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Mr. Salth of Md. the bill nuking fur
ther appropriations for the military ser
vice of the United States tor the year
1822, was again taken up for consider
ation.
The amendment* of the committee or
the whole were concurred in by a gen
eral vote, subject to specific exceptions
that were named.
Mr. Cooke proposed to disagree to
the appropriation of $50,000 for Fort
Calhoun; and he stated a variety of con
siderations in support of the proposi
tion.
The question of agreeing to the re
port of the committee of the whole was
then put and carried—ayes 69*
Mr. Smith, of Md. proposed to add to
the appropriations for the Indian De
partment, for the pay of sub-agents, the
sum of 9,538 dollars.
Vance said, the sum proposed
was not sufficient to pay tor so many
eub-agent* as the law provided for. and
he moved the sum of 11,338 dollars.—
The appropriation was agreed to.
Mr. Smith, of Md. moved to amend
the appropriation for the contingencies
of the Indian Department, by striking
out $40,000 and inserting in lieu there
of $75,000
Mr* Vance proposed to make this dis
bursement of contingencies as specifio
a* we can. He therefore moved the
sum of #14,992 for interpreters.
Mr. Vance finally expressed his acqui
escence in the proposition of Mr. Smith
of Md. and after further remarks by
Mr. Floyd, Mr. Vance, and Mr. J. S.
Johnston, the question was put and the
proposition of Mr. Smith was agreed to,
and the amendment as amended was a»
d opted.
Mr. Patterson excepted to an agree
ment with the committee of the whole
an the appropriation of about ^"19,000
for the payment of the expenses incur
xed by court martial in the state of
2few York. A very spirited debate en
sued, ef which we propose to give a re
port hereafter, in which the disagree
ment was advocated by Mr, Patterson
and Mr. McCoy, and opposed by Mr.
Cambreleng, Mr. Rochester, Mr. Wal
worth, Mr. Smith of Md. and Mr. Col
den, when, on motion of Mr. Patterson,
the question was taken by yeas and nays
a. id decided in the affirmative as fol
lows:
YEAS 134
NAYS 15
Mr. Rhea moved to amend the pro
posed appropriation for an indemnity to
the state of Georgia, a provision to in
clude also the state of Tennessee, but
the motion was negatived.
Mr. Cocke moved to strike out the ap
propriation for Fort Calhoun, (it being
row in order, as an affirmative propo
sition,) and he again adverted to the
considerations that should influence a
decision upon it.
JV/r. Butler was in favor of the motion
Because it would operate as a suspension
though not a decision upon the contract,
and the public would not suffer by the
delay.
The motion to strike out was further
supported by Messrs. Campbell, of Ohio
Mallary, Fuller. F Jones, Cocke, and
Cuthbert, and opposed by Messrs. Bas
ket, McDuffie, Farrelly. Alex. Smyth,
and Baldwin, but at past 6 o’clock, and
Before any question was taken thereon,
The House adjourned.
FRtDAY, MAY 3.
IN SENATE.
The engrossed bill to relieve the people
of Florida from the operation of certain
ordinances; and the engrossed bill for tbe
disposition of certain special deposites,
were severally read a third time, passed,
and sent to the House of Representa
tives*
The following bills from the other house
were severally considered in committee of
the whole and subsequently ordered to a
third reading, viz:
The bill providing for tbe disposal of
the public lands in the state of Mississip
pi, and for tbe better organization of the
land offices in Mississppi and Alabama;
The bill confirming the title ot Alzira
l>ibiel to a tract of land; and
The bill explanatory of tbe act for tbe
relief of Richard O’Brien.
The bill from the House of Representa
tive? granting certain privileges to sieam
ships and vessels, owned by incorporated
.companies, was taken up in committee ot
ne whole; and alter some discussion, it
was, on motion, indefinitely postponed,
and tbe bill of course rejected.
A message was received fiom the Presi
dent of the United States transmitting let
ters received at the Department ot State,
from the resident minister of Great Bri
tain, on the subject of discriminating du
ties on rolled and hammered iron import
ed. The message was read, and with the
papers, referred to the Committee on Fo
reign Relations.
CUMBERLAND ROAD,
2he bill authorizing the erection of toll
gales on the Cumberland road, and ma*
.king an appropriation of 9C00 dollars for
the repair of said road, was read a third
time.
