He has labored assiduously to secure the reduction and grad uation of the price of the public lands: a principle, the justice and expediency of which he has lost no opportunity of enfor cing.

He was enrolled in the ranks of the fifty-four forties. [See title, S. A. DOUGLAS.] His convictions were deep and strong that the whole territory belonged to the United States, and that its settlement and occupation were of the utmost importance to the prosperity and harmony of the whole Union, and to the permanency of our republican form of government.

He has opposed the Wilmot Proviso. His name, however, does not appear recorded on the Three Million Bill. When the vote was taken, he had stepped into the Senate to transact some business for an absent colleague; on his return, he asked permission to record his vote, but the House did not grant it.

He has been the liberal friend of the soldier-regular as well as volunteer-and was one of those who offered propositions for the increase of their pay.

Among the measures which have been introduced by him, we notice a bill making further provision for the payment of horses and other property lost or destroyed in the Black Hawk war; a bill to provide for the speedy completion of the Cumberland Road in the States of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio; a bill to create a port of entry at the city of Alton; a bill to create collection districts at Alton, Quincy, Galena, and Cairo, Illinois; a bill to grant to the State of Illinois certain alternate sections of land, to aid in the construction of the Alton and Mount Carmel, and Alton and Shawneetown Rail-road. Also, propositions to establish a marine hospital at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, for the accommodation of sick and disabled seamen, boatmen, and others; for the establishment of naval dépôts in Illinois, Missouri, and Tennessee; to extend the benefit of all pension laws now in force, granting pensions to the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war and their widows, to the officers and soldiers who served in the defense of our frontiers in the Indian wars prior to the year 1812; in favor of liberal donations of land to the officers and soldiers who served in the ranging service against the Indians, on our Western frontier, to the close of the late war with Great Britain; to allow all letters and newspapers to be sent free of postage,

until the close of the war, to the officers and soldiers of our army serving in Mexico.

Among the reports which he has submitted, we notice especially a report showing the importance of the improvement of the Falls of the Ohio, at Louisville, to the commerce of that river and of the Valley of the Mississippi; and a report on the petition of George Wilkes, and on several other memorials, in relation to a rail-road from the navigable waters of the Missouri to the Pacific Ocean. This report is adverse to the prayer of the petitioners, but recommends an examination, or survey, of the country between what is known as the North Pass, from the upper navigable waters of the Missouri to the navigable waters of Clarke's River, which empties into the Columbia. This examination is recommended with a view to the establishment of some cheap and easy means of communication between the navigable waters of the two rivers.

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KING, DANIEL PUTNAM,

S a native of Danvers, Massachusetts, where he still resides. His ancestors emigrated from England to Salem as early as 1636. From that time to the present they have resided in Salem and Danvers (formerly a part of Salem), and have been principally engaged in the cultivation of the soil. This has been, and continues to be, his own occupation and amusement in the intervals of his public labors. He has been an active member and officer of the county and state agricultural societies, and has on several occasions received premiums for the successful management of his farm, and for improvements in farming. When the bill establishing the Smithsonian Institute was before Congress, he offered an amendment, which was rejected, proposing such a modification of the plan as would enable the students to pay their board by laboring on the farm of the institution. A portion of his time he spends in literary pursuits, and he has delivered, on several occasions, public addresses which have been favorably noticed. Among these, we note his eulogy at the funeral of General Gideon Foster; an address, published in 1835, on laying the corner stone of a monument in commemoration of the fate of seven young men of his native town who were slain in the battle of Lexington. delivered on its sixtieth anniversary; an address before the Es sex County Agricultural Society; and an address at a meeting of the trustees of that society, upon the death of the late Lev erett Saltonstall, who was Mr. King's immediate predecessor in Congress.

He was graduated in 1823 at Harvard University. He has had no professional education, nor adopted any professional pursuit. At an early age he contemplated the study of the law, but abandoned it, and, shortly after he graduated, was married to Sarah Page, daughter of Hezekiah Flint, of Danvers, where, upon a farm inherited by his wife, he commenced