The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1820-05-23
BY The. MAILS.
NATIONAL INSTITUTION.

INA IONhb iNOi y icN.
The American Bible Society held their
fourth Adversary in the city of New York on
the lih inst. The Society met, and moved
~ procession 10 the City Hall, where their
venerable President, the Hon. ELns BoupIN-
OFT, took Ihe chair, at 10 o'clock. A portion OF
the Holy Scriptures was first read +; and then
the Presidents Address, by Rev. DIR. RoMEYN !;
after which, the Annual Report of the Mana.
gers was read by Rev. DIR. MINOR. This
Report gave all interesting detail OF The pro-
ceediDgs Of the board The past year, and con
tanned information also OF the magnificent
operations OF kindred institutions abroad.
Since The establishment of the Society.
there have been printed 1875 Bibles aud
Testaments. There have been issued from
the Depository, during the past year, al,
1872 Bibles and Tesaments /; and since the
establishment of The Society, 81. 1856. OF the
number issued during the PAST year, 1857
Bibles and Testamenls have been gratuitousy
disposed of and sent generally 10 Auxiiaries,
and those principally in the new States, al The
south and west. The number OF Auxiliary
Societies is 202.
There were present at the meeting an un-
usual number OF highly respectable characters
from different parts ofthe Union many ladies'
also attended, and the assembly convened j.,
said to have been larger than has ever attend
ed before on any similar occasion, and of The
most respectable character.
The presence of their venerable President
is mentioned with peculiar salts ction. Ad-
vanced 10 his 80lh year, labouring under in.
trinity Of body which had confined him for
some months to his house, be nevertheless
made journey OF 10 miles, and was able to
preside during The transac tons OF the day.
". York Daily .4dperti,er.
Spain is now probably destined to run
bright aud long career of glory, for in pro-
portion as she has been sunk and degraded BY
arbitrary power, ignorance and fanaticism, in
the same proportion will she rise Respondent
from her ruins, when those shacSles are
thrown aside.-Tbere is something in rational
liberty, that seems almost TO change the face
OF external, as we'll as of moral nalure.-Tbe
dull and mo,onless atmosphere generates pes
thence, disease and death, in all bis most
irighttul forms but when the zepbyrs are
freed from this enchantment, they dispense
health and JOY, and life, and serdure, and fra
GRANGE. Ball. Morning Chronicle.
THE FLORID.AS.
Ii appears, by the late diplomatic cores.
pondence that the claims OF the United States
against Spain, were they measured by the ex-
tent OF territory which is considered an 10.
do,
OF Secretary Adams OF The Sd inst. particular.
ly notifies General Wives, that, should no,
:" this last" attempt on our part, produce the
ratification, The claim of the United States
shall exceed the price OF Florida ; and that
further, as TO the We1ern Boundary. we will
Claim to the Rio del Nort.. II will be per
ceved that this line mol only includes Texas,
but if that river be pursued up its course as the
boundary, it will include Santa Fee and New
Mexico to the Rocky Mountains.
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Republicans IN .Mi.souri-One of the news
papers in Missouri contains a specimen OF the
various ways in which the candidates for the
Convention that is TO form their Constitution
offer themselves 10 the people, and among the
rest. MIR. John Linsey says My political
principles are, believe, we'll known 10 be
REPUBLlCAN-and, as to stavsry, I shaA
be IN tavor Of IT,"
We are happy to find that the Missouri pa.
pers recommend as members oi The Conven
lion for forming Constitution, those who arc
" opposed to The further introduction Of s!apery
into Missouri
A newspaper has also been established al
Jonesborough, Tennessee, called The +
mdnc'pdtor," the special object Of which Is,
F." TO advocate The abolition Of Slavery"
Essex Register.
Complaints are made of the scarcity and high
price Of salmon, on the Meuimack. Some 90 or
10 years. since, when the price was tho eoppsrS
per pound, (ssys the Newburyport Herald) there
was a clause introduced into the lndentures of
Apprentices, prohibiting masters from keeping
their boUs mon more than four daLs an each