Indiana Palladium, Volume 2, Number 50, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 23 December 1826 — Page 2

15,103 40 to be disposed of by you in!

payment of the public debt, or towards

such other objects as in the plenitude of

your, wisdom, and with a knowledge of

the wishes of your constituents, you may direct. Our state debt is, at this time, in a fair way to be suddenly extinguished. During the last year 5000 were paid Mr. Rapp, ns before mentioned. By the communication herewith laid before you, which I had the honor recently to

receive from Mr. Rush, the secretary of

the treasury, you will perceive that the slate has procured a credit to be entered on the bonds which the United States as assignees of the bank of Vincennes hold on her, for 5000; leaving a balance due the General Government on those bonds, of 1873 17-100 with interest from the 21st of December, 1821. These two sums, making 1 0,000 deducted from the public debt will only leave the following items, to wit: To the road and canal fund 2296 9G; to balance due the United States 2311 46,

and to the holders of outstanding warrants, about 2658 54. Of this debt there will not be demanded the ensuing year, more than the sums due the United States and the holders of warrants, amounting to 5000. The balance may be paid at the pleasure of the state. Thus, you see, that we can pay all the . pressing debts owing, and leave 10,106 40 in the treasury, after paying all the accounts of the financial year. ''Another year wiil place us on a commanding footing, at the present rate of assessments. Individual lands in fifteen counties, heretofore exempt by virtue of the compact, will be liable to taxation during the next season. About fifty thousand polls, added to this immense

additional source of revenue will produce something like sixty thousand dollars. Should we continue to grow and expand our means, with the same astonishing rapidity that has characterised us

for past years: and our councils con-

rable that the Africans might be instructed with the means (o become useful to themselves and the community by ibe time tbey arrive there. What have you done with your plan of one day redeeming self labor in the week, of which you spoke to me before we parted? Present my aflVclionate regards to our good friend Mr. Gur ley. I will be happy to here from him. lie oubt to accompany you Here is a letter 1 have just received from the illustrious liberator Bohver It was bmuuht over by a Peruvian colonel You will set tbat your present and our communications bad not been yet delivered. But so much of them was known as to produce the kind and liberal letter, of which feelings of modesty ought perhaps, to prevent my sending a copy was I not encouraged by the thought that this Ittter belongs to you and tbe family as much us to myself, and tbat its principal object is to expregs the liberator's respect for the memory of our great good, and paternal chief. Your ide as respecting the cultivation of Flor

ida lands make a due impression upon me. It

is probable the next packet will bring me some information from my excellent friend Mr Graham. He bad, I am told, entrusted a French gentleman with despatches for me, which for

the sake of delivering them himself are not yel

come to hand Be pleased in case I cDDnt write by the first packet, to let him know this circumstance. La Vasseur has returned from Germany,

with a very amiable wife Adieu my dear Custis; believe me, most sincerely, and with paternal attachment, your friend LAFAYETTE.

General Bolivar to general Lafayette. Gemrai : I have had the honor of seeing, or tbt first time, the noble characters traced

by that bund which acted so well for the world of Columbus This I obtained by col. Mercer, who delivered to me your most esteemed letter cf the 13th of October of the last vear. By the public papers, I understood, with inexpressible pleasure, that you had had the goodness to honor me with a treasure taken from Mount Vernon tbe likeness of Washington, some of his relics, and one of the monuments of bis glory, which you were to offer me in the name of the manes of the creat and first born citizen of the new world. So iru-x-

con?piracy as this. Something more noble was expected from you." Nichociiia ans wered: "1 am now sorry that I did not knov of this attempt to revolt. Perhaps I could have done my country some service in it, and relieved them from these Colombians who are taking the bread frem our mouth?. And now, as I have an opportunity, I tell you that you have scarce a friend in the country, and the quicker you return the better." This was lanminee that such a man as Bolivar could not stand. He Hew into a violent rage, and ordered his guard to arrest him. Nichociiia looked him sternIv in the face, and observed: "If I had my sword, in the presence of your guard, Y would draw some of that black blood from you. and relieve the world of you." I am afraid that this circumstance will lead to a serious Revolution. Bolivar has removed from his house three miles from the city, to the palace, where he now is with double guard. I hope that the affair will die away, but I see no prospf ct of it. Bolivar will not give up his power, and the People are evident

