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Newspaper Page Texti>. C. CAMPBELL, Editor & Proprietor. TERTIS. D p a u 1 islied weekly, inthe Darien Bank Building, fii.iKK Collars per annum, payable in advance, or j’,» u >i Dollars if not paid before the end of the year, j \ . - rncription will be received for Ifess than a year, | „ .r will any paper be discontinued until all arrear- n itps arc paid. t \ it ; paper will not be senttoany person out ofthe Snte, untilthe subscription money is paid in advance, or satisfactory reference given. \i>vkrtise*4knts conspicuously inserted at the i ii ^ua I rates. Those sent without a specification ofthe | •lumber of insertions, will be published until ofdered i out. and charged accordingly. - ii«?s of land and negroes, by Administrators. Ex- | erl.: >rs, or Guardians, are required by law to beheld ! 0 1 the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours often in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at jh.r Court-House in thecouutyin which the property ! s situated. Notice ofthese sales must be given in a public ga* zet’e sixty days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must by friven iu like manner, forty days previous to the daa I Notices to the debtors and creditors of an estate also be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Laud or Negroes, must be published for four months. Citations for letters of Administration, most be published thirty days—for dismission from Admin istration, monthly six months—for dismission from Guardianship, forty days. Rules for foreclosure of mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost p ipers, for the full space of three months—for com- j pe!lin» titles from Executors or Administrators, | where a bond has been given by the deceased, tlufu/l space of three months • 1 Publications will always be continued according o these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or dered. AH business of this kind will receive prompt atten tion at the Federal Union Office. Letters on business must be post paid to entitle them to attention. Authorit y. XJLSWOUTII F. PASSK, A TTORNE Y A T LA W, IIAWKINSVILLE, GEO. Jan.25,1849. 33 CHARLES S. HAWLEY, A TTORNE Y A T LA W, JIAVVKINSVILLE, GA. tf—-24 Nov. 23, 3647. W. 15. TEBIIIXE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ROME GA Refer to lion. Johx II. Lu-.ii'Kin. Dec. 28, 1847. tf—29 -,v. T. A A. H. COI^UITT, ATTORNEYS AT LA IV. MACON, GEORGIA, ILL attend to business in the Courts of Bibb and the adjoining counties. Macon, .March 10. l s 48. *1* 40 w J. B. MURPHY, RESIDENT DENTIST, MILLEDGEVILLE, GA. REFERENCES. Or. T. Fort, Dr. B A. White. Dr. R E. Martin - , Dr. C. J. Raise, Milledeeville. Aug ) Dr. G. D. Case, | VV. H. Mitchell, I Col. M. Grieve, | O. Childs. 29, 1848. 12 tf J. A. W. JOHNSON, Attorney ScCowHseVYor at Law. SPRIXG PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. H AVING located for the practice of bis profes sion, will promptly and faithfully attend to ai the following counties: Towns. Springpiace. LaFayette. business confided to him Counties. M urray, Walker, Chattooga. Floyd, Cass, Cherokee, Gilmer, Union, Will also do a collectin, Summerville. Rome. Cassvilie. Canton. Ellijay. Blairsville. business in t!ie adjoining j counties of East Tennessee: and will attend the preme Court of the State of Georgia, at its sessions in Cassvilie and Gainsville. Begs leave to refer to the following legal gentlemen: Hon. C. J. McDonald, Marietta, Ga Maj. W. Y. Hassell, “ “ Gen. A. J. Hassell, “ “ Col. David Irwin, “ “ Col. Chas. Murphy. Decatur. “ July 16, 1848. 6—tf RABUN & PULTON, Commission Merchants. SA VANN AH, GA. give strict attention to the sale of Cotton and other Produce consigned to them, an 1 promptly fill orders for Bagging, Rope and Family Supplies, at the lowest prices. August J, 1843. 8—m3mis CLARK & LAWSUIT FACTORS AND GENERAL C'omaieissiosa IVIei’clianls, SAVANNAH, GA. ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE THIRTIETH CONGRESS. [Public—No. 75."J An Act making appropriations for the naval service, for the year ending die thirtieth of June, one thou sand eight hundred and foity-nine. Beit rnactcl h'y the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of t/te United States of America in Congress assembled. That the following sums he appropriated for the naval service, for the year ending June thirti eth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, out of any unappropriated money in thetreasury, in addi tion to the sum of one million five hundred thousand j dollars ofthe unexpended balances of former appro- ! priations for the naval service. The remainder of such unexpended balances, after deducting the said sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars, to j be carried to the surplus fund. | For pay ofcommission, warrant, and petty officers; j and seamen, including the engineer corps of the na- i vy, two million one hundred and eighty-nine thou- j sand two hundred and eleven dollars For pay of superintendents, naval constructors, and all the civil establishments at the several navy yards.seventy-four thousand two hundred and twen ty dollars. For provisions for commission, warrant, and petty officers, and seamen, including engineers and ma rines, attached to vessels for sea service, six hundred and seventy seven thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For surgeons* necessaries and appliances for the sick and hurt of tiie navv. including the marine corps, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. For increase, repair, ornament, and equipment for the navy, including wear and tear of vessels in com mission, coal for steamers. purchase of hemp, and one million two hundred thousand dollars for com pleting four first class steamers, two million five hundred and thirty-one thousand four hundred and seventy four dollars. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including inci dental expenses, two hundred and eighteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. For nauti :al book, ir.aps charts, instruments, bind ing and repairing the same, and all expenses of the hydrographical office, thirty-five thousand dollars.