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Slate of North Carolina,
FDGECOMHK COUNTY.
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions',
FKKRUAUY TKttM, 1SU.
peter K Knight and wile ")
Mary and others Petition f"r
v- ) safe of slaves
Willotighhj Howard and for division.
James Howard & wile J
Charlotte,
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aid Conn, at nlfie-. te fourth Monday
in February, A. D I 84 I .
JXO. NORFLEET CI k.
DR. PSIELPS'
Compoimtl Tomato Fills.
entirely vegetable.
.? new and invaluable Medicine for all
diseases arising from impurities of
the blond, morbid secretions of the liv
er a iid stomach, also, a substitute for
ctdomel, as a cathartic in fevers and
oil bilious diseases.
fpilEK popular Pills, combining (lC
medicinal properties of the Tomato
Plant with other vegetable sunsiance
which hive been lound to modify and dif
fue its effect, are believed In he the bst
Alterative and Cathartic Medicine ev r
discovered . Tiiey have been abundantly
and successfully tried, and have received
universal approbation for Scrnf ila, Dys
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Rh"umitiTn, Colds li.fi i"izi, Catirrh,
Nervous disease, Acid stomachs, Ghnd
t'lir swellinos i f all kinds, Coti vene s
Colic, Headache, &c.
An Antid ite to Contagious and Kpi
tlemic Diseases, to pnvenl the formation
ofHilious and Luvr airec io Fever ami
Ague, &c. in thoe who reside in hot
climates, and low and marhv countries,
and the best Cathartic that can he uei!
fur those localities. Seamen will find
them an infallible remedy for the Scur
vy; and travellers the he.t Med icine that
they can use to counteract the dangers of
exposure in unhealthy climates. For
ordi ary Family Phsic, they areuniver
Jally approved, a the best ever offered.
As a Dieielic or Dinner Fill, one taken
Mf an hour after dinner, will sufficiently
Emulate the dig stive powers of the
stomach to a healthy and invigorated ac
"On,a?i( are fjund Extremely serviceable
counteract the congestive effects of
lonS dinners, or hie suppers, or the ex
CesiVe me r deserts or fruit.
Ihes; IMls are not of doubtful utility,
nev liii'o .i c .i a :-
launched
i c jj35cu away uom loose uaiiy
upon the tide of exp rimenl.
and
recommend uions from Physician?
and others in rt',n vit-ut, r t;,ai
in
""ed States Texas, aru! the Cana
.ft,. L
' ,oar 'vitrtcsi to the peculiar and po
,eIT,'ctsof(hi, M-dicine; in fact they
re prescribed by physicians generally.
preferpnee to any other Cathartic and
3 ive Medicine and having aeqoir
,ari l,Mncedented c lehritv n An
'yWic and Anti hiiio.is ften
a Ihtsrepufation heins fullv sstainel
"S;1! character of its testimonials.
. ucni;inii inriiK! iieii
tor ' nfCPS5:TrT mr 'he Proprie-
I lconlinu(. the Cauf?on, that the pub
aynot mistake other medrctnes which
introduecd as Tomato preparations for
'Compound Tomato Pills,
cine ,ra ful1 acnunt of this Mtli-pW3-
n,,merous ceitificates from
,u me iniri.o,.; i i r . i. i t
hnu ",,eu 10 u,e nani)s ol aH the
ftfb!r n! ?enuine w'ho.,t the sinatore
fHConn PS M-D-Prielorf Hurt-
GEO. HOWARD, Agent.
Tarborongh,
(BY ATttlfORIT.)
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
passed at the second sessiox of the
twenty-sixth COXCHtESS.
Public No. 12.
. . Prav'J fr the support of
uie iMiiitary Academy tjr the year one
thousand ei;ht hundred and forty-one.
Tie it enacted by the Senate and House
of representatives of the United Slate.
of America in Congress assembled.
