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Japan.


The United States ship Preble, Captain Glynn,
from the East Indies, arrived at Honolulu on the
10Th Of August. Her destination was California,
but her commander deemed it prudent to put in at
the islands on account of the dysentery and scuvy
prevailing on board. Twenty-one had died of
dysentery during the passage and forty, sick with
the disease, were transferred to the American hos.
ptal on arrival.
Among those on board the Preble were seven
Hawaiians, part Of the crew of the whales hip LaPo-
da, who had been imprisoned ten months in Japan
The following documents secured to a bamboo
by being thrust into split in the end, were thrown
on board the Prebe while in the bay of Nagasaki
I'm April last:
TO the Commander Of the peSsel approaching this En-
pre-, (Jspdn,) sailing under Dutch or Other coLors
By express order of the Governor of Nagasah
you arc requested, as you have arrived near
the Northern Cavalos, To anchor there at a safe
place. and 10 remain there until you will have re-
ccived farther advice.
Very disagrceablc consequences might result in
case this order should not be strictly observed.
DEsIMA.
Translated by the superintendent Of the Neither
land trade in Japan
(Signcd) J. II. IEVYSSOHN
0PPER RAPPoRTEUR,
ONDER RAPPoURTEUR,
The reporters attached TO the Interpreters Office
To the Commander Of The vessel approaching This En-
pire, sailing under Dutch OF other coiors.
BY express order of the Governor Of Nagasaki
you are requested, as you have arrived near
the Northern Cavallos, TO anchor there ut a safe
place. and TO remain there until you have received
farther advice.
Please to as distinctly and as soon as poe
siblc the following questions:
What is the name of your vessel
What is her TONNAGE
What is the number Of her crew.
Where do you come from,
lena rtu
Have you any wrecked Japanese OH boardl
Have you any thing to ask for, az water, fire.
wood, &c?
Are any more vessels in company with you.
bound for this empire?
BY order Of the Governor of Nagasaki.
Translated by the superintendent of the Neither
lands trade in Japan
(Signed) J. II. LENYSSOHN.
OPPEa RAPPoRTEuR
ONDER RAPPoRTEuR.
Warning 10 the respective commanders their officers
and cTetos Of nc uesseis approaching The coast of ia
pan, or anchoring he coast or in The bays Of
that empire
During the time foreign vessels arc on the coast
Of Japan, or near, well in the bay Of Maya
sa, II is expected and likewise ordered that every
one Of the ships company will behave properly to-
ward and accost civilly the japanese government
oihcers, and all the Japanese subjects in general
No one may leave the vessel or use her boats for
cruising or landing the islands, or the main
coast and ought 10 remain on board until further
advice from the japanese government has been
received.
II is likewise forbidden to fire guns, or use other
firearms on board the vessels we'll in their
boats.
Very disagrceable consequences might result in
the aforesaid should not be strictly observed.
The GovERNoR OF NAGAsAKI
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TIL Il r E 2 u B Lie.
WASH N GTON:
THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1919
Congress-The spcakership.

1t will be seen, by reference to our Con-
gressional summary, that no election of
Speaker was effected yesterday, and that
certain developments of a very extraordi-
nary character took place, which, as the
reader will readily imagine, occasioned
much excitement in the House Upon
this subject we shall have something to
say hereafter
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THIRTY-FIRsT CONGRESS
FIRST SESSION
wrpNrspAY, peeember u, ls49.

