secretaries relative to 286; Armory, resolutions of Penn-lative to the treaty 194; president's communication posal to amend the constitution so as to prohibit, &c. sylvania and New Jersey relative to 32; Army, ap- laid on the table, &c. 218; Mr. Bell's resolution to allay 31; petition to investigate 32; proceedings of a meeting propriation bill 94; petition from certain officers rela- dissatisfaction of the 223; bill reported 231, 234, 235; in Virginia 43; resolution that no one engaged in, ought tive to a repeal of the law allowing whiskey to soldiers Chesapeake and Ohio canal, memorial from the state to be appointed to office 44; petitions against 46; me- on fatigue duty 172; the bill taken up 286, 287, 238; of Maryland that the United States contribute further morials on 47; Mr. Norvell's resolution laid on table 61; taken up in the senate 300, 302; yeas and nays and aid to 107; Choctaw land frauds, bill to investigate 333; the bill discussed 76; petitions ib.; bill discussed 94, passage 304, 307, 312, 313; supplementary bill 332; Choctaw treaty, bill to extend the time for the commis- 95; proceedings 96; yeas and nays, and the bill itself Arts, an act to promote the useful, reported 126; Ather- sion instituted for claims under 137; Cilley, the hon. 107, 108, 110; report made and the substance thereof ton, Mr. 227; Attorneys and marshals, inquiry direct- Jonathan, message announcing the death of 11; Mr. 138, 139; the report resumed 157, 158, 159, 174, 317; ed into the propriety of vesting the appointment of in Williams' communication of ib.; death announced by Duelling, Mr. Prentiss' bill 1, 14; Duncan, Dr. speech the courts 222; relative to fees of, in Louisiana 285 Mr. Fairfield 13; funeral procession ib.; investigation as in reply to Mr. Bond 315, 333, 375; Duties on imports, Baltimore, tonnage on vessels entering through the to causes of his death ib.; committee announced 16; or- bill relative to, passed 208; on foreign coal, see coal: ice 44; Banks, call for information as to the conduct of der of procession 61; report of the committee as to his passed, &c. 219; to remit on goods destroyed by late the Metropolis 43; reported 44; remainder of it 60; death 139; Circuit court of Louisiana district, inquiry fire in New York 333; Duty bonds, inquiry as to paying see Union bank of Georgetown; bill respecting the, ordered into the cause of the failure of the 251; bill to the merchants of Mobile the costs on renewing 28; made the order of the day 137; communication rela- change the time of holding in Tennessee 310; in New committee discharged from the consideration of tive to certain banks in Boston ib.; bill to incorporate York 319; Claims, see commissioners of; for spoliations Education, Mr. Johnson's resolutions to appropriate certain in the District of Columbia, reported ib.; Mr. 80; Clay, Mr. of Alabama 156, 173, 205; Clay, Henry, lands for 12; Elections, resolutions relative to appoint Clay's inquiry 156; to continue the existence of, in the his speech on sub-treasury bill 67, 108, 122, 136, 196, ment of committee of 30; leave to bring in a bill to District of Columbia 185, 186, 204; resolutions to inquire 156, 202, 203, 205, 208, 216, 250, 281, 307, 308; Clayton, secure freedom of 32; Elections for representatives, into the condition of 187, 201; the Union bank of Mr. 94; Clerks, resolution relative to equalizing the Mr. Prentiss' resolution relative to 252; Electro mag- Georgetown, incorporated 204; see deposites with the bill compensation of 43; call for information relative to the netic telegraphs, bill to test the practicability of, report- to continue the existence of the District banks reported number employed in the different departments 336; ed 109; Emigrating Indians, bill for security and pro- to the house 220; yeas and nays on its passage 221; re- Clerks, in the office of commissioner of Indian affairs, tection of 156; passed 157, 172; reported in the house solutions calling for information relative to the condition bill to appoint four additional, reported 137; Closing the 218; Evans, Mr. announces Mr. Carter's death 48, of the District 222; yeas and nays on the passage of the session, resolution fixing the time of 123, 128; see ad- 303; Everett, Mr. 29, 208, 217; Ewing, Mr. 76, 77, 110, bill to extend the charters of the District banks 223; journment; Coal, foreign, petition to allow a drawback 243, 302, 303; Excuses of members for absence 334; relative to the use of, as depositories, Webster's resolu- on, &c. 201; an exemption of duty on 216, 300; reported Executive power, resolution relative to 63; Expendi tions 281, 286; Bank of the United States, petition to pre- 330; Collection of the public revenue, bill for the 251, tures, public, resolutions relative to 30, 298: see public vent reissuing old notes 11; notice of an intention to in- 252; see banks, depositories 282, 298; Columbia river, in- expenditures: Exploring expedition, inquiry as to de- troduce a bill to prevent the abatement of suits against quiry as to establishing a port at 189; see Oregon; Co- lays in sailing 31; relative to converting into a coast 12; the bill 16; passed ib.; memorial of the delegates of the lumbia steamer, call for information relative to attack squadron 96, 110, 111; call on the president for infor people of Pennsylvania against, presented 26; resolu- on 125; Commerce and navigation, the annual state- mation 111; communication from the president rela- tion to inquire as to compelling to pay its liabilities, ment laid before the senate 203; Commissioners of tive to 127, 215, 254, 281; Extra pay to officers, proceed- &c. 31; petitions of citizens of Essex county, for a 61; claims, bill to establish a board of 80; taken up 109,ings relative to 318, 334, 335 inquiry as to selling the bonds of the 96; bill to prohibit 123, 137; passed, 137; consideration of 155; passed 156, Fairfield, Mr. announces death of Mr. Cilley 13; re- the circulation of the notes of the late 103, 113. read and referred 157; Commissioner of the general lative to northeartern boundary 45, 318; Falmouth and 122; report from the president of 127, 128; see bonds of land office, bill to increase the salary of, considered 173; Alexandria rail road company, passed 206; Fees, to the, petition presented by Mr. Clay for the establish- Commissioner of Indian affairs, bill to appoint four ad the clerks, attorneys, &c. in Louisiana, inquiry as to ment of a, and his remarks 203, petitions for 250, ditional clerks in the office of the 137; Commissioner of allowing 285; Fillmore, Mr. 29, 46, 64; Florida, in- 330, 331; the bill to prohibit the reissuing of notes, patents to have the use of the library 126; Constitution quiry relative to giving another legislative branch 30; &c. passed ib.; Banks, honorable Linn, appears and of the United States, amendment proposed to prohibit call for information relative to war in 31; relative to qualifies 207; Bargy, Peter, bill passed for relief of 28; duelists from holding offices 31; Copy right law, petition any treaty with Indians, &c. 62; inquiry as to allowing Bell, Mr. 14, 77; and Mr. Turney 259, 233, 234, 266, for a 61, 172, 264; unfavorable report 231; Corwin, Mr. troops, &c. who lost their horses, &c. additional pay 332; Benton, Mr. 108, 185, 186, 202, 204, 232; Beziers, of Ohio, speech of, on the Cumberland road bill 211; 63; appropriation for compilation of the laws of 111; re- captain, relative to remunerating for saving the