Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 14, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 21 April 1832 — Page 1

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United S. Laws. (I5Y AUTHORITY.) LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES PASSED AT TOE FIRST SESSION OF THE T .VENT if SECOND CONGRESS. Public No. M. AN ACT m iking appropriations for the support of HiJ army fur the year one thousand eight hundred and thirl y-two. Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives f the United State of Anicricj. in Congress assembled, That the following sums he, and the s:im arc hereby appropriated for the support ot the army for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, viz: For pjy of the army and subsistence of officers, one million one hundred and twen ty-two thousand onci hundred and forty-six dollars. For forage of officers, forty-eight thouBindfour hundred and twenty-seven dollars. For arrearages in the Pay Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For clothing for servants of officers, twenty-two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. For subs'sience, exclusive of that of officers, in addition to an unexpended balance of one hundred thousand dollars, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For clothing of the army, camp equipage, cooking ulens As, and hospital furniture in addition to materials and clothing on hand, amounting to thirty-fiVe thousand dollars, oris hundred and seventy-nine thousand six hundred and thirty-two dollars. For medical and hospital department, twenty thousand dollars, in addition to an un3xocndad balance of eight thousand doilirs. For various expenses of the Quartermaster's Department, viz: For fuel, forage, straw, stationary, blanks, repairing officers' quarters, barracks, store-houses and hospitals; for erecting temporary cantonments and gun-houses; for rent of quarters, storehouses, and land ; for postage of letters on public service; for expenses of courts-martial, including compensation of judge advocates, members, and witnesses; for ex tra pay to soldiers employed on extra labor, under the acts of March second, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen; and for expenses of expresses, escorts to paymasters, and other contingencies to Quartermaster's Department, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of officers' baggage, and allowance for travel in lieu ofttansportation, and for per diem allowance to officers on topographical duty, fifty-five thousand dollars. For transportation of clothing, subsistence, ordinance, and of lead from the mines, and for transportation of the army, and funds, for pay of the army, including the several contingencies and items of expenditure at the several stations and garrisons, usually estimated under the head of transportation of the army, one hundred and fourteen thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of the Board of Visiters at West Point, and their travelling expenses, two thousand dollars. For fuel, forage, stationary, printing, transportation, and postage for the military academy, eight thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars. For reconstructing the out buildings attached to West Point academy, and for improvements connected therewith, one thousand five hundred dollars. For general repairs of Barricks, Academies, Moss House, Officers' and Professors' Quarters, Store Houses, wharves, carts, boats, fence?, roads, paints, and other ob iects. four thousand cisrht hundred and j w twenty-five dollars. For renewal and repairs of fire-grates, one hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of Adjutants and Quartermaster's Clerks, nine hundred dollars. For increase and expenses of the Library, fourteen hundred dollars. For Philosophical apparatus, seven hundred and ninety dollars. For models for department of engineering, six hundred dollars. For models for the drawing department, rep iirs of instruments for the mathematical department, apparatus and contingencies for the department of chemistry, eight hundred and eighty-s nen dollars. Miscellaneous items and incidental expenses of the academy, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For contingencies of the Army, ten thousand dollars. For the National Armories, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the armament of fortifications, one hundred thousand dollars. For the current expenses of the ordnance S3rvice, seventy thousand dollars. For Arsenals, sixty thousand seven hundred dollars. For an Arsenal in Florida, twenty thousand dollirs. For th-3 recruiting service, twenty-four

thousand nine hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpended balance of fifteen thoudclhra. " Vor th. csR'Jasaat expenses cf th re-

