Indiana Palladium, Volume 1, Number 13, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 1 April 1825 — Page 2

From the National Intelligencer. SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. Friday, March 4, 1525. At a special Meeting of the Senate of the United States, called by written notice from the President of the United States, held at the Senate Chamber of the Capitol: At about half past ten o'clock, the Senate was called to order.

Mr. Mills, of Massachusetts, rose and said,

that the Vice President, (Mr. Calhoun) being present, he proposed that Mr. Jackson, of Tennessee, being the oldest Senator now

present, should administer to him the oath of

ollice. This being assented to The oath of office was accordingly administered to the Vice President by the General; after which ceremony, he took the Chair as President of the Senate. A short time afterwards, he rose, and addressed the Senate as follows: Gentlemen of the Senate : I feel deeply the responsibility of the sta

tion, to which, as the presiding officer of this

body, I have been called by the voice ol my fellow citizens.

To no other branch of the Government has the constitution assigned powers more various or important than to the Senate.

Without intending to examine either their extent or character, I may be permitted to

remark, that while the other branches are

confined, with few exceptions, to what may

be considered their appropriate powers, to this body, only, is granted a participation in all the different powers of the Government

Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary.

In its Legislative character, it partakes,

with the House of Representatives, in all of

the powers vested in Congress, excepting that of originating revenue bills; in its Executive, it holds an important controul over the powers of appointing to office and forming treaties; and, in its Judiciary, it constitutes the court before which all officers of the Government may be held accountable for an honest discharge of duty ; while, from its peculiar character, as the Representatives of the States, it is emphatically the guardian of their rights and Sovereignty. It must be apparent that, on a wise and virtuous exercise of those important powers,

the success of our free and happy system of

government, in no small degree, depends. We, accordingly, find that the framers of our constitution have bestowed the greatest attention on the organization of this body; and with such happy success, that it is admirably adapted to the discharge of each of its various and dissimilar functions, as if any particular one only, instead of all, had been the sole object of its creation. So fortunate indeed, is its structure, in every respect, that even time, instead of impairing, has had the opposite effect, of remedying what might at first, be considered the only defect in the body. At the formation of the government, the members of the senate were, probably, too few to attract the full confidence of the

people, and thereby give to it that weight in

the system which the constitution intended

This defect has however, been happily re

moved by an extraordinary growth. In the

short space of thirty-six years, eleven new

states have been added to the Union, and twice that number of Senators to the body;

and before the termination of the next four

years, the original number of States and Senators will be more than doubled. I feel, gentlemen, that I owe an apology for touching on subjects which must be fa

miliar to this enlightened body, and also for

adding, what must be known to all, that a

successful discharge of the duties assigned by the Constitution to the Senate must depend, notwithstanding the skill of its organ

ization, almost wholly on the patriotism and

wisdom of the members. These high attri

butes, I however feel assured, from past and

present Experience, will never be wanting

in the members ol this body.

In fulfilling your important functions,

something will depend on the skill and im

partiality of the presiding officer. In regard

to the former, I can promise nothing. I am

without experience, which only can give the

requisite skill in presiding, and feel that I

must often throw myself on your indulgence.

I shall, however, endeavor to compensate for

the want ot skm by the most rigid impar

tiality. In this office, I shall regard only the Senate and its duties, and I shall strive

with a feeling of pride (in the station, I trust

not reprehensible,) to preserve the high

character already attained by the Senate

for dignity and wisdom, and to elevate it, if

possible, still higher mthe public esteem.

The Address was attentively listened to,

and respectfully received. The credentials of the new members o

the Senate, and of those whose term com

mence this day by re-election were read. The following new Members, to wit:

From Vermont, Dudley Chase; from Penn

sylvania,-William Marks; from Georgia John M. Berrian; from Ohio, Wm. H. Har

rUon; from Indiana, Wm. Hendricks; from ing up the victory by pursuing the fleet oi Illinois, Elias K. Kane appeared, and, the Ibraham Pacha, which was steering towards oath of office bein" administered to them by Alexandria in the utmost disorder. So comthe Vice President, took their seats. " pletely crippled were the fS naval The following Members, also, re-elected succours, that it was thought the 1 acha ot for six years from this dav, took the oath of Egypt would retire from the contest; and office viz- Mr. Lloyd, of Maryland, Mr. being now convinced of the weakness of the Macon of North Carolina, Mr. Gaillard of Sultan, that he would soon declare his long South Carolina, Mr. J. S. Johnson, of Lou- meditated intention of shaking off the Otto-

isiana, and Mr. Barton, of Missouri.

