Galphin Claim inquiry sparks House committee action
A debate in the House over the Galphin claim leads to a select committee charged to conduct a full investigation. The panel will trace origin and nature of the claim, the 1773 treaty context, the payment history, and the involved agents, with power to summon witnesses and papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of War
House of Representatives
Burt
Galphin
Bart
Crawford
Geo. Galphin
Toombs
R. G. Walker
Colony of
Georgia
Congress
Arrival of the Steamship America and Great Hurricane News
The Loyal Mail steamer America arrived in Boston with European reports two weeks late. A severe hurricane struck the English coast on March 30, wrecking vessels including the John R. K. Skiddee and the Howard while all 200 aboard the Adelaide perished near the Thames. Reports also note political shifts in France and Prussia, Hungary refugees, and a new astronomical clock method by Professor Mitchel.
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America
New Yoas
Boston
Europe
Sthalstad
Liverpool
Prieutren Suewricks
John RK. Skiddee
Wexford
Shipley
Howard
New Orleans
Merery
Stesimer Adelaide
Dublin
London
Thames
Smith O'Brien
van Dieman’s Land
O’brien
Mania Island
Eyerann
France
Russia
Germany
Aussia
Emelie de Gerardin
Paris
Wertemsvae
Prussia
Wertemburg
Berlin
Erfert
Spain
Madrid
Cuba
Tuscany
Lord Palmerston
Turkey
Constantinople
Kossuth
Avia Minor
Triest
Bosnia
Schleswig Holstein
Calhoun vacancy and California admission debate erupts in Senate
Amid Senate proceedings on the Calhoun vacancy and California admission, Benton and Clay clash over slavery limits and reference to a select committee. Foote draws a pistol in a chaotic melee. order is restored after antitag events as members debate power and procedure surrounding slavery and territorial expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butler
Fran Eustons
Senate
South Carolina
John C. Calhount
Elmore
Foote
Mr. Benton
Congress
United States
Clay
Mr. Clay
Dep Jon
California
Benton
Taylor
Kentucky
Vermont
Douglass
J. Foote
Douglas
Mpendet
Te Glay
R. Webster
Hale
Poote
Friends of the Select Committee
Jamlin
Republic
Dodge
Wisconsin
Messrs. Benton
Mr. Poote
Dickinson
Borland
Arma
McClintock Young
Sllipois
General Land Office
Young
Printale
Walker
House
Washineton
Messrs. Dodge
Webster
Shields
Bell
Rusk
King
Phelps
Mr. Rusk
Yeas
Hovsa
McClernand
Brown
Toombs
Richardson
Ewing
Ted
Cleveland
Astineton
Ing
Bale
District of Columbia
Atchison
Henry Clay
Messrs
Berrien
Bright
Cass
Cooper
Davis
Mangum
Mason
Texas
Winthrop
Cobb
Allen
Thomas
Thelouse
Thompson
Pennsylvania
Judiciary
Vinton
Connecticut
Sr. Morehead
Indian Depredations in New Mexico Alarm Citizens
From Las Vegas reports to March 16 describe Apache depredations and rising alarm among American settlers in New Mexico. An engagement with buffalo hunters left two attackers dead and several wounded. horses and ammunition were seized and later the Apaches withdrew. Additional killings near Bernal Springs are noted and criticism arises over licensed traders arming hostiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
New Mexico
Las Vegas
Bernal Springs
Santa Fe
Col
Monroe
California Gold Discovery Report Awakens California Boom
Washington Herald correspondent relays Hon. Thomas Butler King preparing a report for the Secretary of the Interior. He cites California gold washings as mere rock fillings and quartz strata rich in metal across a 500 mile range. If examined findings hold, two hundred thousand workers using proper machinery could repay Britain’s debt in a year and begin a revolution in commerce and wealth for California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Herald
Thomas Butler King
King
California
Secretary of the Interior
Home Journal
Mexican Boundary Line Expedition Leader Named
Lieut John McOwan of the Topographical Engineers is ordered to lead a forty civilian survey party with two mounted companies of soldiers to El Paso for the Mexican boundary line survey starting May 16. Typhus fever is reported as raging with great fatality in Glynn County Georgia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jno. McO
Wan
Topographical Corps of Engineers
el Paso
Glynn County
Georgia
Injustice and Hope for Prof Webster Family Letter
A daughter Harriet Webster speaks for a family claiming Prof Webster innocent, awaiting public justice as petitions surge in Louisville and Cincinnati. Reports note lunatic asylum expansion and wool imports while Mrs Ireland and daughter perish freezing on a mountain en route to California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Webster
Manchester Messenger
Dante
Mansa
Calinne
Harriet W. Webster
West
Louisville
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Journal
Dani. Drake
Cincinnati Gazette
Cleveland
Ireland
Quincy
Ill
California
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Foreign News
Mitchel
Royal Astronomical Society
Royal Observatory
Mr. Calhoun
Powers
Congressional
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Iupee
Iei
Nadecahi
Acim
Professor Watsier
Woon
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