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SALISBURY, Ni C.-.TUKSDAV, SEPTEMBER 2, 1818.
By rillLO H'alTCi J
VOL. IX.......NO. 4S0.
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.uk wr.k thr .1. rnnlMiHNl thr.t.
wersalist cburchcs. sqcieues. and hoo-
ses of worship; "multiply iofaBttFatwe
. .. vht u this world coming "to "
fftjrrffVr;
tef "id Vertises Patent Vtsntilttio hti.
He says the water proof hats havt been
i it..
COinpUiDeu Ol, as, preventing mi cs
cane of perspiration fend causing head
ache, and he haiherefore invented a
porous hat. v ,
A debate oncc took place among
the members of a certain court, as to
how long they should tet, to dispose
nt the business before them. Three
weeks at - last were determined upon.
"Why, in the name of wonder,' in
quired a wag at the bar. " do they not
set four weeks, like other gtcst, and
gabble less !"
Alliteration. Jhe accpmplihrd ed
itor of the Village, Record inbeslow
- - iog!"-a rjnerctatiigatioo . .jipo a
neighboring print, accidentally falls' in
to the follow ing alirteratum.
Tht "i!dltwfotfana-and pills, arep.n g!"K pe
not more prudently prrpald-anl proji
erlv prescribed, than His political para
jjraphs." v : j U, S. Gazette.
the Ictett Mama Slander We thoua;M
the roali'ion party had exhausted their
. slanders upon the old Farmer of Tennes
see. No sueh Ibtrigr The Adams men
In Ohio, now s y, that he is a 44 negro,"4
the son of a South Catolina black fellow.
. JUghtning -Twenty -four Saxony Sheep,
the property of Captain Burt, of Long
sneadow, Miss, were killed in Stafford
under one tree, by a single flash of light
Jiintron the ,11th ult. ... .
Mtitary. Gen'l. Scott passed through
Columbus, Ohio, about the 20th ult. on
Ibe war to his post at Cincinnati.
. Tariffs The Augusts Comier of the
, 95th uli. says i We are informed that sev
eral suits of very common country made
clot hT we re" sold in this rity, Coring the
last week, for Iim dollan fitr yard." .
The . Boston Evening Gazette, of the
' lid Aug.iiaya "The .' DengUe epidemic,
which seemsto hsve'rxtendcd itself from
the West Indies to the United Satets
may be expected 10 reach every part of
the country. Almost every vessel from
Xhe Havana tt-purqwaraniine baihrought
more"bf leifeises -of ii.- It has also p.
pearedalNcwaorkjartd other places,
. A "little girl was Jnelr brought home
....... iroma.kchanl.ijc'. England, In a state of
frenzy, brought 'en by being fiut in
dfkclotei . a brain fever ensued, which
soon enrfrd in her death.
The ' Social yfrw," The Oration at
T II ..... 1 .
new iiarmnny on tne 4tti ot July, was
delivered bv Mis Frances Wright. '
Madam Bonaparte rse, (daueh'.er of
Lurien Bonaparte,) endeavored to drown
herself on the night of June 21. She was
rescued from the water by an individual
who chanced to pass by at the time. It
appears that she does not live nn good
terms wnn ner-nutand. nr. ve is
an Irish grntleman, of the ntanor of St
John. He mariied Lucien's daughter at
Canino, (Italy) some five or six years ago
London ftatrr.
A benevolent individual has offered 'to
py for the tuition in Yale college of one
hundred indigent pious students, prepar
ing for the ministry. The price ol tui
tion is thirty threo dollars a year ; conse
quently the offer is three thoutand and
three hundred dollars a year.
The vanity of Ferdinand VII." "is
said to be so great that he still flatters
himself with" the :!Tdea orrecpnquering
his former possessions in America,
notwithstanding he is obliged f sus
tain his authority in Spain with the
assistance of French troops. A short
time since the court calender contain
ing the names of the nobility was pub
lished, and found to retain the titles
formerly borne in the Spanish Ameri
can colonies, r:which occupied pages,
though the names, as if for a season
only, were left blank. We are happy
'tti Cndriavi"th Journal of
Com mtrfi: that among all the disscn-f
j. . . 1 1 -, I
nous wnicn nave occurrea in wiom.
