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Bound Volumes March 9, 2023 185 YEARS AGOA recent transaction at Washington having resulted in the murder of Jonathan Cilley, a Representative in Congress from the State of Maine, by an adherence of certain individuals to a relic of barbarism falsely termed the law of honor, (peculiar to bloody-minded men in all ages) the undersigned deem it expedient that a meeting of citizens of the County of Otsego be called and a public expression of their opinion on the subject…

Bound Volumes March 2, 2023 210 YEARS AGOMarine Prizes – At New York, British ship Rio Nouva, from London for St. Kitts and Antigua, with a valuable cargo of dry goods; prize to the Rolla, of Baltimore; taken after an action of 20 minutes, in which no lives were lost. The prize is a London-built ship, nearly 400 tons, coppered, not 3 years old – mounts 14 guns, and had 25 men. At Portland, British ship Ralph, and British brig…

Bound Volumes February 23, 2023 210 YEARS AGOOn the 29th December last, about 10 leagues from the coast of Brazil, the U.S. Frigate Constitution, Comm. Bainbridge, fell in with and captured his Majesty’s Frigate JAVA, of 49 guns, and manned with upwards of 400 men. The action continued one hour and fifty-five minutes, in which time the JAVA was made a complete wreck, having her bowsprit, and every mast and spar shot out of her. The Constitution had nine men…

Bound Volumes February 9, 2023 210 YEARS AGOOne of the best means of acquiring that happy state of mind called contentment is to take a fair retrospect of our past lives. Can we recollect periods when we formed a certain system and imagined certain objects would make us perfectly happy? Have we not obtained those very objects; and found ourselves as far from the ever-receding horizon of expected bliss as when we were without them? The truest philosophy, then, is…