congress.
MONDAY, FEB. 18.
The Senate resumed the consideration
of the bill to apportion representatives
among the several- states, according to
the fourth census. Much time was spent
in debate on a motion for recommitment,
in order to make provision for Alabama,
the census of a part of which had not yet
been completed. The bill was recom
mitted.
The bill from the House of Represen
tatives providing for the preservation of
the timber of the United States in Flori
da, was read twice by general consent,
and referred.
The remainder of the sitting was occu
pied in the consideration of a private
claim.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY, FEB. 16.
The resolution submitted yesterday by
Mr. Floyd, requesting the President of the
United States information whether any
foreign government has made claim to
any part of the territory of the U. States
on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, See. was
read for consideration.
After some explanatory remarks by Mr.
F. the resolution was agreed to without
objection.
Mr. Eustis offered the following resolu
tion ; which was agreed to—ayes 58,
noes 44.
Resolved, I hat the committee on mili
tary affairs be instructed to inquire into
the expediency of reducing the number
and the compensation of the corps of Ca
dets, and whether it is expedient to make
any alterations in the laws and regula
tions for governing the military academy.
The Speaker laid before the house a
letter from the comptroller of the treasu
ry, transmitting a list of balances on the
books of the Register, which have re
mained unsettled for more than three
years prior to the 30th of September last;
which was laid on the table and ordered
to be printed.
The house then again went into com
mittee (Mr. Taylor in the chair) on the
bankrupt bill.
Mr. Sawyer of N. C. addressed the
nouse abwttt (mi hour and an half against
the motion to strike out the first, section.
The committee then rose on the mo
tion of Mr. Gorham, (who intimated an
intention to deliver his opinions on the
'subject;) and the house adjourned.
TUESDAY, FEB. 1 8.
Mr. Williams, of N. C. from the com
mittee of claims, reported ^unfavorably
upon the petition of Otho W. Callis;
which report, on motion of Mr. W. was
laid on the table.
On motion of Mr. Hardin, it was
Resolved, That a select committee, con
sisting of seven members of this house,
be appointed, whose duty it shall be to
inquire whether any part of the public
expenditure can be retrenched without
detriment to the public service, and whe
ther there be any offices or appointments
in the government of the United States
which have become useless and unneces
sary, and can be dispensed with, and that
the committee have leave to report by
bill or otherwise.
The house then resolved itself into a
committee of the whole on the unfinished
business of Saturday, (the bankrupt bill)
Mr. Taylor in the chair.
Mr. Gorham occupied the floor more
than an hour, in opposition to the motion
to strike out the first section of the bill,
and was followed by
Mr. Whjod, who spoke on the same side,
and continued the debate until after three
o’clock; when
Mr. Fuller took the floor, and intima
ted his intention to express his views of
the subject, but owing to the lateness of
the hour, moved that the committee rise
and report; which was agreed to ; and,
In the house, after granting leave to the
committee to sit again, the house ad
journed.
Sandusky Mission.—We learn from one
t>f the managers of the Sandusky Mission, *
who has just returned from a visit to San
dusky, that the superintendant of the es
tablishment, and his family, enjoy good
health and spirits. They have had many
difficulties to encounter,under which they
ha e been divinely supported. They have
already made considerable progress in
erecting the necessary buildings, notwith
standing the season was far advanced
when the establishment was commenced.
A school house, 38 by 48 feet is commen
ced, and upwards of 50 acres of land will
be cleared in the course of two months.
The cabin in which the school is at pre
sent kept is small, and very few children
have, as yet, been received into it. These
have made pleasing and satisfactory pro
gress. The Indians are delighted at the
efforts making to have their children in
structed, and about 40 or 50 of them will
he added to the school as soon as they
can be provided for.
The establishment, it seems, is much
in want of farming utensils. It is hoped
the friends of missions will render it eve
ry necessary assistance. No one of the
kind, at present, we believe, stands more
,in need of their charity.*—j~Ohio Watch.
NEW YORK, FEB. 18.
By the ship Frederick, which left Ha
vre on the 6th ult. with despatches for
our government, we have received regu
lar files of Paris papers to the 4th of Janu
ary. They contain, however, nothing,of
greater importance than that the king
heard mass on such a day, that the royal
family paid him a New Year’s visit, that
the ministers were punctual attendants at
his levees, and that the duke of Bordeaux
enjoyed good health, and took an airing
in the Bois de Boulogne. The storms
experienced in England had also done
much damage in different parts of France.
