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DOCUMENTS, ESSAYS AND FACTS

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RECORD OF THE EVENTS OF THE TIMES.

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THE PAST THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE.

FROM SEPTEMBER, 1829, TO MARCH, 1880-VOL. XXXVII,
OR, VOLUME I.-FOURTH SERIES.

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Actress receives a legacy

215
Adams, J. Q. late president, erects
a monument to his parents 120, 173;
in Washington city 277-see various
public papers and proceedings. The
acquisition of Texas

394

69

70

house 168; Charlestown bridge 169;1
sales of wool 163; fires 228; mutiny
cases 173; Mr. Otis elected may or 277
Bosquet, Philip, his legacy
Bottle, a large one
Brackenridge, judge H. M. 89
Bradley, Abram-see post office de-
partment-his correspondence rela-
tive to the dismissal of Mr. Hawkins
12090; his map of the U. States
Bradley, P.-

Africa-The colony at Sierra Le-
one 69, 153, 300-See Liberia.

Antiquities of America, proposed
work on

Alabama-elections 2, 132, 313;
gov. Moore's message 315; Mobile 429
Appenines, highest peak of 181
Apples, large
39

Appointments and removals by the
president 8, 56, 67, 87, 149, 164, 274,
327, 412, 429, 433-see army and
navy, and post office department. Mr.
Henshaw's letter

101

Army of the U. States-appoint-
ments, &c. 11; concerning brevets 12:
courts martial at Jefferson barracks
174; case of lieut. Colquhoun 238; gen.
Scott's case 69, 209, 258; academy at
West Point 58, 229. See congress.
Arkansas-elections 134; rise of the
river 181; extract from gov. Pope's
message

215

.-see as above.

99

Weights and measures 220; Wellington,
the duke of 168, 227; woollen manufac
tures 69, 123, 133--see manufactures.
Brown, James, late minister to
France
182, 215
86

Bruce, Mr. his manuscripts
Buenos Ayres-Rosa's army 19;
treaty of Lavalle and Rosas 72; Mr.
Rivadavia 39; new senate 219; cur-
Brazil-charge de affaires from 7;
Mr. Tudor in 22; the currency 22; 72; changes in the ministry 88; minis-
rency 328; Lavalle's proclamations
commerce 22; marriage of the emperters, commerce, 167; rejoicings,&c. 180
or 36; of the empress 328; Mr. Re-
bello 38, 182; slaves imported 147,528 24. See congress.
Burges, Tristam, to W. Drayton
Brick making

Brick houses removed
Bridgewater the battle of

118

120

10

lord 8; Catholic question--see O'Connell;
Astor cases
180 various notices of, 37, 217; Dr. Doyle's aa-
Auctions-see congress: meetings dress 146; Chabert, the "fire king," 198;
opposed to 298, 503; sales by in New chancery suits, amount of the litigations
120; Collingwood, adm. 166; China trade 38;
York 378; resolutions concerning 410 church establishment 89, 217; revenues 119;
Austria-education in 3; treaty with abuses in 150; corn laws, a catechism on 23:
the U. States
134 crops 39, 122, 198; duties on grain 242; ex-
Baltimore, 12th of Sept. at 49; pub- London 36; Cumberland, the duchess of 121;
ports of grain from Ireland 359; crime, in
lic schools in 49; arrivals 540; screw custom house, goods underrated at 5; Cuth
dock 120; bills of mortality 340; in-bert, St. reliques of discovered
spections 359; Catholic council in 148;
destructive fire in 359; erection of the
statue of Washington 209; steam boats
plying from 228; outrages 377; pau-
pers 377; wood corders
426

Baltimore and Ohio rail road-See
rail roads.

Baldwin, Henry-see Pennsylva-
nia: appointed a judge of the supreme
court 327; votes of the senate on his
nomination 358; dinner to

397

89

338

Burr stones found in Ohio
Button manufacture
Calhoun, J. C. 117-see congress.
Calico-printing, Turkey red used in
S; price of 50 years ago 179; quantity
made in the U. States
297
Campbell, Nicholas, one of the "tea
3
party" dies
Canada-Methodist college at York
39; specie received in 215; device of
an editor in 53; commerce of Quebec
215; justice! 53; education in 328;
church at Montreal 328; population
56, 328; colony of blacks in 339, 429;
Welland canal
147, 275

