Indiana Palladium, Volume 6, Number 46, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 20 November 1830 — Page 2

From jVUcs Register, roiusiaiT ITEWS. " Jin age of revolutions" It has cost us no small portion of time and labor, this week, to prepare a sufficient record of the wonderful events which hare lately happened in Europe, and are yet going on. Every successive arrival unfolded new and important thinps the chief of which we have noticed. We have reached another "age of revolutions,' but widely differinfr from the last that we witnessed. All was then a wide anarchy, and seemed mainly struggles for pawer, lustful and bloody now the people rather seek reformation than desire des truction, and would appear to have a settled purpose of regaining some partof theirlong-lost rights, seeking- peace under the sword, as the sword interposes itself to prevent an improvement of their condition Their great purpose is to obtain an equality, and render their seenlar ecclesiastical chiefs more responsible to the common sense of mankind than heretofore, and to be relieved of those oppressions, personal and pecuniary, which have weighed them down, and, as it were, chained them to ignorance and

poverty. We have always regarded a national church as the greatest curse inflicted on the human race, and often wondered at its endurance so foul and filthy as it is, so lewd and debasing and, as we have thought, blasphemous. The mild and benevolent religion ui.it we profess, demands not confederations of priests, nor armies of soldiers, for its support. If Christianity cannot rest on its own good principles it is not what we have been taught to believe that it is. Armed men had nothing o do with its institution, and cannot be brought into its support, unless in infamous lustings after power,and base enslavement of the minds, as wel as the bodies, of men The tythe gatherer in England is under the same inflaences that directed the followers of Mahomet, to propagate, or maintain, his religion by the sharpness of their scimitars ; and so it is, and must be, whenever and wherever a national church is established. The foundation is force the means ignorance, with superstition and hypocrisy for its agents, no matter what the professions or forms of such churches m y be, which ue always mean to separate from the people that belong to it- Individuals attached to thoe churches, are as worthy as other persons but corruption is at the root of all such establishments, and the fruit is pernicious. How beautiful is it, in our own land, to witness the kind and tolerant spirit that generally prevails among its religious professors! Advice, instruction or reproof, is not wanting hut persecutions, for opinion's sake, are evanescent and rare. We have many and most powerful inducements to charity few to hypocrisy ; which latter are often corrected by public opinion, every sect being equal in the law ; no one either supported or oppressed by the government And so, also, in re generated France, the law makes no distinction among those professing to haveacommo'j Father an I God; and we trust from what is n-w going on in Europe, that the freedom of mind is about to be universally admit- , ted. The stiuggle, in many countries, will be terrible the priests will not give up their dominion and fat things without desperate efforts to retain them, nor k.ngs part with their claims to a "divine right'1 to govern, unless of necessity notwithstanding, in the acknowledgment of the new king of France, they have clear y admitted that kings were made for the people, and not the people for kings. A glorious principle is thus ssttled, and it is out of the power of man to overturn it. But it is our decided opinion that a general war in Europe will precede the accomplishment of these principles die contest in Belgium leading the way. It would appear that this contest cannot now be amicably settled the passions of the people are inflamed by the shedding of blood, and there was a great rushing of them to arms. We suppose that Holland is unable to reduce Uelg um, and that the war will naturally be extended. The princes who have possessions on the Ithine, will enter into the quarrel, and then France wilt lend her mighty means the cause of Helgium being her own. Hyihe letter of gen. Lafayette to gen. t Bernard, she stands comm.tted to this course and what if she pursues i' ? Who can count the consequences ? We think also that England cannot stand still in a general war. Perhaps, policy will lead her into the contest on the continent, that peace may be kept at home ; but in the result, reformation will take place m England, too. rhe spirit of improvement is abroad light has gone forth, and we look for a great and lasting amelioration of the condition of man. We in the United States have no inducement to take any part, except in good wishes, in these events. A strict neutrality may be observed by us for all the grand principles sought by Europeans are in actual operation with us; aDd happily, we are o fer removed from the theatre of action, that, with due caution, peace maj be maintained with all nations and with it, what immense amounts of labor and capital will stek a home and resting place here! We shall now hastily run over the chief events noticed under our foreign head: 1. The duke of Brunswick has been dethroned, and fled to England. 2. The kiog of Saxony has been deposed. 3. Hesse, and other parts of Germany, were much disturbed. 4. A dreadful civil war rages in the Netherlands and the loss of life and property has been enormous. 5. Much discontent has shown itself in Prussia. G. Agitations are reported in Russia. 7. Italy is filled wiih a spirit of insurrection, and the great military force of Austria will hardly keep it down. 8. Spain is gathering the elements of revolution, and a deposition of the kin must be calculated on. 9. Portugal is reported as having commenced the work of reformation, and it is even stated that the usurper bad fled from his capital. 10. Turkey is a great theatre of massacre and civil war but the Greeks yet had peace. 11. Great Britain remains unmoved, but is in an exceedingly difficult condition. Her resources for war are mighty but her statesmen will preserve peace, if they can. 12. France, regenerated, stands nearly at the head f nation?. Her power is immense. She may be said to have setiled down under her new constitution and king; and all her people, beginning to feel that they have an integral interest in the prosperity and , glory of their nation, will act as by a common impulse for the common good. 13. There has also beea another rev

