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June 22-John J. Crittenden resigns as U. S. senator, to make the race for gov- ernor ; and Thos. Metcalfe is appointed by Gov. Owsley to succeed him. The appoint- ment had first been tendered to Henry Clay, who declined it.
July 1- Hopkinsville selected as the lo- cation for the new lunatic asylum; and the "Spring Hill" farm of 380 acres is deeded for that purpose to the state by the citizens.
July 6-Message of President Polk to congress, announcing the end of the war with Mexico-the ratifications of the treaty having been exchanged at Quereta- ro, Mexico, May 30, 1848.
July 7-Resignation of Col. James Da- vidson, as treasurer of state, who has held the office since Dec., 1825.
Aug. 9 - Vote for governor : John J. Crittenden (whig) 66,466, Lazarus W. Powell (democrat) 57,945-majority 8,521 ; for lieutenant governor, John L. Helin (w.) 64,271, John P. Martin (dem.) 56,549- majority 7,722. The senate stands whigs 27, democrats 11 ; and the house of repre- sentatives 64 whigs, 36 democrats.
There were 101,828 votes cast in favor of ealling a convention to amend the con- stitution, out of 141,620 total voters in the state.
74,628 votes were cast in favor of, and 37,746 against, the proposed tax of two cents on the $100 of taxable property, for common schools. The following is the vote in some of the counties :
For. Ag't.
For. Az't.
Adair ........... 599
606
Hardin .449 1458
Allen . .......... 319
590
Larue ..... .. 233 440
Casey.
161
Laurel. .195
171
.... 421
175
Marion . .692
937
Cumberland ... 350
417
Monroe. ..... 56
474
Green ... ... .... 352
637
Oldham. .632
21KM
Josh. Bell l
Knox, F ... 720
129
Washington .. 953
Wayne. 579
Aug. 5, Saturday night-13 slaves in a gang escape to Ohio, from the neighbor- hood one mile north of Lewisburg, in Ma- con county ; and 42 slaves in a gang from Fayette and Bourbon counties, attempt to
escape, but after proceeding 38 miles, to the neighborhood of Claysville, Harrison county, or of Waller's mill a few miles north, in Bracken county, an effort to cap- ture them brought on a battle, in which a negro shot and dangerously wounded a white man, Chas. HI. Fowler. The ne- groes scattered, but were all captured and secured, 20 at Claysville, 19 in jail at Brooksville. The ringleader, a white ab- olitionist named Patrick or E. J. Doyle, (who had bargained to take each slave to a place of security for $10 each, which he received from some, a stolen gold watch from another, etc.,) was taken to Lexing- ton for trial, and, Oct. 10, sentenced to hard labor in the penitentiary for 20 years, on the charge of enticing away slaves. In Bracken county, the grand jury found a true bill against 7 of the negroes for con- spiracy, insurrection and rebellion, and another for shooting with intent to kill. On the first charge, 3 were found guilty and 4 not guilty. The negroes belonged 2 to Eli Currant of Bourbon county, the others in Fayette county, 1 each to Cas- sius M. Clay, Starke Taylor, Sam'l R. Bullock as executor of Satterwhite, Rich- ard Pindell, Thos. Christian, Alex. Prew- V itt, Mr. Chinn, Mr. Wardlow, and others.
Sept. 16-Ohio river at a lower stage of water than for ten years previous.
Sept. 30-Col. Edward Brooks reaches Frankfort with the bones of the brave Kentuckians who were massacred by the Indians at the River Raisin, Jan. 18, 1812, which are interred in the state cemetery. They had been found in a common grave, and upturned, while digging down a street in Monroe, Michigan. The skulls were all cloven with the tomahawk, and an aged French citizen, a survivor of the massacre, knew them as the bones of the unfortunate Kentuckians, because he re- membered the spot where they were buried.
Oct. 7-About 40 negroes in Woodford county have been furnished with free passes by abolitionists, and are to steal horses and ride off to Ohio to-night, but the plot is discovered and defeated.
Nov. 7-Vote for president and vice- president : Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore 67,486, Lewis Cass and Wm. O. Butler 49,865-majority 17,524.
