spective cities, villages or towns, to apprehend and this act, to establish rules and regulations as they) The bill to appropriate, for a limited time, the pro. to remove such persons as cannot otherwise be sub-may deem proper for the ventilation and purification ceeds of the public lands, was taken up, as the next jected to the regulations by them adopted; and of the prisons and poorhouses, in their respective special order. whenever it shall be necessary so to do, to issue counties, and the preserva ion of the health of the their warrant to the sheriff of their respective coun-persons kept in said prisons and poorhouses, and to ties to bring to their aid the power of the county; cause such rules and regulations to be put in force. all which warrants shall be forthwith executed by the officers to whom they shall be directed, who shall possess the like powers and be subject to the like duties in the execution thereof, as if the same had been duly issued out of any court of record in this state. TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS-1st SESSION. Wednesday, June 20. Mr. Poindexter submitted two amendments, which were received informally, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clay then rose, and addressed the Senate at great length in support of the bill. In the House of Representatives. Mr. Howard, from the Committee of Commerce, offered a joint re In the Senate, Mr. Foot presented resolutions solution placing $50,000 at the discretion of the adopted by the Legislature of Connecticut, in favor President of the United States, to be expended in of the continuance of the protective system. precautionary mrasures against the ravages of the 8. To employ all such persons as shall be necessa- Mr. Tyler presented the petition of sundry citi. Asiatic Cholera-which by the rules lies one day ry to enable them to carry into effect the regulations zens of Richmond, praying an appropriation for the on the table. they shall have adopted and published, and the pow removal of obstructions to the navigation of the Mr. Howard moved the suspension of the rules to :ers vested in them by this act. James river. Referred to the committee on com- enable the House to act upon this resolution, which : §6. Every person who shall wilfully violate any merce. (Mr. Tyler, on presenting this petition. was out. Ayee 50 None 6 regulation su to be made and published by any such toon occasion to state his constitutional objections Mr. Connor moved the question of consideration board of health, shall be deemed guilty of a misde. to the appropriation of money, by the General Go of the resolution, for adjourning Congress on the meanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be subject vernment, in aid of internal improvements.) 25th. to fine and imprisonment, or both, at the discretion Mr. Smith, from the committee on finance, re- Upon the question the votes were, ayes 86, noes of the court; such fine not to exceed one thousand ported the bill to carry into effect the treaty of 86, the Chair voting in the negative, the consideradollars, nor such imprisonment, two years. Innits between the United States and the United tion of the resolution was refused. §7. Whenever the trustees of any incorporated Mexican States, with amendments, providing that The Tariff. village, or the supervisors, overseers of the poor, the salary of the persons employed shall not com. The House then went into Committee upon the and justices of the peace or the major part of them, mence till they shall be ordered into service, and Tariff. of any town within this state, not situated within that the salary of the clerk shall be twelve instead Mr. Adams moved an increase of the duty on oil any of the counties above mentioned, shall deter. of fifteen hundred dollars. The bill was read twice, cloths, other than floor cloths, from 12 1.2 to 15cents mine that it is expedient to constitute a board of ordered to a third reading, and subsequently read a per yard, which, after a discussion which principalhealth, and to appoint a health officer under the third time and passed. ly turned upon the grounds upon which alterations provisions of this act, they shall have the power to Mr. Forsyth moved that the Senate proceed to should be introduced into the bill, in which Messrs. do so-and from and after the publication of such the consideration of Executive business. Clay, Adams, Pendleton, Watmough, Wayne, Cam their determination, and the appointment of such Mr. Clay regarded his motion, he said, as unkind breling, Denny, Burges, L. Condict, Hoffman and board of health and health officer, all the provisions to the committee on manufactures, as they expected Howard, took part, was rejected, Ayes (66, Noes 80. of this act shall extend to such village or town. to be heard to-day in explanation of the bill reported The fifth itein of the second section paying a du$8. The Govenor shall have power to employ by them, and set for this day, in relation to the dis-ty on bar and bolt iron, having been read, Mr. suitable agents to proceed to any part of this state, position of the public lands. The Executive busi- Stewart mov d to amend it by fixing the duty at one or to Upper or Lower Canada, for the purpose of ness did not require immediate attention. It could cent. per lb., lost without a division. procuring information in relation to the progress of be as well attended to at any other time. the said disease and the prevention or treatment Mr. Tazewell said, he would not say one word as thereof, or for any other purpose he may deein con. to the importance of the subject which claimed the ducive to the public health; and it shall be his duty attention of the Senate in Executive session; but he to communicate, by proclamation, any information believed the Senate would concur with him in the so to be obtained, or which shall otherwise come to opinion that it was as important as the bill in favor his knowledge, and which he shall deem useful; of which the Senator from Kentucky wished it to be and in general to take all necessary measures for the postponed. Mr. Root proposed to calculate the duty upon neat hundreds, instead of long hundreds, lost. Mr. Connor moved to reduce the rate of duty from 90 to 70 cents per cwt. lost. Mr. Denny moved to increase the duty on rolled bar iron, from 30 to $37 per ton, lost. Mr. C. P. White moved to change the rate of duty on rolled iron from 30 to $22 50 per ton, lost. The 8th item fixing the duty oممعن م or stoel purpose of causing this act to be faithfully executed. Mr. Clay viewed this motion, he said, not merely §9. All expenses now incurred or to be incurred with surprize, but with other emotivnej whiclu re. wire, under No. 14 and over No. 20, at 5 cents per by the several boarde of health in the execution of spect for the Senate would not suffer him to express. Ib., and that between 14 and 20, 9 cents per ib., this act, shall be a charge on their respective coun- On Monday, when a much smaller subject was un- having been read ties, and shall be levied, collected and paid, under der consideration, the Senator from Virginia sat by, Mr. Ellsworth noved that all wire undes No. 14, the direction of the said board of supervisors of the content and silent. Why did he not then make the pay 5 cents, and over 14 pay 9 cents per lb. agreed to. respective counties, in the