— Andihe Secretary ofthe Navy is hereby directed to expend five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in causing the observations to be made which have been recently recommended to him by the American Philosophical Society and the Acadmy of Arts and Sciences. For the pay of the superintendent of the Naval Observatory at Washington city, who shall he a cap tain, commander, or lieutenant inthe navy, three thousand dollars, which shall be the salary per annum of said superintendent. And the provision in the act entitled “An net making appropriations for the naval service for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one tiypisand eight hundred and forty-eight,” which is in these words, viz: “including three thousand dollars for pay of the superintendent, who shall be either a captain, commander, or lieutenantin the navy,” shall he construed to apply to the superintendent of said Naval Observatory and shall take effect from and af ter the passage of that act. For contingent expenses that may accrue for the following purposes, viz: freight and transportation; printing and stationery; advertising iu newspapers; books, maps, models,and drawing; purchase and re pair of fire engines and machinery; repair of and at tending on steam engines in yards; purchase and support of horses and oxen, and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and the purchase and repair of work men’s tool-*; postage of public letters; furniture for government bouses, fuel, oil, and candles for navy yards and shore stations; cleaning aud clearing up yards; watchmen and incidental labor not chargeable to any other appropriation; labor attending the deliv ery of stores and supplies on foreign stations; whar fage, dockage, and rent: travelling expenses of offi cers: funeral expenses; store and office rent; station ery, and fuel to navy agents, and store keepers; flags, awnings, and packing boxes; premiumsnnd other ex penses of recruittng; apprehending deserters; per diem pay to persons attending court-martial, and courts of inquiry, or other service authorized by law; pay tojudge advocates; pilotage and towage of ves sels; assistance rendered to vessels in distress, seven hundred thousand dollars And the Secretary of the Navy i«s hereby authorized, from the sum aforesaid, without further notice oradveitisement, out of the ap propriation for provisions, to purchase, at his discre tion, a sufficient quantity of flour and corn-meal pre pared and dried bo the process and machinery invent ed by J. It. Stafford, of Ohio, to be sent to different naval stations, to test its capacity to resist the influ ence of time and climate, aud to ascertain what ad vantage there may be in introducing the use of the same for the navy. For the transportation of the United States mail between New York and Liverpool; between New York and New Orleans, and Havana and Chagres; and between Panama and Astoria, under the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and fort v-seven, eight hundred and seventy-four thousand six hundred dollars. And the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to advance to the contractors for said service or their assignees, for the purpose of enabling them to finish the steamships contracted for, tinder their w 1T , • , to.,- r I - —pective contracts, the sum of twenty-five thousand 1 !4 L .? , . Ve lh . e ^i be ! t ..i tt J:!l t,0n t0 -! he S . e : h " g _? f I df>ll:irs P er month on each of said ships, after such ship shall have been launened; but the money so ad vanced under any one of said contracts shall not ex ceed the amount of one year’s compensation, stipu lated for in such contract, to be secured in all cases by a lien on said ships, in such manner as the Secre tary ofthe Navy may require; and the money so ad vanced shall he faithfully expended in finishing said ships to the satisfaction ofthe Secretary of the Navy; j and compension on the contract of Panama to Astoria j shall commence from the time the ships are ready for service, and placed at the disposal of the United States: the said annual compensation, however, not to commence until first October, eighteen hundred and forty eight: Provided, that the contractor for the j line from Panama to Astoria, as the condition of this advance, he required tostopand deliver and take mails at San Diego, San Francisco, and Monterey, in Cali fornia, if required so to do by the Secretary of the Na vy, with the concurrence ofthe Postmaster General: And prorideilfurther. That inconsideration of the fore- goingadvance, the Iineofsteamers provided in the con tract with A. S. Sloo shall stop, going and returning, at Charleston, if practicable, and Savannah. For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbe fore enumerated, two thousand dollars. To pay arrearages due for grading University square, and other expenses, for the construction of the depot for charts and instruments, being a reap propriation in part of a sum carried to the surplus fund heretofore appropriated for that purpose, ten thousand forty-three dollars and seventy-seven cents. For furnishing the marine hospital building at New Orleans, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For “meteorological observations,” to be conduct ed under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, two thousand dollars. For the establishment of a depot for naval store- Cotton and other produce consigned to the rare; also to the filling orders lor bagging, hale Rope, and other plantation and family supplies. Aug. loth, 1848. 11 8m NEW GROCERIES! CHEAPER THAN EVER! T HE Subscribers are now receiving their FALL STOCK ofchoice Family Orocerie*:, Hardware, Crockery, lagging a mi Bale Kope, consisting of Prime St Croix, Porto Rico, Muscovado, Steara Refined, Crushed and Loaf Sugars. Did Government Java, Mocha, and Rio Coffee. Sperm, Adamantine, and Tallow Caudles. Goshen Cheese, in Boxes. Preserves ur^l Jelleys. Fresh Lobster and Salmon. Mackerel—in half and whole barrels. W ines and Liquors, of superior quality. Hardware, Cutlery. Carpenters Tools. Cro>s Cut and Mill Saws. Nails—assorted sizes. M iudow Glass. White Lead. Lmseed. Lamp, Train and Neats Foot Oil. •'aperior Molasses and Sugar House Syrup. I idf-r \ inegar. in half and whole barrels. Crockery and Glass VY r are—a large assortment. gg ln S* ^’tinny and Kentucky Bag I* i!e Rope and Twine. • -Mperior Tobacco aud Segarj. Lstra Family Soap. Raisins, ofsuperiorquality, &c.&c. _*Yiih many other articles usually kept iu Family 'koceries, which are offered at a small advance on BEECHER & HORNE, , Masonic Hall. Milledgeville, Sept. 26, 1848. IG tf AillEiisiistrator’s Sale. wAr 1,1 Hillsboro’, Jasper county, on _ • t l ^ ie Mih November next, a portion of • P er, >,nliproperty of John G. Morris, late of ^ n,,n !y dec’d. f consisting of several valuable har- • " mrses gentle and well broke—also, one fine Ca- ‘ ‘i.in pony, gentle, rides well and perhaps can out il l ■ n ° ,I - V * M ^ eor ?ia—also, one buggy and liar- one VVe H broke mule, besides other articles ‘on*.to mention. Terms,twelve monthscred- note and approved security. bailey bell. Adm’r. o , , with the will annexed. September 18th, 1848. ]G c°,-i Tin Law wCCARTEB « ALLEN. OF CHARLESTON, S.C. - ‘ J''!' E to keep a larje assortment of Books tionery which will he sold to country u l others at New York prices, very much enlarged their Stock of nd y ha j “W* a ®ong which are ail the Eletnen- ... , V . 