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Whole No. 513.
Tarloroiigh, (Edgecombe County, JYl C.) Friday, July 25, 1831.
Vol. XXo 45.
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LIST OF PUBLIC ACTS
Passed at the first session of the twenty third
Congress, ending June 30, 1834.
Making appropriations for the Milita
ry Academy of the United Status, for the
year 1834.
Making appropriations for the support
of the army for the year 1834.
Regulating the value of certain silver
coins within the United States.
Making additional appropriations for
certain harbours, and removing obstruc
tions in the mouths of certain rivers, for
the year 1834.
For the relief of sundry citizens of the
United States who have lost property
by the depredations of certain Indian
tribes.
Making appropriations for the Indian
Department for the year one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-four.
Making appropriations for the Naval
service, for the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-four.
Making appropriations for Indian An
nuities, and other similar objects, for the
year 1834.
Making appropriations for the Revo
lutionary Pensioners of the United
States, for the year 1834.
Concerning the gold coins of the Uni
ted States, and for other purposes.
Making appropriations for the civil and
diplomatic expences of Government, for
the year 1834.
Further to extend the term of certain
Derisions chargeable on the Privateer
Pension Fund.
Making appropriations, in part, for the
support of Government for the year
1834.
To extend the time allowed for the
discharge of the duties of the commission,
for carrying into efiect the Convention
with France.
Regulating the value ofecrtain foreign
old coin within the United States.
To change the boundary between the
Southeastern and Western land district
in Territory of Michigan, and for other
purposes.
For the relief of certain inhabitants of
East Florida.
To revive and amend "An act for the
relief of certain insolvent debtors of the
United States," passed on the second
day of March, eighteen hundred and thir
ty one, and an act, in addition thereto,
passed on the fourteenth of July, 1832.
Supplementary to the act entitled "An
net to carry into cfFeet the Convention
between the United States and his ma
jesty the King of the Two Sicilies, con
cluded at Naples on the fourteenth day
of October, 1832.
To enable the Secretary of State to
purchase the papers and books of Gen
eral Washington.
To authorize the removal of the Cus
fom from Magnolia to St. Marks, in
Florida.
To equalize representation in the
Territory of Florida, and for other pur
poses. For the reappropriation of an unex
pended balance of a former appropria
tion for the payment of the Georgia Mi
litia Claims, for the years one thousand
seven hundred and ninety two, and one
thousand seven hundred and ninety three,
and one thousand sewen hundred and
ninety four.
Giving the consent of Congress to an
agreement or compact entered into be
tween the State of. New York and the
Srate of New Jersey, respecting the ter
ritorial limits and jurisdiction of said
Mates.
Making additional appropriations for
the Armory at Harper's Ferry, for the
year 1834.
To amend an act passed on the twenty
ninth day of May, 1830, entitled "An act
lor me reiier ot tlie owners oi sundry ves
sels sunk for the defence of Baltimore."
Making appropriations to carry into ef
fect certain Indian treaties and for other
purposes.
To attach the territory of the United
Slates, West of the Mississippi river and
North of the State of Missouri, to the
Territory of Michigan.
To provide for the organization of the
Department of Indian Affairs.
Making appropriation for certain forti
fications oi the United Stales for the
year 1834.
Making appropriations for the Public
Buildings and grounds and for other pur
poses. For the better organization of the Uni
ted States Marine corps.
To increase and regulate the pay of
the surgeons and assistant surgeons of
the army.
To procure a bust in marble, of the
late Chief Justice Ell worth.
For the completion of the road from a
point opposite to Memphis, in the State
uf. Tennessee, to Little Rock, in ihe
Territory Arkansas.
Concerning the duties on lead.
Authorizing the election of certain
light houses, light boats, beacons, aild
monuments: fur the year 1834.
Making appropriations for the im
provement of the navigation of the Hud
son river, in the State of NeW York.
To continue further in force "An act
to authorize the extension, construction
and use of a lateral branch of the Balti
more and Ohio rail road into and within
the District of Columbia."
