Indiana Palladium, Volume 5, Number 7, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 21 February 1829 — Page 2

Twentietli Congress:

SECOND SESSION. February 4. In the Senate, to-day, Mr. McLaue presented a memorial from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company, praying that Congress will

authorize a further subscription of Stock

. to the Company on the part of the Government. Mr. Benton introduced a bill for the gradual increase of the Engineer Corps, which was ordered to a second reading. The Senate spent about three .hours in the consideration of Executive business. , in the House of Representatives, various resolutions weTe offered; and some which had laid on the table since Saturday last, calling for information from the Departments, were agreed to. A resolution offered by Mr. Ramsay, of Pennsylvania, to print COCK) copies of the Report of the Senate Committee on the Post Qfices and Post Roads, relative to the Sunday Mail, occupied the House until the expiration of the hour; and before it was deposed of, the House proceeded to other business. The special order of the day, being a bill to repeal t'he duties on tonnage on vessels of the

United Siates, and on certain foreign

vessels, was then taken up for consider

ation. It was opposed by Mr. Gilmer

and several unsuccessful motions were

made to dispose of it. On a motion

Smith commerced some remarks in re

ply; but had not proceeded far before thp dUrnsion was arrested by the ter

mination of the hour. The House then proceeded, in obedience to the resolu tion offered on Saturday, to ballot for a printer for the next Congress; when, on opening the ballots, there were found to be 208 members present, 105 being necessary to a choice. Of the whole number, Dutr Green had 107, Gales and Scaton 95, and 6 votes were scattering and blank. The Bill relative to Captain BisselTs case was again postponed till Thursday, on motion of Mr. Mercer; and the House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on State of Union, and took up the Bill for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland Road. Mr. Bell, having a right to the floor, spoke during the residue of the day, in opposition to the pover of the Government to construct Roads and Canals, and also in opposition to the policy. He was in favor of the amendment of Mr. Buchanan. When he had closed his observations, on motion of Mr. J. S. Barbour, the Committee rose, and the House adjourned.

either place, must rest on the Sabbath, making a delay of one day each, to four

mails in the six. A similar delay oi nve mails out of six, will take place between

Augusta and Washington.

From Washington City South, one

to

lav the bill on the table, after the Ayes and Noes were called, Mr. Nuckolls, who

was not within the bar of the House when his name was called, as the rules

require, moved that his vote be record

ed. The Speaker decided that it could

not be recorded ; and Mr. N uckolls mad( an appeal from the decision of the Chair

btit the Chair was sustained in his deci

sion, by a vote of 168 to 8. The bil

was then ordered to be engrossed and

read a third time to-morrow, by a vote

of 94 to 78. Febmnry 7. The Senate did not si , cn to-day. In the House of Representatives, va

rious bills were reported, after which

the House resumed the consideration of

the resolutions of Mr. A. Smith, amenda

tory of the constitution. Mr. Sergeant

made some observations in opposition t

the resolutions, when the further debate

was arrested by the expiration of the

hour. The resolution offered by Mr.

Barringer relative to the election of prin

ter, was then taken up, and so modified .is to fix to-morrow for the election. The

House took up private bills, several of

which were acted on in Committee of

the whole, and ordered to he engrossed for a third reading to-morrow. Mr. P.

P. Barbour made a report in part from the select Commttee, appointed to examine the votes for President and Vice

President. The report consists of a re

solution, appointing Wednesday next for

tne opening of the votes by tellers in the

presence of the two Houses. February 9. In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Tazowell from the select Com'mittee appointed to assertain and report a pro per mode for examining the votes given for President and Vice President of the United States, &x. reported a resokition in reference to that subject, which was adopted. Mr. Tazewell was elected, by

ballot, teller of the votes, on the part of

trie senate. Mr. Uickerson s resijrna-

SUjXDAY MAILS.

Letter from the Postmaster General, to thf

cbairnano of the committee on tbe Post Of fiee and Post Roads, iu the House of Representatives. Post Office Department, V3th January, 1329. Sir: My attention has been directed to your communication of the 6th inst. nd all the investigation made, which he pressing nature of my daily duties would admit. In answer to the first inquiry, "whether, in my opinion, a prohibition of tbe transportation of the mail? on the Sabbath, or first dy of the week, would tend to impair the revenue o the Department, and, if so, to what probable imoanl?,T I have the honor to state, that daily mails are established on all the principal lines of communication on the Atlantic coast from Maine to Georgia, connecting, in this entire range, places of commercial - importance. From

New York City, by the way of Albany,

Utica, and Rochester, to Buffaloe daily

mails are conveyed, and also on several

nes connecting witU the principal

route.