same manner as other motion to go into Executive session? The Com- Mr. Denny moved te amend the item by fixing county charges are levied, collected and paid. All nittee on Manufactures had a right, he thought, to the duty on wire under No. 14, at 6 cents per lb., expenses to be incurred in the execution of the pow. complain of the course of the Senate in regard to this and over 14 at 10, lost. ers hereby vested in the govenor, shall be paid out subject This subject was forced upon that com- Mr. Ellsworth moved to add to the item "on all of the treasury of the state, on the warrant of the inittee against their wishes, and after they had re- plated or silvered wire 5 per cent, ad valorem," in comptroller, after being first audited by him. ported a bill, by a procedure unparalleled in this or order to reduce the duty on that article. Agreed § 10. This act shall take effect immediately on the any ether legislative body, which had the assent of to. passage thereof, and shall continue in force until the the gentleman from Virginia, that bill was, without Mr. Adams moved to add "on cap or bonnet wire first day of February, one thousand eight hundred discussion or examination, referred to another com covered with cotton, thread, silk, &c., 12 cents per and thirty three, unless the Governor shall sooner mittee now asked to be heard in explanation of their Ib." Carried. declare, by proclamation, that there exists no suffi. bill, and this day had been set apart for that pur. Mr. Ellsworth proposed to add to the clause imcient reason for the continuance thereof; in which pose, but it was unexpectedly attempted to deprive posing a duty of 12 per cent. on square wire used for case all the provisions of this act, except the ninth the committee of the opportunity by a motion to go umbrella stretchers, the words "cut into pieces of section, shall, from the time of the receipt of such into Executive business. No measure of greater lengths suited for that purpose," to prevent the in. proclamation, cease and expire in the respective vil. consequence had been brought before the Senate this troduction of this wire for other purposes. Agreed lages and towns in which the same stiall have been session. The other subjeet was under the control to. in force. of the Senate, and could at any time be taken up The 10th item, imposing a duty of 30 per cent. on §11. The Secretary of State shall cause copies It was already substantially disposed of, for it was sundry articles of edge tools, bridle bits, &c., having of this act to be printed, and transmitted, in such well known what would be the action of the Senate been readmanner as he shall think expedient, to the Mayor upon it. Mr. Stewart moved to strike out the item and loave of every city and the Trustees of every incorpora. Mr. Tazewell, in reply, said, the honorable gen- the duty at the present rates. Lost without a divited village, and to the Supervisors of every town in tleman was pleased to say that he had listened to sion. this State. The expense incurred under this sec. the motion, not only with surprize, but with other Mr. Stewart said, as compromise was the order tion shall be audited by the Comptroller, and on his emotions, which his respect for the Senate would of the day, he would move to fix the duty on these wariant shall be paid out of the Treasury of this not suffer him to express. He knew not what articles at 34 per cent., lost. State. those unexpressed emotions were; but as far as they Mr. J. Davis moved to insert "penknives" among § 12. Whenever any pestilence or contagious dis. night concern himself, he felt perfectly indifferent the articles in this item, lost. ease shall break out in any county poorhouse in this to them. state, or in the vicinity of any such county poor Mr. Tazewell continued his remarks in reply to bits," and insert an amendment prescribing a dis. house, and the physician to such county poorhouse Mr. Clay, and in the favor of the motion to go into crimination between the duty imposed on certain shall certify that such pestilence or disease is likely Executive business. Mr. Clay rejoined, and the motion was debated for Yeas. Messrs. Benton, Bibb, Brown, Buckner, to endanger the health of the persons supported at Mr. Horn moved to strike out the term "bridle descriptions of saddlery wares made in this country and others not made here-agreed to. The 12th item, imposing a duty of 25 per cent. upon eertain manufactures of metal not otherwise speciled, was read. Mr. Stewart moved to amend the item by increas- Mr. Stewart moved to increase the duty to 14. Dickerson, Ewing, Foot, Frelinghuysen, Hendricks, dollars. §13. It shall be the daty of the inspectors of the Holmes, Johnston, Knight, Miller, Moore, Naudain, county prisons to met from time to time as they Poindexter, Prentiss, Robbins, Seymour, Silsbee, ton-on sail duck 10 cents per yard, and on cotton shall think proper at the prisons and poorhouses in Tipton, Tomlinson, Tyler, Waggaman, Webster, bagging 3 1.2 cents per square yard." their respective counties during the continuance o. Wilkins.-26. Mr. Dearborn moved to add to this item, "on tarred cordage 4 cents per pound, and on untarred cordage 5 cents per pound." The bill was then ordered to be printed, with the The House proceeded to the re-consideration of various amendments thereto. After which the vote on the bil authorizing a subscription for The House adjourned. the Documentary History of the American Revolu. Friday, June 22.--In the Senate, the resolution. The question was taken on engrossing the Mr. D. supported this motion by explaining at length the propriety of this amendment.-Lost. Mr. Adams moved an amendment, increasing the duty on cotton bagging to 5 cents per yard, and tion from the House transferring the duties im- bill for a third reading, and it was finally rejectedproviding a drawback on exportation of 3 cents per posed by the Pension Law from the Secretary of yeas 88, nays 93. yard.-Lost. Mr. Barringer moved to strike out the duty on the Treasury to the Secretary of War, was carried The bill to provide for carrying into effect the cotton bagging and to pay a bounty of five cents by yeas 28-nays 13. The bill from the House for treaty of limits between the United States, and per yard on all cotton bagging manufactured in the the improvement of certain Harbors, Rivers, &c. the United Mexican States, was read twice and reUnited States, lost. was then discussed; and after various sideway at- ferred to the Committee of the Whole on the State The 15th paragraph, imposing a duty of 30 per tempts to cent. on all silk imported from beyond the Cape of Goed Hope and 18 per cent. on all other silk, ex. cept sewing silk, on which a duty of 40 per cent. is proposed, was read. Mr. J. Dorto moved to strike out the whole, and delay and defeat it, was ordered to a third of the Union. reading by ayes 26-nays 13. YEAS. Messrs. Bell, Benton, Chambers, Clay, in the naval service, were read and concurred in by insert a duty of 10 per cent. on all silk without dis- Clayton, Dallas, Dickerson, Dudley, Ewing, Foot, he House. M. Adams moved to strike out the discrimination Kane, Knight, Naudain, Prentiss, Robbins, Robin. The House then took up the consideration of the between the duties on silk imported from beyond, son, Ruggles, Seymour, Silsbee, Smith, Tipton, bill to regulate the Tariff. The question resurring the Cape of Good Hope and other silk, carried ayes Tomlinson, Webster, Wilkins.