jected to the proceedings, and, together with Mr. Ogden, called out to members to retire with them to the assembly chamber. Considerable passion and feeling was manifested. Five members of the senate, and fifty-five members of the assembly, withdrew to the assembly chamber.

by which "the republican members of the legislature" were invited to attend, should be first read, which motion the said Erastus Root refused to put to the said meeting; and whereas an appeal, from the said decision, was made and seconded, which appeal was also refused to be put by the said Erastus Root, contrary to the established usage in every deliberative body, Eighty-three members of the two houses remained, and whereas a motion was made by Mr. Livingston, and appointed a committee of one member from of the assembly, in order to ascertain the opinions of each congressional district, to report, on the following all the members present, that the meeting should evening, an electoral ticket. And they then adjourn agree to a resolution declaring the expediency of giv-ed until Thursday evening. This number will be ing the electoral votes of this state to William H. augmented by several who were absent from the Crawford, which motion the said Erastus Root also re- city. fused to put to the said meeting, and otherwise conducted in a grossly violent and indecent manner.

Therefore, resolved, as the sense of this meeting, that the conduct of the said Erastus Root, as chairman of the said meeting, in attempting to exclude therefrom many republican members of the legislature, who had attended the same, in pursuance of the said notice, and in endeavoring to prevent free debate, was an unwarrantable violation of the rights and privileges of the said members and their constituents, as well as the usages and principles of the republican party, established in the times of its greatest purity; and, therefore, the members, here present, have withdrawn from the said meeting in the senate

chamber.

Resolved, That the above preamble and resolutions be signed by the chairman and secretary and published. JAMES BURT, chairman.

WALTER C. LIVINGSTON, Sec'ry.

The following is another version of the proceedings, from the "Albany Argus" of the 5th inst.

On Tuesday evening, a meeting was held in the senate chamber, which, after being organized, by the appointment of the hon. Erastus Root, president of the senate, as chairman, and the hon. Thomas G. Waterman, of the assembly, as secretary, adjourned until Wednesday evening.

On Wednesday evening, a general notice to the republican members having been given, all the members seemed to consider themselves included, and all, with the exception of 17, who were either absent from town, or who decline meeting under any cir

cumstances, attended.

The minority, we understood, appointed a chairmas and secretary, and a committee, who waited on the majority in the senate chamber with a second request for members to retire; but none having complied with their request, they returned, and the meeting adjourned until Thursday evening, after passing a resolution of censure of the course taken by the presi dent of the senate.

The result of the adjourned meeting of last evening was not known when our paper went to press; bu we are persuaded that an electoral ticket was presented by the committee, and adopted, which will receive the support of a majority of both branches of the legislature.

works, a law ought to be passed to relieve said boats from the payment of a tax, which was not at all contemplated when the present law was passed.

FROM THE ROCHESTER TELEGRAPH.

