Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 1, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 9 January 1830 — Page 1
c EQUALITY OF RIGHTS IS NATURE'S PLAN AND FOLLOWING NATURE IS THE MARCH 0tt4V. Barlow. Volume VI. LAWRENCEBURGH, (INDIANA :) SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1330. Number 1.
Twenty-First Congress. FIRST SESSION.
December 9. The president pro iem
ot the benate, Mr. Smith of Md. an nounced the appointment of the follow ing standing committees. On Foreign Affairs. Messrs. Taz well, Sandford, White, Bell, King.
On Finance. Messrs. Smith, of Md.
Smith, of S.C. Silsbee, King, Johnson.
On Commerce. Messrs. Woodbury, T-t cvi-1 r tr 1 T-i .
jonnson, onsoee, oanoiora, r orsytn. On Manufactures. Messrs. Dicker-
son, Hurdles, knight, Seymour, Bibb.
On Agriculture Messrs. Marks YVil-
ley,Noble, Mr Lean, Sevmour.
On Military Affairs Messrs. Benton,
Barnard, 1 roup, Hendricks, Livingston.
Un the militia Messrs. Barnard, ler, Clayton, Dudley, Noble.
On Naval Affairs Messrs. Hayne,
lazwell, Kobbms, Woodbury, Webster. On Public Lands, Messrs. Barton, Livingston, Kane, Ellis, M'Kinley. On Private Land Claims. Messrs. Burnett, Barton, Kane, Grundy, Sprague. On Indian Affairs Messrs. White, Troup, Hendricks, Dudley, Benton. On Claims'. Messrs. Ruggles, Bell, Chase, Foote, M'Lean. On the Judiciary. Messrs. Rowan, M'Kinley, Webster, Hayne, Frelinghuysen. . On the Post Office and Post Roads. j Messrs. Bibb, Burnet, Forsyth, Ellis,
beymour.
On Pensions. Messrs. Molme, Foote
Chase, Chambers.
On the District of Columbia. Messrs
Chambers, Tylor Holmes, Clayton
bprague.
On the Contingent Fund. Messrs
Kane, Iredell, Knight.
On Engrossed Bills. Messrs. Marks
"Willey, Grundy. On motion of Mr. Hendricks, it was
Resolved, That a select committee, to
consist of five members, be appointed on
the subject of Koads and Canals, with
leave to report by bill or otherwise.
Messrs. Hendricks, Taylor, Webster,
Dudley and Ruggles, were appointed to
be the committee. On motion of Mr. Sandford, it was
Resolved, That a select committee be
appointed to consider the state of the
current coins, and to report such amend
ments of the existing law concerning
coins, as may be deemed expedint. Messrs. Sandford, Dickerson, Living ston, Iredell and Tazewell, were ap pointed to be the committee
December 16. The senate yesterday,
adjourned at an early hour, after having
received petitions from Mr. Holmes,
idr. JohnMon, Mr. Dirkerson, Mr. Smith
of Maryland, Mr. Foote and Mr. San-
iord. Resolutions were presented by
Ivlr. Kane, and Mr. Barton, and memori nh by Mr. Chambers, But little inter est can as yet be expected from our sen atorial reports. In the House, yesterday, the presenta
tion of petitions, and the introduction ofi
resolutions, occupied a great part of the clay. Some discussion took place on the subject of the passage of various res
olutions. With regard to one offered by Mr. Conner, for an inquiry into the expediency of a reduction of the duty on salt, a division by yeas and nays took place, and it was negatived by a majority nf OO ?o "7 P.
was received; and the Annual Report of) REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER C i rn , I TXTfT? AT
the Secretary of the Treasury, was pre
sented by the speaker. On motion of Mr. Buchanan, ten thousand copies of the latter, with the accompanying documents, were ordered to be printed. j December 17. In the Senate, yesterterday, bills were introduced on leave, by Messrs. Benton, Barton, Kanej Smith of Md. and Noble. Sundry petitions were presented by Messrs. Silsbee, M'Kinlev, Livingston, Sandford and'Wood-
bury. The Senate went into executive
business at an early hour, after which i
adjourned.
