Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 11, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 March 1830 — Page 2

THIS STATE Ol KICIANA.

CHAPTER III. History. 'This country was first explored i-i the year 1682, by Mon-De-L-Salle, a Frenchman, m an inland voyage from Canada to the Mississippi, who tra versed the tract of country between the L ikes and O iio and Mississippi river?, by way of the M lumee, Waubosh, and Onio, to the Mississippi. This adventurer was imitated by ma nyof his countrymen, who, during the succeeding 63 years, seem to have been the exclusive visitors of this regiou. In the year 1735, Vincennes was founded on the east bank of the Waubosh. In thenar 1778, Gen. George Rogers Clark erected a fort at the falls of the Ohio river,a little below where JefFersonville now stands. On the 24th day of June the same year, whilst the sun was totally eclipsed, Gen. Clarkand his little army passed the falls oi Ohio; and on the 28th day of June, landed at the mouth of a small creek nine miles below the mouth of Tennessee River, and on the morning of the 29th they look a line of march for Kaskaskia. They had with them no horse, or any other four footed animal ; each man, both officers and sol- " diers, carried his own baggage, arms and ammunition on his back. Their clothing consisted of a shirt, breech-clout, leggins and moccasins; and their arms a nnV, tomahawk, and large knife. The calculation was, when they landed, that it would take them four days to travel to Kaskaskia; but, on account of the roads being bad, and the pilots unacquainted with the route, it took them six days. Having provision for only four days, m .-t of them were entirely without for nearly the twq last days. About dark on the fourth of July they crossed the Kaskaskia river, a mile above the town. They entered the town at midnight and captured governor Rectiblave in his bed, and look from him the keys of the magazine, and made ever thing secure. In the morning Gun. Clark made the citz-us take an oath of allegiance to the Government of Virginia. Shortly after he despatched Capt. Bowman, with about 60 men on horse back, to lake Coho a small town about 60 miles further up Ihe Mississippi. Capt. Bow man reached there the same night, and took possession of Coho without tiring a gun. The oath of allegiance was also administered to the citizens of Coho, to he true to the Government of Virgin!:. Gen. Clark held treaties with different tribes of Indians; and their Chiefs affirmed to the whites that they would be true to the State of Virginia "as long as water runs and glass grows." Post Vincennes, sometimes called O'post, and sometimes St. Vincents, situate on the east bank of the Waubosh, (as before described,) was garrisoned by a few British troops under the command of a Lieutenant; this officer abandoned the place and went to Detroit, of which fact Gn. Clark was shortly after apprised. Father Gibeaux, a popular priest, and Doctor Lefon g were engaged to visit that place, to prepare them for a quiet and peaceable submission; which they in a very short time effected. Capt. Leonard Helm, was immediately ordered to that place, as a civil Governor and commandant of Militia. Gov. Hamilton, from Detroit, with 500 British, Canadians and Indians, took Capt. Helm and his liUle baud of soldiers prisoners of war. About the middle of winter Gen. Clark resolved on retaking St. Vincents; on t hi s n s.-duiion he ordered 40 men to descend" the Mississippi river, in a boat wuh one cannon, and ascend the Ohio and YV mho-di rivers and meet him at St. Vtncenis. Gen. Clark set out with 100 men, and marched through water several day?; at length they arrived at the place of destination; and about midnight, an attack was made by firing in the bastions and wounding several of the centinels. When the fust tire was given Gov. Hamilton, Capt. Leonard Helm, and several other gentleman were seated at a f ame of whist, ( .f which, game Capt Ielm was rem trkably fond;) the instant he heard t"efie, he jumped to his feet and exclaimed aloud, bBy G d, that's Clark." In the course 1 1 he night Gen. Clark procured a trusty Canadian to gain admittance asa friend, under the pretence of giving information of Gen. Clark's approach. He succeeded, and informed the Goveror that it was not Gn. Clark's intention, to have made the attack with small arms, but with cannon, which was on the way up the Waubosh, and was to have met him there that evening; it had not arrived bat would be there the next day, wit'; an addition of 50 or 60 more mm. This information seemed to produce a considerable damp on the spirits of the whole town. Early next morning G?n. CI irk paraded his men on the side of a email eminence, within cannon shot of the fori, and so marched and counter matched them, so as io expose them to the view of the people of the fort, only as they marched onj way; in order that their number should appear to be double what it really was; he also exibited the appearance of a cannon, and of planting it on the top of the rise, from whence the lort coui 1 be easily battered. About ten o'clock the next day all

