Indiana American, Volume 2, Number 29, Brookville, Franklin County, 18 July 1834 — Page 2

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Washington City, June 28 1834. Sir: The history of the present Session may be given in a few words. It has been little else than a scene of political warfare and strife. Less Legislative business has been done than at any previous Session. The great exciting question has been the Bank and the deposites. On this single subject, by fir the greater portion of the Session has been employed. It would be useless to enter into details of this matter. They would be endless. Every one must, in a greater or less degree, be familiar with the subject: one, which is believed to havej agitated Congress, find the country, more, than almost any other since the days of the revolution. The question of the I anil and Nullification, heretofore en crossing almost entirelv public attentiori,have scarcely been spoken of, tind that of the Pub lic Lands has been wholly crowded out of! view by it. The Land bill is anions the un finished business of the Session. The fiscal affairs of the country were, agree' ably to the Report of the Secretary of the treasury in December last, in a prosperous condition. The amount of public debt remaining unpaid, was, on the 1st of January last, less than 5,000,000. This is the remnant of the old debt of the revolution, and the debt carried by the late war with England Our chief source of revenue is the tariff, or in other words, duties collected at the custom houses on imported goods: and in modifying the tariff to the diminished wants of the coun try, the difficulty has been to know where to stop. The business of reduction has been an agreeable employment, and Congress, has already gone too far in reducing the tariff, in passing a second law before a former one had gone into operation, and at a time when the effects of neither could he foreseen. llu was the case last Session, when a second tariff reducing law was enacted, before the law of a previous Session had gone into operations until it has become doubtful whether Con cress will not be under the necessity ot im posing additional tariffduties, in lieu of those recently taken off. These reductions were made to the manifest jeopardy of the manu facturers, and the manufacturing interests, have ever since, been in a depressed and sick ly condition. Many establishments have already ceased their operations, and their proprietors will no doubt direct their capital into other channels no longer willing to hazard every thing, in the doubtful experiment, whether the manufacturing interests can live under the tariff reducing law of 1833. The reduction of the revenue, and the possible necessity for its increase, has very much injured the prospect of internal improvements. The manufacturers, while protected by a sustaining tariff, were the close allies of internal improvements; for the tariff, while it protected their interests, furnished the means of making roads & canals, which were also necessary to that interest, in the transportation of their fabrics throughout the whole country. The effects of these causes have already been felt, and deeply felt, in the difficulties experienced in obtaining an appropriation for the Cumberland Road. Those interested in this road, must have observed these difficulties, and the road will feel them in the fact, that midsummer must pass by, before the work of the present year can commence, owing to the late period of the Session at which the appropriation was made. It will feel them too, in the increased difficulty of future appropriations. The amounts this year appropriated for the progress of the work,fare .$'200,000 to be expended in the state of Ohio, .$150,000 in Indiana, and 100,000 in Illinois. Ap propriations have also passed the House of Representatives for the improvement of the navigation of the Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri and Red Rivers. A bill has passed the Senate, authorizing the selection of Wabash and Erie canal lands, in the valley of the Maumee River, in lieu of lands sold by the United States, which would otherwise have become the property of the canal, in virtue of the original grant of March 2d, 1S27. This bill authorizes the selection of about 80,000 acres for the use of the canal. A bill has also passed the Senate making m appropriation of .