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M1ULEDGEVILLE, TUESDAY, .1L LY 3, 1
No. £1.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
GRA.YTLA.YD ft ft. .1/. 0B.1/B.
! i.icnck Street) oppose the Auction Store,
ITIF.R DOLLARS, IN ADVANCE, OR FOI'I!
MARS AT TIl£ EKI'IIIATION OF THE
fAR.
A iverti«eiDfints conspicuously inserted
customary rates. Letters ou business, in
asfi q , must be purr paid.
I\\ AYj'Y'WOVVVYN .
jr > \\%Ji lit
ncrording to tin- rimimstanrus of tLu case
anti the principles ofjustice.
Sec. 5. And hr it further enact'd, That pa
tents shall he granted for all I imls ennlinncd
hy virtvio of the provisions of this act, in the
same manner as patents arc granted for lands
confirmed under the former acts, to which
this is a supplement.
See. C. And be it further enacted, That to
every person w ho shall appear to he entitled
to a tract of land, under the id and 3d set li
ons of this act, a certificate shall he granted
hy the register and receiver of the district
in which the hind lies, setting forth the na
ture of 'lie claim, and the quantity allowed ;
for which certificate the parly in w hose fa
vor ii issues shall lie paid one dollar, to he
divided between the said receiver and rrgis
ter.
Sec. 7. And bt it further enacted, That the
\C.r •npplmrientary t > the several arts for
.o iog t in rlnmis to land, and e-lahlidilng
i-i I Oil' in the tliitrict east of the Island
N ov 0 leans.
it rn.:e!--J b,/ the S-nnte and ITnn.it of
usinfetlires of the United States of ,‘hnrr-
i Congress assembled. Til it all the claims
. | said In he derived from the British nr
iis!i authorities, reported t.r the Ctmi-
i,mer of the General Lind Offiee hy the
iters and receivers of the laud offices at
Helena court-house, k. at Jackson court-
in die distriels east and w est of Pearl
appointed under the authority of an
filled • \o net for adjusting tlie claims
, ami establishing land offers in the
tricts east of the Idantl of New Orleans,”
i arc contained i i the several reports of
registers and receivers, and which are, in
opinion of tlie registers and receivers,
lid, agreeably to the laws, usages, and cus-
of the said governments, he, and
,i ie are hereby, recognised as valid and
nlete titles, against any claim on the part
the United States, or right derived from
United Stati
Star. 2. And be it further enacted, That til
laims reported as aforesaid, and con
i.uel in the several reports of the said rc-1 i umdri j and Ilin ,., cen
li rs and receivers, founded on orders of | „,|j uM j nt; cl#ims | ; ,„ d , H1) J
President of tin? Ifiuled Stales he, and she
I. riy, .. ; .. ... it-, ... li.c . ■ ’
no... . . i' ni-.'.oose to ; neu u-
ther place within the said districts as lie uiny
deem suitable and convenient.
PHILIP P. BARBOUR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARO,
President of the Senate, pro-tempore.
Washington, May It. 1822.— Approved,
JAMES MONROE.
AN \ r T confirming claims to Lots in the town
of Mobile, k to LattJ in the former Province
of tVe»t Plorida, which claim- have been
reported favorably nn by the Commission
ers appointed by the United Stall's.
He it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the Unit d States of Ame
rica til Congress assembled, That all t!le
claims to lots in the town of Mobile, founded
un complete grants derived from either the
French, British, or Spanish authorities, re
ported to the Secretary of the Treasury by
the commissioner for the district east of
Pearl river, appointed under tile authority of
“ An act for ascertaining the titles and claims
to land in that part of Louisiana which lies
east of the island of New-Orleans,” or w hich
were so reported hy the register and re
ceiver, acting as commissioners, under the
act of the third of March, one thousand eight
An act for
itablishing
range thirteen, east of the raid principal mo-j would lie effectually snppreXSetl. No-
ridian, in Randolph county, and the said | thiug in his opinion, Could lie more un
district to Im hounded on the cast hy the
line dividing the states of Ohio and Indiana,
shall form a district, for which a laud office
shall lie established at Fort Wayne.
