Indiana Palladium, Volume 5, Number 50, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 19 December 1829 — Page 4

Continued from the first page (bear with them their own weapons of defences er intention to do a public injury, yet, the A f the" lands for twenty annual pay. route,tparticularly,nortb of the Wabash) f aile, the whole bearing which has enlisted their preference l01"" rratefof 8'X V'P"' ' mui . , ? .,, from the day of sale, except the first payment, seems tome, neither a compliance with hJ hef (he inlereVof tbe tbe meaning and spirit of the treaty, nor whoe purcba8e money unpaid, should be paid to afford a guarantee of much public util- in ajvancei and to on yearly afterwards, comity. If it is looked to m the means of bines more advantages and is subject tofewar aiding tbe people to drive on foot to the objections, than any other plan which my bumLike, their cattle and hogs, to be there ble capacity has been able to embrace. The slaughtered, barrelled up and shipped to payments should be so divided and regulated, the market if the Lake should be view- as to make tht Jirst tbe largest, the second the

ed as a place of deposit for other com modules ana tne point irom wnicn toreien salt and other supplies are to be

brought into the interior of tbe country- ,uo Ujiuj.db purchase wuuey u uo uiu0 it argues, that the road to that point car,3T5 o that the purchaser will be becoming should be on a direct line, or as nearly moreaod "J ,n tb h so, as practicable- It roust lose much 'ronger and stronger mducementa to comply r Vi-, -r i : i. with bis contract, with the bpse of years, and of its utility, if it docs not in time, alto- ,be con9 t ' dual Jestment of mogetherfall into disuse, by a circuitous iQ laod.6 If the constantly increasextension of its course, to meet its inten-iDff :nduppmftnf9 W,-Ph lifi nun i0ij, out

ded commercial points. The route pre- ,0tl6 purchaser, not to injure the soil or ferred by the report, measures upwards timber to a greater extent than the land ia of.one hundred miles from the Wabash benefited by the improvements made on it, to the L ike. The one rejected, only or if its being increased in value by the eeventy-three the difference being proximity of the canal, should not be nearly thirty miles. Then the matter considered sufficient to tay the commisresolves itself into this, that in order to sion of waste, let the law contain a suit-

be permitted to travel from one point to another,onIy sevnty-three miles apart,the traveller, emigrant or citizen, musi oe

placed under the unreasonable necessity which, interest will operate as a preven of taking upon himself, the labor of over tative: before, as an inducement to pay coming twenty-eight or thirty more, that hall speedily. Certificates proiniaTiie reason urged against the short route ing to make a title, where the last paythat it "will require bridging causeway- ment is made, will make the land its own ing or turopiking,'' and that it is vet in security. Privilege to pay up the