Hi lt the following sums he, and the same
are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, (V the support of the Milita
ry Academy for the year one thousand
eiht hundred and forty-one, viz:
For pay of olficers, cadets, and musi
cians, sixty thousand five hundred and
twenty four dollars;
b or the subsistence of officers and ca
dets, forty thousand and seventy -seven
dollars;
For forage of officers' horses, five thou
sand one hundred and eighty-four dollar ;
For clothing of officers' servants, foui
hundred and twenty dollars;
For defraying the expenses of the Hoard
of Visiters at West Point, two thousand
dollars;
For fuel, forage, stationary, printing,
transportation, and postage, twelve thou
sand five hundred and eighty-otic dollar.
forty-five cents;
For repairs, improvements, arid expen
ses of buildings grounds, roads, wharves,
boats and fenc s, seven thousand seven
hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty
Cents;
For pay of adjutant's and disbursing of
ficer's clerks, nine hundred and fifty dol
lars; - For increase and expenses of the library,
one thousand dollars
For progress with binding books injured
at the fire in February, eighteen hundred
and thirtv-eight, and imported stitched,
three hundred dollars;
For miscellaneous items, and incidental
expenses, seven hundred and twenty-six
dollars and twenty-five cents; !
For the department of engineering, three
hundred dollars;
For the department of philosophy, eight
hundred and eighty-seven dollars thirty
three cents;
For the department of chemistry, five
hundred and twenty-five dollars;
ror the department of drawing.
two
hundred and seventy-five dollars;
For the department of mathematics,
se-
venty-five dollars;
For the department of artillery three
hundred and ten dollars;
For completing the reconstruction of
the buildings for the library, engineer,
chemical, and philosophical departments
commenced under the act of July seven,
eighteen hundred and thirty eight, seven
thousand five hundred and eighty-one dol
lars thirty-Seven cents;
For military and geographical surveys
west of the Mississippi river, twenty thou
sand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted.
That there be, and hereby is, appropriated,
to be paid otltof any money in the Treasu
ry not otherwise appropriated, the sum of
four thousand thiee hundred and sixty
nine dollars, to pay a balance certified by
the Topographical Bureau to be due to Ly
on and Howard as the balance upon a con
tract for building two steam dredging rrra-
chiues upon Lake Michigan.
Wt M, T. HUNTER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
W. U. KING,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
Approved, March 3d, 1811.
M. VAN BUREN.
Public No. 13
AN ACT makitrg appropriations for cer
tain fortifications of the United States,
for the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,
fhatthe following sums be, and the same
are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of
any unappropriated money in the Treasu
ry, for the preservation, repairs, construc
tion, and incidental and contingent expen
ses of certain fortifications, in the year
eighteen hundred and forty-one, viz:
bor repairs of rort Independence and
sea-wall of Castle island, thirty-five thou
sand dollars?
For Fort Warren, forty-five thotrsand
dollars;
(Edgecombe County, JC. C.J
For Port AdamSj thirty-five thousand
dollars;
For fortifications at New London liar
borj fifteen thousand dollars;
bor Fort Schuyler, thirty thousand dol
I irs;
For permanent wharves for Fort doium
bus, Castle WiHi.imS anj Soutji )lttery
(ioVcrnor's island, ten thousand tlolhrs;
For repairs of sea-wall of Castle Wil
liams, and other parts of Governor's island,
ten thousand dollars;
For repairs of Fort Gibon, New York
harbor, five thousand dollars; i
t or repairs of Fort Washington) fifteen
mousanit ilollars;
r or ort Monroe, thirty-five thousand
ilollars;
For Fort Calhoun, ten thousand dollars;
r or repairs ot iort Macon, hlteen thou
sand dollars;
For the preservation of the site of Fort
Macon, North Carolina, twenty-five thou-
sand dollars:
For F ort Sumter, sixty thousand dol
ars;
For repairs of Castle Pincknev. two
thousand dollars;
For Fort Pulaski, fifteen thousand dol
lars;
For Fort Pickens, ten thousand dollars;
For Fort Uarancas, thirty thousand dol.
