Indiana Palladium, Volume 8, Number 22, Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, 16 June 1832 — Page 2

or, to bo applisd, first, to the discharge of to which it is supplementary, during lha peanv balance standing against said Smith on riod intervening between the semi-annual

the books of the Treasury, & the resdue to he pad to the legal representatives of Walter Smith, the sum of three thousand three hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-one cents. To emblo the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to complete the Marino Hospital at Charleston, South Sirolina, authorized by the act of twentieth May, one thousand eight hundred and thirty, four thousand three hundred and sixty dollars: Provided, nothing herein contained shall he construed to enlarge the said contract, or to release the contractor from his liability thereunder. For the erection of Marine Barracks and Officers' quarters at the Navy Yard, Phila-, delphia, nine thousand dollars. j For the pupose of defraying the expenses of a survey of the waters of Narragansctt Bay, to be made under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, with a view to ascer tain the practicability and expediency of establishing a Naval depot therein, rive thousand dollars. For enabling the President of the United States to obtain from the Norfolk Bridge Company, a release and conveyance to the United States, of the Bridge over the southern branch of the Elizabeth river, between the Navy Yard and the Dry Dock, and of the road leading from the same to the southwestern side of said Yard, the sum of sixteen thousand dollars: Provided, The ScSocretary of the Navy shall be satisfied that the said sum does not exceed the value of the same: And provided, That the Attorney General of the United States shall be satisfied of the validity of the title, and that the right thus acquired, will authorize the United States to remove the Bridge, and to enclose the road within the Navy Yard. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of State be authorized, out of the sums appropriated to defray the expenses of taking the late Census,, to pay those assistant Marshals, for their services, who have failed to receive compensation, from the delinquency of the principal Marshals. A. STEVENSON, Speaker of the House of Representatives J.C.CALHOUN, Vice President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Affroved, May 5th, 1832. ANDREW JACKSON. Public No. 44. AN ACT Supplementary to the "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution."" Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress asscmuled, lhat each of the surviving officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians, soldiers and Indian spies, who shall have served in the continental line, or State troops, volunteers or militia, at one or moro terms a period of two years, during the war of the revolution, and who are not entitled to any benefit under the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution, passed the fifteenth day of Mayy eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be authorized to receive, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of his full pay in the said line, according to his rank, but not exceeding in any case, the pay of a captain, in the said line; such pay to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand, eight hundred and thirty-one and shall continue during his natural life; and that any such officer, non-commissioned officer, musician, or private as aforesaid, who shall' have served in the continental line, State troops, volunteers or militia, a term or terms in the whole less than the above period, but not less than six months, shall be authorized to receive out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury, during h:s natural life, each according to his term of service, an amount bearinc such proportion to the annuity granted to the same rank for the service of two years, as his term of service did to the term aforesaid; to commence from the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and thir-tv-one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person, receiving any annuity or pension under any law of the United States providing for revolutionarv officers and soldiers, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, unless he shall first relinquish his further claim to such pension; and in all payments under thi3 act, the amount which may have been received under any other act as aforesaid, since the date at which the payments under this act shall commence, shall first be deducted from such payment. Si:c. 3. And be it further enacted, That the pay allowed by this act shall, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be paid to the officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private, entitled thereto, or his or their authorized attorney, at such places and times as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, and that no foreign officer shall be entitled to said pay, nor shall any officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or private, receive the same until he furnish the said Secretary satisfactory evidence that he is entitled to the same, in conformity to the provisions of this act; and the pay hereby allowed shall not be in any way transferable or liable to attaclrment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever, but shall insure wholly to the personal benefit of the officer, non-commissioned officer, musician or soldier entitled to the same. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That f omuch of the said pay as accrued before the approval of this act. shall be paid to the person entitled to the same as soon as mav be, in the manner and under the provisions above mentioned ; and the pay which shall accrue thereafter shall be paid semi-annually, m the manner above directed; and, in case of the death of any person embraced by the provisions of this act, or of the act

payments directed to be made by said acts, the proportionate amount of pay which shall accrue between the last preceding semi-annual payment, and the death of