places, or level and marshy' will doubt jess apply to the long one; and is rather a reason in favor of a route, designed as this i a, for a clay-turnpike, than .against It. There is no materiel belter suited than marshy land, when properly graded, to make a substantial clay-turnpike; far ouperior to rich soil. The report further show, that the short survey runs through thirty-three miles of good land; a tract altogether'teuflicient from which, to select the whole donation. Doth routes terminate at the mouth of the river Dysmau where a harbour for vessels may be easily made. If there is any thing torequire and justify this increase of distance, it has not fallen within ray observation. Let the long route even be established, and so soon as the country is settled on tho Lake and tbe Wabash, it must, in the Dature of things, yield to public necessity for a shorter communication. If the position can be sustained, that this road can be carried to a point aim st as lar north as the Lake, and then run west to it, increasing its regular estimated distance nearly thirty miles, then, indeed by the same reasoning, it may be made to take its circumambient course, along the sinuosities of the Slate's border, until it finds the place of its lodgment. Tne St. Joseph, whers the road, as now locatedstrikes it, cannot be relied upon and cannot be navigated except by Keel boats only at freshets White river at this place, being about its equal. With regard to the section of this road, 60Uth of the seat of government; duty to myself and to the State, combine in urging me to state, that inasmuch as those who procured the insertion of the article in the Indian treaty, which cedes the land for making the road in question, bare suffered in reputation by the insinuation, that they lacked independence fa not fixing the point on the Ohio river, tbe Executive of this State, (if authorised by law,) is willing to appoint Commiss loners that will perform this highly responsible duty. The performance of so very unpleasant and responsible a task, is not, however, sought for, only as a dernier resort of putting an end to a question, which has already had too great an influence upon the legibiation and politics of the State. The subject of disposing of the lands gr anted for this work, has, within the past year, engrossed much of my reflection. All tho investigation I have been able to bestow upon it, has resulted in the sober conviction, that the road may be improved in the best manner, by the direct application of the land itself in payment of the contractors, without incurring the expenses and delays, incidental to a sale; or by creating the largest amount of obligations or promises or Stocks equal to money, drawing, on the most liberal credit, under sure penalties and on safe securities. These two modes of dispositisn, under all the circumstai. cos with which the subject is associated, are selected as the best of a number proposed And of these, the latter is preferred' not as being more simple, but as most profitable to the State. The first oilers it. inducements to favour, oy the despatch it would insure to tbe consummaton of the object in view as under it, the wctk might goon at once; which might com pensate in part, for a sacrifice of a portion of the advantage consequent on deiay,.and a sale in the manner alluded to. In-testing the merits of the first proposi tionthe ifsue of certificates or scrip, made negotiable, and payable in Iand,cf eignty acre tracts,.to be selected by the holder and entered in some public i like ateuch a minimum price as to make the certificate equal lo (be legal currency of the country, but of tbe value of the land it eorera. may be with propriety, taken into consideration. Cut the. question of sob points out its own beneficial concomitant, many pf wbici

- next largest, and so on, with the advance of

uiuiiuisumg cacu mcui unU m me lai. payment in advance, with interest of able injunction "gainst its perpetration until at least halt the original purchase

money snail nave ueen paia; oteri0""" i""1? ijuaiumg ug4iu.ii nuuit: coi

whole, at any time, should be oifered. Let the road be divided into three sections, to be completed in three years; the first section to commence at the Ohio river and extend to Indianapolis, to be finished the first year: the second, at the latter place and reaching to the Wabash, to be finished the second year, and the third section commencing at the Wabash and terminating at the Lake, to be completed the third year: As the southern section of this road would be at the beginning much travelled, it 6houlJ fust be completed, commencing at the Onio. A quantity of land proportionable to tiiis section, might be sold and applied the first year; and s-oof the other lands and sections in their years. This course might be better than to sell all the land at once, as by the first sale and the application of its proceeds, confidence would be inspin d, which would likely make the lands remaining advance in price, beyond the interest lost oy the delay. The first sale, will ascertain the amount of money to be applied to the first section, and by division, to each mile; until which takes place, safety requires that no contracts ought to be made. The amount of money capital created by the sale, would also point out the required loan, which should be equal to the credits on the land, subject to be extinguished by the annual pa ments due on the same. Prudence would require the loan, to he always less than the securities or capital stock on hand. Thee securitj.es or stock, will be equal to six per cent, stock, and may be at any time easily exi hanged for money. To effect this negitiuile collateral obligatipns may be taken from the purchaser, corresponding wit'fttne terms of the land certificate and .required loan. The above is but the oji times of that svstem which, it is dei mod iffb.-t exnedient to adont. under nil th'rnTn v errcumstances with which tliejanuri fSn'Uvironed. If we sell theseTt nearly, orfquite the same terms on wjhich government lands are disposed of,Qiey must be expected lo command about the same price, but terms like those re commended, which amount to a loan of the purchase money, enabling the pur chaser to make the ditFerentfrpaymeuts out of the land itself by his wh labor, are enforced alike, by the individual benefits they will confer, and the public interest they must improve. J By the operation of the plan suggested, monied combinations and monopS.lies will be checked, and a lair competition will take place between ifiem and those who expect to become citizens, and to cultivate the soil ey bid for. Upon the supposition, that fromlheLake to the Ohio river, the whole extent ol this road, is two hundred alidhirty miles, there will be about one htirfSYed and fifty thousand acres of select land. donated by treaty, to be applied to its' improvement, and this sold at only two dollars per acre, would enable us to realise the sum of three hundred thousand dollars. The average per mile, twelve hundred and eighty dollars. This amount or less, will make a clay turnpike? besides good strong wooden bridges over the streams ; ( we may make an estimate according 'to the propositions bmitted, tor cutting and grubbing the national road in this State, which only averaged two hundred and twenty dollars per mile, and the grading proportions were equally low in proportion. To your wisdom the whole is submitted. ROLLER OR WHEEL ROAD. I shall lay before you a paper containing Mr. John Gardner's invention of the Roller, or heel Road. You will be