olution in Columbia-severe and bloody battles had been fought, and Bolivar was again at the head of the army, to rule the country by the sword. 14. There are strong indications of an insurrectionary spirit in Brazil it will not at all surprize us to hear of the expulsion of the emperor. 15. Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, &c. are in a miserable condition. ¶ The commotions in the South American states are totally different from those in Europe—the latter are for the sake of sublime principles, the former for the benefit of military profligates, who lead the people to murder one another, that they may have preference and power. We never hoped much good of those, because of their establishment of national churches. It is a broad farce to speak of liberty, under such circumstances. but the people may get wisdom through suffering. Adversity is a dear school, but some will not be

taught in any other. The military chiefs of the south have desolated and depopulatcd some of the fairest portions of the earth, and yet the people have not resolved to act for their own preservation Such is the dominion of ignorance. ▬▬▬ From London papers of 25th Sept, A small advance has taken place in the price of bread stuffs in England, and flour was worth from 34 to 3Gs. a barrel. It is reported, that a great military insurrection has broken out at St. Petersburg, commenced by the regiments of the imperial guard who had returned from Turkey that then had been much fighting, 20,000 men being killed. This account was not credited in the English papers, but we see nothing improbable in such events as are reported. A complete revolution has happened in Saxony. Much discontent had shewed itselt at L ijtsic, Dresden, &c. because of various tyrannical acts of the old king who, it seems, not only changed his own religion, but resolved to farce his people to charge theirs. He appears to have given himself much up to the government of the j suits, and the people were oppressed with taxes, and vexed by religious persecutors. About the 10: ii Sept. the burghers of Dresden determined on righting themselves, and they soon accomplished it. The king and his chief minister Finseidel, and their party, quickly run away, the hotel of the minuter was fired, and some other excesses followed; but a national guard was organized, and placed under the command of M. de Gabbeniz, and order restored, in two or three days. Oa the 13lh, the king ar.d his brother abdicated in favor of Frederick Augustus, (son of the latter,) a liberal and enlightened prince, much loved by the people. Alter which the king, who is 75 years old, was allowed to return to his palace, the revolution being over. Some few Jives were lost in these, affairs. Good night, king Anthony ! Much dissatisfaction appeared at Frankfort and in other parts of Germany. It would seem highly probable, that extensive reformations will take place. Hesse is in a turbulent and distracted slate. The year 1830 will be distinguished for the unmaking and making of king', by the people, in their own sovereignty. The grand vizier has performed a splendid act of treachery and murder. Finding that he could not subdue the Albanian chiefs, he invited them to a conference and promised to comply with their demands, which were for 5 millions piasters, on account of pay, &c. They attended with about 5,000 men. A few days after, the vizier coaxed the chiefs to witness a review of his troops, which they did, escorted by only 400 of their own. At a time appointed, the Turks surrounded them, and massacred the whole, not one escaping! Then these, fell upon the Albanians, who remained, to the amount of about 4,500 men, and killed nearly every one ol them. Brunswick has settled down fjuietly under its new duke. The madman, or fool, who run away, has not yet abdicated. He is a miserable thing. The army at Algiers was rejoicing in the revolution that had taken place in France but a good many of the troops were afllicted with the dysentery. The beys o Oran and Constantia had submitted, on conditions. Affairs in the Netherlands were taking a more serious aspect. " The king had determined to re-establish his dominion, previous to granting the requests of the Belgians, who were arming themselves with all haste, the deputies from Brussels, &,c. having returned from the Hague, unsuccessful. Namur had been declared in a state of siege, and prince Frederick was about to attempt an entry of Brussels, at the head of a large body of Dutch troops. Much fear was expressed of a furious rising of the people, in this event. An insurrection had broke out at Mons, which was quelledthe artillery firing grape-shot on the people. The last accounts from Brussels, dated Sept. 21, says--For the last hour the drums have been beating to arms, and the tocsin sounding. TrV advance posts of the royal troops are at our gates, and a smart fire of musketry has commenced. The disorder is frightful. The people's minds are ex asperated. Six hundred of the burgher guard have been disarmed by the populace Part of these guards have join