At Marseilles, two vessels, one an Ame
rican, name not mentioned, had been to
tally lost, with the greater part of the
crews. At Brest, Havre, Bordeaux, and
other ports the gales had been very se
vere. There are no later accounts from
I Turkey or Spain than those contained in
the late London papers. The heavy ar
tillery of the Russian army is reported to
have passed the Dniester, and to be ad
vancing on the Pruth. Fresh Ottoman
troops were also advancing to the fron
tier. .Miss Patterson, the wife of Jerome
Bonaparte, was at Rome. Lotteries on a
large scale are advertised in the French
papers, one for an estate in Carinthia va
lued at 750,000 florins, at forty francs a
ticket; another for a barony near Lay
bach, containing 34 villages, (population
and all, we suppose) at 20 francs a ticket
Strong temptation and great facility this
to become noble.—-[Afi Y. Amer.
CURRACOA, JAN. 24.
Accounts received this day from Ma
racaybo states, that on the 18th inst. gen.
Sino Clemento arrived in that city, with
1900 men, from St. Martha. It was gene
rally believed that they would proceed
immediately to Coro, in order to reduce
that place. Gen. Clemento is to be ap
pointed governor of Maracaybo. A squad
ron of Colombian vessels, consisting of
a brig of war and eight small vessels,
carrying from six to twelve guns, arriv
ed at Maracaybo nearly at the same time
with the above mentioned troops. From
this circumstance, it may be inferred that
this respectable land and naval force is
intended to act in conjunction against
Coro and Puerto Cabelio, the only place
now in possession of the Royalists on the
immense line of sea coast from the river
Oronoko to the Isthmus of Panama.
St. Domingo.—From recent accounts
it appears that the Spanish part of St.
Domingo, including the city of that name,
which has thrown oft the Spanish author
ity, will ultimately attach itself to the !
Republic of Hayti, notwithstanding its |
first intention to join the Republic of Co
lombia. The Central Junta of St. Jago, j
disapproving of this intention, forwarded
a declaration to that effect to Boyer, pre- ;
sident of Havti; who, nothing loth, ac
cepts their proffered allegiance in gra
cious terms. Different towns of the eas
tern section of the island have sent in
their adhesion. “ Even the c tv of St.
Domingo,” adds the Hayden newspaper,
“ has seen its error, and president Boyer, :
wishing to unite all in one object, has j
resolved to go there in person, with a :
powerful army, to establish that order
which events of such magnitude have not
been able to preserve.”—[Jfat. Intel.
The U. S. sch’r Porpoise, capt. Da
mage, arrived at Charleston on the 10th,
from a cruize. In addition to the infor
mation which we already have of the use
ful service rendered by this vessel, we
learn that in the course of her cruize capt.
R. recaptured the sch’r Charles, Glavery,
of Baltimore, which had been three days
in the possession of pirates; and destroy
ed in all three piratical establishments on
shore, and twelve vessels, besides two on
the stocks. He has brought into port four
pirates. Three others, whom he had cap- j
tured, he discharged for want of evidence
On the day preceding the arrival of the
Porpoise, arrived the sch’r El Bravo, mid
shipman Blanchard, a prize to the Por
poise.
On the 10th also arrived at Charleston,
the U. S. sch’r Revenge, sailing, master
R. I. Cox, from a cruise to the southward.
On Saturday the 2d inst. called off St.
Augustine ; landed gen. Scott, and col.
Archer, from St. Mary’s.-—[fb.
We understand from an authentic
source that capt. James Biddle has been
designated to take the command of the
American frigate Macedonian, now fit
ting out at Boston to cruize in the neigh
borhood of the West Indies and the Gulf
of Mexico for the protection of our com
merce. Captain Biddle will in a day or j
two proceed to Boston, whence the Mace
donian will probably be prepared to sail
on her cruize some time in next month.
\ Franklin Gaz. i
- 1
The legislature of Missouri have na
med the permanent seat of government
of the state the City of Jefferson, in honor
of Thomas Jefferson, under whose presi
dency the territory which forms the pre
sent state of Missouri was added to the
union.—[JV. Y. Amer.
PROM SMYRNA.
BALTIMORE, FEB. 14.
