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The senate took no notice of the recom-
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mendation further than to amend and con- cur in a resolution from the house. The house referred " so much of the Governor's message as relates to historical documents " to a select committee : Mortimer R. Wig- ginton, of the city of Louisville, Larz An- derson, of Jefferson, John J. Marshall, of Franklin (son of the historian Humphrey Marshall), and Jefferson Phelps, of Camp- bell ; who reported the following resolu- tion, which passed both houses, and was approved by the governor, Feb. 24, 1834: " Whereas, it is represented to the Gen- eral Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that Mann Butler, Esq., is now engaged in writing a History of Ken- tucky, and that the Governor has recently obtained possession of a number of docu- ments relating to the early settlement and legislation of the country : Therefore,
"Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, required to furnish the said Butler with the whole or any part of said documents, upon the said Butler's executing his bond, in the penalty of one thousand dollars, payable to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, conditioned to return the documents to the office of the Secretary of State within twelve months from the date of said bond."
Jan. 9-Kentucky educational conven- tion, with delegates from 58 counties, meets at Frankfort 14-Kentucky legisla- tive temperance society organized, Gov. Breathitt president .23 - Kentucky common school society organized, at Frank- fort; president, Gov. Breathitt ; vice pres- idents, James T. Morehead, Benj. O. Peers, John C. Young, Henry B. Bascom, Thos. Marshall, Daniel Breck, and 7 others ; cor- responding secretary, Thornton A. Mills. 28- Death of Judge John Boyle.
Feb. 1-The great pressure in the money market in the Atlantic cities, extending westward ; the U. S. branch banks at Cin- cinnati ordered to "call in," during this month, $153,000, that at Louisville $226,- 000, and that at Lexington to suspend dis- counting entirely. Prices of produce fall 33 to 40 per cent. (flour from $4 to $3 and even $2 50) and real estate 50 per cent. Much gloom and despondence; money loaned frequently at 212 per cent per month. Cause-removal of the U. S. gov- ernment funds or deposits from the U. S. bank and branches, by order of President Jackson, and his war upon that bank.
Feb. 1-Legislature contracts with Luke Munsell for 200 copies of his improved Map of Kentucky-yet to be completed-at $6 each ; and Feb. 8, with Charles S. More- head and Mason Brown for 2000 copies of their Digest of the statute laws of Ken- tucky-yet to be completed-at $9.621/2 for each.
ville .. .. 22-Act passed to build an arse- nal, on the northeast corner of the public square in Frankfort ......... Also, to establish the Bank of Kentucky at Louisville, with six branches, and $5,000,000 capital; the state to subscribe for $1,000,000 of the stock payable in 5 per cent 35 year bonds (redeemable, at the pleasure of the state, after 30 years,) and $1,000,000 more, pay- able by the bank dividends as declared, unless the state choose to pay otherwise ; the annual state tax to be not less than 25 nor more than 50 cents per share .. ....... 24 -Covington incorporated as a city .: State appropriations for sundry turnpike companies, and to improve the navigation of Green, Cumberland, Muddy, Rockcastle, Tradewater, Big Sandy, Big Barren, No- lin, Blood, Licking, and Kentucky rivers.
Feb. 21-Death of the governor, John Breathitt, from pulmonary consumption ; his remains taken to Russellville for inter- ment ...... .22-Lieut .- gov. James T. More- head takes the oath of ofice as governor, and James Guthrie is elected speaker of the senate.
March 24-The first lot of goods from Philadelphia, by way of the Pennsylvania canals and portage railroad over the Alle- gheny mountains, reaches Pittsburgh, in 13 days from Philadelphia ; and in three days more reaches Maysville ......... 31 - Steamer Tuscarora, Capt. Edward Carrell, reaches Louisville from New Orleans in 7 days and 16 hours, the shortest passage ever made.
April 26- Public meeting at Frankfort, and others subsequently all over the state, condemn President Jackson for remov- ing the public deposits from the place where Congress had ordered them, and de- nounce his claim of extraordinary power. 27-Remarkable frost in northern Kentucky, destroying every species of fruit on the high lands and injuring the young corn, clover, and all vegetation.