Canal laborers, impositions on 168
Canal toll, in New York 39, 198
Mediterranean 167; the Rhine and
Canals-to connect the Atlantic and
Danube 7, 209; from Hellevoetsluis to
Rotterdam 21; canals made, &c. in the
U. S. 44; money required to finish
certain 51; Pennsylvania canals 69,
East India trade, various notices of 64; 98, 116, 130, 149, 177, 228, 378; Che-
Elizabethean manuscript 23; English in sapeake and Delaware 70, 98, 116, 131,
France 153; etiquette 6; executions at the 216; Chesapeake and Ohio 83; deci-
Old Bailey 147; exports
129, 221 sion of the chancellor 86; decision of
Finances-see revenue and 316; fire, at
Manchester 216; flour and grain-see corn
judge Cranch as to certain laborers on
aud 133; duties on 243; funds, rise and fall 150; loans for 297, 342, 360; the Ohio
of
240 98, 212, 379, 410; great cargo receiv-
Garth, captain 360; Gwinn, John, his be- ed at Albany 198; the Farmington 116;
around the falls at Enfield, Con. 209;
frota Chicago to the Illinois river 116;
Dismal Swamp 197, 245; from Ottowa
river to lake Huron 118; Morris canal

Banks and banking-Planter's bank,
Md. 8; Sutton bank, Mass. 598; Agus-son, Mr.
ta bank, Maine, 197; bank of S. Caro- Imports and exports 63; Ireland 123, 146,
lina 342; Paterson bank, N. J. 20; 226; iron, exportation of
Commonwealth bank, Ky. 83; divi-wine cooler" 89; Adam Bryden's letter

dends of Boston banks 117,327; Phe-
nix bank vs. O. Wolcott 31; cashier of
the state bank of Tennessee 427; bank
of the U. S. branch at Buffalo 121; of
Manufactures, see distresses-state of at
the stock 275; specie received at Phi- Congleton 147; at Badworth 150; at Barns-
ladelphia 277; dividend 359; directorsley 153; interesting statisties relative to 152;
359; statement of its affairs 413; pro- Mexico, on the invasion of 39; on the ac-
distress generally 167, 198, 217, 359, 411;
ceedings in South Carolina in relation quision of Texas 87; ministry, changes in 5; do. in Ohio
thereto 275, 367; extracts from the the 39; meetings of
"Telegraph" and Courier concerning
275, 378; see congress.
Bankrupts, professions of certain in
Philadelphia
179
Barbour, J. 8, 69, 123, 168, 183, 215
Barry, Mr. P. M. general-see post
office department; at West Point 179
Bayard, the late J. A.—see congress
and
429
Bear killed in N. J. 70; in Mass. 120
Berrien, J. McPherson
121
Bibb, the rev. Richard's toast 114
Bible societies
37
197

Nelson, admiral and lady Hamilton 194;
Newcastle, the duke of 198; Newfoundland,
the port of 8; newspapers, the press in Lon
dun 60; the Atlas

56

his letter on slavery in the U. S. 186, 226
O'Connell, Mr. 8, 37, 88, 123, 146, 150, 350;

Parliament, meeting of, &c. 198; porter
made in London 36; post office, revenues of
244; business of 4; letters received in Lon
do 153; president of the U. States, British
feeling towards him

67
Carroll, Charles of C.
70, 398
Carnac, the temple of
149
Cars-see rail road cars-self load-
2, 78, 167, 273
ing 21; Winans'
Carter, Benjamin, dies
412
Catholic queston-see Great Bri-
tain: song sung at a celebration 68
Cattle shows, toasts at
Census for 1830 410-see congress.

149

Channing, Dr.

70

Chapman, col. John, dies

120

6

Cheese made in Portage co. O.

182

Railway experiments--see rail roads: re-
ligion in Ireland 217; revenue, various state-
ments relative to the 6, 150, 215, 239, 316;
Rush, Richard his arrival in England on
business of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
company noticed, &c. 6, 8-see canals.

Statistics, interesting relative to manufac
tures, c..152, 153: stock, speculations in
22, 55; sheep, price of 301; shipping 170;
Shiel, Mr. 360; St. Paul's cathedral 121;
217, 222, 237; coaches to be chaployed in
steam carriage experiments-see rail roads,
carrying the mail 237; storms

217

299

China-the English trade to
Chronometers, prize for
Church, col. dinner to
Church controversy in Ohio
99; toast drunk on the occasion 115;
Clay, Henry, dines at Russellville
returns home 153; presented with a
piece of cloth by the Oriskany man.