Se e. 2. And be it further enacted, That
the President is hereby authorized to ap
point, hy and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, for the aforesaid district, a
Register of the Land Office, and a Receiver
of Public Moneys; which appointments
shall not he made, for the aforesaid land dis
trict, until a sutlicient quantity of public
lands shall have been surveyed within the
said district, as to authorize, in the opinion
of the President, a public sale of land w ith
in the same ; which Register of tile Laud
Otliee, arid Heeeiror of Public Moneys,
when appointed, shall each, respectively,
is j give security, in the same sums, and in the
y, requeues, permission to settle nr n- ,,,-j in ,| u . districts cast of the island
r written evidence* of claims derived[from ()f N ,. lv . 0r | 1 ,. ll)S n , v | lic b !UI . contained in
Spanish authorities, which ought, mlh«|, llR 1T| ,orts of the. commissioner, or of the
.main ol the registers ana receivers, to lie !ind r ,. C( . iv , M . commission-
mfirmed, shall he confirmed, m the same cr ” „.| li( . h ;ll ,. i„ their opinion, valid,
as it the title had been completed- . l , re ,. |) | )| y , n „ 1e | alv ,, us:l r ,. s customs,
ended, That t ie confirmation ot all lie fak , g 0vi . mna nt,, he, and the same
I el urns provided for by tins art, shall a-; hl . ri , hy ri . c0gn ; 2 „,i ;ls valid.
,„t only to a relinquishment forever on R ,, c And kc f urtllcr enncUi Thnt „]|
P, 1 111 »h« United Mates of any claim I ,.| ailns |„ t , j n ,|„. town aforesaid, re-
i vur tollie tract oi land so confirmed ; a3 aforesaid, and contained in the
granted. . reports of the commissioner, or of the retris*
•c 3. And bail furlicr enacted, 1 iat r *, ., n( j receiver, acting as commissioners,
v person, or Ins or her legal representu- j fl , uni | t .,| f ,„ orders of survey, requeues, per-
. whose claim is comprised m the lists or | nr „,i„ r, itiH„ ei ideoees
iters 0, claims r, poi, ... i, gnu i ■■. ( ,f r | a i, n3( dertw d from cither tile French,
I receivers, and the persons embrac'd in , Dl . j!isl or Spanish authorities, and beat i„g
h,l of actual settlers, or their legal rep,'.e-1 1U( , jor tm .nlieth of UecemlHir,
I .five , not having any w ritten evidence I „„ , hoU3al , (1 | llln ,L. d and three, and
hum reported as aforesaid, shall, vylion i „ llR |„ > j„ ||„. oiiiuim, of the cominis-
|,pears hy the said reports, or hy the said ; pi( , ncr< )u l „, ..onfimi-d, shall be confirmed,
that the land claimed or settled on had | ju sainc lnai)1R . r as it ' the ,j,| u | lad been
, ..... . , f in the same manner
ly lnli.dnlrd nr cultivated by fiiicli ’ ( . om |,j l .|,» 1 j <
n artua . _
juiii or persons in whose ri^ht lie rlaims,
i before tlie IMii day of April, 1813, be
lull ton grant for tin* land so el.timed or
id on as a donation: Vrov\dtd % That not
ire than one tract shall In* thus granted to
Sec. 3. And he it further enacted, That all
tlie claims of lots in the town aforesaid, re
ported as aforesaid, and contained in tnc re
ports of the. commissioner, or of the regis
ter and receiver, acting as commissioners,
y mH ‘ person, and the $&m$ sljall not ( on-, t j on privateconveyances which I) e
, mure than (! 10 acres—and that no lands i , t | u . 0UK |, 0 jh Cl . „f n )c command-
ill!, •
re than 0 to acres—anu mat no lanus: .,. lS8l , d ,| 1L . „f (|, P Cl
Huh granted which are claimed or! ()r Hlb( , r tv idcnc,', but fmuidm
•,'d by the preceding sections of this dai , nants a ||, gl . anls |,, st |,y
'.v v 'Kn«» ot a confirmation inu.»o >\n accident, and which uii^ht, in then
:d,as the
time $ ml
pinion of
the commissioner, to he confirmed, shall be
confirmed, in the same manner as if the ti
tles were in existence. : Vrovidtd, That, in
all such claims where, the quantity claimed
is not ascertained, no one claim shall be
confirmed for a quantity exceeding seven
thousand two hundred square feet.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, i . \ V . r
i fur all II,0 other claims to lots in the town 1 008 « 8 ba(1 bcPn ,ece “ cd f r,,ul ‘ •« °'
4. And be it further enacted, That, afuresaid, reported as aforesaid, w liieh are I Ihct * lent potential ips, or cither ol 1 hetn,
g'UZ
or hy
entitled *• An act fur adjusting the claims
land, and establishing land ollices, in the.
