Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 22, Number 9, Vincennes, Knox County, 9 April 1831 — Page 1

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J SBrotmi Sun IS published at g2 50 cents, for 52 numbers; which may be discharged by the payment of &2 at the time of sub scribing. Payment in advance, being the mutual interest of both parlies, that mode is solicited. A failure to notify a wish to discontinue at the expiration of the time subscribed for, will be considered a new engagement; . no subscriber at liberty to discontinue, until all arrearages are paid. I unscnuers must pay tne pos;age on their papers when sent by mail. Letters by mail to the Editor on business must be paid, or they will not be attended to. Produce will be received at the Cash Market Price, for subscriptions, if delivered within the year. Advertisements not exceeding thirteen line, will be inserted three times for one dollar, and twenty-five cents for each after insertion longer ones in the same proportion. gry Persons sending Advertisements, must specify the num ber of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued until ordered out, and must be for paid accordingly. BY AUTHORITY. Laws of the united states, passed at the second session of the twenty -first congress. No. 40 AN ACT making appropriations fur the support of Government for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. II li it enacted by the Senate and House qf Rrfircnentatives of the United States of jlmerica in Co?:ress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, viz: Tor pay and mileage of the members of Congress and delegates, three hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and sixtyeight dollars. For pay of the officers and clerks of both Houses, thirty-four thousand three hundred dollars. For stationary, fuel, printing, and all other incidental and rrnting;cnt expenses of the Senate, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty-five dollars. For stationary, fuel, printing, and all oth er incidental and contingent expenses of the Mouse of Representatives, one hundred thousand dollars. The said two sums last named to be applied to the payment of the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, severally, and to no other purpose. .For salary of the principal and assistant Librarians, two thousand three hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Library, and pay of messenger, eight hundred dollars. For the purchase of books for the Library of Congress, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and the Postmaster General, sixty thousand dollars. For clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of State, nineteen thousand four hundred dollars. For clerks, machinist, and messenger, in the Patent Office, five thousand four hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses of the Department of State, including the printing and packing the laws, twenty thousand dollars. For compiling, printing, and binding the biennial register tothe thirtieth September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty -one, in pursuance of the resolution of Congress cf twenty-seventh April, one thousand eight hundred and MXtoen, one thousand dollars. For storage of laws and documents, three lun.lrtd and forty dollars For contingent expenses of the Patent Office, to wit: books parchment, stationary, and fuel, and including extra Clerk hire, one thousand five hundred and thirty dolUvi. For repairs and improvements of grounds aud buildings of the P.itent Office, three hundred and sixty dollars. For compensation of the superintendent and watchmen of the northeast executive Luilding, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For satisfv ing the claim of John M irsh.dl. late superintendent of the War and Navy buildings, one hundred and thirty-seven dol lars. For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labour, oil, repairs of building, engines and buckets, and improvement ct ground, three theusand three hundred nml fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the First Comptroller of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the First Comptroller, nineteen thousand one hundred dollars. For compensation to the Second Comptroller of the t reasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger m the office of the becoai Comp

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troller, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the First Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation for the clerks and messenger in the office of the First Auditor, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation to the Second Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office cf the Second Auditor, sixteen thousand nine hundred dollars. For compensation to the Third Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Third Auditor, twenty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Fourth Auditor, seventeen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Fifth Auditor cf the Treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the efhee of the Fifth Auditor, twelve thousand eiht hundred dollars.