Daily mails are also transported from

Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washing

on, to the VV estern Country, including

Pittsburg, Wheeling, and other towns

situate on the different routes, to Cincinnati and Louisville, and six weekly

trips to iSashville.

On these various routes, there is re

ceived annually for postage the sum of

hve hundred and sixty-four thousand

four hundred and forty three dollars and

evenly-one cents, and is paid, for iht

transportation of the mail on them, the

sum of two hundred and thirty-four thuu-

saud eight hundred aud eighty dollars

ind sixty-two cents.

A discontinuance of the seventh mail,

it is belived,voa!d not materially lessen the expense of transportation Oti ma

ny of the above routes the mail is in

creasing in size, and now often amounts

o from fifteen to twenty-five hundred

pounds. When a failure occurs, and

hrows two mails together, they are now

so large on some routes as to exclude all

tcr General might be 'inclined to escr rise on the subject. He cannot acton

'the moral principle, unless he apply it to i ! :i IT. : Tiiii

every naiiy man m vhmi. mwould involve a responsibility which no individual can exercise with impunity,

mail in six will be delayed a day, in bc-jand would b in opposition to the impli-

inz conveyed to Richmond and Peters-led sanction of the rational Legislature.

burp, Virginia; three to Fayetteville,

North Carolina: five to Charleston,

It has been, however, the practice oi

the Department, on each route, where

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South Carolinia; and every mail recei-iadaiiy mail is nH es:aoiisnea,so 10 regu ved at Savannah, from Washington willjlate the conveyance, where practicable, he delayed onf day. las to make the Sabbath a day of rest. From New York City to Albany, one! By the 11th section of the Post Office mail in six will be delayed a day ; to;iaw, ever) Po?t master is required uat all Buffalo, four mails in summer, an4 !ivejreaonabb- hours, on evrry luy of the

in winter, oat of six, will each be delay-jarrA, to deliver on demand, any letter,

paper.or packet, tothe person entitled,or

authorized lo receive the same." Before

cd g day. Between Wheeling and this city,

there will be a delay cf owe day each, tojthis law was enacted, no general instrucfwn mails out ofsix: to Zanesvflie three ;!tion? were given by the Department, to

and four to Cincinnati and Louisville. deliver letters on the Sabbath, and il i

From Pittsburgh to Philadelphia, t wo'Congress, in pursuance of the strong exmailsout of six will each be delayed onelpression made on this subject, shall rjay. j think proper lo repeal this section I shall The mail from this city to New Or- consider it to be my duty to recind the leans will be delayed two mails out of; instruction which has beengiven undent.

three, each three days, and the third

mail two days. It may be difficult at first to comprehend the above delays; but they have heen ascertained, by arranging a schedule of six weekly mails. The Sabbath, it must be recollected, will occur at different points on each route, and constantly vary, in the progress of the mails, the places of detention. In your third inquiry, you ask "Whether a discontinuance oi the present practice of distributing letter?, &c. from tbe several post-offices on the Sabbath, or

tirst day of the week, would tend to lmpair the revenue ot the Department; and if so, to what probable amount?" It is believed, that the revenue of the Department would not be lessened, to any considerable amount, if no letters or newspapers, &,c. were delivered at the different post-offices on the Sabbath. By the fourth inquiry, I am requested to state "Whether a change of the present mode of daily conve ance and distribution of mail-, would a ect the com

mercial imerest ot the country ; and il.&o, in what mannei V

At present a postmaster is required to

keep his office open one hour on the Sabbath, for the delivery of letters and newspapers. It is believed that the delivery of let Jers has been considered as more likely to interrupt religious worship, on the Sabbath, than the conveyance of the mail. The passage of the mail stage,"' through a village or town on Sunday, if PostBiastcrs were rot requked to distribute letters and newspapers, would excite as little attention as that of ant other cehicle. With great respec?, I am your obedient servor t. JOHN McLEAN. Hon. Samuel McKf.an, Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads.