1 . 1 1 . . ity of the scheme of the inventor, if you ar not disposed to ascriba to him

pieaseu wirn tne ingenuity and plausibiMestimate Hip 19A m!pH r.fr,! o. ci

the credit of making an impeding im

provement upon the known facilities for transporting goods by land or water. If the theory of the inventor will stand the test of practical experiment, its rank will be exalted, in the scale of invention WAUASH AND ERIE CANAL. After tha adjournment of the last General Assembly, in compliance with their resolutions, on the subject of the canal, 1 forthwith procured a copy the same to be mailed for the Executive of the state of Ohio; and also directed a like copy, together with other documents which were thought necessary, to be transmitted, to the commissioner of this state, appointed to negotiate with the commissioner of the former state, on the subjects of the necessary definitive ad justment, contemplated by the two states. It is understood, that they have agreed upon certain conventional stip ulations, the nature of which will be de veloped to the separate Legislatures by the commissioners themselves. It is wished, that they had been concluded upon the basis of ret iprocity and with an eye to the speedy commencement, the vigorous prosecutio7i and successful consu nation of the enterprise in hand. If 111,3 couiu nave Deen cuecteu, at tne lisions between the two states and pre serving to U3 a reasonable interest in the grant, the negotiation would have t'jen hailed as an achievement worthy of the most agreeable recollection. How far the slate canal commissioners (one of whom it became my duly last spring, until your meeting, to appoint, in the room of Robert John, E q. resigned) have succeeded within thr pasa session in making selections of the canal lauds and in giung identify to the canal route, they will anew to you h iheir own report plat3 of the same, shewing the inler&t ctions of the Mate land wiih what beloigs to the U iited State, having been m ide out and forwarded this fall to the G neral Laud Oliie. no dubi remains but that the government lands, as also the whole purchase of 182G, will be brought into market in the t-pring. According to the letter to me, of the commissioner of tht General Lind Oftice, they would hav been oifered fur sale ihis fall but for tht want of plats mentiond. Presuming that after much discussion ai d long rej ection, the public mind, has taken a favourable turn towards this canal, if it can be completed in a icasonanle period and without deep state involvcment, and after your approval of the arrangement made with Ohio, the. momentuua question whkh must arise, is, as to the meuns the Arehimedian lever of all such colossal enterprises, without appealing to the packets of the people -, than the pressure of ad ditional burdens upon whom, nothing will sooner prostrate tllectually the desirable work, 'the real friends of this, 2 their aim is ultimate success, should stand undivided, in looking to that sort of legis lation, that kind of system that unsophisticated policy, which by its own influence. and etlective power unaided by state finance will lay "the foundation for producing the en the means, either now or at a. more distant day, for its most safe, moat certain and irreparable reliance igafnst the llui tuationsof a mutable public opinion. The most cf the subsianiive outlines of such a system, have been deh$eated, in the remarks already spinal rc"ie Tvhe las Legislature have acted happily on; the good idea, in authorising the sale of tne school se? ions, exeep' that 'hey did not ex end indulgence 10 piuchnaera lar enough, iy embrace the lull scope of its advantages. The high puce many of the school sections have sold for i an eloquent and convincing commentary on the principle. Tne sule of the canal lands lying in Indiana, for twenty aunu al payments, drawing interest from the day of sale, and requiring the interest ol all the payments, unpaid, with the payments due to be paid in advance, anmaily, as well as the first payment; reguUled 0 as to preserve the land ag dnst contingency, forfeiture nnd waste, and t secure the prompt payment of principal and interest will, it 19 confidently helived, create six per cent, stock -i.i.ugh hav ing the bett indemnity, lo cover a loan, equal to the estimated cost of all that part of the canal line, which lies in thii state. If any other device can be brought forward which promises, by its own internal evidence, to do more than tint, let it be received. The assumed distance of the canal, from the Ohio line to the mouth of Tippecanoe river, is 128 miles, and the quantity of land to be applied toils improvement, is 640 sections, or 409,000 acres. These lands, upon the credit named, considering the advantages of soil, climate and water communication, md other valuable appendant properties, may he considered low at the estimate of ,2 59 per acre, cn an average. At this price, they will create a capital of upwards of one million of dollars, if sold now. The canal Commissioners 081,570, which is thought to' be ml en: 10 De too Ill fll. I hf!i tt rrtnv haa cnor h-i-l , c.-!-