motion ceased, and Gen. Clark sent a tlag demanding the surrender of the fort forthwith. Three flags passed before the terms were agreed on; when Gov. Hamilton, surrendered to Gen. Clark a garrison well furnished with every necessary for its defence, including a greater number of efficient men than were oppo sed to it. In a very few days after the surrender of St Vincents, Gen. Clark received notice that a Mr. De lean, was descending the Waubosh from D troit, with 8 or 10 boat?, in which were clothing, money a-id military stores, for St. Vincents. Immediately after receiving this information, Gen Clark despatched Capt. Helm, with a party of men to intercept the flotilla. Capt. Helmzo managed a to come on De lean and his party in the night encamped on the bank of the Waubosh, surprised and took the whole, consisting of 85 men, and every thing in their possession, without tiring a gun. Gov. Hamilton, De lean, M-ij r Rochblave, and all the other principal officers, were sent to Williamsburg, ir, Virginia.

THE ENEMY LY TROUBLE. The New Y rk Daily Adver iser, in an article, on the subject of the next Presidential Election, declared that the nopes of the opposition rertedon the expectation hat the J.ickson party would be divided on two candidates, and that New England would determine the election ny casting 51 votes for the aristocratic candidate. The wily Secretary of the Hartford Convention seemed :o forget that his own party had not agreed on a candidate. He chose not to remember that the A'ationals of Kentucky and of Massachusetts had each their candidate, and that, despairing of the success of eilher, the tertium quids of both were looking to Ohio lor relief. It will be remembered that Mr. Charles Hammond, to whom Mr. Clay once committed the key ol his conscience, more than once intimated that the West might set forth the pretensi ons of another and more favoured candidate. That the iniividual in question will not permit himseli to he used in such an alternative we are fully persuaded -f but that Mr. Clay entertains great apprehension, cannot be doubted. Among oilier symptoms of alaim pointing to that quarter, we notice the establishment of a new paper, bearing Mr. Clay's llag aloft, at Cincinnati. Has Mr. Clay lost conii dence in Charles Hammond? Whv else should he set forth a new paper, which cannot f ail to produce weakness, rather than strength, if all had been sound in Cincinnati? Another striking indication of alarm, on the part of Mr. Clay, is the effort now nuking by his partisans in Lexington to unite Lexington, Cincinnati by a railway, to the prejudice of Loui-ville & Masille. A mom nt's rejection must satisfy all intelligent persons, that such a railway will not only bring the farmers Sl market women of Cincinnati in competition with those of Lexington in the Lexington market, but mst necessarily make Cincinnati the great manufacturing town for the interior of Kentucky, to the utter rum of the mechanics of Lexington, who would be compelled lo abandon their workshops. Is this not true? and, if true, can it be accounted for on any other than political considera ions? We believe that, like all the bargains conflicting with patriotic principles, it must fail. Its tendency must be to array against its projector the influence of Louisville, and the surrounding country, as well as he entire population of the districts of country interested in a rail road, to commence at Maysvitle and terminate at Louisville. It will do more. Ii must build up an interest hostile to Lexington extending i' self from Louisville through Shelby, Nelson, Washington, Mercer and Lincoln counties, which mu-t embrace a portion of the Green lliver country, and will ultimately unite in some great work of internal improvement to the exclusion of Lexington, and to the prejudice of Mr. CI y. These are reflections which satisfy our mind that Mr. Clay and his partisans are not yet certain that they can unite all of the opposition, itself a minority. What, then, must be Mr. Clay's alarm, when he learns that some of the most violent of his party have given the clearest indications of a determination to cast him owrboard? Will he not have cause of bitter complaint against those who have brought forward his own lieutenant to s-upersede him in command? Such is the condition of the opposition, held together by no common tie, but love of office anddisappointed -ambition; a thorough conviction of their own weakness, and the deluMve hope that they are to obtain the control of events by a division of the majority. That they arc better organized, is admitted, but that that org-mi&ition is preserved bv a common danger "f dissolution, is obvious. Let the republican party look well to the result. U. S. Telegraph. John Holmes. It is stat. J in letters from Washington, that Air. Holmes of Maine, in a late speech in the Senate, remarked, fcubstantially, that the New 1

