Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 20, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 22 May 1830 — Page 1

DEMOTED TO JVEIFS, POLITICS, INDUSTRY, MORALITY, LITERATURE, AXD AMUSEMENT.

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BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OP THE XX, STATES, PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Public No. 30. AN ACT making additional appropriations for the improvement of certaio harbors, end for the removing obstructions at the mouths of certain rivers, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty. Be it enac ted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Americain Congress assembled Thai ti following sums of money be, and the tame are hereby appropriated for car rying on and ompleting certain w rks heretofore commenced, to be paid on of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, vrz: For removing obstructions at the mouth 01 Hu on river, Ohio, one thou sand eight hundred and eight) dollars, and thirty-six cents. For completing, the removal of ob sfructions at the mouth of Grand river, Ohio, five thousand five hundred and sixty-three dollars and eighteen cents. Fur completing the improvements of Cleavcland harbor, Ohio, o.e thousand seven hundred and eighty mx dollars and hfiysix cents. For removing s nd bar at or near the mouth of Black river, Ohio, egh' thousand five hundied and fifty nine dollars and !-evenly-?evee cents. For improving the navigation of coniieaut creek, Ohio, six thousand one hundred and thirty five dollars and sixty-five cents. For completing piers at the mouth of Dunkiik harbor. New York, o e thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy live cents. For completing piers at RufTalo har tor, New York, fifteen thousand four hundred and eighty-eight dollars. For extending the pier at Black Rock, three thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars. For improving the naviga'ion of Gen esee river, New York, thirteen th usand three hundred and thirty-five dollars. ' For removing obstructions at the mouth of Big Sodus Bay, New Yo:k, fifteen thousand two hundred and eigh ty dollars. For completing the remov al of the sand bar at or near the mouth of Merri mack river, Massachusetts, three thou sand five hundred and six dollars and seventy two cents. For the preservation of Plymouth Beach, Massachusetts, one th usaud eight hundred and fifty dollars. For erec ting piers or other works at or near Stonington harbor, Connecticut, sixieen th usand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. For deepening an inland passage between St. John's and S'. Mary's rivers, fifteen hundred dollars. For improvine he navigation of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, filly thousand dollars. For removing obstructions to the navigation of the Kennebeek river, at Lov-joy's narrows, Maiue, five thousand dollars. For improving the harbors of New Castle, Marcus Hook, Chester, and Port Penn, in the Delaware river, ten thousand dollar?. For improving the Cpe Far river, below Wilmington, N rth Carolina, twenty-five thousand six hundred and eighty -eight dollars. For completing the removal of obstructions in the Appalachicola river, in Florida, two thousand dollars. For completing the rem val of obstructions in the river and harbor of St. Marks, in Florida, ten thousand dollars. For completing the Breakwater at Hvannis harbor, in Massachusetts, six thousand five hundred and seventeen dollars and eighty-two cents. For carrying on the works of the Delaware. Breakwater, for the vear one thousand eight hundred and thirty, one hundred thousand dollars; and for car rying on the same works during the first quarter of one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, 6ixty-two thousand dol lars. Andrew Steven, Speaker of the House of Representatives. John C. Calhoun, Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate Approved, April 23, 1G30. ANDREW JACKSON.