LATEST FROM EUROPE. The late arrivals at Nev-Y rk, from England and France have afforded intel

ligence some days later than the previ

ous ne ws. The Duke of Wellington has written an important letter to the Catholic Pri

ll has been considered of great im- male of Ireland, on the Catholic Ques

tion. J his letter is said to be a proof ol Wellington's sftieere desire to emano-

tion of the office of Senator, and his ere- passengers from the mail coach. To run

rlrMitinlc nc Rnnnfnr fnr ihn mwilnJn A S i Irin.-i ivPP.kl V. rtn 111 TPfl as munv tima

the term for which Mr. Bateman was elected, 'were communicated to the Senate by the Vice President. Two hours were spent in the consideration of Executive business. In the House of Representatives, the

resolutions ottered by Mr. A. Smith, a mendatory of the Constitution, were ta

ten up after the presentation of petitions,

when Mr. Sergeant bnelly continued. his observations, but before he had spoken

many minutes, the hour having expired, At 1 . ' '

tne discussion was arrested. The various bills which were acted on in Commute of the whole on Saturday were then read a third time and passed. The House then resolved itself into Commit

tee ot trie whole on the state of the Union, on the bill for the preservation and repair of the Cumberland Road, when Mr. Barnard addressed the Committee in favor of the bill, and was followed by Mr. Daniel in opposition and in favor of the amendment. Mr. Vance then moved to amend the bill by adding a fourth section on the subject of the two per cent, fund, which was subsequently ordered to be printed. On motion of Mr. Bell, the Commitce then rose, and the House adjourned. February 10. In the Senate to day,

iur. omun oi south Carolina presented

nr proiesr. or the Legislature of South Carolina against the present laws imposing duties on imports for the purpose of protecting domestic manufactures, lne object and character of the Protest was explained by Messrs. Smith and Hayne. Mr. Hendricks presented the Resolutions ofthe Legislature of Indiana declaring the right of that State to the unappropriated lands within its limits. In the House of Representatives, toJay, the discussion on the resolutions ofAT cby Ml A' Srnith was resumed.! f. r sergeant concluded the observations he had commenced, and Mr. A.

six trips weekly, requires as many teams

is are necessary for a daily mail, and, iu

many instances, the contractors prefer running their stages daily, to six trips weekly, at the same price If all travel in private carriages and stage lines on the Sabbath could be sus

pended, and private expresses prevented, the revenue of the Department would not be much impaired by the discontinuance of the Sabbath mails. But

if lineB of stages for the conveyance of

passengers continue to run on the principal routes, and private expresses are use&, the revenue would probably be lessened between fifty and a hundred thousand dollars annually. You inquire,8econdly,"Whether such prohibition would have the effect to im

pede the progress and expedition of the mails on the other six days of the week, and, if so, to what probable extent?' The discontinuance of the Sabbath

mail, besides the number of weekly

mails to six, wilt produce, in receiving in

telligence from this city, a delay of one

dy in every sixth mail to Philadelphia;

two mails ogt of six, to New York, will each be delayed a day; three of the six to Boston, will each be delayed a day; four at Portland, and ffve at Augusta, Maine. These delays will appear at

once, by supposing the mail to be taken

from Washington City for Philadelphia on Saturday, Sunday will intervene before its delivery at Philadelphia; the mail taken on Friday for New York, will be delayed on the Sabbath, before it can be delivered at that city, as well a the Saturday mail, which will make as above stated, a delay of two mails, each a day, out of six, between Washington and New York. The Boston mail which

is taken from Washington on Thursday, will be delayed us above, making a de

lay of three mails, each one day, out of!

uir six. oeiween vvh ehinn r, p.

Union, speedy intelligence ofthe state

of the market at home and iu foreign countries. To accomplish this desirable objert,and atTrd the utmost facilities to all commercial transactions great increase of expedition has been giva-n lo the mails, within a few yers on all the important lines of communication.

