portion, weaken and degrade the Legislature of the nation itself, but the character of our free institutions.

Your own mind will suggest to you, probably, more suitable reflections, than any thing which I can say, could convey. To those reflections, I am prepared to trust, not doubting, that had you, at the time, considered the act of violence which you had committed, in the light in which it has been regarded by the House, you would have been spared its disapprobation and censure, and I, the duty of declaring it to you, the result of it.

I forbear to say more than to pronounce the judgement of the House, which is, that you have been guilty of a high breach of its privileges, and that you be reprimanded therefor at its Bar by the speaker; and in obedience to the order of the House, I do reprimand you accordingly.

You will now be conducted from the Bar of the House, and discharged from the custody of the Sergeant at Arms.

Another Breach of Privilege. Immediately after the disposition of the case of Samuel Houston, Mr. Cooke, of Ohio, stated that he had received the following letter :

BROWN'S HOTEL, May 2, 1832.

Hon. E. COOKE,
Sir-During my examination before the House
of Representatives, in the case of General
Houston, you very impertinently asked, among
other questions, my business in this city.
Whilst the trial of General Houston was pend-
ing, I deferred calling on you for the explanation
which I now demand through my friend, Gen-
eral Demetry.

I am, very respectfully,
Your most obedient,

E. S. DAVIS. Mr. Crane then offered the following resolution.

Resolved, That the communication of the Hon. E. Cooke, a member from Ohio, be referred to a Select Committee consisting of seven members, to report the facts, and their opinions whether the same establish a contempt and a breach of the privileges of this House or not, and that said Committee have power to send for persons and papers.

A discussion arose, in which Messrs. Jewett, Cooke, Burges, Whittlesey, J. Reed, Taylor, Hoffman, Doddridge, Polk, McDuffie, Arnold, Stanberry and Blair, of South-Carolina, took part. Mr. Stanberry, in the course of debate, reiterated the statement, that assaults on members of the House, for words spoken in debate, were encouraged by the language used by the President of the United States, and said he asked but half an hour to prove the assertion by unquestionable evidence. Mr. Polk having declared the statement to be unfounded, Mr. Stanberry moved to amend the resolution, so as to institute an inquiry into this matter. After a stormy debate, the Previous Question was called for and carried, precluding the amendment proposed by Mr. Stanberry. The question was then taken by yeas and nays on Mr. Crane's motion for a

committee, and decided in the negative by yeas and nays: yeas 85, nays 87. So the resolution was rejected.

The United States Bank, is an important subject, yet undisposed of. The Select Committee, appointed by order of the House of Representatives, to proceed to Philadelphia and investigate and report upon the proceedings and state of the Bank, made a long and elaborate report, concluding with an opinion that it is inexpedient to renew the charter. A report from Mr. McDuffie, in behalf of the minority of the Committee, was presented to the House on the 11th of May, and Mr. Adams presented, on the 14th, a paper containing his views upon the subject. All these reports have been ordered to be printed.

Seamen of the United States. The Fourth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Boston Seamen's Friend Society states that the number of seamen belonging to the United States, estimated with as much accuracy as was possible, is 102,000-of whom there are in the foreign trade, 50,000; in the coasting trade, in vessels of nearly or over 100 tons burthen, 25,000; in coasting vessels, of less than 50 tons burthen, 5,000; in the cod fishery, 10,000; in the whale fishery, 5,000; in the steam vessels, 1,000; in the United States Navy, 6,000.

Dennis against Duxbury. There are in actual service from the town of Duxbury, with a population of 2705, one

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hundred and ten captains of vessels, and forty mates. This has been supposed to be a larger number than from any other place in Massachusetts, in proportion to the number of inhabitants; but it is an error. The town of Dennis, with a population of 2417, has ninetyeight masters of vessels, and one hundred and thirty-nine mates and seamen. Dennis has a master to every 24 65-98 inhabitants, and Duxbury a master to every 24 63-110 inhabitants, which is a fraction in favor of the former place.

RHODE-ISLAND.

