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CONGRESSIONL

noisr or representatives. Monday, January 25. Mr. Jenifer, of Maryland, appeared, was qualified, and took his seat. Petitions and memorials were presented by Messrs. Turks and Smith, of

Maine, and Dean and Cushrnan, 01 iew Hampshire. Mr. J. Q. Adams presented a pelt lion from sundry ladies, citizens of the district represented by Mm, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. Hammond rose to move that the petition he not received. Mr. Adams. I claim the floor, and shall not yield it. I move, sir, that the

pctiticbe referred to a select commit-

be put, and, being taken, was determined in the affirmative Yeas 142, nays 59. So it was decided that the decision of the Chair should stand as the judg

ment of the House. Mr. J. Q. Adams said that it was for

(he purpose of referring the petition to a select committee that he moved its reception. It came from 10G females, with a request that he would present and support it. His wish was that the petition should be received, and referred to a committee, who should make

INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

IX SENATE, MoxnAT, Jan. 25. Mr. Whilcomb, from the judiciary

committee, made the following report: The committee on the judiciary, to which was referred the petition of the President and select council of the town

of Lawrenceburgh, praying that the act providing for the location of the seat of justice in the county of Dearborn and for other purposes, approved

Feb. 6, 1835, may be repealed or sus

pended until remedy be provided to in

cision can be had. The next term of the Dearborn circuit court is held on the fourth Monday of March next. The bill in chancery can be formally dismissed at that term, and an anpevil can

be taken and the cause submitted for a

decision at the following term of the

Supreme court which will be held on

the last Monday of May next. In all

probability a final decree will in that case be had bv that tribunal attheir next

November term at farthest. That decision it is to be hoped will more than

any legislative action trnnquihze the

these vessels in operation, (after fitting

them out for service,) would occasion

an annual increase, in the expense of the

Navy, of four hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars. He recommends the establishment cf a National Foundry for the casting of cannon. He recommends, also, the enlistment of boys, in conformity with the President's sugges

tion on the subject. There arc three hundred and five pensioners on the Navy list, who receive annually, twentyfour thousand, nine hundred and fortyfour dollars: The widows of deceased

a report to the House, which should demnify other petitioners and other cit- county and on the supposition that the pensioners receive thirty-two thousand,

show satisfactorily to the petitioners izens of said county; also the petition claims ol U ilminglon to be the seat ot live hundred and ninety-lour dollars, whv tlie prayer of their petition ought of and others, citizens of justice are paramount, they would be making a sum annually paid in pen-

not to be granted. lie looked upon said county, praying that an election but temporarily postponed. Lntertainthc presentation of any petitions with may be authorized for taking the sense ing those views therefore your commit-

whii.h he might be entrusted to be an of the people ot said county in relation ree nerewun repon a oin su-penuing

lee of this House, with instructions to I imperative duty, which nothing should to the seat of justice in the same, and the operation of the act of last session

report thereon

Mr. Glascock rose and asked if the gentleman was in order. Mr. Adams called the gentlemen to

order, and proceeded. 1 address the House, said tie, at this lime, on account of the suspension of a decision on my appeal from a decision of ihe Chair, which appeal 1 had the honor of making pome weeks ago. By thai decision it was determined that a motion of reception is debaleablc. The Chair staled that the gentleman was not in order to debate a point of ci

der made on a former occasion. Mr. Adams said, it is not the question of order which it is my purpose to discuss. The Chair has decided that a motion to receive a petition is debateable, and that the 45th rule does not ap

ply to it. Under that decision 1 claim the floor, and shall proceed to support my motion that the petition be received. The Chair said the gentlemen was in order to discuss that question. Mr. Glascock moved that the motion to receive the petition be laid on the table. The Chair decided that the motion was not in order, the gentleman from Massachusetts having possession of the (loor. Mr. Adams resumed. I was aware that a debate on the motion to receive the petition would consume the day, and being unwilling lo prevent the presentation of petitions, I consented lo the

postponement of the question. Mr. Hardin here rose to a point of older. The regular course of things in lhi3 House was, first, a prayer, then the reading cf the Journal, and then a speech from the gentleman from Mas

sachusetts. He wanted to know if the gentleman had a right to discuss this motion of reception? The Chair replied in the affirmative. Mr. Craig appealed from this decision. Mr. Adams asked if this was not the identical qucslon made by him? The Chair said it was of similar import. Mr. Adams was extremely anxious, . .1.1 i.. .1.