277

eo. 229; a likeness of 182; extract from
an article in the "Telegraph" con-
cerning 195; his address before the
colonization society noticed 339; leaves
home for New Orleans 399, 429
Clay, Mrs. H. a present to
90
Clinch, col. dinner to
Cloth, American 33-see manu.
Coach, damages for overturning 135
Coal-required for the Juniatta roll-
ing mill 121; cost of at Wheeling, Va.
181; trade of Pennsylvania 70; dis-
covered in N. Hampshire 134; con-
sumption in N. York 178; received at
Philadelphia
194

291, 319. 398; Chambers, Mr. 404; Cahoon, Lands-claims, relief of purchasers of, &e,
Mr. 282; Cambreleng, Mr. 282, 421, 422; in Missouri 269, 280; Mr. Foot's resolution
claims for militia services 230-see war: co-relative to surveys of 291, 350, 373, 388, 389,
lonization society 291; constitution, amend- 406, 418, 419, 430; Mr. Hayne's speech on
ments to 281, 407; cadets at the military 415; Mr. Webster's 435; in Ohio 407; in Ten
academy 374, 376, 389, 390, 391: commerce nessee 271, 281; in Indiana 280; in Illinois
and navigation 282, 420, 422, 434; Charles- 269; warrants to officers of the revolution
ton, S. Carolina, memorial of the mayor 432; in Alabama 280, 292; duration of liens
and council of 291; consuls in foreign upon 424; held by revolutionary officers 374;
ports 281; Condiet, Mr. 292, 424; census, the in Arkansas 269, 350; land warrants in Vir
ratio of representation, &c. 293, 374, 392, ginia 376; money received in each district
407, 408, 420, 422, 424; courts, &c.-see ju 420; relief to purchasers various resolutions,
diciary: coasting trade 336; collectors of the &c. 270, 272, 280, 292, 332; proceeds of the
revenue, amount of bonds taken by, com-sales of (Mr. Hunt's resolution) 281, 293,
pensation, &c. 349; emoluments of, &c. 349; 333, 335, 350, 351, 375; cession of refuse
canals-to connect the Atlantic and the gulf lands 292; preemption rights 292, 331, 332,
of Mexico 292, 376, 407; to connect the wa-350, 390; claims of Maison Rouge, &c. 349;
ters of Altamaba and Tennessee rivers 293; laws of the U. States 256; lights in vessels
to connect the rivers Amoy and Conasau 389; Lea, Pryor-see elections: Lent, Mr. 391;
ga, 419: Miama canal 404, 419; committee Larche, Francis 292, 331; Larabee, Charles
Coffin, admiral, his school 7; ves-on 372; from the Connecticut river to the 349; Livingston, Mr. 388, 404; library of con-
sel fitted out by him
Canada line
gress 280; use of books in 291, 293, 332, 333,
350; law books in 423; appropriations for
424; Lawrence, W. B. 423; Louisiana-im-
provements in 280; claims of Maison Rouge,
&c.

Coffee, growth, &c.

52

408

334

349

349.

