The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-02

apprase the manufacture al such valuation
as shall secure the faithful collection of the
duty of So l-c per centum advalOrem, impO-
sed by the act passed god May, 1924, entitled,
IAN Act to amend the several acts imposing
duties on imports"
The paper was ordered to be printed, and
after attending to other business not necessa-
AIRY at present to mention,
The House adjourned
Wednesday, Jan. 81.
Mr.. M'Manus, from the Select Committee.
that was appointed on the 22d of Decem-
her last, upon the subject ofweiShts aud mea-
sures, reported the following joint resou-
ton -
ReSolred, By the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives Of the United States Of Anaerica, IN
Congress assembled That Professo, James
Renwick, of New-Y ork, or some other per-
son, properly qualified for that purpose, be
employed under the direction of the President
OF the United States, to repeat the expert
ments heretofore made; and, also, to make
further experiments, for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the true length of the pendulum, vi
bratlng sixty times in minute, at the CITY of
Newly Ork, and, also, at the city of Washing
ton, and to compare the length thereof with
such measures now in possession of this gov
eminent as will best show the proportions be-
tween the lengths of such pendulums, and the
standard yard recently adopted BY the Brit
lsh Government, and to make report Of the
results to Congress at their next session: and
that there be appropriated for that purpose, a.
sum not exceeding seven hundred dollars,
which sui& shall be paid out of any money
IN the Treasury, not otherwise appropria-
ted.
The resolution was twice read, and COM
united to the Committee Of the Whole on
the state of the Union.
The Speaker laid before the House letter
from the Secretary of War, transmitting a
report Of the Chief Engineer, Major General
Alex. Macomb, with sundry documents. which
afford the information required by the order
OF the House Of the 10th inst. relative to the
works at Grand River, and surveys at Con-
neaught Creek, Black River, and Sandusky
Bay, on Lake Erie, SO far as the same can
now he furnished.
Adjourned.
THURSDAYS PROCEEDINGS.
After an elaborate and able debate, the
Senate refused to strike out the 9Sd section
of the Bankrupt Bill. This section embraces
an important feature, peculiar, we believe
to the system which is now urged upon
the American Legislature. 1t provides as
follows
Ihat whenever any person, resident with
IN the United States, not being a merchant,
or person actually using the trade of mes.
ci,andise, by buying or selling, in gross ORE
tail, not dealing IL exchange, nor as banker.
broker, factor, untierwriter,or marine insurer,
shall do or suffer any act or thing which is
herein described, or declared to be an act of
bankruptcy, any one creditor, or a greater
number, being partners, whose single debt
shall amount to five hundred dollars or any
two or more creditors, whose debts shall
amount to ooe thousand dollars, may pettio:.,
in writing, against such person. in the same
manner, and the same proceedings shall be
had therein, as directed and prescribed in the
cd section ofthis act; and the commission
ers designated by the judge shall. moreover,
issue summons under their hands and seal.
notifying and commanding such persons to
appear, at certain time and place, before said
commissioners, to show why he or she shall
not be declared a bankrupt; and the same
commissioners shall cause personal service to
be made on such person, and reasonable no.
tlce of the time and place to be given; and if
such person shall not appear, or, appearing,
snail consent toa commission of bankruptcy,
then, and not Otherwise, such person NAV be
declared bankrupt, and shall be subject to
all the provisions of this act.'
The Senate refused to expunge this section
by a vote of s.6 to 10.
In the House of Representatives nothing of
importance was transacted. The amendment
offered by Mr.. Weems, relative T., stenogra-
phers was negatived, and the bill in regard to
woolens was further debated, the particu-
lars of which we will give in our next.
A late Brussels paper contains the follow
ing highly interesting paragraph which we
hope will turn out to be true. If but mole
ty of the discoveries and inventions mentioned
in foreign papers were true, there would
scarcely exist any natural defects that might
not be removed-and difficulties in the Ne
chanic Arts that might not be speedily over
come:
DEAF AND DUMB.-Dr. Newborgh of Brus-
sells, has just obtained complete success in his
operations on five individuals, viz: Charles
Destree, aged IL; Louis ,Dalorge, aged IS;
and Barbe, Jane, and Henry De LaIoy, aged
10, is, and Is years respectively. On'the god
Nov. he had the honor to present one of them
to his Majesty, and having since been invited
by the Provincial Medical Commission at
to present these individuals at their
meeting on Friday last, he went there with
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