Indiana American, Volume 6, Number 4, Brookville, Franklin County, 26 January 1838 — Page 1
AMA AMI IflCDAET OUR COUNTRY OUR COUNTRY'S INTEREST AND OUR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS. flV C. F. CLAUKS03T. BROOKYILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1S38. VOL. VI. No. 4.
TERMS OF THE AMERICAS. -in advance ?"3,50 in six months; or -.5,00 at ths ex?. ration of tha year. Tha Editor will discontinue subscription at his option. iterti3Emest8. TwelveUnos.orlcss.willoe inserted once or three times, for one dollar, and cents will be charged for each additional insertion. THE "TIMES. The Outrage on the Carouse. By the following letter it will be seen that the outrage on the steamer Caroline, was committed by order of the Britishcommanding officer. This renders the affair more serious than was generally supposed. We hope oar Government will resent the insult with a becoming spirit. CV. Whig. Copv of a letter from the Hon. A.N. Macn.il, Colonel Commanding to Col. the Hon. Jonas Jones, A. D. C. Hiad Quarters, Chippczcay30lh Dec. IS27. Saturday Morning, 3 o'clock. 5 g;r I have the honor to report for the information of his Excellency, tho Licit. Governor that having received positive information that the pirates and rebels at Navy Island hid purchased a steamboat called the Caro
lina, to facilitate their intended invasion of
this country and being confirmed in my information yesterday by tiie boat (which sailed under British colors) appearing at the Idaiul, I determined upon cutting her cut; and having sent Capt. Drew of the Royal Navy, he in the most gallant manner, with a crew cf volunteers (whose names I shall hereafter mention) performed this dangerous service which was handsomely effected. In consequence of the heavy current, it was found impossible to get the vessel over to this place, and it was, therefore necessary to set her on fire. Her 'oiors are in my possession. I nave the honor to be, sir, Yourt ob'tserv't,
A. N. MACNAB, Col. Com'g. P. S. We have two or three wounded, and t',3 pirates asoul the same number killed. A. N. MACNAB.
cerned in the horrid murders committed on board of the steamboat Caroline. Sir Fran
cis will be required to deliver them up, but it is supposed that he will not do it. Many of them are high in rank, and they acted it is said, in obedience to the commands of Colonel McNab. Here then the matter rests fcr the present, and we must see what our government will do. Yours, &c.
CONGRESSIONAL
Boston, Albany, ani the Niagara tronTir.n. The New York Herald, of the 1-ith, gives the following rumors. Par!, no doubt of the news is correct; but as there is so much speculation in the columns of that print, we must take the matters with a little allowance for errors. "We have received numerous despatches from ourcorrespondents, from Albany, Boston, and the Niagara Frontier, giving further accounts of the progress of events in all those quarters. "Annexed will be found the letter of our Buffalo correspondent descriptive of the state of things in that quarter. "The war has began in good earnest at
Navy Island, and, from the aspect on the fron
tier, it would seem that not even Gen. Scou will be able to stay it. The conduct cf Col. McNab has only given fresh fuel to the bordorers. About 200 regulars started from Al
bany on Friday last for the frontier. Great
excitement still exists there, ana tne issue is
extremely doubtful. "From Albany the news is highlv import
ant. All the Banks in Albany have resumed
specie payments, Singular rumors exist, that
the men forming the Regency, have all failed
and assigned over their properly. In the As-
semblv. Mr. Willis Hall has made a motion
loooea the auction business.
Excellent! go
on :
"From Boston, we learn that a terrible
auar.el ha3 been created among the Associa
. , . . n II
ted B;mks. Ihe Commonwealth, s iiar.K r.as closed its doers, and several ether banks are expected to follow suit. Great excisement
in financial matters exists in Boston.