Foreign Intelligence.

man vokc, and re-establUhing the independ

ence'of his country. The Pacha lost 12

vessels of war, among which was a fine fri-

rrate that was burnt; and 14 transports, 7 ol

GREECE. which were destroyed, and 7 taken by the Private letters from Hvdra of 2d Decern- patriots. The victorious fleet had entered

ber announce that a naval action had taken the port of Hydra. In the battles of the

place near Rhodes subsequent to the 2d 24th and 25th, 3000 Egyptian troops were December in which an Egyptian frigate was taken prisoners by the Greek?. No alarm

burnt, and several transports taken. was ielt in Greece on account ol me rev ok

Head Quarters of Micro Camcan, before ra-ot Colcotrom, and there was ever, reason

Iras. to believe- that the civil broiis wouiu uc pui

Extract of a private letter dated Dec. 1. an end to by the convocation of a new gen

"The fortress of Patras after being blocka- eral Congress, if before its assemohng the

ded, both by land and sea, is now regularly factions had not submitted to the executive

beseiged. Eight vessels detached irom the government. (Jtner accounts say tnat tne

squadron of Admiral Miaouhs intercept all rebels had all submitted, communication from without, by consent of

the English, who have recognised the le- The following Extract of a Letter Irom an gitimacy of the blockade proclaimed by the English gentleman at the capital of Spain, Hellenic Government. Cannons and mor- appears in the latest London paperf. tars have been landed at the anchorage of Madrid, December 3. St. Andre, and transported to Scatavoni, Amongst the multitude of evils inflicted where a battery is preparing. The works 0n unfortunate Snain bv France, it is not the

are directed by European engineers and the hcast that the world can know nothing of us.

artillery supplied by a body of strangers, but what first passes through the channel of

len tnousana ureeK soldiers commanded the French Press. Not satisfied with havby Andre Zaines and Constantine Botzaris nfr reduced us, by force of arms, to such a

defend the beseigers. state of degradation and wretchedness as On the 27th Nov. Constantino Botzaris, u-as never before, I believe, endured by a

informed that Joussouf Pacha had just sent people, the French employ a host of spies,

two tnousana men irom Jcianto,commandea informers, and policemen, to misrepresent by the celebrated Achmet Pacha, left Si- and vilify every thing that is Spanish, chena himself for the purpose of encounter- When Ferdinand orders an act of wanton

ing them, lie came up with them on the cruelty, which nobody here can discover any i v r. : i iii i mi i 4 i I . . 7 , . . t- i . ,i '

jjiuuj aciu campus, ucai mem, Kiuea -cn- motive lor beyond his lioyal caprice, tne met Pacha, and took away from the Turks French Journals are sure to be provided

tne desire oi giving lurther annoyance to with some seeming justification, the object

the besiegers. 1 lie capture therefore, oi of which is to screen the Bourbons irom ap the fort of Patras may be considered very pcaring to the world in their true colors.

near. Wlmf luinox mfi to th suhioct i. havmo-

lhe intention ci the Oreek Government read in the late Pans Journals one of those

is to attack afterwards the Castle of Morca, gross impostures above complained of. It

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situate opposite LiCpanto, as well as that 1S there said that the king oi Spam has at city itself, during the winter, in order to be last shown a disposition to moderation, and

able to oppose the land forces of the Sultan, asserted, in proof of this, that the Minister of

snouid ne tninK proper to command a cam- the United States oi America, Mr. Nelson, paign in 1825. had attended Conferences of Foreign Am-

P. S. Dec. 2. Intercepted letters m-lbassadors at the Escurial for several success-

form us, that Coron and Modon, being in he days. Was this true, we should hope

want ot victuals, and blockaded both by sea for some good result, as the American Reand land, cannot hold out long. They con- public can have no interest in meddling with

tinue to send out troops to Athens to besiege the politics of Spain, except to give hones

