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Equality of rights is nature's plan And following nature is the march of man. Darloic Volume II. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1826. Number 1.
BY
J. Spencer, M. Gregg, and D. V. Culley; Editors and Proprietors.
Printed and Published on even Friday, he other large rivers, as the pror ill i i i
lessor iniriKS it proDaoiy does, it may De
regarded as without a rival among the building stones hitherto discovered in this state. Professor Olmstend is fortified in this opinion by that of Mr. Nichols, the celebrated architect of our capitol, who says, "that both in its color and quality it has a strong resemblance to the Bath stone, which, for its beauty, durability and the facility with which it can he wrought into any ornamental form, has long maintained a superiority
over every other stone in Great Britain,
Articles from Niles' Register. North Carolina. In the'legislature the following resolutions were introduced by Mr. VVilson, of Edgecombe, and referred to a committee:
Resolved by the general assembly of
the state of North Carolina, that the constitution of the United States ought to be amended, so that the electors, to
vote for president and vice president of for architectural purposes."
the United btate shall be elected uni
formly in each state, by districts; and that the said electors, when elected for that purpose, shall assemble at the capitol, in the city of Washington, on the last Monday in February preceding the expiration of the term for which the president elect shall be elected. And, when so assembled, shall proceed, (after organizing their body), by appointing a
president &l secretary, (members of their
own body) to electa president and vice president of the United States, in the following manner: each elector shall give in his ballot for some one person, a
native born citizen of the United States,
expressing on the same the name of the person, and the state of which he is a resident, for president of the United States; and the person receiving a ma
jority of the whole number of electors,
shall be declared duly elected president
of the United States. But after count
ing the ballots, if it shall appear that no
person in nomination, shall have recived a majority of the whole number of electors, they shall proceed to a second bal
lot, voting, in the second place, only for
the three highest on the list of those voted for on the first ballot; and if, on the
second ballot, neither of the three voted for, shall have a ma jority of the whole number of electors, then they shall proceed to ballot, the third time, voting only, on the third ballot, for the tvro highest on the list at the second ballot. And the person who shall receive the greatest number of votes on the third balloting, shall be declared to be duly elected president of the United States, for four years from and after the fourth day of March next ensuing. And the vice-president of the U. States shall be elected in like manner as the president. Resolved, That our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives be requested to use their exertioos in obtaining the foregoing amendments to the constitution of the United States; and that the governor be requested to transmit a copy of the said resolution to each of the senators and representatives in congress from this state, and also to the governors of each of the states in the union. Hutchins G. Barton, esq. has been re
elected governor of North Carolina for
the ensuing year, without opposition. We have a statement from the treasury of this state shewing the operations of the last year, ending on the 1st November. The following arc the principal items. Receipts, on every account 11 2,229, 56 Balance in the treasury,
Georgia. The senate of Georgia, with but five dissentients, have voted to
refer a resolutions to the committee on the state of the republic, to memorialize the president for the removal of colonel John Crowd!, the agent of the United States in the Creek nation. Of the money in the treasury in this state, 773,406 60, the sum of 440,450 is in notes of the bank of Darien. The majority in the Joint ballot of the
senate and house of representatives, a-
gainst the governor, is about twenty, by
which extensive changes have been made of the officers subjected to the control
of the legislature. The old fashioned phrase, "clear the decks," is applied in
Georgia, as in the struggles of parties generally in the U. S. from 1797 to 1 802.
A copy of the following letter ha reached us since our last publication.
Reply of the secretary of war, to the !ast
published letter of the governor of the.
state of Georgia, Department of zrar, Sept. 10, 1825.
Sir: Your letter of the 3 1st August, to the president of the United States,
has been received by him, and referred to this department to be answered. The president has decided that he
cannot, consistently with his view of the subject, accede to your demand to have
gen. Gaines arrested. He perceives no sufficient necessity to depart from the course he had deter
mined to pursucy before the receipt of
your letter, Sc which I communicated to you fully, in the last paragraph of mine
of 31st August in which you are inform
ed, that "the subject, in all its aspects
will be submitted to the consideration of
congress, at their approaching session.
and ali the instructions to the officers of
the U. S. as well as their conduct un
der them, will be subject to the animad
versions of that body upon them, tor approbation or censure, as they may appear to have deserved." I enclose you a copy of my letter to general Gaines; and in so doing, I give you a new proof of the frankness by which the executive has been guided in its intercourse with you, and furnish you with the means of learning its sentiments on
the unpleasant occurrence referred to in your letter. James Barbour. His excellency Geo. M. Troup, governor of Georgia, Milledgeville
For the year ending 1st
July, 1824,
1,156,811 56
Increase of receipts ,942,166 44
The receipts for the year
ending 1st July, 1824, as
above
The receipts for the year
ending the 1st July, 1825,
1,156,811 56
were
1,252,061 32
Increase of receipts 95,249 76
In making the contracts in the fall of the year 1823, there was a reduction of
expenditure, though an increase of mail accommodation was given, of 47,821 12cts. This sum may, therefore, be added to the increased receipts, as it was an augmentation of the means of the department.