' biaj thereis mt asenttme! eiprad
by any r,irty In favor of Spanish dom
ination, aid that Mexico, become qui-
'.t ai)d firmjy. fstblished after her late
convulsions, will resist any 'aggression's
more boMly thnn eve.r.
. 77iin Cm Caz.
; Wttftti Stairs aatov "
rarW at tit Firt JSWt th 20th Ctnjrtn.
VO Till,
An Act to provide for exteivIlnplTie1fflri5f
Pmter Penaian Fund. 1 ,t r '
uw, lor the rive fesrs' half piy to thd
!ft3Lhlrrt ofer;seamen
no SirinesTwho were killed in battle or
.MtaIusay lervice MmMm,
in nil cases "'hti'yyt
olade- for etendin the ttrm for five
rears in addition 10 any irm of five yesrs,
the said provision thai! be further exten
ded for ait additional term of five years
to commeiwe at the end of the current or
last expired term of five years in each
case, respectively ; making the provision
edisl-to twenty year half pay; which
shall be paid but of the fund heretofore
provided by law ; and the said pensions
shall cease for the cause mentioned in
the laws providing the same, respectively.
Sec. 2. Andbt it further enacted, That
the pensions of all widows, who now are,
or who, at any time within one year psst, 1
have bren in the receipt thereof, under
the provision of the following laws of the
United States, or either of them, to wit :
An act passed March the fourth, one thou
sand eight hundred and fourteen, entitled
andiaiidows ot4he"persQnslahiJnj.ihe
public or private armed vessels of the
United States," andan act passed April the
sixteenth, one thousand .eight hundred
and eighteen, entitled an -act in addition
to an act giving pensions to the orphans
and wittqws or persons slain in the pub
lie or private armed vessels of the United
Sfatesfso far as regards persons receiving
pennons from the fund arising from cap
tures and salvage, made by the piivate
armed vessels of the United States, be and
the same are hereby continued, under
the restrictions and regulations in the said
acts contained, for and during the addi
tional term of five years, from and after
the period of the expiration of the said
pension's, respectively ; Provided, how
ever, that the said pensions shall be paid
from the proceeds of the private pension
fund alone,. and withouf 'recourse to the
United Stales- for. any deficiency, should
such occur, which may hereafter arise
thereon; and provided further, that no
such pension shall be aid to an v such
widow after her intermarriage hadr or to
be had, after she shall have become such
widow:
A. STF.TEKSONT '
Speaker of tlir House of Krprw ntative
J.. C. CALHOUN, ,,,
Ykc Pre aidant of the Tniled States, and
President of flie Kanale..
Approved : C3 M.iv, UKn;r
.UWS (iLINCV ADAMS.
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Art Art Jg..iUWi( the improving of . certain
Harbors, tha bullJing of Pier,' ami fur oilier
pnrpop.
UK it enacted bu the senate and honte
of re'irtrntativr of the United State of
America in coigmt ataemhkd, 1 hat the
following sums he, and the same arc
hereby, respectively appropriated, to be
applied under the direction of the IVesi
dent of the United States, to sccomplish
the objects herein after mentioned, that
is to say
For removing Ibe-sand bar. atr near America in congress assembled,' That Tour
the mouth of Merrimack river, in the ! hundred thousand acres, the relinquished
State of Massachusetts, by erecting piers, ! Uds in the counties of Jackson, Madison,
or other works, thirty-two thousand one I Morgan, Limestone, Lawrence, Franklin,
hundred dollars; for the preservation ofiand Lauderdale, in the State of Aama.