JNegropont. counsel; but, unfortunately there is not a Colcotroni (the son) who had again exci- word of truth in it; the whole story is a piece ted some opposition to the Greek Govern- of invention by the French to blind foreign

ment, had been executed. nations as to the real state of the case. So

Under date of Bucharst, Dec. 15, it is sta- far from Ferdinand relaxing in his tyrannic

ted that the Sultan is resolved on a fifth cam- al proceedings since he was threatened with

paign, and nas issued a urman to the Vice- the loss of his executioners, the French sol roy of Egypt requiring him to take upon diers, he has positively increased the mcas

himself all the expenses which may be ne- ure of cruelty and blood, which the prisons cessary to support a naval war. The Vice- the acts of the Police, and the daily execu

roy is expected to comply, on condition of tions by the military tribunals, abundantly 1 1 11 1 I ... J J

naving nis new com, wnicn is oi a very low attest. standard, declared legal currency. The American Minister did go to the Pal

A letter irom Pans oi the 6th says, "I he ace of the Escurial at the time mentioned by

cw days aqo bv three Spanish brigs and had o burn her prizes she herself escaped. The Colombian force on this coast is said to i i

consist of three sloops ot war, two brigs and one schooner.

-The Mexicans have taken three Ameri

can vessels which were supplying St. Juan dc Ulloa with provisions, and they sunk a

fourth under the guns of the Castle. Gen.

Lemaur, to punish them for the latter, can

nonaded V era Cruz for 48 hours, and silen

ced the Mexican batteries. About twentv

persons were killed in Vera Cruz by tire.

Burmese JVar. Late accounts received at Paris from the East Indies, announce that the war between the Burmese and the English had taken a serious turn, the former having advanced within a few leagues of Calcutta, which had been deserted by the rich inhabitants in consequence of heingseriouslv threatened b v the enemy. There seems to be some truth in this intelligence, as we observe that a new levey of 4000 troops had

been ordered in England, lor the purpose ol

reinforcing the Last Indian army.

correspondent in this city of a respectable Greek house at Tarseilles has received advices from his principals that the Pacha of Egypt and Sultan have entered into a contract by which the former is to furnish-1 8000 troops for the ensuing campaign against the Greeks. The Pacha of Egypt has obtained n .i "iii . i.i

rom the sultan not only the grant ot all that

le may conquer in Greece, but has also suc

ceeded in getting one of his nearest rela-

;ions appointed to the hignest olhce in Turkey next to the Sovereign, after the death

or retirement of the present possessor.'

Letters from C onstantinople Dec. 7, say

that the Captain Pacha was to have an office about the Suit; in; and that there was no prospect of a favourable negotiation with the European Powers.

It was reported that a naval action had

taken place near Rhodes, in which an Egyp-

lan irigate and several transports were ta

ken.

From the JV. Y. Evening PosU March 5. THE GREEKS. The Greeks have struck another blow a-

gainst the naval power of their oppressors, which cannot fail to remove all doubt, had any remained, that their independence as a

nation is now effectually secured. After the

engagement of the 14th November, olfCan-

dia, in which they were prevented from ut

terly destroying the fleet of the Pacha of

Egypt by a violent storm, it appears that the

latter left the station he occupied in the Bav

ofMacnon the 24th of the same month, with the intention of proceeding to Candia

with provisions for that place. The Greek Admiral Miaul is received intelligence of this

movement by one oi his snaudron, and imme

diately pursued the enemy with the whole

of his fleet, and came up with him about noon on the 25th. The Greeks broke the

Egyptian line at the first attack, enhrelv do

feated the enemy, and were actively follow-

thc French Journals, but it was only to -

levee of Court etiquette, and took caie not

to remain a second day, for he could not get

a bed, nor a bit to eat at the Windsor of

Spain, where, be it remembered, besides a

magnificent Palace; there is a prettv large

town, iiis Excellency had to sleep in his carriage, and refresh himself on the keen

mountain air from Guadarama with a glass

of cool water, of which there was an abundant supply. Mr. Nelson gives it as his decided opinion, that any gentleman who has lost his appetite, will be sure to find it by going to the King of Spain's country levees.