ly disati-fioa with his keeping it. 1 hey say that he wants to be king; and of that kind of cattle they have already had their full proportion. That looks very much like bciig his object. He has elected

himself President of Upper Peru for life,

with ttu privilege of choosing his successor. Des this lo k like liberty ? He told tlx People it waand they believed it. Tley thought that he was too great a man o do wrong, and that whatever he did was right. They now begin to see wherein thev were mistaken. The

Congress of Peru should have assembled iast Mcirch, and all the representatives from the different districts should have come to Lima. Bu Bolivar, fearful perhaps that they miht wrest from him the power at dii tutor, given to him at their last session, dissolved them before they entered on business. I think that the opinion will be differ

ent trosn what it now is m the United

portancc of which upon thjs question isr,nd profound lawyers climb ladders at U

irresistable. If Pennsylvania will not

make her canal, the whole of the productions of the western states wiil he carried

to New York, by her grand canal, and

dangle by ropes; the orators r.i d specta

tors ride wooden hobby-horses; and ail classes find their appropriate level, and

occupations suited to their respective

thev w ill reach our market and be hro't tastes. The mania has extended to the

females of our countrv, and we soon shall hear of young ladies, on their high ropes, acting all the varieties of lofty and extravagant gambols." JVut. JEgis, A fw weeks since we publisbpd an article

(riven from the Markets by western UT,!8,atiRg the drowning, cunei-g to hf again, and orn end ycrk, vili ovr rcfi'sai to make 0Mr Jaftcrwa.ds dying f Mr murl Moody cf

Y oodburj. 1 he piece, like all others belong

ing to the marvellous, w nt the round; but as

in competition with the productions of

our state, without our having the benefits and gain which their transportation will have afforded to the New York canal. If the Farriers of Bucks, JYerthamp-'.

(n. Jlon!ro?neru and Lancaster, can be

anient

cont cnid

canal prevent tie cdi ? New York will

cersil in Hinip :iriir!n r-t n rhrrnrr rnf?J

i - , -iii ;tbe story proved tobeuotiue which we in du

their carriage, it will be enabled to dis

pose of them at the lowest prices.

It is therefore too late to hesitate. B

time statfd to b thus we were perfectly willing that the bunting should be fathered upon

Jollier prints than ours and that oil er Wud-

burvs than the rretnt on in Connecticut

there were any thing in the objection, ;,vouId be tht. reput(.(1 puce 0flt3 nat-v-'y Af and that there is not, it need not now be!(er having bi en crrditrd to Woodbun Conn, urged. The question is not, whether by a suitable proportion of the papers it wai a canal should he made, but Pennsy Iva- next trr.nslVred to V oodbnry N J. and h-nca nia will by refusing to complete her travel! d on to Woodbury Kv As it rould not woik, give vp for (ver, to her rival sister, 'ravel farther, there bting no more Woi.dbmyt all the emoluments of a sytem which has West to chim the article it took a turn toih already made her the most prosperous-,"1! ahcut face, has re-appeared in tb hnd member of the confederacy. jofMeadv habits," and the V.iddlsn G ttt

has actually given us a SfC( nu edi'mn et ins 8.ime story, only inseiling K. in lim of Con. Tbus we work it in m-king up h dish of lha

Democratic Press.

tinue to be guided by wisdom and lideli-P.reSfib,r -,orioU9 J combination of th,ng8 and Sjates and wh d io UoLl.

ty, we shall ran a glorious career, indeed outstripping all political calculation. The expenses of the ensuing year will

not, in all probability exceed those of

t.o.f -ii, f i f ,v t.- . w var, and that hetore the year is out, he

in a way which I could never, even remotely,

expect. Yes, Washington, by the band of

Lafayette, is the crown of all human rewards.

