Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 4, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 28 January 1826 — Page 1

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EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH OF MAN. Barlow. Volume II. LAWRENCEBURGH, INDIANA; SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1826. Number 4.

Printed and Published on ercery Friday, BY J. Spencer, M. Gregg, and I). V. Culley; Editors and Proprietors.

Fro in the Louisville Public Advertiser. THE CANAL. We have no doubt but our readers generally, are gratified that it is now reduced to a certainty, that a canal will be immediately constructed, around the Falls of the Ohio. The inhabitants of twelve, out of twenty-four states Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Ttf: : 1 1 1 : ! : - r,i: .. T".. iiX i sjiiu ii, Illinois, niui'tiici, jr;mutiu, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New fork, as well as those of the Arkansas Territory, are materially interested in the work. To those residing on the Ohio, and its tributary streams, (east of this place,) the utility of the Louisville and Portland Canal, will be almost incalculable. The obstruction occasioned by the falls, to the commerce of the west, has been se riously felt, and loudly complained of. lor several vears. As the falls could on )y be passed with even keel or flat boats, containing cargoes for fouror five months in the year, it has been necessary for the purchasers of produce to ship it at par ticular periods, or to incur the expense and risk of having it transported round the falls by land, exposing flour, tobac co, &c. to the weather, and soiling the barrels, &c. which frequently subjected them to heavy losses. It would be difficult, at this time, to form a correct estimate of the commerce of the Ohio. We are assured, however, by gentlemen conversant with the subject, that there were, last season, at least fifty-six steam boats employed on this river; and from information which may be relied on, at least thirty more will be added to the number above stated, in the present season. In the course of the year, eacli boat will make about six voyages, to places below the falls, and return to places situate above. Eighty-six boats, each making six trips per arm. will give 1052 passages. Each boat that arrives at Shippingport, will average say 75 tons cargo; & boats departing, take cargoes averaging 150 tons each, making an aggregate of about 232,200 tons; 200,000 of which it is believed, have been subject to a tax ford ravage around the falls, (either on this or the Tndinnn sidp. which nf 7.1 ris. -7 - per ton, amount to - - - 150,000 The storage, commission and incidental expenses unavoidably incurred, in consequence of this obstruction, may be safely estimated at - . - - - - 20,000 Injury to produce and merchandise, including cooperage, and accidents occuring on the falls, may be reasonably estimated at 50,000; and this will be deemed a moderate calculation, when the fact is recollected, that in the last season one or more of our best steam boats were materiallv injured, and prevented from proceeding to New Orleans, until they were repaired; and that one parcel containing 16 packages of goods, worth .8,000, was totally lost. Say 50,000 The delay invariably occasioned by this obstruction, including the pay of the hands, and the interest for the time, on the capital employed, has not been less per ann. than 10,000 Of the annual loss incurred by the irregularity of trade. &, overstocked markets below, it is impossible to form an accurate estimate. Flour, beef, meal, butter, pork and lard, are perishable articles, and are exported in large quantics. Upwards of 300,000 barrels of flour arc annually shipped from above the falls. Of this quantity, about 200,000 bbls. annually arrive at New Orleans,and mostly at periods, when the prices of produce are greatly depressed, by a glutted market. From this cause alone, flour is worth at least 50 cents less per bbl. than it would be, if the navigation of the river was unobstructed, and the supply regular; which will make the loss on shipments, to the port of New Orleans alone, - - 100,000 The loss on other kinds of perishable property may be es timated at 100.000, more. 100,000

About 7000 flat boats arrive, annually, at New Orleans and neighborhood. Of this numher, it is believed, 5000 pass the falls. The removal of the obstruction here, so as to permit steam boats to ascend the river to the various landings above, would diminish the number of flat boats, at least 1000; the average cost of which, is about 50 each ; and at jYezu Orleans, they are of little value say 5 each, leaving a loss on 1000 boats, of ------ Of the flat boats that cross the falls, about 3000 takes pi

