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By Authority. Laws or the United States, Passed at the first Session of the twenty sixth Congress. [Pcblxc?No. !.] AN ACT m iking appropriations, in part, for the support of the Government for the rear eighteen hundred and forty. Be it exacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States oj America in Congress assembled, Thai the following sums be, and the same arr hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated moncy in the Treasury, viz: For pay and mileage of members of Congress and Delegates, four hundred thousand dollars. For pay of the officers and clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, twenty-five thousand dollars. For stationary, fuel, printing, and ail other incidental and contingent expenses of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars. For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the House of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. For arrears for printing, lithographing, and engraving, ordered by the House of Representatives during the third session * of the Twenty-fifth Congress, and for the payment of which that Congress did not make the necessary appropriations, a sum not to exceed fifty thousand dollars. R. M. T. HUNTER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. RH. M. JOHNSON, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 8th, 1840. M. VAN BUREN. [Public?No. 2 ] AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of the Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States, for the year eighteen hundred and forty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same arc hereby, appropriated, in addition to former appropriations, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the pensioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty. For the Revolutionary pensioners, un dcr the act of the eighteenth of March, i One thousand eight hundred and eighteen, ( cine hundred and twelve thousand one < hundred and thirty-two dollars. i For pensions to widows and orphans, < under the act of the fourth of July, one | thousand eight huudred and thirty-six, twenty-three thousand six hundred and i seventy-six dollars. ! For five years' pensions to widnwB, un- < der the act of the seventh of July, one ; thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, ? eight hundred and sixty-three thousand i fire hundred and forty dollars. * For half-pay pensioners, payable through i the office of the Third Auditor, ten thous- j and dollars. i For arrearages, payable through the i Third Auditor's office, fifteen hundred I dollars. t Sxc. 2. And be it further enacted* That i the several agents for paying pensioners, i now in office, ot hereafter to be appointed, j shall be, and they are hereby, authorized i to administer all oetha required to be ad- < ministered to pensioners, attorneys of j pensioners or others, in the conrso of the < preparation of papers for the payment of ( pensions under any of the laws of Congress; and that the said agents, for the ad- j ministration of every oath and the proper i certificate thereof, shall be, and are here- j hv. authorized to charge, and shall he en. titled to receive, from the person to whom the oath is administered, the same compensation which, by the law of the State in which the agent is located, is allowed ' to State officers for administering similar ( oaths and certifying the samo. Approved, February 22d, 1840. [Public.?No* 3>J * AN ACT to amenJ the act "to provide for taking the sixth census or enumera- 1 tion of the inhabitants of the United States,'* approved March third, eigh- * teen hundred and thirty-nine. 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House 1 of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 1 tho enumeration shall commence on the 1 first day of Jane, in the year eighteen J hundred and forty, and shyi be completed find closed within five wlendur months 1 thereafter. The several assistants shall ' within five months, and on or before the 1 first day of November, t ighteen hundred una lorty, deliver to tne marsnais, by ' whom thoy shall be appointed, two copies of the returns of the enumeration and statistical tables, and the marshals respective- 1 ly shall, on or before the first clay of Dc- < ccmbcr, in the year eighteen hundred and c forty, transmit to the Secretary of State i one copy of the several returns and statis- c tica! tables, and also the aggregate amount flf each description uf persons wtthin thoir ! respective districts 0* territories, and aggregate also of the statistical inforr tion obtained within said districts. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, T in the enumeration of transient perso the name of every person who shall be inhabitant of any district or territo without a settled place of residence, si be inserted in the column of the sched which is allotted for the heads of fnmil f in the division where he or she shall be the said first day of June, eighteen h dred and forty. Bsc. 3. And be it further rnaeted, T t the compensation of the marshal of M souri shall be three hundred dollars. Sec. 4. And be it furtticr enacted, T in lieu of the five dollars heretofore pro > ded as compensation to the assistant ' each of the two correct copies of thesci dules containing the number of inhabits ! within hi* divicinn tn ho cot nr\ in Imn r the most public places within the sar t that there be allowed for said copies, a each assistant shall be entitled to reeei " at the rate of five dollars for ten shet or in that proportion for a less numb and at the rate of thirty cents for evt sheet over ten in the copy of the retu And in all cases where the assistants the marshals shall have performed the ? ties and made the returns required by I thirteenth section of the act for taking I sixth census, they shall be allowed the for a sum equal to twenty per centum the allowance made to them respective for the enumeration. Sbc. 5. And be it further enacted, TI the copies of returns and aggrcgf amounts, directed to be filed by the itu shals with the clerks of the several D trict Courts and Supreme Courts of t Territories of the United States, shall preserved by said clerks and remain their offices respectively, and so ttuch ?? u;.u .l:_ J mc. av/i iu ivuii.ii mis 13 ail tuuuiiuiticil l requires that they shall be transmitted 1 said,clerks to the Department of State hereby repealed. Sec. 6. Andbc it further enacted, Th it shall be the duty of the Secretary State to cause to be noted all the cleric errors in the returns of the marshals ar assistants, whether in the additions, cla sification of inhabitants or otherwise, ar to direct to be primed in the manner pr< vided for in the act to which this is a amendment the corrected aggregate n turn? only. Sec. 7. And be it farther enacted, Thi so much of the thirteenth section of th act of the third of March, one thousan eight hundred and Hventy-five, as restrict the weight of packages by mail, shall nc apply to the transmission of papers reU ting to the census or enumeration of th inhabitants of the United Slates, and upo the transmission of said papers by tb mail, between the marshals and their as sistants, it shall be lawful for the postmas lers to charge periodical pamphlet post age only. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, Thi If ah rill h C* 1* itr fit 1 fi\* k n f o r* - ?? w iuu i ui iui % it o niai on at ui ** *, district, to take part in the enuraeratioi of a portion of his district, and upon hi bo doing he shall have the benefit of th compensation allotted therefor, aa if i had been done by an assistant. Sac. 9. And be it further enacted, Tha the compensation of the respective per sona who are employed by the Secretary j( State in executing the provisions of thi act, shall be fifteen hundred dollars to thi superintending clerk per annum; to thi recording clerk eight hundred dollars pe annum; to an assistant clerk six hundrei ind fifty dollars per annum; and to thi packer and folder six hundred and fift; dollars per annum; and the said sal&rie shall commence from the date of thci being so employed, and that of the per ions to be employed, to examine and cor . .L i t . L- i 1 ?i._: rrt i me returns irum lueuiarsuaia aim uiei ussistants, at the same rates as were pai< for the like sei rices rendered under th< art for taking the fifth census, to be pai< nut of any money appropriated for carry ing into effect the art for taking the sixtl rensus of enumeration of the inhabitant! of the United States. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, Tha til acts and parts of acta whose provision) ire inconsistent with the enactments o :his amendatory act, are hereby repealed Approved, February 28, 1840. The grounds on which the Sub Treasury party in our State can consistently mpport Col. Richardson and not Judge Johnson, are very plain. Our candidate must be opposed to a National Bank, as inexpedient unconslituional. He most be in favour of the Sub Trcastry ,with the specie. He must have been with us openly and ictively through the struggle against the Sationals, and in favor of the Sub-Treestry. The Sub-Treasury party in Carolina is he only State Rights party in our State, k Nnllifier who is not of it is against us. V Union man who is for it is with us. To be at all connected politically with he known follower of Clay in this State, s just cause of distrust. Their enmity ccommends any man who is its object. These are our reasons and those of our xiends who agree with us. Charleston Mercury. An orator, during the troubles if the League in France, commenced by saying that he should divide his discourse ntu thirteen heads; but added, seeing the disquietude manifested by his audience, ' for the present I shall omit a dozen oi hem. an a^aaehh i i _n_ _1 na- Miscellaneous. hatj A CASE OF ELOPEMENT. HSi j A correspondent handed into ourofli an yesterday an extended statement of a trai ry.! action, of which the following is the si i*H stance. Dr. J. C. Sloah he says, came u'e this city* from Ulster County, where married hi? wife, who is an excellent v on! man, and of a wealthy and respectable, UQ*| mily. Soon after his arrival here he unii I himself to the Methodist Chinch in hftt!cond street of which he was for a year IW'j two an active member. He was then some cause discharged from society. J bat! was always handsomely dressed but re pi "i*; said it was at the expense of the tdilo fur | His practice being inconsiderable,he coi h * j not, or did not support his family. T last place ne lived at with lus wile, was oflNo. 