1849, Jan. 2-The house of representa- tives, on the 22d ballot, elects Gwyn Page, of Louisville, speaker : Page 61, Mark E. Huston 30. The Whig vote pre- viously had been divided between George Robertson. 32 votes, and Willis G. Hughes, 24 votes-the friends of neither yielding their preference, until the withdrawal of Judge Robertson on the 21st ballot, when they united on Mr. Page.
Jan. 3-Gen. Thos. Metcalfe elected U. S. senator until March 4, 1849 : he now holds the office by appointment of the gov- ernor : he received 88 votes, Col. Lazarus W. Powell 38.
Jan. 13-Act passed the legislature " to call a convention for the purpose of re- adopting, amending or changing the con-
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stitution of the state," at Frankfort, Oct. 1, 1849.
Jan. 14-Very heavy rains for 48 hours, in northern and eastern Ky .; the Ohio river rises 20 feet in 24 hours, and the Licking is 2 feet higher than ever known ; many mills washed off and much damage done.
Citizens of Maysville establish a new cemetery, with an artificial mound in the center designed as the location for a mon- ument to the memory of Simon Kenton, the pioneer and first settler of Maysville and of Northern Kentucky ; they raise the funds to pay for the monument, decide upon its plan, and obtain the consent ( Feb. 6) of his only surviving son, of Mr. Mc- Chord, a son-in-law, and of the other members of the family, to the removal of his remains from Ohio to the spot thus proposed. [The praiseworthy purpose was subsequently abandoncd. Why, we know not .- Ed.]
Jan. 24-Earthquake at Hickman, Ky. ; very sensibly felt for some seconds, and the rumbling sound distinctly heard for nearly a minute.
Feb. 1-Henry Clay elected U. S. sena- tor for six years from March 1, 1849 : Clay 92, Richard M. Johnson 45.
Feb. 3-The Ky. house of representa- tives, by ayes 93, nays 0, adopt the fol- lowing :
" Resolved, That we, the representatives of the people of Kentucky, are opposed to abolition or emancipation of slavery in any form or shape whatever, except as now provided for by the constitution and laws of the state."
Feb. 3- Steamboat Hibernia No. 2 makes a (racing) trip from Cincinnati to Pittsburg in 47 hours 8 minutes-not so good time by nearly 4 hours as that of the Telegraph No. 2, in her recent race with the Brilliant.
Feb. 9-Second boat-load of coal ever brought down Licking river, reaches Lower Blue Licks, and the coal, 900 bush- els, is wagoned to Paris. The first load was brought down, in the spring of 1848, to Claysville, and the coal wagoned recent- ly to Cynthiana, and sold at 21 cents per bushel. Both loads were from Morgan county, near West Liberty.
Feb. 12- Emancipation meeting at Maysville, and, next day, one at Louis- ville ; the beginning of a very earnest and exciting canvass for delegates to the con- vention to amend the constitution, the gradual emancipation of slaves forming one of the leading topics of public, private, and newspaper discussions.
Gen. Zachary Taylor, president-elect, on his way to Washington city, by special invitation visits Louisville, Feb. 11, Frank- fort, Feb. 13, and Maysville, Feb. 17. He is received with distinguished considera- tion by the governor and legislature, and with great enthusiasm by the people every - where. He had been for forty years a cit- izen of Jefferson county, near Louisville : and, as his first official duty as a lieuten-
ant, was stationed at Washington, Mason county, for recruiting purposes, in 1809.
Feb. 12-Supreme Court of Pennsylva- nia confirms the decree of the Philadelphia court of common pleas, in favor of the whole claim of the Bank of Kentucky vs. the Schuylkill Bank, for $1,343,500; but the assets of the latter bank amount to only $430,000-making the loss of the former over $900,000.
