Indiana Palladium, Volume 7, Number 17, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 30 April 1831 — Page 1

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t7. States' Laws. (BY AUTHORITY. ) LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, PASSED AT THE SECOND SESSION OF THE TWENTYFIRST CONGRESS. Public No. 46. AN ACT making appropriations for the military service for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty -one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States oj America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same arc hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, for the service of the military establishment for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one viz: For pay of the Army and subsistence of the officer?, one million one hundred eight thousand six hundred and twelve dollars. For forage for officers, forty-eight thousand six hundred and nineteen dollars. For clothing for the servants of officers, twenty-two thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of seventy-five thousand dollars, two hundred and sixty-six thousand three hundred dollars. For clothing for the Army, camp equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture, ,in addition to materials and clothing on hand, amounting to eighty-five thousand dollars, one hundred and thirteen thousand seven hundred and forty-seven dollars. For the Medical and Hogpital Department, thirty thousand dollars. For various expenses in the Quartermaster's Department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationary, blanks, repairing officers' quarters, barracks, storehouses, and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gun-houses; for rent of quarters, store-houses, and land; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members and witnesses ; for extra pay to soldiers employed on extra labor, under the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies of the Quartermaster's Department , two hundred and twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage and allowance for travel, in lieu of transportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-seven thousand dollars. For transportation of clothing subsistence, ordnance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the Army, and funds lor pay of the Army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transporlalion-of the Army, one hundred and three thousand dollars. For the completion of the barracks at Fort Winnebago, five thousand dollars, being the balance of an appropriation heretofore made for the erection of barracks at Green Bry, and not needed for that service, which balance is hereby transferred and appropriated to the purpose above named. For the payment of certain mounted volunteers of the Territory of Arkansas, whilst in the service of the United States, iu the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight, the sum of five hundred and eighty dollars and eighty three cents. For the payment of the claim of the State of Missouri against the United States, for the services of her militia against the Indians, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twentynine, the sum of nine thousand and eighty-five dollars and fifty-four cents; Provided, That the Secretary of War shall, upon a full investigation, be satisfied that the United States are liable for the payment of the said militia, under the second paragraph of the tenth section of the first article of the constitution of the Uuited States. For defraying the expenses of the T3oard of Visiters at West Point, fifteen hundred dollars. For fuel, forage, stationary, printintr, transportation, and postage for the Military Academy, eight Ihotis-iud four hundred dollars. For repairs and improvomcnta of buildings and grounds at West Poiut, three thousand four hundred dollars. For pay of Adjutant's clerk and

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S33C Quartermaster's clerk, niue hundred dollars. For increase and expenses of the library, fourteen hundred dollar?. For philosophical apparatus, two thousand dollars. For.models for fortifications, one thousand eight hundred dollars, For models for drawing, for repairing instruments, for chemical and mineralogical apparatus, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the Academy, one thou sand six hundred dollars. For fuel for the first quarter of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, two thousand three hundred dollars. For contingencies of the Army, ten thousand dollars. For the national armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollar. For the armament of the fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance service, eixty-eight thougand dollars. For arsenal?, ninety-four thousand four hundred dollars. For the recruiting service, thirty-five thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of four thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the recruiting service, fifteen thousand nine hundred and fi(ty-two dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of five thousand dollar. To Thomas Fitzgerald, an invalid pensioner, two hundred and eightyfour dollars twenty-two cents, being arrearges of pension due him by law. For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of War to pay for medals to be distributed amongst the Indian chiefs, three thousand dollars. For completing the Marshill road in Maine, and making bridges on the same, five thousand dollars. For the further extension, and the completion of the walls and embankments for conveying water to the works at Harper's ferry armory, Virginia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Andrew Stevenson Speaker of the House of Representative John C. Calhoun, President of the Senate. Ar proved, March 2,1831. ANDREW JACKSON. Public No. 47.J AN" ACT making- appropriations for building light-houses, light-boats, beacons, and monuments, and placing buoys. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following appropriations be, and the same are hereby, made, and directed to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to provide, by contract, for building light-houses, light-boats, beacons, and monuments, and placing buoys, to wit: Stale of Maine. Four thousand dollars for a light house at the western entrance of Fox island thoroughfare; Six thousand dollars for a light-house at or near cape Porpoise ; Four thousand dollars for increasing the height of the light-house on Boon island; Four thousand dollars for a lighthouse at or near Marshall's point in the town of St. George; Six thousand dollars for rebuilding the light-house at Whitehead; Six thousand dollars for rebuilding the light-house on Franklin island; Five hundred and ten dollars for spindles and buoys in Penobscot river; State of Massachusetts Five thousand dollars for building a light-house on the monument at Gloucester point; One thousand dol!ai3 for erecting a monument on or near Cohasset rocks; Two hundred and fifty dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance ol a former appropriation, for erecting a spindle-beacon on Minot's ledge, and placing a buoy on Hospital Island ledge, near George's island. Twelve hundred dollars for erecting a monument upon a ledge of rocks situated at the outer part ol the harbor of Svvampscut; One thousand dollars for two monuments, one on Sunken island, and the other on Pig rocks, in Braintree bay ; Five hundred dollars for placing ten buoy 9 in the northernc hannel through the Vineyard sound, at the following places: one on point Rips; one on the

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Shovel shoals, near Monomoy point; three on tbe Handkerchief, north east, southeast, 8c southwest parts; one on a rock near Hyannis harbor, in the channel; and two on the broad shoal to tbe eastward of Falmouth, east, and west, parts ; Five thousand dollars for rebuilding a light-house on cape Cod, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury ; Four hundred dollars for placing six buoys on ledges and rocks at a place called Wood's Hole, near Falmouth; and a 6pindle on Lone rock, near thai place. State of Rhode Island, For a beaconlight at or near the entrance of the harbor or Wickford, in the town of North Kingston, three thousand dollars; Fifty dollars for a spindle on the halfway rock between the islands of Rhode Island and Connecticut. State of Connecticut. Five thousand dollars for building a light-house at or near Morgan's point, oa the north 6ide of Fisher's Island sound, in the townghip of (j rot on-, Four hundred dollars for a spindle to be erected on the Whale rock, at the entrance of Mystic river, and for one on Turner's reef, situated about one-third of the distance from the main land to Fisher's island ; Three thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the beach near the west bide of Hew Haven harbor, and two hundred and fifty dollars for buoys on Pardee's bar, Black Rock bar, and the Shag banks, in said harbor; Six thousand and two hundred dollars for erecting a monument or beacon on Brandfcrd reef, in Long Island sound ; Two hundred and fifty dollars for placing buoys, viz: one on the north end of Hatchet's reef, in the sound ; one on the 6outh end of said reef; one on the southeast tail of Saybrook bar, at the mouth of Connecticut river; and one on the south end of Crane reef, west of Saybrook; State of jYcw York. Three thousand one hundred and ninety dollars to rebuild the beacon in Black Rock harbor, should it be deemed expedient by the Secretary of the Treasury; Four thousand dollars for erecting a beacon-light on a proper site near Sackett's Harbor, in lake Ontario; Three thousand dollars for erectinr a beacon-light at the junction ofRondout creek and Hudson river, on or near the Esopu9 Meadows, as may be deemed most expedieut by the Secretary of the Treasury; One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon on the middle ground between Stratford and Crane Neck, in Long Island sound. Twelve thousand five hundred and twelve dollars, in addition to the unex pended balance of former appropriations for erecting a light-house, and forming the foundation for the same, in the harbor of Buffalo; State of Pennsylvania. Two thousand five hundred dollars for erecting a beacon light at the end of the pier which forms the entrance into the harbor of Erie, on lake Erie. State oj Delaware. Fifteen hundred dollars ior erecting a beacon light near the mouth of Mispillion creek; Ten thousaud dollars for building a light house at Mahon's Ditch, in addition to what remains unexpended of an appropriation to build a light house at Duck creek, and which last named appropriation is hereby transferred to the first mentioned object. Stale of Maryland. Five thousand dollars for building a light house on or near Turkey point, at the mouth of Elk river; For erecting a beacon light on Lazaretto point, at the entrance of the harbor of Baltimore, or on the point of land upon which fort McIIenry is situated, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, two thousand five hundred dollars; For a floating light at the Wolf Trap, in the Chesapeake bay, twelve thousand dollars; Four hundred dollars for placing buoys at the entrance of the harbor of Annapolis. Stale of Virginia. Seven thousand and five hundred dollars for building a light house on one of the Chingoteague islands; Five hundred dollars for placing in the Potomac river three buoys on the Kettle Bottom?, one on Pert Tobacco shoals, one in Natjemoy reach, one on Ragged Point bar, and one on Parsimmon bar.

