Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-06-03
Wdshington, Mau o5

NO Oil ttal Shall nave passed one
House, shall be sent for concurrence
to the other, on either OF the three
last days ofthe session" The day
for adjournment for the present SEES
sion, for Thursday the 9th, yesterday
was, of course, the last on which bills
could be passed in the House in which
they originated. Every bill, there
fore, in either House, not yet acted
upon, is beyond the power of Con-
gress for the present session.
Among the subject thus postponed
to the next session, or virtually rejec
ted, are many Of considerable impor-
lance, which it has not been the plea
sure OF Congress to act upop. The
attentive reader, recollecting what has
heretofore been finally acted upon in
either House, and looking at the bu
sness which was transacted yesterday,
will be able at once to ascertain the
fate OF any measure in which he may
take an interest. Among the bills and
propositions thus laid over, the follow.
ipg may deserve particular enumeration:
The Bin to reduce into one the several acts,
establishing and regulating the Post ofice De-
| partment; -
! de Beaumarchais.
The bill further to amend the Judicial Sys-
| TEN Of the United States;
The bill for the preservation and repair OF
| the Cumberland Road, arsL the bill for Continu-
| alton OF that Road;
The bill to reorganize and fxths Naval Es-
! tablish men. of The United States;
| The bill laying duties on Sales at Auctions;
| The bill to allow Drawback on the Expor-
taton OF Cordage manufactured from Foreign
| Hemp;
The Bill to established Territorial Cover,
| ment for the District OF Columbia;
An the amendments proposed at the present
Session OF Congress. to the Cons tltution OF the
! United States.
This day and to morrow will be de
voted to acting, in each House, on The
remainder of such bill as have already
passed the other. Nat. Intel.
AT an hour too late, yesterday, to en-
| able us to obtainthe particulars for to
day the injunction Of secrecy was re.
| moved, in the Senate, from SO much
of the Executive Proceedings relates
to the Treaty lately concluded at Lon
don, between Mr.. RUSH and Mr. 8.
CANNING, Representatives of the
United States and Great Britain,' hav-
ing for its object co operation Of nea-
suIes for The further Suppression ofthe
Slave Trade In our next, we shall
publish the particulars, as far as we
can obtain them. For the present,
we can only say, that the treaty met
with very serious opposition in the
Senate; thatit was finally ratified by
that body, by a barely constitutional
majority, after receiving several modi
fications, the most essential of which
limits, its duration TO the plesure ofthe
parties, making it an experimental
measure rather than permanent law
for the government of the two ma
tons. --
The powder mills owned by MessrsY
Spencer, Cooper s. Co. near Lexington,
Ky. were blown to atoms about o'clock
in the afternoon of the SOth ult. The
Kentucky Monitor says that a negro
man who was working in the house was
killed instantly, and two others severely
wounded. The explosion took place in
the dry house, where there was upwards
of 1000 pounds Of powder, and which
! sent up solumn of smoke that seemed
almost to reach the skies. Every thing
| near and about the mills was blown 10
pieces. The glass in Mr. Cooper's
house, which is several hundred yards
from the powder house was shivered to
atoms The explosion was heard and
the shock produced by it felt, or 8
miles in the country. This is the Sc
cond, and by far the most serious ex-
plosion that has taken place at this esta-
blishment, within the last la months.
| "A Religious Maniac-Israel Rutland,
of Brookhayen, who we understand, had
been some time laboring under what is
called a concern Of mind, on the night
of the 5th awoke his wife, and very de-
liberately told her, that it had been re-
realed to him, that he must destroy his
family, and as deliberately rose for the
purpose, but the wife not believing in
the receIation, took her departure for
some of the neighbors which hav.
ing collected, they returned to the house
where they found the Oldest Guild, about
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