Cerrcpe:i?crce cfte Journal of Commerce. Niagara Falls, Jan. 5. 1833. The; tlr.g of liberty still waves over Navy IJztJ, and the Patriot cause in Upper Canau :; iz rapidly gaining strength. There has, however, for two days past been ?.n effort on the part cf a number of individuals of high standing, to effect a reconciliation between ihc Patriots cr the Island and the Tories on
ihs opposite eide. A number of communications have passed between the Hand and Sir
i rancis, who is now at Cmppewa; but it l
understood that he will on no conditions grant
an amnesty to McKenzie and the other Ca
nadians on the Island, of whom there are some
hundreds. If they-disband and give up the j contest their necks must swing whenever they p.ie caught in Canada. In view of this they mean to persevere, and the probability is that they will leave the Island soon, and effect n landing on the main shore. The time and place they do not of course make known, but it U supposed that the steamboats will be in readiness to take them to the head of the Lakes, perhaps to Fort Maiden. An Officer has already been sent from the Island to that region to collect and organize a band of Patriots. In the mean time preparations are still making on the other side for attacking the
Island, and during this afternoon and evening,
aoout ntty cannon have been hred at the Is
land from Chippewa point. Not a man however has yet been killed. It is generally believed here that Sir Francis can never induce
his men to attack the Island in boats. Should
they thus make a general attack, the slaught-
New Orleans, Jan
fire:: The losses occasioned b' the dreadful fire of which we made mention yesterday, amounted to between 000,000 and 700,000 dollars.
IN SENATE. January 10. The debate continued in the Senate Cham
ber last evening a short time after th
left. No cuestion. however, was fnkrri nn
the fifth resolution, and the discussion was
carried on exclusively between Messrs. Clay
I he South Carolina and iven-
lulion the frst part of the resolution which related to the District of Columbia. This
the important vote of the day, and the
was
Senate decided that Mr. Calhoun's Fifth R,
and Calhoun.
t
Jcky Senators both sustained themselves
gavel
witn great power, and the discussion infinite delight to a large and brilliant
encc, who listened with silent attention.
From a public, the speeches became of a private character, involving private recriminations, private appeals, mutual defences, and
mutual attacks. The two Senators rated
each other soundly, but Mr. Clay seemed to
Dear tne palm alone at least, so thought T.
and so thought a majority, judging from the! congratulations extended to Mr. Clay from all men not merely from his own party, but from some of his warmest political opponents. To-day all that was interesting in the Senate was the subject which closed the distussion yesterday. Mr. Calhoun this morning was the first man upon the floor, and the discussion was resumed where it closed. The South Carolina Senator brought four objections to Mr. Clay's amendment which ob-
not
the right to
petition implied tne power ot abolishing slavery by purchasing the slaves when the owners were willing to sell them and because the amendment said nothing of the ter-
itS-
inserted. Mr. Calhoun opposed Mr. Clay's amendment in another speech like unto his first, but the Senate neveithclcss decided upon its adoption by a majority of about two-thirds. The question then came up on Mr. Clay's resolution instead of Mr. Calhoun's fifth resolution, and here the vole was thirty-six in favor Mr. Calhoun himself voting for !t upon the ground that if he could not get what he
wanted, he would take what the Senate would give him. The negatives were butcg7i,nnd included Messrs. Webster, Davis, Smith of
Indiana, Prentiss, Swift, Knight, Morris, and one other whose name I have forgotten. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House spent the morning hour in the reception of reports from the Standing Committees. The remainder of the day was spent in the consideration of a motion which proposed to take that part of the Annual Message of the Secretary of War, which relates to the
increase of the Army, from the committee of
the whole, and to refer it to the commif.ee on Foreign AlFiirs. This motion created a lorn discussion of a
lections were, that tne Kcsoiutions were
strong
enough acknowledged
Twenty-
those
high
and handsome
