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 the extension of the preemption sys extent of time during which this AN -ACT tUU I The'{fold coi ins of the last year has ut e 1 !

 tem. It would be recollected that right:'of pre-emption was given to i .1824, bf the sum of $63,185) ; of thi.ele'si'i'JQj'' e!!

 provision had already been made by settlers in other territories, was To pros idt for the compensation of the officer. of the present interesting to observe, a very sensible portiouI,

f donation for all those who settled in I greator than that now proposed. He Legislative Council.Be of gold buJltoo'derlved from North Carolina};tJi\ .

 Florida to the time of its wished of the received from that \ '
\ up cession to correct one misconception deposits quarter, ri
 it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Council
' but the bill far of the from Alabama. It been 17,000( 'till
 ; present goes gentleman of the Territory of Florida That the following sums be year, having nearly ;; more t than t
 ther and who that the bill had been the from the in
 grants to those settled was true reported amount same source any pre'"i Y dJa
 allowed to the Clerks and other officers of this Coun- toy
 .. on the public lands after the cession, to the house at the last session since 1804. '
 cil for their services viz
 as Compensation : -
, the privilege of purchasing at the but the Chairman of the Committee a The value of the gold bullion received from '
 -
 ,. To Samuel Fry, Chief Clerk two hundred dollars. c
 minimum price for a period of four on the public lands, and two To George E. Tingle, enrolling and engrossing Clerkone quarters, within the last year, may, with a su .
 years. He thought this course was other members of that committee, approximation to accuracy, be stated at $45OOOL(
 '
 hundred and sixty six dollars thirty seven cents.
 impolitic, and that this right of preemption were opposed to the principle on To George "'r.rard, enrolling and clerk l Africa, and $75,000 from Mexico, south-Ame ;: .i 1i 1
 engrossing .
 ought to be restricted, be- which it was founded. As to the donation one hundred and fifty-nine dollars twelve cents. the west-Indies, leaving about gl 9,000, derived

 cause its practical tendency was to rights in Florida, the gentleman other sources, not ascertained.FR .
 To Paul Me Cormick and clerk
 enrolling engrossing 1i 1r 1
 encourage the Intrusion of unautho- was Also mistaken. Commissioners
 hundred and dollars.
 rized, settlers on our public }lands. were,appointed, to whom the one eighty \
- To John H. Lawrence and clerk
 Those settlers were in the habit of claims of se4 tiers were to be committed enrolling engrossing OM THE PJl CIFIC.

 selecting the very !best of the land, ; and, where the evidence in one hundred and fifty-nine dollars seventy five cents.

 and of fixing themselves upon the their favor'was ,incomplete, if the dollars.To Joseph R. Lane, Sergeant at arms, ninety-five Extract of a letter from a young officer of the U. .:

 "tsoil, and when afterward the lands Commissioners thought that the To Albert Door ship! United States, to his friends in Boston, da
 were exposed for sale, they'say it is cltimn.m.1) b'e conlirined by the Philips, Keeper seventy-five dollars CHKOHILLIAS, Sept. 26, 1&25.
 Sec. 2.In'' be it enacted That the Governor
 further
 unjust to eject usye have made? Spanish Government, they reported "The forts of CaIJao are still in the possession
 improvements ; and they insist up- in f favor of them. Pre-emption rights of this erritory be, and -he is hereby authorised Royal Spaniards. Bolivar has erected batteries
 to cause to be audited the acoounts for and
 on having the best and the richest of I vet on a different b grow;d. They stationary i! in a quarter of a mile of them ; and a constant firing

 the land at the very lowest price were to be given.to persons who had other i contingent Council.expences incurred for the use of the kept up between them while the Chilian and t'

 the }law will allow. For himself, I settled since the cession of .the territory Legislative squadrons are assailing the forts from the sea. avian '!
 Passed Deember 10th. 1825.
 he thought that this was a very was openly known, .and who, Rodil, wljo commands in the forts, has held out likt

 questionable policy ; but i if the knew that the land oil which they good fellow, and deserves the praise of his nation. ,

 house were inclined to.sustain it, he settled was public: property. Still, A. BELLAMY: has been penned up nearly one year, and has now '
 President of the
 should make no opposition. I however, as the Goveinwentof: .the SAML. Legislative CouniI. 2000 men ; formerly he had 4000 ;' but, living on :.
 FRY
 Mr.l : OWEN, Alabama, observed I United States had seen fit to grant ; Clerk. provisions and bad water, so long, they have died.

