Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 5, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 4 February 1832 — Page 2

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HOUSE. Monday, Jan. 23. Engrossed bills and a j 'hit resolution from the Senate of the following titles passed, to-wit: Ao act to incorporate the town of Terrebaute. Ao act to authorize the incorporation of Lyceum?. An act to amend the "act to authorize the loaning of the Seminary funds," approved, Jan. 24, 1820. A joint resolution relative to the public lands. O i motion of Mr. L"gan, The House re-considered the vole given on the 13th inst. on concurring in th report of the committee on claim?; which report was unfavorable to the petition of Messrs. BUka and Merril, and O l motion of Mr. Culler, The said report and petition were recommitted to the same committee. IN SENATE. Tuesday, Jan. 24. The orders of the day were taken up, and After several bills were ordered to a third reading, the following bills, &c. were passed: To incorporate the (own of Washington, in Diviss County. To legalize the election of Trustee of the Presbyterian Congregation in th town of Evansville. An act to ameud an act entitled, an act incorporating congressional townships and providing for public schools therein. After reconsideration of a vote of the Senate rejecting on its passage the act to authoriz3 John Elliott and ham Packet- to convey certain property therein named. Sud act was passed. The engrossed bill of the House of Representatives to authoriz-3 the inhabitants of Congressional township No. 9. of Range 7, to sell the school lands of said township was indefinitely postponed. The Senate wont into committee of the whole, on the bill to provide for the erection of a State House, and made several amendments thereto, the committee rose, reported said bill and asked the concurrence of the Senate to the amendments, but before the whele were disposed of, the Senate adjourned. HOUSE. Tuesday, Jan. 24. Mr; Logan from the committee on claim?, reported a resolution directing the committee of Ways and Means, to allow P. F. Newland the sura $32 60 in the ipecific appropriation Bill, for expenses incurred in the funeral of tho Hon. Theodore C. Cone, late a member of the House of Representatives from Vigo county: which was adopted Ayes 66, Noes 5. Mr. Cox presented a biil to amend an net, entitled "an act, to appropriate a part of the 3;per cent, fund ;" approved, February 10, 1831: which passed to a second reading. Mr. Tebbs presented a bill, to incorporate the Harrison and White Water bridge company; which passed to a second reading. Eagrossed Bills of the Senate, pass?d, to-i-sit: An act to locate and open a part of r, state road, leading from Madison, through Vevay, to L iwrenenburgh. Tho engrossed joint resolution of the General Assembly, from the Senate, providing a mode of gradually amending the laws; wa3 read a 3 J time, and question of its passage it wa3 decided the negative: Ayes 32, Noes 33. Engrossed Bills and Joint Resolutions of th'i House, passed, to-wit: The bill to amend an act, etitled "an act, to appropriate a part of the 3 per cent, fund, and for other purposes ;" approved Fob. 10, 1831, so far as respects the county of Greene. The bill granting relief to the contractors on the Michigan road. IN SENATE. Wednesday, Jan. 24. Resolutions preparatory to the prosecution of the impeachment of Alfred J. Athon, a Justice of th? Peace of Lawrence county were ofTred by Messrs. Graham and Fietcher, and adopted, and the Senate resolved it?e!f into a Court of Impeachment, and after some time spent as such Court, and a motion to quash two of the Specification being sustained, the 3j Specification being fjstained as valid; the prosecutors in behalf of the Senate movfd a continu ance of the case until th&ft Monday in December nrx, on the ground that material testimony could not at present bo procured, which motion was nvpr. I ruled, and thereupon Mr. Thornton en ' - - - - - . behalf of the House of Representatives, ' entered a nolle prosequi, on said third Specification, and the court adjouned sine die. In Senate the orders of the day were fakea up: A joint resolution to authorize and require the fund set apart for the iui-

provemnt of the Wabash river to be loaned to the Canal fund. A joint resolution to ascertain the terms' upon which means m y be procured to Eecure to Indiana h?r share of the revenue to accrue from the erection of a bridge over the Ohio at the Fall?. An engrossed bill of the House of Representatives to ninend an net enti-

