Indiana American, Volume 5, Number 20, Brookville, Franklin County, 12 May 1837 — Page 1

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1 I ;., ... ,,r,l,o. ni- H no ".rlrio:i of the yeir. Tin LJitor will dis''"'"j. inscription at his option. v',ii:Yii-"-:,' rs. Twelve lim;s,or less, will be ","t'.,i o ici or thr ;e times, for one dollar. anl "2") ''"''.S'W1I tie charged fnreacii additional insertion AKWS Or TUB WKKK. From the I'tdiantt Journal. INI ERXAL IMPROVEMENTS. In the I st Journal I showed that seventeen rents on the bundled dollar? was the m,t under any circumstances that we hail t :,i,ciiatii!sa"tax for the year; (hat our pubIc works w II In: finished under (lie present n,-!!io, of prosecuting them, and of course t!, i! that would le the maximum of taxation, or pivxioiis to that tune we will have to pay tbe tax only ou the sum expended, and subsc'ieMtl v we could rely on the tolls, rents, &. which would accrue from our works when completed. That calculation was luseil upon the moderate increase of 10 per cent, oa our taxahic means. This sun) was tlitMi because there could he no dou't of jt? heing small enough, and consequently there could he no doubt of the sum of IT CP;i;s oa the hundred dollars which would pi -It as a tix being as large as we hae any f,-eo:i to anticipate, 1'ns.t increase however in our taxihh: means warrants the supposition ft a mil' h grea'er increase than 10 per fid. In proof of this we know that in 1836 i!ie tax ille. lands amounted to 5,1S5,"G3 acres. At an increase of 15 per cent, there be from this sti position only 11,050.512 acres of land taxahle in 1841. Now as we fcno-v that the lands taxahle in IS i I include hII the lands sold prior to 1836. we have the means of testing the correctness of the ahove fu;;vs!-d increase. There were entered, jirvvious to 1830. I 2,008,3-2 1 acres, a greater a nouut hy 1,000.000 than the supposed increase would h ve required; hence the propriety of assuming and reiving with confidence, upon an increase of 15 per cent, on our taxahle means so far as the land is concerneil. No certain amount e f increase of other taxable means can he arrived at. As Tit, 'ut one valuation under the ad voloiem j.nv lus been made, whi h of course affords nn means of comparison. It is a subject, however, upon wineh all can form some opinio i. Take, for instance, the properly in any s-rl'mnof the State and reflet! whether an increase of 15 per cent, upon its former valu is a greater increase than has actual y taken pi ne. For one, I am willing to hazm! fie opinion that it is far short of the real incrcas", and 1 helieve that, ill assuming it as the basis of this calculation, I am juslifieil ly the actti d existence of the ine rease. Upon tin supposition, then, I w ill make a calculation n id show the amount of tax necessary to he levied in 1848. to meet the interest for oar In in.-. I will Like the sum assumed hy the writer in 'he Democrat, that is necessary to complete our public works, namely . 18.3')7.7.J8, and also the interest on this sum nc.i'iulated hy the writer, namely, 01 5,3S(i 9j. Now. as I have hefore shown, this sum fhoalj he diminished hy receipts for toll anil r-nts the sum of 457.702, leaving 457.(i'21 9.) to he paid. Then hy taking only one li-ill of the present amount of surplus revenue belonging to the Slate, a the amount that will he available to the State in 1848. we tan at 9 percent, per annum, deiive a fi nl from this equal to 51.015 dollars, and thuiK-tmg this, we have 4015,000 dollar 9uc. to p.tv hy taxation. At the late which 1 hive assumed ahove, there will he a valuation of taxihh-sin 184S equ il to 4 17.319,500 tiolhr. Upon this sum we will have to r.:i.hy taxation, a sum equal to 40G.009 d-d-I-irs Otc. A tax of 10 cents on t!ie one hunJrcl d .il.ir--. gives 4l7,3l9dotars 5:)c, more :' 10.000 doll ir ton much. Where then u room for (tie assertion in the D'inor', Ih jt our t;ixes must he raised !o 1 doll.ir l-.V. on tli 100 !oli irs? Upon w hat could t'.e writer have founded an assertion so opposed to reason and common sense? Did he wjipose that his word was a sufficient vouch- " lor the remit of a calculation !aed upon a certain data?"' or was it the t'iumph "' iiiiiu hiih-alf of presumption over common s'"iie,t:iai kd his mathematical genius solar c:r:ii ? I Will give one or two other instances of ts utUr iacap ihilitv of the w riter to handle a ahji-i so u.iwieldly as large amounts of mrtiiey, unless he can enlist in his service a iii!i recruit of that sinr que nan in all figure york. i-nlW-il calculation. 1 do this to show lie little reliance that should he placed upon t'le liiet i of any man, when he is ready to iizul any ass.-rlion for the trilling vanity of '' i able to ijive an opinion. In his grand ; -leine to cjiisiru. t the works without resortto til it od.ous system of taxation, he say . ''Uwiil he recollected" iiiat of the one million dollars expended during the first year of J;e oporations, "only one half will be expended the first six months, and the State will "lv for IS30 have to pay the interest on that ! "noum."' Now, if there is any meaning in j;'at sentence it shows most conclusively that tile writer did not know what It was. 'l)oes lVv-',UV' 1er l,lse or t,le tirst fiix montl,s i!-J the State only expends one half a mil01 ot dollars, that she will not have to pay ' u st on lie; half she expends the second moot hi of that year? The fact is the , uy interest on all the money as fast s" txouj,, it reserving some little time