cap- Counterfeit copper, gold, &c. bill respecting, reported solution relative to pay of troops employed in 125; sun- tain and crew of an American vessel 46; Blair, Fran- 30; Counterfeiting treasury notes, bill to prevent the, dry bills relative to 238, 250, 281; relative to compila- cis P. communication from the postmaster relative to reported 185; taken up and passed 186, 187; Craig, Mr. tion of laws 301; bills passed 311; bill relative to fram- 157; petition from, for abatement in the amount for 29; Creeks and Choctaws, papers touching the claims ing a constitution, passed 319; Foreign affairs, bill for which he is held reponsible 216; the subject considered of the, laid before the house 206; Crittenden, Mr. 43; the preservation of neutrality 1; Foreign paupers, report and referred 270, 271; committee authorised to send for Crockett, Anthony, &c. communication from the post- on memorial from Boston relative to 109; debate, call persons and papers 284; report 310, 335; Board of master general relative to 157; Crockett, John W. letter upon the president for all correspondence relative to claims-see commissioners of claims; Bond, Mr. of from 242; Crooks, Wm. & James, bill for the relief of 153, 191, 208, 226; proceedings relative to 219; expla- Ohio 109, 110, 124, 238, 291, 333; Bonds of the bank rejected 301; Cumberland road bill, taken up 75, 111, natory message from the president 220; bill relative to, of the United States, bill to authorise the sale of 172, 112, 127, 128; passed 138, 211, 205, 206; the vote on the reported 313; Fort Gibson, relative to removal of troops 173; passed 175, 332, 333; see Bank United States; bill 215; taken up 219; bill reported 287; Cushing, Mr. from 74, 94; fortifications, &c. inquiry as to which Books, bill to authorise the purchase of, for mem- 218, 254, 268, 303; Cushman, Mr. 227; Currency, petition might be dispensed with, 108, 125; Mr. Davis' remarks bers, reported, &c. 319; passed b.; Boon, Mr. 76, to restore the 12; report relative to 32; see sub-treasury; in the senate relative to 131; report relative to 172; 190; Bouldin, Mr. 16. 111, 188, 286, 301; Bounda- the committee on, discharged 107; resolution relative to inquiry and estimates as to for the northern frontier ry, notheastern, message relative to the postponed the discrimination made in the reception of 125; Mr. 252; the bill making appropriations for, passed 311; 16; referred 32, 45, 47; message from the president Clay's resolution that no discrimination be made, &c. taken up 319; passed 319, 333; Frauds, resolution di- relative to 61; bill relative to the, postponed 103; bill for 157; report of the committee on 187; Clay's resolution recting inquiry for the preventing, on the revenue in surveying the 126; documents relative to the, presented as to the making a discrimination in the 190, 191, 209; the entry of goods at the custom house 294; French 157; resolutions of Maine relative to 173; Mr. Web communication from the secretary of the treasury rela- indemnities, bill to authorise the correction of errors 75; ster's remarks relative to 184, 186; letter from the pre- tive to 208; Mr. Clay's resolution further considered Fulton, Robert, the heirs of 45; motion to reconsider sident relative to the 206, 218; previous question 221; 215, 216; passed 224; yeas and nays, &c. 232; Cuth- 95; bill reported 231, 311; Fulton steam ship, report of bill for exploration and survey of the 251; resolution bert, Mr. 205 the secretary relative to that the president communicate information, &c. 222; Davis, Mr. 12, 27, 109, 131, 185, 194, 202, 206, 216, 309; the resolution for a joint commission for the survey and Dawson, Mr. 14, 217, 319; Death, resolution relative exploration of the 255, 265; referred to the committee to abolishing the punishment of 62; Debenture bonds, on foreign relations 266; resolutions adopted 301, 303; a resolution for the discharge of, in certain cases 300; bill relative to, passed 319; Boundary, northwestern- Debentures to fishing vessels, inquiry as to repealing see Oregon; Boundary, southeastern, Mr. Garland's the law relative to 63; Delaware, bill to divide into two resolution relative to 222; Boundary, southwestern, Mr. collection districts, passed 232; reported against 330; Preston's resolutions relative to 137; Bounty lands, bill Deposite act, leave asked for a bill to modify the 299; reported to grant to those who defended the country passed 300; considered in the house 304, 307; yeas and during the late war with Great Britain 109, 126; bill to nays 303, 315, ib.; yeas and nays on the 317; Deposite 127, 157, 185, 205, 238, 250, 281 grant to settlers for the defence of the western frontier of public moneys-Mr. Webster's resolution of inquiry Hale, capt. Nathan, joint resolution for the erection 257; Branch mints, bill relative to, passed 232; reported as to the, &c. 216; inquiry as to repealing the act 222; of a monuiment to, ordered 287; hall, the use of grant- against 317; Briggs, Mr. 227, 266, 303; Brown, Mrs. Mr. Wright's report as to the depositories 238; and ed to the Temperance society 12; resolution to enforce widow of major general, resolution relative to pension resumed 245; resolutions relative to 252; Depositions, in- the rules as to 16; granted to Mr. Buckingham 29; re- 30, 96, passed 222; Buchanan, Mr. request to disobey quiry directed to be made as to the mode of taking 234; solution to alter, for the house of representatives 45; the instructions of the legislature as to the sub-treasury District of Columbia-resolutions relative to laws of motion to grant for the use of Mr. Espy 126; granted 12, 26, 136, 173, 186, 281, 308; Buckingham, Mr. east- &c. 16; relative to the organization of the orphans' ib.; the house adjourns for the cleansing of the 159; the ern traveller, motion to grant the use of the hall to 29; court 30; bill for suppressing gaming in 46; to incorpo- use of, for Drs. Sherwood and Dwight to explain mag- Buildings-see public. rate certain banks in 46; to establish a criminal court netic variation, rejected 269; relative to altering the 287; Calhoun, Mr. of Mass. 227; Calhoun, John C. speech in 95; passed 96; inquiry as to retrocession 109, 110, Hall, Mr. of Vermont, 77, 108; Halsted Mr. of New on the sub treasury bill 55 and again 180, 115, 122, 127, 111, 125; mode of recording deeds 110; bill respecting Jersey 76; speech on the appropriation bill 167; Ha 196, 216; Cambreleng, Mr. 77, 96, 175, 203, 235, 314, the banks in, made the order of the day 137; see mer, Mr. 109, ib. 124; harbor bill reported 309; amend- 317, 303, 332; Campbell, Mr. and Mr. Maury 353, 126; banks: as to sending a delegate to congress 75; bill re-ed and rejected 310; reconsidered and ordered to a Canada, relative to seizure of the Caroline 30; see Ca- lating to the affairs of the 174; act to incorporate the third reading 311, 314; report from 317; passed in the roline; resolution relative to the burning of the 46; Ca- medical society of, passed 204; day set apart for the house 319, b. 333; Harlan, Mr. 224, 284; Hassler, Mr. nal, petition for, &c. around the falls of the Ohio 11; business of 233; nine bills relative to the business of statement from relative to weights and measures 307, communication from the president relative to across the, passed 253; relative to Alexandria orphans' court 309; Haynes, Mr. 224; Havti, petition of citizens of the the isthmus of Darien 47; bill to grant the right of way 265; bill providing