In the House of Representatives
yesterday, numerous petitions and me
monals were presented; after which
several resolutions were submitted. Up
on a proposition on the preceding day
by Mr. Richardson, for the establish
ment of a committee on the subject o
Edaralion; a considerable discussion en
sued, in which Messrs. Hall of North
Carolina, Storrs of New York, and Arch
er of Virginia, took part, in opposition to the resolution. Mr. Archer moved to
lay it upon the table; which Was finally
earned, on a division by yeas and nays
by a majority of 1 27 to 53. Mr. Barrin
ger, of North Carolina, announced the
death of the Hon. Gabriel Holmes, a
member elect from,and formerly governor of that state; and it was upon his mo
tion resolved, that the House go into
mourning for the customary term of
thirty days. 1 he House then, as an
additional testimonial of respect for tliE memory of its deceased member, ad journed. December 1 8. In the senate, yester
day, several bills passed to a second
reading. Memorials and petitions were
presented by Messrs. Ruggles, McKin
ley,Livingston, Smith of South Carolina,
Sandford, Johnson, and Woodbury. Ke solutions by Messrs. Livingston, Cham
bers and Noble. At an early hour the
Senate went into consideration of execu
tive business, at the close of which it ad
journed.
In the House, yesterday, numerous pe
titions and memorials were presented,
and resolutions submitted. Upon one of
the latter, proposed by Mr. Hunt, for the
distribution of the nett annual proceeds,
arising from the sale of the public lands
among the states, a long discussion ensu
ed, in which Messrs. btanberrv, Sten
gere, Test, Sevier, Vance, Martin,
Mallary, Johnson, of Ky. Reed, Tay
lor, Wilde, and Haynes, took part. Sev
eral amendments were engrafted upon
he original resolution; but it was finaly, on the motion of the last named genleman, laid on the table. Mr. Ver-
plank moved a resolution of considerable
nterest in relation to American litera-
ure; to inquire into the expediency of
reducing the postage on all periodical publications to the level of the postage
charged upou newspapers. It was re-
erred to the c6mmittee on the Post Of
fice and Post Roads. After the consid
eration of a resolution, which was ultimately negatived, moved by Mr. Hall to
refer the subject of the election of pres:
dent to a committee, the question of the
establishment of an armory on the wes-
ern waters, was brought forward by Mr.
Carson; various amendments were mov-
ty of 02 to 76.
Among other petitions, three were
presented, contesting the validity of
three elections for members of the House. Thev were from Silas Wr right,
Jun. petitioning against the return of
George I isher, as a member from the twentieth congressional district in the state of New York; from T. D. Arnold, against Pryor Lee, member from the second district of Tennessee, and from Ruel Washburn, pgainst James W. Ripley member from the state of Maine. They were respectively referred to the committee on Elections. A message from the president, on the subject of the Passamaquoddy Indians, The following message was received from the president oftbe United States, read, and referred to the ctaUtee cn ludian affiirs. To the ?pca!;r)f the house of rfprcsentuthes: A deputation from the Passamaquoddy
Indians, resident within the limits of
Maine, have arrived in this city and presented a memorial, soliciting the aid of the government in providing them the means of support. Recollecting that this tribe, when strong and numerous, fought with us for the liberty, which we now enjoy, I could nbt refuse to present to the -consideration.
GENERA!
Post Office Department, 24th Nov. 1SJ9. To the President of the United States: Sir: I have the honor to submit the fallowing report of the state of this department.
The general post office was establish
ed July 26, 1775. There was then but one line of posts, extending from Falmouth, in N. E., Savannah in Georgia; aud the postmaster general was authorized to establish such cross posts as he
should think proper. In October, 1782, the postmaster general was required, by act of congress, to cause the mail to be carried once a week to all the post offices; and by the same
act he was authorized to make provision
for the transportation of newspapers by mm). When the federal government was or
ganized, under the present constitution,
iu 17S9, the post office establishment was revised and perpetuated. There were then, and to the close of 1790, only seventy-five post offices in the United States: And the extent of post roads in the United States, in 1790, amounted to 1875 milesi Now, the number of post offices is eight thousand and four, and the post roads amount to 115,000 miles. The first line of mail coaches, in the United States, was established in pursu
ance of an act of congress, passed Sept. 7, 1785, extending from Portsmouth, in
N, H. to Savannah, in Ga. The trans
portation of the mail in coaches amounts,
at this time, to G,507,818 miles in one
year, and from the first day of January
next, it will be increased to 6,785,810 miles. The whole yeariy transportation
of the mail in coaches, sulkies, and on
horseback, amounts to about 13,700,000
miles.
The whole amount of postages, (the
Gnly source of revenue to the department,) from 1789 to July 1,
1829, was, 26,4-11,490 The expenses of the de
partment, during the same period, were as follows:
Compensation to postmas
ters, 87,829,925
Incidental ex4 HW m
penses, oyo,yt .