ed the people. Every body is biding his valuables. The women and children are lea v ii g the city, which is unpaved ar.d barricaded. How will all this end? Spain is on the eve of a revolution. The most severe laws had been enacted to keep the people down, and hardly a day passed without the sacrifice of some victims to political opinions. The priests are charged with making known the confessions which they extort from the people, and much of bad feeling was engenderii g, and much blood-shed may be expected. It is reported that Don Miguel has run away from Lisbon, and sought an asylum in Spain. Lisbon was iu lull riot, at the latest accounts. We hear of distur bances in Denmark they are aid to have no connexion with political opinions, but because of attacks on the houses of the Jews at Copenhagen. From London papers of the 30A Sept, After six das lighting at Rrusscls, furious and deadly, with a vast destr uction of proper ty, the king's troops were withdrawn on the 27ifi September, towrtrdt. Antwerp. Tli3 burghers say that they compelled a retreat: but prince Frederick gives it out that he retired to avoid extremities, in the ruin of the thy, &e. Juan Van iJulcn, a Spaniard ot lit Igic origin, Umous for his narrative concerning his sufferings hy the inquisition, seems at tin: head of the populace. Brussels was severely cannonaded, and it is said to have ''rained grape shot The killed and wounded the alarm and terror, and flight ol women and children, of all ranks and ages, the taking and re-taking of houses the conflagration of buildings and the fighting in the streets, hand to hand, as it were, was dreadful. Three times were the royal forces pushed out of the city, (many pitchforks being used,) at the last time pursued by the populace. Heaps of dead bodies were gathered together, and remained unbuiied. The loss of the inhabitants, in killed and wounded, was estimated at about 2500 that of the royal forces unknown. The fighting at Paris presented nothing so terrific as what happened at Brussels though the loss of life was greater. The city is exceedingly injured, by cannonades and conflagrations. The royal troops are accused with excess of ruelty, in wanton rcurders, rapes and conflagrations. Van Halen,in a bold address to the people, says that an uunny of Taitars would not have behaved with more cruelty and brutality." He also mentions that great numbers of deserters were coming in from the enemy, crying "liberty for ever." Some men of tlu highest liberality are engaged in the Belgio insurrection. It is positively affirmed that the Dutch troops were guilty of the most brulal excesses in an English boarding school in Brussels where there were many y oung persons of the first English families. Energetic complaints have been sent to Loudon upon this fact, as well as of the horrors committed by those Vandals in the holel of the Bullish ambassador. The Brabant flag was hoisted in Ojtend on the 28th, after two days altercation between the Dutch authorities and the people. The troops refused to fire on the inhabitants and, finally laid down their arms. They amounted to 1500 or 2000 men. The eflkers fled, pell-mell, for their lives, the people being greatly incensed against them. There has also been a rising at Ghenty Bruges, &lc. Indeed, the j ether la7ids, geuerallv, may be said to be involved in a ruthless civil war. The details that have reached us are too long for insertion. The enthusiasm of the people, so far had prevailed, and parlies of Belgians from France were pushing to the seat of action. Oae of them, 50 strong left the city chaunting the Marseilles hymn. There have been disturbancesin Berlin, of a more serious character than the c flicial gazette of the government was allowed to publish. A letter from Frankfort says "It was not merely an assemblage of journeyman tailors, but a meeting of more than twenty thousand persons, who loudly called for the constitution promised in 1814. The armed force

received orders to fire upon the crowd; the troops of the line refused, it is said, to act against their fellow citizens, but the royal guards executed the order; GO individuals were killed or wounded. The crowd, in dispersing, loudly demanded the constitution. The same letter adds, that new riots had broken out at Hesse Cassel, and that the elector had been fired at in his carriage; he is said to have been wounded." The Albanians were bent on avenging the horrible massacre of their chiefs and fellows. They had attacked Yanina, anel reduced it to a heap of ruins and ashes. All that remained of it was the castle. The loss of life must have been very large. The city of Philadelphia, on the first day of June last contained 167.G70 inhabitants