0 , • an< J ’be Reports of all those States, which Th T horit r in lt,e Sonth - CM ,le n V l \?, a,so acom P ,ele assortment ofMEDlt- i a , * ' , , together with all the standard roisccl- inm,, V/m S ,' ,,ecc * ssar yi 0 form Libraries. One doer 1 or Charleston Hotel, in Meeting street. - ' »• L 1646. 30—ill I '-’in • J «B I’KlMJAii Executed at this Oja e. j which the Secretary of the Navy is hereby required j to cause to he located at or near the city of New Or leans. twenty thousand dollars. For the construction, extension, and completion of the following objects, and for the current repairs at the several navy yards, viz: At Portsmouth. For completing quay will and wharf, and wharf number one; wall west side of ship number four, ami 1 filling in; timber shed opposite number seven, and ' addition to sniithery I; brick powder magazine; en gine, fixtures. Sec., for blowing-fires to forges: and for repairs of all kinds, fifty thousand five hundred and fifty-oae dollars. At Boston. For timber shed number thirty-seven, and pier wharfat angle number fifty-nine; coal house neardry- do<?k. and pier wharf in rear of carpenter’s and join er's shop; for eight kneedocks. and track for stowage of guns in gun park; for completing brick barn: and repairs of all kin hi, ninety seven thousand three iiun- ntid fifty one dollars. At New York. For iron and copper store, cooperage, cob wharf, and filling in timber pond; dredging channels and wharf in front of hospital lands; steam engine in smithery, steam pipes, Ac., and cistern for each res ervoir, paving, and flagging, and granite skids, and platforms for cannon, ami for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and six thousand dollars. I* or the dry dock, three hundred and fifty thousand dollors. For the purchase by the Secretary of the Navy of the laud, above and under, waterbounded by Flushing avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, the United States navy yard, hospital grounds, and the Wallabont bay to the channel, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no pait of said sum of money shall be applied to the payment of the purchase money until a good and per fect title is secured to the United Statesforthe said land and its appurtenances. At Philadelphia. For removing and extending ship-house G; com pleting wharf number two; dredging machine; and repairs of all kinds, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars. At Washington. For chain cable forges, and fitting part of number eleven for a boiler shop; steam hammer for smith's shop, and alteration in hydraulic proving machine; converting joiner’s shop in number twelve to mould loft, and steam hammer in place of old tilt hammer; ord nance workshops, and extending brass foundry; ex tending blacksmith's shop andiron store under N, and finishing shop for smithery; convening old foun dry into stables, ami for repairs of all kinds, thirty-two thousand four hundred and eighteen dollars. At Norfolk. For extension of quay walls; completing slip forty- eight, and for the store house number nineteen; brick stable*; steam hammer and engine: briok gun place, coal house and landing wharf; culvert drill press; punching machine and cutting shears, and lor repairs ofall kinds, one hundred and forty-four thousandone hundred and thirty-six dollars. At Pensacola. For two third-class officers’ houses; completing timber shed number twenty six: dredge machine scows; four warrant officers’ houses, and guard-house; coal-house; paint shop and rail tracks; permanent wharf: drain id rear of officers’ quarters; wharf aud rail track in front of store house number twenty-six; paving, grading, planting trees, and levelling, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and fifty-nine thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For construction, in part, of a new timber shed at said navy-yard, fifty thousand dollars. For payment of such arrearages as the Secretary of the Navy may in law and equity decide to be due tojerrison and Foster,seven thousand dollars. At Memphis. For completing commandant’s house and store house; tarring house; engine and machinery for saw mill; timber shed, and boat builder’s sliop t and wall to enclose yard; embankment and excavations; ma chinery for ropewalk, and for repairs of all kinds, one hundred and seventy-four thousand and thirty-eight dollars. At Sacketts Harbor. For the completion of officers’ quarters, and for repairs of all kinds, two thousand dollars Ftor Hospitals. At Boston.—For repairing hospital buildings and pendencies, fences and furnaces, painting, glazing, and white-washing, two thousand, eight hundred dollars. For the completion of the marine hospitals now building, viz: At Pittsburg, ten thousand dollars; at Cleveland, ten thousand dollars; at Louisville, ten thousand dollars. For the purpose of erecting marine hospitals on the sites owned by the United Stales at the follow ing places, viz: At St. Louis, ten thousand dollars; at Natchez, ten thousand dollars; at Paducah, ten thousand dol lars. At Napoleon, Arkansas, (so soon ns the govern ment title to the site selected and purchased shall be perfected.) ten thousand dollars. Also for the construction of a marine hospital on such site as sh ill be selected by the Secretary ofthe Treasury on the lands owned by the United States at Chicago, ten thousand dollars. At New York.—For purchase from the city of New York of water—front to hospital lands; for surgeon’s house; paving, guttering, and completing sewer, and for current repairs, twenty thousand and fifty-seven dollars. At Washington.—For current repaiis, one hun dred dollars. At Norfolk.—For repairs of galleries, cells, bath house, fence, and surgeon’s house, one thousand four hundred dollars; and for making necessary re pairs for the marine hospital at Norfolk, sixteen hun dred dollars. At Peusacola.—For bricking up ponds and drain, repairs to hospital, and for Current repairs six thousand three hundred and seventy eight dol lars. At Mobile.