Transportation
of the mart, 16,052,513
21,779,405
to have been the actual amount of losses from 1789 to 1828. To the above amount of 2S4,2S9 Must be added this sum, due for postages prior to July 1, 182S, which is since found to be desperate, 22,235 Counterfeit money found on hand, 2,634 Notes of broken banks, s 1,672
4,306
Making together the total am't of losses by bad debts and by
bad money, 310,830
W Inch sum, deducted from the
above mentioned balance of 541,6S0
Leaves the actual balance, on
the 1st of July, 1829, 230,850 The fractions in this statement being
omitted. The amount of moneys on hand, and due from postmasters, including judgments obtained on old accounts, was re
ported by the late postmaster general, to
be, on the 1st of July, ! 827, 370,033 37
He also reported an excess of expenditures beyond the amount of receipts for the year ending the 1st of Julj, 1328, of 37,928 27
Leaving an aggregate am't
cf revenue, of 1,662,091 The revenue of the department is ac
counted for as follows: Amount of the several payments into thf
treasuryfrom 1739 to 182S, 1,113,063
Amount of the losses in the
transmission of the moneys during the same period,
Balance, as exhibited on the
books of the department, on 1st July, 1829,
Leaving a balance of moneys on hand, and due from postmaster?, including judgments on old account?, on the 1st of July, 1828, of $332,105 10 The amount of postage from July 1, 1S23, to July 1, 1829 is found to be 1,707,413 42 The expenditures of the department for the same period are as follows: Compensation to postmast's, 559,-
237 23, transportation of the mail 1, 153,646 21, incidental expense, 69,249 OS, making in all 1,782,132 5?
17,343
541,680
1,662,091 From thi3 statement it appears that the department has always been sustained by its own resources, and that no money has at any time been drawn from the treasury for the transportation of the mails; but that it has contributed to the
revenue of the government.
The sums Daid into the treasnrv hv
ed upon it; but, previous to the sense of the different postmaster generals, are as fKo hmuo Tioirirr t'rrn nnnn fl" cult. it
ll .jvsuco UUllJg lltnvll urui. Ittu ert, an adjournment took place until
2 o clock on Monday.
U. S. Telegraph.
follows:
By Timothy Pickering, from December 1793, to March, 1795, 47,499
By Joseph Habersham, from
June, 1795, to Sept'r, 1801, 363,310
The oldest member of either house of Gideon Granger, from De
Shewing, in the am't ef expenditures from July 1, 1328, to July 1, 1829, an excess beyond the amount of revenue, admitting that every cent of postage of the last year shall be collected, of 74,714 15
Add amount of bad debts, as before mentioned, 22,235 50, and amount of bad money, 4,406 33 making 26,541 83
101,256 03
congress, is gen. Samuel Smith, of Md.,
who was elected to the house of repre
sentatives in 1787, and transferred to the
senate in 1803, in which he has been continued with the exception of a short interval to the present time. The wife of Mr. Joseph Whitmore,
Last llandam, Conn, has lately given birth to a thirteeth daughter. Of the
thirteen, who are all living, three are
married. She is about forty years of age.
cember, 1801, to Dec'r, 1813, 291,579
By Return J. Meigs, from March, 1 814, to June, 1823, 337,209 By John M'Lean, from July, 1823, to December, 1823, 13,466
of congress their supplication for a small
portion ot the bark and timber of the country which once belonged to them. It is represented that from individuals who own the lands adjoining the present sma-ll possession of this tribe, purchases can be made sufficiently extensive to secure the objects of the memorial in this respect, as will appear from the papers herewith transmitted. Should congress deem it proper to make them, it will be necessary to provide for their being held in trust for the use of the tribe during its existence as such. ANDREW JACKSON. !
Dec. 15, 1829.
Making together, the foregoing sum of 1,113,063 The balance of 5U,680,exhibiled by the books of this department, cn the 1st of July, 1 829, covers all the balances due
fron postmasters and others, of every
description, which have been accumula
ting for forty years, including those cf period of the preceding year, 67,33
Leaving the true balance of available funds at the disposal of the department, on the 1st of July, 1829, provided no farther losses shall be sustained in the collection, viz: Cash in deposite 136,443 SS Balance due from postmasters and others, 94,400 21 230,849 07
It appears, therefore, that the funds of the department suffered a diminution,
from July 1, 1828, to July 1, 1829, of Bolivar, in Tennessee, at which point it
101,256 03.
In this result, all the collections made of former debts, as well as all losses ascertained within the year, are comprehended.