for lunatics in 281; committee dis- District for an agent to 264; hemp, relative to draw- to through the public lands 157; passed 172; Caroline, charged from consideration of the retrocession 301; back on 333; Hoffman, Mr. 226, 208, 219; Hopkins, the steamboat, call on the president for information, several acts passed 301, 310; to erect a court house at Mr. 125, 123; horses destroyed in the military service &c. 30; petition relative to 46; proceedings 64; petitions Alexandria, passed 311; relative to medical society 330; of the United States, as to the payment for 217, 218, 75; Carr, Overton, late doorkeeper, death of 76; Carter, Falmouth and Alexandria rail road bill laid on table reported 234, 231, 301; hospital in the city of Washing- Mr. of Tenn. 254; Carter, T. J. death of 44; announc- 330, 333; bill to incorporate certain banks in the, re- ton, bill to authorise the erection of considered 173; ed by Mr. Evans 48; interred 49; Cass, Lewis. inquiry ported 137; District court of New York, bill passed postponed 185; Howard, Mr. 29; remarks on death of relative to his visit to the Mediterranean, &c. 252; Cat- 319; District court to be held at Jackson, Tennessee Mr. McKim 95, 340, 234, 256, 267, 302; Hubbard, Mr. lin's Indian portrait gallery, inquiry directed relative to 217; passed 234; engrossed 223; to reorganize in Mis- the purchase of 222; Census, bill relative to the pro-sissippi, passed 231, 253; District judges, bill rela- per taking of the, passed 282, 298; Cherokees, remon- tive to salaries of 123; Documentary History of the strance against the establishment of a territorial go- Revolution, resolution in relation to the contract for vernment west of the Miss. 155; relative to late treaty 60; resolution for the distribution of the 236; Door-ments made on land sold a second time by the United with the 172 memorials 175, 186, 187; communication keeper appointed 96; Dromgoole, Mr. 126, 128, 226, from the president relative to 204; appropriations 227; Dry dock, resolution relative to a, at Philadelphia proposed 203; president's communication consider- 157; Duel, notice of a bill to prohibit 12; substance of ed 215, 217; see Indians; debate in the senate re- Mr. Prentiss's bill 27; reported as amended 28; pro-
Gannet, Deborah, application for a pension, an in- teresting notice of 221; Garland, Mr. 109, 137, 255; Georgetown, memorials from, praying it might be re- stored to Maryland 108; Girard estate, petition from 43; Glascock, Mr. 79, 217; government and the press, to separate 138; Grantland, Mr. of Georgia 29; Graves, William J. see duel and Cilley; report of the committee on duelling 139, 188; Grinnell. Mr. 15, 29; Grundy, Mr. remarks on the death of Mr. McKim 94, 96. 103,
Ice breakers. petition from Philadelphia relative to keeping the harbor open by 137; imprisonment for debt, bill to abolish proposed 264, 365; passed 266; improve- States, the question discussed as to whether they should be paid for 231; independent treasury bill-see sub- treasury; Indian annuity bill, taken up 319; passed 319, 333; Indiana, resolution of the legislature asking
that notes of specie paying banks may be received in documents 332; Michigan, act of the legislature of, for | District of Columbia 137; passed 138; Pre-emption law, payment of public lands 23; allowed to re-locate certain the charter of the university, for which a grant of land resolutions of the legislature of Louisiana relative to lands 43; Indians, as to safe keeping of money appro- had been asked from congress, presented 216; bill for 27; call on the land office for information, &c. 80; to priated for 28; the Choctaws relative to appointing the completion of certain roads in 231; passed 232; grant pre-emption rights to settlers on the public lands commissioners, &c. 44; relative to the intermeddling of for the grant of land in aid of canal, passed 254; the 238, 254, 255, 256; the bill to grant, taken up 264; yeas foreign nations with 62; memorial of the Cherokees 75; bill to create the office of surveyor general of the lands and nays, and proceedings on the 266, 267; passed committee discharged 88; protest of the Cherokees 110; of, laid on the table 264; rejected ib.; engrossed 301, 271, amended and returned to the house 265; relative petitions 122; bill for the security of the emigrant 123; 310; bill reported against 335; Military academy, at to settlers deprived of its benefits 330; Prentiss, Mr. 27, bill to regulate the intercourse with 124; message from West Point, see West Point; inquiry as to increasing 94, 137, 252; Prentiss. Mr. of Mississippi, appears and the president relative to depredations of the, on an in- the number of cadets 62; appropriation bill taken up qualifies 224, 232, 267, 331; President, communica- dividual 136; petition for the amelioration of the condi- 319, 334; Military affairs, report from the committee on tion from the, relative to the state of the treasury 175; tion of 137; bill for the establishment of a territorial go- 111; Military appropriation bill, see appropriation; re- see the various departments; call for information rela- vernment 156; passed 157-see emigrating Indians; bill ported 94; Military posts on the frontier, communicative to the employment of engineers, &c. 188; relative reported relative to moneys received for 313: see Che- tion from the secretary of war relative to 158; Militia, to the Cherokees 204; message from the, communicat- rokees, &c.; Indian hostilities, letters explanatory of the resolution to re-organizing 31; inquiry as to increasing ing correspondence relative to the northeastern boun- debate on 243; the bill to suppress 208, 218, 232: passed the pay of certain 285; Mint at New Orleans, inquiry dary 218; explanatory message from the, relative to the 232, 234, 236; amendments and yeas and nays 237, as to increasing salary of the officers of 95; Missouri documents accompanying the message in relation to 233, 239; interest, the rule adopted by government as company, petitions to be allowed to enter 500,000 acres foreign paupers 220; message from the, containing esti- to the payment of, on claims 76, 108; as to the allow- of land 61; Missouri river, amount of money expended mates of the cost of removing the Cherokees 222; call ance of, on the commutation pay of revolutionary of- for 47; Morris, Mr. 215, 216; Mulberry, bill to autho- for any correspondence with the governors, &c. relative ficers 138; reconsidered 139; international copy right rise the president to lease gratituously certain pub to extending the time of removing the Cherokees 236; law, petition for a 61, 172; investigation, resolution for lic lands for the cultivation of the 137; passed 318, call upon the, for information relative to Mr. Cass' visit a, into legislative abuses 95; Iowa, bill to establish, 319 to the Mediterranean 252; for information relative to &c. 61, 217; passed 231, 232, 238; ib.; iron, imported National bank, petition presented by Mr. Buchanan the force employed in the Seminole war 252; relative for the construction of iron steamboats, to exempt from to establish 43; see banks and Bank United States; Na- to the treasury building 283; relative to a newspaper duty 236; the house refuses to suspend the rules to tional foundry, inquiry into the expediency of erect- communicated by a Texian minis:er 284; relative to 253, 304, 312 ing, &c. 304; committee authorised to adjourn till next undue attempts to keep down the price of land 