CANAL BOATS. It is probable that the ground taken by the comptroller, as to the licensing of boats for the navigation of the New York canals, will produce some considerable excitement in that state, and that the case will be carried up to the supreme court of the United States, unless a special act should be passed on the subject. The law, as it now stands, requires that all vessels of five tons and upwards, trading from district to district, &c. should be licensed, and it is right that they should be, when navigating the seas, lakes or navigable rivers, because that government exercises a jurisdiction over them for the reason that it is bound to defend the right to, and safety of, such navigation-but, as the government of the United States has no sort of charge over the navigation of the New York canals, which are the property of the state, the quid pro quo appears to be wanting to justify the collection of a When the meeting was called to order, Mr. W. C. revenue from the boats employed on them; and sureLivingston, after stating that he was friendly to Mr.ly, for the purpose of encouraging such magnificent Crawford, moved, in order to test the opinions of the members present, and because he considered that the most proper mode of deciding the question, that the electoral votes of the state be given to Wm. H. Crawford. The chairman stated, that the zeal of the gen- Collector's office, district of Genessee, Oct. 23, 1824. tleman from Columbia had induced him to offer his I publish the following communication from the motion somewhat prematurely; and that it would be hon. Joseph Anderson, comptroller of the U. S. treafirst in order to call the roll of the republican mem-sury, for the information and government of the probers, as prepared by the committee. Mr. Livingston prietors of boats navigating the Erie canal and the wadesired that his motion should be put. Mr. Tillotson ters connected therewith. then rose, and enquired by what authority the chairman refused to receive a motion from any member, regularly made and seconded? The chairman replied, that it was first in order, agreeably to the accustomed mode, to call the roll of members; and he accordingly directed the secretary to call the names. Thereupon, Mr. Crolius objected to the call of the roll, as prepared by the committee; and he appealed to the meeting from the decision of the chair. The chair-government man said, that an appeal to a meeting could not be made until that meeting was organized in the usual way. During these transactions, the secretary continued to call the roll, and the members to answer to their names During the call, also, Mr. Ogden moved that another chairman be appointed, which, being seended, Mr. O. put his own motion, to which there were several ayes; but the majority refused to notice if either way. Mr. Wheaton and Mr. Cunningham ob

"The subject, whether the act for enrolling and licensing vessels, passed the 18th Feb. 1793, is applicable to the canal boats over five tons burthen, employed on the New York canal, having been submitted to this department, by the hon. Henry C. Martindale and Stephen Van Rensselaer, an answer was given to them, under date of the 6th April last, a copy of which of which is enclosed for your information and

"It may be proper to add, that one of the gentlemen above named, Mr. Martindale, after receiving the answer alluded to, submitted a resolution to congress, with a view of having canal boats exempted from the operation of the coasting act, which reselution was referred to the committee on commerce, whose report on the subject is noticed in the National Intelligencer of the 22nd April, 1824, in the fellowing words:

"House of representatives. Mr. Newton, from the committee on commerce, made a report against amending the law so as to admit vessels to navigate canals without enrolment or license, or payment of tonnage duties; in which the house concurred.'

"Respectfully, Jos. ANDERSON, Comptroller. "J. HAWLEY, esq. collector of Gennessee, N. Y.

(COPY.)

Comptroller's office, April 6, 1824. To the hon. Henry C. Martindale and

Stephen Van Rensselaer, congress. Gentlemen-The secretary of the treasury has referred to me your joint letter to him of the 2d inst. wherein you state that you had been informed that the collector of the district of Champlain, in the state of New York, had recently issued a notification requiring canal boats to take licenses to navigate them, as for coasting vessels; and ask whether such notification had been issued in pursuance of instructions from the treasury department, and if not, whether instructions from the department, to the collector of that district, might not obviate the necessity of so modifying the law, as to exempt canal boats, (which it could never have intended to have included), from the inconvenience and embarrassments of its provisions.

In reply, I have to observe that, from the enclosed copy of a letter received from the collector of the district of Champlain, dated the 13th January last, and the answer of this department, dated the 29th ultimo, it will be perceived, that, although no express opinion is given, (in answering the questions propounded by the collector), whether boats employed in the transportation of goods on canals are subject to the operation of the act of 18th Feb. 1793, for enrolling and licensing vessels, yet, as the inference is to be drawn from that answer that such vessels are so liable, it may be proper to state the views of this department on the subject.

In the 6th section of the act referred to, there is a very general clause, requiring all vessels of five tons and upwards, trading between district and district, or between different places in the same district, whether laden with domestic or foreign goods, to be licensed, on pain, in default thereof, of being subjected to certain disabilites and penalties.

To that general clause as to licensing vessels, there are no other exceptions than those contained in the 37th section of the act, in the following words:

"That nothing in this act shall be construed to extend to any boat or lighter, not being masted, or if masted, and not decked, employed in the harbor of any town or city."

A copy of his answer to the collector, dated the 18th June, 1793, is enclosed herewith.