to transfer drafts to the east, and fhe max expend 1 .000,000 dollars in one year in such a in inner that the interest accruing would be equal to the interest on n half million for one year. Again, in the aforesaid moneysaving scheme of classification, the writer in the Democrat makes use of the surplus money in as uniinancial a manner as ignorance of the subject could dictate, lie allows the surplus revenue to yield him more by 01.700 dollars than he wants to expend in construe ling his works for the y ear 1837. This 01.700 he carefully holds on to, hut lends out the surplus revenue as hefore. thereby keeping on hand for one year G 4,700 dollars unprofitable and useless; when in his scheme at least he might have loaned it out upon the same terms as the surplus revenue. Would any man, who knew what he was about, transmit monied operations in thai manner? And yet this writer has the temerity to give advice to the people to do what ninetynine out of a hundred w ould laugh at. A few suggestions on the main question, whether it is better for the State to classil her works or pursue the system she has already commenced. The writer in the Democrat, says, that hy classification '"it is readily seen, that even work in the State will be made just as seen as by the present modus operandi." This I deny. We all know when a certain amount of work is to he done, the greater the number of laborers, the less the lime required to finish the work. I ask w hat proportion of our laborers ate residents of the neighborhood, through which the works on which they are engaged pass? A little inpuiry as to the amount of local labor performed even on the Central csmal. will satisfy any one that there i a very grat proportion of the laborers citizen in adjoining distil' Is. They are not regular labon-is. nor have they more than two or three Months" time to leave their farms, and work for the sake of mak'ng a little ready money. If the works pro-ecuted by the State were some

distance off. the expense of travelling to them would not permit them o go and vtork one or two mouths. I?y classifying them the State would lose the labor of all this rlnr of aborers. We not only lose the labor of lhi class of our citiz"u. but in consequence of it. necessarily mut pay more money to foreigners, who. a soon as hey get done their work, leave the Stale, and take with them a large amount of money, which, had it been paid to citizens, would have been expended ill some way to the improvement of the Slate. The writer again says. the citiz-'ii in every part of the State will be benefitted by the public works just as soon, ami we think sooner," by classification, than by the present tuodv. Does any citizen of Indianapolis believe that he would he benefitted just as soon if the State were to confine her oppositions for the next tw o Tears on the Wabash & Erie canal, as under the present modi-? I'll not of advantage to have a work under lonslnu tion to be constantly expending money i the neighborhood? The prosecut'on of a work in consequence ot the home consumption of the surplus rodtice. i- ev n preferable to the farmer to a regular foreign market. The home market is equally as teitain, without any trouble or iik of transport inn. And if mere men are employed from the farming class of community than could be by classification, surely we consume more of the productions of the country, and in the proportion that we appropriate the labor of the country o works, in the same ratio e decrease the means of the f wining community to rai-e produce, a id of course in lease the prh of that w lii h is raised. What farmer or laboring man of any class, knowing these facts, would not prefer a trifling lax of ten or even twenty cents on the $100, if by doing so he secures to himsel the means of making high prices mr his labor and produce? Ask anv farmer w ho has a surplus of produce, if he would not rather pay double ids present tax Mian lose the market that that tax enables the Slate to offer to htm? Again, if we throw all the force of the State on one work, what will be the consequence? Money will become plenty in that vicinity. The price for labor must raise, contractors must have contracts to sustain themselves, for it is unn asonuble to expect any individual to involve himself for a Stale work. The works would then he bid off high enough to justify giving these high prices for labor, and hence the Sta'c must lose in consequence of concentrating her force upon too small a district of country. Experience has already tested the truth of tins, and those w ho have witnessed the effect ot the expenditure of a large amount of money in one section of the country, will acquiesce in the truth of these (acts. If. then, w e can bring more force on our works under the present extended method otj operating than re can command by clasify-j ing them, we certainly can finish our improvements sooner. If, also, by a judicious system of operating,! we prevent thai exorbitant demand for labor which must result from spending a large I amount of money on any one work, we w ill complete our improvements with les money. And if it is more advantageous to the laboring clas of eommunitv to pay a trifling tax to secure the immense benefit resulting from the prosecution of works in their vicin-i ity, we then operate to the best advantage to the citizensof the State individually. Then, under the present mode, we can

