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The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
BRITISH STEAMERS CONVERTED
INTO AMERICAN MAIL CARRIERS.

There is something novel, if not decidedly
wrong, in the permission to British steamers to
transport letters, from port to port, in the United
States, to the exclusion of our own agencies,
and therefore TO the manifest detriment of the
Post Office Department. Dependent on its own
earnings for its support, this branch OF the pub
lie looks to the business and social relations
of the country for the means whereby It's
expenses may be met; and, if foreigners are
suffered to become mail carriers between points
within the country thus depriving the Depart
ment of its legitimate revenues, 1t is difficult to
find out how its expenses are to be betrayed.
As the Laao stands, the Secretary of the Treasu-
ry was, in all probability, correct in the opinion
said to have been expressed by him. but If~sh
law be defeo.ive in this particular it becomes 'he
duty of the gentlemen at the east end OF the
Avenue TO remedy the defect so soon as posi-
BILE The southern seaports, as connected with
the foreign and coastng trade OF the country
and the inland Accommodation incident TO II,
are among the most productive sources OF reve-
nue., and would enable the Postmaster General
to pay for the transportation Of the mails in other
sections of the country, where, in fact, the ex-
penses far outrun the receipts. AS the late ad-
ministraton left the Post Office Department in
a condition so confused and embarrassed as to
render it necessary for Mr.. Wlckliffe to exercise
the greatest economy, it is peculiarly desirable
that he shall enjoy to the fullest extent, all the
advantages offered by the particular branch Of
service over which he presides. AS 1t IS, there
will probably be deficiency in the current re-
ceip,s as compared with the outlay OF the De
partment, which renders corrective action IN TIT
premises imperatively necessary
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
CONGRESS-.

In the House of Representatives. immedi-
ately after the reading of the Journal, motion
was made to go into Committee Of the Whole,
which was agreed to. The Loan bill was then
taken up, the question being on the adoption OF
the amendment proposed by the Committee OF
Ways and Means, to give the Secretary OF the
Treasury discretionary power to sell the stock
below par. This amendment was debated at
much length by Messrs. Fillmore, Tilllnghast
Pickens Reynolds, w. c. Johnson, Marshall
SaltonstalI, and C. Brown.
3 Mr. Everett moved to amend the amendment
by giving the Secretary of the Treasury power
10 extend the time of the loan to any period not
exceeding twenty years, to enable him to dis
pose of it at par. This motion was debated by
Messrs. Everett and Stanly Mr.. Gordon hav-
ing obtained the floor, the committee rose and
the House adjourned.
Mr. Evans addressed the Senate yesterday
on the tariff and retrenchment resolutions of
Mr.. Clay.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
Tmtmtp=&ebemth Congress.
SECOND SESSION.
IN SENATE,
THURSDAY, March II, 1874

THURSDAY, March II, 1912.
The PRESIDENT laid before the Senate a COM
municato1from the Post Office Department, in an
swer to a r(ouon adopted the ID inst, transmit
ting statelent showing the number of post-route
on which (e mails ale suspended the Sabbath
day; and II amount saved to the Department by
such Suspicion, with the name of the State States
in which sub routes exist.
MIR. PRE- TISS presented the memorial of num-
Der of citzbs of Rutland county, Vermont, praying
Congress tinter at upon the subject of the Ia
riff, and, a5oon as may be- to mature system Of du
ties which Pill insure adequate protection 10 manufac
turers and leohanics h me market to farmers, and
true, and + merely nominal, independence to all.
Nh. BUlHANAN presented the petition of citi-
zens of L4non county, Pennsylvania, demonstrating
against thfompromise act and asking for protection
Mr.. SNQH, from the Committee on Public Lands
reported j for the relief of Elizabeth Monroe and
the bill frd the House to extend the time to sell the
land grant to the Kentucky Asylum for the deaf
| and dumb
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
LAND AND MILLS FOR SALE.