Feb. 19-Act passed directing that " the following names of battles and campaigns be inscribed upon the bands of the Milita- ry Monument : Boonsborough, Blue Licks, Estill's Defeat. St. Clair's Defeat, Har- mar's Defeat, Wayne's Campaign, Indian Wars, Tippecanoe, Raisin, Mississiniway, Fort Meigs, Thames, New Orleans, Mon- terey, Cerro Gordo, Buena Vista, Mexico ; that the names of such distinguished citi- zens of Kentucky as fell in said battles, campaigns and Indian wars be inscribed on the shaft, beneath said bands; and that the dedication on the monument shall show that it is erected by a grateful coun- try in honor of the private soldiers, equal- 24 -- Law ly with that of the officers." ... of 1833 amended, so as no longer to pro- hibit persons from purchasing and bring- ing into the state slaves for their own use. 26-Two acts for the benefit of com- mon schools ; one section "forever sets apart and dedicates, as an additional fund for common schools, the net proceeds arising from the Kentucky, Green and Barren river navigation.". .. 27 - An act requires all claims against the estates of deceased persons to be purged of usury.
March 20-Great storm in central Ky., extending through Nelson, Shelby, Mereer, Woodford, Jessamine, Fayette, and other counties : in Nelson, accompanied with loss of life and limb, and there and in Shelby with a serious destruction of prop- erty ; at Shelbyville. partially or entirely unroofing, or throwing down the walls of, Masonic hall, colored Baptist church, rope walk, mechanics' shops, dwellings, stables, carriage houses, and other buildings.
March 28-The Washington city Na- tional Intelligencer, of this date, contains a letter from a distinguished New England democrat, Hon. Wm. C. Bradley, on the old exploded but oft revived calumny of "bargain and intrigue" between Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams. Mr. B. was a supporter of Mr. Clay at the election in 1824, and afterwards held a conversa- tion with him on the subject of the elec- tion ; in which Mr. Clay expressed himself freely, and declared that he could not and would not vote for Gen. Jackson, and that Mr. Crawford's health precluded the idea of his clection ; thus, he felt himself obliged to vote for Mr. Adams. On being inforined of this, Mr. Adams requested an interview with Mr. Clay, but was refused by the latter. The letter of Mr. Bradley says:
" Circumstances soon after placed me very unexpectedly in violent opposition to that administration. But from that time to this, when called upon, I have never
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hesitated to repcl the insinuation that Mr. Clay's support of Mr. Adams was procured by any bargain or intrigue whatever be- tween them ; and of this I gave you, when here, an instance. At the Democratic con- vention at Baltimore which nominated Mr. Van Buren for vice-president, being on the committee of one member from each state to prepare an address, when one was presented and afterwards read by the secretary, (the present U. S. senator, John A. Dix,) in which this very imputation was more than insinuated, I hastened to deelare that I could not in conscience and honor approve, or consent to subscribe to, such a paper-because my intimate per- sonal acquaintance with the whole trans- action enabled me to say that the charge was untrue and unjust. You may remem- ber that no address issued from that eon- vention."
April 5-In the circuit court of Fulton county, Col. J. Leigh, arraigned for ae- cepting a challenge to fight a duel, is found guilty, and fined $150.
April 23-Steamboat Belle Key arrives at Louisville in 4 days 23 hours 7 minutes from New Orleans. Time to Vicksburg, 33 h. 20 min. ; to Memphis, 2 days 17 h. 55 min. ; to Cairo, 3 days 14 h. 55 min.
April 24-Two mules on exhibition in Cincinnati, 4 years old, each 18 hands high, and together weighing 3,000 pounds, raised by Mr. Thomas, Scott eo., Ky.
April 25-State Emancipation eonven- tion, at Frankfort, recommends that these two points be insisted on in the new con- stitution, and that candidates be run in every county favorable to these or similar provisions : 1. The absolute prohibition of the importation of any more slaves into Ky. ; 2. The complete power to enforce and perfect, under the new constitution, when- ever the people desire it, a system of grad- ual prospective emancipation of slaves.
May 10-Population of Maysville, by a census just taken, 4,569.
May 11 - Elder Alexander Campbell, of Bethany, Va., in his Millennial Harbin- ger for May, addresses "A Tract to the People of Kentucky," on the emancipa- tion question.