Ii,tricts east of the Island of New Orleans,”
iroved on the Sd day of March, 1810—
d provided also, Tliat no claim shall lie
firm' d where tlm quantity was not as-
! lined, and report made thereon hy the
fi,iers and receivers, prior to the 2bth day
July, 1
e.,..fi . . ,iN, and tluties, and authority,. nail,
in every respect, bn the same ill respect tu
the lands which shall lie di posed of at
their offices, as are or may he provided hy
law in relation to the Registers and receiv
ers of Public Moneys in the several land
office* established for the disposal of the
public lands of the United States, in the
slate* of Ohio arid Indiana.
See. 3. A id be it further enacted, That nil
the public lands w ithin the aforesaid district,
tn which the Indian title lias been extin
guished, and which have not been granted
to, or secured for, the use of any individual,
or individuals, or appropriated and reserved
for any other purpose, hy any existing trea
ties or laws, and with the exception of sec
tion numbered sixteen, in each township,
w hich shall he reserved for the support of
schools therein, shall hi; offered for sale to
the highest bidder, at the land office for the
said district, under the direction of the Re
gister of the Land Office, and Receiver of
Public Moneys, on such day, or days, ns
shall, by proclamation of the President of
the United States, be designated for that
purpose : the lands shall he sold in tracts of
the same size, nn the same terms and con
ditions, and in every other respect, sis pro
vided by the act, entitled “ An act making
further provision for the sale of the public
lands;” approved April twenty-fourth, eigh
teen hundred am) twenty.
See. 4. And be it further enacted, That
the President of the United States shall
have power, arid he is hereby authorized,
to remove, whenever lie shall judge, it ex
pedient so to do, the land office aforesaid,
to such suitable place, within the said dis
trict, as ho shall judge most proper.
See. 5. Aud be it further enacted, That
tlie Register of the Land Office, and Re
ceiver of Public Moneys, shall, each, receive
five dollars for each day’s attendance in su
perintending the public sales, in the said dis
trict.
Washington, May fl, 1822—Approved.
CONGRESSIONAL.
[it is one. of the most vexatious incidents
that has ever occurred to ns, of lesser impor
tance, that w e mislaid our notes of the Pro
ceedings which took place in the House of
Representatives on the 7th May last, on Mr.
Fuller’s motion, respecting Mr. Russell's let
ter, which debate we hoped to have publish.
We have the more reason to regret tlie cir
cumstance, because a curiosity has been ex
press'd to see what was said on the motion.
A friend w ho attended to w hat passed, has
furnished us, from memory, witli the follow
ing sketch of the proceedings on that occa
sion. It is brief, hut is believed to he sub
stantially correct.]—.Wit. hit.
HOb'bK OU REPRESENTATIVES.
May 1th 1022.
Mr. Fuller’s resolution, which was
submittedesterilny, requesting the Pre-
sidqnt to communicate the letter ofJona.