—For necessary repairs of the marine hospital, one thousand and ninety dollars. For Magazines, viz: At Boston,five hundred dollars. At New York, five hundred dollars. At Washington, two hundred dollars At Norfolk, one,thousend nine hundred aud thirty- eight dollars. Marine Corps. For pay of officers, non-commissioned officers, mu sicians, privates and servants, serving on shore, sub sistence of officers, and pay for undrawn clothin •wo hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars. For provisions for marines, serving on siiore, sixty thousand doliars. For clothing, eighty-one thousand four hundred and ninety-two dollars. For fuel, eleven thousand three hundred and thir ty-four dollars. For military stores, repair of arms, pay or armor ers. accoutrements, ordnance stores, flags, drums, fifes, anu musical instruments, eight tiiousand dol lars. 4 For transportation of officers and troops, and for expenses of recruiting, twelve -thousand dollars- For contingencies, viz; Fieight, ferriage, toll, cartage, wharfage, compensa tion to judges-advocate, per diem for attending courts martial, courts of inquiry, and for constant la bor; house rent, in lieu of quarters; burial ofdeceased marinesrprinting stationery, forage, postage, pursuit of deserters; caudles, oil, straw, furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks,carpeliter’s tools; keep of a|<iorse for messenge i, pay of the matron, washerwo man. and porter at hospital headquarters, twenty- two thousand dollars; For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries; further to supply deficiencies in appropriations made for the service ofthe fiscal year ending the thirtieth Jtiue eighteen hundred aud forty- eight, twenty thousand dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seventeen thousand and three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out ofany mo ney in thetreasury not otherwise appropriated, for improvements and repairs at the naval school at An napolis, to be expended as follows: for enclosing the grounds embraced in the new purchase, repair ing the houses, thereon docking, grading, and impro ving the grounds, six thousand eight hundred dollars. For repairing and tinning superintendent's house, one thousand five hundred dollars. For building an arsenal, five hundred dollars. For raising the row ofhotises occupied by profes sors, one story, six thousand dollars. For completing mess-room and lyceum, five hun dred dollars- For painting outside of houses, and other ne. cessury repairs, one thousaud five hundred dol lars. For five engines and apparatus, complete, five hnndred dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That in execution of the act approved March third, eigh teen hundred find forty-seven, making appropri ations for the naval service, &c., directing among other things the construction of floating dry-docks at the navy-yard at Philadelphia, Pensacola, and Kittery, and in pursuance of the reports in favor of the two plans hereinafter named as best adapted to naval purposes, made by a board of officers ap pointed to examine ail the plans, and by the Bureau of Yards and Docks, the Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed forthwith to enter into ja contract with Samuel D. Dakin and Rutherford Moody, for the complete construction within a reasonable time from the date of the contract, of a sectional floating dry-dock, basin, and railways, at the navy-yard at Philadelphia, according to the plan and specifications submitted by thorn to the Navy Department; aud also to enter into a contract with John S. Gilbert and Zeno Secor, for the complete construction, within a reasonable time from the date of the contract, of a balance floatiug dry-uock, basin, tflid railways, at the navy-yard at Pensacola, according to the plan and specifications submitted by them to the Navy Department; and also to enter into a contract with one or the other of the respective parties above- named, for the complete construction, within a rea sonable time from the date ofthe contract, at the na- vy-yard at Kittery, of a floating dry-dork, basin and railways, upon either ofthe above-named plans that ing war steamers of the largest class, at ieast three hundred aud fifty feet in length, if the dimensions above mentioned should not be found adequate for that purpose. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted. That the sum of four hundred thousand dollars is hereby appropriated towards said works from any money iu the treasury not otherwise appropriated, which sum, together with the sums that remain unexpended of the appro priations made by said act of March third, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, for floating dry docks at j the three navy-yards aforesaid, shall be applied to- j wards the payments to be provided for iu the said ! contracts, and be equally divided between the said j contracts for the said works at the three navy-yards aforesaid. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted. That hereafter the amount of money commutation allowed by law ’ iu lieu of tnc spirit ration, shall be increased to four i cents. Seb. G. And be it further enacted. That when any | master in the navy, or passed midshipman, holding an acting appointment as master from the Secretary of the Navy, has performed, or shall hererfter per form, the duty of a lieutenant, under an order of the commander of the vessel to which he was orshall be at the time attached, to supply a deficiency in the es tablished compliment of lieutenants of said vessel, whether belonging to a squadron or ot separate ser- \ice, which order shall have been subsequently ap proved by the Secretary ofthe Navy, shall be allow ed the pay of a master for the period or periods du ring which he shall have performed such duty. Sec. 7. And be if further enacted. That in calculating for the pay of surgeons in the navy, hereafter, the time upon the graduated »cale of pay shall be reck oned from their original entry into the service. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That the Secre tary of the Navy be and he is hereby directed to re port to Congress, at the commencement of the next session, the number of persons in the naval service flogged in each of the years eighteen hundred and forty-six and eighteen hundred and forty-seven, spec ifying the name ofthe ship, the offence the sentence, and the number of lashes inflicted; and it shall be his duty to make a similar report for each year there after. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted. That, on the ap plication of the Secretary of the Navy, the President of the United States be authorized, when, in his o- p:nion, tha contingencies of the public service may require it, to transfer any portion of the sum of one million five hundred thousand dollars of unexpended balances of former appropriations, mentioned in the first section of this act, from one head of appropria tions to any other head of appropriations made for the naval service; and in all cases of such transfer, a special account of the moneys transferred, and their application, shall be laid before Congress at each session previous to its adjournment. Sec. 10 And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Postmaster General, under the direc tion of the President, to cause the nett receipts of postages collected on the several lines of steamers from New York to Liverpool, from New York to Chagres, and from Panama to some point in the Ter ritory of Oregon, stipulated for in contracts made with the Secretary of the Navy, to be deposited in the treasury to the credit ofthe appropriation, for the annual compensation for the service to he rendered under said contracts, or otherwise apply the said postage in payment of the said annual compen sation. Sec. 11. Andbc.il further enacted, That so much of the proviso of the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, entitled “An net making appropriations for the naval service for the half calender year beginning the first of January, and ending the thirteieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four.” &c., as required that materials of every name and nature for the use of the navy be furnished by contract with the lowest bid der, he and the same is hereby so for modified, that it shall he lawful for the Secretary of the Navy, here after to enter into contract for tobacco, from time to time, as the service requires, for a period not ex ceeding four years; and in making such contracts, he shall not be restricted to the lowest bidder, unless, in his opinion, economy and the best interests of the service will be thereby promoted. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the num ber of professors of mathamatics in the navy shall not exceed twelve; that they shall Jje appointed and commissioned by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall perform such duties as may be assigded them by order of the Secretary of Navy, at the naval school, tiie observatory, and on hoard ships-of-war, in instructing the midshipmen of the navy, or other wise. That when on duty, the pay of a professor of mathamatics shall be at *he rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, with a ration; and when on leave of absence or waiting orders, the pay shall be at the rate of eight hundred dollars per annum Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the Sec retary of the Navy be, and he is hereby, authorized to cause persons in the naval service or marine crops, who shall become insane while in the service, to be placed in such lunatic hospital as in his opinion wil be most convenient and best calculated to promise a restoration of reason; and that in addition to the pay which may from time to time be due to such person, he may, from the annual approbation for the naval service, under the head of contengent ennumerated, pay any defficiency of resonable expense: provided that in each case it does not exceed one hundred dol lars per annum. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted. That the pro viso of the act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and forty-two, limiting the number of officers of the navy of the grade of midshipmen to the number that were in service on the first day of January, eight een hundred and fortv-one, be and is hereby so mod ified as to authorize the appointment of officers of that grade.to the number of four hundred and sixty- four. Provided, that the appointments shall be made according to the directions of the fifth section of the act approved March third, eighteen hnndred and for ty-five, entitled “An act making appropriations, for the naval service for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six;” and in ap pointing from each State, hereafter, its proportion of officers of that grade, the appointments shall be apportioned, as nearly as practicable, equally among the several Congressional districts therein. Sec. 15. And he it further enacted. That from and after the passage of this act, the annual pay of boat swains, gunners, carpenters, and sail-makers at the navy yard at Pensacola shall be the same as now al lowed by law to the forward warrant officers at the navy yards at Boston. New York, and Norfolk. Sec. 1G. And he it further enacted. That the re striction established by the fourth section of the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty- five, whereby no more than one hundred and eighty passed midshipmen, and those senior in rank, chall at the same time receive the pay fixed by law for that class of officers, he suspended in its operation from the passage of this act, until the class of eighteen hundred and forty-or e and eighteen hundred and forty-two shall have been examined, and the relative rank established among those who shall pass their ex animation. ROBT C. WINTHROP, Speaker of the House ol Representatives, G. M. DALLAS, Vice President ofthe United States and President of the Senate. Approved, August 3, 1843. JAMES K. POLK. exercised the right of suffrage. 1 ' His first vole will be just before be is sixty-four years of age—for we presume he will hard ly fail to do his duty under the Constitution vow. Will he vote for principles? All the Whig principles fell in his nomination.— Will he vote for measures] He avows none himself, and if his friends speak for him, then lie is the representative of the must antagonist doctrines. For what, or for whom, then, will he vote? Why, for self—and self only. He cannot say as Washington said, when he gave his last vote—“principles, not men.” He allows sixty-four years to pas aver his head, with out even once in all that long period of time enjoying the right of suffrage—and when he does vote, he does so for himself. Here is a contrast, if not a comparison, that may be elaborated by our Crittendens! From the Baltimore Sun. GEN. TAYLOR S LETTER TO THE INDE PENDENT TAYLOR PANTY OF MARY LAND. The Patriot of yesterday afternoon, con tains the following letter from Gen. Taylor to a committee of the late Independent Taylor party of Maryland, which was pre sented to the convention of that party, held in this city in July last, but which was withheld from publication in accordance with a request from Gen. Taylor contain ed in the letter. The convention placed the letter in the hands of Wm. H. Collins, Esq., with instructions to furnish a copy for publication, “whenever Gen. Taylor, or any of his authorized friends, shall ask for the same for that purpose.” The Hon. Revcrdy Johnson, having received a letter from Gen. Taylor authorizing him at his discretion