complete our works in less time; we will make them for less money rand we distribute the benefits more equally to all the cit'zensol the St te, than we could were we to construe t our works under a system of classification. II.

Down East Girls. When the Down Cast girls wih to Ihrea'en eat h other with a t'.ogging, they say. '-I'll be into you like a thousand of brick." When a wild lad attempts to f'eal a kis fiom a Nantut ket girl she says, 'Come, sheer off, cr I'll split your mainsail with a taphoon." The l'oston girls hold still until they are well kissi d, when they flare up all at once and say , "I should think you ought to be ashamed!" Chicago. The M. T. Evening Star says this town has nown 8000 inhabitants, forty or fifty lawyers, thirty or foity doctors, twelve public houses, three newspapers and l-28 stores! Cii The Balloon ascent f yesterday. Mr- Clay ton made yesteidav a most ndvontuious experiment. His balloon did not till wiih gas siifiit ient to ascend at the appointed hour The day wa beautiful, the concourse of witnesses very great. Finding that he could not ascend in the car. he made him a seat ot ords by tieing them altogether, and with nothing but the balloon he rose and lioated up some twenty feet so as to pai. the fence ot the enclosure, w hen he found further ascent impracticable, lie descended and deliberately cast oil" sill the uninflatcd pait of the balloon, leaving an open space tit the bottom, more than ten feet in diameter. IJe the n sealed himself on the cords, and ascended in the most easy and graceful manner, waving his hat to the rowd. lie hovered over the city a few minutes, fioatieg Southwest, when his course changed, and was direi ted Southeast. He appeared perfectly s If-possess' d. and On re is reason to suppose be understaiuls his business. Il w ns the most tieautifiil, and the most thrilling ascent he has yet made in Cint inuali. On. Gazette, Miy 2. CCrThe Cincinnati Gazette of last Wednesday say: "Mr. Clayton, the anonaut. lelurned yesterday about noon. afe and sound, lie descended some tell or fifteen miles from the citv." J aunty viihnut a lawyer. Warren county. lliim:-. milainii g a population of 7,0K with three or four thriving tow ns, and twelve or fifteen more staked out and in market, has not a law yer in It It is not because the profession are ignorant of '.he fact; for attorney are a'ways among the first discoveicrs of Western towns, and especially county seats; hut from the almut total absence id litigation. "Two or three lawyes have tried to live there," said our informant, "but they had to clear out." Pinrin li ister. Wealth of hik Potomac At a haul o' the spacious seine at the Indian Head handing thcothei day. li-heil by Geo. il. S noot. Esq., upwards of seien Jinn red thousand h-r ring were taken, besiues a large number oi shad, sturgeon, rock, perch, and every d scriptiou of fish which finds a home in this highw ay of the finnv race. Globe. New York Failitkks. The New York Star says "The failure in ibis city, on I In large scale (any thing under 100,000 ibeueath notice) up to Saturday evening, istaled in the Commercial of last evening, a' 'ro hundred and fifteen ; aggregate of respon sibihiies perhaps 80.000,00 L. Add to this $'20,0( 0.000 in small failures, and the aggregate is about one half of what it zc'l be before business finds the lev 1 to which it is destined to sink." Coming West. The New York Herald says "About ten thousand mechanics an preparing to go west."' Agriculturalists an in greater demand at present in the west than mechanics. We want tillers of the soil. Cin. R p. The people of Mobile have banished the gamblers from tint city. The eastern papers complain that they are crowding in upon the Atlantic cities. Cin. Rep. Two splendidly attired and handsome fe males were recently arrested in New York on a charge of having been engaged in shop lifting lo a great extent Cin. Rp. GEN. McCAKTY. This gentleman addressed the citizens of our tow n on the 29th ult. for about an hour and a half. We felt some curiosity to hear him, not only on account of the impression we had received of his powers, but also for the reason of his supposed peculiar position at 'his time. We had calculated that he would find it difficult to meet and repel those charges of political duplicity . w hich have been so repeatedly and confidently charged against h'in. Now we think he did meet and effectually repel them, in his speech on Saturday last. lie showed taat he had not deserted (he last administration, until that administration had abandoned the very principles lor which In; had supported it. Hi; cannot re peat the arguments, by w hich, he so success-; ia it neceslully maintained this position, nor