And after 3ome discussion the question
theo taken on the passage of the bill, and
was decided in the affirmative, yeas 29,
nays 7.
The senate resumed the consideration
of tbe bill to extend to non residents of
the District of Columbia the privileges of
the insolvent laws of the District.
A debate of considerable duration took
place on this bill (principally on a differ
ence of opinion as to tbe probable opera
tion and consequences of the bill, as well
as on the question ot its expediency) in
which Mr* Barbour supported, and Mr.
South opposed the bill.
i
Mr. Siton moved the adoption of the
following proviso, and spoke, to shew the
expediency of such an amendment:
"Provided, That no discharge under
this act, or the act to which it is amenda
tory, shall operate against any creditor re
siding without the limits of the District of
Columbia, except the creditor at whose
instance the debtor may be confined*”
This amendment was agreed to, and
the bill was then ordered to a third read
ing. . . „ .
The Senate, having disposed ot all the
legislative business on its table* spent the
remainder of the sitting on Executive bu
siness; alld about half past 3 o’clock,
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Ptinsett, from the joint Library
Committee* reported unfavorably upon
the petition ol John Melisb, asking lor en
couragement in making a chart of the Mis
sissippi and Ohio rivers; which was con
curred in.
Mr. Poinsett, from the same committee
reported unlavorably upon the proposition
to purchase, for the use of Congress a
number of copies ol Seybert’s Statistics;
which report was concurred in*
Mr. Sergeant from the Committee on
the Judiciary, reported a bill for the re
lief ol John Mitchell, which was twice
read. Mr, S. moved owing to the late
ness ol the session, that the bill, be now
ordered for a third reading*
On this subject a short debate took
Slace, and on motion of Mr. Campbell ol
hio, the bill was ordered to be laid on
the table.
YEAS 64
NAYS 55
The following message was received
from the President of the United States:
To the House of Representatives of the
United States:
1 herewith transmit to Congress copies
of letters received at the Department of
State from the Minister of Great Britain
on the subject of the duties, discriminat
ing between imported rolled and hammer
ed iron.
1 recommend them particularly to the
consideration of Congress, believing that,
although there may be ground for contro
versy with regard to the application of the
engagements of the Treaty to the case,
yet a liberal construction ol those engage
ments wtuld be compatible at once with
a conciliatory and a judicious policy,
I AMES MONROE.
Washington, May 1, 1822.
The message, with the accompanying
documents, was referred to the Commit
tee of IFays and Means, and ordered to
be printed.
The Speaker laid before the House a
report from the War Department upon the
petitions of Edward Moody, Archibald
Felt, John S- Dailey, Elisha B% Dunning,
James Dole, Timothy Gray, and Moses
Bursiel; which was ordered to belaid on
table.
A bill from the Senate to amend the act
“to regulate trade and intercourse with
the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace
on the frontiers,” was read twice, and
committed to the committee on Indian Af
fairs.
The bill from the Senate in addition to
the act, entitled “An act concerning trade
and navigation,” was read twice, and
committed to the Committee of Com
merce.
The engrossed bill to establish certain
roads, and to discontinue others, was read
a third time and passed.
MILITARY APPROPRIATION B\hh.
The House then resumed the considera
tion of the bill, making certain appropria
tions for the military service, the question
recurred upon the motion of Mr. Cocke,
to strike out the appropriation of d.50,000
for fort Calhoun.
Mr Colden after a few remarks to
shew the necessity of acting on this bill
without further debate, called tor the pre
vious question.
7'he call was sustained by the House—
ayes 73, noes 49,
The previous question was then put—
“Shall the main question now be put?*'
and was decided in the affirmative.
The effect ol this decision being to set
aside all motions to amend—
j ne mam question was stated, viz:—
“Shall the bill be engrossed and read a
third time?”
Some questions having been proposed
to the Speaker as to the effect of the deci
sion that bad been made by the house, and
some gentlemen seeming to have misun
derstood its bearing—
Mr. Hendricks, who voted in the affir
mative, moved a reconsideration of the
vote for taking the previous question.
Mr Nelson of Md called for the yeas
and nays upon the question, but the House
did not affirm the call; and the question
upon Mr. Hendrick’s m >tion being put, it
was negatived by a large majority.