-28. 75, noes 52. Mr. J. Reed moved to strike out 18 per cent. and insert 15 per cent.-the vote on this motion was yeas 62, nays 62-the Chair voted in the negative. The committee were going on with thebill when our paper was made up.-[Globe.] Thursday, June 21, In the Senate the day was spent in Executive basiness on motion of Mr. Tipton, with a view, as he intimated, of acting on the nominations of offi. cers for the newly created Regiment of mounted gunmen. on the motion of Mr. McDuffie, namely, that on all NAYS. Messrs. Bibb, Ellis, Grundy, Hayne, Hill, manufactures of cotton, not dyed, colored, printed or stained, which shall at the place of exportation not Mr. Frelinghuysen reported a resolution author. exceed 15 cents per square yard, there shall be levied Washington, &c. The resolution was read and or dered to a second reading. The Senate then went into executive business. &c., 12 1.2 per cent. ad valorem and no more. The House of Representatives was occupied all and as Mr. McDuffie had said that his object in inday with the tariff, the question being on concurring troducing this amendment, was that as he (Mr. A.) with the amendments made in committee to Mr. had said, that America could compete with the forAdams's bill. After all these had been gone through eign manufacturer, and that he (Mr. McD.) wanted this, as s test, that if it was refused he would consi. Mr. McDuffie proposed to amend the bill in the der that declaration falsified. Mr. A. maintained The bill authorizing the construction of Naval section relating to cottons, by adding a proviso, that that this would not be so, for the manufacturers dehospitals at the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Massa on all cottons not exceeding in value 15 cents the manded protection, to use the language of Mr. Cal. chusetts, Brooklyn, New York, and Pensacola; square yard, there should be levied a duty of 12 1-2 houn, made when the Tariff of 1816 was under dis. In the House of Representatives, on motion of The bill to provide for completing the naval hos. pital at Norfolk, and the naval asylum at Philadelphia, and to furnish them in part; The bill to provide for the re-building the frigate Java and sloop Cyane; per cent. ad valorem. Mr. McD. said he offered this amendment, to aseer-cussion, if they did not want protection actually, it The oppo tain whether the friends of the protecting system were was necessary for them to have it to guard against The bill for re-building the frigate Macedonian The amendments reported from the committee of before the House. the whole to the bill to carry into effect the act to Mr. Adams demanded the yeas and nays on this provide for a survey of the coast of the United amendment, but before any vote was taken, the States; and to the bill to provide iron tanks, were House adjourned. read and severally concurred in by the House, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. Saturday, June 23. The amendment from the committee of the whole Mr. Heman Allen was qualified and took his seat Mr. McDuffie then proposed to do away with the discriminating duty made upon English and Swedish iron, and with that view moved to strike out the words in the bill, to that effect, leaving the duty on unmanufactured iron, in bars or bolts, 90 cents to the bill for constructing two steam batteries (pro- as one of the Representatives from the State of per 112 lbs. On this motion a protracted debate vides $111,704,) being next taken up Mr. Hogan said as the amendment made an appropriation for so large an amount, he wished to have some explanation in respect to it. Vermont. Mr. Mercer, from the committee on internal im. provements, made a report recommending, with a Mr. Branch replied, that the construction of these view to their future improvement, the survey of va. steam batteries had received the sanction and recom-rious places, among which were the following: mendation of the Secretary of the Navy; and on For the improvement of the harbor at Portland, arose. The amendment was finally rejected, ayes 67, noes 114. Mr. Davis next proposed his amendment on wool. lens, after he had modified it at the suggestion of Mr. Jenifer, increasing the value of the cloth, as subject to duty, from 35 to 38 cents the square yard. amendment, and it was opposed by Messrs. Wick the face of the amendment, its object was set forth, on Lake Erie, in the State of New York, eleven thou After Mr. D. had briefly explained the details of the For the improvement of the harbor of Silver Creek Biffe, Drayton and others, Mr. Cambreleng said he on Lake Erie, in the said state, eleven thousand three hundred and thirty two dollars twentyfive cents: considered the modification made in it of no avail. power would be introduced, if not into offensive, For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth The principle upon which the amendment was certainly into defensive warfare; and he certainly of Big Sandy Creek, in the county of Jefferson, in founded, was of much more importance than the thought the experiment now contemplated worth making. said state, on Lake Ontario, nine thousand two hun-duty; for let it be rated at any sum, however small, dred dollars; and After some further discussion the amendment was For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth it must multiply to an extent that in a little time it carried, as was another, proposed by C. P. White, of Salmon river, on Lake Ontario, five thousand would amount to a prohibition. By the amend. for separating the duty of Navy Agent from that of Commandant at the Navy Yard in Washington. Afterwards the House resumed the consideration of the bill to regulate dollars, according to the several plans of the said ment the duty was to be estimated upon the market harbors, submitted through the Department of War. value; so that every successive importation, with For the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Oak Orchard Creek, on Lake Ontario, according the duty added thereto, would inevitably have to the plan thereof made by Joseph G. Swift, Civil the effect of a progressive increase of the duty, so En-gneer, twelve thousand dollars. long as it could be imported. He therefore, in With which the committee were occupied until For the improvement of the navigation of the order to have at least a solemn and full decision upon six o'clock; when having gone through the various Hudson river, seventy thousand dollars; to be ex. sections, and having disposed of the numerous a-pended according to the plan submitted through the what, if adopted, in its results would involve the country in the horrors of a civil war, felt it his duty Mr. Hawkins proposed to strike out all aster the For the construction of a breakwater at the en to have a call of the house. But it was then past six enacting clause, and insert, iu lieu thereof, the bill from the Secretary of the Treasury. trance of of Sag harbor, on the north side of Long o'clock, and as no good could result from debating Island, in the State of New York, according to the This motion was rejected-ayos50, noes 61; plan and estimate transmitted through the depart. the subject after the time that must necessarily Whereupon the committee finally rose, and re-ment of War, sixteen thousand six hundred and elapse in proceeding with the call, the House adported the bill as amended to the House. thirty-nine dollars. journed before any decision was had on the call. IN SENATE-Monday, June 25. counts and it was ordered, that the Doorkeeper of eight, one from each Senate district; and that In the Senate, after disposing of some morning the House (Overton Carr,) do discharge the duties which relates to the Cholera was referred to the business, and passing, 30 to 10, the resolution ap- of Surgeant-at-Arnis until the next Session of Con- medical cominittee and the judiciary committee. propriating 5,000 dollars for a full length pedestrian gress. statue of Washington, the Senate proceeded to the The House proceeded to the consideration of the consideration of Executive business, and so con- bill to regulate tinued the remainder of the sitting. Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and of the Assembly: At the opening of your last Session, it was exресted that the National Legislature would apportion The Tariff. In the House of Representatives, the first hour's The amendinent of Mr. Alexander to strike out among the states the representation in Congress, at sitting was occupied by an animated debate on a the 10th section, (which proposes to allow a ton- a day so early as to enable you, before your adjournproposition for an adjournment of Congress on nage drawback on shipping,) being the question bo- ment to divide the state into suitable election disMonday next. It would be difficult, in the brief ore the Housetricts. Our hopes, in this respect, were not realized, space within our control, to give a correct idea of Mr. C. P. White moved to amend the amendment and after a very laborious Session, you adjourned, this debate. It inust suffice for the present to say, by striking out all after the word" enacted," and at the usual time, having previously provided by law that the early adjournment was advocated by seve insert that there shall be a tonnage drawback in for a contingent postponement of the next election, ral Southern anembers, on the ground that no hope proportion to the duty paid on iron, hemp, duck, in case an apportionment should not be made.now remained of an adjustment of the Tariff ques. &c. used in the equipment of ships. The amend- Since your adjournment, Congress has acted upon tion, and that a crisis was at hand, &c. To which meat gave rise to a protracted debate; and the ques- this subject, and fixed a ratio of representation in argument, Mr. Adams rejoined with great force and tion being taken by yeas and nays, it was negativ. the popular branch of that body, by which our state spirit, expressing a firm hope of the passage of such ed, -Yens 65, Nays 111. a bill as that now before the House, (which he con- The amendment of Mr. Alexander was also ne. sidered as proposing a repeal of ten millions of del gatived You 26. Nay. 00. so as to leave the duty thereon as at present. is entitled to forty members, whereby the law post- lars of duties,) and conjuring the majority not to Mr. Crawford moved to strike out of the bill, the dience to my constitutional duty as well as in combe deterred from doing what was right, because in provisions in relation to iron in bats, bolts, in pigs, pliance with your expressed wishes, convened you so doing they did not meet the views of those who and castings, and on various manufactured articles, at this time, that you might provide for the exercise would be satisfied with nothing less than the total enumerated in the 9th and 10th items; also on steel, by this state of its full voice in the councils of the destruction of Manfactures. In the end, the ques. tion was put aside by a motion of Mr. McDuffie to proceed to the Orders of the day. After which the House passed several bills heretofore ordered to a third reading. ander. nation. As this was my motive for calling you to The motion was negatived.--Yeas 57, Nays 110 gether at this unusual and uncomfortable season of Mr. Reed, of N. Y. moved a reconsideration of the year, so it is the only business pertaining to your the vote on the amendment proposed by Mr. Alex-duties, within my knowledge, now so urgent as to justify me in the exercise of this power. I am hapOne of the bills on its third reading was rejected by A motion for a call of the House having been py to be enabled to say this, and to express the bea large majority, viz; the bill to provide for ascer. sustained, the roll was gone through, and 186 mem-lief that the public wants will not require of you to taining the losses of the people of Detroit and its bers having answered to their names, the farther pro- sacrifice your personal comforts and private intervicinity, by the non-performance by the British of ceeding were suspended, and the vote on the motion ests to the duties of ordinary legislation thro' a prothe articles of capitulation at Hull's surrender. having stood-Yeas 94. Nays 94, the Speaker gave tracted session. The House then proceeded to the Tariff subject- his casting vote in the affirmative; and There is one other subject, however, which I the question pending being on Mr. Davis's amend. Mr Adams then moved a re-consideration of the feel bound to present to your consideration, and ment, which he now further modified-reducing his vote on the amendment proposed by Mr. White, of which may be disposed of, without materially inter proposed duty on carpetings from 45 to 40 per cent., wool from 50 to 40 per cent., &c. New York, which was negatived-yeas 82, nays 100. fering with your special business, or prolonging your The question being taken on the motion of Mr. session. I allude to the supposed approach, at a Mr. Adams moved to amend the amendment, by Alexander, to strike out the 10th section, it was a time of unusual health, within our state, of the Asi. striking out the proviso, that the duty on wool and second time negatived-yeas 93, na ys 97. atic cholera; a direful disease which having spread woollens should by estimated at the home market Mr. Thompson, of Georgia, then moved a ludi- desolation over a great part of Asia, has advanced value, and inserting, that the importer should de. crous amendment, to strike out that part of the 10th with rapid strides through Europe, and is now supclare the value thereof, subject to forfeiture, and a section, and insert a provision for a drawback to posed to have crossed the Atlantic, and to be fright penalty of 500 dollars, in case of fraudulent entry, or, be given to farmers for all iron used by them in fully busied in the work of death among our Canadian if entered, at lesser rates than in the opinion of the ploughs and other implements of husbandry! On neighbors. appraisers the goods ought to be, then, they might this motion he demanded the Yeas and Nays, which It is certain that a very malignant disease, in its be taken on behalf of the United States, on pay. were ordered, and the amendment negatived: Yeas type resembling the much dreaded cholera, is rava. ment of such valuation, with ten per cent. in addı. 42, Nays 134. ging the hordes of squalid emigrants which have iion. The amendment was negatived-Yeas 68, Mr. Bates, of Mass., then moved to strike out of buen recently disgorged from transport ships, near nays 111. the section as to woollen, mits, gloves, bindings, our borders, and has been communicated from