To authorize Gazaway B. Lamar to
import an iron steamboat, in detached
puts, with the necessary machinery, and
working utensils therefor, into the Uni
ted States, free from duty, and to pro
vide for the remission of the same.
To enable the President to make an
arrangement with the Government of
France, in relation to certain French
Seamen killed or wounded at Toulon,
and their families.
To authorize t lie correction of errone
ous selections of land granted to the
State of Indiana, fur the purpose of con
structing the Michigan road.
Limiting the time of advertising the
sales of the Public Lands.
For the continuation and repair of the
Cumberland road.
To revive the act entitled "an act to
grant preemption tights to settlers on the
public lauds," approved May 29, 1830.
To prohibit the Corporations of Wash
ington, Georgetown and Alexandria, in
the District of Columbia, from issuing
promissory notes or bills of any denomi
nation less than ten dollors, after the pe
riod therein mentioned; and for the grad
ual withdrawal from circulation of all
such note's and bills.
Supplementary to the act to pmend the
several acts respecting copy ri;:h:.
For establishing the northern boundary
Wabash and Erie Canal lands in the! line of the country purchased of the
State ofOhio.
For the repairs of Mars Hill military
road, in the State of Maine.
To establish a port of entry at Natch
ez, in Mississippi, and creating certain
ports of delivery, and for other purposes
Concerning naval pensions and the na
vy pension fund.
Authorizing the President of the Uni
ted Stales to cause certain roads to be
opened in Arkansas.
To provide for rebuilding the Frigate
Congress.
Authorizing the Secretary of the Navy
o make experiments for the safety of the"
Steam Engine.
Authorizing the purchase of live oak
frames for a frigate and sloop of war,
and for other purposes.
To authorize the President of the Uni
ted Stales to direct transfers of appro
priations in the naval services, under cer
tain circumstances.
Authorizing the construction ' of a
Bridge across the Potomac, and repeal
ing all acts already passed in relation
thereto.
Authorizing Edmund Brook to remove
to the District of Columbia two Slaves
owned by him prior to his removal
from Virginia.
Authorizing a sum of money to be
distributed among the officers and crew
of the late private armed brig General
Armstrong.
To suspend the operation of certain
provisos of an "act to alter and amend the
several acts imposing duties on imports,"
approved 14th July, 1832.
An act in addition to the "act more
effectually to provide for the punishment
of certain crimes against the United
States and for other purposes:" approved
March 3d, 1825
Authorizing the Governors of the sev
eral States to transmit by mail certain
books and documents.
For the benefit of the City of Wash
ington. To regulate trade and intercourse with
the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace
on the frontiers.
Making appropriations for building
Chickasaws by the treaty of 1832.
Making compensation for certain di
plomatic services, and for other purposes.
To relinquish ihe reversionary interest
of the United Slates in a certain Indian
reservation Iving between the rivers Mis
sissippi and Destnoin.es.
To provide for the payment of claims
for property destroyed by the enemy
while in ihe military service of the Uni
ted States during the late war with the
Indians on the frontiers of Illinois, and
Miehigaii Territory.
To complete ihe improvements of
Pennsylvania Avenue.'
Concerning tonnage duty on Spanish
vessels.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolution directing certain Books to
be proenre-d and furnished members of
ttie ZiXi iongress.
Giving the riht of way through the
property of the United Slates at Uarper's
Ferry, to the Winchester and Potomac
Rail road Company.
For distributing returns of last Census.
Fixing a day for the adjournment of
Congress.
Joint Resolution manifesting the sen
sibility of the two Houses of Congress and
of the Nation, on the occasion of the
decease of General Lafayette.
which submerged them. Cane baskets
and fragments of earthenware wore found
in the rooms. The account is contained
in a letter to the editor of ihe Southern
Banner, from which ihe fwllowiu" fur
ther particulars are extracted:
The houses are situated from 50 to
100 yards from the principal channel of
the creek; and as no further excavations
have been made, it is more than proba
ble that new and more interesting deve
lopments will be made when the land is
worked for gold.