45,000 lots, and require additional hands to get them over which cost at least 5 each. - -The loss, by detention of steam boats for the want of suitable places to make repairs in, constitutes a very serious drawback upon the commerce of the country. Instances have frequently occurred, when the use of a dry dock for a day or two would have saved the owner or owners of a steam boat, 4 or 5,000. To repair an injury, however trifling, in the bottom of a boat, it has been the custom to run her upon a sand bar; to wait for the river to fall then ctfect the necessary repairs and then wait for the river to rise again to take the boat off the bar ! In this way, 15,000 boats are frequently detained for months, when they, might be profitably employed. Inlccd, as no season passes, in which such instances do not oc cur, this item is estimated low, at 50,000 per ann. . - -To this, we may add, that the loss sustained by the farmers in their wheat, is immense. To say nothing of the depression in the price, which invariably results from previously glutted markets below, the want of miils to flour it im 50,000 mediately after harvest, and the fact, that, in the time which elapses between harvest, and he period at which our mill streams arc generally full, the wheat becomes greatly injured bythcTvcevil, demonstrates that he loss incurred, in this vici nity alone must be great. The loss in wheat, which may e floured here, in proper ime, when the canal is com pleted, may be safely estimaed to be equal to 20,000 bbls. flour which, at 2 50 per bbl. is - -- -- -- -- cn nnn 590,000 It thus appears, that more than half a million of dollars, will be annually sa ved to the western country, by the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal; and if the work be destined to be so advantageous to the country, in its present state, how much more valuable will it be, in twenty or thirty years to come : r orty years ago, unio anu inuiana were exclusively inhabited by the natives of the forest. Now Ohio conains a population of nearlv a million of white inhabitants; Cincinnati, which some thirty or thirty-hve years since, was garrisoned by a few soldiers under the unfortunate St. Clair, is now among the most nourishing cities in the Union. Indiana, which in 1 800, contained about 5000 inhabitants, contains, at this time. about 250,000! Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas, arc increasing with equal rapidity, in wealth and population. Ken tucky, which was wrested from the possession of the Indians, by enterprising adventurers from the cast, many of whom are still living, contains. G or 700,000 inhabitants, and the number is rapidly increasing. Should the western states continue to increase in wealth and pow-; er, as they have done for the last twenty years, the commerce of the Ohio will, in ill human probability, be lourfold what it now is. The furs of the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, and a large por tion of the abundant supply ot lead that will soon be drawn from the inexhaustable mines of Missouri, must naturally pass through the canal, consigned to cities and places east of us; and should a rupture again take place, between the United States and one of the European powers, the cotton and sugar of Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana and .Mississippi, would mainly pass through the same channel. From the estimate of the trade of the

Ohio which we have given, and for whichl

we are indebted to gentlemen whose si tuations and pursuits enable them to im part the most accurate information, it i: obvious, that the canal will not only be n work of great public utility, but highly beneficial to the stockholders. The first year after its completion it will yield a dividend ot 12 or lo per cent, and that too without exacting tolls that will be esteemed immoderate or unreasonabh and the business and income of the canal will he regularly augmented, with tlu growth and progressive prosperity of the countrv, until the stock becomes among the most valuable in the world. This re mark is predicated upon the supposition that the tide of emigration to the west cannnot be checked, while the fertility of the soil guarantees to the industrious husbandman, a superabundance of the necessaries of life: or until the countrv becomes densely populated, from the Al legheny to the Rocky Mountains. We are aware that the time was, when these reflections would have been esteemed visionary, if not absurd ; but. that day has passed. ithm the last lifteen years, six western states nave neen ad ded to the American confederacy; and the dav is not far distant, when Florida, Arkansas and Michigan, will swell the number to twenty-seven. It has not yet been half a century, since we became an independent nation ; but since that era, our population has multiplied fourfold, and the number of states has been near ly doubled. The elder, or original states, are already compactly settled, and their soil is known to be sterile, when compared to that of the west. It is the knowledge of these facts, thai serves to invite hither the emigrants from Europe, and what may be termed the sur plus population of the Atlantic States. It is to the west, that the discriminating stateman already looks for the consum mation of his hopes; anu to the west he must direct his attention, in all time to come, for the same purpose. In short, it is to the west, that the American peo ple must look, in future, for those unerring indications of national prosperity, which have hitherto marked our progress. But a few years since, Louis ville was a frontier village; hut a few years hence, it is destined to be a popu lous and flourishing city, and to be esteemed the centre of the most powerful republic that ever existed. v hat then. we ask, will be the value of the Louis ville and Portland Canal, consituting, as it must, a portion of one of the great est arteries of commerce in the world? To the stockolders, the prospect before them'' could not be more flattering. All we have to regret, is that the work has not been undertaken by the state, as it would have been a great and permanent source of revenue. To the inhabtants of Louisville, however, it will make but little difference, whether the canal be owned by the state or a private incorporation. They will lose something, by way of drayage and storage; but they will acquire power to propel machinery they will have dry docks, which will give them decided advantages in repairing and building boats; and these causes must lead to an unprecedented increase of population. Besides the expenditure of half a million of dollars here, on the canal, dry docks, and race ways for mills and manufactories, will assuredly have a salutary ef fect upon the town. To this wc add, that we have reason to hope, that a national armory will he erected on or near the canal, which will lead to the expen diture of a quarter of a mllion of the public money, annually, at this point. To the small portion of our citizens who believe that the canal will be injurious to Louisville, wc will only remark, that obstuctions of commerce, were never yet known to make a great city. All the cities of magnitude, owe their very existance to an utrammeled commerce, enterprise and capital. Prom the New-York Mirror. RECOLLECTIONS OF THE ISlJYD OF TPJXIDAD.Xo. IV. TheCreolesare also notorious formcntal imbecility, and for a deficiency ofapprehension, as they are generally dull. stupid, and phlegmatic. Thev have none ofthe European virtues; weak and effeminate, they possess noqualifications to make a figure in active life, and yet they are proud and pretending, inacul pablc degree ; so that their whole character is an exhibition of coxcomical impertinence, and worthless insignificance, The Creolian ladies have a gracefulness of manners that supplies the want of elegant accomplishments, and the vivacity with which they animate their con-