$20,000 to improve the navigation of the Wabash River. The subject of the Public Lands, is one of increasing importance. The large sums those lands are now bringing into the Treasury, make them more than heretofore, a bone of j contention. Those who would destroy the tariff, and grasp at every other source of revenue, are more zealous than ever, to retain their proceeds for the ordinary disbursements of Government. The eld tariff States, wish the Federal Government to be sustained by the duties on imported goods, and the proceeds of the Public Lands distributed among all the States. Both these classes of politicians are opposed to any change of the Land system; opposed to reduction of price, to graduation, and to all advantages to actual settlers. The Representatives of the new States are not entirely agreed in this matter, nor have they power to control it if they were. With few exceptions we all so for the graduating principle, while some would carry that principle farther than others. We all go for reduction of the price, and for privileges and favors to actual settlers. In the details of these principles we might not all agree, but we have never yet been able to induce Congress to go with him who demanded least, . .... 7 and who would be willing to stop first. We all think too "that in convenient time, this machinery of land Offices, &c. should be withdrawn from the states, and that the right of soil, and the future disposition of it, should ne surrendered to the States respectively." These principles embrace, it is believed. the

whole land system of the President, as set j

forth in his various messages. Most of these 1 principles I greatly prefer to the Land bill of Mr. Clay, but when no hope of succeeding in any of them remained, I did on former occasions, as I probably would again, vote for that bill. In doing so I have nol preferred it to other propositions on the subject of the Public Lands, but in doing so, I have preferred it to the system as it is, and as it has been with slight alterations almost thirty years. By the present system, the monies paid into the Land Othces, go into the treasury ol the United States. By the bill all will be paid over to the States; giving also the new States a preference over the old States, in this distribu tion of 17i per cent, of the receipts into their own Land ofhees, being 124 per cent, in au dition to that they already receive. Now if we do not adopt such regulation as this, the Land system remains as it is, and we get no part of the money. I say remains as it is, for every effort to change it for many years past, has been unavailing. But if we pass the bill the system in other respects remains as it is, and the States get the money. The Bill appropriates for five years, from and after the 31st December, 1S32, the nett proceeds of -tfie Sales of the Public Lands. One year of the term had expired on the 31st of December, loo J. I he .amount received that year is known, and the dividened of each Stafe is a matter of easy calculation. The nett proceeds is about four per cent less than the aggregate receipts. The aggregate receipts for the year 1833, are 4,030,510 5o,of which sum 601,319 81, was received in the State of Indiana. 17i per cent of the nett proceeds ol this latter sum is 'Ub,b45 70; the amount to which Indiana would Le entitled, as a pri mary dividend. Deduct 17 per cent, from the nett proceeds of the aggregate receipts, and 3,012,009 49 is left to be divided among the 24 States of the Union, according to their respective federal representative population of which sum, Indiana would be entitled to 114,102 90. These two sums amount to 230,748 60; the amount to which the State would be entitled of the monies; which have actually been received during the last year. Now on the supposition that the present year, and the .three subsequent years, will be as productive as the past year; and the probability is that they will be more so, the dividend to which Indiana would be entitled, under the five years existence of the Bill, would be 1,153,743 00. In addition to this, the Bill also gives to the State of Indiana, 115,272 acres of land, which at the mininum price would be worth 144,090 00; making the whole amount, to which the Mate would be entitled bv this Bill agree ably to the last years receipts, the sum of 1,297,833 00. I make no error in estimating the nett proceeds; having the office calcula tions before me; and the Bill now before the Senate, whatever may have been the provis ions of previous Bills, authorizes a dividend of the nett proceeds. I have been thus particular in staling the provisions of this Land Bill, and the advantages offered by it to the State, whose interests are entrusted in part to my care, knowing that a difference of oninion.cxista among the most honest, and intelligent of our citizens, in relation to it, and believing that the subject is not generally well under stood. It is mv firm belief, that ivhnpvpr livps to the 31st December, 1837, should this Bill not become a law, will see the Land System as it now is, and the monies paid into the treasuries of the 24 States. The 31st of December, 1837, is the period when the Bill would expire by its own limitation. 