form, and you are the citizen hero, the asserts of liberty, which, with oae hand, you have defended for America, and with the othrr for the old world. What mortal can be worthy of the honors with which you and Mount Vernon wish to load me? 31 y confusion is eq ul to the immensity of my gratitude, which I "fferto you, sir, with the respect and veneration which are due to the master of bbt rty 1 am, sir, with the highest consideration, your respectful admirer, BOLIVAU. j

this; and should you think fit to cxactjHe was the. illustrious urometer of social re-

no more Irom the people than is necessary for the ordinary purposes of government, you may reduce the taxes at the rate of twenty per cent. If you reduce

any tax, it would be congenial to thousands of your fellow-citizens for you to lay a foundation for the abolition of the the poll tax. It seems disagreeable to the majority of the people; and as this is their government, let it be administered to their satisfaction.

v many, 1 would remark, that you arc nozi3 about to enter upon the business of the session. That department of the government which you arc, must necessarily act conjointly with him who exerci

ses Executive power. If I have any one

wish, at this time, that predominates, it is, that these two departments may act in harmonious unison for the good of our mutual and beloved countrv. Your

Executive only .asks you for as much of

Jour friendly support and co-operation, as may be essential, to guarantee to our growing republic, those infinite and high destinies, which her commanding situaiion nature and nature's God, hold in reserve for her. When it becomes neces-

rary for you, in the exercise of your dele

gated powers, to select from among your fellow-citizens, some one for public office allow me to indulge a silent hope, that your predilections for men, may in no respect disturb the measures of the government. Sutler it, and you will make a grave for wholesome legislation. Calm, free and dispassionate investigations on the merits of all propositions, are apt to ultimate in safe, and enlightened conclu

sions. Thus, may we live, thing and act for our country. JAMES H. HAY. From the JVational Intelligencer. We are indebted to the politeness of G V. P Custis, esq for the perusal of thtt following letters from two of the greatest living men. We have availed ourselves of Air C;s prrmisfion to place them before our reuh rs: La Grange, 7t-. 18:6.

Bolivar. Though the article in the shape of a letter from Peru corresponds with some other letters from which we have seen extracts published, we do not readily yield credence to these detrac

tions from the political character of the

Liberator. We have seen too much of

w hat he has done, and has refused to do, to give a willing credence to every suspicion embodied on paperj and sent abroad ';on eagles' w ings.' Allowanc e must he made for the exaggerations of prejudice or disappointment. If some of our own journals, of the present day, were to get abroad among the Peruvians, or the People of any other country of America, they might be induced to be

lieve that our President is an usurper,

and without a majority of Congress at his hack, is going to breakdown all the barriers which separate the jurisdiction of the State and General Governments. So, probably, in other countiies, and especially in the case of Iiolivar, the evil designs imputed to him may he only the reflection of the prejudices of those who sit in judgment on his conduct. It is not

likelv that a man who wrote such a lettcr as that to Iafavettk, or such another as that to Mr. Custis, of older

will tarnish the great fame he has obtained as a disinterested patriot, and cease to be coupled with Washington, as the savior of his country." Franklin Guz.

On the subject of the rower of the1 , . - r, , ,-, J . 4 1 . . .marvellous! Litchfidd County lost veneral Government to appropriate nio-i u

It X ney (or other objects than those enumer

ated among the grnnl

Congress, we wish not to be understood

PKXSSYLV.LYLl POLICY. to legislate in any manner for the bene-

Thf rare between the great states of fit ot one halt ot the fetates ot the Union.

