NATIONAL REGISTER,

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CONTAINING

POLITICAL, HISTORICAL, GEOGRAPHICAL, SCIENTIFICAL, STATISTICAL, ECONOMICAL,
AND BIOGRAPHICAL

DOCUMENTS, ESSAYS AND FACTS:

TOGETHER WITH

NOTICES OF THE ARTS AND MANUFACTURES,

AND A

RECORD OF THE EVENTS OF THE TIMES.

JEREMIAH HUGHES, EDITOR.

THE PAST-THE PRESENT-FOR THE FUTURE.

FROM SEPTEMBER, 1842, TO MARCH, 1848-VOLUME LXIII—OR, VOL. XIII, FIFTH SERIES.

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INDEX TO VOLUME LXIII.

A

367; referred 379; civil and diplomatic bill 381; naval ib; | from year 1834 to year 1840, 308; number of char-
Abolition memorial 415; number of votes in the Unit- for army 395; passed senate ib; for army, n house re-tered for seven years and the polical complexion of each
ed States
228 presentatives 397; for navy 413, 414; to Fulton's heirs state for the same period 309, 309; depreciation of bank
Abundance
32 passed house representatives 415; for intercourse with capital of the union 370; of Maine 376, Massachusetts,
Accounts committee of house representatives, on 255 China 415; passed ib.
N. York 376; Kentucky 377; of England 377; New Jer-
Acknowledgment to fire department
sey (see names of states)
Acts of 2d session of 27th congress

288
31

38

397

Aqueducts-ancient and modern
Arbitrary removals from office
Arkansas-U. S senator, A. H. Sevier, re-elected 203;
legislature 228, 259, 307; cottons 272, 307; minerals 324;
velo

400

16

Baptists in Ohio

Barton, Judge, resignation of

Beet root sugar

Bavaria

388

416

30

J

Act, reorganizing army 20; reorganizing navy 21; of
remedial justice 22; list of passed at 27th congress 30, 31
Adams, J. Q-resolution relative to absence of mem-
bers adopted 13; suggestion by in relation to appropria- Armory, at Harper's ferry
tion for Mexican legation 15; reception of on return from Army-general orders I; promotions, promotions by
congress 75, 76; address of to constituents 135 to 140; brevet, casualties, act respecting reorganization of 20; the,
letter from to J. L. Tillinghast 163: address to consti- under new law, honors to the dead 21; general orders, de-
tuents 171; concluded 189; on slavery 204, 289; on repeal-cision of court martial 34; general orders 52; in the west
ing 21st rule 254; in relation to general Jackson's fine 312, 84; address to officers of 84; convention proceedings 116;
318; article relative to 343, 344; report of on relations death and biography of major Kirby 128; gen. Worth re-
with China and Hawaiian Islands 378; on Oregon bill sumes command in Florida 139; L. Ker appointed chap-
389, 415 lain at fort Leavenworth 129, 145; general orders 163,
Adjournment 12, 14; final of congress 13, 15 180; military movements 196; amendment of general re-
Erial steam carriage
272 solution article 77; gen. Worth at Tampa, affray 210;
Afghanistan-cause of war with 51; campaign in dragoons for Jefferson barracks 227; organization, strength
241; evacuation of 275, (see India)
321 expenses &c. 243; fort Washita 277; report of maj. gener-
al of 301, 302; gen. Worth at New York, new military
post, report made for site for western armory
Army bill, 335, 366, 367; passed U. S. senate 395; de-sident's protest 15; his articles of impeachment 380, 414
bated in house representatives
397, 414, 415
Ashburton, lord 19; correspondence 41 to 47; on anti-
slavery 53, on suppression of slave trade 56; on Caro-
line case 57; on Creole case 60; on impressment 62; bio-
graphical
85, 198, 240
Assumption of state debts 219, 220, 380; editorial re-
marks against 405, 406; Gurney's letter
Astronomical

African slave trade 56, 263; president's message 327
Agriculture-statistics from census of 1842; British
corn law 25, 26, 27, 28; guide to 146; committee on in
U. S. senate 254; committee on in house representaves
255; statistics on 320; fair at Albany
85

Alabama-name of 48; cotton crop of 68, 85, 103; fi-
nancial condition of 118; lynch law in 192; sale of pub
lic property in 213; coal debt 228; amount of debt in ib,
213, 228; governor's message 279; election, postponement
of landsales, gold, retrenchment 307, tabular statement
of population 324; stay laws 352; resolutions of 413; banks
272, 279, 309
162
206, 207
128

Algeria-on French authority in
Alleghany coal region

Anti-slavery, lord Ashburton, and

416

71
102

-224

53

380
144

$77, 378.

