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Jan. 15-The bill to take the sense of the people as to the propriety of calling a convention to revise the constitution de- feated in the state senate, by 20 to 18. It had passed the house, Jan. 12, by 56 to 40.
Jan. 28-In the long-pending suit of the bank of Kentucky vs. the Schuylkill bank, at Philadelphia, Judge King de- cides the entire controversy in favor of the plaintiff ; making the Ky. bank responsi- ble to the holders of the spurious stock ; and, as it had actually made such compen- sation already, an order was entered refer- ring to a master the computation of the over-issue of spurious stock, and the amount of indemnity which the bank of Ky. was entitled to recover from the Schuylkill bank ; the latter was adjudged to have been in law, as well as in fact, the transfer agent of the Ky. bank from March 18, 1835, to Dec. 16, 1839. [$1,184,- 738 was ascertained to be the amount of indemnity.]
Feb. 7-Acts pass the legislature to es- tablish the university of Louisville. 10 - To incorporate the Covington and Cincinnati bridge company .. ...... 13 - To incorporate the Maysville college ... 23 -Further to protect the rights of married women ; their slaves not liable for the hus- band's debts; and the husband's estate not liable for the wife's debts contracted before marriage Act to incorporate the Licking river navigation company.
March 7-John U. Waring assassinated, about noon, on the street in Versailles ; a rifle ball, fired from the garret of Shelton's tavern, entered his forehead, passing down his throat, into his lungs.
March 23-At 12:45 A. M., two shocks of an earthquake were felt in northern Ken- tucky, shaking houses perceptibly, and preceded by a rumbling sound as of dis- tant thunder.
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April 25-Partial eclipse of the sun, phrey Marshall, of Louisville, Lieut. Col. about one-third ; but over the most of Ky. Ezekiel H. Field, of Woodford county, Maj. John P. Gaines, of Boone county, embraces the following companies : the eclipse itself was eclipsed by the inter- vening clouds. Silliman's Journal, New Haven, Conn., after describing this eclipse, Ist, Jefferson county, Capt. W. J. Heady. a month before its appearance, adds : 211, Capt. A. Pennington.
"During the remainder of the present century there will be but five eclipses cen- tral in any part of the Atlantic states, viz : those of May 26, 1854, and Sept. 29, 1875, annular in Massachusetts, and that of Oct. 19, 1869, in the Carolinas ; whilst those of Aug. 7, 1869, and May 28, 1900, will be to- tal in North Carolina and Virginia."
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May 8-Gen. Zachary Taylor defeats
the Mexicans at Palo Alto, and, next day, at Resaca de la Palma.
May 13-Congress declares that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico, a state of war exists between that government and the United States."
Maj .- Gen. E. P. Gaines makes a requi- sition on the Gov. of Ky. for 4 regiments of volunteers, comprising 2,400 men.
(Sunday) May 17-In expectation of, but before receiving, a formal call, Gov. Owsley, by proclamation, appeals to Ken- tuckians " to form themselves into volun- teer companies," and report to him forth- with.
May 18-The Louisville Legion, 9 coin- panies, commanded by Col. Ormsby, offer their services to the governor, and are ac- cepted ......... Wm. Preston procures a sub- scription of $50,000 in Louisville, which he places to the credit of the governor in the bank of Ky., to be used if necessary, in dispatching troops to the seat of war. The Northern bank of Ky., at Lexington, tenders Gov. Owsley $250.000 for the same purpose.
May 20-Duel, near Bethlehem, In- diana, between James S. Jackson, of Lex- ington, and Robert Patterson, of Frank- fort, Ky. ; Thos. F. Marshall the second of Jackson, and Geo. B. Crittenden of Pat- terson ; after exchanging shots without effect, the difficulty is amicably settled.
May 22-Formal proclamation of Gov. Owsley for two regiments of infantry or riflemen, and one of cavalry, for the serv- ice of the United States against Mexico. The President calls upon the states for 43,500 men in all.
May 26-The governor announces, by proclamation, that the requisition upon Ky. for troops is full. The 1st regiment of in- fantry, the Louisville Legion, has em- barked. The 2d regiment of infantry, Col. Wm. R. McKee, of Lexington, Lieut. Col. Henry Clay, Jr., of Louisville, Maj. Cary H. Fry, of Danville, is composed of the following companies :
Ist, Green county ... Capt. W'm. H. Maxcy.