lars;
For Fort Livingston, thirty thousand
loUars;
For repairs of Fort Mifflin, five thousand
lollars;
For contingencies of fortifications, five
thousand dollars;
lor incidental expenses attending re
pairs of fortifications, ten thousand dollars;
For repairs of sea-wall o.i Deer island,
UoMon harbor, one thousand five hundred
dollars;
For repairs df sea-wall on Rainsford
island, Huston harbor, one thousand dollars;
For continuing sea-wall at St. AugUs
tine, fifteen thousand dollars;
For the preservation of the site of Fort
Johnson, sixteen thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3d, 1S41.
Public No. 14.
AN ACT making appropriations for the
support of the army for the year one
thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of tieprestntatives of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums be, and the same
hereby are, appropriated to be paid out of
any money in the I reasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the support of the army
for the year one thousand eight hundred
and forty-one;
For the pay of the army, one million
l . I I A . I
n 'nnm! a evemy-iwo mousand
For subsistence of officers, five hundred
and fourteen thousand four hundred and
eightynine dollars;
For forage of officers' horses, one hun
dred and fourteen thousand five hundred
anil seVenty-one dollars;
For payments in lieu of clothing not
drawn in kind, eighty thousand and thirty
dollars;
For subsistence, exclusive of that of offi
cers, six hundred and forty-eight thousand
eight hundred and ninety-nine dollars;
For clothing of the army, camp and gar
rison equipage, cooking utensils, and hos
pital furniture, five hundred and five thou
sand seven hundred and thirty-seven dol
lars) For the medical and hospital department
twenty-eight thousand dollars;
For the regular supplies furnished bf
the Quartermaster's Department, consisting
of fuely forage, straw, stationary, and prin
ting, two hundred and sixty-two thousand
dollars;
For barracks, quarter?,- and store-houses,
embracing the repairs and enlarge
ment of barracks, quarters, store-houses
and hospitals; the erection of temporary
cantonments, and gun-houses for the pro
tection of cannon; the purchase of tools and
materials, and of furniture for the barrack
rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of bar
racks for troops where there are no public
buildings for their accommodation, of
store-houses for the Safekeeping of subsis
tence, clothing and other military supplies,
land of grounds for summer cantonments,
and encampments lor military practice,
one hundred and sixty thousand dollar's;
For transportation of officers' baggage,
when travelling on duty without troops,
sixty-five thousand dollars;
For transportation of tfoopS arid sup
plies, viz: transportation of the army and
baggage; freight and ferriages; purchase or
hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons,
and boats, for purposes of transportation,
or garrison use; drayage and cartage; hire
of teamsters; transportation of funds for
the pay department; expense of transport
vessels, and of procuring water at such
pots as from their situation require it;
transportation of clothing from the depfot
at Philadelphia to the stations of the
tron-ps,' of stffwislertce from the places of
Saturday, April 17, 1841.
purchase and delivery under contracts toj
such points as the circumstances of the ser
vice may require; of ordnance erdnance
stores, and arms from the foundries and ar
senate to the fortifications and frontier posts,
and of lead from the mines to the several
arsenals, two hundred and forty-two thou
sand dollars;
For the incidental expenses of the Quar
termaster's Deputment; consisting of post
age on public letters and pickets; expenses
of courts martial and courts of inquiry,
including compensation to judge advocates,
members and witnesses: extFa pay to sol
diers under thp art nf March sppnniJ. piorl.
