The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-03-28
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devoted to Chancery causes. On Monday the
jury cases will be taken up
The Columbian Horticultural Society held
a meeting i'll the City Hall on Saturday last.
Several beautiful specimens of flowers were
presented, with other garden productions,
which reflected much credit on the culturists.
The exhibitions become more interesting as
the season advances
APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT, bY
md wiM the adpice u1ld consent of the Seu-
ate.-Thomas Turner, Charles Scott, Henry
Naylor, Joshua Pierce, Samuel Smoot and
Henry Howison, to be Justices of the Peace
for the county of Washington, in and for the
District Of Columbia and VIM. n. Mills, the
same for the county Of Alexandria,
By an act of the Legislature of Maine, the
name of the town Of East Machias has been
changed to Mechisses, the original name given
by the Indians to the river on which it is sit
uated
The longest sitting of any legislative body
ever known, was perpetrated by the House
lot Representatives this week-time, twenty
nine holrs,-commencing at IL o'clock on
Tuesday and ending at o'clock on Wednes-
day evening Who says the NJ C.'s do not
earn their salt?
A Ball is to be given at the Unicn Hotel,
Georgetown, Oh the I'd April next.
A colored woman, named Harriet Catcher.
was found drowned in Rock Greek on the
gath inst.
VINO CREATES MoBs ?-The New York
Correspondent of the National l,telligencer
says :" The British residents of this CITY in
tend to have fete tomorrow in honor of the
marriage of the Queen. F: Some of the
British radicals here are very indignant about
the celebration and threaten a mob thereun-
on."-So we go; foreigners make mobs, for
which natives have to suffer
A sTlNGLEss Be- 1--WE have as little dis
POSITION to protract q controversy with the
true American, as that paper can Lave to
Ipro'ong one with rs, and we are n4ore ;:an
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us Shalt be bulried."-N O. Bee,
The Mississippi, atNew Orleans, is covered
with drift wood brought down by the fresh
cts of the tributaries, hundreds ofmiles in the
interior.
A committee of the Pennsylvania House Of
Representatives reported that there were 1857
petitions in the House for Immediate rusunp-
ton OF specie payments--and 4O49 against
lt-3972 petitions Ill favor Of the issue of
small notes. and only 1852 against them.
A Bombay paper of Oct. 10th, says awe
understand that the Court of Directors have
engaged twelve Americans to proceed to this
country for the purpose of improving the
cultivation and clearing of cotton, and that
they may be shortly expected to arrive in
Bombay"
An arrangement has finally been made. il
is said, to restore the Mail to its accustomed
route from Philadeph to Baltimore: and 70
add a second daily mail for part of the wear
between the great cities
lilefe IS a runor that John Jacob Astor of
n. Y. wishes to build splendid Hotel in
Washington, on the plan Of the Astor House
in New York.
Early Cucumbers in abundance are being
IsuppIiedto the Philadel phians from the garden
of Messrs. Hirst & Dreer, in that city.
MIR. Stcarns, of Cambridge, Mass has pro-
duced from his garden this season cucumber
measuring seven inches long
The Louisville Journal says, the town Of
Cairo (Ill.) on the tongue of land made bv
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers was, durino
recent inundation, completely submerged.
The operatives had to go from house to house
n boats
The tables at Louisville, Kv nc supplied
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