 that this was a proposition that such rights! to others, -he should 1 gory [Approved December, 10th 1825.] Five days ago, a shell from Bolivar's !batteries, b '

 certainly could not stand in need of 'oppose their doing so -iu the presentinstance. WM. P. DUVAL, in the castle, and killed 25 men, and Rodil s horse
 Governor of the of Florida
 debate. It was not at this time of Territory and the soldiers turned to, and devoured the animal

 Jay.to be settled, whether this Go Mr. sco'r, of Missouri, said, The port of Callao is most rigidly blockaded, and I

 ..vei.lmentvill or will not pursue the i I i that if this were to be the beiiinmiur*_: O; merchant vessels are allowed to enter ; and llJi\j '

 .course of policy to which the entle- of the pre-emption system, it was RESOLVED has cut olF all communication by land. Ntttwithstan 't

 "tnanbad alluded. It has already very possible] that the Committeeon the, soldiers are dying oft very fast, Rodil says ; ,
 been adopted and long pursued. the public lands would not be in [!Uy the Legislative 'Council. of the Territory vf Florida will not give up whilst there is a man's body toupon. kna' ,
 That the Territorial of the middle District
 This very bill, after being last favor .{i its adoption. But when attorney ." f:
 year
 (If said 7'erritory, do in the name.and on behalf of the :
 sustained both by the Committee on the right now to be given was com ;i
 'the public lands, and by the Committee pared with that which had already Territory enter a rule 'in the Superior Court for the

 on private land claims been Liven to others he Middle District of Florida atTallahassee, against the LITERARY ANECDOTE.-A in ,
 passed saw no reason poor clergyman, a .e\1!?
 Honorable alt of Territory
 this
 the house. The. policy was adopted why it should be refused to the George m, Secretary remote county in England, had, on some popular
 t 1
 < long since, and the doctrine advanced settlers in Florida. In Missouri, to shew cause why a peremptory 1 mandamus shall casion, preached a sermon so exceedingly acceptall!
 not be awarded him to him to receive
 by the member from Now the right;; of pre-emption originated against compel ,to his parishioners, that they intreated him to print iIt,
 in{)his office and thereof
 the rolls
 Hampshire might almost _be said t to i in 1800, and. he did not know a single deposit among trvothe which, after due deliberation, he promised to do b .

 be Universally.! exploded. The instance where it had'been,refu- several acts of this Territory ; one entitled "an This was the most remarkable incident of his lik*
 act to Bank in the of St. Ausustine
 donation lands to which the gentleman sed. In Michigan, in Mississippi, incorporate a City and filled his mind with a thousand fancies.! The c g
 and the other act to Bank in the
 had alluded, w ereiven' to the and in Arkansas, the right of preemption an incorporate a City elusion, lipwe ever, of all his consultations with himseiig
 of Pensacola which said acts have been at this
 former settlers; in Florida on a principle was extended to ten years, passed was, that he should obtain both fame and money ; air:.
 session of the Council
 individual right. If they had but this hill gives it for five J yearsandaltliounlt.it present vested in Legislative this Council, accordingtothe that a Journey to the metropolis, to direct and supe .

 not conferred'by this .Govern only, : is admitted that powers Legislative by intend the ,great concern, was indispensible. Aflo,
 ithe act lof Congress it.
 ment, the settlers would have obtained they made their settlements con- organizing taking formal leave of his friends and neg e nbors,
 JJecembtr 9th 1825.A. .
 a title from the Government trary to he act of 1801 And 1807,' .Adopted BELLAMY, proceeded on his journey. On his arrival in town,I?.

 under which they formerly lived ; it forbidding settlements on the public President of the Council., i great and.gpod fortune, he was reccommended to "

 was, therefore, only an act of justice lands. yet the house had so far superseded SAML. FRY Clerk. Legislative I worthy and excelent Mr. Bowyer, to whom he triiphanly

 and not of liberality. But, on the law.as to give preemption related the object of his journey. The priu:

 the question! of policy, he held an rights to those who had violated RESOLVED WMJWMOUSLY ,agreed to-his proposals, and required to know how in*