England Slates sent twelve Senators lo support their cause and character in (hat body; these were the twelve apostles of New England ; but New England, like the Saviour of mankind, found a traitor among her twelve. The traitor had not, indeed yet received his thirty pieces of stiver, but was in daily expectation of it. The remark, though hardly excusable on the score of reverence, is not diflicult of application. Boston Courier. Comment. It is true that Mr. Hjlmes was understood, by Air. Woodbury and others, to have expressed himself as is here stated. In reply, the able Senator, from N w Hampshire, vindicated himseli md hu course in the Senate, with such t fleet (hut Mr. Holmes, overcome for the moment by the power of truth and the eloquence ofhonest patriotism, rose, at the conclusion of Mr. Woodhurt's speech, aud denied having made such a charge; hut concluded by saying, significant!), .hat although he had not chaig"d the genii' an in with being a Ju das, he remembered that there was a Peter who denied his Lord and Master, in his hour of trial. Tnereupun Mr. Benton rose and said, (pointing to Mi. Woodbury) "Y Mr. Pridtni, this is Peter, the 'ruck of N w England demoeiacy, and upun do we buiid our faith." Some person added "and the gates of H 11 snail not prevail against him." To this the Senator r joined, "I accept the am 'lidm- nt, Sir." U. S. Tel. The next Presidency. The republican papers from every et ction of the U.

States, we aie pleased to see. strongly advocate the re election of our present Chief Magistrate. This is as it should be; the work uf reform has been commenced, but not completed ; and it is to be hoped that he who has enabled us to triumph over the aristocracy of the country, will be re-elected in order that he may finish the work which has been commenced, and with which the permanency of our republican institutions is intimately connected. Under this view of the subject, it is peculiarly gratifying to see the republican feeling of the country, as expressed though the republican pa pers, calling upon General Jackson to consent lo serve another termThe Coalition papers, and those which have come into our ranks siuce the last presidential election, assume quit a dilierent gr.und; they are nominating Mr. Clay , Mr WebsU r, Mr. Van Dar en anil Mr. Calhoun, as succ ssurs of lilt. General at the expiration of me present term. Their object in bringing beiure tne public the claims of the two last named individuals, is to bow dissention in the republican ranks, and produce, if possible, feelings of hostility among the republicans who are attached to these two conspicuous members of the republican party. This is a weak and contemptible ariitice of the enemy one that would only be resorted to by the Swiss editors of the aristocracy, and which will not have any weight with thse for whom it is intended. The different members of ihe party have their partialities lor one or the other of Ihe disip-guished individuals named we do not pretend to deny ; but those partialities are at all times held subservient to tht general good, and cannot be trifled with by ihe designing tools of an unprincipled opposition. A. F. Courier' nnnnmKnM Secretary Succession. In the course of his rigmarole speech, Mr. Barton took occasion to mako an attack upon the Secretary succession to the Presidency, which Ml Clay called a "safe prece dent," in which he compared the conduct of persons who have filled the station to that of Absalom at the gate. His friends have spoken of the home truths which his speech contained, and we must suppose that this was one of them; but how the friends of the late coalition, with whom he is connected, relished this palpable hit as the bargaining Secretary we cannot undertake to tell. No doubt they must have been disposed to say, "No more of that Hal, and thou lovest me;"andifMr. Clay had himself been pVesent, he would in all probability have been disposed to say that Mr. Barton was, according to his own expression, a "bastard son of the West," to attack, in such a manner, the man whom he called the "favourite son of the West." Del. Gazette. Rewarding Editors. The coalitionists are quite out of humor with the majority in the United States Senate, far not permitting the minority to reward their friends, the Editors of the National Intelligencer, with the sum of GO or 70,000 dollars more for doing an unnecessary job of printing, over and above the sum wmcn otners were willing to take lor the performance of it. They talk much about the impropriety of rewarding Editors; but their objections apply to cases in which Editors are required to render public services for the amount received. They have no objection to paying $'1930 loan Editor for carry ing despatches to Buenos Avers, who went to London in place of Buenos Avers, nor of giving $70,000 to Gales & Seaton, for just nothing at all; but it mortally mortifies them to think of pay ing to an Editor the same price for bis labour, which is given