23-4 Second street. His wife fina ne? left him ami supported herself by teachi l?d school. Since that period Sloat has h ve> offices in different places, but not succcc (t3t ing in obtaining a practice sufficient i f,; his support, he hired himself out as a cle ;ry | in a drug store, and procured his board 1 a private boarding house in the Sixth ai to nue where also boarded a Mrs. M. and h mother, ladies of wealth aud high r< the peciability. Dr. S. here passed himself he as a single man, and being of rather plei re* ing appearance and address, he soon \vi on the confidence of the old lady and h ly? daughter. He informed them that he ow td the drug store he attended, and he ha tat ing been seen there by several of the i ite mates of the house, and also by the youi ir- lady and her mother, they did not dou is- his ownership of the store. He finally i he formed them that he had so much practi be that he would be compelled to sell out tl in store, which it was understood he said 1 of did. and was thrn ni>rmitfr>rt nn Ii ?? ? i? r"? -r as name on the front door of his bnardir >y house. The mother as well as daughtt is become so fond of the Doctor, that he pn posed to marry the young lady. Mattel were going on smoothly in this way, whe of our correspondent informed .the landlad *1 of the house the the Doctor was a marrit id man?and the landlady imparted the inte s- ligence quickly to the Doctor, informin >d him also that he must leave the house.The mother and daughter were also adv in sed of the Doctor's married state, as we as of some other matters of a disreputabl character concerning him--but they wer it too much attached to him to believe a wor ie to nis prejudice. d Whilst the old lady was gone to enquir is into the character of the lover ofherdaugli H ter, the doctor proposed to the young lad l* to leave her house, goto Newark, New jer e sey with him, and there get married; ho n when the mother returned, the daughter i c her lover had disappeared. In a day o ?- two however, she received a letter fom th I- doctor informing her that himself and he 1* daughter had taken board in a hotel at Nev ark; and that the first thing they though t on rising in the morning and the last on re Y turning at night, was their mother. Thi i letter was directed to the care of our cor 8 respondent, requesting him to hand it to th< e old lady herself. It was handed according t Jy, when the old lady remarked that sin was afraid the doctor had married he t daughter; and proceeded with the utmos - haste to Newark. In the interim the doc / tor's wife had been apprised of her hus s band's conduct and of his hegira with ano e ther lady to Newark, and she also hastenei e to find him there. And there to be sure th< r doctor'6 wife and the mother of the younj 3 lady met the doctor, who was not particu e larly pleased at the interview. The doc f tor's landlord in Newark getting informa 3 tion that alhwas not right with his guests r had the doctor arrested for his board bil lodged in prison. There the rival parlic: - met?the doctor refused to speak to hi: r wife, saying he had obtained a bill divor 1 cing him from her, which the young wif< e believed to be true. Much confusion ensu 1 ed tears flowed, as is common in such case: - ?the daughter refused to return with he: t mother and said she would die in the doc i tor's cell rather than leave him?for she knew that the charges against him were t false. After much resistance she was final i ly prevailed upon to accompany her mothei f to this city. The magistrate in Newark . (contrary to law, however,) took Mrs Sloat's affidavit that she was the wife of the doctor, who at the last advices remained in prison. The old lady &. her daughter on " returning hither changed their boarding place, the better to keep secret what had ! ocenrred, and prevent their friends from knowingit. It appears, however, that the 1 doctor and the young lady were notmarried ' but merely lodged together as husband and wife for three successive nights. New York Sun. Successful effort of the Bloodhounds.? 1 Within a few days, Loomis, U. S. A., has captured an Indian on the Wacassassa, by means of our excellent Cuban auxilia1 rics. It was done in very handsome style, ' and so delicately, that the most sqcamish of the Northern sympathizers, might have beer, delighted to witness it. When the 1 ''trail,, was struck and followed for some ; time, the dogs become very impatient of the leash, and by a sudden bound, broke loose from their keepers and dasned away in gallant style. 'The troops followed on through the bushes, and in a short time came up to the scene of action, where the noble dogs' (2.) had floored a gigantic sa> vage, and held him on the ground, without appearing disposed to do him father injury' The means are now certainly discovered of ending the war in good earnest, and almost without bloodshed, & it is sincerely i hoped that the Government, will immediately procure two or' three hundred dogs * for the purpose of producing such mor; effect on the savages, as will induce thci ? at once to surrender. It is now made cc tain that 10,000 meo, with 100 dogs, wi ice accomplish more than 10.000 withoi ns- them. A ranch smaller force will besufl ub- cient to end the war, and countless rni to lions will be saved to the country, if a sufi he cient number of dogs can be procure ro- The indian thus put hors du combat, w; fa- wretchedly frightened, and coming to h led usual equanimity, offt-red with the hones Se of his tribe, to conduct the " gallant dog; ui t?