheli, Lieb LioTd,
Matthewson, More, Parker, Pickering
Pope, Smith of Ten. Sumter, Thruston'
L Tim, Turner, AMI White.
NAYS.-Messrs Crawford. Milledge,
Robinsoi, Smith of Md. & smith
OF N. York.
-, March 9.
The bill from tie House of Representa-
tiVes for imposing additional duties was re-
Jected-Yeas 5-Nys %
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FROM THE voarH AMERICAN.

with pleasure we introduce the folio wing
correction from so respectable q man as Doctor
Brown tt-i
Mr.. WA6NER,
On looking over the North Amer.
can OF THIS evening, among the several queries TO
SENEGAL Samuel Smith, trans cribed into your ma
per from the New York Evening Post. was for.
clDiy struck with the folio wing the 17tflJ query.
= Did you or did you not send out YOUR chief
rierk to London in the December Packet, about
the time when the non-intercourse proiec, was
Matched, with orders for goods to an immense a.
mount, which goods will ell be shipped before
tue 10Th OF May, the time with which the blank
with the non-lntercourSe has been flied) TINS
SAVING your own property out of its operation.
ana thus again securing 10 yourself almost a mo.
hopoiy OF tie American market"
SIR,
The person alluded to in the above ouerv ,s
an agent for the house Of Smith and yao,apar..
IS my SON With the objects of his business in
London oreisewhere, neither Cen Smith nor + o
house OF Smith and Buchanan, have anv concern
whatever, either Directly or indirectly. / ha,r
therefore, SIR, TO request of :ou to place this fact
IN Its true light, and you will oblige
ourobedient Servant,
GEORGE BROWN.
Cay Street, Monday evenings
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From the We7v- York Gazette, FEB %.
SHIP mr. ECES

FROM Me Ve7v- York Gazette, FEB %.
SHIP WRECKS.
The shin True american, .Nezvson, II
days from Port au Prince, scith 49,, eco 1t.
Of coffee, and 80 tons iog7vood. gvent ashore
on Monday night, at 8 o'clock, Just to me
sonthzvard ofrhc Lighthouse, and in a short
time 6itged-pesset and cargo entirely lost.
Themselves by hanging TO The vreck. till
refeved yesterday morning by The Ulysses
f,ilot boar.
ne learn By cuht. Mason front p. au
I'tnce, hat a bloody 6atfie rock htace a few
days Previous Is the abcre Gotc, betzpeen
ne armies Of Potion and Ch~istohhc, near
n Nichotcs Mole, 4vhich mace he latter
attacked, out zras rehut$edb By Gen Lamar,
z0ith the loss Of 1000 killed, many uonnd-
ga, ona several taken prisoners. One Of
Ch'zStofhe'S IripateerS, about the last of
January. CAPTURED an american brig 6roit
her in, and condemned both vessel and car
sc. ne, understand this hroterty is harAy
insured.
Ne also learn by CAPT. ~. that The cifv
Of 81. Domingo remained tranquil 4; thai
me City had neither been attacked by me
Hsnish nor English; e that Gen. Ferraud
gvas sill Guing! -
n British sar from London svfth dry
goods, -four and othcr Provisions, had ar
riUed at PORT ar Prince. 1Ais shin bro'e
accounts fshe dJiat offae Shanish Eatsiots.
2hc British orig NaSSau gua8 to sail IN a fcgy
days for ". Y. s,
Flour rvas IS dis. beef2s, hork, so. fish
abundantG cheah, e therhrouisrons 4voyfh
dtfte more than hrime cost-Co ionfai hro-
duce reasonable. There Guere ma americans
at T. az Pr;nce; bu: the. Haydan horts
soere crowded svith English u~e&sels, .freigh-
ted zrith GNkinds 9hroviSions.
The 5'is Amazon, CofA, IL days from Sa-
Uannah, 7oifh cotton, sc. sc. also gvenf a.
shore az the same time e. htace, e 7vus lef
yesterday morsirg hieh e. drv, 6ot NOT in
5~reain her MI. Tie cargo, 81 7ge hohe ihe
oessei, 4riN6e soued.
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AN ANSWER

From TRolfAS JEFFERsoN, Esq. Pyesi.
aent ef The U States, to the resolutions a9obtea
d. a meeting Of !Ae Republican Citizens of In
FEB. 1909. :
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PEEGH.
Gentlemen IF The C5ntcfi,
d1r. Sheuker, and (Sen lemen of The HoUse
Of Rcfre Se~nfakfUgS,
IMPRESSED with the importance of +
communications which have now TO lav
before y7n-prompted also by the concur
rent petitions of a number of the citizens NJ
tnis state, conveyed to ne with their ,eso.
lutlpns adop. edein their several town neet.
-ings, conv@ked for the purpgse /: and bav-
ing had under my own consideration. the
very farming crisis of our national affairs
rlsIh8 rom a variety of measures adnnted
ana contemplated by our national l~ee;sIs-
t9ie' more especially from the permanent
ci me embargo, with the means resorted to
LOT It's more rigorous enforcement. and par.
ucuiarly the late law of Congress. passed
on the 9Th day Of January hast. containiUs
many very extraordinary, not to saw unron'
stitutlonaf rovisions for its execntinn I. I
nave viewed the prospect so momentous and
threatening, that j have not hesitated 10
convene the Legislature of the State A. tbi,
unusual time, III order that they NAV -
opportunity TO consider and deliberate cn
tbe extraordinary situation into which onr
county, seems about to be plunged. if NO,
SPeedllY prevented ; and 10 deVise s,,eb con
s'putionai measures. as in their wisdom
ing evil. e"'eh
IL VIII be useful for the Lepislatn,e o.
take a view Of the various mcss,rcs oF 49,
Nt,lohal legislature, during their present
Preceeoln sessions, notonIy those which
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WAsHfxerox, March 3.