Increase of the year ending 1st July, 1824 For do. ending July, 1 825, Reduction of expenditure
42,466 44 95,249 76
12
47,821
387 35, the deficiency of receipts to meet the expenditures for the previous year
3,089
5;
283,089
Showingan improvement in the pecuniary affairs of the department, for the year ending 1st July, 1825, compared with the year ending 1st July, 1823, of one hundred and eighty-five thousand five hundred and thir
ty-seven dollars and thirtytwo cents
185,537 33
November 1, 1824,
Disbursments, including treasury notes burnt.
249,270 63 135,386 35
Balance, Nov. 1, 1825, 1 13,884 28 The financial affairs of this state appears to be very carefully managed. The expense of receiving and entertaining gen. Lafayette was 4,089. The Dismal Swamp canal is situated between Virginia and North Carolina, connects the Chesapeake and Albemarle
Sound, by a cut from the Elizabeth river to Pasquotank, It is 22 1-2 miles long, 38 feet wide at the surface, 6 feet deep,& iscalculated forsloop navigation, admitting vessels to pass thro' the locks, with 60 or 80 hogsheads of tobacco, or a-
bout 300 barrels of flour, with masts standing. A report on the geoloy of the eastern 'part of the state, (says a Raleigh paper), has been made by professor Olmstead. Rich deposits of limestone and marble have been discovered also a fine
white sand suitable for making flirt glass,
and copperas in abundance. Bog iron and potters clay are met with in various places the latter is said to be very fine. Of the marl it is said that, when first
removed from the bed, it is so soft as to
be easily cut with a knife, or sawed into slabs; but on becoming dry, it becomes firm, and assumes the ap
pearance of a most elegant building stone. Should this bed of marl cross
Report of the post-master genera! to the pre
sident of the United States. Post-office department, JVov. 24, 1825 As stated in my report of the 17th
137,041 06(Nov. 1823, there was a deficiency of re
ceipts to meet the current expenses of this department, for the three years preceding the 1st April, 1823 of 262,821 46 cts. The same report stated the expenditures as exceeding the receipts, for the year ending on the 1st July, 1823, by 55,540 39. The expenditures for the year ending on the 1st July, 1824, amounted to 1,169,198 91 There was received for
postage, during the same time Which shows a Balance of expenditure over the receipts, of twelve thousand
j three hundred and eighty-
seven dollars and thirtyfive cents
1,156,811 56
12,387 35
The receipts for the year ending 1st July, 1825, were " 1,252,061 32 The expenditures were 1,206,584 42
Leaving a balance of receipts above the expenditures, of forty-five thousand four hundred and 76 dollars and ninety cents The following will show the increase of receipts for the years specified. For the year ending 1st
July, 1823, the receipts
45,476 90
were
1,114,345 12
Since my report of the 30th of Nov. 1824. contracts have been made for the
additional transportation of the mail.
of one million tnirty-three thousand seven hundred and three miles annually. Six hundred and thirteen thousand and twenty-four miles of this transportation will be effected in stages; the residue on horse-back or in sulkeys. This service has been contracted for at an expense of fity-eight thousand am! twelve dollars and forty-two cents. As almost the whole of this expense ha been incurred since the 1st of July last, but a small part of it appears in the expenditures for the year ending on that day
In my last report, the increased trans
portation of the mail since the 1st of July, 1923, up to that time, was stated at tour hundred and ninety-five thousand one hundred and eighteen miles. Three
hundred and seventy-four thousand two
hundred and seventy miles of this dis
tance, the mail is conveyed in stages.