In a case in which the question was submitted by the collector of Philadelphia, whether vessels not decked and above five tons burthen, sailing from one part of the district to another part of the same, were subject to the operation of the coasting act, Mr. Comptroller Duvall decided that they were.

A copy of his decision is also enclosed herewith, being contained in a letter addressed by him to Mr. Gallatin, then secretary of the treasury, dated the 15th February, 1808.

The last mentioned decision has since been applied to all analogous cases in all the districts, with the exception, as to the payment of tonnage duties, in the case of the vessels embraced in the exemption in the 8th section of the act of 1st May, 1902, before referred to.

According to these decisions, the boats employed in the transportation of goods on the canal, between the district of Champlain and the district of New York, would he liable to the payment of tonnage duties, and to the operation of the act for enrolling and licensing vessels, of 18th February, 1793.

If it should be considered reasonable and proper to make an exception, in those respects, in favor of the boats above five tons burthen employed on canals, it is respectfully conceived that a special provision therefor, by the legislature, will be necessary.

Yours, &c.

Jos. ANDERSON, Comptroller. I shall be ready to attend to granting licenses to canal boats, at Mr. Van Slyck's office, on the 27th instant. J. HAWLEY, Collector.

LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK.

House of assembly-Monday, November 8. resolution, which were passed; yeas 117, noes 0. Mr. Tallmadge offered the following preamble and

Whereas, this legislature has had under consideration a letter, dated April 6, 1824, from Joseph Anderson, comptroller of the treasury of the United States, in relation to the exaction of tonnage duties upon boats navigating the canals of this state, and requiring such boats to be enrolled and licensed under the United States:-And, whereas, it appears that the subject was submitted, in April last, to the house of representatives, with a view to have canal boats exempted from such claim or exaction, and that "Mr. Newton, from the committce, made a report against amending the law so as to admit vessels to navigate canals without enrolment or license, or payment of tonnage duties, and in which report the house concurred"-And, whereas, it appears to this legislature, after due consideration, that the claim, on the part of the United States, to require boats which navigate our canals, to be enrolled or licensed, and to pay ton nage duties, is a claim not founded on any legal right, and, in regard to the circumstance under which it is made, such claim is so evidently unjust and oppressive, that the interference of this state is called for in defence of its citizens-Therefore,

Before granting a license to any vessel, a tonnage duty, at the rate of 6 cents per ton per annum, is to be paid; but, by the 8th section of an act, passed on the 1st of May, 1802, (which was recognized as being in force by the 5th section of the navigation act of the 1st of March, 1817), an exception is made as to the payment of tonnage duty on any boat, flat, raft or other vessel, of 50 tons and under, wholly employed in carrying on inland trade in certain specified districts. Resolved, (if the senate concur), that the senators of This exception, as to the payment of tonnage duties, this state, in the senate of the United States, be diin the case of such flats, boats or other vessels, so rected, and the representatives of this state, in the employed in certain districts, shows that, before the ex-house of representatives of the United States, be reception was made, they were considered to be liable to tonnage duties, and, if so liable, of course subject to the general operation of the act for enrolling and licensing vessels before referred to.

qusted, to use their utmost endeavors to prevent any such unjust and oppressive exaction for tonnage duties on boats navigating the canals, from being carried in to effect.

On the question being submitted by the collector of Resolved, That his excellency, the governor, be reNewport, R. I. whether ferry boats of more than five quested to transmit a copy of the foregoing recital and tons burthen were required to be licensed, Mr. Comp-resolution to the senators and representatives from troller Wolcott decided that they were, unless they this state-and also to the president of the United were embraced in the exception in the 37th section States, and to the speaker of the house of representaof that act tives of the United States.