ntories. M. Clay answered Mr. Calhoun's objections one by one, and contended that betook a wrong view of the matter in his objections. They did not meet the case, and were not to the purpose. In conclusion Mr. Clay said that "he did not he could not he wished
not, and oi
motives of the
but ho. believed most rclifriouslv and mostsin
rrrolv thnt th? nrs f tht Senator were cal-1 and
, -
culated to bring about the most melancnoiy and most fatal of all measures the dissolution of the Union. He believed that such
part- character. Messrs. bell, Pushing, and others opposed the motion. Messrs. Cambreliing, Bynum. Briggs, and others defended the motion, w hich w as carried. The House adjourned at an early hour. From the Baltimore Transcript. Washington', Jan. II. The interest excited by Calhoun's resolu
tions again filled the Senate to overflowing lo-
dav, and it savs much for the patriotic taste of
i our fair rountry women, to see the ununr.gatjteation thev have exhibited in the galleries,
n
were approved of. Mr. Rives supported his substitute in quite a long speech, in which he held the position taken by him the other da). I could not get a copy of his resolutions, so cannot give you a correct idea of them. He is a noble speaker, ns I have frequently said. There is only one habit about him, when beginning his remarks, which I dislike, and that is, as Sam Wcllor says, "he has raylhcr a way of keeping his hands in his pockets." I must observe, cn passant, that the likeness of this senator, in the last No. of the Democratic magazine, is a perfect caricature nothing like him. 1 saw him and Mr. Buchanan laughing
over it the other day in the cscnatc. and trom
the direction of Mr. Rives' finger, 1 dare sayhe was pointing out the taste displayed irx placinga handkerchief on his Jap, as he is represented in the picture. I suppose the artist drew him while at lunch in the committee room. Mr. Walker came out boldly in opposition to the Abstractions of Mr. Calhoun, and said that he believed Mississippi would be satisfied with the substitutes for the original resolutions. Mr. Preston also repeated many of his strictures on their incfilcacy, affirming that it was impossible to bind the spirit of Abolition with a string of resolutions. Mr. Hubbard's amendment was finally adopted by a vote cf 31 to 9. When the Senate adjourned. In the IIcusc the Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Sergeant-at-nrms of that body, giving a statement of a transaction, which was read. It appears that on the 7th of last October, Mr. Dorsey (the officer in
question) carried to the Metropolis Bank here,
it not impeach or question the j during the important debates cf the last few ie Senator from South Carolina,; days particularly as they are not privileged
thereie had
to descend to an adjoining commit' cc room. I
there recruit exhausted nature with a
checks cf the Speaker and other members, amounting to about 27,000 which were given to him in bags, cases, Arc, and which, in the hurrv of the moment, he did not count
over, supposing it was all right. On paying
the members he found a deficiency of $3,cu0
which, tale he stated to the Lank, and wished
them to examine their vaults and see if the mistake was on their side. They returned
no answer; though the teller said to Mr. Dor-
lunch of horse cakes, crackers and cheese, sey that they had no excess of specie to the
winch are provided lor the Senators out amount mentioned as dehcicnt. Mr. Dorsey
of Contingent funds
er must be immensely great. Van Rensselaer is prudent, skilful, and efficient, and
seems to have the entire confidence of all his men. McKenzie, being at Buffalo last evening, was arrested by the Marshal, but was immediately released on bail given by some 50 of their most respectable citizens. He has now returned to the Island. As to size, figure, complexion, and movements, there is a great resemblance between him and M. Van JSuren.
Having attended loCanadian Affairs considerably forsome vesrs natr. T am decided in
the opinion that their present struggle for liberty is as jusJiaaV.ft and remmeVdablc as
!at of our hers in '7G. Their suffering
ana
stores on the Levee, in Bienville, Clintcn and Old Levee streets, have been rendered a mass of ruins. So dreadful a fire has never before occurred in our city ! Great as the damage has been, the fury with which the fearful element proceeded in its path of destruction, led us to fear even greater calamity. The wind blew fresh from the river, and the onward pro
gress of the flames rendered it not improba
ble that the march of ruin would extend to
Chartres street: but it fortunately ceased.