them Mr. Everett moved to amend the amendment, by blankets, hosiery, carpete, carpeting, so as leave to a portion of the population of the cities of Quebec reducing the duty on woollens, and on ready made the duty on these articles as it now is per the pre- and Montreal. clothing from 40 to 35 per cent. ad valorem. Also, sent rate; which was negatived. Teas 85, Nays 102. It has not been satisfactorily ascertained that the the duty on baizes and flannels from 20 to 16 cents the square yard. Mr. Davis having accepted this as a modification, the question on his amendment, as modified, was taken, and negatived-ayes 70, nays 118. Mr. Reed, of New York, then proposed to reduce the duty on silk from 18 per cent to 10. Mr. Foster moved to insert 15-but The amendment of Mr. Reed prevailed-ayes 101, nays 87. Mr. Adams moved to reduce the ad valorem value upon which the duty on plains and kerseys should be estimated from 40 cents the square yard to 33 1.3. Mr. Doubleday proposed to increase it to 50 per cent., which was negatived. A further amendment of Mr. Adams to reduce it to 35.prevailed-ayes 101, nays 87. The House then adjourned. Tuesday, 26th June. Mr. Root moved to regulate the ton weight at disease has been communicated within our state, 2,000 lbs. Negatived. although a few cases of sudden death have occurred Mr. Carson moved a lengthy amendment, similar which would not have attracted particular notice in to that of Mr. Thompson, of Georgia. The amendment was negatived. The House then adjourned. ordinary times. Whether the disease which has proved so fatal in Canada is the Cholera, or has been produced by the unfavorable circumstances un Mr. Cambreleng, (whose name was accidentally der which an unusual number of the most destitute omitted in our summary of yesterday,) was among class of emigrants have been landed during warm those whe strenuously opposed Mr. Davis's ainend. weather, in a strange climate, cannot be known inent touching the woolens duty, and the protecting without a more minute and scientific examination of system generally.-[Globe.] LEGISLATURE OF NEW-YORK-Extra Session. N. P. Tallmadge, president pro tem., took the facts. But so far as facts have been ascertained there is reason to believe that the two disorders, if of a different charaeter in other respects, resemble each other in these particulars, that they are caused by inattention to cleanliness and by enfeebling dis. sipations and excesses, and may be communicated from one person to another in a tainted atmosphere. Cleanliness in and about houses and noighborhoods, is believed to be the most effectual brrrier against the spreading of this, and other similar diseases. IN ASSEMBLY. In the Senate several private bills were ordered At 12 o'clock the Speaker took the chair and to a third reading; and after transacting some minor called the House to order; when, after the procla. business, the Senate proceeded to the consideration mation of the Governor, calling the Legislature, of Executive business, and continued until the ad- was read by the Clerk, the names of the members tling there, and thus expose our fellow citizens to the journment. In the House of Representatives, the following letter was presented by the Speaker to the House, Most of the emigrants who land in Canada direct their course to the United States, with a view of set was called, and 93 answered. contagion of diseases which they may bring with On motion of Mr. Seymour, Oliver Scoville was them. Heretofore it has not been deemed necessaappointed assistant doorkeeper. in place of Mr.ry to guard any avenue for the approach of infec. and read: Coulter, who cannot attend at this session. tious diseases, except the city of New York, and our To the Speaker of the House of Representatives: On motion of Mr. Stilwell, committees were ap-quarantine and health regulations relate chiefly to SIR, I beg leave through you to tender to the pointed to wait on the Governor and Senate, and that city. No power now exists in any public offiHouse of Representatives the resignation of my inform them that the House had met and were ready cers, or municipal authorities elsewhere to interfere office as their sergeant at arms. A long course of to proceed to business. The committees soon re. to prevent the introduction of disease into other kindness, first shown to my father, and then ex-ported, and stated that they had performed that parts of the state. tended to me froin my earliest years, demands an duty. We shall be annually exposed to similar incursions expression of gratitude which I feel at this moment A message was received from the Senate, inform- and I respectfully recommend to you to pass such very inadequate suitably to make. I have fallen into ing that they had organized. laws as may be necessary to enforce Sanative quar.. unexpected misfortunes, which, I am but too sensi. On motion of Mr. Spencer, the Clerk was direct-antine, at or near the ott er ordinary points of ingress ble, have led me into error. ed to furnish each of the members with such papers to our state, and to invest the proper officers with The books and papers committed to my charge as they may designate of the value of two daily sufficient power to act promptly and efficiently, in are herewith surrendered to the committee of ac- papers. times of aların and emergency ogunte for settlement. J. O. DUNN. The folllowing message was received from the An infinitely wise and just God has seen fit to em. Washington, June 25, 1832. Governor. That part of the message which relates ploy pestilence as one means of scourging the human **This Letter was referred to the committee of Ac to apportionment was referred to a committee of race for their sins, and it seeths to be an appopri ate one for the sins of uncleanliness and intemper- Mr. Milledoler moved that the House now go into) Mr. Macdonald, from the committee on State priance; and where we can trace its existence and pro. committee of the whole on a bill for the relief of sons, reported a bill to prevent the introduction of pagation under any circumstances to certain causes, the State Vaccine Institution of the State Medical sickness into the State prisons; which was commit. it is our duty to employ suitable means to remove Society. (This bill was part of the unfinished busi- ted to a committee of the whole. those causes, and to arrest its progress. ness of the last session, having come to the House The committee of the whole, Mr. Foster in the Having thus discharged our duty, we may repose from the Senate, and postponed to a day beyond the chair, resumed the consideration of the bill con. with confidence upon a power, wisdom and mercy, adjournment of the legislature.] cerning proceedings on negotiable securities and the beyond our control or comprehension, to bless our The Speaker decided that the motion was not in adjournment of Courts during the existence of in. exertions and prayers, by removing from us in due order; the indefinite adjournment of the legislature fectious diseases; which was amended, and ordered time, existing calamities, or by averting those which being in his opinion, tantamount to an indefinite post- to a third reading. (This bill was subsequently rend may threaten. E. T. THROOP Albany, June 21, 1832. Adjourned till to-morrow at eleven. ponement of all the unfinished business of that sos- a third time and passed.] The committee of the whole, Mr. Hubbard in the Mr. Milledoler appealed from the decision of the chair, took up the bill farther to provide for the prechair. The House adjourned before taking the ques. servation of the public health. The first section was. rejected, 18 to 9; when the committee rose and re. ported, and the report was agreed to. So the bill was rejected. The committee on apportionment in the Senate, tion, consists of Mesars. Maynard, Sherman, Westcott, Edmonds, McLane, Beardsley, Armstrong. and Rirdanll Tuesday, June 26.