cruiting service, thirteen thousands eight

hundred dollars, in addition to an unexpen ded balance of nine thousand dollars. For arrearages prior to the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fitteen, payable through the Third Auditors office five thousand dollars. To enable the Second Auditor to close die accounts, under the act of third March, one thousand eight hundred and twentyone, allowing three months' gratuitous pay to disbanded officers and soldiers, five hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That, the Secretary of War be authorized and re quired to settle, adjust, and pay the claims of the militia called out by competent authority, or received into the service of the United States, by a General Officer of the United States' Army, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty one, and all charges and expenses incident to the service of said troops, agreeably to the provisions of the third section of an act making appropriations for the military service of the United States, approved twenty-first of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, which provides for the payment ot like expenses, and troops called out in olio thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven; and that the sum of fifty-five thousand two hundred and thirty-two dollars, be appropriated for the said object, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury. A. STEVENSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. C. CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, April 5th, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON. Public No. 15. N ACT supplementary to the several laws for the sale of Public Lands. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the first day of May next, all the public lands of the United States, and when offered at private sale, may be purchased at the option of the purchaser, either in entire sections, nail sections, quarter sections, half quarter sections, or quarter quarter sections; and in every case of a . A A division of a half quarter section, the line for the division thereof, shall run east and west, and the corners and contents of quarter quarter sections, which may thereafter be sold, shall be ascertained as nearly as may be, in the manner, and on the principles, directed and prescribed by the second section of an act, entitled "An act, concerning the mode of surveying the public lands of the United States," passed on the eleventh day of February, eighteen hundred and five; and fractional sections, contain ing fewer or more than one hundred and sixty acres, shall, in like manner, as nearly as may be practicable, be subdivided into quarter quarter sections, under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, lhat this act shall not be construed to alter any special provision made by law for the sale of land in town lots: And, Provided also, That no person shall be permitted to enter more than one half quarter section of land under this act, in quarter quarter sections, in his own name, or in the name of any other person, and in no case, unless he intends it for cultivation, or for the use of his improvement: And the person making application to make an entry under this act, shall file his and her affidavit, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, that he or she makes the entry in his or her own name, for his or her own benefit; and not intrust fur another: Pro tided further, That all actual -settlers, being house-keepers, upon the public lands, shall have the right of preemption to enter, within six months after the passage of this act, not exceeding the quantity of one half quarter section, under the provisions of this act to include his or their improvements, under such regulations as have been or may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and in cases where two persons shall live upon the same quarter section, subject to be entered under the provisions of this act, each shall have the right to enter that j quarter quarter section which includes his improvement. Approved, April 5th, 1832 The following is a letter from the Hon Jesse Speight, one of the members of Con grcss from North Carolina. From the JV. C. Constitutionalist Washington, Feb. 4, 1832. Messrs. Editors: lhis is the second day Mr. Clay has amused the Senate with Ins peculiar tarifl eloquence. I suppose he will occuny Monday in winding up. After all his mighty and splendid efforts, I do not ! think he will be able to reach the White House on the 4th March, 1833. It is evident that Mr. Clay is not speaking what he believes, when he says, that taxes imposed on articles of consumption make them cheaper. The argument if carried out amounts to this: Two merchants go to Europe and buy goods. When they arrive in this country, one honestly pays the duty at the Custom House, and the other smuggles his in. According to Mr. Clay's American System doctrine the ono which pays the duty can afford his goods the cheapest. Thd dectxiae carries oa its fcce Ut Surdity

