JANUARY

The speaker laid before the house a letter from the secretary of war, transmitting a statement of the amount of merchandize on hand at the different Indian trading houses, and in the hands of the superintendent of Indian trade, in Georgetown, at cost-prepared in obedience to a resolution of the

13th instant.

The speaker also laid before the house a letter from the secretary of the navy, transmitting a state ment of contracts made by the commissioners of the navy during the year 1820.

These communications and the accompanying documents, were ordered to lie on the table and be printed.

Mr. Wood, from the committee on the public buildings, to whom was referred a resolution of the 19th ult. directing an enquiry into the practicability of making such alterations in the present structure of the hall of the house as shall better adapt it to the purposes of a deliberative assembly; and if not, whether it be practicable to provide a suitable hall in the centre building of the capitol, made a report, exhibiting á plan proposed by the architect, which the committee do not recommend; and offering reasons to shew that the hall had, since it was first used, improved in the respects above referred to; that it would still improve, as the walls became drier; and that it might be anticipated, by taking measures to prevent noise in the gallery, and obtain silence in the hall, it would fully answer its intended purpose. The report was read and committed.

gold coins in the United States, be instructed to enquire into the expediency of continuing also, for a further limitted time, the currency of French crowns and five franc pieces, and also into the expediency of increasing the relative value of the gold which may hereafter be coined at the mint of the United States.

A letter was laid before the house from the se. cretary of the treasury, transraitting a statement shewing the tonnage of vessels of the United States which entered from,and cleared for ports in France, together with the tonnage of French vessels which entered ports of the United States during the years 1816, 1817, 1818, and 1819.

The house again proceeded to consider the bill Much for reducing the military establishment. discussion again took place, and an adjournment was carried without any important decision being bad. Monday, Jan. 22. Willard Hall, of Del. resigned his seat in the house, by a letter addressed to the speaker.

The house resumed the consideration of the bill to reduce the military peace establishment of the United States.

The question having been then stated on order ing the bill, as amended, to be engrossed for a third reading

Mr. Barbour and Mr. Mercer addressed the house, each at great length-the first in favor of the bill the latter against it.

The question was then taken on ordering the bill to be engrossed for a third reading, and decided as follows:

Mr. Mallary, after some remarks, going to shew that there was reason to believe there were several officers of the army employed in certain of the public offices, to whom compensation was paid for their clerical services, in addition to their pay as officers, and with the view of obtaining precise information on this subject, he submitted the follow-Gross, of Pen. Guyon, Hall, of N. Y. Hall, of N. C. Hardie, ing resolution:

YEAS-Messrs. Abbot, Adams, Alexander, Allen, of Mass. Allen, of N. Y. Allen of Tenn. Baker, Ball, Barbour, Bayly, Beecher, Brown, Bryan, Buffum, Burton, Butler, of N. H. Campbell, Cannon, Clay, Cobb, Cocke, Crafts. Crawford, Culpepper, Cushman," Dana, Dennison, Earle, Eddy, Edwards, of Con. Edwards, of N. C. Eustis, Fay, Fisher, Floyd, Foot, Garnett, Gray, Gross of N. Y. Hendricks, Herrick, Hibshman, Hill, Hobert, Hooks, Hostetter, Resolved, That the committee on military affairs Jackson, Johnson, Jones, of Va. Kendall, Kinsey, Kinsley Lathrop, Lincoln, Livermore, Maclay, McCoy, McCreary, McCullough, be instructed to enquire whether any officers of the Mallary, Marchand, Meigs, Metcalf, Monell, Montgomery. R. army of the United States, are employed as clerks Moore, T. L. Moore, Morton, Moseley. Murray, Neale, N-ison, of Mass. Patterson, Philson, Plumer, Randolphi, Rankin, Rhea, or in any other capacity, in any of the departments, Rich, Richards, Richmond. Ross, Russ, Sawyer, Shaw, Silsbee, or in the office of the surgeon general or apothe-Sloan, Southard, Stevens, Tarr, Terrell, Tomlinson, Tracy, Trimcary general, and whether such officers, if any, have ble, Tucker, of Va. Tucker of S. C. Tylor, Upham, Van Rensselaer, Walker, Warfield, Williams, of Va. Williams, of N. C. Wood-109. received any other compensation than their pay as NAYS-Messrs. Anderson, Archer, of Md. Baldwin, Bloomfield, officers; if so, what are their names, and what ex- Brevard, Brush, Butler, of Lou. Case, Clark, Crowell, Cuthbert, Darlington, Davidson, Dickinson, Ford, Fuller, Gorham, Hemphill, tra compensation have they received. Jones, of Tenn. Little, Lowndes, McLane, of Del. McLane, of Ken. Mercer, S. Moore Nelson, of Va. Newton, Parker, of Mass., Parker, of Va. Pinckney, Ringgold, Robertson, Rogers, Sergeant, Simkins, Smith, of N. J. Smith, of Md. A. Smyth, of Va. Smida, of N. C. Storrs, Street, Strong, of N. Y. Udree, Wallace, Wendover, Whitman-47.