to person3 of oilier classes for the game amount of labour. Pei haps, after all, we should consider this as an evidence of their partiality lor Editors, and that they are of opinion ihat the Editors troubles & perplexities are so much greater than those of other persons, that they should occasionally have a sop from the public dish without being required to render any services for it. Iiso, we cannot but feel grateful for their kind feelings; but would nevertheless thank them to mind their own business, and not trouble them

selves about matters which do not con cern them. THINGS 1ST CU2N2XLAX. From tht Washington Gto.) J'eus. INDIAN DEPREDATIONS. Franklin Town. Feb. 9ih, 1830. Dear Sir: 1 have to day returned j from Terrapin Creek V alley, with the news of the destruction of all the emi- ! crated places by the Cherokees in I Va nn's Valley. On Friday morning last, about breakfast, an express arrived on Terrapin Creek, stating that a body of about thirty armed Indians, head, d by Ridge, one of the principal chiefs in the Cherokee Nation, had commenced an indiscriminate burning of all the houses on such places, and soliciting aid to prevent (if possible) the destruction of the buildings. By twelve o'clock we had col lected the force of the Valley, amounting to twenty-three men, and proceeded to David Vann's,and inquired of him by what authority the Indians were acting, and whether they were gone. He told us they were commissioned by Ross and Ridge, the two heads of the nation, and that their object was the destruction of Cedar Town, but that in all prob tbili ty they had effected their end, and were then on their return. We pursued on the Vann's Ferry road, as far as one Simtnsto intercept them; but learning there, that a party of them had left there only about three hours, we determined to pursue them to Cedar Town, where we arrived half an hour too late to save the place it was then in tlames! We inquired for the Indians, and w re informed that they had mostly dispers- d, but that a body of them were set t to burn a house about two miles higher up Cedar Creek, and also learned ihat there was a tippling shop kept on the way about a mile and a quarter. We calculated that it was probable they had called to drink. In this we were not deceived. When we charged on the house, we found ten or twelve Indians in and abou it, five or six of whom made thoir nsranp ? to. balance we made nri I V I oners without much resistance on their part. The chief of the party, Chewnya, was beaten to death, the balance, as well neutral as active, amounting to fifteen or twenty, were severely woui ded. and some, I fear, morally. The object of the party yvs to take the Indians and bring them 'o justice, but the mob was so exasperated at the suffering of the women and children in that inclement weather, and particularly the saiUering of two women who were in child bad, and had just lain in, that they could not be restrained. My mission from Terrapin Creek was to obtain a warrant for Ross and Ridge, with a sufficient foice to bring them to court; but Judge Colquet is on the circuit, and we cannot get the warrant. Terrapin Creek Valley is threatened with the same fate. Men are sent to the frontier of Georgia and Alabama, to act defensively, until the governor shall aid hem. About thirty five houses are burnt iu Vann's Valley, and we understand all on the Cherokee side, on the Chatahocchee above, are also burnt. The Sea Serpent Outdone. The following statement, made by Don Jose Maria L pez, Captain of the Steamer Neptune, (plying between the ports of Havana and Matanzes,) to the Captain General of the port of Havana, is translated from one our late Havana papers:Having sailed from the port of Matai.zas at 7 o'clock on the morning of the 3d inst. for the Havana, in the Steamer Neptune, under my command, we continued our course without any particular occurrence until 12 o'clock, when, at a distance of some four miles from the coast, we discried, in the direction of N. West, about a mile and a half from us, a large object, which to myself as well as to the passengers and crew, appeared a vessel in distress. I immediately gave orders to approach, with the purpose of speaking her, but while we continued iteming, it changed its appearance to that of a large boat; but when we had got within musket shot, we saw distinctly, that it formed the upper jaw of a fish of immense magnitude; it raised itself some 16 feet above the surface of the water, and we discovered it to be surrounded by an infinite number of others of different sizes, playing about in all directions, occupying a circumference of nearly a mile; in making a nearer approach, we saw its mouth open, and at the same time heard a tremendous noise; on his back was observed a wing of some nine feet in height, of a dark color, and probably, about sixty feet rjistant from its mouth. Its full length could not be a