Bussell, l>q. relating to the treaty ot'
tibent, together with such cotnmunica-
• i egisters and recett er
ys of the said respectiv
: elation to perfect titles, as recognized ill
’ first section of this act, am) the first sec-
n of the act of the 3d day of March, Itilh,
ill have power to direct the manner in
which all hinds claim d in virtue ol the pre-
sections shall he located and survey
ed ; and, also, to direct the. location and j
f the public mo- contained in the report of the register and
districts, except I receiver, and which, hy the said report, ap
pear to have been built upon, improved and
occupied, un or before the fifteenth day of
April, otic thousand oLht hundred and thir
teen, the claimants shall be entitled to giants
therefor as donations : Provided, That in
all such claims, where the quantity claimed
is not ascertained, no one claim shall be eon-
fair than thus'to stifle all reply. It re
minded him, lie Slid, of w hat lie hull of
late frequently witnessed in this House,
when some bill vas pending, and before
it was understotd, one of its opposers
would make, a speech against it, mid con
elude with a motion to lay it on the table,
which precluded till debate, and, cotise
quently.all explanation. The indignation
produced by turfi a course every gen
tleman must have observed & sometimes
have fell. There were nothing so safe
and honorable as a full disclosure of the
statements of both sides. He regretted,
he said, that his colleague, the writer
of tlie letter, was not in his seat, as he
was sure he could not object to the call,
more e • ..uL as it appeared (join the
message, .li.it the gentleman himself'had,
furnished t" the Department a duplicate
or ropy of file letter to he communicated
tn Congress before the original had been
found. As to the suggestion that the
Ghent correspondence or the loiter in
question could throw a single ray of
light on the subject of the occupation
of Columbia river, it w as too improba
ble, Mr. I - , said, to have ever entered
his mind ; hut ifthe gentleman from Vir
ginia (Mr. Floyd) had expected it at first,
he could see no reason for his giving
over the pursuit. He hoped the house
would see tlie obvious justice of adopting
the resolution.
Mr. Cocke said, lie could see no rea
son for calling for the letter ; 1 he Fre*i-
dent had declined communicating it, and,
therefore, lie thought it not proper in tlie
House to persist in the call.
Mr. Sejioeant, said, lie rose to cor
rect the error into which the gentleman
from Tennessee (Mr. Cocke) had fallen,
in supporting the i’resident had “de
clined” communicating Mr. Ilus-ell’s
letter. It appeared, on recurring to the
message, (a part of which Mr. S. read,)
that he merely declined sending the let
ter, without also sending such answer or
explanation as the majority of tlie Com
missioners who negotiated the treaty, or
any of them, should request. On tlie
other hand, the ['resident signifies his
willingness to communicate both togeth
er ; and, Mr. S. said, lie could see no
objection whatever to the resolution,
which seemed uuder existing circum
stances, to ask no more than was due to
the survivors of the commissioners,
whose conduct was implicated, and who
had a right to be heard.
Mr. Cocke, after liearingthe message
read, the terms of which, lie had not be
fore so particularly attended to, with
drew his opposition.
Mr. Haiuun said he was glad the lot-
ler was called for, and ho should vote for
the resolution, ns it would shew tlie
western people in what manner their in
terests were disregraded or sacrificed—
that the commissioners offered to give
11[> tlie navigation of the Mississippi to
secure the li-herics of the east.
The resolution was then adopted with
only one or two voices in the negative.
rnoii Tiir. kcw-yuhk statesman.
AN EXTRAORDINARY FiSlI.
