Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 2, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 14 January 1832 — Page 1

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From the Louisville Advertiser. It is stated in an eastern print, that Mr. Clay, in a recent conversation at Vyashington, expressed surprise at the conduct of the general government towards the Cherokee Indians, and paid it "was matter of astonishment to him, that the people of this country had not, from one end to the other, been roused on this subject." He added that he felt a lively interest in the situation of the Cherokee?, and "deeply sympathised with the missionaries who had been imprisoned in the Penitentiary of Georgia." On these topics Mr. Clay is to "open," should a favorable oppoitunity occur. The gentleman's abhorreoce of imprisonment seem3 to have been greatly increased, since he attempted to revive the Ca. Sa. in Kentucky, through the instrumentality of the Fed

eral Court, with a view to counteract the law of the legislature abolishing imprisonment for debt. He was ibep Very willing to incarcerate his fellowcitizens for debt now be is shedding crocodiles over a pair of hypocrites who have been imnrisoned in Georgia for violating a penal law of the state. His sympathy for the Cheiokees will be duly appreciated, and his avowed "astomshmenl'' will be understood. His sympathy was designed to enlist fools and fanatics against the administration and the failure of the manoeuvre very naturally astonished its principal projector. An attempt on the part of Mr. Clay to revive the Indian Question, in or out of Congress, can only serve lo render him more unpopular and odious than he now is. In recommending the removal of the Indians west of the Mississippi, Gen. Jackson has acted on the suggestions nay, the recommendations of the administration of which Mr. Clay was a member. That part of the Report of Gen. P. B. Porter, (as Secretary of War under Mr. Adams,) which relates to the removal of the Indians, will serve as an appropriate reply to any attack Mr. Clay can make on the conduct of the government towards the Cherokees. The removal of the Indians was declared to be part of the policy of the late administration. Louisville Advertiser. Henry Clay was nominated by the Nationals at Baltimore, for President, and John Sergeant of Pennsylvania for Vice President. I he "system" editors express as deafening and sudden bursts of enthusiastic joy on this occasion, because the vote was 'unanimous, as it a new grand and unexpected event occurred. lhis is as ludicrous as Clay's hypocritical letter to the convention, begging not to be nominated if another candidate, should suit them better. Now Mr. Clay, and every mem-j ber of the Convention, and the whiff ets that bark for them, all knew this result three months ago when Clay town meetings, Clay village meetings, Clay county meetings, Clay state con ventions, all elected Clay delegates, to procure the nomination of Clay at this Baltimore Clay convention, and nobody but Clay has been thought of for their candidate. But the nomination was not "unanimous" one member from North Carolina "had not made up his mind upon the subject" and more than half of Clay's friends think him better fitted for the Senate, where he i8, man mr ine presiaency, wnere ne . I f. it. -I I never can be: On the whole, we are pleased that the "System" atizers have) returned to their "System" and cleansea meir nanus ot tne tilth, ot Anti-ma-sonry. i ney ran down hill like a eluice, when in bad company ; but now . t A .t m . m .1 weuope io see something Jike a manly opposition that will add dignity to the great triumph of Old Hickory. . - a f -va a ar v a Farmers Advocate. Baltimore, Dec. 17, 1831. National Republican Convention. - This bodv was to havn ariiniiinoH ,. die last evening after a laborious daily tession of five days, and a private sessioi r fan-nmhi. iv h.ii l: 1 i n I uccuings may ue urieiiy summeu up thus: They have nominated a candidate for the Presidency and another for the Vice Presidency, described themselves to be a band of disinterested patnots in whom there is no guile, and tnere adversaries a herd of hungry ignorant and wicked knaves or mere fools, adopted an address to the DCODle. in wnicn iney are counselled not to believe

JC jiuumu uwwumenis or tneir own Mr. Clay should not thank Mr. Web- Mr. Smith made the committees accordeyes and feelings, but to weep over the ster for stirring this affair; for the pro- ingr, no doubt, to his views of propriety, disgrace and rum which it pleases Mr. cess of "whitewashing" bim will proceed If Mr. Clay and bis friends get up famway and tne baltimore Convention to very slowly, if these are lo be the ma- ily quarrels, let them settle tbem among say are desolating the country in con- terials employed. Azain we say, let us themselves. Th nuhlir rare nothing

sequence of the "misrule" of Gen.