LAWRENCEBURGIJ, (INDIANA;) SATURDAY,

Public No. 31 . AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled "An aci to extend the time for locating Virginia Military Land Warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Oi fice," approved the twentieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, I ha the officers and soldiesof the Virginia Liue, on the Continental Establishment, then heirs or assignees, entitled to bounty land within the tract of country reserv ed by theState of Virginia, between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, shall be allowed until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred ai d thirtytwo, to obtain warrants, subject, however, to the conditions, restrictions, and limitations, relating to the locations, surveys, and patents contained in the act of which this is an amendment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, Thai no location shall be made by virtue ol any warrant obtained after the said first day of January, one thousand eig hi hundred and thirty-two; and no patt.ni shall issue in consequence of any war rant obtained after that time. And that the second proviso, inserted in the lmt section of the above recited act, excep only that part thereof which require 'M certificate from the Register of the Land Office of Virgiuia, that no warrant has issued irom the said Land Office foi the same services," be, and the same, is herep, repealed. Approved, April 23, 1830. Public No. 32. AN ACT, to regulate and fx the corapposa tion of Clerks in the Department of State Be it enacted by the Senate and House oj Representatives f the United States of America in Longress assembled, That the Secretary of the States be, and he is hereby , athorized to employ one Chief Clei k, w hose compensation shall not ex ceed two thousand dollars per annum; one Clerk whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; one Clerk whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dollars per an num; six Clerks, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand four huD j i j-ii. i. uic-u uujntis rani per annum; one Cterk, whose salary, shall not exceed one thousand one hundred and fifty dol lars per annum; one Clerk whose salary shall not exceed one thousand dollars, to be charged with the duty oftransla ting foreign languages, in addition to other duties; one Clerk, whose salary shall not exceed on thousand dollars per annum; one Clerk, whose salary shall not exceed nine hundred dollars per annum; one Clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum; one Superintendent in the Patent Office, whose salary shall not exceed one thousand five hundred dol lars pr annum; two Clerks in the Patent Office, whose compensation shall not exceed one thousand dollars, each, per annum; one Clerk, whose compensation shall not exceed eight hundred dollars per annum. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That all acts, and parts ofact?, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, be, and the same are, hereby, repealed. Approved, April 23,1830. Public No. 33. AN ACT to authorize ihe commissioners of the Sinking Fund to red debt of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, whenever, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury, the state of the Treasury will admit of the application of a greater sum than ten millions of dollars in any one year, to the payment of interest and charges, and to the reimbursement or purchase of the principal of the public debt, it shall be lawful for him, with the approbation of the President of the United States, to cause such surplus to he placed at the dispo sal of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, and the same shall he applied by them to the reimbursement or purchase of the principal of the public debt, at such times as the state of the Treasury will best admit. Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That, whenever,in any year, there shall he a surplus in the Sinking Fund beyond the amount of interest and principal of this debt which may be actually due and payable by the United States, in conformity with their engagements, it shall be lawful for the Coinmisioners of the Sinking Fund to apply such sur plus to the purchase of any portion of

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the public debt, at such rates as, in their opinion, may be advantageous to the United States; any thing in any act of Congress to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec 3. And be it further enacted, that the fourth and fifth sections of the act, entitled "an act to provide for Ihe redemption of the public debt, approv ed on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, are here by repealed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum oftwo hundred thousand dollars, being the balance of the sums heretofore appropriated for the expen ses of taking the next Census, and which will not be required for that purpose, be, and the same is hereby directed to be passed to the surplus fund upon the last day of the yrear one thousand eight hundred and thirty, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, April 24, 1830. Public- No. 34. AN ACT, to extend the time for commencing the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Americain Congress assembled, That the time for commencing the improvement of the navigation of the Tennessee river, under an act of Congress "to grant certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the State of Alabama, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Cahawba, and Black Warrior rivers," approved the twen ty-third day of May,one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is hereby, extended to the first day of December next. Approved, April 24, 1830. Public No. 35. AN ACT, for the relief of the widows and orphans of the Officers, Seamen, and Marrines, of the sloop of war Hornet. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States cj America in Congress assembled, That the widows, if any such there be, and, in case there be no widow, the child or childred ; and, if there be no child, then the parent or parents; and if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters of the officers, seamen, and marines, who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the United States' sloop of war Hornet, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months pay of their respective deceased relatives, aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased, on the tenth day of September last, up to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased, shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the Navy Department. Approved: April 24, 1830. Public No. 36. AN ACT. for the relief of ihe President. Directors, and Company, of the Bank of Chillicothe. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives oj the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Trrasury pay, out of any money in the 1 reasury, not otherwise appropriated, to the President, Directors, and Company, of the Bank of Chillicothe, the sum of two thousand three hundred and sixty-two dollars eighty-five cents, the interest on certain bills, drawn on the Paymaster General, conformable to a contract, and on the Secretary of War, which were duly accepted, and protested for non-payment ; and for advances made on the requisition of the Commanding General of the eighth military district, for money to pay the troops under his command, on their march to the frontier. Approved: April 24, 1830. Fitting up a Library, A steward wrote to a bookseller in London, for some books to fit up his master's librarv, in the following terms: "In the first place I want six feet of theology, the same quantity of school metaphysics, and near a yard of old civil law in folio." Conjugal Affect ion. When the account of Bonaparte's death reached England, Lord Castlereagh ran with the news to the King 'Your Majesty's greatest enemy is dead,' said he, out of breath. 'The devil she is I' exclaimed the loving monarch. The man whose word can always be depended upen is sute to be always honored.