-IN SENATE. The Senate then went into a committee of the Friday Morning, 11 o'clock.-IN SENATE. whole on the bill to divide the State into Congres. visors would be called on to act before the next ses- sional Districts. sion of the Legislature. The several districts as reported, were agreed to, The ayes and noes were taken on laying the peti-uutil the committee reached the 19th district (com. tion presented by Mr. Dodge upon the table, and the posed of Delaware, Chenango and Broome.) motion was carried-Ayes 25, Noes 1. Mr. Talmadge offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That this legislature will adjourn the present session, on Friday, 29th instant. Adj. IN ASSEMBLY. Mr. Van Schaick presented the petition of the Mr. Rexford moved that the county of Delaware, Mayor, &c. of the city of New York, for a law pre. in Broome county, be a separate district, leaving squibs in that city. By this vote the question is settled as to taking up with the towns of Windsor, Sanford and Colesville venting the depositing of rubbish and the firing of ordinary business at the present session. Mr. Tallmadge moved that the resolution from Chenango and the residue of Broome also a separate Mr. Hammond, from the select committee ap... Poughkeepsie, presented by him this morning, be district. Mr. R. stated that the population of the pointed at the last session, on the matter Jacob referred to the committee of the whole having charge three towns was about 5500, and with the popula- Trumpbour, submitted a long report. The reading of the Bill reported by Mr. Allen for the preservation of Delaware (about 33,000) would form a very of it occupied the remainder of the morning. tion of public Health-carried. convenient single district, the towns in Broome ly The Senate then, in committee of the whole, Mr. ing chiefly on the east side of the Delaware, and APPOINTMENTS made on Saturday by the Senate, being connected with that county by business and on the nomination of the Governor : New York. Wm. Wood and Henry Hutchinson, Petitions presented. -Mr. Andrews presented a petition from the Trustees of Rochester, praying for the question, whether they would divide counties in and S. M. Fitch, deceased. Thomas Slidell, Frank. the passage of a law to protect the citizens of that the formation of Congressional districts? He con-lin S. Kinney, public notaries. Isaac Brinckerhoff place from pestilential diseases, which was referred ceded, if the proposition were to be adopted at all, and John Ketchum, measurers of grain. Bernard to the Medical and judiciary Committees. as little objection could be made to it in this as in R. Koster, branch pilet by the way of Sandy Hook. principle had prevailed. It had been occasionally A great Union Meeting was held in Charleston, Reports of Committees. -Mr. Milledoler, from the adopted, but the instances were rare. At the last South Carolina, on the evening of the 12th instant Medical Committee, made a report in relation to the division, in 1822, the principle was repudiated; and The Hon. Henry Middleton presided, and addressed Cholera, recommending the passage of a law increas- the division was made on the basis that counties ing the powers of Boards of Health, which was or- should not be divided in the formation of Congres. the meeting in a short speech, in the course of which dered to be printed. sional districts. It was conceived to be better te he expressed his firm conviction that the unhappy Mr. Maynard said that the proposition presented cominissioners of deeds, in place of N. B. Graham. Mr. Maxwell presented a petition on the same any case. But for the last twenty years a contrary subject, which had a similar direction. M'Keon remarked, that having understood that submit to occasional inequalities, rather than divide differences now existing between the National and the biff on this subject was introduced in the Senate, counties. The inconveniences of a division were State Governments "can only be brought to a ter. the Judiciary Committee on the part of the House, not so great that they might not be overcome; but had deemed it inexpedient to act. the popular sentiment was generally adverse to any mination by a recurrence, on all sides, to the spirit such division; a sentiment so strongly felt in rela. of compromise and concession in which our whole Mr. Beardsley, from the committee on the Judi. The motion was lost. THE INDIAN WAR. - Major General Scott and his staff, left here on 22d inst. for Albany, on his way to Chicago. The 5 Artillery Companies from For Monday, June 25-IN SENATE. tation, for acceptance or payment, of any bills, Mr. Euller then moved to remodel the several The bill to regulate the introduction of foreign ler renewed his motion to alter the six western dis. Ayes-Messrs. Birdeall, Fuller, Lynde, Mather, IN ASSEMBLY. try recruits, will leave here to-day for Albany. Galena was fortified, as well as circumstances would permit, and the inhabitants hoped to be able to resist any attack which might be made. We learn by a letter from a gentleman at Green Bay, under date of 4th June, that Brigadier General Brady had left Fort Winnebago, a week before, with two companies of troops to join General At.. kinson. Nearly all the troops at Fort Howard have marched to reinforce Fort Winnabago. The for. mer post is now garrisoned by only 18 men, besides the sick in hospital. Apprehending danger, Col. Irwin has ordered out the militia, and the whole set. tlement is under arms. The bill from the Senate, to regulate the introduc. Bronson, Cary, Conklin, Cropsey. Deitz, Dodge, We further learn that the Menominios have be. tion of foreign emigrants into the city of New York, was read twice and referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. Arnold laid on the table the following: Edmonds, Fisk, Foster, Gere, Halsey, Hubbard, come troublesome, in that quarter, in consequence Lansing, Macdonald, McDowell, McLean, Quack of the delay which has attended the settlement of boss, Rexford, Seward, Sherman, Tallmadge, West. the difficulties between that tribe and the Sacs and cott-25. The committee of the whole, took up the bill con. tors in Congress from this State be instructed, and cerving negotiable securities, during the existence Mr. Arnold called for the consideration of the corn. Foxes. It has been necessary for the Agent of In. dian Affairs, Col. Stambaugh, to use the utmost skill and assiduity to prevent them from uniting with the hostile tribes in a war against the whites. A party had even started for the seat of war, but through the influence of Col. Stambaugh, who took occasion to assemble all the chiefs in open council, they were constrained to delay their purpose for the term of siteration of the act of Congress, passed in the year Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and he is law, as to exempt all under 21 and over 40 years of force cannot much longer prevent shem from ob- House, without any decision. The U. S. ship Vincennes, E. R. Shubrick, Esq. commander, left Pensacola on the 7th inst. for Gua. Bites in Congress from this state. 