vcrsation, throws a lustre ov er the vacu -

lty of mental endowments, as the sun or - naments a snovvcry cioiicl wiin me nrnliant colours of the rainbow. They are passionately fond of dress, and of making a display of jewels and trinkets: the toilet table is-the altar of their devotion the mirror, the oracle of their daily consulfation; but this is their most prominent foible, for in other respects theyare well qualified to preside in the sphere of conjugal affection, and domestic happi ness. Thev cannot be called beauties. nor are they v et without some personal attractions; if thev have not the rosv freshness of Aurora, they have the youth of Hebe, and black sparkling eyes, that reflect the ses'.sibiliiy ot "their souls, while their dark olive complexions exhibit a cheerful and tender expression of features, calculated to "melt the mind to love." The Administration of justice, in the courts of law in Trinidad, is distinguished by a strange and singular anomaly, a chaotic mixture of British and Spanish jurisprudence in criminal procedure ; by the judicial iormnhty oi whicn, a prisoner has not the right of insisting on a trial by jury, for instead of being guarded by that invulnerable agis oft he English constitution he must rely on the honor, mercy. and impartiality of his judges. All the white population ofthe island, including the Spaniards, wish, for the extension of the blessings of the British constitution, but the ;m7(nnd element governor, knowing that the Spanish laws "add more cubits to the stature' of a petty despot, and that they open for him a more extensive leld to "play the fantastic tricks of arbi trary oppression, represented to the government that the safety ofthe colony re quired the continuance of the intolerant code of Spanish tyranny. The chiet judge is an English gentleman of talent and humanity, but he is yoked on the bench, not with a lamb but with a Spanish Crehlian goose of the name of Gomez an unlettered man, that can scarcely give utterance to a word ofthe English language, and to hear him attempt speaking it would "awaken laughter under th ribs of death,' for to use the words oi Churchill, "He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone." Sancho Panza,on the bench, was more capable of dcci!ii:cf betw een ritflit :ul wrong than he is; hut his having licked, "with candied tongue,1 the slimy coat of power, the insignificant, crawling, crouching, sycophant of imbecility, became first favourite with the sage and immaculate governor, and he is now the flattering Damocles ofthe high minded Dionysius of Trinidad. This pair of "honourable men' are now so intimate, so connected by sympathy of disposition, that the may be termed the Orestes and Pvlades of Trinidad, as thev are. "like Juno's swans, linked and inseparable! Caligula nominated his horse a Roman consul, and the gallant knight, at the head of thegovcrnment of Trinidad, with equal discrimination and propriety, has made a judge of his favourite minion.