to call for this letter, it has been delivered to him by Mr. Collins, and Mr. J. gives the following reasons for its publica tion : '“The failure heretofore to give the let ter to the public, because of a request to that effect from the General himself, unex plained by his motive for making it, has, with some, given rise to suspicion that it contained matter derogatory to his frank ness and integrity. These I deem it due to him to have dispelled, and I know no mode so certain to accomplish it as giving the letter itself.” The following is the letter : as my own; and I have, therefore, no right, and certainly no desire to influence his ac tion in the exercise of the important duty of voting for the officers of this govern ment. Though I have no objection to your cir culating this communication among such of your friends as my be interested in it, yet I request that it may not be published. My aversion to the appearance of my name in the public prints, in connection with such subjects, is my aoology for the request. With great respect, gentlemen, I am ydur obedient servant, Z. TAYLOR. From tbe Columbus Time*. THE NOBLE DEMOCRACY OF MAS SACHUSETTS. At tiie Democratic State Convention of Massachusetts, assembled at Worcester, on the 6th inst., composed of seven hundred and seventy delegates, the following resolution was passed: Rtsolted, therefore. That thin convention is oppos ed to the exercise of any jurisdiction ny Congress over the matter of slavery the territories; but is in favor of leaving to the people who inhabit them, the right to establish and regulate their own domestic in stitutions and relations, under the general principles of the Constitution; and this is a claim for them which cannot be disallowed by the national democracy, de voted, as it is. to the liberty, equality, and fraternity ot this great brotherhood of States. 1 When and where, we ask, has a North ern Whig Convention, meeting, newspa per, orator, politician, or man, ever taken such ground as this in favor of the Consti tutional rights of the South? Never. And why? Because the whole Whig party North, is “Free Soil." Mr. Webster said that the Buffalo Con vention had stolen “Free Soil” from the Whigs—that the Whig party was always for it. And here, Southern reader, is the danger of the South. The power of the Whig parly—its head, body and shoulders To Messrs. Chas. H. Pitts. Jno. W. Walk- .... er, Thomas S. Alexander, aud others,! —>s at the North, and hostile to our institu- Baltimore, Maryland. From the Washington Union. GROSS FRAUDS UPON THE PEOPLE. The country is probably aware that the whig members of Congress, before the ad journment, appointed a whig executive ■committee in this city to prepare and circu late documents throughout the Union.— lions; while at the South, there is nothing but the Whig tail. Whiggery North, rules Whiggery South, with a despotic power. The first is against the interests of the South., body and soul. A Whig triumph in a National election is therefore a triumph over the South—it is the victory of the anti- slavery, Free Soil party. Now we havejnst shown how Democra cy at the North feels and talks on the sub ject of Southern rights—even the llemoc- Their object is to advance the interests of their party, and to aid in tbe election of racy of federal, wool-dyed, abolition Mas- From the Pennsylvanian. GEN. WASHINGTON AND GEN. TAYLOR Mr. Crittenden, in his speech at Pitts burgh, compared Gen. Taylor to Wash ington, by way of complimenting the intel ligence of his audience, we presume.— Since that lime, this comparison has been repeated flippantly, by thousands of politi cal parrots, who take their lessons from a few leading men who have embarked in the Taylor cause. While, therefore, it is the fashion just now, to compare Taylor to Washington, we shall be permitled to draw a contrast between the two, which we shall coufine to a single subject. When Gen. Washington gave his last vote, he did so uudor very exciting and thrilling circumstances. Thousands met on the election ground to do honor to the Saviour of his country, and his coming and going were marked by many demon- the*Hill Secretary may prefer as best adapted to said f strations of popular gratitude. Before vo- ks at each yard to be ol the largest i , : r .u_ .„i u-t yard: the said works dimensions proposed in said plans and specifications: Provided. That m each case such conlract can be made at prices that shall noterceedby more than ten per cent the prices which have been submitted by either ofthe said proprietors to the Navy Department for a floating dry-dock on either of said plans, and for the basins and railways, of the dimensions aforesaid, at any of the said navy yards: And provided further, That the said Secretary shall also, by further contract with said parties, enlarge the dimensions ol said works at each yard to a capacity sufficient for dock- ting, one of the several candidates before the people, asked him for whom he intend ed to cast his ballot. The General replied, with great dignity, “I vole sir, Jor Princi ples, not men!" Shortly after, he got on his horse and rode away. General Taylor—during a long life— for he is over sixty years of age—has never voted at all. To use his own words, “never B.vto.v Rouge, La., June 29, 1848. Gentlemen—I have the honor to acknowl edge the receipt of your polite communi cation of the 12th inst., calling my atten tion to certain statements, relative to my position before the country as a candidate for the Presidency, which are represented to have been made in the Whig National Convention, recently held in Philadelphia, pending the action of that body, by Judge Saunders, of Louisiana, in the name of the delegation from that State; and requesting to he informed whether such statements were made by my autharily. I have to in form you in reply, that, on their way to that convention, Judges Winchester and Saunders, of the Louisiana delegation — who have been for many years my person al friends and neighbors—wrote to me re questing my views, before the meeting of the convention, as to the course I desired my friends to pursue in that body. In two communications addressed to them in re ply, I informed them in substance, that at my distance from the scene, it would be quite impossible for me to give any specific instructions upon the subject; that many questions or contingencies might arise dur ing the action of the convention, the char acter of which I could not foretell, and they must, therefore assume the responsi bility of acting for me; that I felt my hon or and interests safe in their hands, and - that whatever they should see fit to do, I