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Dec. 17-Hemp grown in Mason and Fleming counties, in 1841, 3,000 tons, which sold for about $240,000 ; of this 1,200 tons were manufactured into bagging or bale rope in Mason county, and the rest shipped to other points ; 100 tons were water-rotted in 1842.
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1843, Jan. 4-Shock of earthquake, at 9:05 P. M., all over Kentucky ; it lasted 30 seconds.
Jan. 7-John J. Crittenden re-elected U. S. senator for six years : Crittenden 88, Richard M. Johnson 43.
Death of Christopher Fort, in Lewis county, aged 109; he was at the battle of Fort Duquesne, or Braddock's defeat, when 21 years old, and was among the first set- tlers of Ky. ; he never took any medicine, and never had the attendance of a physi- cian-giving as his reason, that God who made him sick could make him well; he @3313. had been a member of the Baptist church for many years ; he was 99 years old when he married his last wife; he died as one falls asleep, without a groan and without any sickness.
Jan. 23-Act passed making instru- ments of writing hereafter as effectual, and of the same dignity, without a scroll or seal as with one.
Feb. 9-Bill to remove the capitol to Louisville defeated, by 14 to 23 in the sen- ate, and 30 to 60 in the house.
March 11-Legislature adjourns to-day, having steadily voted down the principal temporary measures for relief from the heavy pressure of debt and hard times-a commonwealth's bank or safety fund bank bill, a property-valuation bill, etc. [Ken- tucky bonds, consequently, sold in New York for 84@8412, while Ohio bonds sold at 7071, because of the temporizing pol- icy of that state. ] ......... S-The charters of the banks of Ky. amended, requiring them to extend their loans to a limited extent, the bank of Louisville to establish a branch at Paducah and another at [Flemings -!
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burg], and authorizing the Northern bank to establish an additional branch ......... 10 -Common school law amended ; salary of superintendent of public instruction re- duced, from $1,000 to $750 .. ... Several laws passed to increase the resources of the sinking fund ... ...... Salaries of all state officers and judges reduced, except that of governor 11-$140,000 appropriated to pay contractors on the public works for work already done.
March 20-A strange comet has been visible, in clear weather, for two weeks, as large in appearance as the planet Jupiter when nearest the earth, and with a nebu- lous trail, 75° to S0° in area.
March 21-George Robertson resigns the office of chief justice of Ky.
March 23-Remarkable weather ; ther- mometer in northern Ky. falls to 8º above zero ; large quantities of ice floating in the Ohio river for several days.
April 11-Ephraim M. Ewing appointed chief justice, and Daniel Breck a judge, of the court of appeals.
May 28-Desolating whirlwind passes over parts of Franklin, Scott, Fayette, and Bath counties, its track about 40 miles long and 4 miles wide, over which many houses, and nearly all the trees and fenc- ing were torn down, and a large number of horses, cattle, and other stock killed. At Mount Zoar meeting house, 4 miles from Lexington, on the Russell's road, while the congregation (Sunday afternoon) were at worship, the house was unroofed and three of the walls leveled with the ground, but not a human being received injury. Several persons near Owingsville were injured. After the whirlwind passed, the rain and hail did immense damage to the growing crops.
June 21-Kentucky 6 per cent bonds sell in New York at 98, Ohio bonds at 88 (a 8812, Illinois and Indiana bonds at 321/2
June 25-Tusk and two grinders of an extinct animal, found in excavating around the Lower Blue Lick springs; the tusk 6 feet 212 inches long, 21 inches in circum- ference at the large end, weight 94 pounds, had been broken off and not all recovered ; grinders 6 and 8 inches broad, decayed as far as the enamel, weight 6 and 8 pounds.
July 1 to 5-Grand military eneamp- ment in Franklin county, styled Camp Madison ; Humphrey Marshall commands; 12 companies present ; oration on the set- tlement of Kentucky by ex-chief justice George Robertson ; 10,000 people present.