uhnmieoVon the subject of the lands gran.edkiJthe Michigan and Cfbio road, sMhat rcveiitiou here would be useless.

tearing interest corresponding with successive loans as they are needed, may be created by periodical or simultaneous sales of these lands, as may be thought advisable, rather exceeding than falling short of the complete cost of the canal.

It is contended by some, that the next best plan to this, is the one which is pre sented by a report of the canal committee of the House of Representatives, at ofjthe last session, now spread upon the journals; by a reference to which it will be seen that the scheme there reenmmeuded, contemplated the completion of the canal by the year 1835, together with the sale of the w hole of the lands in tbe mean time and the expenditure of all its proceeds, at the expiration of the time; besidesf leaving a debt ol six hundred and thiitv one thousand, nine hundred and seventy dollars upon the shoulders of the people, w ithout any tangible resources to discharge it, but a recourse to their private purses and to the tolU and water privileges. Comparison here, would be useless. This w ork might be finished by the year 1836, and this alarming and ruinous debt avoided; if it bethought expedient to commence operations at all before something more dt finite shall have been fixed upon foi the Ohio section. Whenever the time shall anivp for a commencement, the summit section, opening u limite4 commerce, should be tfrat put under contract. From this point, as fast n3 resources accumulate, ia should ne continued down the valley of tht Maumer to the foot of the rapids, and down the Wabash as low as Lafayette or lower. The growing importance of this town would justify -uch a result, and render it very probaoh . The necessary length of this communicatiii), requites my remark on this interesting mailer, 10 be very geueral. A confidence in your intelligence leads me to suspect, that you anticipate all Hie various details requisite for so great an undertaking; and that you will hr,ve 00 diilieulty, unassisted by unauthorised iii tation, in organ'Zit g ihem into a material element ol practical ex riment. lit fore-we agree lo si ll th. canal lands to the highest bidder for cash in hand, U w ill Ot! pioper to Jiifk weli to const qu nC;js. To sell the land for canal purpo-.