would most cordially approve. I substantially informed them, further, that, unless they should discover an evi dent disposition to treat me unfairly— which I had no reason for supposing would he the case—I thought that my friends should go into the convention, as they had been selected by their follow-citizens fin - that purpose; but that, having once en tered it, they were, of course, bound, if I were not nominated, to sustain and support the nominee, whoever he might be; and that I hoped they would do so heart and soul. That I was a candidate for the Pres- deney, only so far as my friends had chosen to make me one; hut that having been plac ed in my present attitude towards that sub ject without any agency of my own, either directly or indirectly, I did not feel myself at liberty, by any such act, to withdraw myself; but my friends, in whose hands I had ever been, could do so whenever they should see fit; and finally, that if they could succeed in electing to that office any one belter qualified for its duties than I was, and who was at the same time honest, truthful and patriotic, it was their duty to go for him; and that, so far from being dis appointed or mortified, I should hail the result with joy. Such, I think, has been the language which I have uniformly held on the subject since my name was first mentioned in con nection with it. I regret that I have not a copy of my communications to Judges Saunders and Winchester; but the above I believe to be their substance. Under the general authority then thus given these gen tlemen, I shall deem whatever statements they have made to be right and proper; and, confident in their integrity and in the "incerity of their friendship for me, I shall sustain them without qualification. I, there fore, now take upon my own shoulders the responsibility of the acts of the Louisiana delegation, in that convention, and am pre pared to stand by the consequences, in their length and breadth. I regret exceedingly that my friends in Baltimore, whom you represent, should have thus misunderstood the course pursu ed by the Louisiana delegation in the con vention, and should have imigined that I had abandoned the position held in my published letters on this subject. I feel bound, however, to respect the opieion of those who honestly differ with me; and, therefore, while conscious of no change of feeling or inconsistency on my part, I cannot expect or desire any of my fiieuds, whom you represent, should do vi olence to their own sense of right and wrong, by supporting my election, while they believe I have changed my political views. I ask no man, he he Whig, Demo crat or Native, for his vote. I take every American citizen’s interest in the welfare of bis country, to be a3 pure aud a9 deep Gen. Taylor to the presidency. We wish to advise the country of the further opera tion of their machinery. We understand that this executive committee have two separate and distinct buildings in different parts of the city, in one of which docu ments are prepared and sent to the north, and in the other, documents are published and transmitted to the south. The docu ments circulated in the north represent ' Gen. Taylor as a Wilmot Proviso man, and Gen. Cass as the advocate of the exten sion of slavery. Those which are sent to i the south represent Gen. Cass as a Wilmot 1 Proviso man, and Gen. Taylor as the staunch and interested friend and defender of the slave-holding portion of the country. ; sachusetts. Let us see how Whiggery talks in that same State. About the same time with the Democratic Convention, a Whig Conven tion met, also, to nominate Governor and Lt. Governor. After they nominated, they put forth an address to the people setting forth their principles. We pray attention to an extract from it. We particularly present it to the contemplation of Gen. Tay lor’s Southern friends: “There are a few dissatisfied Whigs, who say they feel indignant at the attempt of the slave power to extend this institution into territory now free. So do we. And we are resolved, as firmly as they can be, to resist that unholy attempt, and to do all Conscious that in a fair field and an hon- | our power to confine slavery within its orable contest they would be scattered to the four winds of heaven by the honest- hearted and indomitable democracy of the country, they have resorted to this most monstrous system of fraud, to delude and cheat the unsuspecting people of this coun try, to swindle them of their suffrages— the dearest and most valuable rights of a freeman; and by these means smuggle themselves into power. Whot are the peo ple of the North and the South to think of this machinery? What are the honest men of all parties to think of it? While men are punished and imprisoned for attempt ing to defraud the honest portion of the community of their property—paltry dol lars and cents—a great party through its leaders, can thus attempt to defraud the people of their rights and their liberties, aud walk at large not only un whipped of justice, but with unblushing effrontery cla- moronsly demanding the confidence and sbpport of the very people whom they are endeavoring to humbug and deceive. In addition to the above, there are now in circulation fourteen different lives of General Tatior. We have been shown a number of them. Some contain, from his voluminous correspondence, only his letter accepting the nomination of the Whig National Convention, with the asser tion that he's a true and decided whig.— Others, in addition to the above letter, con tain a letter written to Dr. Bronsou, of South Carolina, in which, in glaring capi tals, is placed his declaration that had he vo ted in 1844 he would have voted for Henry Clay. He is here claimed as a good Henry Clay whig. Another contains a garbled extract from Gen. Taylor’s letter to Gen. Gaines, to show that he did not consider the country in Mexico worth the expenses of the war, omittiug the subsequent sentence in which he recommends the taking and keeping of seven or eight provinces or States of Mexi co. Another life has a part of his first Al lison letter in which he pledges himself a- gainst the use of the veto. This is to pro pitiate the Wilmot Proviso whigs and aboli tionists of the north. Other have no letters whatever from Gen. Tayloi, but are filled with fulsome laudations of his military a- chievements, in which he is represented as a no-party man, a second Washington, &c. This is for the independent Taylor men.