YJNHE Subscriber has ninety-fve of land,
i small dwelling house it, good spring Of soft
water within so feet of the door, 100 40 bearing
apple trees all grated fruit, bell pears, pumbs, peach
trees, and currants, sufficient for any family
Also grst mill, with two run of stones, and saw
mill, Fl by SO, with two of in it, and an ex-
ceent stand for cotton wollen factory or other
machinery situated on Grand river in the township
of Hnrpersvile Ashtabula county, and State of Ohio,
which he will sell cheap for casha part in hand the
residue short credit.
mar 16-llt* GEORGE SCHELLENGER
NATIONAL READING ROOM--The under
IN signed at the solicitation Of many members of
Congress and citizens of Washington, who have
long felt the want Of establishment ofths kind has
opened Reading Room, in the rear of his store on
Pennsylvania avenue next door west of the American
Hotel The room is handsomely fitted up, and files
of the latest papers from every portion of the country
may always be found on hand. He has also made ar
engagements TO obtain the English newspapers by the
Boston and New York line of steam packets in adj
vance of the mail This arrangement, he trusts, will
meet with share of general patronage, owing to the
numerous calls of transient persons who in Wash
ngon for papers from their different sections Of coun-
try.
He respectfully invites all strangers as well as the
residents of the District to call and examine his hes,
where they will be permitted to read the latest journals
gratuitously. ANDREW H. JENKINS
jan I8-6teoif
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
REPoRTA TO THE POSTMASTER GENERAL
STATE OF THE ROADS NORTH AND
NORTHWEST.

eg ERIE March 7th, l642.
We have allied to connect on route No. 1,l96, for
a few day. buck, on account of the horrd state OF
the roads have lived in this place and vicinity for
ten YEAR, past and haze neuer any thing to De
compared oi ne present state Of the roads 1t takes IRON
thrty-sx to fotytwo hours to get the mail through
from Buffalo to Erie, and we are using every exer-
ton in power-but it does not lay in the breast OF
beast. Toget through in contract time or any
where neart, is utterly impossible The Cattaraugus
woods are worse than they have been since l first
knew the road. In fact, we have had the hardest
winter for staginethat we have had for many years
(Sig,ed) JAS. b. DANFORTH
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

The Exchequer Scheme of the Administration is
fast working its way to popular favor. The very
able, plain, and practical reports of the Senate and
House committees have had good effect upon poll
ticians of all classes at Washington, and doing
much towards dispelling old prejudices in favor OF
other financial schemes Mr. Adams gives it as his
opinion that the Exchequer scheme will become a
law at the present sessonso favorable has been the
impression made by the expostions of the currency
committees We hope the result will show the vet
Gran statesman as good prophet in this instance as
in predicting the election of Harrison to the Presl-
Unconstitutional Eagle
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Copy
SAINT Lom7. Mo, March 4, Is.

SAINT Lou,7, Mo-, March a, 1912.
The mail yesterday in here very wet, and
indeed since the 10Th of last month"; the state of the
creeks and streams along the route has been such,
that it is only by incurripp considerable risk to the
horses &C., liiaI we have been able TO BRING the mail
through at all. We considered it better, however,
rather than lose the mails altogether to push through
at the risk of sometimes wettng the mails Th
country has ,ot been much flooded ii is at present
since 1897
(Signed) ALEXR. FERGUSON.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

,LEDGMENT.-Y esterday we received
r.. Of daily and tri-weeklv subscribers (cash
enclosed through friend in this city, (and
true one) from Providence, r. |. Such favors
not only inspire US with gratitude, but animate
us for the conflict ahead. They convince us
that the People are determined to judge the
Administration by its measures, and not to be
misled by the base ISLANDERS uttered against the
President, his Cabinet, and our press.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

CTOP. TRAVELLERS Before you seat your
y self in the cars call in at Hampton's Periodical
and Newspaper Agency, between Sd and ~ streets,
and buy number EACH late dates Washington city
popers, TO amuse yourself your journey with the
doings at the Metropolis, and if you temporarily
here haing from abroad, treat your friends at home
to number each of the four papers for rs cents and
the same price you send them the Lady's Book
Graham's Magazine, any of the splendid monhes
always there to be had and subscribe for the year if
YOU wish it. feb 25-3t
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
SUPERIOR lNDELLIBLE INK.

