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appointed to aupeiintend ttyj erection 0/
the buildings, twelve dollars and twenty
cents;
For discharging the balance due to the
contractors for building the branch Mint
at Dablonega, Georgia, teu thousand dollars;
For allowance to the law agent, assistant
counsel, and district attorney under
the act providing for the settlement of pri
vateland claims in Florida, five thousand
dollars;
For the support and maintenance of light
houses, floating beacons, buoys, and stakeages,
including the purchase of lamps, oil,
wicks, buffs kins, whiting and cotton cloth,
transporting oil, &c. keepers salaries, repairs,
improvements and contingent expenses,
fotir hundred and thirty one thousand,
nine hundred and eighty seven dol
lars and twenty six cents;
For continuing the construction of the
new Treasury Building including the arrearages
due for materials furnished and
labor performed on the said buildings, certified
by the Commissioner of the Public
Buildings, to amount, on the fifteenth of
April, eighteen htindred and forty, to the
sum of fifty three thousand one hundred
and ninety four dollars and six cents, one
hundred and five thousand dollars;
For continuing the construction of the
New Patent Office Building, including fhe
a-rrearages due for materials furnished and
and labor performed for the said buildings,
certified bv the Commissioner of Public
Buildings, to amount, on the fifteenth of
April, eighteen hundred and forty, to the
sum of forty two thousand four hundred
dred and eighty one dollars and eighty
three'cents, one hundred thousand dollars;
For continuing the construction of the
New General Post Office Building, one
hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;
For alterations and repairs of the Capitol,
and incidental expenses, fifteen hnndred
and fifty one dollars,
For lighting lamps, purchasing trees,
shrubs, and corppost, for keeping in order
the public grounds around the capitol, the
iron water pipes, and wooden fences, six
thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;
For attendance at the western gate of the
capitol, five hundred and forty seven dollars
and fifty cents;
For Knlarv of the principal gardener,
twelve hundred dollars;
For alterations and repairs of the Presi.
dent's house and furniture, for purchasing
trees, shrubs, and compost for superintend
dence of the grounds, three thousand six
hundred and sixty five dollars;
For payment to hrtirls engaged in executing
four historical paintings for the vacant
p.tnnels of the rotunda of the Capitol
eight thousand dollars;
Provided, the paintings an in such a
state of progress, as in reference to the
whole sum to be paid to the artists respectively,
for their execution, shall, in the opinion
of the President of the UC States,
render it proper to make such payments;
For payment to Luigi Persico aud Horatio
Greenough for statutes to adorn the
two blockings, east front of the Capitol,,
eight thousand dollars.
Provided, the work is in such state of
progress as in reference to the whole sum
to be paid to the artists respectively, for
their execution, shall, in the opinion of
the President of the United States, render
it proper to make such payments;
For the support and maintenance of the
?r ,i,? Tlietrii t of Columbia.
wai y VI HIV v.?>
fourteen thousand five hundred and three
dollars and fifty cents;
For the expenses of the sixth census, in-1
eluding the enumeration and returns, nc-j
cessary blanks, clerical services, <fcc., seven
hundred and forty thousand dollars; |
For surveying the public -lands, to be j
apportioned to the several surveying dis-J
ricts, according to exigencies of the publie
service, in addition to the unexpended
balance of appropriations, two hundred
and fifteen thousand dollars;
For closing the surveys of the public
lands in Mississippi, chiefly relinquished
contracts, at a rate not exceeding eight
dollars per mile for township lines, eighteen
thousand six htindred and forty dollars;
Fnr rptrar.inrr certain old surveys in the
m. ? c
state of Mississippi, at a rate not exceeding
7 dollars per mile for section lines, seventeen
thousand two hundred dollars;
For completing the surveys of unfitiished
portions of townships, islands, lakes
&c. in Florida, at a rate not exceeding
five dollars per mile, ten thousand dollars;
For yrveying the Stale of Louisiana,
at a rate not exceeding eight dollars a
mile, and to be applied, if hereafter found
expedient, lor retracing and correcting
certain old surveys in said State, ten thousand
dollars; . - .