Yesterday was taken in Middletown
i’oint Cove, which to ns in the vicinity
is a perfect non-descript. It is, as far
as we see, neither whale, porpoise, stur
geon, nor shark, or pertaining to any of
their respective species; and yet, strange
mfiner of surveying all the claims to land | firmed fur a quantity exceeding seven thou
recognized hy the second, third, and fourth
lions of an act, entitled “ An act tor ad
it ting the claims to land, and establishing
line! offices, in the districts east of the 1-land
of.New Orleans,”approved on the 3d day of
March, 101ft. having regard to tlm laws, u-
sages, and customs, of the Spanish govern
ment on that subject; and having regald, al
so, to the mode adopted by the government
of the United States in stn v eying the tl.-ims
to land confirmed by virtue of the 2d and 3d
liana of an act of Congress, entitled “ An
ind two hundred square feet : And yro-
vided, cdso. That all tlie confirmations and
grants provided to he made by this act,
shall amount only to a relinquishment for
ever, on the part of Hie United States, of
all right and title whatever, to the lots of
land so confirmed or granted.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That
the registers nnd receivers of the land offi
ces.at St. Helena Court House, and at Jack-
son Court House, respectively, shall have
......., ....i,.. ' a........... the same powers to direct the manner in
ot regulating tiic grants of lands, and pro-] which all lands confirmed by this act, shall
' a leg for the disposal of the lands of the U I be located and mtrveyed ; nnd, also, to de
rated States south ofthe state ofTenncsscc,” | eide between the parties in all conflicting
approved on the 3d Man'll, 1103. And that, and interfering claims, as are given by tin
in relation to all sorb claims which may con-
flat, or in any manner interfere, the said re
gisters and ri reivers of public moneys of the
respective districts shall have power tn do
vide between the parties, and shall, in their
d. s i-ion, he governed by such conditional
bins nr boundaries as may have been a-
ipr d <m between the parties, either verbally
or in writing, at any time prior to the pas
sage of this act- But upon the decision of
those claims alluded to, which may conflict
or interfere, and it) relation to which the par-
ties interested have agreed on no conditional’
1 ues or boundaries as to the manner oflocat-
i ig tlie same, tho said registers and receiv
ers of the respective districts shall make an
equal division of the land claimed, so as tu
allow each parly his or their improvements :
l’mddcj, howtver, That should it be made
appear, to tho satisfaction of the register or
feet iver of public moneys of the respective
districts, in any such ease, that the subse
quent settler had nblrudtd on the claim of
the funner, mid had made his establishment
after having been forbid so to do, the said
rigi-ti rs and receivers of public moneys shall
bavvpower to decide between the parties,
in explanation of the letter of Mr. K. was
called up, and, on the question of its I as it may seem, resembling all of them
adopted— It measures, from the extremity of the
Mr. Floyd, said he had moved the snout to tlie termination of the tail thir-
original resolution for the Ghent cor-jty-two feet ten and a half inches.—
respondence, with a expectation that it
might throw some light on the impor
tance of liip Columbia river, and the bill
before the House proposing an establish
ment there. As the President, however,
had not thought proper to communicate
the letter in question, when specially
called for, lie (Mr. F.) had moved to
have the message committed to a com
mittee of which lie was a member, but
Where the head joins to tlie neck, it T
about four feet 10 inches across ; the
diameter of tho body, from the ridge of
the hack to the lower part of the bel
li, where thickest, is precisely six fee.t
ono inch. Its tail, contrary to that of
the whale kind, is perpendicular and, I nied all sort of combination, and affirm-
voral times had grounded, nnd as often
disentangled herselfbefore she was final
ly destroyed.
Middletown I’oint, N. J. June Oth.
Ihom the Charleston Courier.—Communicated.
Melancholy li/lect oj Popular Excitement.
The following anecdote may he relied
on as a simple narrative of facts—which
actually occurred within tlie recollection
of thousands.
In the year of lfilt) nr 1811, Mr.
Blount being Governor qf North-Cam-
lina, Mr. Milluol of Georgia, and Mr.
Drayton of South Carolina, the two
latter states were thrown into great a-
lartu by a letter transmitted from Gover
nor Blount to Gov. Aiilledge, and by the
iailct- despatched by express to Gover
nor Drayton. The nnlitia of ilia two
states, in tlie counties adjacent to Au
gusta, were ordered to bn held in rea
diness for action, cn masse, and Guards
and Patrols to scour the country. Tlie
sufferings of the inhabitants, particular
ly tlie females, from apprehensions pain
fully excited, induced a gentleman of this
city, then a resident near Augti.ta, to
call on the Governor, tlieu residing near
that place, and request a sight of the
letter. At the first glance of the eye he
pronounced it a hoax : for it bore date
on the 1st April, and had been picked up
in one of the country towns in N. Caroli
na, where it had intact been dropped by
some thoughtless schoolboy. Ou the
face ni it also it bore such evidence of its
origin, as must have struck an observer
whose vision was not distorted hy alarm.