2d, Franklin .. ... Capt. Franklin Chambers.
3d1, Mercer ... Capt. Phil. B. Thompson. 4th, Boyle ... Capt. Speed smith Fry.
5th, Kenton
... Capt. Gro. W. Cutter.
6th, Jesgamine ... Capt. Wm. T. Willis.
7th, Lincoln 16 ... Capt. Wmn. Dougherty.
8th, Kenton ... Capt. Wm. M. Joymr.
9th, Montg'ry .. ... Capt. Wilkerson Turpin. 10th, Anderson ... Capt. Geo. W. Kavanaugh.
The Ist regiment of cavalry, Col. Ilum-
3d. Fayette
Capt. Cassius M. Clay.
4th, Woodford
Capt. Thos. F. Marshall.
5th, Madison
Capt. J. C. Stone.
6th. Garrard 6. Capt. J. Price.
7th, Fayette 66 Capt. G. L. Postlethwaite.
8th, Gallatin Capt. J. S. Lillard.
9th, Harrison Capt. John Shawhan.
10th, Franklin Capt. B. C. Milam.
In addition to these, the company of John S. Williams, of Clark county, having been excluded from the above quota by a mistake, was specially accepted by order of the War Department. 105 companies in all, being 75 more than were called for, were organized, and tendered to the gov- ernor. 12,000 men could have been raised, if required.
June 18-Five magistrates of Franklin county, as members of the county court, are put in jail for refusing to obey a sum- mons to appear in the court of appeals, and answer why they refused to obcy the decision of that court in the case of Gor- ham ts. Luckett.
June 29-Appointments by President Polk : Zachary Taylor, to be major gen- eral in the regular army, Wm. O. Butler, of Carroll county, Ky., to be major general of volunteers, and Thomas Marshall, of Lewis county, Ky., to be brigadier general of volunteers.
July 8-Trial of Lafayette Shelby for the killing of young Horine, at Lexington, concluded by the non-agreeing and the discharge of the jury, who stood 4 for con- viction and 8 for acquittal ; next day, he is admitted to bail by judge Buckner, in $10,000, and released from jail. A public meeting is held, strongly condemnatory of the course and result of the trial; the judge and 8 jurors hung in effigy, not only in Lexington, but in Richmond, Nicholas- ville, Georgetown, and other places. So great is the popular excitement and out- break, that a majority of the Fayette and Scott county bar deem it proper to address a communication to the public in defense of the judge, expressing high confidence in the correctness of his judicial opinions, his impartiality, unblemished integrity, and personal honor.
Aug. 5-In Mason county, 1,426 vote for the removal of the county scat from Wash - ington to Maysville, and 1,194 against it -majority 232.
26 whigs and 12 democrats elected to the senate, and 64 whigs and 36 democrats to the house of representatives.
Sept. 1-Gov. Owsley removes Benj. Hardin, and appoints Geo. B. Kinkead in his place as secretary of state. Mr. Har- din, in Oct., attempts, in the Franklin circuit court, by a motion for a manda - mus, to test the governor's power under the constitution to remove him, but the case was taken under advisement. Jan. 4, 1847, Gov. Owsley brought the case be- fore the senate, by a long message and
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nomination of Mr. Kinkead for the office, ; the thigh ; wound net dangerous. Ward which Mr. Hardin resisted by a memorial. walked up to Marshall, who extended his hand, and they returned to Frankfort as friends, on the same steamboat which brought them down as enemies. Just be- fore firing, Ward handed his second & note, in which he stated he did not wish to kill Marshall, but would hit him within an inch of the spot where his ball took ef- fect. The controversy was prolonged until Feb. 16, when the senate, by 30 to 8, decided that there was no vacancy in the office, and for that reason rejected the nomina- tion. On the 18th, Mr. Hardin informed the senate, by communication, that he had sent to the governor his resignation of the office. Feb. 20, the governor again nom- inated Mr. Kinkead, and he was unani- mously confirmed.
Sept. 24-Capture of Monterey, Mexico. The Louisville Legion, being posted to guard a mortar battery, and exposed to the enemy's cannon for about 24 hours without being able to return their fire, hold in check the enemy's cavalry, and "display obedience, patience, discipline, and calm courage." Maj. Gen. Wm. O. Butler seriously wounded, and Maj. Philip Norbourne Barbour, of the 3d regular in- fantry, killed (both Kentuckians.)