Armstrong's tavern, the stores of G. Y . Pilchard, James Allen, Ferguson & Parker, Ducros and Murphy, Delas9us and Nontreul, Morris & Co., and many others in their immediate neighborhood, together with the office of the Louisiana Advertiser, were entirely destroyed. The greater portion of the property was, however, insured, with the total exception, we are sorry to say, of the Advertiser Office. The flames raged with a fury we have never seen exceeded; but amidst all their horrid lare. it was singular to observe the beauty
with which their destructive light decorated
the steamboats, shipping, high domes, and
stores so wildly spread around. Our worthy, but unfortunate friend of the Advertiser, was
offered eifht thousand dollars in cash, for his
office on Wednesday last. True Amer.
every day, may be seen a certain quantity of
the above mentioned delicacies on the way to "the shot lorccr,"' and at a certain moment, cf-
forced his ob-itcn may you see one of the messenger boys.
j whispering to the Senators that the lunch is
mark of Mr. Clay, and said that his acts were arrived, and the Senators hurrying with hun
was the tendency of his acts, and he fore most sincerely regretted what 1 said and what he had done."
Mr. Calhoun followed, and
irtinns n first sfatprl. Hn nllnrlpd to flip rp. Whispering
At a particular hour wished the House to take steps to elucidate
e matter, and alter some talking, a com
mittee of five was appointed to examine the
matter, and to have power io send for persons
md papers.
A sharp debate sprung up cn a resolution
offered bv Mr. Adams, calling for the name
before the world
ed not what
thought of them
was right.
After a desultory debate the question came
up on Mr. Clay's amendment to Mr. Cal-
The yeas and nays
when Mr. Allen gave notice
grievances are evidently nmca greater,
Tia if they are not successful now, they must -expect to groan under the oppressors arm iore than ever. I am strengthened in this opinion by an interview just had with Dr. llolph a gentleman of great worth and intelligence, whom the people of Canada, if they could
have their choice would immed'atelv elect for
their Governor. Jan 6th. Havingbcen interrupted in writ
mglast evening,! have time to add but little
tnis morning. All remains ouiet upon the
Island. In addition to the boats named
mJ last, the Tories have obtained a small
steamboat and nhmit a hundred ranoes mad
y the Indians, amounting in all to between
two and three hundred boats, with which to
make the attack. When the vessel was sent over the falls in 1S27, near 50,000 people, as
was supposed, assembled to witness the scene, "it what was that scene compared with this? especially if this great fleet should, as is generally believed it will, mostly go over tho falls? The Grand Jury of this county have been
in session this week, and found bills of indtctflient against a number of the persons con-
Anotiier navigable Kiveu. .bvcry year
the spirit of discovery is adding to the number of our western navigable rivers. During the last spring the steam beat Hero, Capt. Kenedy, ascended the Des Moines, and the result of the voyage was given in the St. Louis papers. We have now to add that the Ioway, another important tributary of the Mississippi.
has recentlv been ascended, by the steam
boat Science, to Wapello. 30 or 40 mile
from its mouth. The captain states that he
found v;aicr in abundance, and no difficulty in the navigation. A correspondent writes;
'-The point is now settled that the Ioway is
nnvio-ab e to the town ot caitcese, at me iorns
of the Ioway and Cedar, as the worst part of
it hn nlrpadv been navigated. 1 rem V a-
a fcr his motives he car-! Per stamped on every N ature, and some time ot the loreign minister mentioned in Secreta
newDaDers or hireling .cribblers'a'tcr that, you may see issuing out of "ie tozc- ry Forsyth's report as having termed Mr.