— His lives in th6 German and French lan-: gnages we are not able to decipher; but if , in keeping with the rest of them, he must present limits. Under all the circumstan ces of the case, we are satisfied that the election of Gen. Taylor is the most effectu al way of securing the ooject which we all have at heart; and we advise and forewarn our Whig friends who have formerly acted with us, that any other course must end in the election of Gen. Cass, and consequent ly in the further extension of slavery. Such are our convictions, and such we believe will be the conclusion to which all free soil Whigs will come on due reflection. “On the question of the ordinance of 1787, the sentiments of Gen. Taylor are be lieved to be in accordance with those ofthe Whigs of Massachusetts, while those of Gen. Cass are known to be directly oppos ed to them. The Democratic candidate has told us, in his letter to A, O. P. Nicholson, Esq., that Congress has no constitutional power to exclude Slavery from our new ly acquired Territories; consequently he would veto any bill which contained the provision of the ordinance of 1787. On the other band, Gen. Taylor has told us in his Allison letter, that he should leave all ques tions of “domestic policy” to the action of Congress, and should feel bound to carry out their will. It is true that he claims the right of exercising the yeto power in cases of clear unconstitutionality; but he says that the President ought not to interpose his ob jections, “where questions of constitutional power have been settled by the various De partments of the Government, and acquiesced in by the people.” “Now, if there ever was a question set tled by the various Departments of the Gov ernment and acquiesced in by the people, it must be that of the Ordinance of 1787. It was affirmed by the first Congress, and ex pressly recognized in the organization of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wiscon sin, Iowa, and Oregon, and has the sanction of Washington and his successors in office, and has been sustained by the highest judi cial tribunals of the country. Here, then, is a case where General Taylor would be bound to withhold his veto, in case Con gress should pass a hill excluding Slavery from the Territories. Nor is this all; he has pledged himself not to attempt to influ ence the action of Congress on this or any other question of domestic policy.” Here then is Massachusetts Democracy, versus Massachusetts Whiggery. The first, nobly for us; the other, dead against us* Which are we to trust—which to choose? Cass and Ruder are the candidates of the be represented to the Germans as a Ger- , first, and Taylor and Fillmore of the man, and to the French as a Frenchman; and that, instead of being the candidate of the native Americans, he is the be9t friend and only safe protector of the adopted citi zen! These lives, almost as numerous as his letters—aud their name is legion—are de signed for every political meridian, and for every faction in each meridian of the country. There is also circulated very extensively a speech of Mr. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, filled with the most gross and monstrous misstatements of the extra compensation paid to Gen. Cass, and the assertion that not one cent of extra pay was ever drawn by Gen. TayTor, when the facts taken from reports of the accounting, officers of the government, and published sometime since in the Union, show that not one cent of ex tra pay was overdrawn by Gen. Cass ex cept for bona fide and extraordinary ser vices rendered the government, while Gen. Taylor has drawn the enormous sum of 374,864 04, not for extra services render ed, but as an emolument for bis ordinary routine duties in the line of his profession; and the most of this in a time of profound peace, when he was lying idle in his bar racks, or at home supeintending the affairs of his plantation. The same accounts show that he is now, while the whig candi date for the presidency, besides his regular pay as a major general in the army, draw ing THIRTY rations a day, for no other service than writing letters for electioneer ing purposes to every ridiculous faction in the country. In view of these facts, the question will arise, is there no honesty left in the whig party? In throwing overboard their prin ciples, have they also thrown overboard ev ery principle of fair dealing, every conside ration of honor, and every regard for truth? and have thay been compelled to resort to a system of deception and fraud, which should consign them to ignominious defeat and an eternal oblivion? Has all this been found necessary to raise up and keep alive the breathless corpse of a mistaken a- vailability ? other. CONGRESS OF ’76. We take from tha June number of the Knickerbocker an interesting picture of the old Congress of ’76 “In the president's chair sits Hancock, crowned vvithademeanorgraceful and splen did, like ‘blazing Hyperon on his robed throne.’ Prominent in the heroic band, and oldest of their number, is he who at the same time snatched the lightnings from the skies and the scepter from the oppressor’s hand. There too is Morris, the financier of the revolution, whose generous aid, ad vanced on his own credit paved the way for the victories at Trenton and Princeton, and in the gloomiest hour caused the American eagle to soar aloft towards heaven. More retired, but not less interested, is that old Puritan, Samuel Adams ‘his front engraven thought and public care.’ He was among the very first to excite popular rebelion against wxong, and he is here to aid the progress and pray for its consumation. Of few words, but abounding in'great and beneficial deeds, he sits in council gtave and taciturn, like ‘gray-haired Saturu quiet as a stone,’ his soul firm as granite and un bending before the storm. His more ora- torial namesake, John Adams, with watch ful eye and ear is scanning the proceeding, while every look and motion betrays his rea diness to exemplify his favorite maxim, “I would ratner be in the wrong with Plato than in the right with Epicurus.’ Lee, whose inimitable assiduity and elaborate grace, moves in chavalrous majesty through the scene; Witherspoon, the divine, visibly written ‘blessed in his looks,’ is there with the meekness of a Minister of Jesus Christ, but with a firmness that never quailed in the presence of his country’s foe. In tbe alternative between the sacrifice of freedom or the loss of life, like the Spartan mother, he would rather have seen his son brought home a corpse upon his shield than dishon ored by its loss. And Rutledge, the young est of the patriots, cames forward to illus trate in his own person the ancient apologue of the youthful Herculus, in the pride and strength of beauty, surrendering his entire

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