For compensation to the Treasurer Of the United States, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office cf the Treasurer of the United States, thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars For compensation to the Register of the Treasury, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office cf the Register of the Treasury, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars. For compensation to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, twenty thousand five hundred dollars; and for temporary clerks, to enable the Commissioner to bring up the business of his office, five thousand dollars. For the commutation of five years full pay to Mountjoy Bailey, two thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation to the Solicitor of the Treasury, three thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, three thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the Secretary tothe Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the expenses of stationary, printing, and all other incidental and contingent expenses of the several offices cf the Treasury Department, the following several sums, viz: For the office of the Treasury, including advertising and extra copying, five thousand dollars. l or the office of the First Comptroller, one thousand dollars. For the office of the Second Comptroller, one thousand dollars. For the office of the First Auditor, eight hundred dollars. For the office of the Second Auditor, eight hundred dollars. Tor the ofhee ot the Third Auditor, one thousand dollars. For the office of the Fourth Auditor, one thousand live hundred dollars. For the office of the Fifth Auditor, one thousand dollars. For the office of the Treasurer of the United States, seven hundred dollars. For the office of the Register of the Treasury, three hundred thousand dollars. For the office of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, including com pensation for maps required by resolution cf the Senate ot twenty-third ct February , one thousand eight hundred and twentythree, nine thousand dollars. For compensation for extra aid, during one thous and eight hundred and thirty, in the issuing military land scup, patents founded on Virginia military surveys, and writing and recording patents for lands sold, tour thousand dollars. For the office of Solicitor of the Treasu ry, including purchase of law bocks for that office, two thousand dollars. for translations, and tor transmitting passports and sea-letters, three hundred dollars. For stating and printing the public ac counts for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-onr, one thousand four hundred dollars. For compensation of superintendent and watchmen of the southeast executive building, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said building, including fuel, labor, oil, repairs of building, engines and buckets, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office of the Secretary of War, twenty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of War, three thousand dollars. For books, maps, and plans for the War Department, one thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messenger in the office of the Paymaster General, four thousand six hundred dollars. For contingent expenses cf said office, two hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks and mes senger in the office of the Commissary Ge i neral of Purchases, faur thousand two hundred dollars For contingent expenses of said office. eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office of the Adjutant General, two thousand nine hun J red and fiftv dollars. For contingent txpenu's cf sail office, one thojsand dollars. For compensation to the clerks i-i the office of the Commissary General of SviVistenre, two thousand nine bundled and fiftv dollars. Fur contingent o:;er.scs cf snid cilice,

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including expenses of advertising, two thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the cf-u-c ui uie ,ihci iifcut., taou&aiia nine hundred and fifty dollars. i For contingent expenses of said office, one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. For drawing instruments, repairing instruments, purchase and repair cf bocks and maps, one thousand one hundred and ninety dollars. For the service of a lithographer, and for materials and repairs for the lithographic press, six hundred and thirty-six dollars. For arrears of the same, ore hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation to the chrks in the Ordnance Office, two thcusani nine hun dred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses o,' said office, eight hundred dollars. For compensation to the chrk in the office of the Surgeon General, rleven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expense cf said office, two hundred and twenty dollars. For compensation to the cle ks in the office cf the Quartermaster General, :wo thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said off.ee, six hundred dollars. For the salary of the superintendent snd watchmen of the northwest executve building, eight hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of said buildiig, including fuel, labor, oil, repairs of buiding. and engines, and improvement of adjoining ground, three thousand three huidred and fifty dollars. For compensation to the clerks and mes sengers in the office of the Secretary of tie N avy. eleven thousand two hundred and fftv dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, three thousand dollars. Por compensation to the Commissioners cf the Navy Board, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the Secretary of the Commissioners cf the Navy Board, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks, draughts man, and messenger, in the office of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, eight thousand four hundred and fiftv dollars. For contingent expenses of the office of the Commissioners of the Navy Board, one thousand eitrht hundred dollars. For the salary of the superintendent of the southwest executive building, and the watchmen, eight hundred and hfty dollars. For contingent expenses of !aid building, including fuel, repairs of building, engines. and improvement of ground, three thousand three hundred and fifty' dollars. For compensation to the two Assistant Postmasters General, five thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks and messengers in the office cf the Postm aster General, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of said office, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For superintendency of the buildings, making up blanks, and compensation to two watchmen and ont laborer, sixteen hundred and forty dollars. For compensation to the extra clerks em ploved in the Post Office Department, by the late Postmaster General, from the first of January, one thousand eig'it hundred and twenty-eight, to the first of April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, four thousand one hundred and seventy-five dollars, twentv-scven cents For compensation to the tcrr.ncrary and extra clerks employed in the Post Office Department, since the first day ot April, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine, to the thirty first December, one thou sand eight hundred and thirtv, fifteen thou sand eight hundred and sixty-nine dollars, ciirht cents For comnletinc: the new Post-Office building, four hundred and eighty-four dol lars, three cents. For compensation to the Survevor Gene ral in Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, two thousand dollars For compensation to the clerks in the office of said Surveyor, two thousand one hundred dollars For compensation to the Surveyor south ot I enn,essee, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the clerks in the office cf said Surveyor, including two hundred dollars of arrears, one thousand nme hun dred dollars. For compensation to the Surveyor in Illi nois, Missouri, and Arkansas, two thousand dollars For compensation to clerks in the office cf said Surveyor, two thousand dollars For compensation to the Surveyor in Ala bama, two thousand dollars For compensation to clerks in the office of said Survevi-;-. one thousand five hun dred dollars. For compensation to the Surveyor in Flo two thousand dollar For compensation to the clerks in the of fice of said Surveyor, two thousand dollars For compensation to the Commissioner of the pH)lic buildings in Washington City, two thousand dollars. For compensation to the officers and clerk of the Mint, nine thousand six hundred dollars. For compensation to assistants in the several departments of the Mint, including extra clerk hire and labourers, fourteen thouMr.d six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses and repairs, cost ot machinery, for allow j ance tor wastage in gold and silver coinage. of the Mint, thii teen thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary cf the Michigan Territory, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses cf thc Michigan Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars. For the compensation nr.d mileage of thc members of the Legislative Council, pay of the officers of the Council, fuel, stationary, and printing, and repairs of the legislative hall, including arrearages, eight thouuand two hundred and ninety dollars.