Manufactories. By a statement in the Providence Journal it appears that there are in Rhode-Island, 110 cotton factories, with a capital, embracing ground, buildings, machinery and materials, of $6,866,334; 22 woollen factories, capital $617,435; 5 bleacheries, capital $317,000; 2 print works, cap. $287,875; 10 founderies; 30 machine shops, capital $1,142,638; 4 tanneries, capital $217,000; 27 jeweller's shops, capital $100,200; 2 comb manufactories, capital $72,000. Total capital, $9,522,672. Number of hands employed, in the above establishments, 11,273. Besides these, there are a large number of smaller establishments for the ufacture of brass, tin, &c.

man

CONNECTICUT. The Legislature convened at NewHaven, on the first Wednesday in May. The official returns of votes gave for JOHN S. PETERS, the National Republican candidate, 11,971; for Calvin Willey, (Antimasonic) 4463; scattering 616. Majority for Peters, 6892.

The Senate was organized by the choice of Roger Huntington, of Norwich, President pro tem. and Charles Chapman of Hartford, Clerk; the House of Representatives, by the choice of Martin Wells, of Weathersfield, Speaker, and Nathaniel Perry, of New-Milford, and Wm. H. Law, of Norwich, Clerks. Rev. Leonard Bacon was appointed Chaplain to the Senate, and the clergymen of the different denominations in the city were requested to act as chaplains to the House during the session.

The Governor's Message to the Leg islature presented a satisfactory view of the civil and political condition of the state. In relation to the finances, it is said

"The permanent Civil List Fund of the state of Connecticut, amounts to four hundred and thirty-five thousand, one hundred two dollars, sixty-one cents;

the interest of which is applied to the current expenses of the government.

"The revenue to the state from every source, for the year ending on the thirtyfirst day of March, A. D. 1832, amounts to eighty-two thousand, six hundred, fifty-seven dollars fifteen cents; including cash in the Treasury on the first day of April, A. D. 1831, one thousand eight hundred forty-six dollars, ninetysix cents, and uncollectable notes, two hundred forty-three dollars and sixteen cents. The disbursements from the Treasury during the last political year, amount to seventy-three thousand six hundred sixty-five dollars seventy-six cents;-leaving cash in the Treasury on the 1st day of April, A. D. 1832, ten thousand thirty-eight dollars thirty-five cents, together with said notes."

The subject of education is presented as an object worthy of the attention of the Legislature. The message says-"If proper stimulants could be furnished, to arouse those who are immediately interested, to a spirited execution of the laws now in force, in regard to this subject, great and lasting benefits might be expected to result to the rising generation; and the stigma which now rests upon our state, from the fact which has been officially announced that thirty of our citizens are unable to read, would be speedily and entirely removed.

"The state of Connecticut has, in proportion to the number of her population, a larger fund appropriated for the use of Common Schools, than any other State in the Union. The interest of this fund, which has been applied, during the year ending on the first day of March, A. D. 1832, to its appropriate object, amounts to $76,585 50.

The

number of children between the ages of four and sixteen years, enumerated in this state in August last, is 85,095. Many circumstances, at present unavoidable, render a part of the School Fund unproductive; but when the whole amount of its capital can be made to produce six per centum per annum, an annual dividend may be anticipated of from $1,25 to 1,34 for each child enumerated.'

Woollen and Cotton Factories. From an article in the New-England Review, which may be relied on as authentic, it appears that the state contains about 50 Woollen Factories, in which the amount of capital invested is $1,281,050; annual amount of goods manufactured, $1,399,828; pounds of Wool manufac tured 1,574,314. The whole number of yards of Broad Cloth manufactured annually, is 290,000; of Flannel, 229,078;

of Satinet, 808,915; of Cassimere and other narrow Cloth, 108,000. In these manufactories about two thousand persons are constantly employed. In addition to the above, however, there are twenty-four manufactories from which no returns have been made, which employ an aggregate capital of $100,000.

In 94 Cotton Factories, the capital invested is $3,101,229; yards of cloth manufactured, 20,212,953; pounds of Cotton used, 818,090. There are also, 12 new manufactories not yet in operation, most of which are nearly completed. In the manufacture of Cotton Goods about 5000 persons are actively employed in the State.