WESTMORELAND, VA. It is a remarkable circum-on State street, undertook the transportation of this stance that the little county of Westmoreland, which lies on the Potomac, about 70 miles below Washington, and has only about 200 voters, is said to have produced three presidents of the United States; three secretaries of state; three foreign ministers; three judges of the supreme court, three governors, and three revolutionary generals. It is the birth place of general Washington, Mr. Madison, Mr. Monroe, of Arthur Lee, the first minister to France, of chief justice Marshall and judge Washington, of general H. Lee, and of Richard Henry Lee, the great orator of the first congress, and who, but for the the illness of his wife, was to have written the declaration of independence.

MARITIME LAW. From the New York shipping list. A case was decided in this city last week, in which the owner of a ship was held responsible for damage done to a cargo on freight-being eat by rats.

The principle of the decision has been fully recognised by writers on the law of marine, who have also held that the master and owners are exonerated by having cats on board.

LAW FOR SCOLDS. A woman was lately sentenced at Philadelphia, by the court of Oyer and Terminer, to be ducked, as a common scold. Annexed is the sentence of the court.

Commonwealth vs. Nancy James. Indictment for a nuisance-charged with being a common scold. October 11th, 1824. Verdict guilty.

October 29th, 1824. The prisoner sentenced to be placed in a certain engine of correction called a cucking or ducking stool, on Wednesday next, the third day of November ensuing, between the hours of 10 and 12 o'clock in the morning-and, being so placed therein, to be plunged into the water-that she pay the costs of prosecution, and stand committed until this sentence is complied with.

[The case was taken up to the supreme court, and the execution of the sentence of ducking suspended, until the constitutionality of it shall be decided.]

stone, and brought it over land nearly thirty miles.
It has been a matter of surprise to many persons un
acquainted with the transportation of heavy weights,
that such a column could be brought, without accident,
into the city, from such a distance, and strong op-
position was experienced from some of our rich wise-
acres, when the project of forming solid shafts was
undertaken. It may be pertinent to state in this
place, from the life of Catharine 2d, that the stone on
which the equestrian statue of Peter the great stands,
in St. Peterburg, weighs 1600 tons, and was moved
41,250 English feet, or nearly eight miles, from the
spot where it was found. The machine for moving it
was invented by count Carberry. A solid road was
first made from the stone to the shore. Brass slips
were inserted under the stone, to go upon cannon
balls, of five inches in diameter, in metal groves. The
power was produced by windlasses, worked by 400
men every day, who forced it 200 fathoms towards
the shore. The water transportation was performed
by machines, called camels, in the dock-yards of Pe-
tersburg and Amsterdam, by which line of battle ships
are lifted over shallows and sand bars to their places
of destination.
[Boston paper.

Remarkable presERVATION. The following narrative well deserves a record-A late Niagara Sentinel mentions that a stage, in crossing "deep hollow,” near Rochester, was overturned in the night, on the brink of a precipice, and, although the descent was from thirty to forty feet, no one was seriously injur cd. The editor of the Chronicle has been furnished with an extract from a letter by one of the passengers, giving the particulars of this extraordinary escape.

"We left Rochester in the stage at 3, A. M. perfects ly dark, no lamps, and ten passengers-myself the only female.

"We had proceeded little more than a mile and a half from the village when the driver lost his direction, and while crossing a causeway, made over a gulf about seventy feet deep, we were precipitated down a precipice of thirty feet-the stage rolling over and over like a log. It first struck a slight railing that had A NOVEL DISQUALIFICATION. In Ohio, the consti- been placed as a guard-the top was broken through, tution requires that a senator shall have lived two and we went over and over, again and again, till we years in the district which he is chosen to represent. rested on a small level, where a stone breast-work, a The counties of Delaware and Franklin formed a foot or two in height, had been made. That corner district; and a gentleman living in Franklin had been of the stage in which I sat stuck into the earth, and elected, and served as a senator for the district. He the whole weight of its contents came on me. The moved from Franklin into Delaware; and last winter unutterable horror of the moment you cannot conthe legislature of Ohio so altered the districts as to ceive. I expected to die in an instant, from the awleave Franklin out of the district in which this senator ful, the amazing pressure. It was dark as it ever is, then lived. Hence the gentleman is disqualified, and and it rained violently. Each thought the others cannot represent the same people that he had done dead, and it was not till the persons above began to a year ago-he not having resided two years in the move, that a word was uttered. In releasing themdistrict. It is a curious affair in politics. The gen-selves two or three stepped upon me, and one climbed tleman did not move out of the district, but the dis-out by resting his foot on my head. All, but myself, at trict moved from him.