. anu urn to a pteUg,. to ih. 0.:.,poRK wil do weJ (Q ca an(J Ju

lU'raj U(U i nint 111, tuiu 10 - '"""t'liaccordinlv

to io on u un mo worn or oe uann-. 10 hil one lor its valut , and to the other, it wc hoi, for damans. And if cash sales should pioduce.' uo more money, than what l ho ComuiiSMoneis have eupposi-.n, $500,000 maki g the required loan ot $500,000 moit , 100 great lor the nbility or courage of me siate afterwards, or so great, as to uusuade the it gisl turt from auinoiicing a loan; then, indeed, the state will be in almoft an inextricable dtIcnmia without a canal, and bound to refund, after all the trouble and expense, incurred to the Uuited Slates, and to pay damages to the purchaser. In thi picture there ii reason lor alarm. If this Legislature shall ratify the treaty which has been concluded between the two States, aiMif my information is correct with respect to some ol its provisions, ihe inducement must be much increased, to irAm the most out of the grant of land which it is ousceptible of producing by selling on a long credit, by the great length ot time which is to tranr pire beuie iunds will be m demand. Forlrcru information on which reliance may be placed, it appears th it the state ol Oaio is not bound to complete the Ohio section in less lime than fifteen years fiomihe first oi January next. Be fore Uut iime shall expire, tht approved plan of sales, may ue made to accumulate from the interest alone, without interrupting the principal bunk, an auiwUnt, tu cover a givai portion of the es1 im leu co;t of the Indiana part. Bui it' t tie treaty i quires the Stale of Indiana to cede all the lands which-she holds in Ohio, for caual purposes, to that state, in some short time hence, by which Ohio will be enabled to sell thtca and use the proceeds for many years, without paiog iatereat and without being then at lask bound, altolutely and wiconditwjiaUy, to pfifTur-aj ihe work, but left at hi r option, either to do so, or pay back the money wbicb the land shall have sold for; it will become matter of serious reflection for Libia body, whether the treaty is such as will meet tbe views aod interests of Indiana. The

Und to be ceded to the state of Ohio, tt tKo!llurinS co,d weather.

dollars aod fifty cents an acre: will be worth' about four hundred thousand dollars. If, in the course of the next fifteen years the state cf Ohio should become convinced that the hbaah and Erie canal, would withdraw from her other canals a portion of western commerce, and have a tendency to diminish their profits, or be in any respect injurious, she will have but to adopt t-e alternative afTjrded her, of refusing to operate oa the Ohio section, and refund to the state of Indi ana, the money for which the land might sell, which must he paid in such an event, by the latter state, to the

United Slates. In what better situation thea,iPaicJ at lhe env of lne )earJ which may be disdoes such a treaty place Indiana, than before !chrSed b he WmT!J llvv , , . r ... , , adi ancc, or by paying 1 WO DOLLA Kb & Hi It It was made? How will be ftffected by it IbeicEMTs'.ttbVespiration of& mor.th. interest of Ohior She may obtain the use ofj Those who receive their papers through ths several hundred tbourand.dollars, for the term U'st-Office. or by the mail carrier, must pay ihe

allowed ber to cut her part of tho canal. having seea tbe treaty, 1 cannot speak with certainty; and am at a loss for information as to when it looks to tbe commer.c&ment of the work by Ohioj but it is presumed, that the act of Congress requiring a beginning in five years, bas not been overlooked. IGmV'nvcd on page second.'

Library Election!