1 he fear that the passage of this Bill would diminish the prospect of reducing the price, is not well founded. The Bill itself expressly excludes such conclusion. The Bill however, is left among the unfinished business of the Session. Another pre-emption law has passed, proviing, "that every Settler or occupant of Pub lic Lands, prior to the passage of this Act,who is now in possession, and cultivated any part thereof; in the year 1833, shall be entitled, to all the benefits and privileges provided by the ac t of May 29. 1 830." Which Act is re vised, and continued in force two years. Bills have been presented, and pressed upon the attention of the Senate, authorizing mi; iciuiuncsoi luicnigan anu Arkansas, to form lor themselves Constitutions and State Governments, and for the the formation of the territory of Wisconsin; but no laws on these subjects have been passed. The dodulation of Michigan proper is staled at about 55,000, and that of Arkansas, between 40 and 50,000. The Bill to attach the Territo ry of the United States, west of the Mississippi River, and north of the State of Missouri, to the Territory of Michigan, will probably become a law. WM.IJENDRICKX. Mmorv Controlled bv Insanitv A irpnfle. ' ,7 - - man named AlaricMerrv, residing in Broadway, wno is suDject to aberation ot intellect,) during one of his crazy fits about a year ago, left his house late at night, taking with him a casket of jewels, containing somn valnahlp diamonds that had been many years in the family. He returned the next day quite sane. but without the jewels, or without any recollection that he had taken them away. Since that time he could never call to mind where he went to on that occasion, and although diligent search was instituted, the property could not be found. Three weeks ago he again became insane, and on Mondav nicht maue nis escape from the house. He was watched, and followed up to the Lunatic Asylum, and on being observed to stoop down ana cug with his hands into a small mound of earth near the premises, he was seized, and the search was continued by his attendants when lo! about a foot below the soil, the missing casket was discovered. .V. Y. Transcript.

AiriVS OF TIIE WEEK.

Washington, June 30. The debate which he mentioned in our last to be dependingin the Senate, on Friday evening, at the time of the Saturday's newspaper going to press, turned upon the report of the Post Office Committee. That debate ended in a vote, carried with entire unanimity, affirming the illegality and voidness of all the loans which have been made by the General Post Office or any of its several heads. Here, then is one abuse, at least, and an enormous one, which was concealed by its authors, until the Senate ferreted it out, which all parties concur in signally reproving. the nomination of John Forsyth, of Georgia, to be secretary of the treasury, was received by the Senate, and immediately confirmed without a division. Int. Washington, July 1. Yesterday, though the last day of the session. was, contrary to all expectation, a real working-day. Many bills passed their final reading, in the Senate especially. In the preceding columns some incidents of the day are noted, omiting the specification of the bills passed, because they will be found in the List of Acts, also contained in the preceeding columns, which List we have been at great trouble to procure and make as perfect as possible. 1 o this L.;st we must refer our readers for in formation of the business actually completed during the session. ti ine ruDiic acis we snail commece in our next the publication at large, and continue on therewith until we have publised the whole. Int. Washington, July 2. We have already had occasion to remark that, at the Session of Congress which has just closed, the House of Representatives passed, favorably or unfavorably, upon every bill which had passed the Senate. We are now enabled to say, that the Senate also, before its adjournment, passed upon every bill sent to it by the House of Representatives. The fact is evidence of great exertion at the close of a Session, the greater part of which was not distinguished by particulr industry or assiduity. From this last remark, of course, must be expected those individuals in each House whose devotion to public business was laborious and unceasing. We could particularize, if to do so would not justly be deemed invidious. A'at. Int. Washington, July 2. The Post Office Committee, appointed by the House of Representatives to sit in the recess, are, it is understood, to