sary, as we presume that most of the voters in ihe district will have an opportunity ol hearing them in propria persona. Gen M'Caity stated that he had not voted for the piesent Chief Magistrate. lie was opposed lo dictation to nominations by auuses, and Conventions composed of Ofhceholders, lie was howevir willii g to give Mr. Van Uuren a fair trial. He would vote for his measures, if they should appear to him constitutional, expedient and lik 'y tc benefit the country. Upon the whole, we think General M'Carly made a favorable impression, and vindicated himself triumphantly, iroin the imputations of inconsistency & duplicity .Indiano Sun.

The Tailors done over. A master Tailor of Amsterdam named Weilnnd a German by birth, has invented a machine w hich perforins the task of sew ing a garment as w ell as it

can be dune by the hand. The King of IIol-j the clouds water or the sun sh nes upon, laud hasjnsl presented him with one hundred j She is now an infant republic, her indrpmddurats, tail the tailors have vowed vengeance jence recognized by the U. Stati s, and she pesagainsl him. :e(ytis infinitely more advantages than (lis colonies enjoyed at the time of their separaSalt. For the lust several years, the i tion from the mother country. This fact of lhtlsbuighei's have moiioplised the trade in it-clr. duly considered, speaks volumes ns Coneinaiigh and Kiski riiinitas Salt, and ad- to her future history. If t ! United States, valued the pi i e much above lis ordinary j under all the ircumsJaric i s of distress ned value. The IJulletin says, the m sunfacturers'tuiharrassment that attended the lose of our have deteimined to prevent 'his hereaflerJrevoiutii n. have progressed and im reased

and ship the salt themselves to ports below.

Cin llhi Emigration to Texas. A letter from New Oi leans, say s,"ncver w as the demand lor Texas lands so brisk, or the number of emigrants so eonsiih rai le; all the schooners leaving here foi the Texian ports carry from twenty to forty passenger." Baltimore Chronicle. 'Unele John,' said a 1 1 1 lie urchin to an old genlh man who was sitting with his head toward the fire, why are v o:i l.ke an Indian building his house? D'ye give it up? Iecausc you are making y ou i wig zvarni, (wigwam.) 'Not Bad.' The follow ing'pow erful, elegant, classii til, and convim ing appeal is said

to have been made in a court of justice j apprehension of an invasion or naval MeckS( mew -Jure in the state of Kentucky. (.,. :,re entertained, and ihe spies nlm have -Gentlemen of the Jury Do you think returned from the Rio Bravo, state that my client, who li es in the pleasant valley of, llo sjjr,s of an approaching army are lo bo Kentucky, where ihe lands is so rii h and SC(.i. in that quarur. the soil arc so fertile, would he guilty of) ''he recruiting sen ice has been suspended, -leahng cl.xing leclle kaMis of coifing! I ,jnder the supposition that there will not soon

think not, I reckon not. 1 ealkelate not! And. ,,,H.( of any more troops than are now enI guess geiiilnien of the jury, that you had lifted.

belter bring my client in 'not guilty, for it ton convict him, him and his sun John u-ill lick theicliole tzcelve on you. BANKING IN MICHIGAN. This new Slate has passed a law authorising banking on an extensive scale, and w ithout the formality of apply ing to ihe Legislature for a charter. The following are the material provisions of the law. 'Before commencing business, thirty per iciil. of the capital is required to hepaid in specie, and ten per rent, additional every six months; and the president and directors are required lo give security in the full amount of the liabilities hi h the inslitutiem shall be allowed to con'rae t. which security is to be approved by the Tivasup-r ami Clerk of the county. The -look is to be taxed one half of one per ce nt. per annum. The banks are lo be suhjee t lo he safel v funtl act passed at the last session. Tw-clve freediohle-rs resident in any t oiintv, mav any time, apply for a hank uneler ihe oiovissons of this act. Ihe application

to be made in writing to the Treasure r and I to prevail in the country for the purc hase of 1 lerk of the countv, and must state thejtitlos to lands. This impetus is owing, in