Tne increase of the transportations of
the mail, since the 1st July 1823, a
mounts to one million five hundred and twenty-eight thousand, eight hundred
and twenty-one miles annually: a dis tance nearly equal to one-sixth of its an
ual transportation throughout the union,
pevious to that time; and only fallinj
short about two hundred thousand miles per annum of its entire conveyance in
the year 1 797. Such has been the accession of re
ceipts (or postage, that the additional expenditures required by this extention
of the mail, will be met without difficul
ty; and, if congress should think proper
to relieve tne treasury irom all charge
on account of this department, the usual appropriations may be drawn form its
own funds. Since the 1st of July, 1823 there have been established one thousand and forty post-offices; a greater number than existed in the union in the year 1 801. Suits have been commenced on the
balances standing against the postmasters, before the 1st of July, 1823 where there existed any probability of collecting the whole or any part, from the principal or his sureties. It was stated in the report of the 17th November, 1823, that there was due to the department from postmasters, late postmasters and contracters, on the 1st July, 1823, three hundred and ninetyone thousand nine hundred and ninety-
lour dollars and ntty-nine cents. And in the same report it was estimated, that not more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of this sum could be collected. The progress that has since
been made in adjusting these balances,
goes to confirm the accuracy of this e timate.
The amount, therefore, due to the department, on the 1st July last, the
greater part of w hich must be realized
from the old balances by the sale of
property on execution, may be stated
at 250,000 00
lo this sum should be added the excess of receipts over the expenditures, for the year ending the 1st July," 1825, after deducting therefrom 12,-
A law passed at the last session of congress authorizing the postmaster general, under certain restrictions, to discontinue any mail route which shall have been in operation three years, and the receipts on which do not equal onefourth of the expense. As this prevision does not take effect until three ears alter the passage of the act, it affords no immediate relief from the expenditure of money on unproductive routes. With the exception of some route;which connect important districts ot country, the expenditure ought always to bear a jus! proportion to the receipts. Xo fairer criterion of the inutility of a mail route can he afforded, than its fail
ure to pay a reasonable proportion of the expense.
On some routes the mail bag is often
carried when it does not contain a single letter or newspaper ; and where this i-
not the case, the expense of transporting the mail on many routes is from ten to twenty times greater than the receipts. BMh the justice and policy of such expenditures might be questioned. A discontinuance of unprofitable routs, which afford little or no accomodation, would
save from forty to fifty thousand dollars
annually. This sum judiciously appro
priated, would give much public accommodation, and would he the means ot increasing the receipts of the department.
Some losses of money, transmitted in
the mail, have occurred within the past i . . i . i .i
year, out it is heluved that the sums
have been smaller, and the instances more rare, than have taken place, with
in the same period, for many years.
And it is a fact important to be known,
that, for eighteen months past, very few
depredations upon the mail have escaped
detection. By permitting the large portmanteau
to be opened only at the important offi
ces, and having them secured by locks.
different from those used on the way-
bags, greater safety has been given to the mail.
la the operations of the department,
there are between fifteen and twenty thousand agents employed. 'Flint these should all act with the promptitude and
precision of the well disciplined rnilita
ry corps is not to he expected; but, it is
believed that, w ith some exceptions, they
exhibit an energy and attention, in the
discharge of their multifarious duties, creditable to themselves and advanta
geous to the. public. The quarterly re
turns of the postmasters are now made
with great punctuality, and thev seldom
fail to pay the drafts of the department.
Dreadful Disaster. The Comet steam
boat was on her way from Inverness to Cla sgow, with between 60 and 70 passengers; of these, it was stated that 26 were in the cabin; and yesterday morning, about one o'clock, while pasingthe point of Kempoch in the dark, she was
struck in the side by the Ayr steam luggage boat. The hands on board the different vessels were prevented from seeing each other by the head land, till it was too late to prevent the shock; and as both were going at full speed, the crash was tremendous. The starboard bow of the Comet being stove in, she filled with water, and almost in
stantly sunk, and with the exception of
six persons, the whole ot the passengers were lost:
About half an hour before, several of
the passengers were engaged in dancing upon the deck, hut they had almost all gone below. The first alarm heard was from a person hailing, but from which boat was uncertain. Almost immediate
ly the shock was felt, and every body ran!