nnnU memoirs of tho LavNTrnceburiih Library Conipany, ara hrt-by notifird that the annual election "ill bs held at the Library roon (priuting office) on the first Monday in January next, 3 oVlock P, M. to elect directors for the yt-r ISSQ. D, V CULLE Librarian, Dec. 12, Brigade Order. Tenth iiriLradf of Indiana Jlilitiu tin ,) 20.5 Rising Su;, Utu Decemiier, 18 The following detail will compose Hard tc try the vahdityof the election of D.tia Weaver, to the ifiu-e of Colonel of ike 3d Itegiment Indiana Mihtu, s drclirrd on the ?th dav of November Usij which said eleuion fua been contested by Jertmuh F Harrison, The a'ul Hoard vvill convene al the tuuse now orcupied hv Davis Weaver, i lUrttord, on Monday theilii instant, tU nuon, DETJIL. Col. John Spent vr, president. Col, J. SV. Kjigteston ol the 6u h Hegi Lieut Col. tit iiv) M lltr, ot the 55U It.pt. Lieut. Col.Ht.mutl M'Cabeoi'the6'jth Iter, Mjor Jm?9 W Hunter, ot the 55h Higt, The tourt will sppoint their own recorderr nuke iheir decision i; writinir to the command ant otSftii lirigadi, ily order of WILLIAM C. KEEN, Commandant of said tirigudtf Attest Saxuel J i lly, i. Inspector, (Ij 1 he fidd oftkera of the 10th Jingade 5ih Division lnd. Mili'i t, are ordered to meet kt UartKfd t 1(J o'clo. k A. M, on the above men. tioned day, ta regulate the l.ounda of the aeve al regiments liy order 01 the liniradier Ge uert. Fair Notice!! A LL p rs MiS indtbtru for Medicines, ara IxL eereby nutifktl that unless thnr a counts are fceuL d on or before the first day of Jai-tury next, they will be u into the h .tuis i f a Justice of the peace ijr collection, without regard to persons, or tue amount oj their accounts, whether it be ten dolUis, or only six and onef'lurth cents Afttr that time those who call for meditir.es must bring the. c.ah, jg no fur iher credit will he given A neglext tu comply wiih the above notice will certainly be attended with cost, M E. FERRIS. Dec. 1st 1B29. 48-tf NOTICE. LL persons indebted to Test and Dunot are hereby requested to settle the same immortal flr 'limao flwimna .f rfirm if r TEST& DUMY. '47 Nov 25,1829 Protection! fplEORI.E IL DUNN, as Agent for tho , 0 nrotfCton in8,.ranfe Comnanv conticjue8 t0 insure Bmtjin9t joafg anJ ot Buddings, linatg. and other pro perly, on tbe most favorable terms. Poisons having their property espo&ed to danger from fire, or rUU oa the river, would do well to call and have it made safe. Lawrenceburgh, Nov. 21, 1S29. 47 Probate Court of Dearborn County, November Term, fn the matter of the estate On petition of John M. Milter, de- for settleCeased. ment. IVTOW at the Xoveraber Term of jk Probate Ln court for l)etihorn county, in the state of Indian, comes Jacoti Sutilcr, surviving ttdminiatravor of the ebtite cf John M. Miller, dec esstd, and files hia petition, verified on oath, shew irp that he will te ready at the next term ot this court, to settle up Mid close tht accounta of his administration 5 ihat Catharine Miller, widow of he dereosed, nd Mudline Miller and Christiana Miller, infant heirs of ihe deceased, tie not residents of the atate of Indiana, as he beiicvea, nor has a knowledge of their residence. FUULU; KOIKE is therefore htrtby given to the said Catharine MiMer, widow, and to Ma deline Miller and Christiana Miller, infant heira of said deceased John M Miller, and all other persons concerned, that they be and appear be. fore the Probate Judge of D-arbom .county, in the state ot Indian at the term of said Probate court, to be holden at Lawrenrtburgh, in and lor said couniy of Darbotn. on the first Monday in January next, then and there to attend to ihe settlement of said estate, or the same will ihen be settled in their shsri.ee. Uy order of the. honorable Gt-orgell Bunn Probate Judge ofDdtr born county. JAMES DILL, clerk. Nw. 16, 1S2Q. 47 course of .Moral Lecturta will ccmir.snce nt-xt Saturday evening:, the 5th cf Decern"b; r, and be continued monthly throughout the year. The first six Lectures will be principally in support of various religious institutions; and the last sis, on the philosophy of Religion, or the external evidences of Christianity. To he held at the school room adjoininc1 Mr. I. Dunn' Jl'liu JUHJ,v. Nor. 28. 1S23. 47 INDIANA PALLADIUM, PRINTED AXD PUBLISHED BY DAVID . CULLB1Tr Publisher of the Lau-s of the United Sials TERMS. The PALLinium is printed weekly, on supe royal paper, at TllliEE DOLLARS, per annum,

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