The Litchfield County post., 1828-01-10
From the Boston Courier,
@ 'V"V t'o A5UotU7I NUHF4SI. COURSE OF BUSINESS IN CONGRESS-

NcCACSE OF bOSlNESS IN CONGRESS-,
 At twelve o'clock, or few minutes in anticipation o mat precse point ot tune, the speaker goes behind the clerks desk and gives slight rap on the desk at winch all persons then present in the hail. aOacovey their heads, the chaplain then ascends the sneakers char. and repeats hs daily pray CT, which service dnarly occupies about two minutes. The speaker then takes the char and the members return to the employment that bad been mterrupledSby the recur- renee Ot the morning devotion. This employment is tine writing o letters, each member at his own desk or directing, per mail, to whomsoeyer he peases to distinguish with this mark of his respect packares previously sealed up by the pages of the House con tanin1ng pubic documents, and lad upon the mcm- bers desks respectively. The journal of the prece- ding day is then read the speaker announces that De- lttons or memorials are in order, and calls over the states beg ming at Naine the members from each r- sing their respective places as the states are called if they have any papers to offer. These petitions and memorials are seldom readtlle members presenting them moving that the reading be dispensed with, and the paper whatever 1t bereerred to the proper stan ding committee. When these documents are all thus disposed ot the speaker announces that reports o standing committees are in order. The speaker then announces that reports of select committees are in or der Lastly the speaker announces that resolutions are in order and then offered the variety of reso lutons for divers purposes, which make up so large portion ol the daily journal of the House. 1t is rare that any discussions takcs place upon petitions or resolutions when they first offered When this rou- tine is completed the House sadourns Its si,,incS.
 hitherto, have rarely occupied more than an hour each
 
 about double that tlme During the transaction of the business, as we have stated it, one seems 10 pay the slightest attention to what is passing, but the spea ker, the clerks, and the member immediately concer- ned m ihe presentation of petition or report The rest busy in sealing up and directing their iavours as ator sad, orn reading newspapers. The immense number of these packages, the display of letters and newspapers which each members desk affords, and the constant moving and removing of them by the boys in attendance give to this superb hall appear ance not altogether unlike the packing room of an ex tensvc newspaper establishment or the folding and stitching apartment of book-bnder.
 Mrs. Merry, of Le Roy. N. Y. has been commit ted .to jail in Batavia, charged with having poisoned her husband, James Merry, who died on Saturday the 9th uit and was inferred the day following In con sequence of suspicious that the deceased had been toutiy dealt with, it deemed advisable to dsiner the body for the examination of a coroncr's iury ; winch was done, and after an Investigations the iIry returned verdict, that "poison by arsenic was the occasion of his sdeath." The Batavia Press states that there are many vague rumors in circulation re- spectins ths transaction, some of which give it char acter varying little from that of the late murder in AL bany.