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shall be rendered incapable for two years to serve in the office for which he was elected, and Mr. Gardiner declared disqualified to serve. The

people returned him a second time, and the assembly again declared him disqualified.

Receipts of the treasury from November 25, 1825, to

January 23, 1826,

Estimated receipts for the residue of the year,

Balance in the treasury November 5th,

Ordinary expenditures estimated at

Military school fund, loaned for the use of the Miami

and western reserve road,

Amount appropriated for interest of canal loans,

1825.]

INDIANA.

May. An old man by the name of Samuel Fields, aged 86, was convicted of murder, and sentenced to be executed. He was pardoned after ascending the gallows.

August.-James B. Ray, a selfnominated candidate, was elected governor.

September.—The amount of taxes assessed for state purposes for the year 1825, was $32,757 14. The polls were 30,828, being an increase of 2,488 over last year.

1826.]-January.-The common school lands in this state consist of 608,222 acres, which at $2 per acre, would produce a fund of $1,216,444. There are also 40,960 acres of college lands belonging to the state.

Sulphate of magnesia is so abundant in a cave near Corydon, in Indiana, that it is carried away by the wagon load. It sometimes ap

pears in masses

$95,914

20,679

34,325

$150,918

83,500

13,788

30,000

weighing 10

pounds, and a bushel of the earth of the cavern yields from 4 to 25 lbs. of the salt. Epsom salt is also found in the mammoth cave in Kentucky.

April.--Some young men belonging to Crawford, in this state, being apprised of the existence of a rattlesnake's den, went out and killed on the first day 95 of the largest class. On the following morning, they destroyed 55 more; one of them had 23 rattles. 1825.] ILLINOIS.

November.--Four routes to unite the waters of lake Michigan with those of Illinois river, were partially surveyed. It was found that the lake was 157 feet 11 inches higher than the Illinois, at the mouth of the Little Vermillion river, the contemplated point of junction. The cost of the canal, as estimated for the different routes, was the

lowest $639,542, the highest $716,

110.

An act was passed by the legislature incorporating a company with a capital of $1,000,000.

1826.]-January 7.-$21,000, of the state (paper) currency was burnt during this month at Grandalia, in the presence of the governor, &c.

The receipts at the treasury during the year, amounted to $38,304
Balance at the commencement of the year,

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February.-A bill to prevent duelling, and annexing to that offence, the punishment of whipping, was passed by both houses of the legislature. This bill the governor returned, with objections, at the same time expressing, in the following terms, his opinion regarding the practice itself:

"I am happy on this occasion to record my utter detestation and abhorrence of duelling. My duty to my neighbors, and to myself, would compel me, in my private as in my public capacity, to discountenance and put down if possible, so barbarous and so impious a practice."

The bill, thus returned by the governor, was re-considered and again passed in the senate by the requisite majority of two thirds of

38,556 73

76,860 73

107,782 12 30,921 39

that body; but it failed to receive a like majority in the house of representatives, and it, therefore, did not become a law.

October.-45 lead mines are worked in this state. They have heretofore yielded on an average four million pounds of lead per annum. During the present year, they yielded about ten millions.

General Atkinson, major O'Fallon, and others attached to the expedition, arrived at St. Louis from Two Thousand Mile Creek, which empties into the Missouri. The objects of this expedition, for conciliating the Indians and the protection of the fur trade, were accomplished. Treaties, mainly for the preservation of peace, were made with seventeen tribes. Rich cargoes of furs were descending the river.

The commissioners appointed to mark a road from Missouri to the confines of New Mexico, and for treating with the Indian tribes on its route, have completed the survey to the boundary line of the ter

ritory of the United States. From what is said in the papers, it would seem that a road may be more easily made than was expected, and that there is only about thirty miles of it that must forever be scarce of wood and water. Buffalo odure, Buffalo odure, however, is used instead of the former, and there are pools of standing water that may be used in the absence of springs or running streams. The commissioners waited for some time that liberty might be obtained to continue the line of the road within the Mexican territory-but it not being probable that authority for it could be had before next spring, they were on their return home.

the road commissioners, returning from Santa Fe with $18,750 in silver and gold, beaver skins worth $10,000 and 416 mules, 25 jacks and jennets, and 189 horses, valued at 15,700, in all $44,679—we observe the following paragraph: "The party lost about 100 head of stock on the Arkansas, having taken fright at the buffalo. It is a curious fact, that when horses take fright at the herds of buffalo that run by them, they universally run with them, and not from them." 1826]-January-General Miller was elected governor. There were three candidates: the result was as follows:

For Miller, 2,380; Carr, 1,470 :

In an account of a party met by Todd, 1.113.

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To the Congress at PANAMA.

John Sergeant, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

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To the united kingdom of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.

Rufus King, (resigned) Envoy Extraordinary and Minister

Plenipotentiary,

Mass.

9,000

John A. King, (resigned) Secretary of Legation, N. Y.

2,000

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RichardC. Anderson, (dec'd) Minister Plenipotentiary, Va.

9,000

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William C. Somerville, (dec'd) Chargé d'Affaires, Md.

4,500

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