j tied an act respecting salines and inline reer atioos, approved, February 10, 1831. HOUSE. Wednesday, Jan. 25. The Bill to amend the act entitled "an act regulating the inleret of money in the elate of Indiana," approved Feb. 1, 1831, was rtjcted on a motion to engross by a vote of 37 to 36. The greater part of the day wan taken up in the discussion of an amendment proposed by the Senate to a Biil r i f riu mile tnKiz-li tirr,iir.:nl I f m . v. : u , ,i u a r - cr .u r hands of a proper officer the sum of one . ,i . i, , 1 . , r dollar shall be exempted from the nav - , t r ir r ' Mlllll Ul HUM H" IIJIIIW3CU ll I fl KI1IUH in the performance of military duty; and in diicusing the bill concerning the interest on money. Cou & r e a & i o :i 1 . HOUSE. January 18. Mr. BPCarty , from the committee on Internal Improvements, reported the following bill, which was read twice, and commitledto a Committee of the Whole Hjuse to-morrow. A bill to authorize the state of Indiana to lay out and make certain roads through the public lands therein earned, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of lieprcseniatives of the United States oj America in Congress assembled lhat (he state of Indiana is hereby authorized to lay out, open, and construct a road through the public lands, from the southern bend of the St. Joseph's river, by Fort Wayne, Winchester, Centerville, and Brookville, to Lnwrenceburgh, in said state; to lay out, open, and construct, a road through the public lands, from Goshen, in said state, by Muncietown, Newcastle, alilton, and Liberty, to a point on the Ohio State line, where the road leading from Hamilton to Liberty crosses the same; in such manner as the Legislature of said State shall, by law, provide; not less-than sixty, nor more than eighty feet wide. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted That, in order to enable the State of Indiana to open and construct said roads, each alternate section, quarter section, or half quarter section,, of the unappropriated and unsold public lands, through which said roads shall be located, is hereby granted to said State, to defray the expense of making the same, with full power and authority to e,i and convey the same, and apply the proceeds thereof to making of said roads, which shall be located under the direction of tho Governor of said State agreeably to the legal surveys that now are, or hereafter may be, made : Provided,, S i id roads 6 ha II be completed within five years from the dale hereof: And, pruid(d, None of said lands shall be sold for a It S9 price than tho minimum price of the ad inining public lands. Ssc. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever the Register oi the land otliee of the district in which said roads shall be located, shall be notified of the location of any, or ail, of aid lands hereby appropriated, by sue:, person or persons as shall he authorized to locate the same, such lands, so located, shall not thereafter be subject to sale by the United States ; and whenever the Governor of the State of Indiana shall have laid before the President of the United Slates a survey of the location of said roads, with a report of the selected land lands, accompanied by an act of the General Assmbly of said Slate, accepting said grant, and providing for making said roads within the time above limited, and the President shall have approved tha same, then the light of said state to said lands shall he valid and complete, to all intents and purposes; the proceeds thereof to be applied to the objects and pur poses hereinbefore mentioned and no othsr. IN SENATE. January 1G. Mr. Hondrif k from the committee on Rouds and Canals, reported the fol lowing bill ; which wa3 read, and passed to a second reading: A bill for the continuation of the Cumberland road ia the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Be. it enacted hy the Senn'e and House 0r Representatives of the United Stales of dmerica in Congress AsserrJj'cJ, That the sum ol one hundred thousand dodars be v and the same is hereby," appropriated for the purpose of cnf-iinuin the Cumberland road in the State of Ohir.; and lhat the further suui of ten thousand dollars be appropriated for the

purpose of purchasing a bridge on said road over the Scioto river; also, that the sum of one hundred thousand dol lars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for continuing the Cumberland road in the State of Indiana, including a bridge ovr the Wabash; and that the sum of seventy thousand dollais be appropriated, for continuing said road io the State f Illinois; which sums shali be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and replaced out of the fund reserved for laying out and nuking roads under (he direction of Congress,, by the several acts parsed for the admission of the Slates of Oaio, Indiana, and Illinois, into thu Union, on an KjUil fooling with the original States. Sec. 2. And be it further erected. That, for the ' immediate accomplishment of thesa objects, the superintendents, heretofore appointed, or hereafter to be appointed in said State?, shall, under the direction of the President of the United