Peer Island, in Boston harbor, in the be, and the same is hereby granted to
Siaieof Massachusetts, eighty seven thou (said State, to be applied to the improve
sand dollars; for erecting piers, or other j meht of the navigation of the Muscle
works, st or near otonington harbor, in
the State of Connecticut, for the purpose
of makimr the sama a good and secure
h.irhnr. Herrf thousand dollars; for re
pairing 'he public pier at Fort I'enh,
Marcus Hook and Fort -Mifflin, four thou-
sand four hundred and thirteen dollars;
for purchasing a dredging machine, to be
forked h steam, and employing the
same for the removal 01 the shoalft
ing obstructions to the navigation near
Ocracock Inlet, in the State of North
Carolina, twenty thousand dollars ; for
removing the sand bar at or near, the
mouth of Black flter, In the State of Ohio,
by the erection of piers, or other works,
seven thousand hve hundred dollars; lor
removing obstructions in the Apslachi
chola river, in the Territory of Florida,
rhrre thousand dollars ; for Improving the
navigation ui cu m.ti, tmww.., - w.
around, that part of It called the Kap, sit
uafeTtA" LoTj'rtbnr and-Arknsart wnty
five ihou-und dollars, throe thousand dol
lata iri addition to a former appropiiation
for clearing out and deepening the harbor
iXSaHfltVtiarbori faking avaurm
of the' harbor of Nantucket, and the , pas-
I spgc leading to it, and an estimate of tho
cost ofimpfovingaod making the harbor
a good and secure one,! three hundred
dollars ; for making a survey of Genes
see river and harbor, in the state of New
York, and estimates of the tost for im
pfovine the same, three hunfrad dollars
for surveying the mouth of 5ns creek
which discharges iiself iota Mexico bar
onliakeQfv:aTio,inthtateoCNewYorli,
forihr paTposffOTTCflrtstroctihg harior4
at that place, and ascertaining the cost of
the same, three hundred' dollars t- for
making-a-wryey '"nd,estiaiatioiuol:.iJc
southern shores cO L.aWc Untano, io the
siatefew.VrWeenG
Oswego' tltersfwhb
nrovemeht of the most accessible and
commodious harbors on the frontier, by
erecting piers, or other works, and esli
mates of the costs of the same, four huh
dred dollars ; for deepening the channel
through the fiat au Iltron, near the Bay
of Mobile, eighteen thousand dollars j for
deepening the channel at the mouth of
rascagoula river, seventeen thousand five
hundred dollars, in addition to the sum
befors appropriated far thai object for
surveying the obstruct ons to the naviga
ation of the Wabash river, between its
mouth and Eel river, five hundred dol
lars; towards improving the navigation
of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, the
sum of fifty thousand dollirs ; for remov
ing obstruction in the Berwick branch of
the nscataqua river, eight tlousand dol
lars ; for. deepening the Jslaid passage,
or present channel, for navigaion between
the4bnf..riyer, in..Uo-jda, and St.
Mary's harbor, in 'Georgia, the sum of
thirteen thousand five hund ed dollars j
for a sur rey of the river am harbour of
St. Marks, in Florida, with a view to the
practicability and expense rf deepening
the Yarned the sum of five mndred dol
lars ;' for erecting a pier aid a beacon
thereon, at or near a ledge ot rocks called
Aljeji's , rocksJn Warren rir, the sum
of four thousand dollars. " ' '
- Approvcl: 2T May, 18287 "
to. iur.
An Act making an appropriation to extingu'uh
the Indian title to a reserve allowed to I'etrr
Lynch, of the Cherokee tribe d Indian, ith
in the limits of the State of G orgia by the
trentv of one thousand eieht hundred and
nineteen, between the United States and ril
tribe of Indiant.
JIR it enacted by the mate ami hcttie
of representatives the United State of
America in Congress assembled, That the
President of the United States be- and he
hereby, authorized to cause to be extin
guished the title of Peter Lynch, former
ly of the Cherokee tribe of .Indians, 10
ibt of land, lying within the limits of the
State of Georgia, which was reserved to
the said Peter Lynch, by the treaty of
eighteen hundred and nineteen, entered
into between the United States and said
i ribe off ndins7 '"'"" ..
i -Sec-. 2. And belt further enacted, Thai
a sum of moneyrnot - esceeding.. three
thousand dollars, be, and the same 'is
hereby," appropriated, to be paid outof
any mpney in the I ressury not otherwise
appropriated, to ca rry the foregoing sec
tion into effect
Approved: 23 May, 1828.