July 12-Wharton Jones, of Ky., ob- tains judgment before judge MeLean and a jury, in the U. S. court at Cincinnati, against John Van Zandt, of Warren coun- ty, Ohio, for $1,200 damages-for assist- ance rendered by defendant in the escape of one of his slaves, and expenses in- curred in recovering 8 others, which de- fondant, only 24 hours after their escape, was caught in the act of conveying north- ward in a wagon ; Wm. W. Southgate, of Covington, and Chas. Fox, of Cincinnati,
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attorneys for plaintiff, and Thos. Morris, late U. S. senator, and Salmon P. Chase, attorneys for defendant. Another action, tried a few days after, under the penal statute, resulted in a verdict against Van Zandt of $500.
Aug. 1-In a personal difficulty, aris- ing from Sam. M. Brown disputing a state- ment of Cassius M. Clay while the latter was speaking, at Russell's, in Fayette county, Brown fired at Clay with a pistol, the ball striking just under the fifth rib, when Clay advanced on him with a Bowie knife, and cut and gashed his eye, ear, nose, and head horribly ; Clay's life was saved by the ball striking the scabbard of his knife ; Brown recovered.
On the same day, on board the steamboat Georgia, on her trip from Old Point Com- fort, Va., to Baltimore, a young man named J. McLean Gardner attempts to as- sassinate the U. S. postmaster general, Chas. A. Wickliffe, of Ky., by striking him twice in the breast with a clasp knife. The young man was found to be insane, and sent to an asylum.
Aug. 9-5 whigs and 5 democrats elect- ed to congress ; 26 whigs and 12 democrats to the state senate, and 62 whigs and 38 democrats to the house of representatives.
Sept. 28-Geo. W. Williams, of Bourbon county, raises on one acre, carefully culti- vated but in an unfavorable season, 127 bushels, 6 gallons, 1 quart, and 112 pints of corn; in a field of oats, much blown down by the wind and injured by blight, one acre yields 49 bushels.
Nov. 14- Ex-president John Quincy Adams visits Maysville, and is eseorted with great enthusiasm to the Presbyterian church, where Gen. Richard Collins, in his address of welcome, declares that Mr. Adams " had placed Kentucky under deep and lasting obligations for his noble de- fense of her great statesman ( Henry Clay), in his letter to the whigs of New Jersey ;' to which Mr. Adams replied :
statesman who was associated with me in the administration of the general govern- ment, at my earnest solicitation-who be- longs not to Kentucky alone, but to the whole Union ; and is not only an honor to his state and this nation, but to mankind. The charges to which you refer, I have, after my term of service had expired, and it was proper for me to speak, denied be- fore the whole country. And I here reit- erate and reaffirm that denial; and, as I expect shortly to appear before my God, to answer for the conduct of my whole life, should those charges have found their way to the Throne of Eternal Justice, I WILL, IN THE PRESENCE OF OMNIPOTENCE, PRO- XOUNCE THEM FALSE."
Nov. 15-Great debate at Lexington, on baptism and other subjects, between Elder Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Va., of the Reformed or Christian church, and Rev. Nathan L. Rice, of Paris, Ky., of the Presbyterian Church ; George Robert-
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son, John Speed Smith, and Henry Clay moderators ; continues for three weeks, and is attended by hundreds of people from a distance.
Dee. 15-Kentucky bonds sell in New York at 10712.
1844, Jan. 3-Steamboat Shepherdess strikes a snag, three miles below St. Louis, and sinks rapidly, carrying down from 40 to 100 lives ; among them, the owner, Capt. Abram P. Howell, of Covington, and other Kentuekians.
March 1-Common school law amended.
Ratio of representation for next four years fixed at 1251 voters.
March 16-Steamboat Alex Scott reaches Cairo in 3 days 10 hours from New Or- leans.
Mason county tobacco establishes a fine reputation in the New Orleans market ; and is quoted separately, at high figures.
May 16-General Assembly of the (Old School) Presbyterian church in the United States of America convened in Louisville.