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For compensation to the Governor Judges, and Secretary of the Arkansas Territory, including additional compensation to cacn Jiicige, to thirtieth June, cue thouvnr w eieht hundred and thirtv -DTK Tiini tVir.., i four hundred dollars. j -j For pay and mileage of the Legislative Council of said Territory, five thousand four hundred and ten dollars. For contingent expenses of the Arkansas Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars For incidental expenses of the Legislature of Arkansas by act of twenty-fourth May, one thousand eiht hundred and twencight, seven hundred and twenty dollars For compensation to the Governor, Judges, and Secretary of the Florida Territoiy, including additional compensation for the Judges xcv extra duty under the act of twenty-third May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, fifteen thousand three hundred and forty-nine dollars For contingent expenses of the Florida Territory, three hundred and fifty dollars For compensation and mileace cf the members of the Legislative Council of Flo rida, pay of officers and servants of the Council, fuel, stationary, printing, and distribution of the laws, including two hundred and forty-eight dollars for arrears, seven uiousana six nunareu ana tortv dollars I For compensation to the Chief Justice.! he Associate Judees. and District Judges of the United States, including arrearages arising from increased salaries of certain district Judges, under the act of May tweny ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars, eighteen cents r or salaries of Chief Justice and associate Judges of the District of Columbia, and of the Judges of the Orphans' Court cf the said District, nine thousand five hundred dollars

For compensation to William Cranch, and seventy-three dollars'and eighty cent Chief Justice of the Circuit Court for the For the compensation due to James ParDistrict of Columbia, for preparing a code ker for investigating the accounts of Robert of civil and criminal jurisprudence, in com- Arnold, late Collector of Amboy, two hun-

phance with an act of Congress, approved twenty-ninth April, one thousand eight hun- J dred and sixteen, one thousand dollars For compensation to the Attorney General of the United States, four thousand dola'"8 For compensation to the clerk in the office of the Attorney General, eight hun-1 dred dollars I For contingencies to the office of the Attorney General, five hundred dollars I For a messenger in said office, five hundred dollars For purchase of books for office of At torney General, five hundred dollars For defraying the expenses already incur red in fitting up the office of the Attorney General, seven hundred and thirty-three dollars For compensation to the Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thou sand dollars For compensation to the District Attor neys ind Marshals, as grouted by Ijlvv, hi eluding those in the several Territories, eleven thousand three hundred dollars For defraying the expenses of the preme. Circuit and District Courts ol the I United States, including the District of Cocedint: years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions

lumb.a; also, for jurors and witnesses, in , ,d assi h b sensuality or by aid of tlve funds arising from fines penal- J admired, but not respected, ties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year , . "M ' eighteen hundred and thirtv-one. and nre- desired, but not esteemed; ruling by pa-

tor otiences committed against the United 0f vanity. Wc see her as a wife pa'taStates; and for the safe-keeping of prison- kin lhc cares, and cheering the anxiety

e.s, unc uuuuicu -uu imic uioumuu uuiFor thi. vmPnt rW Mnonl, Granted bv the late and nresent Governtr.ents, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys.) a. u fcuiKcasc iir-iuu.ug uiC purenjbc m 1A'ep"r r!S! H !mrT.vr dred and ninety-three thousand one hun. dred and fiftv-six dollars For building licht-houses on Little Watt's island, Maryland; on Clay island, Mary - land; attlie entranced Koanoke hound, in North Carolina at or near Chcctaw point. in aidiMiua, a.iu ucai ot oiar ildi uur, ill ri t. ... ! .1. I . 1 rionua, iwcuij-muc uiuubauu cigni uun-i dred dollars, being the amount of balances rf money heretofore appropriated to the sa;d objects; which said several balances are hereby reappropruted to the several objects specihcally For the salaries of Kegrsters and Keceivpre rf T .anrt Offir uhPVM thprA ur ,m sales, two thousand dollars