A letter from Madrid dated January 1st.

and received at Philadelphia, announces the

iactthatstrongdetachments of French troops

are to continue to garrison Cadiz, Barcelona, Saragossa, Figueras, Madrid, Pampeluna, St. Sebastian. Santandor. Tamcmnn.

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Evening Post.

From Snowdeirs National Advocate. ROAD TO MEXICO. The bill authorzing a public road, from the confines of Missouri to Mexico, having now passed the Senile, it may be a moment of some interest.

to pause upon this act of the national Legislature, and cast our eves backwards over the surface of the country, as it appeared twenty years since, in comparison with what it does at the present time. In the time of Jefferson, Congress deliberated on a public

road, irom Georgia to New-Orleans. The

interval between those two places, was con-

idcred tnen to be in the same state of wild

nature, as the line from Missouri to Rio del Norte now is. But twenty years have, in

w1 - some measure, peopled the wilderness.

taught the rude Indian the art of civilized

life, and shut out from the besom of the Un

ion, solitude, gloom, and savage nature. A few years ago, it was impassable between

Georgia and Alabama, and between the Alabama and the mouth of the Mississippi.

rsow, the traveficr m such a journey, can roll up to the mansion of a native Indian, sit down to a neat table, set by the hand of a Cherokee, and after dinner, smoke his segar, or read the National Intelligencer, where formerly, the art of scalping, might have been taught by the father of the very host. This is a matter of fact, not a picture of the imagination. In the highway from Augusta, in Georgia, to Alabama, and thence to New-Orleans, Inns, on the road side, are kept bj- the native Indians, of those parts of the Union. The traveller will find a kitchen, a parlour, a reading room, and a small library, as well as on the bank of the Hudson, or the Susquehannah. The activity of our countrymen, not only civilizes the wild forest,, but polishes the rough adamant of an Indian soul. Another twenty years will produce a greater alteration on tiie country between Missouri and Mexico, than the same lapse of time has done, on Georgia, Alabama, and the contiguous countries. Civilization travels on this side of the Atlantic, at the rate of an increasing ratio. The Indian of those solitary wildernesses, will gradually see the utility of locating himself'in the highway which joins the waves of the Missouri with those of the Norte. It is in this manner, that commerce benefits all those with whom it comes in contact. The plough will supercede to the use of the tomahawk, and a. neat cottage will rise up over the ruins of a wigwam. The caravan of merchandise which will trade through the line of communication, the spirit of liberty will attend. Our canals and our roads are but so mar.v medii of communication, for this benign feeling to circulate through the continent of the west. It courses its way through every section of our own Union, and after pushing on to the very extremity of the republic, seeks in neighboring nations, a channel for further circulation. It is impossible to cnu-

merate ail the advantages whirh mrh rh.

i'M 11 V'" garrison oijnc work's as this is, will eventually produce

. . ..i.ji, iuv. -giuicm ui i to our citizens.

light iniantry, and iour regiments of the line

besides cavalry and artillery. The garri sons of the other towns arc to be proportion

ably strong; and a corps de reserve is to be

ready to give its assistance whenever it may be most wanted. Phil. Gaz.

Extract of a letter to the Editor of the Charleston Mercury. Havana, Feb. 2, 1325. "Our last account from Cadiz mention that the convoy vith troops for this port sailed for Fcrrol Nov. 12, and was to touch at the Canaries and receive 1000 additional men, and then stop at Porto Rico previous to coming here. An English schooner was captured a few days since bv a Colombian privateer, under pretence of having Spanish property on board and sent to Colombia the crew were sent in here. "The Colombian brigEstrella, having two prize schooners in company, was chased a

Another Murder t is reported, took place a few days since, in or near Ogctensbuiglu in St. Lawrence county, attended with very aggravated and extraordinary circumstances. We have not heard the names of the. parties; the leading facts, according to thn reports in circulation, are these: A man in that vicinity, shortly after receiving .92000 in cash, went with his wife, to visit some distant friends, leaving h'u house and family in charge of his daughter, about 18 years of age and a hired girl not much oKer. During his absence, a traveller put up one evening, at a tavern on the opposite side of th road, where, after suppcrjie overheard scmconversation which excited his suspicions that a plan was on foot for robbing him. He accordingly left the tavern and went'o" ver to the neighbouring house, and introduced himself to the daughter as the friend of her absent father, and solicited lcdim