Aug. 6-Robert P. Letcher elected to"; congress, in the Mercer and Garrard dis- trict, by 270 votes over Thos. P. Moore- the seat having been declared vacant, and a new election ordered ........ 11-Remark- ably hot weather, for three weeks past, thermometer ranging from 96° to 9916º and several times as high as 102°, in the shade. Severe drought through northern Kentucky from about July 15 to Sept. 8. .95 whigs and 41 Jackson-men elected to the legislature ; last year, 77 whigs and 61 Jackson-men.
A six-horse wagon draws three loads, weighing 14,469, 14,529, 15,724 pounds respectively, ten miles each, on the Mays- ville and Lexington turnpike road (mac- adamized); the grade for one mile is 416 degrees, and much of the rest 2 and 3 de- grees ; the wagon-tire 5 inches wide.
Feb. 13-Rate of taxation increased from Sept. 12 and 13-Splendid display of stock at the Lexington stock fair. 614 cents on each $100 of taxable property to 10 cents ; and 40 cents tax to be collect- Nov. 20-A shock of earthquake in northern Kentucky at 1:40 P. M., lasting 30 or 40 seconds ; houses shaken, plaster- ed on each share of stock of the Louis- ville Bank of Kentucky ..... Company chartered to erect the Galt House at Louis- | ing cracked, two sounds like distant thun-
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der. .30-Eclipse of the sun; about 5-6ths of his disk obscured ; thermometer falls three or four degrees.
Dec. 1-Freshet in Licking river ; beau- tiful new turnpike bridge at the Lower Blue Licks carried off; loss $12,000.
1835, Jan. 25 - First locomotive and train of cars arrive at the head of the in- clined plane at Frankfort, from Lexington. in 2 hours 29 minutes. Great enthusiasm.
Jan. 26-Weather mild, thermometer 65° ; increases in cold until Sunday, Feb. *8, when it is 13º below zero at Maysville, 20° at Washington and Mayslick, 1534º at Millersburg, and 16° at Paris. Notwith- standing the high stage of water in the Ohio, between 400 and 500 passengers on steamboats bound up, are detained by ice between Portsmouth and Catlettsburg and Wheeling.
Jan. 28- Attempted assassination of President Jackson, at Washington city, while attending a funeral at the capitol ; a pistol, well-loaded, is snapped twice at him by an insane painter named Richard Law- rence, but misses fire.
Feb. 14-The legislature directs the scc- retary of state to furnish to Mann Butler, for use in preparing the second edition of his history of Kentucky, the whole or any part of certain state papers, to be returned within twelve months ........ .20-Northern Bank of Kentucky at Lexington chartered, with four branches, and 83,000,000 capital; state to subscribe $1,000,000 of stock, pay- able in five per cent bonds .. 23-State board of internal improvement created. City of Louisville authorized to levy and collect a tax of $25,000 per year for four years, to build gas-works.
Feb. 23-Ephraim M. Ewing and John Chambers nominated, and unanimously confirmed, judges of the court of appeals, vice Jos. R. Underwood and S. S. Nicholas, resigned.
March 21-Thos. A. Marshall appointed judge of the court of appeals, rice John Chambers, resigned on account of ill health.
July 2 -Cholera again visits Ky. ; deaths to date at Maysville 17, in Mason county 15, in Millersburg 11, in Sharps- burg 13, in Louisville a few deaths, in Russellville 112 or 1 in 12 of the popula- tion.
Aug. 24-Deaths from cholera in Ver- sailles, within 10 days, 61, or 1 in 15 of the entire population. The deaths from cholera, in the years 1833 and 1835, at Millersburg were 49, or 1 in 9 of the pop- ulation ; in Flemingsburg in 1833, 68, or 1 in 10; in Paris in 1833, 86 or 1 in 14; in Lexington in 1833, 502 or 1 in 11; in Maysville in 1832-'33-'35, 115 or 1 in 20.
Population of Louisville, by special cen- 808, 19,967.
Plan of gradual emancipation of slaves proposed by Rev. John C. Young, D. D., in a pamphlet of 64 pp.
