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We perceive, by notice in the fredericksburg
Arena, that meeting of the inhabitants of that town.
and OF Falmouth, and the adjacent country, will take
place IN Fredericksburg on the 10th of November.
LOT the purpose OF considering the expediency OF
creating company for the manufacture of woollen
and cotton cloths and linens.'' The falls of the
Rappahannock said to present great induce
ments to the erection of manufactures j; and it is
certainly very desirable to turn slave labor to
ry possible advantage.


Brazil and Buenos .Ayres-By the United States
ship Peacock, which touched at Rio Janeiro, on her
passage home from the Pacific, information was re-
ceived that new treaty was about to be offered to
the Buenos Ayreans by the Emperorof Brazil which
it was expected would be accepted, the Emperor
having abandoned the claim to the Banda Oriental,
which one of the principal features of the treaty.
Free Port in the Pacifc-By the following letter,
addressed to the Collector Of New York, it will be
seen that Free Port has been established in the
Pacific, by the Congress of Colombia.


CONSULATE OF THE UNITED STATES,


Carthagena, Oct. 1, 1927


SIR: / have the honour to hand an act OF the Con-
grass Of Colombia, declaring Buenaventura, in the
Pacific, free port, which request you will make
public. for the information of the merchants of the





obedient servant,


j. M. MACPHERSON, CoYsul.
To the Collector of the Port Of New York.


Cuba.-An official detailed report of the trade Of
the Island of Cuba for the year 1885, states that the
receipts of the Royal Treasury, in that year. are
seven millions of hard dollars This vast increase
of the public revenue says the Report, is due to the
vigilance and ability exercised in that department
tho adj ipia has enabled
government Of Cuba to meet the new and heavy ex-
penditures required in order to put the island in
spectacle state Of defence, to repair all damages to
cover all demands and there remains clear sur
plus of more than half million, at the beginning
of the present year.


| THE BIBLE OFFERED TO NIL.


Whereas it is to be feared that many families in the
County of Newcastle living without the Bible in their
houses because they deem themselves too poor to pur-
chase one, from other This is to give no.
tce all such families, that they may obtain good COM
mon Bible Testament by applying to any Minister fhe
Gospel of any Christian denomination, or to any Elder OF
Church, any Editor of Newspaper in this County.


The object of the Delaware Bible Society, and of the
other Bible Societies in this County, is to put the Bible
into every house and within the reach of every individual
To those who unable unwilling to pay any thing 1t
will be given gratuousy. From those who wiling to
pay the whole part OF the price, payment will be gladly
received and appropriated to the purchase Of others TO


When the applicant for Bible is unknown to the Min.
ster Elder or Editor he may apply through some third
person known to both parties Should any family be pos
sessed ofony part of the Bibles only mutated copy
if they apply above, complete copy will be given.
If family be destitute and the head thereof unwl'
ling apply for Bible, any member of the family ON ap
plicaon shall have Further, if any benevolent per
knows of family in his neghbourhood, destitute of
the word of God and wishes put the Divine oraces I'm
der that roof he may apply and his request shall be
granted. Still further if there be any pious man, Of any
Christian denomination, who willing go through any Of
the Hundreds and enquire in every family whether they
are supplied with the Bible not the Delaware Bible So
cety win be glad to furnish him with Bibles for distribu.
ton, and will pay any necessary expences he may incur
in this good work.


The general Depository Of Bibles and Testaments is at
the Book store of r. Porter Son, No o. Market street.
Wilmington where the nsters of the Gospel i'd other,
willing operat. til this society requested to ap.
ply. Smaller Deposories will be made in amy part of the
County where it snail be deemed expedient


n b If Ministers would give notice OF these things to
their congregational might bring the wants OF the
people to light, and be the of good. More than
1000 Bibles and Tesamens have already been distributed
within this County, and its immediate vicinity, and yet
there are probably hundreds Of families unsupplied.
Il E. W. GILBERT,
Secretary of the Dea7vare Bible Society.
: Octl30' 1897


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