I which should subject its advocates to just

scorn and contempt. And I venture to say, tnat it 25 years ago, a man had advocated sucli doctrines in Congress, ho would have been looked upon by all men of sense as a common fool. Yet such is the desperate state of the public mind at present we find this inflammatory and abominable doctrine swallowed with avidity by some even of our eastern men. I iiad hoped, that at this session of Congress, we should be able to have so modified the Tariffas to have given something like general satisfaction. But I must say, that recent events have seemed rather to make me doubt, than even'to hope, there is the least possible chance to effect any thing like a beneficial reduction. It is painful to relate that the ultimate and substantial interests of the yeomanry of the country are but objects of a secondary nature, witli the majority here. Mr. Clay leads a party who are trying to supplant Gen. Jackson, and to effect which they would roll heaven and earth together. They seem disposed to yield not one inch of ground, as respects their tariff principles. Mr. Calhoun at the head of the small party, goes for an entiro abandonment of the principle of protection. And thus the two extremes are pushed to the very point of desperation, and finally, we shall after all, break up and do nothing during this state of things. You have seen the course of policy which our venerable President has recommended in relation to the tariff, viz: concession and compromise. But unfortunately for the country we are too weak to carry this point. Clay, with his party, yielding no ground; Calhoun, and his, contending for an abandonment of the protective policy. Thus the President is literally crucified between two thieves. I have nothing to say about combinations and coalitions; but one thing I will say that, in my opinion the fag ends of parties are determined to use every means in their pow-r, to thwart the views of the President. The conduct of some of our Southern Senators in voting to reject Mr. Van Buren, has not, in my opinion, materially strength ened our cause. I fear it has produced an apathy with some of our New York friends. I confess I am at a loss to account for their conduct myself. You will see by reference to the debate in secret session, thathe ostensible reason assigned by thfcopposition for his rejection, was his instructions to Mr. McLane in relation to the West India trade. I do not blame Mr. Clay and his faction for rejecting him on that account It was to be expected that the man, who, by his negligence, had lost that valuable trade, and failed in repeated efforts to regain it, would hardly be honorable enough to commend ihe man who had sagacity enough to regain it. But it is strange nay, very strange that Mr. Calhoun and his partizans should join in the massacre. All who are conver sant with the history of the times,, know that Mr. Calhoun and his friends wer the most clamorous of all in relation to the loss of this valuable trade and nursery for our sea men," as one of them termed it, And now strange to relate, they have joined with the man who, by negligence lost it, in politically (as they hope,) killing the one who has regained it. Strange proceeding I confess, to me. I had thought the instructions given to Mr. McLane met the approbation of all ihe then cabinet. But I am informed by the ex-Secretary of the Navy, that it did not. Since which the President has informed me that he gave express orders to Mr. Van Buren, to give the instruction. I view the whole transaction as a thrust at the Pesident, intended by his enemies to disgrace him, j and to cover the odium which was attached to Adams and Clay. Some men who have once been strong friends of the President have played a bold fist in the dark, in relation to this business. I know not how tney can say to their constituents, they are the friends of General Jackson. They have "done"ws "much evil; the Lord reward" them "accord ing to their works." Your obedient servant, J. SPEIGHT. We extract the following from a very able article in the New York Evening Post relative to the Georgia Missionary ca3e, and commend it to our readers. The disobedience to a mandate of the Supreme Court has been represented as an unheard of thing, and that it must necessarily dissolve the Union. We are indebted to a gentleman of the bar for some references on this subject, and we commend the language used by the Judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to the good people cf Worcester in that state, who have recently been edified by a brother Cherokee. It will be found in vol. 0, Pickering's Reports, at pags.s 3o4 3t7. The case was decided in 1S30, and die court held ihe following language "We are fully of the opinion that when the Supreme Court of the United States have jurisdiction, their authority is supreme. At the same time, this Court is not considered us a mere machine to execute the decrees of the Supreme Court of the U. S. without power to inquire into the grounds of their proceedings, in order to ascertain whether they may not inadvertently have made a mistake." The Court of Appeals of Virginia, in 1816, held the following language, in reply to a mandate from the Supremo Court oi the United States. It will be fowad ia 1 Whito' EeportJ, ja 305

aiiu juuuuiiig is uju uugrnum or mo Court of Appeals rendered on the rnand !te : "The Court is unanimously of the opinion so much of the 25th section of the act of! Congress, to establish the Judicial Courts of the United States, as eitends the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to this Court, is not in pursuance of the constitution of the United States. That the Writ of Error in this cause was improfidently allowed under the authority of that act; that j the proceedings thereon in the Supreme Court were coram nonjudice in relation to this Court, and that obedience to its mandate be declined by the court." If it should so happen that the Court for Gwinnet county in the state of Georgia should perchance say, as the Judges of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts said in the case referred to, "that this Court is not considered as a mere machine to execute the decrees of the Supreme Court of the United States," Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay,