Oct. 4-Duel at Port Lavacca, Texas, between Capt. Thos. F. Marshall and. Lieut. James S. Jackson, of Capt. Cassius M. Clay's company, both of the Kentucky cavalry regiment ; two shots exchanged, but both escape unhurt.
Nov. 2-The number of inquiries, this day, at the general delivery of the Louis- ville post office for letters was 1,964-of which 538 for or by ladies, and 1,426 for or by gentlemen. The name of Smith was inquired for 33 times, of Johnson 28 times, of Clark 23, Jones 21, Wilson 20, Brown 19, Williams 17, and Evans 13 times. This was believed to be an average of the daily applications at the general delivery.
Nov. 23-Celebrated breach of promise case at Louisville, Miss Nano Hays 08. John Hays, results in a verdict of $6,000 for plaintiff.
Dec. 10-Population of Covington, by a census just taken, 4,976.
Dec. 25-Gen. Alex. W. Doniphan (for- merly of Mason county, Ky.) defeats the Mexicans at Bracito.
1847, Jan. 9-Legislature passes an act to take the sense of the people of the state as to the propriety of calling a convention to amend the constitution, by a vote of 30 to 8 in the senate, and 81 to 17 in the house ........ 16-Benefit of clergy abolished. 20-Kentucky Military institute, in Franklin county, incorporated.
Jan. 14-The bill of mnost exciting and absorbing interest before the legislature, to remove the seat of justice of Mason county from Washington to Maysville, is defeated in the house by 49 to 51. Jan. 28, a bill was passed by 67 to 30, providing for another and final vote of the people upon the question ; but, Feb. 16, it was laid upon the table in the senate, by 18 to 15.
Jau. 19-Mr. Ward, of Missouri, and Ed- ward C. Marshall, of Cincinnati, (both law- yers, and recently from Ky.) leave Frank- fort for Utica, Indiana, to fight a duel with rifles at 75 paces. Marshall's shot missed, but Ward's took effect in the fleshy part of
Jan. 20-Maj. John P. Gaines and Capt. Cassius M. Clay, with 30 Ky. caval- ry, and Maj. Borland and 50 Arkansas cavalry, are surrounded at Encarnacion by an overwhelming force of Mexican cavalry, and compelled to surrender, taken to the city of Mexico, and imprisoned.
Jan. 29-Death of Monroe Edwards, the most expert forger in America, in the hos- pital of Sing Sing prison, N. Y., of con- sumption.
Feb. 12-On the 29th ballot, after voting on seven days, Jos. R. Underwood, (whig) is elected U. S. senator for 6 years from March 4, 1847. During the voting, Rob- ert P. Letcher received as high as 51, and Thos. Metcalfe 23 votes (both whigs), and Albert G. Hawes 46, Lynn Boyd 28, James Guthrie 31, and General Robert B. McAfee 39 votes (all democrats).
Feb. 17-Flat boats and water craft de- scending the slack-watered rivers, from a point above slack water, not to pay tolls for passing over the dams ...... 23-Char- ter of the Licking river navigation com- pany declared forfeited .. .Kentucky Fe- male Orphan school incorporated. .. Western Military institute (at George- town) incorporated .. .... 25-Act to pre- vent the wanton destruction of fish by seines or set nets .... ..... 27-Act for the construction and protection of Morse's magnetic telegraphic lines.
Feb. 23-Resolutions passed by the leg- islature, complimentary to the Louisville Legion, and to Gens. Zachary Taylor and Wm. O. Butler for their gallantry, etc., in Mexico, and directing the presentation of a sword to each of those generals, and to the widow of Major Philip Norbourne Barbour. (Maj. B. fell at Monterey, and his body was directed to be buried in the state cemetery at Frankfort.)
Feb. 22-3-Gen. Taylor, after two days of remarkably severe fighting, wins a great victory over the Mexicans at Buena Vista. Of 330 Ky. cavalry under Col. Humphrey Marshall, and 571 2d Ky. regiment of foot under Col. Wm. R. Mchce and Lieut. Col. Henry Clay, Jr., 27 cavalry and 44 foot are killed, and 34 cavalry and 57 foot wounded-among the killed Cols. McKee and Clay. The entire American loss is 267 killed and 456 wounded, out of 4,759 engaged; the Mexican loss, of 20,340 en- gaged, nearly 2,000, of whom 500 are left dead upon the field.