he saiu, lo nave a ueciMon on inal appeal. If the House should interdict him from saying a word on the motion, and decide that the 45lh rule does apply to it, he would most cordially assent to the decision, and defer his remarks to another occasion. The Chair stated the question lo be "Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of the House?' Mr. Kvans asked for the yeas and

nays, and they were ordered. Mr. Cave Johnson moved that the question be postponed till Saturday next. Mr. Craig opposed the postponement. Mr. Hardin said a few words agninst the decision of the Chair. Mr. Whittlesey moved that the subject be postponed till Monday instead of Saturday. He said that a postponement till Saturday would, in elfect, be a decision that no more private business shall be transacted in this House at the present session. He spoke of the great number of private bills before the

House, and the obstacles which had been thrown in the way of their consideration. He earnestly appealed lothe House to give some attention lo the claims of petitioners, whose papers had been presented and examined, over and ever again, till they were worn out. The discission was continued by Messrs. Heed, Harper, and Johnson, of Tennessee. Mr. Miller said he thcaght U important that the question of order should be decided, and it n ight a3 well be de

cided now as any other time. He therefore moved the previous question. The Chair staled thai the main question would be, "Shall the decision of the ('hair stand as the judgment of the 1 louse ?'' The IIou?c seconded the motion for the previous question by a . vote of 85 to 73. Mr. Mercer called for Ihe yeas and nays on the question, "Shall ihe main question be now put?'' Refused, 2G to 131. ihe main question was ordered to

induce him to decline.

Mr. Miller moved that the motion of reception be laid on the table. Mr. McKcnnan called for the yeas and nays on the question, which were not ordered ; and The motion to lay on the table was agreed to.

Mr. J. Q. Adams presented a petition signed by sundry citizens of Western Pennsylvania, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in

the District of Columbia. Mr. Glascock made some remarks on the subject in reply to the gentleman from Massachusetts. Mr. Miller moved to lay the motion

of reception on the table.

Mr. Granger called for the yeas and nays, and they were, ordered. The question was taken, and the molion agreed to Ayes 149, noes 45. Mr. J. Q. Adams said he had still another petition on the same subject, signed by 400 citizens cf Indiana county, Pennsylvania. He supposed that

petitions might be presented by members of that House, although they did not come from their immediate constituents. He did not know any of the individuals whose names appeared on this petition, but he would present any petition the language of which he should

deem respectful. After a speech of

some length, Mr. A. moved that the petition be received. On motion of Mr. Miller, the motion of reception was laid on the table. Mr. dishing presented ihrce petitions from sundry inhabitants of Massa

chusetts, praying the abolition of slave

ry and of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, the reception of which he

moved, and advocated at some length. He stated that he would make no motion in reference to the time for discussing the question, lie would be perfectly content, if the House would assign a day certain for the consideration

ol Ihe question. He gave notice, however, that, unless the House took this course, he should immediately present

another petition, and then join conclu

sions witli the gentleman from Georgia on the question whether the non-reception of a petition was an encroachment on the right of petition. Mr. Hammond did not rise, he said, to join conclusions with the gentleman, and he should refrain from the debate

which the gentleman so warmly chal

lenged. When the House would take up the resolutions of the gentleman from Maine, (Mr. Jarvis) he would do himself the honor fully to present his views on the subject. Until the House decided (said Mr. H.) upon the resolutions, no abolition petition shall be received without a vote of the House. His future course on the subject should be

regulated bv the course of the House.

On motion of Mr. Hammond, the motion of reception was laid on the table. Mr. Gushing then presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of Massachusetts, praying ihe abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, Mr. Hammond objected to the reception of the petition. Mr. Cushmg spoke at length in support of the motion lo receive the petition, going into an elaborate constitu

tional view of the right of petition, and maintaining that a refusal to receive

the remonstrance of and oth- until Ihe hrst day ol January next, en-

rrs.ritizpns of said countv. ntrainst said titled a hill in relation to the seal of

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sions, of fifty-seven thousand, five hundred and thirty-eight dollars. The Secretary states that a number of experiments have been made, to test the safely of steam engines, without furnishing a satisfactory result. He concludes

er purposes.

petition with accompanying documents, I justice of Dearborn county and for oth-1 his report, by recommending an increase

have according lo order, had the same under consideration and a majority of them have directed me to report: That pursuant to an act of the General Assembly in 1827, certain commis

sioners therein named, located the scat of justice of said county at Lawrenceburgh, actuated in part that, by the execution of a bond of Samuel C. Vance

and 1 1 others, citizens of said tewn, conditioned for the construction of a Court House of a certain description in said town, provided that it should thereupon be made the permanent seat of justice pursuant to a clause in the act aforesaid. That the said commissioners designated the said town as the perma

nent seat of justice and certified the same as required by said act; and the

obligors in the bond aforesaid thereupon constructed said court house pursuant to the condition of their bond. That at the last session of the General Assembly an act was passed for the relocation of said seat of justice by certain commissioners without any provision for indemnity to the obligors in said bond.