We have been obligingly furnished with
a letter direct from Smyrna, which we
present in this paper, and which gives a
melancholy picture of the situation of the
Greeks in that quarter, while it shows that
the Francs have stood manfully on the de
fensive against the barbarians who assail
them. The spirited conduct of the French
consul, and the French and Austrian
forces, form a singular contrast with the
cold and heartless indifference with w hich
the English commanders refused inter
ference or a refuge to the persecuted
Greeks. We are glad to be corroborated,
from so intelligent a source, in our opin
ion, that these procedures on the part of
the Musselrnen will tend to their ultimate
expulsion from Europe.—[Pat.
Extract of a letter received in Baltimore,
dated Smyrna, 26th Arov. 1822.
“ From the accounts you have in Ame
rica, respecting this country, perhaps you
have numbered me among the dead-—in
reality there has been only a hair’s breadth
difference between your news and the
truth. Several times we have expected
to see our quarter of the town destroyed ;
a few days past we thought there was lit
tle doubt of it, and even at present are
not at all easy. The cruelties of the
Turks towards the Greeks has been such
that every friend of humanity was pleased
to assist the latter in getting away. Mon
sieur David, the French consul, and the
ships of war of that nation, have been
particularly useful to these poor people,
and certain he has, at the risk of his own
life, saved thousands of them. These
beastly Turks are not capable of grinding
grain, or making it into bread when
ground—in fact, all kinds of trades were
carried on by the Greeks, so that their
going away began rather to embarrass the
Turks, who thereupon made their com
plaints to Monsieur David. He replied
to them, that so long as they continued
killing the Greeks, so long would he as
sist their escape. They threatened as
usual to burn the city—he told them to
be assured that when they set fire to our
quarter, care should be taken that theirs
should also burn. Taking advantage of
the absence of nearly all the men of war
on station here, they killed three Francs
of the poorer class, who in return killed
one and wounded another of the Turks.
That night all the Turks, or nearly so,
armed—the vessels of war took their sta
tions, and we expected really they would
put their threats into execution. The
French consul assured the Pacha that the
Francs had orders to defend themselves,
and had determined so to do—that he
must not imagine, like the poor Greeks,
we should suffer ourselves to be killed
without resistance—and that every injury
done to a Franc in his person or proper
ty, should be retaliated on them. Seeing,
therefore, that attacking the Francs (al
though ten Turks to'one Franc) was at
tended with some danger, they turned
upon the poor Greeks, of whom, on the
19th or 20th inst. they killed upwards of
three hundred. The boats of the men of
war, that is French and Austrian, armed
with cannon, remained at the quays, and
thus not one Franc was molested. The
English kept themselves quietly on board,
and when some poor Greeks, who had es
caped with wounds, went to them for as
sistance, would not even look at them.
The French, on the contrary, extended
evert7 assistance. The Jannizaries have
takSn the town under their piotection,
but no dependence is to be placed in
them. To the presence of a respectable
fo rce, which arrived some days since, and
the persuasion that all Francs have arms
about them, we owe the quiet we now en
joy. All the Bazars are still shut; but in
a few days will open again, until some new
disturbance takes place, and then we shall
have the same disorders again.
Be assured the time is near at hand,
when the i urks will be driven out of Eu
rope—the Greeks have got over the worst
of it. They are now prosperous and gain
ing strength every day, and in the Morea
they have had many important advanta
ges. The Archipelago is entirely in their
power. On the other hand, the Persians
have declared war against the Turks, and
the Russians, who are no doubt at the
bottom of all this, it is to be expected,
will not much longer put up with the in
solence and insults of the Musselmen.
Should Russia declare war, then beyond
all doubt, the Turks must march out of
Europe, and you are sufficiently acquain
ted with this country to know that it will
be impossible for a Christian to live
here.”
It is stated in the Liverpool Advertiser
that the Exports of British Manufactures
from that port, to the United States, have
been more considerable the present season
than has been known for some time past,
and not on manufacturers’ account, but
in consequence of orders from this coun
try ; and the last New York papers inform
us, that, within the first six days of this
month, the amount of duties u secured”
at the Custom House of that port exceed
ed one million of dollars, being- a greater
sum than ever accrued in the same period
of time.—[Nat. Int.