Railroad proposed (and several public meetings to forward it) from Paris to Cov- ington ; Maj. John S. Williams, a civil in the city.
engineer, says a "railway might be con- structed from the elevation opposite Paris to a full view of the city of Cincinnati, without one perch of masonry," at a cost of $720,000, if over the ridge route, through Williamstown.
Aug. 21-R. Clayton makes a balloon as- cension from Lexington, descending 15 miles s. E., near Combs' ferry, on the Ky. river ; a parachute, containing a little dog, was cut loose carly, and descended near Ashland.
Sept .- $100,000 Kentucky internal im- provement scrip sold to Prime, Ward & King, of New York, at $3.10 premium.
Sept. 23-Kentucky annual conference of the Methodist E. Church unanimously resolves against any interference with the subject of slavery, and commends the rec- titude, policy and operations of the Amer- ican colonization society.
Oct. 15-Halley's comet visible for some days to the naked eye, as a star of the 5th magnitude.
1836, Feb. 22-Governor's salary raised to $2,500, and the per diem of members of the legislature, hereafter, to $3, and mile- age to 1212 cents .... .29-Ratio of rep- resentation in the house, for next four years, fixed at 1,017 votes. .. Tax on the capital stock of the Bank of Kentucky, Bank of Louisville, and Northern Bank of Kentucky, state dividends from said banks after paying the interest on the state bonds sold to pay for said stock, and all turnpike and river improvement dividends, sacredly set apart for a " Sinking Fund." ... Lou- isville, Cincinnati and Charleston (S. C.) railroad company chartered, with $6,000,- 000 capital, to branch to Louisville, and to Covington or Newport ; and a third branch from Lexington to Maysville ......... State appropriations made to the following riv- ers : Kentucky $200,000, Cumberland $40,- 000, Green $100,000, Licking $100,000, Big Sandy $25,000, Little Sandy $12,000, three forks of Ky. $8,000, Bayou du Chien $5,000, Clark's $5,000, Little Obion and Mayfield's creek $1,500, Little river and Little Barren $1,000 each, Rockcastle $40,000, Nolin $3,000, and Tradewater $2,000.
March 16-First railroad accident, two miles east of Frankfort; train leaps over embankment ; 3 persons killed and many wounded ......... 19 - Arsenal at Frankfort burnt, with 4,740 stand of arms, besides equipments ; the brass cannon, niemora- ble for its service in the wars of the Revo- lution and of 1812, was uninjured ; this was captured from Burgoyne at Sar- atoga, Sept. 19, 1777, surrendered to the British by Hull, Aug. 16, 1812, retaken by Harrison at the Thames, Oct. 5, 1813, presented by congress to Gov. Shelby, and by Gov. Shelby to the state of Kentucky.
May 7-The voters of the city of Lex- ington hold an election, under a recent special law, to sustain or repeal their city charter; it was sustained, by 379 for, to 323 for repcal-the largest vote ever polled
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April 21-721 Texan troops (some of them Kentuckians) under Gen. Sam. Hous- ton, win the brilliant vietory of San Jacinto, over 1640 Mexicans under their president Gen. Santa Anna and Gen. Cos; Texan loss 2 killed, six mortally and 17 slightly wounded ; Mexican loss 630 killed, 280 wounded, and 730 prisoners including Santa Anna and Cos and their staffs Over 600 Kentuckians, under Col. Wilson, Capts. Wigginton, Postlethwaite, James Allen and others, at different dates this summer, leave home to fight in the war for Texan independence.
June 17-The eastern-built steamboat Champion visits the Ohio river, and at- tracts great attention for speed and beauty. She is fairly distanced by the steamboat Paul Jones, in a trial of speed between Alton and St. Louis.
July 1-Estimated expenditures, this year, of the city of Louisville, $135,000; taxable property $14,000,000, on which 50 cents on each $100 will be collected.
The abolition press of James G. Birney, (late a citizen of Ky.) at New Richmond, Ohio, " carefully destroyed ;" no other property about the printing office injured.
Judge Hickey, of the Fayette circuit court, refuses a mandamus, prayed for by Milus W. Dickey, to compel the directors of the Maysville and Lexington turnpike company to permit his stages to pass over the road toll-free because they carry the U. S. mail.