June-Greatest flood ever known in the Missouri, Mississippi, Illinois, and Red rivers, 31% feet higher than the great flood of 1785; crops destroyed, and too late to plant again after the waters sub- side, stock drowned or strayed, dwellings and outhouses swept off or inundated, breadstuffs and provisions ruined, the in- habitants scattered in every direction, des- titute and homeless ; a large portion of St. Louis overflowed ; in part of Louis- iana, where the high water made a lake 500 miles wide, destruction and desolation were around, and hunger and terror upon all living creatures.
Very exciting political contest for gov- ernor and president. Many political meet- ings are held all over the state, each at- tended by from 1,500 to 15,000 people.
Aug. 7-Vote for governor : Wm. Ows- ley (whig) 59,680, Wm. O. Butler (demo- crat) 55,056-majority 4,624; for lieuten- ant governor, Archibald Dixon (w.) 60,-
" I thank you, sir, for the opportunity : 070, Wm. S. Pilcher (dem.) 43,989-ma- you have given me of speaking of the great jority 11,081.
Aug. 30-Workshops and machinery in the Kentucky penitentiary burnt down ; loss $40,000 ; no convicts escaped.
Sept. 10-Mr. Gibbon, editor of the Smithland Bee, while walking on the street with his little daughter, shot and killed by Dr. Snyder.
Sept. 13-Daniel Bates killed, in Clay county, Ky., by Dr. Abner Baker, a mon- onianiac.
Sept. 26-Gov. Letcher, having among his last official acts, appointed this as a day of " prayer, praise and thanksgiving," it is largely observed ; it is the first thanks- giving-day ever appointed by a governor of the state.
Oct. 23-Terrific explosion of the steam- boat Lucy Walker, about 8 miles below Louisville, in the middle of the Ohio river ; the ladies cabin takes fire, and the boat rapidly sinks in 15 feet water; about 50 passengers killed and missing, and 20 wounded.
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A manufactory of silk established at Newport, by Wm. B. Jackson and Brother; handkerchiefs and other goods of smooth and excellent texture ; cocoons raised, and silk spun and woven in Kentucky.
Nov. 6-Vote for president and vice- president : Henry Clay and Theodore Frelinghuysen (whigs) 61,255, James K. Polk and Geo. M. Dallas (democrats) 51,- 988-majority 9,267.
Nov. 26-Citizens of Frankfort organize the "Clay Testimonial Society of Ken- tucky," with ex-Gov. Letcher president, and an executive committee of 26; "for the purpose of building a column of stone not less than 100 feet high, on one of the eminences adjacent to" Frankfort; the contribution of $1 to constitute member- ship, and no one allowed to subscribe more than $5 ; "each member's name to be en- graved on a plate of metal, deposited un- der the corner stone of the column, and also preserved in a well-bound volume of parchment, to be kept forever by the soci- ety." A handsome sum was promptly subscribed in Frankfort.
Dec. 23-Miss Delia A. Webster, (who has been confined for several months in the jail at Lexington upon a charge of ab- ducting slaves and conveying them to the state of Ohio), tried, convicted, and sen- tenced to two years in the penitentiary. The jury, in consideration of her sex, unanimously sign a petition to the gov- ernor for her pardon. [Gov. Owsley re- ceived many petitions to the same purport, and on Feb. 25, after she had spent sev- en weeks in the penitentiary, he pardoned her; and she left immediately, with her father, for their home in Vermont.] Feb. 13, 1844, Rev. Calvin Fairbanks, (who was Miss Webster's companion and princi- pal in the guilt of negro stealing, and ar- rested at the same time,) was convicted upon his own confession, and the jury fixed the period of his confinement in the penitentiary at 15 years.
1845, Feb. 10-Common school law adopt- ed, embracing the provisions of previous acts ......... Consent of the legislature given to the United States, to purchase and hold the Louisville and Portland canal, and any additional land necessary for its cnlarge- ment ......... Control of the capitol square surrendered to the trustees of Frankfort, to be laid off into walks, and trees and shrub- bery planted.
Feb. 28-Congress passes resolutions for the annexation of Texas.