 oninion it and there he 'would have struck oft sir"r
 directly the reverse of that was no reason That the GOVERNOR be communicate ny copies "Why,
 which 'had been expressed by the why a difference should he made between requested turned the clergyman, "I have calculated that the
 to GENERAL LA FAYETTE the of reverence -
 expressions '
 gentleman from New Hampshire. settlers in,one Territory and and affection of the Council .and of are in the kingdom many thousand parishes, and
 He thought those in another. : Legislative each pnrjch trill at loact tuko one, and others mores
 } ; -- -- ...-.tt was.r nv/our-. true JtleXltg\ 4l*,, .n r-J? vC-ilil Tov. :4. .j UJfv.pll A/I IllS lllgll UIlU
 lands the right of pre-emption. It :\11'. COOK, Illinois, was about venerable character, as for .his inestimable servises, that I think we may safely venture to print thirty-fa,

 was their labor which } value) to address the house \\'hen- rendred .to The United States, duning their revolutionary or thirty-six thousand copies." The printer bowed,

 -to the lands ; without it,gave they would The SPEAKER suggested, that, struggle: ; to invite him to visit the Territory ; matter was settled, and the reverend author depaj|
 and if it should he consonant with his ted, in high spirits, to his home. With much difficn
 have had none. lie considered it as there was no opposition to the bill, inclination, and
 not inl'onsistentith his interests ty and,great self-denial, a period of two months m,
 to establish his
 wise to encourage those who might the debate was consuming1inle to per-
 with propriety be termed no manent residence in the United States, and.that Florida .suffered to pass ; when his golden visions so tormenthis
 .- the pion- purpose. be honored such residence. imagination, that 1 he could endure it no longer, an,
 of may as
 -eers a dense .
 more population. It' "Whereupon, fhe.question was taken Jfdopled; December 1825. accordingly he wrote to Mr. Bowyer, desiring himt|
 llth
 was who ,
 they
 by braving the dan- upon ordering the hill to be en- A. : send the debtor and creditor account, most liberally lz

 gers and overcoming the difficultiesdf grossedfor a third! reading, and ,decided President of the BELLAMY Council., permitting remittance to be fOr\varded.atblr. B.|'
 an unsettled Legislative
 country, opened the in the affirmative.
 : SAML. FRY Clerk. convenience. Judge.of] the astonishment, tribulati
 for the .
 introduction
 way of capital J, and anguish excited by the receipt of an accou
 and all .
 improvements of civilized charging him for printing thirty-five thousand copies

 *. existence. As to what the gentleman : Tn they Ukrnin, when a young r -a sermon, 7S5/ 5s. Gd., and giving him credit fo. ,1|

 'the best had said of their selecting: I falls! in love willi( a man,jwoitmn The President communicated the Following letter to Congress, 5s. 6d., the produce of seventeen copies, being tb
 points, .even.a mittin?g it to on the 1st (list. /" whole that had been sold ; this left a balance of 7f '
 'be true, their number she; is not the least ashamed togo
 was
 comparatively due the bookseller: .
 ,
 few, and abundance f the to his farthers house and reveal DEPARTMENT OF WAR, Fcb" I 1 1S2G.! -

 best land would still be left. But, her passion in the most Tothi-t President of the Un.ted Stales- J -' All who knew the character of this most -amiably
 from his Sir : I have the honor to enclose herewith an ex-
 ,
 own experience, as hil"ingbeen tender antI l pathetic manner,, and excellent printer, would] not be at all surprisedhear
 himself tract of a ;letter from Col. .Brooke of Florida -to Col.
 one of these pioneers, find to [promise the must submissive that in a' day or two a letter to the following a
 he Gibson, of this city, on the present suffering conditionof
 was
 disposed to believe that the .
 obedience if he 11 was forwarded to the clergyman.
 facts was the very reverse of this. w the Florida Indians. The corrispondence the 1 pose .11 b

 It was-true, that new settlers, if intelligent accept her for a wife. !Khould Department for s'Ome'time past, confirms lie truth of "Rev. Sir : I beg pardon for so innocently anmsmyself

 selected those points the insensible wain preteud any Col. Brooks' statement ; and it was in consequence of at your expence, but you need not give yo

 -which invited most advantages for a 'excu c, she tells him that she these representations that partial relief was authorized self any uneasiness. I knew better than you could

 ne.w settler ; but, as they had to is resolved not to quit the house by you from the contingencies of the Indian Department the extent of the sale of single sermons, and accon%|

 choose them in such a situation .only till Ire gives his consent ; and : Being convinced that country to which the I ly printed but fifty copies. to the expense of wbid

 as would admit of their sustaining accordingly, taking up her lode; Indians have emigrated is not suited either in soil or you are heartily welcome return for the liberty I|

 themselves till they coo 1d make fur- ina, remains till in the end he salubrity to their preservation, instructionswere some have taken with )'ou." ..t!