that said commissioners thereupon re

DISTRESSING NEWS FROM FLORIDA. Yesterday's mail brought news, byway of New Orleans, (which place it had reached by water,) of the surprise and massacre, by the Seminole Indians, of two whole companies of United States' troops, consisting of 112 men, under the command of Major Dade. Major Dade had set out with his

troops from Tampa bay to Camp King, to join General Clinch, when on the morning of the 28lh December, at 8 or 9 o'clock, being the third or fourth day of their march, they were surrounded by a large body of Indians, supposed lo number from 800 lo 1000, and were

cut to pieces. Only three men of the 112 escaped, badly wounded to recount ihe lamentable history of the butchery of their fellow-soldiers. Major Dado was shot off his horse on the commencement of the attack. Captains Gardner and Fraser soon after fell mortally wounded, and their scalps were taken by the savages. Lieuten-

mls Bassinger, Henderson, Mudge,and

located said seat of justice at Wilming- Kean, and Dr. Gatlin, Surgeon to the

ton in said countv. 1 hat the oh ors ueiacnmeni, were an siain. ueuien

in said bond apprehensive that the re

cords would be removed from Lawrenceburgh to Wilmington, filed their bill in chancery in the Dearborn circuit court, praying that all persons should be enjoined from removing said records as aforesaid. That said circuit court made

a decision adverse to the complainants, by refusing the injunction, but failing to dismiss the bill, an appeal taken by the complainants from said decision, was by

the Supreme court at its last session dismissed for want of jurisdiction. The necessary public buildings at Wilmington are nearly completed, and before final action can be had on the

bill of injunction, the records will in all probability be removed to that place, in the absence of legislative interposition, which removal would at once take away the only ground for the bill of injunction an apprehended in

jury

ant Bassinger was wounded on the onset, and was discovered by a negro in the party of savages, crawling otflo a place of concealment, and tomahawked. So little were those troops aware of their danger, that they did not see an Indian until many shots had been fired. They were caught in an ambush, and dearly paid the penalty of insufficient precaution against surprise. Colonel Twiggs, of the United States army, chartered the steamboat Mer

chant, and started with four companies

of troops from New Orleans to Tampa bay. Major Belton was at Tampa bay with the force under his command. The public sympathy will be deeply excited by this news, even here, at a distance from the scene. It may be readily imagined, therefore, that the People of the parts of the country ad

jacent will come, as strongly as they can,

in the salaries of some of his clerks, and other officers connected with the Department. BKICK MACHINES. We consider it very doubtful, says the Louisville Advertiser, whether the wager proffered below will be accepted from any quarter. Sawyer's machine, wherever it is known, is confessedly so superior to all of its class, that no one will be found willing to throw away his money by betting against it. Satcycr's patent. The operations of

this machine are with dry clay, which, when properly prepared, yield an article equal to the best stock brick, and at an expense, as is estimated, of not more than one half that of manufacturing in the usual way. There being at this time, various machines before the public, the proprietor of the above patent, is induced lo invite a comparison of their respective merits; and as incitement, he. will stake his patent right for Indiana, (some four or five counties excepted.) against the right for the same territory to any other brick machine

now patented; a forfeiture to be made of the one pronounced of the least merit, and a regular, legal deed of the right given. The test to be made by the fair and general operations, and estimated yearly products, in comparison lo cost, of two of the best constructed machines one of each kind in the United Slates. The machines and judges to be selected by the patentees. In arriving at a conclusion, the solidity, weight, perfectness of corners and edges, durability, imperviousness to

weather, fire and water, as well as the general quality of the brick through the kiln, and the expense of manufacturing, shall be considered. The foregoing will remain open thirty days, for the acceptance of any one disposed to offer.

Steam Boat accident. At 7 o'clock, P. M., on the evening of the 6th of January, 183G, the Steam Boat Otto, in crossinsr the head of the nrirolpi. n-.na

Your committee greatly regret l.he of tle troops and people, now run foui cf by the steamer Jas. Monroe,

the unfortunate excitement that pre

vails in that old, wealthy, and respectable county, and which is not lessened by its sectional character and the fact that the citizens are nearly equally divided on the question, they think it important for Ihe repose of the county, that the cause of complaint should as far as possible, be speedily settled beyond the reach of further controvesy. The various points made by the contending parties before your committee

are mainly resolvable into the constitutionality of the act of last session. If

that act be constitutional, the citizens of Lawrenceburugh however hardly it may operate on their interests, being without remedy, or nearly so, will naturally resign their claims in silence and haimoniously co-operate with the county at large in matters pertaining to its general welfare. If on the contrary it be unconstitutional, the sooner it is so decided, the less disappointment will be experienced by the citizens of Wilmington and others who might otherwise in

cur much useless expense on the con-

in imminent danger, in Florida. For

this purpose, a public meeting was to be held at Mobile on the 12th instant. The above Massacre took place, the reader will see on the 28lh of December. The battle between General

Clich and the Indians took place on the 30th. The distance between the two scenes of action being not greater than could have been traveled in the intervening time, there is reason to believe that the Indians whom General Clinch was engaged with were those which destroyed the command of Major Dade.