Some years since, ou a sudden rise in the price of cotton, private expresses were

dispatched to the South from New i ork and other places, iu advance ofthe mail, and immense speculations wer made, in the purchase of that article. At that time, mail contractors were not prohibited from forwarding such expresses; and having relays of horses on every route,

they were frequently employed in this service, at a high rale of compensation. Since that time, the contracts hc.ve been

changed, so as to subject any contrac

tor to a forfeiture of his contract, if he

engage, either directly or indirectly, in the transmission of commercial information, with a view to speculation, more

rapidly than the mail. This provision

with the increased expedition,, which has been given, has rendered it extremely difli ul, if not impracticable for expres-

portance lo the commercial Sz agritullu

ral interests of the country, to convey

through the mails, into every part of the pate the Catholics from their political

disabilities. I he Liverpool Mercury say?: This document is calculated to strike with terror Brunswickeis and Intolerai.ts, and rejoice the friends of civil and

ciigiou- liberty, proving, as it does, that

the natural difficulties of the cnuntry. Four months have scarce elapsed, and ur standard floats over the prostrate vvalls of Varna, that fortress which had never seen a conqueror. Other perls and countries on the east and west side of the Black Sea, have ben compelled lo submit; and the thunder of our artillery has been heard at the extremities of Asiatic Turkey.'" Extract of a letter, dated Odessa, D -c. 2. 'Letters entitled lo credit announce that Varna is not in any way blockaded by the Turks, and even a division of the irand Russian army still occupies Bazardjik and other fort? in Bulgaria, which hj means of temporary fortifications, are placed out of danger from a surprise. It is added that these troops are about to enter into winter quarters on the right

bank of the Danube. The tirst official accounts will dissipate all doubts as to

the state ot affairs in Bulgaria.11 According to letters from Gala'z, a Bus, ian army of from 30 to 4"0,0QO men including the garrison oi Varna, wns stationed on the right bank of the Danube, occupying ihe whole country from Isaklcha to Varna, being in communication with the garrison ai IMatschin detatcl.ed from the division of Ibuiil. A strong body of Turkish cavalry, coming from Srhumla, to w hich a part of the garrison of Silislna has been re-united, is marching for Hershom. Fran the Mcsrs-iger des Chmbres of 24'h l?c. Tiie Gazette of Augsbuig says, an examination w as about to be made into the" conduct of the Divan of Wallarhia, ;C' - used of having caused a r.s of 00,000 ducats to the Russian Army by a failure f supplies. la order to check the progress always increasing ofthe pest, in tbe military hospital's, the sick are ordered to be transported out of the city (Bucharest) in order to undergo a quarentine of 21 da s, w hen they may be brought back. The Turks have, we learn, been considerably reinforced at Girgows. Gen. Booth, who is expected daily at Wa'la--chia, is to be replaced in his command at Bazardyk by Gon. Krouts. W'allachia is infested, in addition to all ils other calamities, by hordes of wild boars and wolves, who devastate every thing.'

Public Lands. The proposilion which iias been agitated in Congress for one cr two feegsiong to dispose of the national domain, in adiffeient manner from that hitherto pursued, is now attracting a good deal of attention. Supposing that

Arthur, Duke of Wellington he w ho.!'1 would not he uninteresting to our rea-

hut a very short time ago, was consider-j ders, to know something of the extent cd the prcnux chevalier of intolerance andj"" v;,hie ot the lands now owned by exclusion, has been compelled, by the government, the speedy di-poal of w hirh spirit ofthe ate, to abandon that invet-lt;em ,u be a tavorite oiuct with ter

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?es, on the more important routes, to

travel more rapidly than the mail is conveyed. An attempt was recently made to send an express between New- York and Philadelphia, in advance of the mail, but the enterprising contractor on that route, delivered it at the latter place, before the express arrived. On this line, the mail is transported t weive miles

an hour, when necessary to prevent a failure, or any other exigency require it. A suspension of the mail on tbe Sahbath would subject it to the delays before stated,, and enable persons in our large cities or elsewhere, on the receipt of intelligence of a change in the price of our great staples, to end expresses without much effirt, and speculate on the holders of such property.

in some ol our large cities a failure ot the mail or the delay of a few hours in its delivery, has been of serious conseqence to persons extensively engaged in commercial operations. If, as before suggested, private expres

ses and all stages for the conveyance of

passengers, were suspended on the Sabbath, the discontinuance ofthe mail on that day would affect, les seriously, the commercial and otUer interest of the country. A daily mail has been in operation on some routes, almost ever since the organization of this Department, under the Federal Government. Frequent ineffectual applications have been made to