Two runaway slaves of Peter Driskell, of Mason county, Ky., are appreliended by his agent, Col. Charles S. Mitchell and others, in Sandusky, Ohio, but rescued and set free by the machinations of the aboli- tionists and a dishonest judge named Farwell, setting at defiance the laws of congress and of Ohio, which had been complied with.
March 5-Clifton R. Thompson, of Fay- ette county, shot dead in the court house at Mountsterling, during the sitting of .
March 13-63 choice ewes, belonging to Capt. John A. Holton, of Franklin county, and selected for breeders because of the fineness of their wool, killed by dogs, in one night. A few nights after, John Chiles, of Harrodsburg, lost 70 fine-wool ewes, by dogs. The annual destruction of sheep by dogs, in the state, estimated at 10,- 000.
March 14-Gov. Bartley, of Ohio, refuses to comply with a requisition of Gov. Ows- ley, of Ky., for the delivery of a man named Kissam, charged with kidnapping slaves.
March 18-Great fire at Crab Orchard ; 26 houses, in the business part of town, burnt.
April 1-Population of Lexington, by a census just taken, 8,178; whites 4,999, blacks 3,179; value of taxable property, $3,039,608.
April 9-The officers of the 123d regi- ment of Ky. militia unanimously, by news- paper communications and petitions, seek the abolition of the present militia system.
April 10-Great fire at Pittsburg, Pa .; 982 houses burnt, value $2,566,500, and of personal property $2,000,000. Much sym- pathy felt in Ky., and subscriptions made for the relief of the sufferers.
April 25-In answer to a requisition from the governor of Ky., for the delivery up for trial of a free mulatto who had stolen several slaves from Harrodsburg, and es- caped to Indiana, Gov. Whitcomb, of that state, issued a warrant for his arrest and delivery to a Ky. officer. The abolitionists at Madison attempted to obstruct the course of the law, but were foiled by the promptness and decision of the Ky. officer, Mr. Blackstone.
May 19-The convention of delegates of the Methodist E. Church in the southern and south-western states, adjourns, having been in session at Louisville since May 1. They resolve to erect the annual confer- ences therein represented into a distinct ecclesiastical connection, to be called the "Methodist Episcopal Church South ;" and to hold the first general conference in Pe- tersburg, Va., May 1, 1846.
May 20-In the (Old School) Presbyter- ian general assembly, in session in Cincin- nati, the report and resolutions on slavery (drawn by Rev. Nathan L. Rice, D. D., then of Cincinnati, but recently of Ken- tucky,) are adopted by ycas 166, nays 12, not voting 4; of the yeas, 100 were from the northern and 66 froin the southern states.
May 23-Judge McLean, in the U. S. circuit court at Indianapolis, decides that slaves taken from Ky. by their owner in 1825 to Illinois, and there used and em- ployed as slaves, although removed after- wards to Missouri and kept in slavery for years, became entitled to their freedom by the act of the owner in taking them to and keeping them in a free state, and must now be sct free.
June 4-True American newspaper is- court, by his brother-in-law Henry Daniel. sued at Lexington, Cassius M. Clay editor
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June 8-Death of ex-president Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tenn.
June 9-Lewis Sanders, U. S. hemp agent at Louisville, institutes tests of the relative strength of Kentucky water-rotted and Russian hemp ; a rope of the former, 1 7-10 inches in circumference, parted at 2,940 pounds, while a larger rope of Rus- sian hemp, 1 8-10 inches in circumference, only bore a strain of 2,218 pounds when it parted.
July-Population of Covington, by a census just taken, 4,388; whites 4,185, blacks 203. Of Newport 1,710; whites 1,634, blacks 76.
July 22-Death of Miss Browning, the Kentucky giantess, near Flemingsburg ; her weight was - pounds, and size
Aug. 6-7 whigs and 3 democrats elected to congress. Of the new senators elected, 6 are whigs, 4 democrats, and the house of representatives stands 63 whigs and 37 democrats.