284, Jenifer, Mr. 16, 220; Johnson, Mr. of Louisiana 239, session, &c. 335; Naval affairs, inquiry as to creation 288; requested to communicate a report of the last 251; Johnson, William Cost, resolutions relative to ap of rank of admiral 31; report 80; Navy commission-campaign in Florida 310, 311; as to attempts to keep propriating lands for education 12, 13, 30, 47, 63, 64, 76, ers, inquiry as to repealing the law for the establishing down the prices of public lands 317, 336; Press, to se- 95, 243, 157, 189, 335; Jones, George W. see duels; re- of the board of 125; Navy, petition for the preservation parate the government from all connexion with 138; solution of the committee on duelling relative to 149; of timber for the 12; the committee on, directed to in- Preston, Mr. 96, 127, 136, 137, 243; speech of, on the Judiciary system, bill to amend the 23; amended, &c. quire as to fixing number of officers 62; resolution treasury note bill 261, 205; Printing, extra copies order- 34; bill to change the time of holding court in the ninth relative to appointment of midshipmen 125; see appro-ed as to tropical plants in Florida 61; as to the public circuit 45, 47; bill relative to, in the western district of priation; Navy pension fund, the committee directed 109; Public buildings, bill relative to treasury 80; report Virginia 45, 46, 74; passed 47; relative to the ninth cir- to inquire as to modifying the act in relation to 155; on the expenditures for the 110; report ordered to a cuit reported in the senate 61; resumed ib.; laid on the Navy yard at Charlestown, Massachusetts, bill to pur second reading 122; proceedings 126; an amendment table b.; disagreement of the senate's amendment 78; chase a piece of land at 43; Naylor, Mr. 111, 233, 312, to the bill for taking down the treasury building report- inquiry as to interchange of judges 125; the bill to mo- 313, 331; Neutrality, bill for the preservation of 1; ed 138; communication from the commissioners rela- dify so as to abolish the chancery system in Louisiana taken up 12; continued 13; a bill to preserve the, retive to, communicated 157; report relative to regulating passed 237; the substitute from the house relative to ported 16; with amendments 28, ib.; copy of the bill laborers on 189; bill reported making appropriations for holding the court in the ninth district, rejected 264; bill 29; amendments considered 32, 45; Newark, proceed- the 207: bill respecting the removal of the new treasury to change the time of holding the circuit court in Ten- ing of a meeting at 12; New Castle, petition that it be building, &c. 207, 236, 233: yeas and nays on the remo- nessee, passed 280; Jurors, paying of 61 made a port of entry 137, 282; New Echota treaty, val of the treasury building 251, 283: the committee on, Keim, hon. George M. appears 49, 61; Kennedy, see Indians; New Hampshire, order that the claim of, directed to inquire as to the mode of ventilating the John P. appears 153; his resolution on deposite of pub- for the reimbursement of expenses for maintaining house, &c. 286, 335; Public expenditures, resolutions lic money 252, 236; King, Mr. of Alabama, announces jurisdiction, &c. be referred to committee on fo- relative to 30: discussed 95, 126: Mr. Bond's speech up- the of death Mr. Lawler 174, 185, 205; appointed presi- reign affairs 222; Niles' Register, resolution authoris on 291: see Dr. Duncan: the report of the treasurer re- dent pro tem. of the senate 300; thanks of the senate ing the clerk to subscribe for ten numbers for each lative to 320: Public lands, call for information as to 312; Knight, Mr. 185, 187 member on certain conditions 12; same resolution in number of acres granted, &c. 11: memorial of Missis- Land office in Michigan, see Michigan; in Missis- the house 77; laid on the table 78; Norvell, Mr. 156, sippi relative to pre-emption claims, &c. 11: relative to sippi 330; in Louisiana 333; Lawler, Mr. of Alabama 280; Notes of the late United States bank, see Bank appropriations for purposes of education 12: bill report- 77; his death noticed 161; announced in the senate United States; 108, 113, 122, 128, 136, 330, 331; Notes, ed 27: committee on the, directed to inquire as to the 174; in the house ib.; funeral 175; Laws of the United treasury, see treasury notes. surrender to the states of the inundated 27: bill taken up States, resolution for the purchase of a complete copy Officers of the house, rules, &c. as to 95; Ohio, re-ib.: relative to the amount of public land granted to In- for each of the standing committee 64; Legare, Mr. 96; solution ceding all public lands to, in the state of 250; diana 27: to inquire as to granting pre-emption rights to Legislative abuses, resolution for an inquiry into 95; re- Oregon territory, bill for the occupation of, &c. 215, a company in Wisconsin 28: resolution of the state of port 109; Lewis, Samuel, resolution relative to allow-218; adopted ib.; report made 232; Original papers, Indiana that the notes of specie paying banks may be ance to 110; Liberian, inquiry directed as to the ap- relative to private claims, the diaposition to be made of received in payment for ib.: the committee on, to in- pointment and duties of the 158; committee discharged 216, 251; yeas and nays, &c. 281 quire as to issuing patents to persons holding titles to In- from the consideration of 219; Light houses radiators, Panama, that the chart be lithographed 110; Parker, diana reservations 62: as to making donations to per- inquiry as to expediency of importing models of 74; Mr. of New York 14; Patents, inquiry directed as to sons settling west of the Rocky mountains ib.: as to report relative to, ordered to be printed 185; approval altering the laws relative to 284; Patton, Mr. 30, 78, 79, making a grant to Illinois, &c. ib. as to granting a of the report relative to 310; bill making appropriations resignation 109; Pay and emolument of brevet officers, tract to those who served in Indian wars ib.: as to best for, reported 213; bill reported, &c. 330, 333, 334; Lin- bill to regulate, passed 308; Peace society, for the settle- mode of disposing of, &c. 60; the bill discussed, &c. 76: coln, Mr. 76, 77; Linn, Mr. 94; Loomis, Mr. 15; Loui- ment of international difficulties, report of the 254; me- Mr. Grundy's substitute for the bill to graduate the siana, resolutions of the state of, relative to pre-emp-morial from the 299; Pensions, inquiry as to amending price of 94: memorial from the legislature of Arkansas, tion law 27; the bill to establish an additional land of law 34; call for information relative to names of agents relative to the 107: resolution relative to the, in the vici- fice in, passed 264; Lumpkin, Mr. 194, 205; Lyon, Mr. for payment of, &c. 31; communicated 45; inquiry as nity of Vincennes 110: yeas and nays on the passage 80, 174, 233, 312, 314 to extending to wagoners, &c. 62; reports, &c. from the of the bill to reduce and graduate the price of 111, 122: Madison papers, resolution relative to 307, 308; Ma- committee on 64; bill passed 76, 94; pension bill taken up yeas and nays ib.: reported 126: Mr. Hayne's resolution disonian, remarks of Mr. Snyder relative to 267; Mag- 94, 96, 109, 110; passed 221, 223, 236, 252, 311, 333; Pen- relative to distribution of 222: the bill ceding the, in netism, relative to discoveries in 301; Mail contracts sion agents, communication from the secretary of the Ohio, passed 250: inquiry as to efforts to keep