VIZ FISCHER, importer, has just received, d.
w rect from the manufacturer, Henry Stephens,
of London his improved composition for marking linen
which writes with equal facility on the coarsest tex
ture as on the finest fabric, and which, requiring no
mods Of marking linen FEE il sths pSs ssgsd!oas
Also IndeIbe Ink ofexceent quality, made by Kent,
Edes, Eel, & Co, and Smith & Hodgson, all of which
is for wholesale and retail at Statoners Hall.
LIZ
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

HISTORY OF ENGLAND.-C Combining the
II various histories of Rapin, Henry, Hume, Smol-
lett and BeIsham, corrected by reference 10 Turner,
Lingard, 'Hallam Macintosh, Goodwin, Brode and
ethers--compIete in three volumes octave, London,
Just received and for sale by by F TAYLOR.
Also, Godwin's history of the Commonwealth
vols.
Pictorial history of England VOLS
Thierrys history of the Conquest
Lodges illustrations of British history vols.
Tytiers Reigns of Edward sixth and Mary.
Hume and Smollett a beautiful London edition,
complete for nine dollars.
Haam, Burnet, Clarendon, RaPln' finda, @c;'
lust imported and for sale together with other British
storans, by r. T. oct 81
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

n%The Madsonian contradicts, in the most posi-
tive terms, the rumors which certain mischief-oving
politicians have put aoat of personal disagreemens
between the President and his Cabinet.--,Ndso''ni
Eagle aNIA
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
E. M. HUNTINGTON,
Commissioner of the General Land Office.

NOTICE TO PRE-EMPTION CLAIMANTS.
Every person claiming the right of presumption to
land in any of the townships designated in this Pro-
clamaton, in virtue of the provisions of the act Of
22d June, 1885, as extended and modified by the act
of LIST June 1910, of the provisions of the latter
act or that of the 4th September l84l, each grant
ing certain privileges to another and different class OF
settlers is requested to prove the to the salts
faction of the Register and Receiver of the proper
Land Office and make payment therefor as soon 'as
practicable after seeing this notice, and before the day
OF fhe land as above designated otherwise such
claims will be forfeited
+. M. HUNTINGTON.
Commissioner Of the General Land Office.
Feb l-lawt2Jth June.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

G. III. VAN PATTEN, M. D.,
DENTIST.
Pennsylvania avenue, a few doors from Browns
Hotel nov %, mly.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
COL. JOHNSON in PENNSYLVANIA.

The friends Of the late Vice President are
up and doing in the Key Stone State, and if any
reliance is to be placed on popular expression,
there is proba bity that the self-styled Demo-
cracy Of Pennsylvania will raise the flag for the
"Tecumseh killer" Meetings have been held
preliminary to grand gathering in the Susque-
hanna Valley, to take place on the anniversary
of the battle of the Thames, at which the
friends of the old soldier are to appear in great
strength Col J. and his friends. as it is under
stood, refuse to abide by the decisions of a Ma
tional Conv ention, and'will not be put under the
ban by party machinery which, it is supposed,
might turn the game in favor Of Mr. Van Blu
rem. How is it that our neighbors of the
Globe have nothing to say on the occasion, and
have not even inserted the account of the pro-
ceedings, given by the Keystone" Of the
meetings to which we refer. Taking into view
the past relations between Col. Johnson and the
editors ofthe Globe, and certain arrangements
mutually beneficial which took place during
the late canvass for the Presidency, we had not
expected to fnd that journal so apatbetc on the
subject of the Cooneps political advancement.
1t may be that a family quarrel among the De
mocracy," Heaven save the mark is appre-
hended and policy forbds that old friends
should be recognised at this particular juncture
This we regard as downright ingratitude on The
part of neighbors, and, if permitted, would
advise them to lend their aid, at least, :. - =,
the country know what their W." o'' - '..'"
Linz Con. gentlemen, don't be
bashful, out With -
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

ELIAS H. HAHEs, re-appointed Collector OF the
Customs for the District of Sandusky, Ohio
DAVID v CuLLrY, re-appointed Register OF the
Land Office at Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19

APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT,
BY and Nth the adrice and consent of the Senate
RICHARD w. GREENE, to be Attorney ofthe United
States for the District of Rhode Island. (Re-ap-
pointed)
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POSTMASTER9.
COLLECTOR, &C.