Measures nave recently been taken «
complete the canal connecting the Chesw
peake and Delaware Bays. The sum re
quired in addition to what lias already
been expended is six hundred thousand
dollars, and from the most moderate esti
mates the whole stock will yield an inte
rest of more than 7 per cent. The project
will, no doubt, be speedily carried into
effect, and the benefits which must accrue
to it will not be confined to Philadelphia
and Baltimore. The contemplated con
nection of the Rariton and Delaware,
which must soon follow, will extend the
advantages of this internal navigation to
our own city, which, even under the pre
sent difficulties of communication, has in
some measure become the sea-port of
Philadelphia, and, with the facilities of
canal navigation, will soon reap the full
extent of its superior local advantages,
and become the inlet for most of the sup
plies, if it does not become the outlet for
the produce of the country that centres in
that city.—[//'. Y. Ainer.
BA RB A RO US MURDER.
FREDONIA, (sr. Y.) FEB. 6.
We have been informed by a friend,
(and a brother of the type) direct from
Ohio, in whom we place implicit confi
dence, that a most horrid and unnatural
transaction occurred in the town of Har
persfield, Ohio, on the 22d ult. The facts
as related to us are as follow : On the
morning of the day aforesaid, while Mr.
Samuel Bartholomew and his wife were
at breakfast, the latter rose from the ta
ble and taking up an axe, unobserved by
the former, came up behind him and lei
veiled a blow at his head which felled it
to the table, a seco id blow brought him
to the floor, when she repeated the blows
ten or twelve times, which fully accom
plished her purpose. She then dragged
him to the barn, a few rods from the house,
covered him up with stalks, and then
sprinkled ashes along on the snow where
blood had been left. After this she re
mained in the house until Saturday mor
ning foliowing, when she went to one of
the neighbors to get help to put on a log ;
said she had “ killed Sam,” and had no
one to assist her. They did not, at first,
put any confidence in what she stated;
hut on her persisting in her assertion, two
men proceeded with her to the house—
one o the men went in ; while the otheig
discovering the trail of ashes and signs
of blood, followed them to the heap of
stalks where the mangled corpse was con
cealed. She was immediately taken into
custody, and acknowledged all the above
particulars. Mr. B. was about 35 years
of age, and in good circumstances—was
the father of four children, all of whom
he had put out, as their mother had ,
threatened to kill them. Mrs. B. is sub-J
ject to fits of insanity; but has neve*
showed any symptoms of remorse for her^
unnatural conduct, but still says that if
she could kill her father and two of her
children, she should die contented. She
is far advanced in pregnancy, and has ex
pressed her determination to kill her child
as soon as it is born, because she “did
not like its father.” She says that some
time after she had killed her husband, she
carried him out some victuals and some
whiskey ; that “ he would not eat any of
the victuals—but he drank some of the
whiskey She is constantly watched by
women, to prevent her executing her di
abolical design on her child.—[Censor.
RICHMOND, (iND.) FEB. 2.
A shocking accident happened a few
days since in Union county, Indiana. On
the 21st of last month Henderson Harvey
took down his gun, for what purpose we
have not been informed, and, not knowing
the gun to be charged, he snapped it, with
the intention of terrifying a small boy
that was standing by, but, to his aston
ishment, it fired, and lodged its contents
in the body of his father ! The old gen
tleman was sitting in his chair, only a few
feet from his unhappy son. The ball
struck him in the hip, and lodged in the
opposite side. He lived twenty-four hours
and died in extreme pain 1
FROM THE ONONDAGA (n. Y.) REPUBLICAN.
j4 melancholy visitation.—On the morn
ing of the 2d Jan. Mr. Harvey Hawley, of
Liverpool, in this county, left home in
company with his wife, in a cutter, for
Johnstown, Montgomery county, on a vi
sit to Mrs. Hawley’s parents. For four
weeks nothing was heard from them, and
their friends at home supposed them hap
py in the society of a maternal circle : but
they journeyed to that country from whose
“ bourn no traveller returns.”
On 1 hursday of last week a hat and
trunk were discovered frozen in the Onon
daga Lake, about half way between Liver
pool and Salina, which, on being cut out,
proved to have belonged to Mr.'Hawley,
and, upon a close examination, the horse
and cutter were seen through the ice. A
hole being cut, the horse, cutter, and Mrs.
Hawley, were taken out. Mrs. H’s arm
is supposed to have caught in the round
of the cutter when falling, and remained
fast through the agonies of death, and un
til taken out. An iron-tooth rake was
then prepared to search for Mr. Hawley,
and caught it in the cuff of his coat |he
| second time it was sunk, and hewas taken
'' from about 40 feet water.
.