assemble in this city on the 22d September next. The Senate Committee on the same subject meets on the 15th of the same month. The Senate committee of Finance, who are also instructed lo sit during the recess, will have a meeting forthwith at Philadelphia, after which they will, it is supposed, sit for some weeks in this city before the meeting of Congress. This Committee consists of Mr. Web ster, Mr. Ewino, Mr. Mangum, and Mr. Tyler Mr. Wilkins, the fifth member, vaca ting his seat by accepting the Mission to Rus sia. jut Int. " New-York, June 10. alarming Accident. A vounr laHv of color last evening returning from the African church, through Leonard street, suddenly fell down upon the pavement. Several humane gentlemen assisted in raising her up, when she seemed, to appearance, dead. A physician was sent for, cologne water, hartshorn, &.c. all proved unavailing.until a colored gentleman, one of her acquaintance, recognized her, immediately remarked, "Ah, 1 know what ails her; she is laced up too tight' -i n - ine wnoie machinery of the corset being, sans ceremonie, cut away, the lady sprung up on uer icei perieciiy restored. -ar. The Presbyterian General Assemiu.v. This great body of delegates from the Presbyterian church in all parts of the Union, have closed a long and stormy session. There was evidently much division in their ranks; and if neat in their controversies should be continu ed, a secession of part would not be surpris ing. I he Presbyterian," of Philadelphia, in remarking on the subject, savs. "The line of demarcation is at length drawn; the contest must hasten to an issue; parties must become more distinctly characterized ; and those who have hitherto professed to occupy neutral ground will no longer have a pretext for maintaining their questionable. We are no friends to schism, but we desire a restoration of our church to her ancient purity, although the means of purchase should be contest and seperation. The evils under which our church now labors may be traded to two pricipal causes; the first is, a desire to multiply her numbers, which, although innocent in itself, has become tinctured wffh unholy ambition; and then, secondly, as a suitabfe arrnmmn. iment of the former, a relaxation of strict prin ciples, both of doctrine and polity, to remov the scruples of the hesitating, and open a sid aoor oi aamission. l he operation of these causes has been that the church has increased its number at the expense of its unity and identity of character. A protest was presenteu hi me iaie session against the sentiments of tne new school, which was laid aside, and wuitn we apprehend will give occasion for much controversy hereafter." There are evidently three divisions in this convention. One part belongs to the new school, another tn old school, and the third makes up a compromising party. Moet of these belonging to the old school, and probably some of them to the new. They have ever entertained kind feelings towards the dissentients, and are dcep'v

solicitous for a restoration of peace. They

think both mean right, and that there is more difference in words than there is in that which is fundamental. A person in our humble- opinion must be stone blind, who gives a glance at these controversies, and does not discern an essential difference among them. We take no plesure in the strifes and divisions of our fellow christians. We wish they, were of the same mind and the same judgment in the fundamental doctrines of the gospel; but the great Head of the church may be preparing a portion of his people, by these very differ ences, to examine more carefully the primi tive order of his house, and to abandon things which have obscured its simplicity for cen turies, lhe Presbyterian, the same paper from which we have already quoted, contin ues its remarks thus: "1 he priciple has been openly avowed, that our doctrinal standards mav be accommodated to meet the views ol those whose sentiments are essentially vari ant, and that our church ordermay or may not be observed, as expediency dictates. Inter pretation has wrought marvels with our venerable standards; and, in the progvess of im provement, we should not be at all surprised to see Universahsts and oocinians sitting un disturbed under the wing of the Westminster divines. If the doctrines of our standards can be made to harmonize with the Sabellian ism which is openly published by Presbyte rian clergvmen, a little more lattitude wil cause them to affiliate with Socinianism. The symptons at present indicate an approach to this result. A. Y. Baptist Register. Sudden Deaths. The Harrisburg (Pa.) Chronicle of June 23, states the following remarkable instance of sudden deaths as having occurred