For completing the custom house building
at New York, one hundred and eighteen
thousand seven hundred ar.d forty
three dollars;
For'the construction of the new custom
bouse at Boston, one hundred and twenty
one thousand dollrrs;
For repairing the public works at Staten
Island, twenty nine thousand seven hundred
and twenty dollars;
*"> ?C ,V?o onslnm lintKP build
ror repaus vi
ing at New Bedford, five hundred dollars;
For repairs on the Custom housebuilding
at New London, orre thousand seven
hundred dollars;
For repairs of the Marine hospital at
Norfolk, four thousand dollars;
For the payment of expensesincurred by
the collector of New York, under the act
of seventh of July, eighteen hundred and
thirty eight, to remit the duties on certain
goods destroyed by fire at the late confla4
graUQn at the city of New York, cue thousand
three hundred and fifty dollars;
For salaries of the Ministers of the United
States to Great Britain, France, Spain,
Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Mexico, sixty
three thousand dollars; Provided that the
sum of nine thousand dollars, or Such part
thereof, as may be necessary, may be applied
to the outfit and salary of a Charge
d'Affaires to Spain in lieu of a Minister.
For salaries of the Secretaries of Legation
to the same places, fourteen thousand
dollars;
For the salary of the Minister Resident
of the United States in Turkey, six thousand
dollars:
For salaries of the Charges des Affaires
to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland,
Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, New Granada,
Venezuela, Texas, Naples and Sardinia,
fifty eight thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses of all missions
abroad, thirty thousand dollars;
For outfits for a Minister to Russia, and
of Charge d'Affairs to Sardinia, thirteen
: thousand five hundred dollars;
For salaries of the Consuls of the United
States at London and Paris, four thousand
dollars; and twelve thousand dollars
for the expenses of the diplomatic agents,
; to be emploj'ed under the direction of the
President of the United States, in attending
to the Tobacco interest of the United
States in Europe;
For the relief and protection of AmeriI
nor, cnonnnn in fnroirrn f*niintrifi.S.fortV thoU
van ovauiv?ii m tvivign ^
sand dollars;
For clerk hire, office rent, stationery and
other expenses irt the office of the American
Consul at London, per act of January
nineteenth, eighteen hundred and thirty
six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;
For interpreters, guards, and other expenses
incident to the consulates in the
Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred
dollars;
Fpr the salary of the principal and two
assistant Librarians, pay of the messenger,
and for contingent expenses of the Library,
four thousand three hundred and eighty
seven dollars and fifty cents;
For the purchase of books for the Library
of Congress, five thousand dollars;
For compensation to William Gibbes
koinn in ov/ipoq nf n*nenditure I
JLT11/11CI11) U^/Ulg Uli VAVVWW v. J ? over
and above the appropriation for surveys
made under his direction, of the East
of the Apalachicola Bay, one hundred and
fifty dollars and twenty nine cents;
For the payment of certain certificates,
being part of the balance of a former appropriation
for that object, carried to the
surplus fund, December thirty-first, eighteen
hundred and thirty-nine, fifty dollars;
For the service of the General Post'
Office, for the year eighteen and forty, in1
conformity to the act of second of July,
eighteen hundred and thirtysix, five mil-'
| lions one hundred and twenty six thousand,
dollars, viz:
For the transportation of the mail three ]
millions five hundred and twenty thousand,
dollars;
For compensation of postmasters, one
million and ninety seven thousand dollars;
For ship, steamboat and*way letters, forty
three thousand dollars;
For wrapping paper twenty five thousand
dollars; ?. f*
For office furniture, five thousand dollars;
| For advertising, thirty-six thousand dol'
lars;
For mail bags, forty six thousand dollars;
For mail locks, keys, and stamps, twelve
Krtiioonrl rlr\ll?irc?
I illl/UOUJlU UVlltUD)
For mail depredations and special agents,
twenty two tnousand dollars;
For clerks for offices, two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous, sixty seven thousand
dollars. Provided, That the President
and Postmaster General shall have the
same power to transfer funds from one to
another head of appropriation, between
the foregoing appropriations, made for the
service of the General Post office Department;
as the President and any other head
of an Executive Department now have to
transfer funds appropriated to one head to
the service of another, in any other branch
of the public service.
R. M. T. HUNTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Rfl. M. JOHNSON,
Tr- ? ? -J *
V IC& JL / CO iuc n t i;j mo v/tciitsu/ njfu?i uf .
and President of the Senate.
Approved, May 8th, 1840.
M. VAN BUREN.
IN EQUITY
LANCASTER DISTRICT.
David Miller, rs. F. K. Brummittn Jno. E.
Ingrem and Elizabeth Smith, ei al.
Bill for relief .
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the
Commissioner, that Elizabeth Smith,
one of the defendants in the above stated
case, is absent from and without the limits
of this State: On motion of Wright, Complainant's
Solicitor, it is Ordered, that the
said Elizabeth Smith do answer or demur
to the bill in the above case, within three
months frofn the publication hereof; otherwise
judgment pro tfonfesso will be entered
against her.
JAMES H. WITHERSPOON, Jr.