teen nunurcd and nineteen; expenses of
expresses, and of the interment of non
commissioned officers and soldiers; hire of
laborers; compensation of clerks in the
offices of the quartermasters and assistant
quartermasters, at posts where their duties
cannot be performed without such aid, and
of temporary agents in charge of dismantled
vyorks and in the performance of other du
tics; expenditures necessary to keep the
two regiments of dragoons complete, in
eluding the purchase of horses to supply the
place of those which may be lost and be
come unfit for the service, and the erection
of stables, one hundred and twenty-seven
thousand dollars;
For the contingencies of the army, nine
thousand dollars;
For extra pay to re-enlited soldiers, and
for the contingent expenses of the recruit
ing service, forty-eight thousand seven
hundred and forty-nine dollars;
For the current expenses of the ord
nance service, eighty fi ve thousand dollars;
For the armament of fortifications, one
hundred thousand dollars;
For ordnance, ordnance stores, and sup
plies, eighty thousand dollars;
For the national armories, three hundred
and sixty thousand dollars;
For arsenals, one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars;
For the purchase of a site and rebuild
ing the arsenal at Charleston, South Caro
lina, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For repairs and improvements and new
machinery at the Springfield armory,
twenty thousand dollars;
For repairs and improvements and new
machinery at the Harper's Perry armory,
thirty-eight thousand dollars;
For the expense of preparing drawings
ot a uniform system of artillery, three
thousand sik hundred dollars;
For the purchase of saltpetre and brirh
stone, twenty thousand dollars;
For continuing the barracks, quarters,
&c. at Fort Smith, fifty thousand dollars;
For barracks, rjuarters, Ike. at Turkey
river, fifteen thousand dollars;
For continuing the military road on the
western frontier five thousand dollars;
For continuing the barracks, quarters,
&c. at Sackett's Harbor, one thousand doi
lars.
For preventing and Suppressing hostili
ties in Florida, to be expended under the
direction of the Secretary of War'; confor
mably to the acts of Congress of the nine
teenth of March and the second of July
eighteen hundred and thirtv-six, and the
acts therein t eferred to, viz: For forage; for
freight or transportation of military
supplies of every description from the
place of purchase to Florida; for the pur
chase of wagons and harness, of boats and
lighters, and other vessels, of horses,
mules, and oxen to keepup the trains, of
tools, leather, and other materials for re
pairs; for transportation within Florida,
including the hire of steamboats and other
vessels for service in the rivers, and on the
Coasts; and the expenses of maintaining the
several steamboats and transport schooners,
connected with the operations of the army;
for hire of mechanics, laborers, mule-drivers,
teamsters and other assistants, includ
ing their subsistence; for miscellaneous
and contingent charges, and for arrearages
in eighteen hundred and forty one mil
lion, sixty-one thousand eight hundred and
sixteen dollars; for removing the raft of
Red river under ine direction of the Secre
tary of War seventy-five thousand dollars;
Sc. 2. And be it further enacted,
That the Secretary of War be, and he is
hereby, directed to cause to be audited the
account of the corporate authorities of the
city of Mobile, for advances of money and
expenses incurred in equipping, mounting,
and sending to the place of rendezvous,
two full companies of mounted men, under
a call from the Governor of Alabama, at
the beginning of the hostilities of the Creek
Indians, in the summer of eighteen hun
dred and thirty-six; and the amount or
balance found due, is hereby directed to
be paid ou t of arty moneys in the Treasury
not otherwise appropriated, as soon as the
Secretary of War shall approve the same.
Sec. J. And he it further enacted.
That for the purpose of designating and
marking th boundary jine between in
state of Michigan ami Territory of Wis
konsin, agreeably to the true intent and
meaning of the second section of the act
entitled ari act to establish the northern
boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to
provide for the admission of tfye State of
VoixruNo. id;
Michigan into the Union, upon the condi-
ions merein expresffid, tl ere be and is
hereby appropriated, the sum of six thou
sand dollars, to be expended under the di
rection of the Secretary of War, in the
survey and examination of the Country sit
uated between the mouths of the Menb
monieand Montreal rivers, who is hereby
directed to cause to be made a plat or plan
of such survey and examination, which
shall be returned to Congress With all ton'
venient despatch.