/ w iiui t a ^(ii ^ wimwiituii- i *.u 3r\ ion tv u for encamped.?Jit. Augustine News, 8th in: Fie art Most Extraordinary Case.?For son rs. time past the curiosity of otir citizens h ild been kept in the qui rive concerning ; 'he extraordinary physical phenomenon, ai at of which, as yet, no satisfactory explan lly tion has been attempted. The learni ng and unlearned?medical and non-medic ad ?the sceptical and the credulous, hat :d- been all equally puzzled by the Spidk fur Case, as it must par excellence be calle rk and by whjch soubriquet it still stands a in knowledge*]. The rumours, which a: ?e- diversified and in many instances doubtle ler exaggerated, are as far as wc can trac js- derivable at first band from the Medic; off gentlemen who have seen the case, an is- which finally being communicated froi Dn one to another, have assumed such a cha cr acter and conferred such importance o n- the subject, as forbids our further silcnci v We entirely disclaim any desire to intrud n- uj>on the privacy of feeling and the nioi ig bid sensibility necessarily attendant upo bi an affliction of the kind, nor would w n- give it this channel, were it not a comtno ce topic. Wc presume in time the propc lie medical authority will embody the cntir ie and of course more perfect history of thi is interesting mystery. These, however ig are the principal points of its history, ga jr thered by enquiry from the most authenti 0- sources aUwhich we could arrive. rs The patient while on a visitjo a friem >n in the country, felt, while in bed, an ob [y jeet of some kind fall upon the upper par :d of the check bone just below the left eye 1- Sho brushed it away, and after a resiles g night, awoke in the morning suffering it; ? consequences in the form of acute pain i- during which time she removed from tin 11 eye several fragments of the legs of ; e spider. e Returning to this city a few days after d wards, upon complaining to her mothej of a similar sensation, an examination wa: e i mane, wucn a pcriecuy lorrneu ueau spi i-idcr, of small size, was removed. A phy y! sician being called, all proper investiga -1 tion was made, in order, if possible, t< d ; discover the seat or nidus of the animals t but this proved fruitless. No enquiry ha: r yet been able to detect their seat of em e pire, ami yet they have continued to It r removed from each, eye alternately, somev times from one alone, sometimes from t both, for a space of six weeks, to an . amount on an average of from 2 to 3 every s other day. Portions o'f what is supposed to be the ovum, have been also discharc gcd. Each exit of either animal or web, - is preceded by acute pain in some portion c of the organ, and attention being thus r called, the object is easily removed by the ;t attendant. ml . . t n ine eyes assume at times mucn munmi matory irritation and swelling of the lids, with an injected condition of the bull, 1 and copious suffusion of tears. e By some, the spiders arc supposed to j be of different species, they are, certain ly, as far as we can learn at different sta ges of maturity: The facts we now give have been sub, mitted to the medical gentleman who has 1 seen the case, in order to obtain his pers mission to lay them before the public, as s well as to ovoid any errors, as we arc . clearly of opinion that it is a case of too < high interest to be commented upon by . any other than the professional attendant, 3 and certainly not until some satisfactory r rational can be deduced from his closest . and most vigilant circumspection. > We are iuformed by that gentleman that ; the report we make is in the main correct, . wanting such particularities of detail as we of course cannot be presumed to know or understand. Charleston Patriot. I The following curious proceedings are i recorded in the N. Y. American:? ; An Upright Judge.?The following I proceedings, reported in an Illinois Court, i have been handed us. The presiding judge ; had been appointed to fill the vacancy oc| casioned by the resignation of Judge I.rnch "J "~? Court. 'Sam', sat J tlic judge? 'I suppose you know the jury has brought you iu guilty of murder.' 'Yes, judge, thai ar a fact, no mistake!' Court;'No help for it, I believe. Have you any choice about the ' time, Sam!' Prisoner; 'No. 1 believe not; it don't make mnch difference, if I have got to be hanged, when it is done. I have had a midlin hard time all niy life anv how. This is no great things of a world judge, you know yourself.' Mr Sheriff,' said the judge,'will this day four weeks come on Sunday?' No sir,' said the sheriff,' that can't be possiblu* 'You had better look, at the Almanac,' said the judge;'I don't wish to muke any judicial mistakes. Having become satisfied that the hanging day would come round at a nroner Dorind, if calculated by weeks, he I I proceeded to inquire if that day four weeks would suit 'Sam,' as well as any other to be hanged on. lie was assured that any day except Friday, which was an unlucky day, tvould be perfectly agreeable. Now* Sam,' said his honor,' have you any thing to say why sentence of death ehuuMi a] uot be pronounced upon you?' 