MAY 22, 1830.

TrIR. WICKLirrE'S LETTER. From the A'ational lntellisenccr. Messrs. Gales fc Seaton. Gentlemen: Influenced by a desire not to be considered (as 1 was not in fact) the assailant of Mr. Chilton in the publication which was made by me in the Telegraph, on the subject of the public expenditures for 1828 and 1829, I avoided the use ol his name, refraiued from any criticism or exposure of the many errors into which he had been seduced, as manifested by his publica- . a tion some weeus since in your paper. Upon that statement having afuxed to it the name of a member of Congress, had been predicated a charge against the present Administration, and its friends in Congress, of a wasteful and extrava gant expenditure of the public money. A charge of which 1 did not believe them justly obn x'ous, and felt it my duty to publish a statement, true in fact and founded on the records of the Trea sury Department. Mr. Chilton, unable to prove any er ror of fact or inference, in what was stated by me to be the aggregate ex penditures for each of these years (considered in reference to the fiscal pe riods and also in reference to the res pective times Mr, Adams retired from and Gen. Jackson came into office,) mortified that his own indiscretion, or that of his new associates, had placed him in a position unpleasant to occupy, and from which it was difficult to escape, has manifested, in the style and manner of his communication of the 7th instant, a disposition unfriendly to that decorum which should characterize the writings of every gentleman. The respect which 1 entertain for the constituents of Mr. C. my own self respect, forbid that, in reply to so much of his communication as relates to myself, I should indulge in just recrimination. However obnoxious his conduct in this and other respects be to just censure, this I will leave to be pc- formed by public opiuion here and elszvhere. My purpose now is to place myself in the right and him in the wrong, as to the facts upon which wc seem to be at issue. In the publication first made by Mr. Chilton, he stated the aggregate of expendituresof 1323,al 25,485,31 3, and those of 1829, at 26,1 64, 595- i hereby making the expenditures of 1 829, greater than those of 1828, by 679,282. This statement I knew to be incorrec t, and it would reflect upon the intelii gence of Mr. Chilton's constituents too much to say, that their representative in Congress did riot know the ddler ence between the estimate for expendi ture and the actual expenditure ascertained at the close of the y ear. Mr. Chilton, before he made his expose of the public expenditures, was present in the House of Representatives, and heard Mr. Polk, of Tennessee, read from a statement obtained from the records of the I reasury, the amount of the expenditures for the y ear 1829, and stated them to the House to be 25,071,017 59. This statement was uncontradicted by any one, because I presume it was known to be correct. If the statement required any evidence of its correctness, that evidence was at hand in the effice of the Treasury Department, accessible to all who might desiie to see it. After what had been stated in Mr. Chilon's piesence as above, I did, with some surprise, read his publication in the National Intelligencer, in which he substituted expenditure for estimate and stated the expenditures of 1829, to be 26,164.595 just precisely one million ninety three thousand five hundred and sev enty seven dollars too much. A man who had been in Congress two years, ought to have known the fact, that in the annual report made by the Secretary of the Treasury, both the receipts and expenditures for the last quarter are stated as an estimate. In making up the estimate, the disbursing officers usually have reference to the amount of actual expenditure for the corresponding quarter of the previous year. It never happens that at the end of the quarter, the amount expended corresponds with the amount estimated in the report. By reference to the report of Mr. Rush to the last Congress, it will be seen that his estimate for the expenditures of the fourth quarter of the y ear, was 9,392C03 72. The disbursing otiiceis, when called upon to say what amounts would be required for the service of the last quarier of the year 1829, estimated that 7,245,481 would be needed; but when the amount in fact expended came to be aiceiUined