Pennsylvania and New York, for the It may tax them : but w hat benefit is it to rich reward of a cheap intercourse thro them merely to be taxed? Denying to

their borders, with the western regions pL-ongrcs- all incidental powers, how are

of the Union, has commenced; and al-

A rmfnm linnet honr! f.-t rrr lrtr iiitn

ot the power to cf 5, no0) bfillR for dutlfS on tevvtH cbu.i ) ce understood carsroes. become due on Satutdav. the 25 h ult.

as our opinion that Congress can do any anu was pron.ptlj paid by an individual northing which is not fairly incidental to the cbant of this citr, in a single chei k I las it powers granted. We have no idea of said to te the largest bond ev.r pid in I Lis. asking tor Congress unlimited power, country. JV Y. Xer. Jldv. nor even power to do every thing that is not forbidden. Congress cannot, for affair cf hovctir. A London paper reexample, interfere with the exclusive jniarks ihat white LUphaots are rare in nature; authority of the State over the domestic aRtl 60 gitatly valued in India, that a Kng of

relations and the distribution of property, j Peece hearing that the king of SUw bait .fair These concerns belonged exclusively to jof tbepe bl- animals, sent a lorrca! . n,h3.-

the States. It is obvious, that, upon a literal construction of the Constitution, Congress can do little more than levy and collect taxes, raise and support an army and navy, and pay a host of public officers at borne and in foreign countries. It is absolutely out of the power cf the Govern

ment of the United States, under the

strict construction contended for by thei

literal interpreters ct the Constitution,

sy desiring bis royal brother to se'l hioi one of

tbetn, and name any price that b pleased. 'I he Pegunn sovereign beia? rtfised dr-c tared war to chastise the inul He iniad d hum, and after losing 500 000 of bis men . ob' md tbe elephant and retrieved his wounded honour.

Blarney This is the name of a cast!?, about thre iiiiles from t ork. Adjoining to the inhabited laansion. there was forn rly a targa square tower, with a winding stone siair-caia to tbe top; the floors were all pont but ib stone roof was entir-. ; it was tht- cuMon. bt ra for all strangers who ascended to the top of tho tower, to creep on their bards and kntf s to lha corner stone of the highest pinnacle nd kies the same; by virtue nf which he pntu s wer ererafttr said to be endowed with txtraonhnary powers of loquacity and persuasion 1 tn-ugh nobody could hae believed that kisin tha stone bad any such effect, the cutom w fallowed through innocent nirth, and it becac

iacommun saving at Cork, of an pra'Tm? f 1-

they to appropriate any portion cf the!

though New York is many lengths ahead j taxes, collected equally from all, tor the in tho roller, vet she inav 'be overtak-1 benefit of the States in the interior ? Con-

en, and our commonwealth may secure' press, it i- admitted may build and mainthe niiz. Jtain a Lii;ht-liotisc; hut an Observatory.

The distance between the capital ot:nu.uiou on tne same principles, u is ccn-!ovv "he bag been at Htarney;'' and hence tha Pennsylvania, and the Ohio, is three : tended that they cannot erect. Congress jphrase ."nous of your blame? .

hundred miles less than from New York,; may, by t!ie name ofa Military Academy,! J)vb inJ

to the same point ; ami thus under equal; establish a seminary ot learning: but, by ciicums ances, the cost of transporting t!ie name of an University, they cannot the proGUctior-s of the countries north j do the sau.e thing. Congress may place and wfst of Pittsburg to Philadelphia,'1 buoys and stakes at the mouths cfour would l e fifteen jAr ant lea than the t;x-jharbon.: but th?y cannot make our land

routes, the channels ot internal comtnerce, practicable. Congress can build

walla to keep out the sea; but cannot diq

Jllomiv.g Pat

to

pense aliendin their conveyan

New-ork by hercaiu.l. That we can construct a canal, with

a f hort portage, upon the most ctiirient drains to ie lease the fresh water. Con-

sr.ale, atid cf ampb competency has beenk'-' can deepen barbers and repair completely ascertained, why not there-j l-huids nay, even nakc Islands in the

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memory, will ever tarnish his well earned laurels, by stooping to become the head of a despotic Government. Aat. Int.

foie complete this work?