SENATE.
Hon. JESSE ID. BRlGHT, of Indiana, and PIERRE
SouLE, of louisiana appeared in their seats to-day
Tor the first time this session.
Mr.. FOOTE asked and obtained leave 10 with
draw from the files the petition and papers IN the
case of Joseph Radclif, for the purpose OF having
them presented in the House of Representatives.
Mr.. COOPER asked leave TO Withdraw the me
mortal and other papers in the case Of John IL.
Rodgers
Mr.. HALE did not wish to interpose any oblec-
ton 10 the course Senators were pursuing, but at
the last session long discussion took place on this
subject, ana senator from Florida had been re-
fused leave TO withdraw papers. 1t was then UNI
derstood that thereafter no papers should be with
drawn without the reason being stated The Sen
ator from Pennsylvania doubtless had good reasons
for bis present motion, bat they should be stated:
Mr.. COOPER said that the claimant had been m
formed that the department had power 10 settle his
claim without recourse being had to Congress ms
was an all sufficient reason
Mr.. BUTLER thought great many like motions
would be made; he had one to make himself He
postponed making bis motion till a committee was
appointed TO consider the subject, and then his mo-
ton could be made and referred 10 the committee
al one time The Senator from New Hampshire
was correct A Senator from Massachusetts, at the
time gave notice that he would introduce a motion
in relation to the subject.
MIR. COOPER repeated the reasons for the with
drawal of the papers, and explained that III this
there could be necessity for the reference OF
his motion 10 committee.
MIR. BUTLER had not understood the reasons OF
the Senator when he first stated them; and he was
now satisfied The leave asked was granted, and
shortly afterwards,
On motion, the Senate adjourned,
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THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THE UNITED
STATES AND MExrco.-Thc "inital point of
boundary between the United States and the Mexi-
can Republic was fixed and &C knowledgcd ON Wed
nesday, the 10th of October. There were present
some forty persons, including two American ladies
and officers from the garrison at San Diego. Ia
falls about seventeen miles TO the southwark of the
town Of San Diego. The Joint commission, com
posed of the commissioners and two surveyors
bad signed an inscription, which was written and
hermetically scaled in glass bottle. This was
buried below post placed in the centre Of circle
thirty feet in diameter, marked out for a monument
to be erected hereafter.
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[OF FICIAL l.. i

Report of the Superintendent Of the Coast Survey TO
the Secretary Of the Treasury, on the discovery Of
-four shoals in the main ship channel over the Nan
tucket shoals.
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COAST Survey Or
VVN"T ''tHVHf VI TINEI
WAsHINoToN, Nov. 30, 1919.