Comm'r. Equity L. D.
Commr's. office, Feb. 22, 1840.'
Pr's fee, $6]
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I 1
COIBMiitlCAttOyS.
FOR THE JOURNAL.
Mr. Editor: There is scarcely a paper
eithef Political, Literary or Religious, that
does not daily bring us more or less oC an
expression of opinion from some portion
of the people of this great Republic on the
present Presidential contest. Hardly a
town or hamlet hut what has b<fen "up and
doing" ort this all-absorbing subject, while
we, the citizens of Kershaw, who are equally
interested in its result, ha?e continued
sileat spectators. It is the duty of the
people, as well as their right, to assemble
together and consult on all matters of a
public nature, and more especially on one
of so mueh interest to the whole Union,
and particularly to the whole South*?
This being the case, it becomes us as a
people alike interested iti the well being
of our common country, to afford some
manifestation of our opinions appertaining
to the policy of the two contending parties
for the Presidential chair.
1 would, therefore, suggest to my fellow
citizens, of both the town and district, the
propriety of assembling at this 'place as
early as convenient, for the purpose of adding
our mite to the almost unanimous expression
of the State in favor of the pres
ent administration. CAMDEN.
FOR TIIE JOURNAL.
Mr. Editor: We haye observed in a late
number of the Charleston Courier, a squib
of rather bilious complexion, under the
caption of "John P. Richardson and the
Camden meeting." It appears that the
good people here have committed the enormous
blunder of moving in opposition to
the opinion of one who marshals his objections
under the flag of a "Union Man."?
Perhaps there might be a little want of
charity in supposing in this instance, the
wolf has changed his skin only, and not
*12 #2 I) ? tkiff rt r il ir? o nr )"?o Vl?
1113 U15|'UDUIVI\. LIC 11UO (lO IV Uiuj iv uv?u
erheis veritably a Union Man orNullifier
? he has transcended no right in the expression
of his opinion, nor will we transcend
ours, in estimating that opinion by
our own notion of its merit.
As the writer has made his strictures upon
the course of the meeting to which he
refers, it is presumed that he must have
read the report of their proceedings?and
having read them, the only matter of as
tonishment is, not "how the people of
Camden can undertake to proclaim Mr.
Richardson as the candidate of the Union
Paity," but how such a question could be
asked?
No where have we seen in the report
and resolutions, is it intimated that Mr. R.
was nomitated by the Union Party, or
"proclaimed" as their candidate. It is
expressly 6tated, on the contrary, that his
"nomination was the act of his old political
opponents," and that, the ' citizens of
Kershaw District without distinction oj
party, approve the nomination.
The writer to which we allude, forgetting
even the very "moderate portion self
respect," the possession of which/he so
modestly insinuates, lias placed himself in
the ridiculous position of being guilty either
of the'egregious folly and littleness of
commenting upon proceedings which he
has not read, or of wilfally perverting their
import and drawing his observations from
that discreditable perversion.
A REPUBLICAN.
FOR THE JOURNAL.
Mr. Editor: In the Charleston Courier
of the 21st inst. is to be seen a communi
cation over the signature of *"A Union
Man," who,'it seems, is very much nettled
with the late meeting here, recommending
Col. J. P. Richardson for Governor.?
He speaks of Col. R. as having been palm,
edoffon the Union Party as their candidate,
and upon the Nullifiers as their ward
and protoge. If such is the case, it is
not attributable to his friends of both partics
lately convened nt this place for the
purpose of recommending him to the State
as a suitable person for its suffrages, combining
as he docs, a high moral character,
with what we believe-'to be the political
doctrine of the State at this time. It is an
old saying, that what is every body's business
is no one's?and consequently, it
could not be expected, that at this timcj
particularly when old party divisions are
extinct, that the Union Party, like Lazarus,
should be resuscitated for the mere
purpose of acknowledging Col. R. as their
candidate. This has always been the act
of the personal and political friends of the
individual himself, but in this particular
instance, Col.' Richardson has been pecu*
liarly favored in being brought out by gentlemen
of the opposite party, who are
now united with a majority of the old U
V V t .
rnpiv parly under the nime of the ?Jimnistratioo
and Sab-Treasury party, of which
he is a firm and indefatigable supporter
So far, no objection has been raised by
either of the old parties to this recommendation,
except by a few Bank and
would-be-great men alias lawyers, who
are more than politically anxious in behalf
of Chancellor D. Johnson. "A (Jnion
Man'' says, if the Union Party had had a
choice, it would have bean very strange in
them to overlook the above named gentleman
for one who is neither an older or a
better soldier. I would be the latst to attempt
in anyway to derogate from the
high character of Chancellor Johnson, but
on the contrary, am'now, and I trust will
always be ready to sustain, when necessa
? 11 1 .1. _ ?