Congress, to discontinue ihis nrail. I;

has been viewed by many persons ol great intelligence and piety, as an evil, but no provision for relief has been ad

opted. The result of these applications has given a sanction to the policy of the

Department, which 1 have considered as

orate hostility Hikh he at one time professed towards the cause of liberty ar.d justice, and to confess that the settlement ol the Catholic Question would be a benefit to the nation, and to every individual in it."

ihe British Minister for Foreign Af-I

lairs and the French and Spanish Auibas-s-adors had recently had very frequent intercourse. Jt was understood to relate to a proposal for a general amnesty to all the Spanish Constitutionalists, and the promulgation of a charter.

rile young Queen of Portugal has

tain restless politicians, we oftVr the following itema on the subject. TIk: quantity of land sold up to the 30! h June 1828, is 21,103,968 acres. The amount of sab s up to the same period i 41,950,247. There have been granted for the support of schools and colleges 7,841,947 acres. There have been granted for roads &l cnnala 1,934,537 acres. There have been granted for Military 13 unties and private claims 18,285,777 acres.

been proclaimed, in the most solemnj The quantity of land surveyed and yet

manner, at the island of Terceira. The place a said to be capable of withstanding the closest blockade, and the inhabitants art: determined to hold out to the last. 1. is stated that the Brazilian and Constitutional authorities in London desired to send the Portuguese refugees at Plymouth to reinforce the garrison at Terceha, hut to this the English government objected, on the ground that it would be a breach of its professed neu-

trality. An early declaration of war h) Dan, Pedro against Don Miguel is expected. The King of England has received the

young Queen at Windsor, as Queen ol Portugal. A Toulon paper states that, at a counrilofMi nisters lately held at Paris, it was determined that an expedition of 55,000 men should be sent to Algiers. The army in the Morea is to form a part of this expedition, which, it is added, will be

commanded in chief by Gen. Maisou.

who is to be made a Field Marshal. In the port of Toulon great activity prevailed, and two frigates were to sail for the Morea very shortly.

Madrid, Dec. 15. The Minister of

the U. S. has reclaimed 27 Colombian and American prisoners, found in the four towers of La Carca, which were taken from the South American privateers, captured after being shipwrecked on the coast of Spain. The subjoined paragraphs are copied from the New-York Commercial Advertiser and American of Wednesday evening. A letter from the Emperor to Mai.

Gen. Ciunt Diebich, dated 9lh (20th) Nov. says: "The opening of the present war agaiust the Turks has thrown new lustre on the glory ofthe Russian arms. The courage and constancy of our troops have

urmouuted all tne obstacles which wen

I J.U lir ------ . j - -.mi nrpuiiliuuMHu "ii mi' "uoiav.n-8 WIIILII nfll' land, the mail taken on Wednesday, fromcontrolling any discretion the Post Mas-f opposed by the efforts of the enemy and

unsold is 2IOJ73.300 acres.

The quantity of land in U. S. wiceded is estimated at 750,000,000 acres. This public domain has cost, including every charge of purchase, surveying and sale" $32,911,813. This sum includes ihe purchase money of Louisiana and Florida. Deduct the 20,000,000 pa hi lor Louisiana and Florida and the true cost of the U. S. lands is 1 2,91 1 ,8 1 3, which being deducted from the amount of sales leave a balance ofthe public lands of 31,039,634. It appears that the percentage on collecting Ihe riistom in 1826 was 31 per cent., while the cost of surveying and

selling the public land was but 3 6-10 per cent. There are at this time about 210,273,300aere8 of land surveyed and unsold belonging to the United States, which at present prices would yield a nett reve nne to the treasury of about ;250,000

1000.

The present price of the United States' land gives, we believe, entire satisfaction lo the great mass of purely sers. The proposition of offering these lands at a reduced price each successive year without a reference to their quality, would we apprehcrd, be foolishly throwing away one of the financial resources of the government, without any corresponding benefit to its citizens while upon those who have already purchased at 2,00 and 1,25 per acre, it would manifestly operate unfairly and injuriously. We trust that those politicians who are striving to change the present sys

tem of disposing or the national inheuauce,, will be disappointed. Cin. Chron. Sir Walter Scott has been elected Lord Rector of the university of Glat gow, hut declines accepting the lUkc,