recently in Susquehana township, of that county. Un 1 hursday last, Isaac Diller and John Johnston. The former fell down in convulsions while at the plough. The latter carried him home, and complained immediately of sickness-, fell down and shortly after expired. They both died within half an hour." JVat. Int. Washington, June 20. The Senate sat on Saturday night till 12 o - clock, and the House of Representatives sat until two hours past midnight, both bodies earnestly engaged in business. In the House of Representatives,every bill which have passed the Senate was acted upon, except two not reported from the Committees; a circumstance unprecedented in the history of Congress within our recollection of it. We have collected in the succeeding columns the best account we can of the business which was transacted. JVal. Int. Washington, July. 1 The Senate sat to a late hour on Executive business, of which they had much before them. Of what was done, we onl y heard, before the paper's going to press, that the nomination ofl Mahlon Dickerson was confirmed; an that William Wilkins, a Senator from Pennsylvania was appointed by the President, with the consent of the Senate, to be Minister to Russia, vice Dickerson. The House of Representatives brought its business to a close by 6 o clock; but the Senate having a large mass of nominations to act on afterwards, the adjournment of the two Houses did not take place until near 7 o'clock P. M. when the session was closed. Int. Washington, July I. The President approved, we believe, all the bills passed by the two Houses at the recent session of Congress, with the exception of the bill making an appropriation of $20,000 lo remove certain obstructions from the channel of the river IVubash. This bill the President holds under advisement, stating in a messaere to the House, that he has strong doubts wheth er ne can approve the bill consistently with his opinions of the powers of the Government. If we had not lost the faculty of beinsr sur prised at any Executive notion, we confess that we should feel not a little at the scruples j. i. ........ . r . expressea in regard to this bill; for the Presi uent nas not only signed bills appropriating money for the improvement of the Hudson river, and the Cumberland river,in Tennessee; but the United States have heretofore appropn.ii.eu t w,uuu acres, oi public lands, worth perhaps two millions of dollars, to connect the navigation of this very Wabash river with the Lake Michigan, which appropriaf ion will be rendered in a great measure useless for the want of the small sum of 20,000 necessary to remove an obstruction from the channel of the river. Besides, the Wabash was made aTnat.lo.nal h'ghway by the act of cession from Virginia, and when the canal connecting it : i. u it t i 1 1 . o vuu we iane snail be completed, a vast commerce will be carried on not only by Indiana and Illinois, but bv remoter parts of the luuuu j ; niaeea already is the river navigable 500 miles by steamboats. Yet in face of all uiese precedents and all these cogent considciaiiuus, me rresicent hesitates about the small expenditure which Congress granted to make their own previous grant available, and to perfect so magnificent a chain of communication for our Western fellow-citizens Int. The ice President having, according to the usual custom, near the close of the session, retired from the chair, the Senate nrn. cecded to the election of a President, tem. On the 3d ballot Mr. Poindexter was declar- ,. u ' eicclcd navmg received a majority of xving, ot Alabama. for dex King Man's whole life is but school hours: this vunu CXeai linivorcilv. Ail .'. .

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LJl TEST FJW.V EUROPE. FUNERAL OP LArAVETTE-MEETlvr AMERICAN CITIZENS.

By the ship Manchester, Captain Swift, from Havre, we have received our Paris paper of the 24th of May. FUNERAL OF LAFAYETTE From an early hour on the morning of. 22d of May, the Rue d'Anjou St.Honore, which the hotel of the late lamented Lafayette is situated, and every street and passage in its vicinity, was crowded with citizens of Paris, hastening to pay their last tribute respect and attachment to the illustrious deB tnous ceased. rru r. 1 .. The funeral ceremony, says Galignai's Messenger, from the public character of the deceased, both as a member of the Chamber of Deputies and a General, was invested by the a i It Government with all imposing pomp the attendance of numerous bodies of military never fails to give to processions of scription: while the attendance of the NationWC al Guards, who came forward in immense numbers, to join in giving effect to this foi Ita. ting act oi homage to their venerable league, & the