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CosGREss-The following Is from the Washing
ton Correspondence of tho American.


To-day commences the ninth week of the session.
Don say that Congress have done nothing. These
eight weeks have produced and partly developed the
germs OF great measures, mighty movements which
in due time ccnsummated will more affect our na-
ton, moro effect It's restoration to prosperity, and
mark it. history, than the of any Congress
within quarter ofaccnturv. The two great points
on which the parties of the next twenty-five years
ar, to unite or dividc-the protection Of american
Labor, and the National policy on the subject OF
Slavery, have been presented, and in spite OF the
most erocious and rsolu,c opposition to the asla-
ton of either question: have been discussed pom
dercd boldly, and brought before the mind OF the
whole people for their consideration, while ;he Com
mittces of the House and the Senate are elaborat-
ing these and other important matters, and Prepar
ing them for the final decisive action OF Congress.
The Committee on WAYS and Means Is already
nearly 'nluncrc tunctus, having reported all the
great appropriation bills, under the estimates tor The
wear and having discharged all the other duties as
signed them in the Treasury Note bIl and the Loan
Extension Bill the first of which will become a law
tomorrow. Taking into account, moreover, the
dreadful struggle bv which the Bankrupt Law has
been preserved, it will appear that the session. so
far, has no, been idled away. II will compare well
with anv that has prccededlt It


Among other very interesting articles III this
morning. In,eGgencer, you will not fail TO notice
novel and extraordinary phenomenon presented IN
the notice of petition from Virginia for the Abo-
i,ion of Slavery in the District of Columbia II Is
signed BY ninety-threc men in Lewis county, which
is in the Northern part of the interior of the State
"a fre.-aboring grain-grOWing district which has
been much flied up lately with the sturdy Northern
farmers who have been emigra,ing thither from
Pennsylvania a significant po,tent, and notable
sign Of the tine.! R. NJ. T. II.


D7 The amount of State duty paid by the Auc-
tioneers of Boston, for the Six months ending Nov.
3Oth, was seq, ,O25 rs.