Feb. 28-Gen. Doniphan defcats the Mexicans at Sacramento, in Chihuahua.
March 1-Licking and Lexington rail- road and Louisville and Frankfort railroad companies incorporated ...... Central mound
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in the Frankfort cemetery conveyed to the | of Lexington ; orator of the day, Maj. state for a public burying ground.
Samuel H. Clay, of Bourbon county, awarded by the Bourbon agricultural so- ciety the premium for the largest yield of corn to the acre, grown in 1846; his acre measured 23 barrels 3 bu. 1 peck 1 gal. 3 qts. 1 pint.
March 10-Four companies of the 16th regiment of infantry (regulars) raised in Ky., to be under Col. John W. Tibbatts, of Newport, Ky.
March 24-Flood in the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers, and high water in the Ohio; at Paducah, higher than ever since 1832, and only about 212 feet lower than the flood of that year.
April 18-Storming of Cerro Gordo, Mexico. Capt. John S. Williams' company (the only Kentucky company engaged) be- have with distinguished valor.
May 12-Books for subscription to the stock of the Licking and Lexington rail- road open at Covington for 3 days, and only 20 shares taken.
May 27-Chief Justice Ephraim M. Ew- ing resigns, and, June 1, James Simpson is appointed to the appellate bench.
June 8-Maj. John P. Gaines, while still a prisoner of war in Mexico, is nomi- nated for congress by a whig convention at Covington ; and, Aug. 4, elected by 124 majority over Gen. Lucius B. Desha, the democratic nominee.
June 9-A mammoth ox of the Patton breed, weighing 3,250 pounds, raised in Bath county, sells for $225.
June 15-Gen. Leslie Combs, in a Phil- adelphia court, recovers a judgment for $14,500 against the bank of Ky. for fee as a lawyer in the Schuylkill bank case.
June 22-Bourbon county agricultural society gives a premium for the greatest amount of clean merchantable hemp, the product of one acre of ground, to Isaac Wright, whose acre raised 1,355 pounds, while that of Michael Neff raised 1,200, and that of John Allen Gano 1,192 pounds.
June 22-Henry Clay unites with the Episcopal church at Lexington, and is baptized in the parlor of his residence, at Ashland.
July 1-The Northern Bank of Ky. de- clares a semi-annual dividend of 412, the Bank of Ky. of 212, and the Bank of Lou- isville of 3 per cent.
July 11-Death, near Shelbyville, of the celebrated race horse, American Eclipse, which made the famous race with Sir Hen- ry. He was 34 years old, and never lost a race.
July 20-Remains of Col. Wm. R. Mc- Kee, Lieut. Col. Henry Clay, Jr., Capt. Wm. T. Willis, Capt. Wm. H. Maxcy, Ad- jutant E. M. Vaughan, Lieut. James Pow- ell and 11 privates, who fell in Mexico, interred in the state cemetery at Frank- fort ; 20,000 people present ; in the proces- sion, IL volunteer military companies, besides several hundred of the returned soldiers from the Mexican war; funeral discourse by Rev. John H. Brown, D. D.,
John C. Breckinridge ; the occasion re- markably impressive and solemn.
Aug 4-To congress 6 whigs and 4 dem- ocrats elected; to the state senate 27 whigs and 11 democrats, and to the house of rep- resentatives 59 whigs and 41 democrats. The question of calling a convention to amend the constitution received 92,639 out of 137,311 qualified voters in the state.
Aug. 31-Requisition upon Ky. for two more regiments of infantry for service in the Mexican war. Before Sept. 20, they are reported and organized as follows :
3d regiment : Col. Manlius V. Thomson, of Georgetown, Lieut. Col. Thos. L. Crit- tenden, of Frankfort, Maj. John C. Breck- inridge, of Lexington :
COMP'Y. MEN. COUNTY. CAPTAIN.
1 ......... $1 .... .. Laurel. .A. F. Caldwell. 2. ... 96. Estill W. P. Chiles.
3 ......... 6 ... Shelby Thomas Todd.
4 ......... 91 ... Bourbon ....... Win. E. Simms.
*5 ......... 94. Scott. .John R. Smith.
6 ...... ... 97. Bath .. James Ewing.