down the with rail road companies, inquiry into the propriety of navy relative to the 191; Pension agency, a bill to es- prices of 317: passed 336: bill to grant the right of way making permanent with 174; Mail route, inquiry into tablish at Montpelier, Vermont, passed 137, 207, 222; through the, for canals and rail roads the expediency of making a, from Huntsville, &c. in bill reported to establish a, at McMinnville, Tenn. 206; Quorum, proceedings relative to Mo 174; from Kellysville, Tenn. &c. 217; Maine, rejected 207, 300; Pension fund, the navy, inquiry as to Rail road iron, the committee discharged from the speaker to certify of a vacancy 62; resolutions of the repealing the act, &c. 155; Petrikin, Mr. 111, 263; Phi- consideration of the remission of duties on 155; see legislature relative to the northeastery boundary 173; ladelphia, petition for a dry dock at 11; petition relative iron: Ramsay, captain William, the secretary of the Mallony, Mr. 77; Map of the harbor of Havre de to keeping the harbor open 137; resolutions relative to navy required to communicate the proceedings of the Grace, ordered to have lithographed 12; Marine corps, a dry dock at 157, 189; Pickens, Mr. 78, 276, 158, 255; courts martial relative to 264; presented 265; Reed, Mr. bill for augmenting the 46; bill to re-organize the Piracy, inquiry whether further legislation is necessary 15, 77; Reports, on Mr. Ruggles' case 147; of the 185; Marine hospital, petition as to site of 26; Mary- for the suppression of 252; Pope, Mr. 235, 319, 332; minority of the committee of ways and means ib.; land. resolutions of the legislature of, on the finan- Postage, on newspapers, petition to repeal 11; petition on Mr. Webster's resolution 245; of the committee ces 94; Mason, Mr. 32, 266; Mason, Mr. letter from, from Hampshire county, Va. relative to exacting specie as to our relations with Mexico 340; of the com- correcting misrepresentation 242; Maury, Mr. and Mr. for 28; relative to reducing on newspapers 30; call for mittee on currency 187; Retrenchment and reform, Campbell 353; McComb, maj. gen'l. Alex. bill for the information as to amount of by express mail 31; as to see public expenditures: resolutions relative to 126; relief of 27; rejected 264; McKay, Mr. 29; McKennan, lessening 62; petition to be relieved from the payment Revenue cutters, inquiry as to pay of officers, &c. di- Mr. remarks on duelling 15; McKim, hon. Isaac, of in specie 1 5; on newspapers, &c. 222, 250; Postmas-rected 62; Right of way, bill to grant the, through the notice of the death of 81; Mr. Grundy's remarks 94; ters, inquiry as to increasing compensation of 76; Post-public lands for canals and rail roads 157; reported 172, Mr. Howard's remarks 95; order of procession ib.; master general, call for information relative to the 189; the bill granting the, to Illinois postponed 232;- Medical society of the District of Columbia, act to in- weight of free parcels, &c. 62; communication from the, Rives, William C. speech on sub-treasury bill 34, 306; corporate the, passed 201; see District of Columbia; relative to contracts 122; statement of mails 123; as to Roane, Mr. 174; Robertson, Mr. 30, 235, 316, 336; Manifee, Mr. 30, 223; Mercer, Mr. 77, 112, 220, 234; collection of a claim against Crocket & Blair 125; com- Ruggles, Mr. committee on case of, authorised to em- Messages, see president and secretaries; from the pre- munication relative to postage 127; as to the irregulari-ploy clerk 12, 44; report 111, 121, resolution acquitting, sident, relative to Indian depredations on the property ties and failures of the great western mail 143; and of passed 137; report 147; supplemental do. 156; Rules of an individual 136, 143; relative to foreign paupers the express ib.; communication relative to claims of the house, amendment to 31, 46, 62, 73, 75, 312, 226; correspondence with Mexico 157; Metereological against Crockett & Blair 157; report relative to the re- 335; Russell, Mr. observations, inquiry as to encouraging 78; Metropolis ceipt of notes, &c. 216; for information as to mails 234; banks 44; see bunks; Mexican armed vessels, call for information communicated as to expenses 336; Poto- information relative to attack upon the steamer Coluin- mac, resolution relative to the survey of, &c. 284; Post bia 125, Mexico, our relations with 108; message from office law, passed 318, 333; Post roads, the committee the president relative to the attack on the Columbia, and on, instructed to inquire into the expediency of em- the proceedings thereon 139; correspondence relative ploying additional clerks 231; Post route, from Corydon to appointing an arbitor 147; report of the committee to Harrison, in Indiana 61; across the isthmus of Pa- as to our relations with 340; a petition that arbitration nama 62; from Hackettstown to Belvidere 136; Mr. may be employed in settling difficulties with 156; cor- Allen asks leave to submit a resolution for a 207; respondence relative to, communicated 157, 159; report through Brownsville, Alabama, 266; the bill to estab- to allow vessels bound to, to enter and secure their car-lish, considered 271, 310, 311; Potter, Mr. of Pennsyl- goes in the United States 281; engrossed 282; enquiry vania, on duelling 15; Powder magazine, resolution to as to our relations with 302, 312; relative to printing the authorise the president to purchase a site for, in the
227 Sabine, Mr. Preston's resolutions relative to the boundary on the 137; Saint Peter's and Mississippi rivers, resolution for the purchase of an island at the confluence of the ib.: Schlosser, see Caroline, Canada. Seminoles Indians, see Florida: see Indians: Ser- geant, Mr. 79: Settlers on public lands, act for the relief of certain 330: Sevier, Mr. 202, 280: Shinplasters, one alleged to be of Stockton and Stokes presented by Mr. Clay 75; Sir Robert Peel, inquiry relative to the destruction of the 253: Slavery, petitions against 46, 61: that clerk make a list of, &c. 63, 136, &c.; Slave trade, inquiry as to the, with Texas 61: Small note restriction, leave asked to offer a resolution to repeal
Constitutional chart, a notice of Mayo's Convention-the banks 97-see bank convention; no- tice as to time of meeting of the whig national 178; the state whig at Ohio 240; resolution of the Virginia com- mercial 257; resolution of the Ohio state whig Coal trade, resolutions of the Kentucky legislature relative to
Wabash, bill for improvement of 74: Washington | 239; resolutions relative to French indemnity ib.; reso- monument, the bill to allow the erection of the, on the lutions relative to sub-treasury 241; statistics of the in- public mall, indefinately postponed 164, 265, 280: Ways sane and idiotic poor of and means, report of the minority of the committee on 147: Webster, Daniel, his speech in reply to Mr. Cal- houn 132: speeches on the sub-treasury bill 7, 88, 100: in reply to Mr. Calhoun 132, 173, 184, 187, 205, 206, 216, 232, 238, 250, 281, 299, 300, 307, 309: Western frontier, plan for the defence of, by general Gaines 109: West Point, the committee discharged from the considera- tion of the resolution relative to studies at, &c. 206: in- quiry as to abolishing acadamy at 223, 319: White, judge, his speech upon the sub-treasury bill 169, 260; White, Albert S. letter from 243: Whitman, George, bill to authorise him to import an iron steamboat 136: Whittlesy, Mr. 96: Williams, Mr. annunciation of Cilley's death 11: Williams, Sherrod 217: Wisconsin, inquiry relative to census and admission 30: relative to the southern boundary of 32: bill relative to roads in 44, 64: discussed, &c. 76, 123: bill to authorise to form a constitution, reported 189: in regard to a semi- nary of learning in 217: to a canal 238: bill to mark the southern boundary of 238: to complete public building, passed 255: relative to roads in, rejected, &c. 281: joint committee relative to 282, 302, 309: passed 319: Wise, Mr. 111, 127, 128, 143, 158, 159, 218, 234, 235, 236, 331, 334: Word, Mr. appears and qualifies 224, 232; Wreck- ed property at Key West, bill relative to 309: Wright, Mr. report on Mr. Webster's resolution 173, 238, 245,