May 31 - During this month, deaths from cholera at Maysville 19, elsewhere in Mason county 26; in Augusta 2, in Ver. sailles 1, in Georgetown 2, in Burlington, Boone county, 1, in the lunatic asylum at Lexington 14.
June 15-Fatal rencontre at a public speaking at Foxtown, Madison county, be- tween Capt. Cassius M. Clay, on one side, and Cyrus Turner, a representative in the legislature from that county last winter, and others, in which Clay was dangerously stabbed by some unknown party, and Tur- ner fatally stabbed by Clay, dying in 34 hours.
Large emigration, during last three months, from Ky. to California, in search of rich placers of gold; trip across the plains made in 85 to 100 days from Inde- pendence, Missouri.
June 30-Deaths by cholera, during this month, at Maysville and vicinity 34, at Lexington 21, at the Eastern lunatic asy- lum near Lexington 33, at Louisville 60, and a few at Bowling Green and other points ; at Cincinnati, Ohio, 1098.
July 31-During this month, 112 deaths by cholera occurred at Maysville, 11 in Harlow Yancey's family in Mason county, 217 at Lexington, 36 in Fayette county, 59 at Paris, 141 at Louisville, 16 at Rich- mond, 14 at Paducah, about 40 at Coving- ton, and 1859 at Cincinnati.
Aug. 8-To congress, 6 whigs and 4 democrats elected ; to the convention to re- vise the constitution, 48 whigs and 52 dem- ocrats ; to the state senate, 26 whigs and 12 democrats ; and to the house of repre- sentatives, 58 whigs and 42 democrats.
Aug 31-During this month, 73 deaths from cholera in Lexington, 23 in Paris, 36 in Richmond, 9 in Danville, and many in the smaller towns and through the country.
Sept. 28-The woods all through north- ern and central Ky. swarming with squir- rels, who ravage the cornfields and most of the forest. A similar visitation oe- curred in 1833, just after the cholera dis- appeared.
Oct. 1-Convention to revise the consti- tution organized, at Frankfort, by electing James Guthrie president : Guthrie (demo- crat) 50, Archibald Dixon, (whig) 43. Among the members, are 42 lawyers, 36 farmers, 9 physicians, 4 merchants, 3 clerks, 2 preachers, 1 hotel-keeper, and one mechanic.
Oct. 2-News just received from Hun- gary of the hanging, by the Austrian ty- rant, Gen. Haynau, of the bishop of Et- lau and 60 Hungarian ministers of the gospel, who were charged with praying for the success of their country's cause.
Dec. 31 -Gov. Crittenden's message shows the debt of the state, on Nov. 1, 1849, $4,497,652 : which could be reduced at any time $1,270,000, by the sale of the stock in the Ky. banks owned by the state. $112,329 of the state debt had been paid off since Jan., 1848. Besides the above, the state pays interest at 5 per cent on the school fund bonds of $1,158,268 and at 6 per cent on $67,500 more. The annual common school fund for 1850 is estimated at $150,000.
1850, Jan. 13-Snow falls, 12 to 15 inches deep.
Jan. 24-The legislature requests the governor to cause a block of Ky. marble to be placed in the "Gen. Washington Mon- ument" at Washington city, with these words engraved on it: "Under the aus- pices of Heaven, and the precepts of Washington, Kentucky will be the last to give up the Union."
Jan. 28-Steam job-boat Beauty ascends the Licking river 86 miles above Fal- mouth, and brings out freight.
Feb. 15-Legislature passes an act to encourage the organization of the Southern Bank of Ky., and extending its charter to 1880 . Farmers' Bank of Ky. char-
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tered, with branches at Covington, Prince- | splendid reception, and enthusiastic Union ton, Henderson, Bardstown, Maysville, speeches. Mountsterling and Somerset, and another
ther at Russellville or Georgetown ; pital stock $2,300,000 20 -The thanks and gratitude of the people of Ky., and a sword, tendered to sergeant Wm. F. Gaines, of Georgetown, " the boy defender of the glorious banner of the 2d regiment of Ky. infantry at the battle of Buena Vista ;" his name to be inscribed on a plate of metal, and attached to the flagstaff of the color 26-Limited partnerships authorized .. . The governor authorized to appoint 3 commissioners to prepare a code of practice, and 3 others to revise the statute-laws.