1 1 MISCELLANY. miting. In this stage, too, the patient begins to ex-jevery hour, or after every fit of vomiting, an ef. perience excessive coldness of the extremities, and fervescent draught, composed as follows:-Three Extract from "Practical Observations on Chole. eyen partial coldness of the trunk. In all stages of drachms of super-carbonate of soda, dissolved in ra Asphyxia, communicated in a report to the Green. eck Board of Health, as the result of a mission to the infected districts. By James B. Kirk, M. D." the disease, except the consecutive fever, the tongue eight ounces of water; a dram-glassful mixed with is moist, and slightly, but not deeply furred. The one table spoonful of lemon-juice, and a glass of practitioner in this stage must step in with calomel water. This is an invaluable remedy, and should and opium, till the healthy secretions are restored never be omitted. If you are fortunate enough to Addressing laymen, as I have the honor to do, it -say two grains of the former and the fifth of a begin to see that the evacuations become feculent, will be difficult to speak of the various stages of this grain of the latter, continued according to circum- then step in with full doses of calomel, with the ad. disease with that plaincess of language, yet accura. stances. If the discharges are very violent, the dition of jalap or rhubarb. If vomiting is a harass. cy of description, which may be necessary to give a quantity of opium may be increased to the fourth, ing symptom, cup the epigastrium, and add a few full and precise account of the distemper. But when the third, and the half of a grain. Keep the pa. drops of laudanum to your effervescing draught.I consider those to whom I address these observa-tient warm in blankets-keep his arins and legs in If the collapse is very complete, the actual cautery tions, and know that every one here is an educated strong worated stockings. Apply heat to all parts is sometimes practised over the course of the spine; man, I shall not be afraid to attempt the description. of his body, by tins and bricks, and sand bags; and from the accounts of my friends, and the three From the very extensive opportunity of induction in eight cases out of ten, the disease will not run cases which I witnessed, I would think often with which I enjoyed, I proved, before I was long in into the stage of collapse. If the pulse will bear advantage. In the appendix I have described an in. New castle, that Diarrhea in this country, (Britain.) it, do not hesitate to take a moderate bleeding, but strument for the purpose, which lessens the alarm at ulways precedes Cholera Asphyxia; that this Diar not so free as in the last stage. I am aware that so horrible a remedy, and indeed conceals altogether rhma is always a curable complaint, and consequently the common practice in this stage is to give, in the tus nature. I cannot take leave of this atago wh that this formidable disease, the ways of which were first place, a mustard emetic; but I decidedly dis-out again most earnestly recommending the large wrapped in mystery, and inspired us with no feel. approve of it; for I have seen, in this stage, col- hot injections. ings but gloom and despair, may now be calmly lapse most certainly produced by the emetic. I am Blueness has been said generally to characterize viewed by the eye of philosophy and common sense, well aware of the partiality of many to this emetic, this stage; but in this country that is not the fact. as a malady, the secrets of which are open to us, and and of their reasons; but I must say that I disap- The skin of the hands and face is brownish, not. the control of which we have in our hands. prove of producing vomiting, in all stages of the blue. If death is te ensue, there is a dreadful low Let me now give you as short a description as I disease, except the bilious stage of consecutive fever. wail of voice, which no man who has heard can ever ean of the premonitory disease. The patient com. I think it is apt to depress the energy of the system forget. The lowest moan of the most wretched men. plains of lassitude. He has frequently partial unea-still farther. You will be told it gives an impulse to dicant goes not to the heart so poignantly. A cold siness in the region of the stomach; but this is not the system, and that it produces bilious evacuations. clammy sweat breaks forth on all the surface; theto such a degree as to alarm him. He has frequent This forced impulse is too often the precursor of the temperature rises, and the pulse even becomes more evacuations from the bowels-from two to a dozen indirect debility it produces, and hastens collapse. perceptible; the dejections become frequent and se times a da y-net attended with much griping. His I entertain, however, the highest respect for the vere; and vomiting sometimes, though not always, countenance is sharp and dark. He knows not of opinions of those who still practice the mustard is excessive; in a very short time the patient is a this symptom, and it is only recognizable to the eye emetic; but I am bound to declare my opinion: and corpse. Sometimes indeed the vomiting and purg. of experiance. Occasional nausea may oppress him I trust in stating my opinion, they will charitably ing, and even the cramps, cease, in collapse, altoge. But this is not a very common symptom. These give me that liberty they would take to themselves. ther; and when the spasnis cease, I have observed symptome may continue, varying in severity, from The horrible symptom Collapse, comes next in or- that the cases are always the most incurable. But if one to ten days, before the second stage of the disor. der. It is characterized, as I have described the nature is to rally, the dejections become less frequent der super venes. The evacuations at the first are Musselburgh cases at the commencement of this and feculent; the vomiting diminishes or ceases; generally of a dark brown or blackish hue. As the Menoir, by pulselessness, coldness, loss of voice, the pulse gradually and steadily improves in fulness looseness continues they gradually become less and terrible purging and frequent vomiting, and a total and in tone; the voice becomes more powerful; the less of a natural appearance, until they assume the cessation of the secretion of urine. Bleeding, and strength improves, and the unfortunate is snatched consistence and aspect of dirty water. Some head- large opiates by the mouth, and stimulation by bran- from the dreadful fate that seemed to await him. But ach, cran ip of the fingers, toes, and abdomen, and dy, have been the practice in this stage; but I have the horrors of this dreadful disease do not stop here. almost always slight giddiness and ringing of the no hesitation in saying that large opiates are wrong. The system, by the peculiar poison producing this ears, accompany these symptoms. Sometimes an and that general bleeding, in general impracticable, distemper, has been sunk into the lowest state of huintervanitig two or three days of costiveness super- is often hurtful and seldom usetul. I