such person, shall be pJd to his widow, or ifhe leave no widow, to his children. Sec. 5. And b& it further enacted, That the officers, non-commissioned officers, mariners, or marines, who served for a like term in the naval service, during the revolutionary war, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act, in the same manner as is provided for the officers, and soldiers of the army of the revolution. ArpRovED, June 7y 1S32. UNITED STATES BANK. Remarks of Wr. UaitoUj Of Missouri. In Senate Monday, May 29, 1S32. The bill for the renewal of the U. S. Bank being under consideration Mr. WEBSTER spoke in explanation of his motion to amend, by authorizing Congress, at any time to restrict the Bank from issuing notes of a less denomination than dollars; and he proposed to fill the blank with 10 dollars. Mr. Benton would propose 20 dollars. He was unwilling that any bank should issue a note for a less sum than 20 dollars, and especially the Bank of the United States. He wished the basis of circulation throughout the coun try to be in hard money. Farmers, laborers and market people ought to receive their payments in hard money. They out not be put to the risk of taking bank notes in all their small deal- . rwyt 1 C 1 ings. l ney are nojuages oi gooa or bad notes. Counterfeits are sure to fall upon their hands. In England all bank notes of less amount the .5 sterling,(about 25 dollars,)had been proscribed and put down, and that upon thorough experience of the evils of all 9mall bank paper. The bank of England was originally limited to minimum notes of 20, (near 100 dollars;) they afterwards fell to one and two pounds after the suspension of specie payments in 1795. These one and two pound notes, corresponding with our 5 and 10 dollar notes, continued to circulate till a few years ago, when the evils resulting from them were found to be insufferable. They had expelled the specie from the country ; they filled up and stopped all the channels of circulation. The banks issued them in profusion, even to the exclusion of larger notes, because they gained largely by the loss and destruction of these sma:l ones. AH the counterfeiters went to work upon Ihcm. 'Every farmer, tradesman, and day laborer was imposed upon with counterfeit notes, and poor people who received a counterfeit note, and offered again to pass it, were taken up for passers of counterfeit notei, and hung or transported to Botany Bay. The num ber of innocent and ignorant persons who thus suffered was prodigious. Humanity raised her voice in their favor: and to relieve them from danger, and to prevent the totalexpulsionof specie, it was necessary to abolish the small note circulation. It was more necessary in the United States than in England to suppress the circulation of small notes, on account of the extent of the country. Notes of the Bank of the United States circulated at immense distances from where they issued. Farmers knew nothing about the genuineness of these notes. They could not know, for they hardly knew where they came from, much less who signed them. A specie circulation ought to be preserved for the farmers, laborers and market people; & the way to preserve it was to suppresi the circulation of notes under 20. Few men complain of receiving payments in silver which are under 20. The whole laboring community, whose dealings are generally small, would rejoice lo have silver, which they knew someting aboui, instead of notes which may be counterfeit. After some further debate Mr. BENTON'S motion was adopted, and the amendment agreed to. Mr. MOORE then offered two amendments to the bill the first, providingthat the Bank shall not establish a branch in any State, without the assent of that State ; the second, providing that the State shall have the power to tax the branches, in like manner with state Banks, and other property. Mr. BENTON was in favor of both branches of the amendment; he was in favor of getting leave from the State before the branch was established, or getting leave for it to continue where it wa3 already established, and for subjecting it to fair and bona fide taxation. He could not agree to objections which were urged against either branch of the amendment. It is said the State may refuse her assent to the establishment, or continuance, of the branch; and this is said in the same breath lhat we are also told, that these branches are a blessing to the States, and that they are all in favor of receiving thm. What danger then that they will reject these blessings? If, on the contrary, they are curses, carrying off the hard