Mr. Little moved to amend the resolution so as to make it a direct call on the secretary of war for the information; which mation, after some conver. sation between three or four members, was negatived, and the resolution was agreed to.

Mr. Randolph gave notice that he should on Mon. day next call for the consideration of the bill mak ing provision for the family of the late commodore Perry.

The speaker laid before the house a letter from the secretary of the navy, transmitting for the use of the members, copies of the navy register for the year.

So the bill was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time to-morrow.

[This bill fixes the military peace establishment at 6000 non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates, with a due proportion of field and company officers--the whole to be commanded by one brigadier general, and a large reduction of the staff generally. If it passes the senate, we shall publish it at length, as amended; having already giv

Mr. Randolph moved to take up the bill for the

Sometime being spent on other business, theen the original as reported.] house resumed the consideration of the bill to reduce the military peace establishment of the Unit-relief of the family of com. Perry, &c. but the ed States. Much debate took place and several house refused to postpone the preceding orders of amendments were proposed, some of which pre- the day. vailed, but not materially affecting the general principles of the bill. The house adjourned without coming to any conclusion.

Saturday, Jan. 20. On motion of Mr. Whitman, it was

Resolved, That the committee on the subject of reviving for a limited time the currency of foreign

The speaker laid before the house the following report:

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 19th January, 1821, The hon. John W. Taylor,

Speaker of the house of representatives: SIR-In obedience to a resolution of the house of representatives, of the 4th inst. instructing the

secretary of the treasury to report to the house "a statement of the money in the treasury on the 1st of Jan. 1821, together with a statement of the money in the hands of the treasurer, as agent for the war and navy departments, on that day," I have the honor to state, that there was in the treasury on that day the sum of $1,076,261 18, and in the hands of the treasurer, as agent for the war and navy departments, the sum of $1,050,378 25, viz: for the war department, $251,373 29, and for the navy department, $799,004 96.

such forbearance will not operate to their injury. The other demands upon the treasury, which were estimated as a charge upon it in the fourth quarter of the year 1820, and which are not embraced in the estimates of the expenditure for 1821,and which constitute a part of the deficit above stated, will, it is presumed, be demanded of the treasury.

It will be perceived that the sums in the hands of the treasurer, as agent of the war and navy departments, exceed the estimate of them, annexed to the estimates of the service of the year 1821.-Of the sum of $1,076,271 18, in the treasury on These mònies are drawn from the agent, as the dethe 1st of Jan. 1821, $500,000 were paid by the mands upon the respective departments are prebank of the U. States, on the 30th Dec. 1820, butsented, or requisitions from the disbursing officers which were payable on the 1st day of Jan. thereafter, and were estimated in the receipts into the treasury for 1821. If this sum is deducted, the amount in the treasury on that day will be $576,271 18. If it is considered a part of the receipts of 1820, the estimated receipts for 1821, will be diminished by that amount. With this explanation, it will not be material whether it is placed to the credit of the one or the other year; the general result of the two years will be the same.

of those departments are received. The amount drawn from the agent depends therefore upon contingencies over which the heads of those departments have no controul, and may exceed or full short of any estimate made by them for any definite period of time.

It may be proper also to state, that in contempla tion of law, money is not considered to be in the treasury until a warrant is issued by the secretary and receipted by the treasurer, for the sums paid The receipts of the 4th quarter, with the ex- by the receiving officers into bank; but for the ception of payments made at Mobile and New Or- practical purposes of the treasury, all sums paid inleans, in the two last weeks of Dec. 1820, and in to bank to the credit of the treasurer, are consider. the whole month at most of the land offices, are as-ed by him to be in the treasury. Generally, the certained to be $4,045,585 99. In the annual re. warrants covering the money received on account port, the receipts of the 4th quarter were estinat- of the government are issued quarterly for all sums ed at $3,430,000; the actual receipts, therefore, received during the quarter. These warrants are exceed those that were estimated, by $615,585 99, usually issued about two months after the expiraand by $115,585 99, if the payment made by the tion of the quarter; as the payments made into the bank on the 30th Dec. be deducted from the re-banks which are the depositories of the public moceipts of 1820. ney, are not ascertained sooner."