dare not de- man existence. Those vessels which had ceased to venes, which is followed again by the Diarrhea, tain you in giving my reasons for this opinion; but beat, and all those muscular fibrils which have been and in a few hours collapse supervenes, and in ge- I have studied the subject with intence anxioty, and for days convulsod and coated up in spasm, cannot neral nau sea and vomiting. The skilful practitioner watched the practice in various hands, and I am at once resume their healthy action. The vis medi. will now give pills composed of aloes and calomel, bound to declare my conviction. catrix naturæ, in resuming her play, seems over-soor a pill c omposed of scammony, calomel, and aloes. The best practice is to give a large enema, of from licitous for the restoration of the functions; and The bowe is then in general act briskly. Continue three to four pounds, of as hot water as the hand can consequently she institutes an increased, and danger. this course for three days-keep the patient warm bear, with six ounces of brandy and two drachms of ous action in every artery of the system. in bed-give him mild and gentle nourishment; and, laudanum. After one hour this enema should be The tenderest and most important organs of the after an inmense quantity of horribly offensive de- withdrawn, by a tube introduced into the rectum. system, the brain, the lungs and the liver, are now jections, the patient is completely recovered, and The enema is gonerally returned very cold, and an in imminent danger; and the skill of the physician snatched from the jaws of the dreadful fate which other hot injection should then be thrown in.; is called into play, not to be executed in stages and awaited him. Some practitioners prescribe the mus- All the ordinary means of restering heat should degrees, but at once, promptly, and decidedly. Does tard emetic in this state, small doses of calomel be studiously attended to: warm diluents frequently congestive action manifest itself in the head, the and ginger, and bleeding freely; but I prefer deci. given, with small portions of brandy. An insatiable cupping-glass or leeches should instantly be applied, dedly, and on experience, the purgative system. thirst prevails, and the patient should be occasional- and vesication produced over the whole scalp in This is the stage to which I wish to reduce all ourly indulged in his anxiety for cold water. He is twenty minutes, by the application of a strong in. cases of Cholera. If we get them in this stage, we generally denied it, but this is as cruel as it is unne- fusion of cantharides in the strongest acetic acid. can cure them with as much certainty as I have in- cessary. I would certainly be careful of the quan. The lancet must not now be spared, and drastic dicated. The natural secretions can be speedily re-tity. I would withdraw this injection at the end purgatives are to be freely administered. If the stored, and health to a certainty induced. In the of another hour, and then introduce an enema lungs are the seat of high action, indicated by ophospital ant Gateshead every attendant had the pre- of a pound and a half of warm water in which pression of breathing, sense of suffocation, full, monitory symptoms; but the skill of their scientific two drachms of common tobacco is infused. In large, and bounding pulse, and often spasm in the attendant's was at hand. Medicines were duly and nineteen cases which I have witnessed, pulsation chest, bleed freely, and do not spare purgation; and regularly prescribed, and not one of them took the and reaction have followed the use of the tobac- give thirty drops of wine of antimony every three extreme symptoms. This has been the case too co, and bilious evacuations and increased tempe- hours. In bad cases place the patient in a half-sit. with almost all the medical strangers who have rature. The action of vomiting has nothing to ting posture. This practice is most important. I visited the disease, and almost all the practi-do with the result; for in three cases which I wit- am indebted for this hint to John Fyfe, Esq., of tioners of the district of Newcastle have had pre nessed, there was no vomiting after the exhibition Newcastle, an excellent and eminent surgeon, and monitor symptoms. If after this warning. Cho- of the medicine. We are indebted for this practice I think, from positive experience, that it is a prac.. lera shcould break forth, in any district, I hesi- to an ingenious and most amiable gentleman, Mr. tice highly worthy of attention. A greenish mat. tate not to say to the municipal authorities of that Baird of Newcastle. If there is much pain of the ter is now often largely discharged from the sto place, the blood of the sufferers will rise in judg- bowels, particularly about the stomach, you can mach, for which one or two emetics of coramon ment against the cruel apathy of those who ought raise an instantaneous blister by applying to the salt may be given with advantage. You must now to have been their guardians, natural protectors, and stomach a cloth lifted out of boiling water, with attend carefully to the state of the bladder, as now fathers. great and immediate advantage. I consider the the urine is secreted largely, and dangerous reten. If your patient in this stage is very robust, you vapor bath and the air bath as very inefficient and tion frequently takes place. The eminent Mr. Fyfe must take blood to subdue irritation and high ae- trivial remedies; but the hot tin mattress which is thinks that the duration of the consecutive fever is tion, but this will be very seldom necessary, and used in the Hospitals of Edinburgh, will be found commensurate with the duration and severity of the must always be taken with the finger on the pulse, the greatest improvement possible; because it will collapse; and not much dependent upon the kind so as never to induce faintness. The disease now heat the back, which was never effected by any of remedies employed. This conclusion is doubt. advances to another stage if it has been left unas other process before. Next to this, I prefer sand-less generally correct. But sometimes a very mild sisted. The cramps become stronger, and the sick bags to all other twodes of giving heat Curing the case precedes a dangerous fever; and sometimes ness frequent and considerable. There is pain in whole stage of collapse, I would recommend that after the severost collapse there is no fever at all. the region of the stomach, and restlessness, and from two to three grains of calomel be given every This fever, unless strictly watched, is more fremuch thirst. The countenance is anxious, and the two hours; and if the cramps, pains, and sickness quently fatal than collapse itself. After the purga. features sharper than natural. The evacuations are severe, I would add to the calomel a quarter of lives I have recommended, three grains of calomel become like barley gruel. Still however the puls a grain of opium. I would satisfy the raging thirst; every four hours till the mouth is touched, is the is nat depressed, and in general the patient can and, from its saline qualities, perhaps contribute to best practice; but it is difficult to touch the mouth. keep on foot. He is often harassed with fits of vo- the amelioration of the state of the blood, by giving At the end of two days, the calomel should be suc |