the, and the yeas and nays thereon, 207, 311, 313, 332: Smith, Mr. of Indiana 28: Smithsonian bequest, call upon the president for information as to 31: as to the investment of 288: reported 313: call for informa- tion 336: Snyder, Mr. of Illinois, remarks relative to the Madisonian 267: South Carolina militia, inquiry ordered as to paying those employed in the Florida war 222: Southport in Wisconsin, bill relative to es- tablishing a harbor at, discussed 216; passed 217: Spain, bill to give effect to the 8th article of treaty with, passed 76, 94: Specie circular, motion to suspend the rules so as to introduce a resolution to repeal the, and the yeas and nays thereon 207, 217: Specie-paying banks, resolution that it is inexpedient to discontinue to . receive the notes of 30: Standard balance, resolution to make a, for each state 309: State banks, call upon the secretary of the treasury for a condensed statement of the condition of 172: see banks: State of the union, Mr. Cambreling's motion to go into the committee of the whole on the, at length prevails 208: on the bill for suppressing Indian hostilities 218, 219, 224: Stationery, inquiry as to cost of, for session 31: Steamboats, bill for the better security of the lives of passengers 126: to authorise George Whitman to import an iron 136: an act to provide for the better security of the lives of pas- sengers 269: and to appoint persons to test, &c. ib.: re- ported to the senate and amendments of the house re- jected 280, 282, 301: passed 304, 309: the bill to guard against explosions, passed 318: amended and adopted 330; Steam engines, the secretary of the treasury or- dered to report information relative to 302: for trial of 309: passed 320: Stenographers, rules as to 16: Stock- Yeas and nays in the house-on the neutrality bill 12; ton and Stokes, petition relative to money awarded on the suspension of the rules, to consider resolution them &c. 216: Strange, Mr. 205: Sub-treasury bill, ta- relative to Cilley's death 13; on postponing the same ken up 11: resumed 12: to be reported ib. resumed 16, 15; on agreeing to the resolution 16; on the vote to 27, 28: vote on postponing 29: report relative to cur- postpone the sub-treasury bill 29; on the neutrality rency 32; bill resumed 43: resolutions of Kentucky 43: bill 30; on the sub-treasury bill 79; on laying on the bill resumed 44: proceedings of a meeting in Philadel- table the motion for referring the annexation of Texas phia in favor of b.: petitions against 46: bill resumed to a select committee 124; on amendments to, and the 61: petition from Pittsburg ib.: resumed ib.: yeas and passage of the Cumberland road bill 138; on ques- nays on Mr. Rives substitute 61: motion to fix a day tions relative to the duel 188; on the treasury note bill to consider in the house 64: copy of the bill 66: resumed 192; on the bill to extend the charter of the District 74: reported to the house 78: yeas and nays on 79: re-banks 221, 223; on the currency resolution 233; on the marks &c. on 82: petition of citizens of Cleveland appropriation bill to suppress Indian hostilities 238; on against 136: judge White's speech 169: Mr. Wright's re-suspending the rules, to allow Mr. Hamers' resolution, port 244: notice of its rejection in the house 273: petitions for the passage of the 255, 264: presentation of the resolutions of the legislature of Connecticut against 266: taken up 271, 272, 282, 285: yeas and nays and bill rejected 285: petition against 307: Sunday, the house in session on 190: whether a legislative day 309: Survey, in the Illinois and Kaskaskia rivers 28: of the harbor of Providence, R. I. 94; of the harbor of Linn, to be lithographed 109: relative to survey of the lakes 234: Surveyor general of Illinois, to create a 23: to re- move the office of the, of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, &c. 204, 232: of public lands in Wisconsin, passed 238: of Michigan, the bill to create a, laid on the table 264: System of defence, see fortifications.
&c. 109; to allow a resolution relative to the currency 125; to take up a resolution relative to the war 128; rela- tive to the reissue of treasury notes 189; so as to intro- duce a resolution to repeal the small note restriction 207; to allow Sherrod Williams' motion relative to specie circular 217; to introduce a resolution respecting foreign paupers, &c. 219; on the removal of the treasury build- ing 251; on amendments to the pre-emption law 267; on the sub-treasury bill 285; on its reconsideration 286; on the army bill 304; relative to the army bill 313, 314; on the deposite act 317; on the bill to prohibit the reissue of the notes of late bank of the United States 332. Yeas and nays in the senate-on an amendment to the sub- treasury bill 32; on the resolution relative to the slave Tallmage, Mr. 23, 250, 264, 308; Telegraphs, inquiry trade with Texas 61; on Mr. Rives' substitute for the as to establishing a system of 122; Telegraph steam- sub-treasury bill 61; on Mr. King's amendment to the boat, inquiry relative to the destruction of the 253; Ten- sub-treasury bill 74; on striking out the 23d section 75; nessee, act to authorise to issue grants and perfect titles on the proposition that the government receive the bills 304, 312; Territorial government, west of the Missis- of specie paying banks ib.; on various other amend sippi, remonstrance of the Cherokees and Choctaws ments to the same, and on its passage 74; on varicus against 155; Texas, petition against admission of 11; amendments to the duelling bill 107; on the bill itself resolutions of Alabama relative to its admission 32; pe- 103; on the bill relative to the northeastern boundary titions relative to 45, 61; petition from the Arkansas b.; on the bill to graduate the price of public lands relative to boundary line 76; resolution of Tennessee 111; on fixing the time of closing the session 123; on in favor of annexing 122, 124; Mr. Preston's resolution the resolution to fix a day of adjournment 128; on the concerning the annexation of, made the order of the bill to prevent the circulation of the notes of the late day 136; Mr. Preston's resolution relative to boundary bank of the United States 136; on Mr. Calhoun's mo- line on the Sabine 137; petition against the annexation tion to establish a system of joint rules to decide claims of 172; resolution that the president communicate any 137; on the bill to establish a board of commissioners correspondence in relation to, &c. 222; communicated of claims 156; on the bill increasing the salary of the 236; report of the committee relative to 254; yeas and commissioner of the land office 173; on laying on the nays in the senate on the resolution to annex 255; pro- table the resolution of inquiry into the District