7 ..... .. 125 Fleming ..... Leander M. Cox.
8 ..... 101 Nicholas ...... Leonidas Metcalfe. 9 .. .98 Boone .. .J. A. Prichard.
10 ..... .. 97 .. Fayette. ..... L. B. Robinson.
4th Regiment : Col. John S. Williams, of Winchester, Lieut. Col. Wm. Preston, of Louisville, Maj. Wm. T. Ward, of Greensburg :
COMP'Y. MEN. COUNTY. CAPTAIN.
1 ......... 70 ... Caldwell .J. S. Corum. 2. ..... 94. Livingston G. B. Cook. 3. .... 91 .... Daviess. Decius McCreery.
4 ......... 92 ... .Hart .. P. H. Gardner.
5 ......... 68 ......:.. Jefferson .. T. Keating.
6 ......... 94 ... Adair John C. Squires.
7 ........ 100 ...
Pulaski. .John G. Lair.
8 ......... 01 .. Washington ... M. R. Hardin.
9 ........ 114 ... Nelson. B. Rowan Hardin
10 ......... 92. Henry .... A. W. Bartlett.
12 other companies reported-one each from Mason, Montgomery, Fayette, Madi- son, Bullitt, Hardin, Campbell, Harrison and Franklin counties, and three from the city of Louisville ; a number of others partially made up, ceased their efforts on learning that the requisition was full.
In Capt. Cox's company, from Fleming, 25 men were over six feet high.
Sept. 16-Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista, from Shelby, Mont- gomery, and Franklin counties, interred with funeral honors in the state cemetery.
Sept. 14-Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge, D. D., LL.D., appointed superintendent of public instruction, to succeed Rev. Ry- land T. Dillard, who resigned because of ill health.
Considerable interest among the scien- tific and curious, by the publication of Orrin Lindsay's "Voyage around the Moon, a brief account of some novel ex- periments upon gravitation, and also a narrative of two voyages into empty space."
Nov. 13-Great speech of Henry Clay, at Lexington, on the Mexican war.
Nov. 22-Edwin Bedford, of Bourbon county, sells to Mr. Beresford, of Cincinnati, seven hogs of his own raising, which aver- age in weight 720 pounds.
Nov. 27-A lady now living in Mays-
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ville, only 68 years old, has had 160 de- scendants. She was married at 14, was a mother at 15 years and two months, and has had 18 children ; her grandchildren have exceeded 100 in number, of whom 89 are living ; she has 28 great-grandchild- ren living, and has buried 10.
Dec. 9 and 10-Remarkably heavy rains, producing a great freshet in Licking, Ken- tucky, and Cumberland rivers and their branches ; several small streams rise so fast during the night of Dec. 10th, as to compel people to flee in their night-clothes to the second story of their houses and to the hills. The North Fork of Licking was from 5 to 10 feet higher than ever known ; and just south of Millersburg, the Mays- ville and Lexington Turnpike road was for several hours overflowed to the depth of 7 to 10 feet. Much of the town of Frank- fort was submerged, the water from 3 to 6 feet deep in houses. Immense damage done, in washing away houses, mills, dams, fences, stacks of grain and hay, hogs and other farm stock. On Lulbegrud creek, in Clark and Montgomery coun- ties, Boone's creek in Fayette, Benson creek in Franklin, and Valley creek in Hardin county, every mill was swept off, and most of those on Elkhorn and its forks.
Dec. 16 to 18-Second greatest flood, in this century, in the Ohio river; water, at some points, 6112 feet above low water mark; immense damage done by the undermining of houses, causing their fall and loss of contents ; in thousands of state." dwellings the water up to the second floor, and occupants fleeing for their lives.
Dec. 17-Deepest snow for 10 years past, through middle and eastern Kentucky.
Dec. 18-Ben. B. Grooms, of Clark coun- ty, sells to Alex. Stewart, a Cincinnati butcher, a Durham steer, 5 years old, gross weight considerably ever 3,000 pounds, net weight 2,385 pounds, for 10 cents per pound net; the steer was 16 hands 1 inch high, and took the premium, last Sept., at the Bourbon agricultural fair.
Dec. 30-New steamboat A. N. Johnston blown up, when 10 miles above Maysville, at 1:30 A. M. ; about 45 persons killed, or die from wounds, and many more wounded.