Jational Intelligencer.

and sunk in about fifteen minutes, in

hve lathoms water. The crew and passengers, with part of their baggage and furniture of the boat, saved. Every possible assistance Avas rendered by the Monroe. There can be no blame, it is said, attached lo the officers of either of the boats, it being an unavoidable accident. Boat and cargo an entire loss. TV. O. Com. Bulletin, Jan. 8.

More Lynching. By the New Orleans Observer, we learn that the citizens of Jackson, La., have been thrown into a panic by an apprehended rising of the slaves. The Rev. Mr. Hintklcy, late of Kentucky, eives the account.

rhe principal officer charged with He says, two men. onn whit and ihn.

J: i l .f il v . r r .1 r . . ' . .

me m.aiciies oi me ministry oi lor- omer black, were arrested, tried, con

UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

petitions was equivalent to a denial of sPP0Slt.,on' .

the riinht of petition.

Mr. Garland, of Vireinia, spoke in reply to the remarks of the gentleman

Horn Massachusetts. On motion of Mr. Hammond, The House ihen adjourned.

eign relations of the Mexican Govern

ment, has addressed a communication to the Secretary of State of the United Slates on two subjects. The first is, as he alleges, in relation to the co-operation of a great number of the citizens of Louisiana with the colonists of Texas, against the Mexicans. He calls for the action of our government lo prevent it. Thft sernnd siihJprf

V :n : il l. -f : . . J

iour conmmia m u.u inuuipneiiy oi the capture and detention of the Mexi

demited, and hung by a committee of the citizens. If any man deserves a double death it is he, who would excite the slaves of the South to engage in a work of indiscriminate slaughter, but still justice requires that the accused should have a fair trial in a court of law. Cincinnati Journal.

business confided to their care by this

body, have neither the time nor the means to consult authorities and to make out a detailed and satisfactory report touching the merits of this question, and such a report however correct in its views would not carry the same weight of authority lhat a decis

on pronounced by a judicial tribunal

We learn from New Hampshire, says the Boston Journal, that during the three davs nrecrdiinr tlnir

Thanksgiving there were made in that reorc which both parties would be ful-

statc Ihrce hundred and seventy tight heard, would properly have. I hey thousand four hundred and ninlry seven havc therefore, thought it better not to Pumpkin Pies. contribute in the remotest degree to the

embarrassment ol the question, by ex

can snootier of war, Ihe Corrco of Mex

ico, Captain Thompson. He demands a restitution of the ship as national property, and a liberation of Captain Thompson and the other prisoners, detained at New Orleans under a charge of piracy; and that our government should make Capt. Hurd responsible

for all ihe damages occasioned by the capture. The address is dated Mexico, November 19, 1835.

Red river has been cleared of raft timber, which entirely obstructed its navigation, for the distance of eightyeight miles. A million of acres of kind, it is estimated, will be reclaimed in Louisiana, by the removal of these obstructions.

Salt commanded Ihe extraordinary price of right dollars per barrel, at Chicago, on Ihe 5th Dec. At Milwaukee, Michigan City, and other places along Lake Michigan, it had been sold for ten.

pressing an opinion in relation to it.

1 o enable those concerned to have this controversy settled by the judiciary, n majority of them recommend the pas

sage of an act suspend ing the operation of the act of last session until such de-

TIIi: NAVY. The Secretary of the Navy says, lhat this arm of our national defence has fulfilled its design, during the past year, in the protection of our commerce. He

strongly recommends the construction of Iwo frigates, three sloops of war, and

A note of hand of 57 dollars, in fa vor of the Ocean Insurance Compar,. was blown during the fire from a stoic in South st. N. York, to a garden . Flalbush, Long Island, five mile-'. Gov. Marcv of New York, refuses to

deliver up R. J. Williams, publisher tt

the Lmancipator, in compliance with the requisition of the Governor of Al

abama.

The foreign debt of Ohio amounts i$4,400,000; the interest on which .'.i

four steam vessels. The keeping of 260,000 per annum.