Why does not that watchful guardian ofjcnt Adams are left upon the stage, and

Englishmen's rights, the London Morn ing Chronicle, notice this abuse of power? There is but one newspaper in Tiinidad, which (with the exception of the New-York Courier) is the most dull, vapid, and uninteresting vehicle of intelligence that ever issued from the press. The proprietor was long the prying pander of the governor, having all the subservient and fawning docility of a spaniel, he for a time fattened on the crumbs of venal servility ; but the vile toad-eater is now a fallen angel, that vainly endeav ours to assume the character of independence and patriotism, by squatting down through the help of an unfledged lawyer in the attitude of pigmy menace, against his former patron. There is one gentleman, of some talent and manly independence of spirit, who never bowed to the "image of clay, at St. Ann's, writes occasonally for the Trinidad Gazette; indeed, he is the Corinthian column that supports the tottering dome of that paper. His style is not florid, it never sparkles with the gems of intellect, or with the brilliants of idiomatic expres sion; the flowers of his rhetoric are al ways covered with antiquated dust, and in the slow march of his periods you will never find an elevation of thought rising above the low water mark of mediocrity. That a gentleman, of such high respec tability of character as Mr. Burnley, who was too proud to stoop to the condescen sion of being a jackall for a lion, should become literary purveyor toan ass, is ra th e r amazing ; as W i Ilia rn Le we r, pri nt e r, proprietor, and editor of the Trinidad Ga zette, may be considered as "the least of

lall God's creatures; a man who, like the;

j sciolist, yclept the editor ot tin- iewi ork Courier, is incup.uMi- ii fining two lines, without betraying gross idiomatic ignorance and grammatical inaccuracy: and vet the charlatan is so sw elled up with conceit, and so inflated with the ideas of self importance, that he imagines he knows every thing, from the tying of a dandy cravat, to the writing of an epic poem, llis vanity often hurries him out of his depth; his want ofthe buoyant power of genius becomes then apparent, he shows himself a mere man of types, instead of an erudite man of letters, and displays his overblown vulgarities in his ridiculous paper. Like his American prototype, the vandal editor ofthe ludicrous affection, pedantic arrogance, and unfounded pretension; but let him not imagine, in the dream of his ignorance, that a dandy coat, or the Turkey-cock swagger of impudence, can metamorphose a contemptible blcckhead into a man of knowledge, or a vain-glorious fop into an Adonis; for an ass vvili retain his habitual stupidity, and elemental meanness. even if anav ed in the gorgeous trappings of the war horse ofthe illustrious Napolean. Priscianus. Gov. Tnour. A gentleman in Ceor gia writes thus to his friend in Boston: fciThero has doubtless been much said at the north respecting Gov. Troup. Many have supposed him mad, and have wondered at his re-election, I am not one of those who wished him to retain the chair of State, but 1 can safely saythat his supporter- embrace a very large part ofthe moralfcintellectual strength of the community. His opponent wa3 not recommended far talents, acquirements, or moral character. He deemed it no derogation from the dignity of his moral character, to iravel through the State with the express object of electioneering. At every tavern in his journey he treated all the rabble that were within call. At one inn, 1 am assured that his hill for whiskey, &c. exceeded forty dollars. Yet he is evidently a favorite with a large part of the inhabitants his zealous adherents hav e a large decided ascci.dency in each branch of the State legislature, and he would without doubt have again been placed in the executive chair, had it not been for the injudicious interference of Gen. Gaines with State politics and in his favor. Gov. Troup has sulfcred much domestic affliction, from which circumstance his mind has received a strong, bias, which inclines him to look on the dark side of every subject. lie conjures up fearful visions, and then treats them as if they were realities. He views himself as the sole representative of Georgia, and with consumate vanity imagina that her interests depends entirely on his movement. He looks upon the general government as an old crafty opponent ever ready to thwart his views and oppose his pretension'!. His feelings become so strong and his imagination so exclusive, that none but he and Presithev too are contending for the masterly. He has talents, but is a wretched politician ; he has friends, but they are bad advisers: he will drag out another term of tw o years, and give place to a more prudent man. SEMLYARY FU.XDS. A statement of the seminary funds in the hands ofthe several trustees, as reported to the House of Representatives.

Allen County, 37 00 Bartholomew, 41 31 Clark, 11 bO Daviess, 210 99" Dearborn, 700 87 Floyd, 122 88 Green, 39 00 Gibson, 67G 75 Hamilton, 14 50 Martin, 81 99 Marion, 75 25 Monroe, 301 13 Montgomery, 10 25 Orange, 5G9 85 Parke, 123 G2 Franklin, G17 55 Perry, 148 42 Putnam, 17 50 Rush, 57 37 Shelby, 39 31 Sullivan, 229 74 Scott, 59 33 Vigo, no particular return, i Parke there are 2G dollars and s assessed and not collected.

In Perry, there arc 5G dollars in judgments not collected. The sewing- silk s.nd raw silk produced in Windham county, Connecticut, is estimated to le worth 45,000 dollars per annum, .