banks ceedings on the report of the committee relative to 267; 202; on Mr. Buchanan's amendment requiring the resolutions of Rhode Island 269, 271; resolutions cal-banks to have one-fourth specie, &c. 202, 203; on va- ling for information, &c. 284, 312; Thomas, Francis rious amendments, &c. to the treasury note bill 203; 220, 286, 287, 331; Thompson, Mr. 235, 318; Tilling-relative to Distriet banks 204; on various amendments, hast, Mr. 269, 270, 316; Tipton, Mr. 185, 261; Tobac- to Cumberland road bill and its passage 206; on the co, call for information relative to the duties on 31; Tri-Cumberland road bill 215; on striking out the appro- pical plants, a bill to encourage the cultivation of, pass- priation for the exploring expedition ib.; on the striking ed 251; Treasury circular, resolutions of Indiana rela- out of sound specie paying banks, in the currency re- tive to 32; report of the committee of ways and means solution ib.; on Mr. Morris' currency resolution, and 83; Treasury notes, bill to authorise the issue of 77; re- port relative to 80; bill relative to 123; the new bill 139; the bill to authorise the issue of, passed 177; the judici- ary committee instructed to inquire as to prevent the counterfeiting 173; reported 185; bill to reissue 189; referred to the finance committee 202; passed 203; ap- proved 217; bill to issue, &c. considered 189; proceed- ings on the 190, 191; yeas and nays 192; Mr. Wil- lian's resolutions relative to government paper curren- cy 223; Treaty of Gent, bill to carry into effect the 8th article of 95; Truth Teller, Mr. Hoffinan's remarks re- lative to the president's communication of the, an article from the 208, 219, 221; the articles from the 230; Turney, Mr. letter relative to recontre with Mr. Bell 259, 234 Underwood, Mr. 29, 111, 175, 243, 255, 266, 332; U. States bank, see banks; Union bank of Georgetown, bill to extend its charter 123; University of Pennsylvania, memorial for a piece of the public domain 184; Univer- versity of St. Louis, bill granting lands to, postponed 232 Vapor bath, the bill to purchase the right to use Dr. B. Reilley's rejected 282; reconsidered 300; Vice pre- sident, relinquishes the chair 300; Virginia report from the commissioner of the land office as to the quantity of land scrip required for satisfying outstanding mili- tary bounty lands
on the resolution itself 216; on the bill making South- port a harbor 217; on the bill granting a township to the university of St. Louis 232; on postponing the bill to create the territory of Iowa ib.; on the bill to en- courage the cultivation of tropical plants 251; yeas and nays on the bill to grant western bounty lands to set- tlers for defence, &c. b; relative to the annexation of Texas 255; relative to the land office in Michigan 264; veas and nays relative to pre-emption law 265; on the bill to abolish imprisonment for debt 266; as to the dis- position of original papers 281; relative to the collec- tion of the revenue 299; repeal the deposite act 300; on the bill for the discharge of debenture bonds in certain cases ib.; on the bill creating the office of sur- veyor general of Michigan 301; on modifying the de- posite act 303; relative to the harbor bill
Congressional elections, a notice of those yet to take place 290 Connecticut-number of banks in 2; nominations for governor and lieutenant governor 17; annual elec- tion 81; election of governor 97; the legislature con- vened and the votes for governor 176; Dennis Kim- berly elected a senator 193; refuses to expunge the word "white" in constitution as to voters 193; copper mine
Coinage at the U. States mint, whole amount of 258 Colonization, six hundred negroes emancipated 65 Cominercial convention, resolution of the Virginia Corwin, Mr. of Ohio, speech on the Cumberland road bill 211 Cotton-notice of the Liverpool market for 384; trade of Natchez 403; the first bale of the year 416 Court of inquiry, on case of major Crossman, as- sembled 387 Creek nation, letter from the, contradicting reports as to their discontent, &c.
Democratic Review, notice of the Deposite banks, list of and amount in them Dickerson, Mahlon, resigned as secretary of navy 257 Didon, French frigate, a contradiction of the report as to a sham fight on board of 385
Dinner-reply of Mr. Poinsett to an invitation to a at Charleston 323; to Mr. Webster at New York ib.; to Mr. Webster at Boston 337; tendered to col. R. M. Johnson at Philadelphia 391; to Mr. Prentiss at Portland ib.; to hon. Henry A. Wise at Petersburg ib.; the toasts and proceedings at the Preston barbacue 392; to general William H. Harrison at Massilon 397; letter from John C. Calhoun relative to, at the Richland dis- trict 406; to John Bell at Nashville 406 Dougherty, judge, at St. Louis, the murder of 337 Dromgoole, Mr. the speech of, on the bill to seperate the government from the banks 360 Duel-between Cilley and Graves 1; which see-Mr. Le Lange of New Orleans and Mr. R. C. Tates. of New York 321; adjustment of the, between Mr. Se- gar and Mr. Savage 323; correspondence Duelling, Mr. Prentiss introduces a bill to prohibit
East India snakes, the way in which they are managed 400 Elections-copy of the bill to secure the freedom of 51; the annual in Connecticut 81; Edward Robinson elected to congress from Maine 98; of mayor of New York 97, 113; in Connecticut 115; election in Balti- more 129; of a majority of whigs in the legislature 145 the Albany charter ib.; the Virginia congressional 161; the Mississippi ib.; of governor in Connecticut 176; in Rhode Island ib.; a general statement of the votes for and against the administration in all the states ib.; the Virginian 177; in Mississippi 193; in Maine 209; in Mississippi 239; the result of the, in Louisiana 321; in North Carolina 337; official statement of the Missis- sippi 338; the time of the various state elections 356; in North Carolina 369, 401; in Kentucky, Alabama, In- diana, Illinois, Missouri, &c.
F. Falkland Islands, notice from the governor of, to a whaling vessel to go off 403 Fire, at West Point 7; at Nachitoches 112; at Charleston 160, 239; at Nantucket 239; further at- tempts at Charleston 258; in London 368; in the pines in New Jersey 400; at Hudson, New York 400 Fisheries, the number of vessels employed in the cod and mackerel
323 Florida-Indians at Charleston on their way west 1; army returned from the everglades ib.; letter from an officer south of Fort Jupiter 4; letter from Fort Pierce 33; number of Seminoles come in 49; items ib.; com- munications of general Jesup, colonel Gadsden and the secretary of war relative to 51; Indians taken, troops discharged, &c. 97; capture of Indians near camp Jupiter 113; surrender of Alligator 145; mail carrier murdered ib.; movement of troops 193; late from, relative to Indians coming in b.; lieutenant colonel Twigg's command 239; Indians at St. John's Ferry 258; battle near Newnansville 290; burning and destroying 320; measures for defence of the Okefeno- kee swamp 354; a murder near colonel Gadsden's and other outrages 386; comments on the statement of the war's being nearly ended 387; colonel Harney gone on an expedition to the Wathlacoochie
Flour in Baltimere 2; prices of, at the latest dates b.; supply of
I. Illinois-letter of A. M. Jenkins declining being a candidate for governor 210; elections in 401 Imports and exports of the United States and tonnage
McKim, the hon. Isaac, death of Medical staff-see army; see surgeons.