The question of engrossment was then
put, and decided in the affirmative, as
follows:
YEAS 131
NAYS 2o
The house then resolved itself into a
committee of the whole, Mr. Sanders in
the chair, on the bill making appropria
tions for Indian annuities; and the various
blanks therein being filled, as recommend
ed by the Committee of Ways and Means
the Committee rose and reported the same
as amended, which was concurred in by
the house, and the bill was ordered to be
engrossed for a third reading.
I'ht house then went into a committee of
the whole on the siate of the Union, Mr.
Tod in the chair, on the bill from the
Senate to abolish the United States*
trading establishment with ihe Indian
tribes.
An explanation of the bill was made by
Mr Metcalfe, and the same having been
gone through with, by sections, without
amendment, the committee rose and re
ported the bill to the house, and it was or
dered to a third reading.
The compensation bill was then called
up; and on motion of Mr. Sanders, it was
ordered to be laid on the table, without a
division, by a large majority.
On motion ol Mr. Bassett, the house then
again went into a committee of the whole
on the state ot tbe Union. Mr Campbell,
of Ohio, in the chair, on the bill concern*
ing the disbursement of public money*
The bill having been read, and the first sec-,
tion, prohibiting all advances of public mo
ney, being under consideration
‘Mr. Baldwin moved an amendment, the
purport of which was to except from the
operation of the section the Commissary
General of Purchases; and. alter a few re
marks by Messrs. Baldwin, Cocke, and
Bassett, tbe committee rose and reported
that they bad made some progress, but had
come to no determination theredh.
The House then went into a committee
of the whole, (Mr. Condict in the chair,J
on the bill to continue in force “An act de'
daring tbe assent ol Congress to acts of the
state of South Carolina, authorizing the ci
ty of Charleston to impose and collect a
duty on tonBage of vessels from foreign
ports, and to acts of the state of Georgia*
authorizing the imposition and collection
of a duty on the tonnage ot vessels in the
ports of Savannah and St. Mary’9, and,
alter a brief consideration thereof, the com
mittee rose and reported the same to the
house, where the report of the committee
of the whole was concurred in, and the bill
was ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading.,
The House then went into a committee
of the w hole on tbe state of the Union,
(Mr. Basse't in tbe chair,') on the bill fix
ing the compensation ot the Commissioner
of tbe Public Buildings. The bill propo
sed to reduce the compensation of that of
ficer from d2,000 to 1*600 dollars; and,af
ter a few explanatory observations by Mr
Blackledge,
It was proposed by Mr. Cocke to add a
section, limiting the compensation of the
architect of the public buildings to d 1,600,
but on the suggestion of Mr. Mallary, be
modified the s.tme by proposing d2U00 in
stead of d1 ,500. The motion was opposed
by Mr. ffood and Mr. Alex. Smyth, and
supported by Messrs Cocke and Mallary,
when the question was taken and uegati*
i ve i
Mr Hobari proposed an amendment, re
quiring the commissioner to give bonds,
with surety for the faithful discharge of his
duty, which was agreed to; and on motion
ot Mr. Cocke, a proviso was appended
thereto, providing that no more money
shall, at any tine, be placed in the hands
of that officer than may be recovered by
the amount of the b< ud.
Mr, Walworth moved an amendment
that no allowance should be made to the
said Commissioner tor Clerk hire, and the
question being put thereon> it was agreed
to.
Mr. Hobart moved to strike out the se
cond section ot the bill, as being unneces
sary—but the motion was negatived.
The committee then rose and reported
the bill, and the same with the amend
ments thereto, were concurred in by the
house, excepting that amendment which
refuses to the Commissioner a Clerk, on
which there was some conversation be
tween Messrs Pierson, Wood, Blackledge
Brown, and Whipple.
Mr F- Jones moved to strike out the two
first sections of the bill after the enacting
clause, so as to leave the salary of the com
missioner d20U0 instead ot d15U0 which
was negatived; and the bill was then order
ed tor a third reading.
The House then, on earnest request of
Mr. Ball, went into a committee of the
tvhole, on the bill lor the relief of William
Henderson, (Mr Hill in the chair,) and af
ter considering the same, it was reported
to the bouse, and concurred in, and order
ed to be engrossed tor a third reading; and
then, alter a vain attempt to procure a re
cess for an evening sitting,
The bouse adjourned.