Aug. 14-" At a meeting of sundry citi- zens of Lexington, at the court house," Benj. W. Dudley, Thos. II. Waters, and John W. Hunt are appointed a committee "to wait upon Cassius M. Clay, editor of the ' True American,' and request him to discontinue its publication, as its further continuance, in our judgment, is danger- ous to the peace of our community, and to the safety of our homes and families; " and adjourn to meet at 3 P. M., Aug. 15. To their note inclosing the action of the meeting, Mr. Clay, " from a bed of sick- ness of more than a month's standing " (his disease typhoid fever), writes a defi- ant reply, which was read to the adjourned meeting ; which, thereupon, issues a call " for a general meeting of the people of the city and county to be held on Monday, Aug. 18, at 11 A. M., at the court house, to take into consideration the most effectual steps to secure their interests from the ef- forts of abolition fanatics and incendia- ries." At this meeting, Waller Bullock chairman, Benj. Gratz secretary, and at- tended by a large concourse from Fayette and the adjoining counties, another com- munication from Cassius M. Clay was read. Thos. F. Marshall submitted an address, setting forth the incendiary character of Mr. Clay's paper, and six resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. Under the 6th resolution, a committee of 60 prom- inent citizens (among them Geo. W. John- son, chairman, James B. Clay, secretary, Moses Morrison, Richard Higgins, Hiram Shaw, Wm. B. Kinkead, James B. Waller, Geo. W. Norton, Franklin Tilford, Thos. H. Shelby, Thos. S. Redd, Dr. J. C. Dar- by, Wm. R. McKee, Richard Spurr, Ed- ward Oldham and Dr. J. Bush) was ap- pointed, "authorized to proceed to the of- fice of the 'True American,' take posses- sion of press and printing apparatus, pack up the same, and place it at the railroad office for transportation to Cincinnati, and report forth with [at 2 p. M .. ] to this body." On reaching the office door, the key was given up by the city marshal to the chair-
man of the committee. The mayor was also at the door, and "gave notice that the committee was acting in opposition to law, but that the city authorities could offer no forcible resistance to them." The names of the committee were called, and each one admitted to the office, and the door closed. " On motion of Maj. Wm. R. McKee, it was resolved that the committee hold itself responsible for anything which might be lost or destroyed, whilst the com- mittee were performing the duty assigned to them." Printers were "appointed to take down the press," and others "to put up the type," and " the secretary took a list of the property as packed up." "The secretary containing the private papers of the editor of the 'True American,' by unanimous resolution, was sent to his house." The committee, as directed by the meeting, notified Mr. Clay by letter " that the press, type, etc., of the 'True American' paper have been carefully put up, and shipped by railroad and steamer to Cincinnati," to the care of Messrs. Jan- uary & Taylor, subject to his order, and that the charges and expenses upon them have been paid." They reached Cincin- nati on Friday, Aug. 22.
Sept. 3-Several of a gang of counter- feiters arrested at Warsaw, and committed to jail. Also, John and Wm. Banton ar- rested in Lincoln county, and their estab- lishment for manufacturing counterfeit notes and coin, one of the most extensive and perfect in the Union, captured and broken up.
Sept. 6-Gov. Owsley is notified by the secretary of war, that Gen. Zachary Tay- lor is authorized to call upon Ky. for troops to repel the apprehended Mexican invasion. Gov. O. replies that any requi- sition upon Ky. will be promptly and gal- lantly responded to.
Sept. 10 -Great excitement in Clay county, Ky. The jail guarded to prevent escape of prisoners. Gen. Peter Dudley, sent thither by Gov. Owsley, orders out two companies of troops from Madison county, under Col John Miller, to main- tain the supremacy of the laws-who re- main until after the execution of Dr. Ba- ker, Oct. 3.
Sept. 13-Re-interment of the remains of Daniel Boone and his wife in the state cemetery at Frankfort. [Sec description on page 251, vol. ii.]
Sept. 18-Trial before Judge Trotter, of the Lexington city court, of the members of the " committee of 60," on a charge of riot on Aug. 18th, in removing the press and types of the " True American " news- paper. After a full hearing of the testi- mony and argument, "the jury without hesitation gives a verdict of not guilty."