For.the salaries of two keepers of the prised to hear that a mob ol poor cispublic archives in Florida, one thousand I traded readers had surrounded the i?cty,

dollars For stationary and books for the offices ot Commissioner ol L.oans, nve nunared dollars For allowance to Assistant Counsel and tary to the several acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida. dated twenty-third ot May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, mcluding contingencies, eight thousand dollars. including the unexpended balance of the last year's appropriation for thc same ob jects For the third payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the Capitcl, four thousand dollars For alterations and improvements in the executive buildings, and painting the same, six thousand five hundred dollars For surveying the public lands, including the amount of arrearages due for the last year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars For the salaries of the Ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia, fifty-four thousand dollars For the salaries of the Secretaries of Legation to thc same places, twelve thousand dollars For the salaries of the Charge des Aftaites to I'ortugal, JJenmark, Sweden, Bra zU, Bjcncs A)ic5t Chili, Peru, Mcxico.aad

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Guatemala, forty thousand five hundred dollars For outfit of the present Minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars For outfits of the Charge des Affairej at Peru, Chili, Brazil, and Guatamela, eighteen thousand dollars For the outfit and salary of a Charge d'Affaires, for the salary of a Drogomn at Constantinople, and for the contingent expenses of the Legation, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars, to wit: For the outfit of a Charge d'Affaires four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary cf a Charge d Affaires, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary cf a Drogoman, two thousand five hundred dollars; for the contingent expenses of the Legation, twenty-five thousand dollars For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, in addition to the sum cf twenty-five thousand dollars hereinafter appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollar For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars For the salaries cf the agents for claim at London and Paris, four thousand dollars For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, thirty thousand dollars ror the relief and protection ef Amencan seamen in foreign countries, twenty thousand dollars For the contingent exnenses of foreiim intercourse, twentv five thnn&mrl dollar For carrying into effect the act of May twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, for the settlement of the accounts cf certain diplomatic functionaries. ten thousand five hundred dollars For the payment of claims fcr property lost, captured or destroyed bv the er.emr. the balance of the appropriation made by the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, heretofore carried to the snrnlus "fund, thirtv-twn thnnsdred and thirty-nine dollars, and sixty-four cents For the desitrnatinc and markine the boundary line between the State of Louisiana and the district of Arkansas, three thousand dollars; the same to be expended under the direction of the Secretary cf State For nreoarinr a. revision of the former estimates of the population of the United States, one thousand dollars. ANDREW STEVENSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives JOHN C. CALHOUM, President qf the Senate. Approved, March 2, 1831. ANDREW JACKSON: MECHANICS WIVES Speaking of the middle ranks of life, a good writer observes" I here ve behnid a woman in all her glory; not a doll lo carrY silks and jewels; not a puppet o be dandled and fluttered by fops, an

Su-lidol profanity and show: reverenced to-

day, discarded to morrow, always jostled out of the place which nature and socicUion, not affection; imparting hei weakne&s, not her constancy, to the st x w nich she should exalt, the source and mirror r h,lvunr rV.virfJno. th Jahnr. hv her " ' ""fc ' uomesuc Qiiigencc, spreading cnuu. i . J'i: J : - I i . . I ness around lier; lor ma Bane snaring mo decent renncment oi tne woria, wunous beincr vain of them: placing atl her nride. all her toy, all her happineta in thc merited approbation of the man aho , c As a mother, we find her the aN fectionate, the ardent instructress of tho children she has tended trom their intancy, training them to triougtit and virtue, to meditation and benevolence; addrest1 in? them as rational beings and preparI lng them to become men and women m their turn Mechanics' daughtera mako . , : K. wnrlrt I W WWdt w . Literary Incendiarism We only wcn der, that in these troubled time, incen. d:3fieft do nol burn booits initcad cf . Th f . . ld . . . .u rA UtrUC iUdlCU mail lUCintw .ww for the body and we should not be suror set a threatening letter to Ur. L.araner i The want of wholesome mental victuala will at last drive people to des peration, and then let the Cyclor.artia" editors and owners, and the Nalional Library and 'Cabinet Library growera, and other large farmers in tnis linC iocs to their homesteads. Athengm. Extraordinary Performance on the Rail vay. On Saturday lait, the Majestic, a new engine, which has been put .1 I . 1 1 1 . a on me rau-way, travelled six times octween Liverpool and Manchester, a dis tance of one hundred and eighty mile; The total quantity of goods conveyed backwards and forwards amounts to ono hundred and forty tons ! The tame engine travelled on Monday one hundred and twenty miles, with loads similar to those taken on Saturday. There ara now ten engines of Mr. Stephen employed on the rail-way. Liverpool Timet. Specie It is supposed the amount cj specie now laying in the vaults ot tho Atlantic Banks is nearly thirty mUiions of dotlar. Thc United States Banfc andbr&ochej havo about 1 1 millions. QeL Free frets.