From the Washington City Gazette, of the
4 th May.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The bill for abolishing the factory sys
tem of trade among the Indians, was read
a third time and passed.
TREATY OF GHENT.
The Speaker laid before the house the
following communications—
Department of State,
Washington. May 3.
The Secretary of State, to whom was
referred the resolution ol the house of re
presentatives ol the 19th ult. requesting
; the President “to cause to be communicat
ed to the house, if not injurious to the
• public good, any letter or communication
which may have been received trom Jona
than Russell, Esq. one of the ministers of
; the United States, who concluded the
Treaty of Ghent* after the signature of
that treaty, and which was written in con
formity to the indications contained in said
minister’s letter at Ghent, *5tb December,
1814’’ has the honor of reporting to the
President that until alter the adoption ol
the said resolution by the bouse, there was
upon the files of the department of state,
no letter from Mr. Russell, ol the descrip
tion mentioned therein, but that Mr. Rus
sell himselt has since delivered at the de
partment a communication puiporting to
be the duplicate of a letter written by him
from Paris on the 11th of February, 1815>
to the bon. Secretary ol State to be com
municated to the bouse* as the letter called
for by their resolution. A copy of this
paper is herewith submitted to the Presi
dent.
/OHN QUINCY ADAMS.
A message was received from the senate
announcing that they passed the bill for
the relief of certain insolvent debtors,
with an amendment.
Also, in committee of the whole* Mr.
Edwards of North Carolina, in the chair
a bill to repeal a certain act of Maryland
in relation to Georgetown, D. C. and a bill
to incorporate Geoigetown, D. C. which
were ordered to a third reading.
THE president’s VETO.
Mr. Governeur delivered the following
message in writing from the President
(with the bill for the preservation and re
pair cl the Cumberland road,) which was
read as follows :
To the Houst of Representatives.
Having duly considered the bill entitled
“An act for the preservation and repair of
the Cumberland read” it is with deep re
gret, approving as I do the policy, that I !
am compelled to object to it's passage, and i
to return the bill to the house of Represen
tatives, in Which it originated under a con*
viction that Congress do not posses* the
power, under the constitution, to pafflucb
a Jaw. . V ■
A power to establish turnpikes with
gates and tolls, and to enforce the collec
tion ot the tolls by penalties, implies a
power to adopt and execute a complete
internal improvement. A right to impose
duties to be paid by all persons passing a
certain road and on horse9 and carriages,
as is done by this bill involves the right to
take the land from the proprietor on a va
luation, and pass laWs for the protection ot
the road from injuries, and if it exist as to
one road, it exists to any others, and as to
as many roads as Congress may think pro
per to establish. A right to legislate foi
one of these purposes,.is a right to legis
late for the others. It i9 a complete right
of jurisdiction and sovereignty, for all
purposes of internal improvement, and not
merely the right of applying money, un
der the power vested in congress to make
appropriations, under which power, with
the consent of the states through which
this road passes, the work was originally
commenced, and had been so far execut
ed. I am of opinion t(iat Congress do hot
possess this power; that the states indivi
dually cannot grant it, for although they
may assent to the appropriation of money
within their limits for such purposes, they
can grant no power of juiisdiction or so
vereignty by special compacts with the |
United States.—Thispfcwercan be grant-,
ed only by an amendment to the constitu
tion, and in the mode prescribed by it.
If the power exist, it must be either,
because it has been specifically granted,
to the United States, or that it is incidental
to some power, which has been specifical
ly granted.
If we examine the specific grants of power
we do not find it among them; nor is it in
cidental to any power which has been spe
cifically eranted. . .
It has never been contended max me
power was specifically granted. It is
claimed only as being incidental to some
on^ or more of h> powers, which are spe
cifically granted; the following are the
powers from which it is said to be derived.
1. From the right to establish post offi
ces and post roads. 2. From the right to
declare war* 3* To regulate commerce.
4. To pay the debts and provide tor the
common detence and general welfare- 5.