85
422
Colleges of the U. S. students in 2 Doorkeepers 256, 269; debt, extinction of
Columbia-the tariff 19; Mr. Moore the public 269, 331; Davis, Mr. 420; Deca-
arrives at Bogota 180; war with Peru Urs. relief of 270, 350; debts due the
U. States 270; Drayton, Mr. 281, 282, 292,
40; rebellion, revolution, &c. 167, 180, 334, 375, 392; Davenport, Mr. 282; Dicker Mint, establishment 292, 419, 423; mails
215, 315, 430; Jose Maria Mosquera son, Mr. 292; documents, printing of, &c. on the Sabbath 291, 332, 350, 389, 419, 431;
121; articles prohibited 195; Bolivia 333, 391; Dudley, Mr. 270; Duncan, Mr. mail routes-see roads-between Philadel
282; drawback 376; duties, modification of phia and Baltimore 391; from Louisville, Ky.
disturbed 40; Santander 180; coinage-see tariff and 419; De Witt, Mr. 391; to Nashville, Ten. 407; members of the 21st
197; Guerillas 215; letters of marque draftsman to the house 391, 407, 431, 432, Congress 245; McKinley, Mr. 269, 431; Mer-
recalled 99; Laguira 184; Bolivar's let-433; Dorsey, Ir. 391; District of Columbia cer, Mr. 374, 432, 433; molasses, drawback
ter to Lafayette 128, his acts 296, 412, establishment of a legislative body in 404; on 269, 280, 392; McCoy, Mr. 375; McDuffie,
the penitentiary in
Mr. 270, 281, 424, Martin, Mr. 282, 392;
430, his letter to O'Leary 315; gen.
Elections, contested, Lea and Arnold 271, Marks, Mr. 405, 430; Mitchell, Mr. 391, 432;
Harrison 180; Mr. Moore's address 292, 333, 334, 336, 351, 352; Ruel Washburn mail routes 291; money, improper juse of
234; see congress: contemplated junc-and J. W. Ripley 390, 391, 392, 407, 408; 408; mileage of members 281, 292; the bill
tion of the Atlantic and Pacific 197 case of Silas Wright and George Fisher 421; 293; reference of, &c. in the senate 332, 333,
Combustion, spontaneous
100 testimony in cases of 424; education a com- 420; military, exemption from duty 282,
mittee on 271, 272; Edgar, John 349; en-291: peace establishment (col. Bissel's case)
Congress.
grossed bills 291, 292; executive business, 291-see army: Mexican trade 291, 405, 418;
Auctions-petitions against sales hy 269, consideration of 269, 270, 280, 331, 332, 333, militia organization 392, 418; returns of 421;
280; a bill to regulate 422; appeals from the 350, 407, 431; Mr. Barton's remarks respect. Magee, Vir. 498; messages of the president
chair-see order: Alston, Mr. 292, 333; aring 349; Everett, Mr. of Mass. 282, 292, 390, -see messages; printing of 254, 256; refer-
mories 272, 281; accounts of certain officers 391; Everett, Mr. of Vt. 422; engineers, ence of 269, 270; Massachusetts' claims--
374; Adams, Mr. 418; attorney general 270, corps of
see war; Maryland circuit court 334, 418;
405, 419; Anderson, Mr. 336; adjournments Forsyth, Mr. 247,331, 348; Forward. Mr. Mallary, Mr. 335, 392, 402; manufactures-
281, 333; a day for 392; Alexander, Mr. 374; 336; Frelinghuysen, Mr. 38; free taxables, see tariff, 270, 335, 392, 402; Monroe,
Arnold, Thomas D.-see elections: Ander-not freeholders 419; fortifications 271, 291, James relief of 432; Monongahela river, ob-
son, George 392; appointments-Mr. Bar- 420; frauds in Arkansas 269; Fisher, Mr. 421; structions in 430; Missouri-the frontiers of
ton's remarks on the power of, &c. 349; ar- French claims, &c. 280, 281, 291; fisheries, 336, boundary line
my-see reports of the secretary of war-vessels employed in 336, 392, 418, 422; Foot, Newspaper for the senate 247; Newton,
desertions 349, 391; pay and emoluments of Mr. 269, 291, 292, 419; his resolution rela- Mr. 336; Naudain, Mr. 349, 350; Noble, Mr.
officers 375; courts martial 433; enlistments tive to the sales of the public lands 291-292; Nourse, Jos.ph 333; naturalization
in 404, 405; office of major-general 407; see lands: Fulton, Robert his heirs 336, 3:3, laws 407, 432; naval register 332, 336; naval
franking privilege to certain officers 407; 376; Florida-the bar at Pensacola 336; le 281, 282, 291, 293; naval academy 292; pay
brevet rank 407; punishment of death 418; gislative council 351; Mr. Smith's remarks of master's commandants 282; report of the
-sale of ardent spirits by sutlers 422; cadets on the treaty
401 commissioners 309; abolishment of the board
at the military academy 374, 376, 389, 390, Grundy, Mr. 247, 349, 389; Green, Duff of 374; the Hornet 391, 422, 432, 433; pen-
391, 431: appropriations-see treasury de- 389, 404, 407; Gales and Seaton, 388, 389- sion fund 431, 432; office of surgeon gene-
partment and 351, 424, 431, 432; Mr. Wick-sce printing: Gurley, Mr. 420; Gibbons, ral 431; compensation to pensioners 432;
408 James 433; Georgia-resolutions about the coutingent expenses 391; spirits in the na
-Berrien, Mr. 247; balances, unsettled 432; tariff 349; Florida line