For it was dated Augusta, signed “ Your
loving brother Captain Jack,” and pur
ported to be directed to an associate, in
Lewisville, North Carolina. But it was
in vain that these suggestions were made.
The Governor of Georgia could not
brook the mortifying discovery of his
having been duped, and the whole coun
try, on the designated night was kept in
agitated motion.
Happy had it terminated in nothing
more than the suffering and disturbance
communicated to the people of both
states, and tlie useless expenditure of
some thousands of public money. But
another hoax gave it a most tragical ter
mination.
The trumpeter of tlie Augusta Caval
ry resided in the opposite district ol
Edgefield, and orders had been issued to
him to attend the company that night.—
By some accident these orders did not
reach hi in in time to make Augusta that
evening, nnd he halted at Moore’s mill*
on Chever’s creek, in South Carolina.—
Here he and a companion were shown
into a garret, where they were amusing
themselves over their pint of whiskey,
when the continual passing and repassing
of the mounted militia drew their atten
tion ; and the half intoxicated liiiHemaii
resolved to try the effect of a blast of his
music upon the fears of a party just gone
by. The effect was electrical—it was
deemed tho expected signal—the de
tachments galloped ofl to all directions in
quest of the offender, and towards morn
mg returned with a single poor half-wit
ted negro, who had been taken crossing
afield on his way home, without instru
ment of war or of music. But none el*c
could be found, nnd h® alone could have
given the significant blast, which so ma
ny had heard. It was in vain that he de
nied it : he was first whipped severely
to extort a confession, and then, w ith his
eyes bound, commanded to prepare for
instant death from a sabre, which a
horseman was in the act of sharpening
beside him.
Ho now recollected that a man namei!
Billy, belonging to Copt. Key, had one
of those long tubes which boatmen use
on our rivers, and declared (hat lie had
sounded the horn, and done it at tlie com
mand of Capt. Key’s men ; but still do
ing listened to, hastened away to his
friends, and among them a judicial char*
•icier in lit" neighborhood, to unite their
entreaties, with his. They promply at*
tended to Ins soli-itations, procured a
meeting of the court, and earnestly'
[tressed the injustice and precipitation
at the sentence, and their ri ht to time
to solicit a pardon, but in vain. The
presiding magistrate actually conceded
bis dignity attacked, and threatened it:i-
peacelimcnt against the judge, who as
an individual, bud interlered only to
prevent a b gal murder j and interfered
upon the witness, retracting all he had
testified to.
Billy was hung amidst crowd? of exon
erating spectators ;—and such appeared
to he the pupular deinnf^t trrr a victim,
that it L wot ceilaia a paruot* could bare
saved him.
The following interesting extract,
from a letter written by Sir George Col
lier, will we think, serve to fix the wa
vering hopes of those who have embark
ed in the project of establishing a blai k
colony, on tlie shores of Africa. We
learn that on the western coast of Aft ica.
there is one church, with three hundred
communicants.—Balt. Morn. Chronicle.
“ It is hardly possible to conceive the
difficulties wiiicii have been surmounted
in bringing the colony of Sierra Leone
to its present improved and still yerv
improving state. Roads, are cut in every'
direction useful for communication ;
many towns and villages are built, and
others a* the black population increases,
are building ; more improvement, under
all circumistances of climate and infancy
ol colony, i* scarcely to be supposed.—
I visited ail the black towns and villages,
attended the public schools and oilier
establishments ; and I never witnessed
in any population more contentment and
happiness. The manner in which the
public schools are here conducted, re
flects the greatest credit on those con
cerned in their prosperity, and tlie im
provement made hy the scholars, proves
the aptituJe of the African, if moderate
pains he taken to instruct him. 1 have
attended places of public worship in e-
very qnat ter of the globe, nnd I do most
conscientiously declare, never did I wit
ness the cermnnies of religion more pi-*
ously performed, or more devoutly at*
tended to, than that at Sieria Leone.”