If the sum of $615,585 99 be added to the sum The statements which accompany this letter are of $5,417,830 83, which was stated in my letter of explanatory of the views which it presents or afthe 21st Dec. 1820, to be the aggregate means for ford information connected with them, which it is the 4th quarter of that year, the amount at the dis-presumed may be useful. position of the treasury, in that quarter, will be I remain with respect, your most ob'dt. servant, augmented to $6,035,416 82.

WM. H. CRAWFORD.

It is ascertained that the payments from the trea-The report was read, and with the documents resury, during that quarter, have amounted to ferred to the committee of ways and means. $4,957,145 24, which, being deducted from the es- And the house adjourned. timated means of that quarter, will leave in the Tuesday, Jan. 23.—Mr. Mercer, from the comtreasury, as already stated, on the 1st day of Jan.mittee on the district of Columbia, delivered in the 1821, the sum of $1,076,271 18.-But, if the $500- following report: 000 paid by the bank, be deducted from the receipts of 1820, the balance in the treasury, on the 1st day of Jan. 1821, will be, as has already been stated, $576,271 18.

The demands upon the treasury during the year 1820, in order to complete the service of that year and to effect the objects for which the several ap. propriations were made, and which are not included in the foregoing sum of $4,957,145 24, amounts to $4,707,987 96, viz:

The committee on the district of Columbia, to whom was referred a resolution of the house of representatives, instructing them "to inquire into the expediency of providing by law, to secure to me. (chanics and others payment for their labor and materials, in erecting any house or other building within the district of Columbia, by giving them a lien thereon,” have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report: That under the existing laws of the United States, within the district of Columbia, a security, analogous to that contemplated by the resolution, may be provided by special contract, in every case wherein any house or building is about to be erected, against any loss which any mechanic or merchant, contributing labor or materials towards the erection thereof, might sustain from the failure of the proprietor to pay Which leaves an access of demand beyond the voluntarily therefor. Whether for this, or any other money in the treasury of $3,631,716 78, and of reason, existing in the institutions or state of soci$4,131,716 78, if the payment made by the bankety, of the District of Columbia, no complaint to be deducted from the payments into the treasury in the year 1820.

Civil, diplomatic, and miscellaneous, (being the difference between the sum of $1,407,213 56, estimated to be paid in the 4th quarter, and the sum actually paid,) $855,905 20 Public debt 2,076,918 15 665,164 61 1,110,000 00

War department

Navy department

It may be proper to observe, that, if the sum of $2,076,918 15, of the Louisiana stock, has not been pressed for payment, it has been the result of forbearance on the part of the holders of that stock, and of confidence in the faith of the nation, that

congress, by petition or otherwise, has ever been made by any of the inhabitants of the district, of any defect of their present laws in relation to the object for which the resolution of the house of represen tatives suggests a provision. The committee therefore recommend to the house of representatives the adoption of the following resolution: Resolval,

that it is inexpedient to make by law the provision | article in the constitution of said state, presented suggested by the aforesaid resolution.

The report was read and agreed to.

Mr. Smith, of Md. moved the following joint re

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Resolved, by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That the recruiting service for the army be suspended for and during the present year, and until the end of the next session of congress. The resolution was twice read, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.

to congress at the present session, as makes it the duty of the legislature to pass such laws as shall be necessary "to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this state, under any pretext whatsoever," shall on or before that day, have been expunged therefrom.

The resolution having been read

Mr. Eustis stated the objects of the resolution. After other proceedings, a motion to agree to the resolution was rejected by a large majority. The committee reported the decision to the house, and After various proceedings not important to de- the resolution was rejected by yeas and nays-yeas tail at present the engrossed bill for the reduc-only six: Messrs. Baldwin, Eustis, Hill, Little, tion of the military peace establishment was read Smith, of Md. and Stevens. the third time, and after several speeches pro and After a pause— con, passed 109 to 48, and sent to the senate for

concurrence.

The engossed bill to continue in force the act to provide for soldiers disabled by known wounds in the revolutionary war, was read a third time, passed, and returned to the senate.

The house then resolved itself into a committee. of the whole, Mr. Foot in the chair, on the bill reported at the last session of congress, for the relief of the family of the late Oliver Hazard Perry, and to provide for the education of his children at the public expense.