A LARGE PILLAR. One of the massive shafts of the columns intended for the U. States bank in Boston, was safely brought into State street from Chelmsford, on Thursday afternoon-and deposited yesterday on the bed prepared for it, previously to its elevation.

It is 224 feet in length, more than four in diameter at its base, and its weight is over 19 tons. Two pair of wheels were constructed for its transportation, one pair of which were nine feet in height, and it was drawn by thirty-four yokes of oxen. In its progress, every bridge leading to the city, excepting Water town bridge, was avoided, on which additional planks were laid, for the wheels to pass over. It is probably the largest circular pillar ever worked in this country, though it did not cost more than 950 dollars at the quarry, where it was hammered. Mr. Gridley Bryant, the mason, who is now erecting this building

last, were extricated, and I, from the shock, had lost the power of moving; besides, the sand and earth poured in upon me so that I could not lift a foot. I heard my husband calling my name in agony, and some crying out "where is the lady," and others replying she is dead. For a few moments I lay buried in the wreck, unable to speak or move.

At last, a man found in the darkness, were I lay, and lifted me out by main strength. But we were now in an awful uncertainty respecting our situation, and what would be our fate; for we supposed, when we turned over, that we were going off the bank of the Gennessee, which was, in fact, a few rods from us— and the precipice of that is at least 150 feet. When we rested, it was just on the brink of another descent of nearly 40 feet, at the bottom of which was a stream, with rocks and bodies of trees; we afterwards saw the place by day-light, and therefore know. Had we [gone over the little breast-work, our death had beça

inevitable. As it was, our preservation is justly considered a miracle.

decent situation. We have men, my dear sir, we have provisions, we have every thing that is wanted, We remained in this condition nearly an hour, not provided the country is awakened, and its resources daring to move at all, lest we should plunge we knew are brought forth. That, you know, can't be done not where. At last a light was brought, and we walk-by congress, and, unless the states take the whole ed, through the mire, a quarter of a mile to a house, matter upon themselves, we are lost. You will, both where we waited till day. We then took seats in as a soldier and a politician, easily foresee that this another stage, and rode to Lewiston, a distance of 80 crisis is, one way or other, a decisive one, and that, miles! All the passengers were somewhat injured, if proper exertions are made, we may expect every but none so much as to be unable to travel. Not a thing that is good. bone was broken except the poor horses ribs. Our preservation was beyond all human calculation. God had mercy on us-no other reason can be assigned why we were not killed on the spot."

GEN. LA FAYETTE. The following letter of general La Fayette, addressed to the late governor Reed, of Pennsylvania, was copied a few days ago from the original, which we have seen. It furnishes interesting additional evidence of the intensity of La Fayette's solicitude for the success of our cause, and the thorough transformation which he had undergone into an American patriot. Phil. Nat. Gaz.

Head quarters, Morristown, May 31st, 1780. Dear Sir-Though you must, on the moment, be more particularly engaged in public business, I can't help indulging the strong desire I feel of writing sometimes to you; and, from the affectionate sense I have of our old friendship, I flatter myself you will have no objection to lose some moments in this epistolary conversation. What I want to tell you, my dear friend, has been fully explained in public letters, and in a private one from our respected and heroic friend; I shall, therefore, confine myself in imparting confidentially to you my private feelings on this important affair.