money of the Slates, governing their

elections and interfering with their pol itirs, the States ought to have a right to reject them if Ihey pleased. Placed on either footing a blessing or a curse, he Mr. B.J contended that the people of the States were the best judges of the fact; and ifthev were admitted to be free people, capable of governing themselves, and taking care of their own affairs, they ought to be allowed to judge for themselves, and decide for themselves. He contended for the rights of the States to decide the question for themselves, and could not abandon that point without abandoning the fjndamentalidea of State sovereignly. With respect to the second branch of the amendment the right of the btate to tax the branches it was a right so plain and obvious, that gentlemen hnd to misunderstand, and misrepresent it, in order to make head against it. They treated it as a power to expel the branch from the State by exclusive taxation ! Here the friends of the bank were cau ght on two hooks; if the branch was acceptable to the State, and a blessing to it, they would not expel it by taxation, if they could; and secondly, they could not so expel it, if they would ; for the power of taxation was limited in the amendment to the same proportion that the State might tax her own banks, or the property of her own citizens. Thus she could not expel the United States Branch Bank by taxation without expelling her own banks if she had any, and her own citizens if she had not, at the same lime. This defence, then, would not do. It was the intention of the amendment, and the words of the amendment, and would be the operation of the amendment, if it passed that it should be fair taxation. And would not that be just? Farmers, merchants, tradesmen, citizens of every calling had to pay taxes to the State; and why not tax the Bank? It is certainly the richest and the most able to pay. It certainly received the protection of the State, and ought to contribute to support the State. It certainly drew immese sums of money from the States of interest and exchange, and ought to make some compensation for these benefits. The stockholders are most of them non-residents ; many of them aliens. They contribute no way to the support of the State; they neither fight for it in time of war, nor pay taxes to it in time of peace. Why should this be? Fight, we cannot make them! They are too rich to fight; they are too far off to be drajted and compelled even to furnish substitutes. Banks in every part of the Union now had to pay taxes. It was ab surd, that tt rr.an by selling hij property, and converting it into bank stock, and living on the dividends, should escape all taxes! It was out of the question that those most able to pay taxes, should pay none! That those who had most money to be protected by Government, should pay nothing for the support of the Government. Mr. B. said, that this exemption of the U. S. bank stock from payment of taxes was an old monarchial principle drawn from the bank of England charter, and put into that charter in the lowest stage of English liberty, the reign of Qneen Anne, when the TORIES were in the zenith of their power, and did by Parlia mentary legislation what the Supreme Court of the United States had here done by judicial interpretation. Mr. B. then read a section from the amen ded charter of the bank of England, passed in 1703, the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne, by which the bank of England stock was specifically and expressly exempted from taxation. In England, he said, it took the power of parliament to prevent the rich stockholders from being taxed ; in the United StatesUhe federal court had saved the branches in the States: he trusted the American Congress would decide differently from the Parliament of Queen Anne a time, and leave for the States their natural right to make the rich contribute to the support of the Government. The Clay papers are harping now on the propositions to reduce the Tariff, and declare open war on the propositions of Messrs. McLane and Adams. Tin's is merely chaff to catch birds. The existing tariff is a tariff of revenue. The revenue is n6 longer wanted to the present extent as a revenue tariff it operated as a direct tax on the people. The object now is to relieve the people of tax, by reducing the tariff down to the naked protecting principle. All our manufactures will be protected under it and that is all the people or the manufacturers want. The politicians want to drive the country into a civil war Calhoun goes for nullification Clay for division, war and famine and the Administration goes for the rights of the people the rights of the States and the union of the Republic. We the people go with the Administration. Trenton Emp What might have been expected. The Nullics and the Clay men are in close embrace the five striped flag and the palmetto are entwinned. And why should there not bean alliance between the disunionists oi Hartford and those of Columbia t They having a common object naturally travel the same road the road to ruin, Boston Sttfn.

Indian War!

From the Jacksonville, Illinois, Patriot. LATEST JVEWS FROM THE SEAT OF JV.1R. On Friday last, we received intelligence, that a party of the Volunteers who had gone to drive the Indian? from our frontiers, had an engagement on the Mth inst. and that 52 of our men were killed or missing. Tt will be seen by the following interestimr letter from one of our fellow c itizens, (M. M'Connel, Esq.) that the number killed is not so great as was first apprehended. The express, who brought the iirst account, started frcm the camp oivthe morning after the action, before an opportunity had been given for all to find their way "into head quarters, which accounts for the apparent inconsistency in the two statements. The information contained in this letter mav ho relied on as being correct, and the more so, as the whole has been corroborated bv our townsman, Mr. James Parkinson, Asistant Ur. blaster, who left Head Quarters last Saturday on his way to St. Louis, with despatches from Gen. "Atkinson. Mr. P. informed us, that when the army arrived on the battle ground, the sight presented to the eye, was far more shocking than could, with any propriety, be described. There were but three Indians found who were killed in the affray; but as the Indians are in the habit of secreting their own dead, slain in battle, a number might have been killed, and those found might have belonged to an other tribe. lie could not recollect the names of but a few of those who were killed : Al H 1. 1 A ,1 mey an oeioiig 10 me upper counties; among them was Major Perkins, of Tazewell, whose less is much deplored; he has left a widow and eijrht children to mourn over the effects of war. Dickson Ferry, on Rock River,) May 17?, 1S32. 1 J. vj. JliDWARDS, Jsq: Dear Sir: By way of fulfilling my promise, made to you when I addressed vou from the mouth of this river, 1 now proceed to give you a brief account of the proceedings of the army since that time. After leaving the old Sac town on the 10th inst. wo passed and burnt the Prophet's village, took two Pottawattamie Indians prisoners, and after two days and a halt,