Two objections are ured aain?t the measure. One the expense which its accomplishment would co-t. The other

that .is the wheat and cora and pork of

the wot, will by -uch a canal he brought

jto market, the value of land in the state

and particularly near the capital w ill be diminished. As to the amount required to construct the canal, it would be easv to show that the tolls which it would yield, will fu Uncompensate for the investment of capita!, and become an abundant source of rev

enue to the commonwealth but this is

not our purpose. We only desire to impress upon the

de

p: hut Congress cannot die; a canal

During the late fire in Utica, tw o men who were engaged in handing water quarrelled, and alter a short tussle tell to the ground together, embracing each other with a most fraternal hug. As soon as they were down, every man with in convenient distance rushed to the spot, and plied the full water buck ts with such ?eai and dexterity apon the heads and shoulders of the comhat?M!ts, that in Ics;. than two minutes thev r ;s

both upon their feet, "as cool as cur

to obviate the tame dangers and delays j

in navigation. Congress can carry the; hers," and entirely fieed from their nu'-

oncuinacious propensities. "Thus should dc-

puhlic mind the fact, that at this particular period of time, the expenditure of the state upon such a work would he not more than rmf thin! r,f ttip sum whirh

Extract from a letter from Lima, datul,(mld x required five years ago

oniif ji, ititwtu uy irtc iicute-cu oii, ui rj,e c;llllC obicct.

The state can now procure on loan at

Philadelphia.

"I am afraid that the war in this coun-

Your letter of the 25th M ty has -ffiirded me trv is not at an end. The Peruvians are

4 -c2 per coit any sum of money, and thus the necessary funds could he obtain-

mails by water, which is not mention

in the Constitution, but cannot provide for its otlectual and speedy transportation by land. Congress can grant the

public means to asist the cultivation of

the vine and olive, and to aid asylums for!

the Deal and Dumb, and yet Congress cannot do any thing which is not expressly provided for by the Constitution! Such are the inconsistencies into which we find ourselves led, w hen a mere theory is opposed to the universal practice of the Government. A'uti-jnul Intelligencer.

prope

sort inarms be crowned."

Gy aim asia. The following hit at one oi the passions of the day, is taken from the National Egis, printed at Worcester, .Massachusetts, who appears not to approve this resusitaticn cf the ancient g y m n a s t i c e s e r e i s e s : k'GyennKs:. A neat iiitle triangular enclosure in tht? neighborhood of the venerable seat of New Kmzland's vietv

Singular Intcrmorricge. A Mr. Hnrwood had two daughters by his first wife, the eldest of w hom w as married to a Mr. John Chosick. rPhis Chosick had a daughter by his first wife, whom old Harwood married, and by her had a son. Therefore, John Chosick's second wife could sav as follows: My father is my son, and I'm nay mother's mother. My sister is ray daughter and I'm grandmother to my brother.

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me mgnesi pleasure, my ear uus 8; tne more, ning to he discontented with having ed at an annual interest nffuu fivr p, and learning at Cambridge; where tor

, 3 t'r ""7'f la rye a Colombian force m the coun-;Ccnr less than in 1821. The work of the merlv the succeive venerations oituto we come you at Lu br.int;e My whoU fum-: 4 r nod . i : i , , , , , . , , 'v -uLctu mirtiiuus ukui ilv share with vour brother G,ore and mvself! tr-V 9".thc 23.lh lnsU a P1 l'cl"mX U hc uted as is shew n by dents urg,d their .pons in an honest,

in the gratifying expectation and entreat you l0 covered, just at tne moment wnen it was rates ot the contract made tor the part pilgnm-like way, is, or lately was deco

redeem your pledge as soon ai you can in ihel1;' ' 11 "'V' lu luu"

trmslof the canal which has been commenced rated with a quaint loo.Vmc'unaiatus

. - . . . . I i m t r rt C r 1 -vt-lI'ii -i rtYir nml flrirn Ami 4 .,.. 7, t I !... W. ,' .J . - . . I

spring; soontr it possible I hopr- vou'd make- V-A"u,"u""1 ccnuj, .n.w unjiui iun ty-. i-,u una m ) -min jm tt m. u ,vvi niasis, coruage, posis, ran?, 1'ars, a it a family nartv " 5 them from Peru, after killing BolwapJ than the co-t of the Aexv York canal; and! block?, and the visiter mijrht ncrcci