States, separate y supennted, in a lailht 'ul manner, such pirts oi said road a, , . ... I may be designated to v:h, and dis i J H . . . , , burse tne money, tacn gi mg bond and i . , ,, ,- , I receive such compensation, as in his ilia ? . I I I ' ,opinion, snail oe equnaoie ana just, not exceeding to each, that heretofore allowed by law, to the superintendeDt nf the Cumdeihuid road in the Stats of Ofiio, From the N. Y. Evening Post. Mr. Clay's Plan of Revenue. We publish to-day the material parts of Mr. Clay's speech on the future commercial policy of the country, omitting the merely rhetorical passage. "It is a plan1' says a letter we havejuit received from Washington, "admirably adapted to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and about as applicable to the circumstances of a free people a3 the most abominable of oriental despotisms. Mr. Clav however deserves the cred it of playing a bold game. He long since deserted the democracy of the country because he found they could not be duped, and is now going all lengths for his fer wealthy and devoted friends scattered in some three or four States of the Union. He is determined that their dividends shall not be diminished. He is for a government of power and wealth, and, to use a metaphor which he well understands, will play out the game as long as he has a bragger left." Mr. Clay's speech contains seme singular instances of feeble reasoning. It might be uncharitable, perhaps, to say that the approaches of age of which he complains in the outset, have effected his mental faculties but , certainly, he sustains some of his positions with very little ingenuity. In order to make the reduction of dutie3 as little as possible, he endeavors to show that the revenue of the next year will be less than the Secretary of the Treasury has estimated it. He supposes that as the importations of 1831 were large, those of 1832 will, of cou?e be small. lie leaves entirely out of consideration the favorable treaties and commercial arrangements which have been made with various foreign nations. These are causes of a permanent nature, which hove jint begun to operate, and the fifect of which must be more evident and beneficial in another year than at present. Yet Mr. Clay seems not to be at all aware of their exis tence. Again, ne asusSuppose the nation are tnxel a certain amount on imported articles, what difierence can it make whether it be paid on a few articles or on rmnv? The answer to this is plain Some articles are used by one description of persons others by another; some are consumed in one quarter of the Union others in another. If a few articles are selected as objects of taxation, the- burden will of course be unequally bon?e; the more general the imposts are, the le.-s will they be felt by the individuals and the greater number of persons will contribute to the revenue. Mr. Clay we observe, speaks of frauds on the Custom House. One would think, from the slang on this topic, that all our Custom House officers were the regular dupes of the importers. Bat where is the proof of these frauds? We hear of seizures in which the importers are acquitted even of ths suspicion of fraud. Now if the fact be a3 Mr. Clay pretends if the frauds be thus extensive under the present tariff, and if they be of so secret and artful a nature that it is impossible to prove them against the persons committing them there is but one remedy. Let the duties be reduced and the temptation to fraud be removed. It is stated in the report of the Paymaster General which accompanies the report c f the Secretary of War, that within the last eight ye.-irs. upwards of nine rni'lions of dollars have been disbursed by that department in small sums, without the Lss of a single cent to the government, nd without having had resoit to a single coercive measure to compel a more prompt settlement of accounts.

From tie Cincinnati Advertisrr. JjCT Z?cts Come Out, AND THE TRUTH BE TOLD. I do not knew what the opposition party would have done in this state, for weapons whorew ith to assail the admin ih ation, it it had not been for !.e terrible hue and cry raised about -proscription f that is, the dispUring some of the aristocrats and purse proud t ffiee hold ers, who reached their places through the rankest favoriteism, who have held them for a great many years, to the exclusion of more capable and dese rv-