certainedjin consequence of its tail Ucing under water, at this moment il disappeared. "The anxiety of the passengers to have a speedy passage, th!i;;ed me to abandon the idea of remaining for the purpose of making further discoieiit and we immediately directed our course for the port, where we arrived the same

evening. 'About ten minutes after the disappearance of this Leviathan of the deep, we aain saw it in the direction of north, and in the same position it was presented to our view. "The size of the monster was incomparably larger than that of the largest whale, and of a shape so different iu appearance, induced me to believe that it belonged to an entirely dilllrcn. species. "This important information I feci it my duty to communicate to you. "Havana, Jan. 5th 1330." Raleigh, .V. C. March 4. Mrs. Royal. On Friday last, our city was visited by Mrs. Anno Royal!, author of the "Tennesseean," "Black Book,'1 'Pennsylvanian," Sec. Sec. Her fan.o had long since reached us; and her arrival immediately threw our trar quil metropolis in commotion. Many-visited her; while others seemed desirous of avoiding her, as if apprehensive of having their names conspicuously inserted in the Black Book. All who saw her affirmed that they had never seen her likes before; and all who came within the range of her colloquial powers, were fully convinced that she wields a weapon equally as powerful a3 her per. She is now on her grand Southern tour, which he purposes extending as far as New Orleans Yesterday morning she lelt this for Fayetteville; whence she will proceed to Charleston, via Wilmington. Just before her departure, we received from her the following flattering note to ourselves and fellow citizens. Star. 4tvlf-5. Royall, about to take her departure from Raleigh, begs leave to tender to Messrs. Law rence and L may her grateful acknowledge ments for their courteous attention. She would have) been pleased to have taken them by tho hand; but, not seeing them among her friends, she siezes the only alternative of wishing them, and, through them, the citizens of Raleigh, many day s of lengthened happh.es and prosperity. Raleigh, March 3, 1 S30.v The following letter has been recfiv nd in this rdarr. ;nwi ismvpii in miK. ,ic wUhout ccmirenU r Suln Treasury Department. January 2nd, 1G30. Sir In reply to yours of the 30ili ult. 1 have the honor to state, that the balance appearing against the late Receiver of Public Moneys at Vincenneu on the 2nd June last, as adjusted at the Treasury was $15,281 11 cts. being 1,892 and 31 cents more than the amount then acknowledged by the Receiver to be due. The difference is understood to consist of claims which were either disallowed, or could not for want of suitable; vouchers, be admitted by the accounting officer. It may be proper to add, that a payment of $2,450 has since been made. I am very respectfully, Sir, your ob't servant, S. D. INGHAM, Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. R. Boon, house of Represent' A committee ol one Member of Congress from each state has been appointed to attend to the conveyance of the rc mains of General Washingtor, from ML

Vernon to the Capitol, where it is contemplated to erect a marble monument to his memory, in conformity to resolutions of Congress passed thirty years age, but not acted cn. The following are the names of the; members of the Select Committee oppointed (in the House of Representative) on the motion of Mr. Mitchell, of Mary land,to attend to the entombment of the remains ol General Washington in thej Capitol "Messrs. Mitchell oj Maryland Anderson of Maine, Harvey of New Hampshire, Gorham of Massachusetts, Burgess of Rhode Island, Barber of Con' s necticut, Swift of Vermont, Johns of Delaware, P. P. Barbour of Virginia, Hall of North Carolina, Dray ton of South Carolina, Wilde of Georgia, R. M. Johnson of Kentucky, Polk of Tennessee, Stan berry of Ohio, Overton of Louhinna, Test of Indiana, Duncan of Illinois, Clay of Alabama, Pettis of Missouri, & Hindi of Mississippi. Shocking to Humanity. On the 11 tit inst. a quarrel too!; place near Moutictllo, S. C. between William Duckets and Fleming Duncan, brothers in law; when the former shot the latter in his own yard with a double barrel gun, discharging both barrels at once,"which were, heavily loaded with buck shot. On the fall of Duncan, his step son, quite a lad, sei2-d his fathers gun, which was also heavily charged, and shot Duckets. They both lingered in great agony until next day, and expired nfc the same time, Raleigh Register..