The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1826-02-09
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THURSDAY MORNING, FER. Q. Is2G-

THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. y, ls9i.
CONGRESS- he Senate did not sit on
Friday In the House of Representatives tho
discussion OF mr.. inghams motion to amend
the substitute for the resolution ofmr. H,nlI.-
ton on the subject Of the MISSION TO PAyAuA.
which was adopted by the House at the gug-
geston of mr.. WEBSTER, was continued until
a lato hour of the day with strong manifesta-
tons of the threatened opposition to Govern
ment. The amendment was rejected Ayes
II; Noes -. The question then recurring IN
the passage Of mr.. .WEBsrER's resolution, il,
was decided by ayes and noes as follow Ayes
l9t, Noes 20. Messrs. BURGEs and PEARcJ,
voted in the affirmative. The House adjour-
ed to monday.
..ns>Ss"-
NEWPORT liARBOR-The remark 40
quoted few months since from our old Colo
NAL Records" that IN the HARDEST ciaters,
,otcn tie Massachusetts and o,hers TO The Eas.
and Vest arc locked up 10Th strong doorcs or
'ce, th,StS c'rGlcS open was never better -
emphfcd than in the situation of Boston and
Stonington harbors, compared with Newport
since Feb lst when the recent cold first beGar>
to operate. From that time TO the present &C
cording to the best information we can obtain,
tho hsrbor of Boston has been as completely
ice-locked, and as to all naval and commercial
purposes, is as utterly useless as the polar sea
and the ice in the neighborhood of Stoninrton
and at the easternmOst extremity Of Long Is-
land Sound is stretching out into the occar.
ns far as the eye can reach. During tho
whole of this period our harbor has remained
perfectly FREQ from obstruction and as ac--
ccsslbls with nearly every wind, as it usually
s found in the mildcst weather ofthe autumnly
months And yet the Government hesitate
to appropriate this port to an object cf
the first necessity-to the establishment CT
great and well furnished Arsenal which shall
be accessible to the Navy at every season Of
the year 1t may be proper to mention that
the river above us has been frozen for some
time past, and was yesterday found to he clos
ed to pockets as low down as kinnimicut poin';.
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METEOROLOGICAL DtARY--We
have appropriated moro space in this week
paper to the reflections Of our correspondents
on the causes of the gradual amelioration Of
the American climate than is usually given to
discussions of this nature, or than will perhaps
be perfectly acceptable to the majority of cur
readers. There are but few persons, We arc
aware who teel in these details the interest Of
proiessed meteorologist, or who would will
lingly put them into the scale with the politics
of the day, or the popular literature so widely
diiiused through our best conducted journals.
If any thing could secure them an interest
with the public in proportionto to their merits, ie
must be the remarkably attractive and lum;n
ous method which our correspondent has tho
faculty of impartlng to the rudcst maierl'
ais, and the appropriate learning with wnlch
ho uniformly { ~ Hislcs these unatiractiye
disquisitlons Their is one circumstance,
however, 80 viii v.n.Gre to remark for tho
satlstac ION or :hs ,i.h' minded generation,
winch nc ,hiii vii, have tendency 20 a.
or Igo very materially our Diaries in future
1t has evidently been TIC aim Of oar learned
I Correspondent, through the whole of his re-
marks in our paper, to malntlin very simp'o
and obvious proposition, viz. that in proper.
ton as the surface Of the eartil is laid open anJ
drained by the sbors. Of civilization, in the
same proportion is tho atmosphere around j.
rendered eGuabIe and mid This is a truth.
one would think, scarcely admitting Of dispu-
tation; Ond ye; having been Questioned in some
respectable quarter, our iDdeiatoable corrcs.
pondent has labored The point tor eight years
togethe,, with en- ability and r-rseverance,
which has been rarely equalled and hich mus.
silence we should think, the most invetera,e
loubter. Having established this position {,
hc satisfaction Of every one, the Diary here.
alter will yt9e1bly assume inucn more csN.