The President ofthe United States on the
list. inst. approved and signed the :. Act to
interdict the commercially intercourse be-
tween the United States and Great Britain
and France. and their dependencies /; and
for other purposes"
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otreet, Monday evening"
9Th Feb. 1899.
10 tie EaGlor NJ lAe Nem.aarL Enea;uA

4" me Editor Of The New-1ork Eoeaiue Pact
In Vyer 20 your ~ rinterfogatorv. addres,e
20 sc" al Smith, | hereby state, that I ss;Ied
,Toin LJldon IN the Brit.s., ship Boyd, for Havt;.
during the suspension of intercourse betvyeen
t'is country and that island that neither tbe
hoIse OFFS Smith aud Buchanan, nor anv otber
person OF persons IN tie United States, had any
shS,e or interest in the outfit or result of The
sad voyage, except myself, who then belonged
to tho house Of Williams and Mierckeo Of e.
Francois and bat tie author of any insinuaf,pn
to the contrary, is a liar.
JAMES WILLIAMS.
ms said that Cayenne is taken Blu 2ooo
torfnSHese troohs, NTH the eo.ohcranoD
q q Brftfsh squadron Under Sir Sidscv
SDith""Salem G azette. 9
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THURSDAY, March 9.

The bill to p-eventany person from taking
foreign liccnce TO naT'gate to any part Of the
world, was ordefedto third reading. Much
other business was done, of minor impor.
lance.
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DOMESTIC.

Hartford, Feb 90, 1909.
ZhLs morning his {reeHency GOVERNOR
lRUMBULL, met 6sfh d,dnchea oC1he Le-
SfSfdfnrs IN the Cc4NcH Chamber, and de.
hOered The Golozaag
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INVALID

The Houcc resolved itself into a commit
tee OF the whole, Mr. DEsHA IN the chair,
on the bill concerning invalid pensioners.
a motion was made by Mr. Holmes to
strike out the fouyth section of the bill which
authorizes the payment of the aggregate a.
mruot of the arrearages of pensions from the
time their disability was incurred, to all
persons entitled to pensions-Carried.
a motion was made by Mr.. Macon and
carried, 70 strike out Of the bill the Aird
section, which allows pensions to all persons
IN any manner incurring disability during
the revolutionary war, whether by volunta.
ny expeditions or Otherwise, &c.
A motion was made by Mr.. Blackledge
to insert an amendment providing for the
payment to all persons placed on the pension
list since the 1st January, 1896, of the ag-
gregdte amount of arrearages for ten years
preceding Negativcd.
The committee rose and reported the bill
As amended.
The House concurred in striking out the
third section, NJ to 80.
Nj. Rand0Lhh, who originally moved the
fourth section, called for the yeas and nays
orf concurrence with the committee in stri-
king out the section.
MIR. Roman spoke at length in support Of
the section, which he conceived tn be impe
riously called for both by Justice and policy
lne IhOlSy uue 20 ourold soldiers was n Just
debt, 10 which it did MOI become the govern.
ment to plead the statute of Invitation
Mr.. RaaaoIhh also spoke at ~large.in ex-
PLANTATION Of his reasons for Offering the a
mcndment. and in support oft. The claim
of the persons placed on the pension list, had
been rigidiy scrutinized, and payment of
them could not in justice. be refused, unles,
from inability OF the government to pay them.
The question Oh concurrence was decided
as follows:
YEAs-Mcssrs. w; Aston, Bard, Baker,
Basset, Blake, Blount, Boyle, Burwell, But
lef, Chitteuden, Cu1pcpper. Della, Durell
i anklin Gholson, GOODWIN, Green. Helms.
Holland, Holmes, Humphreys. Isley, Kenau.
Macon, Marion, Masters, McCreerv, N. r.
Moore, Jeremiah Morrow, John Morrow
Mnmford, New5oId, Porter, Pugh. Rea.
(P) Rhea ~ J Richards, VI. Richards
seayer, shaw, Sloan, Smile, j. K. Smith,
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TUESDAY, Feb %.

Mr.. .Wsgctor reported 4 b,l authorizing
the Col ector of the port ofBaltimoIe under
certain conditions, 70 gran, "A register to the
ship Thomas a notion was made by M
Newton AMI seconded Nv Mr.. ilelcy, that
the bill DC ordered 10 be read a third time
A motion was made b. Nj. Hol!audt to post
pooe it Indefinitely, and negstived, Is To So
1t was then referred to a Committee Of tn
whole.
A bill to extend to Messrs W~h:ttemoref for
a further time, the rigbtto a machine foi-
maauftcturing COTTON and wool cards, was
PASSED. S. to Is.
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The bill! for ex~tendngthe time for making
payment fcr the public lands of the United
States, was read a third time and passed, rs
to Is.