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BO. ILV.
An Act to grant certain relinquished and appro
priated lands to tne State ot Alabama, lor the
purpose of improving the navigation of the
i'enneaaee, Cooaa. Cahawba, and Black War
rior river.
HE it enacted bu the senate and hiusc
of representatives of the United State of
Shoals, and Colbert's Shoals, in the Ten
nessee river, and such other parts of said
river within said State as the Legislature
thereof may direct : But if there shall not
he four buiidced thousand acres ol relin
jqulsbed unappropriated lands in said
counties, the deficiency to be made up
out of anv unsppropriated lands in thel
countv of Jackson, in this Mate.
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wLACJlfurther enacted, l nat
said State of Alabama shall have power to
sell, dispose of, and grant said land, for
the purposes aforesaid, at a price not less
than the minimum price of the pOblic
lands of the United States, at the time of
such sale.
Sec 3 And be it,furMr enaeted, That
the si td State of Alabama shall commence
said Improvements within two years after
the passage of this act, and complete the
aame within ' fears thcreafteri
. Sec. .4 And be it further enfclri, That
i.saldStf tejf" Alabama 'alialT'- apply the
lands hereby grahiedi"4rrBe proceeds of
the sales, or any part thereof, to any other
use or object whatsoever, than as directed
by this acf, before said improvements shall
have been compbrtedt the -taid -grant-fur
all lands then unsold shilt thereby bet omr
null and void : and the said State of Ala
bama. shall become liable and bound to
pay to the United States the amount for
which said land, or anypart thereof, may
have been sold deducting the expenses
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iii-uri cu 111. nciiuiK l"B """e- 111 1 1
- Sec. S. Jnd be itfyrther enacted That
the . improvements, of jajd. na yigation shal
be commencecLat lbe lowest point oX!."ob
rrocthndtw
continued up the same vVjl romple'ted
and be calculated for tha . use of Steam
T at . .
oai8,accoraingjta sutn pun oi ceiwtJtuc
uon as trie plates Engineers, appointed
commend; and ,thej
ted- wtSrpproe j. J rovlced , .that au ch
plan snail embrace, it practicable, a con
nexion of the navigation of Elk river, with
the said improvements
Sec. C. And beit further enacted That
after the completion of said improvement,
the surplus of said grant, if any, shall he
applied 10 the improvement of the navi
ration of the Coosa, Cahawba, and Black
Warrior rivers, in said State, under the
direction of.the Legislature thereof-,..
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That
the said rivers, when improved as afore
said remain forever free from toll for all
property belonging to the Government of
the Lotted States, and for all persons in
their service, and for al! the citizens of
the United Statu, unless a toll shall be
allowed by an act of Congress.
ApnroveJ: 23 May. 1628.
xiyi.
An Act making an appropriation for the erection
ot breakwater near Jut. mouth of Delaware
BE it enacted by the senate and Aa'
representatives of the United States of
America in eongres assembled, ' That the
resident of the United States cause to bt
made near the mouth of Delaware Bay, a
reakwater.
Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That
the sum of two hundred and . fifty thou
sand dollars be, and it hereby is, appro
priated, towards the accomplishment of
that object, and (hat ihe same be paid out
of anv monev in the Treasury not other
wise appropriated
Approved; 2.1 May, 182A-
HO. I IT 1 1.
An Act to amend and explain an act, entitled
" An act confirming an act of the legislature
of Virginia, incorporating the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal Company, and an act of the State
of Maryland, for the ame purposes."