li f men, anu vim teoeranv lranaci ihcir oflke busine-i" by proxy. Will any honest man say that the rY;ices of the country, ehr.ld bo filled bv the sons, nephews, or fdmily favori'tes of the officers, who receivt y ut of the sila- . rv auu let'., aoij ldumchm men vuiita i r I , -.j .u.' as heir looms, to dseei d to their postrity? Yet such has been the ease in 0:iio, almost ever since it became a slafe, until the institution f republican cqwilityby And rev.' .larks or. Will any true republican say that rhp mpmhflis of Conpriss have a legiii mate riht to all the United States V Hi cts within the state, through the intluence and by the nomination and recom mendation of their own relativ es and family friends? Yet such ha generally been the case in Ohio, until republican reform was put in practice by Andrew Jacksou. A few facts cut of a host that might be adduced, will show lhat the foregoing assertions are not made on unttnabh grounds. Without pursuing any regular course as to dates, let us see how far the influence of members of Congress ha? tended to fill the federal ofiices in this state, and how impartially and disinterestedly it has been exercised. Edward Tiffin, a Senator in Congress, contrived to procure for himself the General Lmd O.llce at Washington, and afterwards the office of Sur veyor General in thi3 state. Thomas Worthmgton, while in Congress, procured for his brother-in-law1 the Office of Quaiter-master general during the last war. Two of his sons have been educated at the public accademyat West Piont, at the expense of the people. Hs himself hr,3 had excessive and profitable contracts for supplying the army and navy with provisions. Duncan McArlhur was a member of) Congress, and had U son appointed Receiver of the Lund Office at Chilicothe. John McL an, formerly a member of Congress, had his brother appointed Receiver of the Land Office at P.q'ia. TTpnrv iii-iish. while in Congress, irn portuned for, and procured the app meat of his own brother as Ueceiv ointiver of the Land Odice at Delaware, oy wnitn

he became wealthy, although ins dunes mug c;rpp f Q n;duce fillr taxe,g ori mapjr were generally done by proxy. j n5rP, 0( ore general and necessary Joseph Vance procured the appoint-! ee phnn t4Rnps an(i ,fhe ,,ad mentof an intimate personal Iriend, as . (o (hf5p n,ef ir?n, steel, sugar, and Marshal of Ohio, because said friend, arlice? ab,olutey necessary for our with the greatest exertions, had hecu (ornror( f,j d coveiing. we, who r.re the mainly instrumental in putting Gencr- j Fpirers bv njs present "system,'' might al Vanrc in Congress. The brother;, thrnahf him snrimi and sinceio

of Gen. Vance became deputy Marshal. Gen. Vance ;:l?o procured the appointment of Mr. Ccoley, ns Charge de Affairs at Peru; because it was generally given out in speeches amo;ig the peopje ( that 31 r. Cooley t-houSd soon succeed Gen. Vance in Congress. Gen. Vance has had one son and, I think, a nephew educated at West Point at the people's expense. Gen. Van Horn, formerly in Congress, was appointed Receiver of the Land Office at Zansvilie. He imme diately resigned and his son received the office. Alexander Campbell, formerly Senator in Congress lid his son appointed Post Master, at Ripley while he was a minor. James Kilbonrn while in Congress, had a son in law appointed Post Master at Columbus, and durinz his continuance in office he never lived at Colum-1 bus; but the business w a done by !r, ! Butler, another son in-law of Col. Lilbourne, who afterwards received the office himself and held it until 18?9. Eiisha Whittsely, a member of Congress, has had a son educated at West Poiat at the public expense. John Sloane, while in Congress from .Ohio, procured the appointment ot h:s son in law as Collector oi the port ot Detroit. The foregoing are a few out of the many instances which might he produced of the influence wielded by mem hers of Congress in procuring ctiiciul places for their relatives and personal friends. The question now addresses itself to the good sense and Republican feelings of the people, whether it be better that their members of Congress should exercise the prerogative of filling the federal offices within the state, or that plain, honest capable men, taken from the mass of the community and recommended by their fellow citizens, should in a proper rotation of office, have an equal priviege of discharirg the duties and reaping the b?:ittits of official stations?