very hard marching, we arrived at this place, n 1S stated that the Sioux and Menomiwhere we found about two hundred and j nccp, with a thousand warriors, were anxious eighty men under the command of Colonel j to J'n tl,e whites, and to revenge tho Stillmax. These were principally citizens ! wrongs they have suffered from the'hostilo of Fulton and Tazewell, and other counties ! Indians. Their aid was, at first, declined.

in that part of the State. It was near thia place that we expected to meet with hostile Indians, and by one decisive blow, endeavor to put a termination to this troublesome affair. When near this place, we were met by some persons who informed our officers that no hostile Indians were to be found cmbodied in this vicinity, and that in all probability we would be unable to overtake the British band of Sac3 in this state. As this news passed down our lines, dissatisfaction and disappointment r.ppcared evident on the countenances of all both men and officers. They had wrought their minds up to the fighting point the excitement was high, and expectation on tiptoe, and this news operated as a sudden and unexpected damper to their high wrought anticipations. We were ordered into camp, where we remained two days and a half, in very cold, stormy and disagreeable weather. During all this time dissatisfaction and disorder reigned in the camp; all were impressed with the idea, that we were doing no good, either for ourselves or country. Things were in this situation on the night of the 14th instant, when, at about 2 o'clock, A. M. the whole camp was aroused by the retreating troops of Col. Stillman, who had . y oeen sent up Rock river, two days before, by the governor, to act as spies, and ascertain the true situation of the Indians. Some of these persons came into camp wounded, and all of them without their baggage and apparently very much alarmed. They reported that they had been attacked, routed and many of them cut off by the hostile hand of Sacs, about twenty-eight miles from this place, up Rock river. Orders were immediately given for us to prepare to march to the scene of action by the dawn of day. When this order was received, owing to some accident, the whole army was almost entirely without provisions; most of us had subsisted for two or three days on pickled pork and parched corn, and even that rather scarce. We had no other provisions than that to carrv with us into the enemy's country; and the length of our stay there was known to be altogether uncertain. Notwithstanding all this, the whole camp was in a few minutes, in a bustle of preparation; every man willingly packed up his small piece of pork, together with his arms and clothing, and by day-light the whole army was in full march up the country. We moved on with all possible speed towaros trie spot where the affray took place; I meeting occasionally, the wounded and oth-' ers who had lost their horses, and had spent the night in endeavoring to get back to the main army. About five o'clock in the afternoon we arrived at Sycamore creek, the place of action; and here language is inadequate to describe the scene. Dead horses were the first objects which met our view: - ! liiuu uiu inuiuaieu remains ui uiu mcii, K i -.f K i scattered in all directions, many with their ! heads taken off and scalped, others were j npjicu upuu, ineir neans anu u.,ji taKenawav which have not vet been i:;uueJ i .... i All this presented a scene from which our citizens- turned with horror, as Icing too shocking for humanity to behold. We proceeded immediately to collect and bury tho various parts of these mangled bodies, and then Lo search fe-r the enemy,

uiu, uicir arms, lect ana nanus laKon oi, ; 10 seeK wnat they nnnffine is a short respite and scattered over the prairie; their bodies ! from death, The y arc, I trust however torn and mangled in -a shocking manner jsntb from this po;nt down- but these above' mnnv of the part of different bodies were ncth and east, if thev re vn -,li,r