BE it enacted by the senate and house of
representatives ' of the ' United Stales of
America in congress assembled, That the
assr.nt already given hy the United State j
n the charter of the Chesapeake tend
Ohio Canal Company, by an act ot Con
gress, entitled " An act confirming ah act
of the Legislature of Virginia, entitled an
art incorporating the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal, Company ;.,. and, anact of the
Slate of Maryland confirming the samel
shall not le impaired by uny change of
the route of said Canal, from jprnbove the
town of Cumberlanjl, on (he river I'oto
mac, or the distribution thereof into two
or..tnore.secU0liSi.at. any change in the
dimension of that paliof jhe' present
F.astcrn section, extending from Cumber
land, or the mouth of Will's Creek, to tne
mouth of Savage, at the base of the Alle
ghany, or anv substitution which the in
terest of the Chesapeake and Ol.io Canal
Companv may, in the opinion of the Com
pany, require to be made, 01 incunca
plains, railways or an artificial road for a
continued Canal, through the Alleghany
mountain, In anr route which may be, by
the Company, finally adopted therefor,
between the towo of Cumberland and the
river Ohio.
Sec. 2. And be it further enaeted, That,
to obviate any possible ambiguity that
might arise in the construction of (he
second section of the act of Congress
aforesaid, the authority, by that act de
signed to be given to the tates of Mary
land and Virginia, or to any company In
corporated - by either or both of ihose
States, to extend a branch from the said
Canal, or to prolong the same, from ihe
termination thereof, by a continuous
canal, within, or through the District of
Columbia, towards the territory of "either
of those States, shall be deemed and taken
tobearfutr and eenpUtlivalLrespects
ss the authority granted, by that act, to
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
toeztend the main atem of the said Canal,
within the said District; or the authority
reserved to the Government of the United
Stiea to provide for the extension there
of, on either or both sides of the river Po
tomac, within the district of Columbia 1
Provided, That nothing herein contained
sfiall impsit tbftjesttiction io the charter
of the ChesepeaWand, Ohio Canal Com
pany, designed to protect the Canal from
tnjuryT by -the prolongtionjbereof, orbjr
sny branch therefrom.
Sec. 3- And be it further enacted", That
the act of the Legislature of Maryland
which passed at their December session,
of one thousand "tJcht hundred and twen-
ty-seven, entitled "An act - further to
amend the act incorporating the Chesa
peake and Ohio Canal Company, he, and
the sameis hereby confirmed, so faf as
the astentjof Congress may be deemed
pecc8s3rJberco,- -
.Apprised t .2! Man 1W8.
lUfcifoluVion&T Claims
nn 01 cenain surviving -unicera. Or ma
Army of the Itevolution," Approved 1 Jth May,
.ITrmswry fteparttrutni. Auf. 7, 1828V
' Notice ii hereby eiven to thoe offleera and "
Soldiers of the -Army of the Revolution Who uw
eofitTea" Td' tK1ertefltl 'Vt tbaTiyemlned
act; thafl1 Mlfytortf pnymenM-btamo .due
on the third day f Stptember, and will .btvaaadtt,
to every such Officer or Soldier as shall nroduce
satisfactory, evidence to the Secretary of the
Treasury of his being on that day In fujl life. "
The evidence required will be a declaration
niade and aimed by the claimant, on or after
that day, in the presence of two respectable
witnesses, to whom he ia -well known, stating
his rank and line in the Continental Army, and
the'rank according to which he hat been found
entitled to pay, under the act, by the Secretary
of the Treasury. To this ia to be added th
affidavit of the witnesses, sworn before a Justice
of the Peace, or other Magistrate authorized to
administer oaths, ai to the identity of the claim
ant, and to the fact of his having made (he dec
laration on the day on which it bears date. Ami
to this is to lie anneied a certificate. Under the
seal of the Cpurt of the County, aa to the offi
cial drsijjnation nA !rnii tJt hg MKsr'
and as hla bemg authorised to ajm-.jster
oaths. Hie forms of a declaration, affidavit,
and certificate, are subjoined tp this notice.