crowded slate of the streets ding to the Church of Assumption. where funeral cermony was to be perforcd, and forthence along the Rue de la Paix. the entire length of the Boulevards, and every s near which the procession was to pass, sh, ed the extent of the popularity, and the vi icctionate esteem with which the dece; was regarded by every class. About half seven the members of the various Deputati; appointed to take part in the Procession gan to arrive, at the Hotel, which was h; somely hung with black. Among these Kt numbers of staff officers, of the troops. the national guards. Detachments of infan: were placed as Guards of Honor in the mencement of the Rue du Faubourg St 1 ore, the Rue Royale, the Rue St. Florent: to and other points by which the procession to pass. At a few minutes after nine the body brought down and deposited in the hearse which was decorated with twelve tri-colored flags, three at each corner: it was surmounted by plumes, and had the letter L on varied parts of the drapery, and was drawn by four black horses. The cordons of the hearse were held by four persons of distinction, friends the deceased. Alter a few minutes spent i preliminary arrangements, the funeral march struck up, and the cortege began to move,-! The hearse was preceded by muffled drum deputations from various legions of the N tional Guards of Paris, and the Banlieue.-! The 61st Regiment of the Line, and a Re; ment of Red' Lancers. The Hearse folio ed, which was immediately succeeded by Dep utations of the Chambers of Peers and Depu ties; other deputations followcd from various public bodies, among whom we perceive! numbers of foreigners, particularly American and roles. 1 hese wore succeeded br Cme de Bataition of the National Guards and thf Line, and these again followed by other til tachments of JNational Guards and troops the Line, headed by muffled drums and fJ military band; two pices of cannon, and ad tachment of the 1st regiment of artillcrj, Hi a numerous body of cnvalry of the Nationa Guards, r our of the Royal carnages, threj private of the General, followed by anotid regiment of Lancers, seven private carnagcl and a body of Municipal Guards, wound nj the procession. The immense crowds and the small spad left for the military, occasioned considers!)! confusion previous to arriving at the churchf for want of room the hearse being stopped cJ one occasion more than a quarter of an hour 1 he cofhn was then taking into the thuiq and the luneral cermony being performed, & proceession again proceeded; and, nolviu standing the incalculable crowds assemble has passed the Rue de la Paix, and isnow(; we are going to press) far advanced on th Boulevard, with the most perfect order acl regularity. All the Ministers, says the same Gazette, ci leaving Council held by the King on the rn ceding day at the Tuileries, went in a bodj to make a visit of condolence to the family c Gen. Lafayette. The were received by a! George Lafayette, and conducted by him ta view the body. An immense number oi pe sons of all classes called in the course of tl day and inscribed their names as participate in the general grief. CHANCERY J&TICE. Elijah Barwick Administrator") of Thomas Swigeett deceased. I In Franklin C v. suit court. Apr Benjamin S. Noble, George L. I Term, A-D. IJeibler Mary Ueiblcr and Marv E. Deibler. . I Chancery. AND now at this day (to wit: 15h April, A. I' 1834) comes the said complainant by JJohnston his attornev.and it annenrinfr bvthc iff'a return, that the subpoena in this case has beff executed on Benjamin S. Noble, one of 6aid nceli ants, and that George L. Deibler, Mary Deibler Mary E. Deibler. are not found, and on motion Plaintiff by J. M. Johnston his attorney. It istheiM fore ordered by the court that the pendency of M saia naintitt 's Mill be published three v, c'k ; cessively in the Indiana American, a weekly ne paper printed and published in Brookville, I'rankl !- ..Ma n.... .. - - fllM miintV. I nA i.Tia nntifoitii. ami .nnnocf ill (f t Lfi Ueiendants tn hp nnrl innpir nn t,n first. UOV "l " next term of this rnnrt tnn tliA Efrnnd MowM October next, at the court house in Brookville) 4 answer to the bill of the Plaintiff, or the matters ' things therein contained will be heard in their sence and decreed accordingly. A TT rat nnmRT .Trmv. pi'k. F.C.G Mav 29th. 1834. 20-3 ALL those indebted to me, whose accounts M hppn dll ni-r tnm.tl.a onl ranllKstCll tO COfllfi ward and make payment. I must have money j if I nnnnt rrr If m .fo-t- T mnL-t onnHlCr. qucntly those accounts which r.rc not settled s M ill ho nnllnntnJ k.. A t.t tliC VISC1'" .. ... i,vni,u ui lain ii nuiu m ficiert. GARllISOX STEMf;

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