The expense for transporting the mail,
by reason of the increased facilities con
tracted for, before the commencement of the present year, from January 1, to
July 1, 1829, exceeded the expense for
transportation during the corresponding
year, and from one to four years in pros
pect, in the most expensive sections of the country. It appeared necessary,
therefore, to direct the energies of the
department principally to the great ob
ject of sustaining its operations in the en
gagements which it hadal ready contract
ed, by its own resources. This could be effected only by enforcing a strict ob
servance ot the law on the part of postmasters, in preventing, so far as practicable, all abuses, and in accounting, regularly and promptly, for all the moneys coming into their hands; by guarding against all further increase of expense, except in cases absolutely demanded by the public interest; and by instituting such checks and responsibilities in the mode ot transacting the business of the department, as to secure more effectually a proper application of its funds, and to prevent, in all cases, a diversion of any part of them from their legitimate objects. To correct abuses in the privilege of franking, which had prevailed to a considerable extent, and to prevent others, which were beginning to show themselves, it was thought expedient to issue a circular to postmasters, calling their special attention to the subject, and en joining renewed igilence and energy on their part. This circular, bearing date the 18th of May last, has not been without its effect. The postages accounted for by postmasters are accumulating in an increased ratio, which promises advantageous results. The pro
ceeds of postages for the quarter ending
June 30, 1829, exceed the amount for the corresponding quarter of 1828, by 30,376 59. The accounts for the quarter ending the 30th of September last, are not all examined, but so far as the examination has proceeded, it promises a proportionate increase. The contracts for transporting the mail in the states of Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis
sippi, and Lousiana,and the territory of Arkansas, constiiuting one section will expire with the current, year. The rapid increase of population and of business in those sections of the country, require Considerable improvements in the frequency, the celerity and the mode of transporting the mail on the leading routes, for which provision has been made in the renewal of the contracts. The mail communications between N.
Orleans, and the seat of the general gov
ernment, by way of Mobile &Montgotnery, in Alabama, and Augusta, in Georgia, will, from the commencement of the
ensuing year, be effected three times a week, affording comfortable conveyance for travellers, and the whole trip performed in the period of two weeks, each way, through the capi'ols of Virginia, Notth Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia. Lines of four-horse post coaches will also be established, from the first day of January nest, to run three times a week, both ways, between Na-hville and Memphis, in Tennessee. This improvement was deemed important to keep a regular and certain intercourse between the western states and New OrleansMemphis being a point on the Mississippi to which Steamboats can come at all seasons of the year: it being contemplated to extend this line to New Orleans by steamboats, so soon as the means of the department will justify, and the public interest shall require it. To give greater utility to this improvement, a weekly line of coaches will be also established at the same time, from Florence, in Alabama, (here it will con
nect with the line from Huntsville) to
the most doubtful, and many of a desperate character. The report of the late postmaster general, exhibited a balance of 332,105 10, as the amount of available funds, at the disposition of the department, on the 1st of July, 1828. The amount exhibited by the books of the department on that day, is 616,394: from which it appears that the sum of $234,289 of old balances, was estimated to be either desperate, or of so uncertain a character, as that no reliance could be had upon any part of it: and is believed, from examination, that this estimate did
not essentially vary frcm what will prove;
3:
and the expenditures of the department
of the current year, had there been no
increase ol postages, would have exceed ed its revenue 68,6S1, equal to 137,
o62 ior the year. The actual excess of
expenditure, however, owing to the increase of revenue for the half year ending July 1, 1829, amounts to but 4Ly 778 55. When I entered upon the duties of the department, on the 6th of April last, 1 found the contracts had been made, and the responsibilities of the department incurred, for the whole of fhe current
will form a junction with the line frcm
Nashville to Memphis. Such improvements are also provided in the transportation 6( the mail thiough Indiana, Illinois, aDd Missouri, as that the lines of stages three times a week between Louisville, in Kentucky, and St. Louis, in Missouri, will connect the conespondence and the travelling in a period of two days less than the time now occupied; and continue the line'to Fayette, beyond the centre ofMi&scuri, within the same time which is now ai-
forthe same period, being the first half lowed for reaching St. Louie. A weeb-
ly line of stages will also go into opera
tion on tne fiist ol January next, frcm
Fayette to Independence, near the wes
tern boundary of that state.
J hese, with other improvements pro
vided for by the contracts which have
just been made, will add 277,992 miles
to the annual transportation of the mail in stages. Notwithstanding the increased expense which these additional cervices would require, the Lew contracts have been made, including all the improvo-