Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-05-12
Washington Oily, .IIay 4.

Inc Navy Eard IN liiIs city on Monday
last, present Com. ChGuncsy, Capt.
CTaEe, and Capt. Read.
II Is understood that Commodore
Portertook exception to the composition
of the Court, ON the ground that a Ma
iority ofthe Members we're officers iu-
NOR to himself. This exception being
referred to the Secretary OF the Navy,
was overruled by him on the ground that
the time for making this objection had
passed.
The Court yesterday commenced the
examination of Witnesses (oficers Of the
Navy, Of c%ourse) many of whom are
attending this investigation. Among
them are Capt. Cassin, Capt. Dallas,
and Capt nch.-kIntsihgepce,.
Duties on Books II is a re remarkable
fact, tat at the very moment Congress
were enacting a lay, by which a duty
has been imposed on foreign books, i'm
ported into the United States, amounting
almost to a prohibition, the British 60
yernmentshould be contemplating a re
duction Of on. half of the existing duty
on the very same description of books,
This fact will appear by the following
extract from Mr.. Huskisson's speech in
the House of Commons, On recently
bringing forward his resolutions restec-
ting The trade OF the country
IN. Y Eren ny Post.
"Mr.' Huskisson said that bis PROPOSE
ton only related to books published a.
broad and not to those of which the CO.
pyright existed in this country. The
reduced duty would amount to about
sixpence per pound, the present duty
amounting to one shilling per pound.
He thought that according to the pre-
sent law of England, where there was
a property in any work vested in any
bookseller or publisher, noperson could
print that work without being liable to
prosecution; and to permit books, the
copyright of which belonged to any
bookseller in this country, to be impor-
ted from abroad, would be an of act
piracy, s. would equally subject the per-
son committing it to a prosecution. He
therefore thought this was a sufficient
protection of the property vested in the
bookseller. All the novels of the Great
Unknown. as they were called a laugh
were printed and published in France,
in Germany and in other countries,
He had himself seen them in a town in
but if any person were to IN
troduce any of those copies here, he
beimmediately open TO o prosecu-
ton by the owner of the copyright of
these works. But with regard to books
of which there was no copyright vested
in any person in England, he did not
see why he should be obliged TO pay four
times dearer for a work because il
was printed at Paris instead Of being
printed here. But this the case
in consequence of the duty, and he
thought the reduction of that
duty could not at all effect the interests
the booksellers, while it would most
materially benefit the public"
Lou:suit1s, Ky. april 2..-Having
sometime since noticed the unfortunate
death of Mr. VIM Steele, by the hands
of James Southland, of this place, we
now consider it nothing o than JUS
tice to Mr.. Southland, to state the result
of the judicial inquiry which followed
that event. The trial of MIR. Southland,
who, Immediately after the transaction,
submitted himself ts the officers of JUS
tice, took place in our Circuit Court, on
Wednesday. the Esd ult. After a full
and patient investigation before the
Court and jury, and an able exposition,
of both the facts and the law touching
the case, by the council on both sides,
a verdict of not guilty, was promptly re-
turned, placing the homidee'ne on the
ground Of j~ustyfoble se.Cdefsncs.
The Salt Works at Salina, in the
State of N. Y. are capable of producing
annually 100000 bushels of fine salt,
and 10000 bushels ofcoarse, making
an aggregate of 100000. A revenu
was derived to the state the last year
of SOS, $50, go; and forthe two frstquar-
tiers of the present year, it amounts to
S56,740,S5, more than double the "a
mount for the same term in 1922. The
belief is, that at no distant period the
revenue will exceed three times its pre-
sent amount.
The Executive Committee of the u
nited Domestic Missionary Society at
New York, have appropriated two hon-
sand dollars to aid feeble and destitute
Churches in Indiana. Illinois. and Mis-.