about 3 feet in width. The external ap
pearance of the eye is about that of an
ox, but tiir ball itself is as large as a com
mniill
the motion had not prevailed. He had, mon swivel shot, and very hard. Its
however, hoped, since he had desisted
from again requesting the letter, that no
other gentleman would have proposed
it. It was manifest that it had been
withheld to prevent the excitement and
1 the innocence of the act.
An armed force was immediately de
tached to the house of Billy, and there
found him quietly sleeping in the midst
of a large family, in a degree of comfort j horses and others,
very unusual for a slave—for Billy teas
a blacksmith, a fellow of uncommon
norrnous, fuini*hed both above
and below with a double row of teeth
above an inch in length; & its throat lias,
or had, the capacity of swallowing a man I worth, and indulged in such privileges
of any size. When attacked, it appears j by bis master as las fidelity justly merit-
ill blood w liiclt the contents might pro- j to lie of n v orv pacific nature, not making j ed.
duce. Ho hoped the resolution would the least attempt to repel any of the nu-j But in one corner of his house, ox-
not he adopted. merous injuries offered to it. 'The car- posed to the view of every one, was
Mr. Fuller said ho was happy to | ease, itself, yields no oil, and what is ex-1 found the terrific horn, and he was bur-
hcar from the gentleman from Virginia, j traded amounting to about 200 gallons, is ’ tied away to be tried for his life. The
j that he had hecn induced to abstain from | from the entrails only. 'There is no j Court of Magistrates and Freeholders
To the editors of the American Farmer
FOUNDER IN HOUSES.
Funs. Bourbon Co. IC'v.
After a journey devoid of interest, nwiig
to tin* lateness ot tin* season, I have arrhett
m Kentucky, and being dc-imus of*commu
nicating a cure fur ’‘Foundering,” recen ly
known ; I make one effort to conuutto i.,o
value of your present work, the American
Farmer.
O ic of the writers in vnnr (I Farmer” calls
foundering, *• chills and founder,” aud c.-.:,-
pares it to inll immatury rheumatisms ; 1 aj>
preheud he docs not uudeisland the disease
in all its stages ;—it evidently proei i ds fiom
surfeit. A horse rode and heated until fa
tigued, and fed ton piciitil'ullv while warm
and hungry, & swallowing hi* Vet d too gre. -
dily, that lie may lie down and rest liis wea
ried limbs ; and tile stable being wet and
damp, uiwl the lior-e in a copious sweat, are.
reasons the best that can be given, for tiro
formation of the disease.
Instead of rising op re' 'cubed, the poor a*
nimal is stiff ind useless. Ifliehad got leave
tocool pcilrctly, and been fed sparingly, lie
would have escaped t .is sure eompkiiut.
The cure is a lump of alum about tin* size
of a w alnut, reduced tu powder and dissolv
ed in warm water; the horse must be drench
ed with this liquid, which in a short time will
throw him into a profuse perspiration, and
lie will be able to pursue bis journey tlm
, day, and if not badly foundered, in a
1 1 few hours.
You will keep it out of sight that this com
munication tomes from a wuman, us i with
to escape tlie
‘‘ " m id's dread laugh, which scarce
“ The firm Philosopher can scorn ”
\ et it is a tact that I have always prized fine
horses, and endeavored hy every means iu
my power, to alleviate tLoir puin.
P. S. Tlie valuable remedy for the foun
der was communicated by Cnl B. Chambers,
who experienced its gaud effects on his own
act, entitled An act supplementary to the
several acts for adjusting the claims In
land, and cstablis; ing land offices, in the
districts cast of tlie island of New Orleans.”
Washington, May 7, 11)22—Approved.