JOHN LoRrMER GRAHAM, City Of New York.
JusrUs McKlNsTRY, Hudson, New York.
The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-19
/ HEApoUARTERs OF THE Army,
ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, 18th March, 1872.
GENERAL ORDERs-No. 10

Promotionsand appointments in the Army OF the
United States by the President by and with the adj
vice and consent of the Senate since the first of Janu-
airy, 1912
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-05-18
Ei5T3;E :

We have tried Doctor JOS Presley Peters We
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More than ten millions of boxes of these truly
valuable Ambitious Pills have been sold in the
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Texas, since the first Of January, eighteen hun
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# Doctor Peters Pills.
They are in use as Family Medicine, and all
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Doct Jos Priestley Peters,
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r. H. ARMSTRONG, NJ d.
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have used In my practice. these last five years,
Doctor Jos. PRESLEY Peters Vegetable Anibii-
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MEDICINE have ever used.
A fresh supply of these valuable Pills lust re-
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May Il. 1912
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-05-18
S Isl i3 r M a MS
WORM SisiEIiz|'i3EIIS1

Proved In more than 100000 cases 10 be infal-
lible; the only certain destroying medi-
cine ever discovered Many diseases arise
from worms and occasion long and intense suff-
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ed with them and are doctored for various CON-
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these Lozenges would speedily cure them.
Mr.. J. Murphy, 90 North ST. Philadelphia,
was applied 10 by poor woman whose daugh-
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years; her stomach was as large grown
persons, her arms and legs so swollen that she
could not walk or help herself, although she
could eat as much as two laboring men. Two
celebrated doctors had exhausted their skill
wiihou, any benefit; The father had spent all he
could raise and was discouraged, he abandon
ed all idea of doing anything more for her, and
looked TO death alone, TO take her out of her
misery. Mr. Murphy believing it case of
worms, gave her box Of Sherman's Lozenges,
and in two days she returned with Joy beaming
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her child's life. The first dose brought away
nearly pint of worms in one living mass, she
afterwards counted over 500 that were dischare-
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count. The child was literally eaten up with
ihenl--- another living witness of the almost mir
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NJ fresh supply Of the above valuable
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sole agen, for Monroe county.
Price--25 cents per box.
May 10, ls42,
Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1842-05-18
The American Eaborer.
PROSPECTUS.


Under the above title the subscribers will pub
lish on the lst of April, 1912. and on the Ist of
each succeeding month, Magazine of Facts, Al
guments, Statistics, Speeches, Editorials, &c. &c,
devoted exclusively TO the advocacy and defence
of the policy of Protection TO American Labor
against the selfish and grasplng policy of Foreign
Nations, especially of those with which we chiefly
made, which shut out of their ports the great bulk
of our Products, and especially those of our Free
Labor, while they glut our markets, bankrupt our
Merchants, depreciate our currency and fanlsh our
Laborers and Artisans by pouring in upon Us the
products of their skill and Industry. on the easy
terms profered them by our low and non-Proec-
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ardently advocate the true American Policy Of
counterUaflng these gross exactions of Great Brit
ain and other Nations by asystem of direct, avow-
ed Protection TO our Home Industry which shall be
thorough and efficient.
The american LabOrcr will affirm and maintain
the policy of encouraging and fostering by wise
legislation the establishment and growth in our
country of new yet feeble branches of Industry,
such as the Culture Of Silk, the Manufacture Of
whatever fabrics of Wool, Cotton, Iron, &C., may
be necessary for the supply of our own wants and
10 secure and perfect our Independence 1t will
demonstrate that the true and permanent interests
Of ALL but especially of the Agricultural and Work
ing Classes universally, will be nfalibly and sign
ally promoted Dy aQoptlng ana carrying out the
Protective Policy, and that the Wages Of Labor,
the average price ofits Produce, and the aggregate
Product of the National Industry, will be surely
ard largely enhanced thereby. In short, this work
is intended TO form complete textbook for the
friends ofProtecton, and thorough refutations at
every point, of the perncious fallaces put forth
by the foreign and misguided American apologists
for the policy Of cne-sided Free Trade.
The American Ldborer will be published monthly
in large octave form, each number contaiiing
80 large double-colwnn pages of closely printed
matter. Each number viii contain one great
Speech, Report, or other convincing document
and a variety Of shorter articles. The work will
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Payment is required in advance, in all cases. The
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The several Home Leagues, Agricultural So
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PROTECT EACH OTHER,
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A Ii Persons insuring in this company are
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