NEW-YORK.

The Legislature of New-York closed its ordinary annual labors on the 18th of April, after a session of 113 days, having passed upwards of three hundred Acts and Resolves. Among these are acts incorporating six Banks, viz: the Leather Manufacturers Bank in NewYork city, Steuben county Bank, Brooklyn Bank, Schenectady Bank, Salina Bank, Bank of Rome, and Essex County Bank. Eight Insurance Companies, viz the Oneida, Schoharie Mutual, Washington County, New-York, American Fire, Palladium Fire, Good Hope, and Commercial. The five last are to be located in New-York city.

Two cities were incorporated-Utica and Buffalo. Rochester failed in consequence of a disagreement between the two Houses on the question whether the election of justices should be given to the people, or retained by the legisla

ture.

Bills passed, incorporating the Newburgh Whaling Company, the Poughkeepsie Whaling Company, the NorthAmerican Mining Company, the Hudson River Coal Company, and renewing the North-American Coal Company: Also, bills directing the final settlement of the claims of John Jacob Astor against the State-postponing the election of Representatives to Congress until 1833, in order to secure the number to which the state shall be entitled under the new Apportionment Bill, &c. Among the bills lost or not finally acted upon, are a great many for Banks, Rail-roads, and other incorporations; and the Chenango Canal Bill. This Canal is intended to run from the Erie Canal in Oneida county, to Binghamton in Broome county-distance 92 3-4 miles. The bill passed the Senate, (as it had done the previous year,) but was rejected by the House.

Twenty-four charters for Rail-road companies were granted, with an aggregate capital of 24,775,000 dollars, viz. New-York and Erie rail-road, (from

the city of New-York to Lake
Erie,)
New-York and Albany, (east side
of the Hudson,)

Lake Champlain and Ogdensburgh,
Watertown and Rome,

Utica and Susquehannah, (from
Utica along the valleys of the
Susquehannah and Unadilla, to
the line of the New-York and
Erie rail-road)

Black River Company, (from the
Erie Canal at Rome or Herkimer,
to the St. Lawrence, &c.)
Ithica and Geneva,

$10,000,000

3,000,000

3,000,000

1,000,000

1,000,000

900,000

800,000

Buffalo and Erie,

650,000

Dutchess rail-road, (from Pough

keepsie to Connecticut line,)

600,000

Tonawanda rail-road, (from Roch

500,000

ester to Attica,)

500,000

350,000

Hudson and Berkshire, (from Hudson to Massachusetts line,) Schoharie and Otsego, (from the Catskill and Canajoharie railroad, via the Cobleskill and Schenevas creeks, to the Susquehannah river,) Dansville and Rochester, Aurora and Buffalo,

300,000

300,000

300,000

Rensselaer and Saratoga,

300,000

Brooklyn and Jamaica,

300,000

Fish-house and Amsterdam,

25,000

Warren county, (from Glen's Falls to Caldwell,)

250,000

A great number of religious and benevolent societies celebrated their anniversaries in the city of New-York, during the week ending the 12th of May. From the accounts of these respective anniversaries and the reports on the finances, the following facts are abstracted.

The American Peace Society. The Society have been engaged in an extensive correspondence during the year with the societies in London, Liverpool, and Geneva. Numerous auxiliaries have been formed in the United States, and many influential men have signed a memorial which is preparing, on a ConPeace, which is to be presented to gress of Nations for the preservation of interest, which is taken in the great the Congress of the United States. The cause of Peace, is such as greatly to engood men to join it. courage the society and to stimulate

American Bible Society. Receipts of the year, deducting sums borrowed, $107,059, of which amount $40,193

Indian Biography; by Samuel G.

Drake.

This work should rather have been called "The Indian Biographical Dictionary." We have seen the proofsheets of upwards of three hundred pages, all of which are arranged in alphabetical order. The articles are necessarily brief.