349, 419 vy 374; naval constructor 374; arrearages
Bell, Mr. 351; Bartley, Mr. 256; Burnet, Holmes, Mr. 247, 269, 280, 291; Hayne, in the service 373; depots 374; Nickolls,
Mr. 269, 404; Bibb, Mr. 420; Burges, Mr. Mr. 269, 292, 350, 383,389, 406; his speech on
351, 407, 424; Barbary states, ministers and
Mr. Foot's resolution 415; hour of meeting Order, questions of, &c. 334, 350, 375
consuls to 291; Barton, Mr. 291, 331, 349, 373, 247; Hunt, Mr. 281; Hall, Mr. 281; Hemphili, President of the United States, committee
405, 419, 430; Benton, Mr. 291, 374,388, 405, Mr. 292; B. W. Hopkins, widow of, e 331; to wait on 246; his message to congress
419; Brown, Mr. 291; banks-in the Dist. of Holmes, Gabriel 272; Hollister, J. W. 390, 247-see messages of the president; Portland
Col. 280, 399; of the U. S. 281, 282, 292, 405, 392; Hurlgate 391; Halsey, Mr. 407; How-harbor 390; printing-of the senate 292, 331;
420, 432; deposits in state banks 280, 405; ard, Mr. 408; Hornet, the sloop--see naval: Mr. Webster's resolutions 406; of documents
Barnard, Mr. 404; Block Island 424; Bates, harbors, improvement of
432 333; of do. by Gales and Seaton 388, 404,
Mr.407; Bangs, Geo. and Wm. 390; brandy, Index to certain documents 424; Indian 418; yeas and nays on various propositions
drawback on 349, 350, 372, 431; Burnham, affairs--message of the president relative to refer 405; Mr. Grundy's resolution 406;
John 336; Baltimore, relief of the corpora- to the Passamaquoddy tribe, 271; of do. referred to the committee on the library 419;
tion of 280, 333, 349; harbor of 373, 388; transmitting certain Indian treaties, 374; proposition of Duff Green 389,407; of W.
of vessels sunk in defence of 408; Barrin- the Creeks and Georgia, 271, 391; memorial A. Davis 389; of W. Greer 407; reduction
ger, Mr. 333; Buchanan, Mr. 334, 350, 374, of the Creek delegation 419, 421; treaties of the cost of 424; preemption laws 269–
420; Barbour, P. P. 374, 421; Barbour, J. S. 374; removal of the Cherokees 230; tres- see lands; patent office, president's message
374; Boone, Mr. 292; buildings, report of passes of the Osages 280, 291; encroach- 392; Polk, Mr. 293; Pennsylvania, a debt
the commissioner of the public 332; Blair, ments on Indian lands 419, 430; lands for, due 418; Pearce, Mr. 421, 432; Pendleton,
Mr. 374, 390; bouds, &c. received by collec- west of Arkansas 372; lands in Indiana 372, Benjamin 280; postage, on periodical [pub.
tors 349; credits on 349, 372; Buffalo har-373; Indian depredations 291, 292, 349, 350; lications 281; on proof sheets 349; postmas-
bor 390; Bolivar, the medal from 375, 423, Christian Indians, the tribe 390; trade and ters' duties on resigning 408; postage ac
Bayard, James A. 404; bridge, across White intercourse with 349; appropriations for the cruing at each office 432; Pettis, Mr. 282,
407 department 391; petitions in favor of 331, 292, 336; ports of entry, creation of 333, 349;
Committees of the senate 246, 254, 269, 351, 372, 389, 406, 432; New York memorial Peck, James H. 350; pensioners and pen-
280, 333, 372; joint committees 246, 280, 291; 364; division of agencies 332, 418 419; civisions-see revolutionary and 348, 351, 407,
committees of the house 256, 271, 272; chap. lization among the Cherokees, Crecks and 424; privateer pension fund 422; plated
lains 254, 256, 269, 270; Coosa river 431; Choctaws 388, 389; moral condition of cer- wares
Chase, Mr. 269, 291; Crockett, Mr. 256, 281, tain 352, 376; annual report from the bureau Quorum of the senate 246; do. of the
390; Cumberland road-see roads; Clayton, of Indian affairs 361; iron works, destruc-house
Mr. 269, 404, 406; Carson, Mr. 281, 292; tion of certain 331; Irvin, Mr. 336; Inger-
clerk of the house 255, 256; appointment to soll, Mr.
422
vacancies 333; do. and messengers 281; clerks Johnson, Mr. 281; Jefferson, Thomas ex.
of the senate 331; of the department of state tract from his memoirs 404; judiciary sys-
431; clerks in the departments 373; contin- tem 270, 376, 433; southern district of New
gent fund 281, 424, 431; Chilton, Mr. 281, York 431; circuit courts of Maryland 334, 418
293, 336, 391; certain resolutions of 423, 433; King, Mr. 269, 349, 372; Keen, Mark 259;
coffee and teas, the duty on 270, 420; Coe, Kentucky river, improvement of 431; Key
John P. 331, 432, coins and currency 254, West

liffe's amendment

water river

Mr.

334

432

356

Reed, T. B. dies 254; rules and orders of
the house 256, 272; Ramsey, Mr. 282, 421;
Rowan, Mr. 418, 431; Ripley, Mr. 390; re-
trenchment resolutions 281; Rencher, A, 281;
Richardson, Mr. 272, 282, 392; revenue, ap-
propriations 232; revolutionary army, relief
of the survivors of 282, 336, 374, 391, 404,
432, 433; number of survivors 376; notes
291and bills issued to 391; freedom from impri,