.—_ j a further call far Mr. R’s. loiter to pre-
AN ACT to desi unite the boundaries of n vent tho excitement of “ ill Mood,” and
hand District, and for the establishment of
l.nnd Otfiee, iii the state uf Indiana.
lie it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives cf the United States of .1-
miic.i in Congress assembled, That, for the
of the unappropriated public lands in
he would by no means be behind him,”
(Mr. Floyd.) in such a laudable intent ;
but, in bis opinion, Ihe communication
of the letter, and of the explanation of
the other commissioners to Congress
the state of Indiana, to w hich the Indian | „nd to the public, would have a far gr
title is extinguished, the following district ter tendency to alia
shall be funned, and a land office establish
ed : All the public lands, as afoiesuid, to
which the Indian title was extinguished hy
the treaties concluded at b't Mary’s in tin-
month of October, eighteen hundred and
e gliteen, lying cast of the range line, sepera-
tiug the first and second ranges, cast of Uie
ty the ill blood, if any
existed, than the suppression of tho ex
planation, while the loiter was in effect
made public. 'The president’s message
informed ns, Mr. F. said, that lie had
transmitted the letter to the Department
f State, and directed copies of it tu be
will he notified in n few days. I should
have mentioned, that this animal is a fe
male, and had Jugs, or teats, upwards
of a foot in length, aud strongly jointed
—She also hail, what may be called a
breast, full of rich, nutritions milk. It
is supposed she had left her mate and
oalves, and bv mistake, instead of keep
ing the Amboy or New-York Channel,
commencing on the old Indian boundary, in j phoatious which ought to accompany it wandered into this inlet, w here she s.e-
solid hone whatever in the w hole struc-1 was selected from men of the first rc
tore of this aquatic animal, but instead j spectahility in tlie neighborhood ; and
thereof, a gristle, much the same as that! yet it is a fact, although no evidence was
of a sturgeon. The whole carcase i* | given whatever as to a motive lor sound-
now in a state of preparation, and stuf- i ing tlie horn, and the horn was actually
ting, to he exhibited to tiie curious, and j tound covered and even filled with cob-
particuliary to men of science, and skil- j webs, they condemned that man to die
led in ichthyology, in the city of New-1 the next day !—and, what will scarcely
York ; of who h exhibition, the public he believed, they actually received evi-
second principal meridian, extended north to | ( | e | jvcre ,| t0 persons who should apply—
ihu pr£*ent Indian boundary, and north ot V *. ,, , ,,
a line to be run separating the tiers of tuwn-' C ^sequently It would soon reach the
-hips numbered twenty and tvvejity-one, ] newspapers, while the comments or ex-
tlcnce of liis having been once charged
with stealing a pig, to substantiate the
charge upon which he then stood on
trial. Respectable bystanders have de
clared, that his guilt or innocence as to
the pig soon took the lead of every other
question nn the trial. '1 lie owner, one
of the worthiest men in all that country,
thunderstruck at the sentence, entreated
a mors deliberaU hearing ; but nut be-
ENGLISH COMMON LAW.
We received a few days since the
Edinburg Review of February, No. 72.
The first article is entitled “ The Courts
oi the Ancient English Common law,”
tint! begins with the following summary
of the various codes, whose validity
Great Britain at present recognizes iu
different parts of her dominions.
*• At this moment there are few cf
the systems of legislation, either of an*
cient or modern times which are notin
force as living law within the British
empire. Menu and Mahemmed decide
tlie civil rights of the Hindu and Mogul
—and an appeal from India compels our
1‘rivy Councellor* to consult the Koran
and the Puranas, as authorities at White-
hail. Justinian is obeyed by the court?
of the Ionian Republic. In the Norman
Isles, the several portions of the do
mains of the Conqueror, tlie Barbaric
castumal framed by his Justiciars, still
guides the Grand Bailiff and the Senes*
chal, w ho dispense the equity of Rollo,
now forgotten in the halls of Rouen.—
Canada cherishps the volumes which
have been cast forth frem the Palace of