COAST SURVEY OFFIcE,l
WAsmSoToN, Nov. 80, lS49.
SIR have the honor TO transmit herewith
port from Lieutenant Commanding Charles H.
McBlar, United States navy, assistant in the Coast
Survey showing the positions of four shoals in the
main ship channel on Nantucket shoals, discovered
in the course of his photographic operations during
the last season. The sketch showing the position
of these discoveries is nearly ready for distribution
and would respectfully request authority to pub
lish the report.
Very respectfully, yours,
(Signed) A. ID. BACHE
Superintendent IT, S. Coast Survey
Hon. w. M. MEREDITH,
Secretary of the Treasury.
UNITED STATES SURVEYING STEAMER B1pp.
WILrLEET BAY, Oct. 8, lS49
SIR (: beg leave to report that we have recently
discovered four shoals lying what is known by
the pilots as the main ship channel over the Nan
tucket shoals.
They consist, as far have as yet been able
to determine, of sharp and abrupt ridges of fine
white sand. Beginning at the most western shoal
and designating them numerically as they lie east
Of each other, it may be stated that numbers one
and three stretch in northwestery direction, the
former being about onequarter and the latter one
sixth of a mile long The remaining two, designa-
ted by numbers two and four, very small spots
somewhat circular in shape
The smallest soundings, reduced to mean low
water mark, show, on No. ], IA feet on No ., Is
feet; on No. 3, IA feet, and on No. 4, 9 feet
The bearings and distances Of the shoalest spots
on each, from points determined on Nantucket
Island, follows
No. l, from Great Point light, N $50 3O E..
(true,) dist 9.5 nautical miles
No. ], from Great Sankaty head N 800 So E.,
(true,) dist 90 nautical miles
No. 2, from Great Point light, N $50 40 E.,
(true) dist. 1912 nautical miles.
No. ,, from Sankaty head N 42o Is, E., (true,
dist. 81 nautical miles
No. 3, from Great Point light, NJ $40 OO E.
(true,) dist. 1913 nautical miles
No. 3, from Sankaty head, N. 43o 55 E., (true,)
dist. SO nautical miles.
No. 4, from Great Point light, ~ $50 As E.,
(true,) dist l0.7 nautical miles
No. 4, from Sankaty head, N. 40 so E., (true,)
dist. SO nautical miles.
These shoals can readily be discovered by the
rip Cor rpples) formed on them by the tides at all
stages, except during slack-wat when they can
no longer be detected by this means but, in day
light, they exhibit the usual dscoloration of
water.
Besides the shoals already noticed, ! subioin the
bearings and distances oftwo spots of small extent
on which we found IS feet water at reduced sound
ings. One bears from Great Point light, N $50 4V
E., (true,) dist. 9.S nautical miles, and from San
katy head N. 400 l6' E., (true,) dist 81 nautical
miles. The other bears from Great Point light, NJ
S50lO f., (rue,) dist. II 2 nautical miles; and from
Sankaty head, N. 45' 25 E., (true,) dist 1O5 nau-
teal miles.
L am, respectfully, yours,
(Signed) G. II. McBLAIR
Prof A. ID. BAcHE,
Super't U. S. Coast Survey
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The Union regards a few observations
OF ours, suggesting the solution of the diff
ticulty in which the House of Representa-
tives found itself by deferring somewhat
to the popular will as proclaimed in the
election Of a Chief Magistrate, as huml-
lating and whining appeal to the mercy of
the Opposition. We are quite content to
have the ''sole organ" denounce decent
regard for the will of the American people,
however expressed, as humiliation. We
confess to that humbleness which respects
the power, the aspirations, the intelli-
gence, and the wants of the freemen of
this republic. That the Union entertains
no such sentiment will not astonish any
one who has had occasion to note the ca
reer of that journal. We differ in this re-
spect as widely from it as.upon other sub
jects.
The Union must be sad, indeed, at the
discovery of what it deems the slightest
symptom of grief in contemporary. A
journal which has been numbering and
| bowling, disappearing and believing, at
such rate as that has over the occasional
removals which have been made by the
present Administration, may be accounted
to know something of the humiliation of
unmanly distress. But our contemporary
may dismiss its concern for US when it is
informed that it lnterprets our remarks by
the ecstacy of It's own detection, and that
it looks at its neighbor through the exas-
perating mist of its own tears. Visions of
axes and bludgeons, guillotines and cine
tars, have disturbed It's rest till it is inca
pable of seeing any thing rightly, or speak
ing of any thing truly. 1t describes sigh in
( every aspiration, and blood in all the col
/ urs OF the rainbow.
The Union charges the Wings of the
last Congress with "ultra and vindictive
partisan conduct in the election of a
4 Speaker and the formation of committees.
Upon this subject we leave the "sole or
I GAM to Mr.. Mcdowell, a gentleman and
a Democrat from Virginia, who introduced
a resolution thanking Mr.. Winthrop for
his fair, impartial and able conduct as a
Speaker. Besides, the Wings in the las
House Of Representatives had clear ma
jority. Mr.. Polk's administration hac
been in power two years; had developed
its external and internal policy; and the
Congress then returned was elected upor
issues well understood and defined II
the present case, General Taylor has haC
no opportunity Of propounding a system
Of administrative measures, and, conse
quently, the elections could not have beer
had with reference thereto.
The Union'S democracy Is of par Will
the Southern appetences of some of it
Northern friends. For paper to claim
to be the sole organ of the Democracy her,
in Washington, and berate the peopl,
when they vote to please themselves, is
parallel case with clustering over non-in
b tervention whilst bargaining with Adolf
, tionists.
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Hon g w JuLiAN.-The Newcastle Clndiana)
Courier Of the Let instant says that the health Of
this gentleman had far recovered that he was u
leave for Washington on the next week
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DEArH o. AZ ERoNAUT. VI Arban, whuse in
tcresting journey over the Alps, in balloon from
Marseilles TO Turin, was published few months
since, il we may believe the Gazefb do ProUence,
has experienced the same fate as bis predecessors,
Pilatre and Blanchard lie had gone 20 Spain
After an ascension which he ately made at BARGE.
Iona no intelligence could be obtained Of him. It
was reported that he was at Valence and at Lisbon
whcu suddenly il was asccrtainsd that his deas
body had just been discovered on the coast Of Gaia
lonia, in the vicinity Of ROsas. The French consul
Of that city presided over the funeral ceremonies
Of our unfortunate countryman. Cotp. de' Etat'.
Unts
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No iSrERcouRsE WITH AUsTRn 49, Petitions are
in circulation in New York city calling upon Con
gress 70 suspend diplomatic intercourse with Aus.
tria, "by reason Of its tyranny its barbarous pun
ishmcnts. III sanguinary atrocities and judicial
mnrdcrs In HUNGARY. Austrla. and italy :,
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ARRrvAL AT GUAyAaUIL or oUR MINISTER TO Ecu.
Apop.-The Hon. J. r. Van Aleu- minister Of tho
United scAtes to Ecuador, and suite, arrived at
Guayaqui on the 2lst October in the United State
ship Falmouth. Mr.. Van Allen landed next day
under a salute from the ship and fort, and was re
ccivcd with much distinction by the authorities
The governor Of the province put at his disposal
steamer, in which he left on the Let ut. for the
head Of navigation on the Guaysquil river accom-
panied by the American consul, n. p. Game, esq.
The condition Of the republic il said 10 be improv-
ing; the people arc becoming more enlightened a.
to their civil rights, and more prosperous in their
business relations at home and abroad. The term
Of the late president, ROca, having expired Con
grcss lad made several attempts 70 elect success.
sor, bot were not adj to agree, and the duties Of
tic executive office had dcyoycd upon the present
vice president, Ascusubi, who is represented ~ y
yCry sapuS IOus -tatcFtUau.
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MARTIN e. WHITELEY'S
NATIONAL TONIC.
A CERTAIN CURE FOR
Ague and Fever, and Dyspepsia.

