Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-01-09
Thirty.First Congress.
SECOND SESSION.

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Nh. Doughlass presented petition from Mr..
Wise, the aronaut asking an appropriation of
| $4,000 to make experiments with his balloons
After debate, it was referred to the Committee
OH Naval Affairs.
Mr.. Benton introduced bill to accelerate the
sales of public lands, and to pay the debt to ex-
tnguish the government titles to lands within the
States, and to grant donations of land TO actual
settlers, and to cede refuse lands to the respective
States in which they lies
A resolution authorising the Post Office Com
mittee to employ clerk, was adopted.
resolution of inquiry into the expediency Of
lighting Pennsylvania Avenue with gas, was a
dopted.
A message was received from the President in
reply to the resolution of Mr.. Cass, calling for the
correspondence of the Stale Department with the
Austrian Charge, relative to Hungarian affairs
The correspondence, which is very volumnious,
was read, and then, on motion, referred TO the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
In the House. Mr.. Caldwell, of Kentucky, un-
der suspension of the rules, introduced joint
resolution allowing land warrants, under the
boundary act Of 1850, to be transferable prior to
location.
Mr. Vinton opposed the resolution on the ground
that the lands would, by this means, fall into the
hands Of spectators.
Mr.. Caldwell replied, insisting that the benef-
ciares desired the enactment of this law, and the
Spectators did not
After some further remarks, the question
taken, and the resolution passed. Yeas 1OS nays
81.
Dec. 2l.--1n the Senate nothing Of importance
was done except to order the printing of FIVE thou
sand copies of the correspondence between Mr..
Webster and the Austrian Charge.
In the House, the Postage reform was discussed
in Committee of the whole.
Jan. 4, IS5l-Neiiher house in session,
Thursday, JAM 2.-In the Senate, the bill to
provide for the settlement of private land claims
in California, was taken up and debated until the
adjournment.
The House was not in session
Jan. 3.-In the Senate, the bill to determine
private land claims in California, was taken up
and advocated by Mr.. Benton until the adjourn
ment.
In the House, several private bills were passed,
and some other unimportani business attended to.
JAM 4.--The Senate was not in session.
In the House, several bills were introduced, and
then the Postage reduction was taken up in Com
miltee of the Whole, and some good sense as we'll
as some great nonsense was displayed in the de-
bate resolution was adopted before adjourn
ment, to close debate in two hours after the sub
ject is again taken up in Committee Of the Whole
nJ7 The Bucks Co. InteHigencer, says that JAS
G. CORNELL, Esq. President Of the Bucks County
Agricultural Society, sold in Philadelphia, on the
day before Christmas, for fifteen dollars, Tur-
key of his raising that weighed thirty pounds.
This is probably the heaviest Turkey, and the
highest priced one ever sold in Philadelphia.
Nan Sasoed IN Tco.-A German, named John
Sweetzer, at Vincennes, lately, whilst intoxicated,
went into a circular mill, and falling upon the
saw was discovered few minutes after sawed
from he left side just below the shoulder oblique-
ly across he belley. He died that night.