From the power to make all laws necessa
ry and proper for carrying into execution
all the powers vested by the constitution
in the government of the United States,
or in any department or officer thereof —
6, and lastly, From the power to dispose
of and make all needful rules and regula
tions respecting the territory and other
property ot the United States. According
to my judgment* it cannot be derived from
either of those powers, nor from all of
them united, and in consequence, it does
not exist. t
Having stated my objections to the bill
I should now cheerfully communicate at
large, the reasons on which they are foun
ded it 1 had time to reduce them to such
; form, as to include them in this paper.—
| The advanced stage of the session, fen
ders that impossible. Having at the com
mencement of mv service* in this high
trust, considered it a duty, to express the
opinion that the United States do not pos
sess the power in question* and to suggest ]
for the consideration of Congress, the pro
priety of recommending to the states an
amendment to the constitution, tc vest the
power in the United States. My attention j
has been often drawn to tbe subject since,
in consequence whereof, l have occasion- •
ally committed my sentiments to paper, ,
respecting it. i
The form which this exposition has as
sumed is not such, as 1 should have given j
it, had it been intended for Congress, nor I
is it concluded,—Nevertheless, as it con- :
tains my views on this subject* being one '
which I deem of very high importance, k j
which in many of its bearings* had not be
come peculiarly urgent, 1 will communi
cate it to Congress, if in my power in the
course of the day, or certainly on Monday
next JAMES MONROE.
Washington, May 4.
Mr. Taylor moved to tay the bill and
message on fhe table, in order to receive
the proper communication, before again
acting thereon; which was carried, and
the message on motion of Mr. Read, or
dered to be printed.
EVENING SITTING.
Six o'clock*
SUPPLEMENTARY VETO.
The Speaker laid before the House the
following communication, which wa9 de
livered to the house by Mr. Gouverneur,
as follows—
* To the House of Representatives»
‘ 1 transmit the paper alluded to in the
message of this day, on the subject of in
ternal improvements.
JAMES MONROE.
Washington, May 4.
The above document which consists of
lo4 pages folio foolscap, was ordered to
be printed
Sixty nine bills were ordered to be en*
grossed and sent to the Senate for concur
rence.
Adjourned at twenty minutes past ele
ven o’clock.
From the N. York American, of Thursday,
Gambling in the Stocks.
U. S. Bank Stock, which, since the ori
gin of the Rank, seems to have been the
special aim and prey of jobbers and gam
blers, was yesterday sold at 98, having
fallen in one day 8 per cent, and since a
month or six weeks, from 115—and all
this without any sort of relation to the real
and fair value of the stock, but simply
from the nature of the contracts ^entered
into for its sale or purchase. All this is
well enough understood here in New York,
but our country readers, and those out of
the State, might without some explanation,
suppose that a depreciation had occurred '
in the Stock. The truth is, that from the i
great abundance of unemployed capital
floating in our market during the past sum
mer, a vast amount of U. S. Bank Stock
was purchased on speculation, chiefly by
the brokers, in 'the hopes of a rise, and <
money borrowed, at low interests, on a <
hypothecation of it, to enable the purcha- i
sen to pay for it, The revival ei com* i
tneree in part, the excessive important
in a greater degree, having increaied ?’
demand for money: the loans on R “f
Stock are required to be paid as thev n
due, and, in order to pay them, lhe £?}
is thrown into a market, now as bar*
money as before it was redundant ^
and sold for what it will bring. The
ket being thus overstocked, the orii*?*
turally tails, and, the sales being
rative it falls even lower than, not»Ta
standing the glut, it should do. ^
. THE • GAZETTE?
THURSDAY, MAY 9. 18227"
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Washington, May 7
JThe following appointments have been
cently made by the President of the Uniy
States, with the advice and consent of the
ate.
John Branch, to be Judge in West Florid,
Joseph 1L. Smith, to be Judge in East PlJ
da. ^
George Walton, x be Secretary to the T
ritorv of Florida.
Alexander Hamilton, to be Attorney for ^
Florida.
Tipton B. Harrison, to be Attorney for jye
Flonda.
Joshua Barton, to be Attorney of the I'njy
States for the District of Missouri.
Henry Dodge, to be Marshal for the same.
Jehu Hollingsworth, to be Consul of the Uni,
ted States at St. Eustatia.
Both Houses of Congress sat from 10 o’clock
in the morning to a late hour la»t night. Inti*
bustle of so much business, we finditdiftc^
to keep pace with the business transacted. rJ
ferring our readers generally to our Con grey,
ional Head, wc particularly note, for their
formation, the following incidents, which oc,
curred in the course of yesterdav;
The bill to erect toll gates on the Cumbering
road, with the objections thereto by the Pr$
dent, having been reconsidered in the Housed'
Representatives, it was rejected, by a majerjb’
of 4 votes, though it had before a majority oflj
votes in its favor.