 'ther progress in improvement, they : woeks ago forwarded to Governor Duval, to ascertain
 either bove'er'un".n.
 consents
 were not at liberty to range'through : their dispositions in.regayd to a -removal to lands west i

 the whole of a body public lands, lingly I wooed or betakes himself -of the Mississippi. It is hoped they may accede to MATERNAL ISTRUC Ti0 N..-That man is happy,. who

 and pick out those portions only to flight. the proposition : meanwhile, however, humanity de is.taught fl'omthe cradle nothing which he must ar':.

 which'contained the most fertile soil. mands that they should be kept from starving. They learn when he comes to riper years ; the baby nc,

 These settlers were, for the most, foo(11 I I are where. they 'are 'by our seeking, and their sense of the nursery too often enters into the characttfj

 ;part, already 'drained of all} the mo- Conjuga1.1flctionA country was 'exchanged, as is usually the case, toy of the man ; but when so good and wise a being as'J

 tney they had, by payments into the Parisan jbusband is notice- treaty, doubtless, withan ignorance on their part, tf well-educated mother, presides over the incipient stages 

 ; public 1'reasury.V ould gentlemen ed in .a resent journal for beingso the nature of that to which they consented to emi of infant thought, the child- is far on, in the big

 : :, wish to deprive them of all nurch afflicted at the loss of I grate, and erroneous information on ours, as to its fit- road knowledge and wisdom. It may be true, tbt

 their earnings 1 'In Alabama, the his wife, that he only took three !I ness.I 0I there have been men who have overcome a bad irif'p

 proceeds what they paid into the meals a day, wound his respectfully I reccommend that the subject of thesuffering education ; but they have been few : this was.the e

 Treasury, was.equal to the whole watch and tip of these people be referred to Congress, that teric meaning of the fable Hercules strangling' t sE'd
 only once a day -
 amount of staple commodities they onlY ; such relief may be afforded, as, in the wisdom of that python in the"cradle : the tales of the nursery, prat .

 had hitherto 'been able 'to raise. played at cards all the eve body may seem proper. by,affectionate ignorance, are the worst of serpentji

 They'had, literally been l laboring for ning. One.of, his friends observing Connecting the subject of the removal of those In- they reach the heart and the brain in the lullaby

 the Government, and the sarri state his prodigious grief; dians with that of their immediate relief would.-sug- leave their.poison forever : to overcome these evtlt"

 of things existed in Florida. asked him .ww' tat he ,had done test that. the sum of $50,000 be appropriated with a worthy of an apotheosis. The miustr.ejs\ every#i

 Mr. ROCKE immediately after ,his sad loss view to both. JAMES -B n-OUR. have sung the powers, the charms, ,and the characWj l

 Tennessee, said to console llim.lasr"! ,he From an examination of the report of the Director of women : "
 J
 that replied
 his -
 vote on this occasion would of the Mint, transmitted to Congress by President I
 I could do '1
 fe to
 regulated. by one consideration nothing, on the 1st March inst. it appears that- "Firm on the scaffold, she has stood,
 : done. "IFit was proposed to extend amuse myself but write the invitations The coinage effected \ they'ear'has amountedto Besprinkled with a martyr's,blood; 'I-!

 a greater booh'tothe settlers in Florida snit dcstribute 'themmyself. $1,735894; ; consisting of'S,178760; pieces of coins Her Her voice the patriot's battle-field heart has ste J'd; i l|
 than iiad spirit glowed on ;
 been
 bestowed ou, viz :- '>l H

 those in other States, he should be: .. I i i Of gold coins, 33',49pieces, making $156,385 Her The courage captive,freed brooding from,o'er dungeon's. his doom gloom;. .

 opposed to the bill,; if not, he should _' silver -3,621-166 1 564 58 s Her faith the fallen monarch saved ; t
 vote i in its favor, unless some reason I : Her love the tyrant fury braved'* ...
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 1- 92
 Pltl
 TING copper
 be : I '
 eAold
 given.Mf. 0 E zeruted.with neatne ana despatch at: But it is only the moral. and Christian'philosophefij] ::v
 I ,
 WHIPPLE ,0
 replied, tfcrttfe Q ,. ll/uvfficc. ..... .. $1,735,894\ p.1 latcaa her a divinity, in the. cursory.. -
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