It is not only as an American soldier, as an ardent lover of our noble cause, as one who, having been lately on both sides of the Atlantic, may the more properly foresee good and bad consequences, that he has been here and there let into the secrets-it is not only on all the aforesaid accounts that I am far concerned in the operations of this campaign. But you may easily guess I was not a stranger to the planning of the co-operation which I then thought to be very important to America, which now I find to be necessary; and, in the course of those arrangements, I need not omit mentioning, that I ever spoke with a becoming pride of the American army, and of the efforts which the virtue of America would make towards an honorable co-operation.

Those people are coming, my good friend, full of ardor and sanguine hopes, and may be every day expected. France and Spain are in high expectations-the world is looking at us, and all the European powers, that never saw America, but through a spy-glass, are watching this opportunity of fixing, at once, their fluctuating opinions.

It is from me, on the moment of their arrival, that the French generals expect intelligence; and you may guess that packets will be by them immediately despatched to Europe. An army that is reduced to nothing, that wants provisions, that has not one of the necessary means to make war; such is the situation wherein I have found our troops, and, however prepared I could have been for the unhappy sight by our past distresses, I confess I had no idea of such an extremity. Shall I be obliged to confess our inability, and what shall be my feelings on the occasion, not only as an American, an American soldier, but one who has highly boasted in Europe of the spirit, the virtue, and the resources of America? Though I had been directed to furnish the French court, and the French generals, with early and minute intelligence, I confess pride has stopped my pen, and, notwithstanding past promises, I have avoided entering into any details, till our army is put in a better, a more

As you are a military man, (and I wish it was, for the moment, the case with the other leading men in America), you know that filling up immediately the continental battalions is the way of having an army, and that cannot be done but by militia drafts.

Your state is the only one which undertook to give to their officers a decent clothing. In all other matters, I hope it will take the lead. As far as I depend upon your influence in Pennsylvania, and that goes a great length, I have no doubt but that we shall be under the greatest obligations to that state. These expectations are also strengthened by the sense I have of your friendship to our general. But, my good friend, no time is to be lost. In asking your pardon for this long confidential letter, I am, with the most perfect regard, your affectionate friend, LA FAYETTE

His excellency, gov. Reed.

John Smith,
Samuel Carter,
John L. Crute,
John Marshall,
James Morton,
Wm. Evans,
John Nichols,
Churchill Gibbs,
Carter Page,

1st lieut. 4th Va. reg. captain 1st regiment, lieutenant, 15th regiment, captain 11th regiment, 4th Virginia regiment, 10th Virginia regiment, 1st Virginia state regiment, capt. 1st Va. state regiment, capt. leg. drag. continental,

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D. M. Randolph, Bland's regiment dragoons, 65
Wade Mosby, capt. horse, under col. Call,
Wm. Broadus, capt. Ist Virginia state regiment, 63
Edward Eggleston, state legion
Francis Brooke, 1st lieutenant 1st regiment,
continental artillery, commanded by Har-60
rison,

Clement Carrington, ensign in Lee's legion, 62
James Lyons, private in capt. C. Page's cavalry 61
Daniel Verser, capt. in 15th Virginia reg. 63
Charles Woodson, capt. 3d Virginia regiment, 65
Charles Gee, 2d N. C. reg. Nash's brig. 67
Wm. Price, 1st Virginia regiment, lieutenant, 67
R. A. Saunders, lieut. 1st Virginia regiment, 67
Matthew J. Eggleston,
Call's cavalry
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Peter Foster, lieut. in 1st Virginia state reg.
Phillip Holcomb, maj. in state ser. at sur. York 61
Robert Pollard, Culpeper bat. of minute men 67
James Dozwell, 14th Va. regiment, 69
Major Allen McLane, of the Old Dominion con-
tinental line, 78 years of age, 8th Aug. 1824, 78
Samuel Tinsley, lieut. col. Dabney's reg. of Va. 64
Philip Slaughter, capt. 11th Va. cont. reg.
John Slaughter, pri. 1st reg. drag. col. Bland, 66
John Trabue, 7th Va. regiment,

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