T N our widely extended country, there are no dis
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Read the following from highly respectable
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MT. SIDNEY, Augusta Co., Val
February Sd, 1919.
Messrs. Martin & Whieley:
Gentlemen had been afflicted for some time
with a disease, which believe was Dyspepsia, and
was induced by the representations OF your Agent
here, Mr.. James T.. Ross to try bottle of your
NATIONAL TONIC, and must say it gave
me mere relief than any medicine ever used fol
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for that disease have ever met with.
Yours respectfully,
ALEXANDER COLEY.
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MARTIN Il WHITLEY,
No. 4S, South Calvert st. Bait Md.
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PICTURE OF HEALTH.-Health is charac-
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suffering. or affection in any part of his body; by
the free and regular exercise of all his functions
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III. Messersmith, Mt Scion; James M. Stout, New
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WIN. u. BROWN
Commission and Forwarding
Merchant,
RICHMOND, VA,
T1AVING removed from the county of Abe.
marie, respectfully offers his services to his
friends and the public in general, to sell all kinds
Of country produce,
Tobacco, FYOsss', Wheat, Corn
Sc, Sc, Sc.
He has taken one Of the Messrs. Fry's new
Stores, on Cary Street, nearly opposite to the Co.
lumbar Tavern, on the
Corner Of Viyginia and Cory Sts,
where he will be happy to see his friends.
REFER TO
Hon. w. C. Rives,
" w. Southall, Esq, | a1be,,or7e
Col. Thos. j. Randolph.
S. w. Ficklin,
5 $;; '; !: s. i e:
II. W. & j. J. Fry, Richmond.
Feb. 10, lS49.-ly.
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DEFERRED ARTICLES.
BONES OF THE RED MEN.

On Monday last, in crossing the meadow on
the farm of the late Mathew Ransom, Esq, Tor
merly tho residence Of Benjamin Beeson, near
Martinsburg, in Berkeley county, we found many
fragments Of bones and teeth of the "Iuscarora
Indians" who inhabited that region more than one
hundred gears ago! These bones are annually
turned up by the ploughman, in cutivating, the
soil From the appearance of premises, these
Indians must have deposited a great number OF
their race The teeth are in a perfect state OF
preservation, as much so as if they had been
drawn yesterday.
Kereheval, in his ''History of the Valley Of
Virginia." published in 1888, says:
Mr. John Shober, very respectable old cltl-
zen of Martinsburg stated to the author, that
Mr. Benjamin Beeson, a highly respectable
Quaker, informed him that the Tuscarora Indians
were living on the Tuscarora Creek when he
(Beeson) first knew the county Free Press.
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$4,000 REV ARD.
YNHE subscriber wishing to change his occupa,
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HNHE subscriber wishing to change his occupa,
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EALUABLE FIRM,
known by the name of "Hunter's Retreat" miles
Northeast of Stanton, adjoining the lands of Capt
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others, containing by a recent survey no A.
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Log House, newly weather.boarded all round with
two rooms below and two above and new Kitch-
en- and Smoke House, well finished "a fine large,
capacious, new, Frame SA1taer Barn, new Wagon
House, Lumber House, Corn House and Wheat
Granary, 80 feet long, Hog-pen, the same length
all under the same rooi-besides other convenient
houses-likewise, two never.failing Springs Of
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variety of Apple, Peach, Pear, Plum, Dan,son,
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those who wish to purchase are referred to VIM. B,
Johnson of Staunton, who is authorized to sell for
me and will show the land.
FERDINAND S. HEISKELL.
Feb. 26.-u,