Sept. 20-Population of Louisville, by & census just taken, 37,218.
Sept. 22-Suicide at Richmond, by blow- ing out his brains with a pistol, of John White, judge of the 19th judicial district, and recently speaker of the lower house of congress and member thereof for ten years.
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Sept. 22-The citizens of Maysville and Mason county, tender a public dinner to James C. Pickett, late U. S. chargé d' af- faires to Peru.
Sept. 30-Debate at Cincinnati, between Rev. J. Blanchard and Rev. Nathan L. Rice, D. D., both of that city, but Dr. R. recently of Ky., upon the question, "Is slavery in itself sinful, and the relation between the master and slave a sinful re- lation ? " The former affirms, the latter denies.
Oct. 13-An adjourned meeting of citi- zens of Mason county, at Washington, Lewis Collins chairman, Richard H. Stan- ton secretary, adopts Judge Beatty's reso- lutions in reference to the Fayette county meeting which suppressed the "True American" newspaper, condemning in strong language " the intemperate and in- flammatory character " of that paper, and "the reply of its editor to the request to discontinue its publication as conceived in a spirit of outrage, wholly unjustifiable, and meriting the severest reprobation," and recommending that laws be passed, inflicting such penalties upon incendiary abolition publications in our state, as shall effectually prevent their being hereafter circulated."" John A. McClung, Francis T. Chambers, Judge Adam Beatty, and Elijah C. Phister advocate them, while Henry Waller, Wm. Tebbs Reid, Richard H. Stanton, and Col. Jacob A. Slack favor stronger resolutions.
Similar meetings had already been held in Jefferson and Nelson counties.
Oct. 25-Rev. Alex. M. Cowan, agent of the Kentucky colonization society, collects $5,000 to purchase a district of country 40 miles square in Africa, to be called " Ken- tucky in Liberia," as a home for colored colonists from Kentucky. The first colony for its settlement leaves Louisville, Jan. 7,1846.
Oct. 28-Col. James C. Pickett, of Ky., late U. S. charge d'affaires to Peru, pre- sents to the National Institute at Wash- ington city a fragment of the flag (of plain white silk, and now over 300 years old) of Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru, and a lock of hair of Gen. Bolivar, the great champion of South American independence.
Nov. 10-In pursuance to a call signed by 456 citizens of Mason county, another meeting (very greatly larger than the one in Oct.) is held at Washington, to consider the questions growing out of the action of the citizens of Lexington, Aug. 18, in sup- pressing the "True American." Eight resolutions, all much stronger and more pointed than those previously adopted, are offered by Henry Waller, advocated by him, Francis T. Hord, and John D. Taylor, and unanimously adopted.
Nov. 20-Thanksgiving day, in accord- ance with Gov. Owsley's proclamation, ob- served for the second time.
Joel T. Hart, of Ky., selected by the ladies of Virginia as the sculptor of the statute of Henry Clay to be erected in Richmond.
Nov. 30-Snow falls to the depth of 9 inches.
Dec. 6-Ohio river frozen over, for the first time in 12 years so early in the season; it breaks up on the 10th.
Dec. 31-1,585 steamboats and 394 flat and keel boats, 31S,741 tons, have passed through the Louisville and Portland canal since Jan. 1, 1845, paying $138,391 toll. From the opening of the canal, Jan. 1, 1831, to date, 15 years, 16,817 steamboats (an average of 1,121 per year) and 5,263 flat and keel boats, with a total tonnage of 3,048,692, have passed the canal, and paid in tolls $1,506,306.
1846, Jan. 13-Cassius M. Clay, of Ky., editor of the "True American" now printed at Cincinnati, addresses a great meeting at the Tabernacle, in the city of New York. Resolutions complimentary of him, and reflecting sharply on the meet- ing at Lexington in August last, unani- mously adopted. Next evening, at the same place, and to a "very thin " au- dience, he lectures again, " for the benefit of the colored orphan asylum, with extreme reluctance, as he was sure it would operate to his injury at home."
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