While 1 have lately had to mourn fur the loss l7orty or fifty Peruvian officers have been of venerated friends and associates in our arrested on the supposition of their American revolutionary struggle, arid have, in ' having been concerned in the conspiracy . common with all thinking and feeling minds in. Among tliese are three generals, one of

both heDJisnhrs. admired co ncidencrs the i whom commanded the nrmv at thetrreat

of

nd

most striking on the records of his'ory I hare, with melancholy satisfaction, blessed my own

private fate, tbat my visit to them has prece-d-i

cd this half century anniversary day As to

your plan of memoirs of our adopted father, dear Custis, my recol'ection or documents are much at your service. I thank you for the pleasant information you give me respecting our Liberia settlement It is founded on the most phdathrophic and disinterested principles, ably conducted, and congenial, I know it is, to the feelir.gs of the people throughout the United Sta'.es. The greatest diffiv ulty is to find sufficient means of transportation o?er tho Atlantic. It is also very desi-

battle and victory of Junin; since which hc has been toasted and caressed on all hands. "Viva General Nichociiia !'' was on the lips of (.'very one. Now w hat a change! On suspicion, he is arrested; and on suspicion, put into a convent, in double irons, and with a guard, lie is a

tine fellow, and the people are fond of

him, but nouc dare say a word. When Bolivar sent for him, he tried to shame him: but he had the wrong man to deal with. "General, said Bolivar, I am astonished to find a man ol your standing connected with so pitiful a

perceive

therefore there will he a saving of oG 2-3; the ingenious vonth of the future reneper cent. ration playing thereon all the most fanThe second objection has the experi-j tastic tricks between heaven and earth, ence of every country in which canals! It seems this is the method prescribed by and turnpike roads have been introdu-i German Professors, and practised in

Cod Trick. At the Behidere (N.J.) Oyer and Terminer, one Mr. Adam Cool w as convicted of an assault upon Catherine Berry , and fined one dollar and costs. The as-ault consisted in putting his arm around her neck and kissmg her. Now, this w a s a v e r y warm a c t i b r Mr. Ada 111 Cod. JY. Y. Ewpiirer.

ced to oppose it. 1 he lands within fifty miles of London grew in value, a the great public woiks of that country progressed. The population of the capital increases- with increase of suppln s, and thus the demand for the production. of the neighboring country was aucniented. No such consequeces as those which are anticipated in Pennsylvania occurred in England, when Liverpool and equally distant parts of the Kingdom became connected w iih London by canals of the best construction. But there is one consideration, the inv

German Universities, to give muscular strength, activity and agility, to the frames of those w ho approach the ostem facious and proud sources of all human science, knowledge, and information. Like all other imported fashions, whether salutary or pestiferous, the exercises ot the gymnasium have become quite popular, and the wise and simple, the great and the small, resort to these schools of discipline. The epidemic has broken out in our metropolitan cities, and has disturbed the gravity of their notional

inhabitants. The powerful statesmen!

In the Court of Common Pleas, came on the cause of Elizabeth B. Carter r? George W. Barber, for breach of prom ise of marriage. This cause excited much attention, and the court room w as

thronged. Thirteen witnesses were ex amined, who all, with a single, exception, testified to the fair character of the plaintiff. The breach of promise was proved, and the jury found a verdict for the plaintiffoi' .sGoO. fit Iv idcreX. J. Jppollo. Disaster. On Wednesday night last, the schooner Erie dragged her anchor in a eale oil Cleavelaud, and was beached on a sand bar. The next morning she was discovered on her beam's end; the crew saved themselves by holdir g on to the rigging. The cargo belonged to merchants in this village, Ravenna, and New Philadelphia. The amount of loss sustained we have not yet been able to learn: it will probably be considerable. Middlebury Journal jYqv. 29.