The Senate put into the military appropr*
tion bill an appropriation of 9000 dollars, to
applied to the repair of the Cumberland Road;
w hich appropriation was rejected by the other
House.
The bill to regulate the emoluments of the I
officers of the customs, and to abolish ceitii
collection districts, which passed the Seniti
some weeks ago, wras taken up in the Housed
Representatives, and passed its final reading
with some amendments, however, which ye
require the concurrence of the Senate. /
The Great Naval Lxjeriment—^kt the au
pointed hour yesterday morning, all the aJ
rangements having been completed, the exper
iment was commenced which was to test the
practicability of hauling up, on an inclined
plane, upon the plan invented by Commodore
Rodgers, a large ship of war. The new frig,
ate Potomac, of the class of 44 guns, td
weighing, with the apparatus attached to her,
about 1600 tons, was the ship with which th»
interesting and important experiment was to
be tried Though a light wind prevailed, fa
ship was introduced without accident betica
the ways on which she was to ascend, andati
o’clock the power of three windlasses, worked
by 40 or 50 men each, was applied to the i»
mense floating castle, and she began slowly U
ascend. The operation was continued succas
fully, until the ship was drawn almost out oftht
water. At this moment, the lashings which
connected the block of the centre purchase
with the large cable that passed around the'
ship, fore and aft, and drew her on, parted.
This accident, however, had been guarded a*
gainst, and means taken, in case of such an oc
currence, to prevent the ship from running
back. The vessel, therefore, remained finnin
her place; but, as it required some hours ton
pair the damage, the remainder of theoperation
was deterred until this morning. The experi
ment has, so far, answered the expectations of
its friends, and we believe there is no doubt en
tertained ofits complete success. Should their
hopes be realized, the invention will be of in*
calculable advantage to all maritime nations, as
it will enable them to preserve a naval forced
any magnitude, always in readiness for the
time of war, without the expense and deteriora
tion which necessarily attend the keeping!
greater portion afloat, than may be requisite fa
a time of peace.
A large concourse of citizens attended to wit
ness this interesting spectacle; and we are sor
ry to add that a young son of Col. Wm. Brent,
had his leg broke by the falling cable, when it
gave way. Nat. JrJ.
New Military Post.—We learn that the war
department has determined to establish a mili
tary post at the Sault St. Mary’s, between lakes
Huron and Superior. It is to be occupied by
a detachment of 250 of the 2d regiment, now
at Sackett’s Harbor. Buffalo Journal
New Musical Instrument.—Mr. Richard C.
Potter, of New London, Con. has invented»
new musical instrument which he calls the Co
lumbian Harp, It is of a triangular form, and
contains 66 strings, raising three octaves, m
performing two parts.
There is now living in the county of Camp
bell a negro woman belonging to a gentlennj
of the name of Todd—this woman is in her 42d
year, and has had 41 children, at this timet*
pregnant with her 42d child, and possibly
her 43d, as she has frequently had doubleU.
This fact is w-ell known to many gentlmen ®
this county, and is susceptible of easy and con>
plete proof. Lynchburg Ptta.
The Emperor of Russia, wishing to add to
the safety of the navigation of the White Sel»
has ordered two towers to be erected, one o®
Cape Orloff, the other on Cape friulong. CtfJ
Oiloff tower is placed at a distance of 396 Ws
from the shore, the elevation of which *b°re
the level of the sea is 120 feet,- The tower
35 feet high and i» painted white, Cape P#j*
long tower stands at the distance of 720"#
from the shore, which is elevated 42 feet abor
the level of the sea. The tower is 60 feet W
and is also painted white,
Pcserved Fresh Meats_In copying an at*
count of fresh beef, &c. prepared by
Daggett $ Kensett, of this city, the editor#
:he New Bedford Mercury, relates the folio*’
ing instance of a similar preparation, wftbin ■#
personal knowledge. N* X*
A gentleman who left London during the**
war, (we think fn the year 1815) procured
quantity of fresh meat to be put up for oso a#
:he passage to America. Of this stock, ou wW
irrival, two large platters marked «fhe« **
named unopened—They were eartlMjrsw^
;d aw ay with other baggage wd re*p*»w ”,