387

304

375

415

Boston, representatives 160; exchange 384
Botts, Mr-resolutions introduced by relat, 363, 379,

1a 350
Boundary line 288, 350, 373; proceedings on sgiving
map in senate 317; items (see treaty and Orences of
*6, 336;

Bounty land warrants, resolution relative to
Boxing match

ment
State

Boz

80, 376

403

Brackenridge's letter on Jackson's fine

th

224

Bricks

e

16

British and American mail steamers

30

256

2

Austria 82; tourist 224; on treaty of commerce with

Breezer Sydney, credentials of in U, S. senate
Brown. Uriah, memorial from

287

286

385

B

dency

336

86, 255
Bankrupt law, on 66; synopsis of provisions of, &c.,
147; objections to and alleged defects of the law 148; le-
gal decisions 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155; influence California, gold of 96; rumors relative to Mexican dis-
of, on state insolvent laws 156, 157, 158; applicants for position of 242,243; emigration to 272; the Monterey
benefits of, in N. York 160, 208; bill for repeal of, in U. S. affair 332, 337, 369; resolution adopted relative to 366,
senate 254, ib, 272; petitions in relation to 286; bill to re-394; report in relation to its rumored cession 397; letter
peal 287, 288, 303, 304; memorial relative to 317, 318 from Mexican minister relative to settlement of 272, 277
335; bill reported for repeal of 335; vole on passage of Campeachy
bill, &c.
335, 350, 363, 379, 384, 400, 414
Bankrupts, 176, 256, 272, 400; statistics 352, 416
Banks-the Virginia 16; items 32, 48, 64; of Bos-
ton 96; arrests of Phoenix officers 112; items 160, 176; of
Virginia 196; items 208: new-fashioned U. States 216;
items 224, 240, 272; items of 288; items 304; statements
of the banks of Baltimore 307; United States loans of, in
England 308; the, of U. States ib; relief issues in Penn-
England 336; of New Jersey, Pennsylvania 339; of New
Orleans, of Louisiana, of Georgia, of Ohio 340; gone to
the tombs ib; of Indiana, of Illinois 341: bill to extend
charters of district 363, 368; statistics of 375, 376, 377; of
France ib; of district 399; items 212, 400; Clayton's re-
marks on the United States bank 231; Indiana state
259; Alabama 272; statistics of United States banks

Anti-tariff proposition, amendment
Appleton, Messrs., work published by
Appointments by president 1, 19, 33, 48, 112, 129, 145.
163, 176, 195, 226, 289, 305, 338, 356, 371, 403, 416
Apportionment, protest in Massachusetts against 100;
the new
129, 318
Appropriations 11, 12; bills as passed 14; summary of
made during 27th congress 67; bill for considered 270,
271; bill for referred in senate 286; reported, passed ib;
in house representatives 287; passed b; president's ap-sylvania, of New Jersey, of Alabama 309 320; the of
proval of submitted to house representatives 287; bill re-
ported for in house representatives 303; bill reported for
navy ib; bill reported making for military academy and
other objects i; bill reported making for U. S. navy 319;
other bills reported ib; bills reported for to establish com-
mercial relations with China, and for commissioner to
Hawaiian Islands 351; for army considered 366; reported

Canada-L. J. Papineau elected to parliament 16; sur-
vey for route of canal ib; riots in 19; session commenced
33; peaceable revolution in, condition of monetary af-
fairs. trouble in parliament, amount subscribed towards
rebuilding Brock's monument 65; steam-frigate launch-
ed ; trade with 98; riots ib; surveving steamer, canals
99; speech of sir Charles Bagot 114; wheat tariff 115;
politics in 119, 120; tariff of 139, canal tolls 144; troops
embarking for England 145. 176; retaliatory 225; public
works 257; emigration to 384; governor ill, riots suppress-
ed, parliament of New Brunswick assembled 395, 416

Canals at auction 1; Chesapeake and Ohio 32; of Ca-
nada 99; of Ohio 197; trade 224; tolls ib; Chesapeake and
Ohio 227; U. S. senate, committee on 254, 264; of Eng-
land ib; estimated expense of, from N. Brunswick to
Nova Scotia, trade of Buffalo 272; the Chesapeake and