The bill having been read through

On motion of Mr. Randolph, who declined occupying the time of the house by speaking on the subject, the blanks in the bill were filled, so as to make the proposed allowance to be 330 dollars per annum for the mother of the late commodore Perry, 400 dollars for his widow (during life or till intermarriage,) and 150 dollars for each of the children until they arrive at twenty-one years of age. The whole amount proposed to be annually appropriated being 1,330 dollars, the estimated amount of half the pay which commodore Perry, whilst living, would have enjoyed whilst on separate command.

Mr. Clay rose and gave notice that if no other gentleman made any motion on the subject, he should, on the day after to-morrow, move to go into committee of the whole on the state of the union, to take into consideration the resolution of the senate on the subject of Missouri,

THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. In the senate. There was a considerable appearance of business in the senate this day, but nothing important decided on.

House of representatives. Mr. Anderson, from the committee on public lands, made a report unfavorable to the memorial of the general assembly of Missouri, respecting pre-emption rights; which was read and concurred in.

Mr. Floyd, from a select committee which was in structed to enquire into the situation of the settlements on the Pacific ocean, and the expediency of occupying the Columbia river, delivered in a report, accompanied by a bill, to authorize the oc cupation of the Columbia river, and to regulate the intercourse with the Indian tribes within the United States, and territories thereof.

The bill was twice read and committed

Several bills were read a third time and passed. On motion of Mr. Smith, of N. C. the house pro[Sundry amendments being proposed, &c. the ceeded to the consideration of the resolution probill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading posing an amendment to the constitution of the U. with the exception of the provision made for the States, so as to establish an uniform mode of electmother of the deceased. Yeas 76, nays 62. The billing, by districts, electors of president and vice was passed! 73 to 63, next day.] president of the United States, and representatives in congress.

And the question having been stated on the pas sage of said resolution, this being its final reading in the house...

The speaker laid before the house a letter from the secretary of the treasury transmitting two statements of goods, wares and merchandize imported in American and foreign vessels; together with an aggregate view of both from the 1st October, 1818, A number of gentlemen spoke in favor and against to the 30th September, 1819, rendered in obe- the measure finally, the yeas and nays being redience to a resolution of the house of representa-quired, were 92 for, 56 against it. And, as two thirds tives of 29th May, 1798. of the members did not vote in favor of the resolu❤ tion, it was rejected!

The letter was read, and with the documents, ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Eustis gave notice that he should, on to-morrow, call for the consideration of the resolution, submitted by him, proposing the conditional admission of Missouri into the union.

And the house adjourned.

Wednesday, Jan. 24. The house on motion of Mr. Eustis, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Hackley being called to the chair, and proceeded to the consideration of the following re

CHRONICLE.

The mail, from Albany to New-York, shortly after leaving the former office, on the 21st ult. was sunk in the Hudson river by the breaking-in of the ice, in 15 feet water, and with much difficulty recovered-entire, however, but much injured. The letters were to be immediately dried and re-mailed; but the newspapers are described as being in such a state that it would be impossible to re-mail them correctly. The stage and baggage were afterwards recovered, but three of the horses were drowned. Died, at Long Pond. New Jersey, Nicholas Teachnext ensuing, the state of Missouri shall be admit-man, aged 100 years and 5 months-one of the first ted into the union upon an equal footing with the settlers of the state.

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Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of Americain congress assembled, and it is hereby declared, that on the day

original states, in all respects whatsoever: Pro- -, at Pittsburg, on the 23d ult. gen. Adam Tanvided, That so much of the 26th section of the 3dnehill, a soldier of the revolution, and not long since

a member of congress from Pennsylvania. He was a native of Maryland, and joined the army as an orderly sergeant of a rifle corps in 1775-was in many of the most severe battles, &c. and at the close of the war, having been promoted several times, received the brevet of lieut. colonel. He was interred with military honors.

in which the wolf is taken. In one county, the Tuscaloosa Republican says, more scalps have been taken than the whole taxes of the county will pay for!, So that wolf-catching is the best business followed there. The Republican suggests the propriety of paying the members of the legislature in scalps at five dollars a piece, until they repeal or modify the on the 26th ult. t Hampton, Va. maj.law. Not a bad notion. James Baytop, late sergeant at arms to the senate of Corsicaurum. A new mineral earth has lately Virginia, in the 77th year of his age-a gallant sol-been found in Corsica, thought to be impregnated with particles of gold. By chemical operation,

dier of the revolution.