Imprisonment for debt in Ohio, abolished 80; in Maryland ib.; resolution in Vermont against 352 Mexico-arrival of French fleet 49; French brigs of Indiana-a notice of rich iron ore in 352; elections in war at 128: the ultimatum of the French 129; corres- 401 pondence relative to appointing an arbiter in the case Indians see Florida; number of 3; see different of difference with the United States 147; ports declar- tribes; report as to concert of action among 401 ed under blockade 161; official account of the blockade Indian relics, mound opened in Ohio 176 of the ports of 163; manifesto of the president of, to the Indian treaties, with Chippewa, Sioux and Winneba- nation 164; vessels ordered off, &c. 177; terms of set- goes 241 tlement 194; extraordinary power given to the president Insanity singular case of persons in the water, 226; French squadron 239; the Mexican affairs ge brought on by firing cannon over them 324 nerally and blockade 336; the report of the committee Insurance company, the New York, sale of its pro- of foreign affairs in the house of representatives as to perty 402 our relation with 340; items of news relative to the blockade, &c. 355; extract of a speech from the pre- sident of 385; minister awaiting for power to settle with the United States 397; speeen of president Bustamente
Interest, a decision that, computed by Rowlett's tables was usurious 389 Iowa-a new territory erected 225; population ac- count of 339; the lands called Black Hawk's purchase to be offered for sale
Iron, imports of 2; resolutions of the Kentucky legis lature J. Jackson, Andrew, his image on a rock 114; visit to Nashville 129; the sacrament administered 389 Force, Peter, elected mayor of Washington 225 Jamaica-duty on flour at 112; the apprentice system Foreign paupers see congress-debate on the mes-290; proclamation for emancipation in 397 sage of the president relative to the introduction of 226 Jenkins, A. M. his letter declining to be a candidate Fort Towson-account of the troops at 144 for governor of Illinois and making known his senti- France-duties, journals, &c. 49; forgeries in the ments 210 statements relative to the commercial distress 145; Jesup, general, his arrival at Washington 209 coronation, proceedings of the slavery committee; de- Johnson, col. Richard M. invitation to a dinner in the feat of the Russians by the Circassians 177; arrival of county of Philadelphia and his reply 391 governor Tacon at Bordeaux; rail road; reception of Haytien commissioners: arrival of the emperor of Kentucky-resolutions of the legislature relative to Russia at Berlin 305; its treaty with Texas 321; items the currency 49; concerning the iron and coal trade from 329; misunderstanding with Switzerland; marshal 50; lands disposed of 193; the early settlement of 340; Soult's expedition to England; destruction of the thea- memoir and death of captain Charles Gatliff 356; the tre Vaudeville at Paris 371: see British affairs. elections in Franking public documents, abuse of Franklin Bank of Boston, indictment against offi-
Franklin, Benjamin, proposition of the Mobile Typo- graphical society to build a monument to
Freedom of elections, bill to secure French indemnity, resolutions of Connecticut rela- tive to 239; New Hampshire resolutions 321 Frost, Richard K. à Thompsonian, trial for man- slaughter 144 G.
Gales & Seaton, letter relative to the charges of the Globe as to not executing the printing according to law, &c. 399 Gambling on the western waters, carried to an alarming extent 388 Garland, James, letter relative to Dr. Duncan's speech 398
Garnett, James, speech on digging gold Gathiff, Charles, an early adventurer in Kentucky, memoir and death of
Kneeland, Abner, tried for blasphemy 112; petition for the release of 240
Lakes, an article on the rise of waters in the 395 Murder in Arkansas-an account of the, by the Lake Erie-rise of water at 239; steamboat on, char-speaker, &c. 193, 258; by Stewart at Baltimore 275; tered for United States service of Geo. Collins on Magothy 321; of judge Dougherty 337 Muskingum river, article relative to the improvement of the navigation of
289 Law cases-mandamus, Kendall postmaster general vs. Stockton & Stokes 33; point raised that the bank had forfeited its charter 240; against a steamboat to re- cover the value of a trunk, left on board one night, and lost 339; case of insurance for average loss, &c. 340; case of contempt, Josiah Baily, jr. 357; relative to the appointment of a clerk to the circuit court of Louisiana 239, 373; decision in the United States circuit court at Natchez that interest calculated by Rowlett's tables is usurious 339; the Presbyterian 397
Nantucket-early reminiscence of 23; fire at 239 Naval-arrival of the Shark 80; destination of the Co- lumbia 80, 81; arrival of the Falmouth at Valparaiso 144; list of officers of the Concord ib.; correspondence relative to the blockade of the Mexican ports 163; the Lawler, Mr. of Alabama, death of ship Columbia goes to sea, arrival of the Fulton 176; Legget, Wm. letter respecting J. W. Webb letter from the commander of the Natchez that he would Liberia as to the health of convey letters to Tampico 177; the Concord at Pensa- Light house, examination of coast, &c. assigned cola ib.; general orders 242; the United States sloop of Lightning, the damage done by, on July 20th war Levant at Matanzas 321; letter from commodore Limestone, found in Genesee, New York 384 Nicholson on board the United States ship Indepen- Lobby services, the amount paid for 368 dence 325; promotions in the ib.; navy orders 349; Louisiana-veto of the bank bill 48; bill to autho-death of commodore Rodgers 353, 372; arrival of the rise lotteries passed 80; relative to the appointment of a Constitution, and list of officers 354; departure of the clerk to the circuit court of 239, 373; the result of the Porpoise 384; old Ironsides ib.; examination of coast 244 late election 321 for light houses and officers assigned for 388; commo- 3 Lown, Wm. letter relative to the destruction of the dore Barron becomes the head of the navy and com- 256 George Washington 355 modore Stewart second 400; commodore Biddle ap- pointed governor of the asylum at Philadelphia ib.; see exploring expedition; an article relative to com. Morris and Hull 404; list of midshipman passed 274; general orders
Mails, not received 1; robbery of the from Columbus to Toledo 3; a new arrangement between Washington and Philadelphia 178; from Toledo to Buffalo destroy- ed by fire 357 Maine see boundary; state prison of 4; Edward Ro- New Hampshire-Mr. Hill re-elected governor 49; binson elected a member of congress from 97; election number of votes 65; Levi Woodbury nominated as for congress 209; John S. Fairfield nominated for go-chief justice of 193; meeting and organization of the vernor 290; reply of governor Fairfield to his nomina- legislature 256; number of votes, &c. 258; the whig tion, relative to 305; nomination of Smith for governor convention 273; judge Page nominated for senator 337 289; notice of the proceedings of thelegislature of 321; disease among catile
Hail Columbia-judge Hopkinson, the author of and the circumstances under which written Mandamus case, Amos Kendall, postmaster general Hall, Mr. of Vermont, remarks relative to vote on vs. Stockton & Stokes 33; motion for attachment 65; sub-treasury 82 proceedings 81; appropriation for, to restore a clerk in Halstead, Mr. of New Jersey, speech on the bill the circuit court of Louisiana making appropriations for the expenses of the govern-
416 New Jersey-act of the state, relative to punishment of death 144 New Orleans, the health of
New York-governor Marcy's special message 130; state loan taken for the Erie canal 177; the bank law in 130 full 179; auction duties 389 144
New York city-the recorder of 4; mayoralty of 48; 336, 368 Isaac L. Varian nominated for mayor 80; the election congress 97; vote for mayor 113; organization of the new board 112 of common council 276
Niles National Register, editorial notice relative to 176 publishing the journal of congress, &c.
Marryatt, capt. his toast at Toronto Marshall, chief justice see Wm. Smith and Maryland amendments to constitution and guberna- 210 torial districts 33; bank law 114; remonstrance against 384 the governor's appointment of col. Abert as engineer Heath, James P. his card on behalf of the sufferers 321; statement of the banks of 322 of the Pulaski 348 Mastodon, discovery of a skeleton of, at Bucyrus, Ohio 405
Health, of different cities
Holland and Belgium-see British and French af- Mason, James M. letter from, relative to misrepresen- Hops, quantity of raised in Massachusetts 48 tation
North Carolina-as to, the draining of the swamp lands of 144; hon. John Branch run for governor of 321; awakening on the subject of internal improvement ib.; election in 337; governor Branch's letter accepting 344; election in 369, 401 Northeastern frontier-see boundary. Northern frontier-see Canada; see boundary; out- rage on the sir Robert Peel 224
Notes-see treasury notes; see banks,
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