hem, so Ion as he knew that he'',,, tfi same gentlemen, some perhaps with a Gorostizia's pamphlet in reference to Texas
tragment oi a norse case aoout to disappear "disgusting. Mr. iiowaru opposed it, ana
in their mouths, and others wining from the was replied to bv Menifee. Messrs. lhomp
same feature crumbs of biscuit and cheese: json, of S. C, and IIayr.es spoke also, when
it is but charitable to suppose that their pota-Uhe debate was arrested by a motion to ad-
tions are of the same simple frugal descrip- Mourn, which prevailed. 1 have not time to
tion. But to return from this digression up on the fair and fare of the Senate. The subject of discussion to-day, was a re
solution offered bv Mr. Clay, asr.n amendment
(combined with one adopted yesterday,) to Mr. Calhoun's fifth resolution. It was read
as follows: Reschcd, That it would be highly incxpc
dicnt to abolish slavery in Florida, the only
territory of the United States in which it now
exists; because of the serious alarms and just apprehensions which would be thereby caus
ed in the States sustaining that domestic in
stitution; because the people of that territory
Grundy, Hubbard, Lumpkin, Lvon, have not asked it to be done: and when ad
mitted to the Union will be exclusively enli
led to decide that question for themselves; nlifi liiT.T!if it wr.nlil ho in ovven violation
mo i jyjrj of a solemn compromise made at a memorable o1LnA" nnA (irsil rprind in t!ir hisforv of this ronn- ate.
L...K., -i,ih wl.il,. dnvrrv as nmhihitd The House then wcntinto Committee of
"j "J "-" " -j r ;
North, it was admitted South
houn's fifth resolution
were ordered,
that he should vole against the amendment
because it was so expanded-because the base, as he said, was too broad for the thikness because it enlarges the superficies c!
the base and weakens the thickness of the bottom, because it expands, and does not converge to a point. The vote was as follows:
Yeas Messrs. Bayard, Brow n, Buchanan,
Clay of Ala., Clay of Kentucky, Clayton, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Fulton, King, Nilcs, Preston, Rives, Robinson, Strange, Tallmadge. Tipton, White, Williams 19.
Nays Messrs. Allen, Benton, Black, Cal
houn,
Nicholas, Norvcll, Pierce, Roane, Smith of Conn., Smith of Indiana, Walker, Wright, Young 18. Mr. Strange, of N. C. moved a reconsideration of the vole, which was carried. Mr. Strange said he voted for Mr. Clay's
amendment in the hope that it would be adopted unanimously, or nearly so. He did it ns a matter of compromise, but the compromise seemed to fail.
Alter another desultory debate on the rules
I dwell upon this interesting topic.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. January 12. Reports were made ir. the House of Rep
resentatives. Among the reports presented
was one from the committee on Elections in relation to the contested election of Messrs.
Claiborne and Ghoison. The Committee
I merely report the facts in the case and leave
jthe whole matter to the consideration ot the members of the House.
After the reports had been presented, the
House went into consideration of a bill mak
ing an appropriation for the payment of the
Annuities to the Ureal and l,ittlc Osages.
The House passed the bill finally without dis-
cussion. l ne appropriation is between o ana
The Bill was reported to the Sen-
of the line of hct Whole upon the orders of the day, which
thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes, north
latitude.
The amendment to this, adopted at Mr.
Sevier's suggestion yesterday which extends
and orders of the Senate, Mr. Buchanan the protection to those parts oi tne country m-
rnoved a separation of the two parts of Mr. habited by Indians, was to-day, on Mr. Clay s
C lav's resolution which related to the District motion, struck out; as also was on motion by
and the Territories. The Senate agreed to
pcllo to Catteese, there is much less difficulty than from the mouth to Wapello. The Sci
ence drew three feet water, and the river was
at the ordinary stage." Catteese is M miles
from the mouth, and one ot the most Dcauinni
town sites in the Union. As the Indian agen
rvis to be removed from Rock Island to some
point on the Upper Ioway, the fact that this
nvrrlwsWn tVinnd navigable to Catteese, is
one of no small importance.
Another year w ill witness the ascent by
steam boats of some other s reams that empty
in the Mississippi, and in two or three years,
through the liberality of our State in removing obstructions, steam boats w ill be as mime
reus on Rock river as they were but recent oh
our Illinois. Pco. Reg.