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inii'.M.UAuijwM4ifcA.u State of Xorth Carolina. Eleven thousand dollars for building a light boat, to be stationed at or nearBranl Island shoal, in Pamlico sound ; For a buoy to be placed on the bar near Harbor Island, two hundred dollars; For three buoys lobe placed in the mer and inlets of Cape Fear, twelve hundred dollar?. State of South Carolina. Fifteen hundred dollars for constructing three hollow buo), and placing the same on the bar at or near the entrance of the harbor of Georgetown, in addition to any unexpended for placing buoys at or near that harbor; A sum not exceeding one thousand dollars for purchasing land and removing a wind mill on Cape Roman. State of Georma. For a beacon on the V hite Oyster Bads, near the mouth of Savannah river, three thousand dol lars; State of Ohio. Five thousand dol lars for building a light house on Tur tie Island, ot the mouth of Maurnee bay, lake Erie: One thousand dollars for erecting a beacon light on the pier at Grand river. state of Louisiana. I ortv thousand dollars for building two light houses, one at the mouth of the southwest pass of the river Mississippi, and the other on the south point, between the south west pass and the Balize: Seven thousand dollars for a li"ht house at the Rieolets. State of Mississippi. Seven thousand dollars for building's light house on St. Joseph's island, or 6ome other suitable place on the 1 ascacoula bav; Seven thousand dollars for a lipht house at Pass Christian, near the bay of St. Louis; For buoys to be placed at the south pass, and the pass at Dauphin island, lour hundred dollars. State of Alabama. Five hundred dollars for placing buoys in Mobile bay. State of Illinois. Five thousand dollars for building a light house at the mouth of Chicago river, lake Michigan. Michigan Territory. Five thousand dollars lor building a light house at the confluence of the St. Joseph's river with lake Michigan; Five thousand dollars for a light house on the Oulerthunder Bay island, in lake Huron; A sum not exceeding ten thousand dollars for building a light boat to be stationed in the strait connecting Lakes Huron and Michigan; and three hundred and fifty dollars for buoys and placing the same on the flats at the head of lake St. Clair. Florida 'Territory. Eleven thousand four hundred dollars for building a light house on the west end of St. George's island, near the entrance of Appai iacnicola nay ; Four hundred dollars for placing buoys in the Eaid bay between St. George's ishnd, and the entrance of the Appaiachicola river; Two hundred dollars for placing buoys in the bay and river of St. Mirk's. One hundred and sixty dollars for placing buoys at St. Augustine, ajud in St. John's river. Five thousand dollars for building a liiiht house on a suitable site at or near Port Clinton. AprnovEDj March 3, 1G31. Gibbs, the Pirate We have seen, without attaching credit to, and therefore without republishing various etories of the atrocities imputed to this man, who so soon is to pay the penalty on earth, of his latest crime. But the annexed statement, which we take from the Journal of Commerce this morning, being vouched by that respectable journal as derived from the confessions of the guilty wretch himself, we insert, as fraught with terrible interest: The confessions of this wretched being, now; on the confines of eternity, to one of the police magistrates, unveil a career of long and desperate crimes; and they bring the varying torments ol his partially awakened coLScience into an existence that is almost visible upon his agitated brow while he recites the horrible catalogue. He has been familiar with scenes of blcod and carnage, even from his boyhood, aDd an active participator in the commission of crimes that are stamped with the most shocking barbarity. We have been unable to obtain the entire confessions which he has made, but the following sketch of his life may be relied on as authentic, so far as it goes. When but 15 years of age, he was