From the Indiana Democrat. ' "chawfordsville, Nov. 2d, 1830. Dear Sir Enclosed is a copy of a communication, received at this office from the Acting Commissioner of the Genl. Land Oflice, in relation to the selections of land by the Commissioners ol the Michigan and Ohio Road for its constr action. It is perhaps proper that publicity be given to it, so that those interested may be appraised of the decision of the proper Department relative to the selection of those lands. It will be seen by this communication, that so far as selections of land for the road have been made within the lands ceded hy the Indians to the U. S. they have been rejected, and that other selections must consequently be made within the unceded Indian territory. By reference to the treat) by which the lands in question were granted to the state of Indian, it will be seen that the construction given to it is the proper one, and it is only to be regretted that it had not been so construed at an earlier period. Respectfully, Sir, your ob?t. serv't. SAME. M1LROY." Copy. "General Land Office, Oct. Wth, 1830. Gentlemen The road Commissioners of the State of Indiana, having forwarded to this Oflice a list of certain tracts situated within the townships to he sold at your Oflice during the next month, which they have selected for the Michigan and Ohio Road, I have to Inform you that it has been decided that the lands ceded by the 2d article of the Pottawatamie Treaty of 1 826, for making that Road, form an entirely separate and distinct cession, and that no lands ceded to the United States by the 1st Article of that Treaty, or by any other treaty, are liable to be entered under the provisions of that Article, or of the act ol Congress of the 2d of March, 1829, (Land Laws, p. 192,) the selections are therefore rejected, and )ou arc advised of the fact in order that you mat not withhold them from the public sales, in case the Commissioners should have furnished you with a list of them, and requested their suspension from the sales. With great respect, your ob't. serv't. JNO. M. MOORE, Act'g. Comm'r.

The Register and Receiver Land Ojjice, traufonhville, Jnd a. By the above communications it i3 evident that disappointment will mar the prospects of a verj speedy selection of the Michigan Road Lands, and that these lands will have to be taken in the territory yet belonging to the Indians. We insert below the first and second

artrtles of the treaty from which the .,nn(n(i 4rt,u i i.,i Ca Cl , . . .... . 4 mounted to the round little sum of uo State derives tit e to the lands, so that .-i. . , . , r i - ir AUunured and eighty J housand nine Aimtvery citizen can rudge for himself of j . t n i .J J r . dred and eighty nine dollars!

the justice of the construction given by the Acting Commissioner of the General L uid Oflice. "Article 1. The Potawatamie tribe of Indians cede to the United Slates their right to all the land within the following limits; Beginning on the Tippecanoe river, where the Northern bound ry of the tract ceded by the Potawatamies to the United Slates by the treaty of St. Mary's, in the )ear ot our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and eighteen intersects the same; thence, in a direct line, to a point on Eel River, half way between the mouth of the said river and Pierish's village; thence, up Eel river, to Seek's village, near the head thereof; thence, in a direct line to the mouth of a creek emptyii g into St. Joseph's to the boundary line between the State of Indiana and Ohio; thence, South to the Miami: thence, up the same, to the reservation at Fort Wayne; thence, with the lines of the said reservation, to the boundary established by the treaty with the Miamies in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; thence, with the said line, to thfc Wabash river; thence with the same river, to the mouth ofthe Tippecanoe river; and thence, with the said Tippecanoe river, to the place of beginning. And the said tribe also cede to the United States, all the right to land within the following limit: Beginning at a point upon Lake Michigan, ten miles due north of the southern extreme thereof; running thence, due cast, to the lands ceded by the Indians to the United States by the trealy ofChicago; thence, south, with Ihe boundary thereof, ten miles; thence, west, to the southern extreme of Lake Michigan ; thence with the shore thereof, to the place of beginning. Article 2. As an evidence of the attachment which the Potawatamie tribe feel towards the American people, and particularly to the soil of Indiana, and with a view to demonstrate their liberality, and benefit themselves b) creating facilities for travelling and increasing the value of their remaining country, the said tribe do hereby cede to the United States, a strip of land, commencing at Lake Michigan, and running thence on the Wabash river, one hundred feet wide, fur a road, and