Dec. 31-Lines of telegraph being erected from Maysville to Nashville, via Lexing- ton, Frankfort, Louisville, Bardstown, and Bowling Green, and from Maysville to Cincinnati.
1848, Jan. 6-G. L. Pittman, editor of the Ploughboy at Richmond, mortally wounded by a pistol shot in self-defense from Col. James W. Caperton.
Jan. 14-Duel between Lieut. Hanson and Wm. Duke, of Fayette county, at a point in Indiana opposite the mouth of the Ky. river; Hanson badly wounded in the leg. on the fourth fire.
The bill removing the county seat of Mason county from Washington to Mays- ville passes the house of representatives with only four dissenting votes ; and, Jan. 18, the senate, with only two votes against.
Jan. 15-Legislature passes an act to take another vote upon the propriety of calling a convention to amend the consti- tution ..... .. 29-Also, a severe law against gambling.
Feb. 5-Turnpike roads in which the state holds stock empowered to permit regular ministers of the gospel to travel over them toll-free, when on ministerial duties. 25-$15,000 appropriated to pay for a military monument in the state cemetery, "to commemorate the deeds of Kentucky's gallant dead." 28-$15,- 000 appropriated for the location and erec- tion of a second Kentucky lunatic asylum. Ky. senators and representatives in congress requested to aid in the adoption of Asa Whitney's plan for a " Pacific rail- road," from Lake Michigan to the Pacific ocean ......... Three commissioners to be ap- pointed to negotiate with commissioners from Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois for the settlement of the boundary and jurisdic- tion upon that part of the Ohio river di- viding Ky. from those states ....... .29 --- Ratio of representation for next four years fixed at 1,373 votes for each repre- sentative.
Feb. 29-An act concerning the common school system, Sec. 3, provides for a vote next August " upon the propriety and ex- pediency of imposing a tax of two cents on each $100 worth of taxable property, for the purpose of establishing more per- manently a common school system in the
March 1-The legislature passes resolu- tions complimentary to Major John P. Gaines, Capt. Cassius M. Clay, Lieut. Geo. Davidson, and their 30 companions in arms, taken prisoners at Encarnacion by 3,000 Mexicans ; also, to Capt. Wm. J. Heady, Lieut. Thos. J. Churchill, and their 18 companions, taken prisoners by a superior Mexican force ; also, to Major John P. Gaines for "honorably withdrawing his parole as a prisoner of war, making his escape to the American army, and with it gallantly fighting at Cherubusco, Chapul- tepec, and all the battles fought before the walls and in the city of Mexico- he being the only volunteer from Ky. who participated in the achievements of Gen. Scott and his army in those memorable victories." [Francis M. Lisle, of Clark county, a member of Capt. John S. Wil- liams' company in 1846, instead of return- ing with it, remained and went unhurt through all the battles to the city of Mex- ico, part of the time as volunteer aid to Gen. Twiggs.]
May 21-Death, in Garrard county, of Mrs. Mary Bryant, aged 77, widow of Capt John Bryant, and last child of Thes. Owsley, who emigrated to Ky. from Va. in 1785. Mrs. B. was the mother of 15 children, and had 94 grandchildren, 108 great-grandchildren, and 3 great-great- grandchildren-in all 220 descendants.
May 26-Gen. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, and Gen. Wm. O. Butler, of Ky., nomi- nated by the Democratic national conven-
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tion at Baltimore for president and vice- president.
June 8-Gen. Zachary Taylor, of La., (for 40 years a Kentuckian), and Millard Fillmore, of N. Y., nominated by the Whig national convention at Philadelphia for president and vice-president. For president the several ballotings were :
Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th.
Zachary Taylor. .111
118
133
Henry Clay .. 97
86
74
171 32
Gen. Winfield Scott. 43
50
54
Daniel Webster .. 22
22
17
63 14
John McLean 2
4
1
On the first three ballots, 5 of the Ky. delegation, Jas. Campbell, Jas. Harlan, John B. Huston, Geo. T. Wood, and Wm. R. Griffith voted for Mr. Clay, and John A. McClung, Jas. B. Husbands, Littleton Beard. Jas. W. Hays, Josiah A. Jackson, Robert Mallory, and Benj. Franklin Bedin- ger (7) for Gen. Taylor; on the last ballot James Harlan alone voted for Mr. Clay.
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