'Nut much, m was the reply;'if I owe any body I forgive r- the debt; and if any body owes me any II thing they may pay it to my wife' And ut may God have mercy on your soul,' said h- the judge, ami he burst into a flood of tears il- 'Sam,' was subsequently hanged according _ li- to appointment. d. is It seems to us that the general mass of is those most directly interested in the banks ty of the country are very unreasonable in 5" their expectations, and in their requests rc i of legislative action. We hear every day it. the argument maintained, that if the charter of the Bank of the United Stales had ie | been renewed, the state banks would have as j been -kept within proper bounds, inasmuch in as those state institutions require a reguld lator, the want of which for several years a- past, has produced the expansion, and then ud the contractions of their oporations, so rual inons to the country. Well; admitting n that the state institutions are in need of a :u supreme and energetic regulator; why d. then should those concerned in the statu c- banks complain that the legislatures of there several states have assumed the regulating .1 t e 1-? ss power, in wic JiDsence 01 me rcguiami' ow o, much d.esirod* It is also admitted by those nl interested in the state banks, that, without d a conlroling power, those institutions will m never be able to establish a sound currenr> cv. This is well and good; but why such a n hue and cry, when a state legislature' at?. tempts to exercise that controlling power, e which, it is admitted, is now necessary to r-J keep the banks within due bound*? And n i vviiy, with much inconsistency, declare, t c that the banks should be let alone? If the n banks do not.require a regulator, then the r state legislatures should let them alone; c but if they do want a regulator, certainly'' s! the legislative power should be that regu ,. lator, when none other exists. Dut the ;-j banks say now, let us alone. Well; in c some of the slates, the banks have been let alone; and has their condition been . . ? bettered; has the currency been improved;. - are losses less frequent than heretofore; t and have the people belter prospects has-' . fore them? It is mortifying to acknowledge s it; but the experience of every day cons vinces us, that the state banks must have ,ja regulator, with an iron rod in its hand, i j Augusta Constitutionalist. 1 I The staple states must prepare them- ? selves to meet the question which lias ber 2uti to be agitated: a high protective tariff, s The people of the south cannot be mista ; ken in the signs of the times. Already - hare public meetings been held in the - north, recommending a high tariff, ami > urging on Congress to take the subject hn, der consideration at the present session. ;[ Already lias Mr. Clay taken his stand, - and declared that the country was never ; so prosperous as when it enjoyed, a protec. live tariff. Already has it been declared i by the whig?, that if Gun. Harrison is ' i placed at the head of the government, the "American System" will become the fundamental policy of the country. All thesu . circumstances are certain indications of , what the south is to expect before the year i 1842, when the duties, by the compro; mise act, will ha?c been reduced to their i > lowest rates. To meet the question in a | proper and effective manner, the people > i of the southern slates must arise from ! their apathy, and be ready at oucc to rc!sist the adoption of a policy which cannot i fail to Droducc the most baleful const qucr.ces. It is by' meeting tbe question now, that we can prevent its maturity. It is by taking a boh! stand now, that we can lead the friends of the ' American System," to pause, before they exasperate 1 feelings in the south, which it is difficult to assuage after being excited. Meetings jhavc been held in the north favorable to ?t protective turitF; tve say that meetings 'should be held in the south against thut system; and the sooner such meetings are held the better; by so doing much mischief may be avoided.?lb. The march of Impudence.?We were aware that impudence was gaining ground rapidly, yet we own that wo did not believe it had assumed such a brazen front, as the following extract from a letter received in this city, shows, dated Macon, Feb. 2, by a gentleman who had forwarded per rail road and stage, a keg of oysters to a friend in that place. The extract is given verbatim ct literatim: I " I observed yesterday a small pail of ' * j oysters at the stage cfiice and kuowing | that they could net reach Mr. T. as dii rccted, and the weather being quite warm, J thinking they would spile, took the liberty of dividingthem between my friends, and I hope you will excuse the trespass, as no harm was intended." Savannah Telegraph. 141 have made a decided impression," as the man said when he fell into the mud. Beware of the Kaseah 1 Vr\ CIIEMBERLIN, alias Greenbtf-' ry Chcmberlin, (of Bovdtotvn, Va.) came to* the subscriber's Hotel, and after remaining thirteen days, went ofF without paying his bill. He is about six feet high, dressed in a blue cloth coat and pantaloons and black hat?dark complected black. hair, very thick, curly locks, and a downcast, mean look out of his eyes. lie professes to be a coach-niakcr. He took tbo stage for Charlotte, after walking a few miles out of town. This notice is intended as a caution to tavern keepers and others, that they may be 0:1 their guard against him. <: 1! DAVIS.