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a sailor on board the sloop of war Hornet, and was in the action when she captured the British sloop of war Peacock, oil the coast of Pernambuco. Upon the return of the Hornet to the United States, he followed the callant captain Lawrence to the Chesapeakej and became a prisoner of war, after the melancholy result of his encouuter with the Shannon. He states that previous to the engagement, the crew of the Chesapeake were almost in a state of mutiny, growing out of the non-payment of their prize money, and that the address of captain Lawrence was received by them with coolnes3 and murmurs. After his exchange, he returned to Boston, where, having determined to abandon the sea, he established himself in the grocery business, with a capital of one thousand dollars; which he procured from his friends in Rhode Island. How long he continued in that business we know not, but in the end it proved unsuccessful, and he resolved again to try the sea for a subsistence. With a hundred dollars in his pocket, the remnant of his property he embarked in the ship John for Buenos Ayres, and hh means being ex hausted soon after his arrival there, he entered on board a Buenos Ayre3 privateer, & sailed on a cruize. A quarrel between tho efneers and crew in regard to the division of prize money, led eventually to a mutiny; and the mutineers gained the ascendency, took possefcsion of the vessel, landed the officers some where od the coast of Florida, and steered for the West Indies, with hearts resolved to make their fortunes at all hazards. The horrible atrocities which they committed will be fully developed when the confessions of Gibbs are made public. We onlyknow that he was a co-operator in the capture of nearly twenty vessels, and in the murder of nearly Jour hundred human beings. On one occasion they captured a Dutch ship, hcund from Curracoa to Liverpool, with a valuable cargo, and a company of thirty sou!s, including the the crew. All were put to death, with the exception ofa young lady about 17, who, though spared, was compelled to witness the heart rending Epectacle of tho butchery of her father and mother, before her eyes. They kept her on board for some time, and when it wa3 determined to proceed to Havana, a consultation was held todecide whether it would be safe to give her liberty upon their arrival. The majority were apprehensive that fhe might betray them, and it waa therefore resolved that she must die. Poison was administered to her, and she soon shared the fate of her parents. Gibb3 declares that of all the murder3 in which he has participated, no one has harrowed his soul with so much remorse as the recollection of the cold blooded destruction of this interesting and accomplished female. He avers that he made a vigorouseffoit to rescue her, but that he was overawed by the rest of his comrades, who would listen to no mercy. Oa another occasion, an American ship, the Caroline, was captured by two of the piratical vessels, and run ashore off cape Antonio. They were busily engaged in landing the cargo, when the United States brig Enterprise hove in sight and sent her barges to attack them. The pirates defended themselves for seme time behind a small 4 gun battery, which they had erected, but in the end were forced to abandon their own ves3els and the prize, and to fly for safety to the mountains. This account as given by Gibbs may be true, though we have no distinct recollection of such a circumstance. We find , however, by a recurrence to our files, that a piratical sloop aDd schr. were destroyed by the British sloop of war Icarus, near Havana, in the summer cf 1821, under similar circumstance?, acd.that most of the pirates, when attacked by her barges, made to the shore and fled to the woods. Tbe sloop of war found there twelve vessels which had been burnt to the water's edge, and it was satisfactorily ascertained that their crczvs, amounting to one hundred and fifty persons, had Ucn muruered. There is, therefore, seme reason to believe that Gibbs may refer to this affair, and that the vessel was the British sloop of war above mentioned, and cot the Enterprise, as the pirates supposed at that time. The barque Transit, an American vessel, was also captured by than, and the whole of her crew destroyed. llavai.a was the general resort of the pirates to dispose of their booty.