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that the appellate power of the Supreme J same speech to-morrow, and there is ni Court of the United States does not extend j question but that he could held on at tha to this Court under a sound construction of jaarne speed throughout the week. Tha the constitution of the United States: that i Senate, und?r this heav Del afpr. nr-mJ

"Tray, Blanche, Sweetheart," and all, ! again got up this question, and will he aswould undertake to prove tint the Union tonished to leam that it is upon the Approwas dissolved." jriaticn Bill! They are determined to

iherc is no difference between the Georgia case and the cases from Massachu setts and Virginia except the cases from the latter states were civil cases, and that from the former was a criminal case.' The New Orleans Courier contains a long detail of an engagement between a party of nine Americans and one hundred and sixtyfour Towanconic Indians in the Province of Texas, in Nov. last. The Americans having been advised of the intended attack, prepared for defence on a small island in the St. Soba river, which was completely sur rounded by the Indians, who kept up a heavy fire. Being driven back, an Indian crawled along and set fire to the leaves and grass to windward of the encampment. which, with much difficulty, was extinguish - ed with buffalo robes, deer skins, Scc. The enemy were driven off, and the horoic little band, in token of defiance, hoisted on the top of a tree a white flig with a bloody spot. The account says 'We had three men severely wounded and one killed; and lost several horses. There was not one who had not his clothes pierced and his skin grazed in several places. We saw 21 Indians fall dead on the ground: and the next morning, at their encampment, we counted 48 bloody spots on the grass, supposed to kave been produced by the blood lhat run from the bodies woundwd. A, i. Gazette, Jamaica. We have received by the Jamaica packet brig Lawrence, Capt. Fowler, files of Kingstou papers to the 2d March. The insurrection of the negroes appears to be suppressed. Martial law is repealed, and the dirlerent bodies of troops are returning to laeir homes: the island notvvi.hstandmg, we should say, judging from tho papers before us is far irom being in an enviable situation. The slaves though sub jected, must stiil be governed and kept down by constant cocicion, and among the whito inhabitants a feeling of discontent ut the measures of the Government, and a determination to resist them, is very apparent. In the House cf Assembly a committee had been appointed to draw up a protest against any interference by the Conniaoiis House of Great Britain, with the government of their slave population and the member who proposed it, spoke ol the 18,000 bayonets there were iu Jamaica, as the last resource left to them. The late insurrection is generally attributed to the conduct of 'sectarian' preachers. A motion wus made requesting the Governor io issue his Exudate preventing every sectarian preacher from leaving the Island duiing the pendency of the inquiry into the cause of the latj rebellion.' Many Baptist chinches had been pulled down, and two preachers of that pcisuasion committed to jail, 'for preaching sedition and rebellion to the slaves.' Ono Moravian Missionary had been tried for a similar offence, but acquitted. V v Ca-'r THE SENATE. On Tuesday last, on a visit to the Senate, we found the Hon. Peleg Sprague, of Maine, holding forth against the instructions, under which the West India Trudj has been acquired against the President' letter, assuming the responsibility of the instructions against the arrangement ksdf, by which the trade was obtained, and against all concerned in the transaction, us having sacrificed the honor and interest of the country. The Hon. Pekg Sprague, it seems, is only one of a succession cf speakers who are put upon a forlorn hope, by the National Republican leader, to carry the people by siorm of oratory, and compel the in to surrender the opinions which they express in their public meetings against the thj course of t ie Senate in relation to this negotiation, and these bv whom it waa coaducted. We had supposed that ouroratoi, the Hon. Peleg Sprague, would have satisfiW ' W mm ed himself by one day's speaking, but on visiting the Senate yesterday, this laborious gentleman was found precisely where lvj was two days before, endeavoring to prove from tlie instructions and correspond: ixe ; cf ctr Nectktorg, that the Loucr of vi-