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at the close of the quarter, it was only 6,238,914 43. These were iacta known here, and evidenced by the books of the Treasury, long previous to the first publication of Mr. Chilton, and if they had been stated by him the pub lic mind would not have been aouseu. The following transcript Irom the Treasury will exhibit the true state of facts: Comparative Statement betzceen the estw cited Expenditures and the Actual Ex penditures for tke th Quarter, 1829. tit. Expand iluie A-lual fcipen. 4hqr.ldi9. 4th qr. 1829. Civil, Miscellaneous, and Foreign Intercourse. 614.756 83 619 258 S7 Military Establishment 1,746 00 83 1,1S5.666 fcO Naval Establish ment. Public Debt 1,195 180 41 3.689 5493 815,M1 56 3 668 337 90 7 245 481 05 6 2S8 914 43 V 6 238,914 43 Difference, gl 0 6 366 62 Treasury Department, Register's Office, April 10, 1830. Mr. Chilton's statements-, made the expenditures of 1829, 26,164,595. My statement was that the expenditures of 1S29, amounted to 25,071,017 59. W only diner in our t-tatement Ihe small sum of 1 ,093,577 41. I now refer to the following transcript from the Treasury, to prove the correctness of what I s-iid. And when the point in issue between us is, what was the amount of expenditure, it will not avail Mr. C. to refer to the amount of estimate for the Expenditure. Expenditures of the United States, for the years 1828 and 1829. The whole amount ot Expenditures, from the 1st Jau. to the 311 Dec 1828, inclusive, was - 25,459,479 52 The whole amount of Expenditures, from the 1st Jan. to the 31st Dec. 1829, inclusive, was - 25,071,017 50 The sum expended on account of Foreign Intercourse, in 1828, exclusive of 790,069 40, for awards under the treaty of Ghent, was 211.124 26 Treasury DeparTiMert, Register's OJfice, April 10, 1830. T. L. SMITH, Register. Another instai c of the cai dor and fairness of Mi. C. is manifested, in the statement which he gives of the Expenditures for Foreign Intercourse, or "Foreign Missions," as he has it. Instead of pursuing the comparison between the expenditures under thia head for the years 182S and 1829, he gives, what he calls, the expends ures of 1828, at 149,000, only, when the documents in his possession or within hia reach, proved that the expenditures in the year 1828, were 21 1,124 26. In this, the gentleman was so unfortunate as to make another small mistake, of 52,124 26. I will give Mr. Chilton's wn words, that there may not be a misapprehension upon this point: He says, "in the single item of foreign missions, according to the appropriations of this y ear (1829) (here will be an excess of 65,500 over that of the last year of M. Adam's administration, viz: tlFor foreign missions - $ 84.503 "For contingtnt txpenses of same SO 000 "Deduct from thia the amount appropriated to cover a similar expenditure die for the year 1828 $149 000 "It will then be perceirM that the excess will be. in the'year 1830 over that of 1828 the som of $65,500, This is a plain positive statement of facts, that the expenditures of 1830, for this service, will be 214,500; and that those f 1828 were only 149,000 declaring the excess of expenditures of 1830 will be 65,500. Now, I state the fact to be, that the amount expended for intercourse with foreign nations, in 1828, was 211,124 26; hence the small mistake oi the gentleman in this item of 62,124 26. The evidence is matter of record, and in the possession of the gentleman, printed for him at public expense. If Mr. Chilton meant fairness in Ida statement, he would have compared expenditure with expenditure, and not appropriations for 1830, with an incorrect statement of expenditure for 1828. That comparison would have exhibited the expenditures for the service of 1828 to be 21 1,124 36, those of 1829 to be 198,142 13, less in 1S29 than in

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