July 16-Gov. Morehead, at the request of President Jackson and of Maj. Gen. Edmund P. Gaines, issues his proclama- tion calling for 1,000 mounted Kentuck- ians, to rendezvous in Frankfort Aug. 17, to proceed to camp Sabine, and protect the southwestern frontier. Before Aug. 3, 45 companies tender their services, but only 10 are accepted, one each from Franklin, Henry, Shelby, Madison, Harrison, Old- ham, Gallatin, Woodford, Jefferson, and Fayette counties. The governor appoints Leslie Combs, of Fayette, colonel, Thos. A. Russell, of Fayette, lieutenant colonel, and Geo. Boswell, of Shelby, major. Be- fore they commence their march, orders are received for their discharge.
Aug. 3 - Vote for governor : James Clark (whig) 38,587, Matthew Flournoy (Van Buren) 30,491-majority 8,096 ; for lieutenant governor Chas. A Wickliffe (w.) 35,524, Elijah Hise (V. B.) 32,186-ma- jority 3,338. Clark and Wickliffe elected. To the senate are elected 24 whigs and 14 Van Buren men, and to the house of representatives 59 whigs and 41 Van Buren men.
Sept. 5-The corner stone of the contem- plated bridge across the Ohio river at Lou- isville, laid with imposing ceremonies ; Wilkins Tannehill orator of the day : stock said to be all taken ..... 14- Death of Aaron Burr, on Staten Island, aged 81. .. 21-Great match race at Louisville, for $5,000 ; the Kentucky horse, Rodolph, double distances the Tennessee marc, An- gora, in the first four mile heat ; time 8
min. 56 sec. ; $15,000 offered for Rodolph, and refused.
Nov. 7-Vote for president and vice president : Wm. H. Harrison and Francis Granger (whig) 36,955, Martin Van Buren and Richard M. Johnson 33,435-majority 3,520.
Bacon college, at Harrodsburg, estab- lished.
Dr. Benj. W. Dudley, of Lexington, re- stores to sight a young man 21 years of age, blind from his birth with cataract.
Dec. 12-Fayette county court subseribes $100,000 in the chartered railroad to Charleston.
Dec. 15-Henry Clay re-elected U. S. senator for 6 years from March 4, 1837, by 76 votes, to 54 for James Guthrie.
1837. Jan. 21-St. Mary's college, near Lebanon, Marion county, incorporated.
Cincinnati, by a vote of 1875 to 371, dc- cides to borrow 8600,000, to take stoek in Cincinnati and Charleston railroad, Cleve- land railroad. and Whitewater canal.
Feb. 16-Shelby college authorized to raise $100,000 by lottery. 17-Nicho- las county authorized to spend the fund she may receive, under the operation of the act to appropriate the vacant lands, to pay for educating her poor children ..... 21-State stock in Maysville and Lexing- ton turnpike road company increased from $144,200 to $213,200, one-half the entire stock 23 - Act passed to equalize taxation. The surplus U. S. revenue deposited with the state of Ky. is ordered by the legislature to be invested, upon conditions, $500,000 in bank of Louisville stock, and balance in Northern Bank and in bank of Kentucky stock. The profits from $1,000,000 of said surplus revenue "set apart and forever dedicated to the founding and sustaining a general system of public instruction." .. . Act passed "to protect lives and property on board steamboats navigating the Ohio, Missis- sippi, and other rivers within the jurisdic- tion of Kentucky."
Under the law of Feb. 13, raising the salaries of judges of the court of appeals to $2,000, and of circuit judges to $1500, when hereafter appointed, most of the judges resign and are re-appointed : 2 are rejected by the senate, and 2 are not re- appointed.
Feb. 22-Convention of Kentucky cdi- tors at Lexington.
April 4-Snow falls, in northern Ky., between one and two inches deep. ........ 8- Snowing at intervals all day, 1 inch decp ; thermometer 30° to 33º. At St. Louis, snow 17 inches deep.
April 10-Mercantile failures in New York increased to over 100, and their ag- gregate amount over $60,000,000 ; tremen- dous moncy pressure spreading over the country. Bank of Ky. stock, in New York, fallen to $75 per share for $100 paid. . April 29-Transylvania medical school reorganized.
Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston wounded, in a duel with Gen. Felix Huston, in Texas.
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May 8-352 suspensions or failures, in | New York, to date ; New York state stock down to 70, and U. S. Bank stock to 96. .. May 9 and 10, all the banks of New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, except the U. S. Bank, suspend specie payments. That bank suspends next day. The banks of Pittsburg, Wheeling and Cincinnati fol- low suit. The city of Philadelphia orders the issue of $130,000 in small notes, 25 and 50 cents, etc. (" shin plasters."). ...... 18-A run for speeie upon the banks at Louisville, and $45,000 drawn out; next day, the Ky. banks, (although having $1,- 900,000 in specie, and a circulation of only $3,300,000,) suspend specie payment.
May 18-Ohio river, opposite Maysville, rises 24 feet in 24 hours, a rapidity unpre- cedented.
Daniel Webster, with his family, has a perfect ovation in Ky .; public dinners given him at Maysville, May 18; at Lex- ington, May 24; at Versailles, May 26; at Louisville, May 30 ; and the people along the route are enthusiastic in attentions to him.
May 20-A steamboat ascends Big San- dy river 90 miles to Prestonsburg, Floyd county, with spring importations ; and next day takes a pleasure party still farther up. Coal, of finest quality, discovered along its banks.
May 30-Maysville city council issues several thousand dollars in scrip, of de- nomination of 614, 1212, 25, and 50 cents, and $1, redeemable in bank notes when- ever presented to amount of $5. Other towns, corporations and individuals soon after issue similar small notes. Specie commands 8@10 per cent premium.
June-A public meeting at Louisville calls upon the governor to convene the leg- islature in extra session, to devise a rem- edy for the money pressure ; a great out- cry is raised in favor of it, but the gov- ernor wisely refuses.
July 11-Grand meteoric explosion, at 2:45 P. M., seen and heard at Georgetown, Owingsville, Mayslick, and between Paris and Lexington ; described as "a great white ball, whiter than snow, very bright, nearly as big as the sun, flying almost as swiftly as lightning from where the sun was shining brightly, towards the east ; the noise was terrible, like a heavy cannon at a great distance."
July 31-Richard Clayton, the Cincin- nati æronaut, ascends from Louisville at 6:50 P.M., and at 7:35 p. M. deseends. 4 miles south ; remains all night, and after breakfast again ascends, is wafted back
. again over Louisville, Shippingport, the | the upper part of Cincinnati; the four boilers burst simultaneously, with an effect like a mine of gunpowder; a pilot, with a quarter of a mile distant ; of 280 persons be killed, 55 missing, 13 badly wounded.
mouth of Salt river, Shepherdsville, and decends for dinner 7 miles from Bards- town; again ascends, is wafted by differ- | the pilot house, is blown to the Ky. shore, ent currents over several counties, with Bardstown, Shepherdsville, Fairfield, Tay- ; believed to be on board, SI were known to lorsville and Bloomfield in sighi, and de- scends at 7 p. M. on Cox's creek, Nelson May 3-40 houses burned at Paducah. county, 5 miles from Bardstown, having traveled 100 miles.
Aug. 9-12 whig and 1 Van Buren con-
gressmen elected ; Richard H. Menefee over Richard French by 234 majority, and Wm. W. Southgate over Jefferson Phelps by 340 majority ; legislature - senate, whigs 24, Van Buren men 14; house, whigs 71, Van Buren men 29.
Aug. 25-The U. S. secretary of war no- tifies Gov. Clark to take preparatory steps to muster into service a brigade of Ken- tucky volunteers for service against the In- dians in Florida ; but, Sept. 2, withdraws the order because he can get them in Lou- isiana, nearer. the scene of action and ac- climated.
Sept. 4-Called session of Congress. President's message delivered Sept. 5, at 12 J., reaches Maysville, by express mail and steamboat, at 3:30 A. M., Sept 8-just 6312 hours.
Kentucky pays the interest on her in- ternal improvement scrip and state bonds, in New York, in specie.