It is stated in some of tbe New York papers, that Col. Do Kussv, tbe commandant at V est Point, is about to resign, and tbat be will probably be succeeded by Col. Thayer, bis predecessor in the oiiice. Cin. Tl'his-.
It is a good horse tbat never stumbles. And a good wife that never grumbles.
the separation, with the understanding that
the second part should be brought forward after the first was disposed of.
Mr. W ebster said he knew no mode ol ar
gument no law no reason which would al
low him to vote lor the adoption ot the resolution. He had studied the question as a con
stitutional one, and had searched and searched in vain for some law some precedent some argument to support the position main
tained in the resolution. He could find none, none whatever which controverted that principle Sc that directposilion in the Constitution "that Congress should have power to legislate
upon all subjects whatever in the Distrct of Columbia." Mr. Webster said he wished net to discuss the question and should not discuss it. Mr. Buchanan replied to Mr. W. and said he took a different view of the question. He argued that Maryland and Virginia would never have ceded the territory if they had supposed that Congress had power or would have power to abolish Slavery in the District
of Columbia. Mr. Webster argued briefly the provision
in the Constitution in regard to the powers of
i Congress. He spoke not of the expediency or justice of the measure, but of the express
power 111 Hie hvius Ji Hit vuusmuuuu. Mr. Clay responded, and the question then came up on the adoption of Mr. Clay's reso-
Mr. King the last clause ot the resolution,
which refers to the compromise on the Missouri Question, After a long and rambling
discussion w hich was alternately dull and spi
riled, the Senate adopted a modification of
the above bj- Mr. Hubbard, whose is only dif
ferent from the first in its phraseology so it
is materially Clay s resolution.
In fact Mr. Preston well defined the char
acter of many of the modifications, amend
were the consideration of private Bills, and
a. . 1 v-r . t
occupied the time ci tne Jiouse up to the
hour of adjournment.
UNITED STATES SENATE. The Senate spent the morning in the conideration of Reports from the standing Com
mittees.
Mr. Calhoun's Sixth Resolution came up
for consideration. It reads as'follows:
"Rcsokcd, That the union of these States
rest on an equalit7 of rights and advantages
among its members; and that whatever destroys that equality, tends to destroy the Union
itself; and that it is the solemn dutv of all, and
more especially of this dody, which represents
the States in their corporate capacity, to re
sist all attempts to discriminate between the
mtnts,&c, proposed for the various rcsolu- States in extending the benefits of the Gov-
tions that nave passed tne senate as naving as ernment to the several portions of the Union; many points of difference as there is between anc that to refuse to extend to the Southern tzccdle dum and tzce.dlc dec. Mr. Clay accept- and Western Stales Any advantage which ed Mr. Hubbard's modification very willing- would lend to strengthen or render them
Iy, and wnen a snort time a:terMr. uives pro- more secure, or increase their limits or popu-
posed a substitute tor the last, (dillering but lation by the annexation of new territories or little from it,) Mr. Clay laughingly said he new States, on the assumption or under the had no objection at all, but common charity pretext that the institution of slavery, as it exwould make him go with Mr. Hubbard; to ist3 among them, is immoral or sinful, or othwhich the latter replied in a like humor, "and erwise obnoxious, w ould be contrary to that I'll go with the Senator from Kentucky!" equality of rights and advantages which the which considering Mr. Hubbard's opinions, Constitution was intended to secure alike to would be an important movement in one all members of Union; and would, in effect sense. disfranchise the slaveholding States, withThc debate on the resolution and its amend- holding from them the advantages, while il ments was, as 1 have said, very rambling. subjecd them to the buithens of the GovMr. Calhoun of course opposed them all as ernment." beinf too vnde rtoncd to use his own expies- Mr. Preston opposed connecting Texas
sion. lie complained Diueny oi inu st-meti im m tuujcuj nu ..v. opposition to his resolutions, and he said the would be separated, or withdrawn at present objections started against them appeared to as he had brought forward a bill proposing bealtogether)crsona,forthejrmc?)esofthem the annexation of Texas.