March 1-Legislature provides for a spe- cial election in May next, to take the sense of the people on the adoption or rejection of the new constitution ......... $45,000 ap- propriated towards completing the new lunatic asylum at Hopkinsville, and $10,- 000 for additional buildings at the Lexing- ton lunatic asylum .. .6-Any deaf and dumb child (within certain ages) in Ky. may be adınitted to the asylum at Dan- ville, at state expense, if the parents and friends can not or do not provide for its education and support while there 4-$400 appropriated to Edward H. Nock, for the portrait of Gov. Shelby now sus- pended in the senate chamber.
March 4-Gov. Crittenden appoints, and the senate unanimously confirms, Madison C. Johnson, of Fayette, James Harlan, of Franklin, and Preston F. Loughborough, of Madison, as commissioners to simplify the rules of practice, and Ephraim M. Ewing, of Logan, Chas. A. Wickliffe, of Nelson, and Squire Turner, of Madison, to codify the statutes.
March 15-John W. Finnell appointed | President Fillmore's cabinet. John L. secretary of state, vice Joshua F. Bell, re- signed. Helm inaugurated as governor.
April 4-Shock of an earthquake at 8:05 P. M., distinctly felt all over the state ; in Louisville, many persons fled from their houses into the streets; no damage done.
April 13-A fierce, driving snow storm in northern Kentucky.
Population of Lexington, by a new cen- sus, 7,920.
April 17-Rain, hail, snow, sleet, and high wind, in the morning; at night, ice forms.
April 22-Burning of the steamboat . Belle of the West, in the Ohio river, below Warsaw, Ky. ; 36 lives lost.
May 2-Explosion of the steamboat Ironton, half a mile above Vanceburg ; 6 lives lost.
Large emigration from Kentucky to the California gold mines.
May 7-New constitution of Ky. adopted; for the constitution 71,653, against it 20,- 302-majority 51,351.
June 3-Convention to form a new con- stitution re-assembles at Frankfort, pursu- ant to adjournment; 4 new delegates, elected to fill vacancies, sworn in : James D. Alcorn of Pulaski. Wm. W. Blair of Fleming, Richard H. Hanson of Bourbon, and Dan. J. Stephens, of Breckinridge. June 6, the convention adopts all the amendments proposed by the committee of revision to the first three articles. June 11, the convention finishes its amendments, formally proclaims the new constitution, and adjourns. A national salute fired in honor.
Meetings held, in various parts of the state, to indicate the popular sentiment in favor of the Union, and of the compromise of the congressional committee of thirteen, of which Henry Clay is chairman.
Population of the state (8th in point of population ) 982,405; whites 761,413, for- eign-born 31,420, free colored 10,011, and slaves 210,981 ; of slave increase, the ratio is 153% per cent., and of total increase, 26 per cent.
June 14-John Norris, of Boone county, Ky., recovers a judgment in the U. S. circuit court at Indianapolis, of $2,800 and costs (about $2,000) against Newlan, Crocker, and others, for runaway slaves of Norris which he had recaptured at South Bend, Indiana, and which they then took from him by force.
June 25-Battle Monument completed and erected in the state cemetery at Frank- fort.
July 9-Death of the president of the United States, Gen. Zachary Taylor.
July 30-John J. Crittenden resigns as governor, to become attorney general in
July 31-Defeat of the compromise bill in the U. S. senate.
July 31-Deaths from cholera since July 23, in Louisville 113, in Frankfort 23, and a few others elsewhere in the state.
Aug. 5-To the state senate 25 whigs and 13 democrats elected, and to the house of representatives 57 whigs and 43 demo- crats.
Aug. 15-Specimens of silver ore found near the Cumberland Falls.
The Elizabethtown " Register " records the finding, among the sands of Rolling Fork, 12 miles from that place, of the thigh bone of a human being, which meas- ures in cubic inches six times the size of the thigh bone of a common man. A physician calculates the height of the giant of other days at 12 or 13 feet.