ry, nis acknowieageu tnurui worm anu
public services, both of'which have been
overlooked, not by his former political asi
sociatQs, but by his professional friends?
a few aspiring lawyers, who are anxious
and ready to deprive the State of his usefulness,
for their own advancement. They
are the overlookers and the Iookers*oul
- ' ? .1- i t tt il
too. ins noi me oiu union rariy or iue
i Nullification Party that are to be saddled
with that sin. All who know Judge Johnson
best, and appreciate him most, arc very
far from wishing to dispense with his
present usefulness, by throwing hioi, thro1
the Governorship, fiorn the Bench. They
are not all the Judge's true friends who
have dragged him Jbcfore the people. Ii
is a "small clique?very respectable, good
men?but still a small set"?of lawyers.
who are by no means ignorant of the vacancies
likely to accrue from his election,
I'll admit that "some leaders of the Union
party prefer Judge Johnson," not because
he was of their party, but on account ol
his present political opinions and the rea
son above stated, some of whom have beer
on the look out for some time, and have
acted no inconsiderable part at the late
Log Cabin meeting in that city.
"A Union Man" asks "how do the Cairn
den people undertake to proclaim Mr. R
as the candidate of the Union Party?"?
They have not proclaimed him such
but have simply recommended him, am
that too, in a spirit of compromise, believ'
!; ing that it might be the means of uniting
1 us more closely in an endeavor to upholc
the present administration against alf who
can oppose a Northern man with Southern
'j feelings. KERSHAW.
*Gen Harbison's ResunAtion.?In answer
t<? a correspondent, who inquires oi
us 44 whether Gen. Harrison did or ditinot
resign his commission of Major General
in the Army, and whether General Jackson
was appointed in his place, about the
time the sojuth western division was ordered
to New Orleans,"?we reply, that we
find the following, headed 44 Military!"
j44 General Jackson, of Tennessee'Militia,
| {the.finisher of the .wars of the Creeks,)
"l has been appointed by the President, a
; Major General in file Army of the'United
States, rice Major General Harrison, resigned.".
* Mr. Niles, who is quoted as good authority
on matters of history, publishes the
above in the shape and form in which we
! give it?italics.&tid all. It evidently i? inj
tended to reflect upon General Harrison,
| whilst it at the same time gives General
Jackson the enviable credit of being the
finisher of the wars of the Creeks." If
this is not directed at General Harrison,
' we know not how a stronger contrast could
have been drawn, between a successful
advancing General, and one retiring with
disgrace.?Bait; Republican.
The People are Moving.?From every
; part of Alabama, we have the most cheering
intelligence for the success of theDe.
mocratic cause. Truly may it be said that
"the people are moving." We have recently
heard from North Alabama, and it
i remains sound to the core. Hopkins the
| strongest Federalist in the State, has been
i laboring to establish Whiggery in that
| quarter, but all his efforts have proved
unavailing.
Mobile, we learn, is fast coming to the
rescue; her patriotic sons having agreed
to merge their personal differences, which
: lost them the last city election, and hcnce;
forth to act unitedly in the maintenance
[of their doctrines.
In the populous counties of Perry,
I Marengo, Sumter, and Greene, we shall
at least hold our own, and our friends are
sanguine of an increase; while in Talladega,
in Randolph, in Benton, and the
other counties in that section of the State,
we shall sweep every thing before us. In
.the counties on the Alabama river, and on
the line to Georgia, there '.'. ill bo no material
difference from the former result, exr>or.t
ill*.* /vallnnf emrifc hftvo cin'ac
W j/fc llJlllr UJClIJJ gailUWI- IIU ? w Uiliut
lhat tiine entered our lists, and now oc*
cupy the places of a race of cold blooded,
caleulating'polilirians, who remain xvith
no parly longer than to subserve their
own privale purposes.
In the contest between Mr. Van Buren
and Judge White, the latter was defeated
by a large majority.' If Judge White,
with the votes of administration men, aided
by those of the entire Stale Rights
parly, could not defeat Mr. Van Buren iu
*
!
Alabama, liowi's Gen; Harrison (o do if,
a man holding no otar principle with the
people, and boqnd to them by no tics
whatever. If a distinguished Tenneasean,
after having been intimately associated
with the people of North Alabama, could
not obtain their suffrages against Mr. Van
Buren, it is worse than folly to attempt to ? *
. transfer such a men as Gen. Harrison.