Approved, March 3d, 1S41.
Wake Superior Court. Judge Settle
continues to win golden opinions for his
business habits, ability and urbanity uport
the Bench.
The Only important case as yet tried at
the present Term of our Superior Court)
came on, on Wednesday the indictment
against William B. for the alleged
murder of his Mother-in-law, an old wo
man of 0 years of age, who was found in
a dying condition in her bed, and no one
present but said Gully; and who, a short
time before, was in her usual good health
and who, after death, had exhibited spoU
about her neck and shoulder, supposed by
her family to be marks of violence, as if
choken by the hand;
The account given by the Prisoner of
her condition When her son came in ami
saw her, was, that she had fallen in a fit
and that he had raised her and laid her on
the bed. The evidence was wholly cir
cumstancial, and the case was ably argued
by Saunders, for the Prisoner, and for
the State, by the new Attorney General
McQueen. The Jury, after a lucid charge
from the Judge, acquitted the Prisoner
not deeming the proof sufficiently strong td
establish his guilt. Ral. Reg.
Sentence of Death. Madison John
son, a youth scarcely of age, convicted of
Murder at the Fall Term of the Superior
Court, was sentenced to death on Saturday
evening, by judge Settle. He is to bet
executed on Friday, the 30lh inst. He list
ened to the awful Judgment of the Court
either with great composure or indiffer
ence. ib.
Probable Murder. Aaron Sheafitit,
of Granville, was committed to the Jail of
this City on Sunday, charged with having
stabbed Jeremiah Estes, of this County,
the day preceding at Fish Dam. Mr. E;
was alive, when our informant left, but his
life was despaired of. ib.
Sale of Bank Sloctc. tine hundred
Shares of the Stock , of the Dank of the
State of North-Carolina, were sold at Auc
tion last week, and brought $ 106 per share;
ibi
QJA lad named ttobert Wier, aboui
13 years of .age was killed instantly at
Richmond, Va. on Monday. He went
with some other boys to a well to get wa
ter to drink, and while in the act of lower
ing the bucket, the boy who controlled
the windlass let it go, when the handle
came round with great violence and struck
young Wier on the temple, and killed him
almost instantly. He made but a single
exclamation. ib.
QJThe Assi&tarit Postmaster at Abing
don, Virginia, John JV. Stevens hi beeri
detected in plundering the Post Office, at
that place. He was arrested, and is now
confined in Wythe County Jail. The ac
cused has, hitherto, borne a very fiigfi cha
racter, and the discovery of his villany
created a great sensation. His daughter
it is stated, has gone deranged. ib:
(7 It is stated, whether waggishly of
hot we cannot say, that, a Farpner & the
North recently bad bis Apple Orchard cut
down, "lest the Apples might be ground
into Cider the Cider be distilled intospiri
tons liquor, and the liquor make somebody
drunk !" It reminds us of the old story of
the girl who, while baking in an Oven
stopped and burst into tears. Ort being in
terrogated as to the cause, she answered
'I was thinking that if I should grt maf
lied, and have a pretty baby, and in; baby
should get into a chair, and should climb
into the Oven, and get burnt todfeatfy what
should 1 do Oh! Oh!" ib.
Mutiny. We learn from the Wilming
ton papers,- that a mutiny occarrfcd among
a portion of tbe crew of the steamboat WiN
mington, on the 2 1st ull., on her passage
to Charleston. The mutineers were quell
ed, however, by the intrepidity of the Cap
lain, Thtfmas Marshal, and the second
Engineer, Mr. Graham. The offenders
have been arrested, and given bad for their
appearance at court.
Elect on Riots in Canada. The NeW
York papers contain m-ny extracts from
Canada papers, showing that during the re
cent elections the utmost confusion & riots,
ending in many cases in death, have taken
i place in the different election precincts,
i 1