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We spent that r.;ht .-.ml ,! y-atpr par! cf the next day with cur x:i:. our hand?, scouring the country, hi t the Indians had escaped. It appeared that they had left their village in haste, leaving their dead and part of their effects b -hind them. It was impossible for the air.iy to follow them im

mediately, for want of provisions; we sccordingly returned to this place last evening, where our stores have just arrived, and the troops again have wherewithal to satisfy their hunger. There are two Pottawattamie Chiefe-ncw in camp for the purpose of making seine arrangements by which their tribe may cooperate with our army in expelling from the state, the hostile Sacs. What the result of this negotiation will be, is yet uncertain. It is reported that the savages are embodying all their forces about sixty miles frt m this place, up Kock river, where it is expected we will follow them in a few days;, from which place, being aware of the anx iety our Inends ieel to hear from us, if I have an opportunity, you shall again hear something of what is passing among us. M. M'CONNEL. P- S. It is impossible for me to give you the precise number of the killed and wounded on either side, as it is not jet as--certained; we found and buried ten'white men, and several Indians. Neither can I give you any certain information hew or by whom the battle commenced, as the reports handed in, by the persons, differ in many points. THE INDIAN WAR. St. Louis papers of the 2d inst t 1 that the Illinois militia, lindnr Cln IVUti.. j side, were disbanded and had returned ; home, their term of service havino- expired I "A! fortifications at Otaway until the new levies should arrive.'' It is'said Gov Reynolds had called out 3000 additional snoops. The Governor and his Aid had arrived at j St- Mollis, in the Caroline and it was said he was proceeding home lo expedite the marching of trocps to the seat of war. Gen. Atkinson was still at Dixson's Ferry, on Rock river. The regular troops at Cantonemcnt Leavenworth and Fort Winnebago had been ordered to join Gen. Atkinson,, and it was supposed thev would reach Dixi vn s on me loin inst. , . . ' j h&i will now be accented. Tt IipKovmI that the Indians would gather strength in consequence of their success in thecommcnceincnt of the struggle, and the subsejiimuvnv nit; vwuics. inieniijuutt; Hd& uuny received at fct. JLouis, ot murders and massacres on the defenceless frontier and these outrages will be cohtinued until the frontier is cleared of the ene-my- ' Louisville Adv. T ATE XEVS FIIOM 'J II1T IXDIAX "WAll! A friend lias placed in our hands a copv of the "Bfardstoirn Chronicle Extra,''7 from which we extract the following news. Peardstou ji, 111, May 2G. Through the politeness of a friend we are favored with the last number of the Sangarno Journalbrought to hand by private conveyance, SIX DAYS in anticipation of the mail freir which we are enabled to give tho names of all bat one of the unfortunate sufferers in the late conflict with tho Indians orr Sycamore creek: Capt. James Adams, Mai. Isaac Perkins, H 1 111 i ' . lanuemiaii anet (Jnsns.of Triypwell county; Jnmjs Milton, of Macon coun(y; Doughty, of Peoria county; John Walters, Bird Ellis and Fariss, of j rulton county; countv. 4 Draper, of M'Lean Copy of a Ictlcr from R. Holmes U. S. Agent, dated Crozzer's Landing, Illinois River, May 2'S, 1S32. Dear Six: I am happy to inform you, that since the defeat of Maj. Stillmams party, many of those supposed to be killed have come into camp, leaving only 13 as the loss on that occasion, 11 of whom have been found dead and been buried; the two remainin are stui missmrr. and it i3 fl.-,,! they also are killed, lying where they havo not yet been lound. Mr. Horn left the arm? the morning afler the battle, and at lint time tho missing amounted to 52, but after ins absence they were coming in for thrco days, haying lost their horses, and been them, selves lost, ,mtil the number was reduced as 1 have stated. The bodies, uhen found, were cut ard mangied in tho most shocking manncr;thcir hearts were cutout; theiV hands and hmhs severed from their bodies, besides otner acts of indignity perpetrated on them, too outrageous and indecent to be named. 1UUU IS ce exception to tho. rl,.-. Lvollng man was found dead, with his head 1 - uvty .;e : P2niy cut off, embraced by a dead Indian,, 'I'bc man had been tomahawked and the In-- - . I V euanswot tnrougn the bedv. It is-thought taat the young man, after shooting the Indian, had no longer the means of defence, and uku i no tnt ian liar ; rcn-rt l. . hawk him: but in th A,-i,t i" U IU ll iomae act of cutting off his head, died, embracing his enemy m the last v-w uisnt- xajp Ol lilt i nc alarm and dislre nn ihn f.-r-ntW I lie alarm cannot be described; it is hcart-rcudin" to see ti e women and children in an aonv of ulm,, seeing irem their homes and hearth cred. arc m eminent daincr. Tho Indians arc scattered nd divided into hands oi or men card;, the main ledy en I, e river cxccptec: and arc re ; ii. - ov country wherever th the' f'Tcci V; fa isahted situ-ai-jr. utuicii-d,