Jackson: beaten General Jackson ac

cording to the approved method of Cap tain Bobadil and Ezekiel F. Chambers, by computation and gone home with the consoling reflection that it is all perfectly useless, and that it would have been quite as useful and much more discreet not to have come here at all. Indeed we conjecture that these proceedings look to the election of 1837, and that not one out of fifty among them thinks of prevailing against General Jackson. Republican. From the United States Telegraph. The opinions of individuals as to the apportionment of the representation in Congres?, under the fifth censusseems to range from one representative to every 48,000 souls, to one to every 55,000 souls. In order to satisfiy myself of the effect which either of the above rates, and also a rate at any of the intermediate thousands, would have upon the delegation of each State. I have constructed a table shewing the loss and gain of each State at any rate that may be assumed between the aboye points inclusive of both. As this table might be inconvenient for publication in a newspaper, I will merely give you some of the results, butwill furnish you with the entire table if you desire it. Five States, to wit, Vermont, Delaware, Louisiana, Mississppi, and Missouri, will not be affected by assuming any of the above rates. The three first of these States wil return their present delegatioD, and two last will each gain a member, and but a single member at any rate. Four States, to wit, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maryland and, Virginia, will each lose a member if the lowest rate is assumed. Seven States, to wit, Alabama, Mississippi, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio, and Indiana, will each gain at the highest rate. The four first will gain one member each, the fifth two members and the two last thren members, each. Maine Georgia, and New York would . i rn t . gain at tne lowest rale. JL ne two tirst one member each, and the last five members, and all would remain station ary at the highest rate. Pennsylvania would gain fcwoat the lowest rate, and lose two at the highest rate. Ken tucky would gain one at the lowest rate, and lose one at the highest rate. The greatest loss at the highest rate, would be Virginia, four members Connecticut, PJiode Island, South Carolina, and North Carolina, would remain stationary at the lowest rate, and lose at the highest the three first, one member each, and the last two members. The following: is a table of the sum of all the fractions at each rate.

At 48,000, 530.534 At 49,000, 569.534 At 50,000, G26.534 At 51,000, G04.534 At 52,000, 590.534 At 53,000, 584.534 At 54,000, 748.534 At 55,000, 597.534

We perceive that a great attack is about to be made in the Senate of the m - - Uniled States upon Gen. Jackson, in relation to the West India trade. Dire things are threatened. Preliminarv to this natter, a mil ought to be made for Mr. Clav's instrnr. tioos to Mr. Gallatin. Mr. Ga latin's J I rorrpsnnndfince with Mr. Tannincr nd Earl Dudley: Mr. Clay's instructions to Mr. Rarbour. and Mr. Rarhour'a mr. respondence with the British Government. These documents will show who's who." Mr. Webster talks strongly about making Mr. McLane's instructions a matter of public examination and com ment. Agreed, we say ; let us have it openly discussed. There will be some amusement in a public debate at this day, on the merits of Messrs. Adams j n J i h . j : , of the foreign .-.ffairs of lhis coonlry, which ve take U Mr. Webster intend . . f" - The point of the matter is this: nc iii., , . Mr Qay humbly iroplored to be peritted to rectify his own blundtrs, and mitted was refused. Mr. McLane offered franklv to cor-1 rect the blunders of Mr. Clav,and sueceeded. The indignity, therefore, is not to the country nr its charartpr- hut in Mr. Clay, which is altogether another affair. have

POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS. THE

LAWS, &c. Mr. Arnold presented the petition of bamuel Maitin, of Campbell station, in the State ol Tennessee. The petition, Mr. A. remarked, presented several new and interesting questions, which would, no doubt, at some period not far distant, call forth the action of this House. He therefore moved that the petition be read : which was ordered by the House, and it was read accord ingly. Mr. A. then resumed, and assured the House that he did not intend to trouble them with a speech ; but he felt bound to make a passing remark. It might seem to some gentlemen on this floor, that the propositions contained in the petition were wild and visionary. He confessed that, when he first received the petition, the boldness of some of the measures petitioned for startled him; but, upon reading it a second time, and after a moment's reflection, he was convinced that all the propositions contained in the petition were worthy of consideration, and that some of them, he honestly believed, deserved the highest consideration. All its propositions have the same tendency. They tend to open up the fountains of information to the whole people; and if, as he thought all must admit was the fact, the stability and permanence of this government, with all its boasted institutions of freedom, depended upon the virtue of the people; and if the virtue of the people depended upon their intelligence, then he was certain that he had not attached too much importance to this petition. Mr. A. asked, what does the petition propose? It contained five distinct propositions: 1st. That, to all actual subscribers, newspapers and pamphlets, not ex ceeding one sheet, should pass through the mail free of postage. 2d. That all owners of printing presses and types, and all persons actually working and employed as printers, should be permitted to receive their letters free of postage. 3d. That the two cents at present allowed to postmasters for dcliveiing free letters be dispensed with. 4tb. That, so soon as the national debt shall be paid off, the whole expense of the rest (Jiiice Department be defrayed out of the general fund. This proposition, he presumed, would meet the views of gentlemen who are so much alarmed to know what shall be done with the accruing and increas ing revenue. 5th. The fifth proposition he con sidered a very important one. It was, that all the newspapers within the Uni ted States should be permitted to pub lish the Laws of the United States, and the advertisement of the Post Office De partment, and that each should receive one hundred dollars per annum for such publication. Every man in this country was presumed to know the law ; and he was held amenable to the law, as knowing it. Such being the fact, he m. I la.hJ ft mougnt mat mucn pains snouia oe iakeQ to let those who are subject to the ,aws know what tne ,awB were As al present promulgated, there was not, he would venture to say, one man in a thousand whoever saw the laws that were mere enacted. ., . . Mr. A. concluded bv moving that the petition be laid on the table and printed : which motion was agreed to by the House. Corn Oil. The Utica, N. Y. Intel ligencer states that a Mr. Curtis, who 1 . 1 I .1 . 1 - . I owns a cisiinery in mai piace, in me process of distillation from corn, per ceived an oil which rose upon the surface of the liquor. He took pains to collect it, and found on repeated tri als that it answers as well for burning as the best Spermaceti Oil, and also f.T be purposes of l.useed c.l. H"'6 Le Vi ? " q k Procu,red from a bushel ol corn, which is a clear profit to the distiller, as it does not di luiuiBM mc iiuauiuy -i iiuuui ui whipk Mr. Curtis saved about 12 gallons n;fjav Whv does thft Journal rnmnlain nf the manner in which Mr. Clay was disposed of on the committees of the Senate, and who would it censure? The oniilo filorforl 1 Pine pro tempore, Mr. Smith of Maryland, and

The new editor of the almost defunct Penn Yan Enquirer, former typesetter for the totally defunct "Lyons (or Lying) Countryman," after spending two columns of antimasonic sophistry on the subject of the President's Message, comes to the conclusion that it was not written by Mr. Fan Buren, because he was across the "big waters" and that although some people think Mrs. Eaton wrote it, he has his doubts on the subject. On the whole, he thinks Mr. Livingston was the author. We don't like lo have our veracity questioned in this unceremonious way. Last week, we attributed the message to John Binns, knowing as we did, (from antimasonic information) that Jackson could'ot write his name nor do any thing more than to "make his mark" a privilege which he has exercised ever since he was president. If any body wants to take away the credit of that message from Jolm Binns, the cr ffin-handbill maker, he had better settle h"i3 political concerns as soon as possible, for it will be a hard case with him and although Jackson can't write a message, nor an antimasonic letter, nor any such sort of thing, the people are beginning to understand his marks and hieroglyphics as well as those of old Thomas Jefferson, who burnt so many meeting houses in his day, wore plush breeches, kissed Monticello Sally, &,c. &c. Angelica Rep.

Robert Dale Owen, Editor of the Free Enquirer, being on a tour of observation in the Eastern States, thus writes to his co-editor in New-York on the subject of Rail Roads: A rail road! You have never traveled on a rail mad! rPhpn vmi havp rot to witness one of the greatest triumphs ot human ingenuity. I left Albany this morning in the Schenectady stage which conveys over the three miles of rough road, to the point where the Schenectady rail road There you find the steam commences. engine already smoking, and 6 or 8 stages cars they are commonly termed, though scarcely differing except in their wheels from ordinary stages ready to receive passengers3 of which about fifty entered them soon after our arrival. I had never before been on a rail road, and therefore every thing was new and interesting to me. r : st, the engine set off without its train, (as one would walk a race horse about before starting.) to get ud its steam half a mile and return. Then It took us in tow, (dx nine seated stages.) and the next minute we were off at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour, tvhistlinc prist KiirrminHinrr ohiprta nrot.