The 8th of January, the anniversary of the battle vases have been made of it for table services, and it of New Orleans, was celebrated at several places is found to vie in color and lustre with the finest by private parties, and honored in some with pub-j vermillion. The name of Corsicaurum has been lic ceremonies. A party in New York supped to-given to it; it has the property of not discoloring gether, and, among others, drank the following white stuffs, which is not always the case with gold, the most purified and refined.

toasts.

The day we celebrate-Whenever the trumpet of war may be sounded in our ears, may the Kentuckian rifle be found in our hands.

tionel," contains the following remarkable article: Deaf and Dumb.-A Paris paper, the "Constitu"The Journal, the Narrator of the Meuse, relates circumstance highly important for humanity; it

The treaty of Ghent, signed the 24th of Decem-a ber, 1814; ratified by Jackson, the 8th Jan. 1815. states that a young physician has just discovered a Volunteers. Americans, able to endure every hardship but that of despotism.Equality-lords elevated into men.--) -Liberty- no transfer of it can be legal, let the rule then be "live free or die." -George the 4th-a million for a pair of horns Rarity. Was killed in Westfield, on Saturday the 23d ult. by Badgley Anderson and William Mills, a wild cat, measuring 3 feet 8 inches in length, and 1 foot 8 1-2 inches in height, and weighing 11 1-2lbs.-Elizabeth Town N. J. Journal. A cat fish, weighing ninety pounds, was lately caught in the Ohio, at Shawnee-town.

method of restoring both hearing and speech tothe deaf and dumb, and had tried it with full success upon two individuals of this description. The editor adds, that the two youths who had just experienced the efficacy of the operation have a finer sense of hearing than persons in general."

A Boston paper says "There is a farm in Quincy, about eight miles from Boston, which has been owned by the same family for 172 years, and is now in possession of the 7th generation.

are said to be stated in a letter received at Balti Antiquities.-The following extraordinary facts more, from St. Clairsville, O. dated 12th mo, 19th, 1820.

"Another curiosity has lately been discovered about 15 miles N. W. of this town, which is yet not finally explored, so that we cannot tell what treasure is there. It consists of two parallel walls of regular mason work, about three feet apart at In Plymouth county, a part of the land belonging together to form an arch, 11 feet high. These bottom, and closing, as they rise, until they come to the first governor, Bradford, has always been in walls begin near the foot of a hill, and run in a the family, and is now owned by a descendant of straight direction, rising with the hill, and about the sixth generation. The same is true with regard 4 or 5 feet under the surface-the earth completely to the farm of gov. Winslow, except that the son of levelled, &c. over them-and the largest timber the sixth generation has lately deceased. It is also growing thereon. A large tree blowing up caused a fact, that land owned by Thomas of Marshfield, the discovery. A gas issues out, at the holes that and Warren of Plymouth, (who were among the have been dug down, in tracing the direction of first settlers), is still in those respective families; the walls up the hill, particularly at the last one, and a great part of the farm purchased and occupi-200 feet from the point of origin. This gas deed by John Alden, the vigorous youth who first stepped on the Plymouth rock, is also now owned and occupied by a descendant of the seventh generation.

Silver mines. The idea of the existence of a silver mine, near Zanesville, Ohio, after an expense of about 10,000 dollars in sinking a shaft, &c. has been abandoned, though the workmen arrived at the very spot from which the ore was said to have been drawn, Some honest people have been sadly gulled in this business. A company in New York have commenced working at an old mine, near Mount Pleasant, which, before the revolution, is said to have yielded a profitable quantity of silver ore. They have cleared the shafts of water, and are now prepared to judge of the prospects before them-but as yet they had not found any of the precious treasure.

To make some amends for the disappointments in mining, we have many counterfeit dollars and half dollars in circulation. The dollars are in imi tation of those of Ferdinand VII. 1817-the half dollars, of our own coin.

Wolf scalps.--In Alabama five dollars premium are allowed for the scalp of every wolf taken and destroyed, to be paid out of the tax of the county

posites a complete carbonate of lime or marble, on the walls, &c. in pieces as large as a half bushel. I have seen of it. No person of any chemical as it is sufficiently opened to go in, &c. which will knowledge his yet visited it--but intend to as soon be soon. We a little think it is a secret passage to a lead mine."

state of this institution for the last year, according Massachusetts state prison.-The following is the to the official statement just published:

and 1 female are for life-41 males, 6 females are "Of the whole number now in prison, 44 males blacks or colored-49 white foreigners;-64 for second time-10 a third time, 5 a fourth time and 1 a fifth time. 1 black female for the third time, and 1 for the second time. There never has been a white female confined there a second time."

ing Sept. 30th, have been $47,070, and the receipts The expenses of the prison, during the year end. $33,625-leaving a balance of $8,345. The actual expense of the prison, however, has been, according to the statement of the account current, $3,858.