amount of stock, and plac e of the location ol he proposed bank, on which the Treasurer ml Clerk are to give thirty das' notice ol the application, (stating terms) and of the opening of the subscription books of the sloe k. The stock shall be subscribed undei he direction of the country Treasuier and Clerk. A the requisite amount of stock is ubsi ribed, (whit h must not be less than 50,t)00.) :i meeting of the slot kludders is to he e ailed by the Treasurer and Clerk, w hen the organization of the association may be com pleted by the election of Diree tors.7 BicAnells R i perler. MEXICOT F.X S H U.ST A M ENTE SANTA ANNA. Considerable interest is Alt in this country as to ihe result of ihe contest now in progress in Mexico. We say in progress, for at the last dates, several revolutionary movements had just taken place, and it is probable thai long before this, the iw o parties have rallied under their respective leaders, and fought the battle which must for a lime at least, settle the destinie s for that nation. That Santa Anna either has, or w ill ver speedily regain his ascendancy, we do not entertain the slightest doubt. He is thoroughly mquintcd with the material of the nation, knows the nature ol its pe eqde, the passions that move and agitate them, and Irom the moment of his arrival on his beautiful plantation, comment ed a system, designed and most plausibly loo, lo reinstate himself in power. The soldiery are wiih him. and the greater portion of li e priesthood ; and with these to co-operate it i bw plana and muchinulions, hid sucoesi in'

such a country may be considered certain. Bustamonlo, w e are told is .in ambitious and aide iohii, bul he is far inferior to S. nla Anna, both as a statesman and a soldier, and possesses no hold upon the heart. of the mullilude. The career of Mcxn o, however, is written in the book of destiny, and without processing to possess atM peculiar power of prophecy, we may venture lo predict that in less than hall a century, the degeni rate and fowardlv Spaniard will recede before the adventurers of Texas, with as much rapidity and Ihe same facility, that marked the retreat of the aborigines of Noitli Auarir a, heft re the advance of the white man. This prediction cannot extite sur rise in (l.e mind of any one w ho has paid the slightest attention to the history of the past; or watihed with a philosophic eye, the progress of human events. Texas is said to embrace within her limits, as fertile ;. region of country as

from a population ot three millions ami a con federacy i thirteen Slates, to a population of stvenlrtn millions and a confederacy of twenty-six Slates what will be the progress of Texas and her position wilh regar I to Mexico, half a century I.oimo? We leave Ihe answ er to the imagination of the reader. The important destinies of this wcslrm world are y et in the womb of Time; but it requires not the gilt of the ecr lo foietel the formation and existence of empires and oaj tions, that will one day far outshine and riv.il, as well those of the Old Word as of ancient history. So much for speculation all of which has been excited by the folowinr from a late N w Orleans Paper: Hy the iirrnval of several srbooi.ers fi. ;n Texas yesterday, w e have the mol flattfri: g intelligence of the condition of that couotn , All i. peace and quiet for the present. No Internally Te xas is in a flourishing condition, he r planters are all bn i- engaged with their crops, which are said to he very promising, while in the tow ns the inhabitants are actively eunployed in pie-paring houses for stores, offices, &e-. The emigration to the country is already very considerable, and in-ore-nsing e-very day. What a contrast is now presented between the twe contending countries, Mexico prostrate-, bankrupt, and threatened w ith all the horrors of another revolution, is incapable of self government and lac ks the power to pre serve order in her very capital. Riots, robberies, and assassinations ar the order of the day. and individuals no longer feel any safety under the protection of the government. In Texas. on the c ontrary, every thing is secure and prosperous. The citizen pursues his daily avocation with a full consciousness that no danger threatens him. and confidem e, cheerfulness and industry every where prevail. The value of claims of all kinds are advancing considerably, and much eagerness seems some measure lo the additional confidence in Hie success ol llieir cause, nnicii ine acknow lodgement of our government has WI pired. Bickncll's RiporL r. RED KIYJ'.U RAFT. The editors of (he Red River Gazelle, published at Nalchiiot lies, Louisiana, h- ving rceeived a letter from Capt. Riddle, of the snag boai Eradicalor. engaged in charing away the lied Rier Rait, which contains val iablc information. The writer's rommunicalio;i. it seems, although not intended for publication, has been given to the community in older to put il in possession of the facts connected with the important work in question. Captain Riddle says that ten and a half mile? olr-ift have been penetrated duringthc present season , and he has lillle doubt that the residue will have passed through by the 25ih of next month. The three last miles of the Raft will, it is expet ted, be very heavy , but as the river is wide and deep at the point, no great tlilnoulty is apprehended. It is believed that boats will be found passing along through Ihe raft during he ensuing summer. The Captain speaks frequently of bayous which, doubtless, are the results of the sloppage of the river's current by the accumulation of the Raft, and which w ill in all probability disapi ear so soon as the obstat le shall he removed, thus opening to cultivation large extent of fertile; soil, and rendering the climate infinitely more healthy. A negro lately rtecivod 82 lashes at Dayton lor uti.ar.ult on h wi.-iru female.