ty much in the same style as if mount- do nolh,g else than, to inform the peo. ed on a fleet horse at a gallop. Noone, Plen we think of Andrea Jackson. I think, can enter a rail road car for lf tb,13 ,3f fr business, to inform the the time and thus find himself conveyed gS0P,e of i118 state and , of the Uniled with perfect ease and safety, without 7lat.e?' wl1rat Lwe tbink of President feeling that a new era in the annals J500-"1 people call for, and of locomotion has commenced; and that demand this service of us, shall we cot even Fulton's noble discovery is cast obe? oulrd be a P1 lbat tba into the shade by this new application 'uslJ dollars of the state treasury of the magic power of steam. That sh(?u,d not be Put circulation. Our twenty years from this time, the entire lttzns w know, do not, form opinions Union will be intersected with rail fcr themselves and they probably elecroads, needs not the spirit of prophecy ted uU8.to co?ie hfere 10 g,ve direction to foresee; and how immense the ad- t0 Jeir modes of thinking, vantges, mental and moral perhaps. as , 1fIrLomax offered for adoption the

well as physicial, which may thence resuit, it is not so easy to predict. The whole line of the rail road, being twelve miles and a half, has been travelled in twentv-twn minntPQ. hmrm at the rate of more than thirty miles an hour, but the usual time employed is from thirty toforty.five minutes. On the Manchester and Liverpool rail road. the speed I believe is considerably greater. The machine can be run there at the rate of a mile a minute. and their usual speed is nearly a mile in two minutes. A London paper sa8, since the dis covery of the new world our English gardens have produced 2,345 varieties of trees and plants from America, and upwards of 1,700 from the Cape of Good Hope, in addition to many thousands which have been brought from China the East Indies, New Holland, varioua parts of Africa, Asia and Eu rope, until the list of plants now cultivated in this country exceeds 120,000 varieties. Sudden Death. It is stated in the Lexington, Kentucky, Observer, that Judge Mills, late Judge of the Court of Appeals of that State, was attacked by a fit of apoplexy, on the 7th inst. while walking in the streets of Fraakfort, end iasantly expired.

Iiuliaira legislature, IN SENATE. Friday, 'Dec 30. The bill establishing a state road from Connersville to Raytville, was ordered to be engrossed. The joint resolution on the subject of granting pensions to officers and sol diers, and the militia who bore arms in the revolutionary war, and who are not provided for by existing laws, was taken up in committee, Mr. Clendenio in the chair, and after deliberation thereon, the committee rose, and the chairman reported the same with the amendments, and it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. HOUSE. Friday, Dec. 30. Mr. Noble from the select committee to which was referred a resolution of the House directingan inquiry into the expediency of so amending the Revenue law, that if taxes upon Land are 4 years in arrears, said land shall become the property of the State, &c. reported a bill, to amend an act entitled "an act for assessing and collecting the revenue," approved, Feb. 10; which paE8ed to a 2d reading.

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IN SENATE. Saturday, Dec. 31. Mr. Morgan from a select committee reported a bill to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis rail road company, which was ordered to a 2d reading, and on motion of Mr. Whitcomb weo read a 2d time by its title, and ordered to a third reading. Mr. Hayes reported the memorial which was referred to a select committee itructing them to strike out those matters reflecting: upon the President of the United States, amended as instructed by the Senate. Mr. Pennington moved to refer the report from Mr. Hayes to a committee of the, who,e oJ lhtis danV aJld M10Dda7 was also named, when Mr. Herod mov ed to lay it upon the table, which did net prevail, and it was ordered to be committed for Monday next. While the motion to commit to a committee of the whole was pending, Mr, Dumont 6aid, I have beeo thinking for a few moments what is the probable daily expense of the State Government and my conclusion is, that during the session of the Legislature, it does not emount to quite four hundred dollars each day; this is a trifle, a mere nothing and our treasury is so oversowing, that we know not how to expend the money. A3 to our time, we have nothing to do indeed, one would think we were sent here to mowing resoiuu on: T s?lvd That the committee on the uaiciar7 e insirucie a to inquire into r"e exPeaier,cy 01 aisiricung tne Etate ,or tne Purpose of electing represen.tat,veR to Congress, and also to inquire 'nto !be ProPrJety . f establishing said d,stncl8 n different ratios, such as will answer aDBW . Ior eiiner 61X or Beven UePre sentauves. Mr. Permincton moved to lav thft same on the table, which motion was carried in the affirmative. HOUSE. Saturday, Dec. SI. A petition was presented by Mr. Morris, from sundry citizens of Shelby and Rush counties, praying the location of a state road: which was reerred to a select committee of Messrs. Morris, Jones, and Flake. Mr. Reid, from the select committee to which was referred a petition on that subject, reported a bill to incorporate the Harrison and Indianapolis Rail Road company : which passed to a second reading. Mr. Culley moved the following resolution, which was negatived: Resolved, That the committee on the Judiciary be requested to inquire into the expediency of so amending the laws regulating "fees and salaries" as to allow grand and petit jurors one dol