Under General Jackson the latter mode h.as been pursued. No man is considered ineligible, bcouse he i poor and destitute of lich and powerful connections. The questions asked are, ikis he hones!? is he capable? it he a friend to the Constitution?' And the son of the plainest farmer a r.d the mo-t humble mechanic, if po:sessed of the?e qualification, is as acceptable to the "Prom's President" as if he came

illia Gilded sheet of recommendations, I signed by the governor, congressmen, j the judges and all the other cilice holdi er- ui uif si.ur. j The friends of Clay n-d Co. hold the doctrine "the POOR are aestineJ j to labor and the PtlCH are ualihed for ! superior station" These are the word t.l - II.- - - n l ir rsf iKA l,'pr Adams. His son .onn Quincy, embr iced and practised thtf pama doctrine. Henry Clay , who uaj

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! Ins coadjutor ana rigru imu hum. uiint? thn rotpn ol corruption iron) iu.ni.ii nn advocate for the fame principle, nnd riouhl practice vpvi it. ii i un people the United States should become so toj tally infatuated as to elevate him to the chief magis-trnry of the country. Let the common people beware! ; secret aristocracy is growing up in our ! country; and it not crushed in tru: ouc, it will uisregani me letnis iiuu u.uu- . -ii l it., f .1: It j pie upon the rights of all who will not bow to its supremacy A MECHANIC. From the U. S. MR. CLAY'S A few words will Telegraph. SPLECH. suffice to correct an erroneous impirssion made by Mr. i Clay's8 late speech in the Senate, not probably intended by him. Ilisayi 'the operation of thp sinking. lund act commenced with the commencement I of Mr. Monroe's administration." Not j so. The exigence of the sinking fund i law is almt, if not quite, coeval wiili that ( the federal government. Before Mr. Jf fferson' election to the presidency, the fund amounted to between seven and eight millions of dollars. During his administration, it was augnscnteil to eight millions; and shortly after th lato war, (the period alluded to by Mr. Clay,) it received a further augmentation of two million?, making, in the whole, the sum at which it nowr stand', of ten millions of dollar?. 1 .have read Mr. Clay's epeerh with name attention, and although I agree with him in respect to some minor matters on which he has touched, (the extravag nt schemes of the Secretary of of the Treasury for example.) in his main design, 1 have no doubt, but that he U totally, radically wrong. It h perfectly idle nav, worse than idle. I with such a proposition in his hand, for j him to tall; of "pouring oil and balm ipto CE;5(i wonnds." To do this, ho "ui hi professions of "pouring oil ar.il halm into exiting wounds;' but, under "existing circumstances," he must exctHe us if we cannot. He admits, howpver, that we hav? received "wcanda" from his "system." Mr. J-Vne ii right. This is "a fjreat question." But I proftss not to . 1 be a politician Mr. Ldi'or, urn s'.mpty A PLAIN FARMER. OCT Import nt! -i'X) It is said Mr. Adams wears now "the same old hht with a bani an inch and a quarter wide, which hp used to wear when Secretnry of State," and that he actually, on some occasions, shakes hands with certain of the members of Congress. If this be true, (and we have no evidence to confute it,) what a wicked , blundering set of ignoramases the people were for turning him out of the Presidency his paternal inheritance. Only think of it! An old greasy hat, with a bread btown ribbon! Why, General Jackfou would no more be caught in Congress with his old New Orleans hat on, with its war worn tinsel and its faded furr than he would decent) from the Presidency to the corporal's birth in the anti-masonic ranks! O, no, Ke's vastly to pre ud for that. Besides he'd give more for a "judicious" game of long bullets with the enemy, than for all the old greasy hats in Christendom. As for hi ; shaking hands , we dent believe he ever i did such a thing in his life especially. in battle. Angelica Republican. Ponn! The Centinel of yesterday says: kThe nomination of Henry Clav has created a sf-r.sa'ion far and wide." Poi h! The sensation it has produr rd is like that occasioned by the sound ot a fifty cent drum or a two-penny tin trumpet. Boston Com. Guz. Hard Pull. At the recent d?ctir-n in M isachu sett, the town of Hull ?ava tho f.dlowirg vite: Lincoln, -1; Lithiop, 0; Morton, 3.

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