American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1826-01-27

report nt tine Committee on Naval Atfsrs. asking
TO be discharged from the further consideration q
the communication Of Com. Dawn PORTER. ask
ing for the expression of an opinion upon the char
ges of THOMAS RANDALL and john MOUNTAIN
was called up, and after consider able debate, il was
recommitted to the same Committee, with instruc
tons TO strike out that part oil the report which pro
nounces the case of Com. PORTER to be OF the ma
ture Of an appeal from the Court OF Enquiry.
In the House Of Representatives the report re-
Gently made by the Committee on Elections, on the
subject of the Michigan Election, was recomnilted
A message was received from the President Of the
United States, containing the Information called for
by resolution offered by Mr.. SToRRs, of New.
York, in relation to the moneys received by the late
President of the United States.
The Senate sat for some hours with closed doors.
The subject Of The Debate is supposed to have been
the Mission to the Congress of Panama.
On Tuesday, in the Senate, Mr.. Uayne, from the
committee on Naval Affairs, made report in the
case Of Commodore Porter, amended according to
The instructions given yesterday BY the Senate and
On motion Of MIR. Hayne, it was Immediately con
CURED in.
Mr. Chandler, from the Committee on the Mill.
tia to whom the subject was referred, reported q
bill authorizing the printing and distribution of the
Infantry Tactics, rules Tor the exercises and
noruvres OF the Infantry Of the United States, and
the general regulations of the Army; which was
read and passed to second reading.
10000 copies are by the bill ordered to be printed
by Cummins and billiard, to be distributed amongst
the several States and Territories, and the District
Of Columbia, for the use OF the militia and Bis 600
is appropriated to deiray the expense of printing,
binding, &c.
In the House Of Representatives, the Judiciary
Bill was further DISCUSSED.
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The following notification appears in the New
York papers, signed by about one hundred CONNER
cial houses Of that city,
We, the subscribers, mutually and honorsbly
pledge ourselves, that, for debts contracted after this
date, we will in instance discharge any debtor.
who, in case Of insolvency. shall in any manner
make preference in paying securing any credi
tor whatever, except for money actually borrowed,
for accommodation notes discounted at some bank,
and for Custom House Bonds New York, 22d
December, 1925.
Brazil-Slare Trade.-The Treaty between
Great Britain and Brazil, permits the latter to con-
tnue the Slave Trade four years longer, on the
Eastern Coast Of Africa between Cape Degaido, and
the Bay of Luorenco Marques, and on the western
coas, between the eighth and eighteenth degrees oil
south latitude also with the territory claimed In
Africa as Portuguese, South OF the Equator. This
ever during that period
Most eGcellent news for the members of Con-
gress.-It Is stated in the Greensburg tWesmore-
land County, Pennsyi,ana) Gazette, that Mr..
Robbins and Son lett Hemp6eld last week, with a
drove Of .tvs hundred turkeys, destined for the
Washington City market
Diabolical. The Utica IN. " Observer states,
that Messrs. Jason Parker & Co. have lost within
about fortnight from 80 to 55 stage horses, the
route between Manlius village and Utica. Their
death has evidently been caused by poison admins.
tered by some base scoundrel.
The Mahogany which grows in Florida, has been
ascertaned to make as beautiful and permanent
furniture as can be made from any imported wood
The Pensacola Gazette speaks in terms OF admira,
ton of an article of the kind recently manufactured
in that city. The same paper mentions the exhl-
btion of specimen of vegetable wax, made from
a plant which grows the poorest soil in Florida.
II is said to be OF the best quality for tho manufac
ture of candles.