New-York daily tribune., 1844-02-15

! Chnrch Building. Eliz:beih ST, was allowed.
The Printing Committee reported that thh bill of
Mr. Levi Siamm for printing be reduced from SIS 81 10
ss8 the latter sum being which above the est;
mates of ess.s Osborne and Benedict 10 do the same WORK
The bill was referred back the Committee with view 10
| conference with Mr. Siemm
The Board adjourned.
! H1sroRIcAL REcoRDs.--We stated flew days since
that Mr. Lawrence had reported to the Legislature
against farther appropriations TO enable Mr. Broad.
head TO continue his researches among European
records for facts relative to the early history of our
country. Mr. Lawrence we thought spoke with un-
necessary severity. unless there had been most
shameful misapplication of the money We did
not know I'LL we saw it stated in the Albany Eve
ming Journal that Mr.. Lawrence had such evidence
of the waste of the funds as he seems to have DR.
L. was quite oracular in his sweeping Remuneration
Of the books that had been sent over, calling them
collection OF useless Dutch books. The Journal
saws that one of the evidences Mr.. l.. adduced Of
the proof his statenest, the papers we published
some DAYS since giving an account of the purchase
of Manhattan Island in 1926 for something like $25,
and the state OF the Colony then The Journal re.
publishes this paper and adds
"This, the reader will perceive, gives an account
of the first purchase OF Manhattan Island now the
| CITY Of New York, from the Indian owners by the
Dutch settlers. 1t is in some sort the orglual title
| deed TO the site Of our Commercial Emporium, as
s.recorded'' in the Royal Archives at the Hague
| And this among Others the committee have select
ed from the mass of documents TO prove their use-
| lessn and "frivolous' character We are content
| that il should serve specimen OF the document
if il shall also be taken as the measure OF the com
mittee's capacity TO pronounce upon their merits.
We venture to say that Mr.. LIS long report,
which cost our government not small sum, Will
never be worth half so much, or read with molety
of the interest as the few lines OF this little deed.
Our Legislature should place on Committees OF Lit
arature men who have sufficient knowledge and
taste to put proper value on literary matters.
The CHooTAws-A correspondent of the Van
Buren, Ark Intclgencer, writing from Doaks-
Vile, describes that town as place of consldera-
ble commercial Importance, the most SO OF any IN
the Indian County. Il contains one church, two
taverns eight stores, with heavy stocks of goods,
and almost all kinds of mechanic shops common
to country towns, all carried on in part, and many
entirely, by natives. The place is surrounded by
a prolific soil, mild climate and an industrious,
moral and intelligent population, some of whom
are very wealthy, owning large numbers of ne
proes and extensive cotton farms stranger
would hardly suppose he was in the Indian coun-
try, were it not for the red complexion and PIC
turesoue costume Of some of the people,
In the vicinity of Doaksville is a Military Post,
Fort Towson, commanded by Maj. Andrews and
manned by four or FIVE companies of Infantry.
The annuity for Puck k-shu-nub-bee district was
paid on the 10th and 11th. On the night of the
9Th the agent, Col Armstrong, repaired TO a
sbantee erected for the OCCASION and in the morn
ing mushroom city had sprung up and sur
rounded the pay house Every thing calculated
to please the eye or taste of the unwary customer
was exhibited in the most fascinating style by
these merchants of day, and of course much OF
the money passed to third hands before leaving
the ground The writer describes the appearance
of four white Indians as follows:
About l O'Clock, heard an unusual noise in
camp, and upon looking after the cause, | espled
four of Uncle Sans soldiers, each mounted upon
a horse with ,uhite gentleman tied to his back.
They had captured these animals fighting the
Tiger in an clubhouse in the vicinity of the camp.
They cut strange figures mounted behind their
captors, passing by the dim, fickering light of
the camp fires
THIRTEEN HUNDRED Pupils IN Glass The
class attending Prot. Gourauds Mnemotechnic lee
lures now numbers thirteen hundred. This is de-
cidedly the largest school we ever attended, and a
more intelligent and respectable or better satisfied
set OF scholars we never sat among The Professor