Each article contains a historical sketch of the life and actions of some distinguished Indian chief, warrior, or squaw. We cannot but admire the industry of the writer, for we believe that he has not omitted an individual among the hundreds of aboriginals whose names are connected with NorthAmerican history. Indeed, we have long known him for a skillful and successful delver into the depths of antiquity. Yet, how he has managed to collect and collate such a variety of authorities as are quoted in this work is a matter of wonder with us. It seems that no recorded circumstance respecting any one of his subjects has escaped his notice. He has also collected many facts not hitherto known from historical manuscripts, to which he has had sole

access.

Judging from the style only, we should say that Mr. Drake is not a practised writer. Yet his language is well adapted to the subject, clear, concise, and business-like. What he has to say is said in few words and without obscurity. The matter is strictly historical, without any mixture of embellishment or speculation. If this book should become as popular as it deserves to be, it will become a sad stumbling block in the way of American novelists. Indeed, the Indians it describes are plain, matter-of-fact characters, very unlike the Indians of Cooper and John Neal. Their speeches may all be reconciled with common sense. There is something like romance in some of the sketches, however. We will quote the story of Lovewell's famous fight, which is very happily told, as a fair specimen of Mr. Drake's powers of description.

PAUGUS, chief of the Pequawkets, slain in the celebrated battle with the English, under Captain Lovewell, in 1725. Fryeburg, in Maine, now includes the principal place of the former residence of the Pequawkets, and the place where the battle was fought. It was near a considerable body of water, called Saco Pond, which is a source of Saco river. The cruel and barbarous murders, almost daily committed by the Indians, upon the defenceless frontier in

habitants, caused the general court of Massachusetts, to offer a bounty of £100 for every Indian's scalp. Among the various excursions performed by Lorewell, previous to that in which he was killed, the most important was that to the head of Salmon-fall river, now Wakefield, in New Hampshire. With forty men, he came upon a small party of ten Indians who were asleep by their fires, and, by stationing his men advantageously, killed all of them. This bloody deed was performed near the shore of a pond, which has ever since borne the name of Lovewell's pond. After taking off their scalps, these forty warriors marched to Boston in great triumph, with the ten scalps extended upon hoops, displayed in a formal manner, and for which they received £1000. This exploit was the more lauded, as it was supposed that these ten Indians were upon an expedition against the English upon the frontiers; having new guns, much ammunition, and spare blankets and moccasons, to accommodate captives. This, however, was mere conjecture, and whether they had killed friends or enemies was not quite so certain as that they had killed Indians.

It is said that Paugus was well known to many of the English, and personally to many of Lovewell's men; and that his name was a terror to the frontiers. In a song, composed after the Pequawket fight, he is thus mentioned as appearing in that battle:

""Twas Paugus led the Pequ'k't tribe ;-
As runs the fox would Paugus run;
As howls the wild wolf, would he howl,
A huge bear-skin had Paugus on."

Capt. Lovewell marched upon this expedition against Paugus, with forty-six men, from Dunstable, about the middle of April, 1725. Their setting out is thus poetically set forth in metre:

"What time the noble Lorewell came,
With fifty men from Dunstable,
The cruel Pequ'k't tribe to tame,
With arms and blood-shed terrible."

They arrived near the place where they expected to find Indians, on the 7th of May; and early the next morning, while at prayers, heard a gun, which they rightly suspected to be fired by some of Paugus's men, and immediately prepared for an encounter. Divesting themselves of their packs, they marched forward to discover the enemy. But not knowing in what direction to proceed, they marched in an opposite direction from the Indians. This gave Paugus great advantage; who, following their tracks, soon fell upon their packs, from which he learned their strength. Being encouraged by his superior numbers, Paugus courted the conflict, and pursued the English with ardor. His number of men was said to have been eighty, while that of the English consisted of no more than thirty-four, having left ten in a fort at Ossapee; and one, an Indian, had before returned home, on account of sickness. fort at Ossapee was for a retreat in case of emergency, and to serve as a deposite of part of their provisions, of which they disencumbered themselves before leaving it.

The

After marching a considerable distance from the place of their encampment, on the morning of the 8th of May, Ensign Wyman discovered an Indian, who was out hunting; having in one hand some fowls he had just killed, and in the other, two guns. There can be no probability that he thought of meeting an enemy, but no sooner was he discovered by the English, than