Dec. 21-The "convention " question, which has been before the legislature at each session for some ten years, and always defeated, is at last successful ; and an act passes " to take the sense of the people as to the expediency and propriety of calling a convention to revise the constitution of this state."
1838, Feb. 3-State agricultural society organized.
Feb. 7-The town of Frankfort author- ized to raise by lottery $100,000, half for a city school. and half to bring water from the Cave spring into town ..... 15-Act passed to establish a system of common schools ......... Resolution passed requesting the governor to obtain the manuscript journals of the Conventions of 1792 and 1799 ; the governor, in his annual message, reports that he procured a printed copy of that of 1799, but "seriously apprehends that the only copies of that of 1792 then extant were consumed some years since by the burning of the capitol."
Feb. 22-Thermometer 6º to 15° below zero.
Feb. 24-Wm. J. Graves, from the Lou- isville district, kills Jonathan Cilley, of Maine, at the third fire, in a duel in Ma- ryland, near Washington city ; they fight with rifles, 80 yards distance ; parties both representatives in Congress ; Henry A. Wise the second of Graves, and Gen. Geo. W. Jones of Cilley.
Feb. 28-Rev. Jos. J. Bullock appoint- ed, by the governor and senate, first su- perintendent of public instruction.
April 25-Explosion of the new steam- boat Moselle, in the Ohio river, opposite
May 25-$1,250,000 Kentucky state bonds negotiated in New York, ou very fa- vorable terms.
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June 5-Remarkable hailstorm in Fay- | days, steamboat navigation had been en- ette county, 3 miles from Lexington, be- tirely suspended for nearly three months ; and the only navigation was by a few very light keels pushed by poles or drawn by horses ; cven this, at times, was impos- sible. tween the Tate's creek and Richmond roads; in one deposit it was more than two feet deep, and, 35 hours later, one foot deep ; the crops were ruined, for threc miles in width.
Aug. 8-To the senate are elected 22 whigs and 16 Van Buren-men; to the house of representatives 68 whigs and 32 Van Buren-men. In favor of a conven- tion to revise the constitution, only 28,- 170 votes are cast, out of 104,622 voters in the state-less than 27 per cent, (whereas over 50 per cent are required for success ; ) in Owen county, 12 per cent of the voters vote for a convention, in Bullitt 4 per cent, in Fayette 11/2, in Scott 212, in War- ren 42, in Pulaski 64, in Marion 8, in Union 50, in Mason 8, in Campbell 50, in Clark 10, in Nelson 213 per cent, in Trim- ble not a vote.
Aug. 13-Kentucky banks resume spe- cie payments.
Aug. 14-George D. Prentice, editor of the Louisville Journal, and Maj. Thos. P. Moore, exchange pistol shots at each other, at the Harrodsburg springs ; neither party injured.
Aug. 27-Great railroad festival at Lex- ington in honor of the Charleston, Louis- ville and Cincinnati rail road; speeches by Gen. Robert Y. Hayne, of South Caro- lina, Judge Reese, of Tennessee, and oth- ers; Henry Clay, John J. Crittenden, Richard M. Johnson, Chas. A. Wickliffe, Thomas Metcalfe, and many other distin- guished citizens present.
Sept. 18-Annular eclipse of the sun ; beginning at Covington, at 2:26, and end- ing 5:08 P. M .- the last central cclipse of the sun visible in Kentucky until May 26, 1854. From the beginning of the eclipse to the moment of greatest observation, the thermometer hanging exposed to the sun fell 25 degrees, and in the shade 1212 dc- grees. Through the telescope, a great number of spots were observed upon the sun.
Oct. - Sickness from fevers, along the low lands on the water courses, inore gen- eral and fatal than at any time for forty years.
Rev. John B. Mahan, a citizen of Ohio, indicted in Mason county, Ky., for kid- napping slaves, is delivered up by Gov. Vance, of Ohio, for trial in Ky., in com- pliance with a requisition of Gov. Clark. Nov. 19, (although it was proved that 15 slaves had passed through his hands on their way from Kentucky to Canada, ) he is acquitted, on the ground that the of- fense occurred in Ohio, and the court had no jurisdiction except over crimes com- mitted in Mason county.
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