The screams of the drowning people were most appalling, and cannot he described. They shouted to them on board the other boat to return to their assistance; but without effect. Our informer remained in the vessel till she sunk from hem-nth his feet, and then swam a he
best could. An engineer held him by (he neck, and nearly drowned him. For
tunately, he reached the ovetnrned boat
which lay keel uppermost, to which the
pilot and another w ere holding on either
side. He seized hold ot one side of the
boat, the engineer till clingii-g to hiro
and by this additional weight the boat
was righted. The whole h or then got in. She was pearly filled with water, and beii g without oars, they were una
ble to make any exertions to gain the
-bore. They remained in this situation
for about 25 minutes, when a pilot boat whom the m-reams of the sufferers had a
larmed, reached them, but in the struggle to get in they nearly upset the pilot boat, and were brought ashore clinging to the outside, or held by the hands of
the crew of the Gonrock pilot boat. One
old Highlander swam ashore ; and a w oman, whose child was drowned, came safe on shore onsomearf iclesoffurniture;
he had kept hold of her child till she per
ceived it was dead, and then reluctantly
resigned it to the deep. Our informant thinks there w ere about 70 people on, board; of these 11 were saved. When he left bv the Greenock mail this afternoon eleven bodies had drifted ashore. 53 dead bodies had been taken up on the beach. Many respectable persons were among those drowned, including Capt. Sutherland of the Army, and lady, and a woman and her G children.
HEIGHTS OF MOUNTAINS. The following is a correct statement of the heights of some of the principal Mountains in the world. Peak of Tibet, Asia, - - - 24,000 Fed. Chimborazo, America, - 21,100 Cayambe, Amciica, - - - 19,350 Antiina, America, - - - 18,050 Cotopaxi, America, - - 18, GOO Popocatapec, America, 17,550 Orizaba, America, - - - 17.62G Frontier of China, Aia, - 16,G0O
Maw na, Roa, Austria, -Pichi nc hia, America, Monthlai.c, Europe, - -
Ortler, En i
ler, r,u rope.
16,30O 1 5,600 15,520 15,275
Navado,Tolnea, America, 1 5,020
Finter Horn Europe, - - 14,175 Jungfran, Europe, 13,585 Perote, America, 13,325 Ophyr, Asia, - 12,840 Teneriife, Africa, 12.025 Muly Jlasen, Europe, - - 11.540 Ambolishmena, Africa, - 11,100 Montperdu, Europe, - - 11,170
v elan, l.urope, -?Iont Snla, Asia, Etna, Europe, -
Viso, Europe,
El hi
10,005 10,790 10,725 9,995 9,125
9,425
9,100 o r o, i i O
ur, Aia, - - - - -
Lebanon, Aia, - - - -
St. Bernard, Europe, -- 9,265
Colima, America, - - - 9,100
M. Cenis, Europe, - -Lomnitz, Europe, - - -
St. Gothard Europe, - - 8,775 Villine, Europe, - - - - 8,290 Sneehaettan, Europe, - - 8,129 Atlas, Africa, 7,800 Blue M. Jamacia America, 7,2 1 0 Simplon, Euiope, 6,500
Leverne?, Europe, - -Oh mpus, Europe, - - -Mont u'Or. Europe, - -Colde Trende, Europe, Povmaury, Europe, - - Schneekopt, Europe, -Solfatara, Europe, - -Yosges, Europe, - - -
6,500 6,465 C,140 5,835 5,383 5,200 5,040 4,745
These have volcanoes.
THE FLYLYG WEEVIL. We are informed by a friend, that an easy and effectual preventative to the
1 ravatrpt made nn uht!it 'n.d tl.i- . ir
on deck. Hie water rushed in so rapid- by the Flying JfVm7,will be found in y tha the engine-man was up to his strewing ovc-r, and mixing through the knees oefore he ; could reach the deck, threshed grain, slacked lime;-that a lhey tried to keep the engine going, nnrL-nfli,,.. ill ,..,....... f,. ., ,i n,,,,,!
thinking she might drive them ashore ;! bushels. Those htvinir their .-.m m
hut the influx of water w as so strong that the engine was immediately stopped, and
in three minutes alter the vessel was
struck she went to the bottom. During
tne short period which elapsed between
the stroke and sinking of the vessel, a-
bout 30 people crowded into the yaw 1 before it was cut loose, and so hastily was this done, that the one end of the boat was some time under water before the other end could be lowered, bv which means the boat was upset and threw them all into the water. The
steam boat went down bow foremost.
stacks, would do well to throh it out immediately, and resort to this simple method of preserving its entire des-trur-tion. The grain can easily be cleansed from the lime by screarung. This i m i dy is prac tised, as w e are informed ia the Southern states, where the weevil has been for some years very destructive to the graiu. Reb.
Ccngress of Panama It is rumoured, says the Intelligencer, that Crawford Mid dttlUun will be -appointed oamsters toatUud the irress of l'auama.
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