A great number of curious specimens
of workmanship have been found in situ
ations, which preclude the possibility of
their having been moved for more. than
a thousand years. During my mining
operations last year, I found, at one lime,
about one half of a crucible, of the capa
city of near a gallon. It was ten feet be
low the surface, and immediately beneath
a large oak tree, which measured five feet
in diameter, and must have been four or
five hundred years old. The stratum,
of quartz gravel, in which the vessel was
imbedded, is about two feet in thickness,
resting upon decomposed chlorite slate.
It is not difficult to account for thede
posite of those substances in alluvial soil,
tor the hills are generally very high and
precipitous, and from the immense quan
tity of rain which falls, the streams are
swollen to great height, sweeping every
thing with them, and frequently forming a
deposile of several feet in thickness in a
season; but some of diluvial land is from
10 to 50 feet above the present level of the
streams. These deposites exhibit ap
pearances of as great attrition as those
recently formed.
There was a vessel, or rather a double
mortar, found in Duck's Creek, about five
inched in diameter, and the excavation on
each side was nearly an inch in depth,
basin like, and perfectly polished. It
was made of quartz, which had been
semi-transparent, but had brcorae'-stained
with the iron which abounds in quantity;
in all this country. In the bottom of each
basis was a small depression half ah
inch in depth and about the same diame
ter., What its ue c'oold' have been, is
difficult to conjecture1: ' Some suppose it
was used for grinding paint, &r. or in
some of their plays or games. The high
finish, and its ex ict dimensions, induce
me to believe it the production of a more
civilized people, than the present race of
Indians.
Respecfully yours, M. S.
From the Baltimore American.
A subterranean Indian Village has been
discovered in Nacooehee Valley in Geor
gia, by gold miners, in excavating a ca
nal for the purpose of washing gold.
The depth to which it is covered varies
from seven to nine feet; some of the hous
es are embedded in a stratum of rich au
riferous gravel. 1hey are 34 in num
ber, built of lo-gs from six to ten inches
in diameter, and from ten to twelve feet
in length. The walls are from three to
six feet in height, forming a continuous
line of street of 300 feet. The logs are
hewed and notched, as at the present
(ay. The land beneath which they were
found, was covered, at its first settlement
by the whites, with a heavy growth of
timber, denoting a great antiquity to
those buildings, and a powerful cause
The Locusts and their Nature.
"Have the locusts appeared generally
throughout the southern States'! In many
parts of the Northern Neck of Virginia,
wc believe, they have not been seen.
We observe, too, that it is stated they
never appear on the mountains.
Alex. Gaz.
The locust ha not appeared at all this year,
in lower Virginia. They appear in different
climates in North America, in different years;
but (except lhat some years there are a few scat
tered) always in every region, after an interval
of seventeen years. In Eastern Virginia, their
last general appearance was in 1826 ihe last
before that was in 1809 bolh of which, we and"
thousands besides, well remember the last be
fore that in 1792, and so back once in seventeen
years, as far as memory and record reach. In
the Gentleman's Magazine, (we forget for what
year) there is a learned account, tracing their
re-appearance after an interval of 17 years, to the
earliest settlements in Virginia, and we knew a
person who remembered them from their first
appearance after the year 1 739, to their appear
ance in 1S09, nor was there within the period,
an instance of their appearance (except a few
scattering on the year after the general appear
ance) but after the lapse of 17 years. Theyare
harmless and the story we see of injury from,
their bite, is fictitious. Hogs, squirrels and
birds, fatten upon them.
They will re-appear (if the world lasts so long)
in this part of Virginia, in ihe year 1843 that
is, seventeen years from 1S26. Where they re
main in Ihe interval, is one of nature's secrets.
Probably that tirfle is required, to bring the pos
terity cf ths last generation to. maturity.
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