also, one section of gocd land contiguous to the said road, for each mile of the same, and also for each mile of a road from the termination thereof, through Indianapolis to the Ohio river, for thepurposeof makinglhe road aforesaid from Lake Michigan, by the way of Indianapolis, to some convenient point on the Ohio river. And the General Assembly the State of Indiana shall have a right to locate the said road, and to apply the said sections, or the proceeds thereof, to the making of the same, or any part thereof; and the said grant shall be at their sole disposal." It will be recollected that the United States have always utterly refused to survey the road lands, and this position was indicative of the determination to object to any claim which the State might set up to lands ceded by the first article of the treaty, or to any other of the United S ates Lands. Ma ny gentlemen incline to the opinion that the Indians did not contemplate an additional cession by the 2d article; but the treaty, in its own language, is the rule of action and is paramount law. No oflicer of the government ha3 the right to conslrue beyond the plain letter of the treaty, and any construction wherebv Indiana would be permitted to select U. States lands for the purpose! of this road, would be viewed by our sister states as an infringement upon the common right of the confederacy. We are uninformed of the extent of the instructions forwarded to Gen. Tipton; but we highly estimate his good intention?, and feel confident that he was fully persuaded that a different construction would be given to the treaty. Although we are somewhat disappointed in the prospect of being able to select lands in the purchase; yet we indulge the hope that equally good lands will be obtained, in the Indian country, and that but little time will be lost in bringing them into market, inasmuch aa the Legislature had not heretofore made any provision for the time of sale ofthe lands. The whole matter will be a subject meriting the particular attention of the Legislature at its approaching session, and no doubt need be entertained by the contractors on the works as to the fact that every possible measure of justice and relief will be afforded them. From the Knoxville Register, We have heretofore laid before cur readers, accounts of many of the moss g'oss abuses committed in the Navy Department, copied from the United States' Telegraph. After a short respite, .that print has taken a peep into the Treasury department, and the public is presented w ith a short list of re

formed harpies, whose defalcations aightt Here are the items. Collector at Beaufort, N. C. $6,8G2 do. at Bath, Maine, 56,315 at Penobscot, Maine, 3,549 at Amboy, N. J. 87,928 at Petersburg, Va. 24,857 at Rappahannock, Va. G,800 at Vienna, Maryland, 1,150 at Elizabeth citv,N. C.32,79l do. do. do. do. do. do. Receiver of public moneys, Jef. fersonville, Ind. 6,019 do. Edwardsville, 111. 32,932 do. Washington, Miss. 9,G26 Register of the Treasury, 11,250 $280,989 This is only a portion of the frauds and short comings in the Treasury department during Mr. Adams' reign, and which have been detected and the delinquents dismissed, by the present administration. It will Le recollected that the frauds in the Navy department, while under the control of Mr. Southard, amounted to one hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred and Jijty four dollars. Thus shewing, in these two departments alone, losses under Mr. Adams' administration, amounting to four Aur.dred and fifty seven thsusand one hundred and forty time dollars. These facts need no comment. Every person reading them can put'the proper estimate on an administration suffering such enormities to escape detection; or if detected, would fail to hurl the perpetrators from office. Steam Rout disasters. We have information of the loss of 2 more SteamBoats on the Mississippi. The Neptune, Capt. Barrett, from this port for N. Orleans, on the morning ofthe 17th int. struck a snag a short distance below the mouth of the Ohio, and sunk in two minutes, in 22 feet water. Boai and cargo wholly lost. The passengers escaped by jumping on board the boats which the Neptune hadjn tow: all their baggage was lost. The new Steam-Boat New Jersey, which left this port on Thursday last, for N. Orleans, when near St. Genevieve, was snugged, &, filled with water to the guards. The boat, it was tho't would be raise!. St. Lokis Rfuulliciu;,