On them. ' Log Cabins'- and 41 Hard Cider
can have no effect, because they will ?
reject both.' They are purely whig medicines;
the dose does not suit Democrats^?
Montgomery Advertiser.
The Wheat Crop."?The complaints
of the ravages of the Fly, are becoming
more general. The Annapolis. Republican
of Wednesday has the following pa
ragraph:
Tub Wheat Crot.?Two or three
weeks ago we referred to the then very
promising appearance of the wheat crops. '
Since that, a most woeful change has been
developed. Whole fields that then bid
fair for an abundant yield, it is now evi>
dent, will not return the seed that was
. sown upon them. The Fly has made tremendous
havoc in all our neighborhood.
It Pennsylvania, similar complaints are
' beginning to be made;
Tin? flonTOivn Wwr.AT.?Wfi rejTflt to
I learn from various sections of the country
that the Hessian Fly has already made its
appearance in the wheat fields.?In Bucks
County it has done some injury.?Phil.
1 North Avier. ,
' In Chester County, the Village Record
r of the 19th inst. says?We are informed
that much of the Wheat crop which two
weeks since looked very flourishing, has
1 been attacked by the fly, which is suffering
I severely.
Hessian Fly.?The WestChester American
Star of the 19th inst. says?"Weregret
to learn from Farmers in our vicinity
' that this destructive insect is ravaging the
i Whf>?t fields in a considerable extent."
f From the Quincy Sentinel, May 2.
INDIAN BARBARITIES.
i It is our painful duty to record the pre;
petration of more brutal murders by our
. savage foes.
On the 231 ultimo, the wife of Mr. John
M'Lane and three children, were most inhumanly
butchered, about 17 miles from
- this place. The attack was made about
sunrise. Mrs. M'Lane was at the cow,
pen, with two or three of her children, and
I was apprized of the approach of the enemy
by the fright of the cows. She instantly
retreated to the house, caught up
j a child, and directed her eldest daughter,
aged about twelve, to take up another, and
1 then fled in the direction of the hammock,
i When within about ten yards of the hammock,
they were all overtaken and killed
with pine knots and knives. Mrs. M'
Lane's throat was cut, and she was also
" stabbed. The children were knocked in
the head,- and the eldest girl scalped. A
I son of Mr. M'Lanc, {who was an invalid,)
about 1G or 17 years of age, seized a rifle
and followed the hapless victims; but being
' fired uppn, returned to tjic house, shut the
; doors, and prepared for. defence. The
cowardly wretches tried every expedient
| to fire the house: he, however kept them
off, and thinks he killed one, who, at tfie
crack of his gun, dropped his torch, fell,
and crawled off on his hands and feet. '
After besieging the house nearly all day,
, burning the out-houscs, and trying every
, expedient to fire the dwelling, they ceased
a.t?~4~ -v ?i.l.<ln ?r?/l mhrnrl tlin
! lUfll UHUX'IS 1UI a tlllUC) diiu Ii/iuvu IV
. hammock. In the meantime, the father 4
returned home to witness the frightful
I scene. He and his son fortunately made
_ their escape, though jpursued and tired on
by the enemy, and gave the alarm. A
company was formed as soon as possible,
and visited the place early next day, where
a most heart-rending sight wa? presented.
There lay the fond mother in the cold arms
of death, weltering in blood; and by her
side the tender infant, who, torn from her
last embrace, was sleeping the sleep of
death. There lay the girl of 12 ana the
child she had heroically endeavored to rcs? ">
on/4 mnfilafrifl "Rut WO film
UUVs; WJU aiiU ?UUUIU!V?.. - ?
away from this mournful picture, and leave
the reader to imagine what must have been
the feelings of the father and son, in view
ing the scene of desolation on the following
day.
Men have been in pursuit of the enemy
for several days; but thus far without success.
Ilis numbers arc not accurately
known, but supposed to be about 20 or 30.
The utmost praise is due the gallant
youth who so. bravely defended the dwelling.
Several gentlemen went out from this
place to afford what aid was in theip power,
and Capt Hunter's company with great
promptitude, marched in rcorch oftho
enemy.
Since writing the above, we have learned
that this band came up from below,
and their retreat being cut off by the troops
between Tallahassee and St Marks, they
have doubtless, tried to make their way
b^ck by some other route.
A Depot on tite Petersburg Rail Road,
between Petersburg and Gaston, was destroyed
by fire on Friday night last. Fifteen
bales of cotton, anil several boxes of
goods were destroyed in the ware-house. /"
The turn out track was destroyed.?The
fire originated by burning chips in one of
the houses.
Raleigli Standard*