"Under the head of provision is charged every thing provided for and consumed by the keeper's family, officers and watchmen, as well as convicts.

The directors, physican, chaplain and warden, are Harrisburg, Pa. On the 13th ult. a letter was paid at the treasurer's office, and not brought into received by the senate and by the house of reprethe above account, but the amount, viz. $2,900 sentatives of this state, from the executors of the should be added to the balance against the prison, late captain Gustavus Conyngham, presenting to the making $6,758 31, expenses for the past year; and legislature, to be deposited in their library, the this amount will give the whole cost of the mainte-first American flag that was raised in the British Tance of the establishment for said year, including channel, of which the following is a copy. every kind of expense whatever, and also allowing To the honorable the speaker of the senate and house for $1046 passed as bad debts, a part of which may of representatives: be recovered.

SIR-The executors of capt. Gustavus Conyng"There has been a loss of labor during the year, ham present to the senate and house of represenby patients in hospital, 7,560; by invalids unable to tatives, to be deposited in the state library the first perform a full day's labor, 5,455; by confinement flag of the United States of America that was raisin solitary by sentence of court, 779; by confine-ed in the British channel. It was made under the ment for misdemeanors in prison, 1908-making 15,702 days lost labor, which at 40 cents per day, would have produced $6,630.

"Crimes. Forstealing, shop lifting and receiving stolen goods, 244: counterfeiting and attempting to pass the same 16: burglary 19: forgery13: robbery 3: arson 5: assault 2: attempt at rape 4: adultery and lascivious communication S: attempt to murder 1: conspiracy 2: manslaughter 1: beastiality 1: fraud 3: maiming cattle 1. Total 308."

Savannah. Recapitulation of deaths in Savannah for the months of July, August, September, October and November last:

"In July-Georgians

From other states
Foreigners

$5 22

25

1-53

26.

S-119

15-232

Unknown

45

Foreigners

45

Unknown

"In Sept.-Georgians

45

From other states

77

Foreigners

99

Unknown

direction of Dr. Benjamin Franklin for the government vessel Surprise, commanded by captain Gustavus Conyngham, in the year 1776.

The bill for reducing the salaries of the govern or, secretary of the commonwealth, the members of assembly, and other officers connected with government, has passed both houses of the legisla ture of Pennsylvania.

New York, Dec. 9.-We were among a number who yesterday went on board the British schooner Parker, captain Dunn, from Jamaica, to see the sword of a sword fish. This sword appears about nine inches clear of the ceiling of the vessel, in the bilge, having penetrated through a four inch plank and sheathing, passing between the timbers and through the ceiling. Had it gone two inches farther, it would have penetrated a hogshead of rum. We understand Mr. Scudder, of the museum, is to be at the expense of cutting the plank and ceiling through which the sword passes, for the purpose of exhibiting the whole, as a proof of the wonderful and almost incredible power of the sword fish. It is probable the fish was attached to the vessel for several days, which protracted her passage to 38 days from Falmouth.

Georgetown, Col. The spirited citizens of this town have expended large sums of money to im. 13-228 prove the navigation, and we are pleased to learn that they have succeeded. There is now a depth of water sufficient for ships laden with 6 or 700 hhds of tobacco.

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South Carolina. The legislature of this state has passed a law to authorize the issue of a six per cent. stock to the amount of 800,000 dollars, "to carry on the public works, and facilitate the operations of the bank."

Illinois. We learn that the English settlement in this state is very prosperous, and the people begin to feel "comfortable." It has also been very healthy: Vessels which had departed for foreign ports, and

of a population of about 700 persons, only one has been lost by sickness in the last twelve months. They have a library, and much attention appears to be paid to the cultivation of the mind as well as of the soil, and we wish to these useful strangers every happiness which reasonable men can desire.

The state, generally, is receiving a great acces. ssion of inhabitants, and its improvement in other respects is very rapid.

Boston, Jan. 2.--The collector of this district received a letter yesterday from an unknown person, who signs himself Justice, inclosing the sum of $205 76-with a request to have it placed to the credit of the United States for duties Which was accordingly done.

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