s sacrjLccci that thr r ' American clorv was sunk forever. It i3 net ! improbable that he will be entered in th a scene from which presc Hogarth might hava uiawn nis painting ot tlie sleeping congregation. All the members who had slept well the night before, and were too restless to enjoy the long repose, had vacated their seats those that remained, sat like 'Grandsires alt in Alabaster? cr those immovable Roman Senators whose monumental looks f truck terror into the Barbarians, when they made their inuption into the Capitol. No man among them showed symptoms of animation, except the father of the American System, who felt bound to keep himsolf alive, and give countenance to the great effort making to serve his cause. The Ex-Treaty-maker exerted himself for this purpose and employed, with some success, tho stimulus of a newspaper. The public will be curious to know in j i . i what manner the National Republicans have waste the time of the Senate upon that B 11, which is to supply their pockets, not with a view to diminish the annmnrLitlniKs. W ! to encrease them. In the meantime the public officers hare to supply the wants of the Government upon credit and we have heard that the Clerk of the Senate is under the necessity of borrowing money to pay the members their per diem. Ifthediscussions were protracted in contesting tha items of the bill, there would be some hopj of compensation for the time lost in the debate. But it seems the latitude of discuscussion allowed on this bill, .is to be appropriated to the purpose of revers'ng the decision of the people,with regard to the important doings of the unfortunate Secret Sessions. The orators wish to phy their 1 pans over again in th eye of the pifbiie, and agine that they will succeed much better uuu u;tv uia m liieir p;ivate re; 1 it 1 . hcarsals. i he Intelligencer Irg already told us hat this was to be a pro'ructed debate. Messrs. Clay, Webster, Miller, Hayne,-.nd Hclmfcs,. in a word, all the heroes of the Coalition, we may suppose, will in succession, make their appearance. It is pos:ble they may provoke a reply from some of the friends o'f the Administration, and in that case, the Nationals will have a pretext to keep up their lamentations over the lost glory of the nation, for months to come. How unfortunate that these gentlemen should be compelled to ratify so many treaties, and quarrel about them afterwards? They have been obliged to swallow several excellent treaties during the last week'.! This i3 a provoking Administration I Globe. It will be remembered, that Mr. Benton, sorno time since, introduced a resolution in the United States Senate, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for abatement of the nrmes -nd residence of the stockholders of the Bank. The Secretary's Report has been published, and discloses some very interesting particulars. It appenrs, that, of the Hank Stock, foreigners own only $8,105,500 That the citizenfof the United States own $19,5G2,0CO That the United States Government owns $7,OC0,C0CO Making the amount cf tlie Bank capital $35,000,000 The fact most particularly important to the WVst, is as follows: The residents of Ohio own ia Bink Stock $55,GC0 25,200 SiVOO 5,0C0 16,700 ll,fjC0 0i,2G0 C0,0C0 00,CC0 00,000 Ti residents of Kentucky do. do. do. do. do. do. do. CO. GO. 1 enncsseo Indiana m:no;s Louisiana Arkansas Mississippi Missouri Alabama Florida 00,000 By nddir.g thesj sums, it w'll be seen, that the whole stcek, owned in the nine Western and South Western States, and in the Terrifcrif , amounts cnlv to the inconsiderable ium of " $14V0O And now let us enquire what is due to the Bmk in these states rnd Territories? There is due to the- Branch B-mk at Mobile N. Orbnns Natchez St. Lcuis Nashville Louisville Lexington Carc'nnati $1550,755 42c fr,42L 44 10 131,770 43 0,05, 041 40 4,20,140 35 do. do. do. do. do. do. do. ,124,50? 83 Sb2,6S7 i7 Agency at Cincinnati "From the add:tion of thes 1,020, H 3 ,5 sums, it will be found, that the West owning a :;:eck of only $144, ;00 is supplied by the Sank with a currency of $27VlS2,-1f:l 55. Deduct th3 first of these su:v.s fiom the i fJ, ; nd there remains an amount of 273 42,0; 5 1 j oj, Bar. to be withdrawn from :he West trie aiik is not reAatioc I 2'f;.i.ltiecr.. Col. Johnson. A 1 11 c irectirg rs held in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, at which it wna xeaolved to invite Col. Jeleuten w j-attake tic ptAii c citxei-

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