Sept. 18-All the peace measures re- ported by the conunittee of 13, known as Mr. Clay's "omnibus bill," and which failed to pass congress in a body, have now passed separately, and with but slight mod- ifications.
May 27-The governor of Ky. visits Indianapolis, at the invitation of the gov- Sept. 18-Death of Andrew Brand, " the Kentucky Fat Boy," at Albany, N. Y. He ernor of Indiana ; he is accompanied by a number of distinguished Kentuckians ; was 16 years old, and weighed 537 pounds.
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Sept. 29-Congress passes a law grant. | ing bounty lands (from 40 to 160 acres to each) to the soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the war of 1812, and of the In- dian wars since 1790, or, if dead, to the widow and minor children of such, and to the commissioned officers of the Mexican war.
Oct. 8-Bourbon agricultural society pre- mium for best five acres of corn awarded to Hubbard W. Varnon ; his corn (a large yellow kind, known as the Mason corn) yielded 21 barrels and 3 bushels to the acre, by measurement.
Oct. 17-Great Union barbecue at Lex- ington to Henry Clay ; he addresses several thousand men, during a heavy rain.
Nov. 15-Henry Clay, by unanimous in- vitation, addresses the legislature, in the hall of the house, on the subject of the Union, and the late congressional adjust- ment of the exciting questions of the day. Intense interest and enthusiasm mani- fested.
Nov. 19-Death of. Col. Richard M. Johnson at Frankfort, while a member of the legislature.
Capt. B. Rowan Hardin, of Bardstown, Ky., murdered on the isthmus of Panama.
1851, Jan. 4-U. S. supreme court dis- misses the writ of error in the case of Stra- der & Gorman vs. Christopher Graham, brought up from the Kentucky court of appeals. The latter court had affirmed the decree of the Louisville chancery court, giving Dr. Graham $3,000 damages against the owners of the mail steamboat Pike, for transporting, without Dr. Graham's con- sent, his three negro men (musicians at the Harrodsburg springs) from Louisville to Cincinnati, whence they made their escape to Canada.
Feb. 1-The state divided into 4 dis- tricts for the election of judges of the court of appeals, and into 12 districts for circuit judges ......... 10-County courts an- thorized to change the names of persons .. . The close shaving, onee a week, of the heads of convicts in the penitentiary prohibited hereafter.
Feb. 4-The senate, by 32 to 4, and Feb. 5, the house of representatives, by 74 to 16, pass au act declaring the sinking fund lia- ble for the principal and interest of the common school fund, and directing the payment of said interest by the commis- sioners of the sinking fund. March 12, Gov. Helm vetoes the bill, and to his own able discussion of the constitutionality of the act, adds the very full, able and lucid legal opinions of James Harlan, attorney general of the state, George Robertson, James Guthrie, John W. Stevenson, Ephraim M. Ewing, Robert Wickliffe, Elijah Hisc, and Win. K. Wall ; but the bill passes the senate, March 14, by a vote of 28 to 6, and the house, March 19, by 64 to 26, " the governor's objections to the contrary notwithstanding." March 22, the senate, by a vote of 19 to 10, and the house, by 54 to 18, pass a resolution requir- ing the commissioners of the sinking fund
to pay into the state treasury, by 10 o'clock A. M., of March 24th, the January install- ment of interest due on the common school bonds. An amendment, in the house, re- quires additional action by the senate, which body concurs therein, March 24, and on the same day the governor vetoes the resolution. An attempt is made to re-pass it, over the veto, but no quorum votes ; and the legislature adjourns sine die.
Feb. 10-A bill, in the senate, to legal- ize 8 per cent. conventional interest is laid on the table.
Feb. 12-The proposition of state aid to railroads defeated in the senate by 18 to 12. The bill proposed to subscribe on the part of the state, as stock in the railroads named, provided a like amount be first raised and expended by each several com- pany : $900,000 to a road from Louisville to the Mississippi river ; Louisville and Nashville, $500,000; Maysville and Lex- ington, and Covington and Lexington, each $200,000 ; Maysville and Big Sandy, $300,000; and $100,000 for a road from the Louisville and Frankfort R. R. to Danville.
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