This evidence should be enclosed and trans
mitted to the Secretary cf the Treasury 1 and.
if it be .deemed satisfactory, ihe amount found
due will, be remitted to the claimant in a draft
on the most convenient Branch of the Bank: of
fieiiiCeeriftarf;in be pald.t9-.l1la Mteyc
nrv, iluly authorised under the regulations
which have been before prescribed.
Kcb claimant 11 requested to indicate, by a
note at the foot of hit declaration, the Branch
of the Bank of the United States on which if
would be most convenient for him to receive a
draft for the um that mav be due td bim 1 and,
if there he no post office in the place of his residence,-to
mention also the post flice t which -.
it would be most convenient to him to feccivs
letters from thii Department.
A copy of tins notice, with the forma annexed.
is intended to he sent to each Officer arid Sol-
ler whose claim hail hate been admitted 1 that
the forms may be filled up and returned to Uii
uepanmeni aime proper Time. .
It mav not be amisa, on thia occasion, to state
th?t, although an earnest desire haa been felt to
ive immediate etlect to Ihe beneficent inten-
ons Of Coneres, as matnfeated in the act re
ferred to, yet, owing to the mjmbe- of applies'
tionir, and the investigations neceisary to be
made, previously to a decision, it boa not been
found pruciiculJe to act upon every case ' ai
earl us couliriue"he'n wished. 1 hern re haa
heen, to take up rich claim io the order in
hich it has been received. The same courto
will be.pijraued heresRer, -
jys renjietteit that all letters on this Subject
ay be endorsed Mevolutimary Clima.M .. ...
may I
KICIIAUD RUSH..
For the purpose of obtaining the amou'nf ofpay
accruing t me for the half year ending on the
23 day "f WpTemher.lo'iiitferttfc
tlnl An act fur the relief of certain surviving "
olTirers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolu-
twiu!P??ved 15 th May, 182H, I , of fc,
in the county of , in the StSW'of iii- -jfo
herrhv Jedare, trial I was a : in the -vt
the Army of the Ilevblution, in the continental .11
line, (as was more lullvjiet forth on my applica.
tion for the beiiffi's of the sakl act,) and that I
have been found entitled, by the secretary of
the Treasury, under ust act, to the payor a " J
in the said line.
Witness my hand, thi day of - , in the .;
year one thoisand eight hundred and twenty .;
eight-
Before me. , a , fur the county of
, in the State of , personally appeared, '
thi day, . and, of the said county. Who H
tlid aei-erally make oath that .by whom the ll
foregoing declaration was made ami aabacribed. "
is well known to them to be the .person therein "
described, and that he ia generally reputed and
believed to have been a - in the Army f the . ; ;
Revolution, in manner a therein stated 1 sad-. .
that the aald declaration was made and sub-
scribed by,-the said , in their presence, oa
the day of the date thereof. ,
Hitneis my hand, this day of , In th J
year one thousand eight hundred and twenty. !
eight.
I, , Clerk of the Court nf the County of "
, in the State of , tit ktrebji cerft, that
, before whom the foregoing affidavit were
sworn, a at the time, a , for the aaid eoun. ,
ty, and duly empowerert to adminiatee eatha. 1
la TasTiioaifiisasor, I. Jjave. hereuntp.fee -'my
hand, and affixed the seal of the said ,f
Court, thii day of -, in the year one
thouvanJ eijlit hundred and twentv-eigbU
Atntvtt M;
CoiuttUct o VVe Jail .
F Mecklenburg county, on. the 22d day of
April, IB.'S, a wera tnrnass nand Ann,
who aavs she belonrs to man by he name of
John Herreo, who iivai in Duplin county, ft. C.
The owner is requested to come forward, prove
property, psj charges awl take her .
' JOHN SLOAN, Shttif
JWrfy 12, 1828. I24jlj Mscklenhurg csunty.
THE public are "cautioned agaisia a note efr
hami, ruiroortiog to have been ih-awn by
mei tor R3?J, dated wwl llhApVW2ra UZZ
never gave such a note to any body. Said not
Ims been in the hands of Christopher Irvine, an. I
is witneawl on the back of it.
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